Rounding out the top five names were seven write-in votes for the Sacramento Capitals or Capitols — which could be nicknamed the Caps to avoid quarrels over the spelling — and six votes for the Sacramento Stingers or Sting, referencing the collegiate Sacramento State Hornets.
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Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
4 June 2026
In a 2024 study, researchers found that chimpanzee mothers tended to step in to defend their children in quarrels—say, over food or space in a tree—in about half of cases the researchers observed in the wild.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
10 May 2026
His brief tenure was characterized by disputes with the president over North Korea, Iran and Ukraine.
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Eric Tucker,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
Community associations have found themselves in the spotlight recently with headlines about rising maintenance fees, contentious board decisions, and disputes between residents and leadership.
Over the last few months, Taylor has been embroiled in a series of legal battles with Mortensen, first beginning in February with a pair of investigations by Utah police departments into allegations each made that the other acted violently during altercations that month.
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Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
4 June 2026
Durso alleged that Valle was upset after the previous altercations and lost his cool when his friend’s vehicle was damaged by the crowd of youths who rocked and shook the vehicle Valle and his friends arrived in.
The dozens of lawsuits that followed had been entangled in legal imbroglios about how to interpret the untested law.
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Nora Gamez Torres,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
These people online have also said that the Owens family has long lived way beyond their means, while Ronn Owens and Jan Black should take responsibility for enabling their daughter’s costly legal imbroglios with these different men, who also have faced harm to their reputations in the process.
Rice’s attorney argued that prosecutors were unable to prove Rice’s whereabouts at the time of the murder and that their roommate squabbles were not significant enough for Rice to kill her.
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Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
4 June 2026
But kids are fickle creatures, and eventually got bored of those Eternian squabbles.
Perhaps a tougher challenge will be persuading skeptical US politicians of the benefits of Chinese investments; Ford’s multi-year deal with Chinese battery giant CATL to license its technology created a political storm, resulting in wrangles over tax credits and other government incentives.
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Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
24 Feb. 2026
Safdie wrangles a massive ensemble cast that mixes seasoned actors with nonpros to seamless effect, including real-world ping pong champions like Kawaguchi.
Nowhere have such spats been more ironic than in Vance’s rebuke of the pope.
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Matthew Smith,
The Conversation,
8 June 2026
And there is precedent for a World Cup being split among rival nations; the 2002 tournament was shared between Japan and South Korea and was marked by some mild diplomatic spats.
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