Don’t listen to your favorite podcast or get engrossed in conversation.
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Natalia V. Osipova,
CNN Money,
27 Feb. 2026
For Dallas’ Black community in the late 1950s through the 1960s, the Forest Theater was the place to see and be seen, recalls Shirley Rhodes, an 80-year-old South Dallas native who spent Saturdays there during her childhood while engrossed in the cinematic offerings.
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Uwa Ede-Osifo,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Feb. 2026
Iran had to pull out of Syria, having invested billions of dollars there.
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Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
Night Train invested significantly in English-language scripted at Eccho, and saw shows such as crime drama Safe Harbor sell internationally, but the slate remained relatively limited.
In the 5900 block of Larabee Court, in September 2025, a 2,024-square-foot single-family residence was sold for $2,450,500, a price per square foot of $1,211.
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Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
19 Mar. 2026
Crusoe sold its bitcoin mining operation to NYDIG, but still uses methane to run data centers.
The official pointed to the outcome of the DOJ’s antitrust case against Google, in which the judge sided with the agency in finding that the tech giant had illegally monopolized online search.
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Julia Shapero,
The Hill,
9 Mar. 2026
Ticketmaster and its parent Live Nation Entertainment have monopolized the market, the Department of Justice argued, driving up the prices for everyone.
It had supposedly been made in the nineteen-forties, for an Italian countess or an English lady, then scrapped, and afterward either smuggled out of the workroom by a starry-eyed seamstress or, with the atelier head’s approval, given to one of the in-house models.
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Han Ong,
New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2026
Priceless Sudanese artifacts were put up for sale on eBay after being smuggled out of the country, according to a report from the French news agency Agence France-Presse.
For the occasion, my mother had put on her Balenciaga, a black dress with two wide shoulder straps, a firm bodice, a full skirt that ended a few inches above the ankles, and the illusion of an underskirt supplied by a band of taffeta ruffles, also black, that peeked out from beneath the hem.
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Han Ong,
New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2026
The world is abundantly supplied with oil and energy.
Cromwell said about 300 units in Easton Street Capital’s luxury condominium building will be marketed for $5 million to $25 million each.
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Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Mar. 2026
In the 1960s, Thalidomide, a drug marketed for morning sickness, left children around the world with irreversible birth defects; the United States avoided such a fate thanks to the FDA’s oversight.
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