As officials inch closer to certifying primary election results in the race for California's next governor as well as the mayor of its largest city, frontrunners appeared to continue to emerge in two of the state's key races.
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Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
9 June 2026
Los Angeles County election officials are expected to continue updating vote totals in the coming weeks before certifying the election.
Elon University now officially has full control of Queens University of Charlotte following a decision this month by the pair’s accrediting agency.
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Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
30 June 2026
In March 2024, the New England Commission of Higher Education, which is responsible for accrediting colleges and universities in the Northeast, created guidelines for colleges that want to implement these programs.
During that ratifying convention, Wilson also argued that the franchise should extend broadly, beyond just property owners.
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Jesse Wegman,
The Atlantic,
20 June 2026
Both resolutions, ratifying the clerk-treasurer’s office policies and procedures and the public comment policy, will be brought back up at the council’s July meeting.
This would not be an ordinary meetup because, besides sundry individual tasks, the three had important business to accomplish together—namely, chartering a day-boat cruise in Puerto Rico for spring break.
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Patricia Marx,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
The incoming team's portion of the cost was $32 million, including chartering the ship and loading and unloading the gear.
Increasingly, the focus must shift toward continuously validating the humans interacting with those systems.
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Sagar Gupta,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
At its best, the film rebuffs standard-issue 1950s heteronormativity, validating queerness at a moment when the Motion Picture Production Code forbade explicit reference to it.
As girls’ flag football surges and flag readies for a starring role at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, state officials brace for a broader debate over sanctioning boys’ flag statewide.
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Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2026
Big 12 administrators also met to consider sanctioning Texas Tech or Sorsby.
Senators later adopted Amendment 1 before approving the bill.
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CBS News Atlanta Digital Team,
CBS News,
22 June 2026
Finland’s parliament on Wednesday voted to lift a decades-old ban on nuclear weapons, approving a major defense policy shift aimed at aligning the country more closely with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) deterrence strategy.
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