Areas once largely unaffected are increasingly reporting infections, reflecting a gradual expansion of the virus across the country.
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Giada Zampano,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Sep. 2026
In 2011, Kobach was fined $5,000 by the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission — KPDC’s precursor — for inaccurately reporting more than $75,000 in contributions and expenditures during the 2010 election.
That would let prosecutors ask a grand jury to charge Hearn again if new evidence were discovered implicating him in vandalizing the pool.
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Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2026
In her depiction of the exhausting vigilance this reality required, through a second-person voice cannily implicating her reader, Rankine created a new language to identify a problem as old as the United States.
As this is not always possible, there can be competition among rainmakers trying to discredit each other, said 30-year-old Kilindon Simiyu, another of the village's rainmakers.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
20 Sep. 2026
Instead, two coaches making almost identical money were standing on opposite sidelines Saturday night trying to revive two programs with almost identical problems.
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Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 Sep. 2026
What the attorney general job entails The attorney general acts as Rhode Island’s top law enforcement officer, overseeing more than 250 staffers prosecuting felony cases and defending state agencies against civil lawsuits.
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Katie Mulvaney,
The Providence Journal,
10 Sep. 2026
So far, New Mexico is the only state that pushed the case toward a trial as part of its go-it-alone approach to prosecuting Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.
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