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Search results for "Serena Williams will play singles at Wimbledon after receiving a wild-card entry."

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Facebook posts stated on September 23, 2024 in a Facebook post:
“Serena Williams reportedly passes away following tragic car crash in Texas.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• September 27, 2024
Facebook posts stated on April 14, 2024 in a post:
“Venus Williams forfeits match against trans woman,” saying, “I’m not playing a man.”
By Grace Abels• April 17, 2024
Facebook posts stated on June 24, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Tennis star Serena Williams wrote that she’s “sick of COVID-19. I’m sick of black vs. white. I’m sick of Democrats vs. Republicans. I’m sick of gay vs. straight. I’m sick of Christians vs atheists. I’m REALLY sick of the media.”
By Aaron Sharockman• June 24, 2020
Travis Rowley stated on July 19, 2011 in a commentary:
"The RI Board of Elections has heard official testimony from Providence residents who claim to have witnessed known illegal aliens voting in local elections."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• July 31, 2011
Mark Warner stated on December 06, 2010 in a floor speech.:
The national debt grew an estimated $15 billion last weekend.
By Wes Hester• December 9, 2010
Vern Buchanan stated on June 24, 2010 in a tweet:
The national debt "has gone up by $1,729,000,000 during the Isner v. Mahut match."
By Louis Jacobson• June 24, 2010
Barack Obama stated on July 30, 2008 in Springfield, Mo.:
"Wild Bill Hickok had his first duel in the town square here. And the family legend is that he is a distant cousin of mine."
By Robert Farley• July 30, 2008
Instagram posts stated on January 21, 2024 in an Instagram post:
Sports journalist Mike Dickson died because of COVID-19 vaccines.
By Madison Czopek• January 23, 2024
Elizabeth Ames Jones stated on February 13, 2012 in a statement announcing her departure from the commission:
On resigning from the Texas Railroad Commission.
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• February 17, 2012
Tom Cotton stated on September 17, 2017 in an NBC interview:
"If you pass the so-called Dream Act, it will be the single biggest amnesty in the history of the United States, even bigger than the 1986 amnesty."  
By Miriam Valverde• September 26, 2017
Facebook posts stated on August 01, 2021 in a Facebook post:
"They didn't allow" Simone Biles "to take her ADHD medication."
By Tom Kertscher• August 2, 2021
Kenneth Block stated on June 19, 2010 in a TV and Internet commercial:
"(I) helped to invent a system that saved over a billion dollars on welfare."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• August 29, 2010
Roger Williams stated on July 02, 2012 in a campaign mailer.:
Says the federal government is spending $765,828 to subsidize "pancakes for yuppies" in Washington.
By W. Gardner Selby• July 11, 2012
Central Falls Police Department stated on January 28, 2013 in a news release:
"Statistics show one male cat can father 420,000 kittens in five years."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• February 2, 2013
Richard Saslaw stated on November 09, 2010 in a statement to Alexandria City Council :
$65 million from ABC privatization will not pay for "even an overpass in Tysons Corner."
By Wes Hester• November 14, 2010
Ken Paxton stated on September 05, 2017 in a press release:
"President Obama used" his DACA order "to unilaterally confer U.S. citizenship."
By W. Gardner Selby• September 15, 2017
Phil Gingrey stated on December 16, 2010 in a state legislative committee meeting:
Under current U.S. immigration policy, "literally one person with a green card" can, in the extreme, bring in more than 270 of his relatives.
By Willoughby Mariano• January 18, 2011
Republican Party of Wisconsin stated on August 01, 2018 in a news release:
Says Mahlon Mitchell "received a massive raise on the backs of hard-working firefighters and turned the union into his own personal political slush fund."
By D.L. Davis• August 9, 2018
Donald Trump stated on August 31, 2016 in a press conference in Mexico:
Says U.S.-Mexico border has "1 million legal border crossings each and every day."
By Miriam Valverde• September 14, 2016
Greg Walden stated on April 18, 2013 in a radio interview:
Says "we allow more people into America legally than all other countries on the planet combined."
By Ian K. Kullgren• May 24, 2013

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