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Democrats lead polls in the final stretch before the midterms; riots in France reflect enormous economic and political discontent; and DOJ lawyers spar with judge over Trump’s plans for public golf course in D.C.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

They are slow-moving, mostly flat, waves of warm water that can stretch thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

A top Korean basketball official said tall athletes housed in the containers were struggling to "stretch their legs out on the beds".

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

AI skeptics like Timothy Casaletto are having a tough stretch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Long shadows stretch over the walls, bathing the basement in darkness.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

The model requires trade-offs, and a lot of discipline: Gund has never had a layoff but staffs sparingly so it can weather the leaner stretches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The general idea is that going long stretches without eating depletes the body’s stored sugar, or glycogen, so it burns stored fat for energy.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Zacharia spoke haltingly, read off notes for long stretches, took just three questions, and at one point said “my president” when she meant “my husband.”

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

The plaintiffs argue that the state’s “excessive” pumping from the Delta has led more growers to plant water-intensive almond and pistachio orchards across vast stretches of the San Joaquin Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Dante stretches his neck to see into the car.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Gemma says the support from management within the team was "phenomenal" and "even the firefighters on the ground were understanding how stretched we were in the control room".

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Wyoming's Sundance Formation, which preserves evidence of an ancient inland sea that once stretched across much of the western United States, has yielded millions of these fossils.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Chip stocks have come under intense pressure with valuations that had been stretched by an AI-fueled rally.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Sentiment in the oil market, meanwhile, appeared much less stretched.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Then he yawned and stretched, to show Wolf how relaxed he was.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

They are borrowing more to finance vehicles and stretching their terms to keep payments manageable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

They then used 24 estimates of the world population stretching across the past 2,000 years to show that human numbers have in fact continually outpaced expectations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

An installment sale or promissory note could certainly make that happen, but I’d be wary of stretching payments out that far just to protect Son #2 in case of divorce.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

Raman and Bass were once political allies, campaigning together in 2024 as Raman faced a tough reelection fight in a district stretching from Silver Lake to the San Fernando Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Celia finishes stretching her calves and juts her hips to one side to stretch her hip flexors, and then she squints at something behind me.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison