At the start of this month, FIFA upped the price of the most expensive Category 1 tickets for the final to nearly eleven thousand dollars.
— John Cassidy, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
This bill simply requires that half of those dollars go to the local news outlets that serve Maryland communities rather than to the tech platforms and out-of-state media conglomerates that seek to monopolize government ad spending.
These markets, which now amass tens of billions of dollars in bets every month, are a dangerous expansion of gambling.
— Editorial, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
But a radioactive cloud was wafting across Europe, setting off alarms in a Swedish laboratory nearly seven hundred miles away and slowly sickening tens of thousands of people.
The Lightning were the only ones to take advantage of all the power plays, with Point scoring his first of the series to tie the game 1-1 in the first period and quiet the raucous Bell Centre crowd, at least temporarily, allowing Tampa Bay to settle into the game.
— Arpon Basu, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
One bag serves three hearty portions, or four measly ones.
LaPour was the preseason Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and got his season off to a strong start against Vanderbilt, giving up two runs off fives hits in five innings of work with five strikeouts.
— Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Feb. 2026
The victim, Adbadalla Thabet, collected cash from gas stations in Downey, Bellflower, Compton and Lynwood early in the morning before driving to the bank.
— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
The short-term spending cuts proposed to date are simply not enough to balance the budget anymore — not even with a one-time cash infusion from Albany.
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