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It was a raucous scene that could have been backstage at a rock concert: camera flashes, fans clamoring for autographs, scowling bodyguards, reporters hungry for a scoop. But the center of this attention wasn t Beyonce or the Rolling Stones. It was t stanley quencher hree black gubernatorial candidates who stood side by side in a throng of admirers, soaking up all that love.If elected, Stacey Abrams of Georgia, Ben Jealous of Maryland and Andrew Gillum of Florida would give America its largest number of black governors ever. That historic possibility was not lost on them, or th stanley quencher e black voters who hope to make that history happen, as they shared the stage at the Congressional Black Caucus annual legislative conference this week. This moment, and the significance of it, won t seep in for some time from now, said Gillum, mayor of Tallahassee, and at 39 the youngest of the three. stanley water bottle What this signals is not only the continued evolution of our country but the increasing recognition of diversity, not only of capacity but of backgrounds, said Abrams, 44, later.Abrams, who could become the nation s first black female governor, is getting the most national attention. But all three were squired around the Washington Convention Center by black politicos who are strategizing ways to help on turnout, campaigning and fundraising. Jealous, 45, faces the steepest challenge, down in polls against incumbent Republican Gov. Larry Hogan. Abrams and Gillum are running Ohvz Clinton Defends Iraq Vote: Says I m Willing to Be Held Accountable
President Bush is hailing the opening session of Iraq s first freely elected parliament in half a century. Mr. Bush told a White House news conference Wednesday that the meeting was a bright moment in Iraq s history. The parliament s 275 members, chosen during Jan. 30 elections, convened in a Baghdad auditorium amid tight security with U.S. helicopter gunships overhead.Mr. Bush also said he understands the desire of U.S. coalition partners to withdraw troops from Iraq, but he declined to set a timetable for bringing American forces home. stanley cup website Our troops will come home when Iraqis are capable of defending themselves, Mr. Bush said.Mr. Bush spoke a day after Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced plans to start drawing down his country s 3,000-strong contingent in Iraq amid widespread anger over the recent killing of an Italian officer by U.S. troops. The president said he had spoken by telephone to Berlusconi earlier in the day and they talked about both Iraq and Mr. Bush s recommendation of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to become head of the World Bank. He wanted me to know there was no stanley fr change in his policy that any withdrawals would be done in consultation with allies, Mr. Bush said. He said Berlusconi assured him that the Italian withdrawal would be phased and would not undermine the ability of Iraqis to defend kubki stanley themselves. Some 14 nations have withdrawn troops over the past year, complicating efforts to k

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Washington mdash; For veterans service organizations and military community and family support groups, the well-worn playbook for lobbying and advocacy isn t working this time with Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. He s put his foot down, so we ve moved on. We re not focused on Sen. Tuberville anymore, said Besa Pinchotti, who runs the National Military Family Association, a group which represents military families. We re focused on moving these promotions forward in ano stanley cup ther way, added Pinchotti, whose husband is a retired Marine Corps veteran. Frankly, yes, Mary Kaszynski, head of government relations for the VoteVets political action group told CBS News when asked if her advocacy organization has ceased eff stanley cup orts to directly lobby Tuberville. We re now focused on the others around Sen. Tuberville in the Republican caucus and Republican donors, Kaszynski added. Tuberville is waging an unprecedented campaign to try to change the Pentagon s abortion policy, which allows for travel expenses and time off for members who need to travel for abortion services. He is employing maneuvers to h stanley cups old up hundreds of military nominations and promotions, forcing less experienced leaders into top jobs, and raising concerns at the Pentagon about military readiness.Senators in both parties mdash; including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell mdash; have pushed back on Tuberville s blockade, but Tuberville is dug in. He say Vhur Proud Boys leader pleads not guilty to conspiracy related to Jan. 6 planning
GO, RALPH, GO....In the latest Washington Post poll, Barack Obama is eight points ahead of John McCain. However, if you add Bob Barr and Ralph Nader into the mix, he s ten points ahead see below . Does that mean liberals should once again be cheering on Nader What s the party line these days stanley fr ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c9038942-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c9038942-8c88-11e stanley website 2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c9038942-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 disp stanley thermos lay: block;

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reversed course Tuesday and told Wisconsin officials that the Russian government did not scan the state s voter registration system, then later reiterated that it stillbelieved it was one of 21 targeted sta stanley thermos mug tes.Homeland Security first told state elections officials on Friday that Wisconsin was one of 21 states targeted by the Russians, raising concerns about the safety and security of the state s election systems even though no data had been compromised. But on Tuesday, Homeland Security gave apparently conflicting information about whether the state s ele stanley uk ction system was a target and if it was, how it was threatened.In an email to the state s deputy elections administrator that was provided to reporters at the Wisconsin Elections Commission meeting on Tuesday, Homeland Security said an agency that doesn t deal with elections was the target of scans by Russian IP addresses. Based on our external analysis, the WI IP address affected belongs to the WI Department of Workforce Development, not the Elections Commission, said the email from Juan Figueroa, with Homeland Security s Office of Infrastructure Protection.But in a statement later to The Associated Press, Homeland Security spokesman Scott McConnell said that discussions of specific IP addresses do not provide a stanley cup complete picture of potential targeting activity. The Department stands by its assessment that Internet-connected networks i Npjc Morning Bulletin amp; 8211; Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Getty Images termo stanley The Romney campaign struck back at Newt Gingrich on Tuesday, dismissing the former House speaker as desperate just a day after his campaign released a memo stanley cup painting the former Massachusetts governor as a moderate candidate. In an interview with MSNBC s Jansing Co., Romney press secretary Andrea Saul attempted to turn the tables on the Gingrich camp s criticisms, assailing the candidate as an unreliable conservative whose efforts to tear Romney down were mere evidence of his flailing campaign. Speaker Gingrich is a desperate candidate trying to revive his failing campaign, Saul said. If you want to talk about someone who s been an unreliable conservative -- Speaker Gingrich sat down on a couch with Nancy Pelosi at the behest of Al Gore to talk about global warming and support cap and trade. Despite his pledge to maintain a positive campaign, Gingrich s team on Monday night sent out an email targeting Romney s conservative credentials, wondering if a Massachusetts Moderate could be entrusted with a conservative agenda. Can we trust a Massachusetts Moderate to enact a conservative agenda asks Gingrich 2012 press secretary Joe DeSantis in the email. Our campaign might have plenty of things to say stanley flask about that, but the best response certainly comes from Mitt Romney himself: The statement then links to a video, filmed in 2008, in which Romney

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NEW YORK -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams pleaded not guilty tofederal bribery, conspiracy and campaign finance chargesat his arraignment Friday.A sprawling 57-page indictmentunsealed Thursday laid ou stanley cup quencher t accusations Adams abused his power for nearly a decade, putting the interests of foreign nationals above those of his own constituents. I am not guilty, your honor In court, the judge read Adams his rig stanley cup hts before he waived a public reading of the indictment and entered his plea. I am not guilty, your honor, he said to the judge.Adams, who was released on bail, stared straight ahead during the entire proceeding. When he got up to leave, he smiled at a court officer but did not look at anyone in the gallery. He did not speak to reporters waiting outside the courthouse. Instead, he stood beside his lawyer, who addressed the media. Attorney Alex Spiro likened Adams situation to the case against former New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, who was charged with bribery and fraud for allegedly taking campaign contributions from a real estate developer in exchange for his influence over vaso stanley state funds. We all remember the Brian Benjamin case. Similar, shaky theory. That case was dismissed. Same prosecutors, same theory. But the spectacle of this is so exciting to them, that they wanted to bring another one of these cases, Spiro said. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, right, appears with his attorney, Alex Spiro, outside Manhattan Relv Jimmy Carter Slams Iraq War
GATES: HOORAY FOR DEMOCRATS!....Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today that Moqtada stanley thermos al-Sadr s withdrawal of six cabinet ministers from the Iraqi government might, in the end, turn out to be a good thing depending on who replaces them. Then he added this:Gates, on a Middle East tour, called for a range of efforts from inside and outside Iraq to speed up the formation of a broad-based government of Iraq s majority Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish factions..... The debate in Congress ... has been helpful in demonstrating to the Iraqis that American patience is limited, Gates told P stanley mug entagon reporters traveling with him in Jordan. The strong feelings expressed in the Congress about the timetable probably has had a positive impact ... in terms of communicating to the Iraqis that this is not an open-ended commitment. Somebody jog my memory here. I know that other people have made this point about congressional pressure before, but never a high-ranking Bush cabinet officer, right Is Gates off the reservation, or is this is the new party line from the White House ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8b6ff00-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8b6ff00-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline- stanley mugg recirc-item--id-c8b6ff00-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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The House of Representatives on Saturday approved an additional $25 billion in funding for the U.S. Postal Service and the reversal of recent operational changes that critics say delayed mail delivery. At a press conference ahead of the vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called the rare Saturday session, called the Postal Service as American as apple pie, motherhood, baseball. The bill, titled the Delivering for America Act, also ensures the Postal Service would not be able to implemen stanley quencher t any operational changes until January 2021, after the November election. Don t pay any attention to what the president is saying, because it is all designed to suppress the vote, Pelosi said at the press conference. President Trump tweeted during the hearing that the controversy surrounding the Postal Service is another HOAX from Democrats and urged Republicans to VOTE NO. The White House has threatened to veto the bill. More than two dozen Republicans crossed the aisle and voted for the bill s passage.Meanwhile, Congressman Dan Meuser, a Republican from Pennsylv stanley water bottle ania, missed Saturday s vote after testing positive for COVID-19. He said he would submit for the record that he would have voted against it. The bill now heads to the Republican- stanley tumblers led Senate. Following its passage in the house, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released a statement accusing House Democrats of ignoring the urgent needs of American workers and families. The fac Ztig Romney: Obama guilty of assault on economic freedom
DES MOINES -- Mitt Rom stanley cup ney and Ron Paul are in a statistical tie atop the field among likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa, according to a new poll from the Des Moines Register. But the survey shows a surge for Rick Santorum, who topped Paul on the final two days of polling. Romney secured 24 percent support in the survey, conducted Tuesday through Friday, with Paul coming in at 22 percent -- within the poll s four point margin of error. Santorum followed with 15 percent. Newt Gingrich came next with 12 percent support, followed by Rick Perry with 11 percent and Michele Bachmann with 7 percent. In polling over Thursday and Friday, Santorum came in with 21 percent support, while Romney held steady with 24 percent. Paul came in third over these last two days with 18 percent support. The findings prompted Register pollster J. Ann Selzer to say in a story released by stanley cup the newspaper, Momentum s name is Rick Santorum. The survey found that four in 10 likely Republican caucus-goers say they are willing to change their mind before the Jan. 3 caucuses, which kick off the primary season. Gingrich led with 25 percent support in the previous Register poll, in November, but has fallen 13 points since then. Santorum, one of the few GOP candidates to have not seen a surge before now, has been crisscrossing Iowa in hopes that a strong caucus finish could give a boost to his longshot campaign. A strong social conservative, he has stanley cup nz been engaged i

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Dallas mdash; A 16-year-old boy from Guatemala who survived the thousand-mile journey to the U.S. border died Monday in U.S. custody.The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is calling for a federal investigation after the fifth migrant child since December died after arriving at the U.S. border. This i stanley flasche s an epidemic of death. Nobody had died for 10 years. And in the last six months, you ve had five deaths, Rep. Joaquin stanley cup Castro said. Carlos Hernandez Vaacute quez CBS News The latest, 16-year-old Carlos Hernandez Vaacute quez of Guatemala, was an unaccompanied minor. The teen was apprehended at the Texas-Mexico border on May 13. On May 19, he told the medical staff he didn t feel well and was given Tamiflu. He was found dead the next day.By law, immigration officials have three days to transfer unaccompanied minors to the Office of Refugee Resettlement ORR mdash; a special division that deals with children. Carlos Hernandez s brother, blurred to conceal his identity. CBS News stanley tumbler CBS News spoke to one of Hernandez s brothers, in New Jersey, who just wants to know what happened. The hardest part about it all is what happened to him because we never thought this would happen in a place where he s supposed to be in a better pla Snku Veterans Affairs chief orders nationwide review of VA Medical Centers
Republican John McCain reorganized his campaign Monday, cutting staff in every department as he raised just $11.2 million in the last three months and reported an abysmal $2 million cash on hand for his presidential bid. We confronted reality and we dealt with it in the best way that we could so that we could move forward with this campaign f stanley mugs ocused on winning our primaries in the early states, said Terry Nelson, McCa stanley cups uk in s campaign manager.Once considered the front-runner for the GOP nomination, McCain trails top Republican rivals in money and polls. More than 50 staffers, and perhaps as many as 80 to 100, were being let go, and senior aides will be subject to pay cuts as the Ar stanley thermosflasche izona senator bows to six months of subpar fundraising, according to officials with knowledge of the details of the shake up. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the campaign would not publicly discuss details of the restructuring.McCain s tally in the second financial quarter, which ended Saturday, is expected to trail those of Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, who have not yet released their totals. In the first quarter, McCain came in third and raised just $13.6 million. Officials said the fundamental leadership of the campaign will not change; Nelson, a veteran of President Bush s winning 2004 campaign, will remain campaign manager but said he would volunteer his time instead of drawing a salary for the next few months.At its peak, McCain s payroll

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An attorney may be called before a Manhattan grand jury on Monday to discredit stanley canada star witness Michael Cohen in the investigation into former President Donald Trump, two sources confirmed to CBS News.Cohen, Trump s former personal attorney, has been asked to be available if needed before the grand jury, which is investigating an alleged hush money payment Cohen made to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election, according to two people familiar with the matter.Cohen has been asked to be in close proximity to the grand jury, which meets in Lower Manhattan, in case he s needed to rebut another witness expected to testify Monday. Two sources told CBS News that attorney Robert Costello, who worked as a legal adviser to Cohen before they had a falling out, may ap stanley cup pear before the grand jury to discredit Cohen, a key witness in the investigation into Trump. Costello has been asked to appear by Trump s attorneys, sources said, but it s unclear if he will actually be called. Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen leaves after testifying before grand jury in Manhattan, New York City on March 15, 2023. Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Costello s possible appearance was first reported by The New York Times. Trump posted on social media on Saturday that he expects to be arrested on Tuesday by stanley cup spain Manhattan District Attorn Hoyl Judge rules ballot selfies are OK in New Hampshire
PANDERING REVISITED....The splintering of the GOP continues a stanley thermos pace. Mel Martinez has resigned as head of the Republican National Committee because, according to the New York Times, he was increasingly uncomfortable as the face of the party. Peter Wallsten of the LA Times explains a little less delicately:A statement by Martinez released by the RNC did not mention the immigration issue or the courtship of Latino voters....But Martinez s frustration was well known. He had warned that a continuation of the GOP s 2006 tactics 151; airing anti-illegal immigration television ads that many believed used ethnic stereotypes 151; could doom the party s hope of competing for the country s fastest-growing voter bloc.....The top Republican candidates for president, former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, ar stanley quencher e promising to be tougher on illegal immigration.The big immigration debate earlier this year has blown over, so why resign now The answer is in the last paragraph: if you were one of the party s few Hispanic leaders, how would you feel watching the leading Republican presidential candidates practical stanley cup ly tripping over each other week after week to declare undying fealty to the GOP s angry white guy nativists It s yet another of the special interest checkboxes I mentioned yesterday: kept under wraps back in the heady days of the Republican Revolution, but now on full, ugly display and demanding ever greater obeisance as a litmus test

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CBS News One hundred and fifty years since the Emancipation Procl stanley cup amation and fifty years after his March on Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would have said, My dream is in the process of becoming real, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. - who spoke on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial both in 1963 and Saturday during a commemorative rally - said Sunday on Face the Nation. He d be grateful to see an African American as president of the United States: It s almost unreal, unbelievable, Dr. King would have said, according to Lewis, who has called king his mentor. If Dr. King could speak to us, he would say, We ve come a distance. We ve made a lot of progress. You re in the process of laying down the burden of race. But we re not there yet. Lewis recalled his and King s meeting in 1963 with then-President John F. Kennedy: A. Philip Randolph, one of the leaders during that period, spoke up and said, Mr. President, the masses are restless... And we re go stanley thermos mug ing to march on Washington. And you can tell by the body language of the president he, sort of started moving and twisting, and he said, Mr. Randolph, if you bring all these people to Washington, won t there be violence and chaos and disorder We will never get a civil rights bill through the Congress. stanley puodelis Gen. Colin Powell - who was fighting in Vietnam at the time of King s immortalized I have a dream speech, but went on to serve as the first African-American secretary of state Kryr Obama To Preempt McCain Assault
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A group of progressive Democrats in Congress said Tuesday it had retracted a letter to the White House urging President Joe B stanley cups uk iden to engage in direct diplomatic talks with Russia after it triggered an uproar among Democrats and raised questions about the strength of the party s support for Ukraine. In a statement, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the Progressive Caucus, said the caucus was withdrawing the letter it jhad sent less than 24 hours earlier. It was signed by 30 members of the party s liberal flank. The letter was drafted several months ago, but unfortunately was released by staff without vetting, the Washington Democrat wrote in a statement. As chair of the caucus, Jayapal said she took responsibility for this. The unusual retraction capped a tense 24-hour period for Democrats. Many reacted angrily to the appearance of flagging support for the president s Ukraine strategy, coming just weeks before a midterm election where their majorities in Congress are at risk.The back-and-forth spotlighted the fragile nature of Biden s relationship with the progressive wing of his party, raising stark questions about their ability to work together not only on Ukraine funding mdash; which seems secure, for now mdash; but on stanley uk more pressing issues that are top priorities for liberals. The stanley thermos mug letter had called for Biden to pair the unprecedented economic and military support for Ukraine with a proactive diplomatic push, redoubling eff Ekwm Iowa Debate: Republican Winners and Losers
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC in Washington, Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. AP Photo/Alex Brandon Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, said Republican Sen. John Thune may be rethinking entering the 2012 presidential race.In an interview with C-SPAN s Steve Scully on Monday, Kristol said he thought it was unusual there were no senators currently in the race - and that Th cups stanley une might throw his hat into the ring if a strong leader didn t emerge. What I ve heard is the following: I think Thune is rethinking a little bit, he was sort of the more, I d say the more establishment favorite of the senators, he told Scully. When pressed on the matter, Kristol continued: Yeah, that s what I ve been told... I think a lot this depends on whether there s a huge vacuum. stanley canada If Romney seems to fall through a little; if Pawlenty doesn t take off, if neither Perry nor Bachman stanley drink bottle n seems like they re getting majority support, there will be a big vacuum in September and I think someone could get in. Thune, a second-term Republican senator from South Dakota, announced his decision not to seek the GOP presidential nomination in February. There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from n

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During a campaign stop in Las Vegas on Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris will promote Nevada s ballot measure to enshrine abortion access in the state constitution.The ballot initiative campaign will collect signatures from voters during Harris event, a Biden-Harris campaign official told CBS News. In Nevada, the initiative is being led by Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom political action committee. If enough signatures are obtained, Nevadans will get to vote during the general election on enshrining botella stanley abortion access for up to 24 weeks in the state s constitution.According to the cam stanley cup paign official, Vice President Harris will encourage Nevada voters to support the efforts, as they are an important step to protect against extremist state lawmakers who may try to adopt another Trump abortion ban in the future. As of early April, Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom announced the collection of over 110,000 signatures ahead of the June 26 qualification deadline. In order to be on the 2024 ballot, 102, 362 signatures must be submitted. Of those, 25,591 must come from each of Nevada s four congressional districts. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks on reproductive freedom in Tucson, Arizona, on April 12, 2024. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images stanley website The political group said it was actively collecting signatures from all districts. Tyao Mark Zuckerberg says he s not stepping down at Facebook, nobody fired after data scandal
This story was written by Andrew Kreighbaum, Daily TexanMelissa Noriega is convinced that Texas left-wing blogg stanley termosky ers propelled her husband s U.S. senatorial campaign. While deployed in Afghanistan with the National Guard, Rep. Rick Noriega, a Houston Democrat, nominated his wife to serve in his place in the Texas House of Representatives. At the Netroots Nation convention in Austin Thursday, Melissa Noriega told a caucus of about 50 bloggers from across the state that blogs were a valuable source of information during her service in stanley thermos mug the House. The blogs of the Texas Progressive Alliance, a coalition of liberal Texan bloggers, helped her, she said. When they talk about my being effective in Austin when I stood in for Rick, it was because I was reading you, she said to the bloggers gathered in a room at the Austin Convention Center. The third annual Netroots Nation, formerly known as the YearlyKos Convention, brought nearly 3,000 liberal bloggers and activists to Austin from across the nation this weekend to network and discuss the presidential campaign. The four-day event started Thursday. Today, our caucus and the fact that the stanley hrnek convention is in Texas speaks a lot to what is happening in our state, said Karl-Thomas Musselman, publisher of the Texas blog Burnt Orange Report, in reference to the prospect of Texas electing Democrats in the fall to national and state political seats for the