Lightning — bright red and designed by Chinese smartphone brand Honor — slammed into a barricade and toppled down the stretch, but the robot helped itself back up with human assistance and propelled its three-foot-long legs to victory.
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Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
Trump’s first target was Venezuelan autocrat Maduro, a close ally of Cuba, and many Cuban Americans saw that intervention as a step toward realizing Rubio’s desire to topple the island’s communist government.
Created from synthetic organic material, and thus more android than mechanical, these worker-roboti ultimately overthrow their human masters.
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Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Apr. 2026
The airspace between Haiti and the Dominican Republic was officially closed in March 2024 after armed gangs united and sought to overthrow the government of the prime minister at the time, Ariel Henry.
But the trash had been turned over, and the specialists said that nothing could be done.
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Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
The story begins more than a half century ago, in July 1974, when the Supreme Court unanimously ordered President Richard Nixon to turn over White House recordings to a special prosecutor.
Detectives said a passerby found the 60-year-old man partially sitting in a wheelchair that was overturned.
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Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
Prior to his 2011 conviction, Jeffs was charged and convicted of being an accomplice to rape in September 2007 after coercing a 14-year-old to marry her 19-year-old cousin, though the ruling was later overturned by the Utah Supreme Court over faulty jury instructions, according to CBS News.
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