Some of the victims had been wearing backpacks equipped with airbags that can help keep people on the surface of an avalanche, but had not pulled the cords to deploy the bags, the report said.
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Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2026
Responding officers discovered that the victim suffered from wounds to his head and body and also found a bloody hammer.
The people killed were the latest fatalities among Palestinians in the coastal enclave since an October ceasefire deal attempted to halt a more than two-year war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, Denver traffic fatalities hit a record high of 93 in 2025, up 16% over the 80 in 2024, and nearly double the 49 in 2017, police data shows.
Such shootings have ranged from isolated events between service members to mass casualty events, such as the shooting by an Army psychiatrist at Texas' Ford Hood in 2009 that left 13 people dead.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
In a cash crunch, streaming subscriptions also tend to be casualties, which only bolsters the value of over-the-air TV when Americans are keeping a tight grip on their checkbooks.
Families would leave lights in windows or over doors during battles, such as Verdun, as a sign of hope and remembrance — a tradition that later became a lasting tribute to France’s sacrifice and alliance.
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David Caraccio
April 4,
Sacbee.com,
4 Apr. 2026
Still, Roy contends that the two days a month is reasonable given the sacrifices lawyers make to work for the government.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Apr. 2026
That’s high praise from one who has coached four Hall of Famers and several more who are destined to be so, but this team broke an eight-year championship drought last season and, despite the loss of superstar Paige Bueckers, didn’t skip a beat this year.
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Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
30 Mar. 2026
But the four losses to egregious tankers were inexcusable.
This year, the unusually warm weather in March, plant abundance and a healthy amount of prey were early signals to rattlesnakes to begin their activity.
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Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
Noise could disrupt the whales’ foraging behavior, while increased global warming — tied to the burning of fossil fuels, including oil and gas — could change where their prey fish live, Kiszka said.
The push to elevate Zarutska as a martyr is part of the long backlash to the summer of 2020, after which one online database catalogued thousands of pieces of street art depicting Floyd.
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David Weigel,
semafor.com,
1 Apr. 2026
Following the drone strike that killed his relatives, Ghazali had been recording videos of himself and sending them to family in Lebanon, talking about becoming a martyr.
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