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Even before Kennedy’s nomination, the future looked dire.

Without any access to supplies, conditions underground are said to be dire.

His death is particularly difficult, Gyamfi said, because Brown had shown her he was persistently fighting to improve himself and, in the most dire of circumstances at times, to live.

The warnings Wednesday morning were dire: Southern Ventura County was primed to be hit with the region’s most ferocious Santa Ana wind event in years, creating extremely critical fire weather in the area.

That landscape could turn even more dire with the reelection of Donald Trump.