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Repairs to damaged infrastructure take time, while continued hostilities in the Middle East drive energy prices higher.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Millions of Americans take fish oil supplements in hopes of protecting their memory and keeping their brains healthy as they age.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
That loyalty has long puzzled analysts who take their cues from American racial politics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Magistrate Judge Enjolique Lett ordered Trump to sit for a videotaped deposition to take questions from the BBC’s lawyers by Dec. 11.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
The air in the kitchen is suddenly thick and difficult to take in.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The new device takes another approach by performing a mathematical operation called convolution directly on the incoming light.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
The genre takes a distinctly techno-infused approach to the dembow rhythm, stripping reggaeton of any acoustic elements and assembling them anew on a laptop to sound colder and faster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
It’s slightly distracting that his character was assembled by a basket weaver out of wicker, but it takes only a bit of adjustment to get used to the creaking noises he makes when he moves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
In his eyes, beauty takes all forms, morphing into the grotesque and outrageous before transforming again into a light, airy meringue, generously portioned atop life’s dense realities.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
It takes everything I have, but I sit up.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Some Uyghurs—in recent years numbering around 12 million in Xinjiang—have sought independence, following efforts in the 1930s and 1940s to establish statehood before the Communist Party took control of the region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
She is also much younger than any other candidate in the field, but would be slightly older than the youngest-ever elected U.N. secretary-general, Sweden’s Dag Hammarskjöld, who took office at 47 in 1953.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
It took years of police operations, and the gradual arrival of institutional financing, to loosen that grip.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Often they were seemingly simple premises that took advantage of legal loopholes — perhaps most famous was when he rebranded a local coffee shop as “Dumb Starbucks.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
They mostly talked to the people of the North End, listened to stories, and took care of the land with assorted donated trash pickers in hand.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Scientists have now taken a closer look at these tiny remnants and uncovered a surprising finding: some have preserved much of their original internal structure despite decades of exposure to the environment.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Action taken by federal officials is directed at “manufactured and concentrated opioid products, not traditional botanical kratom,” according to the news release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
"A few years ago, attackers might have taken weeks to exploit a vulnerability. Now, it can be days or hours."
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The technology itself isn’t new—the Navy has used nuclear reactors on submarines for decades—but it has never taken off for international shipping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Nollie, we soon learned, had been taken to the police station around the corner, to one of the cells in back.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
After six months, DHA levels in the cerebrospinal fluid had increased by an average of 17% among participants taking the supplements.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Key signs can be "checking" behaviours, such as frequently examining your body, taking your temperature, blood pressure or researching symptoms online.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The company has pivoted to fix the problem, but affected borrowers are taking longer than expected to get back on track with debt payments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
That trend, he said, is one of the biggest future growth drivers for the baby-care space writ large, and it’s already taking shape worldwide.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
“Names, then,” said the sergeant, taking out his notebook.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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