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An expert panel set up by the department said there needed to be widespread measures to tackle educational underachievement.

Allegations of what Trump claimed at the debate to be widespread "migrant crime" have also spread, fueling debunked claims of Venezuelan gangs commandeering apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado, and most recently, dredging up falsehoods about African immigrants in Dayton, Ohio, another city some 70 miles west from the state capital, were grilling cats.

This suggests that the characteristics allowing for spillover might be widespread.

Almost all animals on land appear to accumulate static charge meaning this static electric sense may be widespread, and the discovery that static electricity plays a role in these ecological interactions stands to open up entirely new dimensions to our understanding of how animals sense each other, and more generally how and why they evolve in certain ways.

Long said there appeared to be widespread damage on the east and south sides of town.