But there's a new wrinkle that makes forecasting this election a bit trickier than in years past, observers say.
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Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
16 June 2026
This clinching game was what many observers expected the series to be like between the defensive-minded teams, but each side watched leads of two-plus goals disappear in the first three games.
Fed watchers expect Warsh could pass on inserting his view on the future path of rates from the grid, which is watched closely on Wall Street but has had an uneven track record as a forecasting tool.
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Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
17 June 2026
While the main decision was unanimous, serious Fed-watchers often like to know how various individuals leaned.
The juvenile bear’s wander across campus late Thursday and early Friday prompted an advisory to students and a search by UC Davis police and wardens from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife as well as Yolo County Animal Control.
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Allison Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
15 May 2026
The state wardens and other cops who knew and worked with Bob Markle weren’t just honoring his memory by attending his funeral.
The soldiers would have stayed as sentries before and after the performance, symbolically guarding the legacy of Taiwan’s founder.
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Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
Police had taped off several square blocks around Sixth Street, while local police and federal authorities, including Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents, were at the site, according to Austin police officers serving as sentries.
In early modernity, women were the keepers of this obsessive temporality of attention—of the current of time that flows beneath event, beneath change.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
Dock at the southern edge of the island and climb the stairs to see the orchards and gardens planted by former lighthouse keepers and tended by the National Park Service today.
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Katherine Lawless,
Travel + Leisure,
13 June 2026
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