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"If you're suddenly in an environment where you're essentially getting killed a couple of times per year, then that changes everything," said Mitchell.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

But after the vote, Park said the commission’s decision effectively killed the Venice Dell development, which during the campaign she had called a “waste of money.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

The best estimates of German casualties are between 4,000 and 9,000 killed or injured.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

At least 3,468 people have been killed in Iran during the war, according to the country's Martyrs Foundation.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

If he, who had advocated nonviolence rather than nationalism or separatism had been killed, what hope did the rest of us Negroes have?

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson