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Photographer’s description: “Cute, cute, cute … young barred owls cuddling in between feeding time. Canon EOS 7D Mark II camera, EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L lens, 1/500 sec., f5.6, ISO 6400.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2021

Politico's Natasha Bertrand, on June 24, tweeted, "Barr will testify before House Judiciary on July 28th, per DOJ press sec. Nadler had been preparing a subpoena."

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2020

“Hold on a sec. How do you know about this? GoogleTime didn’t exist in 2018.”

From Nature • Jan. 28, 2020

Glover’s piece was blasted on Twitter by constitutional scholars—here is a tweetstorm by Josh Chafetz—pointing out that “this proposal has a big Article I, sec. 5, cl. 3 problem.”

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2019

“Hey, wait a sec. So, um, Elsie and I are doing our own investigating too. Maybe we could all work together?”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston