In the weeks since its launch, Platner’s campaign has received a tidal wave of support to the tune of more than four million dollars in donations and nine thousand volunteers across Maine.
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Li Goldstein,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
17 Oct. 2025
Fields was swallowed by a tidal wave of pressure that pulled him underwater all day.
This wave of joy was seen online, where some claimed his victory as India’s own.
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Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
Yet today, rising geopolitical instability and a wave of economic nationalism threaten to disrupt the free flows of energy the system relies on — all at a moment when cheaper, cleaner alternatives are available.
Passersby stared as billows of smoke rose into the air above the White House as part of the home shared by the United States president and his family crumbled to the ground.
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Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
Smoke billows following an Israeli strike that targeted a building in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.
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