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Usiripalli is accused of lunging at the second victim, who was seated to the right of the first victim, and stabbed him.
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Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
Usiripalli allegedly stabbed the teen who was sleeping in the left clavicle with a metal fork, then lunged at another 17-year-old seated nearby, striking him in the back of the head with the same utensil, per the release.
Israel’s offensive in Gaza, launched in response to the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas’s attack on southern Israeli communities on October 7, 2023, has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and laid waste to swaths of territory.
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Reuters,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
By the end of March 2018 Aydın seemed unsure whether to try to clear his name or lay low, vacillating between the two strategies.
Herrera is forced to stand picture-perfect for several seconds while the venue falls silent.
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Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025
This can range from where to stand to create passing lanes to how quickly or slowly to travel in possession — as Elliott harshly discovered against Sunderland.
The husband stood numbly by, watching Qing Yuan complete the form, then shuffled out to squat against the wall to smoke.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
Maintaining the tugboat became cumbersome, and three Zizian members opted to move into box trucks before squatting in a Bay Area trailer lot owned by Curtis Lind, then age 80, a former shipworker and grandfather of four.
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Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Oct. 2025
China has been building the world’s largest navy, launching high-tech warships at a frenetic pace under the leadership of Xi Jinping, putting pressure on the United States and its Pacific allies to keep pace.
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Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
26 Oct. 2025
In addition to Hermitage Farm, Laura Lee Brown and Wilson, who also founded the 21c Museum Hotel chain, have put more than 2,400 acres of land in agriculture conservation easements in Oldham County.
The annual phenomenon sees millions of crimson-red crustaceans clattering across roads from their forest dwellings to the island's shores to spawn their eggs.
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Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
This is not even the first time in the past year that Tyler’s old material has resurfaced online, spawning a familiar ouroboros of online discourse, shrouded in the language of accountability and well-meaning politics, that mostly serves to feed the beast of online engagement.
There aren't a ton of great options in free agency, though there may not be too many choices at all via trade either, as most teams have their starter and backup quarterbacks locked in and won't be looking to part with either at this point in the year.
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