While the storm is looming, there are new glimmers of possibility—friends can become lovers, strangers can become friends on the subway, the supermarket aisles are charged with meaning.
Delta suspends some specialty services, including airport escorts, for members of Congress due to the impact of the partial government shutdown disrupting US air travel.
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Graham Hurley,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2026
Police escorts at the front of the No Kings protest quickly surrounded and separated the groups.
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Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
29 Mar. 2026
In this sketch, a group of women worries about whether their husbands in the other room are getting along.
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Rima Parikh,
Vulture,
5 Apr. 2026
What looked at first to be a repeat of a recent sketch about wine-drinking wives chatting in the kitchen and playing truth or dare instead pivoted to a scene about husbands stuck together in a den with nothing to talk about.
Those making more bookish and insular styles of the genre, like the Magnetic Fields and Belle and Sebastian, weren’t being worshipped as critical darlings; in some cases their records hadn’t made it to America yet.
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David Glickman,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, avant-garde heavy rockers Deftones became unexpected TikTok darlings and arena stars.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
William also revealed during the couple’s first full royal engagement by video call in 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, that the holiday typically involves plenty of sweets in their household.
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Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
5 Apr. 2026
After the service at Kheimeh Molaghat, over coffee and sweets in the church fellowship hall, Bahraman recounted how armed Iranian forces raided the home of his parents about 15 years ago, because their family had converted to Christianity.
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Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
Leaderboard 2026 Masters odds and betting favorites Scottie Scheffler is favored to win his third green jacket in five years at +550 by BetMGM and FanDuel.
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AJC Sports,
AJC.com,
4 Apr. 2026
The Quebec Nordiques are the favorites for the top draft pick.
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