Ordinary Belarusians who took part in protests were rounded up and prosecuted, landing hundreds in the country’s notoriously brutal jails, while key opposition figures were imprisoned or forced into exile.
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Yuliya Talmazan,
NBC news,
30 May 2026
In sixth grade at Twin Peaks Middle School in Poway, Duran rounded up a few friends and organized a mini-robotics competition.
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Amy Stark Shireman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 May 2026
By looking into how errors accumulated and how deviant the answers were from those expected, the researchers were able to get valuable insights into how the physical system was working.
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Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
9 June 2026
The plant blooms only when sufficient energy is accumulated, making time between flowering unpredictable, spanning from a few years to more than a decade, according to the United States Botanic Garden.
Across a 90-foot wall at the Orlando Museum of Art, Tommerup assembled three monumental pyramids built from canvases dragged through the ocean and Biscayne Bay, dried in flowering trees and tossed from rooftops at dusk, surrendering part of the creative process to nature itself.
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Michelle F. Solomon,
Miami Herald,
11 June 2026
Those same instincts run through Dirty Blonde, an album that feels less engineered and more lived-in—shaped in real time rather than assembled from above.
As detailed in the museum’s current exhibition on The Beautiful Game and described by Naylor, soldiers put arms aside, exchanged gifts, collected their dead, sang Christmas songs together and played soccer with each other.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 June 2026
The group is currently reviewing data collected by sensors placed in dozens of homes in neighborhoods such as Overtown, Little Haiti, and Liberty City.
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