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Leon has expressed reservations about the project's $400 million private financing arrangement and the lack of congressional input.—
Arden Farhi,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2026 -
Bureau employees expressed concerns that his behavior posed a threat to public safety.—
Robert B. Reich,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
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The Food and Drug Administration on April 30 proposed excluding Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly's weight-loss drugs from a key compounding list, potentially limiting large-scale production by outsourcing facilities.—
Mariam Sunny,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2026
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Bailey also proposed ways to reform the pretrial criminal justice system in Illinois, but many of his initiatives were light on specifics or were reforms that are already in place.—
Caroline Kubzansky,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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Subsequent investigations have suggested that the infrastructure and risk forecasting were inadequate for such a devastating natural disaster.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
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Their discovery supports the theory, suggested by researcher Stijn van den Hoven in 2019, that a second entrance might exist at that location.—
Anne Doran,
ARTnews.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Spoke (of).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spoke%20%28of%29. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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