Pharmaceutical giant Merck is buying Verona Pharma, a company that concentrates its efforts on respiratory diseases, in an approximately $10 billion deal.

Shares of Merck are sliding in early trading after the drugmaker surprised Wall Street with a lower-than-expected 2025 sales forecast due partly to a pause in shipments of one of its top-selling products to China.

AdBut for many of the victims of Tuesday’s fires, all they know is that they’ve suffered devastating losses. It hurts my soul,” Georgina Lenero, who lived at the Solara Apartments with her husband, said. Robert Davis, who lived in Chestnut Park with his wife and three daughters, was also left with nothing. Ad“My wife busted down in tears and the kids were crying and me going a hundred miles an hour,” Davis said. Just trying to figure out how to start over.”Stay InformedAs always, Your Weather Authority team will keep you updated.