The upstairs neighbors had two mastiffs who were left home all day and who barked incessantly and scratched at the floor of their kennel.
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Meghan O’Gieblyn,
The New York Review of Books,
5 Sep. 2026
After the top of the ninth, Orioles reliever Cam Sanders barked at the Red Sox dugout, leading Ceddanne Rafaela and Jarren Duran to shout back from the top step, but nothing more transpired.
On October 16, Congress promulgated a constitutional amendment ending Brazil’s traditional six-day workweek, gradually reducing the maximum workweek without cutting pay.
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Alessandra Freitas,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2026
As promulgated last month, ballots must use envelopes with an election-mail logo that can to be scanned using high-speed processing equipment and contain a barcode unique to each voter.
—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
16 Sep. 2026
City University of New York’s Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility project, or CLEAR, published legal guides for BLM advocates on avoiding law enforcement scrutiny in 2020.
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Hudson Crozier,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Nov. 2026
Church bells tolled across the country when Leo’s charter flight landed at Paris’ Orly airport, and more than a million people are expected to turn out to see him.
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Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Sep. 2026
The bell outside Fire Station 10 in Parkville tolled 343 times.
And in races from Kentucky to Indiana to South Carolina, candidates loudly proclaimed their support for blocking private equity from gobbling up housing.
—
Sen. Elizabeth Warren,
Time,
5 Nov. 2026
Newsom recently proclaimed a state of emergency in September due to the El Niño, which some forecasters predict could be the strongest on record.
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