Hegseth came out of his own service, in Iraq and Afghanistan, with the seeming conviction that what had stood in the way of a fuller victory in those wars had been the restraints supposedly placed on how soldiers could kill.
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
Ryan agreed to bring restraints, rope and a knife to the Banfields’ home.
Whereas waterfalls present fish obstacles in rising above their circumstances, five orders and eight families, from South America, Asia, and Australia, have overcome the impossible.
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Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Apr. 2026
At the same time, the physicists don’t see any insurmountable obstacles.
House disclosures show Swalwell has owed between $50,000 and $100,000 on student loans for more than a decade; his most recent paperwork shows the family holds between $15,000 and $50,000 in credit card liabilities apiece for Chase and American Express.
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Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
1 Apr. 2026
All of his options come with serious liabilities, not least the fact that Iran appears to consider its own position to be relatively strong, given its de facto control over the Strait of Hormuz and, therefore, the global price of oil.
But the Scot hooked his second shot from a wet fairway on the 609-yard closing hole — a par 5 that yielded only 10 birdies in the final round — and even after getting relief from temporary immovable obstructions, MacIntyre could only hit wedge to 30 feet.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
But there are wild cards, including potential obstructions from Orion’s solar arrays or the body of the spacecraft and uncertainty about how well the vehicle can maintain a consistent orientation.
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Adam Bluestein,
Scientific American,
5 Apr. 2026
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