Health officials in Gaza say tens of thousands of residents with urgent medical needs are seeking evacuation through Rafah, underscoring the pressure on the crossing even as access remains tightly controlled.
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Bradford Betz,
FOXNews.com,
2 Feb. 2026
The Iranian government has acknowledged more than 3,000 killed but estimates for human rights organizations run to the tens of thousands.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Feb. 2026
No one was reported injured by the Wednesday night blaze at the Lehigh Valley Hospital campus in Dickson City, which drew all available emergency medical services within a 50-mile radius, fire officials said.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Feb. 2026
In a time where fabled bottles are traded and shelved as trophies, Soo Hoo’s decision to open this one is radical.
He is joined by six of his players — many more will join by half-time, arriving in ones and twos, shuffling over the teal concrete — and by assorted members of the Xavier clan, all wearing colourful training kit.
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Jack Lang,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
Like the ones will go against the ones, ones will go against the twos, so everybody basically gets to see everybody on the roster at some point on the field.
The increase in water bills is expected to be adopted soon, affecting hundreds of property owners, including some who still haven’t been able to return home.
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Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Jan. 2026
First dozens, then hundreds and eventually more than 1,500 remains were exhumed and re-interred at the park alongside the spot.
Since movie-ticket purchases are not necessary, customers can just grab a bucket and a fiver (plus tax), and Netflix and chill with way too much popcorn for however many people fit on your couch.
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Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Jan. 2026
Evangeline picks up an orange that one of Hank’s hillbillies drops, perhaps because in Alaska during winter that’s like finding a fiver.
The brainchild of Chris Roberts, the mind behind Wing Commander and Freelancer, Star Citizen is probably the most ambitious ongoing project in video games, having raised nearly one billion dollars in funding as of this writing.
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Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
31 Jan. 2026
From an economic relationship that took off in the early 2000s as China looked to resource-rich Latin America to feed its economic boom, the two sides now rack up half a trillion dollars in annual trade.
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