Marquette University launched a new police unit focused on curbing reckless driving around campus just a few months before two student-athletes died in a crash about a mile from campus.
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Kelly Meyerhofer,
jsonline.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Stop & Shop lowered its prices on thousands of items in late August, in a separate initiative, but a company representative told the Herald that curbing shoplifting remained on its radar.
If consumers or businesses perceive stablecoins as more practical, the state may face the awkward task of promoting one digital form of the yuan while restraining another.
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Zennon Kapron,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
First, both Washington and Beijing now have proven weapons that are restraining the aggressive instincts of the other side.
As age checks become more commonplace across the Internet due to regulatory pressure globally, people motivated to defend digital freedom are balking and increasingly banding together, Gerfdas said.
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Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
12 Aug. 2025
Not only are moderate Republicans balking at cuts to Medicaid, which were made larger by the Senate, but conservatives are also up in arms over the massive increase in deficit spending, also increased by the upper chamber.
Higher tariffs are weighing on manufacturers and exporters, while immigration restrictions are constraining the supply of workers in industries that rely heavily on lower-skilled labor, such as construction, agriculture, retail, and hospitality.
—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
There are talent shortages constraining the development of these sectors.
Former Klamath Tribes Chairman Jeff Mitchell, a longtime advocate for dam removal, told The Arizona Republic in 2024 that his tribe had suffered from the dams impeding salmon migration years before the downriver tribes.
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Debra Utacia Krol,
USA Today,
2 Sep. 2025
But that kind of government involvement carries any number of risks, like impeding overall economic growth or making US companies less competitive around the world.
The senior Lebanese official warned that continued Israeli strikes on Lebanon are hindering government efforts to disarm the group.
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Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
Armstrong was on probation for a case in Georgia involving charges of first-degree cruelty to children, false imprisonment, simple battery and obstructing or hindering of law enforcement, records show.
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