Crystal’s house at 860 Chautauqua Boulevard in Pacific Palisades was incinerated in the wildfire of early January 2025.
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
22 Oct. 2026
The Food and Drug Administration recommends disposing of drugs by dropping them off at a take-back location or by mailing them using a prepaid envelope that is delivered to a facility where the drugs are incinerated.
Try not to squeal like a 5-year-old when the foot-tall sparkler speared into the sundae is lit.
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Lisa Shames,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Oct. 2026
The first practical transformer was switched on about 15 miles down the road, in 1886, when William Stanley lit stores and offices lining Great Barrington’s Main Street.
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Alex Pasternack,
Scientific American,
20 Oct. 2026
Goodwin, its president, credits a pandemic-era mistrust of public education, when debates ignited over school closures, books, race, sexuality and gender identity.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Oct. 2026
In June 2024, two major fires ignited, and monsoon rains soon followed.
Now that fall is on the horizon, hope has been kindled for abundant rainfall.
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Robert Klose,
Christian Science Monitor,
4 Sep. 2026
As the current Cartoonist Laureate of the state, she has been highly engaged in Vermont culture and history, and says her interest in this couple was kindled by Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup, director of Vermont Humanities, who encouraged her to tell their story.
Shattered glass littered sidewalks after rioters smashed and looted thousands of shops, torched cars and buildings, and attacked police, who fired tear gas and water cannons.
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The Week US,
TheWeek,
26 Oct. 2026
White militias destroyed their homes, torched their food supplies, and slaughtered them outright so routinely that a secondary economy of kidnappers sprang up to sell the survivors, children and adults alike, into servitude.
Inside the venue, each place setting was adorned in part by one of the nearly 200 cake pops sized, measured and baked by organizing committee member Shaikh, who not only committed the week prior to bake for the ball, but also enjoyed developing a sisterhood with the rest of the organizers.
Police on Tuesday arrested a suspect in the arson attack that charred the historic city hall in Limoges, in central France, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said, adding that the person may not have acted alone.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Oct. 2026
The South Fork and Salt fires charred the landscape, leaving soils that didn’t easily absorb water.
But the eleventh-hour blitz of No On 3 ads that Keep Florida Clean funded, warning of the greed of Big Weed, inflamed voters’ private worries of societal decay.
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Christopher Spata,
Miami Herald,
17 Oct. 2026
The news has inflamed debate over the British government’s unprecedented decision to use terrorism powers to ban a group primarily known for property damage and disruption.
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