For more than a decade, Charli XCX was a secret weapon, a brazen experimentalist, a raw diarist, and (apologies to Chappell Roan) your favorite artist’s favorite artist.
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Caryn Ganz,
Rolling Stone,
23 July 2026
The Galway County Council and the Bon Secours Sisters have issued formal apologies, according to the BBC.
Echoing Turkey’s justifications for its contentious S-400 acquisition completed the year before, which led a ban from the F-35 program and CAATSA sanctions slapped on Ankara, Iraqi officials claimed America offered no viable alternative.
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Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2026
And in many cases, the same justifications elucidated by Douglass remain.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Defense Ministry said that air defenses downed 258 Ukrainian drones overnight.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
30 July 2026
The new aircraft is expected to cost less than $30 million per unit while offering greater flexibility and survivability in modern conflicts, where large, expensive drones have become increasingly vulnerable to advanced air defenses.
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Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
30 July 2026
Three market watchers looked at the same week and came away with three different explanations as to why this might be.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
30 July 2026
In a nearly 90-minute livestream that can be viewed on YouTube, the 22-year-old mayor gave detailed explanations for several of the allegations against him.
The Sezioni Unite — the highest rung of the Cassazione — accepted her arguments and overturned previous rulings, including one by a lower tier of the Cassazione which had upheld the minor issue as recently as 2024.
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Julia Buckley,
CNN Money,
4 Aug. 2026
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