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Purdue Pharma And Owners To Pay $7.4 Billion In Settlement Of Lawsuits Over The Toll Of Oxycontin

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/28/2025 - 3:00am

The Purdue Pharma offices are seen, May 8, 2007, in Stamford, Conn.
(Douglas Healey / AP Photo)

Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller, the attorneys general from several states announced Thursday.

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Minimum Wage Increasing In Nearly Half Of States, Including Nebraska

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/21/2025 - 5:00am

The minimum wage will increase in nearly half the states this year even as the federal wage floor remains stuck at $7.25 per hour.

In many states, the minimum wage is automatically adjusted upward as inflation rises. But voters in several states, including deeply red ones such as Nebraska, Alaska and Missouri, chose in November to significantly increase their minimum wages this year.

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Elon Musk Says A Third Patient Got A Neuralink Brain Implant. The Work Is Part Of A Booming Field

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/21/2025 - 4:00am

Elon Musk said a third person has received an implant from his brain-computer interface company Neuralink, one of many groups working to connect the nervous system to machines.

“We've got ... three humans with Neuralinks and all are working well,” he said during a wide-ranging interview at a Las Vegas event streamed on his social media platform X.

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Nebraska’s Cities Are Engines For Its Growth

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/14/2025 - 6:00am

NORFOLK, Nebraska — New Census estimates have Nebraska’s population topping 2 million for the first time. It’s a safe bet that recent population growth is primarily happening in our state’s major cities, which act as engines propelling new business activity and attracting new people.

State policies that acknowledge this reality and encourage cities’ growth would serve all Nebraskans well.

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The ‘Worst in Show’ CES Products Put Your Data At Risk And Cause Waste, Privacy Advocates Say

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/14/2025 - 5:00am

The Ultrahuman Rare luxury smart ring is on display at the Ultrahuman booth during the CES tech show Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Las Vegas.
(John Locher / AP Photo)

LAS VEGAS (AP) — So much of the technology showcased at CES includes gadgets made to improve consumers' lives — whether by leveraging AI to make devices that help people become more efficient, by creating companions to cure loneliness or by providing tools that help people with mental and physical health.

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/14/2025 - 4:00am

A tunnel boring machine sits at the bottom of a construction site during a media tour at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Las Vegas.
(John Locher / AP Photo)

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight

by Daniel Rothberg for ProPublica and Dayvid Figler, City Cast Las Vegas

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Birkin Handbags, Walmart’s ‘Wirkin’ And The Meme-Ification Of Class Warfare

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/14/2025 - 3:00am

Natalie Zea seen with her yellow Hermes Birkin Bag leaving The Wendy Williams Show promoting the new season of the TBS comedy series 'The Detour' in New York City on April 13, 2017.
(MediaPunch via AP)

In previous eras of internet culture, mockery of the rich and famous was usually relegated to far-left forums.

But as 2025 begins, ridiculing the rich appears to have gone mainstream.

Look no further than the Walmart handbag that mimics the look of Hermès’ iconic, exclusive and uber-expensive Birkin bag.

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It’s Still Dick Cavett: Recovered From Stroke, Nebraska Talk Show Legend Now Youtube Sensation, Music Video Star

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/07/2025 - 7:00am

Dick Cavett (center) pauses for a photo with Maureen Van Zandt and Vincent Pastore during the filming of a music video for a song by Marc Ribler named after the legendary talk show host. The video also stars Pastore from “The Sopranos” and Van Zandt, an actress and wife of Steven Van Zandt, a longtime musical collaborator of Bruce Springsteen. Ribler plays in Steven Van Zandt’s band.
(Courtesy of Cavalier Films)

Former national talk show host Dick Cavett invited social revolution into viewers’ homes courtesy of the 1960s icons he interviewed. And this Nebraskan who gave counterculture a mainstream platform stayed busy in the decades after his show ended – writing, performing and lending his stature as a television fixture in a formative era.

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Biden Blocks Nippon Steel's Proposed Deal To Acquire US Steel

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/07/2025 - 4:00am

This is a portion of US Steel's Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock, Pa., on Sunday, Apr., 28, 2024.
(Gene J. Puskar / AP Photo)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has blocked the nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel — affirming his earlier vow on the presidential campaign trail to prevent the acquisition of Steeltown USA’s most storied steel company.

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As ‘Smart Cities’ Tools Grow Nationwide, So Do Privacy And Ethical Concerns

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 01/07/2025 - 3:00am

Austin Russell, Founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies, unveils Luminar Halo, the company's next-generation LiDAR technology platform on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 in Sunnyvale, Calif.
(Tony Avelar / AP Images for Luminar)

After nearly a week of searching for a suspect in the hit-and-run death of an 81-year-old St. Helena, California woman this summer, police found and arrested a man with the help of license plate reading cameras that registered him near the scene.