Other uncertainties include how any new governing arrangement would be enforced and monitored, and what conditions would need to be met before large-scale reconstruction.
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Sam Metz,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
Snow emergency routes may be enforced to allow for plowing and emergency access.
The experience also reinforced Madsen’s belief in the power of social media.
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Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
This, in turn, reinforced Webster’s own initial claim about his fight with the MPD cop—that Rathbun had provoked the encounter by striking him in the head, then lied about it to counter Webster’s righteous assertion of self-defense, resulting in his wrongful conviction.
Nearly half of all American men aged eighteen to forty-nine maintain an online sports-betting account, a statistic surely buttressed by a multibillion-dollar advertising blitz.
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Jasper Craven,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
The city and county’s combined $20 million for phase two will be buttressed by $8 million in private donations, Kahn said.
The company was born when a blacksmith named John Deere invented an early self-scouring steel plow adapted especially for the Midwest’s dense, clay-heavy soil.
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Anna Ortiz,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2026
The beloved sitcom, adapted by Norman Lear from the British series Steptoe and Son, ran for six seasons on NBC from 1972 to ’77.
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