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Billionaire media mogul Barry Diller to make $18 billion bid for MGM Resorts - The Sun Daily · Las Vegas Sun

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  SPEAKER_00: Happy Monday, Las Vegas.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here are today's top stories from the Las Vegas Sun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Billionaire media mogul Barry Diller is making a move on MGM Resorts.
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  SPEAKER_00: His company, People Inc., has proposed buying the remaining shares of MGM Resorts International, it already doesn't own, valuing the Las Vegas casino and resort operator at more than$18 billion.
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  SPEAKER_00: In other news, Nevada is making its case to go first in the 2028 Democratic Presidential primary.
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  SPEAKER_00: State Party Chair Danielle Monroe Monrano, Congressman Stephen Horsford, and a delegation of Nevada officials went to Washington last week to argue before the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee that Nevada's democratic diversity, union infrastructure, battleground status, and accessible election systems make it uniquely suited to open the primary calendar.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some national news.
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  SPEAKER_00: Voluntary departures in immigration courts have spiked dramatically under the Trump administration, reaching nearly 90,000 cases as of May 1st.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's more than seven times the number recorded in the final 16 months of the Biden administration.
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  SPEAKER_00: Critics say immigrants are being unfairly pressured to leave, even those with the legal right to stay.
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  SPEAKER_00: In higher education news, a new UNLV study finds that sampling wastewater near hospitals and healthcare facilities can detect a deadly drug-resistant fungus up to five months before patients start to show cyst symptoms.
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  SPEAKER_00: And finally, sandwich chain capriotis.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's celebrating 50 years with Las Vegas now central to its story.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all love that, Bobby.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hold the mayonnaise for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's your briefing for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have a great Monday and week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for visiting Las Vegas Sun.