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The fire forced evacuations and closures, with Moreno Valley College announcing it would be closed Friday and Saturday, canceling all events on its main campus.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

On Saturday, a UN security official told AFP that Israeli forces destroyed 17 surveillance cameras linked to UNIFIL's main headquarters in Naqura.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

They note that the main culprit was a “catastrophically bad control-room design” where workers “were unable to understand what was going wrong.”

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

Younger post-main sequence stars had a higher rate of 0.35%, similar to stars still on the main sequence.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

On one end was the main gate to the castle, where the king and queen and other royal guests made their grand entrances.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff