Executioning was a hereditary métier, monopolized in Paris by the Sanson clan for nearly two centuries.
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Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2026
The official pointed to the outcome of the DOJ’s antitrust case against Google, in which the judge sided with the agency in finding that the tech giant had illegally monopolized online search.
The supplemental budget was engrossed into law on March 18.
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Tim Dunn,
Boston Herald,
30 Mar. 2026
What engrossed him and his team was the Alto’s graphical display, which was destined to make the text-only displays of contemporary computers obsolete.
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Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
The problem is that funds marketed to retail investors allow just that, offering them the chance to take out a sliver of their money on a quarterly or monthly basis.
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Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
31 Mar. 2026
What was once marketed as a frictionless life on Billionaire’s Row now appears, at least from the outside, to be a bit of a mess.
Data shows a similar drop in overdose deaths in Canada, where fentanyl supplies are usually produced from Chinese chemicals inside the country rather than smuggled in.
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Kaitlin Coward,
Boston Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
According to tradition, she was smuggled into the palace wrapped in a carpet—or more likely in a much-less-glamorous sack of dirty laundry—and taken to Caesar’s room.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
25 Mar. 2026
And, Jordan’s Furniture, which was going to comp items purchased within a month-long window if both the UConn men and women reached their national championship games, may yet be on the hook for millions.
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Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
30 Mar. 2026
In 2023, the Chicago Bears purchased a few hundred acres of land in Arlington Heights, a suburb about twenty-five miles north of downtown Chicago, where the team currently plays, for about two hundred million dollars.
No matter how many meal kits and fast dinner solutions were being peddled to consumers, the structure of American life had shifted in ways that made a traditional dinner routine harder to sustain.
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Rafaela Jinich,
The Atlantic,
5 Mar. 2026
Clearly, a majority of Americans reject the stale mindset of last century’s thinking peddled by some that oil and natural gas production and environmental stewardship are not compatible.
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