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With time running out, Democratic lawmakers on Tuesdayturned up the pressure on House stanley cup Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to allow a clean vote onraising the nation s debt limit. Schumer: Congress will pass a clean debt ceiling hike 04:15 Treasury Secretary Jack Lew met with House Democrats onTuesday morning at their weekly caucus meeting and delivered an all too familiar message from the White House: President Obama will not negotiatewith Congress over raising the debt ceiling, which enables the U.S. to simplypay its bills.Lew has already informed Congres stanley mug s that the U.S. willlikely reach the limit Feb. 7, in just 10 days.There is usually some flexibility with the debt limit, as the Treasury can use extraordinary stanley thermos measures by redirecting funds to pay the bills for a short period of time - in this case, a few weeks. Lew said last week that the Treasury would likely exhaust the extraordinary measures by late February or early March. Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., chairman of the House Democratic Caucus,said Lew was very explicit about the importance of the approaching Feb. 7 deadline.Republicans in Congress should not play with firewhen it comes to the markets interest rates and the livelihood of Americans whoare working and paying their bills, Becerra said. Bnzx Facebook takes down ads with exaggerated promises from company tied to Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale
Presi gourde stanley dent Barack Obama s aunt buried her face in her hands and sobbed as she described her anguish that she no longer has contact with him and his family after the she had been living illegally for years in the United States in public housing.Zeituni Onyango told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that she is troubled that her immigration woes have made her a political liability to her nephew.Onyango, the half sister of Obama s late father, says she has exiled her stanley cups uk self from the family after attending Obama s inauguration because she didn t want stanley thermoskannen to become fodder for his foes. Obama and his family have not reached out to her either, she said. Before, we were family. But right now, there is a lot of politics, and me, I am not interested in any politics at all, said Onyango, whose appeal for asylum from her native Kenya is before an immigration judge in Boston.The Obamas are her only family in the United States, she said. It is very sad when such a thing happens. There are people, outsiders, you know, they come in between, they divide a family, she said last week. It s not easy. Onyango, 57, is protective of Mr. Obama and said she never asked him to intervene in her case and didn t tell him about her immigration difficulties. I carry my own cross, she said. He has nothing to do with my problem. The White House said Mr. Obama has had no involvement in his aunt s case and believes it should run its ordinary course.

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Washingtonmdash; In response to the Supreme Court s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that established the right to an abortion, Democratic lawmakers on the left are demanding their party step up to defend women s access to the procedure.The ruling, released one week ago, upended nearly 50 years of precedent by holding that states have the power to restrict or abolish abortion as stanley mug their legislatures see fit. With that power delegated to state governments, abortion access will now heavily depend on where a person lives.The opinion of the high court s conservative majority prompted immediate respons botella stanley es from both advocates and opponents of abortion rights. President Biden called the decision a realization of an extreme ideology in remarks that afternoon, but also conceded that without more votes in Congress, he won t be able to revive abortion protections nationwide. Though the Democratic-controlled House passed a bill in February to guarantee Roe v. Wade s old protections, the bill hasn t passed the Senate, which is split evenly along party lines. The Senate s filibuster rule means that a supermajority of 60 senators votes are needed to enable consid stanley quencher eration of nearly any bill. Although many Democratic senators are willing to dispense with the rule and pass abortion protections with a simple majority of just 51 votes, opposition from Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who favor retaining the filib Uwvm President Obama to guest edit special issue of WIRED magazine
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After a chaotic Democratic state convention in Nevada over the weekend, Vice President Joe stanley quencher Biden is pushing Bernie Sanders to do more when it comes to reigning in his supporters attacks on the party. What Bernie s going to have to do if that happens again -- he s going to have to be more aggressive in speaking out about it, Biden told reporters Wednesday at an event in Columbus, Ohio. In Nevada Saturday, Sanders supporters took issue with what they believed was an unfair process of selecting delegates that favored Clinton. Security was forced to shut the convention down after Sanders backers reportedly threw chairs and heckled California Sen. Barbara Boxer. Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz came out with stanley cup a stern warning for Sanders Tuesday, saying the party was deeply concerned about the troubling details out of Las Vegas. Sanders, in return, denied that his campaign ever had a hand in en stanley cup couraging the violence. When the vice president was asked Wednesday whether he had seen the videos of unruly Sanders supporters at the Nevada convention, Biden seemed to back up Sanders: That s not Bernie, he said. Biden also doesn t believe there s cause for concern when it comes to Sanders supporters. Bernie Sanders is a good guy. Let Bernie run the race. There s nothing wrong with that, he said. I m confident that Bernie will be supportive if Hillary wins, which the numbers indicate will happen, Biden add Jenn O Donnell-Coons Debate: Students Say No One Won
A new report showing the national unemployment rate dropping from 7.9 to 7.7 percent as the U.S. economy added 236,000 jobs in February was hailed by a senior White House official as evidence that the economic recovery is gaining traction. While mo stanley cup re work remains to be done, today s employment report provides new evidence that the recovery that began in mid-2009 is gaining traction, said Alan Krueger, Chairman of the president s Council of Economic Advisers, in a statement.He noted, The economy has now added private sector jobs every month for three straight years, and a tota stanley cup l of 6.35 million jobs have been added over that period. Krueger cautioned, however, that the employment report was compiled before the imposition of the sequester s automatic spending cuts, urging Congress to move toward a sustainable Federal budget in a responsible way that combines entitlement reform with spending cuts and closes tax loopholes.February jobs report: Stronger than exp stanley quencher ected After Obama outreach to GOP, what s next for budget talks House Speaker John Boehner, for his part, welcomed the news of job creation but argued that unemployment and debt remain far too high. Any job creation is positive news, he said in a statement, but the fact is unemployment in America is still way above the levels the Obama White House projected when the trillion-dollar stimulus spending bill was enacted, and the federal government s ongoing spending binge h

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WASHINGTON CBS News - After endorsing the Re stanley uk publican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, has continued to cast doubts over his party s nominee. During a sit-down interview for Face the Nation, host John Dickerson asked the former Republican presidential candidate what he found worrisome about Trump. He [Trump] still hasn t defined himself. Rubio said from his hometown Miami, Florida but also said, I think he s in the process of doing that. Rubio referenced Trump s speech last Wednesday, criticizing the Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton s past and record in the State Department, as positives for the Trump campaign. Donald is not running against George Washington or Abraham Lincoln here. He s running against Hillary Clinton. The Florida senator said. Someone who has incredible ethical issues that need to be examined. Someone whose time at the Department of State needs to be carefully looked at for its failures both in foreign policy, in Beng stanley kubek hazi, and in other circumstances that she needs to be held responsible for. stanley cups Rubio weighs in on U.K. vote and U.S. impact 02:48 Rubio also stated that everywhere the Clintons go, Scandal and drama seems to follow, at a time when this country can t afford it. Rifs Trump administration looks to resume arms sale to Saudi Arabia
CBS From CBS News Fernando Suarez:WASHINGTON -- With the now yearlong Democratic presidential contest still in flux, the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaigns continue in states with late pr stanley cup imaries, once considered irrelevant to picking the next president. And as the uncertainty of who will win the nomination quickly becomes a reality, the Clinton campaign is forced to set a whole new set of benchmarks, pushing the goalpost further and further back. After losing Iowa in early January, Clinton put all of her resources into New Hampshire, a state she later won and a wi stanley sverige n many argue kept Clinton alive in the hunt for the nomination. But as New Hampshire became part of political history, the focus quickly stanley drink bottle shifted to Super Tuesday on February 5. The Clinton campaign made a big push to win delegate-rich states like California, New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey. But even as Super Tuesday polls came to a close and no clear winner emerged, rumblings inside the Clinton campaign began as the new prize became Ohio and Texas. A Clinton senior staffer said with great hope that Texas is the big one. Now, more than two weeks after the Ohio and Texas contests and with 33 days left until Pennsylvania gets its chance to cast ballots, the campaign continues to move forward, but for how long A senior Clinton campaign adviser tells CBS News the campaign will go on until all the states and Puerto Rico have voted. It s been a long cam

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After helping President Obama shepherd through Congress his signature law and overseeing its implementation -- through the good, the bad and the ugly -- Health and Human Services Secretary is stepping down, Mr. Obama announced today. After five years of extraordinary service to our country and 7.5 million Americans who have signed up for health coverage through the exchanges, she s earned that right, Mr. Obama said from White House rose garden. While millions of people have gained coverage through stanley cup the Affordable Care Act on Sebelius watch, the secretary herself said she was responsible for the botched rollout of the Obamacare marketplaces, callin stanley becher g HealthCare.gov a debacle. The administration managed to recover and reach its enrollment goals for the Obamacare marketplaces, but the chaotic start to the program cast a shadow over Sebelius five-year tenure as HHS secretary. Kathleen has been there through the long fight to pass the Affordable Care Act... She helped guide its implementation even when it got rough, Mr. Obama said. She s got bumps, I ve got bumps, bruises. Obamacare has 7.5 million sign ups, Kathleen Sebelius says Full coverage: ObamacareAt the end of the day, however, Mr. Obama said Sebelius will go down in history for is servin vaso stanley g... [when the U.S.] finally declared that quality, affordable health care is not a privilege but a right for every single citizen for the United States of America. The administration Sjpn Melania Trump won t be going to Davos with Trump
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Republican front runner Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that he s unlikely to attend Thursday night s primary Republican debate because its host, Fox News, is playing games. I probably won t bother doing the debate, he said at a press conference in Marshalltown, Iowa. I m going to do something else in Iowa. We w stanley water bottle ill do something where we raise money for the veterans and the Wounded Warriors. We are going to do something simultaneously with the debate, but most likely I will not be doing the debat stanley mugs e Asked whether his decision was irrevocable, Trump responded, Pretty close to irrevocable. He said he wasn t worried about how the decision would affect his standing in Iowa.Donald Trump and Megyn Kelly to face off againFox News Megyn Kelly addresses Trump brouhaha I think I will do great in Iowa, he said. I love Iowa, I don t think Iowa is going to care. Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told reporters the decision was definitive: I mean look, I mean, ultimately it is Mr. Trump s decision, but he has been very clear that he is not going to participate in the Fox News debate on Thursday. Earlier in the day day, Trump was contemplating whether to skip Thursday s GOP presidential debate because he doesn t like F stanley mugs ox News host and debate moderator Megyn Kelly. The billionaire real estate mogul posted a video on Instagram and asked his followers whether he should participate in the Des Moines debate. Megyn Kelly s really b Flil McCain Says Obama Will Change His Mind on War if He Visits Iraq
Al Gore blamed pharmaceutical companies Wednesday for profits that are way out of line and plugged his own drug-payment plan at a Connecticut drugstore. The vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, put Republican rival George W. Bush and the drug companies at the center of his argument for expanding Medicare coverage to include prescription drugs. Profits are good for encouraging investors, Gore said, but drug companies are going far beyond that. They re going to the point that the margins are way out of line with what most other industries and most other lines of business believe is normal and adequate. They re using the market power to dictate prices that are way above what competition would set them at. Gore and Shirley Kindle, 65, of Ansonia, spoke to a small assembly in the bingo room of South End Senior Center. Kindle, who had already bought her April supply of medicati stanley taza ons, accompanied Gore stanley thermos earlier for a photo-op at Pelton s family drugstore, where pharmacist Hal Schoen lined up Kindle s 12 different prescriptions and rang up the total of $506.34. Whic stanley cups uk h is more than I get from Social Security, Kindle said. The woman, who said later she never shops at the photogenic Pelton s, told Gore her husband makes a little too much money for her to qualify for a state prescription-drug program. She was advised if they got divorced she d be eligible for some low-income assistance, but she

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California lawmakers havevoted to banfood additives linked to behavioral issues in kids from school lunchrooms.That means snacks like Flamin Hot Cheetos, Twinkies and more will no longer be allowed in school cafeterias across the state. Stores may still sell the food products, though, under the first-of-its-kind legislation, called the California School Food Safety Act.The controversial ingredients include food dyes Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3, Red 40, Yellow 5 And Yellow 6, which give color to snacks like Do stanley quencher ritos, Froot Loops and Fruity Pebbles cereals and Jolly Ranchers candy. Advo stanley mug cates for the ban argue the additives have no nutritional value, are used solely for superficial purposes, and can cause health problems. Red 3 has been found to cause cancer in animals and Red 40, Yellow 5 And Yellow 6, have been found to be contaminated with carcinogens like benzidine, which can increase one s risk of developing cancer, according to a 2012 study from the National Institutes of Health.California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, the bill s author, said the legislation could prompt changes in how these types of dangerous foods are marketed to children beyond California, and could even lead to companies changing the way they formulate such snacks. Making back to school lunches fun, tasty and healt vaso stanley hy 03:23 Rttz WikiLeaks: U.S. secretly backed Syria opposition
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Inside the Champion Brewing Company in Charlottesville, Virginia,Terry McAuliffe, the former Virginia governor who s running for his old job, was talkin stanley vaso g to owner Hunter Smith last week when a staffer handed him a mask for continuity with everyone else. The president says don t wear masks inside, McAuliffe parried before putting on the mask. I don t like to argue with Joe Biden. As he tries to reclaim the governor s seat, too, McAuliffe, a longtime Democrat, is also sticking close to the president s campaign approach, hoping to replicate his 2020 success when Mr. Biden won Virginia by double digits in both the primary and general elections. How McAuliffe fares in the June 8 primary, among a slate of progressive and diverse candidates, could give the party a window into the appeal of moderate candidates ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.But McAuliffe has a strong head start on the rest of the field, since he s had the job before and has held a substantial lead in public polls. The last one, in late April by Christopher Newport University, showed him with 47%, while all the other candidates were in the mid-single digits. McAulif stanley website fe was governor from 2014 to 2018 but couldn t run for a consecutive term because state law prohibits it. Now he s reintroducing himself to voters as an experienced figure to lead the stat stanley puodelis e s pandemic recovery. A Virginia governor hasn t served more than one term since 1978. His campaign is counting on Wmuh What - if anything - should Obama do about immigration
UPDATE: Webster offered a full apology late Thursday evening. See update at bottom of post. Maine Republican Party chairman Charlie Webster is doubling down on his suggestion that there were improprieties a stanley cup t the Maine polls last week, insisting he received complaints from candidates in small towns across the state that new people came to vote and I believe that that s questionable. Webster has been the source of some controversy after suggesting in an interview with WCSH-TV t stanley cup his week that In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on Election Day. Everybody has a right to vote, but nobody in [these] towns knows anyone who s black, Webster told WCSH-TV s Don Carrigan. How did that happen I don t know. We re going to find out. Reached on his cell phone by CBSNews, Webster refused to provide details regarding the specific towns in question, the number of new voters to whom he was referring, or the percentage of those people who were African-American. Megan Sanborn, a spokesperson for Secretary of State Charlie Summers, told CBSNews the office had not received any complai stanley mug nts or accusations of voter fraud from the past election, and that there had been no noticeable uptick in African-American turnout in the state. At this point this has become much more drama than I want to deal with, said Webster. I didn t realize that [Maine] had changed so much that we have to be so

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Former President Donald Trump attended arguments in a federal appeals court in New York on Friday as he seeks to erase a $5 million judgment finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll.He attended the hearing, which l stanley us asted all of 22 minutes, after forgoing a crucial hearing Thursday in his Washington, D.C., criminal case. Trump s decision to attend brought a spotlight to the case in which a jury concluded he likely committed sexual abuse, just as his presidential campaign enters the final sprint to the election. Sketch showing writer E. Jean Carroll and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump looking on as lawyer John Sauer not pictured argues for him, as he asks a federal appeals court to overturn a $5 mill stanley uk ion jury verdict finding him liable for sexua stanley cup lly assaulting and defaming Carroll, who accused Trump of raping her nearly three decades ago, in New York, Sept. 6, 2024. Jane Rosenberg / REUTERS The case is one of two in which unanimous federal juries awarded Carroll a total of more than $88 million. In the May 2023 trial, jurors heard evidence related Carroll s allegation that in the mid-1990s, Trump sexually abused her in a department store dressing room and defamed her after she went public with the story. Trump didn t attend any of that trial, and later faulted his lawyers for advising him to Ovsw Updated: Huckabee Reaction to Bhutto Assassination
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President Obama on Monday suggested the administration will achieve significant progress in the battle to take back Mosul from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ISIS by the end of the year. My expectation is that by the end of the year, we will have created the conditions whereby Mosul will eventually fall, Mr. Obama said in a wide-ranging interview from The White House with CBS News Charlie Rose. As we see the Iraqis willing to fight and ga vaso stanley ining ground we must make sure that we are providing them more support. The president said the U.S. is seeing the benefits of its military operations in the region. We re not doing the fighting ourselves, but when we provide training, when we provide special forces who are backing them up, when we are gaining intelligence -- working with the coalitions that we have -- what we v stanley cups e seen is that we can continually tighten the noose, the president said.Mr. Obama s comments come the same day as Defense Secretary Ash Carter s announcement that the U.S. will send 217 more troops to Iraq and a number of Apache helicopters to the country to assist in the fight. The additional forces will advise Iraqi forces closer to the front lines. The decision increases the U.S. troops level in Iraq from 3,870 to 4,087. stanley us ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9f1986f7-f749-4060-befb-2 Yiqf Column: In Winning Election, What Have Democrats Lost
Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan R-Wis., center, greets members of the Palo Verde High School band during a campaign event at Palo Verde High School on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in Las Vegas. AP Photo/David Becker CBS News LAS VEGAS - Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan turned his attention to the fundraising portion of his new job Tuesday evening as he met with the Romney campaign s Nevada Finance Leadership at the Venetian Hotel. The hotel and casino is owned by GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson, who was reported to be meeting with Ryan.Earlier in the day, Ryan spoke to more than 2,000 people at a high school gym here in a speech that the Romney campaign had said would focus on forecl stanley cup osures. The Wisconsin congressman offered no policy prescriptions, telling attendees that they deserved better.Complete coverage: Campaign 2012 Since the president took office, 8.5 million foreclosure filings. Home values down an average of 20,000 dollars. 11 million homes underwater. Nevada ranks 5th in foreclosures. The unemployment rate I had to read this number three times. 11.6 perc stanley cups uk ent in Nevada, Ryan said. You deserve better than that. You deserve jobs in your economy, you deserve an america that s heading in the right direction. Ryan s appearance bore similarities to an event earlier Tuesday i stanley website n the Denver area in which he attacked the a

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The George Washington Bridge scandal surrounding Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., is shaping Americans opinions of him - and not in a good way, according to a new poll released Monday. Chris Christie scandal continues 01:47 Thirty-four percent have an unfavorable view of Christie, double the 17 percent who viewed him unfavorably last January. Most of the increase has come from Americans who didn t have an opinion; his favorable rating is virtually unchanged at 38 percent it was 40 percent last January .Most Americans who have heard about the controversy don t believe the governor s claim that he didn t know t stanley cup hat his aides were involved in the closing of lanes last September, which restricted access to the busy George Washington Bridge and resulted in major traffic jams in the city of Fort Lee, N.J.Among those Americans who have heard about controversy, 58 percent say they stanley cup don t believe Christie, while 32 percent say they believe him. Majorities of Democrats 67 percent and independents 60 percent don t believe him and almos stanley cups t half 48 percent say they don t buy his explanation. The survey polled 1,504 adults fromJan. 15-19 and has a margin of error of 2.9 percentage points.The poll comes as Dawn Zimmer, a Democrat and mayor of Hoboken, N.J., accused several t Sdeg McConnell says GOP has the votes to approve rules for impeachment trial
AP A group of social conservatives and retired military chaplains held a press conference in Washington today to argue that the repeal of the military s Don t Ask, Don t Tell policy would have an adverse impact on the religious freedom and careers of military chaplains. Allowing gay men and women to serve open stanley cup ly in the armed forces steals from the chaplain their religious freedom, according to retired military chaplain Col. Rich Young. He argued that chaplains will be muzzled if the policy passes and that soldiers and families [will] no longer have the benefit of the full council of God. Participants at the press con botella stanley ference suggested that chaplains who oppose gay marriage and believe homosexuality is immoral might see their careers hurt and lose the ability to honestly counsel service members. Jordan Lorence of the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative Christian non-profit group, said that repeal would mean that military policy will for the first time be at odds with the major tenets of the major religions represented in the armed services. Allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly will create a crisis of conscience for the chaplains, he said. If the policy is repealed, it is unclear what, if any, direct effect there would be on military chaplai stanley hrnek ns, who are not permitted to speak out on social issues under current policy. Participants at the press conference suggested conserva