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.
Mubadala has invested more than $20 billion in China across more than 100 deals since 2015.
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Matthew Martin,
semafor.com,
10 Sep. 2026
The fund initially invested a high eight-figure sum into Fanatics in 2017 at a valuation around $4 billion, according to multiple people familiar with the transaction.
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.
Trump had just flown back from a NATO summit in Ankara; he’d been smuggled out of Turkey via a catering truck and a decoy plane after Iranian threats on his life.
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Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2026
In 2025, Ukraine smuggled over 100 drones into Russia inside cargo trucks to conduct strikes that damaged or destroyed roughly one-third of Russia’s active bomber fleet and caused approximately $7 billion in damages.
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