In at least five major cases, officials appeared to make public declarations about the incidents before formal investigations had reached final conclusions about those assertions.
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Laura Romero,
ABC News,
31 Jan. 2026
Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who is eager for another round of Regency-era declarations of love, unrealistically high standards of romance and string covers of pop music to feel alive again.
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Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
Our state government is struggling to pass audits, electric rates are rising and, despite Moore’s sunny pronouncements, the cost of rebuilding the Key Bridge has exploded from less than 2 billion to more than 5 billion dollars.
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Colin Pascal,
Baltimore Sun,
1 Feb. 2026
As his public pronouncements became ever more circumspect, political commentators likened his approach to that of someone carrying a Ming vase across a polished museum floor, fixated on nothing more and nothing less than the task of delivering it safely to its plinth.
But probabilities are less sexy than proclamations, ambiguities less attractive than assurances—or so the rising number of storm-hyping accounts on social media seem to suggest.
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Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
28 Jan. 2026
He's found nearly two dozen other royal proclamations over the following 300 years, essentially warning of the game's violence.
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