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The Washington Post
April 21, 2026
There are thousands of variations of these chemicals, but all contain a chain of carbon and fluorine that generates “an extremely strong bond,” said Graham Peaslee, a professor emeritus in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Notre Dame. “Once they’re made, and they’re all man-made, they last in the environment forever,” he said.
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The Washington Post
April 21, 2026
There are thousands of variations of these chemicals, but all contain a chain of carbon and fluorine that generates “an extremely strong bond,” said Graham Peaslee, a professor emeritus in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Notre Dame.
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy
April 21, 2026
This is not the first time that a group has faced off with an attorney general over accusations of misleading information about nonprofit donations, says Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame who researches and writes about attorney general enforcement of charity laws. “I’m having a strong sense of déjà vu because in 2017, there was actually a lawsuit against PayPal, one of the companies listed,” Mayer says.ND Experts
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BBC News
April 21, 2026
Timothy Hubbard, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business, said Cook's era of Apple turned it into a company that was "the best at refining, scaling and defending an extraordinarily powerful system. The real question now is whether that same organisation can pivot toward exploration, where success depends on speed, uncertainty and a greater willingness to experiment," he said.
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CNBC
April 21, 2026
“By choosing a hardware leader in John Ternus, Apple may be signaling that it still believes the future of AI will run through tightly integrated devices, not just software,” said Timothy Hubbard, assistant professor of management at the University of Notre Dame.
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The New York Times
April 20, 2026
Richard Garnett, a Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor and director of the law school’s Program on Church, State and Society, said the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty did not permit governments to penalize religious schools, or the parents who chose them, by excluding them from education-funding programs. Colorado has tried to evade recent Supreme Court rulings, he said in a statement, “by imposing requirements that religious schools abandon various policies that reflect their religious character.”
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The Washington Post
April 20, 2026
As Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller notes, this puts 270 plausibly within reach for the first time. “If Michigan (15), Pennsylvania (19), Wisconsin (10), and Nevada (6) all tip toward Democratic trifectas” — meaning Democratic control of the governorship and both houses of the legislature — “that’s 50 EVs,” he observes. If each of those states ratified the NPVIC, it would control an Electoral College majority — 272 votes out of 538 — and the compact, by its own terms, would go into effect.
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BBC News
April 20, 2026
When the American anthropologist Lee Gettler, then an undergrad student, heard about these findings in the early 2000s, he was hooked. "I asked [my lecturer] whether anyone was studying these questions in human fathers, and the answer at that point was largely no", says Gettler, now the director of the Hormones, Health, and Human Behavior Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
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Rolling Stone
April 16, 2026
Roger Alford, a law professor at Notre Dame and a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, tells Rolling Stone, “After decades of trying to address Live Nation and Ticketmaster’s abuse of monopoly power, we hope that those abuses will now end.”
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NPR
April 16, 2026
Notre Dame law professor Roger Alford commended the states for seeing the antitrust trial through. "This was a massive win for the state AGs and an historic miss for the DOJ," Alford wrote. "The DOJ had the talent, the material, and the audience. It just lacked leadership with the courage to step on stage."
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The Hill
April 16, 2026
One of the ex-officials, Roger Alford, called Wednesday’s decision a “massive win for the state AGs and an historic miss for the DOJ. The DOJ had the talent, the material, and the audience. It just lacked leadership with the courage to step on stage,” Alford said in a statement.
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The Wall Street Journal
April 16, 2026
“It is a major affordability win for the consumer and just a huge missed opportunity for the Department of Justice, which settled on the cheap in the manner that they did,” said Roger Alford, a former senior Justice Department official who has said lobbyists wield too much influence over how the Trump administration resolves antitrust cases.
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Variety
April 16, 2026
The settlement allegedly resulted in the firing of Slater’s top aides, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roger Alford and Deputy Assistant Attorney William Rinner, both of whom objected to the settlement. After his firing, Mr. Alford specifically warned that “Live Nation and Ticketmaster have paid a bevy of cozy MAGA friends to roam the halls of the [Antitrust Division] in defense of their monopoly abuses.”
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The New York Times
April 16, 2026
Roger Alford, who was ousted last year as the top deputy in the Justice Department’s antitrust division, and later criticized Live Nation for hiring people connected to the Trump administration to press its case, called the verdict a “major missed opportunity” for the federal government. “They had victory in their grasp and then they just walked away from it,” he said. “To the extent the Department of Justice is not going to exercise its responsibility to enforce the antitrust laws, we now have confidence that the state attorneys general and the private bar will pick up the baton.”
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The New York Times
April 16, 2026
“Iran has limited capability to execute its threats in the Persian Gulf, and really limited capability in the Red Sea,” said Eugene Gholz, a professor at the University of Notre Dame who focuses on military threats in the Strait of Hormuz. He said the threat meant “some, but not much.”
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Newsweek
April 16, 2026
"This was a massive win for the state AGs and an historic miss for the DOJ. The DOJ had the talent, the material, and the audience. It just lacked leadership with the courage to step on stage,” Roger Alford, Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor and former principal deputy assistant attorney general, said in a statement sent to Newsweek.
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Bloomberg
April 16, 2026
“This was a massive win for the state AGs and an historic miss for the DOJ,” said Roger Alford, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频 who was the Trump administration’s No. 2 antitrust official until he was fired last summer. “The DOJ had the talent, the material, and the audience. It just lacked leadership with the courage to step on stage.”
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CBS News
April 16, 2026
Now, a judge could eventually reject the settlement in light of the ruling on the states' complaint, according to Roger Alford, a professor at the Notre Dame Law 91视频.
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EWTN
April 15, 2026
Co-hosted by CUA始s Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and Carroll Forum for Citizenship and Public Life, along with the University of Notre Dame始s Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government, the conference included a video address by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio highlighting Catholics' presence and influence on the nation.
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The New York Times
April 15, 2026
“It hardly constitutes a promise to protect non-Iranian shipping, which is likely the problem that the commercial companies and ship masters want solved,” said Eugene Gholz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and expert on the Strait of Hormuz.
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