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POLITICO Get the POLITICO Influence newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Updated Presented by Tyson Foods CORNERSTONE ADDS 2: Katelyn Bunning has departed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office, where she rose through the ranks for more than a decade to become his legislative director, and joined ...

By ANDREW DYER, KRISTINA DAVIS | The San Diego Union-Tribune | Published: April 18, 2021 SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Tribune News Service) — Travis Horr was a sixth-grader in Maine when the Twin Towers fell on 9/11. Ten years later, he was a 21-year-old Marine lance corporal in Afghanistan when the architect of the terrorist attack, Osama Bin Laden, was killed. The endgame seemed to be in sight. "That's what we believed the whole mission was," recalls Horr. But the hunt for bin Laden and defeat of the Taliban turned into a nation-building effort — one that perhaps infantry riflemen were not eq...

From 2005 to 2014, U-T photojournalist Nelvin C. Cepeda traveled regularly to Afghanistan embedded with Marines from Camp Pendleton. He looks back on what it was like seeing the war unfold abroad and at home. President Joe Biden’s announcement last week that all remaining U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, left Horr, now 32, buoyed by the possibility of finality — but with an unavoidable sense of déjà vu. “We’ve been here before,” said Horr, the director of government affairs for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a national organization that provides res...

What’s KHANNA’s next move? — Fears of SPRING BREAK Covid surge — SOON-SHIONG: Anti-Asian racism ‘pervasive’ — Giant data leak at FACEBOOK Presented by CVS Health But seven years later, that declaration hasn’t hurt him. Khanna, a Democrat from the South Bay, has become one of Congress’ most successful rainmakers. New figures released to POLITICO show he’s raised more than $1.5 million in the first quarter of 2021, an off-year, and is sitting on $3.5 million cash on hand. Those numbers mark the largest fundraising quarter of his elective career, and put him up there with oth...

POLITICO Sign up for POLITICO Playbook today. Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by Facebook MLB's decision to relocate the 2021 All Star Game after Georgia passed a law restricting voting rights has ignited a firestorm. | John Amis/AP Photo DRIVING THE DAY THE LATEST ON FRIDAY’S CAPITOL ATTACK, via WaPo: �...