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Yet its parent, Brinker International, still trades at a valuation that leaves room for investors to take another look.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

A world-famous pottery firm says it has been acquired by a group of investors following the closure of its parent firm.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

"Having a child at home for one day a week every week would really impact you as a working parent," she said.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

AI chip leader and South Korean conglomerate SK Group, the parent of SK Hynix, a key supplier of high-bandwidth-memory products used in Nvidia’s AI accelerators.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

A “gene for redness,” Beets understood, is a unit of hereditary information, and it is carried from a parent to its children in an indivisible form in DNA—in genes, in chromosomes.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee