Here’s where naming a Wall Street pro who’s a master of spotting where danger’s building may prove a hedge against a future calamity.
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Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2026
Islamists battled for their own theocratic nation, and bands of Christian cultists—whom locals, naming them according to their most notorious act, called chop-chop—severed the heads of those deemed unholy in villages and towns across Mindanao.
The top is divided into 10-by-10 grids bristling with small colorful flags designating where the plants should be placed.
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Jeanette Marantos,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
In June, the City Council passed legislation again sponsored by Manaa-Hoppenworth, designating the entire 48th Ward as an LAC, the first such designation of a whole ward in Chicago.
At a time when colleges and universities have spent considerable money on new athletic stadiums, student fitness centers, multi-level food courts, and million-dollar salaries for football and basketball coaches, earmarking money for high quality campus security continues to be problematic.
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Rick Pozniak,
Boston Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
The process of earmarking potential barrels begins years in advance.
Murphy and Padilla, along with a small group of Democratic senators, have spent the past two days calling colleagues to whip opposition to the DHS funding bill, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.
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Patrick Maguire,
CBS News,
25 Jan. 2026
On Saturday, the system pushed towards Virginia, with the forecast calling for a foot of snow or more to be dumped on parts of the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic, while New England endured double-digit subzero temperatures.
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