PRESS DIGEST-New York Times business news - April 9

April 9 - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

- Paramount Skydance PSKY.O said that Jeff Shell is stepping down as the company's president and board member amid allegations that he violated U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission disclosure rules.

- A Washington, D.C., federal appeals court declined to block the Pentagon's national security blacklisting of AI company Anthropic for now, a win for the Trump administration that comes after another appeals court came to the opposite conclusion in a separate legal challenge by Anthropic.

- The White House has secured tens of millions of dollars worth of donated foreign steel from ArcelorMittal MT.LU for U.S. President Donald Trump’s $400 million ballroom project.

- Tennessee has fined an ammunition plant more than $3.1 million for a series of health and safety violations, months after an explosion at the plant killed 16 people and injured others.