Rolling around inside my coffin would be a gigantic ball of hair trussed by a Möbius strip of fingernail.
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Esther Yi,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
For the last 15 or so years, celebrities have been, in general, more trussed up, as red carpets have become a heightened economic prospective for stars and designers alike.
She was braced against a near-vertical gray rock on a steep part of the mountain, with her back unnaturally arched and her face pointed at the sky, eyes open.
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William Finnegan,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
Germany and Austria are enduring heat in the 90s, and braced for worse as the weather moves east.
In February 2025, a state appeals court upheld the jury’s verdict, ruling that Missouri’s laws requiring companies to warn of dangers are not preempted by federal law.
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Sarah J. Morath,
The Conversation,
2 July 2026
This week, the court ruled by a 5-4 vote against the Republican National Committee and upheld state laws that allow for counting late-arriving mail ballots.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
The format for Solid Sound has stayed the same for years now, a reliable framework that Tweedy and his bandmates, friends, and family fill out with endless variety.
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Simon Vozick-Levinson,
Rolling Stone,
29 June 2026
That's when witnesses called 911, and the neighbor stayed at the scene to be interviewed by homicide detectives, officials confirmed.
Fujimori’s presidency marks a return of her family’s political brand to Peru’s highest office — a movement that has long carried a complicated relationship with the United States.
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Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2026
Since relocating to Los Angeles, Gonzalez’s small downtown team has scaled Happy Organics into a design-forward brand carried by major retailers, anchored in local maker communities and a sense of purpose.
In the cases before the Supreme Court as well as the wage case before Hall, there is no suggestion that lawyers intentionally buttressed arguments with phony precedents in order to win an unfair advantage.
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