TRENTON — Assembly Republicans unveiled a package of legislation today that they said would reform the state's many independent authorities and prevent occurrences like the George Washington Bridge scandal. The measure would make the agencies more…
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President Joe Biden is testing whether he can bring sweeping changes in Afghanistan, including a potential government involving the Taliban, in a high-risk strategy as he weighs whether to honor a May deadline to end America's longest war.
In a letter leaked to Afghan media over the weekend, Secretary of State Antony Blinken encouraged Afghan leaders to consider a "new, inclusive government" and proposed that talks take place within weeks in Turkey to seal a peace deal with the Taliban.
Quinton Lucas, one the nation's top big-city Black mayors, indicated today he's considering a run for the U.S Senate seat being vacated by veteran Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri.
Blunt made a surprise announcement Monday that he wouldn't seek reelection when his term expires in 2022. That move caught political insiders by surprise, but while most attention focused on the Republican free-for-all that will ensue in a scramble for the GOP nomination, Lucas is the Democrat most likely to have a serious chance to flip the seat blue were he to decide to run.
The Republican Party has had multiple chances to distance itself from former President Donald Trump, including most recently when he sent the RNC a cease and desist letter warning them to not use his name or image for fundraising. But as usual the RNC just reinforced its ties to Trump, moving a major donor dinner to Mar-a-Lago.
"The weekend retreat in early April for the party's most influential donors will be at a luxury hotel in Palm Beach, as in past years," The Washington Post reports. "But the RNC has decided to move the Saturday evening portion of the schedule to the former president's private club to accommodate Trump and guests who would like to visit the site."
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