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The flooding risk is expected to lessen heading into the evening as a cold front moves in and storms clear more quickly, according to the weather service.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
16 Feb. 2025 -
Lanny Breuer, now vice chair of the firm, previously led the DOJ's criminal division from 2009 to 2013 and recruited Smith in 2010 to head the Public Integrity Section.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
15 Feb. 2025
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Mistaken as a comparatively commonplace artwork, it was owned by a 17th-century heir to the Scottish crown who was later beheaded, passed to the illegitimate son of an 18th-century duke, and then languished in obscurity for more than a century.—
Brian Klaas,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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During that same era, the group also took Western hostages, killing several, including U.S. journalist James Foley, who was beheaded in 2014, and Arizona aid worker Kayla Mueller, confirmed dead in 2015.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Jan. 2025
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Lynne Ladner, the town manager of Ocean Ridge, told CBS affiliate WPEC that the man was pulled into the wood chipper up to his shoulders and was decapitated.—
Kierra Frazier,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2025
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She was born in Louisville, Ky., the daughter of a man with schizophrenia who, in 1983, decapitated a 76-year-old woman.—
Eric Jason Martin Krish Seenivasan Aaron Esposito Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 2025
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“Guillotine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guillotine. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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