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    Cory Booker didn’t want to run for Senate. Shortly after his re-election as mayor of Newark in 2010, he was asked about the prospect. "I can think of no office that would be less attractive," Booker said. "I would be discussing rules of…


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    Matthew Chapman
    February 25, 2021

    On Thursday, following a military strike on an Iranian military target in Syria, CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins broke down the implications of the action — and its possible implications on diplomacy with Iran.

    "We're told this came from the top down, the decision to target these sites specifically. That means it came from President Biden himself," said Collins. "And so this does raise a lot of questions about where they are going to go forward, since they just said they want to restart talks with Iran. Those are multinational talks ... it was always going to be a delicate tough dance that was going to move forward there after former President Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal. So the way this complicates that, how this factors into that, still remains to be seen, because it was already going to be pretty dicey."

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    The chair of the Senate Budget Committee on Thursday revealed a plan to boost wages after an effort to raise the minimum wage to $15 in the COVID stimulus bill was blocked by Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough.

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    President Joe Biden ordered an attack Iranian-backed militias, CNN reported Thursday.

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