Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Amy Held.
In a court filing, the Trump administration is asking for a short deadline extension until
“noon on Saturday to remove the president's name from the Kennedy Center, saying storms”
in Washington may pose a risk to workers on scaffolding. Crowds have gathered at the site chanting "take it down," and Pierce Frank Langford is there. People have been out here in front of the Kennedy Center for many, many hours, waiting to see the name Donald J. Trump taking down from the façade.
And right now it's well past midnight, so it's past the deadline, that the court set and there's a huge piece of scaffolding up there and a lot of workers but they have yet to touch any of the letters. And the crowd is beginning to thin out. And Pierce Frank Langford, the Justice Department has approved Paramount's acquisition
of Warner Brothers Discovery, and Pierce M. Obama in reports the merger would unite two rival studio giants, and it raises questions about creative and editorial independence. Paramount owns CBS, including CBS News.
“It's swallowing the much larger Warner, which includes HBO and CNN.”
They anti-trust investigation into the proposed $110 billion merger found no threat to competition
or consumers of film, broadcast television, or streaming. But several states, including California, still have anti-trust concerns. And industry unions fear the loss of thousands of jobs. In a statement after the decision, Paramount said the deal would result in a stronger company better position to compete against dominant technology platforms, and ultimately
benefit both consumers and creators. I'm Obama and Pierce News. The world cup is underway, the U.S. beat Paraguay 4-1 Friday, meanwhile, before they even got the chance to kick off, Team England appears to be missing out on equipment. Police say it was stolen from a van in Kansas City where the team trains Greg Eklin reports.
The equipment was being shipped from West Palm Beach, Florida, where England had been holding
“a preliminary camp, according to the Daily Mail in the UK, boots belonging to England”
Captain Harry Kane and midfielder Jude Bellingham were among the stolen items. The Kansas City Police have acknowledged the theft in a statement and arrested to people. England is one of four nations with a World Cup team base in the Kansas City area, but the only team among the four that isn't playing a match in Kansas City. England is scheduled to play their first match on Wednesday in Arlington, Texas, against Croatia.
For NPR News, I'm Greg Eklin and Kansas City.
SpaceX stock rose more than 19% with its initial public offering Friday, raising some $75 billion.
Its stock market to view is the first of three big tests of investor appetite for AI-related technology companies, anthropic and open AI are also expected to list this year. It's NPR. Strong to severe thunderstorms are expected in parts of the mid-Atlantic and northeast. The National Weather Service says it will help bring down what's been record-breaking heat.
The storms are part of the same system that did damage in areas of the Midwest earlier this week, including South of Chicago. Oregon's Department of Corrections is facing a class-action lawsuit to end solitary confinement. Oregon Public Broadcasting's Conrad Wilson reports a group of prisoners say the state has violated the law. Oregon's Constitution prohibits the "harsh degrading or dehumanizing treatment of prisoners."
We got according to the lawsuit, hundreds of adults in the state's prisons are held alone inside small windowless rooms often for months. The state limits disciplinary segregation to 90 consecutive days. That's far longer than neighboring states, so it's been hailed and attorney with the Oregon Justice Resource Center, which is representing the adults in custody.
Oregon has certainly become an outlier in the disciplinary solitary confinement, which in some ways is the most punitive. The state data show a recent upward trend of adults in custody held in solitary. The Oregon Department of Corrections says it's committed to safe and humane operations. For MPR News, I'm Conrad Wilson in Portland.
All three major indices ended the week higher. Stocks got a lift from a 3.4% drop for the price of Brent Crude Oil. Oil prices have come down on hopes a peace deal with Iran may be panning out. Today, a gallon of regular gas is averaging $4.10 down from 450 a month ago. That's according to Triple A. This is NPR News.
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