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The lawmakers' last-minute attempt last month followed Roberson pleading for leniency.

In the hour I spent writing this article, I received yet another email from the Harris campaign, pleading for 50 more dollars.

All as Roberts stood on the sidelines, pleading for compromises that his hard-right colleagues spurned.

Rut Moyano, a resident of Benetússer, near Valencia, chronicled the increasingly desperate situation in her town on X. Pleading for help, she said she was sheltering with neighbours on the upper floors of her building when one of them suffered a heart attack and died.

However, he warned of what he called “Israeli treachery” and said Lebanese authorities were “pleading... for international bodies to stand fast in defence of Baalbek's Roman ruins”.