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Carter pressed the VA to untangle the apparent contradiction.

For years, the city has made unsuccessful attempts to untangle the byzantine bureaucracy that maintains the streetscape, in which a seemingly simple fix like repaving a corner can conjure up a web of departments, timelines, requirements, studies and objectives.

If Allred manages to untangle himself from a string of close but disappointing statewide losses for Democratic candidates since 2018, his victory could be decisive in keeping Democrats in control of the Senate.

As complex as all this is, there are some things that are pretty easy to untangle.

And yet the high court’s fatal rebuff of Williams on Tuesday suggests that a majority of justices will conclude that this world would be a better place if Glossip, too, is executed before we can untangle what went wrong in his deeply flawed prosecution.