Tech firms were quick to abandon their once-proud commitments to diversity and defense of immigrants following the 2024 election and quietly acquiesced to Trump’s attacks on once-scared cows like higher education, free trade and the rule of law.
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Jonathan Weber,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
The legislature largely acquiesced, and SB-189 sailed through the legislature with overwhelming bipartisan support.
In 1910, following the death of his father, King Edward VII, King George V acceded to the throne and Mary became Queen.
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Natasha Leake,
Vanity Fair,
2 June 2026
In the 2010s, when Cairo faced an Islamist insurgency in Sinai, including a local branch of the infamous Islamic State, Israel acceded to Egypt’s deployment of additional forces beyond what was permitted in that historical agreement to combat the mutual threat.
Late Friday, however, state officials adopted a new structure for the emissions program, called cap-and-invest, that analysts say will likely reduce wildfire mitigation funding by $200 million per year.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
Taken together, those cultural threads help explain why food – and especially meat – carries an outsized symbolic role in Texas politics, where the official state dish, adopted in 1977, is chili, defined by its significant meat base.
Cepeda has advocated for a more independent foreign policy and greater Latin American integration, while right-wing candidates Abelardo de la Espriella and Paloma Valencia have argued for closer alignment with Washington on security and economic issues.
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Sebastian Jimenez,
CNN Money,
31 May 2026
Merryweather has advocated a turnaround for years, and such an idea has gained support from some local planning groups, including T&T in 2016 and the La Jolla Community Planning Association in 2019.
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Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
The play was reviewed and upheld based on what the replay official said was a lack of evidence to overturn.
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Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
In October, the Herald interviewed a Venezuelan father from Tampa who was sent to back to Venezuela even though a judge had upheld TPS for Venezuelans the same day he was arrested during a routine check-in at an immigration office.
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