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Mamdani intends to cut the median time for approvals from 210 to to 100 days via a mix of simplifying income verification, speeding up the process for lottery winners to be selected, and streamlining the applications, among other things.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026 -
This included implementing an electronic application process and introducing a mobile application center designed to make the hiring process more efficient and accessible to prospective applicants.—
Joy Lepola-Stewart,
Baltimore Sun,
14 May 2026
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In September 2026, the consciousness conference was already booked at the Vatican’s address before the encyclical was announced.—
Jason Snyder,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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Those split levels of child and adult consciousness give the film a certain piquancy, a little gap where drama can spark in a story where almost nothing really happens except a kid takes a plane ride, or several plane rides, with his mom.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
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The appeals court that ordered a trial court to reconsider Peters' sentence said the trial judge's consideration of her belief in the existence of 2020 election fraud went beyond what was relevant to sentencing her.—
Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
16 May 2026
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Individually, each of these proposals deserves serious public consideration.—
Luisa Veltmann,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 May 2026
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Students at a California elementary school are banding together to raise awareness and money to save the bald eagle hunting area at San Bernardino National Forest's Big Bear Valley, home of the viral bald eagles Jackie and Shadow.—
Yi-Jin Yu,
ABC News,
14 May 2026
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President of the Laburt Improvement Community Association, Janet Bailey handed out flyers in the community after Brooks in an effort to raise awareness abut local behavioral health services.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
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That game illuminates the tension between self and community that has fueled the show’s longevity, and reflects the preoccupations of a country that has always been torn between the two.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
12 May 2026
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For younger men, relationship stress was the biggest preoccupation, reaching a peak of concern in boys 14 to 17, and then decreasing with age while isolation and loneliness became more of an issue, peaking at 65.—
Annalisa Merelli,
STAT,
12 May 2026
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Now, the Swedish flatpack giant believes its long-elusive obsession is, at long last, blowing up.—
Jack Bantock,
CNN Money,
14 May 2026
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This story made the most sense to me, and for the next forty years his death became the rationale and justification for my Vietnam War obsession.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
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The fixation is really bizarre.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
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The series follows the composer’s arrival in late-18th-century Vienna and Salieri’s decade-long fixation on him, as admiration curdles into obsession.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
11 May 2026
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“Raptness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raptness. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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