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There was out-and-out enslavement, of Native Americans and Africans; there were onerous tribute demands and a labor corvée called the repartimiento.—
Greg Grandin
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025 -
Since 2017, Rosales has turned that absence into a bold visual language—one that not only centers West African spirituality but also traces its survival through colonization, enslavement, and the transatlantic slave trade.—
Yola Robert,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Trump has imposed wide-ranging tariffs on much of the world, carried out a mass deportation program, and introduced restrictions on legal immigration, including the most recent change to the H-1B program.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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The existing Kwik Trip store will be put up for sale with a deed restriction that does not allow a convenience store or fueling station to be in its place, according to village documents.—
Cathy Kozlowicz,
jsonline.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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After the rapper was found not guilty of three of the counts in the federal indictment, his attorney argued that he should be sent to home confinement.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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The two Tucson residents pleaded guilty in federal court in 2009, where one was sentenced to eight months in federal prison and the other to six months of home confinement and 100 hours of community service.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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Zuazo and Hernandez each were charged with one count of first-degree felony murder and two counts of unlawful imprisonment.—
Christina Hall,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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His aggressive defense tactics—including refusing to reveal sources and challenging judicial conduct—led to his brief imprisonment and ultimately the removal of the presiding Judge, Ural Glanville.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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By the end of the year, the grocery store and home goods chain will have opened eight new supercenters and neighborhood markets across the United States, Charles Crowson, a Walmart spokesperson, told USA TODAY this week.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Amazon debuted its Fresh grocery chain in 2020, with an eye toward mass-market shoppers.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
3 Oct. 2025
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Although this situation has been the hardest and darkest time in my life, good things have come out of my incarceration.—
Lauren del Valle,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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Over the 1990s, Washington seized on that opacity to transform the base into a theater of extraterritorial mass incarceration to hold tens of thousands of Haitian and Cuban asylum-seekers fleeing political violence and economic collapse in their home countries.—
Miriam Pensack,
The Dial,
30 Sep. 2025
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The law that banned whale captivity did not apply to the existing population of captive whales at Marineland, but the park had to comply with another part of the law that forbade breeding.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement During captivity Sharabi ached for his life in Be’eri—which as a kibbutz, or commune, is the original expression of the interdependence on which Israel functions.—
Eli Sharabi,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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Forcing athletes to find new affordances within various constraints makes perception-action coupling more efficient.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Pros Leaf raking is quiet, so there are no time constraints; Collecting leaves manually not only avoids disturbing neighbors or wildlife, is also does not cause air pollution.—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Enchainment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enchainment. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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