New Jersey officials announced on Monday a settlement up to $2 billion or more with DuPont and other companies over decades of contamination from PFAS at four locations, including two in South Jersey. Shawn LaTourette, the state Department of Environmental Protection commissioner, called it “the largest environmental settlement in our state’s history.” LaTourette said he was unaware of any other …
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Phyllis Jones spent nearly 10 years watching her mother succumb to Alzheimer’s. Decades earlier, her mother had taken care of her grandmother the same way, as she was also struck by the most common form of memory-robbing dementia. Now 66, Jones was headed toward being caught in the generational cycle herself. Like 100 million Americans, the Illinois grandmother-of-two was prediabetic and …
Read More »This Networking Stock Is Rising 70% on Unit Sale. It’s Part of the Data-Center Frenzy. Barron’s Amphenol Strikes Big Broadband Deal in AI Boom – WSJ The Wall Street Journal Amphenol in $10.5 billion deal for CommScope’s connectivity, cable unit CNBC CommScope Stock (COMM) Soars 80% on $10.5B Deal TipRanks Amphenol nears $10-billion deal to buy CommScope’s broadband connectivity and cable unit, WSJ reports Yahoo.co …
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Todd ArcherAug 2, 2025, 06:32 PM ET Close Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Dallas Cowboys. Archer has covered the NFL since 1997 and Dallas since 2003. He joined ESPN in 2010. OXNARD, Calif. — Micah Parsons‘ trade request on Friday has not swayed Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones, and he will …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link HARARE, Zimbabwe AP — The killing of a collared lion involved in a research project in Zimbabwe by a trophy hunter has been condemned by wildlife groups, echoing the infamous case of a lion called Cecil whose death at the hands of an American tourist in the same country a decade ago was met with international …
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In 2010, while a struggling college student in Minnesota, Sarah Juracich’s life changed forever. It was that year, during a random visit to a pet adoption fair, she happened upon a rescue kitten unlike any she’d seen before. Sarah Juracich “I was not in the market for another cat,” Juracich told The Dodo. “I had a cat at home. But …
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John Krasinski is officially returning to the franchise that catapulted him to A-list director status. Krasinski will write and direct A Quiet Place Part III, with Paramount setting a summer release date of July 9, 2027. No cast is set, but the first two installments were led by Emily Blunt, Krasinski’s-real life wife, with their children played by Millicent Simmonds …
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A beam of particles speeding away from the vicinity of a monstrous black hole has been found to be severely kinked, providing compelling evidence that the black hole is actually part of the most extreme binary system known. The black hole and its crooked jet are found in a blazar known as OJ 287, located about four billion light-years away. …
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Jeremy Strong may soon be getting a perm and rocking a gold chain. The Oscar nominee and Emmy winner is the top choice to play Mark Zuckerberg in Aaron Sorkin’s “The Social Network Part II,” another hyper-literate examination of the dark side of Silicon Valley. Strong would be taking over the role of the Facebook founder from Jesse Eisenberg, who …
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Germany’s Uber Arena will serve as host for the The NBA Berlin Game 2026 on Jan. 15, 2026. • Download the NBA App• NBA.com/EuropeGames LONDON — The National Basketball Association (NBA) today announced that the Memphis Grizzlies and the Orlando Magic will play regular-season games in Berlin on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, and in London on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. The …
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