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They dispatched the Milwaukee Brewers in the championship series with such ruthless efficiency that putting the two teams on the same field almost seemed like a cruel prank.

The poignancy of this cruel spiritual appropriation is pictured by Jon Henry in 14 photographs of Black mothers cradling sons, their pietà poses sprawled at actual locations of police killings of Black men.

This situation creates a cruel paradox in the 60-year-old’s yearly battle with her health insurer.

The piece argues that Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson have normalized cruel and base behavior through their responses to controversies.

As negotiations over their fate continued, Hamas drip fed the Israeli public with a cruel series of videos, often showing the hostages in situations of extreme distress.