Anxiety over rising gas prices has already hammered consumer sentiment, which slid to a three-month low in March as Americans expressed concerns about the economy, according to the University of Michigan’s monthly survey.
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Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
The recent fines issued by Cal/OSHA is not the first time the state agency has hammered the Sheriff’s Department.
This is apparently so intolerable to the American public of the 1950s that he is chased out of a radio station after airing his views, whiskey bottle in hand.
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Alice Kaplan,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
The Rockies want to run the bases like kids chasing an ice cream truck.
For example, a Republican Party activist in The Villages in Central Florida was charged in 2023 with forging his father’s signature on a mail ballot in the 2020 election after his father had died.
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ORLANDO SENTINEL AND MIAMI HERALD EDITORIAL BOARDS,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Mar. 2026
Faced with being iced out by its biggest trading partner, Canada has since forged strategic partnerships with countries across the globe, including China, much to Trump’s chagrin.
The stars of that team, Deron Williams and Dee Brown, sat together at Saturday’s game, drawing huge cheers when they were shown on the video board.
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Colleen Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
Surrounded by 28 acres of grapevines and rolling farmland, this beautiful resort draws its look from the working countryside with standalone-style only accommodations, luxury amenities, and a polished farm-house design.
On a floured surface, lightly knead dough with floured hands for 30 seconds or until nearly smooth.
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Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2026
This is because tendons that normally curl the toes downward (such as when cats knead your lap) pull on the amputation stumps so that the stumps rub on the ground, and no mechanism remains to oppose that action.
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The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Feb. 2026
The school had also employed about two dozen teachers and administrative staff, many of whom were young graduates in their 20s now without an income – at a time when their nation’s already struggling economy has been further pounded by war.
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Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2026
Wild video captured the moment a young fisherman plunged into pounding Southern California surf to wrestle a thrashing shark and free it from his fishing line.
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