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The 86-year-old disbarred lawyer, once the most prominent trial attorney in California, will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted of wire fraud last year.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
The dance-focused opening day of the festival spanned a host of styles and generations, with Notion, a prominent bassline DJ, and trance-focused Marlon Hoffstadt also on the bill.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Another prominent poll of American attitudes, the consumer-confidence index, is not nearly as bleak.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
A large mural of Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in the 1921 film “The Kid” graces the front of a prominent building in Cannes.
From Salon • May 22, 2026
The answer, then, to the salient question—What were these two prominent American statesmen doing on that ledge beneath the plains of Weehawken?—is reasonably clear.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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