NEW YORK CITY: Paramount Global on Monday officially dropped a plan to sell its Simon & Schuster division to rival publisher Penguin Random House after a United States judge blocked the $2.2-billion deal on antitrust grounds.

Paramount, formally known as ViacomCBS, said the transaction was "terminated" following the October 31 US judicial ruling against the deal.

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