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Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush holds a meet and greet at Chico s Restaurant on December 28, 2015 in Hialeah, Florida.Johnny Louis鈥?015_Johnny Louis/JLNphotographyBy Daniel WhiteDecember 28, 2015 2:27 PM ESTJeb Bush has a proposal: A one-on-one debate with Donald Trump.The former Florida governor challenged the current Republican frontrunner at a campaign event in Florida Monday.Donald, Irsquo;ll take you on one-on-one in a d ugg ebate, any time, any place, Bush told the crowd at the Forum Club in Palm Beach. You name it and Irsquo;ll do it.Bush, polling at 4% last week, is trailing far behind Trump, who leads the field at 28% in the same Quinnipiac University poll. Bush is likely looking take back some of his momentum before the Feb. 1 Iowa Caucus.T reebok he two have repeatedly traded jabs, setting up for a main event fight that could be entertainingmdash;as neither campaign has held any punches. Trump called Bush low energy, while Bush went as far as calling the billionaire a jerk earlier in December.Just one other thing mdash; I gotta get this off my chest mdash; Donald Trump is a jerk, said Bush on Dec. 19 at a New Hampshire rally. You cannot insult your way to the presidency. You canrsquo;t disparage women, Hispanics, disabled people. Who is he k yeezy idding The next Republican presidential debate is on Jan. 14 in Charleston, South Carolina.Read More: Jeb Bushr

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Democratic presidential candidates former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders I-VT appear at a Democratic debate at the University of New Hampshire on Feb. 4, 2016 in Durham, N.H.Mike Segar鈥擱eutersBy Daniel WhiteUpdated: February 4, 2016 11:39 PM [ET] | Originally published: February 4, 2016 10:47 PM EST;Internet users had a lot to say Thursday during the Democratic debatemdash;with mixed results, according to data from social media networks and search engines.While candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton duked it out on stage, viewers participated online, searching the candidates or mentioning them in posts on social media. Data from Google showed Sanders leading Clinton in number of searches, while Clinton led the conversation on Twitter.Data from Twitter showed mentions of Clinton taking up 56% of the conversation on the platform during the fifth Democratic debate. Google searches, however, for Sanders were higher both around the country and in New Hampshire, according to Google Trends.Final DemDebate share of Twitter conversation:- @HillaryClinton 56%- @BernieSanders 44% pic.twitter/ENHtmibYEBmdash; Government @Gov February 5, 2016At the adidas samba end of the DemDebate, @BernieSanders was top searched candidatehttps://t.co/0KY1KNFS1O pic.twitter/KqcgAHHHLZmdash; GoogleTrends @GoogleTrends February 5, 2016Times where Sande adidas campus rs and Clinton went back and forth over regulating Wall Street were the most popular individual moments reebok of the debate w

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Former NFL Head Coach Brian Flores of the Miami Dolphins talked with an official during a game against the Tennessee Titans on January 2.Wesley Hitt鈥擥etty ImagesBy Abby VesoulisFebruary 8, 2022 4:02 PM ESTFans of the National Football League NFL have long complained about the organization history of fumbling its public relations.In 2009, the organization allowed an Atlanta Falcons player, who had pleaded guilty to participating in an illegal dog-fighting ring, to sign with a new team after his release from prison. In 2014, it initially benched a Baltimore Ravens running back for just two games after video emerged suggesting he had beaten his then-fianceacute; in an elevator. The same year, NFL brass issued a tepid, one-year suspension to a Minnesota Vikings player charged with felony child abuse for whipping his four-year-old with a tree branch stanley shop .But as the league grapples with recent allegations that it created a culture in which teams ; leadership attempted to rig the outcome of games, bribed a coach, racially discriminated, and made efforts to cover up a pervasive culture of sexual harassm stanley cup ent, Congress is offering to referee. In the past two weeks, House Democrats have called for the NFL to reform its hiring practices, suggested it may subpoena NFL documents for an internal investigation into toxic workplace culture, and threatened to re-examine the structure of sports televisio stanley cup n rights, which has long helped the NFL bottom line.During a House Oversig

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By Megan McCluskeyOctober 5, 2021 4:26 PM EDTWhile appearing b adidas samba efore the Senate Commerce subcommittee on Tuesday, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former Facebook project manager who revealed her identity on 60 Minutes on Sunday, testified that the social media site products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy, and that congressional intervention is needed.The hearing came in the wake of Haugen leaking tens of thousands of pages of company documents to senators showing that Facebook has failed to fix numerous problems that itrsquo long known about, and in some cases made them worse. The documents became the subject of a series of articles in the Wall Street Journal in September that detailed internal Facebook research and alleged crocs that Instagram is toxic to teens ;, and specifically teen girls adidas samba og 8217;, mental health.Read More: The Facebook Whistleblower Revealed Herself on 60 Minutes. Here What You Need to KnowHere what to know about Haugen testimony.Big Tobacco moment ;Following Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal opening the hearing by stating that Facebook, and Big Tech as a whole, is facing a Big Tobacco moment, Haugen repeatedly spoke to allegations that Facebook is prioritizing profit over people.Comparisons were made between the ways in which Facebook and tobacco are both addictive and profitable, but ultimately unhealthy for users. Blument

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Landing on the Moon is one thing, but not getting lost on its gray, dusty surface presents an entirely different challenge. The Apollo astronauts eyeballed their way across the lunar terrain, but NASA is hoping to develop a better navigation system for future astronauts exploring the Moon. In late February, NASA tested an autonomous navigation system on the Moon that could be used to connect different orbiters, landers, and astronauts, turning them into a series of lighthouse beacons spread across the stanley cup lunar surface. The Lunar Node 1, or LN-1, launched stanley straws on board Intuitive Machines Odysseus lunar lander, stanley cup tumbler which touched down on the surface of the Moon on February 22 to deliver various payloads. After it was deployed on the lunar surface, NASA tested LN-1 by lighting its beacon for 30 minutes, the space agency recently announced. The original plan was for LN-1 to transmit its beacon around the clock until it powered down on February 29, but it was unable to do so due to the Odysseus landers unfortunate position on the Moon. The lunar lander stumbled on its way down to the surface, and ended up tipped over on its side. In fact, it was LN-1 that helped Odysseus land on the Moon after the landers own navigation system failed. Just hours before its scheduled descent, Odysseus laser rangefinders, which are designed to assess the Moons terrain to identify a safe landing spot, malfunctioned. In order to help guide the lander to the surface, flight engineers uploaded a software patch t Qeeq Army logistician officer takes charge of DLA Troop Support Europe amp; Africa
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Turtle power was on full display in Hollywood Thursday as four icons cemented their place in pop culture history. Literally. Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo, and Raphael, aka the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, had their hand prints immortalized outside theTCL Chinese Theater stanley and starbucks in Hollywood, California, alongside some of cinemas all-time greats. Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman also attended and got his hands di stanley canada rty, adding the finishing touch to the pizza-shaped memorial that will forever live outside the theater. If you couldnt be there, heres the next best thing: a bunch of photos from the event. DonatelloFiction stanley cups al mutantsFictional turtlesHuman InterestLeonardoMichelangeloRaphael Awla The Men Behind GPS Just Won a Prestigious Engineering Prize. Not on the Prize List: a Woman
By Justin WorlandDecember 15, 2015 10:06 AM ESTThe cost insurance companies pay for a medical operation in a hospital varies dramatically from city to city within the U.S. and can even vary by a factor of nine within an individual city, according to new research.The study from researchers at Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania and other schools relies on data from private insurers to provide a lens into health care costs. Researchers found that the cost of hospital visits is the primary driver of differences in health stanley cup care cost between regions. These price differences between hospitals can be thousands of dollars, said study author Martin Gaynor, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.The concrete examples of cost differences are startling. An insurer would pay 12 times less for an lower-limb MRI in Baltimore than it would in the Bronx, N.Y. The cost of that same operation could vary by a factor of nine in Mia stanley water flask mi, according to the research.Researchers also found that locations with a single hospital tended to have prices that were 15% higher than in markets with four or more options. The st stanley cup udy warns that mergers between hospitals may lead to an increase in health care costs.More Must-Reads from TIMEHow the Economy is Doing in the Swing StatesHarris Battles For the Bro VoteOur Guide to Voting in the 2024 ElectionMel Robbins Will Make You Do ItWhy Vinegar Is So Good for YouYou Dont Have to Dread the End of Daylight SavingThe 20 Best Halloween TV Epis

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An empty pedestal remains after the statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas Stonewall Jackson was removed from Charlottesville, Va. on July 10, 2021. Ryan M. Kelly鈥?AFP/ Getty ImagesIdeasBy Sarah Kohrs and Neil ThorneMay 21, 2024 11:45 AM EDTKohrs is an educator and parent of three children, two of which are in Shenandoah County schools. Thorne is a military veteran and lifelong resident of the Shenandoah Valley. They are members of the citizens group Claim the NamesOn May 10, 2024, 161 years to the day after General Thomas Stonewall Jacksons last breath fighting stanley cup for the Confederate insurrection intended to continue enslavement of human beings in America, the Shenandoah County School Board voted 5-1 to restore his name on a stanley cup high school in rural Virginia.More than 50 concerned community members, students, and parents, in stanley cup cluding one of the first African Americans to integrate Stonewall Jackson High School in 1963, and hundreds of their supporters, continued to advocate a new reckoning of the countys heritage of enslavement, segregation, and racial injustice. They affirmed the names a community committee selected in 2021 renaming the school as Mountain View High and another school named after Confederate generals Turner Ashby and Robert E. Lee as Honey Run Elementary.But the school board heard none of it. Instead, the board sided with those idolizing the faith and loyalty of heroes like Jackson, condemning pandemic-related processes that did not take into account the voices of Vtlq How the Paris Attacks Upended the Republican Primary
Vice President Kamala Harris L holds a moderated conversation with former US Rep. Liz Cheney, at a theater in Malvern, Penn., on October 21, 2024.Brendan Smialowski鈥擜FP via Getty ImagesBy Brian BennettUpdated: October 23, 2024 9:50 AM EDT | Originally published: October 21, 2024 3:46 PM EDTDuring her time representing Wyoming in Congress, Liz Cheney held an A rating for her voting record from a leading anti-abortion group, Susan B. Anthony Pro-life America. Before leaving the Senate to become Vice President, Kamala Harris scored an F. But that wide gap on a pivotal election issue hasnt stopped Cheney from campaigning for Harris to keep Donald Trump from returning to the Oval Office.And at a Harris campaign event Mon adidas campus day in Malvern, Penn.鈥攁 town in a key suburban voting district in a crucial battleground state鈥擟heney explicitly carved out a path for her fellow pro-life Republicans to reject Trump. There are many of us around the country who have been pro-life but who have watched whats going on in our states since the Dobbs decision and have watched state legislatures put in place laws that are resulting in women not getting the care they need, Cheney said. She pointed specifically to Texas, where the state attorney general, she said, is suing to get access to womens medical records. Thats not sustainable for us as adidas campus a country, and it has to change. Cheney s carefully tailored words set up a contrast to Harris, wh salomon o spoke at the same event more forcefully in favor of acce

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By Antony Sguazzin/BloombergUpdated: December 12, 2021 8:43 PM EST | Originally published: December 11, 2021 12:58 PM ESTA two-shot course of Pfizer Inc.rsquo vaccine may have just 22.5% efficacy against symptomatic inf stanley cup ection with the omicron variant, but can thwart severe disease, according to laboratory experiments in South Africa.Researchers at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban issued additional data on a small study released earlier this week from which stanley cup they made an estimate of the efficacy of the vaccine using modeling.The research considered blood plasma samples from 12 participants. Scientists found omicron resulted in about a 41-fold reduction in levels of neutralizing antibodies produced by people who had received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech SE shot, compared with the strain detected in China almost two years ago.This is essentially compromising the ability of the vaccine to protect against infection, said the team of scientists led by laboratory head Alex Sigal in a preprint released on Friday.There most likely continues to be sufficient protection against severe disease, they said.The team this week was the first to show that the variant, found by scientists in South Africa and Botswana and announced on Nov. 25, co stanley cup uld largely, but not totally, escape the antibodies produced by Pfizerrsquo vaccine. Still, they said a booster shot could increase immunity. Thatrsquo been backed up by studies carried out by Pfizer itself.Prelimi Mrky Latvia Watches Nervously as Putin Seeks to Exert Power
The European Gas Link Pipeline EUGAL under construction to transport Russian natural gas from the Baltic Sea to the Czech Republi adidas originals c on Jan. 17 2019, in Brandenburg, Kienbaum.Patrick Pleul/picture alliance鈥擥etty ImagesBy EWA KRUKOWSK adidas samba og A / BLOOMBERGMarch 8, 2022 12:46 PM ESTThe European Union laid out plans to end its reliance on Russian gas in the next few years, in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine thatrsquo roiled energy markets and prompted Moscow to threaten to cut supplies.The European Commission on Tuesday outlined its strategy to cut import yeezy needs from Russia by two-thirds this year. Using measures such as tapping new supplies and boosting energy efficiency, the bloc aims to replace flows from its biggest supplier well before 2030mdash ooner than previous projections, according to a document that will now be discussed by national governments.It said the plan may be extended to phasing out reliance on Russian oil and coal.The E.U. is stepping up efforts to find alternatives following decades of reliance on Russian gas that has prompted warnings from some countries about Moscow using flows to boost its political leverage. Worries about supplies being halted have sent European prices surging to a record. Still, it will be a challenge for the region to replace most of the volume in the short term.For the plan to become reality, it will need action from member states, many of whom were already uncomfortable with the investment required for the commissionrsquo energy-

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An employee of Westminster Place is vaccinated on Jan. 6, 2021.Evan Jenkins for TIMEBy W.J. Hennigan, Alice Park and Jamie DucharmeJanuary 21, 2021 6:12 AM ESTOn a frigid morning in January, Trudy Ronnel settled into her favorite sofa chair at the Westminster Place senior-living community in Evanston, Ill., pulled down the neckline on her red blouse and braced herself for a shot she ;d anticipated for almost a year. At 92 years old, with multiple medical conditions, she spent most of 2020 fearful of contracting the COVID-19 plague that ravaged the world outside her first-floor window.To protect herself, for the past few months she ;d avoided Westminster communal rooms, which had provided a means to stay active and engaged but risked becoming a pathogenic petri dish.Whenever she left her room, she dutifully wore a surgical face mask and maintained the mandated 6-ft. distance. The most difficult change came in the fall, when visits from her son, daughter and five grandchildren were cut of stanley termosai f.Living in relative isolation was not how Ronnel envisioned spending her golden years. Like millions of Americans, as soon as the first coronavirus vaccine was stanley cup authorized, she began anxiously counting down to the day sh stanley cup e ;d receive her shot. As an elderly resident of a long-term-care facility, Ronnel is at higher risk of getting infected and experiencing serious symptoms, and thus belongs to one of the first priority groups to get vaccinated, along with health care worke

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Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden, before a Democratic presidential primary debate in Charleston, S.C. on Feb. 25, 2020.Matt Rourke鈥擜PBy Charlotte AlterJuly 10, 2020 3:21 PM EDT salomon The summer of 2016 was a rough time for the Democratic Party. Hillary Clinton supporters were angry that Bernie Sanders had taken so long to concede the primary. Sanders supporters were angry that Clinton seemed dismissive of Sanders ; movement. It was a summer of seething, culminating in a De adidas campus mocratic convention marked by a dramatic walkout by Sanders delegates.Four years later, Joe Biden wants to avoid a repeat. Ever since he stopped Sanders momentum and won the primary, Biden has offered a series of symbolic olive branches to the progressive left, from a friendly endorsement video with Sanders to adopting some of Elizabeth Warren ideas. The left flank of the party appears increasingly united behind Biden: 87% of voters who said Sanders was their firs converse t choice now say they plan to vote for Biden, while only 4% say they won ;t, according to a New York Times/Siena poll. Among Warren voters, the count was 96-0.Biden biggest gesture towards Sanders base was convening a series of task forces, staffed with experts appointed by the Biden and Sanders camps, to make recommendations for the official Democratic platform. From a policy perspective, these recommendations don ;t mean much: they would need to be accepted by the Biden campaign and a