Shares of Microsoft are up fractionally Wednesday, bucking the broader market declines and weakness in cloud-computing peers Amazon , Google and Oracle .
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Natasha Abellard,
CNBC,
23 Sep. 2026
In 2009, Salesforce made history as the first cloud computing company to achieve $1 billion in annual revenue.
In Kenya, this actuarial approach manifested as weeks spent in a Land Rover, counting herds of zebra with a handheld mechanical tally counter in my right hand and binoculars in my left.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2026
Sean John Combs, as of this writing, is inmate number 37452-054 and counting down the days of his sentence at Fort Dix, a low-security federal prison in New Jersey.
What turned out to be a razor-thin contest wasn’t called by the Associated Press until early Wednesday morning, after a delay in tabulating votes from Milwaukee.
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Chantelle Lee,
Time,
12 Aug. 2026
The recount board reconvened Thursday morning, July 9, to begin tabulating runoff Election Day results.
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Angela George,
Sioux Falls Argus Leader,
8 July 2026
Though deferred action dates back at least to President Richard Nixon, Meissner issued a memo in 2000 enumerating 13 factors that immigration agents should consider before deporting someone.
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Lauren Villagran,
Miami Herald,
2 July 2026
At one point, Lennon was musing about his belief in reincarnation, and enumerating some of his past lives and identities, when Ono made a blunt analogy.
Vee first garnered recognition as a cast member of Nick Cannon’s Wild ‘n Out and The Women of Wild ‘n Out, beginning to accrue a social following now numbering over 6 million.
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Peter White,
Deadline,
25 Sep. 2026
According to the Burke Museum, passenger pigeons were once the most abundant bird in North America, numbering in the billions and accounting for close to 40% of the continent’s land birds when European settlers arrived in the 19th century.
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