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Aziz Ahmadzai's former partner Georgia Morse, with whom he has a two-year-old son, was visited by police in the early hours of the morning to be told about his condition.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
The former star reliever has become their most embattled starter and one who has made the season’s first big move seem inevitable.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Hochstein, 43, and her former partner Jody Glidden, 52, were booked on felony charges of unlawfully intercepting oral statements from the Miami housewife’s ex-husband Leonard “Lenny” Hochstein.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
Virginia raised $800 million in revenue from permit sales in the three years before former Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin withdrew from the program in 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
On that Wall Street people didn’t walk out of their firms and cause trouble for their former bosses by writing a book about them.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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