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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
Her custom shop branded T-shirts were screen-printed by one of her high school teachers.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
2 May 2026
Two correspondents sent Lemisch the identical sanitary disposal bags, printed with the Liberty Bell, that had suddenly appeared in the women’s bathroom in their campus library.
The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists.
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Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 May 2026
The annual list, compiled from Social Security card applications submitted at birth, offers a snapshot of the names parents across the country chose most often in 2025.
Whether the principles of the Declaration, abridged or unabridged, endure is a question that only the course of human events will determine.
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Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
And Congress cannot pass any laws that abridge the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or the right to peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances.
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Chris John Amorosino,
Hartford Courant,
16 Apr. 2026
An earlier study, published in the American Economic Journal, found that field-office closures led to a sixteen-per-cent decline in disability recipients in the surrounding areas.
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E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
Along with the launch of its chatbot for clinicians last month, OpenAI also published a wish list that the company described as a blueprint for unlocking AI’s potential to change the broader health care system.
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.
What matters, after all, is that feeling of being engrossed in a good story.
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Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
1 May 2026
Sitting on the dais between her husband and pregnant White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the first lady appears to be engrossed in conversation.
Livesey, a professor emerita at the University of Oklahoma, is recognized as a significant Pauline scholar, and her book is closely argued, formidably annotated, and beautifully provocative.