Within weeks of being sworn in to helm the FHFA, which oversees the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Pulte shattered norms by quickly jettisoning executives and policies.
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Shelby Talcott,
semafor.com,
2 June 2026
The timing of the rule changes is auspicious for the tech giants.
In 2022, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled 5–2 that elephants have no constitutional rights and that Happy should not be released pursuant to habeas corpus, per the NYT.
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Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
28 May 2026
There is an old joke involving the use of a pea shooter or pea gun to try to take down an elephant.
In another era, Pratt would have been a welcome edition to the roster of bombastic Southern California preachers a la Aimee Semple McPherson, Chuck Smith and Gene Scott, as well as radio titans such as George Putnam and John Kobylt.
—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
The plaintiff investors are not Wall Street titans.
—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
30 May 2026
The artificial egg tech is the latest addition to Colossal's list of de-extinction projects, which now span dodo birds, dire wolves, and mammoths.
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Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
19 May 2026
In a twist of prehistoric irony, our ancestors’ hunting skills proved too effective, leading to the extinction of mammoths around 10,000 years ago—and mammoth-bone dwellings with them.
Some are composites assembled from multiple dinosaurs or replica bones to create the illusion of a more complete skeleton.
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Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
28 May 2026
Kank australis belongs to the unenlagiids, a family of small-to-medium theropod dinosaurs discovered across Late Cretaceous deposits in South America, Antarctica, Australia, and Madagascar.
—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
28 May 2026
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