Conlon also launched Recovered Voices, an initiative to revive operas by composers who had been murdered or driven into exile during the Nazi era.
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Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
And in 1960, fearing Congo and its vast resources moving out of the West’s sphere of influence, Eisenhower ordered Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba murdered.
Federal investigators have arrived at Butler Memorial Airport to begin examining the plane crash that killed 12 people Sunday morning.
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Neil Nakahodo,
Kansas City Star,
16 June 2026
Air Force officials did not immediately identify the eight people killed or explain why there were more people aboard than the bomber’s standard crew complement.
The deer must be completely butchered and de-boned before it can be brought into the state.
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Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
Using methods including high-resolution 3D scanning, researchers found that many of the 92 fragments bear cut marks on their inner surfaces, indicating that the turtles were carefully butchered by Neanderthals — with limbs detached, internal organs removed and shells thoroughly cleaned.
Mexico came home in fourth — capping off a very strong showing from soccer-mad Latin America — while France finished fifth, marking Europe's highest-finishing fan base, with Knoll's Croatia right behind in sixth.
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Matt Reigle OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
12 June 2026
They’re grilled then finished in the oven, rendering the skin crisp, and a little sticky.
Mitchell Robinson elbow checked him in the face, Jose Alvarado pulled off a single-legged take-down in the first half, and Towns drew a frustration flagrant foul when Wembanyama whacked him in the face.
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Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
11 June 2026
Tyrese Haliburton tied the game on a buzzer-beater that whacked into the back of the rim and propelled toward the ceiling before somehow falling back through the hoop.
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