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A total of 15 people are vying to be the Cheshire constituency's next MP.

I obviously can't do that because it's my job to pay attention — but I have to admit that I find myself fighting pessimism, if not total despair.

I wrote a total of nine plays in grad school, and the first one was “Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play,” with a million characters and sometimes changing locations three times on one page.

A total of 6,822 structures were destroyed in the Palisades fire, including more than 5,500 residences and 100 commercial businesses, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Adding those again under a separate heading inflates the total far beyond what public health economists or agencies like the CDC would report.