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Discovery+ isn’t disappearing, after all. Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company, has decided to continue offering the Discovery+ streaming platform in the United States, according to a source familiar with the company’s plans. That marks a sharp reversal from the media company’s previous plan to combine Discovery+ with HBO Max into one streaming service. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news. The company has not changed its plan to combine HBO Max and Discovery+ into an “enhanced platform” later this year, a key synergy that Warner Bros. Discovery identified following its April 2022 merger, the source said. CEO David…

Today’s top storiesThe UK’s Competition and Markets Authority dealt a blow to Microsoft’s attempted $75bn acquisition of video game company Activision Blizzard, warning of “higher prices, fewer choices, or less innovation for UK gamers”. A deal would make Microsoft the third-largest gaming company behind China’s Tencent and Japan’s Sony. Activision said blocking a deal could cost a “fragile” government a post-Brexit opportunity with thousands of jobs.The death toll from the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria rose above 11,000 as the Turkish government struggled to get aid to victims. Turkish stock market trading has been suspended.The UK is looking at…

The thing worth holding on to! Pamela Anderson still has her iconic red swimsuit from Baywatch — and it “still fits.” Anderson revealed she kept the one-piece in a Monday, February 6, interview with ET Canada. “I had a couple back then. Now I only have one and it fits,” she told the news outlet, adding that she wears the look “every once in a while.”  The Barb Wire star went on to share that she’s even donned the garment out in public. “One time, I was out with my friends, I was out with Luke Gilford, this photographer, and…

Access to birth control and other forms of contraception in Europe remains noticeably uneven, according to a new report released on Wednesday.The so-called European Contraception Policy Atlas found that there is a significant amount of work to do in order to help families have children in a planned and measured way.The executive director of the European Parliamentary Forum for sexual and reproductive rights (EPF), Neil Datta, said that in the 46 countries surveyed, only “57% of women in Europe use modern contraception.” He added that just over a third of pregnancies in Europe are unintended — but not necessarily undesired — which “represents…

WALTERBORO, S.C. — A called-in bomb threat temporarily halted the double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh on Wednesday afternoon, forcing the evacuation of a packed courtroom of lawyers, the defendant and his family, and spectators just as a witness was about to take the stand.Shortly before 12:30 p.m., Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman calmly told the courtroom in the Colleton County Courthouse that “we have to evacuate the building at this time. We’ll be in recess until we discover what’s going on.”The sudden announcement in the televised trial brought heightened drama to the court proceedings against Murdaugh, a once-powerful South…

Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines in midday trading Wednesday:Lumen Technologies — Shares fell 22.5% after the cloud network data company reported a fourth-quarter loss of about $3.1 billion. Its earnings guidance for the year also came in below StreetAccount estimates.Alphabet — Shares of Google’s parent company dropped 7.5% after the company held an event to show off its new artificial intelligence chatbot called Bard, one day after competitor Microsoft held an event to show off AI technologies in its competing search engine.CVS Health — CVS Health gained 4.6% after the company surpassed profit…

Four-year-old Alice Stones was savaged by the family’s pet dog in the back yard of her home in Milton Keynes. Police have not disclosed the breed of the dogThe family dog that killed a four-year-old girl in a horror arrack in her own back garden was not a banned breed, police have announced. Alice Stones was savaged by the crazed animal in the back yard of her home in Milton Keynes on the evening of January 31. Thames Valley Police have formally identified the toddler and confirmed testing has revealed the dog was not on the banned breed list. In…

A Connecticut student was jailed on numerous charges Wednesday after a fight in school led to the discovery of a gun and a high-capacity magazine hidden in a classroom closet.The 18-year-old student was first charged with assault and disorderly conduct on Tuesday after an altercation with a 16-year-old at the Hamden Collaborative Learning Center, police said.Officers were called back later in the morning after school security received a report that handgun was in the school. They recovered the 9-millimeter gun and loaded magazine from inside the closet, police said. Police rearrested the 18-year-old on charges of carrying a pistol without…

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is pushing for legislation that would create a legal age for children to be allowed on social media, arguing tech companies have engaged in harmful practices that put profits over “protecting kids.”Hawley has long been a major critic of social media platforms and tech companies in general, repeatedly calling for an all-out ban on the Chinese-owned app TikTok. Hawley proposed enforcing a minimum age for social media use at 16 and requiring social media companies to verify the ages of their users.”For me, this is about protecting kids, protecting their mental health, protecting their safety,” Hawley…

A 34-year-old woman was headbutted and punched by two creeps who tried to rob her on a Queens train — one of several disturbing incidents on the subway system to take place in recent weeks, according to police. The victim was on a southbound R train approaching the Jackson Heights/Roosevelt Avenue station around 1:20 p.m. Jan. 15 when she got into a heated clash with another woman — who then headbutted her in the face, police said late Tuesday. Moments later, a man walked up to the victim, snatched her cellphone — and then pummeled her in the head, cops…