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SENATE COLLEAGUES URGE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO PROTECT AFGHAN WOMEN LEADERS IN WAKE OF TALIBAN TAKEOVER IN AFGHANISTAN

WASHINGTON– U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on  Near East, South Asia, Central Asia and Counterterrorism, and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Monday joined U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and 42 of their Senate colleagues in urging the Biden administration to take swift, robust action to protect and support Afghan women leaders facing unparalleled danger following the Taliban’s violent sweep across Afghanistan and seizure of Kabul. In a bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, the senators called on the Administration to create a humanitarian parole category specifically for women leaders, activists, human rights defenders, parliamentarians, journalists, and members of the…

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Fairfield News: Cops Called To Board Of Ed Meeting Over Mask Mandates

2021-08-17@5:51pm--#Fairfield CT-- Police were called to the Board of Education Meeting at 500 Kings Highway East over a disruption during a board of education meeting discussion on mask mandates. One parent who was leaving told me one of the board members allegedly got upset and the board members went to their secured, locked offices. I did check the meeting room where there was about 20 people sitting quietly in the meeting room.

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Fairfield News: Stolen Car Hits Cop Car-Gets Captured

2021-08-17@1:01pm--#Fairfield CT-- A Stratford Police car was following a stolen Lexus on I-95 southbound when they lost sight of the car at exit 26. The car got off in Fairfield, police successfully flatten one of the tires with a spike strip. The car turned onto the dead-end part of Halley Avenue when the car turned around and hit a parked car and a police car. The car turned onto Kings Highway then onto I-95 southbound when it pulled over near exit 23 and surrendered. A man (driver) and a woman were taken into custody.

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