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For more than 450 years La Trinité, filled not only with immense treasure but also artifacts of a New World settlement fifty-five years before the Pilgrims, was the continual object of intense search.

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He has filed a number of lawsuits against media outlets and has reached monetary settlements in a number of cases.

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Adding that a "lot of pain and effort" had gone into negotiating the withdrawal deal, she said it was "completely ridiculous" for Farage to suggest Reform would renegotiate the settlement.

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Overwhelming firepower dislodged them in June, but the militants blew the bridge connecting the two settlements as they withdrew -- using so much dynamite that there was barely a scrap left to scavenge.

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A wrongfully convicted man who spent more than 30 years behind bars will receive $19.1 million as part of a settlement with the city of Baldwin Park, officials said.

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