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Images and videos flooded social media of immigration law enforcement’s violent encounters with protesters, including shooting rubber bullets, spraying chemical agents at close range and smashing car windows.
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Daniella Silva, NBC news, 19 Feb. 2026
His son, Abdullah, a doctor from Mazra’a in the western Galilee, was treating a mother and her two children at a clinic last February when a masked gunman walked in and fatally shot him at close range.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 15 Feb. 2026
Radar-lock at close range This theoretically means that the Chinese fighter could have launched air-to-air missiles towards it, but clearly didn’t.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 14 Feb. 2026
The people targeted are shown screaming, disoriented and in some cases bleeding after being struck at close range.
—Michele Heisler, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026
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Daniella Silva, NBC news, 19 Feb. 2026
His son, Abdullah, a doctor from Mazra’a in the western Galilee, was treating a mother and her two children at a clinic last February when a masked gunman walked in and fatally shot him at close range.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 15 Feb. 2026
Radar-lock at close range This theoretically means that the Chinese fighter could have launched air-to-air missiles towards it, but clearly didn’t.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 14 Feb. 2026
The people targeted are shown screaming, disoriented and in some cases bleeding after being struck at close range.
—Michele Heisler, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026
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“At close range.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20close%20range. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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