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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
Under the law, government agencies, businesses and private individuals must redact and refrain from sharing the personal information of many current and former public officials upon request, though notably not those seeking office.
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Jack O'Connor,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
According to the court filing, the witness, whose name was redacted, is a physician who lives near where the shooting occurred.
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.
And in a scientific article that was just published in late 2025, it was incidentally caught during a recreational fishing trip off the coast of northwestern Africa.
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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.
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.
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Thania Garcia,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
For example, after a creature’s genome is sequenced, the huge mass of raw genetic data—consisting of millions or billions of genetic building blocks called base pairs—must be annotated.