The couple, who did not grow up knowing one another because of estrangements in their families, faced criticism from both sets of parents for the union.
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Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
The celebrity chef’s raw and darkly humorous memoir explores her family’s demise and reconstruction — through divorce, estrangements, a brother’s sudden death and another’s suicide.
The cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco has made a career of rescuing history from the cleavages of memory.
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Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
18 Dec. 2025
Intelligence agencies in the United States and other Western countries closely follow these cleavages, of course, and can sometimes recruit the disaffected or the ambitious to provide insider information.
Many movies and shows are now overlapping between both, but there are still some separations.
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
29 Mar. 2026
During the 43 day shutdown last fall, TSA experienced a 25% increase in officer separations compared to that same time the year before, TSA Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill said during a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing in which lawmakers addressed the impacts of the shutdown.
The footage showed tubes with ruptures and other damaged structures that used to be inside the pressure vessel, which originally was enclosed.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Mar. 2026
If a fatty deposit ruptures, a clot can quickly form and block blood flow—an event often linked to risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
10 Mar. 2026
Her appointment may deepen rifts within the Anglican Communion, whose members are deeply divided over issues such as the role of women and the treatment of LGBTQ+ people.
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Danica Kirka,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
The carbon released by tectonic rifts may have had a larger role in driving major climate transitions than that released by tectonic convergences.
—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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