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Authorities said 25,000 people marched through central Madrid on Saturday demanding protection for the Spanish state pension scheme, one of the hot topics in a parliamentary election next month.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

Developers taking part in the scheme will also be asked to contribute towards running costs.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Dozens of people were convicted in connection with a sprawling, $250-million children’s food assistance scheme that predated this administration, though more charges have been announced in recent months.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

According to the Miami Herald, federal prosecutors identified Alvarado as an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme to embezzle money from Venezuela’s national oil company.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

The grand scheme didn’t last long because the pay was too little, but for P.J. this was a brief introduction to a world he would one day inhabit.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Gen. Rob Bonta held dueling news conferences Thursday, with each touting their efforts to crack down on medical providers accused of needless surgical procedures, sham addiction treatment program, bogus hospice care and other alleged schemes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Goliath Corp., meanwhile, yearns to eliminate Thursday and execute grandiose schemes of literary mischief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

He would later settle a civil lawsuit brought by his former employer, which contended he played a role in Kao’s campaign finance and loan fraud schemes, for $425,000.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

The money will go towards 14 schemes across England, including new urgent care centres, ambulance fleets and upgrades to emergency departments.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

The Olympians seemed to take turns using him for their schemes.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Sean McVay and the Rams schemed against Kliff Kingsbury when he coached the Arizona Cardinals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

He schemed to get an imported copy seized by customs to trigger a court case over its content.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Afforded extra space by his manager's decision to play Jack Grealish alongside him in a central position, De Bruyne schemed in the way he usually does.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2024

City-states, hoping to win civic glory, sometimes schemed to bribe top athletes to falsely claim that city as their own.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024

And though I had prayed and figured and thought and schemed, I could not come up with a way to make those numbers look any better.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Elsewhere on the front page, two contestants from this season of the Celebrity Traitors, Maya Jama and Richard E Grant, are pictured scheming in their iconic green cloaks.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

"I know what I did, I know what we did, and I know how it happened. It didn't feel like we were scheming or plotting."

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Agents and bots in its labs were caught scheming, hiding errors and ignoring restraints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Hardly the smoking gun that puts him in an Afghan cave, scheming with Osama bin Laden.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan