Then the case counsellor handed me the check for eight hundred dollars.
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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
Murakami is working on a two-year, $34 million deal, and in an era when some teams try to lock up young talent with long and lucrative contract extensions, a 25-game sample size is a little too small for Getz to start throwing out more years and dollars.
With cashless payments and digital transactions on the rise, whether or not Idaho businesses accept paper money seems irrelevant for many Boise-area residents.
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Hali Smith
April 15,
Idaho Statesman,
15 Apr. 2026
Most Americans oppose President Donald Trump’s plan to add his signature to U.S. paper money, with a new poll showing broad resistance across age groups, regions and political lines.
Five months later, thousands are still waiting for bills and tens of thousands are waiting for refunds, the latest development in the technology upgrade debacle that has roiled the county’s tax system for more than four years with no clear end in sight.
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A.D. Quig,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
Researchers blame a number of factors, including climate change causing fuel to dry out and be more flammable, a record drought, tens of millions of tons of dead trees from Hurricane Helene, and the vast area where dense forests and high numbers of people try to coexist.
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Seth Borenstein,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2026
He is joined by six of his players — many more will join by half-time, arriving in ones and twos, shuffling over the teal concrete — and by assorted members of the Xavier clan, all wearing colourful training kit.
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Jack Lang,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
Like the ones will go against the ones, ones will go against the twos, so everybody basically gets to see everybody on the roster at some point on the field.
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