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“If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be a 12-hour news story. The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy.”
“I’ve been on this treadmill – probably that’s the right word – for 15 years since I resigned,”
“The U.S. and Iran agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz toll-free for sixty days as a part of a memorandum of understanding signed by leaders of both countries last week, and ships moved to once again traverse the critical shipping corrido…”
“(Vietnam was No. 2, requesting that 335 apps be blocked.)”
“That agreement set a 60-day period for negotiations on key issues”
“candidates must receive at least 30 percent of the vote to secure ballot access”
“A short time ago we were a dead country. We were dead. Now we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world”
“She quit in 2012 to expose a Rochdale child sexual abuse ring”
“over 1.5 million signatures ... far surpassing the 874,641 required to qualify”
“We are establishing two pilot zones, both based on the recommendation of the IDF”
“a poll conducted for Justice Democrats by Data for Progress showed Kiros with a 5-point lead.”
“In a revealing exchange at the White House, Trump handed the authors a two-page document from a 'historian' comparing him to what he called the 'top 10' world leaders. These included Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, …”
“setting up the Maggie Oliver Foundation in 2019”
“My climate week began on Monday morning as I woke up bleary-eyed landing at London Heathrow to news of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s resignation.”
“for the 2024-2025 tax year, Charles paid £12.9 million (CAD $24.19 million), placing him among the 100 highest taxpayers in the U.K., the BBC reported.”
“a $22 minimum wage”
“he had tapes all over the place”
“on 14 June 2025, Starmer at last relented and announced one, to be led by former Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield.”
“More recently, the company caught the attention of Rio’s state legislature, which in November ordered the removal of 400 Gabriel cameras from public roads.”
“Prince William also revealed he paid £7.76 million (CAD $14.55 million) over the same period, the Associated Press reported.”
“between 72 and 'infinite' genders”
“It is also worth noting that he has committed to Labour’s promise not to raise income tax, VAT or national insurance on working people – so how a graduate tax would be squared with that pledge is one of the first questions he would face, i…”
“In March this year, the Maggie Oliver Foundation won a High Court case to take the government to judicial review over its failure to implement the recommendations of a different report, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse led b…”
“The city’s Rent Guidelines Board, in a 7-1 vote, approved a rent freeze covering both one-year and two-year leases for people living in about 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, which make up about 27% of the overall housing stock across…”
“completion of a 10-year, £369-million (USD $487 million) refurbishment”
“more than 700 rabbis from across the United States”
“Operation Beaconport is reviewing hundreds, potentially thousands, of previously closed cases between January 2010 and March 2025”
“The rent freeze takes effect on Oct. 1 and ends Sept. 30, 2027.”
“with its 775 rooms — a selection of which are open to the public —”
“82 percent of Jewish New Yorkers are concerned about rising antisemitism.”
“dating from May 2017, when Burnham became mayor and the BBC drama Three Girls aired.”
“Rental hikes did not stop either under Mamdani’s predecessor, Eric Adams: the RGB in 2025 voted for a 3% hike for one-year leases and a 4.5% increase for two-year leases.”
“The current renovations began in 2017”
“five individuals were charged by the FBI with a plot to kill AIPAC supporters in government”
“a new inquest into the death of 15-year-old Victoria Agoglia”
“The Community Service Society also analyzed in September 2025 that the 12.6% cumulative stabilized rent increase during Adams’ term was several times larger than the hikes under former Mayor Bill de Blasio, as well as the final term of for…”
“Since 2003, their primary residence has been Clarence House”
“nearly two-thirds of Mamdani’s own voters”
“At the point at which Augusta was closed down, 97 suspects had been identified.”
“In February, Mamdani appointed six of the RGB’s members, signaling that he could make true to his promise.”
“a 130,000-acre estate set up in the 1300s to provide funds to the Prince of Wales”
“73 percent attributed it to 'the normalization of anti-Zionism.'”
“in 1944”
“But on Thursday morning, before the board was set to decide on the rental rate increase, a board member representing landlords resigned.”
“has recently moved to sell off a 600-acre farm on the property”
“by a ratio of three to one, 'Jewish voters believe Mamdani's refusal to strongly condemn ‘globalize the Intifada’ has directly emboldened pro-Hamas protesters.'”
“Blair’s third victory”
“reopen the Strait of Hormuz toll‑free for 60 days”
““I don’t like the fact that they took a shot yesterday, actually four of them,” Trump said at the White House shortly before the U.S. struck back.”
“Clare Valdez, a socialist who, with Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s endorsement, just won the Democratic primary for a New York City congressional seat, is out publicly claiming, "Look, this nation was founded on genocide, on the mass displacement …”
“in a 2024 essay”
“technical talks will begin on June 30”
““I don’t like the fact that they took a shot yesterday, actually four of them,””
“she offered during a 2017 panel.”
“the 1997 election landslide”
“Postmaster General David Steiner confirmed this week that, if enacted, a new Trump Administration proposal would mean that the Postal Service would stop delivering mail-in ballots in states that refuse to share sensitive voter information …”
“I don’t like the fact that they took a shot yesterday, actually four of them.”
“Footage from 2016 shows Kawas attending a pro-Hamas rally”
“May’s vote returned just 17 MSPs for Labour, its lowest in the history of devolution, and the same total as Reform.”
“Under the interim deal, the two sides have 60 days to work out the details.”
“Sairitupac, a 39-year-old social worker and "anti-ICE activist and tenant organizer," won the crowded race with just 36 percent of the vote”
“The SNP took 58 of the parliament’s 129 seats.”
“— Ian Lafrenière (@IanLafreniere) June 26, 2026”
“after coming up short in a similar effort in 2023.”
“In the recent Westminster by-elections for Aberdeen South and Broughty Ferry and Arbroath, Labour was barely an afterthought, coming fourth in both.”
“Le fugitif le plus recherché au Canada a été arrêté aujourd’hui en Espagne. Félicitations aux policiers de la Sûreté du Québec, de la GRC et d’Interpol pour leur travail. @sureteduquebec pic.twitter.com/KLZC442UB4 — Ian Lafrenière (@IanLaf…”
“Socialist Eon Huntley knocked out incumbent assemblywoman Stefani Zinerman with roughly 58 percent of the vote”
“the appearance of its former chief executive Peter Murrell in court over his embezzlement of more than £400,000 from party accounts”
“Huntley had tried and failed to take the same seat against Zinerman in 2024.”
“The SNP has been able to rely on a core vote of between 30 and 35 per cent”
“the New York Post reported in 2024.”
“the Scottish Labour campaign hoped that the contest would be based on the character of Scottish leaders alone and so had no really bold and attractive policy proposals in our manifesto.”
“Orkin has been a member of JVP for more than a decade”
“Andy Burnham’s success in the Makerfield by-election”
“Tate says he was inspired to dedicate his life to social justice by New York’s Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, according to his website.”
“We are better to adapt to warming, rather than pretend we can stop it.”
“Aber Kawas, a hijab-clad Palestinian "Muslim Civil rights activist," was elected to the state’s 12th senate district”
“In 1985, a Labour resolution committing the party to gay and lesbian rights passed with the support of no other than the National Union of Mineworkers.”
“…with 9/11," she offered during a 2017 panel”
“including Chris Bryant, who won the seat of Rhondda in 2001 despite doubts an openly gay man could ever win over the Valleys”
“Her father, Abdelkareem Kawas, is a Jordanian national who was deported in 2008 after a felony conviction regarding real estate fraud”
“Lynne Featherstone, the Liberal Democrat politician who championed same-sex marriage through parliament in 2014”
“Sairitupac, a 39-year-old social worker and "anti-ICE activist and tenant organizer," won the crowded race with just 36 percent of the vote after coming up short in a similar effort in 2023.”
“Around 81 per cent of voters believe the UK is not prepared for the worst impacts of climate change, yet 59 per cent still believe we can be.”
“Socialist Eon Huntley knocked out incumbent assemblywoman Stefani Zinerman with roughly 58 percent of the vote, taking New York’s 56th State Assembly District”
“In 2022, while working at the IPPR, I undertook some research into which narratives are most effective at persuading voters on climate. [...] Our findings were clear: the most persuasive narratives on climate were not transactional argumen…”
“David Orkin, "a Jewish anti-Zionist" attorney, ousted incumbent assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar in the state’s 38th district in Queens.”
“My former co-author has undertaken local polling through Persuasion UK with Convergent Opinion on the voters of Makerfield, showing that the result was the product of a carefully constructed coalition that united progressive voters while a…”
“Christian Celeste Tate, an "impact consultant," knocked out Assemblyman Erik Martin Dilan in the state’s 54th district”
“In a seat where national polling indicated Reform was the clear favourite to win, Andy Burnham overperformed by more than 30 points.”
“Tate says he was inspired to dedicate his life to social justice by New York’s Black Lives Matter protests of 2020”
“Joined hundreds of New Yorkers in support of @sjp.columbia students facing repression for standing up for Palestine," she said in an Instagram post from April 2024”
“El-Sayed also said in a private campaign strategy call that he planned to use the Epstein issue to distract from questions about the February 2026 killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which he said was upsetting to vot…”
“April 2020 episode of the Decarceration Nation podcast”
“pleaded guilty in 2010 to soliciting a 14-year-old girl for sex”
“has surged to the lead in a heated three-way primary”
“ran unsuccessfully for Michigan governor in 2018”
“February 2026 killing of Iran’s supreme leader”
“In May 2020, as a lobbyist at the advocacy group Safe & Just Michigan, Hoe testified before the Michigan legislature”
“May 2020 protest in Detroit”
