Due to legal quirks, the countywide highway district — the only one of its kind in Idaho — can only ask voters to approve it during an even-year general election.
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Mark Dee,
Idaho Statesman,
6 Oct. 2026
The developer said the system even encountered locations where collision information appeared to be incomplete and was able to exploit those map quirks.
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Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Oct. 2026
Some strategists think the market is getting ahead of itself — that yields now essentially are pricing in stronger economic growth and are overly sensitive to the vagaries of oil prices amid the ongoing tensions in the Middle East.
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Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
24 Sep. 2026
There is really no way to talk about the film unless one falls back on wispy vagaries and pointed allusions to cinematic precedents, or just explaining the act one set-up and then stopping with the warning that things get really weird thereafter.
The incident is the latest in a handful of rare but sometimes deadly accidents involving passengers being dragged by subway trains.
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Claire Carter,
The Washington Examiner,
29 Sep. 2026
Deadly boat accidents are common in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where rivers and lakes are a major means of transport for its more than 100 million people.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Sep. 2026
By contrast, modern proponents of the existence of a ninth planet focus their searches further out, looking instead to orbital peculiarities in smaller objects that occupy the distant reaches of the solar system.
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Micah Hanks,
Space.com,
14 Sep. 2026
In that context, the extra lending since the end of June and the peculiarities of that Gordon transfer instalment make plenty of sense, as the club continues to lose cash each season, even as underlying profitability measures are much improved.
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Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2026
In the 1990s, there was a push to teach regional languages at schools in the eastern Caribbean and offer university degrees in them as officials fought to preserve and promote the centuries-old language and its variations.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Sep. 2026
More uniformly vibrant is the red iteration, which applies multiple variations of the color through the upper and midsole.
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