Monument Health plans to use the bond proceeds for acquiring, constructing, renovating, expanding and equipping various health care facilities in the Black Hills region, according to a public notice of the bonding package.
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Joshua Haiar,
States Newsroom,
9 Jan. 2026
Chipotle Mexican Grill is constructing its athletic roster for 2026.
Lightning had grown from building a popular open source tool PyTorch Lightning, which helps researchers manage machine learning, to bundling software to help corporates like German chip company Infineon and advertising agency Monks manage building and tweaking large language models.
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Iain Martin,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
Crystal Cave is not a cave in the traditional sense, but rather the interior of the world's largest geode, discovered in 1897 by workers who were building a well.
Whereas Herbert is 0-2 in Chargers postseason games, Maye is making his first postseason appearance for the New England Patriots after assembling a most valuable player-caliber season.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2026
To suppress Americans peacefully assembling to protest his policies?
Japanese astronomers have discovered an extraordinary supermassive black hole in the early universe that is growing at a nearly impossible pace, while producing intense X-ray and radio emissions simultaneously.
Legend has it that because Sirius rises at the same time as the sun during the first half of summer, its brightness adds to the sun's energy, producing additional warmth.
The trio of enterprising young musicians decided to cast their fortunes together by forming a band which, after enlisting Cameron Picton (another BRIT classmate) on a range of instruments from bass guitar to flute, became Black Midi.
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Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Jan. 2026
In a completely different approach, Meta has started erecting tent-like structures to house servers to get their data centers online faster.
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Rachyl Jones,
semafor.com,
7 Jan. 2026
In a flurry of recent activity, the city has been installing payment kiosks, erecting informational signs, compiling the license plate numbers of park volunteers and establishing a website for frequent-user permits and city-resident discounts.
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David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Jan. 2026
Rare earths and the magnets made from them are used heavily by militaries in weapons like fighter jets, drones and missiles, and are also critical for manufacturing goods such as smartphones and electric vehicles.
Raytheon also owns Pratt and Whitney, a company that is responsible for manufacturing a host of jet engines that power aircraft for all the military branches, including the newest F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Consider fashioning a tin foil hat for your mobile phone.
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Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
2 Jan. 2026
Or all of the above, since automakers have given themselves maximum flexibility on this front, fashioning vehicles that can handle multiple different kinds of powertrains.
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