In one inexhaustible untitled image from 1980, the couple sits in elegant dress at a candlelit table engrossed in each other’s company, while the young, shirtless son adjusts the channel on a television perched on the near side of the same table.
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Leah Ollman,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Aug. 2026
After traveling to Oakland from Colorado, Lori Schott read aloud a diary entry from her daughter, Annalee, who died by suicide at 18 after becoming engrossed with Meta’s apps.
This deprived the state treasurer of huge assets that otherwise could have been invested to generate billions of dollars in revenue.
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Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
18 Sep. 2026
Venture capital firm Paradigm, which invested $200 million in Zipline in March, is reportedly in discussion to lead the new round, while another investor Tiger Global Management is considering participating.
White real estate agents also averaged $1,998,000 in annual sales volume, the total dollar amount of property sold by an agent, whereas Black agents averaged $474,500 in sales volume.
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Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
21 Sep. 2026
The special-edition collaboration will be sold direct-to-consumer until supplies last.
Dishwasher racks are valuable real estate that shouldn’t be monopolized by your cat and his Fancy Feast.
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John Hodgman,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2026
At times of heightened tensions, the Houthis have used the Bab el-Mandeb as a geopolitical bargaining tool, disrupting the passage of trade in a similar fashion to how Tehran has monopolized the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the Iran war.
Large quantities of gold have been smuggled out of the country to finance the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, who control gold-producing areas in Darfur and Kordofan regions, according to experts commissioned by the United Nations.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Sep. 2026
Large quantities of gold have been smuggled out of the country to finance the RSF, which controls gold-producing areas in the Darfur and Kordofan regions, according to experts commissioned by the United Nations.
Kanin said its waste heat systems are designed to produce baseload electricity that can be supplied directly to industrial facilities or local power buyers.
His opponent is the incumbent, Mike Naig, a former lobbyist for Monsanto, the industrial giant that marketed Roundup, a weed killer that in some cases contains the controversial herbicide glyphosate.
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Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
21 Sep. 2026
The trend is reshaping how bedrooms are designed, how mattresses are marketed and how therapists talk about intimacy.
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