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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
The measure would provide $45 billion to expand ICE’s detention capacity to nearly 100,000 beds, $14 billion for transportation and removal operations and $8 billion to hire 10,000 new deportation officers.
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Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Oct. 2025
Indeed, my former agency the NGA is charged with both making maps (the job of explorers) and uncovering what’s really going on in those places (the job of intelligence officers).
These ideas are laid out early in the first act, when an encounter between a policeman, Olim, and a fruit-stand thief, Severin, is presented to the audience.
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JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
In a frantic but delicate rescue, captured on images and video reviewed by CNN, a policeman dug away the packed earth.
Composed of glass and concrete with a copper roof, the contemporary-style waterfront dwelling spans 7,500 square feet, with three bedrooms and five bathrooms.
To test the effect of static charge on airborne nematodes, Ortega-Jiménez tethered living fruit flies to a live copper wire and adjusted the voltage between 100 and 700 volts, comparable to what insects would generate in the wild.
West Memphis police took over the pursuit with assistance from state troopers, the release says.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Oct. 2025
Lichtman previously said Mascia was suffering from an undiagnosed mental health problem at the time of the shooting and that the former trooper has been undergoing treatment.
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