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The Voting Rights Act and its legislative updates broke the stranglehold of conservative southern Democrats, who were wiped out fully during Barack Obama’s presidency.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
6 May 2026 -
The Highlanders and Stallions have faced off in FHSAA state tournaments seven years in a row — not counting 2020, when Covid wiped out spring sports playoffs.—
Buddy Collings,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 May 2026
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Vanessa Van Helsing wakes up from a coma to discover that a volcanic eruption has blotted out the sun, letting vampires prey 24/7.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
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During her first bombing, Ginny had run for shelter into a perfume shop, where the proprietress methodically moved each bottle from the streetfront vitrine into a neat line on the floor as the dust from the percussive bombs blotted out the sun.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
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While one of the caretakers, Sreekuttan, suffered chest injuries from being trampled and died at a nearby hospital, a second caretaker, Amal, sustained injuries and continues to receive medical care.—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
3 May 2026
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This is something that Black voting-rights advocates, from Frederick Douglass to Kwame Ture, long understood; that no person’s rights could really be inalienable if any person’s rights were trampled.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
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But Klaasen didn’t hold back and shared an 80-run stand with Nitish Kumar Reddy, who made 21, and then Salil Arora (30 not out) plundered three sixes and two fours as Hyderabad notched its fifth straight win.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Apr. 2026
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Five years after the Halifax Resolves were adopted, the British army briefly occupied the town and plundered its homes, according to the North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites and Properties.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
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The majority of those moves in that 2020 season were necessitated by the team seeing nearly one-third of its roster ravaged and only having so many options to fill spots.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
7 May 2026
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The Mosquito Fire of 2022 had ravaged more than seventy-six thousand acres in Placer and El Dorado Counties.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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IndyCar removed a Freedom 250 Grand Prix T-shirt from the shopping section of its official website Wednesday in the wake of criticism that the product’s messaging was tone deaf and open to a racist interpretation.—
Curt Anderson,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
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Prior to this conversation, Carmy secretly removed his name from the restaurant's partnership agreement.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
6 May 2026
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Roughly 100,000 artworks were looted in France during the war, according to a report published by the Working Party on the Spoliation of Jews in France, set up by the French government in 1997.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
8 May 2026
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Jenkins also admitted stealing cocaine, heroin, and marijuana—along with pharmaceuticals looted during the unrest following the death of Freddie Gray in 2015.—
Mike Hellgren,
CBS News,
7 May 2026
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The Montreal Canadiens took out one of the biggest favorites in the sport in the first round.—
David Troy OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
6 May 2026
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The Chaparrals took out Mansfield Summit 7-3 in the bi-district round, scoring four goals in overtime.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 May 2026
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“Havocked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/havocked. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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