Barely 24 hours after LaMelo Ball’s play on Miami Heat star Bam Adebayo, the NBA handed out its discipline for the act.
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Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Apr. 2026
To that end, Vancouver handed out nearly $200 million in total contractual commitments to veteran players like Brock Boeser, Kevin Lankinen, Thatcher Demko, Marcus Pettersson, Drew O’Connor and Conor Garland between January and July 2025.
Researchers measured piRNA levels in adults aged 71 and older and found that lower levels of certain piRNAs correlated to longer survival.
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Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
Sentences contain particles of meaning that resist being pinned down and measured, instead combining and transforming into mysterious waves of story that take us beyond the limits of our own horizons.
Newsom rolled out the program in 2019 and California has doled out $5 billion through it.
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Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
8 Apr. 2026
In an interview for Page Six published on April 7, the bestselling author, whose new novel American Fantasy is out now, doled out some of her own recommended reading.
The judge, Wendy Vitter, had split the case into two separate proceedings.
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Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
In the 11th minute, SDFC threatened to take a 2-0 lead when Valakari split a pair of Minnesota defenders before blasting a low attempt from the top of the box.
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Kyle Kensing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2026
Ernesto was an activist who dispensed food and medicine in Salvadoran refugee camps.
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Menika Dirkson,
The Conversation,
8 Apr. 2026
The need for the list took on new urgency in 2012, when more than 60 people died from fungal meningitis infections contracted from a drug produced at a compounding facility and dispensed to hundreds of people.
The incursion was the first time Russian territory was occupied by an invader since World War II and dealt a humiliating blow to the Kremlin.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
Conine, the son of former Marlins legend Jeff Conine, was dealt to the Marlins as the player to be named later in Toronto’s August 2020 trade for Jonathan Villar.
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