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The visa revocation comes soon after senior U.S. officials described Mexico as a country controlled by drug traffickers and vowed to pursue Mexican officials who collude with the nation’s powerful cartels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
In 2024, the Atlantic Council think tank estimated that China controlled 90% of the U.S. drone market and 80% of the global market.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Lar gibbons are small apes native to south-east Asia whose international trade is tightly controlled.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Its AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses can record and be controlled through voice commands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
But I wouldn’t be keeping within my experiment’s controlled variables if I used a nonhuman participant.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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