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President Trump said Monday that the U.N. Security Council should be ready to take further action against North Korea over its military provocations. stanley vaso stanley cup Trump administration prepares for 100-day mark 05:25 The status quo in North Korea is also unacceptable and the council must be prepared to impose additional and stronger sanctions on North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile programs, Mr. Trump said Monday, during a working lun stanley cup ch with all the members of the U.N. Security Council.USS Vinson nears Korean PeninsulaThis is a real threat to the world, whether we want to talk about it or not. North Korea is a big world problem, and itrsquo a problem that we have to finally solve, he told reporters. During the meeting, Mr. Trump also berated the Security Council for its inaction against Syria after the chemical attack in northern Syria earlier this month, believed to have been carried out by the Assad regime.U.S. missile strike in Syria against Assadrsquo forcesOn Syria, the Council failed again this month to respond to Syriarsquo use of chemical weapons, the president said. A great disappointment; I was very disappointed by that. He also criticized the international body as an underperfor Egic Burris Welcomes Heat From Blago Probes
President-elect Barack Obama has announced a new round of nominees for the Department of Justice, among them David Ogden, his pick for Deputy Attorney General. The nominees are veterans from the Clinton/Reno era. CBS/AP Attorney general nominee Eric Holder strongly wanted Ogden as stanley cup his deputy, CBS News producer Stephanie Lambidakis reports. Orgen is known as a skilled manager, although he does not have criminal or national security experience. Mr. Obama also announced that Elena Kagan was his choice for Solicitor General. She would be the first woman in the job, Lambidakis reports, and was Associate Counsel in the Clinton White House. Tom Perrelli, the Associate Attorney General nominee, w stanley thermoskannen as a top official in the Civil Division, which is now dealing with the detainee habeas cases. He was very involved in the Clin botella stanley ton administration s lawsuit against tobacco companies. Dawn Johnsen, Mr. Obama s pick to be Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, will quickly find herself dealing with hot button issues. The Office of Legal Counsel, Lambidakis notes, is where all the controversial memos on interrogation and detainees still rest. Some of these memos haven t been released, and Mr. Obama will have to decide whether to release them, and more important, whether the reverse them ndash; and how quickly.The release from the transition team announcing the picks is below. President-Elect Obama Announces Key Department of Jus

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Three Democratic senators are asking ATT CEO Randall Stephenson for more information about the telecom giant s contract with President Trump s lawyer, Michael Cohen. The questions come after Stephenson admitted in an email to employees last week that ATT had entered a consulting contract with Cohen to help us understand how the President and his administration might approach a wide range of policy issues important to the company, including regulatory reform at the FCC, corporate tax reform and antitrust enforcement. In the end, ATT says Cohen did no legal or lobbying work for the company, though they did pay his limited liability corporation Essential Consultants at least $200,000, and perhaps as much as $600,000. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden and Richard Blumenthal noted that those payments were made, in spite of the fact that Cohen lacks experience and knowledge about tax reform, antitrust issues, and FCC policy.Novartis paid Trump lawyer s firm $1.2 million for adviceThe three senators have 16 questions for Stephenson about who at ATT set up the contract with Essential Consultants, what its timeframe was, how the payments were structured and who proposed them, and how ATT determined t stanley uk hat Cohen was qualified to advise on policy matters. They point out in their letter that ATT had stanley cup usa a significant financial interest in Trump administration decisions when th stanley tumbler e contract began, including its proposed me Wafk A Repeal Of Don t Ask, Don t Tell
WASHINGTON - The Senate is moving to cast away a budget cutting plan passed by the Republican-controlled House, clearing the way for increasingly urgent stanley cups uk government talks over raising the nation s debt ceiling. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner searched once more for an ambitious $4 trillion grand bargain, but officials said wide differences remained.Special section: America s debt battleLess than two weeks from an Aug. 2 deadline that could precipitate a stanley becher first-ever government default, the continuing Obama-Boehner talks kept alive the possibility of substantial deficit reduction that would combine cuts in spending on major benefit programs like Medicare and Medicaid and revenue increases through a broad overhaul of the tax code. stanley termoska We have the opportunity to do something big and meaningful, Obama declared in a newspaper opinion piece. And from the Capitol, Boehner said House Republicans were prepared to compromise and prodded Obama: The ball continues to be in the president s court. Video: Debt deal still up in the airDem source: Obama working on $3T debt deal with BoehnerWhite House, Boehner s office deny debt deal near Talk of a deal prompted a spasm of distress among Senate Democrats worried that Obama would agree to immediate cuts but put off tax revenues that the president has said are key to any agreement. The White House immediately sought to tamp down talk of an impending deal. Democratic officials familiar wit

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Downstate federal judge rules Illinois assault weapons ban unconstitutional Downstate federal judge rules Illinois assault weapons ban unconstitutional 02:44 CHICAGO CBS --A federal judge in downstate Illinois has ruled the state s ban on assault weapons is unconstitutional, but will hold off on prohibiting t stanley cup he state from enforcing it for one month to allow for a likely appeal. U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn, who sits on the federal court in East Saint Louis, wrote in his 168-page opinion that the statewide ban on assault-style weapons violates the Second Amendment. The Protect Illinois Communities Actbans the sale of stanley botella assault-style weapons stanley tumblers and high-capacity magazines, and requires existing owners of those weapons to register them with Illinois State Police. The legislation, signed into law in January 2023, banned dozens of specific brands or types of rifles and handguns, .50-caliber guns, attachments and rapid-firing devices. No rifle will be allowed to accommodate more than 10 rounds, with a 15-round limit for handguns. As part of his ruling that the assault weapons ban is unconstitutional, McGlynn issued a permanent injunction prohibiting enforcement of the ban, but he stayed that injunction for 30 days to give the state ti Eiwp Editorial: Clinton Should Quit Race After RFK Comment
AP Photo/Stephen J Boitano The lobbyist who filed a lawsuit against The New York Times over a story which allegedly implied she had a romantic affair with Sen. John McCain, stanley cups uk has withdrawn her $27 million defamation suit, according to the Associated Press.Both sides announced an out-of-court settlement, reports CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric.In a statement, Vicki Iseman said The Times admitted the article, was no stanley canada t intended to convey that I had engaged in inappropriate behavior. The Times says it did not apologize to Iseman, but she told CBS News that s not so, Couric reports. According to the U.S. District Court, attorneys for Iseman filed a notice of voluntary dismissal of the December legal action, presumably after the settlement was reached. The story in question appeared in the paper almost exactly a year ago, when McCain was out on the campaign trail. The piece, written by four veteran Times reporters, was about McCain s first campaign for President in 2000 and the chummy appearance the candidate displayed with the lobbyi stanley cup st. The story clearly stated that the Senator and Iseman both denied having a romantic relationship ndash; but also suggests that key players within McCain s campaign were concerned about how close their candidate had become with the lobbyist. 4572570The Times reported that to his advisers, even the appearance of a close bond with a lobbyist whose clients often had business before the Senate commit

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President Obama personally knows both of the Secret Service agents currently under investigation for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol and crashing near the White House, CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett reports.And he s disappointed with their conduct, sources close to the investig stanley cup spain ation told Garrett. The two agents involved were Mark Connolly, the second-in-command on Mr. Obama s protective detail, and George Ogilvie, a senior supervisor in the Washington field office.2 Secret Service agents investigated for DUI crash near WHConnolly and Ogilvie were in an agency vehicle when the alleged incident occurred. They were returning from a party when they allegedly drove through a line of yellow pl stanley website astic security tape placed around the scene of a suspicious package and hit a barrier. The suspicious package turned out to be a book wrapped in some sort of cloth or paper. A woman threw the book on Pennsylvania Avenue, just about a block away from the White House, yelled that it was a bomb, and then fled the scene. The package and the outburst were reported and carried out a as standard suspicious package investigati stanley cup on.When the Secret Service agents allegedly drove through the yellow tape, they grazed the barrier -- a plastic orange barrel with a blinking reflector light on top -- according to sources familiar with the investigation. Their car managed to graze the barrel as the agents allegedly Nloo Desperate for Debate, Clinton Suggests One On Back Of Flat Bed Truck
From our small-world file: When Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, he called on an old school friend from Hope, Ark., named Tho stanley website mas Mack Mc stanley cup Larty to help build support in the business community. McLarty s reward was the post of White House chief of staff.No stanley cups w we hear that the latest Arkansas presidential candidate, Republican Mike Huckabee, is copying Bubba. He s asked McLarty s younger brother, Bud, an entertainment exec, to help out in the arts world and fundraising.The reward, Huck tells our Suzi Parker: He d really like to be secretary of Funk, Soul, and Rock-and-Roll, and if I were to be elected, we d probably have a job like that! Here s McLarty s bio from the Huckabee campaign: Francis B. Bud McLarty has been in the media, broadcasting, and entertainment industry over 25 years. His entrepreneurial career encompasses radio and television station ownership and broadcast and theatrical entertainment production. McLarty serves as president and chief executive officer of BMC Media Inc. and McLarty Entertainment Group Inc., with offices in Las Vegas and Colorado Springs. McLarty also served as senior adviser to Kissinger McLarty Associates, the international consulting firm located in New York City and Washington, D.C., and founded by Henry A. Kissinger and Thomas Mack McLarty, Bud McLarty s older brother and President Bill Clinton s initial White House chief of staff. Bud McLarty participate

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In his big foreign policy speech Monday, Donald Trump coined a new nickname for his Democratic opponent: Americarsquo Angela Merkel.In short, Hillary Clinton wants to be Americarsquo Angela Merkel, he said at the event in Youngstown, Ohio. And you know what a disaster this massive immigration has been to Germany and the people of Germany. Crime has risen to levels that no one thought they would ever, ever see. It is a catastrophe.Trump was clearly trying to make a point about the European refugee crisis stanley tumblers , arguing that Clintonrsquo policy toward refugees was approaching the scale of Germanyrsquo . In 2015, Germany took in just over 1 million refugees from the Middle East and Africa, a policy which has divided the countryrsquo residents and created a complex political situation there. But those listening to Trumprsquo comments from across the Atlantic in Berlin noted the comparison with both a bit of confusion and a certain amount of amusement-- because while itrsquo true that the refugee crisis in Germany has presented a new political challenge for Merkel, shersquo still relatively popular and overall remains one of the most influential, well-regarded leaders in E stanley thermos urope.And whatrsquo more, many Americans probably have no idea--or only the vaguest idea--who Merkel actually is. It struck me when I heard these comments of Trump, said Peter Matus stanley uk chek, chief Njsh UC-Berkeley Faculty Members Advise Obama
Former President Bill Clinton said Monday he doesn t expect Democratic prospects this year to b stanley cup e as bad as 94, when his failed drive to overhaul the nation s health care system helped Republicans win control of Congress.In assessing what could be a potentially tough year for his party, Clinton said if Democrats catch a break with the economy and party leaders kind of ke stanley quencher ep their heads on straight and keep focusing on the need to show up and get counted, I don t think it ll be as bad as 94. I think we ll do much better. The former president s remarks in an interview with Fox News came as President Barack Obama released his most detailed plan yet for health care. Obama is also scheduled to hold a televised, bipartisan health care summit Thursday, as he seeks a fresh direction with the stalled issue. Every seat is up in the House this fall, along with at least 36 in the Senate. Republicans would have to gain 40 seats in the 435-member House and 10 in the 100-member Senate to control Congress.Democrats alrea stanley cup dy have faced one setback this year. Republican Scott Brown s win in the Massachusetts Senate race denied Democrats their 60-seat majority. He took over the seat of the late Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy earlier this month. On other topics, Clinton said he is looking forward to his daughter Chelsea s wedding. The only child of the former president and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is engaged to her longtime boyfrie

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Hacking, which used to be something people did for fun or for bragging rights has mushroomed into something else entirely over the past dozen years, FBI Director Christopher Wray said at a cybersecurity conference in Boston Wednesday. As Americans now live much of our lives online, we re more vulnerable, Wray noted. And the threat is coming at us from all sides. What was once a comparatively minor threat ndash; people hacking for fun or for bragging rights ndash; has now mushroomed into full-blown economic espionage and extremely lucrative cyber crime. It s a far cry from when Wray left the Justice Department in 2005, when, he said, Tweeting was something only birds did. Wray said the FBI is now seeing more computer hacking attacks by other countries. We re seeing an increase in nation-state sponsored computer intrusions, intrusions like last year s massive WannaCry ransomware attack, recently attributed to North Ko stanley cup rea. Or NotPetya ndash; the most destructive and costly cyber attack in history, Wray said during a keynote address at a Boston cyber security conference. La stanley tumblers unched by the Russian military, NotPetya resulted in billions of dollars in damage across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. We ve also been seeing a blended threat ndash; nation-states using criminal hackers to do their dirty work, Wray added. We also see Nation stanley mug -state turning to more creative avenues to steal information. To counter these rising threa Dlwx Standoff On Iraq Funding Bill Continues
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - South Dakota officials must decide their next step after a federal judge said the state s newest abortion law is likely unconstitutional while preventing it from taking effect Friday.The act would require women seeking abortions to face a three-day waiting period 151; the nation s longest 151; and undergo counseling at pregnancy help centers that discourage abortion.U.S. District Chief Judge Karen Schreier on Thursday granted Planned Parenthood s preliminary injunction, making the law invalid while it s being challenged in court. Abortion battles spring up nationwide as states test the limits of Roe v. Wade25 states with the most abort stanley becher ionsSouth Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley said the state must decide whether to appeal the preliminary injunction, continue to argue the merits of the case, discuss a potential settlement or do nothing. He said he has reached out to legislative leaders and the governor s office but can t yet say what course of action the state will take. At this point, I need to fully read the decision and discuss it with the attorneys involved in the case starbucks stanley cup , the governor and legislative leadership, Jackley said Thursday evening.Planned Parenthood in its lawsuit said the legislation violates stanley cup a woman s constitutional right to abortion established under the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling.In her written ruling Thursday, Schreier said that requiring women to attend pregnancy help centers would creat

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President Biden asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday for a pause in Israel s fighting in Gaza, the president said Tuesday.Mr. Biden made the remarks to reporters traveling with him in stanley cup Washington, D.C., shortly after Axios reported the president asked Netanyahu for a three-day pause in order to allow for more hostages to be released. The president did not say how long of a pause he requested. I didn t get a chance to talk to him today. I did ask him for a pause in the past mdash; yesterday. Still waiting to hear, the president said before the rest of his comments became inaudible.How the U.S. has increased its military presence in the Middle East amid Israel-Hamas warMr. Biden s comments came after he said during a campaign speech last week that he thought there should be a humanitarian pause in the war. On Monday, Netanyahu said Israel would be open to tactical little pauses in Gaza to allow for humanitarian aid or permit the release of stanley mug hostages held by Hamas. But Israel has rejected the notion of a ceasefire without the release of hostages.Israel launched airstrikes afterHamas terror attackon southern Israel on Oct. 7, and Israeli ground forces pushed into Gaza. Bombs have rained down on Gaza each night. Crisis in the Middle East More stanley cup becher Ided Awkward Allies In Calif. Race
In a pep talk to the nation s students as they settle back into school, President Barack Obama will tell them stanley spain that nothing is beyond their reach as long as they re willing to dream big, work hard and stay focused on learning.President Obama s Back to School SpeechObama will deliver that message Tuesday during his second back-to-school address, this time from a Philadelphia stanley termosar school. Nobody gets to write your destiny but you, Obama says in the speech, which the White House released a day early so people could read the president s remarks beforehand and judge the contents for themselves. Your future is in your hands. Your life is what you make of it. And nothing - absolutely nothing - is beyond your reach. So long as you re willing to dream big. So long as you re willing to work hard. So long as you re willing to stay focused on your education, he says. After the White House announced last year s speech, some conservatives accu stanley cups uk sed the president of trying to foist a political agenda on children. Some parents said they d pull their children from class to keep them from hearing Obama s remarks.Obama to Give Back-to-School Speech, Minus DramaBut that type of outcry is largely missing this year.In both speeches, Obama urged students to stay in school, study hard and take responsibility for their education. He also tried to motivate students by using his earlier-in-life slacking off as an example. For the Tuesday speech, Obama

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Democratic presidential candidate Martin O Malley failed to qualify for Ohio s primary ballot after falling short of the signatures needed to appear before the state s voters, a spokesman for the state s elections chief said Thursday.O Malley needed 1,000 valid signatures to appear on the March 15 primary ballot. The former Maryland governor s campaign submitted 1,175 signatures, but only 772 were deemed valid, s stanley cup aid Josh E stanley cup ck, a spokesman for Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted.O Malley pushes Obama administration to halt immigration raid plansO Malley s campaign expressed disappointment, though it noted the candidate is on the ballot in 18 other states. stanley cup While this news is disappointing, we are exploring all of our options, and Gov. O Malley will campaign vigorously in Ohio, spokeswoman Haley Morris said in an emailed statement.O Malley is running an underdog bid for his party s nomination against Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Both Clinton and Sanders were certified for Ohio s presidential primary ballot, along with a little-known candidate, San Diego businessman Roque Rocky De La Fuente. Clinton already has the support of some key Democratic insiders in Ohio, where she won the 2008 primary over Barack Obama. Campaign 2016 More Egco Senate Jobs Bill Clears Key Hurdle
On Monday s Washington Unplugged, CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante spoke separately with national security correspondent David Martin and Robert Danin, senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations about the dilemma f stanley becher acing the U.S. and European allies. Is it possible to protect the citizens of Libya and not oust longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi without causing a stalemate It s a perplexing thought that has sparked fears that the U.S. will enter a third war in the Middle East because of the differing words and actions from the administration. That is a very likely scenario, Danin told Plante when asked about the possibility of a stalemate, Then what you wind up with is a Libya that is divided and this cannot be a good thing for the Unit stanley cup ed States. Martin noted that while Qaddafi s forces are a third rate army the dictator is still capable of retaliation which could extend a possible stalemate. Think about the last time the United States bombed Libya; 1986, Martin began, After that Qaddafi retaliated by orchestrating the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. It is hard to believe that anyone will call this operation a success if Qaddafi remains in power and has at least the potential to retaliate stanley quencher again, he added. Danin also expanded on how a stalemate could happen, even with support from European allies, like France and the U.K. One of the biggest fear

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Minnesota voters will provide a critical early readout on the state s wide-open governor s race during precinct caucuses Tuesday that are expected to be heavily attended by members of both parties.The caucuses mark the first step in the march toward each party s nominating convention in June, with the main event a preference poll testing s stanley cup spain upport for all gubernatorial candidates. But in a year that will also see a special election for former Sen. Al Franken s seat and four or more closely watched congressional races, party chairs are hoping high energy surrounding the state s politics powers high turnout. For the first time in many years, we truly are going to be at the forefront of national politics in this election cycle in 2018, Republican Party Chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan said. Republicans are aiming to ride momentum from 2016 mdash; when President Donald Trump nearly became the first GOP nominee to win Minnesota in four decades mdash; to break through and win a statewide race for the first time since 2006. And Democrats are hoping to energize voters to le stanley cups uk ad a backlash against the president and his party in Minnesota.But while voters from both parties begin to organize for two U.S. Senate races, congressional campaigns and a battle for control of the sta stanley cup te House, the preference poll on Tuesday will only be taken for the governor s race. It s a wide-open contest to replace Gov. Mark Dayton, netting six major Democratic candidates a Srqd The Anti-Women Women s Movement And The True Woman Manifesto
WASHINGTON Mitt Romney s transition team is quietly talking with government officials and Capitol Hill to develop a plan, if he s elected, to prevent massive cuts to the defense budget and extend tax cuts first passed under President George W. Bush.The Republican s goal is to put his own stamp on legislation to fix the so-called fiscal cliff well before his Jan. 20 inauguration. The tax cuts are set to expire Jan. 1, and economists in both political parties warn the reductions in spending combined with higher taxes would likely throw the country back into recession.The economic policy planning is a major elemen stanley cup t of what s dubbed The Readiness Project inside the campaign. Led by former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, Romney s transition team has been at wor stanley vattenflaska k since summer preparing to choose Cabinet officials and build the new government if he s elected. The team has held events t stanley cup o raise private money, hired more staff in Washington, and moved into bigger, government-provided offices Sept. 4. Some of Romney s top campaign advisers, including former private equity colleague Bob White, are preparing to take on larger roles in the transition.Looming over the standard transition discussions is the big policy fight on the horizon 151; created by lawmakers trying to force a deal to reform entitlements and cut government spending 151; and what role Romney should take if elected. President Obama also faced significant, pressing policy proble

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WASHINGTON -- How can it be that Bernie Sanders could stand on the side of vigilantes on the border, against the auto industry bailout, against an immigration overhaul that would have eased the plight of people in the country illegally Can this be the liberal senator his supporters know and love It can be because of the politically perilous way legislation works in Congress, as bill after bill becomes a grab bag of the good and bad - as lawmakers see it. Hillary Clinton took full advantage of that in the latest Democratic debate, pointing out votes by her opponent that are eye-raising on the surface while brushing off complexities that help explain them.A look at some claims in the debate and how they compare with the facts: CLINTON: While in the Senate, she voted for a bill that later provided the money to bail out the au stanley mug to industry. The money that rescued the auto industry was in that bill, which she chided Sanders for voting against.SANDERS: That bill was the bailout of the recklessness, irresponsible and illegal behavior of Wall Street. Takeaways from Democratic debate in Miami 02:26 THE FACTS: Sanders is correct in the main. The bill passed in October 2008 provided $700 billion to ba stanley cups uk il ou stanley cup spain t big banks. But some of that money was later used for a bailou Luaf Senators ask again: What about Benghazi
CBS/Mark Knoller President Obama was in no mood to talk about the election results as he walked from the Oval Office this morning to Marine One idling on the South Lawn.He ignored pleas from reporters to offer some comment on yesterday s vote that included Republican victories in the only two states with gubernatorial elections: New Jersey and Virginia.He had campaigned and raised money in both of those states. On three visits to New Jersey, he did five rallies and/or f stanley becher und-raisers for incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine. And he went twice to Virginia on behalf of candidate Creigh Deeds. Both lost.The Democratic defeats in the gubernatorial races are a blow to the White House. Press secretary Robert Gibbs admitted Mr. Obama was disappointed his friend Jon Corzine didn t win re-election and telephoned him and Deeds to offer words of consolation after their defeats last night. But the White House challenges any suggestions that the election results reflect voter rejection of Mr. Obama or his agenda. People didn t do to the polls to register support for or opposition to the president, Gibbs told reporters this morning at an off-camera b stanley cup riefing in his office. Exit polls bear him out. In New Jersey, they showed that 57 percent of voters surveyed approve of Obama s handling of his job, while 42 percen disapprove. The margin was tighter in Virginia w kubki stanley here 48 percent of voters approve of Mr. Obama s job performance and 51 percent disapprove.Gibb