During a late-night safety test, the power plant’s Number 4 reactor exploded, tearing through the building and sending a column of radioactive material into the sky.
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Benjamin Mack-Jackson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 Apr. 2026
The one that was about ambition and friendship and celebrating women, not tearing them down.
Wind gusts reached up to 110 mph, damaging homes throughout the city as the storm moved northeast.
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Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
25 Apr. 2026
Days of severe storms to come The shift in the weather pattern that sparked Thursday night’s storms will keep the threat level elevated for damaging wind gusts, hail and tornadoes in the central US into early next week.
The songs are at times over-the-top, at others lacerating in their introspection about everything from the anxiety of aging to the anguished choice to terminate a pregnancy.
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Adam Bradley Luis Alberto Rodriguez Carlos Nazario,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
Drone debris also fell on a roof of a residential building in the city of Samara, wounding a number of people, Fedorishchev said.
—
Hanna Arhirova,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
Local and federal law enforcement agencies responded to the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge, Thursday, after gunfire broke out inside the shopping center's food court, killing at least one person and wounding several more.
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