The Sacramento Police Department investigated 36 homicides, 20% fewer than the 45 in 2024, a total that was revised after several victims died in 2025 from crimes committed in prior years.
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Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
1 July 2026
The initial June count was revised lower in each of the past four years.
The ruling upholds Illinois law, which allows mail-in ballots postmarked — or personally attested to — by Election Day to be counted up to two weeks afterward.
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Rick Pearson,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2026
The 5-4 ruling rejects a Republican challenge to voter law in California and 13 other states, where ballots received after Election Day may be counted if they are postmarked on Election Day or earlier.
Three extraordinary new books, published this year, shed light on the brilliance and complexity of Morrison’s life and work, and place her as an American eminence, a visionary who saw fiction as a means through which to recast her country’s story.
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Leigh Haber,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
The optics around the story have gotten a little complicated because the company transitioned to a new fiscal calendar and needs to recast its financials.
Mecklenburg County’s history with emissions testing The General Assembly proposed review of the EPA law, would allow the SIP to be reworked in order to exclude Mecklenburg County from the emissions program.
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Maveah Griffith,
Charlotte Observer,
30 June 2026
Google has openly opposed the DMA, calling for the law to be reworked.
The state’s 1849 constitution has been altered a lot over the years.
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Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
Watch out for heat stroke symptoms such as confusion, altered mental state, slurred speech, loss of consciousness (coma), hot, dry skin or profuse sweating, seizures, and very high body temperature.
Some are marketed or modified in ways that blur those distinctions.
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Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
22 June 2026
The latest controversy involves San Francisco Giants pitchers who recently modified or refused to wear rainbow-logo hats during a Pride Night event, citing a specific Bible verse.
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