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Anchor Gayle King, whose job is rumored to be on the chopping block, forcefully pushed back on Friday: “What I’m not gonna do is negotiate in the media. Not doing that!”

Then, both parties made it back to the negotiating table.

The documents she obtained showed the university "had negotiated directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market," she told the BBC.

On Friday, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun accused Israel of responding to his offer to negotiate by intensifying its air strikes.

Even so, Pfizer—which had recently been fending off an activist investor as patents on key drugs expire and Covid revenue fades—still has time to decide it is better to negotiate than fight.