The Justice Department’s investigation of Netflix Inc.’s proposed $72 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. includes scrutiny of the streaming giant’s behavior and whether it wields anticompetitive leverage over creators in negotiations for acquiring programming.

NASA is preparing to remove its massive moon rocket from its launchpad to fix a technical issue, delaying the agency’s much-anticipated mission to send a crew of four around the moon.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union party called for a ban on the use of social media networks such as Instagram and Tiktok for minors in Germany, a move that risks straining relations with the US digital services industry ahead of a meeting with President Donald Trump next month.

Barry speaks with Hilary Allen, a Professor of Law at the American University Washington College of Law. She teaches courses in Banking Law, Securities Regulation, and Business Associations. They discuss financial stability regulation and new financial technologies including crypto and AI. They also talk about the role of venture capital in Silicon Valley, and why some companies from the dot com era took hold while others failed. (Source: Bloomberg)

Russia said Ukraine can obtain sensitive information from troops using the Telegram app on the front line, signaling tightening scrutiny over a platform used by millions of Russians.

Data from Germany in the coming days will shed light on whether Europe’s largest economy is on the cusp of a meaningful revival or still being hampered by Donald Trump’s tariffs and its own chronic shortcomings.

Honeywell International Inc. is considering walking away from its acquisition of Johnson Matthey Plc’s Catalyst Technologies business, people familiar with the matter said.

Fear of rising defaults is spreading from the leveraged loan market to some of the retail funds that ultimately buy the debt as investors get choosier about taking on credit risk.

The US Supreme Court’s decision to strike down many of Donald Trump’s tariffs offers some relief to Mexico and Canada, but a much bigger set of risks still hangs over the trade relationship that joins the three countries.

For the better part of 15 years at law firm Kirkland & Ellis, David Nemecek made a career out of exploiting loose lending agreements to perfect what would become a well-worn dance in the world of distressed corporate debt: Craft a debt overhaul too good for one set of a company’s creditors to pass up while leaving other creditors with scraps and buying precious time for the company’s private equity owners to avoid losses.