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Asking Eric: Siblings disagree over inheritance split
Letter writer considers giving away part of their inheritance to their sister — but not as much as she thinks is fair.
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Carolyn Hax: What to tell a traumatized friend in a pre-wedding panic?
A letter writer wonders how to advise a friend with a traumatic history who may be self-sabotaging as her wedding day approaches.
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Miss Manners: Coworkers text condolences to deceased brother’s phone
A sibling wants to know how to handle people texting their deceased brother’s phone to offer their condolences
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How Elon Musk Cuts Costs at Tesla, SpaceX and X
Mr. Musk dug into his companies’ budgets, preferring to cut too much rather than too little and to deal with the fallout later. Under Donald Trump, he is set to apply those tactics to the U.S. government.
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Elon Musk Adds Microsoft to Suit Against OpenAI
In a new legal filing, the Tesla chief executive accuses the A.I. start-up of undermining antitrust law.
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Under the Chandelier at Mar-a-Lago, Trump Makes Picks at Breakneck Speed
President-elect Donald J. Trump is more contemptuous than ever of Washington expertise and determined to hire people based on loyalty.
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Musk Wants to Slash $2 Trillion in Federal Spending. Is That Possible?
President-elect Donald J. Trump has tasked Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy with identifying ways to cut the budget. The hard part comes next.
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Democrats Draw Up an Entirely New Anti-Trump Battle Plan
The party’s early preparations to oppose the next Trump administration are heavily focused on legal fights and consolidating state power, rather than marching in the streets.
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Food Contact Chemicals Study Could Spur More Research, Government Oversight
On September 17, 2024, the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology (JESEE) published a paper on the potential human exposure to food contact chemicals (FCCs). Led by a research team at the Food Packaging Forum Foundation, the study synthesized data from published sources that analyzed a total of over 14,000 FCCs known to exist…
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Generalized Testimony Falls Short in Doctrine of Equivalents Analysis
On October 24, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a ruling in Nexstep, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, affirming the District Court for the District of Delaware’s judgment of non-infringement regarding two patents held by Nexstep, Inc. Nexstep had asserted that Comcast’s products infringed U.S. Patent Nos. 8,885,802…
