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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.
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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 medical treatment. Looking Up: The New York Times’s Isabel Kershner explores life with a “green passport” in Israel’s “brave new post-pandemic future.”
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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 filers who report making more than $1 million, and would continue with two new brackets of high earners: Those making more than $5 million and those making more than $25 million.
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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 other House Democratic fundraising stars like Orange County’s