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Amend its bylaws to trigger automatic relinquishment of privileges for any physician who violates Texas’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.—
Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
18 May 2026 -
Mexican Cession, relinquishment of more than half of Mexico’s territory to the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War in 1848.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
10 Apr. 2026
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Anderson has spent her career making albums, visual art, and films that deal with the surrendering of humanity to technology, loss, and even Amelia Earhart.—
David Harris,
SPIN,
11 May 2026
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When officers arrived, Martinez holed up inside the home and held police at bay until he was coaxed into surrendering.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
14 Apr. 2026
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There’s nothing inherently antisemitic about protesting over the dispossession of Palestinians, and the attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers, which appear to be sanctioned by the Israeli government.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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Martel explores the killing not as an isolated event in her country’s recent past but as part of a long history of dispossession.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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