The impasse dates back to summer 2023, when the City Council bifurcated the new collective bargaining agreement with the FOP.
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Sam Charles,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Sep. 2026
The screen is sometimes bifurcated between Carter’s livestream, which itself gets clogged with fan comments and emojis, and people watching it in Japan.
Police in South Africa have arrested five suspects in connection with a violent farm robbery in the North West province in which a 50-year-old farmer was shot and had his ears cut off.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2026
The village of Chama in New Mexico was evacuated and cut off by road closures.
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Christopher Weber,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Nov. 2026
Imagine bringing up rabies to somebody who had just been bisected and then stuck back together with what, at least to him, looked like packing tape?
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Téa Obreht,
New Yorker,
1 Nov. 2026
The building’s three lower floors, including a ground-floor shop, caved in before dawn in the district of Maltepe, on the Asian side of Istanbul, a city that is bisected by the Bosporus Strait.
The capricious shift is whiplash-inducing, as if editors Adam Gough and Tom Eagles cleaved a sizable chunk of footage from the film.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
20 Oct. 2026
Near the end of the first century AD, in the highlands of northern Spain, the Roman governor, philosopher, and naturalist Pliny the Elder watched as mining cleaved a landscape.
Thunder star Jalen Williams, the team’s second-leading scorer and best all-around defender during its title run two seasons ago, fractured a fibula and dislocated his left ankle in a gruesome injury Sunday.
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Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
29 Oct. 2026
Bowman fractured his lumbar spine after being kicked by a horse during his time at the Dallas castle.
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