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The vast majority of Iran’s roughly 1.6 million barrels a day of crude exports is bound for China and bought up by small, independent “teapot” refineries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
With Mejia’s addition, Democrats will have 214 representatives, while Republicans have 217, and one independent caucuses with the GOP.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026
Through the late 1880s and 1890s, Woods remained independent and invented prolifically—nearly 60 inventions in all—but autonomy came at a cost.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Bearstar Strategies said in a statement last week that it had suspended all activity on Swalwell’s independent expenditure.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Often she’d fall asleep in the theater and wake up just before the crackling self-guided tour recording announced that India became independent from the British in 1947.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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