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• To cut yourself off from people is to lose your connection and way in a glorious,terrifyingworld.
  — Mary Frances Ruskell,CNN Money, 2 May 2025
• Audio and video deepfakes created with generative AI tools add a new,terrifyingwrinkle to scam spotting.
  — Kim Key,PC Magazine, 1 May 2025

• Rust, adifficultmovie to release, grossed $25k at 115 theaters, presented by Falling Forward Films.
  — Jill Goldsmith,Deadline, 4 May 2025
• An emergency fund can feel unattainable if finances are alreadydifficult, but having even a small amount of cash saved can make the difference, Alev said.
  — Adriana Morga,Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025

• Thesefrighteningand repulsive actions represent the most significant breach on our Capitol in over two hundred years.
  — Sonam ShethGabe Whisnant,MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
• Mellencamp'sfrighteningdiagnosis, though, hasn't stopped her resolve.
  — David Oliver,USA Today, 8 May 2025

• On one hand, the problem makes a manager’s life morechallengingby limiting a team’s available options to potentially finish a close game.
  — Dan Hayes,New York Times, 10 May 2025
• Saving for retirement has become morechallengingfor many reasons.
  — Aliss Higham,MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025

• So their arrival in the world of the New Avengers may be a harbinger ofscarythings to come.
  — Eliana Dockterman,Time, 2 May 2025
• But thanks to declining vaccination rates, Americans may have to contend with a muchscarierfuture for the deadly disease.
  — Lauren Goode,Wired News, 1 May 2025

• Federal judges have so far been skeptical of the Trump administration’s past efforts to use extraordinary powers to make deportations easier, and that could make suspending habeas corpus eventougher.
  — Will Weissert,Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025
• Last year’s drought conditions that extended into late fall combined with very windy winter conditions and frozen soils weretoughfor some evergreens.
  — Pamm Cooper,Hartford Courant, 10 May 2025

• Transgender kids, especially under the current president, are facingterriblerights losses and bigotry.
  — Letters to the Editor,The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2025
• Such legislation is meant to destabilize Pakistan’s internal politics, which is in no one’s interests, except those who promoted such aterribleidea in the first place.
  — Christopher Shays,New York Daily News, 10 May 2025

• Members have included figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin and Martin Luther King Jr.New members are chosen through arigorousnomination and election process, according to the academy.
  — Sacbee.com,Sacbee.com, 12 May 2025
• Digital forensics demandsrigorousmethodology to ensure evidence integrity and reliable findings.
  — Lars Daniel,Forbes.com, 12 May 2025