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FORT WORTH, Texas - The Texas Republican Party now endorses so-called reparative therapy for gays, under a new platform given final approval at its annual convention Saturday.The new anti-gay language never came up for debate before roughly 7,000 delegates ratified a Texas GOP platform that tea party groups succeeded in pushing further to the right, including winning a harder line on immigration.One influential tea party group stanley cups called Texas Eagle Forum had urged the party to support psychological treatments that seek to turn gay people straight. It comes after Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie last fall signed a law banning such therapies on minors, and California has a similar law. The Fort Worth Convention Hall cheered when party leaders announced that Christie finished a distant 11th in stanley website a 2016 presidential straw poll. There s a very, very small group of people who wa stanley cup nt to keep the party in the past. We were here today to try to pull the party into the future, said Rudy Oeftering, vice president of the gay conservative group Metroplex Republicans. The only way the party can go into the future is to start listening to young people, to start listening to people who have gay family members. Pennsylvania same-sex marriage ban overturned by judgeThree gay Republicans trying to make election historyOeftering and allies had lined up to speak against the therapy language that had been added earlier this week. But they never got a ch Kmvg Janus v. AFSCME, which could decide public unions fate, comes to Supreme Court
CBS/The Early Show Fox News host Bill O Reilly, a regular critic of President Obama and other Democrats, has written an unexpected and glowing tribute to the president s character in Parade Magazine, Politico reports.In a piece entitled What President Obama Can Teach America s Kids, O Reilly writes that Americans can learn from, among other things, the president s persistence. For example, in 2000, he lost his run for Congress in Illinois, O Reilly writes. He co stanley cups uk uld have given up and gone into the private sector where high-salaried jobs awaited him. But he preferred public service. So, just four years later, he ran again, this time winning a U.S. Senate seat. Staying away from politics, O Reilly writes that Mr. Obama has toughed it out and become one of history s great stories. What he has achieved in his 48 years is simply astounding, writes the Fox News host. Consider the odds. The United States is a nation of more than 300 million citizens. Only one person is currently the Commander in Chief. That man had no fatherly guidance, is of mixed race, and had no family connections to guide him into the world of national politics. He continues: That adds up to one simple truth that every American child should be told: If Barack Obama can become the President of the United States, then whatever dream you may stanley cup usa have can happen in your stanley vaso life. More on the piece, which does not presently appear to be online, here.

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The Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned a Russian hacking group called Evil Corp, which used malware to infect computers and collect login credentials from hundreds of financia stanley cup l institutions worldwide, stealing more than $100 million.The action by the Treasury Department targeting Evil Corp was taken in conjunction with the Justice Department, which charged two Russians who are leading figures in the cyber organization, Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev, for their roles in the malware campaigns. This coordinated action is intended to disrupt the massive phishing campaigns orchestrated by this Russian-based hacker group, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said in a statement, calling Evil Corp one of the world s most prolific cybercriminal organizations. Based in Russia, Evil Corp is behind the development and deployment of the Dridex malware, which was spread t stanley termoska hrough phishing campaigns and used to automate the theft of personal and financial information. Once computers were infected, Evil Corp used the online banking credentials to take money from victims bank accounts, which it then transferred to its own overseas accounts, according to the Treasury Department.As of 2016, the Russian hacking group harvested banking credentials from customers of roughly 300 financial institutions in stanley cup more than 40 countries. The Treasury Department described Evil Corp as a business group run by a group of individuals based in Moscow, Russi Vojr Gingrich unofficially concedes GOP race, calls on conservatives to back Romney
According to a new Rasmussen poll out today, Sen John Cornyn stanley cup R-TX is just four points ahead of his Democratic challenger Rick Noriega despite his significant financial edge. Corynyn is likely suffering from his close alignment with Preside stanley cup nt Bush. The poll also found that just 39% of Texans think Bush is doing a good or excellent job, compared to 45% who think his performance is poor. Cornyn has also has had some issues over stanley nz his long-standing ties with controversial televangelist John Hagee, although he told reporters last month, I m really not concerned that it ll become an issue. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c872ad3c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c872ad3c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c872ad3c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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The U.S. Secret Service isfacing questions about how a South African interpreter whoadmits he suffers from serious mental health issuesgot so close to President Obamaa stanley cup tNelson Mandela s memorial service.At first, the complaintwas just that hissigning for the deaf was incomprehensible, but then serioussecurity questions were raised when the interpreter admitted that he isschizophrenic with a history of violence and that he was having visions during stanley website the ceremony.Thamsanqa Jantjie stoodjust a few feet from Mr. Obama and other world leaders at Tuesdayrsquo memorial service, seemingly signing their speeches. On Thursday, the White Housedeflected all questions about whether the president was in danger to the Secret Service. For mattersregarding the president s security, I would refer you to the Secret Service. Obviously they worked very hard on this trip, which came about on short notice, White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters. The Secret Service said ithad an understanding that theSouth African governm stanley cup entwas responsiblefor vetting the people on the stage for the ceremony and that agreed-upon securitymeasures were in place. Phony sign language interpreter blames schizophrenia 01:57 But in an interview with CBS News Jantjie admitted to sufferi Womh GOP candidates lash out at Supreme Court for same-sex marriage ruling
UNIVERSAL DEFAULT....Via Roy, the Consumerist has some entertaining liveblogging of Tuesday s Senate showdown between Carl Levin and the credit card industry:9:34: And we re off. Levin has arranged for an interesting hearing. The first consumer we will hear from is Janet Hard. Janet is married to a steamfitter. She has a Discover card that jumped from 18% to 24% because her FICO score dropped. [Note: FICO = credit score. 150;ed] When Janet complained, the rate dropped to 21%. Discover s President will testify today.9:37: Levin is most incensed by the retroactive nature of rate increases. Take a consumer whose debt jumps from 15% to 27% termo stanley . That new rate applies not to new debts, but to all incurred debts.....9:41: Bonnie Rushing has two Bank of America cards. One is associ stanley cup usa ated with AAA. Both ca stanley cup price rds had an 8% rate. BoA bumped the AAA rate from 8% to 23% because Bonnie s FICO score fell. It didn t matter that her payment history was perfect. Bonnie isn t sure why her FICO score dropped, but she thinks it may be because she opened a store-branded card at Macy s to receive an immediate 10% discount on a purchase, unaware that it would affect her FICO score.....9:46: Most people don t realize that their FICO score drops even if they approach 151; not exceed, approach 151; their credit limit.9:47: The Committee asked who determines a FICO score, who determines when a rate jumps because of a FICO score. The answer: computers.9:47: Issuers don t know why a FICO score drops. They h

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BALTIMORE -- Hillary Clinton officially began planning for her White House on Wednesday, tapping campaign chairman John Podesta and long-time aide Minyon Moore to prepare her transition planning effort.In paperwork filed with the District of Columbia, Clinton formed a new non-profit, called the Clinton-Kaine Transition Fund, taking one of the first formal steps to plan for the possibility of becoming president. The filing comes after weeks of meetings between the White House and representatives of Tr stanley cup usa ump and Clinton s campaigns. Clinton rips Trump for outsourcing as GOP leaders defect 02:48 On Friday, White H stanley website ouse chief of staff Denis McDonough informed the campaigns that that Trump and Clinton are now eligible to receive intelligence briefings from the government and government-provided workspace for transition planning. Traditionally, the outgoing administration helps potential successors with their planning to ensure a smooth transition. In May, Trump tapped New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to lead his tran stanley mug sition team. Podesta will be president of Clinton s effort and Moore will be secretary, though she has not yet named a chair of her transition operation. Instead, she has dispatched campaign policy aides Ed Meier, Ann OLeary and Sara Latham, Podesta s chief o Akbk Rove Slammed For 9/11 Comments
Sen. Larry Craig R-Idaho is expected to announce his resignation during a Saturday morning press conferencefollowing his arrest and subsequent guilty plea stemming from an incident in an airport bathroom in June, the Associated Press is reporting.Citing three unnamed Republican officials in the state, the new agency is reporting what many have been speculating in Washington and Idaho for most of the day.Craig is set to hold a press conference at 10:30 mountain to announce his plans as pressure to resign mounted throughout the week. stanley cups uk One senior Republican o stanley website fficial, who has been closely monitoring the situation, said Friday he fully expected Craig to resign. Though his decision took several days, it was pretty quick in Washington speak, the same official said. There was never any support for him, the official said. Everybody pulled o stanley thermobecher ut the rug. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c84bd4e6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c84bd4e6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c84bd4e6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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WASHINGTONmdash; President Donald Trump is announcing plans to scale back two sprawling national monuments in Utah, responding to w stanley becher hat he has condemned as a massive federal land grab by the government.Trump is traveling to Salt Lake City on Monday to outline his intention to shrink the Bears Ears and the Grand-Staircase Escalante national monuments spanning millions of acres in Utah. The two national monuments were among 27 that Trump ordered Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to review earlier this year.Utah s Republican leaders, including Sen. Orrin Hatch, pressed Trump to launch the review, saying the monuments declared by Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton locked up too much federal land. According to New York Times, citing statements from Hatch, that the Trump administration plans to shrink the monument by between 77 and 92 percent. The president is also expected to cut the Grand Staircase-Escalante to about half its current size.Trump stanley cups uk s plans to curtail the strict protections on the sites have angered tribes and environmentalist groups who ha stanley website ve vowed to sue to preserve the monuments. In December, shortly before leaving office, Obama irritated Utah Republicans by creating the Bears Ears National Monument on 1.35 million acres of land sacred to Native Americans and home to tens of thousands of archaeological sites, including ancient cliff dwellings.Trump signed an executive order in April directing Zinke to conduct a revie Xmgs McCain s Victory Speech
On the eve of Nancy Pelosi s election to speaker, associates of the first woman ever to get that post and incoming Majority Leader Steny Hoyer are working overtime to mute stories that the two are political enemies. Still, nobody s saying that the two a stanley cups uk re cozy. They have a very productive relationship, says a Pelosi associate. We are working well with Nan stanley cup cy and her staff, offers a Hoyer ally.The effort to portray a calm and professional working relationship is a bid to finally close the post-election divide among Democrats over Hoyer s election to majority leader over Pelosi s choice, Rep. John Murtha. A Hoyer associate said that the Maryland representative feels no bitterness about Pelosi s efforts and understands why she backed the Pennsylvania antiwar lawmaker. A Pelosi insider said that the new speaker felt that Murtha deserved a shot at the post since it was his vocal opposition to the war that turned around Democratic chances last year and set the party up for an election victory. She felt that we wouldn t have won without his opposition, added the Pelosi associate who also called reports that the two have feuded since they were House interns B.S. By Paul Bedard ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-bfc41b3a- caneca stanley 8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-bfc41b3a-8c88-11e2-b

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The Health and Human Services inspector general is now investigating HHS Secretary Tom Price s reported frequent use of governme stanley cup nt-funded private charter planes for work, CBS has confirmed, making Price the second cabinet member whose tra stanley cup usa vel is under review by an agency watchdog.The OIG is looking into Price s travel habits, amid a Politico report that Price has used private charter planes at least two dozen times to the tune of $300,000 since he joined the administration in February, sometimes on jaunts that typically have a number of commercial flights scheduled. OIG is conducting a review of Secretary Price s federal travel using chartered aircraft, HHS OIG spokeswoman Teisa Williams told CBS. The review focuses on whether the travel complied with federal travel regulations, but may encompass other issues related to the travel. We take this matter very seriously, and when questions arose about potentially inappropriate travel, we immediately began assessing the issue. I can confirm that work is underway and will be completed as soon as possible. Price s reported travel is particularly under fire because he preached fiscal conservatism in Congress, and because Republicans are trying to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act to stabilize government spending.The IG s inquiry makes Price at least t stanley cup he second top administration official whose travel is under scrutiny. A spokesman for the Treasury Department s inspector general rece Maqa e
Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry greets local residents before speaking at a Greene County party fundraiser, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011, at the county fairgrounds in Jefferson, Iowa. AP Photo JEFFERSON, Iowa - GOP frontrunner and Texas Gov. Rick Perry stepped up his criticism of Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney and President Obama over healthcare Thursday in a speech hat reflected the frontrunner s desire to move back to attack mode after playing defense all week on some of his own policy positions. Romneycare has driven private insurance costs up by $4.3 billion in Massachusetts, said Perry. Citing a study that showed Romney s healthcare program cost 18,000 jobs, Perry invited his audience of about 275 at the Greene County fairgrounds to think about what Obamacare is going to do to this country. President Obama has called the Massachusetts health program that Romney enacted a model for his own.At the GOP debate in Tampa on Monday, Perry fielded attacks from all of hi stanley botella s fellow candidates, particularly over his positions on Social Security he calls it a Ponzi scheme , immigration he signed a law giving in-state tuition to the children of illegal immigrants , and a vaccine against a sexually transmitted virus that cause stanley mug s cervical cance stanley water bottle r, which he mandated for all teenage girls in the state by executive order in 2007. CBSNews special report: Election 2

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Apprehensions of unauthorized migrants along the southern border rose for a fourth consecutive month in August, with U.S. immigration authorities making nearly 50,000 arrests and expelling the majority of those apprehended under pandemic-era restrictions.More than 43,000 of the apprehensions last month turned into summary expulsions, which U.S. border authorities have been authorized to make during the coronavirus pandemic, stanley bottles according toCustoms and Border Protection CBP datareleased Friday. More expulsions were made in August than in an stanley cup y other month since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC issued an order in mid-March green-lighting them.The arrests recorded by CBP mdash; the main metric used to gauge border crossings mdash; shows that unauthorized migration to the U.S. continued to increase in the summer, despite the ongoing pandemic and the Trump administration s policy of swiftly expelling most migrants, including asylum-seekers and unaccompanied children, without allowing them to seek humanitarian refuge. Apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border have been increasing since April, when they plummeted to 17,000. But they continue to be substantially less than the number of arrests CBP made during t stanley cup he same time period last year, when hundreds of thousands of families with minors and unaccompanied children journeyed north from Central America.Most migrants apprehended in August were single adults. Unaccompanied chil Gtbg Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton speeches to highlight divisions on guns
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Washington mdash; Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, warned Sunday that the United States is right back where we were when the country expe stanley cups uk rienced its first peak in coronavirus infections earlier this year. We re right back where we were at the peak of the epidemic during stanley cup the New York outbreak, Gottlieb said on Face the Nation. The difference now is that we really had one epicenter of spread when New York was going through its hardship. Now we really have four major epicenters of spread: Los Angeles, cities in Texas, cities in Florida and Arizona. And Florida looks to be in the worst shape, and Georgia is heating up as well, and that s concerning. Transcript: Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott GottliebFo stanley cups uk rty states have reported a surge in confirmed coronavirus cases as they began to lift restrictions on residents and proceeded to phased reopenings of their economies. But amid the spikes, states like Texas and California have put their plans on hold, instead closing bars and limiting indoor dining at restaurants, while mandating residents to wear masks indoors. Despite the jump in cases, President Trump has downplayed the latest surge, saying many of those newly infected are young and at lower risk of serious illness from the coronavirus. Mr. Trump has also attributed the rise in cases to increased testing and said Thursday following the latest jobs report showing the unemployment rate f Bssm Holder: Obama comments on Supreme Court were appropriate
WASHINGTON Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan says he will not seek re-election in 2014. He says he wants to do his job as Senate Armed Services chairman and as an advocate for his home state without the distraction of campaigning for re-election. Levin was first elected to the Senate in 1978 and is the longest-serving senator in Michigan s history. His older brother, Sander Levi stanley mugs n, D-Mich., has served in the House since 1983.The 78-year-old senator said in a statement the decision was extremely difficult, but vowed to his constituents he will spend the next two years than to devote all of my energy and attention to taking on issues like closing tax loopholes, increasing manufacturing and reforming campaign finance. I love representing the people of Michigan in the U.S. Senate and fighting for the things that I believe are important to them, he said.As he a kubki stanley nd his wife Barbara struggled with the question of whether I should run again, Levin continued, we focused on our belief that our country is at a crossroads that will determine our economic health and security for decades to come. We decided that I can best serve my state and nation by concentrating in the next two years on the challenging issues before us that I am in a position to help address; in other words, by doing my job without the distraction of campaigning for re-election. Levin s retirement creates an open seat fo stanley mug r Democrats in a state where Republicans

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Two days after the fatal plane crash over Egypt, the director of U.S. national intelligence on Monday said he wouldn t rule out the possibility that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ISIS could shoot down an airliner. It s unlikely, but I wouldn t rule it out, said James Clapper at the Defense One Summit in Washington. But the U.S. intelligence community has determined with h stanley cups igh confidence that there was no external event -- in other words, no missile or other object from outside the aircraft -- that caused the structural failure of the Russian plane. Sources in the intelligence community told CBS News they drew this conclusion based on imagery of the plane and the crash site. vaso stanley Russian plane crashes in Egypt 23 photos Clapper said the U.S. does not have any direct evidence of any terrorist involvement yet, but he also acknowledged that stanley cup ISIS is active in that region. There is a very aggressive [ISIS] chapter in the Sinai, but we really don t know, and I think once the black boxes have been analyzed, which they recovered, perhaps we ll know more, he said. ISIS had claimed responsibility on Twitter for the crash, but officials have said those claims were inaccurate. The Metrojet Airbus jetliner bro Eeob Transcript: Mayor Eric Garcetti on Face the Nation, March 21, 2021
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and wife Ann wave to the crowd at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida, on August 28, 2012 during the Republican National Convention. STAN HONDA/AFP/GettyImages CBS News TAMPA, Fla. - In a much-anticipated speech to the Republican convention, Ann Romney set out to show voters a more personal side of her husband, Mitt Romney, but at the top of her remarks, she deviated from her script to reference Hurricane Isaac, which made landfall in Louisiana stanley cup tonight. We hope and pray that all remain safe and no life is lost and no property is lost, she said. The goal of Ann Romney s speech was to help soften the image of her husband and she delicately touched on a side of him that he has somewhat deliberately hidden from view. Afte stanley canada r taking the stage to a standing ovation, the crowd hushed to hear her say that Mitt Romney was not handed success, insinuating that his success was hard-fought and well-deserved. He built it, she said, referring to the event s Tuesday night theme, which is a reference to a remark President Obama made at a rally in Virginia last month where he said, If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help, adding stanley nz you didn t build that. Somebody else made that happen. Taking the opposite approach of the political speeches that preceded her

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Washington mdash;Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged as a top contender to replace President Biden at the top of Democratic ticket following his historic decision to withdraw from the 2024 race for the White House.Mr. Biden roiled the general election campaign when he announced Sunday that he would be dropping out, ending weeks of pressure from within the Democratic Party that began after his shocking performance at the first presidential debate on June 27.The president then threw his support to Harris, saying his decision to select her as his vice president was the best decision he s made. Today I want to offer my f stanley cup ull support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year, he wrote onsocial media. Democrats mdash; it s time to come together and beat Trump. Let s do this. Harris said in a statement Sunday that she is honored to have the President s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event at Westover High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on July 18, 2024. ALLISON JOYCE/AFP via Getty Images Over the past year, I have tr stanley cup becher aveled across the country, talking with Americans about the clear choice in this momentous election, Harris said. And that is what I wil stanley cup quencher l continue to do in the days and weeks ahead. I will do Uwuj GOP Stars Set To Shine On Bush
President Bush s decision to visit Mexico on his first foreign stanley mug trip has both symbolic and practical implications for the U.S-Mexico relationship. Mexico is the U.S. s second largest trading partner. Officially, it exports oil. Unofficially, Mexico supplies cheap labor and illegal drugs to the U.S.But Mexican President Vicente Fox is determined to change that equation, as he told me in an exclusive television interview at the presidential palace in Mexico City. This is the country of mantilde;ana, tomorrow, Fox said. Mexico is the country of siesta for many people. That has to change. This country is dynamic. It s active. This is going to be a great nation. The big man in the cowboy stanley kaffeebecher boots has big dreams for his country. Mexicans elected Vicente Fox as an agent of change, and when they did, they made history by breaking seven stanley kubek decades of one-party rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI .Fox wants no less than to change the way Mexicans think about themselves -- and the way Americans think about Mexico. That message will be central in Friday s meeting with President Bush. Revolution of hope, Fox labels his vision for Mexico. And it is within the heart of everybody. I say that more of changing government is a change from within -- within the heart of every Mexican. The significance of Fox s victory should t be underestimated. But neither can the challenges he faces. Almost half of Mexico s 100 million citizens live