Niv Shisler, 24, an aspiring rapper who works at Dorfman’s restaurant, moved to the town last November lured by cheap housing when rents collapsed during the war.
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Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
23 June 2026
The project had to be unplugged within months — before being widely deployed — when the company behind it collapsed.
One of the victims fled to a McDonald's restaurant where his bloodstained clothes, which were likely cut off by paramedics, were crumpled on the floor near the entrance.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
7 June 2026
First responders found Russo crumpled in the front passenger seat of the wreckage and Flanagan, his friend, stacked on top of him.
Soccer has a viable home, and a secure footprint in the United States, which was the goal when FIFA plopped its World Cup here for the first time in 1994.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 June 2026
But by April, a high pressure system plopped itself on Central Florida and the rainy weather came to a sudden halt, as if a faucet had suddenly been shut off.
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Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2026
The most dangerous situation appeared to be on Barrington Avenue, west of East Dundee Village Hall, where a light, a utility pole and part of a parkway tree were felled by strong winds, leaving power lines dangling across the road.
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Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2026
John Adams famously wrote to his wife, Abigail, that smallpox was killing 10 soldiers for every one felled in battle.
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Katrine L. Wallace,
The Conversation,
24 June 2026
Tim Hill plunked pinch-hitter Jacob Gonzalez and Tristan Peters with pitches before getting an out.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
Tyler Callihan and Jake Mangum tagged Bender for singles and then Jared Triolo drew a walk to bring Horwitz to the plate, whom Bender plunked with the first pitch of the at-bat to give Pittsburgh the lead.
About 275 passengers and 12 crew members were on the eastbound train train from Los Angeles to Chicago when the rail cars toppled off the tracks and onto their side early Monday afternoon, Amtrak said.
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The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
25 June 2026
Hudspeth and other volunteers took over the cleanup by picking up leaves and fallen branches and cleaning broken and toppled headstones.
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Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 June 2026
New-home construction tumbled, then stayed depressed for over a decade.
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Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
24 June 2026
At Mariposa Market in Willits, grocery items, wine bottles and other merchandise tumbled from shelves, leaving aisles littered with broken glass and scattered products.
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