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Recent Examples of scalpersBy turning a blind eye to scalpers, even giving them the tools to bypass limits and harvest tickets, Live Nation has acted as the promoter, the primary ticket seller, the artists’ manager, and the scalper.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
19 Sep. 2025
Working primarily in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), Reeves tracked down murderers, thieves, bootleggers and other outlaws across a vast and often dangerous frontier.
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Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
6 June 2026
Stock car racing's origins trace back to the Prohibition era when bootleggers raced modified cars.
Tapia, the other co-founder, said these fake job offers flood social media and have enabled traffickers to target dozens of people at the same time.
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Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
30 June 2026
In the early two-thousands, Colombian cocaine traffickers, seeking to evade tightening controls in their country, began to reroute shipments through coastal towns in Manabí and elsewhere in Ecuador.
Sistan-Baluchistan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long seen clashes between security forces, insurgents and drug smugglers.
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Alex Sundby,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
For example, when Rhode Islanders complained about how the British ship Gaspee was attacking their ships without mercy in its hunt for smugglers, the Royal Navy waved away the colonial government.
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Robert Parkinson,
The Conversation,
24 June 2026
Kalshi traders in May had indicated a strong chance the final report would top the forecast.
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Ananya Chetia,
CNBC,
29 June 2026
Robinhood recently launched Robinhood Social in beta, a feed for discovering and tracking traders, while other crypto startups are experimenting with public portfolios, copy trading, and social feeds that allow users to follow experienced traders.
The first four days will be reserved for retailers, media and other industry professionals, while the final three days will be open to the public.
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Anthony DeMarco,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Retviews data highlights double-digit price rises for mass retailers like Zara and Gap, reflecting a gradual shift towards premiumization in the product range.
The fire is moving so rapidly that authorities urged ranchers and residents to cut their fences so their animals might have a better chance of surviving.
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Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
30 June 2026
Law enforcement officials frequently draw virtual fences around areas of interest and require Google to identify every cellphone in the area using cell location history.
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Anne Toomey McKenna,
The Conversation,
30 June 2026
Concession offerings vary from stadium to stadium FIFA, the sport’s governing body and the tournament organizer, has very specific rules on just about everything related to the World Cup — and there are guidelines that concessionaires have to follow as well.
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Tim Reynolds,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2026
Food and drink concessionaires, professional caterers, HOA clubhouses, event planners — any purveyor that’s not a public restaurant, food truck, flea market stall or food hall vendor — are also excluded from the roundup.
Despite the cool reception from distributors, the pair haven’t given up, and still plan on shopping their movie to either a streamer or theatrical distributor.
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Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
11 June 2026
Netflix leads all distributors with 35 total nominations across film and television, while Neon secured an impressive 21 film nominations despite being a smaller distributor.