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The order usurps spending and legislative powers belonging exclusively to Congress, and seizes the States' historic police powers to regulate the practice of medicine in violation of the Tenth Amendment.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
14 Feb. 2025 -
We are once again forced to remind everyone, including the GOP members of Congress who are apparently happy to stand by and watch their own authority be usurped and consolidated, that the president is not a king.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2025
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About six years after Jackson deposited her inheritance in the bank, the Star reported that a bank employee siphoned her account and embezzled about $700,000.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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Griffin, 69, was convicted in September of embezzling between $10,000 and $100,000 of public funds for personal use both during and after his first term as mayor of the small, impoverished village of Ford Heights.—
Olivia Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Jan. 2025
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In a lightning three-week offensive, the M23 took control of eastern Congo's main city Goma and seized the second largest city, Bukavu.—
JANVIER BARHAHIGA AND MONIKA PRONCZUK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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Serving this warrant with a copy of the Affidavit, and making the search and if the person or property to be found there, to seize the person or the property and hold for safekeeping until further order of this court.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
27 Feb. 2025
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The system can also help shippers preempt issues in their supply chains or with global trade routes, ensuring that clients are able to fully comply as situations and geopolitical moves progress.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
21 Feb. 2025
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DeSantis added that his proposal would also preempt municipalities from banning boats fueled by gasoline or diesel from operating in local waters.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2025
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The Department of Homeland Security’s 2024 fiscal year budget appropriated about $23 million to support enforcement efforts.—
Addison Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Feb. 2025
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In 1855, the desk was recovered by an American whaler and Congress appropriated funding to refit the ship that the desk was on to England, as a gift to Queen Victoria.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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Recalls are costly, disruptive and often misused as political weapons.—
Kam Buckner,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Feb. 2025
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The executive order on Monday declared that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a law intended to fight corruption among U.S. multinational companies, had been misused to the detriment of American business and the presidency itself.—
Devlin Barrett,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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Disney arrogates those traits, skills, and experiences, essentially using modern female ideals to challenge traditional masculine ideals.—
Armond White,
National Review,
4 Dec. 2024
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Back before the federal government arrogated to itself an outsize role as financier of college education, the Wayne States of the world were where ambitious people who didn’t have a lot of money, who wanted to save money on college, or both, got their degrees.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
12 Oct. 2024
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This was when the government of Robert Mugabe confiscated land in Zimbabwe in a very aggressive way.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
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Their journey began more than a year ago when they were confiscated from smugglers at the Mexican border after being snatched from the wild, their mothers killed in the process.—
Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Peculate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculate. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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