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Paramount closes $110 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, creating Skydance

Paramount Skydance on Tuesday completed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, uniting the movie studios behind “The Godfather” and the “Harry Potter” films into a media colossus rebranded as Skydance. The merger also brings together the news outlets CBS News and CNN, major cable networks such as Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TBS and TNT…

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Elon Musk’s data centers are pushing out a family that’s owned land since “before people of color were allowed to”

On a 2-acre property in Mississippi, 52-year-old Krystal Polk’s family lived off the land for generations, raising chickens and pigs, growing onions and herbs and trading their peaches for pears. The land, on the border with Tennessee in the city of Southaven, was her family’s survival, Polk said. “We lived a very simplistic life,” she…

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