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In the wider reshuffle, Sadiq Khan, who was Ed Miliband's campaign manager in the leadership election, was given the post of shadow justice secretary.

For the first time, the Sunni Iraqiya bloc, which won the largest number of votes in last year's election, was given meaningful positions in the government.

Rather than ending up in the Supreme Court, the 1876 election was given to a commission made up of members of Congress and Supreme Court justices.

Scaramucci, a spokesman for the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election, was given one of the largest megaphones in the national media when the president tapped him Friday.

"These comments may have been made in jest when Mr Lock was a student, but youth and naivety are no defence for what are clearly inappropriate remarks". Mr Lock, who has taken time off from being a mature politics student for the election, was given the unanimous backing of the Ynys Mon Labour party to be their candidate at a meeting in February.

OTTAWA — A gunman killed one spectator and left another in critical condition on Tuesday outside a Montreal hall where Pauline Marois, whose separatist Parti Québécois had just claimed victory in a provincial election, was giving a speech, the police said.

Assemblyman Michael N. Gianaris — who represents Long Island City, Astoria and other neighborhoods in western Queens — said that Mr. Monserrate had "disgraced this community" and that the special election was giving voters "an honor to strike the first blow" against him.

We are especially encouraged that Sunnis — disenfranchised after boycotting the 2005 election — were given several top posts, including speaker of Parliament.

Critics of a controversial trash-burning power plant in San Marcos who had hoped to block its construction with a special election were given some hope Thursday that the election might still be held, even though a Vista Superior Court Judge in March ruled their proposed ballot measure was illegal.

The accusation suggested that Mr. Corzine, who has raised money for President Obama's re-election, was given a free pass.

Senator Paula Hawkins of Florida, one of the more vulnerable Republicans seeking re-election, was given the plum assignment of managing the drug bill on the Senate floor.