affair
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Election night news coverage is a stressful affair in the best of times.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026
Several months later, the affair took a bizarre turn after his beloved "Rasta Bambi", a doe he had lovingly raised on his farm in Mali, went missing.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
On the midtempo title track, we initially hear Mr. Seger on acoustic guitar, musing autobiographically about a summer affair in 1962, “working on our night moves.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
The “H3 Podcast” is cutting ties with host Ethan Klein after his wife and co-host, Hila Klein, accused him of having an affair for the past six months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Hamilton’s distinction between personal and political criticism was designed to change the dispute with Burr from an affair of honor to a political difference of opinion.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Besides opening the West to what Americans would later call the “manifest destiny” of expansion, the negotiation of the Louisiana Purchase set a lasting precedent for sweeping presidential authority in foreign affairs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
"If you thought legislating was hard in the last Congress with unified Republican control, that will get much more complicated," said Casey Burgat, professor of legislative affairs at George Washington University.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
She flubbed softball questions around foreign affairs on the debate stage, a strong suit of her hawkish brother.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026
He appointed the state’s first-ever deputy secretary for tribal affairs at the Natural Resources Agency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
He spoke of economic plans and labor policy, then moved on to international affairs.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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