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In September, Nevada’s Bureau of Water Pollution Control fined the company nearly $250,000 for violating environmental regulations nearly 800 times in the last two years, including for spilling untreated groundwater onto public roads and not reporting it to authorities, ProPublica first reported.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
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Council President Joe LaCava simply gave a hand-slap to Surf Cup for violating the deed restrictions, granting it the right to continue with commercial use.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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So what’s the point of invading Venezuela?—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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Her father was detained by invading forces during the Bay of Pigs.—
Eyder Peralta,
NPR,
5 Jan. 2026
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All this provides valuable data for archaeologists to map the interior without risking breaching the tomb’s seals.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Dec. 2025
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In Europe, Google is facing a probe for potentially breaching European Commission rules by using online content for AI purposes.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
17 Dec. 2025
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In principle, besides fluctuating stars transients can be associated with other things, too, such as extreme space weather events impinging on the upper atmosphere, sunlight glinting off reflective objects near Earth, as well as flaws in the telescope or the imaging process.—
Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
27 Oct. 2025
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Workers aren’t necessarily worried about AI impinging on their jobs – a large majority, 80%, view AI technologies, including gen AI, as more of an opportunity than a threat.—
Joe McKendrick,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Its safety initiatives, which about 15% of its staff work on, include using machine learning to identify and remove offending content and equipping community moderators to uphold its policies, its website shows.—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
7 Jan. 2026
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The offending artwork was taken down on Monday, the same day WaPo notified the agency.—
Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
7 Jan. 2026
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China should also agree to hold fewer and smaller military exercises around Taiwan and stop intruding into Taiwan’s contiguous zone, which extends 24 nautical miles around the island.—
STEPHEN WERTHEIM,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Oct. 2025
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Over the past year, Ukraine dispatched thousands of wheeled ground robots to its frontline military units to help deliver supplies, evacuate the wounded and, in some cases, attack the intruding Russians troops and push them out without risking the lives of Ukrainian soldiers.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Recent developments in Sudan's bloody civil war have left one of Africa's largest nations split in two, entrenching two factions that have both been accused of widespread abuses and threatening to spread further instability across the region.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Nov. 2025
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On the hardware side over 10+ million devices have been built around a recovery phrase by default, entrenching a market expectation in which seed phrases are the go-to recovery method, even as some vendors add alternatives.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Infringing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infringing. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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