A Contentious Media Merger, and the F.B.I.’s Epstein Scramble

Plus, your Friday news quiz. On Today’s Episode: F.C.C. Approves Skydance’s $8 Billion Merger With Paramount, by Benjamin Mullin Trump Spars With Powell Over Fed’s Costly Renovations in Rare Visit, by Colby Smith How a Frantic Scouring of the Epstein Files Consumed the Justice Dept., by Adam Goldman and Alan Feuer Gazans Are Dying of Starvation, by Rawan Sheikh Ahmad, Isabel Kershner and Abu Bakr Bashir France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Macron Says, by Roger Cohen Israel and the U.S. Pull Back From Talks With Hamas, by David E. Sanger and Johnatan Reiss Hulk Hogan, Shirt-Shredding Superstar of Pro Wrestling, Dies at 71, by Victor Mather Tune in every weekday morning.