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What happened in the first quarter of this century is already being weaponized in a startling fashion in the second era of Donald Trump.

Back in January 2019, the president’s lies and attempts to shape reality with Sharpies were startling but feckless, to drop that era's defining term.

The improvement of the Chatsworth players around Arenas has been startling compared to last year.

There was also a magnitude 4.7 on Sept. 12 — startling enough that the city’s mayor and his wife dove under their kitchen table.

Those are the startling claims being made by a US company that said on Tuesday it had created mice with "mammoth-like traits".