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is suing Paramount Global, saying its competitor aired new episodes of the popular animated comedy series “South Park” after Warner paid more than $500 million for exclusive rights in a 2019 contract with the company that produces the show.

And the frenzy is based mainly on Mexican officials saying Tesla boss Elon Musk will have an upcoming phone call with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Companies are planning to show off their metaverse experiences that will allow users to enter fantastical new online worlds and show how they’re using AI as new tools like ChatGPT have caught the world’s attention.

DENVER — The family of a man who was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy outside a Colorado middle school at pickup time alleges in a wrongful death lawsuit that deputies unnecessarily escalated a situation that should have been handled nonviolently.

Kevin, Nick and Joe Jonas announced Friday that they’ll use each night at the Marquis Theatre to focus on a particular album, including “Jonas Brothers,” “A Little Bit Longer,” “Lines, Vines and Trying Times,” “Happiness Begins” and their upcoming collection due in May, simply called “The Album.” They are scheduled to be on Broadway from March 14-18.

NEW YORK — Can the Federal Reserve keep raising interest rates and defeat the nation’s worst bout of inflation in 40 years without causing a recession? Not according to a new research paper that concludes that such an “immaculate disinflation” has never happened before.

It’s the latest twist on the video streaming service’s efforts to keep its recently revived subscriber growth rolling amid stiffer competition and inflation pressures that are pushing more households to curb their discretionary spending.

— A 76-year-old woman accused of fatally shooting her terminally-ill husband in a Florida hospital is asking to be released from jail.

The company said Dahl’s 17 kids’ books will be published later this year in their original form as “The Roald Dahl Classic Collection.” It said that it will also keep the new editions, so that “readers will be free to choose which version of Dahl’s stories they prefer.” The move comes after criticism of changes made to “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and other books, in which passages relating to weight, mental health, gender and race were altered.

The Zoo posted on its Facebook page that guests and staff were moved to indoor locations until the bear was tranquilized and returned to his enclosure.

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