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Zgjt Tom Donilon stepping down as Obama s national security adviser; Susan Rice to replace him
Republican Governor Greg Abbott of Texas said Thursday that mistakes were made when he sent a fundraising mailer that called on supporters to defend Texas from illegal immigration. The letter was dated just one day before a gunman targeting Mexicans killed 22 people in El Paso.The letter was condemned as racist and anti-Latino by the Texas Democratic Party after it surfaced last week. Abbott came under more criticism the following day from El Paso lawmakers fortweetingthat liberals on the U.S. Supreme Court had required stanley website Texas to pay for schooling for students who are not in the U.S. legally.The lawmakers called the tweet dangerous in the wa stanley cup usa ke of the August 3 mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart, which authorities say was carried out by a gunman who posted a racist screed online railing against an influx of immigrants to the U.S. Taken together, the mailer and tweet have put a spotlight on Abbott s hardline rhet stanley mugs oric at a time when he has urged unity in the aftermath of the mass shooting.He spoke about the letter publicly for the first time Thursday before leading a meeting in El Paso with lawmakers, gun activists and family members of those killed at the Walmart. Texas Governor Greg Abbott Drew Anthony Smith/Getty Images I did have the opportunity to visit with the El Paso delegation and help them understand that mistakes wer Syek Biden Calls Affordable College A Priority
Congress inclusion of a stringent pay cap for executives of companies receiving government aid in the stimulus legislation passed Friday was a major topic on CBS News Face The Nation Sunday. CBS Alabama Republican Richard Shelby, ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, admitted for probably the first time that he supports this provis stanley cup ion in the stimulus bill, even though he voted against the legislation. I believe this provision in the stimulus bill is going in the right direction, as far as protecting the taxpay stanley cup er, Shelby told host Bob Schieffer. I am totally against us being involved in private companies hellip; but where taxpayers money is involved, Bob, we better make sure that this money is spent wisely. CBS Rep. Barney Frank D-MA , chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, also said he supports the cap on executive pay mdash; inserted into the bill at the insistence of House Democrats mdash; and that the White House has no choice but to support the provision.Frank differed with Shelby, who said he believed the government should interfere with private companies executive compensation only when taxpayer money such as the billions in TARP funds that have gone to teetering banks is at stake. Frank said that such unstable situations where private companies come for handouts of public money should be prevented from happening by changing the ethos of no-risk rewards, stanley cup which Frank said provide perverse incentives.

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Ecmn Scholars Rank Obama the 15th Best President
What are you guys doing in my yard President Obama asked as he strolled out onto the White House South Lawn wearing blue jeans and wide grin. Fifty fourth-grade Girl Scouts gathered around a make-shift campfire made of battery-powered lanterns and surrounded by large white and blue tents.The Girl Scouts were invited to take part in the first ever White House campout by First Lady Michelle Obama, who is also the organizat stanley website ion s honorary president. The campout was part of her Let s Move Outside Initiative, which encourages children and their families to be active and experience the great outdoors.They spent the afternoon on the White House South Lawn rock climbing, knot-tying, orienteering and pitching tents. In the evenin stanley quencher g, the president and Mrs. Obama stopped by to sit with them around the lantern-light and to join their singing circle. Mr. and Mrs. Obama sang Make New Friends and Brave New Girl with the scouts. Obamas join Girl Scouts for campout at the White House, June 30, 2015. stanley cup CBS News / Nana Agyemang I thought he was just going to do all his work and not come, said Hannah Holmes, a 10-year old Girl Scout from the DC area, and then all of a sudden, I hear people saying, oh my gosh, it s the president! After singing, dancing and chatting with the girls and their chaperons, the Mr. Obama took his leave. Unfortunately, I ve got to go to work, he said, I m Rshr Meet Washington s geeky fiscal referees: The CBO
Former Repubican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island,who lost his seat in last yearrsquo Democratic congressional wave, announced that he has left the Republican Party, according to the Providence Journal.Itrsquo not my party any more, he said. In his seven-year tenure in the Senate, Chafee frequently split from his party on key legislation. He opposed the war in Iraq, voted with Democrats on estate tax and HMO regulation legislation and refused to support the confirmation of U.N. Ambassador John Bolton. In the past, Chafee had insisted that he would remain in the Republican Party. But he did not endorse President Bush for re-election in 2004, and faced a fierce primary challenge from his right in last yearrsquo Senate race.Chafee and his father, former Sen. John Chafee, held Rhode Islandrsquo Senate seat in Republican hands for 30 years. National Republicans poured money into the state last year to aid Chafeersquo re-election, bu stanley quencher t he lost to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse D-R.I. . ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: no stanley trinkflaschen ne; stanley fr inline-recirc-item--id-c84e5a0e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c84e5a0e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c84e5a0e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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Kecd New Intel Panel Report Blasts Iraq Pre-war Evidence
By Jennifer De PintoPresident Trump is likely to deliver his State of the Union address to a friendly audience composed largely of his supporters. Historically, those in the president s own party have been more inclined to watch the address. In keeping with this trend, most of the potential viewers favor many of the pre stanley thermos sident s policies, including his plans for immigration. Most want to hear him talk about building a border wall, although most indicate they want the president to strike a more unifying tone. Americans who plan to tune in to the speech are more likely to be Republicans than Democrats or independents, and most consider themselves supporters of the president 56 percent rather than opponents 25 percent . One in five say they are something in between. State of the Union address: How to stream online or watch on TVTrump delivers 2019 State of the Union stanley france address mdash; live updatesForty-two percent of those who plan to watch the speech identify as R stanley cup epublicans, compared to 25 percent of Americans overall. Most of those planning to watch Tuesday s State of the Union address consider themselves Trump supporters. CBS News While most who say they ll watch are supporters of Mr. Trump and his policies, 65 percent say the president should try to appeal to all Americans in Tuesday s address, even those who disagree with him. Only 35 percent think he should mostly stan Xwqo GOP Senator John Ensign Admits Affair
4818723This story was updated at 1 PM ET with new information about the lack of Senate support for the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay.In his first several days in office, President Obama announced that he would close the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility in Cuba. He did not indicate where the prisoners living there would be relocated. For their part, U.S. lawmakers know where they don t want them to go: Anywhere near their distric stanley vaso ts.The president is reaching out to countries around the world to take in former Guantanamo detainees, but as the Associated Press points out, he is facing strong opposition very close to home. Last week, the House of Representatives passed a war spending bill which fobids releasing Guantanamo detainees in the U.S. The bill is now before the Senate. Meanwhile, several northern Virginia lawmakers are speaking out against the possible local stanley cups uk relocation of the 17 Uighurs who had been held at the facility. Uighurs are Turkic Muslims from western China. They say the Chinese government has oppressed them; China calls them in stanley mug surgents and wants them extradited. On Sunday, Virginia Democrat Senator Jim Webb said he would not support a reloation of the Uighurs prisoners in Northern Virginia. They accepted training from Al Qaeda and as a result they have taken part in terrorism, the senator said on ABC s This Week Sunday. I don t believe they should come to the United States. In a Washington Post e

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Jpyf Biden Camp: You d Think A Lot Of Things About McCain
Ba stanley tumblers ghdad -- The United States will send 560 more troops to Iraq to help establish a newly retaken air base as a staging hub for the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday on an unannounced visit to the country.Most of the new troops will be devoted to the build-up of the Qayara air base, about 40 miles south of Mosul, and include engineers, logistics personnel and other forces, Carter said in Baghdad. They will help Iraqi security forces planning to encircle and eventu stanley cupe ally retake the key city. These additional U.S. forces will bring unique capabilities to the campaign and provide critical enabler support to Iraqi forces at a key moment in the fight, Carter said, according to prepared remarks. He revealed President Barack Obama s stanley mug decision during a talk to troops at the airport in Baghdad. The increase brings the total U.S. force authorization in Iraq to 4,647, and comes just three months after Obama s last announcement of additional troops.Carter told reporters earlier that U.S. advisers are prepared to accompany Iraqi battalions if needed, as those units begin the siege of the key northern city. It s not clear when exactly that will happen. U.S. officials said a team of American troops went into Qayara for a quick site assessment Sunday and left. One potential job is helping Iraqi troops use highly technical bridging capabilities to get across the river into Mo Elan Clinton To Campaign For Obama In Nevada, Florida
AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s top flu specialist has privately informed health care officials that the H1N1 virus is becoming a more serious threat, CBSNews has learned. We re now certainly starting to pick up more serious cases, Dr. Joe Bresee, chief of CDC s epidemiology and prevention branch of the influenza division, told health care providers on Thursday.Bresee said on a private conference call that the situation is now changing a bit, add stanley cup ing that H1N1 s incubation period is between one and four days, and its infectious period is similar to seasonal flu at two to seven days. CDC spokesman Thomas Skinner told CBSNews that we re still learning about the H1N1 virus -- also known as swine flu -- and declined to comment further on his colleague s remarks.Bresee s comments come as more evidence of the new influenza strain popped up around the country, with a dozen states reporting case stanley cup s and nearly 300 schools closing. Meanwhile, the CDC is racing to develop a vaccine. One puzzling question, of course, is why the H1N1 cases stanley cups uk in Mexico seem to be resulting in more deaths than the ones in the United States.Even though the CDC has confirmed 109 cases domestically, plus a few more reported by state health officials, there has been only a single known death -- a toddler visiting from Mexico. The World Health Organization reports 97 confirmed cases of infection in Mexico and seven death

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Bpqn More than 500 New Yorkers to be considered as jurors in Trump s hush money trial
Since leaving her post as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton earned millions of dollars delivering 41 paid speeches in the U.S. to a variety of companies and organizations. At least 10 of those groups have been lobbying Congress and federal agencies on trade, an issue that has divided Democrats as the Obama administration pushes for a 12-nation pacific trade deal - and around which Hillary Clinton has remained mum.Clinton has spoken in general terms on trade, saying in New Hampshire last month that any trade deal has to produce jobs and raise wages and increase prosperity and stanley us protect our security. But the issue pits liberal Democrats against the White House and Republicans, and there s a chorus of Democrats are calling for Clinton to weigh in. Critics say Clinton Foundation has pattern of not disclosing foreign donors 02:22 In the weeks since she launched her presidential bid, Clinton has been dogged by questions about whether special interests s stanley tumbler ought to buy influence while she was secretary of state through donations to the Clinton Foundation and through Bill Clinton s paid speeches. For the first time, Hillary Clinton s financial disclosures provide a picture of the speaki stanley flask ng engagements for which she was paid since leaving the State Department and at a time when she was actively considering w Hdqi D.C. Court Ruling Could Affect Out-Of-State Gun Buying
Daniel Patrick Moynihan s reputation as a great mind of politics grew not only from his oratory flair, his love of history and a professorial demeanor.It was also his prescience that impressed.From unwed mothers to the demise of the Soviet Union to highway deaths, Moynihan seized on trends and problems years, sometimes decades, before the rest of the nation caught up with him. Family and friends were remembering Moynihan mdash; a senator of 24 years, ambassador, and aide to four presidents mdash; at a private mass Monday, followed by interment at Arlington National Cemetery.About 50 current and former U.S. senators were expected to attend the mass. Pallbearers included Moynihan s sons, John and Tim, and NBC s Tim Russert, for years a Senate aide to Moynihan. A new intercity stanley cup train station being built in New York City will be named after him, the city s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, and New York Gov. Pataki, both Republicans, announced last week.After his death last week at age 76, President Bush called the former Democratic senator an intellectual pioneer. Former President Clinton remembered him as a prophet. He was one of the greatest minds of our times. He was our Jefferson, our Lincoln, said Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, his successor in the Senate. Time after time, he could see our nation s next pressing challenge mdash; and its stanley canada solutio stanley botella n mdash; even when it was decades away from our own national conscience. Moynihan saw ov

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Frustration is building with the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine. The Trump administration had pledged 20 million doses of the vaccine by year s end, but so far, not even 3 million shots have been given and just over 11 million doses have been shipped.President-elect Joe Biden suggested Tuesday that the Trump administration has overpromised and under-delivered. Mr. Biden noted that at the current pace, it would take years to vaccinate the country against COVID-19. Mr. Biden vowed to accelerate the stanley mug pace of vaccinations and boost Americans confidence in the shots once he is sworn in next month. This is the greatest operational challenge we ve faced as a nation, Mr. Biden said Tuesday. Mr. Biden said his incoming administration will move heaven and earth to get the vaccination effort back on track. We can do it but it will take ramping up to 1 million shots a day, even so, it will take months to get the majority vaccinated, he said.Mr. Biden gave few details about how his administration will hit that mark but said he would invoke the Defense Pro stanley water bottle duction Act to accelerate needed supplies for vacc stanley cups ines. He called the recently passed $900 billion COVID relief bill a downpayment for controlling the pandemic. Thousands of vulnerable senior citizens lined up Tuesday across Florida, some waiting overnight, hoping to secure a coveted first dose of the COVID vaccine. He s over 70, diabetic, and we thought, like everyone, this is a life Sunn DOJ announces settlement with Tea Party groups
5182726Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid attacked the birthers ndash; the group of conspiracy theorists who believe President Obama is not a U.S. citizen despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary ndash; in a speech on the House floor this afternoon.Reid s comments suggest Democrats have begun to view the birther movement as an asset ndash; an opportunity to link the opposition party to a fringe group that discredits its message overall.After attacking Republicans for offering one radical distraction after the next in the heal stanley thermobecher th care debate, Reid said they not limited to health care. He continued:An stanley mug artificial controversy is getting far too much attention lately - one that ignores the undeniable and proven fact that our president was born in the United States of America. Just last week, one of the Republican leaders in the House of Representatives continued to give it credence.Let s be clear: It is a phony issue that does not deserve even a minute of our attention on the floor of the United States Senate. It is absurd, irresponsible and baseless, and the false claims have long ago been easily refuted.The American people have every right to expect we will solve real problems before creating fake ones. And they should know that rather than helping them get ahead, some of our colleagues would rather spew ludicrous conspiracy theo starbucks stanley cup ries. In other birther-related news, last night one of the most prominent members of the movement, Orly Taitz, released what was purported to

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Jupa Mortgage refinancing plan should be no-brainer, Obama says
Sen. John McCain on Sunday criticized President Donald Trumprsquo ban on immigra stanley cup ntsfrom stanley quencher seven Muslim-majority countries, saying it has been a confused process that will only give the terror group ISIS more propaganda.The good news is that itrsquo only got to do with a pause, he told CBSrsquo; Face the Nation. The bad news is that obviously this process and these conclusions were not vetted.McCain said that itrsquo important to understand the ramifications of this kind of action, which has been roundly criticized by foreign leaders. Full interview: John McCain, January 29 06:47 The effect will probably in some areas give ISIS some more propaganda, he said, adding that he is particularly concerned about the effect the ban will have on Iraqis -- whose troops are fighting side-by-side with A stanley water bottle merican forces in the battle to retake Mosul. He also blasted Mr. Trump for failing to consult with federal agencies or any foreign leaders before announcing such a sweeping action. As a result, he said, therersquo a great deal of confusion over the ban itself -- whether it applies to green-card holders, what happens to Iraqis who have been actively aiding the U Yvgo Senate Democrats Restore Jobless Benefits
WASHINGTON - Negotiations to increase the nation s debt ceiling shifted to Congress where Republican and Democratic leaders were assessing the mood of their members even as an intricate but potentially face-saving deal to avoid stanley website an unprecedented government default was taking shape in the Senate.With an Aug. 2 deadline looming and no compromise jelling at the White House, President Obama had to settle Friday for asking congressional leaders to take three deficit reduction options to their members to see which, if any, could win a vote in the House and Senate.Meanwhile, a proposal the White House has termed a fallback option stanley cup was taking root in the Senate as a likely alternative to the brinkmanship that has defined negotiations to secure an increase in the government s borrowing authority. Obama, who had vo stanley travel mug wed to meet with congressional leaders every day until a debt limit deal was struck, did not schedule a session for Friday and instead asked leaders to gauge the temperament of their caucuses and to report back to him in 24 to 36 hours. White House officials said a meeting could still be scheduled this weekend.Obama presses on debt deal: It s decision time Geithner: We re running out of time for debt dealVideo: Latest on the debt talks Obama planned an 11 a.m. news conference Friday to discuss the status of debt limit talks, his second this week. House Republicans and House Democrats planned their own membership meetings earlie

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Wgrq Democrats evicted from hideaway offices after Kevin McCarthy s ouster
As the Senate convened for a rare August work period, the late-summer session serves as a reminder of how much has changed in the partnership between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Trump.This time last year, the two men were barely on speaking terms. Mr. Trump bashed the GOP leader on Twitter after the collapse of Republican efforts to repeal President Barack Obama s health care law. McConnell said Mr. Trump had excessive expectations for what was possible. The phone lines between them went quiet for days.But both learned how to better relate to the other. The president now keeps the Kentuckian close as a needed ally in accom stanley website plishing his agenda on Capitol Hill. And M stanley vaso cConnell talks to the president almost daily as the two chat strategy, monitor campaigns and count votes. It s a course correction that s enabling Senate Republicans to motor through their agenda this summer. They re confirming Mr. Trump s new judges, approving funding bills ahead of a government shutdown deadline and laying the groundwork for a fall vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh stanley cups . They ve decided that forfeiting the August break is a small price to pay to prevent another round of Republican-on-Republican infighting before the midterm election. As the Senate reconvenes to cross more items off our to-do list, we should take pride in all we have already accomplished this summer, McConnell said in opening remarks for the August session. I Enwy Buchanan: Let Me In!
Two protestors in orange jumpsuits were just escorted from the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They were wearing black head-scarves and carrying Fire Gonzales signs, and sitting in the TV shot behind Gonzales.But Rep. John Conyers D-Mich. wasn t having any of it. I don t care what happened at other hearings, this is the one I am responsible f stanley quencher or, Conyers told the protestors before having them removed. He was evidently referring to Gonzales appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee several weeks ago. when Code Pink and other protestors made their presence known pretty forcefully. Conyers allowed two protestors to stay put. but clearly on a short lease.Update - Rep. Dan Lungren R-Calif. just objected to having a Code Pink protestor sitting behind the attorney general wi stanley mug th an Arrest Gonzales sign on her shirt. This is not a St stanley thermobecher ar Chamber, Lungren said. Conyers agreed to Lungren s request, and a the protestor was escorted from the room. with a committee aide tearing a Resign! sign out of the woman s hand. This is not a political rally, Conyers said. Further update - The protestors are trying to get back into the hearing room during a committee recess for House votes, but Conyers staff is not allowing it to happen, not if the protestors are wearing any kind of sign or hats with comments about Gonzales. Code Pink is not giving up, however, and they are quoting committee r

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WASHINGTON -- Confronting a cascade of controversies, President Donald Trump on Thursday angrily denounced the criminal leaks that took down his top national security adviser after less than a month and revived questions about his own ties to Russia. But he offered only a lawyerly denial that his campaign aides had been in touch with Russian officials before last fallrsquo election.Nobody that I know he said in the first full-length press conference of his presidency. Scott Pelley: Trump s bluster, bravado, exaggeration on display at news conference 02:23 Rath stanley canada er than a wide-ranging question-and-answer session, the 77-minute event amounted to an extended airing of grievances, the new president attempting to find his footing after the rockiest launch in recent memory. Trump slammed a bad court of appeals judges for blocking his refugee and immigration executive order and denied that his White House was paralyzed by chaos and infighting among top advisers. ldqu stanley cup o;This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, he boasted.With his signature hyperbole betrayed by reality, Trump said ther stanley polska e has never been a president who in this short period of time has done what wersquo;ve done. He blamed Vuij Democratic Representative Jim Cooper to retire after Republicans push map that splits up Nashville
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who arrived in the United States 35 years ago as a bodybuilder dreaming of fame and fortune, was sworn in Monday as governor of California and s stanley us aid he was ready to take on the massive weight we must lift off our state. With his wife, Maria Shriver, holding a 192-year-old Kennedy family Bible, Schwarzenegger took the oath of office from California s chief justice on the steps of the state Capitol.The 56-year-old Hollywood action hero then gave a 12-minute speech in which he invoked Presidents Kennedy and Reagan and called himself, like JFK, an idealist without illusions. Perhaps some think this is fanciful or poetic, but to an immigrant like me mdash; who, as a boy, saw Soviet tanks rolling through the streets of Austria mdash; to someone like me who came here with absolutely nothing and gained absolutely everything, it is not fanciful to see this state as a golden dream, Schwarzenegger said in becoming California s 38th governor.He promised to put the state stanley cup s finances in order, and added: I will not rest until California is a competitive, job-creating machine. Although he had no experience as an elected official, th stanley thermobecher e Republican was swept into office in the Oct. 7 election that ousted Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, reviled by the voters for his handling of the state s sickly economy.An immigrant from Austria who arrived in the United States at age 21 barely able to speak English, Schwarzenegger is now t