Almost one month into their joint military campaign, the United States and Israel have killed a host of senior Iranian leaders and bombarded key sites across the country.
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Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
25 Mar. 2026
Tulip bulbs don’t thrive well in shade and excessive moisture, but shouldn’t be bombarded with rays either.
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Michelle Mastro,
Architectural Digest,
24 Mar. 2026
Its involvement now raises the specter of further disruption for a global shipping industry already buffeted by Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
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James Legge,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2026
The incessant sales pitches are buffeted by the usual deafening pounding music, which makes Vin Scully Avenue seem like Las Vegas Boulevard.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
The Gulf War left Saddam Hussein in power, but weakened and dangerous, a source of regional instability for another decade—a pattern that some fear might be playing out in Iran, if the regime emerges from the war battered but no less entrenched.
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Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
But Ukraine’s drone attacks are also forcing Moscow to deprioritize some exports and protect consumers, who have been battered by high inflation.
One morning in 1980, Carl Fletcher, head of one of the richest Jewish families in Long Island and owner of a local plastics factory, is ambushed and kidnapped from his driveway.
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The Know,
Denver Post,
29 Mar. 2026
In the first inning, when the Tigers both waited out Pivetta and ambushed him, three of his 18 four-seam fastballs were in the strike zone.
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Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
Thousands of passengers and crew were caught on vessels waylaid in ports in the UAE and Qatar.
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Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
In season two, the pair head north to Darwin to help solve the murder of Eddie’s former partner but get waylaid investigating a murder in a remote river town of Barra Creek.
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