And now the daughters and granddaughters of the Ladies Aid and League of Catholic Women’s groups are organizing food, shelter, and finances against stone-cold invaders.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Feb. 2026
The Union of Vietnamese Student Associations of Southern California has been organizing the Tết Festival for more than 40 years.
Now, Yasuda and his team are focused on standardizing protocols and ensuring the system performs reliably under a wide variety of environmental conditions.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
28 Jan. 2026
Mytra, the company Walti cofounded in 2022 with CTO Ahmad Baitalmal, is focused on standardizing and scaling how heavy material moves across warehouses and factories, so industrial customers can reliably automate full buildings and networks.
In Khamenei’s worldview, normalizing relations with the United States has always been kryptonite, an existential threat to a regime whose identity was premised on resisting America.
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Karim Sadjadpour,
The Atlantic,
31 Jan. 2026
States are normalizing cannabis through rescheduling, legalization frameworks, and medical program expansion.
In November, the state legislature passed additional restrictions on ICE, including codifying a policy that prohibits agents from arresting people inside courthouses and forbidding state agencies from widely sharing residents’ personal information.
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Emilia Otte,
Hartford Courant,
23 Jan. 2026
In theory, that weakness could be an opening for a president to muscle Congress into codifying parts of his agenda.
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