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Plus, your Friday news quiz. On Today’s Episode: F.C.C. Approves Skydance’s $8 Billion Merger With Paramount , by Benjamin Mullin Trump Spars With Powell Over Fed’s Costly Renovations in Rare Visit , by Colby Smith How a Frantic Scouring of the Epstein Files Consumed the Justice Dept. , by Adam Goldman and Alan Feuer Gazans Are Dying of Starvation , by Rawan Sheikh Ahmad, Isabel Kershner and Abu Bakr Bashir France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Macron Says , by Roger Cohen Israel and the U.S. Pull Back From Talks With Hamas , by David E. Sanger and Johnatan Reiss Hulk Hogan, Shirt-Shredding Superstar of Pro Wrestling, Dies at 71 , by Victor Mather Tune in every weekday morning. To get our full audio journalism and storytelling experience, download the New York Times Audio app — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and sign up for our weekly newsletter. Tell us what you think at: theheadlines@nytimes.com. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher . For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.