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The Dolphins not only brought in Alabama’s Ty Simpson and UM’s Carson Beck, but also summoned Penn State’s Drew Allar to team headquarters, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported this week.
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Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
21 Apr. 2026
Musk was summoned after a search took place in February at the French premises of X as part of an investigation opened in January 2025 by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office.
The only constant across different time periods and milieus is that no one has wanted to be accused of it.
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Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
Israel accused hundreds of UNRWA employees in Gaza of working with terrorist groups and banned the organization from operating in Israel in 2024, effectively blocking its foreign staff and aid from entering the enclave.
Patel, in the lawsuit filed in district court in Washington, denied the allegations of his behavior and criticized the magazine for relying on anonymous sources.
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David Bauder,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
Radev also criticized the European Union for relying too heavily on renewable energy.
He had been booked into the jail in late November on a probation violation warrant.
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Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
He was later booked in jail on charges that included battery, false imprisonment, tampering with evidence, failure to report a death and unlawfully holding or moving a dead body.
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Dan Sullivan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Apr. 2026