Sweeney recently stripped down for a nearly-nude commercial promoting the sports betting app.
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Daysia Tolentino,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Sep. 2026
The result is a safer-phone category that already spans traditional feature phones, minimalist devices and smartphones that have been deliberately stripped of distracting features.
Instead there is a young woman with a dismissive smile, and the authority of someone who belongs to the house because she cannot be evicted from its history.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2026
When the government expanded the park in the late 1990s and early 2000s, hundreds of villagers—including Mgesi's family—were forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands.
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
Declining natural gas exports have deprived Bolivia of dollars needed to import gasoline and diesel, contributing to chronic fuel shortages since 2023 that have persisted under Paz.
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