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Reports earlier this week suggested Chinese officials had been contemplating a prohibition on Hollywood features, which would have dealt a major blow to entertainment companies struggling to rebuild after the pandemic and labor strikes.—
Kevinisha Walker,
Los Angeles Times,
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Weiss said the prohibition was part of the city’s liquor ordinance.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
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Just take a look at the Billboard staff’s 100 Best Songs of 2025 list published Tuesday (April 15) — from The Killers to Mariah Carey, Kanye West and Missy Elliott, the pivotal year’s canon of hits was truly a melting pot of genres, styles and sounds that still feels relevant 20 years later.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
15 Apr. 2025
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Here was a living, breathing canon of American letters being nurtured across generations.—
Manuel Betancourt,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Some regulators might see stablecoins as competition to or complementary with CBDCs, leading to either tighter restrictions or new forms of partnership.—
Zennon Kapron,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Other states are also debating whether to remove transfer restrictions.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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The essence of the Lost Cause was that the Civil War was not lost and could yet be won by new forms of racial proscription; for white supremacists, the Jim Crow era of disfranchisement, segregation, and one-party Democratic rule in the South was that promise vindicated.—
Made by History,
Time,
9 Apr. 2025
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Rasoulof shifts his tale into a cautionary proscription that is artful and mythic.—
Armond White,
National Review,
22 Jan. 2025
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The 2021 legislation’s passage hinged on that amendment, which was brokered by Lucio, the former lawmaker.—
Saul Elbein,
The Hill,
9 Apr. 2025
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Comedian and car aficionado Jay Leno drove state Sen. Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, in a 1976 Pontiac Trans-Am past the state Capitol on Tuesday, rallying support for legislation that would ease restrictions on classic cars.—
HECTOR AMEZCUA,
Sacbee.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Critics of the law and the new constitutional amendment say Orban is using the LGBTQ+ community as a tool to shut down the right of Hungarian citizens to freely assemble in peaceful protests, particularly at a time when the opposition to Orban's rule is beginning to gain momentum.—
Rob Schmitz,
NPR,
20 Apr. 2025
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One of the most glaring issues with the 2025 amendments is the focus on limiting state financial liability rather than addressing how abuse occurred within state institutions in the first place.—
Diana Philip,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Apr. 2025
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The reason why this distinction between common and statutory law matters, at least to Jackson, is because the concept of aiding and abetting arises out of the common law.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
4 Mar. 2025
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Her first couple of years in office saw Moody pursuing initiatives against opioid abuse, human trafficking and other common law enforcement targets.—
Dan Sullivan,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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Francis' climate encyclical inspired several Catholic climate groups to form, including The Global Catholic Climate Movement, which is now called the Laudato Si' Movement.—
Jeff Brady,
NPR,
21 Apr. 2025
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The foundational document of Catholic social tradition, the 1891 encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, argued that individual freedom did little to help workers secure a living wage, and valorized workers’ associations, urging government to intervene to balance the economy.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2021
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“Capitulary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capitulary. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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