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Dictators and rogue states would be ascendant, nuclear weapons would proliferate, and the president-elect would never make good on his bluster about ending the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.

Even before Roan was one of the biggest pop stars on the planet, her reputation in underground queer nightlife was ascendant.

With Reform UK in the ascendant, are they the right enemy for the Tories in any case, one source wonders?

It did not play like the star-studded juggernaut or villainous evil empire or ascendant dynastic power the rest of the baseball world had labeled it to be.

Hall and Mejia represent vastly different flanks of the Democratic Party, and the coming race will almost certainly pit L.A. establishment politics against the city’s ascendant left.