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2017 Frederick mayoral election

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The 2017 Frederick mayoral election was held November 7, 2017 in Frederick, Maryland. Randy McClement, the incumbent mayor, ran for a third term as Mayor. Democratic nominee Michael C. O'Connor won the election with 58.31% of the vote, becoming the city's next mayor.Republican pr...

2017 Pikeville protests

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The 2017 Pikeville protests were a series of rallies and counterprotests between white nationalist organizations such as the National Socialist Movement, the Traditionalist Workers Party, and the National Front; along with far-left opposition. The protests occurred in Pikeville, ...

2019 Sri Lankan Swiss embassy controversy

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On 25 November 2019, a Sri Lankan Swiss embassy staff member who works in Colombo was reportedly abducted by unidentified men and was detained in their custody for an investigation. She was released on the same day after two hours of inquiry. The Swiss government immediately requ...

2020 Yarra Ranges Shire election

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The 2020 Yarra Ranges Shire Election will be conducted by postal voting in October 2020 to elect one councillor for each of the nine wards. Instant-runoff voting is used to count votes. Each councillor is elected for a 4-year term. Key dates Key dates in relation to the election ...

2020–2022 Pakistani political crises

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In 2022, Pakistani political crises began when the opposition submitted a no-confidence motion against Imran Khan, which was followed by a political crisis in the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab and a constitutional crisis. A no-confidence motion against the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...

2021 Arizona and Washington, D.C., hunger strike

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The Arizona Student Hunger Strike was a youth activist hunger strike in protest of the failure of the U.S. Congress to pass the For the People Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Act into law. The strikes were led by Un-PAC, a national non partisan student led organization. The stri...

2021 Lansing City Council election

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Lansing City Council elections are scheduled to be held on November 2, 2021. Voters will elect council members for two out of the four At-Large seats, as well as Wards 2 and 4. Ward 2 and At Large will have a primary on August 3, 2021, while Ward 4, because only two candidates ha...

2022 Missouri State Auditor election

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On November 8, 2022, the Missouri State Auditor election will take place. As of 2021, incumbent Nicole Galloway is the only Democratic statewide officeholder. She was appointed in 2015 by Jay Nixon, and won an election for a full term in 2018 by 6 points. In 2020, she ran for Gov...

2023 proposed Scottish independence referendum

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A second referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom has been proposed by the Scottish Government. The date has been provisionally set for the 19th October 2023. The first independence referendum, held in 2014, saw Scotland opt to remain a constituent nation of th...

2023 San Francisco mayoral election

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The 2023 San Francisco mayoral election will be held on November 2, 2023 to elect the mayor of San Francisco. Incumbent mayor London Breed, who was reelected in 2019 after winning the seat in a 2018 special election, is eligible to run for a second full term.BackgroundLondon Bree...

2023–24 U.S. House legislative coalition

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Beginning in 2023, during the 118th United States Congress, some members of the House Republican Conference and House Democratic Caucus formed an informal legislative coalition to pass major bills in the United States House of Representatives.While Republicans won a majority of s...

2025 Aurora, Illinois mayoral election

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The 2025 Aurora mayoral election will be held on April 1, 2025 for the mayor of Aurora, Illinois. Incumbent mayor, Richard Irvin, is running for a third term as mayor. Primary elections are set to be held on February 25, 2025.BackgroundRichard Irvin was first elected in 2017 with...

2025 Marilao local elections

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Local elections will be held in Marilao, Bulacan on May 12, 2025 within the Philippine general election. The voters will elect the elective local posts in the municipality: the mayor, vice mayor, and eight councilors.BackgroundAfter the death of former mayor Ricky Silvestre in 20...

2025 TikTok refugee crisis

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The 2025 TikTok-REDnote mass migration is an event that took place after the US Supreme Court announced the possible TikTok ban in January 2025. Over "half a million" TikTok users flocked over to a similar Chinese app called Xiaohongshu (or REDnote) in protest of the ba...

2026 Colchester City Council election

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The 2026 Colchester City Council election is due to take place on 7 May 2026 to elect members of Colchester City Council in Essex, England. This will take place on the same day as other local elections.Due to ward boundary changes, all fifty-one councillors will be up for electio...

2026 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election

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The 2026 Hamilton municipal election will occur on 26 October 2026, as per the Ontario Municipal Elections Act, 1996. Residents of Hamilton will elect one mayor and members of the Hamilton City Council using a first-past-the-post electoral system in single-member constituencies, ...

2028 New South Wales local elections

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The 2028 New South Wales local elections are scheduled to held on 9 September 2028 to elect the councils of the 128 local government areas (LGAs) in New South Wales, Australia. A number of councils will also hold mayoral elections.Clover Moore, who was re-elected to a record sixt...

2028 North Dakota gubernatorial election

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The 2028 North Dakota gubernatorial election will be held on November 7, 2028, to elect the governor of North Dakota alongside their chosen lieutenant governor. North Dakota is considered a Republican stronghold, and the has not won a governor's race in the state since 1988. Back...

2028 Republican Party presidential primaries

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The 2028 Republican Party presidential primaries will be held to select delegates to the 2028 Republican National Convention to determine the Republican Party's nominee in the 2028 United States presidential election. These primaries will be the first since 2012 in which Donald T...

22MILES

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22MILES, Inc. is a multi-touch solution vendor, which targets business, government, and military. All 22MILES multi-touch systems are based on its proprietary multitouch framework, plus a set of gesture definition libraries. The most unique advantage of their framework is OS cros...

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