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San Francisco could become the largest U.S. city to ban the sale of fur, a move that would hearten animal lovers but frustrate niche business owners who say they are fed up with city officials dictating what retailers can or can t sell.If the Board of Supervisors approves the ban Tuesday, San Francisco would join two other California cities, West Hollywood and Berkeley, in saying no to a symbol stanley water bottle of glamour that animal advocates say is built on cruelty and does not reflect the city s values.San Francisco has a strong social conscience, often at a cost to businesses. Its board banned the sale of menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco, which voters will consider in June, and prohibited performances by exotic animals. In 2016, San Francisco approved what was then a groundbreaking paid parental leave law, requiring private employers to offe botella stanley r six weeks of fully paid leave. If passed, the fur ban would go into effect Jan. 1 and apply to coats and anything else featuring real fur, including key chains and gloves. I hope that it inspires other cities and the country to take action. Certainly we nee stanley vaso d better federal regulations on fur farming, said Katy Tang, the supervisor pushing the legislation and avid animal lover. There s no humane way to raise an animal to peel its skin off. Some of the tourists who pack downtown San Francisco hotels shop at upscale department stores that crowd Union Square, such as Neiman Marcus and Saks Fif Eqwx Clinton Turns Tables, Calls Obama the Establishment Candidate
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Thursday that Larry Craig s conduct was disappointing and disgraceful, but stopped short of calling for the Idaho Republican to resign from the Senate.Several Repub stanley water jug lican lawmakers, including Romney s presidential rival John McCain, have said the three-term senator should step down. The 62-year-old Craig pleaded guilty earlier this month to a charge stemming from an undercover police operation last June in a Minneapolis airport bathroom.Craig said Tuesday he had committed no wrongdoing and shouldn t have pleaded guilty. He also said he was not gay. Campaigning in South Carolina, Romney was asked by a voter why Republicans were distancing themselves from Craig. I think it s appropriate when there s been conduct that we think is disappointing and disgraceful to indicate that. I don t think there s a responsibility to try to gild the lily in a setting like this, said the former Massachusetts governor. I think individuals across the country expect us to have the same expression that they feel, stanley cup which is disappointment. Later, Romney said he would not tell Craig what to do. I expressed my view that his conduct was disappointing, disgraceful, and at this stage, he has a decision of his own t stanley thermos o make about his future. I m not going to insert myself between him and his conscience, Romney said during a stop in North Charleston.Craig was Senate liaison for Romney s campaign, a post he aband
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While President Trump c stanley cups ampaigns for Republicans in the Midwest, he continues to refute two accounts that similarly portray a White House in chaos, with aides steadily working against his desires. The question of whether he ll talk with the special counsel has been the subject of conflicting reporting stanley bottles , but asked directly in about whether he ll answer any of Robert Mueller s questions, the president demurred.During an interview with Fox News Pete Hegseth, Mr. Trump again referred to the anonymous New York Times op-ed that detailed a silent resistance in his White House as treason, and he speculated about the identity of the person who wrote it. It s treason, you could call it a lot of things, he said, in the interview that aired on Fox Friends Friday morning. The president is frustrated by the anonymity of the author, who wrote that there is a quiet resistance to the president within his own administration working diligently to block his worst inclinations. What s unfair, I don t mind when they write a book and they make lies because it gets discredited, Mr. Trump said, but it s more difficult when somebody writes and you can t discredit bec stanley cup ause you have no idea who they are. Mr. Trump gave no indication that he was close to identifying the author, musing that it may be a deep state person who s been there a long time or perhaps one of many, many people who can be designated as a senior administration official, which Getb Myers: U.S. Military Under Strain
Surging revenues and a steady economy have led the White House to project that this year s f stanley thermoskannen ederal budget deficit will drop to $333 billion, nearly $100 billion below earlier estimates.The White House welcomed the developments, calling the improving deficit picture a vindication of President Bush s stewardship of the economy and budget. The nation s budget picture has stanley taza improved dramatically, said the new White House report. Due in large part to tax relief, the economy is strengthening and the growing economy is producing the tax receipts necessary to cut the deficit far faster than was forecast just five months ago. Just last February, the White House predicted a $427 billion deficit for the budget year ending Sept. 30 and red ink totaling $1.1 trillion over five years. The five-year deficit improvement would total $326 billion.Last year s deficit of $412 billion was a record in dollar terms, though many previous deficits in the mid-1980s and early 1990s were larger when mea stanley us sured against the size of the economy. The new estimates reflect significant improvement in revenues, which are so far coming in at levels 15 percent higher than last year.The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office also sees improvement in the deficit. It said last week that the deficit for this year could dip below $325 billion. CBO s official update will be released next month.Despite the improvement, the deficit picture remains far worse than when Mr. Bus
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The Obama administrat stanley termoska ion is relying on the co stanley cup nsulting firm Accenture to lead the continued construction and maintenance of HealthCare.gov, but the giant company has a history of performance issues and questionable ethical practices. Last year, for instance, Accenture was hired by the state of North Carolina to streamline the computer program for its food stamp program. However, the program worked so poorly that it led to a major backlog of food stamp distribution.The faulty North Carolina program is just one example of the firmrsquo problems laid stanley taza out in a Washington Post report. In spite of its troubled past, the administration granted Accenture a contract worth around $90 million to fix the glitchy Obamacare website.Obamacare rules tweaked amid complaints about plan flexibility22,000 file appeals with Obamacare site, report saysIn depth: Obamacare kicks offAs the Post notes, the U.S. Postal Service Inspector Generalrsquo Office warned the Post Office against using Accenture as recently as last June. The IGrsquo office recommended the Post Office consider terminating its more than $200 million in contracts with Accenture. Accenturersquo involvement in several improper contracting practices creates an immediate risk of future fraud and abuse in Postal Service contracts, deputy assistant inspector general Michael Magalski wrote in a memo. The supplier has demonstrated an absence of business ethics, a lack o Emnc Sarah Palin s Refudiate Named Word of the Year
This story was written by Devin Banerjee, The Stanford DailyPsychiatry Prof. and Department Chair Alan Schatzberg has stepped down from his position as principal investigator on a federal research grant, following what has now been six months of Congressional scrutiny regarding the professors financial ties to the drug industry. The move deemed temporary by Stanfor stanley thermobecher d officials comes after half a year of communications between the University and Sen. Chuck Grassley R-IA , who has been unearthing details of Schatzbergs financial relationship with Corcept Therapeutics, a public company specializing in depression treatment. stanley taza Schatzberg co-founded Corcept in 1998 and now owns more than $6 million in the companys stock. Schatzberg, who is also the president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, served as principal investigator of research that was being funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health NIH . The research centered on the biology of psychotic depression involved the drug mifepristone, which has been used since 1988 to induce abortions but has recently been tested by Corcept as an anti-depressant. In a July 31 letter from Grassley to University President John Hennessy, Grassley noted a potential conflict of stanley thermos interest between the professors research on mifepristone and his equity in Corcept. This equity could grow dramatically if the results of Dr. Schatzbergs government-spon
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The Senate is slated to go on recess for the rest of August on Thursday and not return to Washington until early September. The Senate Press Gallery tweeted that the votes the upper chamber took Thursday afternoon were the last of the day and of the month. These were the last votes expected for the week and month in the Senate. https://t.co/bimU859EWOmdash; Senate Press Gallery @SenatePress August 3, 2017 An aide to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said leadership still needs to nail down some nominations, but th stanley flasche ey almost certainly likely to leave by the end of Thursday. Before the announcement, the Senate overwhelmingly passed the FDA User Fee bill, 94-1. Sen. Bernie Sanders, stanley tumbler I-Vermont, stanley cup was the lone Senator who voted against the bill. The House passed the legislation on July 12 by voice vote. It now goes to the White House for the President s signature. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Arizona, announced at the height of the Obamacare repeal drama that the Senate would remain in session for the first two weeks of August to tackle its unfinished agenda. President Trump called on the Senate not to leave without passing a plan to repeal and replace the 2010 health care law.Commentary: Donald Trump s ceremonial presidencyThe upper chamber is leaving with no repeal of Obamacare, no plan to overhaul the tax code, no plan to fund the government and no official plan to raise the debt ceiling, with the deadlin Qajr Mike Huckabee s RNC Address
This story was written by Divya Subrahmanyam, Yale Daily NewsThis election cycle, members of the student group stanley cup Yale for Change spent countless hours traveling to battleground states, phone-banking and door-knocking for Sen. Barack Obama. Their efforts appeared to pay off on Election Day as voter turnout soared nationwide and the Democratic presidential nominee won the presidency.But according to a model developed by Yale professors to assess the effectiveness of campaign techniques, their tens of thousands of phone calls made and doorbells rung probably spurred no more than a few hundred extra voters to go to the polls.As many as 11 million more Americans voted Nov. 4 than in the stanley cup website 2004 presidential election, according to stanley canada data compiled by the United States Elections Project at George Mason University. But based on a 2002 study on get out the vote efforts by Yale political science professors Donald Green and Alan Gerber and then-postdoctoral associate David Nickerson, Yale for Changes efforts may not have accounted for more than about 430 of those 11 million new voters.In the study, the three professors carried out a series of door-to-door canvassing experiments in six American cities, from Bridgeport to St. Paul, Minn. The professors found that during a local election, each face-to-face contact with a voter increased his or her chance of voting by seven percent. Their results also suggested that every 12 face-to-face contacts garner one additional vote.Although the study was do
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Washington mdash; President Trump will make a prime-time address Tuesday night from the Oval Office about border security, as the partial government shutdown over his border wall continues into its third week. It will be his first prime time address from the Oval Office.CBS News will air the president s address, scheduled for 9 p.m. ET.The president s remarks will run no longer than eight minutes, according to the White House. Mr. Trump is expected to address the partial shutdown, the border crisis and the deadline for federal workers paych stanley bottles ecks. The White House is asking for $5.7 billion for the president s border wall, but Democrats have already indicated they won t give him funding for stanley uk his border wall.Soon after networks announced they will air the president s address, Democrats said they should be given equal air time. stanley vaso Now that the television networks have decided to air the president s address, which if his past statements are any indication will be full of malice and misinformation, Democrats must immediately be given equal airtime, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a joint statement.Mr. Trump will also be visiting the southern border Friday, as he tries to make the case for his border wall.The president is considering declaring a national emergency to free up funding for his wall, if Congress can t reach an agreement, Vice President Mike Pence told reporters Monday. But he hasn t Wquy Biden says absolutely, positively, without question voter suppression is ongoing
AP Rep. John Murtha s death yesterday was sobering news for his Democratic colleagues. It also leaves the party with one less vote for their health care legislation in the House and a possibly fierce fight to hold onto Pennsylvania s 12th district.Once a congressional vacancy is declared, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has 10 days to choose a date for a special election, according to state law. The election can be no sooner than 60 days after that proclamation. Given those constraints, Rendell will probably choose to hold the special election to replace Murtha on May 18, the Washington Post reports. The state is already holding federal primaries on that date.While Murtha hardly had any trouble in his re-election campaigns, his stanley cup seat could very well go t stanley cup price o a Republican this spring. His district was the only one in the country that voted for Democrat John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election but voted for Republican John McCain in 2008, according to the Post.The Cook Political Report, a respected, nonpartisan newsletter, now calls the distr stanley thermobecher ict a toss up. House Democrats have a five-to-one cash on hand advantage over Republicans, the Wall Street Journal notes, though they have yet to name a candidate. Politico reports that local Democratic leaders may favor state Sen. John Wozniak for the special election. Two Republicans, 2008 nominee Bill Russell and businessman Tim Burns, were already interested in challenging Murtha and may run in the
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House Democrats stanley cup are moving forward with two articles of impeachment against Preside stanley flask nt Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, multiple Democrats familiar with the proceedings tell CBS News.Democratic committee chairmen are expected to unveil the articles at a press conference Tuesday morning. The news comes after the Ho stanley botella use Judiciary Committee held a hearingMonday where the counsels from the House Intelligence Committee presented its findings in its impeachment inquiry investigation.Democrats allege Mr. Trump abused his power by seeking to leverage a White House meeting and nearly $400 million in security assistance for Ukraine to force the country s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to announce an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and the 2016 election. They have also criticized the Trump administration for blocking all subpoenas and documents related to the inquiry across the executive branch, arguing the president is seeking to stonewall legitimate congressional oversight. Democrats and Republicans clash in hearing as impeachment vote looms 02:19 House Republicans remain uniformly opposed to impeachment, arguing that Mr. Trump was merely concerned about corruption in Ukraine and pointing out that the security assistance was eventuall Nexc Gabrielle Giffords big factor in Arizona election
This story was written by John Bresnahan and Ma stanley cup website nu Raju.By elevating Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to their top spot on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republicans have selected their chief inquisitor for President Barack Obama s first Supreme Court nominee: a Southern, white conservative man who has drawn fire for racially insensitive comments in the past. Democrats like how this is looking. Sessions will help galvanize and crystallize why we need a filib stanley thermos mug uster-proof majority in the Senate, a Democratic senator, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told POLITICO Tuesday. Sessions, who easily won reelection to a third term in November, wins praise from both Democrats and Republicans for his cordiality and integrity in his dealings with them. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy D-Vt. notes that Sessions was one of the few Republicans to support Eric Holder s nomination as the nation s first African-American attorney general. But in the wake of back-to-back wave election losses, Republicans have stressed the need to broaden their base of support. Democrats, on the other hand, would like nothing more than to cemen stanley cup t the notion that the GOP is a regional party dominated by white Southern men. With Sessions leading the Republican charge in the coming confirmation hearings, Democrats will have one more way to make that case. What may play in parts of Alabama may not play in other parts of the country as the manifestation o
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stanley cup WASHINGTON -- President Trump is hosting French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House and at the top of their agenda is the future of the Iran nuclear deal, which Mr. Trump has threatened to scrap. As the two presidents met Tuesday, Mr. Trump had a warning for Iran. They re not gonna be restarting anything, Mr. Trump said.He was referring to a threat by Iran s foreign minister Sunday on Face the Nation with moderator Margaret Brennan. Brennan asked Mohammad Javad Zarif if he was ready to restart the nuclear program if Mr. Trump puts sanctions back on Iran even if the rest of the worl stanley cup d says not to do it. Obviously the rest of the world cannot ask us to unilaterally and one sidedly implement a deal that has already been broken, Zarif said. Foreign Minister Zarif says Iran ready to resume nuke program if the U.S. leaves deal 07:10 They restart their nuclear problem, they will have bigger problems than they have ever had before, Mr. Trump reiterated. It s a tough issue for Macron who s trying to persuade Mr. Trump to stay in the deal, arguing there is no plan b for stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons.After meeting with Macron, stanley flask Mr. Trump seemed open to a possible compromise being worked out by European allies. There is a chance, and n Cvzr Jimmy Kimmel zings critics of his health care plea as he returns to late-night TV
Amid a handful of allegations that threaten to mar his reputation in the Senate, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., continues to maintain his innocence, decrying the accusations as right-wing attempts to destroy his career and invoking the words of Martin Luther King Jr. in asserting his faith that justice will win out. Menendez, who was stanley cup re-elected to his seat in November, has since been hit with allegations that he solicited prostitutes in the Dominican Republic, where prostitution is legal. The FBI is looking into the claims. The allegations were originally reported by a stanley termoska conservative website citing an anonymous source. Scandal drags d stanley cup own Menendez s approval ratingFBI investigating prostitution claims against Sen. MenendezMenendez has also been accused of improperly lobbying the State Department on a port security contract on behalf of Dr. Salomon Melgen, a close friend and donor. Menendez recently reimbursed Melgen $58,000 for two of three trips he took on Melgen s plane to the Dominican Republic in 2010, but called the tardy reimbursement an honest oversight and says the allegations against him are absolutely false. The Senate Ethics Committee is investigating Menendez regarding those trips. Melgen himself is the target of more than one federal investigation stemming from allegations of Medicare fraud. This weekend, at an event celebrating Black History Month at Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton, N.J., the senator answered the ac
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Twitter has suspended the accounts of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell for sharing posts about the web ofconspiracy theoriesknown asQAnon. We ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has stanley cup the potential to lead to offline h stanley cup arm, and given the renewed potential for violence surrounding this type of behavior in the coming days, we will permanently suspend accounts that are solely dedicated to sharing QAnon content, Twitter said in a statem stanley canada ent to CBS News.A short time later, Twitter permanently suspended President Trump s own account due to the risk of further incitement of violence. That followed a 12-hours freezeearlier in the week after he posted a video where he appeared to sympathize with protesters who rampaged through the Capitol and repeated false claims about the election. QAnon followers believe a nefarious group of global elites, including Hollywood celebrities and Democratic politicians, are engaged in a satanic child trafficking operation, and that only President Trump can defeat them. Critics have likened QAnon to anapocalypticreligiouscult, and theFBI has warnedof the growing threat of violence from conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists including QAnon.Many Trump supporters at his rally Wednesday were seen wearing or waving the Q symbol, as were members of the mob that attacked the Capitol that afternoon. Frjs Wall Street s campaign contributions are flowing mostly to Democrats
CBS In a press conference at Northern Michigan University Friday, Rep. Bart Stupak D-Mich. formally announced his decision to not seek re-election.Stupak has come under increased scrutiny recently as a result of his vote for the Democrats health care bill last month. The congressman, a staunch opponent of abortion rights, was the main architect of a deal with the White House over an executive order that guarantees that taxpayer dollars will not be used to fund abortions.Following his vote, he has seen opposition aris stanley mug e from both the termo stanley left and the right. He also has been on the receiving end of a barrage of threatening messages, including death threats. Nonetheless, Stupak insisted that his decision was not politically motivated and that he has been mulling retirement for at least the past 6 years. But, in each of the past several stanley thermoskannen election cycles, I chose to continue to serve the people of the First District, because I felt we still had work to do, Stupak said.Stupak also downplayed the role of the threatening phone calls to his office, as the vast majority of callers were from outside of the state. You just ignore it and move on, he noted. Now that comprehensive health care reform has been accomplished, Stupak said he believed the time was right to move on. When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality health care a right, not a pr
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Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan faced a House panel Tuesday to discuss the bank s record of consumer abusesHouse Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters told Sloan the banking giant is too big to manage Sloan told lawmakers Wells is a changed company and wants to prevent harm Bank regulators continue to question the bank s corporate governanceTim Sloan faced skeptical lawmakers Tuesday as the Wells Fargo CEO argued he remains the right person to lead the scandal-stained bank. It s my job as CEO to m stanley mug ake sure th stanley cup ings change, and they are changing, he said before a House panel convened to examine the company s record of consumer abuses.Sloan remained calm despite being grilled by members of the House Financial Services Committee, chaired by California Democrat Maxine Waters, who is among the lawmakers looking to increase oversight of large banks. After citing a litany of Wells Fargo s abusive practices, Waters told Sloan this conduct appears to persist. Waters, a noted critic of Wall Street, also said the bank s ongoing lawlessness and its failure to reform suggests it is too big to manage. The lawmaker pointed to a New York Timesstorypublished Saturday that out stanley france lined how Wells workers remain under pressure to squeeze extra cash from customers, with rules reportedly bent or broken to meet performance goals. North Carolina Republican Patrick McHenry also cited the Times article, asking Sloan if he could ensure that the bank would no longer h Sqer Democratic Sen. Bob Casey says of Austin s initial silence on hospitalization there s no way it s acceptable mdash; The Takeout
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Washington mdash; The Pentagon will rush about $300 million in weapons to Ukraine after finding some cost savings in its contracts, even though the military remains deeply overdrawn and needs at least $10 billion to replenish all the weapons it has pulled from its stocks to help Kyiv in its desperate fight against Russia, senior U.S. officials said Tuesday. It s the Pentagon s first announced security package for Ukraine since December, when it acknowledged it was out of replenishment funds. It wasn t until recent days that officials publicly acknowledged they weren t just out of replenishment funds, but $10 billion ove stanley cup rdrawn. The replenishment funds have allowed the Pentagon to pull existing munitions, air defense systems and other weapons from its reserve inventories under stanley cups presidential drawdown authority, or PDA, to send to Ukraine and then put contracts on order to replace those weapons. National security adviser Jake Sullivan announced the new package at the White House press briefing and said it consists of artillery rounds to help Ukraine repel Russian advances. stanley cup Ukrainian troops running low on supplies amid military aid holdup 02:09 One of the senior defense officials who briefed reporters said the package represented a one-time shot mdash; unless Co Lwvc Poll: After San Bernardino attacks, American concern about terror threat rises
CBS From CBS News John Bentley: John McCain met with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, today in Aspen, Colorado, as a way to show solidarity with the Tibetan spiritual leader in seeking autonomy from China. The Dalai Lama has time and again emphasized that he asked only that the Tibetan people are provided with basic rights to preserve their culture, language and religious beliefs, McCain said. I urge the Chinese leaders to engage in talk stanley canada s and make progress with his Holiness representatives in addressing the just grievances of the Tibeta stanley cup n people. I urge the Chinese government to release Tibetan political prisoners, account for Tibetans that have, quote, disappeared since the protests in March and engage in meaningful dialogue and genuine autonomy for Tibet. With the Beijing Olympics less than a month away, McCain sought to put pressure on the Chinese government to improve its record on human rights. The United States welcomes good relations with China, but it does no service to the Chinese government and certainly no service to the people of China for the United States and other Democracies to pretend that the suppression of rights in China does not concern us, he said. It does, will, and must concern us. The Dalai Lama referred to McCain as his old friend, but made it clear he was not endorsing him. This time my visit is non-political, the Dalai Lama stanley cup said. He [is] showing genuine concern about the democracy and human rights and religious freedom and environm
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