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"It has no particular love for the military regime, but when it looked like it might teeter and fall, it equated that with state collapse, and stepped in."

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Californians watched as the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, another D.C. power player from San Francisco, teetered into frailty, muddled through her final chapter in Washington and then died in office at 90 in 2023.

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Small NPR and PBS stations in California are teetering after Congress pulled funding from public broadcasting.

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Now, with Macron’s minority centrist government teetering, suspending his overhaul offers him the most promising path to avoid another collapse and adopt a budget for next year.

Traders are betting her focus on aggressive fiscal polices, supported by near-zero interest rates and structural overhauls, will add to the nation’s teetering debt pile.

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