At the Texas and Connecticut trials, victims’ relatives testified that Jones’ followers — believing his claims that the shooting didn’t happen — subjected them to death and rape threats, in-person harassment and abusive comments on social media.
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Jim Vertuno,
Fortune,
21 Aug. 2026
While their team has the highest total payroll in MLB this year, the Mets have subjected their loyal supporters to last-place baseball and a losing record on their home field.
Ask Horn about such a reality, though, and the former Colorado Buffaloes star doesn’t seem too weighed down about it.
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Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Aug. 2026
For these banks, large majorities of their IT budgets are focused on maintaining the status quo, leaving them weighed down by the burden of legacy technology.
But the lack of a proper contest between bat and ball in Pakistani domestic first-class cricket has starved locals of that preparation time and hampered the development of genuine pace.
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Ahsan Iftikhar Nagi,
New York Times,
18 Aug. 2026
However, difficult weather conditions hampered the search in the following days, as the service wrote in a subsequent update.
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