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The forensic report also indicated that Trottier's DNA matched that of tissue paper recovered from the scene, the affidavit alleges, per the outlets.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
14 Apr. 2026 -
Wells Fargo's Efficiency Ratio came in a bit higher than expected, but still indicated significant improvement, with a year-over-year decline of 2 percentage points, or 200-basis-points (a lower number is better here).—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
14 Apr. 2026
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Allen has a general noise ordinance, but nothing specific to pickleball, which is what Kacines suggests.—
Erin Jones,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Halperin suggests doing a tick check at the end of the day.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Traders signal offers in the S&P options trading pit at the Cboe Global Markets exchange on March 31, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois.—
Leonie Kidd,
CNBC,
14 Apr. 2026
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When the Nissan dropped back, Mulligan signalled once more.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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The have a few currant liqueurs in their lineup, but this one is produced, as the name implies, from an older variety from Burgundy, the birthplace of French cassis.—
Jerry & Krista Slater,
AJC.com,
12 Apr. 2026
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After a similar law was passed in Utah, a school board member publicly posted a photo of a 16-year-old girl on social media and implied, without any basis, that the student was transgender.—
Mike Smith,
Denver Post,
12 Apr. 2026
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Because Zendaya plays young women, these women still have parents, and the actors cast to play her parents—which is to say her history, the expository reasons for her Blackness—typically flit in and out of the background, there to signify and do nothing else.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2026
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Gaps between research and product As 420 – signifying April 20, a day celebrating cannabis culture – approaches each year, public attention turns toward the legal status of cannabis.—
Lucy Xiaolu Wang,
The Conversation,
13 Apr. 2026
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While many leave college intending to return, few ultimately do.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
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The film was intended to release in March 2024, just nine months after its predecessor's debut, but was indefinitely delayed during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Apr. 2026
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By carefully analyzing the neutron data, the team could calculate the QFI for a material—and from that, infer how deeply entangled its internal particles are.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Apr. 2026
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Wolfgang Pauli first inferred the presence of the neutrino in 1930 from a study of radioactive decays.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Point (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/point%20%28out%29. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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