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The article portrays California’s 2026 governor’s race as unusually unsettled and “confounding,” with many voters either undecided or only weakly committed to a choice, even as the primary enters its final weeks.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

A number of limited, temporary truces have been held since 2022 - many held around holidays or only involving applying to energy infrastructure or the Black Sea.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

Tech stocks are trading at around 23 times their expected earnings, or only a slight premium to the S&P 500.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Earlier research has connected extreme temperatures with higher rates of cardiovascular death, but many of those studies focused on other countries or only small parts of the United States.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

But he could not tell whether it was truly dust or only a natural sheen of light on hair above black skin.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara