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Chapter 1: What stories about wildlife and climate change are covered?
Coming up on the Here and Now Anytime podcast, squirrels, ferrets, and moose. Oh, my. Climate change is making it harder to be a mammal these days. Our reporting project, Reverse Course, returns with stories of science in action from the frozen north woods of Minnesota to the desert of Arizona. Listen to Here and Now Anytime wherever you get your podcasts.
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. A major move today in what has become an epic battle for ownership of a media and entertainment giant. Netflix announced it will not raise its bid to buy Warner Brothers Discovery, putting rival Paramount Pictures in position to win with a hostile takeover of the legacy studio and its assets. Here's NPR's Mendeley Delbarco reporting.
Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters say they declined to sweeten their deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. In a statement, they say it was, quote, no longer financially attractive and that it was, quote, always a nice-to-have at the right price, but not a must-have at any price.
In December, Netflix signed a deal to pay $83 billion for the movie, TV, and streaming studio, but Warner Bros. now says it prefers what it calls a superior deal with Paramount Skydance. whose owner David Ellison offered a bid of $111 billion for the studio and its cable channels, including CNN. Netflix declined to counter the offer. Antitrust regulators in the U.S.
and Europe will still need to approve any purchase. Mandelit Delbarco, NPR News.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls her questioning Thursday by the House Committee investigating the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein repetitive. Clinton spoke to reporters after sitting for a closed-door deposition that lasted for more than six hours.
I don't know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Epstein. I never went to his island. I never went to his homes.
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Chapter 2: What recent developments are happening in the media industry?
I never went to his offices. So it's on the record numerous times.
Hillary Clinton's deposition before the House Oversight Committee was taken in the Clintons' hometown of Chippewa, New York. She has said that she and former President Bill Clinton had very limited knowledge of Epstein. The Clintons initially refused to testify, but relented when lawmakers moved to hold them in contempt of Congress. Bill Clinton is to take questions Friday.
He has not been accused of any wrongdoing. The Justice Department is suing another five states to obtain sensitive voter data nationwide. NPR's Ashley Lopez reports that states have largely refused to turn over the data, citing privacy restrictions.
With these latest lawsuits, the Justice Department is now suing a total of 29 states and the District of Columbia over voter data. Federal officials are asking these states, which now include Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia, and New Jersey, to turn over complete and unredacted voter files.
These files include information such as driver's license numbers as well as partial social security numbers. State officials have said that federal privacy laws prohibit them from giving that information over to federal officials.
Until now, the Trump administration had only sued states that he lost during the 2020 election, but this latest group of lawsuits includes some states that did go his way that year. Ashley Lopez, NPR News.
And you're listening to NPR News. Cross-border fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan is intensifying. Both sides say Pakistan struck targets inside major Afghan cities early Friday after Afghanistan launched an attack on Pakistan. The fighting marks the most serious escalation between the two countries following months of tensions. Members of Congress say the U.S.
military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Patrol drone, an accident that led the FAA to expand already closed airspace near El Paso, Texas. Just over two weeks ago, another anti-drone laser caused the FAA to shut down the El Paso airport and the surrounding area.
A NASA review panel blames flawed software and inadequate oversight for the failure of a $72 million lunar trailblazer mission. The probe was supposed to measure the extent and nature of water on the moon, as Joe Palka reports.
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