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Recent Examples of bluecoatJackson wasn’t an overnight success: Her ingenue years, after winning a scholarship to RADA, were spent in repertory theater, assorted waitressing and retail jobs, and even as a bluecoat (a kind of performing steward) at a Welsh holiday resort.—Guy Lodge, Variety, 15 June 2023
Upon arrival, officers discovered multiple victims suffering from gunshot wounds, police said.
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Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
7 June 2026
Residents and festivalgoers were urged to avoid the area and expect a significant law enforcement presence as officers continue their search and investigators work to determine what led to the shooting.
Five were killed in an airstrike on the villages of Deir Qanoun al Nahr and Abbasiyeh, while a municipal policeman was killed in the village of Ebba, state media reported.
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Bassem Mroue,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
At the same time, Pratchett was not an anarchist—Vimes is a policeman, which is depicted as a heroic profession—or an identitarian.
Officials say the change is needed to protect the city’s infrastructure and guard against copper thieves.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
Photonics can be used in AI infrastructure by using light to move data between graphics processing units (GPUs), memory, networking chips, servers and data centers, instead of relying on electrical signals running along copper.
Just the extent to which Friedkin and former undercover cop Randy Jurgensen, who served as an advisor, immersed themselves in the gay fetish milieu while developing the project makes for juicy insights.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
6 June 2026
The buddy cops’ zesty chemistry goes out on a high as Detective Campbell and Lieutenant Cole bicker next to ambulance at the film’s end.
Police were told to replace vehicle patrols with bobbies on foot, a speed limit of fifty mph was imposed, and the nation’s three TV channels were ordered to stop broadcasting at 10.30 PM.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Jan. 2026
Dee is in his Springheel Jack costume, since London bobbies of that era would rather work with a mythical highwayman than a real Chinese man.
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Yvonne Zipp,
Christian Science Monitor,
1 Apr. 2025
The decision to send in state troopers – some on horseback – infuriated many protesters while drawing praise from Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
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Leigh Waldman,
CNN Money,
2 June 2026
See detailed results Democratic Primary Julian Beaudion, a former South Dakota state trooper and a community organizer, is unopposed for the Democratic nomination for Senate.
Set in the lush forests and fields of northeastern France, this excitingly offbeat first feature from Sarah Arnold depicts a gory factional war between hunters and farmers, haves and have-nots, with one depressed fish-out-of-water gendarme caught in the middle.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
Enter Orsolya, who shows up at the door with some gendarmes and an official eviction notice and gives Ion twenty minutes to quit the premises.