Magyar has called for all of Orbán’s cronies in the government to resign and has committed to holding to account those who plundered Hungary.
— Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
The collapse of Prospect Medical, a for-profit hospital chain plundered by private equity and the company’s management, has generated a painful litany of woes.
The 2025 Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act, or HEAR Act, expands on a 2016 law, signed by President Barack Obama, that permits victims and descendants of victims of the Holocaust to lay legal claim to works of art looted by the Nazis or sold to the Nazis under false pretenses.
— Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
All the State Forensic Authority’s DNA analysis labs were looted and destroyed in the fighting.
In the 21st century, oil extraction has become a serious threat to Ecuadoran Amazonia, with large swaths of forest, often located in Indigenous territories, despoiled by the release of wastewater from the wells.
North Texas — whose roster was pillaged in the portal and saw its top players leave for Oklahoma State alongside former head coach Eric Morris — have signed 42 transfers.
Ravens quarterbacks were sacked 45 times in 2025, including 38 against Lamar Jackson.
— Adam Thompson, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
On the night their cup opponent sacked their second head coach in four months, four days before kick-off, with their campaign in tatters, United’s 20-man squad smashed through another brick wall.
Starring Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson as the titular pop superstar, the movie has been ravaged by critics.
— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026
Still, Monday’s earthquake and tsunami warning were a reminder to the quake-prone area of the March 2011 disaster that ravaged large swaths of the northern coast, triggering a nuclear crisis in Fukushima.
While in the region, Curiosity recently utilized its onboard Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite, built to search for compounds of the element carbon that are associated with life and investigate ways in which these compounds are generated and destroyed in the Martian ecosphere.
— Leonard David, Space.com, 21 Apr. 2026
That investigation stemmed from a June 8, 1995, fire that destroyed a ValuJet DC-9 on a runway at Atlanta.
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