William Carney, a man who escaped slavery to become a Union soldier in the Civil War and who was awarded the Medal of Honor for protecting the American flag from touching the ground during battle.
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Diego Mendoza,
CNN Money,
4 July 2026
Born enslaved in Maryland, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped to the North and emerged as the nation’s leading abolitionist and major literary political figure of his time.
Court records show that Rostas, who was in immigration removal proceedings in New York and placed into the Alternative to Detention program, absconded from the program in March 2023.
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Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
17 June 2026
The Original scored with a low blow and absconded a bull rope from El Grande II.
The crew and the two witnesses said one of the three men got out with a dog and then moved aggressively towards the crew while shouting racial slurs targeted at the photographer.
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Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
2 July 2026
Bungie quickly got out a few nerfs to items or bugs that were trivializing every boss encounter in the game, but if there is one outlier overpowered meta, that’s just going to stay.
Cell phone video shows first responders at the scene, the section cleared out moments after the tragic fall.
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Elle McLogan,
CBS News,
21 June 2026
There are luxurious high-rise towers overlooking the Mekong River, where entire floors are now deserted following police raids that cleared out the illicit operations hidden there.
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