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“The number of democratic socialists in the U.S. House of Representatives is set to more than double after the November midterms, a shift that would hand the movement its largest congressional bloc in American history.”
“In December 2021, former Energy Secretary Alok Sharma granted permission, external for the £8.5bn project.”
“250th anniversary of US independence”
“The Democratic Socialists of America count two current members in the House, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib.”
“The county council's updated road safety strategy is open for public consultation until 27 July”
“The 600-square-metre banner read 'War. Greed. Energy Crisis. What’s there to celebrate?'”
“Three more candidates aligned with the group won Democratic primaries this spring in heavily Democratic districts, putting them on a clear path to Washington next year and the total at five.”
“over the past two years”
“Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, speaking at a press conference in Baghdad, said the strait would remain under Iran's full oversight for the next 30 days and that Tehran had sole responsibility for administering the waterway under …”
“Valdez and Avila Chevalier prevailed on June 23 as part of a slate backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani...”
“two years ago”
“from spring 1915 to autumn 1916”
“A bloc of five would surpass the movement's modern peak. Four organization members served together in 2021, when Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib were joined by Cori Bush of Missouri and Jamaal Bowman of New York.”
“the only "wrinkle"”
“between 664,000 and 1.2 million Armenians died”
“Both Bush and Bowman lost reelection in 2024, dropping the count back to two.”
“Andy Burnham is on course to become the UK's next prime minister after Sir Keir Starmer announced he was stepping down.”
“since the outbreak of the Gaza war in October 2023”
“By his calculation, the New York seats that flipped this week backed former Vice President Kamala Harris by an average of 36 points in 2024.”
“gathered more than 106,000 signatures”
“According to the Eurobarometer, more than 80% of the Spanish population believes that homosexuality should be freely accepted in society”
“The competitive districts Democrats are targeting to retake the House majority, he said, average a Trump margin of about 8 points.”
“New government guidance on relationships, sex and health education will be legally binding from September 2026.”
“Spain became the third country in the world, after the Netherlands and Belgium, to legalise marriage between same-sex couples”
“Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs survey that was conducted May 1-17”
“The Relationships and Sex Education (Further Education Sector) Bill follows a petition by the survivor-led campaign group Make it Mandatory, which called for sex education to be mandated to 18 and gathered more than 106,000 signatures.”
“The first democratic elections would be held barely two weeks after that march, on 15 June 1977.”
“when support was around 60 percent, notably higher than a decade earlier in 2005 when it was around 37 percent.”
“Pennycook revealed the government would set up a Greater Cambridge Development Corporation to steer growth across the city of Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire, sharing £800m with Oxford.”
“In 1979, homosexuality was removed from the Ley de Peligrosidad y Rehabilitación Social”
“when 71 percent of all Americans said they supported same-sex marriage.”
“so my hope is that we will continue that investment we've seen in infrastructure in the East over the last two years – if not increasing.”
“In 1994, Madrid had hosted its first mass Pride march”
“only 65 percent saying they support it in the latest poll.”
“Another 40,000 could be built in the north and east of Milton Keynes in what ministers described as a "renewed new town".”
“In 1998, the Madrid regional government recognised civil partnerships regardless of the sex of those involved”
“62 percent of Americans said they believe same-sex relations are morally acceptable, while 33 percent viewed those relations as morally wrong.”
“The East is also expecting to host at least two of the government's new towns, external.”
“On 30 June 2005, Spain became the third country in the world, after the Netherlands and Belgium, to legalise marriage between same-sex couples, including the right to adopt.”
“when 71 percent said they viewed gay or lesbian relationships as acceptable.”
“Andy Burnham won the by-election in Makerfield with almost 55% of the vote”
“The Constitutional Court, which did not rule until 2012, when it confirmed its full constitutionality.”
“at least 529 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced across the country in the 2026 legislative session.”
“Tandy had initially named a 48-man squad”
“In 2023, the so-called Trans Law came into force”
“Most Americans believe in nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people, according to a PRRI poll released in March that placed support for those policies at 72 percent.”
“will now cut at least 11 more players with the new squad size between 32 and 34.”
“Madrid Pride, held every year around the last weekend in June, regularly draws more than one and a half million people from all over the world”
“support for LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination protections fell among those between the ages of 18-29 from 80 percent in 2015 to 70 percent in 2025, largely driven by a 24-point drop among young Republicans during this time (74 percent vs. 50 percen…”
“Tandy will have an influx of 13 players from English and French clubs”
“The survey polled 22,111 adults from February 28 to December 8, 2025 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 0.87 percentage points.”
“Interim President Delcy Rodríguez has said 14,000 were sent to the state”
“In February 2025, the Pew Research Center found that 66 percent of Americans support requiring trans athletes to compete on teams that match the sex they were assigned at birth. Forty-nine percent support requiring trans people to use publ…”
“Stephen Harrington was Andy Burnham's teacher in the late 1980s”
“Most Americans believe it is morally wrong for a person to change their gender, according to Gallup, which found that 38 percent of Americans view it as morally acceptable compared to 57 percent who don't.”
“He needed a lot of persuading to apply because he felt that as a working-class boy, going off to Cambridge wasn't for him.”
“That marks a shift from 2021, when 46 percent viewed it as morally acceptable and 51 percent said it was wrong for a person to change their gender.”
“He didn't believe in himself, but he did it, and the rest is history.”
“The PRRI poll found that 56 percent of Americans support laws requiring transgender individuals to use bathrooms corresponding to their birth sex, compared to 40 percent who oppose those laws.”
“Burnham was sworn in as an MP for the second time on 22 June after winning in Makerfield.”
“PRRI's survey also found that a large majority of Americans (71 percent) agree that “transgender people deserve the same rights and protections as other Americans,” compared with 24 percent of those who disagree.”
“Born in the outskirts of Liverpool in 1970, he spent his early years in Culcheth, a quiet commuter belt village in Cheshire, near Warrington's border with Greater Manchester.”
“This is split across party lines with 88 percent of Democrats and 77 percent of independents in agreement, compared with 57 percent of Republicans.”
“When we moved here, I think Andy would be maybe 16 or 17, so he was almost going away to university.”
“She defeated Louisiana Treasurer John Fleming in the runoff with about 55 percent of the vote, a clear margin of roughly 10 points.”
“He couldn't be more thankful towards me, Harrington said, adding that Burnham had even travelled from London to attend his retirement from St Aelred's in 2003.”
“Davis secured the Democratic nomination convincingly, winning about 80 percent of the vote in his party’s runoff against Gary Crockett”
“That journey took Burnham to Westminster for the first time in 2001, when he won a seat in Leigh in that year's general election.”
“Based on NBC News results, more than 316,000 votes were cast in the Republican Senate runoff”
“He held the seat until 2017, when he left to stand in the first Greater Manchester mayoral election.”
“compared with roughly 196,000 in the Democratic contest.”
“It was as culture secretary that Burnham was heckled at a memorial service marking the 20th anniversary of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.”
“On Polymarket, traders give a Republican win roughly a 92 percent probability, at the time of publishing, compared with about 8 percent for Democrats.”
“He also lost two Labour leadership election, coming fourth out of five in a contest Ed Miliband won in 2010 and then losing to Jeremy Corbyn's first-round victory in 2015.”
“Kalshi markets show a similar outlook, suggesting a greater than 90 percent chance the seat remains Republican and less than a 7 percent likelihood it flips Democratic.”
“He was not one of those who resigned in protest at Corbyn's leadership in 2016.”
“In 2024, Donald Trump carried Louisiana by around 29 percentage points, highlighting the state’s conservative base.”
“Goggins was Labour MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East until his death in January 2014.”
“Louisiana has not elected a Democratic U.S. senator since 2008, a key structural hurdle for Democrats.”
“Burnham returned to Westminster earlier this month as MP for Makerfield, after a by-election was triggered by the resignation of the constituency's Labour MP Josh Simons.”
“review of 307 documents comprising 2,487 pages”
“Following Sir Keir Starmer's announcement last week that he would step down, Burnham is currently the only candidate running in a leadership election in the Labour Party.”
“the State Department hopes to begin releasing these files at the end of July”
“Labour deputy leader Lucy Powell and Housing Secretary Steve Reed, who had stayed loyal to Sir Keir, both said Labour MPs were united behind Burnham as the party's next leader and the country's next prime minister.”
“The State Department anticipates making its first production of nonexempt portions of responsive records at the end of July 2026”
“As I reflect on my seven years in the job”
“Following that, the Department will make regular productions every eight weeks”
“To the first coach since Craig Brown, in 1998, to lead the country to the finals of a major tournament”
“An early search returned more than one million records but this was refined down to a smaller pool of around 1,000 documents”
“Roll on three years and we did it again”
“with two from the Office of the Deputy Secretary of State and 217 from the Office of the Secretary”
“Winning our group from a position as third seeds”
“The Department reports there are 307 records consisting of 2,487 pages of potentially responsive material to be processed”
“the players won a World Cup finals match for only the fifth time in Scottish football history, and the first in 36 years.”
“Austin MacPhee and James Morrison joined us to help the push to Euro 2024, then Alan Irvine, who brought great experience to out group, and Andrew Hughes joined the team to help clinch our World Cup 2026 qualification.”
“represented his country when we qualified for Euro 2020”
“Thank you to my two Presidents, the sadly departed Rod Petrie, and Mike Mulraney”
“making me his first head coach appointment”
“we wouldn't have had any of the memories that we've accumulated from 2019 until now.”
“From our captain Andy Robertson with 97 caps”
