11:23⇢Skydance Seals Hollywood Takeover
⌨The completed Paramount-Warner Bros. merger holds top billing, with editors noting Skydance control and the scale of the deal (AP, NBC, HuffPost). Attention also widens to the Middle East crisis, with denials of Houthi losses in Yemen, reports of 11 tankers struck around Hormuz, and Trump's warning of Iranian strikes on US cities (CBS, Newsmax, ABC).