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With themes of resilience, victory, and joy as a healing balm, Joy in the Belly of a Riot is a beautiful manifestation of how poetry has the power to heal and help one overcome pain.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Essence,
9 Oct. 2025
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The first of the previous massacres in Darfur occurred in the town of El Geneina, in April, 2023; fifteen thousand unarmed civilians were killed.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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The unarmed Yars missile was fired from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia and hit the Kura Missile Test Range on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Single-Food Diets Diets that rely on a single food or drink, such as the cabbage soup diet, grapefruit diet, or Master Cleanse drink diet, as well as diets that rely on a single food group, like the fruitarian diet, are unsafe and lack key nutrients your body needs to function.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
6 Jan. 2026
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Since the video was posted, Hasan, who is Somali, said his center has received harassing phone calls making staff members and parents feel unsafe.—
Charlotte Kramon,
Twin Cities,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Preyed (on or upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preyed%20%28on%20or%20upon%29. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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