In Africa, extremists exploit ungoverned water scarcity to recruit and control populations.
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Ian Bremmer,
Time,
6 Jan. 2026
With no escape, the young band members (played by Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, and Callum Turner) are forced into a vicious fight for survival against merciless extremists, led by Patrick Stewart's sinister Darcy Banker.
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Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Dec. 2025
But a tragedy that falls on this woman and all of the radicals who teach people that immigration is the one type of law that rioters are allowed to interfere with.
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Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
9 Jan. 2026
In the wake of an ICE shooting that killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, academics have joined the chorus of left-wing radicals seeking to abolish the federal law enforcement agency.
But proponents of the industry claim that the environmental costs still net out as a plus since the space data centers take processing off the fossil-fuel-burning grid.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Jan. 2026
One of the biggest proponents of the capri resurgence, the supermodel has been making a stylish case for cropped pants since last summer—and her latest iteration takes the divisive Noughties silhouette into Italian girl style territory.
By providing only air cover for the rebels, our intervention left the situation on the ground to the local competing forces, tribes and militias, which were divided then and remain divided to this day.
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Thomas L. Friedman,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
He's accused of running a network that partnered with violent groups including Mexico’s Sinaloa and Zetas cartels, Colombian FARC rebels and Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang.
Syria’s al-Assad went down after Israel gutted Lebanese Hezbollah, following which Turkish aided and directed insurgents representing a minority of the country marched into Damascus.
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Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2026
The failing economy would accomplish what [Cowley] and his fellow literary insurgents had been unable to.
Environmental justice and conservation advocates’ push to advance a bill aimed at strengthening California’s Environmental Quality Act stalled, as the measure was pulled from Monday’s hearing agenda.
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Chaewon Chung
Updated January 12,
Sacbee.com,
13 Jan. 2026
Representation matters Autism advocates are celebrating the release of the first-ever Barbie on the spectrum.
Mindy went from having sort of nothing to too much, and the idea of Mindy and Alfie was just too irresistible, these two troublemakers who find each other.
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Carly Thomas,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Dec. 2025
Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers like the Yangs are trapped in a digital cage, barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus.
But this year should see the 564-foot-tall Tower of Jesus of Christ, the basilica’s 18th and final spire (the 17 shorter ones are dedicated to the 12 apostles, four Evangelists and the Virgin Mary), finished in time for the centenary of architect Antoni Gaudí’s death in June.
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Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
1 Jan. 2026
Available personas include Jesus and the apostles, with the Three Wise Men coming soon.
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