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Updated Jan. 11, 2024 6:40 pm ET The Environmental Protection Agency sent letters requesting telecom companies to meet with the agency about their lead-sheathed phone cables, in a new phase of an investigation in the EPA’s efforts to protect the public from potential lead hazards.The agency’s move comes on the heels of the EPA finding more than 100 soil and sediment readings with lead above the regulator’s safety guideline for children at some phone lead-cable sites identified by The Wall Street Journal in three states.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Updated Jan. 14, 2024 12:01 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)After 100 days, Israel’s war with Hamas is turning into a protracted conflict with no clear end, threatening to spread across the Middle East, disrupt global trade and bog down the U.S.One of the biggest geopolitical events this century, the war has swung from a Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that Israel says killed 1,200 people to the Israeli military’s ferocious retaliation against the militant group in Gaza.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Source link

Hewlett Packard Enterprise struck a roughly $14 billion deal to buy Juniper Networks in a big bet on networking and artificial intelligence. The companies unveiled the transaction late Tuesday, a day after The Wall Street Journal reported that a deal was close.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

For a while, remote workers seemed to have it all: elastic waistbands, no commute, better concentration and the ability to pop in laundry loads between calls.New data, though, shows fully remote workers are falling behind in one of the most-prized and important aspects of a career: getting promoted. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

By Jemal R. Brinson, Juanje Gómez, Daniel Michaels and Stephen KalinJan. 13, 2024 11:00 pm ETListen to article(1 minute)Drones are transforming warfare, from Red Square to the Red Sea. Over the past decade, uncrewed aerial vehicles—and recently naval vessels—have put increasingly lethal and effective military equipment in the hands of insurgent groups such as Islamic State, Yemen’s Houthi rebels and underdogs like the Ukrainian military. Kyiv used drones to slow Russia’s invasion in 2022 and later sent longer-range UAVs to hit targets as far away as Moscow.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Source link

The VanMoof X3 was the perfect fit. Both my 6-foot-1 husband and my 5-foot-2 self could ride the e-bike comfortably. We live in Paris, and the X3 had many features to ward off thieves, including an integrated wheel lock, a motion-based alarm and location tracking via Apple’s Find My network.I’ve reviewed a number of e-bikes and ultimately chose VanMoof’s $2,300 X3 because it looked cool and ticked so many boxes. Then, last July, the Dutch e-bike maker declared bankruptcy.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Jan. 12, 2024 10:00 am ETAn unusual agreement between Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and a natural-gas driller could serve as a model for finding consensus over an issue that continues to divide much of the U.S.: fracking. Shapiro and the chief executive of CNX Resources said in November that the company would make changes to its operations and voluntarily release environmental information to the public and regulators. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Listen to article(1 minute)Up and down the income ladder, people say more money would make them happier. When they actually get it, that isn’t always the case. Some people who have gotten big raises recently say the money hasn’t changed their day-to-day life or hasn’t provided them as much joy as the things in their life that have nothing to do with money. Others were hoping for a bigger raise or felt conflicted about making more money. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Source link

Updated Jan. 10, 2024 3:16 pm ETAmazon is eliminating hundreds of jobs across its film and television studio and Twitch streaming platform in an effort to rein in costs.Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Amazon’s Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, announced the studio and video-division layoffs in an email to staffers Wednesday. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Jan. 12, 2024 10:55 am ETIt’s hard to pick the scariest part: the phones and teddy bears dropping from the sky, the shirt getting ripped off a teenager’s body or the massive hole in the side of the plane.The harrowing story of the Alaska Airlines flight that narrowly avoided disaster at 16,000 feet is petrifying enough to make you never set foot on a plane again. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8