With the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway between Iran and Oman where roughly a fifth of the world's oil typically passes through, remaining largely closed after the Iran war began, oil prices have fluctuated, climbing around 40% since the beginning of the war, which is now in its fourth week.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2026
Wait times at George Bush Intercontinental Airport have fluctuated between from as long as 4 hours to as little as 35 minutes in recent days.
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John Wayne Ferguson,
Houston Chronicle,
25 Mar. 2026
Ochai Agbaji scored 18 points in 25 minutes off the bench and the Brooklyn Nets snapped a 10-game losing streak with a 116-99 win over the Sacramento Kings on Sunday night.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
The Arizona Wildcats snapped their Final Four drought on Saturday night with an Elite Eight victory over Purdue in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
The overarching takeaway of the study was that the benefits of crying greatly depended on the reason for why the participants were crying in the first place — which also varied depending on gender.
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Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
2 Apr. 2026
Conditions have varied during season openers at the ballpark.
After the breach, North Carolina public schools, including CMS, shifted to a new student data system known as Infinite Campus, beginning this school year.
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Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Mar. 2026
Now, with The Masters looming, the conversation has shifted from whether Woods will play… to how the sport, and its biggest broadcast partner, will handle his absence and the controversy surrounding it.
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Rowan Fisher-Shotton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
The show that began as a bottom-up look at the cutthroat world of finance has metamorphosed into something more dismal.
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Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
The pressure and heat of deep burial and tectonic events over eons have transformed the silt into a hard metamorphic rock, and the microbial carbon in it has metamorphosed into graphite.
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