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How did the FCC approve the Ellison‑Skydance takeover of Paramount and CBS?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright, the corporate parent of CBS Nickelodeon Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures has a new owner. The FCC has approved its takeover by the Ellison family and Skydance Media. As NPR's David Fulkenflick reports, Paramount and Sky Dance made concessions to the Trump administration to secure the deal.
Paramount controlling owner Sherry Redstone had told associates Paramount could not compete with the digital giants Netflix and Amazon. Skydance is controlled by another Titan, Oracle founder and Trump supporter Larry Ellison and his son David. The FCC's approval comes after Paramount agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit by Trump against CBS News over an interview with Kamala Harris. Outside legal scholars call the suit frivolous. Also agreed to scotch Paramount's DEI initiatives in the U.S.
What are the details of President Trump’s executive order on homelessness?
and to take steps to ensure ideological diversity in its programs and news. Trump's FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, celebrated, calling it a blow against bias in mainstream media. David Fulkenflick and PR News.
President Trump has signed an executive order to overhaul how the US manages homelessness. As NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports now, it calls for making it easier to move people from street encampments and into treatment.
The order says endemic vagrancy has made cities unsafe, and getting people into long term care for addiction or mental illness will restore public order. It calls on the Attorney General to make it easier to commit people against their will by challenging past legal precedents. Critics say that would violate civil rights. Trump's action also calls for shifting federal funding toward treatment programs instead of housing, but some experts say forcing treatment does not work, and that losing badly needed housing will only make it harder for communities to reduce homelessness.
Why is Janine Pierrot’s nomination to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office controversial?
Jennifer Lutton, NPR News, Washington.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced the nomination of Janine Pyrrhow to lead the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington DC. NPR's Carrie Johnson reports lawmakers hotly debated Pyrrh's long record.
The committee voted twelve to ten along party lines to move forward with the nomination of Janine Pierrot. She's a former local prosecutor in New York who went on to serve as a Fox News personality. Democrats on the panel pointed out the network paid nearly eight hundred million dollars to Dominion voting systems in part because of false statements Pierot made about voting security in the twenty twenty election. Since then she's called defendants who stormed the U.S. Capitol hostages, and told senators she was not aware President Trump had pardoned rioters who assaulted police on january sixth, twenty twenty one.
Why is the journal Science retracting the arsenic‑based life paper after 15 years?
She still requires a vote by the full Senate if she's confirmed. She'll lead the largest U.S. attorney's office in the nation with some three hundred thirty prosecutors. Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.
You're listening to NPR News in Washington. The journal Science is retracting a paper that claimed to find a new form of life in a California lake. As NPR's Jeff Brumfeld reports, the retraction comes fifteen years after the paper's original publication.
In the 2010 study, NASA scientists claimed to have discovered a bacteria that did not need the element phosphorus to survive. Instead, they said it used arsenic.
What legacy did pro‑wrestling icon Hulk Hogan leave behind?
Arsenic is highly toxic to virtually all forms of life. This new bacteria species might have demonstrated a life form that could inhabit other worlds. But follow up studies found the bacteria still needed phosphorus and was just resistant to arsenic, despite flaws in the original. Original experiment, science did not retract the paper at the time. Now, fifteen years later, and following the divisive COVID-19 pandemic, it says its standards have changed. The journal will now retract debunked work even in cases where no misconduct occurred. The authors of the original paper say they do not support the retraction. Jeff Brumfield, NPR News.
Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has died at 71.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How did the FCC approve the Ellison‑Skydance takeover of Paramount and CBS?
0:00–0:52
2
What are the details of President Trump’s executive order on homelessness?
0:52–1:52
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Why is Janine Pierrot’s nomination to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office controversial?
1:52–2:43
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Why is the journal Science retracting the arsenic‑based life paper after 15 years?
2:43–3:21
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What legacy did pro‑wrestling icon Hulk Hogan leave behind?
3:21–4:02
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What does the new mid‑year analysis reveal about falling homicide rates in the U.S.?
4:02–4:39