By the finale, the galactic chessboard is crowded with players—emperors, rebels, prophets, impostors—but as Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) warned in the very first episode, the center cannot hold.
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JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
The proceeds from the arms sales were then used to fund right-wing, anti-communist rebels, known as the Contras, in Nicaragua.
This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.
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David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
The state Republicans have routinely witnessed battles between far-right insurgents who in recent years have complained the party isn’t Trumpy enough and the financial institutional wing that has long been the GOP establishment and funded the party for decades.
Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers like the Yangs are trapped in a digital cage, barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus.
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Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
In a recent study published in Nature Aging, researchers at UC San Francisco sought to identify the molecular troublemakers that cause our brains to age prematurely.
Lone offenders, according to the document, remain the top threat, but there are also concerns about domestic extremists and foreign terror organizations.
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Luke Barr,
ABC News,
19 Sep. 2025
Of 71 terrorist attacks perpetrated in 2022, far-right extremists were responsible for 69%.
When Sarah McLachlan first hatched the idea for the 1990s women-only Lilith Fair tour, concert promoters openly questioned whether female singer-songwriters could perform back to back on a traveling festival bill and sell enough tickets.
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Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Sep. 2025
Important To The Event IndyCar and Penske Entertainment – the promoters of the Music City Grand Prix – indicated approximately 40,000 people were in attendance over the course of the two-day, Labor Day weekend event.
But Anderson also knows that the moral purity of revolutionaries gets boring pretty fast.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
18 Sep. 2025
Based on Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel Vineland, the thriller focuses on a group of ex-revolutionaries who reunite to face an enemy resurfacing after 16 years.
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