persons

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It’s part of a new report from the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons, designed to build public confidence in government.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Gibson’s character C Hemingway on Fox’s “Alert: Missing Persons Unit” is also trans, something he discloses at work as a forensic anthropologist reconstructing the faces of people disappeared.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

BirdLife has been collaborating with disabled workers from the Ocean View Assocication for Persons with Disabilities, training them to make the bird scarring lines.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

And to make it all the more worrisome the sector now faces the ‘front cover curse’ after Time Magazine named a group of AI proponents as its Persons of the Year.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025

In early 1986, the seven-member Eminent Persons Group, led by General Olusegun Obasanjo, the former military leader of Nigeria, and former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, arrived in South Africa on their fart-finding mission.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela