But the hopes for a civilian transition did not last long—in October 2021 the civilian government was ousted by a coup led by SAF commander General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, again aided by Hemedti, who still led the RSF.
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Janine di Giovanni,
Vanity Fair,
25 June 2026
Barrasso’s whip operation on the war powers vote was aided by Vice President JD Vance, the top peace negotiator for Iran.
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David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
25 June 2026
The American Red Cross assisted residents displaced from that building.
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Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
2 July 2026
Troopers, assisted by the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office and the Fort Worth Police Department, located the suspect nearby and took him into custody without incident.
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Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 July 2026
Donaldson’s wife, Eleanor Donaldson, was found to have aided and abetted her husband’s offenses for witnessing the abuse and doing nothing to intervene.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
22 June 2026
The state alleges OpenAI has harmed children and general consumers and that ChatGPT may have aided and abetted the mass shooting at Florida State University last year.
China has helped cushion the global oil shock, seen its clean energy tech exports surge and framed the war in Iran as another example in which Chinese leadership could supersede the US in ending global conflicts.
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Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN Money,
1 July 2026
State workers continue to push against the return-to-office order and for telework, which Service Employees International Union Local 1000 President Anica Walls said has helped reduce traffic.
Still, the success of three left-wing candidates endorsed by Mamdani in New York’s congressional primary has reinvigorated Republican midterm messaging around socialism.
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James A. Downs,
The Washington Examiner,
1 July 2026
In a joint opinion piece published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in late May, the two officials endorsed pausing the development of new data centers in Little Rock.
Ironically, or not, bloomers are named for the journalist and Suffragist Amelia Bloomer, who advocated for women to abandon rigid corsets and heavy petticoats in favor of trousers, shorter skirts, and sensible boots.
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Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
29 June 2026
There’s considerable support for the idea in Parliament, where the Liberal Democrats — a centrist opposition party — has advocated for war bonds on 25 separate occasions since the turn of the year.
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