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After a week of wondering whether anything could stop baseball’s $350 million superteam from cruising to a second straight title, the Dodgers arrived in Canada for the World Series—and promptly slammed into an iceberg.

“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.”

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He tells Newsbeat he couldn't afford a planned trip to visit his son in Ireland after Manchester Pride didn't pay him promptly.

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The district judge presiding over the case, which California filed in federal court in Massachusetts along with a coalition of other Democrat-led states, agreed, and promptly granted the request.

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"Should the investigation confirm this, we will promptly notify those concerned and take appropriate measures in accordance with applicable laws on the protection of personal information."

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