“Rebel fighters began to enter the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Sunday, according to the fighters and two members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, less than two weeks into a surprise offensive that now threatens to collapse the rule of President Bashar al-Assad,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. al-Assad’s whereabouts were unclear on Sunday morning.”
“The main rebel coalition announced on its Telegram channel before dawn that it had entered the capital and taken control of a nearby prison notorious for the use of torture and mass executions during the Syrian civil war.”
Wall Street Journal: Assad finds himself alone as enemies close in.
Embattled Douglas County Commissioner Lora Thomas resigned Friday, just weeks before the end of her last term in office, blaming years of friction with fellow commissioners who she says “evicted” her from her office space.
In a social media post, Thomas wrote that she’d put up with “4 years of hell” while working alongside commissioners Abe Laydon and George Teal, including “harassment, suppression, censorship, marginalization and outright cancellation.”
Thomas’ term would have expired in January, when state Sen.
Colorado State Senate leaders on Saturday said they will remove Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis from her committee assignments in response to renewed allegations that she mistreated employees in her office, which also prompted the state’s legislative aide union to call for her resignation.
Senate leadership stripped Jaquez Lewis of her state-paid aides earlier this week after two staffers formally complained that they were instructed to do chores around her home and bartend at a party she hosted, according to reporting by the Colorado Sun.
Incoming Senate President James Coleman and Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez said in a statement that Jaquez Lewis’ “alleged behavior is in direct conflict with our core Democratic values of protecting workers’ rights and uplifting our workforce.”
Coleman and Rodriguez said they planned to remove the senator from her committees for the coming session, a rare step that essentially blocks her from a key piece of the legislative process.
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