Showcasing its range, a different Britain’s Most Notorious Crime Investigations ep tells the story of Mahek Bukhari, a TikTok influencer who murdered her mother’s lover and his friend in a high-speed car chase.
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Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
22 July 2026
The Girl in the River centers on an experienced criminologist and a young psychologist who head to a small Mississippi town after a girl is murdered and her twin sister goes missing.
Though the World Cup avoided issues with ICE raids at stadiums, the agency this summer has been responsible for shootings that killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine.
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Barry Svrluga,
New York Times,
24 July 2026
The state, then called Vargas, had another natural disaster in 1999, when landslides killed thousands.
The magazine’s anatomically graphic photos—rats butchered alive, dogs with their faces sliced open, monkeys screaming at the electrodes implanted in their abdomens—seemed like windows into hell.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 July 2026
That November, working once again with the Humane Society, Anderson rescued three dogs bound for South Korea to be butchered for meat and another that was rescued from Hurricane Ian in Florida.
The Delta breeze may save Sacramento from 100 degrees on Friday, but given the heat dome’s positioning nearly directly overhead this weekend, that Delta breeze will be snuffed out under the suffocating high pressure.
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Sean Macaday
July 27,
Sacbee.com,
27 July 2026
Free expression in America has not been snuffed out, even when faced with political opposition in the past.
Manu Garcia gave Kansas City breathing room Manu Garcia finished off an impressive spell of possession — that included at least six different Sporting players touching the ball — with his second goal of the season.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
23 July 2026
Lama finished high school thanks to a government scholarship for impoverished students.
If the war does indeed come to an end and oil keeps falling, Warsh might get breathing room for rate cuts down the line.
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Alexa LoMonaco,
CNBC,
16 June 2026
Courtesy of the Abu Haikal family Haikal said his family’s own homes have been targeted in settler attacks, including having stones thrown at their home, their crops destroyed, trees cut down and property stolen.
Residents of one village in the Gironde region of France returned to find their homes charred and destroyed by the wildfire which has ripped through them.
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Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
26 July 2026
Yet with a lack of funds, officials halted further work, leaving the stands partially destroyed and deserted.
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