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A judge closes Justin Baldoni’s defamation case against Blake Lively but her original lawsuit — accusing him of misconduct on “It Ends With Us” — is still moving forward.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

Claim: “Regime change was not our goal … but regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders’ death.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026

Firmin explained that her mother made the replacement puppet when the original could not be found.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Those practices saw the original premise of social media—an extension of our proverbial kitchen table—replaced with ethically questionable and legally dubious methodologies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Students now attend classes in a new building, but the original school still stands as a museum and memorial to the seventy-four students and ten teachers who died there.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland