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Appeared in the October 6, 2025, print edition as 'National Guard Sent to Oregon'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025

Sent at 4:35 p.m., the message began “**Attn all personnel**” and said that the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s hazmat team reported the air in Altadena is “‘hazardous, containing lead, asbestos and other harmful particulates.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2025

Sent to an animal shelter with a group of other Shiba Inu dogs after her breeder went out of business, she was adopted in 2008 by Ms. Sato, a kindergarten teacher.

From New York Times • May 24, 2024

In historian Geoffrey Robertson’s book, “The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold,” the author recounted how a judge told the jury to reconsider their not-guilty verdict.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2024

Sent into Washington’s camp disguised as a peddler, she would bring back solid reports on the number of cannon and the number of Continental troops, regiment by regiment.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen