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The risk was so high in the area near the McKinley grove that crews were yanked Sunday night, leaving no one to conduct on-the-ground assessments of tree damage.

It makes sense, then, how Deen was roped into recording multiple apology videos, which were mistakenly uploaded with little time between each other, only to be quickly yanked from YouTube.

Our connection cuts out and it’s almost too perfect: a Laxian cliffhanger moment in which ideas are yanked back by a rush of feeling.

When the final buzzer faded, players were still grinning through hugs, and the crowd’s enthusiasm continued — excitement for a Sparks team that had yanked itself out of the fire.

Those trying to make culturally significant, noncommercial art with public grants are having their funding yanked away in favor of work that “celebrates America’s greatness.”