The normally bustling streets of Islamabad were deserted Saturday morning as security forces sealed roads ahead of the talks.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2026
More than 270 people have died on city streets since the pledge, according to city data, and Sacramento ranked second-worst among California’s 15 largest cities for injury and fatal crashes, with 4,214 people killed or injured in 2023.
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Chris Fusco. Story produced with AI assistance,
Sacbee.com,
11 Apr. 2026
Along with its work on public lands, Pacific Coast Seed also works frequently with BART and the California Department of Transportation to replant around stations or along highways with native plants and flowers — meaning that your nearest wildflower display could be as close as your commute.
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Alissa Greenberg,
Mercury News,
13 Apr. 2026
Slow-moving convoys of vehicles also caused traffic jams on major highways.
For myself, having a Wrangler is the perfect vehicle to just drive these desolate roads.
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Morgan Korn,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2026
The affected roads include Fay Avenue, Girard Avenue, Herschel Avenue, Pearl Street, La Jolla Boulevard, Prospect Street, Gilman Drive, La Jolla Shores Drive, Torrey Pines Road and more.
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Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
The stretch of Stockton Boulevard from East Sacramento to Elk Grove is one of the deadliest roadways in all of Sacramento County.
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James Taylor,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
The action was claimed by New Generation, a successor movement to Last Generation, a German/Italian group of climate activists best known for gluing themselves to roadways.
For decades researchers thought neurons called baroreceptors in arteries controlled this process by signaling the sudden drop in blood pressure to the brain, which then issues orders to constrict blood vessels.
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Jacek Krywko,
Scientific American,
10 Apr. 2026
Roads were nearly empty, checkpoints were set up at major arteries and a two-day public holiday kept residents indoors.
Székesfehérvár lacks Budapest’s grand boulevards and baroque extravagance, but the city is not without luster.
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Isaac Stanley-Becker,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
Before there were dusty trails and stage coach routes and boulevards and freeways, there was the Southern California watershed — the maze of rivers, creeks and washes that sent rain water from the mountains and valleys to the ocean.
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Deputy Managing Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
South Korea routes around 70% of its crude oil imports through the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.
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Brian Dakss,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
Ongoing military activity in the Middle East and disagreements over Iran’s control of key shipping routes have left the diplomatic effort vulnerable to collapse before the talks even begin.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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