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Sustained winds of around 75 mph (120 kph) were recorded with some additional strengthening expected.—
Barney Henderson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025 -
It's forecast to experience steady to rapid strengthening and could become a major hurricane, with winds of 115 mph or more over the weekend.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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The vast majority, about $59 billion, is earmarked for farm safety-net enhancements.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025
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The paper also reported that the judge also added a sentencing enhancement related to coercion.—
Liam Quinn,
PEOPLE,
3 Oct. 2025
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In 2011, the Wisconsin State Legislature altered the property tax levy formula limits, eliminating the 2% ceiling that local municipalities could draw from taxpayers in places where new construction couldn't justify a larger levy increase.—
Jim Riccioli,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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Numbers provided by Cincinnati Public Schools show that the school district had 4,326 homeless students last year, representing a 77% increase from a decade prior, despite total student enrollment increasing by only 538 students over the same period of time.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Oct. 2025
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This is consistent with the upturn in the IWF/IWD ratio that also favors growth.—
Tom Aspray,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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But then, like how that summer’s World Cup prompted an upturn in football interest across England, 1990 also produced a wave of players who would contribute to the English national team reaching the past two European Championship finals.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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Critics of that plan — who include advocates and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle — have warned that such steep cuts could prematurely end missions in which NASA has invested billions of dollars and threaten the nation’s ability to continue making world-leading breakthroughs.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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Today, as climate change makes weather more difficult to predict, and as extreme weather events increase in frequency and ferocity, meteorologists are hoping another big technological breakthrough will give them an edge.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
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What makes the negativity coming out of Germany more baffling is that, over time, playing in the most competitive league in the world will likely help Woltemade develop and be to the betterment of Julian Nagelsmann’s German national team.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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When the dust settled on New Line/Warners’ $38 million purchase of the latter, the betterment of its highly in-demand script was only just beginning.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
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Early results from coffeehouse uplifts show customers visiting more often, staying longer and sharing positive feedback.—
Kate Rogers,Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
25 Sep. 2025
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That’s ahead of the $795 charge for Platinum’s closest rival, the Chase Sapphire Reserve entry that got its own uplift in late June.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
18 Sep. 2025
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