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What are the details of the Paramount‑Warner merger settlement and its antitrust implications?
Live from MPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Paramount Sky Dance, one step closer to a deal to merge with Warner Brothers Discovery. MPR's Mandalid Dobarco reports on the settlement of an antitrust lawsuit filed by twelve state attorneys general.
Paramount CEO David Ellison agrees to operate Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers separately, at least for now, and to release at least thirty films a year. He also promised to create an independence board for their news operations, CNN and CBS. California Attorney General Rob Bontas says those concessions and more satisfy antitrust concerns. Even so
This settlement is not a vote of support for this merger. It is not a blessing.
Critics of the merger, like former Federal Trade Commissioner Álvaro Vedoya, say the attorneys general caved to Paramount after it threatened to leave California.
How are Brazilian leaders framing election interference ahead of the UN General Assembly?
The billionaires won here. These guys uh censored, bribed, and bullied their way to the top.
The mega merger could finalize within weeks. Mandalite del Barco, NPR News.
World leaders arriving in New York for the UN General Assembly, where one of the most anticipated speeches will come from Brazil's president tomorrow. The country is on the eve of an election in which Brazilian officials have accused the US of meddling, as Catherine Osborne reports.
Left wing Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva says he'll carry a direct message to President Trump at the UN, warning against election interference. Lula is seeking re-election. His main opponent, right wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, has sought to build close ties with Trump. And the Trump administration has meted out tariffs, sanctions, and public criticism against Brazil that are harsher than its treatment of right wing governments in the same region.
Why is Pennsylvania seeing a surge in measles cases and what public health actions are being taken?
Lula's speech at the UN comes right before Trump's own. For in PR News, I'm Catherine Osborne in Rio de Janeiro.
Measles cases in Pennsylvania closing in on the eight hundred mark. The State Department of Health reported twenty-five more cases Monday, bringing the total to seven hundred ninety-two. On data centers, a poll by The Economist in Ugov shows about two thirds of Americans oppose new data center construction in their communities.
Hatch lives near a data center in Loudoun County, Virginia, one of the many supporting the artificial intelligence boom. She works in IT and even uses AI in her job, but she's also become an active member in a grassroots bipartisan group that opposes data centers. She spoke recently with a cousin who doesn't usually share their politics and found common ground over the data center issue.
We couldn't have this conversation five years ago, me and him, and suddenly we were on the same page.
Virginia's governor Abigail Spamberger campaigned on qualified support for data center expansion, but just last week she signed an executive order seeking to limit their development.
What concerns do local residents have about new data center construction and AI expansion?
Scott Newman, NPR News. And
you're listening to MPR News. CNN, MS Now, and Politico have filed a lawsuit over being denied access to the White House. The lawsuit calls the administration's move to bar reporters from the three a blatant violation of the First Amendment. President Trump said last week that he was barring them because of reporting he deemed fake news. Major television networks have suspended pool coverage after CNN said Monday that It was not able to provide coverage of Trump's trip to the United Nations General Assembly in New York as a result of the ban. MPR says it will not use pool audio until further notice. Italy's Prime Minister Giorgio Maloney proposing to ban Burkas in schools and cap the number of foreign students in classrooms, Megan Williams reports from Rome.
Maloney says students must attend school with their faces uncovered.
How is the Trump administration’s ban on major news outlets affecting White House coverage?
Italy already restricts concealing your face in public without a justified reason. But Maloney wants schools to explicitly ban the burqa or kneecap, though not the hijab or headscarf. Her plan would also cap the number of foreign students in each class. Maloney says too many children who don't speak Italian can hinder integration, but the cap would be based on
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the details of the Paramount‑Warner merger settlement and its antitrust implications?
0:00–0:53
2
How are Brazilian leaders framing election interference ahead of the UN General Assembly?
0:53–1:47
3
Why is Pennsylvania seeing a surge in measles cases and what public health actions are being taken?
1:47–2:54
4
What concerns do local residents have about new data center construction and AI expansion?
2:54–3:51
5
How is the Trump administration’s ban on major news outlets affecting White House coverage?
3:51–4:36
6
What new education policies is Italy proposing regarding burqas and foreign student caps?
4:36–5:04