The run-up to the World Cup in Los Angeles was marked by anxiety over how immigration enforcement, travel restrictions and anti-Trump backlash would affect the spirit and attendance of the games.
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Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
The change would bring state policy in line with federal law, which already includes those restrictions.
Koeppen lived to see the prim, bourgeois Prussia of his childhood unmade and remade by these sometimes conflicting proscriptions.
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Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
27 Apr. 2026
In Greece, even McDonald’s franchises get into the lean Lent spirit by adding seasonal menu items that meet most of the proscriptions of the Greek Orthodox Church.
An athlete who could earn more in NIL but for House constraints can plausibly argue they are being prevented from earning compensation.
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Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
10 June 2026
City attorney Andrea Leslie-Fite told council members the moratorium cannot be applied to projects that were already approved because of constraints within state law.
—
Mary Ramsey
Updated June 8,
Charlotte Observer,
9 June 2026
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