#Trump sued #CBS for $10B days before the 2024 election, accusing the company of deceptively editing a #60Minutes interview w/VP #KamalaHarris, many #legal experts dismissed the litigation as a far-fetched attempt to punish an out-of-favor news outlet.

Now Trump is back in the WH, & execs at CBS’s parent company, #Paramount, believe #settling the lawsuit would increase the odds that the Trump admin does not block or delay their planned multibillion-dollar #merger….

#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/business/media/paramount-trump-cbs-news-settlement.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Hunter-Gatherers Settled in Cyprus Thousands of Years Earlier than Previously Thought
https://www.sci.news/archaeology/cyprus-human-arrival-12946.html
#archaeology #cyprus #HunterGatherers #settling

Hugh Grant has been priced out of his ‘phone hacking’ lawsuit against The Sun, after learning it would cost him more money to win than it would cost Rupert Murdoch.

"At the right moment and at the right amount, a skilled litigator can bring a civil claim to a speedy halt": https://davidallengreen.com/2024/04/how-the-civil-justice-system-forced-hugh-grant-to-settle-and-why-an-alternative-to-that-system-is-difficult-to-conceive/ writes @davidallengreen

How Europeans were replaced: in each generation, farmers created new villages thirty or forty km beyond the settlement front.
Pioneer #clearing was not continuous: "it was necessary, when arriving at the level of the middle Danube, for humans, plants and [domestic] animals to become accustomed to the climate."
p.44 "Les dix millénaires oubliés qui ont fait l'Histoire" Jean-Paul Demoule, Fayard
#neolithic #agriculture #settlement #farming #neolithic #landClearing #settling #immigration