Not deep-fried or marketed alongside the latest trend — who knows whether that sausage was brushed in tallow or if the cooks avoided seed oils for the flavorful vinaigrette on those tomatoes, those kaleidoscopic tomatoes.
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Lyndsay C. Green,
Freep.com,
4 Sep. 2025
After 10 seconds or so of screaming, Hernandez brushed at his face.
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Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
Harvard’s athletics website has scrubbed from its pages a policy pledging inclusion for transgender athletes.
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Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
Bases have been renamed, transgender soldiers have been banned and military websites have been scrubbed of posts honoring contributions by women and minorities.
Gilkey-Meisegeier was fired from his position at the school in early June and wasn’t arrested until more than a month later as investigators combed through evidence and built charges against him, according to WMTV.
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Sean Neumann,
People.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Before school, her mom combed her hair and set it into pony tails.
The wildfire that swept through Chinese Camp, dubbed the 6-5 Fire, had grown to 6,984 acres as of Thursday and was 0% contained, according to Cal Fire.
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Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
4 Sep. 2025
Released in 2004, the film follows Sophie, a quiet girl working in a hat shop, who finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl.
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