This time around in talks with studios, union negotiators will be facing a new but familiar opponent on the other side of the table after longtime studio negotiator Carol Lombardini stepped down.
The regime’s regional proxies have been devastated.
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Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
9 Jan. 2026
Instead, control is often exercised through proxies — leaders who appear independent but remain politically, economically, or militarily dependent on external backers.
Defense attorneys, meanwhile, argued the protesters actions were driven by humanitarian concerns, not criminal intent.
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Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
10 Jan. 2026
The two attorneys made a slew of arguments to defend their position, including that the pair of lawmakers did not have legal standing to bring a suit related to their official duties in the first place.
Increasing awareness of factors that impact water quality and a desire for better-tasting water, often tied to personal health initiatives, have interior designers, plumbing pros, and kitchen experts alike noting a growing demand for better water.
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Kristina McGuirk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Jan. 2026
Those two factors, coupled with the offensive punch that Lleyton Weaver and BJ Knowlton provided, had the Hurricane within striking distance the entire game.
The video depicts deputies struggling to enter before getting inside and arresting demonstrators, who had been broadcasting demands that Stanford place divestment proposals on an upcoming Board of Trustees agenda.
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Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
10 Jan. 2026
The Ventura County Sheriff's office said deputies found 67 pounds of marijuana, fentanyl, cocaine, promethazine, hundreds of oxycodone pills, six rifles and three handguns inside Baz's home in Van Nuys.
The sky served up no shortage of spectacle in 2025 —from lunar liaisons, solar prominences and fleeting meteor showers, to aurora and nebula scenes that unfold on a scale almost too massive for the human mind to comprehend.
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Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
30 Dec. 2025
Some have suggested that the Bard had romantic liaisons with men, in part implied by sonnets that are charged with homoerotic elements.
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.
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Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
7 Jan. 2026
Tesla, which first launched a driverless robotaxi service in Austin in June, recently removed the safety moderators sitting in front passenger seats of the driverless vehicles and doubled its fleet operating in the city.
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From staff,
Austin American Statesman,
2 Jan. 2026
Thousands of people took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon to protest federal immigration activity after agents were involved in two different shootings this week, one that left a woman dead in Minneapolis and another that wounded two people in Portland, Oregon.
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Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
Some who marched carried signs of Good as well as others who have been killed by ICE agents or died while in ICE custody.
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