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The Canadian Radio-television Commission was established in 1968 as a federal agency to oversee broadcasting in Canada and in 1976 had its powers expanded to include telecommunications (and the name changed accordingly to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission [CRTC]).—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Apr. 2026 -
OpenAI, now valued at nearly $1 trillion following the success of ChatGPT, was established in 2015 as a charity dedicated to benefiting humanity.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
27 Apr. 2026
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That tension — between the gravity of what the commission documented and the limits of what it was empowered to do — defined Thursday’s release of its final report.—
Olivia Olander,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
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The village was unique set apart from the more common Chinese bachelor labor camps documented in California history.—
Sharon Chin,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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These findings are corroborated by Marking’s testimony to county officials.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
30 Apr. 2026
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Urbina shared documents that detail how she was lured into the scam, and ProPublica corroborated her story with her husband and Catholic Charities.—
Naisha Roy,
ProPublica,
29 Apr. 2026
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Carlos Correa proved to be his toughest matchup of the day, as the Astros’ shortstop crushed a bases-empty blast off the southpaw in the sixth inning to tie the game at two.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
26 Apr. 2026
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The Lakers finished the regular season 22-8 in clutch situations, and that poise proved decisive once more.—
Dan Woike,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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By the time the video was recorded, Kogut had been in custody for 18 hours, interrogated for nearly 12 of them and awake for almost 30.—
Mary Murphy,
CBS News,
26 Apr. 2026
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If a full year’s charge was $2,500, for example, and a homeowner paid $1,000 for the first installment, the bill under the new system might have incorrectly recorded the payment as $980.—
A.D. Quig,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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The results were validated with field measurements from excavations and drilling, along with simulations confirming the radar signals originated beneath the debris.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
1 May 2026
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Emery will argue his fine-margins approach, however blunt Villa presently appear in attack, could have been validated if Ollie Watkins’ close-range shot was not straight at Stefan Ortega or if Lucas Digne had not flapped his arms inside the box to give away a penalty.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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Sixteen years, zero decay The battery prototype demonstrated endurance, maintaining a stable structure and perfect reversibility over 6,000 cycles — equivalent to more than 16 years of daily operation — with zero loss in storage capacity.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Apr. 2026
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Despite the child molestation claims that plagued Jackson for decades, his fans have demonstrated a number of times that the answer is yes.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
27 Apr. 2026
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The person who had called in the incident identified Sweeney, who was still there, as her killer.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
30 Apr. 2026
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The Sleep Switch Inside Your Brain The team identified two chemical messengers in the hypothalamus that work like an accelerator and a brake.—
Allison Palmer,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Circumstantiated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circumstantiated. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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