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“We’re looking for a long duration of widespread rain, something on the order of 12 to 24 hours of really nonstop rain for much of Santa Barbara, Ventura and L.A. counties,” said Ryan Kittell, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service’s Oxnard office.

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The chemical differences between the two disks reveal how quickly these environments can evolve -- on the order of only 2 million years.

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He also represents the family of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a day laborer who was mistakenly deported to his native El Salvador in the spring, then returned on the order of a federal judge.

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Another gang-related case concluded on Wednesday with a 14-year-old boy found guilty of shooting dead a man in his home on the order of one of Sweden's most notorious gangs, Foxtrot.

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The award is unprecedented as it will be allocated by the Scottish Funding Council on the order of ministers.

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