Congressional leaders, wired to protect their own and afraid of upsetting their narrow margins, are famous for shrouding ethics investigations in secrecy and dragging them out for years.
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Mary Ellen Klas,
Twin Cities,
23 Apr. 2026
Advertisement Israel has bombed oil depots in Tehran, shrouding the city in toxic black smoke, and attacked Iran’s South Pars gas field.
Props, too, to director of photography Tyson Perkins for cloaking it with moody shadows that fosters its creepy feel.
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Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
18 June 2026
Morning Star was recorded straight to tape on a Portastudio in Stockholm and Marchenko’s current home of Berlin, cloaking everything in a thin mist of hiss.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Bayer’s Monsanto, the maker of the powerful weedkiller Roundup, shielding it from thousands of state lawsuits that allege the company failed to warn people the product could cause cancer.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2026
Tying the hands of mayors in perpetuity and shielding them from accountability for the scourge of guns is not how to respond to one mayor’s mistakes.
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2026
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