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Asked by a prosecutor if she was embarrassed by her past relationship, she replied, “He was a friend. And I regret being a friend to him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Mozilla’s first “State of Open Source AI” report found open-weight models near parity in cost, with prices massively down over the past three years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Shakeel Mohamed, 61, has been representing the Yashio mosque in Saitama prefecture for the past decade.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
"I work close to the Legacy premises... and drive past it every day. Knowing now that mum was lying inside for almost eight months destroys me," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
No one seems eager to move past him.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
At the same time, small fly-by-night schools have been opened by profiteers and people with problematic pasts or no educational experience.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Married at First Sight Australia stars say the show left them feeling unsafe and unprotected because their on-screen partners had criminal pasts which they were not told about, a BBC investigation can reveal.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
The studios gamely went along, ruining the lives of a number of their creative talent who refused to disavow their pasts.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
Yet they were unsinkable; both of them moved to England, married well and tried to distance themselves from their pasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
All were wealthy and at the peaks of their careers, but all also bore the scars of nineteenth-century life, their pasts full of wrecked rail cars, fevers, and the premature deaths of loved ones.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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