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Washington mdash; House Democrats are requesting an investigation int stanley uk o whether Trump administration officials violated a federal law prohibiting certain political activities by government employees during the Republican National Convention last month by leveraging their positions to bolster President Trump s reelection campaign.In a letter to the Office of the Special Counsel OSC , the federal agency that investigates potential violations of the Hatch Act, the lawmakers also questioned the use of the Wh stanley website ite House as a backdrop during the convention. Throughout the Convention, Administration officials repeatedly used their official positions and the White House itself to bolster President Tru stanley cup mp s reelection campaign, the letter, spearheaded by House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney, said. They lawmakers said they are particularly concerned with the consequences of White House actions on career employees who may have felt pressured to help organize and put on these events, potentially subjecting them to legal jeopardy. President Trump delivers his acceptance speech as the 2020 Republican presidential nominee during the final event of the Republican National Convention on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on August 27, 2020. CARLOS BARRIA / REUTERS The Hatch Act bars executive branch officials from engaging in certain partisan political Sfsi Leon Panetta talks Russia, Syria, and the red line in North Korea
CBS/AP LONDON - With the Olympics Games as a backdrop, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney met Thursday with former British Prime Min stanley cups uk ister Tony Blair, beginning a day of meetings with Britain s most powerful people. The likely GOP nominee sought to send a message that he recognizes the close bonds between the U.S. and its top ally 151; and to project an image of leadership. We have a very special relationship between the United States and Great Britain, Romney told NBC News in an interview in London on the first day of a weeklong overseas trip that will also take him to Israel and Poland. It goes back to our very beginnings 151; cultural and historical. Romney s first official appearance during a campaign swing intended to highlight longtime U.S. alliances was with Blair. He was slated to meet later in the day with current Prime stanley cups uk Minister David Cameron.CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford reports that, in a news conference earlier Thursday, Cameron called for stronger trade links between the U.S. and Europe, so that will likely be a theme discussed by the two men Thursday afternoon. Romney hopes trip abroad adds foreign policy credRomney s foreign trip: Low key and light on policyOn Israel, Romney sees opening against ObamaBlair hosted Romney at his stanley quencher private office few blocks off Hyde Park. The former Labour Party prime minister now serves as a special envoy to the Middle East for the British government. The two discussed

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Alumni and faculty at the alma mater of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, are calling on university officials to rescind an honorary degree awarded to her as punishment for voting t stanley cup o confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh earlier this month.More than 1,800 alumni and dozens of faculty at St. Lawrence University are sending letters to university officials on Tuesday demanding they take back an honorary degree stanley mug the senator received in 2017. Collins graduated from the tiny liberal arts college in northern New York in 1975, and she has received two honorary degrees from the school, mostly recently an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters.A letter co-signed by more than 1,300 alums states that they believe Collins s support for Kavanaugh is not in line with the core values of the university. While Collins was awarded her honorary degree in 2017 in recognition of the fact that she was not supporting GOP attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, her support for Kavanaugh shows a lack the integrity and commitment to justice that we expect from the St. Lawrence body, the alumni s letter says. They call on the university to revoke the degree in support of truth and for all of the victims of sexual assault and violence, of which many of her fellow alumni and students have suffered. A separate message co-signed by dozens of faculty members says that revoking Collins s honorary degree has nothing to do with partisan politics, but woul stanley quencher d help Tqbs Federal Grand Jury Issues Subpoena For Buckham Payroll Records
Former Wyoming governor and U.S. Sen Clifford Hansen, a rancher who rode his agricultural background to political success in Cheyenne and Washington, D.C., died Tuesday night. He was 97.Hansen, who suffered from ailments including respiratory problems and had returned home Monday after hospital treatment for a broken pelvis, died at his home in Jackson, his son, Peter Hansen stanley cup said.Clifford was the nation s oldest living former senator. I am sure there are many things that could be said, Peter Hansen said. He was a wonder stanley cups ful husband, father, and I m sure other people will say many other things. Hansen, a Republican, was elected governor in 1962. As governor, he supported lowering the voting age from 21 to 18, increasing retirement pay for state employees and repealing the state s ban on accepting federal aid for education. As his term as governor drew to a close in 1966, Hansen ran for the Senate, beating Democrat Teno Roncalio.In the Senate, Hansen served on the Veterans Affairs Committee, the Fi stanley cup nance Committee and the Special Committee on Aging. He backed reservoir projects in Wyoming, designating national recreation areas and wilderness areas in Wyoming, and placing a ceiling on federal expenditures.Hansen was re-elected in 1972 and stepped down in 1978.Hansen was born Oct. 16, 1912, to Peter and Sylvia Hansen, who homesteaded at Zenith in Jackson Hole. Hansen attended public schools in Jackson and graduated from the Universit

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Democrats wasted no time during Wednesday s debate before taking shots at Michael Bloomberg, the newest Democratic presidential candidate on the debate stage, taking aim within the event s opening minutes at his derogatory comments about women and his billionaire status.Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren was first to slam Bloomberg, saying that Democrats are taking a huge risk if we just substitute one stanley cup arrogant billionaire for another. I d like to talk about who we re running against, Warren said. A billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians. And no, I m not talking about Donald Trump. I m talking about Mayor Bloomberg. Democrats, Warren continued, will not defeat President Trump in November if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns, of harassing women and of sup stanley thermos porting racist policies like red-lining and stop-and-frisk. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar continued with the attack on Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, saying that Democrats need a candidate who is different from Mr. Trump. I don t think stanley water bottle you look at Donald Trump and say we need someone richer in the White House, she said. Democratic presidential candidates, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, left, and Senator Elizabeth Warren talk before a Democratic presidential primary debate Wednesday, February 19, 2020, in Las Vegas. AP Mluc Bush, Troops Have Rehearsed Chat
Prime Minister Stephen Harper s chief of staff said someone in Hillary stanley cup Rodham Clinton s campaign gave Canada back-channel assurances that her harsh words about the North American Free Trade Agreement were for political show, according to a report by the Canadian Press.The report comes just days after a Canadian government memo stated Barack Obama s senior eco stanley cup nomic adviser told Canadian officials that the Illinois senator s own comments about NAFTA were for political positioning. The release of that memo helped Clinton defeat Obama decisively in Tuesday s Democratic primary in Ohio, where the trade treaty is unpopular.On Wednesday, the Canadian Press quoted an unidentified source as saying that Ian Brodie, Harper s chief of staff, made the comment last week to a crew for Canada s CTV television network during a press gathering to discuss Canada s budget. According to a person with knowledge of the incident, the source was a CTV j garrafinhas stanley ournalist. The Canadian Press story said a CTV reporter asked Brodie about remarks by Clinton and Obama that they would seek to renegotiate NAFTA. He said someone from Clinton s campaign is telling the embassy to take it with a grain of salt. ... That someone called us and told us not to worry, the journalist quoted Brodie as saying, according to the report. On Thursday, Clinton spokesman Phil Singer said the campaign flatly denied the suggestion that a Clinton adviser had told Canadian government offi

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Sen. Tim Scott, R- South Carolina, is calling on communities of color to give President- elect Donald Trump a chance when he takes office in January 2017. In an interview for Face the Nation moderator John Dickerson sat down with the South Carolinian senator in his office to discuss race relations after the election of Donald Trump and the announcement of a mistrial in the shooting death of Walter Scott by a police officer in South Carolina. During the interview Dickerson asked Sen. Scott how he believes Trump can bridge the gap with communities of color who believe the president- elect played on fears in the African- American community to get elected.Anyone who watched this election and did not see that fear was a part of both sides of the aisle, missed the election. Scott said. I think we would have this same conversation had Hillary won. Just perhaps a different perspective Scott, however, assured he would hold the incoming president accountable by what he doesrdqu stanley cup o; during his administration. Sen. Tim Scott discusses Ben Carson, Steve Bannon 04:39 Scott, currentl stanley quencher y the only African- American stanley cups Republican in the Senate, called on Trump to spend time in communities of color and listen to their needs. If D Joqw New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez under federal criminal investigation
This post was updated at 3:17 p.m. ET Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., spoke for over 12 hours on the Senate floor yesterday, staging a filibuster of John Brennan s nomination to be CIA director.Paul objected to the administration s recent assertion that it could legally use a drone strike against an American on U.S. soil in extraordinary circumstances that posed an imminent threat garrafinhas stanley to national security, and today, it appeared as though the White House had taken note, with Attorney General Eric Holder responding to a letter Paul sent to the administration regarding the use of drones on U.S. soil. White House press secretary Jay Carney read both Paul s question and Holder s response at today s briefing. Senator Paul has raised questions about the p stanley becher resident s authority to use leghal force within the United States, which John Brennan and the Attorney General have both answered, Carney said. Today, Sen. Paul raised an additional question and the Attorney General has answered it. According to Carney, Paul asked, Does the president have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in c stanley cup ombat on American soil In his response, also read by Carney, Holder replied succinctly: The answer to that question is no. Rand Paul amazed by support for filibuster Rand Paul ends filibuster against CIA director nominee after almost 13 hoursIn a statement, Paul called Holder s response a major victory for American civil libertie

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Steve Bannon s 60 Minutes conversation with Charlie Rose is the former White House chief strategist s first extensive televisioninterview since he left the Trump administration.Th stanley cup e founding board member of the conservative publication Breitbart News was a key player in President Trump s W vaso stanley hite House. He left last month after clashes with other aides and returned to Breitbart. Steve Bannon left with Charlie Rose CBS News Charlie Rose: So how do you want to be perceived, you today Because you have a media image. Steve Bannon: The media image I think is pretty accurate. I m a street stanley cups fighter.Rose: You re more than that. Bannon: No, I think I m -- I think I m -- I m a street fighter. ... By the way, I think that s why Donald Trump and I get along so well. Donald Trump s a fighter. Great counter puncher. Great counter puncher. He s a fighter. hellip; I m going to be his wing man outside for the entire time, to protect -- Rose: You will not be attacking Donald Trump Bannon: No, our -- our purpose is to support Donald Trump. By the way --Rose: -- And destroy his enemies Bannon: To make sure his enemies know that there s no free shot on goal. By the way, after the Charlottesville situation, that s what I told [White House Chief of Staff] General [John] Kelly, I was the only guy that came out and tried to defend him. I was the Kkbb Pentagon halts border wall construction paid for with defense funds redirected by Trump
It s no secret that war is expensive, but a report out Wednesday says the U.S. has wasted billions in Iraq and Afghanistan. More tax dollars will go down the drain unless the government makes big changes.CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that in ten years of war, the U.S. has paid contractors $206 billion to do everything from building schools to guarding diplomats. Today, a blue ribbon commission put a number on how much has been lost not to violence but to mismanagement and corruption.Commission on Wartime Contracting Chairman Christopher Shays says: We are wasting between $30 and $60 billion during the course of our engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. termo stanley Shays says $30 billion in waste can be documented; Everything from leasing four-wheel vehicles at grossly exorbitant rates of about $40,000 a year, to a $124 million prison renovation that was never finished. The larger $60 billion figure inclu stanley nz des an estimate of how much money lined the pockets of corrupt officials and even the enemy.Karzai: Afghans want permanent U.S. presenceReport: Up to $60B wasted in war contractingCBSNews special report: AfghanistanThe commission was told that except for the opium harvest, U.S. contracts were the Taliban s biggest source of funds. A separat stanley thermos e investigation estimated $360 million has ended up in the hands of the taliban.. The sheer volume of spending -- as many as 260,000 contractors on the payroll at any one time -- amid the c

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Washington mdash; The wife of notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquiacute;n El Chapo Guzmaacute;n pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal charges that stem from assisting her husband run his multi-billion dollar criminal empire.Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, entered her plea during a hearing Thursday at the federal district court in Washington, appearing in person before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras and wearing a green prison uniform and white mask. Sp stanley bottles eaking through a Spanish stanley cup translator, Coronel Aispuro told the court she is pleading guilty to all three criminal charges related to her involvement in her husband s sprawling drug enterprise.Coronel Aispuro is being held without bond and will be sentenced in September. Prosecutor Anthony Nardozzi told the court that Coronel Aispuro aided and abetted the Sinaloa cartel, of which her husband was the leader, from 2011 to 2017 and, after Guzmaacute;n s arrest in Mexico, served as the go-between for his cartel in furtherance of its drug trafficking. Nardozzi also accused Coronel Aispuro stanley quencher of conspiring with Guzmaacute;n s sons to coordinate his 2015 prison break through an elaborate one-mile-long underground tunnel and of benefiting from his criminal activities through their marriage. Emma Coronel Aispuro appears in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, June 10, 2021. William J. Hennessy, Jr. Eldu Did Mueller change his statement that Trump could be indicted after he leaves office
AP Photo/Richard Shiro Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said in an interview with GQ out Monday that one can tell how manly a man is by looking at how many toppings he puts on his pizza. He also said a pizza covered in vegetables is a sissy pizza. The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly he is, said the former Godfather s Pizza CEO.Cai stanley tazas n, laughing, then e stanley cup xplained that the more manly man is not afraid of abundance before calling into question the manliness of a pizza with vegetables on it. A manly man don t want it piled high with vegetables! He would call that a sissy pizza, Cain said.The interview was conducted while Cain sampled a variety of pizzas at a Washington restaurant in mid-October, before Politico first reported Oct. 30 that Cain had been accused of sexual harassment more than a decade ago. At one point, he said he preferred a pie stanley canada with arugula on it, prompting an interviewer to say one would think that you d brand that one the sissiest pizza of them all. Well, you didn t let me finish answering the question the first time! Cain responded, though the interview transcript does not suggest he was cut off. It s not only abundance; it s taste. Okay It s taste. Later, when a pizza covered in meat was brought to the table, Cain exclaimed, NOW THAT S A MANLY-LOOKING PIZZA!! Those were not the only food-related comments Cain made in t

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Officials said the court and other systems in Georgia s most populous county were hacked over the weekend, interrupting routine operations, but the district attorney s office said the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump was unaffected.Fulton County, whi stanley quencher ch includes most of Atlanta, was experiencing a widespread system outage from a cybersecurity incident, county commission stanley cups uk Chair Robb Pitts said Monday in a video posted on social media. Notably, he said, the outage is affecting the county s phone, court and tax systems.But the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said the racketeering case against Trump and othe stanley cup rs was not affected. All material related to the election case is kept in a separate, highly secure system that was not hacked and is designed to make any unauthorized access extremely difficult if not impossible, Willis office said in a statement.But the prosecutor s office said its operations were being drastically affected by the electronic court filing system outage. Visitors to the website that houses Fulton County s online court records were greeted by a message saying it is temporarily unavailable. Additionally, the statement said, the Atlanta Police Department was not sending emails to or opening emails from the district attorney s office out of concern for its own systems. That was hindering prosecutors work because about 85% of their cases come from Atlanta police.Cou Sxgo 401(k) plans favor rich people. Here s how to change that.
A second wrongful death lawsuit has been filed blaming U.S. government officials involved in the Bureau of Alcohol, T vaso stanley obacco and Firearms and Explosives Operation Fast and Furious, which allowed thousands of weapons to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Tuesday, the Texas family of fallen Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE agent Jaime Zapata sued the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the former head of the ATF and others they blame in Zapata s death. In February 2011, Zapata and his partner Victor Avila were gunned down in Me stanley vattenflaska xico by suspected drug cartel members. Avila survived but was critically injured and has joined Zapata s family in the suit. As CBS News reported, at least two of the murder weapons had been trafficked by suspects the ATF had under surveillance but failed to arrest. Zapata s parents argue that if ATF agents had arrested the suspects stanley cup and confiscated the weapons early on, the rifles might not have been used in their son s murder.A primer on the Fast and Furious scandalFast and Furious IG report slams ATF Phoenix personnelThe Justice Department has not commented except to say that, at the time, the ATF was not aware of, a suspect s purchase of one weapon used in Zapata s murder. Justice officials said answering further questions would jeopardize the investigation. Zapata and Avila were on assignment at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico when their supervisors sent them on a m

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A political battle is brewing on Capitol Hill with potentially dire economic consequences looming after the U.S. hit the debt limit on Thursday. Lawmakers must reach an agreement to either raise or suspend the debt limit to avoid a credit default, which would mean the government couldn t pay its bills and would default on its debt obligations for the first time ever.Raising the debt limit would incre stanley mug ase th stanley cup e amount the U.S. can borrow to meet its spending obligations. Suspending the debt limit means Congress freez stanley cups uk es it until a specific date and then, as the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget puts it, sets an automatic catch-up, so that when that date arrives, the debt ceiling is raised to meet the current level of spending. For instance, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019 suspended the debt limit until July 31, 2021, and provided a catch-up that raised the debt limit by $6.5 trillion.The Treasury Department on Thursday started using so-called extraordinary measures to pay the bills, which Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen predicts can delay default for a few months, until around June. The U.S. debt currently has a $31.4 trillion limit. The last time Congress moved to raise the debt ceiling was in December 2021 when Democrats were able to pass legislation without a single Republican vote. But the current makeup of Congress poses greater challenges for reaching an agreement on the debt limit in time, since Republicans now control Rjmm Defense secretary supports taking decision to prosecute sexual assault cases out of chain of command
Talk about conflating politics with money. In testimony this week, a political consultant suing controversial Rep. Merrill Cook, R-Utah, over campaign-season loans said Cook griped about how much it cost to get elected versus the financial boon of being on Capitol Hill. Testifying in the $200,000 Utah civil suit, Ke stanley cup vin Walthers, who helped manage Cook s victorious 1996 campaign, said Cook told him shortly stanley cup after the election that, I ve wasted the family fortune running for office. It s really not worth it. Apparently, the congressman complained the money spent - his own and others - wasn t worth the price of admission. The Salt Lake City civil trial is the latest chapter in the political life of Cook, who owns an explosives business and is known for past explosions of his own, including the firing of his top staffers after being re-elected in 1998; rambling press conferences; allegations of tape-recorded phone sex; profane outbursts in front of fellow Republicans; and whispers about his mental stability. Talk politics on the Campaign 2000 bulletin board!Throw in Cook s ill-fated attempt ten years ago to ditch the stanley cup GOP and start a new party, and these latter-day foibles are leaving him with little political cover. He shows a history of having a temper that causes him to make ... bold moves. Be it bolting a party, be it firing his entire staff, be it spending his own money on campaigns, Todd Taylor, executive director of the sta