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The Federal Communications Commission said it is working on a final rule that would let state prisons block cellular signals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Gen. Rob Bonta from waging a legal battle to block Paramount’s $111-billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Raman has often opposed the law’s use in council, saying it merely shifts encampments from block to block.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Andrew Jackson once threw a party at the White House, and 10,000 Washington residents showed up to help themselves to whatever they could carve from a 1,000-pound block of cheddar cheese.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Andre holds up one hand to block the sun as he scans the park.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

In Vientiane, a power line once used for one household now covers whole apartment blocks with many units, straining old transformers.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

The team confirmed the mechanism in laboratory experiments and in volunteers who received a drug that directly blocks p38.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Flick's side have exploded out of the blocks this season, scoring 22 goals across their first five games while conceding only three.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

They also don’t apply to messaging, meaning kids can still DM each other during restricted hours even with the blocks turned on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Teams can’t truly go from Anchorage to Nome because the freeway system coming into Anchorage blocks the trail.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

OSA is caused by a blocked airway, so a patient may grind their teeth to move the blockage in order to be able to breathe again.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

“Our safeguards blocked many of their requests, but not all of them,” the Anthropic report said of the Yemeni weapons-development efforts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

In a poetic twist, Journey’s highest-charting hit was blocked from No. 1 by the J. Geils Band’s “Centerfold,” in which the heartbroken narrator goes laughing all the way to his bed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

When it comes to the research Anthropic detected and blocked that was related to biological weapons, the intent of the actors was less clear-cut and the AI lab did not identify them.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

I don’t know why I thought I could run, but I was going to, until a giant horse blocked my path and there were shiny black boots right in my face.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

The approach focuses on blocking IL1RAP, a receptor that plays a central role in inflammatory signaling and helps coordinate the network of cells surrounding pancreatic tumors.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

A California court previously granted parental rights to Ahmed and Gilkar, while a Texas court issued a restraining order blocking West from seeing the baby.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

A day before that incident, hundreds of masked protesters massed in Dover, further east, briefly blocking access to the town's busy Channel port to demonstrate against migrant crossings.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

On Sunday, drivers paraded across the main thoroughfares of Semnan, a city east of Tehran, blocking traffic, according to footage verified by Storyful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Otherwise, there’d be fireballs raining down and smoke and dust blocking the sun, making the sky pitch-black.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas