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Washingt stanley cup on mdash; Former Congresswoman Katie Hill, a Democrat from California who resigned amid allegations of sexual relationships with two members of her staff, called on Congressman Matt Gaetz, a Republican from Florida, to step down from Congress if allegations of sexual misconduct against him are found to be true.In an op-ed for Vanity Fair published Monday, Hill, who developed a friendship with Gaetz during their time in the House together, called the claims against the Florida congressman morally reprehensible and unacceptable for a lawmaker. Gaetz is facing allegations of a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl and is reportedly under investigation by the Justice Department for potential violations of sex trafficking laws. A CNN report also claims he showed other lawmakers photos and videos of nude women, including while on the House floor. If there is even a fraction of truth to these reports, he should resign immediately, Hill wrote.But Gaetz has denied the allegations against him and instead claims he and his family are the victims of an attempted extortion, which was reported to the FBI. In an op-ed in the Washington Examiner on Monday, the Florida Republican said he is absolutely not resigning. My lifestyle of yesteryear may be different from how I live now, but it was not and is not stanley thermos mug illegal, he said.Gaetz also noted he defended Hill when her own Democratic colleagues wouldn t. H stanley mug ill resigned her seat in Xage John Kerry asks Feinstein to delay release of CIA torture report
In the latest squabble between Vice President Joe Biden and the press, the vice president s office this week ended up apologizing to a student reporter who was forced to delete pictures taken at a public event.Jeremy Barr, a studen stanley en mexico t reporter from the University of Maryland, College Park, snapped a few pictures of the vice president on Wednesday, at a Maryland event where Biden unveiled a new domestic violence initiative. Barr stanley cup , however, was mistakenly sitting in an area designated for the public, not the press.After the event, a staffer demanded Barr delete the photos on his camera in front of her, Barr told Capital News Service, the university news outlet. The staffer reportedly told Barr he had an unfair advantage over the other media because of his spot in the non-press section of the audience. Lucy Dalglish, dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, filed a letter of complaint with the vice president s office, noting that the staffer s demands not only violated fundamental tenets stanley cup of freedom of press freedom, but directly violated the law set forth in the Privacy Protection Act. Rockville is not a third-world country where police-state style media censorship is expected, she added. Biden is now telling what it s like Being Biden Biden to Vatican for installation of new pope Dalglish told Capital News Service that Biden s press secretary Kendra Barkoff promptly called her, as

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Donald Trump always has something to say on Twitter, but now, asupporterrsquo tweet is creating outrage.It shows an image of Hillary Clinton in bla stanley cup stanley quencher ckface, at a time when Trump is reaching out to minority groups. Now, the top African American adviser to Trump is apologizing for posting the racially offensive cartoon of Clinton, undercutting any serious Trump effort to appeal t stanley mugs o African-American voters, reports CBS News correspondent Major Garrett.In Atlanta Monday night, supporters defended Donald Trump. I know Donald Trump. He does not look down on anybody, he is not racist at all,2012 Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain told a crowd at theCobb Galleria Centre.This came just hours after Trump loyalist Pastor Mark Burns posted a tweet depicting Hillary Clinton in blackface and accusing her of pandering to African American voters. Pastor Mark Burnrsquo controversial cartoon of Hillary Clinton Itrsquo not racist to be proud to be an American, Burns told a rally in Jackson, Mississippi. Burns -- a frequent warm-up act for Trump -- at first said he did no wrong.The picture is designed to dodraw attention to the very fact that Hillary Clinton do pander after black groups,after black people, Burns told MSNBC.But later, Burns deleted the tweet, apologizing for the imagery,saying, I regret the offensiveness of the black face, but Gtov Vivek Ramaswamy s political director leaving to join Trump campaign
President Bush s nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, Wall Street investment banker William H. Donaldson, is facing Senate scrutiny before he can take on the job of rebuilding investor confidence shattered by last year s corporate scandals. stanley becher Donaldson, a former New York Stock Exchange chairman and Bush family friend, was designated mdash; with newly installed Treasury Secretary John Snow mdash; a member of the president s revamped economic team. He was appearing at his confirmation hearing stanley portugal Wednesday before the Senate Banking Committee.The SEC, straining under a heavy load of investigations of corporate fraud and accounting deception, has been led since early November by a lame-duck chairman, Harvey Pitt. The Bush administration s f stanley thermobecher irst SEC head resigned under fire after a series of political fumbles, culminating in a flap over his selection of former FBI Director William Webster to head a new board overseeing the accounting industry. Webster also resigned. This is the landscape confronting Donaldson: Once-mighty accounting firm Arthur Andersen is a smoldering ruin after an obstruction of justice conviction; its longtime client Enron Corp. led a parade of corporate bankruptcies, scandals and handcuffed CEOs; retirement savings have dissolved and the stock market has plunged.When Mr. Bush named him in December, Donaldson pledged to work to restore confidence in the markets and corporations and to deal swiftly with the nu

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Americans for Prosperity Action, a libertarian conservative political policy network founded by the billionaire Koch brothers, announced on Sunday that it will no longer spend on Nikki Haley s presidential campaign.The cut comes after Haley lost the Republican primary in her home state of Sou stanley cups th Carolina on Saturday to former President Donald Trump by 20 points. Nikki Haley has shown us again and again that we made the right decision in supporting her candidacy and she continues to have our strong endorsement, AFP CEO Emily Seidel wrote stanley cup in an email to staff, first reported by Politico. She has made it clear that she will continue to fight, and we wholeheartedly support her in this effort. But g stanley cup iven the challenges in the primary states ahead we don t believe any outside group can make a material difference to widen her path to victory. The organization s decision to stop financial support represents yet another setback to Haley as her path forward further narrows, but Haley s campaign insisted it continues to have strong fundraising efforts. Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley speaks at her election night watch party in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 24, 2024. Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images AFP is a great organization and ally in the fight for freedom and conservative government, said Olivia Perez Cubas, a spo Ydzs Pro-Trump group will play ad critical of Comey during his testimony
Two Democratic cups stanley Senators pressed President Bush onFriday to sign a bill that would prohibit the use of the controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding, hoping to turn up the heat on the issue. Earlier this month, Congress approved an intelligence authorization bill, which included a provision prohibiting the CIA from using interrogation methods not included in the U.S. Army Field Manual. The legislation would prohibit waterboarding and other coercive interrogation techniques. President Bush has vowed to veto the bill, arguing that Congress should not dictate how the intelligence community does its job.[Signing this bill] is the right thing to do, Sen. DianneFeinstein D-Calif. and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse D-R.I. wrote in an op-ed in the San Diego Union Tribune on Friday. Waterboarding and the other coercive techniques are torture, and their use does not befit our great nation.rdquo stanley thermos mug ; Democrats have long opposed the use of waterboarding and nearly derailed the nomination of Attorney General Michael Mukasey after he refused to unequivocally state that that practice was a form of torture.Feinstein and Whitehouse and many other Democrats havearguedthat the practice is brutal and unnecessary. stanley water bottle Our intelligence agencies would be able to effectively interrogate detainees ndash; by using 19 techniques that are today used with success by the military, they wrote. CIA Director Michael

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Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller pleaded guilty Thursday to all charges in a special court-martial, and he ll receive a letter of reprimand and will have to forfeit $5,000 in salary for one month. He s t vaso stanley he Marine officer who went viral for videos criticizing senior leadership during the Afghanistan withdrawal.Scheller pleaded guilty to six violations of military law that include contempt toward officials, disrespect toward superior commissioned officers, failure to obey order or regulation and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.The special court martial finished Friday morning. Military judge Colonel Glen Hines ordered a letter of reprimand, and a forfeiture of $5,000 for one month. Hines expressed some sympath stanley cups uk y for Scheller during the proceeding. When I watched Lieutenant Colonel Scheller s videos, Hines said, I saw a frustrated man and in pain. Scheller s attorney, Tim Parlatore, spoke to the media stanley cup outside the courtroom. The judge s decision was very fair. I think that this is a good just sentence, he said. I think he went far below that the government asked for. An agreement reached between the Marine Corps and Scheller holds that military judge Colonel Glen Hines can sentence Scheller to no more than a letter of reprimand and seizure of 2/3rds of his pay for up to 12 months.In a roughly 20-minute statement in front of the court Thursday, Scheller emphasized what his videos had said from the beginning - Mar Fxng Senate approves $1.1 trillion spending bill
In the Florida election battle s most high-profile side drama, the Florida Supreme Court is allowing 25,000 absentee ballots to remain in the state s official vote tally, disappointing Democrats who sought to disqualify them and give Al Gore a surprise legal victory.In twin 6-0 rulings, the state s highest court stanley cups on Tuesday upheld two state judges, who concluded the ballots should count even though local election officials let Republican activists add information to ballot applications in what Republicans themselves admitted was probably a violation of state law. The ballots came from two counties that favored George W. Bush. Bush attorney Barry Richard welcomed the decisions concerning the ballots in Martin and Seminole counties. It clearly ends it, no place to go from here, he stanley quencher said. Edward Stafman, a lawyer for Martin County voters who sued to throw out the ballots, said his clients were disappointed but there s some solace in the fact that they did find serious irregularities. In announcing the rulings, state Supreme Court spokesman Craig Waters emphasized the court does not, in any sense, condone the irregularities found by the trial court. T stanley quencher he court said in its opinion that Seminole s elections supervisor erred by rejecting many absentee ballot applications and then compounded the problem by letting Republicans correct omissions on the forms. Waters added that in the Martin County case, in which 10,000 absent

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Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden Ret. slammed Donald Trump for his ideas about ISIS, and said that some of the things he said have even elevated the jihadists. Some of the language that Mr. Trump has used after the attack has taken -- some things were bad, don t get me wrong -- but in a sense were a tactical success for our enemy, Gen. Hayd stanley water bottle en said in an interview with CBS This Morning. But in the language that he has used to describe them, he has elevated them to this realm where they can claim strategic success. Hayden also counts himse stanley cups lf among the top Republican former national security officials who cannot bring themselves to cast their votes in November for the presumptive GOP nominee. Former CIA Director: We need more firepower against ISIS 08:53 What evidence I have of his thinking about foreign policy things suggests courses of action that I think would be destructive for our country, our allies and the world, he said.Hayden had warmer words for Trump s opponent for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, saying, I think she might be a little stronger than the current president. He praised Clinton s openness to intervention and making difficult decisions in complicated world hot spots such as Syria and Libya. ...You know, within the administration, she, Dav stanley spain id Petraeus, Leon Panetta Oqfn How does Marco Rubio s Facebook buzz stack up against rivals
It shouldn t have surprised Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama or top aides when he won the Politico straw poll after giving a passionate, even inspirational speech at a convention of progressives. That s because despite his repeated statements starbucks stanley cup that he wouldn t run for president-several times since his 2004 Senate election-a new book says he planned his White House bid the day he came to Washington. The plan, writes Chicago Tribune author David Mendell, wa stanley cup s meant to put Obama in the best position if he wanted to run in 2008. It s obviously worked, though aides say we re reading too much into Mendell s well-researched stanley kaffeebecher report on the plan. By Paul Bedard ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-bfd57920-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-bfd57920-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-bfd57920-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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Former Rep. Anthony Weiner exits federal court after pleading guilty to one count of sending obscene messages to a minor in New York City on May 19, 2017. Reuters Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former congressman who pleaded guilty to sending sexually explicit material to a teen, has been released from federal prison ahead of the end o stanley bottles f his 21-month sentence.Federal records show Weiner, who was imprison stanley cup ed in Massachusetts, is now being housed at a Residential Re-entry Management facility in Brooklyn, New York, ahead of his final release date of May 14. The records do not state when Weiner was transferred from the Massachusetts prison.Weiner, 54, was sentenced to jail time after he pleadedguilty in 2017to sending obscene mate stanley cup rial to a 15-year old girl. Weiner, who resigned from Congress in 2011 over another scandal involving lewd messages, began his sentence at the Federal Medical Center Devens in Massachusetts in November 2017. He was initially slated to be released on Aug. 5, 2019, but his release was moved up to May due to good behavior, according to the Bureau of Prisons.Weiner was also sentenced to serve three years probation upon his release, and was required to register as a sex offender. Before his sentencing, Weiner, who was previously married to former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, called himself a sick man and an addict. H Pald Donald Trump taps Chris Christie to lead presidential transition team
Negotiators reached a deal Thursday morningon long-stalled electronic stanley thermobecher surveillance legislation, with a House vote likely tobe held on the measureon Friday, Democratic leadershipaides confirmed.The deal represents a major breakthrough on the long-stalled updated to theForeign Intelligence Surveillance Act, whi stanley water jug ch has been stuck in Congress for most of the year.While talk of a pendingdeal had intensified throughout the week,as late as Wednesday night,House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer D-Md. cautioned that some details were still being worked out. However, Democratic aides told Politico Thursday morningthat all major differences had beenironed out and that the bill would hit the House floor shortly.The centerpiece of the compromise is a provision that would allow a federal court to decide whether to provide retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the program and are facing lawsuits from civil liberties organizations. Here s the full text of the compromise billprovided to Politico ahead of time. The key section to look for is section 201 which explains how telecoms can rec stanley cup eive the immunity that President Bush has been seeking. This may cause heartache for liberal Democrats who don t want any immunity for companies involved in wiretapping.If it holds, the compromise would represent a big win for Hoyer, who spent months shuttling between the different factions of the Democratic caucus and a White House

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President Trump announced in a Wednesday morning tweet that transgender people will not be allowed to serve in any capac stanley cup ity in the United States military.In a series of tweets, Mr. Trump announced the new policy after what he called consultation with my generals and military experts. After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow......mdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump July 26, 2017 ....Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming.....mdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump July 26, 2017 The president added that our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. The reversal appears to contradict Mr. Trump s previous tweets in support of the LGBTQ community during the 2016 campaign, saying in June stanley canada of last year that he would fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs. Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fi stanley france ght for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.mdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump June 14, 2016 Mr. Trump s eldest daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump has also frequently spoken out in s Pucm More Rove
A controversial political ad in Kansas City, paid for by an independent conservative group, is causing headaches for George W. Bush, reports CBS News Correspondent Bill Whitaker. The controversy A disparaging remark about diversity in public schools. The ad, written by conservative Richard Nadler of the Republican Ideas Political Committee, stanley cups uk has a fic stanley cup tional mother saying she had to put her son in a private school because public schools had a bit more diversity then he could handle. Democrats call it race-baiting. The ad 146 sponsor says it 146 not about bad kids but good Republican policy on school choice. I m absolutely not a bigot, says Nadler, of Overland Park, Kan. These ads, this whole series of ads are about capitol issues. They make serious, substantive points and they do so without any slur upon any group whatsoever, except possibly liberals. The end of the ad urges people to vote Republican. It 146 the kind of help the Bush campaign says it doesn 146;t want. Go stanley cup website v. Bush is very concerned, said Bush spokeswoman Karen Hughes. He strongly disagrees with the sentiments expressed in this commercial, he believes most Americans will reject it. Bush rejects the ad, but says it 146 protected free speech. Either way, it s part of an exploding, some say out-of-control, political trend: election-year issue ads, more and more of them by outside groups. Most, like an ad the Sierra Club ran for the

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The following is a transcript of an interview with John Kirby, National Security Council spokesperson, that aired on Face the Nation on Sunday, March 26, 2023.MARGARET BRENNAN: We re back now with White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. Good to have you here. A lot to talk to- I want to start right whe stanley cup re Senator Warner left off, does the White H stanley tumbler ouse want to share more information about these classified materials He says it doesn t pass the smell test.COORDINATOR FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS, NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, JOHN KIRBY: We re fully cooperating with the Justice Department on the- on this ongoing investigation, Margaret, that s got to be the focus, making sure that- that we preserve that process. And so that s what we re doing. And, you know, of course, at the appropriate time, and in an appropriate setting. We certainly understand the- the desire by members of Congress to know more, to see more, but we ve got to make sure that we are full cooperation with the Justice Department on this right now. stanley cup MARGARET BRENNAN: As for what Senator Warner was laying out there, on giving the White House the tools to make a call on TikTok, this has been going on for years now, the review of whether to allow it. If it s a national security threat, doesn t there need to be swift action rather than more debate KIRBY: Well, there s an ongoing, as you know, and review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States- Zlrb Strickland Is Not Qualified To Be Obama s Vice President, And He Knows It
Tsunami forecast model map created by the NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii predicting the wave height of the tsunami generated by the Japan earthquake stanley mugs AP The GOP budget plan that passed through the House last month aimed to cut funding for a tsunami warning center that issued a slew of warnings around Japan s devastating earthquake. Complete Cove stanley water bottle rage: Earthquake in JapanThe budget, which proposed about $60 billion in budget cuts, would slash funding for the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA . That would potentially cripple the effectiveness of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii, which issued a series of warnings over the past several days regarding the situation in Japan, where an 8.9 magnitude earthquake triggered a massive tsunami along the nation s east coast. The PTWC is a part of the National Weather Service, which falls under the umbrella of NOAA - the organization responsible for providing tsunami warnings in the U.S. The Republican s proposed continuing resolution to fund the government, which was defeated in the Senate this week, aimed to cut $1.2 billion - or 21 percent - of President Obama s garrafa stanley proposed budget for NOAA, ClimateProgress.org reports. In an interview with Hawaii s Star Advertiser last month, Barry Hirshorn, Pacific region chairman

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Less than three weeks until Election Day, longtime anti-abortion rights activist Marjorie Dannenfelser says Republican candidates should be leaning into aborti stanley cup on as a winning conservative issue mdash; not running away.A raft of Republican candidates, many of whom won primaries touting support f stanley termohrnek or the Supreme Court s Dobbs decision, have moderated their positions in the general election or de-emphasized abortion as a campaign issue. Listen to this episode on ART19 I am most seriously displeased, Dannenfelser said, quoting the novel Pride and Prejudice. Most seriously displeased that people who think that this is the death of a human being would all of a sudden see it politically inconvenient to be part of what they advocate. Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, blamed some Republicans for inch[ing] to the middle, maybe the back of the bus on abortion as Election Day approaches. Letting the dust settle without being a vocal advocate means you let the dust settle on the wrong side, Dannenfelser told CBS News chief Washington stanley taza correspondent Major Garrett for this week s episode of The Takeout. In overturning Roe v. Wade this June, the Supreme Court left the question of abortion rights to state governments. Polls consistently show a majority of Americans support access to abortion, and it is a top issue for Democrats this election cycle. Twelv Vbwd Facebook removes more content generated by Kremlin-linked troll farm
Hundreds of thousands of mostly Hispanic immigrants skipped work or school and took to the streets Monday, flexing their newfound political muscle in a nationwide boycott that, while far from unified, still succeeded in slowing or shutting many farms, factories, markets and restaurants.From Los Angeles to Chicago, New Orleans to Houston, the Day Without Immigrants, attracted widespread participation despite divisions among activists over whether a boycott would send the right message to Washington lawmakers considering sweeping immigration reform. I want my children to know their mother is not a criminal, said Benita Olmedo, a nanny who came to the United States illegally in 1986 from Mexico and pulled her 11-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son from school to march in San Diego. I want them to be as strong I am. This shows our strength. We are the ba stanley portugal ckbone of what America is, legal or illegal, it doesn t matter, said Melanie Lugo, who was among thousands attending a rally in Denver with her husband and their third-grade daughter. We butter each other s bread. They need us as much as we need them. An estimated 300,000 people gathered by early afternoon in Chicago, and hundre stanley cup ds of thousands more were expected later at rallies in New York and Los Angeles. Rallies were planned in stanley canada at least 60 U.S. cities today, even in such far-flung places as Connecticut or South Dakota, CBS News national correspondent Byron Pitts reports.Be

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The following is a transcript of an interview with Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, that aired Sunday, March 13, 2022, on Face the Nation. MARGARET BRENNAN: Last week, harsh financial sanctions and trade restrictions were put in place to punish Russia and cripple its economy. Among them, the banning of all Russian imports of oil, gas, and coal, as well as goods like vodka and caviar stanley quencher . Joining us now is the managing vaso stanley director of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva. Welcome to FACE THE NATION.MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE IMF KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA: Thank you very much for having me. stanley cup MARGARET BRENNAN: I wonder how you can calculate the total impact of all of these restrictions that have been put on Russia. I mean, it- will Russia default on its debts and what impact will that have to the global economy KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA: Let s remember that the reason they re unprecedented sanctions is because the unthinkable happened, a devastating war in Ukraine. And the impact of the sanctions is quite severe for the Russian economy. We expect a deep recession in Russia, and this abrupt contraction is affecting already how the Russian population is taking the heat on them. The ruble depreciated significantly. What does it mean Real incomes have shrunk. Purchasing power of the Russian population has significantly diminished. In terms of servicing debt obligations, I can say that no longer we think of Russian default as i Dhmk Palin s Rashomon Moment
After all this sturm and drang, the White House Office of Management and Budgethas just releas stanley isolierkanne ed its official Statement of Administration Policy on the bailout bill.Less than an hour before the House is expected t stanley borraccia o stanley spain vote on the legislation.Turns out the White House officially backs this bill, which we already officially knew. Feel free to read the fulltext of the statement after the jump. In fairness, OMB doesn t release these Statements of Administration Policy until there s actual bill text introduced, but at this point in the debate, it feels like an afterthought.Continue reading post... ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c89a7ede-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c89a7ede-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c89a7ede-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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WASHINGTON -- The CEO of one of Ohio s top hospitals says he s told the White House that he s not leaving his job to become veterans affairs VA secretary.Dr. Toby Cosgrove stanley vaso of the Cleveland Clinic issued a statement Saturday saying he is honored to have been considered for the post but has deci stanley website ded to remain with the nonprofit medical center.The White House has not issued any statements on candidates to replace Eric Shinseki as veteran affairs secretary. News media have reported that Cosgrove was under consideration to head up the VA. Shinseki resigns amid VA hospital furor 02:35 Shinseki resigned a growing scandal at VA hospitals around the country that included reports of veterans waiting many months to see doctors at some VA facilities and allegations of faked reports of shorter wait times. After an interim report was released by the VA Office of the Inspector General found that 1,700 veterans were waiting for a primary care appointment but were not found on any waiting list at a Phoenix VA facility, Shinseki lost the confidence of many Republican and Democrat stanley cups uk ic members of Congress who called on him to step down. Just last week acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson said that an additional 18 veterans in the Phoenix area whose names were kept off an official elec Kvzy No indication Moscow has cracked down on criminal ransomware groups, top U.S. official says
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has reserved millions of dollars in advertising time on behalf of Democratic state senator Kay Hagan, who is challenging Sen. Elizabeth Dole R-N.C. , according to the Raleigh News and Observer. The paper reports that the ad reservations are slated throughout the state, are scheduled to begin in mid-September and could cost the DSCC up to $6 million. The major ad reservation indicates the partyrsquo bullishness on defeating Dole, who already has aired several televis stanley thermos mug ion ads for her own re-election bid focusing on her work fighting illegal immigration and on the tobacco buyout. Since winning the Democratic nomination, Hagan, a five-term state senator from the Greensboro area, has attracted the attention of national Democrats hoping to expand the Senate playing field. Recent polls have shown Dole in the lead, but she has been generally polling under the 50 percent mark considered safe territory for an incumbent.North Carolina is a pivotal state for stanley cup Democrats looking to piece together a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. The Senate race appears to be at the top of Democratic strategistsrsquo; second-tier of potential pickups, which also includes Senate races in Oregon, Minnesota and Maine. Dole raised $2.1 million in the most recent fundraising quarter, and has over $2.7 million cash-on-hand. Ha vaso stanley gan also had a strong fundraising performance, raising $1.6 million, an