Thus, taxpayers are often stuck financing underperforming government programs riddled with waste and outright fraud, as was the case in the recent $30 billion scandal that afflicted the state’s unemployment insurance program.
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Lanhee J. Chen,
Mercury News,
31 Jan. 2026
As bullets riddled the car, amid the chaos of glass exploding and pain in her shoulder, Crispin heard Padilla Vélez say he'd been shot.
As disturbing clues emerge and a shadowy figure traps Whitney in a deadly game of survival, mother and daughter are thrust onto parallel paths of terror.
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Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
30 Jan. 2026
The brothers, captains for their respective teams, were thrust into the national hockey spotlight thanks to their performance, and fighting skills, for Team USA in the NHL’s 4 Nations Face-Off.
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