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In 2025, Vallow Daybell was handed two more consecutive life sentences after being convicted in Arizona for earlier plotting to kill her fourth husband and attempting to murder her niece's ex-husband.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
31 May 2026 -
He was also accused at the same trial of plotting separately with two school friends to carry out a solo attack earlier in 2024 in separate Middle Eastern cities.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
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And while the company presented more data on that drug Tuesday, showing promising first-line and combination data on daraxonrasib, scientists also showed in another session intriguing preclinical data on a completely new compound that may represent what comes after the current lineup.—
Angus Chen,
STAT,
21 Apr. 2026
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There’s familiarity there, but there’s also intriguing talent with Thompson.—
SportsDay Staff,
Dallas Morning News,
9 Mar. 2026
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Not because anyone is colluding, but because the incentive structure has.—
Ivan Kan,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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China International Marine Containers (CIMC), Dong Fang International Containers, CXIC Group Containers and Singamas Container Holdings, were charged with allegedly colluding to limit the production of new unrefrigerated shipping containers between 2019 and as late as January 2024.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
20 May 2026
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According to the footage, what awaits Rhaenyra during her reign are fearful subjects, conniving enemies, sleepless nights and plenty of anguish.—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
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Produced by Guy Ritchie, MobLand stars Hardy as Harry Da Souza, the loyal fixer for the Harrigan crime family, led by powerful patriarch Conrad (Brosnan) and his conniving wife, Maeve (Mirren).—
Derek Lawrence,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 May 2026
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In 2018, Nafis added a row of dahlias to the vegetable garden in her backyard and was soon scheming a way to create a cut-flower farm without leaving the city.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
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Spaeny and Melton were cast as Ashley and Austin, a Gen-Z couple working at a Montecito country club, dreaming and scheming toward upward mobility, a good 18 months before filming began in early 2025.—
Glenn Whipp,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2026
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Working with industry qubits Imec’s genius is not in devising a new kind of qubit but in using one that’s the easiest to scale.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
26 May 2026
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Perhaps the cost and effort of devising specialized AI will not be needed for some challenging math problems.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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As with other Colossal projects, this artificial bird incubator started with a more modest process focused on developing and hatching ordinary chickens, whose biology is well known and whose reproductive cycle takes less than a month, allowing rapid iteration.—
David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2026
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Pittsburgh eaglets die six weeks after hatching Pittsburgh welcomed both eaglets in early April, with the first egg hatching on April 2.—
Finch Walker,
USA Today,
18 May 2026
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Jones and three other ex-Boilermakers are accused of conspiring to embezzle millions through no-show jobs, luxury travel and unauthorized loans.—
Ian Cummings,
Kansas City Star,
27 May 2026
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Lindberg, 56, pleaded guilty in 2024 to conspiring to defraud insurers and thousands of policy holders in one of the largest insurance frauds in US history, federal prosecutors said in a statement.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
27 May 2026
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