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Now Paramount is in a position to take over the Hollywood giant.

Unlike Netflix, Paramount wants all of Warner's operations, including networks like CNN and Discovery.

Paramount's owner, David Ellison, has made an extraordinary effort to win over support from the Trump administration.

As NPR's David Folkenflik explains.

NPR's David Fulkenflik reporting.

Former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton says she answered the House Oversight Committee's questions about Jeffrey Epstein as fully as she could, reiterating she had no relationship with the convicted sex offender.

She says members asked her about UFOs and other conspiracy theories.

Clinton says she's confident her husband, former President Bill Clinton, was unaware of Epstein's crimes.

He'll testify tomorrow.

Democrats say President Trump should testify as well.

On Wall Street, tech stocks sold off despite a record-breaking earnings report from AI darling NVIDIA.

As NPR's Maria Aspin reports, the tech-heavy NASDAQ closed down more than 1%.

The average long-term U.S.

mortgage rate slipped this week below 6% for the first time since late 2022.

That's good news for home shoppers.

This is NPR News from Washington.

Anthropix CEO says the artificial intelligence company cannot in good conscience agree to the Pentagon's demands that it will allow wider use of its technology ahead of a deadline tomorrow.

In response, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said on social media that the Pentagon has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance or develop autonomous weapons.

A lawsuit accuses the state of California over an alleged lack of response to anti-Semitism in its public schools.

For Member Station KQED in San Francisco, Eliza Pepl reports.