But after its sale in 1999, enrollment began to decline as borrowers accused Brooks of high-pressure sales tactics, lying about graduation and job placement rates and misleading students about the school's high cost.
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Cory Turner,
NPR,
29 Oct. 2026
Many of those daycare centers were allowed to keep operating with high quality ratings, leaving parents with misleading information about lapses in care.
But looks are deceiving in this case – just like the 3X Plus and 3X before it, the trailer stretches out via three individual telescopic segments that emerge at the push of a button.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
26 Oct. 2026
Facebook’s lawyers argued that the state failed to prove whether people were actually harmed by these deceiving statements.
But attorneys for the group Defenders of Wildlife said the government was distorting the environmental law’s definition of a species by focusing only on the populations in Minnesota and the Northern Rockies.
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Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
14 Oct. 2026
The absurdist look at greed and climate change, reality and the distorting power of media, feckless world leaders and rapacious billionaires, struggled to get off the ground.
Oum and Choe were indicted on hundreds of counts, including health care fraud and falsifying business records.
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Lisa Rozner,
CBS News,
21 Oct. 2026
Earlier this year, a grand jury handed down a 30-count indictment against then-Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson, for malfeasance, obstruction of justice and falsifying public records.
What to read next Mars has been hiding in the glare of the sun, or in the dead of the early morning hours, for the last year and a quarter.
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Joe Rao,
Space.com,
1 Nov. 2026
John Turturro stars in the awards hopeful, which revolves around a pickpocket master who struggles to keep up with the changing times — phones are trackable, wallets rarely have cash and guns are hiding in plain sight.
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