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Litchfield High School teachers selected two freshmen as Students of the Week for March 11-15.—
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Twin Cities,
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February 7, 2025 Products are independently selected by our editors.—
Marie Courtois,
Vogue,
7 Feb. 2025
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Their rollout has not always gone smoothly: Many officers choose not to activate them, leading some departments to use cameras that activate automatically as a gun is removed from a holster, for example.—
Thomas C. Zambito,
USA TODAY,
17 Feb. 2025
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However, a 2023 Gallup poll found that this demographic is much less likely to choose an electric vehicle as their car of choice.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
16 Feb. 2025
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House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that any aid will be contingent upon the Golden State adopting policies to prevent future blazes.—
Lia Russell,
Sacramento Bee,
8 Feb. 2025
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The development of the new program began when the city adopted a new crosswalk policy in December 2022, according to Henricksen.—
Noah Mitchell,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Though the picture's caption doesn't specify the aircraft's destination, the local Arizona outlet ABC15 News reported that the migrants were deported to Guatemala.—
Hannah Hudnall,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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The charge specifies that the suspect targeted either a single victim or one or more members of a single household, with the knowledge or reason to believe that his actions would cause terrorization under the circumstances.—
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Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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John Seidler’s approval as control person was contingent on his becoming trustee of Peter Seidler’s trust, as Major League Baseball prefers the control person and trustee to be the same person when a trust controls the largest stake in a team.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2025
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Most people would still prefer to eat fresh over frozen food, but no one is going to get more time to cook anytime soon.—
Meghan McCarron,
The Atlantic,
18 Feb. 2025
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The return-to-work ordinance would require city executives to determine timelines to cease remote-work options for their employees.—
Jessica Boehm,
Axios,
11 Feb. 2025
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Related Articles While the app’s most common use case globally is scanning food products to determine the presence of potentially harmful additives and endocrine disruptors, Yuka’s cosmetic product-scanning side is seeing fast growth.—
Noor Lobad,
WWD,
11 Feb. 2025
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McNamara said his experience in the Marine Corps is helpful in establishing division of labor and using a chain of command and coordinating different functions for a common goal along with developing organizational strategies and goals.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
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But instead of leaving the area, Mr. Jafri became involved in politics to fight for India’s secular traditions, and helped established the Gulberg Society, a Muslim housing complex in the majority Hindu area.—
Hari Kumar,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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Who was Roland Bragg? Bragg was born in Sabattus, Maine, in 1923, and after joining the Army was assigned to the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division, according to the DoD. He was stationed at Fort Bragg during World War II and ended up fighting in Europe.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
11 Feb. 2025
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Maximo, who’s 6-foot-8, was assigned to guard Nikolas Khamenia of Harvard-Westlake and Tyran Stokes of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, two All-Americans.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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