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⚔️ ️ Foiled: Jordanian officialsarrested nearly two dozen people over the weekend in connection to a plot to overthrow King Abdullah II. Former Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the king’s half brother, led the efforts and is now reportedly under house arrest. ��️ He’s Running: Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti registered to run in the Palestinian Authority election at the last minute, shaking up the first scheduled vote in the territories in 15 years. ⚕️ First Aid: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, 85, is reportedly on his way to Germany to seek...

Presented by Uber Driver Stories The budget is getting later by the minute, but Albany lawmakers have now finalized some of the stickier parts of the more than $200 billion spending plan that is now five days behind schedule. Easter afternoon, legislative sources confirmed a tentative agreement includes a big bump on tax rates for the state’s highest earners and some corporations, a step that is estimated to raise about $4.3 billion in revenue. They’re also hoping to include an additional $500 million that mobile sports betting could eventually rake in. The increases would start for fil...

Many Republicans still say they will vote to acquit Trump despite today's presentation  From CNN's Manu Raju and Ryan Nobles Senator Marco Rubio leaves after the conclusion of the second day of the second impeachment trial of former US President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill February 10, in Washington, DC. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images Despite the riveting video footage that moved senators from both sides of the aisle, many GOP senators are simply not moved enough to convict former President Trump. Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, would only say Trump bears “some responsibility” ...

Michigan Republicans have a long history of being on the wrong side of many of the issues the citizens of Michigan care most about. From education to privatizing essential government services like prisons and schools, they have invariably sided with the corporatists who stand to benefit most from shifting tax dollars to corporate bank accounts. I thought I had seen them at their worst when they passed the what Rachel Maddow called “THE most radical Republican experiment in the 21st Century”, Michigan’s odious Emergency Manager Law and when they formed the school district for wayward Det...

Ben White took heavy criticism for a Colonel Nathan Jessup-themed tweet in which he said that everyone secretly missed suspended former President and current Twitter user Donald Trump’s social media posts. On Friday evening, White posted a message patterned after Jack Nicholson’s oft-quoted monologue from A Few Good Men. “Deep down in places you don’t talk about at cocktail parties you want him tweeting those tweets. You miss him tweeting those tweets,” White wrote, and added “… And the sweet rush of outrage that followed. If you say you don’t you are lying.” Deep down i...