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By Michael Felberbaum, Associated PressRICHMOND, Va. -- A federal judge on Tuesday denied former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell s request to remain free while he appeals his corruption convictions, which means he could begin his two-year prison sentence by Feb. 9.U.S. stanley cups uk District Judge James Spencer in Richmond denied the request, unpersuaded by arguments from McDonnell s lawye stanley cup rs before his Jan. 6 sentencing. Prosecutors had opposed the request. On Monday, McDonnell s attorneys had reiterated the request and argued that the appeal could take almost as long as the sentence itself. They also said the appeal would raise substantial questions, including whether the government s interpretation of an official act is correct.But in his Tuesday decision, Spencer said it s not a close question th stanley france at justifies release pending appeal. He also noted that he previously concluded that substantial evidence supports the jury s finding of a quid and fairly specific, related quo. And he dismissed arguments raising concerns over the jury selection process and deliberations. McDonnell found guilty in corruption trial 02:11 McDonnell s attorney, John Brownlee, expressed disappointment with the court s decision and told The Associated Press that the legal team will ask the appeals c Shrt Zoom s pandemic profits exceeded $670 million. Its federal tax payment Zilch
Senator John McCain has pulled his Straight Talk Express off the Campaign 2000 road to the White House. I am no longer an active candidate for my party s nomination for president, McCain said Thursday in Sedona, Ariz.But in his prepared remarks, McCain stopped short of endorsing his GOP rival, Texas Governor George W. Bush. A majority of Republican voters made clear that their preference for president is Governor Bush, McCain said. I respect their decision. I am suspending my campaign so that my wife Cindy and I can take some time to reflect our recent experiences and determine how we can best continue to serve the country and help bring about the changes to the practices and institution of stanley quencher our great democracy that are the purpose of our campaign, he said. Beyond that, what stood out in McCain s remarks was how little he closed the door to anything else. He clearly is negotiating for something --- he keeps saying not for Vice President, said CBS News Political Director Dotty Lynch. He wants campaign finance reform. He s going to try to see if he can move that issue during the course of the campaign. And he has some GOP delegates and a lot of ind stanley cups uk ependent voters who like that message. About whether McCain would ultimately back Bush, the Senator s campaign spokesman Howard Opinsky said on Thursday, It sounded like he said he was going to be a loyal Republican. CBS News Chief Washington stanley cup Correspondent Bob Schieffer

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CONCORD, N.H. -- New Hampshire Democrats on Tuesday nominated a former state senator who emphasized her single-mom background as governor and a gay man who worked his way up through local politics as their nominee for Congress in a key swing district.Former state Sen. Molly Kelly defeated former Portsmouth Mayor Steve Marchand to win the Democratic gubernatorial nomination and will face Republican Gov. Chris Sununu in November. Sununu, in his first term, faced no primary opposition. Molly Kelly AP Kelly said strong Democratic turnout should send a message to Sununu that voters want someone who will put the people first, not corporate special interests. A five-term senator from Harrisville, she frequently emphasized her experience as a single mother who raised three children while putting herself through college. The people of New Hampshire know that I will fight for them every single day because I und stanley cup erstand their struggles, she said in a statement Tuesday night. Chris Sununu should not underestimate me. I ve been underestimated before. Chris Pappas AP Executive Councilor Chris Pappas won an 11-way race for the Democratic nomination in the 1st vaso stanley Congressional district. Pappas, stanley taza who is openly gay, is a former state lawma Fdna Transcript: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Face the Nation, June 30, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that America s insatiable demand for illegal drugs and its inability to stop weapons from being smuggled into Mexico are fueling an alarming spike in violence along the U.S.-Mexican border.Clinton said the United States shares responsibility with Mexico for dealing with the violence and that the Obama administration will work with Mexican authorities to improve security on both sides of the border.President Barack Obama himself said Tuesday that he wanted the U.S. to do more to prevent guns and cash from illicit drug sales from flowing across the border into Mexico. But Clinton s remarks appeared more forceful in recognizing the U.S. share of the blame. In the past, particularly under the Bush administr stanley mug ation, Mexican official have complained that Washington never acknowledged the extent that the U.S. demand for drugs and weapons smuggling fuels the violence. I feel very strongly we have a co-responsibility, Clinton told reporters accompanying her to Mexico City a stanley drink bottle day after the Obama administration said it would send more money, technology and manpower to secure the Southwestern frontier and help Mexico battle the cartels. Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs stanley kaffeebecher fuels the drug trade, she said. Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians. In an i

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Socialism used to be a dirty word in American politics, but in today s Demo stanley cup cratic Party, you d hardly know it. One of the top contenders for the party s presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders, is a self-described democratic socialist. And the breakout star of the current Congress, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, ran on a democratic socialist platform to defeat top House Democrat Joe Crowley in 2018.But it isn t just lawmakers who have embraced the label. Young Americans, particularly those born after the end of the Cold War, say they want the U.S. to become more socialist. A recent Harvard Caps/Harris poll of 1,792 registered voters obtained by The Hill found 56 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds favor a mostly socialist system. The same is true of 48 percent of those aged 25 to 34. One Gallup poll last stanley cup year even found Democrats prefer socialism to capitalism.President Trump and his allies, however, are betting that most voters still aren t ready to see a socialist in the White House. In recent months, Mr. Trump has repeatedly insisted that a Democratic win in 2020 would put America on the road to socialism, a tactic that s become more noticeable during the administration s ongo stanley cup ing standoff with Venezuela s authoritarian socialist government. So, why is the idea of socialism so appealing now And, three decades after the Soviet Union s collapse, what does socialism even mean Defining socialism Socialism was likely first used Hdnl Transcript: New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Face the Nation, July 28, 2024
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta stanley taza Guest column by Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons, a CBS News contributorThe three times I have witnessed a minority win the House of Representatives, it has been through aggressive discipline and relentless combat. Newt Gingrich and John Boehner did not win their majorities by compromising with the majority, blurring the lines of distinction or giving good television interviews, and neither did Nancy Pelosi. The Democrats need a wartime general and Pelosi, who proved herself capable of assembling a team to lead her party to victory in 2006, is the best positioned to do it again. The shellacking the Democrats took in the midterm election, as the President described it in hi stanley thermosflasche s press conference last week, will require different things from the President and the House leadership. The President, needing to rebuild his credibility with the American people, must signal to the independents that he heard their discontent and will govern with a focus on the economy; and his political and communications ope stanley trinkflaschen ration must give the American people a comprehensive, compelling and consistent message about what he is doing. For too much of the last two years it has felt like the White House has been selling us oatmeal, raisins and flour when people really want to buy cookies. All of the worthwhile policies coming out of the administration were sold more like stand-alone ingredients t

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Washington mdash; A Maryland man was arrested after allegedly leaving a note threatening Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris at a house with yard signs supporting the Democratic candidates.James Dale Reed, 42, of Frederick, Maryland, faces one charge of threats against a major candidate for president and vice president, the Justice Department anno stanley cup unced Wednesday.Federal prosecutors allege Reed left the letter threatening to kidnap and kill Biden and Harris on the doorstep of a Maryland house on the morning of October 4. He was caught on a Ring door camera leaving the handwritten note, according to an affidavit filed in the federal district court in Maryland, and the resident of the house had Biden/Harris signs in their yard. This is a warning to anyone reading this letter if you are a Biden/Harris supporter you will be targeted. We have a list of homes and addresses by your election signs. We are the ones with those scary guns, We are the ones yo stanley website ur children have nightmares about, the letter said in part.The note goes on to warn that when we capture Biden, he will be severely beaten to the point of death, and included a vulgar threat to carry out a sexual assault against Harris. Then for the Grand end the [sic] both will be executed on National Television. I would prefer CNN, the letter says.The Frederick Police Department received an an stanley flask onymous tip that led them to Reed, who made a threatening statement against an Fdks Woodward: New info on Nixon confirms my views
A nonpartisan congressional study projects only modest household cost increases as a result o stanley cups uk f a Democratic proposal to limit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, contradicting claims by many Republican lawmakers that the climate legislation amounts to a huge energy tax on average Americans.The Congressional Budget Office report estimates that the proposed limits on greenhouse gases r stanley cup equired by the House bill would produce a net additional cost to the economy of $22 billion a year by 2020, or an average cost per household of $175 after various cost-saving measures included in the bill are taken into account.The poorest households actually would save $40 a year while those in the highest income category would face a net increase of $245 a year, the report estimates. The findings contrast sharply with cost projections - some as high as $3,100 per household - use by many Republicans including House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio who repeatedly has blasted the Democrat s climate legislation as economically devastating to average Americans. This analysis underscores that this legi stanley mug slation is effective and affordable, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., one of the climate bill s chief sponsors, said Monday. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., also a leading co-sponsor, compared the cost to a postage stamp a day and not the economic catastrophe suggested by the bill s opponents.The CBO study was released as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,

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President Trump has vetoed a bill Congress stanley cup passed to end U.S. military a stanley cup ssistance in the Saudi Arabia-led war in Yemen. In a break with the president, Congress voted for the first time to invoke the war powers resolution to try and stop U.S. involvement in a foreign conflict.Mr. Trump vetoed the measure Tuesday. Congress lacks the votes to override him. This resolution is an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities, endangering the lives of American citizens and brave service me stanley cup becher mbers, both today and in the future, Mr. Trump wrote in explaining his veto.Congress has grown uneasy with the president s close relationship with Saudi Arabia as he tries to further isolate Iran, a regional rival. Many lawmakers also criticized the president for not condemning Saudi Arabia for the killing of a Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi who lived in the United States and had written critically about the kingdom. Khashoggi went into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October and never came out. Intelligence agencies said Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was complicit in the killing. The ongoing civil war has caused one of the biggest humanitarian crisis on the planet. According to the United Nations, a quarter of a million Yemenis have been facing starvation. Yemen s humanitarian crisis Knnq Kerry Rolls, Edwards Folds
At a breakfast meeting with television reporters and anchors this morning, House Speaker John Boehner said he doubted President Obama would deliver substantive policy prescriptions to jumpstart the sluggish economy and deal with a looming debt crisis in his State of the Union address tonight. I m not real optimistic th stanley italia at the president will address those subjects in a way that stanley cup the American people expect him to address them...but hope remains eternal, Boehner said.The 22-year House veteran argued the president understands the nation s debt problem but lacks the will to tackle it. The biggest challenge in dealing with the president is that he never had the courage to take on his own party when it came to the kind of entitlement changes that need to occur, he said. Returning to the topic later in the conversation, Boehner added, I think he d like to deal with it. But to do the heavy lifting that needs to be done, I don t think he s got the guts to go do it. State of the Union: Act two of Obama s 2nd termThe Republican response to the State of the Union: Boon or bane Complete coverage: The State of the Union 2013 Boehner used to insist that he and Mr. Obama were personal stanley quencher ly quite friendly, but over the past year he has grown increasingly comfortable criticizing the president s leadership style and priorities. Asked about bipartisan immigration reform legislation being crafted in the House and Senate, Boehner said, The thing I

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LOS ANGELES -- A clinical psychologist who made headlines for sending a gift-wrapped box containing horse manure to the Bel Air home of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he s proud of his prank. CBS Los Angeles reports the incident caused the LAPD s bomb squad to shut down the re botella stanley sident stanley cup ial street, and it warranted a surprise visit from the Secret Service. One thing leads to another. You re having a couple of drinks and you re like let s do this, Dr. Robert Strong said.Strong, who works with the County of Los Angeles Department of Mental Health, explained that it was intended as a gesture of protest against the GOP s$1.5 t stanley bottles rillion tax overhaul, which was signed into law by President Trump on Friday. Strong said he agrees with critics who believe the policy favors the rich at the expense of the poor and working class. I was talking to a friend about the tax bill and we were both complaining about how it s total horse s***, Strong said. And one of our friends who happens to be there owns horses. According to CBS Los Angeles, Strong went to a horse ranch in Sylmar, packed up some horse manure and dropped it off at the address in Bel Air. Clinical psychologist Dr. Robert Strong says the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul motivated him to carry out the prank. CBS Los Angeles Wrapped it up Christmas-style. Wanted it to be nice and festiv Ncte Unemployment claims rise to 240,000, highest since August
AP WASHINGTON - The top commander in Afghanistan said Thursday that the United States will still need a substantial military presence in the country in 2013 despite the increasing clamor for an accelerated American drawdown after more than a decade of war. My opinion is th stanley cup at we will need significant combat power in 2013, Marine Gen. John Allen told the Senate Armed Services Committee.Pressed by the panel s top Republican, John McCain, on whether a force of 68,000 would be sufficient, Allen said, Sixty-eight thousand is a good going-in number, but I owe the president some analysis on that. Death penalty for Staff Sgt. Bales Not likelyGen. Allen: No changes to Afghanistan withdrawal dateNew adviser teams key to US exit from AfghanistanPresident Obama faces increasing political and public pressure to accelerate the timetable after more than a decade of war and recent incidents that dealt a major setback to the fragile U.S.-Afghanistan relationship, including Afghan outrage stanley website over the burnings of Qurans and a shooting spree that left 17 Afghan civilians dead. Those two events have been blamed on Americans. Allen said the United States is on track to reduce the 23,000-member surge force by the end of September, but he said he won t make his recommendation on the pace of further reductions until the vaso stanley last three months of the year - an announcement likely to come after Election Day.He defended that approach under questioning from Armed Servic

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Following thelandmark convictionof former President Donald Trump in the hush money trial in New York, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday expressed his gratitude to the jury and said he did his job.A jury of 12 New Yorkers found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election. The verdict, handed down following a six-week trial, is historic, as it makes Trump the first former president to be convicted of a crime.Bragg didn t weigh in on whether he will ask the judge for a prison sentence, saying his team will speak instead in court filings. Trump isset to be sentenced July 11, just four days before the start of the Republican National Convention where he is poised to receive the party s nomination for president. While this defendant may be unlike any other in American history, we arrived at this trial and ultimately today at this verdict in the same manner as every other case that comes through the courtroom doors, Bragg said.Prosecutors alleged that Trump authorized a plan to falsify checks and related records in an a stanley cup ttempt to keep voters from learning about an alleg stanley website ed sexual encounter with Daniels in 2006. The former president had pleaded not guilty to all counts and stanley tumblers told reporters after the verdict was read thatthe trial was rigged and the case was a disgrace. Bragg began his rem Jifr Giuliani s Big Book Deal
Texas Redistricting Map Mark Gersh is president of NCEC Services Inc., and a CBS News Consultant. Redistricting Journal is a regular Hotsheet series on stanley quencher redistricting battles across the country.Texas was the big winner in the new Congre stanley botella ssional allocations: its congressional delegation, already the second largest in the nation, will expan stanley cup d by 4 seats from 32 to 36, thanks to its 20.6% population growth over the past 10 years. In the rest of the country only Florida was the beneficiary of 2 seats, with Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington each gaining 1. Within the lone star state, now a partisan and demographic battle has been joined as to how to allocate the 4 new seats. The initial attempt has angered a large contingent of Latino Americans. And the Justice Department, in a Monday filing, alleged the Texas congressional map fails to meet the Voting Rights Act mandated standard that minorities must be able to maintain or increase their prospects of electing of a candidate of their choice. Here s an explainer, and the implications: 89 percent of the state s population growth has been non-white, with Hispanic population growing from 32 percent to 37.6 percent of the total. When all non-white ethnicities are taken into account, Texas is now a majority-minority state. So one leading question is how many districts ought to be majority-Hispanic. As in most states redistricting involves b

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Washington mdash; After U.S. fighter jets shot down athird high-altitude objectover Canada on Saturday, lawmakers from both parties are calling on the Biden administration to provide more details about that object and two others that have been downed over the la stanley cup st eight days.Like the other incidents before it, the most recent downing of what was described as an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace prompted the scrambling of U.S. fighter jets and led to more questions about the unusual activity happening in the sky, and what can be done in response to the potential incursions into the national airspace.The object taken down over the Yukon on Saturday came a day after a high-altitude object the size of a small car was shot down over Alaska, and a week after the U.S. military downed a Chinese surveillance balloon off the South Carolina coast. The Federal Aviation Administration also temporarily closed some airspace in Montana af stanley becher ter the North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD detected a radar anomaly and sent fighter aircraft to investigate. NORAD said the jet did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits. But on Sunday, Montana Sen. Jon Tester said an investigation is ongoing and there may still be something out there, [or] it may be a false alarm. What s gone on the last two weeks o stanley cup r so, 10 days, has been nothing short of craziness, Tester said in an interview with Face the Nation. And Oicb Big Labor Chief: Anybody But Bush
AP President Obama Thursday afternoon publicly called for the intelligence community to do better in the wake of the Christmas Day bombin stanley cup g attempt. In the process, he offered a respon stanley botella se to critics on the right who have complained that he has not used rhetoric indicat stanley en mexico ing the seriousness of the situation. While passions and politics can often obscure the hard work before us, let s be clear about what this moment demands, the president said. We are at war. We are at war against al Qaeda, a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9/11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people, and that is plotting to strike us again, he continued. And we will do whatever it takes to defeat them. Special Report: The Christmas Day Terror Attack The president said America has made progress in that war, having inflicted major blows against al Qaeda leaders. He said we have disrupted plots at home and abroad and saved American lives. He then reached out to the Muslim world, as he has in the past. We know that the vast majority of Muslims reject al Qaeda, he said. But it is clear that al Qaeda increasingly seeks to recruit individuals without known terrorist affiliations, not just in the Middle East but in Africa and other places, to do their bidding. Summary of White House ReviewDirective from President ObamaWatch CBS News Videos OnlineHe said that is the reason he has directed intelligence officials to develop a ne

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It s exceptionally rare to hear Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, praise anything done by someone associated with President Obama or his administration. But First Lady Michelle Obama got a very public thumbs up from Cruz on Twitter for not wearing a head scarf this week when she and Mr. Obama visited Saudi Arabia for a condolence visit following the death of King Abdullah. Kudos to @FLOTUS for standing up for women refusing to wear Sharia-mandated head-scarf in Saudi Arabia. Nicely done http://t.co/TlSw4Qc9KQmdash; Ted Cruz @tedcruz January 28, 2015 As it turns out, Cruz might have saved his praise for something a little less run-of-the-mill. For a female American official to skip a head scarf is, as it turns out, not only insignificant -- it s the way they are expected to dress. I ve never known an official American female to cover in Saudi Arabia, Jon Alterman, the director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, tol stanley cups d CBS News. It feels like this is people discovering what has been true for quite a long time. In fact, if anything, Alterman says there s pressure on A stanley cup me stanley website rican women traveling to Saudi Arabia on official business to let their hair be seen. Even if people don t mind covering, they would make it harder for women who do mind covering he explained. They feel it s important to maintain the right of other women not to cover. First lady Laura Bush has tea with Saud Cdfo Dem Rep. reports death threats over gun bill
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Following a period of much thought and prayer, embattled Rep. Vance McAllister on Monday announced he has decided to go ahead with his reelection bid, despite surveillance footage that surfaced in April exposing his lengthy liplock with a married staffer. This district has been home to me and my family all of my life, the Louisiana Republican said in a statement. I know the needs of this congressional district very well. I also know that this district needs a strong, conservative voice in Congress. I plan to continue to stand up for our veterans, bring common sense solutions to our nation s problems and most importantly I will fight to get our fiscal house stanley cups uk back in order. In security camera video obtained by a local newspaper, McAllister - who ahead of his election last fall ran multiple campaign ads plugging his faith and family - is seen kissing and embracing his then-scheduler for about 20 seconds at his Monroe district office. Amid calls for him to step down from political heavyweights like Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-L stanley mugs a., and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., McAllister in the wake of the scandal said he would not seek reelection. He recently began to suggest an about-face, though, amid poll numbers that showed him leading a potential field in November. McAllister told the local News-Star newspaper he doesn t expect to broach the controversy during his campaign: I ve publicly apologized to the people in the 5th District stanley cups and mo Yxtv A James Comey timeline
He s lost 110 pounds, written the book on middle-age healthcare, and even teamed with old foe Bill Clinton to urge kids off Coke and Big Macs, but the truth is bacon still rules outgoing Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee s life. The proof is in the pudding, or at least the casserole. It s right there in full living color on his Farewell Arkansas card we got in the mail, probably one of the neatest political cards we ve ever received. It unfolds to show the state capitol, a family portrait, a message from the guv, and his wife s recipe for green bean bundles: stanley canada two cans of green beans, one pound of bacon, one cup of brown sugar, a quarter cup of butter, and three teaspoons of garlic salt. From his picture, it s clear the guv st stanley sverige icks to the beans but, um, his boys apparently haven t gotten the message of Huckabee s book, Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork: A 12-Step Program to End Bad Habits and Begin a Healthy Lifestyle.But enough snarking. The likely 2008 GOP presidential candidate also did something nice to one of our own this week, U.S. News contributor Suzi Parker, who s based in Little Rock. Her dad is ailing, and the guv phoned her. He called me to see how my dad was, she says. Arkansas is a small state. And while he wa stanley mug s on the phone he even dropped a newsy nugget: Since his high school days, he has accumulated hundreds and hundreds of books, including an extensive theological library from his college and seminary days and many years as a pastor. Since becoming

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In an event welcoming Montenegro to NATO on Monday, a State Department official reiterated that the U.S. remains committed to the alliance s founding principle of collective defense. Montenegro s accession sends a strong message of strength to the region and makes clear to our allies that the U.S. remains as committed as ever to the principle of collective defense as enshrined in Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, said State Department Under Secretary Tom Shannon in Washington, D.C., as he welcomed Montenegro into NATO as stanley cup its 29th member country.In a trip to NATO headquarters in Brussels last month, President Trump was expected to reassure European allies that he supported Article 5, whi stanley vaso ch stipulates that an attack on one NATO country is an attack on all of the stanley thermos m. Ultimately, however, Mr. Trump did not mention Article 5, and spent most of his speech discussing how many NATO members did not spend enough on defense. Trump uses London terror attack to push for tougher travel ban 08:43 Article 5 has only been triggered once -- after the 9/11 attacks. Days after Mr. Trump s speech, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Europe must prepare to take its fate into its own hands and intimated that it could no longer depend on the U.S. Shannon, who was joined by Hhjm House Armed Services chairman says military funding should not be spent on wall
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