My friend Thai, whose parents were part of the Weather Underground leadership, remembers his father, Jeff Jones, coming home one day to find their family’s Hoboken apartment surrounded by cops—a fire inspector had spotted his tiny crop of marijuana plants on the fire escape.
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Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
More than a dozen police and emergency vehicles surrounded a U-Haul truck cordoned off with caution tape outside the stadium.
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Suryatapa Chakraborty,
Dallas Morning News,
28 Mar. 2026
The 2023-2024 El Niño, which encompassed the summer of 2023, was one of the top five strongest warming episodes on record, according to The Weather Channel.
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Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Mar. 2026
That authorization was broad and encompassed Gastineau’s name and likeness as reflected in extrinsic footage, such as that of the encounter with Favre.
About 30 Nike missile bases ringed the Chicago area.
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Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2026
It’s all housed in a spare modern building designed by Kengo Kuma and ringed by an expansive Japanese landscape garden where visitors are invited to stroll.
Wang said her American citizenship was made possible by the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship guarantee and by changes to laws that had restricted Asian immigration.
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Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
But one side of the bar and the front part of the concourse are restricted to North End Zone ticketholders, providing a quick and easy way to grab a drink and get back to your seat in time for kickoff.
Representatives from hostile states like Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are circumscribed in their movements, typically limited to a small radius around their official posts—an embassy, a consulate, a permanent mission to the UN.
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Adam Ciralsky,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
Eventually, the area in the Pentagon where reporters were allowed was circumscribed to a single corridor outside the press room – even though the public affairs officers who worked most closely with reporters were in an office on the other side of the 6½-million-square-foot building.
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