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Citing those tour obligations, he declined Page’s offer to front a new group he was forming.

In 2021, Newsom’s address was streamed from an empty Dodgers Stadium and, two years later, he declined to give a speech in lieu of a statewide press tour, during which he unveiled new policies.

The spokesman also declined to comment on whether the first minister would raise the issue with Mandelson at a scheduled breakfast meeting.

Chicago has long struggled with violent crime, but city officials note that homicides and shootings have declined, putting the city on track for its lowest homicide rate in half a century.

A spokesman for the district attorney’s office declined to comment on the prior plea agreement or identify the dating app used in each attack.