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Recent Examples of debutingAll of these are debuting on the Norwegian Luna, which is set to debut out of PortMiami in early April.—Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2026
The coaches — Teisher for Mission Hills and Aaron Hooford for Escondido — had different philosophies coming into the game.
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John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
Gwen Polk, the district’s associate superintendent for business and financial services, said after the meeting that the companion resolution will have no impact on revenue coming into the schools.
Malians are already among the top three nationalities arriving on Spain’s Canary Islands, a key transit point for African migrants travelling to Europe, according to the European border agency Frontex.
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Ulf Laessing,
semafor.com,
30 Apr. 2026
Since arriving on the scene almost a decade ago, the trio have presented themselves as firebrands, ready to stick it to an establishment seeking to strangle the last remnants of 20th century Irish republicanism.
From the pale pink jeans championed by Agolde, AG, and Frame this spring to the bold pop of red denim on Isabel Marant’s Fall/Winter 2026–2027 runway, colorful denim is emerging as a trend worth watching.
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Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
30 Apr. 2026
As IndieWire exclusively announces, the new program is designed to identify and elevate a single emerging filmmaker with a distinct creative voice worth championing today.
But a few days later, on a brief holiday near Quebec, she was spotted reenacting the scene, pointing her home-movie camera at her husband and issuing orders in her version of an American accent.
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Susan Page,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
The warning system will take aim at high-risk behavior by only issuing warnings for vehicles reaching significant speeds.
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Hannah Elsmore,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
That’s why David Gallo’s setting, a vista of a fragile boarding house nearly consumed by the rising, sun-blotting, industrial landscape of Pittsburgh, works so effectively here.
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Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
26 Apr. 2026
After a faulty cooling system was left to disrepair, rising temperatures resulted in an explosion with the equivalent force of 70-100 tons of TNT.
Three races in, there’ve been unforeseen winners, unpredicted changes to the schedule and the unanticipated reality of regulation changes dawning.
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Amanda Davies,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2026
This is the familiar stage of rhetorical climbdown, indicating dawning awareness that a problem is more complicated than the president initially thought.
In this regard, our media-entertainment industrial complex is actually leading the way, with Project Hail Mary and the Artemis coverage and the little hopecore movement currently blossoming.
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Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Apr. 2026
McCoy left Oregon State after his freshman season and was a plug-and-play starter at Tennessee, blossoming into a lockdown cornerback specializing in man coverage who earned All-American honors and was a semifinalist for the Thorpe Award as a sophomore in 2024.