After four hurricanes struck Florida in 2004, Maines noticed the federal government had distributed millions of dollars in disaster assistance in Miami-Dade County, even though the county had barely been touched by the storms.
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Sally Kestin,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Sep. 2026
Posters started showing up around town, distributed by graphic artist Milton Glaser‘s students at the School of Visual Arts.
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Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
11 Sep. 2026
Francis has been the victim of another myth, peddled by Edward Daugherty—Martin’s father.
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Cynthia Zarin,
Harpers Magazine,
1 Sep. 2026
Named after Blythe Street — a short thoroughfare flanked by overcrowded apartments — the crew had robbed, stole, peddled drugs and shot up rivals since the 1980s, seemingly untroubled by the city of Los Angeles’ attempts to defeat it.
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Matthew Ormseth,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Aug. 2026
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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