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Gene,

I agree with you.  To my mind, the "Skip to content" link should take you to the opening line of an article, but I've played with it and it doesn't.

There is an interesting combination of articles with "by" lines, which are often absent a city of filing and em dash, articles with city of filing and emdash, and probably the occasional article, or at least the live "ticker" type articles, that have neither.

Why there would not be some sort of landmark (and I mean that broadly, though it could truly use a landmark) to denote the beginning of text content after an article title and byline I do not know.
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Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044

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