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A federal judge halted the $6.2 billion merger of television station giants Nexstar Media Group and Tegna after eight states and satellite broadcaster DirecTV sued to block the deal on antitrust grounds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

He added that the buffer zone needed to remain to "block the danger of invasion".

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Less than an hour later, officers were called to the 12700 block of Hatteras Street, about a mile and a half away.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

When President John F. Kennedy warned the Soviet Union that the U.S. military would block ships ferrying nuclear missiles to Cuba in 1962, he called the action “a strict quarantine.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

I place it so the line I have to cut is just over the edge of the cinder block I found—these are my sawhorses: cinder blocks.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz