 You're risking your life. And not only that, you're risking the lives of first responders. Power is out to more than a million homes. A heat wave that has scorched parts of the West is expanding. Large parts of the East Coast and the South are expected to get hit with record high temperatures. The entertainment giant Paramount, owner of CBS, will merge with Skydance, closing out a decades-long run by the Redstone family in Hollywood and injecting desperately needed cash into a legacy studio. This is AP News.