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The president also ordered federal agencies to identify colleges with endowments over $1 billion that might be susceptible to investigation or lawsuits due to their DEI policies.—
Graham Kates,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2025 -
But if a mother is unvaccinated or doesn’t have immunity, babies are left susceptible.—
Neha Mukherjee,
CNN,
12 Mar. 2025
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However, portions of the beach are unprotected, including several sections of the beach behind the Riu.—
Michael Ruiz,
Fox News,
12 Mar. 2025
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The bird flu is a type of Influenza A that only spreads between birds, but people can get infected through direct unprotected contact with birds that are infected.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
18 Feb. 2025
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Women working in the informal economy are over-represented in the most vulnerable types of employment, including domestic work, food production and agriculture, according to the ILO.—
Meera Senthilingam,
CNN,
7 Mar. 2025
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But the fun doesn’t detract from the character’s shallowness (even at her most vulnerable, as Trigorin acknowledges his feelings for Nina, her pleas to him seem scripted, something she’s acted before) or the terrible damage that her lack of care inflicts upon her son.—
Demetrios Matheou,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Mar. 2025
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Abuse survivors can feel helpless trying to escape perpetrators or avoid being found and stalked when the safeguards in place are repeatedly violated, experts said, as in Lisa’s case.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Mar. 2025
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Now, with the help of their dad’s right-hand woman Lucky (Poorna Jagannathan), the helpless brothers must assume the position as co-heads of his drug cartel.—
Max Gao,
NBC News,
5 Mar. 2025
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For more than a century, the U.S. and Canada built a close, prosperous partnership—standing together in war, mutually fueling their economies through trade, and maintaining the world's longest undefended border.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
10 Mar. 2025
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Trump’s aggressive tariffs may undermine another of his objectives — countering the dangers posed by a (largely) undefended Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, at a time when China and Russia are taking an increasing interest in the Arctic.—
The Editors,
National Review,
7 Mar. 2025
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“In the lurch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/in%20the%20lurch. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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