That coincides with Chinese research ships spending an extraordinary amount of time apparently surveying undersea cables—not to mention Chinese commercial ships being investigated for cutting cables in both European and Asian waters.
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Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
28 Oct. 2026
Emergency crews in Florida and Alabama are surveying damage wrought by Hurricane Isaias, after the storm bashed into the Gulf Coast as a Category 2 storm Friday night.
Working on this book wasn’t a matter of my interviewing my father and turning the transcripts into a book.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2026
Amid the search, police said investigators were interviewing family members and were working to collect any surveillance footage and develop a suspect and/or vehicle description.
Prior to his indictment, New was arrested at a Walmart in East Point, GA for allegedly soliciting customers to purchase SNAP EBT cards from him.
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Preezy Brown,
Rolling Stone,
22 Oct. 2026
Immediately upon being elected for the second time, his aides began soliciting checks at dinners where companies and donors angling for influence could buy face time with the leader of the free world, sometimes for a million dollars a head.
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Marisela Cruz Jillian Anthony Marisela Cruz,
New York Times,
21 Oct. 2026
Controversial streamer Hasan Piker joined congressional candidate Vang at a Southside Park canvassing rally on Wednesday that drew more than 200 people — a record for the local DSA chapter.
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Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
29 Oct. 2026
Meighan-Thiel, a pitcher and first baseman for the high school baseball team, had just wrapped up practice and was about to go canvassing, knocking on doors throughout Culver City, trying to persuade people to support the initiative.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Oct. 2026
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