The person opened the door armed with a sword and stabbed a Boston Police officer in the arm and knocked the clinician to the ground, according to police.
At the buffet, fill your plate with local cheeses, breads, muesli and cured meats like Schopfspeck prepared by the on-site butcher, or order from the à la carte menu and watch as the chefs prepare each dish in the open kitchen.
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Catherine Garcia,
TheWeek,
3 Aug. 2026
Alfonsi departed after clashing with Bari Weiss, CBS News’ editor in chief, who delayed the airing of a report the journalist had prepared investigating the deportation of migrants to harsh prisons in Venezuela.
Then it was brought down again to £10m because of unspecified fines that had apparently already been handed out.
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Daniel Taylor,
New York Times,
1 Aug. 2026
Small Businesses Should Think Long-Term The health of an entrepreneurial ecosystem should not be measured by how many grants are handed out or how many pitch competitions are hosted each year.
For a long time, the prime real estate for podcast discovery was Apple’s iTunes, where new podcasts were allotted their own row for a week.
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Frank Racioppi,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2026
Experts say the vast majority of nonprofits cap the amount of vacation time an employee can accrue, most often to one-and-a-half times the vacation hours allotted to them for a single year.
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Audrey McGlinchy,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Aug. 2026
Secret Service Director Sean Curran told reporters that the agency had more than 10,000 investigations into threats against people the agency has been assigned to protect.
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Antonio Pequeño IV,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2026
After being assigned full-time to the Highway Interdiction Unit, Bosco and Deputy Samuelson became one of the most successful K9 teams in the region, regularly busting drug traffickers traveling along highways and interstates in LaPorte County.
The nearly $170 billion allocated to public schools across America was never intended to last forever.
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Richard Fowler,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2026
The state’s Project Homekey has allocated nearly a billion dollars toward supportive housing, creating 2,749 affordable homes for folks with behavioral health challenges at risk of homelessness — issues often tied up in a ball with addiction.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
31 July 2026
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