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Journeyman goaltender Anton Forsberg, who spent most of his first season in Los Angeles backing up Darcy Kuemper, won five straight starts in April to key the Kings’ fast finish.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Altman also sought OpenAI backing for Stoke Space, a rocket-maker aiming to challenge Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Ares’s own property-lending group originates and manages debt-related investments backing commercial real estate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

He said parliament was poised to take one of the century's "most important decisions", noting the quota had unanimous backing and was meant to be implemented by 2029.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

In California he fell among literary people and, as he still had a little of the fifty thousand left, in a short time he was backing a review of the Arts.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway