Residents living in the nearby communities of Val Verde and Castaic have phoned in thousands of complaints about stench and lived with nausea, dizziness and trouble breathing.
—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Aug. 2026
Between July 4 and the end of July, roughly 30,000 Americans phoned a passport call center seeking to apply for the special passport, a department spokesperson told the New York Times.
Social scientists also do not fully understand how that sense of threat can be dialed down, not just in a lab experiment but also in Christians’ experiences.
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Paul Djupe,
The Conversation,
20 Aug. 2026
No part of the field was off-limits last season, but Mestemaker was especially dialed in on pass attempts over the middle.
So Parker telephoned the base posing as the doctor of Adams’ supposedly ailing mother and talked the young soldier’s superiors into issuing an emergency furlough.
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Dan Kelly
July 28,
Kansas City Star,
28 July 2026
The average taxpayer who telephoned the IRS during tax season this year spent 14 minutes on hold, the advocate reports.
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