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Mexican Cession, relinquishment of more than half of Mexico’s territory to the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War in 1848.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
10 Apr. 2026 -
The Denver District Attorney's Office said prosecutors asked for a $100,000 cash-only bond, but the judge set a $75,000 cash/property/surety bond, with maximum home confinement, GPS monitoring, and firearms relinquishment.—
Sarah Horbacewicz,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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When officers arrived, Martinez holed up inside the home and held police at bay until he was coaxed into surrendering.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
14 Apr. 2026
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But there’s also the surrendering.—
Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2026
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Indigenous artists and collectives who live in rural communities—far from the capitals, far from art-world infrastructure—and who contend daily with continuing forms of colonial dispossession have to perform multiple acts of translation before their work reaches the museum.—
María Carri,
Artforum,
16 Apr. 2026
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Amid this widespread dispossession, the first basic income proposals arose.—
Will Glovinsky,
The Conversation,
30 Mar. 2026
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