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A timeline for election officials put together by the Department of Homeland Security showed that the process for expanding mail-in voting should have begun in April.

A big question in public health law is how far an executive, such as a governor, can go without legislative approval.

A total of about 26 million doses of vaccine B would be available by the end of the year, most of them in December.

A number of recent polls at the state level have measured both the presidential election and Senate races.

A waiter touching a plate with a bare hand is indeed not ideal, which is why waiters are generally instructed to wear gloves.

A significant amount of that will go toward Spanish-language advertising.

A solid e-commerce strategy usually looks like an online ecosystem that takes into account and optimizes all of the different ways a customer could come into contact with the brand.

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A box of 20 kid-friendly climbing holds and hardware costs around $40 on Amazon.

ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?

Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

By the time it concluded with a sing-a-long of “XO,” Beyoncé had done the rare thing.

In another year, stories about the strange new face of an A-list actress might draw chortles and cackles.

Because Duck Dynasty receives monster TV ratings and Robertson paid by a company (A&E) while making these public statements.

Lee explains the success of its store-within-a-store strategy, particularly as regarding Samsung.

DISH delivers a one-of-a-kind entertainment experience to every room of your home, wirelessly.

Twenty-one-and-a-half million students participate in free or reduced-price school lunch programs.

A Change.org petition asking A&E to drop the show is already making the rounds online.

Corden has actually been attached to Into the Woods since the first reading of the screenplay two-and-a-half years ago.

But the sunlight is threatening to fade and a three-and-a-half-hour river journey back to Kisangani looms.

But really, the A-list case comes down to the fact of his last name.

Elauf, who is Muslim, had applied for a job at an A&F store in Tulsa, Oklahoma when she was 17.

Say what you want about Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F), the chain has done something special.

Of course, the bad news for A&F is that they have united some in these two communities against them.

The assistant manager at the A&F store had found Elauf qualified for the position and was apparently going to hire her.

The company recently partnered with Oakley to create a one-of-a-kind single malt Scotch flask.

He was a!ways ready to tell a story that seemed fraught with significance.

The current energy and industrial boom, according to Siemens President Joe Kaeser, “is a once-in-a-lifetime moment.”

Dean Teresa A. Sullivan praised the “overwhelming response by this community to condemn the evil acts” reported by Rolling Stone.

Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!

All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.

Urinary sediments may be studied under three heads: A. Unorganized sediments.

I knowed, a-course, that I could go kick up a fuss when Simpson stopped by his office on his trip back from Goldstone.

Aber Jeder will grossartig spielen heutzutage (But everybody wants to play on a grand scale now-a-days).

But Lessard's a overbearin' son-of-a-gun all round, and he's always breakin' out in a new place.

Still a-shiver at dawn, I saddled up and loped for the crest of the nearest divide to get the benefit of the first sun-rays.

Malcolm asked her gently to go back to the helm and keep it jammed hard-a-starboard until they arrived at the left bank.

He was a new breed, that parson, a genuwine no-two-alike, come-one-in-a-box kind.

Many a fine meerschaum keeps up its cheerful fire on a shilling a-week.

I take cigar-smoking as an expense of, say, half-a-crown a-day, and pipe-smoking at threepence.

Now, you cannot keep a carriage a-going quite as cheaply as a pipe.

A friend of mine tells me that he smokes every day, at a cost of about sixpence a-week.

Again, mebbe it would–if the hull thing that happened next was accidentally a-purpose.

A-course, Mrs. Bridger got a nice little pile of money fer it, and paid Curry the balance she owed him.

A distinguished wag about town says, the head coverings the ladies wear now-a-days, are barefaced false hoods.

That boy, Charles A. Moore, then fresh from school and just fifteen, is now general manager of the railway!

My horse hasnt got a load behind him going back, as he had coming up in the mornin, and he wont be long a-doing of it.

Youre a-going to accommodate us, and wots to prevent my standing treat for a pint or so, in return?

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