Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel, Shadow Ticket, set in 1932 Milwaukee, takes place in a landscape of industrial ghosts, strike-breakers, fascist sympathizers and absurdist cabals.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
With a story of secret cabals and a child born to rule, Dumont projects the nasty prejudices and bureaucratic rigors of local politics, the tangles of family allegiances, and the tender grunge of young lust into divine and diabolical clashes run from celestial and subterranean castles.
Two business coalitions gave a total of over 270 million real (US$54 million) to help two public laboratories, the Institute of Technology in Immunobiology, known as BioManguinhos, and the Butantan Institute.
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Jessica A.J. Rich,
The Conversation,
8 Apr. 2026
The party has an organizational presence across India and has supported or participated in ruling coalitions in several states, including Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, and Tamil Nadu.
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Andrew Pereira,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
7 Apr. 2026
The sanctions run parallel to Trump’s efforts to bring the tools and rhetoric of the Global War on Terror to bear against drug cartels, designating a handful as terrorist groups early on in his second term.
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Max Saltman,
CNN Money,
1 Apr. 2026
When cartels lose their leaders, the industry doesn’t collapse.
This type of study combines and analyzes results from multiple previous investigations — in this case four observational studies that included nearly 37,000 pregnancies.
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Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
2 Apr. 2026
Once opportunities to engage communities and offer developmental players a taste of game-day atmospheres, spring games had become scouting combines for opposing programs looking to entice players into the transfer portal, which had previously opened in late April.
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David Eckert,
Austin American Statesman,
13 Mar. 2026
Building and construction unions no longer can use their old rhetorical cudgel in this debate — calling prefab homes flimsy and unsafe.
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U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
The vote marks the first time administrators have joined a strike alongside other LAUSD unions and aligns all three major labor groups in a coordinated potential walkout, raising the likelihood of widespread disruptions in the nation’s second-largest school district.
More than a half-dozen potential candidates are speaking here to make inroads among Black leaders, one of Democrats' most powerful voting blocs.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
The promise of the nation’s first Black chief executive also attracted voting blocs that didn’t regularly participate in elections as well as those who showed up every four years, like clockwork, but hadn’t supported a Democrat in such high numbers.
Enver Hoxha led the country through ephemeral alliances and radical ruptures, leading it to total isolation.
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Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
8 Apr. 2026
Southern Kerala state presents a different challenge, where power has traditionally alternated between alliances led by the Indian National Congress and communist parties.
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