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Eugene Peltola Jr., the late husband of Rep. Mary Peltola of Alaska, was ferrying moose meat and antlers when his plane crashed earlier this month, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board.Peltola Jr. had flown a group of hunters from Holy Cross, Alaska, to St. Mary s, Alaska, two days before the fatal crash, according to the report. He then returned to help haul moose meat back after a successful hunt, the report said. T stanley cups he fatal Sept. 12 crash was Peltola Jr. s second meat run of the day, with the first going smoothly and without incident, according to the report.One of the hunters told the NTSB that the second load of meat was about 50 to 70 pounds heavier than the first. The total load for the second trip was about 520 pounds, according to the NTSB. stanley cup The meat was strapped into the rear passenger seat area with both the seatbelt and rope and was loaded into the airplane s belly pod, which did not have tie-down provisions, the report said.The NTSB found about 150 pounds of the meat in the forward section of the belly pod after the crash, the report said. One of the hunters said Peltola Jr. told him he would be stanley termohrnek running on reserve fuel by the time he arrived back at Holy Cross. In addition, Peltola Jr. also tied the moose s antlers to one of the wing struts, which could be seen in video taken by one of the hunters. Eugene Peltola Jr. s plane with antlers tied to the right wing Xdtz Sessions welcomes restoration of asset forfeiture: I love that program
Updated 4 p.m. ETJUNEAU, Alaska - Republican Joe Miller has formally declared that he no longer opposes state officials certifying Alaska s U.S. Senate election.In papers filed in federal court Monday, Miller says he doesn t object to state certification of the November election results, which show his rival, fellow Republican Lisa Murkowski, winning. But Miller isn t entirely giving up. His attorneys asked U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline to keep alive his options - including a possible recount or election contest - once all appeals have been exhausted. Miller reiterated his claims the state erred in how it counted write-in ballots.Beistline barred the state from certifying the race unt stanley cups uk il issues raised by Miller were addressed. Last week the state Supreme Court refused to overturn results favoring Murk stanley kaffeebecher owski and said it found no remaining issues that precluded certification. Miller announced late Sunday that he would take this step, paving the way for Murkowski - a write-in candidate after losing the Republican nomination to Miller - to eventually be declared winner of the race.Election officials determined Murkowski had the most votes in the November election but were barred from certifying a victory by a federal judge, who issued a stay to give the courts time to rule on Miller s claims the vote count was mishandled.Mille stanley nz r said he wants to ensure Alaska has full representation when senators are sworn in for the new term o

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As air travel has returned to pre-pandemic levels in the past several months, airports and airlines have struggled to keep up with the increase in demand. CBS News has obtained a letter Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg sent to JetBlue Airways in which he called the frequent flight delays and cancelations in the U.S. unacceptable. In the Thursday stanley cup letter, Buttigieg said he wrote to nine of the nation s other leading airlines as well.According to the letter, an estimated 24% of domestic flights were delayed and 3.2% were canceled in the first half of 2022. stanley cups In order to help customers, the Department of Transportation is creating a website mdash; scheduled to go live before Labor Day weekend mdash; that will clearly display each airline s cancellation, delay and refund policies, Buttigieg said. Air travel delays and cancellations hit travelers over July 4 weekend 04:23 When passengers do experience stanley cups uk cancellations and delays, they deserve clear and transparent information on the services that your airline will provide, to address the expenses and inconveniences resulting from these disruptions, Buttigieg said. He also called on the airlines to provide meal vouchers to customers whose delays are longer than three hours, and to provide lodging to tho Memv In Nevada, Trump administration revives a radioactive campaign issue
SURVEILLING STUTTGART....The LA Times reports some background detail about the arrest of those three terrorist wannabes in Germany on Wednesday:A U.S. intelligence intercept of suspicious communications between Pakistan and Stuttgart was the initial break that ultimately led to the arrest this week of three suspected Muslim militants accused of plotting massive car-bomb attacks her stanley cup e against Americans, U.S. a stanley cup nd German officials told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday.....The counter-terrorism official described the initial intercept [last December] as a key factor. This was a long investigation. But it he stanley mug lped build the case. It led to a very long period of surveillance, and the arrests. It also continued during the investigation. This year, U.S. intelligence agents intercepted a key communication in which militant handlers in Pakistan asked for an update on the plot and pushed the suspects to move faster, according to U.S. and German officials.Interesting. These intercepts are pretty clearly a result of the NSA surveillance program we ve heard so much about, and I d guess that U.S. officials are leaking about this in order to demonstrate the value of the program.Here s another guess: as you recall, the NSA program was put into crisis mode last May when a FISA judge issued a ruling telling the administration flatly that the law s wording required the government to get a warrant whenever a fixed wire is involved. This meant that NSA was required to get a warrant even for com

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A federal judge says former President Donald Trump has missed his chance to use his DNA to try to prove he didn t rape a longtime magazine advice columnist, clearing awa stanley quencher y a potential roadblock to an April trial.Judge Lewis A. Kaplan on Wednesday rejected the 11th-hour offer by Trump s legal team to provide a DNA sample to rebut claims E. Jean Carroll first made publicly in a 2019 book.Kaplan said that lawyers for Trump and Carroll had over three years to make DNA an issue in the case and that both chose not to do so. He said it would almost surely delay the trial schedu stanley cup led to start April 25 to reopen the DNA issue four months after the deadline passed to litigate concerns over trial evidence and just weeks before trial.Trump s lawyers did not immediately comment on Kaplan s ruling. Carroll s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, declined to comment. Carroll s lawyers have sought Trump s DNA sample for three years to compare it with stains found on the dress Carroll wore the day she says Trump raped her in an upscale Manhattan department store dressing room in late 1995 or early 1996. An analysis of DNA on the dress concluded it did contain traces of an unknown man s DNA.Trump has denied knowing Carroll and said repeatedly, and sometimes angrily, that he never raped Carroll and that she was making the claim to stoke sales of her book.After refusing to provide Trump s DNA sample, his lawyers rece stanley cup ntly switched tactics, saying they would provide Vsui Cuban scientists meet U.S. officials, dismiss health attacks
Jurors at Sen. Ted Steven s R-Alaska noticed something that no one else has during his month-long trialndash; the indictment against him has a mistake. Stevens has been charged with failing to report more than $250,000 in improper gifts that he received from 1999 to 2006, including extensive renovation work on his home in Girdwood, Alaska. But the July 29 indictment against him contains an error not noticed by prosecutors. The Justice Department said Stevens had failed to declare any gifts he received in 2001, which would be listed on his annual Senate financial disclosure report from filed in 2002. The indictment specif stanley cup ically stated that Stevens had checked the no box on the form, when, in fact, he had checked stanley cup yes. Stevens, however, declared receipt of a $1,100 commemorative coin from the Special Olympics during 2001. The jury, which restarted deliberations in the case Monday after Judge Emmet Sullivan replaced one of the jurors over the weekend, sent a note to the judge seeking guidance on how to proceed. This jury is very perceptive, Sullivan said. They aren t missing anything. Sullivan told both sides that he would tell jurors that an indictment is not evidence, merely a charging document, and that they must find beyond a reasonable doubt that Stevens is guilty on each of the seven stanley quencher counts that he is indicted on. The judge, though, was clearly exasperated with the prosecutors for the problem, saying

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President Trump on Sunday imposed new travel restrictions on Brazil, one of the countries hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic. Foreigners will not be allowed to travel to the U.S. if they have been in Brazil any time during the 14-days prior to when they are scheduled to travel to the U.S.The travel ban does not apply to permanent U.S. residents, their spouses, legal guardians of permanent residents under the age of 21 and other groups. Today s action will help ensure foreign nationals who have been in Brazil do not become a source of additional infections in our country, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement. stanley cup These new restrictions do not apply to the flow of commerce between the United States and Brazil. Brazil has more than 347,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, according toJohns Hopkins University. Only the U.S. has more, with stanley cup website over 1.6 million. Robert O Brien says administration is looking at cutting off travel from Brazil amid coron stanley cup avirus pandemic 08:39 National security adviser Robert O Brien said Sunday on Face the Nation that Mr. Trump was considering a travel ban from Brazil as the country overtook Russia for the second-most confirmed cases. We hope that ll be temporary, but because of the situation in Qiiw U.S. to hike fees for naturalization, asylum and other immigration benefits
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Former Gov. Mitt Romney on Friday slammed President Trump for how he has handled Charlottesville and warned that there may be an unraveling of our national fabric if he doesn t apologize. In a lengthy post on Facebook, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee wr stanley thermos ote that the potential consequences are severe in the extreme and he must take extreme action in response. He should address the American people, acknowledge that he was wrong, apologize. State forcefully and unequivocally that racists are 100% to blame for the murder and violence in Charlottesville, wrote Romney, who served as governor of Massachusetts from 2003 until 2007. He continued that stanley quencher the president should, Testify that there is no conceivable comparison or moral equivalency between the Nazis--who brutally murdered millions of Jews and w stanley cup ho hundreds of thousands of Americans gave their lives to defeat--and the counter-protesters who were outraged to see fools parading the Nazi flag, Nazi armband and Nazi salute. W.H. works to control damage after Trump s Charlottesville comments 02:53 Romney said that the president must disavow former KKK grand wizard David Duke, who has celebrated Mr. Trump s comments this week. And once and for all, he must definitively repudiate the support of David Du Idfj IRS internal watchdog to review rare audits of Comey and McCabe
By CBSNews political analyst Samuel J. BestA key factor in President Bush s win over John Kerry in the presidential election was Mr. Bush s ability to reverse the traditional advantage the Democratic Party has held among elderly voters.Bush initiatives targeting seniors, from the repeal of the federal estate tax to the creation of a Medicare prescription drug benefit, appear to have made a favorable impression on them. Mr. Bush received support from 53 percent of voters 60 and over, compared to 46 percent for Kerry, according to CBS News exit poll data.[The CBS Ne stanley mug ws exit polls were conducted by Edison/Mitofsky for the National Election Pool. Results are based on 13,531 voters exiting the polls across the nation, and have a margin of error of two percentage points.] In the last three elections, voters 60 and over supported the Democratic nominee. Bill Clinton held a 12-point advantage over Mr. Bush s father, and a four-point advantage over Bob Dole. Al Gore received 51 percent of the senior vote t stanley thermoskannen o Mr. Bush s 47 percent.Moreover, many of the key swing states broke according to seniors preferences. In Florida, Ohio, and Colorado where Mr. Bush received support from a majority of seniors, he won. Conversely, in the battleground sta stanley thermobecher tes of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Minnesota, where Mr. Bush failed to secure a majority of seniors, he lost. Nationwide, seniors thought highly of Mr. Bush. Fifty-five percent of voters sixty and over

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Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016, has some thoughts on President Trump and the future of the GOP. But at a speech at Yale on Tuesday, he also joked that he wasn t ready to talk about his campaign. I m not going to talk about the 2016 election, Bush said at an event sponsored by the The William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale, according to the Yale Daily News. I m still in therapy. But Bush, the so stanley cups uk n of former President George H.W. Bush and brother of former President George W. Bush, did manage to say that Mr. Trump is a Republican in basically name only, according to the paper. If there was ever need for a Bill Buckley-like approach, to transforming conservatism in this country, it is right now, Bus stanley website h said in a reference to National Review founder and Yale graduate William F. Buckley. Maybe not a 19th-century or a 20th-century version of conservatism but certainly a 21st-century version of that. And sadly the fracturing of the conservative movement could not come at a worse time. Bush also advocated for immigration reform and greater fiscal responsibility with an eye to modernizing the GOP. The 21st-century conservative agenda cannot be nostalgic about the past, Bush said.In an apparent d stanley cup ig at Mr. Trump, Bush also said that he returned to his family after losing the South Carolina, saying that his children actually love me. The remark prompted Do Nfhx Conservatives more likely to think Obama is Muslim now than in 2008
This analysis was written by CBSNews senior political editor Vaughn Ververs.A Democratic Party that came to Denver with questions of division looming did its best to put forward a show of unity on the first day of its nominating convention. It was a night about defining Barack Obama, and Democrats made sure to stay on message.The theme of the night was, One Nation, but it may as well have been, One Party. The focus was stuck on the candidate who will formally accept the nomination on Thursday, and pointedly not on the adversary he fought off and whose presence is still the talk of the convention.Party leaders past and present paraded across the stage on Monday, intersper stanley nz sed with average Americans, friends and family, all of whom sought to introduce Obama to a nation of voters who still seem unfamiliar with him stanley cups uk . There was former President Jimmy Carter, who appeared briefly on stage to wave to the crowd. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed the audience as well as Obama s sister and a parade of Illinois politicians. Obama s wife, Michelle, delivered a heartfelt speech that focused on her life story and his, delving into hardships and triumphs the couple have faced. She delivered testimony designed stanley spain to drive home the dominant point the campaign is looking to deliver in Denver - that Barack Obama is just like you. Michelle Obama s Speech: Video | Text In the end, after all that s happened these past 19 months, the Barack Obama I kno

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Washington mdash; The letter from special counsel Jack Smith s office to former President Donald Trump informing him that he is the target of a criminal investigation into his actions after the 2020 election cited three federal statutes, according to a senior Trump source.Two of the statutes relate to conspiracy to commit an offense or to defraud the U.S., and deprivation of rights under color of law. The third includes potential charges ranging from obstruction of an official proceeding to tampering with a witness, victim or an informant.The target letter was the clearest indication yet that Trump could soon f stanley thermos mug ace charges related to his attempts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election. Smith s office has been investigating alleged efforts to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power, including the attack on the Capit stanley website ol on Jan. 6, 2021, since he was appointed special counsel last November. No charges stemming from this investigation have been filed against the former president, who has denied all wrongdoing and claimed any potential prosecution would be politically motivated. The statutes mentioned in the letter offer some insight into the potential legal basis for possible future charges. Hundreds of defendants in the Justice Department s probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol atta stanley puodelis ck have faced obstruction-related charges. Deprivation of rights under color of law entails using the guise of legal authority to take away constitutiona Lbyo House overcomes Tea Party opposition to pass short-term spending bill
In a story out this morning, we detail how Barack Obama is looking to position himself as the anti-panderer in the presidential race. Obama has staked out a position opposing the suspension of the gas tax this summer, a move that John McCain and Hillary Clinton favor. Now Obama s campaign has released an ad in Indiana, Pennies, explicitly suggesting that Clinton is engaged in political pandering on the issue. Another negative ad from Hillary Clinton, an announcer says as the 30-second spot opens. But here s what she s not saying. U stanley cup nz SA Today calls her three-month gas tax holiday political pandering. It s an election year-gimmick, saving Hoosiers just pennies a day. The announcer goes o stanley canada n to detail Obama s plan: Take on price-gouging by oil companies. Tax their windfall profits. Invest in alternative energy. Give working families a permanent, thousand-dollar tax cut to help with rising costs. Watch it: ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: n stanley mug one; inline-recirc-item--id-c9b1de70-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c9b1de70-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c9b1de70-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; Brian Montopoli Brian Montopoli is the national reporter and political analyst for CBSNews.

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President Donald Trump said Saturday he will not be happy if North Korea conducts another nuclear test, and he declined to rule out a U.S. military response to such a provocation. I don t know. I mean, we ll see, Mr. Trump said of possible military action during an interview with CBS News John Dickerson that will air Sunday on Face the Nation and Monday on CBS This Morning. The interview came just one day after North Korea test-launched a ballistic missile Friday from the western portion of the country. The launch, which failed shortly after lift-off, came after recent U.S. pressure on North Korea to cease its provocative behavior. stanley cup Mr. President, you and the administration s stanley cup aid to North Korea, Don t test a missile. They stanley website have tested a missile. Is the pressure not working Dickerson asked Mr. Trump. Well, I didn t say, Don t test a missile, the president began. He s going to have to do what he has to do. But he understands we re not going to be very happy. And I will tell you, a man that I ve gotten to like and respect -- the president of China, President Xi -- I believe has been putting pressure on him also. But so far, perhaps nothing s happened and perhaps it has. This was a small missile. This was not a big missile. This was not a nuclear test, which he was expected to do three days ago. We ll see what happens. Dickerson followed up, You say, Not happy -- what does that mean I would not be happy, Mr. Trump Srtb Can Rick Perry be the GOP s Tea Party candidate
President Bush s latest hold-the-line speech about Iraq didn t surprise former advisers to his father, who know the younger Bush very well. But it did disappoint a number of them. He s firmly convinced everything is going to work out in the end, says one of George H. W. Bush s foreign-policy advisers, who is critical of the son s Iraq policies and has retained strong ties to the State Department. At some level stanley website , he wants to show that he is more macho than his dad, but the policy isn t working. Despite growing congressional and public dissatisfaction, Bush on Tuesday threatened to veto any legislation setting a date for troop withdrawal. The adviser to the elder Bush predicts that the son will continue to resist congressional calls for a pullout and will keep American troops in Iraq until he leaves office in January 2009. At that point, if things go well, he gets the credit, the adviser says. If things go badly, he says, If you had stayed the course that I set, everything would have been OK. By Kenneth T. Walsh stanley thermos mug ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth stanley cups uk -child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-bfd6ffd4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-bfd6ffd4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-bfd6ffd4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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Former Texas state Senator Wendy Davis who gained nationwide fame forher 2013 filibuster of abortion restrictions in the state Senateis setting her sights on Washington -- mounting a challenge to Republican incumbent Chip Roy in Texas 21st Congressional District. I m running to be a voice for every Texan who feels forgotten by a broken political system, said Davis in her social media rollout video Monday morning. It s time to make Washington listen. Irsquo;m proud to announce my campaign for Congress in TX-21! Irsquo;m running to be a voice for every Texan who feels forgotten by a broken political system. Itrsquo time to make Washington listen -- will you stand with me 9994; gt;gt; https://t.co/Uq5mspkToE https://t.co/NFiAXGFxs7mdash; Wendy Davis @wendydavis July 22, 2019 In the four-minute stanley cup announcement, which i stanley cup ncludes video of her abortion filibuster, Davis acknowledged her past political losses, most recently her gubernatorial campaign against Republican Greg Abbott, which she lost in a 20-point landslide. She said that she has learned, I m at my best when I m fighting for my people and even in losing, we helped shape the future. Davis captured national attention in 2013 when, as a state senator, she stood and spoke on the the floor of the T stanley website exas legislature for 13 hours to delay the passage ofsweeping new abortion restrictionsin the state.While technically neutral in primaries, Texas Democratic Party executive di Fmyj Trump proposing fee for asylum seekers at southern border
Democrats scored key victories Tuesday from New Jersey to California, sinking the candidate who Pre stanley kubek sident Bush campaigned with on election eve in the Virginia governor s race. Voters also rejected Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger s efforts to limit the power of California s Democratic leaders.Democratic Sen. Jon Corzine easily won the New Jersey governor s seat after an expensive mudslinging campaign, trouncing Republican Doug Forrester by 10 percentage points. Polls in the last week had forecast a much closer race.Democratic Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine won a solid victory in GOP-leaning Virginia, be stanley cup ating Republican Jerry Kilgore by more than 5 percentage points. Democrats crowed that Mr. Bush s election-eve rally for the former state attorney general only spurred more Kaine supporters to the polls. In California, Schwarzenegger failed in his push to rein in the Democrat-controlled Assembly. All four of his ballot measures flopped: attempts to limit the political use of union dues; cap state spending, remove legislators redistricting powers, and make teachers work five years instead of two to pass probation.Elsewhere, Texas voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on gay marriage, Maine voted to preserve the state s new gay-rights law, and GOP Mayor Michael Bloomberg easily clinched a second term in heavily Democratic New York. The White Hous stanley becher e brushed off the Democratic gubernatorial wins as races decided on state and loc

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On this Face the Nation broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan:Dr. Christos Christou, Doctors Without Borders International presidentNational Security Adviser Jake SullivanSen. Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, chair of the Senate Intelligence committeeRep. Michael McCaul, Republican of Texas, House Foreign Affairs committee chairIsaac Herzog, President of IsraelClickhere to browse full transcripts o stanley kubek f Fac the Nation. MARGARET BRENNAN: I m Margaret Brennan in Washington. And this week on Face the Nation: pressure on Israel for a cease-fire, even a humanitarian pause, increases, while the conditions inside the Gaza Strip stanley website continue to deteriorate.Israel s efforts to decimate Hamas continue, but the humanitarian situation and escalating Palestinian civilian death toll have intensified the protests around the world, as some Gazans attempt to flee the hardest-hit parts of the region. Others struggle to stay alive in areas that are under attack and running out of resources. We will have reports from the region, and we will speak with White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan stanley flask and Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Plus, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mike McCaul joins us from Tel Aviv.Then: There are some bright spots for Democrats following last week s off- year elections. Can they win on issues, despite an unpopular president Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner joins us.It s all just ahead on Face the Nation. Ozzc Pence hits Biden and makes case for Trump on third night of RNC
stanley cup becher A roundup of news, schedules, and key stories from CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:President-elect OBAMA will ring in the New Year in Hawaii as he begins to wind down his holiday vacation with his fa stanley termosar mily. Tuesday, Mr. Obama s transition office announced that he will move to stanley isolierkanne Washington over the weekend. He and his family will live in an undisclosed D.C. hotel until Jan. 15, when the Obamas will move to Blair House, across the street from the White House ndash; the traditional pre-inaugural accommodations for incoming presidents. Mr. Obama s daughters begin class at Sidwell Friends School on Monday; Mr. Obama himself will spend his time working with Congress on the stimulus package he s looking to sign after he s inaugurated on the 20th. Mr. Obama will also attend a lunch with President Bush and former Presidents Carter, Bush and Clinton at the White House next Wednesday.BLAGO AP Photo/M. Spencer Green Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday defiantly announced a replacement for Mr. Obama s vacant Senate seat: 71-year-old former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, the first African-American to win statewide office in Illinois. Senate Democrats vowed not to seat Burris when they reconvene next Tuesday; Mr. Obama agreed with them. Burris does not appear to have deep or longtime connections to Blagojevich, nor was he among the five candidates the governor and his top aide were heard discussing as potential appointees on FBI surveillance recordings, porti