The Grand Prairie Police Department is investigating a fatal crash in which a passenger vehicle hit a pedestrian.
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Mary Ella Hastings
July 6,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 July 2026
Two decades ago, a Dutch journalist named Teun van de Keuken was investigating slavery in the cocoa industry and realized the big manufacturers had promised to fix it and hadn't.
The company is exploring strategies that emphasize domestic manufacturing and supply chain resilience, reflecting a growing focus on reducing dependency on complex global cold-chain networks.
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Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
6 July 2026
Arsenia envisions a yearlong series of programs recognizing Black architects, scientists, musicians and artists while exploring the people whose contributions helped build both Greenwood Baptist Church and the city around it.
Plates and plumes The problem with studying the formation of continents is that the geological evidence of this process is almost gone.
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Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
5 July 2026
The robot was shown footage of professional footballers performing drills and movements, studying the mechanics of the sport the way a player might review game tape.
The legislation, which Gribbin advocated for, authorizes the warnings by classifying a shark attack as an event for which an emergency alert can be issued.
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Kim Chandler,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
He is credited as the first and most significant contributor to South Florida archaeology of the time, classifying materials, recording 49 sites across Miami-Dade and making the first outline of a chronology of indigenous habitation.
Following the exercise, the Royal Navy capability team and the Air and Space Warfare Centre began analyzing the results, with additional testing potentially planned aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth.
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Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
4 July 2026
How that’s judged will look different than some expect, particularly when analyzing F2 results and his F1 practice outings.
BestReviews spends thousands of hours researching, analyzing and testing products to recommend the best picks for most consumers.
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BestReviews,
Mercury News,
2 July 2026
Because this workflow is trained on real data, call center agents can significantly reduce the time spent researching a customer’s issue and the cognitive load required to summarize long-form discussions.
But even as Moon landings, space shuttles, and reusable rockets seized the headlines, Link, along with a stubborn handful of engineers, explorers, and flat-out dreamers, kept plumbing the ocean instead.
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Bill Gourgey,
Popular Science,
2 July 2026
Online influencers can invent careers by plumbing the court docket in a celebrity lawsuit (see the Blake Lively–Justin Baldoni case).
To streamline the private-public partnership and ensure the most rapid response to the biggest risks, Anthropic said the AI industry’s goal should be categorizing risks to ensure proper interventions both internally and from the government.
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Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
1 July 2026
Nearly four-fifths of respondents said that gas prices present some sort of strain, with 34% categorizing it as a major strain and 44% calling it a minor strain.
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Justine McDaniel,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2026
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