Recent Easter weekend shootings have thrust teen violence back into the spotlight, as pressure mounts to keep crime down ahead of this summer’s FIFA World Cup games, the AJC’s Riley Bunch reports.
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Adam Beam,
AJC.com,
8 Apr. 2026
Russia is one of the world’s main oil exporters, and Asian nations are increasingly competing for Russian crude oil as an energy crisis mounts.
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Serra Yedikardes,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Apr. 2026
Baffert also has two fillies in Saturday’s Grade 2 Santa Anita Oaks, Forced Entry (4-1) and French Blue (5-1), as does Michael McCarthy, who won last year’s Santa Anita Derby with Journalism.
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Jay Posner,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Apr. 2026
Thurby, a celebration of Kentucky’s heritage featuring live entertainment; and the Kentucky Oaks, a race for 3-year-old fillies (female horses).
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Chase Jordan
February 13,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Feb. 2026
Bred with stronger British mares, these thoroughbreds define the sport.
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Camilla Wright,
semafor.com,
17 Feb. 2026
Wohlfeil’s decision noted that between the 2024 and 2025 rodeos, the rodeo management team adjusted the rules to not permit the use of electric prods — which had drawn criticism — and also to bar the use of mares known to be pregnant.
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Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Jan. 2026
And, to this day, they are meticulously trained from colts to perform spectacular feats of dressage, including some who can lift their front legs and seem to prance off the ground.
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Marla Jo Fisher,
Oc Register,
18 Feb. 2026
The latter was shipped to the Indianapolis Colts in a deal that brought New York two first-round picks and wide receiver AD Mitchell, whom the colts drafted in the second round in 2024.
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