convention
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And she opposed the $2.6-billion upgrade of the Convention Center, saying it would divert funds away from core city services.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Operation Rescue disrupted the Democratic National Convention in 1992 and recorded thousands of arrests.
From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026
Visits to Las Vegas fell 7.5% year over year in 2025 amid “shifting travel dynamics, economic uncertainty, and evolving policy conditions,” the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority said in January.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026
On Feb. 4, 1794, while the country was convulsed in the violent political struggle known as the Terror, the National Convention abolished slavery in all French colonies.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
You have to talk about something, and money seems to have filled the conversational niche made available when people stopped discussing the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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