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A number of limited, temporary truces have been held since 2022 - many held around holidays or only involving applying to energy infrastructure or the Black Sea.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

Tech stocks are trading at around 23 times their expected earnings, or only a slight premium to the S&P 500.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

On Friday, jurors preempted their pizza lunch break to ask Kuhl whether all of them should weigh in on damages, or only those who’d agreed on liability.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Earlier research has connected extreme temperatures with higher rates of cardiovascular death, but many of those studies focused on other countries or only small parts of the United States.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

The Mir Space Station wasn’t the first or only space station to orbit Earth, but it was the longest-lasting one, withstanding 15 years and 86,000 orbits.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson