Simonian is believed to have smuggled Egyptian relics to institutions that include the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Louvre Abu Dhabi for a collective sum of $64 million.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
26 Aug. 2026
In the melee the Koh-i-Noor was smuggled to the Persian general Ahmad Khan Abdali by a devoted harem member.
The organization highlighted careful monitoring, carried out with the farmers whose land the birds nested on, which allowed the nests to be fenced off from ground predators like foxes.
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Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
25 Aug. 2026
Today, it's fenced off and closed to the public, with windows that have been vandalized and boarded up.
Aggregated across 115 million American adults, the team puts the total consumer surplus at roughly $172 billion a year — value received and never transacted, comfortably more than the AI industry collected in American revenue over the same period.
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Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2026
For decades, billions of dollars in advertising have been transacted on Nielsen ratings that tabulate how many people saw a TV program or commercial, and, also on how many people of a certain age or gender did as well.
The deal was negotiated by Steven Bestwick of The Yellow Affair and Bill Guentzler and RJ Millard on behalf of Obscured Releasing.
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Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
27 Aug. 2026
Over the course of 23 bargaining sessions, the union and district representatives have negotiated on class size, wages and Special Education resources, among 57 total proposals.
Californians made up just under a quarter of the more than 56,400 people who swapped their out-of-state licenses for Gem State cards last year.
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Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
26 Aug. 2026
More than one OpenAI agent was involved in the hack of Hugging Face, and in at least one case the agents swapped notes on how to sneak into the company’s network.
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