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23 Sep. 2026 Four years earlier, mailed ballots accounted for 31% of the voting and early voting was nearly 33%.—
Jim Turner,
Miami Herald,
21 Sep. 2026 His field goal in the final seconds accounted for the winning points in the Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVII victory over the Philadelphia Eagles.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
21 Sep. 2026 Carlos Del Rio-Wilson accounted for 249 yards and two touchdowns and Marshall held off Missouri State for a 30-24 win on Saturday night.—ABC News,
20 Sep. 2026 Latino homeownership exceeds 80% in Ashburn and Garfield Ridge, and in 2024, Latino borrowers accounted for more than 90% of new mortgages in Gage Park, West Lawn and Chicago Lawn.—
Allison Kiehl,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Sep. 2026 In contrast, one in four trucks sold in China in 2025 was electric, and the International Energy Agency estimates that China accounted for 90% of the 400,000 electric trucks sold globally last year.—
Sam Forsdick,
Fortune,
16 Sep. 2026 Conversely, kids aged 0-4 accounted for seven of the 60 hospitalizations reported statewide.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Charlotte Observer,
15 Sep. 2026 Companies occupying their own buildings accounted for 34% of Orange County office sales volume over the past year, compared with a five-year average of 24%, CoStar said.—
Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Sep. 2026
First ring, first row of the Koch Theater is widely considered to have the best seats in the house.
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Fiorella Valdesolo,
Curbed,
22 Sep. 2026
It is intended to help locate missing Black people who are considered endangered because of their age or the suspicious circumstances surrounding their disappearance.
Those authorities — not USPS —determine who qualifies to receive a ballot, what appears on it, when it was printed and mailed, how voters can return it, how signatures are verified and when the ballot is counted.
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Lee Moak,
New York Daily News,
18 Sep. 2026
That agency has counted clients like Netflix, Disney, Paramount, and NBCUniversal.
Williams watched the record-breaking performance on TV from his home in Glen Ellyn and called Crow-Armstrong after the game to congratulate the 24-year-old.
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Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Sep. 2026
Rays Hall of Famer Carl Crawford was a three-time winner of the award — formally called the Don Zimmer MVP award and presented by the Tampa Bay chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
From afar, Lee’s books can be viewed as pleas to see Asians as complex.
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Sanjena Sathian,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2026
The rise of far-right populism in Europe’s biggest economy, which has for decades been viewed as a bastion of stability, centrist policymaking and EU leadership, is being closely watched across the continent.