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Seckler explains that young people’s trust in institutions and companies has dropped.—
Muskaan Arshad,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2026 Moody's, citing PitchBook data, said private equity distributions dropped from more than 30% of starting net asset value in 2022 to about 12% today.—
Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
16 Oct. 2026 Fallon followed up by asking if McRae had dropped easter eggs hinting at the song’s release.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
16 Oct. 2026 And the seven-day average of oil flow through Hormuz has dropped sharply since early October, Kpler’s data shows.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2026 The Royals released a first look at the stadium design when announcing the project in April, and then dropped a few more in August.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
15 Oct. 2026 Jason Statham is back in action as former government assassin Adam Clay in the buzzy trailer for The Beekeeper 2, which Amazon MGM Studios dropped on Thursday.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Oct. 2026 The 223,000 tons of explosives dropped on Gaza—roughly equivalent to 15 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima—have killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, the vast majority of them civilians, and reduced most of Gaza to rubble.—
Khaled Elgindy,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Oct. 2026 My buddy Canoe Kirk had something valued to the tune of $28k dropped at his door Tuesday.—
Joe Kinsey Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
8 Oct. 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.
Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said the 430 trees that were felled were not identified as hazardous or raising safety concerns.
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Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
12 Oct. 2026
Yet trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.
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Annika Hammerschlag,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Sep. 2026
The Bruins forced seven turnovers and stopped Oregon’s late two-point try at the one-yard line, preserving a signature victory that strengthened UCLA’s playoff case.
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Elias Esquivel,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Oct. 2026
In 2009, armed men stopped a convoy of civilians, relatives, lawyers and journalists heading to submit election filings in Maguindanao and killed 58 people, at least 32 of them journalists and media workers.
Oracle, a heavy borrower, dropped 9% on Wednesday and is now down 33% for the year while neocloud CoreWeave plunged 15%, wiping out its gains for 2026.
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Isabel O'Brien,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2026
Scores in reading comprehension and mathematics have plunged, according to the latest PISA report, which evaluates students worldwide.
The blast produced enough energy to flatten a significant stretch of the Siberian wilderness, marking an event that still serves as a cautionary tale — and a major point of reference — for modern planetary defense efforts.
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Micah Hanks,
Space.com,
12 Oct. 2026
This stands in sharp contrast to their roles in the 1991 Gulf War coalition, the post-2014 campaign against ISIS, the maritime coalition against the Houthis in the Red Sea in 2023–24, and the diplomacy that produced the 2015 nuclear deal.
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