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The older 16-to-18 group stood at 41.4% last year but has increased to 49.4% in 2026.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Not far from the Guthrie guitar is a panoramic portrait of the Kuromi family, posing amid a flower farm that stood where Los Feliz Boulevard is now.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Mortgage rates last week stood around 6.5%, but “if somehow the mortgage rate can return back to near 6%, definitely home sales would be coming out of this three years of slump,” Yun said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Energy Information Administration calculates that China’s strategic reserves stood at about 1.4 billion barrels of oil late last year.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

There it stood now, as I stepped back into the shop, still tall and gleaming on its concrete block, but shorn now of eminence.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom