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The first coronavirus case in the U.S. Capitol has been diagnosed. A staff member for Washington Senator Maria Cantwell has tested positive for the disease, her office said in a statement.Cantwell s office said that the individual has been in isolation since symptoms appeared. The Capitol s attending physician advised Cantwell to close her office for the rest of the week and have the office deep-cleaned, which the Washington Democrat is doing.The individual has not had known contact with the senator or any other members of Congress. Cantwell is requesting testing for anyone who had contact with the individual and has symptoms of coronavirus infection. Cantwell s home state has by far the largest number of cor stanley cup onavirus cases in the U.S. There are at least 281 cases and more than 25 people have died of the disease in Washington state.Congressional leaders are considering temporarily halting tours of the U.S. Capitol as a result of rising concerns over the spread ofcoronavirus. Arden Farhi and Nancy stanley tumblers Cordes contributed to this report. Coronavirus Pandemic More stanley termohrnek CDC recommends 2nd dose of this year s COVID shot for those age 65+ Toqq Twitter suspends Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for spreading COVID-19 misinformation
Keith Olbermann CBS UPDATE: Olbermann has been suspended. Story here. Liberal MSNBC host Keith Olbermann donated to three Democratic candidates in the 2010 election cycle, potentially in violation of stanley drink bottle NBC s ethics policy. Olbermann acknowledged stanley mugs the contributors - to Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway and Arizona Reps. Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords - in a statement to Politico, which first reported the donations. Olbermann said he made the donations on October 28th, a day on which Grijalva appeared on his show Countdown with Keith Olbermann. He gave the maximum $2,400 donation to each of the three stanley cup candidates, and said the donations came after a discussion with a friend about the state of politics in Arizona. I did not privately or publicly encourage anyone else to donate to these campaigns, nor to any others in this election or any previous ones, nor have I previously donated to any political campaign at any level, he said in the statement. As CNN reports, the donations are confirmed in the Federal Election Commission filings of all three candidates. NBC s ethics policy generally bars political activity, including contributions, without the approval of the president of NBC News, Steve Capus, according to a 2007 story on MSNBC. Anyone working for NBC News who takes part in civic or other outside activities may find that the

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The vetting of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaug stanley cup h is just beginning, but his public financial disclosures make one thing clear: He s not as wealthy as many already on the high court. Public disclosure forms for 2017 show that the federal judge would come to the nation s highest court with only two investments, including a bank account, together worth a maximum of $65,000, along with the balance on a loan of $15,000 or less.Separate from the disclosure forms, the White House said that between Kavanaugh s retirement account balance of $400,000 to $500,000, and the equity in his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, he has about an additional million dollars in wealth.If confirmed, his relatively modest means would rank Kavanaugh in the lower tier in personal finances among members of court. Some of his potential future colleagues list millions of dollars in investments. The records also showed that Kavanaugh, a federal appellate judge nominated by Presiden stanley water bottle t Donald Trump to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, had between $45,000 and $150,000 in credit card debt in 2016, which was paid off by the following year.In 2016, he also reported a loan balance between $15,000 and $50,000. The White House said some of Kavanaugh s credit card debt listed on his 2016 financial form was due to bu stanley cup ying season tickets to the Washington Nationals for himself and several friends, but officials stressed that he was reimbursed for the friends tickets Kjjv Sessions takes fight on border enforcement to New Mexico
Confederate heritage groups got excited when Gov. Bob Riley s annual proclamation designating April as Confederate History and Heritage Month dropped a paragraph saying slavery was the cause of the Civil War.The groups were pleased because they consider that description of slavery historically inaccurate. Their excitement, however, was short lived. It was a mistake, said Jeff Emerson, the governor s communications director, on Monday. He said stanley cups uk he did not know how the mistake was made. Emerson said the governor was unaware of the deletion until The Associated Press contacted his office. The governor quickly reissued the proclamation with the paragraph on slavery restored, and posted it on his Web site. That makes Bob Riley look very inconsistent and inept, said Roger Broxton, president of the Confederate Heritage Fund. State Rep. Oliver Robinson, House chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus, was pleased that Riley withdrew the version of the proclamation that makes no mention of slavery. To me, the members of the Black Caucus, and the majorit stanley cup y of black citizens of Alabama that would be a disgrace, he said.For many years, Alabama governors have sign stanley water bottle ed proclamations designating April as Confederate History and Heritage Month. When Riley became governor in January 2003, he used the same proclamation as his predecessor, Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman.It contained a paragraph that says Our recognition of Confederate history also rec

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WASHINGTON - Lawmakers have freed up a little more than 20 percent of $187 million in U.S. assistance to the Palestinians that had been frozen over the Palestinian bid for U.N. membership.Members of Congress have made available $40 million in economic and humanitarian funding for the Palestinians, the State Department said Wednesday. The money is administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development and has been vital to esta stanley cups uk blishing and strengthening the foundations necessary for a future Palestinian state, the department said.The Obama administration had been urging lawmakers, with Israel s backing, to release the money as it contributes to Palestinian stability and Israeli security. It is in the interest of the Palestinians, Israel and the United States, to ensure these efforts continue, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said. They help to build a more democratic, stable, and secure r stanley cup egion. The administration is pressing Congress to release the remaining $147 million that comes from the last budget cycle in which aid to the Palestinians was to total $545.7 million. New funding for the Palestinians will be subject to additional scrutiny and can be blocked if they win full admission to the United Nations before a peace deal with Israel is agreed.The administration has asked Congress for $513.4 million in aid for the Palestinians in fiscal year 2012. stanley quencher p

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Zfgj Troy Price resigns as head of Iowa Democratic Party after bungled caucuses
Three South Florida congresswomen are calling for an investigation into the company that operates the nation s largest facility for unaccompanied migrant children, in Homestead, Florida. The shelter can hold as many as 3,200 children.Democratic Representatives Donna Shalala, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell asked in the letter sent Tuesday for the inspector general of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department HHS to investigate a recent no-bid contract given to the shelter operator, Comprehensive Health Services.News of the contract, worth up to $341 million, was first reported by the Miami Herald in a story cited by the congresswomen in their letter to the inspector general. As representatives of Miami-Dade County, where the shelter is located, we are deeply concerned with the conditions surrounding stanley cup the contracting, particularly as this for-profit company continues to financially benefit from the prolonged detention of children, they wrote.The congresswomen note in their letter stanley cup that they were denied access when they tried to visit the facility in April, and our constitutional oversight duties continue to be impeded by the facility and the Department of Health and Human Services. That same week, former White House chief of staff John Kelly was granted access to the facility. CBS News revealed on May 3 that Kelly had taken a job as a member of the board of d stanley cup irectors of Comprehensive Health Services par Qvkq British Pol: Killing Blair Justified
WASHINGTON - A Senate Banking Committee aide says the Democr stanley thermoskannen atic-led panel is gathering information on Standard Poor s decision to issue the first-ever downgrade of the government s credit rating.The aide spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss unannounced committee business after the pane stanley thermos l s chairman, South Dakota Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson, called SP s move irresponsible. The aide did not say that a formal investigation was under way.The credit rating agency announced Friday that it was reducing the government s credit rating from AAA to AA+, citing a partisan standoff in Washington over reducing the massive federal debt. The Reuters news agency also cited an anonymous Banking Committee aide in reporting that there hasn t been a decision on whether the committee will conduct hearings about the downgrade but that all options are being considered.Special Section: America s Debt BattleAnalyst: US not heading for double-dip recessionEyes on Fed amid economic, market turmoil A congressional aide told Reuters late Monday that the Republican-controlled House Financial Services oversight committee doesn t have plans to hold another hearing on credit agencies after holding one in July before SP announced its downgrade.Congress is in a virtual recess until after the Labor Day holiday. The House and Senate are gaveled into session every few days, preventing the possibili garrafa stanley ty of President Obama circumventing the congress

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The former Republican presidential nominee and potential Utah Senate candidate criticized President Trump over his alleged comment about immigration. In a tweet on the birthday of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney wrote, The poverty of an aspiring immigrant s nation of origin is as irrelevant as their race. The sentiment attributed to POTUS is inconsistent w/ America s history and antithetical to American values. May our memory of Dr. King buoy our hope for unity, greatness, charity for all. The poverty of an aspiring immigrantrsquo nation of origin is as irrelevant as their race. The sentiment a stanley quencher ttributed to POTUS is inconsistent w/ Americarsquo history and antithetical to American values. May our memory of Dr. King buoy our hope for unity, greatness, charity for all.During a meeting last week with lawmakers about a possible immigration deal, Mr. Trump questioned why the U.S. accepts immigrants fro stanley website m what he called sh stanley deutschland *thole countries, according to Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, who attended the meeting. Why are we having all these people from sh*thole countries come here the president said Thursday afternoon in the Oval Office. Two Republican senators present at the meeting have disputed Durbin s account. A former Romney adviser, Dan Senor, told CBS This Morning Monday that it s highly likely Romney will run for the Senate seat bei Aeqy China s President Xi Jinping completes remarkable power grab
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Paula Reid, Nicole Sganga and Steven Portnoy contributed to this reportPaul Manafort, President Trump s former campaign chairman, has been found guilty on five counts of tax fraud, one count of failing to disclose his foreign bank accounts and two counts of bank fraud.The jury was unable to reach consensus on 10 of the 18 counts in the bank fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Judge T.S. Ellis III will declare a mistrial on the 10 unresolved counts but is accepting the jury s verdict on the remaining eight counts. Ellis decided there was manifest necessity to proc stanley mugs eed. Manafort verdict:5 counts tax fraud: Guilty2 counts bank fraud: Guilty1 count failure to disclose foreign bank account: Guilty10 counts: Jury unable to reach consensusWhen the verdict was read, Manafort stood before the judge without flinching, his hands folded stanley cups beneath his waist. He appears to have lost weight in recent weeks.After the trial, Manafort s attorney, Kevin Downing, told reporters that Manafort was disap stanley cup quencher pointed he was not acquitted on all counts, but he thanked Ellis for a fair trial and the jury for its long deliberation. Downing also said that Manafort is evaluating his options. Manafort faced 18 counts mdash; five counts related to false income tax returns, four counts of failing to file foreign bank account reports, four counts of bank fraud and five counts of bank fraud conspiracy. The government alleges Manafort hid tens o Tvnx New Editorial Cartoons
Several of my fairly famous colleagues have disclosed they no longer vote as a way of maintaining their neutrality as journalists. I admire their stanley cup objective, but I don t understand their reasoning.Anyone who k cups stanley nows me knows how much I love my job. But it s a job. I wouldn t equate it with voting, which to me is my duty as a citizen, like paying the water bill.I remember reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich as a young man and how surprised I was to learn the Nazis had used an election as a springboard to power. Had I lived in Germany then, I hope I could have voted against them. I wouldn t have wanted to be neutral on that one. Besides, voting is just so much fun. As a reporter, I have to back up what I say with facts. But I need give no reason, marshal no argument for my vote. Maybe I just don t like the candidate s attitude - reason enough to vote against him. Or maybe I think a candidate really is qualified - a good reason to vote for him. It s my vote and I can exercise it any way I choose, but no candidate gets my vote unless I believe he or she deserves it.We take voting so seriously at my house that my wife has instructed me not to tell even her who I vote for. She s afraid I ll disappoint her. Oh ye of little faith. But isn t that the best part We can tell everyone or no one.So, go vote. It s good for the country and good for you. Makes you feel big and strong. stanley quencher

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The Belgian ambassador to the U.S. says his country deeply regrets President Trump s decision to withdrawfrom the Iran nuclear deal. We deeply regret it, with so many other European countries and other partners in the world who were involved with this effort of getting to that nuclear deal, he told Major Garrett on The Takeout podcast this week.Wouters was personally involved in the first half of the diplomatic effort, which took a dozen years to come to fruition in the 2015Joint Com stanley cup prehensive Plan of Action. Listen to this episode on Stitcher We were confident that it could work, not forever, of course, but we organized it in such a way that Iran became the most monitored country in the world, he said of Iran s nuclear freeze. stanley cups uk While Mr. Trump claimed Tuesday that Iran was not in compliance with the agreement, citing Israeli intelligence, Wouters disagreed, telling Garrett that none of the reports showed any infractions.The deal signed under former President Obama allowed the powers party to it the U.S., the UK, Russia, China, France, Germany and the rest of the EU to monitor Iran as it limited its nuclear activities in exchange for liftin stanley cup g economic sanctions against it. With this, Iran promised not to develop a nuclear weapon and agreed to scale back its uranium enrichment program. The strength was that being so close to the development of a nuclear capability, you were able to Vuqu Joe Lieberman: McCain s Bipartisan Wingman
In this column in the Los Angeles Times, writer Andrew Klavan ponders the question of why moviemakers aren t making movies about the war on terrorism. His conclusion is that they don t because they re uncomfortable with the notion of Americans being the good guys and people of color/residents of the virtuous Third World being the bad guys. Hey, we re less than a lifetime from stanley travel mug Jim Crow, so therefore how can we be the good guys It seems to me that the attitude Klavan describes extends far beyond Hollywood moviemakers. It s the product, I think, of our colleg stanley quencher es and universities and our schools generally, where the default assumption is that America or the West is morally suspect. Our civilization is responsible for all the evils in the world. And so forth.All of which leads to an impulse not to fight Islamic fascist terrorism. It must be our fault. For an interesting take on this, read this article by one Hendryk Broder in Der Spiegel. Europe, it seems, is a little farther along on this progress than we Americans are.Bush s Healthcare Proposal George W. Bush s proposal, unveiled in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, to change the tax treatment of health insurance, is worthy of some serious consideration. Bush would make the value of employer-provided health insurance taxable to the employee but would grant a $15,000 exemption for families and $7,500 for individuals for all taxpayers regardless o stanley cup f whether they have empl

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In the latest sweep of legal filings, Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee now face legal challenges over attempts to ban abortion services amid the coronavirus pandemic. Officials claim the suspension of services is an attempt to preserve medical resources, but abortion rights supporters accuse states of exploiting the public health crisis to achieve a decades-long goal: banning abortion. In a span of fewer than 24 hours, three new lawsuits were filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood, requesting federal courts to block states from including abortion in directives temporarily halting non-essential medical procedure. Eight states have now been sued over similar orders: Arkansas, Alabama, Iowa, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. This is a shameful abuse of power, Nancy Northup, president and chief executive officer of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement to CBS News on Tuesday. Abortion rights supporters, including Northup, don t see the recent wave of coronavirus-related bans any differently than the many other restrictions that similar s stanley cup tates have levied vaso stanley on abor stanley website tion services. Indeed, every state that has attempted to restrict the procedure amid the pandemic is considered to be hostile toward abortion access, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion-rights research organization. Many states with similar directives restricting non Ziqe Mitt Romney to Campaign for John McCain In Arizona
John Edwards is hoping to use ethics as a wedge issue to regain some momentum in the Democratic presidential primary. But itrsquo a path fraught with perilous contradictions, centering on an issue that many voters have moved to the back burner after kicking out the scandal-ridden Republican majority in Congress last year. Ethics is not the issue for 2008, said Peter Hart, a polling expert. On Thursday, Edwards issued a letter calling on all Democrats -- including the national party committees -- to follow his long-standing practice and forgo donations from registered lobbyists and establish a clear contrast with their Republican rivals. But co stanley water bottle nsider this: He is asking his national party committees to turn down lobbyistsrsquo; donations even though he benefited from such tainted cash twice before -- in his 1998 North Carolina Senate race and in 2004 as Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerryrsquo vice presidential running mate. During Edwardsrsquo; maiden campaign in 1998, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee spent about $1.5 million to help him win, Federal Election Commission records show. Six years later, the Democratic National Committee poured stanley thermobecher millions into the presidential race to help the Kerry-Edwards ticket. Both committees accepted lobbyist ca stanley tazas sh at that time. Even Edwardsrsquo; own ban on donations from registered federal lobbyists doesnrsquo;t mean that people with a great deal of

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Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are asking Chairman Lindsey Graham to investigate potential political interference at the Justice Department, and to call Attorney General William Barr to testify. The Justice Department s mission to ensure fair and impartial justice for all Americans requires that its prosecutorial decisions remain free from political influence, all ten Democrats on the committee, led by Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, wrote in a letter to Graham on Thursday. It s becoming clear that this is not happening. That s why the Judiciary Committee should investigate involvement of political appointees in this and other cases and hear directly from Attorney General Barr. The letter comes after the Justice Department overruled prosecutors sentencing recommendation in the case of Roger Stone, a Trump associate convicted of obstructing Congres stanley bottles s. The department s intervention came after Mr. Trump sent a tweet criticizing the prosecutors recommendation of seven to nine years in prison. Mr. Trump appeared to confirm that Barr intervened directly in Stone s case in a tweet on Wednesdayt stanley thermos hanking Barrfor taking charge of a case. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had already made the case on Wednesday that Barr s actions should be investigated, but Graham was unmoved. I don t think any of us should tweet about stanley cup an ongoing case, but having said that, I appreciate the Department of Justice, making sure that their recomm Yfzd Terri Sewell on Making Alabama History
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren The Chicago Sun Times reports that the son of Senator Roland Burris was hired as a senior counsel for the Illinois Housing Development Authority by then-Governor Rod Blagojevich s administration on September 10, 2008. At the time, Roland W. Burris II was subject to a $34,163 tax lien and a foreclosure proceeding on his Chicago home, the newspaper reports. The mission of the agency includes overseeing mortgage programs for low-income home buyers and anti-foreclosure initiatives. The revelations about the hiring of Burris son comes amid calls for the senator to resign from the seat to wh stanley thermobecher ich he was appointed by former Gov. Blagojevich, stanley water bottle who was impeached and removed from office in the wake of corruption charges. Burris has c copo stanley ome under fire after acknowledging that he tried to raise money for the then-governor and had contact with multiple aides while being considered for the seat, contrary to his prior testimony. He maintains he did nothing wrong. On Tuesday, fellow Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin suggested that Burris resign from the Senate. I told him that under the circumstances, I would resign. He said, I m not going to resign. I can t force him, Durbin said. If Sen. Burris does manage to keep his seat for the remainder of this term - and he has said he will not resign - he won t have many Senate Democrats cheering for him if and when he runs for re-election next year. Daniel Farber is editor-in-chief of C

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Facebook took stanley cup down ads on President Trump s pages Thursday featuring a symbol identical to one used by Nazis to designate political prison vaso stanley ers in concentration camps. The social media company said the ads violated its policie stanley tumbler s against organized hate. The ads opposed left-wing mobs and Antifa, and they appeared on the Facebook pages for President Trump and his reelection campaign, as well as the page for Vice President Pence. The ads started running on Wednesday and were viewed about one million times before being taken down, according to Facebook s ad library.The ads featured an upside-down red triangle along with the words: Dangerous MOBS of far-left groups are running through our streets and causing absolute mayhem. They are DESTROYING our cities and rioting mdash; it s absolute madness. The ads called on supporters to stand by Mr. Trump s decision to designate Antifa mdash; a loose collective of anti-fascist protest movements mdash; as a terrorist organization. According to the Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Nazis used an identical inverted triangle symbol for camp prisoners, with a color coding system. Red triangles, like those seen in the Trump ads, identified political prisoners, while Jewish political prisoners were classified by a yellow triangle beneath a red triangle. Different colored triangles were used for communists, homosexuals and other categories of prisoners.The Washington Post first reported on the ads and their Yhxi Dems OK Contempt Citations For Bush Aides
Christina Romer, outgoing chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, addresses a breakfast meeting of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2009. Getty Images On her last day on the job Friday as chair of President Obama s Council of Economic Advisers, Christina stanley thermosflasche Romer saw the national unemployment rate inch back up to a disheartening 9.6 percent. I would give anything if the unemployment rate were a lot lower, Romer said in a CBS News interview in her office.In January 2009, the month she took over at the council, the national rate was 7.6 percent. Her own council projects the unemployment rate won t be back in the mid-7-percent range until sometime in 2013. But like the president that made her a to stanley cup p economic adviser, Romer is hopeful and optimistic. She said the unemployment numbers for last month were better than most analysts were expecting. She points to the 67,000 jobs created in the private sector, calling it a sign the recovery is continuing, while conceding it s not happening nearly as rapidly as the White House would like. stanley cups uk And though the number of private sector jobs increased in August, the overall economy lost 54,000 jobs, producing the uptick in the unemployment rate. The reason it ticked up is that a lot of people came back into the labor force, which she said grew by more than half a million. Also,