Poor Indigenous, Black, the people from the favelas, when the police go there and kill 120 people there, and the population basically claps and thinks that that’s great.
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Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
2 Dec. 2025
Legacy is made from the small, repeatable disciplines no one claps for, but everyone benefits from.
Both he and his wife have been pictured giving Nazi salutes to their peers.
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Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
15 Dec. 2025
Their skill and sense of daring have been foundational for Davis, who simultaneously salutes their music and uses it as a vital launching pad for her own work.
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George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Oct. 2025
This is one of the worst of them, with Alec Baldwin bravely fighting to bring Medgar Evers’s assassin to justice while Whoopi Goldberg cheers him on and cries.
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Will Leitch,
Vulture,
16 Dec. 2025
Nothing good will ever happen to the Maple Leafs, or anyone who cheers for them.
Sarah Jessica Parker praises 'inspiration' Carol Burnett Legendary comedienne Burnett was in the audience, and Parker, 60, thanked her for both her artistic contributions as well as her life-changing impact on the star's family.
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Ema Sasic,
USA Today,
8 Jan. 2026
The party, organized by the US-Ireland Alliance, praises folks from Ireland — and some who are not — who contribute to film, television and music.
Danny Glover received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, which lauds individuals whose humanitarian work has credited the larger industry.
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Diane J. Cho,
PEOPLE,
21 Dec. 2025
Baidu’s Li lauds AI’s potential for drug discovery, imaging proteins and treatments down to the molecular level to fully comprehend the structure of cancers and tumors.
Yilmar Samudio, who hails from Panama, can touch 94 mph with his fastball and has a deceptive arm motion.
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Charlotte Varnes,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2026
The 17-year-old Hernandez hails from Guárico, Venezuela and has trained under former major-leaguer Carlos Guillén, a three-time All-Star who amassed 1,331 hits for 14 seasons.
During one particularly fun moment shared by the LPGA Tour on Instagram, Clark cracks up at Cunningham's energetic approach to the sport — which ended in her accidentally hitting a fan with the ball.
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