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Those pundits — including Kirk himself in the moments preceding his killing — have falsely claimed that trans people are responsible for the majority of mass shootings.

If you wind back seven years to 2018, England had won only one of the preceding half-dozen Six Nations.

Root had managed a high score of 27 in his five preceding innings this season, with three single-figure scores, but opened the Rockets innings in combative mood.

The court ruled that, whatever the map's flaws, Thailand had failed to challenge them in the preceding half century.

Whitewashed 0-3 at home by New Zealand, followed by a 3-1 drubbing by Australia Down Under in two preceding series, India looked vulnerable and wobbly.