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June 16 0400 UTC Brief
In business
Fox says it plans to buy Roku in a $22 billion cash-and-stock deal, valuing the streaming platform at $160 a share and putting more than 100 million connected-TV devices under Fox’s control. The deal will face antitrust scrutiny, which is the part where regulators are expected to notice that this is, in fact, a very large deal.
In U.S. law and politics
The Supreme Court declined to take up a challenge from the gun industry to New York’s liability law, leaving in place a measure that lets people sue gun manufacturers and dealers over harm caused by criminal or unlawful misuse of their products. Separate from that, lawmakers told Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and the National Park Service they cannot build Trump’s planned arch without congressional approval.
In Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court ruled that skill games are illegal, a decision that could have broad consequences for the machines’ operators and the businesses that host them.
In crime and public safety
A family in Philadelphia’s Hunting Park is grieving after a man was killed in a hit-and-run crash. In Chester, a 67-year-old woman is recovering after being shot twice while visiting a home.
In Britain
A national review will reopen eight closed grooming gang cases as part of Operation Beaconport. Investigators say the review is meant to find missed lines of inquiry and improve the way victims are handled, after earlier audits found failures to listen to and believe survivors.
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