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“Markets now place an 84% chance of a BOJ hike in October, up from 72% before the report,” says the head of Foreign Exchange, International & Geoeconomics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Swarms of flies buzzed about, occasionally landing on top of Hilton’s head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Carly Calland's 14-year-old son Jacob died in March 2025 of a catastrophic head injury.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
To get your head out of Grand Canyon State politics and kick back tonight, I recommend:
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
I can’t help but laugh at the picture in my head of a young Ford getting smacked on his butt by a mean old lady.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
"Bulldozers on the beaches have already damaged the nesting sites of loggerhead turtles, which are threatened with extinction," Olsi Nika, a marine biologist who heads the NGO EcoAlbania, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Inflation watchers in the private sector said the BEA move was justified, but they faulted the agency for not giving the public a heads up, even for such a nerdy statistical thing.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Min Zin, who heads a Myanmar-focused think tank and is a Berkeley Ph.D. candidate, was held upon arrival at the airport on suspicion of espionage—charges his think tank and the State Department both dispute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
It is a story she will be hoping to continue after her return to cabinet, as Labour heads in a new direction under Burnham.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Elliot took a half second longer than everyone else to salute, since he was still staring at me like I had four heads.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
This is less a survival narrative than a study of the mind’s refusal to accept extinction, the “positive, unquestionable nothingness” for which we are all, inevitably, headed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
They set their campsite up at Upper Pines, a campground in the valley, and headed out early on the Mist Trail, which takes hikers to Vernal and Nevada falls via its large stone steps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Hayya, who already headed the movement in Gaza from exile, was widely seen as representing the more hardline faction that emerged from the devastating war with Israel that began almost three years ago.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Spain's World Cup winners headed home on Monday to a heroes' welcome in Madrid, where a million fans are expected to greet them after a night of raucous celebrations across the country.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
The minute roll call was dismissed the following morning, I headed for the hospital, permission or no.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
But with rates heading “in the wrong direction, as far as the market and economy is concerned,” but an easy solution is elusive.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
By 2024 he was heading the land troops of the Ukrainian army and leading task forces in some of the east's most intense combat areas.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
All of which has turned the 25-year-old into soccer’s human piñata and left him without many places to turn heading into next season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Bhatia, the son-in-law of India steel billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, is heading a consortium interested in buying into the 20-time English champions.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
As wood-ants only build by the south side of trees, Torak worked out that they were heading west.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
