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The duo told Rolling Stone on Tuesday that they were sad about the turn of events with Crockett but confirmed that their swanky Satan-loving doo-wop isn’t a sham.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
"We didn't want to put the responsibility onto a player. Thomas does more than enough media, so it's my turn to share the workload."
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
MetroLoft set out to turn the old Pfizer headquarters into 1,600 new apartments, complete with a rooftop pool, gym and ground-floor retail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Artificial intelligence may have already taken a bite out of software this year, but a profit warning from IBM indicates that it’s hardware’s turn to chow down.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
And so as the huge vans rumbled down the Lagerstrasse the next day, I was standing in a corridor of the hospital waiting my turn at the eye clinic.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
At Yerord Mas, a second-generation son of the city takes the cooking of his people and turns it into something personal, deeply researched, modern in lightness and inspiringly delicious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
How to explain all these twists and turns?
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
England's attention now turns to The Hundred, which starts on 21 July, before they play Ireland in a white-ball series in September where their transition begins without Knight and Beaumont.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
“It’s a loss to the economy, to jobs, to decades of institutional knowledge when a business simply turns off the lights”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
The boy on the fiddle turns a knob on an oversize boom box, cranks up the volume, and starts strumming.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
In 161 instances, according to the report, a plate that the system flagged as being stolen turned out to be wrong — although not every one of those cases led to a police intervention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
If it turned out they were not those of the six people missing, he said, the other lift would need to be searched too.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
In Montreal, the sky turned yellow on Tuesday morning due to smoke from wildfires burning several hundred miles away in northern Quebec and northwestern Ontario.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Importantly, Mr. Warsh has also turned to the private sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
My brain is busy trying to rearrange what she’s turned inside out.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Mikel Oyarzabal: Scored his fifth goal of what is turning out to be a memorable World Cup for him.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Against a healthy economic backdrop, resilient consumers and businesses are turning to Bank of America to spend, borrow and invest,” he said in a statement.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Visiting World Cup fans are falling for everyday American staples as North America hosts record-breaking crowds across 16 venues, turning match days into neighborhood festivals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Of all the things that have happened in my life, her turning out so well is the highlight of it, by far,” he said in an interview with C-Span in 2015.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
“Stay,” she said before turning and disappearing back into the stainless-steel labyrinth of the kitchen.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
