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“If the state kills Michael, it is not the 19-year-old who made the worst mistake of his life whom it kills. But the mature, well-respected, God-fearing man sitting in that cell today.”
Death penalty opponents had urged Alabama governor Kay Ivey to reduce Michael Taylor's sentence to life in prison before his execution by lethal injection.
“Nowhere are the consequences of this election greater than Texas,”
Cruz warned that the consequences of the election were greatest in Texas.
“It is not an immediately solvable problem, and people really dislike it.”
Wolpe was commenting on public uncertainty over the economy and the Iran war's impact.
“President Donald Trump is determined, as a legacy item, almost at all costs, to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, having them give up their nuclear capabilities,”
McNally said Trump is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon as a legacy item.
“a national team for Kurds”
Ruhavioglu said the club should not be seen as a national team for Kurds but rather as the representative of Kurdish identity in Turkiye.
“Hurt people hurt people,”
El-Sayed condemned the March 12 attack on Temple Israel but drew criticism for saying 'Hurt people hurt people,' referring to the attacker's relatives killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon.
“Daring to speak out will get you sued, [and] the likelihood that anyone would come forward goes down a lot.”
Zucker told Fox News Digital that the likelihood of anyone coming forward goes down if speaking out risks a lawsuit.
“positioned as well, if not better than really anybody in the sector.”
Snowden said Penn expects to be well positioned if Texas lawmakers move toward legalization.
“I think these are all moves designed to look towards 2028.”
Kochel characterized Republicans' post-midterm moves as aimed at the 2028 presidential race.
“But now this system at least is not stopping them.”
Erten said that now the political winds have shifted, the system is no longer stopping Amedspor.
“state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s values”
California governor Gavin Newsom announced he would commute all 548 death sentences in his state on the same day three other states carried out executions.
“assault on the Supreme Court”
Former Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire accused the president of deploying security forces to the Supreme Court and attempting to arrest its chief justice.
“A lot of people were pessimistic … that oversight would result in anything, and so they want restitution. They want CEOs to go to jail. They want people to resign. They want prices to be lowered,”
Jacquez described focus group participants' anger at corporate leaders and their desire for restitution, jail time, resignations, and lower prices.
“This is a real danger. One of the foundations of democracy is the peaceful transfer of power,”
Sohlberg warned Herzog at his residence about the danger of undermining the peaceful transfer of power.
“One of the deepest rugby cultures in the US is right here in Buffalo, and the proximity to the Canadian border, with Canada being a huge rugby market, makes Buffalo a prime market for expansion.”
DiPasquale told the Buffalo News that Buffalo's rugby culture and proximity to Canada make it a strong expansion market.
“This is where I belong. I can't live without it, believe me. This is true.”
Jones recalled telling doctors he had to get back on the stage after being discharged from the hospital.
“These are people whose parents couldn’t vote, but they could, and so when my dad got deported, or my mom got deported, that became a crystallizing moment.”
Prado noted that nearly 40% of voters in the campaign's database were members of mixed-status families.
“We were pretty worried that we were going to repeat the same mistake of 2019, where Democrats came with a big new majority ... and they spent a year-plus on impeachment,”
Jacquez told CNBC that outside groups worry Democrats will repeat the 2019 mistake of spending over a year on impeachment instead of focusing on affordability.
“Cindy Hyde-Smith is going to represent Mississippi in the United States Senate for the next six years.”
Hyde-Smith's X account posted a statement claiming she would represent Mississippi in the Senate for the next six years.
“the freedom of navigation at sea”
Hammond identifies freedom of navigation at sea as the bigger issue raised by such vessel captures.
“a landmark for the ages”
Trump told reporters the proclamation would turn the Oval Office and Cabinet Room into a lasting landmark.
“Texas is a fascinating market,”
Billings described Texas as a fascinating market, noting many consumers travel to Oklahoma to gamble at tribal casinos.
“Yeah, well, I really appreciate that question,”
El-Sayed responded to Haines's question about challenging extremist views in one's own religion.
“Excuses were created to imprison me,”
Lissu told the court that his trial was political persecution and accused the judges of following government orders.
“bringing up all those,”
Anderson said Colom was raising concerns about affordability, the Iran war, and corruption.
“Trump went against us,”
Melendez, a former Trump voter from Weslaco, Texas, explained why he and other Hispanic Americans turned against the Republican party.
“The bigger message is about building balanced meals that naturally contain healthy fats, protein, fiber and carbohydrates,”
Chaudhry said the bigger message is about building balanced meals.
“the country is facing a grave political crisis”
Former President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed welcomed the Supreme Court ruling that declared President Mohamud's term extension unlawful.
“Better late than never,”
Behar remarked on El-Sayed's delayed apology during the segment.
“Election officials are continuing the normal process of counting outstanding ballots, including absentee ballots. They must have the time to complete that work and ensure every lawful ballot is accurately counted and every Mississippian's voice is heard.”
A post on Hyde-Smith's X account urged that election officials be given time to complete the normal ballot-counting process.
“Meal-sequencing is appealing because it merely changes how a meal is eaten rather than requiring people to avoid entire food groups,”
Yabe said the research is inspired by practical approaches people can sustain.
“offer context around the fact that that individual had lost a child, niece and nephew in an airstrike. And I want us to be thinking a little bit about, A, how we demonstrate our ability as leaders to stand with people's pain with no exceptions and no asterisks around them. And also be able to have an adult conversation about the ways in which actions ricochet around the world and create worse for all of us.”
El-Sayed explained he had tried to offer context about the attacker having lost relatives in an airstrike and called for leaders to stand with people's pain without exceptions.
“What will change is how power is distributed in Washington,”
Denmark warned against over-interpreting the midterm results for Australia.
“If I had to do it again, I'd have to do it again,”
Trump said he would do the war with Iran again despite its electoral cost.
“What the jury found here, based on the contemporaneous documents written by Dr. Knouse herself, was that no harassment ever occurred and that her claims of harassment and rape were false and defamatory. This jury verdict, therefore, has no bearing on people who report truthfully.”
Arrowood said the jury found no harassment occurred and that Knouse's claims were false and defamatory.
“and I’ll come back here and I’ll make sure it never happens.”
Trump pledged to personally intervene to prevent any future demolition of the monument spaces.
“18-month investigation into Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, securing key evidence of how their business practices were undermining competition and harming people, setting the basis for both lawsuits and proposed legislation.”
Khan highlighted the House Judiciary Committee's prior investigation into major tech companies as a model for how investigations can secure evidence and set the basis for lawsuits and legislation.
“We have seen him in these last few days making speeches, audiences and so on. He seems in great shape. That was important.”
Professor Faggioli said the Pope had been visibly active since his surgery and appeared to be in great shape.
“2026 was not simply a blue wave; it was a blue tsunami. It was an a-- kicking,”
Cruz described the 2026 midterms as a blue tsunami in a scathing post on X.
“is still surrounded by a group of hawks”
Afghahi cautioned that Trump remains influenced by hawkish advisers, including the energy and treasury secretaries.
“Imagine an American politician responding to Dylann Roof’s massacre of Black worshipers at Bible study by saying ‘Hurt people hurt people,’ then asking us to consider the killer’s grievances. That politician would rightly be run out of American public life.”
Arm drew a comparison to Dylann Roof's massacre, arguing a politician making similar comments in that case would be run out of public life.
“A completely different Congress will require that administration to do things differently, including not hurting allies – friends, such as Australia – with tariffs.”
Husic said a completely different Congress would require the Trump administration to do things differently.
“In the case of the Smyrtos, it could be argued that Captain Pant is being criminalised for simply doing his job,”
Hammond argues that Captain Pant may be being criminalised simply for doing his job.
“It is unique in terms of the interception and the interdiction of a vessel that had been sanctioned, having passed through the English Channel as an international transit corridor. It’s, in my understanding, not happened before,”
Hammond describes the uniqueness of the interception and interdiction of the sanctioned vessel in the English Channel.
“When you implement policies with such cruelty and malice, then this is what you get,”
Prado attributed the outstanding election result partly to backlash against Trump's mass deportation drive in Texas.
“How can you have faith in these measures that they're putting in to mitigate future disasters if you don't know fully what happened the first time around?”
Danni Gillam-Kirton questions how families can trust future disaster mitigation measures without knowing what happened in Bédar.
“Does this inject more uncertainty into American foreign policy? We’ve already had a lot of volatility in that regard.”
Sinodinos was assessing whether the midterm results would inject more uncertainty into American foreign policy.
“The big question then is the United States. There's no question he wants to go. So will he travel when [President Donald] Trump is still in office? I'm sure they're thinking about this.”
Professor Faggioli said the big question is whether the Pope will travel to the United States while Donald Trump is still in office.
“An accident involving an intercity bus occurred near Lent, France, with multiple casualties reported,”
The prefecture issued a statement confirming the intercity bus accident near Lent with emergency services deployed to the scene.
“They were fantastic parents, my biggest champions and cheerleaders,”
Danni Gillam-Kirton describes her parents Pete and Fran, who died in the Bédar wildfire.
“The data is absolutely crystal clear that the more competition you have, the more it drives interest in the league,”
Silver said in a 2024 CNBC Sport interview that competition drives interest in the league.
“Our job is always to deliver better outcomes for the Australian people.”
Hastie told 2GB the midterm results showed economic messaging was critical.
“Some investors may now see a greater chance of stronger US backing for Europe, easing the pressure on European governments to spend more [but] even with stronger US backing, we expect Europe to stick to its spending plans,”
Muharremi said Wednesday's weakness in European defense stocks was largely sentiment-driven and that Europe is expected to stick to its spending plans.
“In the focus groups in particular, I was pretty shocked at how much jail time came up for CEOs,”
Jacquez expressed surprise at how frequently focus group participants raised the idea of jail time for CEOs.
“a comprehensive agreement that puts an end to the crisis”
The Diwan issued a statement describing a phone call between Qatar's Emir and Trump on diplomatic efforts to ease regional tensions.
“the most striking because it appears to say 'hey, we made a mistake with the war in Iran,' and that's about as far as I've seen a vice president go, not as a criticism of Trump but as a criticism in the policy.”
Kochel called Vance's assessment striking for its implicit criticism of the Iran war policy.
“I hope Jesus can forgive you.”
Keaton allegedly cursed out Washington high school student Ahnaleigh Wilson at a rally inside Climate Pledge Arena in July after Wilson held up a sign supporting Sophie Cunningham.
“I thought this was it. You had a wonderful life, Tommy, but it’s over right now,”
Jones recalled the trauma from his illness while appearing on stage at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles.
“Undeniably, seafarers are seen as disposable assets,”
Hammond says seafarers are viewed as disposable assets by shipping companies and nations.
“By uttering those words with the intention of disseminating them to the public, the accused incited the public to disrupt the 2025 elections,”
The court ruled that Lissu's campaign slogan was sufficient to convict him of incitement to disrupt the 2025 elections.