Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, the corporate parent of media outlets CBS, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and Paramount Pictures has a new owner.

The Federal Communications Commission has approved Paramount's takeover by the Ellison family and Skydance media.

NPR's David Fulkinflick reports Paramount and Skydance made concessions to the Trump administration to secure the deal.

Paramount controlling owner Sherry Redstone had told Associates Paramount could not compete with the digital giants, Netflix and Amazon.

Skydance is controlled by another Titan, Oracle founder and Trump supporter Larry Ellison and his son David.

The FCC's approval comes after Paramount agreed to pay $16 million

to settle a lawsuit by Trump against CBS News over an interview with Kamala Harris. Outside

legal scholars called the suit frivolous. Skydance also agreed to Scotch Paramount's DEI initiatives

in the U.S. and to take steps to ensure ideological diversity in its programs and news.

Trump's FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, celebrated calling it a blow against bias in mainstream

media.

David Fulkenflick and PR News.

Extreme heat is still plaguing the central and southern U.S.

There are heat advisories ranging from Louisiana to South Dakota.

Extreme heat could hit the St. Louis area

where it could feel like more than 111 degrees today.

More heat alerts range from South Carolina up to southern Maine.

Dr. Michael Metz of Northwell Greenwich Village Hospital in New York

says he has seeing people come in with heat-related

illnesses. We're seeing a lot of younger patients just because they're out and about in the city,

maybe not drinking as much as they should be, not hydrating enough that are coming in just from

passing out in the subway, on the streets. The National Weather Service has also issued extreme

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