There was a pause, as a room full of songwriters — the event was specifically for the Recording Academy’s Songwriters & Composers Wing — erupted into laughter.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
25 Aug. 2026
The move further escalates a trade war with the United States' northern neighbor that erupted after negotiations between the two countries collapsed over the weekend.
As gunfire sprayed around them, Rajab’s cousin, 15-year-old Layan Hamada, called the Palestinian Red Crescent paramedic center, telling them that a tank was approaching and her family had been killed.
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Julia Frankel,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Aug. 2026
The large truck could be seen on its side, surrounded by white foam after firefighters sprayed the area down.
Plate umpire Alan Porter tossed Vitello and first-base ump Jim Wolf ejected Webb, who was not pitching Friday.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Aug. 2026
Days later, a former NBA player who has used the WNBA as a vehicle for anti-trans advocacy was ejected from a Chicago Sky game, after engaging in an altercation with team guard Natasha Cloud.
Earth’s moon—which also has the advantage of being 50 percent larger than Pluto and of having volcanoes that once spewed actual lava instead of mere water—fully deserves planethood by these very same metrics.
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Mike Brown,
Scientific American,
24 Aug. 2026
Around 74,000 years ago, a caldera on what is now Sumatra emptied thousands of cubic kilometers of magma in about two weeks, roughly a thousand times more than Mount Pinatubo spewed out in 1991.
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