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        "extract": "Kyle Thomas Busch was an American professional stock car driver and racing team owner, who raced from 2001 to 2026, most notably driving the No. 18, No. 51, and No. 54 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing and Kyle Busch Motorsports between 2008 and 2023; Busch last competed full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 8 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Richard Childress Racing and part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado RST for Spire Motorsports. Busch was the younger brother of 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series champion Kurt Busch.",
        "title": "Kyle Busch",
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        "extract": "The Cockroach Janta Party is an unregistered Indian satirical political movement founded on 16 May 2026 by Abhijeet Dipke, a 30-year-old Boston University student and political communications strategist who formerly worked with the Aam Aadmi Party. The party emerged as a satirical response to remarks made by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on 15 May 2026, in which he compared unemployed youth to \"cockroaches\" and \"parasites of society\". Reports indicated that supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party were considering contesting the upcoming Bankipur Assembly by-election in Bihar. Within days of its founding, the movement garnered over 350,000 sign-ups and over 20 million followers on Instagram. The movement has also engaged in offline activities, with volunteers participating in protests and clean-up drives dressed in cockroach costumes.",
        "title": "Cockroach Janta Party",
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      {
        "extract": "Dota: Dragon's Blood is an adult animated epic fantasy television series. It is based on Dota 2, the 2013 video game by Valve. The show is produced by Studio Mir in association with Ashley Edward Miller's company Kaiju Boulevard. The series premiered on Netflix on March 25, 2021, and concluded on August 11, 2022.",
        "title": "Dota: Dragon's Blood",
        "views": 177104
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      {
        "extract": "Obsession is a 2025 American supernatural horror film written, directed, and edited by Curry Barker. The film follows Bear, a music store employee who buys a supernatural toy that grants him his wish for his childhood friend Nikki to fall in love with him, resulting in horrifying consequences. Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and Andy Richter also appear in supporting roles.",
        "title": "Obsession (2025 film)",
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        "extract": "The murder of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan occurred on July 31, 2022, when Mackenzie Shirilla intentionally crashed her vehicle into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio, killing two passengers: her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and their friend, Davion Flanagan.",
        "title": "Murder of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan",
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        "extract": "Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans is the fiftieth season of the American competitive reality television series Survivor. It premiered on February 25, 2026, on CBS in the United States, and it is the eighteenth consecutive season to be filmed in the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji. Commemorating the show's twenty-fifth anniversary, this season features game mechanics and production designs chosen by an online public vote which occurred during Survivor 48.",
        "title": "Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans",
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        "extract": "The fifth and final season of the American satirical superhero television series The Boys, the first series in the franchise based on the comic book series of the same name created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, was developed for television by Eric Kripke. The season was produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios in association with Point Grey Pictures, Original Film, Kripke Enterprises, Kickstart Entertainment, and KFL Nightsky Productions.",
        "title": "The Boys season 5",
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      {
        "extract": ".xyz is a top-level domain name. It was proposed in ICANN's New generic top-level domain (gTLD) Program, and became available to the general public on June 2, 2014. The domain name came about because the three letters are the last in the Latin-script alphabet. XYZ.com and CentralNic are the registries for the domain.",
        "title": ".xyz",
        "views": 151397
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        "extract": "The Boys is an American satirical superhero television series developed by Eric Kripke for Amazon Prime Video. Based on the comic book series of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, it follows the eponymous team of vigilantes as they combat superpowered individuals, referred to as \"Supes\", who often abuse their powers for personal gain and work for a powerful company, Vought International, that ensures the general public views them as heroes. The story focuses on Hughie Campbell, a young electronics clerk, and Billy Butcher, a former SAS and CIA operative, who work together with the rest of the Boys against \"The Seven\", Vought's premier superhero team, led by the power-hungry Homelander. The series stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Chace Crawford, Laz Alonso, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Nathan Mitchell, Elisabeth Shue, Colby Minifie, Aya Cash, Claudia Doumit, Jensen Ackles, Cameron Crovetti, Susan Heyward, Valorie Curry, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Daveed Diggs.",
        "title": "The Boys (TV series)",
        "views": 144322
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        "extract": "\n\n\nThe following notable deaths occurred in 2026. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence:Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality, what subject was noted for, cause of death, and a reference.",
        "title": "Deaths in 2026",
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        "story": "<!--May 17-->In <a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./Golf\" title=\"Golf\" id=\"mwBg\">golf</a>, <a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./Aaron_Rai\" title=\"Aaron Rai\" id=\"mwBw\">Aaron Rai</a> wins <b id=\"mwCA\"><a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./2026_PGA_Championship\" title=\"2026 PGA Championship\" id=\"mwCQ\">the PGA Championship</a></b>."
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        "story": "<!--May 17-->The <a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./African_Party_for_the_Independence_of_Cape_Verde\" title=\"African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde\" id=\"mwCw\">African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde</a>, led by <a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./Francisco_Carvalho\" title=\"Francisco Carvalho\" id=\"mwDA\">Francisco Carvalho</a> <i id=\"mwDQ\">(pictured)</i>, wins the most seats in <b id=\"mwDg\"><a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./2026_Cape_Verdean_parliamentary_election\" title=\"2026 Cape Verdean parliamentary election\" id=\"mwDw\">the parliamentary election</a></b>."
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        "story": "<!--May 16-->Bulgaria, represented by <a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./Dara_(Bulgarian_singer)\" title=\"Dara (Bulgarian singer)\" id=\"mwEQ\">Dara</a> with the song \"<a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./Bangaranga\" title=\"Bangaranga\" id=\"mwEg\">Bangaranga</a>\", wins <b id=\"mwEw\"><a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./Eurovision_Song_Contest_2026\" title=\"Eurovision Song Contest 2026\" id=\"mwFA\">the Eurovision Song Contest</a></b>."
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        "story": "<!--May 16-->The <a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./World_Health_Organization\" title=\"World Health Organization\" id=\"mwFg\">World Health Organization</a> declares <b id=\"mwFw\"><a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./2026_Ituri_Province_Ebola_epidemic\" title=\"2026 Ituri Province Ebola epidemic\" id=\"mwGA\">the Ebola epidemic</a></b> in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a <a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./Public_health_emergency_of_international_concern\" title=\"Public health emergency of international concern\" id=\"mwGQ\">public health emergency of international concern</a>."
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        "story": "<!--May 15--><b id=\"mwGw\"><a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./2026_Bolivian_protests\" title=\"2026 Bolivian protests\" id=\"mwHA\">Protests erupt in Bolivia</a></b> against the government of <a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./Rodrigo_Paz\" title=\"Rodrigo Paz\" id=\"mwHQ\">Rodrigo Paz</a>, causing clashes between the protesters and the police."
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        "text": "Prayut Chan-o-cha (pictured), the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, launched a coup d'état against the caretaker government following six months of political crisis.",
        "year": 2014
      },
      {
        "text": "Upon landing in Mangalore, Air India Express Flight 812 overshot the runway and fell down a hillside, killing 158 of the 166 people on board.",
        "year": 2010
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      {
        "text": "Police announced that the skeletal remains of Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy, who had been missing for a year, had been found in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C.",
        "year": 2002
      },
      {
        "text": "In Public Prosecutor v Taw Cheng Kong, the Court of Appeal of Singapore overruled a High Court decision in the only time a statute in Singapore had been ruled unconstitutional.",
        "year": 1998
      },
      {
        "text": "During Hindu–Muslim rioting in Meerut, India, 19 members of the Provincial Armed Constabulary allegedly massacred 42 Muslims and dumped their bodies in water canals.",
        "year": 1987
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      {
        "text": "Location testing for Pac-Man, a Japanese arcade game that became an icon of 1980s popular culture, began in Shibuya, Tokyo.",
        "year": 1980
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      {
        "text": "The Dominion of Ceylon changed its name to Sri Lanka, adopted a new constitution, and officially became a republic within the Commonwealth.",
        "year": 1972
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      {
        "text": "The most powerful earthquake ever recorded, registering approximately 9.5 Mw, struck near Valdivia, Chile, generating tsunamis that reached Hawaii and Japan.",
        "year": 1960
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      {
        "text": "Ethnic riots mostly targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils broke out in Ceylon, resulting in at least 158 deaths over the next few days.",
        "year": 1958
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      {
        "text": "Germany and Italy signed the Pact of Steel, a military and political alliance.",
        "year": 1939
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      "extract": "Intraproboscis is a genus of Acanthocephala containing a single known species, Intraproboscis sanghae. Found in central Africa, it infests the black-bellied pangolin and the tree pangolin, which are both threatened with extinction. The genus is described from several females and one incomplete male. Female worms reach up to 180 millimetres (7.1 in) long and 2 millimetres (0.079 in) wide; males seem to be smaller in all dimensions. The body consists of a long, narrow trunk and a tubular proboscis covered with hooks, which is used for feeding and attachment. The proboscis has 34 to 36 rows of 6 to 7 hooks at the front and 15 to 17 spinelike hooks on the back that are used to pierce and hold the host's intestinal wall.",
      "title": "Intraproboscis"
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