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Massachusetts Institute of Technology mechanical engineering graduate student Dian Li demonstrates how an ultrasound wristband can help a robotic hand mimic full hand motions in Cambridge, Mass, on Tuesday, April 14, 2026.
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Models stand next to a latest EV car from Chinese automaker BYD showcased at the Auto China 2026, in Beijing, April 25, 2026.
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The CMA CGM Marco Polo makes it way toward the Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal as seen from Bayonne, N.J., Thursday, May 20, 2021. When the CMA CGM Marco Polo docks in New Jersey Thursday it will set a record for the largest container ship ever to visit the East Coast, a reflection both of the New York/New Jersey port system's multibillion-dollar efforts to accommodate larger ships and of the surging demand nationwide for products as COVID-19 restrictions continue to ease.
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Ports are seeing a surge.
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Colleen Teevan, System Pharmacy Clinical Manager at Hartford HealthCare, administers the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 to healthcare worker Connor Paleski outside of Hartford Hospital on Monday, Dec. 14 in Hartford, CT.
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This undated photo provided by New Jersey state Assemblywoman Angela McKnight shows three 'Feel Better Dolls' sharing the shelf with a stuffed animal bearing an 'I Love New York' message at a One Dollar Zone store in Bayonne, N.J. The black rag 'Feel Better' dolls that came with instructions to 'find a wall' and slam the toy against it have been pulled from three stores after customers and the lawmaker said they were offensive.
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'Feel Better Doll' Pulled from Stores
"This somehow slipped through the cracks," said the president of a retailer who removed 1,000 dolls from its shelves.
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This undated photo provided by the Office of Attorney General of New Jersey shows parts of guns confiscated after being sold by mail order from a California company. New Jersey's attorney general announced a lawsuit Friday, March 22, 2019, against the California company that sells mail-order firearms parts that can be turned into working weapons, the first such action the state has taken since it banned so-called 'ghost guns' last year.
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"Ghost guns" are unregistered weapons that don't have serial numbers.
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This Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013, file photo shows a 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 sports car decorated to resemble the vehicles used to portray a time machine in the 'Back to the Future' movie franchise, shown in a display about the movies at the Miami Auto Museum at the Dezer Collection in North Miami, Fla. Sally DeLorean, the widow of maverick automaker John DeLorean, filed a federal lawsuit in New Jersey on Monday, April 23, 2018, alleging the DeLorean Motor Company in Humble, Texas – not affiliated with the automaker founded by John DeLorean that went bankrupt in 1982 – isn't entitled to money that the lawsuit says the Texas company received from Universal Pictures, the studio that distributed and helped produce the movies.
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The sleek, angular car with gull-wing doors known simply as "the DeLorean," was featured in the 1985 movie starring Michael J. Fox and a 1989 sequel.
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This May 2, 2017, file photo shows the Bayonne Bridge prior to a news conference announcing the bridge project completion, seen from Elizabeth, N.J. The elevation of the Bayonne Bridge was projected to cost about $1.3 billion before construction began more than four years ago. This week, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns and operates the bridge, approved allocating between $350 million and $400 million more, an overrun of more than 25 percent.
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It's a real neat looking structure though.
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The money will come from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Amtrak, with each contributing $35 million.
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