The sheriff’s office sent up a helicopter to conduct aerial surveillance of Wheaton, but didn’t chase him on the street out of concern for drivers’ safety, the agency said in a news release.
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Rylan DiGiacomo-Rapp,
The Orlando Sentinel,
9 July 2026
In the middle of his journey, Blondin lowered a rope to a boat floating beneath him; the boat captain sent up a bottle of wine, which Blondin drank.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 June 2026
Florida State coach Mike Norvell, hailed for building a behemoth through the portal in 2023, is now never-endingly mocked by rivals.
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Gabriel Burns,
AJC.com,
15 July 2026
Hilton was quickly mocked, with online commenters pointing out that authentic Mexican street tacos are served in soft tortillas, cooked up by street vendors, and that the hard-shell varieties found in a fast-food chain do not count as the real deal.
Though much derided in advance, this expansion of the rubric did mean that Cabo Verde swam into our ken.
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Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
17 July 2026
In the latest salvo in the ongoing public negotiations between Major League Baseball and its players’ union, interim MLBPA chief Bruce Meyer derided a recent advertising campaign for the league’s salary cap proposal.
The falseness of the medium, though, jibed with the falseness of most attempts, throughout American history, to make sense of this enormous, strange man.
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Christopher Hooks,
Harpers Magazine,
23 June 2026
This forced the British to make jibes to get down to the bottom of the course while the Americans jibed just once, and that was the deciding factor in securing what went on to be an easy victory.
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