In the late nineteenth century, two brothers, Gerard and Anton Philips, started an incandescent-bulb outfit that would eventually become one of the largest electronics conglomerates in the world.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2026
The merged media conglomerates will now operate under one entity as Skydance, and means that Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and HBO Max’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver are now run by the same corporation.
In the front yard of a home on Bray Road, there’s a huge snarling Beast carved out of an old diseased elm tree, held in place by heavy steel chains.
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Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Oct. 2026
Fewer than a quarter of new cases are coming from people known to have been in contact with an infected person, showing there are ongoing chains of transmission that health authorities are not aware of.
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