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Cullen is among Spurs’ most senior executive directors and is credited with playing a key role in the club’s move from White Hart Lane to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
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Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 2 June 2025
Clownfish typically live among coral reefs, which have also been affected by warming ocean waters.
—Kaity Kline, NPR, 2 June 2025
The revelations did not seem to hurt his support among right-wing voters, many of whom see the allegations as politically motivated.
—Vanessa Gera, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
The country's inequality levels – consistently rated by the World Bank as among the worst globally – impact its Black population at a vastly disproportionate rate.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 22 May 2025
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Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 2 June 2025
Clownfish typically live among coral reefs, which have also been affected by warming ocean waters.
—Kaity Kline, NPR, 2 June 2025
The revelations did not seem to hurt his support among right-wing voters, many of whom see the allegations as politically motivated.
—Vanessa Gera, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
The country's inequality levels – consistently rated by the World Bank as among the worst globally – impact its Black population at a vastly disproportionate rate.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 22 May 2025
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The restaurant, a 43-year landmark between Fort Worth and Arlington, has been cleaned throughout, and its signature toy train is again clickety-clacking around the dining room ceiling.—
Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 June 2025
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The feud between one of the world’s most powerful leaders and the world’s wealthiest man appeared to be simmering even before Musk left the White House last week after briefly serving in Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
6 June 2025
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Under the watchful gaze of security guards, dozens of people streamed through metal detectors to enter Temple Israel one evening this month for a town hall meeting on hate crimes and domestic terrorism.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
31 May 2025
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In China’s case, infrastructure and trade development through the Belt and Road Initiative is counterbalanced with shows of military strength in the South China Sea.—
Andrew Latham,
The Conversation,
30 May 2025
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Anderson has always been interested in the complicated relationships between parents and kids, especially those amid a tense reconciliation.—
Shannon Carlin,
Time,
30 May 2025
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But California prisons are competing for behavioral health workers amid a roughly 40% shortage of psychologists and psychiatrists in the state, and that shortfall is expected to get worse.—
Don Thompson,
Sacbee.com,
30 May 2025
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