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In recent weeks, officers have broadened their approach to make more arrests near gates and ticket counters at airports from San Francisco to Miami and Kansas City, Mo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Ultimately if you’re investing, you want to make sure you own what you think you own,” said Jared Fine, a partner in Davis Polk’s capital markets practice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
He did not make the trip to Chicago, so he was not available to comment on the situation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Loudcasting is a global phenomenon, but where you are in the world can make it more or less socially acceptable, says Rich Ling, a retired professor of communications at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
I think it’s her air of “unbothered” that allows her to wear just about anything and make it work.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The problem with intervening by lending dollars to Japan is it makes the intervention less likely to work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
She studies criminal justice at college, plays football and makes decisions independently.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Argentine choreographer Gabriela Carrizo makes her debut directing opera and utilizes her alarmingly vibrant Belgian dance company, Peeping Tom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Which makes sense, of course, because I, too, am always scrolling my iPad in bed, wearing a leopard-print string bikini and A.I. glasses.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
Hannah leans over the stroller and makes baby sounds.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The firm advertised that it only made money once a company’s shares went public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
“I made a lot of mistakes in my past. We all have. Nobody’s perfect,” Hilton said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
"To receive Fifa's recognition without the approval of the Taliban" has made history, she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
“We feel very good about the shift that we’ve made to become an intelligence-oriented organization,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Yet he lived for three more days, three more days in which he constantly said how much he hated those books that had made him crazy.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
For the Phillies, with an aging core and one of the league’s most expensive rosters, merely making the playoffs isn’t enough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The Apple singer previously told the presenter that she hadn't started making any new music - when in fact she was putting the finishing touches to her new album, Music, Fashion, Film.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
But El-Sayed ably weaponized these resources against Stevens, making her financial superiority the core of his argument against her.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
Yet critics said making up the lost revenue with a higher sales tax would just shift more of the tax burden to lower- and middle-income households, as well as to senior citizens on fixed incomes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Clare bellowed, making it exquisitely clear he was guilty of something.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
