as in letters
an official writing from the Pope to the Roman Catholic bishops
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Utah, Massachusetts and Connecticut, which provide Medicaid coverage only to immigrant children, have not received letters, for instance.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
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The breach notification letters confirm that attackers accessed sensitive data that can fuel identity theft and fraud.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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School officials did not respond to phone or email messages seeking comment for this story.—
IndyStar,
IndyStar,
8 Sep. 2025
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Around her, dancers and drag queens held up signs with messages of trans solidarity on them.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
8 Sep. 2025
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She is also known for the message of body positivity in her social-media missives.—
Daniel Kaplan,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Aug. 2025
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The person with a fragile mental state might readily, of their own accord, misinterpret what the AI says and therefore turn otherwise innocuous missives into an untoward instruction or guiding command.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Meanwhile, some experts have expressed skepticism about presidential health pronouncements, pointing to past cover-ups and the absence of legal mandates for full transparency.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
3 Sep. 2025
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Given statements and pronouncements from both the OCC and FDIC that are walking back prior efforts to prevent this, existing banking institutions are correct to be taking note and attempting to slow such changes.—
Sean Stein Smith,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Along with some shockingly gruesome slides (lots of intestines and Jack the Ripper–style organ removal), Wallace shares that the New York Ripper is still traumatizing the relatives of his victims by leaving voice-mails taunting them about his brutal crimes.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
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Once again, Leonard is calling for extending open records laws to the executive and legislative branches, allowing the public to see official correspondence, staff memos and reports, calendars, travel records and more, according to an outline of Leonard's accountability and ethics package.—
Clara Hendrickson,
Freep.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The information that the victims want released are the internal Justice department memos and videos taken from inside the Epstein homes.—
Robert Alexander
Matt Cannon,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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In celebrating their big win, Mississippi State fans rushed the field to celebrate with their team, taking down some goal posts and costing the school some major cash in the process.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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For example, a 2015 study found that only one-third of posts listed the possible harms of drugs.—
Will McDuffie,
ABC News,
9 Sep. 2025
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Such declarations pave the way for emergency measures and resources that allow officials to respond quickly during emergencies.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
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Here's a list of previous Wisconsin disaster declarations going back to 2000, and the amount of time between the start of the weather event and the date a disaster was declared.—
Hope Karnopp,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Encyclicals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encyclicals. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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