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“What I’m in favor of is giving it to the voters and let the voters decide.”
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“It requires a constitutional amendment. What I’m in favor of is giving it to the voters and let the voters decide.”
Texas Gov. GREG ABBOTT, a Republican, telling a FOX 4 reporter days ahead of the Super Bowl that he was open to legalizing sports betting in Texas.
“We anticipate that we will be a much smaller overall organization by the end of this fiscal year.”
Catholic Relief Services President and CEO SEAN CALLAHAN, announcing staff cuts in a Feb. 3 email days after the Trump administration announced a funding freeze at USAID. The aid agency had supplied about half of the charity’s $1.5 billion budget.1
“There are no customers.”
Los Angeles shop vendor JOSHUA CALDERON, explaining a slump in business as migrants afraid of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown avoided the streets. 2
“These are the assets of the state of Afghanistan.”
Taliban spokesman ABDUL QAHAR BALKHI, rebuffing Trump’s demand that the Afghan government return roughly $7 billion in military equipment left behind after U.S. forces’ hasty retreat in 2021.3
“It is finally time for me to confess and explain, fully and publicly, that I am a Christian.”
Web developer and Wikipedia co-founder LARRY SANGER, 56, explaining in a long blog post on Feb. 5 his story of recently converting to Christianity from agnosticism.
1 National Catholic Reporter; 2 The Wall Street Journal; 3 CBS News
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