WASHINGTON – Sen. Marco Rubio confirmed Wednesday that he may reconsider his plans to leave the Senate at the end of this year and run for re-election instead.
Rubio told reporters that he will let everyone know about any change of status next week after spending some time with his family. The filing deadline for the Florida Senate race is June 24 – a week from Friday.
Rubio has been under huge pressure from GOP leaders to run for re-election. They believe he has the best shot of keeping his Florida seat in GOP hands. The race is critical in a year when Democrats hope to retake control of the Senate.
Since exiting the GOP presidential race, Rubio, who has four young kids and is not independently wealthy, had been expected to enter the private sector and run again for president in 2020.
WASHINGTON –Lawmakers backing the release of the 28 still-secret pages of a 2002 congressional report about the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are asking House Intelligence Committee leaders to declassify them by simply publishing them in the Congressional Record.
President Barack Obama has promised to release at least part of the documents, which are believed to address possible Saudi connections to the hijackers.
James Clapper, national director of intelligence, was to review the classified pages – a review that was ordered in the summer of 2014. So far, they have remained secret and kept in a secure room in the basement of the Capitol.
CAIRO – Egypt on Wednesday said that it spotted and obtained images from the wreckage of the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people on board, according to a statement by the country’s investigation committee.
The committee said that the vessel John Lethbridge, which was contracted by the Egyptian government to join the search for the plane debris and flight data recorders, “had identified several main locations of the wreckage.”
Associated Press
