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Both Mayor Karen Bass and challenger Nithya Raman champion the cause of housing affordability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

ME has no known cure or specific treatment, with patients often relying on off-label medication to manage a condition that can cause more than 200 symptoms, including nausea, headaches, poor cognitive function and brain fog.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

The findings, published in Nature Immunology, could be especially important for colorectal cancer, which has become the leading cause of cancer-related death among people under 50.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Ukrainian defense ministry continued to work to determine the cause and circumstances of the restrictions, an official in the ministry said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Therefore, she now proceeded to do something quite rare and brave—something you yourself may find it necessary to do someday, if you have not already had cause to try it out.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Joel canceled concerts in May 2025 after revealing two months before that he had a brain disorder known as normal pressure hydrocephalus, or NPH, which causes physical and mental issues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Yeah, it’s also that our weakness for money, or the power of money, in this culture also causes us somehow to think that if you’re wealthy, you’re also wise rather than just ruthless, right?

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

"But we will do everything we can to protect Singaporeans, while working with our neighbours to address the underlying causes of the haze."

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

But a major incident that causes widespread economic or human harm could swamp a company’s financial buffers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Clearly, if much of our knowledge is analogical in origin it cannot be certain, and the real causes of events may always escape us.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The breach caused the company, Instructure, to temporarily take Canvas offline and interrupted classes, assignments and finals preparations for hundreds of thousands of students and professors as hackers threatened to release their personal data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Several of Vitol’s peers, including rivals Trafigura and the trading arms of BP and TotalEnergies, have profited from the disruptions caused by the war in Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

It said her actions amounted to serious misconduct, breached fundamental nursing standards and caused both financial and emotional harm.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

The fires have burned through hundreds of thousands of hectares in Indonesia and caused air pollution spikes in Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and East Timor, where schools closed this week due to the haze.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

The failure of bee colonies was caused by a wide range of factors, including but not limited to pathogens, pests, pesticides, pollutants, habitat loss, climate variability, agricultural production intensification, and crop management practices.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Near the hurricane's eyewall, the release of latent heat fuels powerful convection, causing warm, moist air to surge upward and form towering cumulonimbus clouds.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

He told the BBC the roof of an upper-floor classroom had collapsed, causing ceilings below to cave in as well.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Most medicines on the market today work by latching onto the rough surface of a protein and blocking it from causing disease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The rain began lashing Turkey's largest city in earnest on Wednesday morning and intensified throughout the day, causing chaos and flash flooding, with footage showing cars being dragged away by the fast-flowing waters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

After four punishing wartime winters, the stranglehold of the Allied blockade was causing increasing hardship in Germany and growing demands for peace.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman