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The drawdowns have left the US underprepared for potential conflict with Russia or China; in particular, replacing stockpiles of air-defense missiles — critical to supporting Taiwan should China invade — could take six years, The Wall Street Journal reported.—
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24 Apr. 2026 -
But the tale soon takes on metafictional twists and turns as real-life Russian tanks and soldiers invade the country.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Apr. 2026
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At Saturday night’s dinner, people infiltrated the hotel to protest the Iran war and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.—
Ana Ceballos
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Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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In 2013, according to the Department of Justice, a hacker affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps infiltrated the control system of a dam in New York State.—
Sue Halpern,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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Emory claimed that day that those arrested were outsiders who trespassed on school property.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 Apr. 2026
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While monitoring predators at Python Cave — which is home to Egyptian fruit bats confirmed to be infected with the virus — in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park, scientists recorded hundreds of humans trespassing to visit the area.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
PEOPLE,
22 Apr. 2026
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That’s no different from foreign bots intruding into our elections.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
1 May 2026
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Critics say the warrants intrude on Americans' reasonable expectation of privacy by compelling service providers to turn over broad swaths of user location history and time stamps within a specified area over a specified timeframe.—
Devin Dwyer,
ABC News,
27 Apr. 2026
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Space can also prove an issue, because some school administrators see even tiny gardens in 5-gallon buckets as encroaching on their schools’ playgrounds.—
Shelley Mitchell,
The Conversation,
23 Apr. 2026
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Songs here that start off surprisingly bracing resolve into big, sleek choruses, the work of firm believers in the power of heroic, high-protein mainstream alt-rock as a salve against encroaching darkness.—
Jon Dolan,
Rolling Stone,
22 Apr. 2026
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That same year, Polis vetoed a broader bill that sought to implement new regulations for social media companies that Polis felt would infringe on First Amendment and privacy rights.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
26 Apr. 2026
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Acer and Asus have even been prohibited from selling PCs in Germany since January due to a Munich Regional Court ruling that the companies’ computers infringe on one of Nokia’s HEVC patents.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Gate-crash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gate-crash. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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