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The site of Noem in a baseball hat and ballistic vest was startling, and Medina said she began to record her with her phone.

At a news conference Thursday, Mayor Karen Bass made a startling claim.

That was the startling moment where I realized I personally relate in my darkest moments to a studio executive more than I do a creative person in the industry in many ways.

Yet in many ways, as startling as that might have seemed, his proposal fit right in with his drive to remove millions of people from the U.S. itself.

He began by pairing the first work the 183-year-old orchestra had ever commissioned with a premiere of a startling new commission.