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In a dramatic twist that sent ripples through the worlds of high finance and Las Vegas entertainment, billionaire Barry Diller has walked away from his audacious $18 billion offer to buy MGM Resorts International. The Strip casino giant announced Wednesday that Diller had withdrawn his proposal after months of closed-door negotiations with the company’s board of directors. For Diller, a legendary media mogul and one of the most fascinating figures in American business, the decision marked the end of an ambitious push to take control of a company he already knew intimately. For MGM, it was a powerful validation of…

Paragraph 1 There are moments in politics when a leader stands at a world podium and says something that genuinely changes the temperature of the room, and Andy Burnham’s address to the United Nations General Assembly was precisely such a moment. Standing before the assembled leaders of the planet, the Prime Minister delivered a message that went far beyond the usual choreography of diplomatic handshakes and cautious pleasantries. Britain, he said, has been the victim of a campaign that can only be described as repulsive—a sustained, systematic assault on the very foundations of the country’s democracy, conducted from the shadows…

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