The first began when Purdue Pharma, the company controlled by members of the Sackler family, aggressively marketed new prescription painkillers while downplaying their risks and generating enormous profits.
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2026
But recently, some of those materials have started to reappear in skin care products and are often marketed as natural alternatives.
Opponents have distributed campaign materials citing past statements from Obama and Spanberger criticizing gerrymandering, but those were before Trump pushed Republican states to redraw their congressional maps in advance of this year's midterms.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
The rear ramp can handle about 70,500 pounds per load, so payloads must be distributed across multiple pallets.
At least 126 solar projects proposed since the beginning of 2024 are awaiting regulatory approval, according to a Grist and AP analysis of the latest information developers supplied to the Energy Information Administration.
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Ayurella Horn-Muller,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
Weekend one tickets originally retailed for $649).
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Two similar designs currently on the retailer’s website retailed for $28 and $44 each, though they’ve recently been marked down to $20 and $31, respectively.
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Joseph Erbentraut,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 Mar. 2026
Their rhetoric was dark, warning of disaster for millions of people and families who might be forced to pay more for their own health care unless the GOP agreed to extend subsidies for those who purchased coverage on state exchanges.
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Editorial,
Boston Herald,
19 Apr. 2026
Payload was Amazon’s two test Project Kuiper satellites that were set to fly on ULA’s first Vulcan Centaur rocket, but switched to one of the nine Atlas rockets Amazon had previously purchased from ULA as Vulcan had been delayed to no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2023.
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Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 Apr. 2026
No matter how many meal kits and fast dinner solutions were being peddled to consumers, the structure of American life had shifted in ways that made a traditional dinner routine harder to sustain.
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Rafaela Jinich,
The Atlantic,
5 Mar. 2026
Clearly, a majority of Americans reject the stale mindset of last century’s thinking peddled by some that oil and natural gas production and environmental stewardship are not compatible.
This isn’t a film about trauma, or smuggled-in social issues, or anything at all, really, besides the honest workaday business of scaring the bejesus out of its audience, rinsing, and repeating with extra vigor.
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