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Listen to this article Nearly a year after record heat and surging electric bills sparked a ratepayer revolt, the legislature is set to take up a bill that could cut hundreds of millions of dollars from customer rates by restructuring how the state buys energy and how customers pay for it.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
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The longtime leader of the latter group, George Gresham, is said to personally support endorsing Mr. Cuomo but is facing a broader revolt within his union.—
Nicholas Fandos,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Yet the movement was deeply involved in a dramatic example of recent political violence: the January 6 insurrection, during which four people died and more than 100 police officers were injured.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
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One of his first acts as president was to pardon those responsible for the Jan. 6 insurrection.—
Bea L. Hines,
Miami Herald,
12 Apr. 2025
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Yet, over time, Bashar Assad inherited his father’s obstinacy and brutality and increasingly relied on the security apparatus to maintain control, stifling dissent and curbing opposition.—
Sefa Secen / Made by History,
TIME,
17 Dec. 2024
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That is the popular girl’s cross to bear, and the desperate obstinacy that comes with this realization is one of Cody’s main themes.—
Rafaela Bassili,
The Atlantic,
18 Sep. 2024
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The Houthis grew in power and popularity, then launched an insurgency that spiralled into a series of wars with the central government.—
Rozina Ali,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2025
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These are the young men with whom we will be embedded for the next viscerally immersive 90 minutes in a real-time account of a 2006 mission in Ramadi, Iraq, as a U.S. sniper unit negotiates a hotbed of Al Qaeda insurgency.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Mar. 2025
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It has been used to punish mutinies and desertion in armies, as frontier justice in America's Old West and as a tool of terror and political repression in the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
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An article on Sunday about a small mutiny at Chautauqua Institution misidentified the writer of a letter quoted from The Gadfly.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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The country could be at risk of losing its elimination status if an outbreak continued for more than one year.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2025
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But recent years have seen a resurgence in cases and outbreaks, mainly due to declining vaccination rates.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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Liverpool has bolstering online promotions and providing easier credit through its store card as well as launching omnichannel strategies to counter the insurgence of Chinese retail giant Shein.—
David Moin,
WWD,
4 Sep. 2024
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The Nigerian superstar further broadens his trademark fusion of amapiano and Afrobeats, establishing a new outpost in the styles’ insurgence into rap and pop.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
9 Aug. 2024
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Its original formula peeks in at the misbehavior of mostly white American characters set loose on vacation spots that allow for the display of modern-day colonialism — first Hawaii, then Italy, and now Thailand.—
Armond White,
National Review,
9 Apr. 2025
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The most alarming misbehavior was brazen dishonesty.—
Steven Levy,
Wired News,
28 Mar. 2025
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