Congress is back in session today. More on the week ahead in today's Playbook:
“The commander of the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been fired seven weeks before he was to leave the job. Adm. Craig S. Faller relieved Rear Adm. John C. Ring for a ‘loss of confidence in his ability’ to lead, the United States Southern Command said on Sunday in a brief statement. Admiral Ring’s deputy, Brig. Gen. John F. Hussey, is now the acting commander.”“Richards … is returning to her political roots as an organizer.
REMEMBERING DICK LUGAR … INDY STAR: “Richard Lugar, former Indiana senator and Indianapolis mayor, dies at age 87”: “Lugar, a foreign policy icon in the U.S. Senate who received the nation’s highest civilian awards for his efforts to secure and destroy weapons of mass destruction after the collapse of the Soviet Union, died Sunday, according to his family.inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. ‘The world weeps alongside Indiana after just learning we lost one of our best, ever,’ Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said.
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