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Judge halts local TV giant Nexstar's takeover of rival Tegna until trial
Business
NPR Topics: BusinessToday at 02:24

Judge halts local TV giant Nexstar's takeover of rival Tegna until trial

Columbus, Ohio is one of the cities where Nexstar owns and operates two major television stations following its acquisition of rival TV group Tegna. Joe Sohm/Visions of.

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NPR receives $113 million in charitable gifts
Business
NPR Topics: BusinessApr 16

NPR receives $113 million in charitable gifts

"My hope is that this commitment provides the stability and the spark NPR needs to innovate boldly and strengthen its national network," says Connie Ballmer, who gave $80 million of...

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Hollywood heavyweights oppose Paramount deal
Business|NPR Topics: Business|Apr 14

Hollywood heavyweights oppose Paramount deal

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with TV writer and showrunner Damon Lindelof about the open letter he and thousands of others signed, opposing Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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What a chimpanzee 'civil war' can teach us about how societies fall apart
Science|NPR Topics: Science|Apr 13

What a chimpanzee 'civil war' can teach us about how societies fall apart

The Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda's Kibale National Park is the largest known community of wild chimpanzees in the world. Over the last decade, it has split into two distinct groups that are hostile to.

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After more than 9 days in flight, NASA's Artemis II is set to return to Earth
Science|NPR Topics: Science|Apr 10

After more than 9 days in flight, NASA's Artemis II is set to return to Earth

The four astronauts on NASA's Artemis II lunar mission are set to return to Earth Friday evening. The crew is wrapping up a journey around the moon with a planned splashdown off San Diego, Calif.

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Inflation surges to highest level in nearly 2 years as energy costs spike
Business|NPR Topics: Business|Apr 10

Inflation surges to highest level in nearly 2 years as energy costs spike

war with Iran and the resulting spike in energy prices have pushed inflation to its highest level in nearly two years. Inflation spike reverses stabilizing trend Although inflation is nowhere near the four-decade high it reached in 2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, progress on stabilizing prices fizzled out last year, partly as a result of President Trump's tariffs.

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Well-timed bets on Polymarket tied to the Iran war draw calls for investigations from lawmakers
Business|NPR Topics: Business|Apr 10

Well-timed bets on Polymarket tied to the Iran war draw calls for investigations from lawmakers

NEW YORK — Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket after the latest instance where groups of anonymous traders made strategic, well-timed bets on a major geopolitical event hours before it occurred. In January, an anonymous Polymarket user made a $400,000 profit by betting that Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro would be out of office, hours before Maduro was captured. "What is the statistical likelihood that of anyone other than an insider trader placing a winning bet 12 minutes before a market-moving presidential announcement," Torres said in an interview with AP.

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A year after 'Liberation Day,' Trump's tariffs are taking a toll on small businesses
Business|NPR Topics: Business|Apr 7

A year after 'Liberation Day,' Trump's tariffs are taking a toll on small businesses

PAULINA GAMINO: And so now we're talking about brand-new toys that maybe would have been $25 - now, it's like $40, $45 for a brand-new toy. According to an analysis of Census Bureau trade data by the small business advocacy group We Pay the Tariffs, the emergency tariffs Trump imposed last year have cost American businesses more than $150 billion. LUIS TORRES: You can see those comments of how those costs, those tariffs, you know, they've impacted them, causing increased selling prices, margin losses, also the uncertainty surrounding them.

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