- Reuters
Skydance awaits word on its enhanced bid for Paramount
Skydance Media on Monday was awaiting a response to its enhanced bid for entertainment conglomerate Paramount Global, in which it offered to buy nearly half of the nonvoting Paramount shares at $15 each, according to a source familiar with the matter. "We received the financial terms of the proposed Paramount/Skydance transaction over the weekend and we are reviewing them," said a spokesperson for movie theater owner National Amusements, which holds 77% of Paramount's class A voting stock. The new proposal follows months of negotiations between Santa Monica, California-based independent studio Skydance and Paramount, which, like other media companies, has been hit by the decline of the traditional television industry.
- Yahoo News 360
Why aren’t Americans willing to believe good news about crime?
The vast majority of people will confidently say that the crime rate in the U.S. is going up, even though the best data we have suggests it's decreasing at a rapid pace.
- Associated Press
Kilauea, Hawaii's second-largest volcano, is erupting again
Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, began erupting early Monday in an area that last erupted a half-century ago, the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. The eruption is about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) south of the Kilauea caldera, in an area within Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park that last erupted in December 1974. “Glow is visible in webcam imagery, indicating that lava is currently erupting from fissures," the USGS observatory said.
