On a sunny day in late May, a brand-new Mazda CX-5 was accelerated to about 40 mph and driven toward a stationary object with the express purpose of testing whether the vehicle would hit it.
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Keith Laing,
USA Today,
16 June 2026
China’s economic imbalance worsened in May as retail sales fell at the fastest pace in years, while industrial output accelerated, new data showed.
Boasberg issued a temporary restraining order and ordered that the planes be turned around, but Justice Department attorneys said his oral instructions directing the flight to be returned were defective, and the deportations proceeded as planned.
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Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
22 June 2026
The tensions around the negotiations The negotiations proceeded under a cloud of escalating tensions.
But when Alice Paul and Lucy Burns organized the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession and more than 5,000 protesters marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, such a spectacle had never been seen.
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Thomas Floyd,
Washington Post,
18 June 2026
While paradegoers marched through downtown, there was no confetti raining over the city.
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