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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
When The Star requested records related to ATO being placed on probation last year, the outcome letter KU provided was heavily redacted, completely obfuscating the narrative of the hazing allegations that university investigators found to be credible.
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Matthew Kelly
April 6,
Kansas City Star,
6 Apr. 2026
The name of the person who sent the email was redacted.
The company relies on the US government for the largest share of its revenue, with contracts worth close to $900 million with the Pentagon last year, along with smaller contracts for ICE, as well as Treasury and other government agencies, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Government.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
10 Apr. 2026
The real estate roundup is compiled from news releases and written by Business Editor Samantha Gowen.
That article, by Seth Harp, was adapted from his book, which was to be published shortly after the article.
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Jacob Rosen,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2026
Since plaintiffs were foreclosed, by Section 230, from arguing that social-media companies are liable for publishing harmful content, lawyers came up with a claim that attempted to sidestep it.
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.
The supplemental budget was engrossed into law on March 18.
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Tim Dunn,
Boston Herald,
30 Mar. 2026
What engrossed him and his team was the Alto’s graphical display, which was destined to make the text-only displays of contemporary computers obsolete.
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Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
That’s become a multibillion-dollar opportunity for startups like Micro1, which also annotate the videos so that robots can differentiate objects, distances and physical movements.
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Stephanie Yang,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2026
Sliced from a tree felled by loggers in 1891, the cross-section was annotated with historical events that marked its 13 centuries of life, from the beginning of Chinese book printing to the Crusades to the invention of the telescope.