After the Federal Reserve issued three rate cuts in the final four months of 2025 – which followed the same pattern from 2024 – many expected the rate climate to continue to cool into 2026.
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Matt Richardson,
CBS News,
6 Aug. 2026
Although the district reported substantial cuts in its third interim budget report, many of the improvements came from one-time savings, and the district was still projected to remain in the red.
In the region of Western Attica, close to Athens, firefighters aimed to take advantage of a break in high winds to control a fire that has been burning since last week.
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Robbie Griffiths,
NPR,
4 Aug. 2026
Cards in hand, the gathered broke in to groups of eight or 10 and prayed.
The current park district contract did not include an ask from some park and neighborhood advocates that the company — which also hosts the Sueños Music Festival at Grant Park — chip in for longer-term infrastructure work.
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Evgenia Anastasakos,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Aug. 2026
States will also need to chip in if their error rate — a measure of overpayments and underpayments — is at or above 6%.
Beta has put in the legwork, sourcing enlightening testimony from figures including Maupin and Alice’s great-nephew Steven Ellison, better known by his producer-musician moniker, Flying Lotus.
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Ian Penman,
Harpers Magazine,
4 Aug. 2026
Other Republicans said constituents weren't behind it and one Democratic lawmaker worried that the change could cost rural parts of the state federal resources if they're put in the same districts with suburban areas.
Across 17 tracks, guitar riffs curdle into sheets of distortion, melodies dissolve into electronic hiss, and grooves are chronically interrupted by fresh rhythmic detours.
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Arman Khan,
Pitchfork,
4 Aug. 2026
Lombard’s time in Triple-A was interrupted by a left finger injury that sidelined him for nearly a month.
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