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The Justice Department last year fired its pardon attorney after she objected to restoring the gun rights of actor Mel Gibson, who pleaded no contest in 2011 to a misdemeanor battery charge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Ultimately, the June primary resulted in the same outcome Californians have seen since the top-two primary was approved — a gubernatorial general election contest between a Democrat and a Republican.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Pug tops podium at Word’s Ugliest Dog contest…

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

Dern came close to finishing 31-year-old Robertson a couple of times during the contest and was rarely threatened throughout.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

“This contest isn’t fair,” Max burst out, and now everyone looked at him.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Palm Beach County voting records cited by US media show Trump requested a ballot in late July and returned it last week for the contests in his adopted home state.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Nick the Incredible Flying Brick, whose real name is Nick Delves, has previously stood for the Official Monster Raving Loony Party in 13 parliamentary contests.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Kolodny also emphasized that it’s politically savvy for industry groups to support the re-election of incumbents in safe seats, rather than just focusing on the relatively few of the House’s 435 contests that are competitive.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

They have competed without Plum, their top scorer, for 12 games and former No. 2 overall pick Brink during the past nine contests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Insult contests were an ancient Inuit tradition that was still practiced today.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Russian-Japanese relations have long been dogged by the contested islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories and seized by the Soviet Union in 1945.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Competition for places is nothing new at Real Madrid, where virtually every position is contested by world-class players.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

“Theoretically, the courts have the authority to temporarily block the disputed development,” Sotir Dhamo, an urban planning professor at Polis University in Tirana, said of contested properties facing development.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

At the heart of the fight is an essential, hotly contested question: Is social media addiction even real?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

For five or six strokes, the bows of the two boats contested for the lead, back and forth like the heads of racehorses coming down the stretch.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Randy Mastro, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, filed a letter on Tuesday contesting the automatic stay and maintaining that the court’s emergency pause is still in effect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

That history is why contesting the constitutional allocation of public safety cannot mean giving private people authority to govern vulnerable people.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and Restore Britain have all ruled out contesting the Clacton by-election.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Washington and Tehran have been contesting some of the deal’s finer points, including whether passage through the key waterway will be free from tolls.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

This reshaping of events happens in a dozen ways every day, contesting reality.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García