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US-Iran Tension, Clinton Deposition, Paramount Wins Warner Bros. Bid

US-Iran Tension, Clinton Deposition, Paramount Wins Warner Bros. Bid

Up First from NPR
Feb 27, 2026 13 min
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The U.S. may be on the cusp of striking Iran, even as President Trump has not laid out clear objectives, asked Congress for authorization, or made a full public case for military action.<br>Hillary Clinton sat for a six-hour, closed-door deposition in the House Oversight Committee’s Epstein investigation, and now Bill Clinton is set to testify as Republicans say they still have unanswered questions.<br>And Warner Bros. Discovery abruptly walked away from a deal with Netflix for a sweeter bid from Paramount, setting up a major media merger fight that now heads to antitrust regulators.<br/><br/><em>Want more analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? </em><a href="https://www.npr.org/newsletter/news"target="_blank" >Subscribe</a><em> to the Up First newsletter.<br></em><p class="readrate">Today’s episode of Up First was edited by Rebekah Metzler, Megan Pratz<strong>, </strong>Gerry Holmes, Mohamad ElBardicy, and Alice Woelfle.<p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">It was produced by Ziad Buchh and Nia Dumas.<p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">Our director is Christopher Thomas.<p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">We get engineering support from Neisha Heinis. Our technical director is Carleigh Strange.<p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">Our Executive Producer is Jay Shaylor<p class="readrate">(0:00) Introduction<br>(01:57) US-Iran Tension<br>(05:47) Clinton Deposition <br>(09:30) Paramount Wins Warner Bros. Bid<br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>

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