During that time, the group raised thousands of dollars from the tobacco, gambling, and pharmaceutical industries, as detailed by a Washington Post report.
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Ramsey Touchberry,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Oct. 2026
Earlier reports indicated that Elon Musk's SpaceX is planning to raise 10 billion dollars through bank loans and 30 billion dollars via investment grade bonds to finance NVIDIA chip purchases.
As a major bloc that has been able to apply pressure, the union has thwarted several efforts by Mamdani’s predecessors to ban the attraction, as hundreds of carriage operators make a living operating the buggies.
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Claire Carter,
The Washington Examiner,
14 Oct. 2026
The Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation on Monday into an overnight cyberattack on refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets.
Saudi Arabia spends tens of billions of dollars on defense every year, but is struggling to protect key assets such as airports, refineries and pipelines from missiles and drones fired by Houthi militants from Yemen.
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Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
13 Oct. 2026
The standalone streaming service features tens of thousands of TV episodes from cable networks like HGTV, Food Network and TLC.
Trump also took an average of 80 days to decide on requests from solidly Democratic states, more than twice as long as for solidly Republican ones.
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Jeremy Gorner,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Oct. 2026
Brands need to decide which trends resonate, which ones make sense to capitalize on and make a new product launch or an entire franchise and which to let go and pass over.
LaPour was the preseason Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and got his season off to a strong start against Vanderbilt, giving up two runs off fives hits in five innings of work with five strikeouts.
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Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Feb. 2026
But when compared to everything else going on, the current $229 price tag feels like a drop in the bucket, particularly when most new games for the Playdate only cost a few bucks.
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Andrew Webster,
The Verge,
9 Oct. 2026
The backstory Capella’s first Thai outpost shares the Chao Phraya Estate, a big-bucks development just downstream from the river’s major transport hub, with the Four Seasons Bangkok.
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