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The SALT cap isn’t the problem — high-tax states are
Asian economies are the collateral damage of the US-China trade war
You’re all caught up.—Aris Folley, The Hill, 23 May 2025 That will produce collateral damage far beyond just crypto enthusiasts.—Mark Hays, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2025 While many are arguing (or speculating) about the true reason behind the attacks, as Ukraine had not attacked fertilizer plants before, the global food security and fertilizer markets are likely to suffer severe collateral damage no matter what the reasons for the attacks may be.—Daniel Markind, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025 Understanding these pathways in more detail could lead to new treatments that modulate immune responses more precisely, reducing collateral damage while preserving antimicrobial defenses.—Andrew Monteith, The Conversation, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for collateral damage
Now, as the families prepare for next week's sentencing hearing on July 23, Patterson and Ward are hoping to give readers a true sense of the four victims.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
14 July 2025
And Singapore just passed an anti-scam law that allows law enforcement to freeze the bank accounts of scam victims.
Watson, 46, who as deputy criminal chief was serving in one of the office’s senior positions, became another casualty in President Donald Trump’s mission to purge anyone found to have worked in some way for special counsel Jack Smith.
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Jay Weaver
July 14,
Miami Herald,
14 July 2025
The Battle of the Somme ground on for another four months, at the cost of more than a million British, French, and German casualties.
In that way, Broken Voices is about the circumstances that allow abuse to happen; Vitek is like a vampire, a cold and distant creature capable of great charm, and Karolina, in all her disarming naivety, is easy prey.
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Damon Wise,
Deadline,
10 July 2025
After all, snowmobiles can’t smell seals or polar bears, nor travel quietly enough to avoid scaring off potential prey.
While State Farm contends that out-of-state losses do not directly affect Illinois premiums, at least one industry analyst said there is a potential connection.
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Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
The scale is staggering: one UN estimate pegs global losses from these schemes at $37 billion.
Still, in a totalitarian state, writers often became martyrs of free expression, dissidents like Vaclav Havel and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, refugees such as Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky.
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Ed Simon
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
Look at the list of MEK martyrs, encompassing diverse social classes, and the MEK’s financial independence, funded entirely by Iranian contributions at home and abroad.
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