The Puerto Rican boxer had brain surgery but never fully recovered from his injuries, identified as a large subdural hematoma, and was in a persistent vegetative state.
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Matt Moret,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2026
The Institute for Justice, a nonprofit law firm specializing in civil liberties cases, identified over 100 incidents of automatic license plate reader abuse, including stalking and wrongful stops.
Greece designated Olympus its first national park in 1938, and the mountain has long been recognized as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
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Brittany Anas,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2026
The two sides were deadlocked over which would control the peninsula until Kissinger recognized that Egypt’s core interest was sovereignty and national pride while Israel’s was security.
Some Hoodoo practitioners have begun calling themselves witches, reflecting the increasingly positive reassessment of that term, which historically referred principally to practitioners of occult harming practices.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
14 Aug. 2026
Both Israel’s military and Israel’s police both referred questions arrests in Qusra to the other.
Colón’s family filed a $50 million lawsuit against Ashby and the fight’s promoters for allowing the fight to continue.
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Matt Moret,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2026
The state last week filed documents pushing back on Murdaugh’s request to send DNA found under Maggie’s fingernails to an independent laboratory for more advanced testing.
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