Where the Rio Grande meets the sea, the rockets of SpaceX are launched; astronomers gaze skyward, hawkers shill their wares and environmentalists survey the damage.
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Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2026
Tourists seeking to visit the Statue of Liberty were defrauded daily by unscrupulous ticket-hawkers pitching water tours departing miles away that charge high prices and can’t land on Liberty Island.
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Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
7 Jan. 2026
Yet many mysteries remain, and plenty of myths and pseudoscientific claims surrounding the brain are still out there — many based on either misunderstandings of the empirical data or the misleading promises of hucksters.
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Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
19 Sep. 2025
The Conjuring–verse is an exercise in branding, the brainchild of master hucksters Ed and Lorraine Warren.
The sprawling development along North Tarrant Parkway and Interstate 35W includes big-box retailers Target, Cosco and At Home, though those specific stores were not included in the sale.
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Matt Leclercq,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Mar. 2026
The move better positions Amazon to compete with big-box stores, local drugstores and other retailers that have responded to the growth in online shopping by leaning into faster delivery in recent years, GlobalData retail analyst Neil Saunders told CBS News.
Netflix leads all distributors with 35 total nominations across film and television, while Neon secured an impressive 21 film nominations despite being a smaller distributor.
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