state
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More downstate counties on Tuesday considered whether to secede from the state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Despite that history, Colorado adopted a strong “equal opportunity” law in 2022 to go with its new state funding for preschools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
The Gambia has brought the case to the ICJ under the terms of the UN Genocide Convention, which allows any state to sound the alarm if it suspects genocide is being committed.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
A lawyer for Colorado—and the court’s three liberal justices—said the state has a vital interest in barring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
But the agreement would finally close the state land, rather than just blocking the road.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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Applied to the Middle East, that means the Gulf states can no longer rely on the U.S. security umbrella.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Post-production in Southern California has been reeling from an unprecedented industry contraction, partly due to the flight of filming to other states and countries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
As of last year, the country had geothermal power plants in seven states, according to the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
But there is now a path to victory for the party’s candidates in each of those states.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
The debates in the ratifying conventions of the respective states only exposed the irreconcilable differences of opinion that the Constitution had so deftly bundled together.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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He stated the important thing is to stop ongoing exposure, to avoid any long-term effects.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Companies also have to deal with the challenges of integration, spending money to fuse the businesses in ways that will allow them to achieve the stated benefits of the merger.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
"Halzen's work, and the work of those he inspired with his vision, was foundational in giving humanity a new window on the universe and on the mysterious and notoriously slippery neutrino," he stated.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
It would have the right to sell that compute power at a specific price by a stated date, buffering itself from a steeper hit to profits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Given the rise of machine code breaking and the general decline in smuggling, the “usefulness of my section was therefore in my opinion ended,” she stated.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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She said he began walking up and down the carriages stating "boom and power", repeatedly saying things like "I haven't got it" as well as referencing the devil, jurors were told.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
For anyone whose daily commute takes them past local gas stations with placards stating their prices, the answer will be no surprise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Warren Buffett has spent decades making essentially the same wager, stating numerous times that betting against America is a losing proposition.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026
The bank reiterated its full-year guidance, stating it is comfortably on track to meet its targets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
By July 1921, the justice of the peace had closed his inquiries, stating that Anna Brown’s death had come at “the hands of parties unknown”—the same finding as delivered in the Whitehorn inquest.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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