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Patrick died Sunday of natural causes in Fairfax, Virginia, officials from his hometown of Clarksburg, West Virginia, announced.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Apr. 2025 -
City officials amplified the advisory with a New York City air quality alert of its own.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
23 Apr. 2025
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The photo album belonged to Karl Höcker, a former bank clerk who came to Auschwitz to be commandant Richard Baer’s right-hand man.—
Karen D'Souza,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2025
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The February 2023 election, for example, cost about $200,000, according to the city clerk.—
Tess Riski,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2025
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And, of course, with the help of Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, the machinery of climate action is being actively dismantled: Thousands of public servants have already been fired, programs axed, climate references scrubbed from websites.—
Paige Vega,
Vox,
21 Apr. 2025
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Trump said in posts on Truth Social that the law firms are likely to represent veterans and other public servants, including members of the military, Gold Star families, law enforcement, and first responders.—
Elaine Mallon,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Apr. 2025
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Reaction to those cuts has focused understandably on the hundreds of thousands of civil servants who have lost their jobs or are on the verge of doing so and the harm that millions of people could suffer as a result of the shuttering of aid programs.—
Alec MacGillis,
ProPublica,
18 Apr. 2025
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The budget cuts also appear intended to force the closure of Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where the agency has 10,000 civil servants and contractors.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
11 Apr. 2025
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The emoluments clause is a provision of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 8) that generally prohibits federal officeholders from receiving any gift, payment or other thing of value from a foreign state or its rulers, officers, or representatives.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
7 Apr. 2025
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The resistors were bankers and business leaders, Kiwanis and Rotary Club members and clergy, and middle-class members of White Citizens’ Councils who took pains to distance themselves from the Ku Klux Klan—as well as officeholders from local school boards to state capitols to the halls of Congress.—
Essence,
Essence,
22 Mar. 2025
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“Officiary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/officiary. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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