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Police have been emailing him, "pulling at his heartstrings" in an effort to coax him back home and “clean up the mess that he has created,” the sheriff said.

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Their play often involves physical actions like wrestling, mock biting, slapping, pulling, and chasing.

He might not be old enough to play the game Grand Theft Auto V, but that didn’t stop a 13-year-old from stealing his parent’s car and leading South Pasadena police on a brief chase before pulling over, authorities said.

Another billionaire who has thrived during the Modi years, Naveen Jindal, has been pulling in government contracts to support infrastructure projects like India’s biggest green-hydrogen steel plant, announced in September as part of a $2.5 billion investment.

He also took a more belligerent tack with Israel’s regional nemesis Iran, pulling out of the 2015 nuclear deal, levying wide-ranging sanctions and assassinating the country’s top general, Maj.

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