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Alabama Senate special election results: Doug Jones winsDemocrat Doug Jones, a widely respected former U.S. attorney, has narrowly defeated Republican Roy Moore, the e stanley mugs mbattled former chief justice, in Alabama s special Senate election. That makes Jones the first Democrat to be elected to the United States Senate in Alabama in 25 years.With al stanley cup l counties reporting, the Alabama Secretary of State reported Jones with 49.92 percent of the vote, and Moore with 48.38 percent of the vote. This entire race has been about dignity and respect, Jones said in his victory speech. This campaign has been about the rule of law. But Moore says he isn t conceding yet. He wants a recount, he said in brief remarks late Tuesday night. Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill told CNN stanley becher any candidate can request a recount, if they pay for it on their own. But he also said it s very unlikely the outcome for Jones changes.Jones win gives Republicans just a 51-49 edge in the Senate. As-it-happened updates: 11:49 p.m. Alabama secretary of state says Jones will likely still winDespite Moore s call for a recount election, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill told CNN it s highly unlikely the end result will be anything other than a Jones win. Merrill said any candidate can request a recount, if they pay for it.11:34 p.m. Moore says he isn t concedingIn what was believed to be a concession speech, Moore said it s not over and talked about a rec Pcck Jay Carney to be new White House Press Secretary
Perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche is back for an eighth try at the White House mdash; and already has enough campaign cash to rival the fund raising of some mainstream Democrats in the race.The 80-year-old economist has raised more than $3.7 million over the past few years, much of it through small donations and the Internet. Supporters handed out fliers at Washington subway stations t stanley thermos mug his week proclaiming him the leader among Democratic hopefuls in the number of individual donations.Now, as in the past, Democratic Party officials want nothing to do with him. Party leaders have refused to allow him onstage at candidate forums such as the stanley website debate this Saturday in South Carolina. LaRouche refuses to go away. Though a minor party might offer a friendlier reception, LaRouche insists on running as a Democrat. He says he s in good health for his age, and jokes that there are probably Democrats who wish he wasn t. They hate my guts, they re a well-known faction, they ve made it very clear over the years. This is the right wing of the Democratic Party, LaRouche said. But the rest of the people I have no problem with. In politic stanley canada s, when you become serious, you become a threat to somebody. And they usually aren t too nice about it. LaRouche first ran for president in 1976. He has tried again every election since then, including a 1992 campaign from prison while serving five years of a 15-year sentence for mail fraud and defa

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Washington mdash; The Senate has voted to advance a $1.4 trillion government spending package in a last, bipartisan burst of legislating before bolting for the holidays from a Capitol that s toxic with impeachment. The vote in the Senate comes the day after the House voted to impeach President Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.The first bill in the two-bill package, covering domestic programs, passed easily Thursday by a 71 to 23 vote, with a vote on a Pentagon and homeland security measure to come later in the day. The s stanley mugs econd bill passed with even more support, 81 t stanley cup o 11.The legislation gives Mr. Trump a victory on his U.S stanley water bottle .-Mexico border fence and gives Democrats long-sought domestic spending increases and a repeal of Obama-era taxes on high-cost health insurance plans. It blends spending increases for both sides mdash; reelection fodder for lawmakers throughout the Capitol mdash; with tax and benefit add-ons that will add roughly $400 billion to the deficit over 10 years. The compromise bill would forestall a government shutdown this weekend, and the White House has announced Mr. Trump will sign it before Friday s midnight deadline.The split-their-differences legislation is towing an unusually large haul of unrelated provisions into law, prompting futile protest from fiscal conservatives. It implements a summertime spending deal that reversed unpopular and unworkable automatic spending cuts to defense and domestic Vrii Transcript: Sen. Dick Durbin on Face the Nation, December 15, 2019
Ben Affleck has established himself as an actor, writer, director and the father of two little girls. On Tuesday in Washington, Affleck proved, unlike many other celebrities that try to foray into pubic affairs, that he can also at least sound like an expert on the Eastern Congo to his list of titles.Appearing on a panel at the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS to discuss how America can strengthen U.S. foreign policy in the Eastern Congo, Affleck rattled off statistics and offered well-grounded suggestions about the country s internal conflict. But he admitted that his initial lack of knowledge on the issue is what got him involved.In an interview with CBS News Christine Delargy after the event, Affleck said, I didn t want to be one of those guys who just wants to take a picture with a kid in a hospital so I would look better. stanley cup What got me into it was at one point in my life I came across while reading about Sudan, a kind of offhand mention about the scale and scope of what was going on in Congo, Affleck said on the panel, explaining what got him to throw his support behind the issue. I was stunned that, not only was it so tragic, but that I had no idea that it had happened. Affleck founded the Eastern Congo Initiative in March and told CBS News he s overly self-conscious about being a legitimate advocate for the Congo region. This wasn t something that people stanley mug came to me and said will you be our stanley termosy guy and h

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By Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto and Fred BackusMore stanley cup than two months after the health care exchanges opened, a new CBS News/New York Times poll reveals most uninsured Americans - 58 percent - say they have not looked up information about applying for insurance, while four in 10 have done that.Forty-nine percent of uninsured Ameri stanley cup cans who looked up information were able to get the information they needed, but about as many ndash; 48 percent - were not. Twenty-four percent of the uninsured have turned to HealthCare.gov, the federal governmentrsquo health care web site, and 13 percent have visited a state-run web site.A majority of uninsureds who visited Healthcare.gov 57 percent , say they found it difficult to use. Forty-one percent said it was at least somewhat easy to use. Ten percent of uninsured Americans in the poll say they have applied for insurance under the exchanges. Thirty-two percent say they have looked up information about the exchanges but have not applied; 58 percent have not looked up information about health insurance exchanges.Click here to view related media. Some insured Americans have been affected by the rollout of the new exc stanley cup hanges as well: they have learned that they will not be able to keep their insurance. In the poll, 13 percent of insured Americans say theyrsquo;ve received a notice that their health insurance plan is being cancelled or changed because it does not meet the min Byuc D.C. officer accused of threatening first lady
HANOVER, NH - OCTOBER 11: Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry. Scott Eells-Pool/Getty Images When Texas Gov. Rick Perry complains about the economic downturn, he s speaking from experience.Tax return stanley kaffeebecher s that the GOP presidential candidate released Friday reveal that, like many Americans, Perry and his wife took a loss on the sale of their home and weathered losses on other investments.The Perrys reported income of $217,447 and paid $51,000 in taxes, including a $135 penalty for underestimating what they owed Uncle Sam in 2010, the Texas Tribune reports. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d285abc6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-d285abc6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d285abc6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 stanley cups uk display: block; Rebecca Kaplan Rebecca Kaplan covers the 2012 presidential campaign for CBS News and National Journal. Tw stanley cup itter

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WASHINGTON mdash; The Trump administration on Friday announced it will continue much of the Obama administration s nuclear weapons policy, but take a more aggressive stance toward Russia. It said Russia must be persuaded it would face unacceptably dire costs if it were to threaten even limited nuclear attack in Europe.The sweeping review of U.S. nuclear policy does not call for any net increase in strategic nuclear weapons, a position tha stanley cup t stands in contrast to President Donald Trump s statement, in a tweet shortly before he took office, that the U.S. must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes. In his State of the Union address Tuesday, he made no mention of expansion, though he said the arsenal must deter acts of aggression.A 74-page report summarizing the review s findings calls North Korea a clear and grave threat to the U.S. and its allies. It asserts that any North Korean nuclear attack against the U.S. or its allies will result in the end of that regime. CI stanley cup A chief: N. Korea could be able to nuke U.S. in handful of months 01:21 It also cast China as a potential nuclear adversary, saying the U.S. arsenal is tailored to pre stanley italia vent Beijing from mistakenly concluding that it could gain advantage by using its Hpte Texas Republican Bill Flores announces 2020 retirement from Congress
Sen. Barack Obama became a successful politician in Illinois. But the roots of that success are in stanley cup this city thousands of miles and a cultural light-year away.Born and raised in Honolulu, Obama honed his ability to appeal to a diverse group of people in the islands, a crossroad of cultures from throughout the Pacific, said his half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng. Hawaii is the place that gave him the ability to ... understand people from a wide array of backgrounds, she said in a recent phone interview. People see themselves in him ... because he himself contains multitudes. The family s own diversity played no small part in developing that skill, she said.Obama s parents - Barack Obama Sr., a black ma stanley quencher n from a poor village in Kenya, and Ann Dunham, a white woman whose pa stanley cup rents grew up in Kansas - met at the University of Hawaii and married in Honolulu. After the marriage failed, a 6-year-old Obama left Hawaii to spend four years in Indonesia with his mother and Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro. In 1971, Obama s mother sent him back to Honolulu to stay with his maternal grandparents.Obama still returns almost every Christmas to visit family, indulge in local sushi, body surf at a beach on the southeastern coast of Oahu and look for sea turtles, Soetoro-Ng said. His parents and grandfather have died, and his grandmother is in poor health but has been following the presidential race closely on television, she said. Hawaii really is a s

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Hdip Congress deeply divided over Obama s Cuba deal
Washington mdash; Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Ma stanley canada ryland on Wednesday night to receive t stanley water bottle reatment for clinical depression, his office said in a statement.Adam Jentleson, stanley cups the senator s chief of staff, said that Fetterman s depression, which he has experienced off and on throughout his life, became severe in recent weeks. On Monday, John was evaluated by Dr. Brian P. Monahan, the Attending Physician of the United States Congress. Yesterday, Dr. Monahan recommended inpatient care at Walter Reed. John agreed, and he is receiving treatment on a voluntary basis, Jentleson said. After examining John, the doctors at Walter Reed told us that John is getting the care he needs, and will soon be back to himself. Fetterman s wife, Gisele Barreto Fetterman, praised her husband for seeking help. After what he s been through in the past year, there s probably no one who wanted to talk about his own health less than John, she tweeted. I m so proud of him for asking for help and getting the care he needs. On Friday, President Biden tweeted: John, Gisele ndash; Jill and I are thinking about your family today. Millions of people struggle with depression every day, often in private. Getting the care you need is brave and important. We re grateful to you for leading by example. The announcement from Fetterman s office prompted one lawmaker, Rep. Ritchie Torres, a New York Mkpk Hidden Heat In Texas
Rep. Dennis Kucinich D-Ohio , who attempted to introduce 35 a stanley cup rticles of impeachment against President Bush last month, is back at again, although this time, Kucinich will only offer one stanley cups uk article, according to a letter the Ohio Democrat sent to his colleagues today.Here s the textof the letter that Kucinoch sent out today: Dear Colleague: At President Bushrsquo request, Congress passed an authorization for the use of military force against Iraq on October 16, 2002. At least a dozen key material representations made to Congress by the President in that authorization, in furtherance of Congressional action, were false at the time they were made. The breadth and depth of the Presidentrsquo misrepresentations do not argue for incompetency as a defense, but for deceit as an impeachable offense.We have arrived at a teachable moment in our Constitutional history. Congress must insist on accountability. We must regain our rightful role as a co-equal branch of government charged with providing a check and balance to Executive abuse of power. In Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, our Founders placed the war power in the hands of the House of Representatives. This separation of powers was expressly intended to prevent a President from unilaterally summoning troops to war in the manner of a king. Are we willing to respect our institution, our Constitution and ourselves Will this stanley quencher President, at last, be held accountable for lying

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Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, said he is heartbroken for all of those who were affected by the deadly shooting at a baptist church in Sutherland stanley cup Springs, Texas, Sunday -- and he called on Congress to act. Horror, heartbreak, shame. Prayers are important but insufficient. After another unspeakable tragedy, Congress must act -- or be complicit, Blumenthal wrote in the wake of the shooting.Trump, Pence respond to deadly church shooting in Texas Enough is enough, he said. Now is the time for commonsense gun violence prevention steps. Congressional complicity must end. Heartbroken for victims, loved ones, and all affected by the horrific tragedy in Sutherland Springs, Texas.md stanley cup ash; Richar stanley tumbler d Blumenthal @SenBlumenthal November 5, 2017 Horror, heartbreak, shame. Prayers are important but insufficient. After another unspeakable tragedy, Congress must act - or be complicit.mdash; Richard Blumenthal @SenBlumenthal November 5, 2017 Enough is enough. Now is the time for commonsense gun violence prevention steps. Congressional complicity must end.mdash; Richard Blumenthal @SenBlumenthal November 5, 2017 Blumenthal represents the state that suffered its own tragic shooting in 2012, when a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killing 20 students and six teachers. He has since become a vocal critic of members of Congress calling for thoughts and prayers in the wake of similar v Seku The Magic Word Won t Cut It
The candidate is new, a different face on the national scene, with roots outside the continental United States and sudden, massive popularity. With good reason, Sara stanley tazas h Palin has been touted as the rightrsquo answer to Barack Obama. And in one especially important way, her abrupt rise from obscurity has given her something else in common with the Democratic nominee: she has catalyzed a fevered subculture of forwarded e-mails and viral conspiracy theories. Now the race is on, as it was with Obama, for Palin to define herself against an onslaught of negative portrayals. Obamarsquo campaign has made some attempts to challenge the Republican portrayal of her as a living breathing replica of the middle class as a former White House official put it . But that narrative is b stanley becher eing challenged online by a flood of rumo stanley cup r, half-truth, lies, and speculation defining her as an American exotic, a countrified stranger with mysterious but strong religious beliefs, a confusing personal story, and extreme politics. Information abhors a vacuum, and like Barack Obama was at first, Sarah Palin was an unknown quanity, said the internet folklorist David Emery. When you have all that pressure and very little information ndash; thatrsquo when the rumors start flying. Emery has been frantically sorting Palin fact from fiction on his Urban Legends website for the last week ndash; Itrsquo been cra

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ISIS seized a third of Iraq that the U.S. secured with ten years of sacrifice. In an interview for 60 Minutes, Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said ISIS flourished because the U.S. got involved in Syria too late and left Iraq too soon. On the 47th season premiere Sunday, 60 Minutes will report from Iraq and Syria on ISIS -- what it is, what it wants, and how to defeat it. Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta weighs in on why he thinks ISIS was able to flourish. Pelley: Back when you watched the stars and stripes being lowered for the last time in Baghdad, were you confident in that moment that pulling out was the right thing to do Panetta: No, I wasn t. I really thought that it was important for us to maintain a presence in Iraq.But the elected Prime Minister, Nouri Al-Maliki didn t want the U.S. force. As Iraq moved on, on its own, civil war broke out in stanley kubek Syria. The U.S. stayed largely on the sidelines but Panetta says the na stanley canada tional security team urged the president to do more. stanley polska Panetta: The real key was how can we develop a leadership group among the opposition that would be able to take control. And my view was to have leverage to do that, we would have to provide the weapons and the training in order for them to really be willing to work with us in that effort.Pelley: But with virtually his entire national security team unanimous on this, that s not the decision the president Qqoj Has Romney focused on the wrong rival
Former President Bill Clinton a stanley cup website nd Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday returned an estimated $28,000 in sofas, rugs and other furnishings they took when they left the White House. As a result of the questions being asked, the property is being returned to government custody until su stanley cup ch time that the issues can be resolved, said Jim McDaniel, the National Park Service s liasion to the White House. It may well turn out that that property is rightly the personal property of the Clintons. I think those questions have yet to be resolved. After they were criticized for taking $190,000 worth of china, flatware, rugs, televisions, sofas and other gifts with them when they left, the Clintons announced last week that they would pay for $86,000, or nearly half the amount. The latest decision to return about $28,000 in other gifts brings to $114,000 the value of items the Clintons have either decided to pay for, or return. The park service and the White House curator s office took another look at the gift inventory after $28,000 worth of items the Cl stanley mug intons took were discovered on a list of donations given to the park service for the 1993 White House redecoration project. The Washington Post quoted three donors this week as saying that the furnishings they gave were intended for the White House, not the Clintons. As a result of questions about the status of certain property donated to the White House during the Clinton administr

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Efln Utah Republicans rally for Mitt Romney after Steve Bannon s attack on his Mormon faith
UPDATE: According to reports on the presidentrsquo remarks to House leaders, Mr. Trump made the political pressure case. Many of you came in on the pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare. I hon stanley flask estly think many of you will lose your seats in 2018 if you donrsquo;t get this done. So far, no comments in support of the legislation have been reported, though afterward in front of cameras the president said, We had a great meeting and I think wersquo;re going to get a winner vote.On Tuesday President Trump will address stanley flasche House Republicans in advance of their vote on the American Health Care Act AHCA . President Obama gave a similar speech almost seven years to the day to House Democrats, encouraging them to vote for the Affordable Care Act ACA . President Obamarsquo speech was built on a central pitch: Democrats should vote for the bill because it was a part of their political identity. This is one of those times where you can hone stanley bottles stly say to yourself, doggone it, this is exactly why I came here, said the president. This is why I got into politics. This is why I got into public service. President Obamarsquo argument was that as Democrats, they all got into politics to protect people who were poor, down on their luck and needed help to achieve the middle-class dream. He linked the bill to his origin story and theirs. Ubeg Philippines is latest foreign customer to book Trump s D.C. hotel
Sources say conservative pundit Tony Snow will be named White House press secretary.Republican officials say the announcement - the latest chapter in a shakeup of President Bush s team - could come as early as Wednesday.The Washington Post quotes sources familiar with the negotiations as saying that Snow decided to accept the offer after top officials assured him that he would be an active participant in administr stanley cup website ation policy debates as well as a spokesman. kubki stanley Snow would be replacing Scott McClellan, who is stepping down in a White House makeover intended to re-energize Bush s presidency, bring in new faces and lift the president s record-low approval ratings. McClellan has served as President Bush s chief s stanley us pokesman mdash; the most prominent public figure in the White House after Mr. Bush mdash; for nearly three years.Snow, a Fox News commentator, has written and spoken frequently about the current president mdash; although not always in a complimentary way. The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, circulated unflattering observations by Snow about Bush. His Bush s wavering conservatism has become an active concern among Republicans, who wish he would stop cowering under the bed and start fighting back against the likes of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Wilson, Snow wrote last November after Republicans failed to win the governor s race in Virginia. The newly passive George Bush has become something of an emb

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WASHINGTON -- Donald Trumprsquo choice to head the Interior Department on Tuesday rejected the president-electrsquo past claim that climate change is a hoax, saying it is indisputable that environmental changes are affecting the worldrsquo temperature and huma stanley quencher n activity is a major reason. On The Trail: Melting glaciers 04:20 stanley cup I donrsquo;t believe itrsquo a hoax, Rep. Ryan Zinke told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee at his confirmation hearing.The climate is changing; ma stanley tumblers n is an influence, the Montana Republican said. I think where therersquo debate is what that influence is and what can we do about it. Mr. Trump has suggested in recent weeks hersquo keeping an open mind on the issue and may reconsider a campaign pledge to back away from a 2015 Paris agreement that calls for global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.In contradicting the president-elect, Zinke cited Glacier National Park in his home state as a prime example of the effects of climate change, noting that glaciers there have receded in his lifetime and even from one visit to the next. Still, he told Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that there is debate about how much humans have influenced the climate.Zinke is not the Hmiz Government s top labor lawyer: Workers need to know we ll protect them
RELIGION AND HAPPINESS....In Europe, the advance of secularization has corresponded with an increase in reported happiness. I stanley thermos n America, it s just the opposite: religious participation is positively correlated with higher levels of self-reported happiness. Will Wilkinson suggests that this is mostly a matter of fitting in: since most Americans are religious, you re more likely to be happier if you fit in with our religious culture. Ross Douthat suggests the answer lies elsewhere:My suspicion is that the difference has something to do with the role of the welfare state as well mdash; that the benefits of belonging to a religious community are greater in the U.S. than in Europe in part because our welfare state is smaller, and religious participation provides both tangible and intangible forms of security that are more valuable in a society where the free market is more f stanley website reewheeling and the welfare state weaker. If you re a Christian who prefers the American model, you might say that the Europeans use government as a substitute for God; if you prefer Europe s path to modernity, you d probably say something about stanley mugs Americans clinging to churchgoing because it s the only protection available against the harsh brutality of our jungle capitalism. Either way, I suspect that this symbiosis between high levels of religiosity and economic individualism is at the heart of American exceptionalism mdash; which is another way of saying that libertarians root for secularization at their p

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BRISTOL, Vt. mdash; Ethan Sonneborn found a creative way to spend his summer vacation mdash; he s running for thegovernor of Vermont. There s no age requirement and anyone who has lived in the state for four years can run.Ethan has been in the state for 14 years, his entire life. I thought about what I would need to run a successful campaign, and ultimately it was a gut decision, so I decided to run, he said. Sonneborn starts ninth grade this fall and says it was the country s response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia last summer that sparked his interest. I recognized that stanley mugs there was a new movement of leadership that could be doing better... new leaders who could actually stand up and say racism is bad, he said.Christine Hallquist, transgender candidate, w stanley taza ins nomination for Vermont governorSonneborn doesn t think his age gets in the way, saying his campaign transcends age. Running in a crowded Democratic primary, he is literally the kid at the adults table. I think Vermonters should take me seriously because I have practical, progressive ideas, and I happen to stanley cup be 14. Not the other way around, Sonneborn said at a forum for candidates.Results: Primaries in Connecticut, Vermont, Minnesota and WisconsinHis campaign team is also young. His parents are on board, but they found out after their son sent a press release announcing his candidacy to the local newspaper.When asked how much money he s raised, Sonneborn answ Remj Polls show gains for Clinton, slowing support for Bush
First Lady Michelle Obama addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite This post originally appeared on Slate.Barack Obama has said that his biggest mistake in office is that he hasn t told the right story to the American public. Maybe he should have let his wife tell it. First lady Michel stanley cup le Obama delivered a powerful and deft stanley travel mug defense of her husband, wrapping him in biography and the A stanley mugg merican story. She also started the process of rebutting the previous week s attacks.At the heart of her speech Tuesday night was an effort to stretch the timeline beyond the four years of a single term. For the last two days, Democrats have been trying to answer the question, Are you better off than you were four years ago Michelle Obama said this struggle to restore the middle class--her husband s struggle--is bigger than a single election. To make her case, the first lady started with family history. She told the story of her father who had multiple sclerosis but buttoned the buttons on his uniform each morning and lifted one leg, and then the other, to climb the stairs home at night. She talked about the president s grandmother who worked every day despite the frustrations of the glass ceiling. The message was that Obama comes from struggle. He understand what you re going