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President Obama has been facing a barrage of criticism from Republican lawmakers for not pushing to leave a residual troop presence behind in Iraq after 2011, but has found a defender in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. Those who attack President Obama for bringing our troops home are flat wrong in criticizing him for that, and they re out of step not only with the president but with the American people, Reid told reporters Tuesday. After a decade of war we ve all had enough. I do not support putting our men and women in harms way in Iraq. Reid, like many Democrats, was a staunch opponent of th stanley water bottle e war. But his opposition stanley cup to any American troops returning to Iraq in the coming days may land him on the opposite side of the issue from Mr. Obama. The White House is considering sending a small number of American special forces soldiers to Iraq to aid the government in Baghdad as it tries to fend the advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS , which has taken several towns and cities in the northern part of the country. Mr. Obama also notified Congress Monday afternoon that up to 275 U.S. military personnel have been deployed to Iraq to provide support and security to Americans and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Obama: Iraq violence a wake up call for Ir stanley cup aqi leaders 04:58 The soldiers Acpj Day 24: President Obama s Schedule
This story was written by Chris Frates.It didn t seem to matter to John McCain that when the final votes are tallied in Iowa, he could emerge as the surprise third-place finisher in the Republican preside stanley canada ntial caucus.He didn t even mention it during his last meeting with reporters Thursday night. But that s not to say the Arizona senator didn t take something away from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee s resounding victo stanley cup ry over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is McCain s chief rival in New Hampshire. The lesson of this election in Iowa is that, one, you can t buy an election in Iowa and two, negative campaigns don t work, McCain said. They don t work there, and they don t work here in New Hampshire. In Iowa, Romney aired negative ads against Huckabee and targeted McCain with similarly unflattering commercials in New Hampshire, where the two are locked in a fierce primary battle. McCain has staked his candidacy on his ability to win New Hampshire. So, Romney s loss Thursday night was McCain s gain. This is a great thing for us to be able to take Romney down a notch and not have to do anything, said a t stanley cup op McCain aide in New Hampshire. McCain didn t run any commercials in Iowa and spent little time campaigning there, instead campaigning heavily in New Hampshire, which has the nation s first presidential primary Tuesday. During his meeting with reporters in New Hampshire, McCain praised Huckabee for running a very

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President Donald Trump really, really wants interest rates to stay low, and judging by his recent tweets and media musings, berating the Federal Reserve Board and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is the best way to achieve that. Many on Wall Street and in government have de stanley france cried the president s attacks on the Fed, pointing to the long-term danger of undermining the U.S. central bank. But the fact is, if the president wanted to lower interest rates, he could do somdash;and he doesn t even need to ask the Fed.While the central bank s structure insulates it from day-to-day politics, there are levers for exerting presidential influence or for bypassing the Fed altogether. Some of President Trump s options for getting a low interest rate are complex, others are simple. Here they are, listed roughly from most unusual to least. Appoint more Fed governorsYes: Pack the Fed. The traditional way for the president to put his stamp on the Fed is through appointments to its seven-person Board of Governors. There are currently three vacancies on the board; Mr. Trump has named nominees to fill two of them. As other Fed governors retire, the president has the opportunity to fi stanley cup ll more spots. Complicating matters slightly, though, is the fact that Fed governors don t have sole deciding power when it comes to interest rates. The rate-setting body, called the FOMC, or the Federal Open Market Committee, includes a rotating cast of five regional Federal Reserve stanley quencher Ban Gigr Who does Harry Reid want to see replace him as Democratic leader
Updated: 1:12 p.m. ETAmid protracted Republican criticism of the U.S. response to the Septemb stanley thermobecher er 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta this morning continued to stand up for the Obama administration s actions surrounding the violence, arguing in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that while the U.S. lacked sufficient advance intelligence to anticipate the attacks, we did everything we could to save American lives once they had begun. Panetta, who is finishing out his tenure as the president s top Pentagon official, allowed that ex stanley quencher tensive steps can and are being taken to prevent similar attacks in the future, and he outlined some of the actions he and other top defense officials have already authorized to that end.But, like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last month, Panetta emphasized the sheer number of security threats faced by U.S. diplomats abroad in the months leading up to the Benghazi attacks, pointing out that Benghazi was one of almost 300 areas of concern to the National Counterterrorism Center NCTC .WH to brief senators on drones before CIA hearingAt Brennan hearing, U.S. drone policy in the spotlight The NCTC, in the six months prior to that attack, identified some 281 threats to U.S. diplomats, diplomatic facilities, embassies, ambassadors and consulates worldwide -- and obviously Benghazi was one of those almost 300 are stanley website as of concern, he said. On September 11, he said he

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A bipartisan group of 16 senators released two proposals to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887 Wednesday, including one that defines the vice president s role in the electoral certification as solely ministerial. Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia led the negotiations, aiming to head off a repeat of the rioting at the Capitol that took place on Jan. stanley cup 6, 2021, when then-President Donald Trump tried to convince stanley france to Vice President Mike Pence to help overthrow the election by not certifying the 2020 election results.The first proposal would update the ECA, clarifying the roles of Congress, the states and the vice president in affirming the electoral count. Under the bill, Congress identifies the single official in the state mdash; usually the governor mdash; who is empowered to submit the state s slate of electors in order to certify election results. It also describes the vice president s role as solely ministerial, stating that he or she does not have any power to solely determine, accept, reject, or otherwise adjudicate disputes over electors, according to a one-page summary of the proposal.The legislation would also raise the threshold to one-fifth of the members of the House and the Senate to object to the election results. Currently, just one House member and one senator may object to a state s elector or slate of electors. The bill als stanley mugs o provides guidelines for a president a Gcff Iran
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Newport Beach, Calif. -- The day after his debut on the debate stage, where he played punching bag for his Republican rivals, Texas Gov. Rick Perry Thursday fled to the friendlier confines of an open-air political rally that attracted a crowd of roughly 300 people in Orange County. The GOP s fledgling front-runner for the nomination pointedly did not mention the hot new topic in the race: Social Security and Perry s labeling of the entitlement program as a Ponzi scheme. After Wednesday night s GOP debate, Perry s chief rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, tweaked his campaign strategy to go after Perry on the issue of preserving Social Security stanley portugal -- and go after him hard -- in what is stanley trinkflaschen rapidly becoming a two-person race. At the front of the pack until Perry made his entrance into vaso stanley the contest last month, the Romney campaign came out of the debate delighted with its progress arresting some of Perry s momentum after the Texan compared Social Security to a type of investor fraud poised to cheat future generations of retirees. Rick Perry: Reckless, Wrong on Social Security blared a headline from the Romney message machine on Thursday.For his part, Perry s campaign was pleased that a candidate not known for his debate savvy committed no major gaffes in his first appearance with seven other Republicans at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. Perry spokesman Robert Black said, I think it was very obvious that the mo

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Hunter Biden s legal and investigative operation has been conducting forensic tests on a MacBook Pro the president s son lost track of in 2019, providing CBS News with what it says is the first public photo of that once missing laptop. Alleged MacBook Pro Hunter Biden lost track of in 2019 Photo provided to CBS News by Hunter Biden s legal and investigative team stanley cup A team led by Kevin Morris, an entertainment lawyer best known for crafting a 9-figure deal for the creators of the animated series South Park, has been probing the backstory of how another Hunter Biden laptop containing what appear to be years of personal and intimate emails and business records found its way to news reporters and authorities. The effort appears to be aimed at blunting the impact of an ongoing federal investigation into Hunter Biden s tax records and business dealings by sowing doubts about that computer, which made headlines in 2020.A source from Hunter Biden s team of advisers told CBS News the laptop now in their possession may be the key to determining if anything was altered or added to that second laptop discovered at a Delaware repair stanley cup shop mdash; or to the other hard drives that have journeyed through multiple sets of hands. We have the Rosetta Stone, the adviser said. They can send us theirs and we ll see stanley cup what they have, the adviser said, refe Nesx Obama Will Vow Troops Leaving by July 2011
WASHINGTON The world must show its resolve in the face of North Korea s nuclear provocations or risk emboldening Iran, which is under scrutiny over its uranium enrichment program, Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday.Kerry said nations must agree on a swift, clear, strong and credible response to Pyongyang s third nuclear test and the authoritarian regime s continued flaunting of its obligations. In defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions, the latest issued last month, North Korea on Tuesday detonated a nuclear device at a remote underground site. It is seen as a key step toward its goal of building a bomb small enough to be fitted on a missile capable of striking the United States.North Korea conducts third nuclear testNorth Korea nuclear test prompts neighbors to mob stanley fr ilize militaries, scientistsNorth Korea: Nuke test just a first response aimed at U.S.Iran, like North Korea, is stanley thermos mug also under stiff sanctions, and negotiations with the West over its nuclear program have similarly stalled. Iran maintains the program is peaceful, for generating energy and for medical research, not for weapons. It said Wednesday that it has begun installing a new generation of centrifuges that will allow it to vastly increase its pace of uranium enrichment in defiance of U.N. calls to halt such stanley cup price activities.There has been speculation that North Korea and Iran could be cooperating on missile and nuclear development. Kerry did not draw such a con

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OHIO -- An Ohio bill that seeks to divert government money away from Planned Parenthood is headed to R stanley uk epublican Gov. John Kasich for his expected signature.The GOP-led state House cleared the legislation Wednesday as Kasich, a Republican presidential contender, campaigned for stanley cup the coming GOP primary in South Carolina. Kasich after N.H.: I love being underestimated 03:59 Signing the bill might help Kasich with conservatives who dominate the state s Feb. 20 primary. Final passage of the Ohio bill comes a day after the New Hampshire primary, where a tough stance against Planned Parenthood might have been received with less enthusiasm by its many moderate Republican voters.Earlier Wednesday, Planned Parenthood supporters delivered handwritten valentines to state lawmakers in an effort to urge representatives to oppose the bill. They also gave condoms and pamphlets about the organization s services.Coming off a second-place finish in New Hampshire s Republican primary race, Kasich is taking a victory lap -- and lobbing attacks at some rival GOP candidates in the process.In an interview with CBS This Morning early Wednesday, Kasich slammed former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush for his campaign s negative turn. The Bush campaign spent like -- they stanley tumbler ve already, they rai Gjzi Campaign Notebook: McCain Tries To Woo Conservatives At CPAC
Wall Street stop trade group is slashing its Washington staff stanley mug as Congress mulls an overhaul of the country s financial marketsThe Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association notified about one-third of its Washington office on Wednesday that they were being let go, people familiar said. The lay-offs are the most recent symptom of Wall Street s steep downturn in the wake of a credit crisis that has stalled the broader economy. But these dismissalscome as prominent members of Congress pledge to revamp the country s financial regulatory structure. SIFMA President Tim Ryan sent his employees an e-mail last Friday telling them the association will be implementing a reduction in force, accordin stanley website g to a copy of t stanley water jug henote circulating online.In his e-mail, Ryan told the staff that notifications of this reduction will be presented on Wednesday, October 29. Please modify your schedule accordingly to be present in the office on that day. Continue reading post... ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8a4bb10-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8a4bb10-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8a4bb10-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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BAGHDAD - Iraqi and Kurdish forces recaptured Iraq s largest dam from Islamic militants Monday following dozens of U.S. airstrikes, President Barack Obama said, in the first major defeat for the extremists since they swept across the country this summer.Militants from the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, known as ISIS, had seized the Mosul Dam on Aug. 7, giving them access and control of enormous power and water reserves and threatening to deny those resources to much of Iraq. Blowing it up or opening the floodgates could unleash a wall of water 65 feet high, destroying Mosul, and flooding Baghdad, CBS News correspondent Charlie D Agata reported.Iraqi forces suffered a string of humiliating defeats at the hands of ISIS as the extremists took over large parts of northern and western Iraq and sent religious minorities fleeing. Helping Kurds, U.S. launches airstrikes to retake Iraqi dam 02:13 Kurdish fighters -- known as peshmerga -- have been pouring in for three days to recapture the dam. The push came with the help of 15 U.S. airstrikes, and nearly 40 since the batt stanley cup becher le began. Although Iraqi and Kurdish forces may have retaken the dam, the battle is still raging in the villages t stanley cup hat surround it. Kurdish fighters said stanley flask they d dismantled 170 roadside bombs Monday, Wtdw Georgia judge allows suit challenging Marjorie Taylor Greene s reelection bid to proceed
PLANET GORE...Paul Krugman on conservatives and Gore Derangement Syndrome:If science says that we have a big problem that can t be solved with tax cuts or bombs 151; well, the science must be rejected, and the scientists must be slimed. For example, Investor s Business Daily recently declared stanley cups uk that the prominence of James Hansen, the NASA researcher who first made climate change a national issue two decades ago, is actually due to the nefarious schemes of 151; who else 151; George Soros.Which brings us to the biggest reason the right hates Mr. Gore: in his case the smear campaign has failed. He s taken everything they could throw at him, and emerged more respected, and more credible, than ever. And it drives them crazy.As Krugman notes, the extent to which conservatives have turned opposition to global warming science into a personal jihad against Al Gore is breathtaking. He s hectoring. He s lecturing us. He s holier than thou. Conservatives naturally oppose any government action to combat global warming, but as the childish campaign against Gore shows, they also oppose any effort to simply persuade people as well. Their excuse Gore and other campaigners are hypocrites unless they themselves live in caves and cut their own carbon footprints to zero. It stanley cup website s the kind of argument you d expect to hear from a six-year-old throwing a temper tantrum.For more on this, see pretty much any Bob Somerby post from the past seven or eight years. stanley cup

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Sunday Morning begins the New Year with a look ahead based on events of the year gone by, reported by CBS News correspondents from around the world, including National Correspondent Chip Reid: President Trump has made no secret of the fact stanley deutschland that fixing the nation s transportation and communications infrastructure is now at the top of his agenda. People want it -- Republicans and Democrats, he said. We re going to have tremendous Democrat support on infrastructure. If only it were that simple.In fact, the two parties are far apart. Democrats want a trillion-dollar government-financed program. But the president wants only one-fifth of that, $200 billion. He thinks the business community, working with state and local governments, can make up the difference.Renovation nation: The prospects for repairing America s infr stanley cups astructure Sunday Morning, 03/05/17 Trump signs tax bill, predicts tremendous Democrat support on infrastructure CBS This Morning, 12/23/17 What happened to Trump s infrastructure plan CBSN, 12/19/17 How GOP tax overhaul makes it harder to pay for infrastructure in U. stanley cup S. CBS Moneywatch, 12/28/17 And finding compromise in an election year won t be easy. President Donald Trump walks to his car at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, December 21, 2017. JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS Tomorro Lged Man arrested in Hawaii over threat to VP
Former Sen. Rick Santorum, who has criticized Gov. Mitch Daniels for his call for a truce on social issues, is now calling on his potential 2012 rival to sign a controversial bill to cut $3 million in funding to Planned Parenthood in Indiana. That s an organization that has a very sordid history and foundi stanley borraccia ng and one that I still think focuses in on activities that a lot of people have moral objections to, Santorum said in an interview with CBS News political analyst John Dickerson Thursday. Public funds should not be used for that purpose, he added. Planned Parenthood provides abortion services, among other health services, though they are barred by law from using federal taxpayer money. Santorum, who may face Daniels in a Republican presidential primary, reiterated his support for strong families, strong marriages and his opposition to concessions on social issues. We can t have limited government and unlimited license and chaos, Santorum said. You have to have people living responsible lives. Santorum was in Washington Thursday to deliver a speech on foreign policy. He also addessed President Obama s release of his long-form birth certificate Wednesday. Why did it take him two and a half years if it was no story Santorum, who has previously called the birther issue a distraction, said Thursday. I stanley termoska made the assumption, and I stanley mug think a lot of Americans did, there must be something that he wants to hide, there must be

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The confirmation process for Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court has been in turmoil sinceChristine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University, claimed that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school. She had made the allegation anonymously but went public in an interview with the Washington Post published Sunday.Kavanaugh and Ford areexpected to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing on Monday, although the committee s chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley, says that Ford s lawyer has not responded to invitations to attend the hearing. The committee vote to confirm Kava stanley romania naugh, originally set for Thursday, was delayed due to the upcoming hearing. Republicans are anxious to get Kavanaugh confirmed before the midterm elections, while Democrats are trying to delay the vote.Kavanaugh s supporters have been making several arguments in his defense. Some are suspicious of the timing. Although Sen. Dianne Feinstein was aware of Ford s story in July, she did not attempt to delay the confirmation process until this month. I do not intend to allow Judge Kavanaugh s confirmation to be stalled because of an 11th hour accusation that Democrats did not see fit to raise for over a month, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Republican, said in a statement. There are also gaps Ford admits exist in stanley cups uk her account. She told the stanley cup Post that she did not remember where the alleged assault took place, when exactly it happened Pnxe Donald Trump celebrates win with strange press conference
NEW YORK mdash; It is, says Susan Rice, a good time to be American Ambassador to the United N stanley cup ations. Rice, a foreign policy veteran at the age of 44, is positioned to be one of the administration s key national security voices. She has access to the president, a restored Cabinet seat, and a place on the National Security stanley en mexico Council s Principal s Committee. She s also broadened her Washington presence, with an expanded office at the State Department. Rice is, said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, playing a central role in the team that s been assembled. Perhaps more than any other American official, Rice also is negotiating day-to-day the meaning stanley cups uk of Obama s promise of a new era in American foreign policy, one in which openness doesn t mean weakness and engagement can be combative. Some of the earliest moves have been symbolic, like making the controversial decision to rejoin the troubled U.N. Human Rights Council - where, Rice said, the United States will battle the anti-Israel crap. She also said the administration is still considering attending the controversial anti-racism conference this month, where U.S. pressure has won a substantially improved draft text, she said. On a larger scale, Rice has been part of a renewed push to end the killing in Darfur, and an administration drive to prevent a North Korean missile test. There s just enormous goodwill and optimism, Rice told POLITICO in an intervi

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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is following in the footsteps of several of his fellow potential presidential candidates by traveling across the Atlantic to flex his foreign policy muscles.Bush will travel to Germany, Poland and Estonia in June. It will his be his first trip to the latter two countries and his first trip to Germany since 2011. Since leaving office in 2007, Bush has taken 89 foreign trips that have covered 29 countries. Jeb Bush to deliver speech on foreign policy 02:17 In Germany, he ll speak to the Christian Democratic Union Economic Council, one of the major economic conferences in Germany. Other events have not yet been announced, but Bush is expected to meet with leaders of civil and non-governmental organizations as well as policy experts and business leaders to focus on economic and security issues, as well as U.S. alliances with the three countries. I stanley water bottle t is unclear whether Bush will be an actual or would-be presidential candidate by the time he embarks on the trip. So far he is reportedly raising money at an impressive pace for his leadership political action committee and super PAC, Right to Rise, but has not yet hinted when he ll formally get into stanley cup the race.Given the prominent role t stanley cups hat foreign policy is expected to play in the 2016 electio Javw Hot Ads of the Week: Candidates Take Dead Aim
THE COALITION OF THE BILLING ....The Washington Post s Steve Fainaru had a fascinating item a couple of weeks ago in which he detailed the extent of the work private military contractors are doing in Iraq. The piece described an environment in which more than 100 private security companies operate outside of Iraqi law, providing protection for top administration officials.Fainaru didn t nail down just how big a private force we re talking about, but today, the LA Times T. Christian Miller adds some surprising details.The number of U.S.-paid private contractors in Iraq now exceeds that of American combat troops, newly released figures show, raising fresh questions about the privatization of the war effort and the government s capacity to carry out military and rebuilding campaigns.More than 180,000 civilians -- including Americans, foreigners and Iraqis -- are working in Iraq under U.S. contracts, according to State and Defense department figures obtained by the Los Angeles Times.Some of this is admittedly a little fuzzy. As James Joyner noted, a majority stanley trinkflaschen of these civilians stanley thermoskannen working in Iraq are, in fact, Iraqis. What s more, they re taking on construction and infrastructure duties, not security roles. I d add, however, that the 180,000 civilians also doesn t fully include thousands of Americans, financed by public U.S. funds, who are providing private security. How many thousands According to the Times piece, somewhere stanley thermobecher between 6,000 and

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Updated 2:00 p.m. ETWASHINGTON First lady Michelle Obama threatened to leave a fundraiser Tuesday evening unless a protester quit interrupting her speech.Obama was speaking at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Washington.According to a pool report from a reporter who attended the event, an audience member started shouting in support of an executive order on gay rights halfway through Obama s remarks. One of the things I don t do well is this, the first lady said. According to a pool report of the event, she then left the lectern, moved toward the protester and said the person could either, quote, listen to me or you can take the mic, but I m leaving. The crowd star stanley cup ted shouting for Obama to stay. The protester wa stanley tumblers s then escorted out of the event. The Washington Post quotes witnesses as saying the first lady confronted the protester eye-to-eye. CBS News and the Washington Post obtained audio of the event, however the first lady s listen to me ... but I m leaving line is inaudible on the clip.The New York Times reports Obama was about 12 minutes into her 20-minute speech at a home in Northwest Washington when a woman at the front of a crowd of about 200 people began shouting for President Obama to issue an executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating against employees based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The Times adds that, as she was escor stanley cup ted out, the protester shouted some more, at o Hdkc Former Reagan spokesman Larry Speakes dies
COPYRIGHT FOLLIES....First hedge funds, now the garment district:At a news conference yesterday at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, talked about a bill proposing to extend copyright protection to fashion.... Designers spend countless hours doing and redoing, testing, creating, thinking, and then some counterfeiter comes along and just takes it away, said Mr. Schumer. It s stealing, plain and simple. As much as my heart bleeds for Kate Spade, do w stanley cup e really want to do this I mean, can you imagine a 70-year copyright on the little black dress Or the specific shape of a Gucci bag stanley kubek The mind reels. stanley cup ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8ca5398-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8ca5398-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8ca5398-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;