WASHINGTON — The Senate in an overnight vote Saturday approved a short-term measure to fund federal agencies into early December and avoid a potentially chaotic government shutdown during the middle of campaign season. The late-summer action on a funding fix is unusual. Normally, Congress waits until the final days or hours of a funding deadline
A judge approved a $106 million settlement Thursday that ends a yearslong legal battle over the deadly 2019 collapse of a Hard Rock Hotel that was under construction in New Orleans. The 18-story hotel project partially collapsed in October 2019, killing three people and damaging nearby property. A grand jury ultimately decided against indicting anyone
The U.K. has cleared Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. on competition grounds. The British government added that it would not intervene in the transaction on public interest grounds after Paramount beefed up promises about programming and news provision in the U.K. In a statement, the U.K.’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport
Nigeria’s president has approved the country’s largest military expansion in recent times – an attempt to address the series of security challenges plaguing the nation. Bola Tinubu has given the green light to the recruitment of an additional 28,000 soldiers and the creation of four new army divisions, which will bring the total number to
European regulators have cleared Paramount Skydance’s $110bn (£85bn) acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, although the mega-merger still faces a legal hurdle in the US. The European Commission gave the green light after Paramount agreed to end a major film distribution partnership with Universal Pictures in Europe. Paramount will break the agreement within 13 months and
France’s parliament passed a law to ban social media for under-15s from January 2027, making it the first European country to block young people from the platforms. The law will mean everyone in France will have to verify their age to access social media and comes at a time when the UK and EU are