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US stocks mixed ahead of shortened trading day, S&P 500 rises after record close

Paramount’s (PARA) stock jumped on Wednesday, up about 8% in early trading, after the Wall Street Journal reported the media giant’s merger with Skydance Media is supposedly back on the table. Shari Redstone, who controls Paramount through her family’s holding company National Amusements (NAI), ended merger talks with Skydance in June after months of back […]

How nine men captured a Nazi sub and shortened WWII

Once the hunters of the Atlantic ocean, the German wolfpacks by 1944 had become the hunted. Allied task groups dubbed “Hunter-Killer[s]” methodically attacked, scuttled and destroyed German U-boats, one by one. On June 4, 1944, just two days before Operation Overlord, the Allies were once again on the prowl and achieved the near impossible — […]