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Recent Examples of recopyTo counter the faulty machinery, election workers will have to manually recopy the mail-in ballots with illegible barcodes into new ballots under the election code, but every valid vote ultimately will be counted properly, Garcia said last week.—Elizabeth Thompson, Dallas News, 2 Nov. 2020
Bondi would not, however, provide the name of the person who redacted Wexner’s name.
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Terry Collins,
USA Today,
16 Feb. 2026
The Hunt campaign responded by criticizing the Cornyn for including personally identifying information, which was later re-posted with those areas redacted.
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Joseph Morton,
Dallas Morning News,
16 Feb. 2026
The images of her skin were then printed onto the fabric that’s used for the padded wall panels of the bedroom.
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Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2026
In one space, costumes can be custom printed and cut using high-tech printers, while another space houses a room full of sewing machines where costumers spend 80 hours crafting an intricate fur-pattern cape with fringes and sequins.
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Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2026
Lesson one: Agencies cannot abridge free speech by forcing people to parrot the government’s ideological message.
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Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
28 Dec. 2025
That set off a chain of social and legal arguments that led to the 2015 Supreme Court decision Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that the right to marry was covered by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and could not be abridged or denied license by the government.
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Rafael Escalera Montoto,
Arkansas Online,
19 Feb. 2026
In 2009, after studying a mother and a daughter who were both short sleepers, Fu published a paper about a variation in a gene called DEC2, which influences the production of orexin, a hormone associated with wakefulness.
Before getting sunk by a turgid love story — the kind of cinematic dead zone Thalberg would have blue-penciled in the screenplay stage — The Last Tycoon provides a good sense of what a producer actually does.
For Dallas’ Black community in the late 1950s through the 1960s, the Forest Theater was the place to see and be seen, recalls Shirley Rhodes, an 80-year-old South Dallas native who spent Saturdays there during her childhood while engrossed in the cinematic offerings.
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Uwa Ede-Osifo,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Feb. 2026
When not engrossed in their studies, preppy students also embrace the outdoors.
The photo albums—handcrafted binders assembled over the course of five decades—are crammed with small prints glued to card stock and annotated in Richards’s cursive script.
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Shannon Taggart,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
Far from contemporary pop, each note and lyric demands your full attention; the reward is transcendence, even as the material nudges you to annotate like a philosophy student with a highlighter in hand.