CNN+ Streaming Service Is Set to Shut Down  —  The new corporate owners of CNN are moving to end the new streaming service just weeks after a splashy debut.  —  Warner Bros. Discovery has decided to shut down CNN+, the ballyhooed streaming service that had been intended to bring CNN into the digital future …

CNN+ will shut down at the end of April  —  New York (CNN Business)CNN+, the streaming service that was hyped as one of the most significant developments in the history of CNN, will shut down on April 30, just one month after it launched.  —  CNN+ customers “will receive prorated refunds of subscription fees,” the company said.

Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell and the rot at the heart of Trump's Republican Party  —  There's a rot at the core of the Republican Party and neither the party nor the country will heal until it's excised.  —  The latest evidence of that malignancy comes in a New York Times report …

Ron DeSantis's war on Disney points to an ominous GOP future  —  When Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Florida Republicans move forward with action against Disney World for opposing his law on teaching sex and gender, it will be more than just a slimy and indefensible rearguard effort to punish a private company for violating GOP orthodoxy.

In DeSantis's Banana Republic, Corporations Must Support the Party … Some observers of Viktor Orban's slowly tightening grip over Hungary have wondered what response would ensue if a sufficiently determined reactionary implemented the same methods here in the United States.

Florida legislature passes bill repealing Disney's special tax status  —  Florida's Republican-led state legislature on Thursday passed a bill sought by Gov. Ron DeSantis to cancel Walt Disney World's special tax district in Florida.  —  The speedy approval of the bill — it was filed three days ago …