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Gas prices dropped again in July — just in time for those summer road trips.—
Claire Malon,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Aug. 2026 Two of the women were arrested that day, but the charges were later dropped.—
Marissa Armas,
CBS News,
14 Aug. 2026 Instead, the rain dissipated around noon, the temperature dropped, and a slight breeze provided a slight reprieve to the corn-sweat humidity that engulfs this region every August.—
Scott Dochterman,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2026 Universal parks and resorts saw softening attendance at its two older theme parks in Orlando, and attendance at Sea World and Busch Gardens dropped.—
Natasha Chen,
CNN Money,
13 Aug. 2026 Its stock price has dropped approximately 30% in the last month, as of Wednesday's market close.—
Kamaron McNair,
CNBC,
13 Aug. 2026 The Justice Department returned the phone in May, hinting that the investigation would be dropped, the Associated Press reported.—
Daniel S. Levine,
PEOPLE,
7 Aug. 2026 Worrell’s frequent foe, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, bashed her over Rundell’s past on social media, suggesting dropped cases previously left the teen free to commit murder this summer.—
Silas Morgan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Aug. 2026 The episode dropped Thursday, but was recorded prior to Hilton’s hospitalization.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
6 Aug. 2026
Some of these studies even suggest a decreased risk of breast cancer with certain formulations of menopausal hormone therapy.
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Versha Pleasant,
The Conversation,
30 July 2026
He was slowed early in his recovery from a knee injury and then saw a decreased role in the rotation in the last month, playing only seven minutes in three tournament games.
The return to form is all the more stunning given that book sales overall are barely rising, and Amazon, which nearly felled Barnes & Noble in the 2010s, is still a threat.
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Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
4 Aug. 2026
Each measures 500 square feet, with its walls, ceilings, and timber beams made from pine trees felled on site.
Two national restaurant chains, Chipotle Mexican Grill and QDOBA, which had received peppers from Coast Citrus Distributors, stopped serving the jalapeños.
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Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
10 Aug. 2026
Both restaurants stopped using them, while Coast Citrus recalled the remaining product and notified customers.
There’s no need to theorize about what happened here because the obvious answer is Bret Easton Ellis signed off on the first two episodes and then abandoned the adaptation.
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Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
13 Aug. 2026
Back in 2014, a Ukraine defense ministry spokesperson told CNN that the Zaporizhzhia had been taken over and placed under the flag of the Russian naval fleet when its commander abandoned it.
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