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“I’m Carolina Giraldo Navarro from Medellín, Colombia, and today, I am the first Latina woman to headline at Coachella,” she told the crowd, decked in the red, blue and yellow colors of the Colombian flag.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Things were far rosier in the red half of north London in 1998.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

Anthropic expects to cross that line next year, though other costs are expected to keep the Claude chatbot parent in the red on a pretax earnings basis also until 2029.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

The S&P 500 remains in the red so far this year, ending Thursday down 3.8%, according to FactSet data.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

The only person who looked my way was the boy in the red hat.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson