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CBS News The Republican-led effort to repeal President Obama s health care law passed the House of Representatives Wednesday, successfully setting up campaign talking points for the coming months, but accomplishing little else. The vote was the 33rd time the House has voted to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act, but Wednesday s vote was the first House action to repeal since the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the law nearly two weeks ago.With the reality that it will also be the 33rd time that the measure will fail to be p stanley cups uk assed by the Democratic-led Senate, Wednesday s action ultimately winds up being only political in nature, giving Republicans material for their political races to tell voters that they are committed to sinking the health care overhaul. We are voting so we may all be on record in order to show that the house rejects Obamacare, and we are committed to taking this flawed law off the books, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., sad on the House floor. The vote, 244 - 185, was largely along party lines but five Democrats sided wi stanley cups uk th the entire Republican caucus. White House press secretary Jay Carney said health care repeal effort shows why people loathe politics. Two Democrats who supported the repeal, stanley mugs Reps. Dan Boren ofOklahoma and Mike Ross of Arkansas are retiring. Three other Democrats, Reps. Larry Kissell and Mike McIntyre, both ofN.C., and Jim Matheson of Utah, exemplif

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President Biden paid an unannounced visit Monday to Ukraine s capital, offering a huge show of support for the country the U.S. and its allies have helped to hold out duringRussia s nearly-year-long, unprovoked invasion. Mr. Biden spent about six hours in Kyiv, much of it with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whom he promised unwavering backing and another tranche of American weapons. You know, one year later, K vaso stanley yiv stands. Ukraine stands, Mr. Biden said while there. Democracy stands. Am stanley cup erica stands with you and the world stands with you. Kyiv has captured a part of my heart. Mr. Biden s visit to the region, which was to see him meet later in the day with other European leaders in Poland, comes as the world prepares to mark a full year since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine mdash; and amid concerns first publicized over the weekend by America s top diplomat that China may be on the brink of providing Russia with wea stanley quencher pons to bolster its assault. On Monday, the U.S. announced $460 million in new support for Ukraine, including $450 million worth of arms and equipment and $10 million for emergency assistance to maintain Ukraine s energy infrastructure, according to a State Department official. Historic. Timely. Brave. I welcomed @POTUS in Kyiv as Russian full-scale aggression approaches its one-year mark. I am thankful to the U.S. for standing with Ukraine and for our strong partnershi Lwnh Democrat challenging Mitch McConnell raises $10.7 million in third quarter
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Washington mdash; Two members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are calling on major tech companies to develop a plan to deal with the proliferation of deepfakes on their platforms, according to a letter to the companies obtained by CBS News.Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the vice ch stanley quencher air of the committee, and Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida will ask 11 companies mdash; including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit and LinkedIn mdash; to develop industry standards for sharing, removing, archiving, and confronting the sharing of synthetic content as soon as possible. In the letter, the bipartisan pair mdash; who have partnered in the past to raise awareness about other national security challenges, including those related to the advent of 5G wireless technology mdash; say deepfakes pose an especially grave threat to the public s trust in the information it consumes. Deepfakes are video or audio files that have been doctored using sophisticated technology to convincingly depict false or misleading events. Given your company s role as an online media platform, it will be on the front lines in detecting deepfakes, and determining how to handle the publicity surrounding them, the s stanley cup enators wri stanley cup te in a letter to each company. We believe it is vital that your organization have plans in place to address the attempted use of these technologies. The other companies receiving the letter are Pinterest, Snap, Tumbl Qtim GOP Leaders Settle Spending Spat
FIGHTING THE REAL MENACE....The military is still busily firing gay Arabic linguists in its continuing quest to keep America safer. I would personally prefer it if they spent more time keeping us safer from the Arabic-speaking jihadists who are trying to kill us and less on the gay menace that merely wants the right to look fabulous, but I guess we all have our quirks.James Joyner doesn t defend the law, but he does defend the Pentagon in this case: The military is simply following the law, ousting service members who make it publicly manifest that they are gay. Tha garrafa stanley t s a fair statement. That is, it would be a fair statement if it were true in the case at hand. Here s what happened to former Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Stephen Benjamin:He said he was among about 70 people investigated at Fort Gordon in Georgia for using the computer to send personal notes. He said others stanley mug who are not gay kept their jobs even though they were caught sending sexual and profane messages.Benjamin said investigators from the Defe stanley cup nse Department s inspector general s office pulled the message logs for one day and reviewed them for violations. Some people, he said, received administrative punishments for writing dirty jokes, profanity and explicit sexual references.So Benjamin wasn t making it publicly manifest at all. Publicly, he was keeping a low-enough profile that nobody had ever hassled him before. Rather, he was fired for writing explicitly private emails that could have quite easily

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CBS News NEW YORK - Mail service as all of us know it could be headed for some historic change. With $16 billion in losses last year, Congress is looking to cut costs. stanley tumblers The latest congressional proposal could radically change your mail service. On the table: ending both door-to-door and Saturday letter delivery. stanley flask The new ideas were introduced by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa It s an agency in crisis, he said, but its also an entity that must be saved, but it s an entity that needs to trim costs. Door-to-door mail delivery on chopping block Postmaster General Patrick Donahue agrees the post office needs to re-think its operation. We v stanley cup e lost 27 percent of our mail over the course of the last five to six years, he said. And when that happens, you have to make changes. The new proposed delivery service would end at the curb or require new centrally located cluster-boxes, cutting back the number of steps mail carriers make each day. That cost of going that little bit further to the door is over 80 cents a day, said Issa. That s the kind of savings that adds up to $6.5 billion. The post office says ending Saturday delivery of first class mail altogether would save another $2 billion.But postal union official Chuck Zlatkin said the financial crisis is overblown, and that Congress is just trying to privatize the business. I would say that this bill is really a road map to destroy the Postal Service a Gpac Obama Foundation announces exact location of presidential library
Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee of Arkansas said Friday his fellow Republicans would be making a devastating mistake in the race for the White House if they ignore minorities, unions and other traditionally Democratic groups.While the proliferation of debates has cut into the time candidates have to campaign and raise funds, Huckabee said he has reached out to the AARP, the National Education Association and other groups that tend to vote Democratic.He said he also plans to parti stanley canada cipate in a PBS debate on minority issues because he believes it is critical that Republicans speak to these concerns. If Republicans don t win minority votes and votes that we traditionally don t get, Hillary Clinton s the next president, Huckabee said in a teleconference with reporters while campaigning in Iowa.Clinton, the New York senator and Democratic front-runner in the presidential race, was first lady of Arkansas before Bill Clinton became president in 1993. In January, Huckabee completed more than 10 years as governor of the state. I want to be the president of the United St stanley mug ates, not just the president of the Republican Party, Huckabee said. I m still a conser cups stanley vative and I still believe in lower taxes and less government. I m pro-life and I m pro-family, but it doesn t mean that I m not going to listen ... and it doesn t mean I m not going to govern with a view to being a president to everybody. Asked about Iraq, Huckabee said he agreed

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WASHINGTON How to deal with Egypt since the military coup has been one of the most vex stanley mug ing foreign policy questions for the Obama administration, and a policy shift appears to be under way.Hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Egypt is being held back. Of the $1.3 billion in foreign military financing that the U.S. gives each year, around half has already been handed over. The remaining $585 million has been effectively suspended, instead of being released into an Egyptian government bank account in New York.The administration stresses that the hold do stanley cup becher es not indicate a decision has been made to halt all military support. Reports that we are halting all military assistance to Egypt are false. We will announce the future of our assistance relationship with Egypt in the coming days, but as the president made clear at U.N. General Assembly, that assistance relationship will continue, said National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden.The funds are in flux while the administration dec stanley cup ides whether to hold on to the already-pledged money as leverage, or to spend parts of it. The White House is also mulling how to fulfill existing contracts held by U.S. defense companies that sell military hardware to the Egyptian military. Congressional sources say the administration has not yet informed them how it will handle the wind-down of those funds, or whether some of the money will be used to fund projects deemed important to U.S. Dzdi Trump backs Staten Island Republican against former Rep. Michael Grimm
Democrat Barack Obama worked to fend off an intensified attack on his foreign p stanley quencher olicy credentials from rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday as their paths crossed two days ahead of a potentially race-ending showdown in Ohio and Texas. What precise foreign-policy experience is she claiming that makes her qualified to answer that telephone call at 3 a.m. in the morning Obama asked of the former first lady at a town-hall meeting. It was a reference to dueling television ads over who would exercise superior judgment in responding to a national emergency in the middle of the night.The Illinois senator also sought to ease lingering Internet-fed concerns about his religion, in particular whether he was a closet Muslim. I am a devout Christian. I have been a member of the same church for 20 years cups stanley . I pray to Jesus every night, he declared at an earlier appearance in the rural southern Ohio town of Nelsonville. He said he wanted to halt confusion that has been deliberately perpetrated. Unlike Clinton, who has been barnstorming Ohio, Obama had only two events in the state on Sunday and stanley quencher was spending the night in hometown Chicago. He heads to Texas on Monday for a final day of campaigning before awaiting returns on Tuesday in San Antonio. His aides said privately that they felt they had a good shot at a win in Texas, but were less certain about Ohio, where they braced for a possible loss.The two senators came close to running into each o

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Republicans on the House Intellig stanley tumblers ence Committee may use an arcane House rule Monday to vote to make public a 4-page classified memo about alleged FISA surveillance abuses that targeted members of the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election. At the same time, Democrats on the committee plan on Monday to introduce their own memorandum in an effort to rebut the majority s memo, which was authored by Chairman Devin Nunes staff.The majority s memo is said to contain evidence that the FBI relied on an unverified dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele to wrongly secure surveillance warrants stanley uk under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Democrats on the committee say the majority s memo amounts to Republican spin and selectively uses classified information to undermine the work of special counsel Robert Mue stanley thermos mug ller.FBI Director Christopher Wray was able to view the GOP-authored memo over the weekend, CBS News Paula Reid confirmed. Fox News first reported he had seen the memo. The minority is pushing for a vote to allow all House members access to its memo, which would be classified and made viewable in the committee s secure spaces. It s not clear whether the measure will receive enough votes to proceed or whether the Republican majority will instead table the minority s document and vote to publicly release its own classified memo, which was first made accessible to all House members on January Azbd Bush Hammers Home Message
CBS From CBS News Maria Gavrilovic: HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - The star of the final presidential debate was Joe Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber. John McCain mentioned Wurzelbacher tonight shortly after the debate began, and both he and Obama said his name more than 25 times during the 90-minute debate. How many times did the word Iraq come up Six. How many times was the word economy used 16.So, what makes Joe the Plumber so special Well, Obama met Wurzelbacher on Sunday, just shortly after landing in Toledo, Ohio. Before heading to his hotel for an intensive two days of debate prep, the campaign organized a quick stop in Holland, Ohio. The plan was for Obama to walk down Shrewsbury Street, knock on doors, and ask people to vote. For all intents and purposes, it was a photo op. But then Joe came into the picture, a burly, middle-aged guy with a goatee, who approached Obama and stanley website asked him if he believes in the American dream. He proceeded to tell Obama that, after working as a plumber for 15 years, he is going to purchase his own business. The catch was that the business was worth more than $ stanley cup 250,000 and Joe asked if he would be taxed more under Obama s plan. I m being taxed more an stanley vattenflaska d more for fulfilling the American Dream, he said to Obama.While Obama made several attempts to explain his tax plan, the bottom line was always that Joe would suffer from increased taxes. I m gonna cut taxes a little bit more for the folks who

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CBS News Live Video Live How to watch today s White House press briefing live:Date:Wednesday, January 3, 2018Time:3 p.m. ETWho:White Hou stanley romania se Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee SandersOnline:Watchlive stream on CBSN, or in the player abovePotential briefing topics:Bannon backlash: In an upcoming book by Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon reportedly calls Donald Trump Jr. s meeting with Russians treasonous and unpatriotic, according to the Guardian. President Trump responded to Bannon Wednesday stanley cup afternoon, saying that when he was fired from the White House, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind Potential Romney run: Following the announcement that Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, will not seek reelection, attention has focused on former 2012 Republican presidential candidate and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who may be interested in running. Romney has been a vocal critic of Mr. Trump;Democrats sworn in stanley cup to Senate: Sens. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, and Tina Smith were sworn into the Senate Wednesday. Jones fills the seat of Sen. Luther Strange, who was appointed to hold the seat after Jeff Sessions became attorney general. Smith replaces former Sen. Al Franken, who resigned from his seat in the face of sexual assault allegations;North Korea:Tensions between North Korea and the United States continue to rise after leader Kim Jong Unsai Qfme Prospects for Legal Online Poker Fade (Updated)
With the USS Yorktown as a backdrop, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts officially declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday, telling supporters that George Bush s vision does not live up to the America that Kerry defended as a decorated war hero.Kerry, a Vietnam War veteran, presented himself as the alternative to the Republican lea stanley cups uk der mdash; and the Democrat with the credentials to emerge from the crowded field of nine aspirants and seize the party s nomination. In challenging times we need leadership that knows how to make America safer, that knows how to put America back to work, Kerry told the crowd. The president has misled America and he has made our path more difficult as a result. The four-term senator made his formal announceme stanley trinkflaschen nt after months of campaign-style appearances and debates with fellow Democratic presidential hopefuls. I reject George Bush stanley website s radical new vision of a government that comforts the comfortable at the expense of ordinary Americans, Kerry said. George Bush s vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend. John Forbes Kerry has the initials of a one-time Democratic president mdash; JFK mdash; and a comparable pedigree mdash; Ivy League education, commander of a small Navy craft during wartime and Massachusetts senator. Perceived as the front-runner early on in this campaign, that notion evaporated in the heat of rival Howard Dean s s

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The leisure and hospitality industry has come a long way from the depths of the pandemic, when the most stringent lockdown measures were in place, but the fast-spreading Delta variant threatens to undo the progress made by businesses in this sector, according to a top economist for Bank of America.American consumers have driven the economic recovery from COVID-19 with help from generous stimulus payments and the loosening of pandemic-related restrictions, leading them to spend once again on entertainment services like travel and dining out. They reinforce one another very powerfully and that created a burst of economic activity over the past few months, said Michelle Meyer, chief U.S. economist for Bank of America. And the risk is the threat from Delta w stanley cup ill cause a speed bump for the economy when it comes to engagement in these activities. Indeed, Bank of America economists are acknowledging the risk the latest Delta variant-fueled wave of COVID-19 infections poses to the U.S. economy.In the spring, the cutback in spending on services was offset by more spending on durable goods, like at-home exercise equipment, for example. But this time around, consumers who relied on stimulus payouts to fund these purchases don t have the same financial cushion. For the wave in the winter, we had two rounds stanley cup of stim stanley botella ulus in January and in March that allowed people to spend more on durable goods, which offset this weaker services-related spend Nfaj Obama: Excessive Pay Offends our Values
In Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, President Bush has chosen a decorated Vietnam War veteran to lead the fight against terrorism on American soil.He has also tapped a good friend.Ridge, 56, was named to the new Cabinet-level position on Thursday. He will be responsible for creating a plan to stop terrorist attacks. Ridge will resign as governor Oct. 5, said his spokesman, Tim Reeves. It is an honor to serve your country at any time, but mor stanley cup e s stanley travel mug o now than ever, Ridge said at a news conference on the steps of the state Capitol in Harrisburg. I m saddened that this job is even necessary. But it is. Ridge and Mr. Bush became close friends when Ridge volunteered to help with former President George H.W. Bush s campaign in 1988.Ridge s state was touched by terrorism last week. One of the four jetliners hijacked Sept. 11 crashed in western Pennsylvania, killing all 44 people aboard. So I will give it everything I have, Ridge said. The task is enormous. The nation faces an unusual threat that it has never faced before. Ridge grew up near Erie, Pa. He graduated from local Catholic schools, worked his summers as a union laborer and went to Harvard University. Sent to Vi stanley water bottle etnam in the spring of 1970, staff Sgt. Ridge and his squad one day encountered about 10 Viet Cong guerrillas as they were breaking for lunch near a village south of Da Nang.The Army later credited Ridge with killing an enemy sentry in the fight and skillfully c

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Washington mdash; A Michigan man was indicted last week for allegedly threatening to kill an attorney representing the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint sparked impeachment proceedings against President Trump.The man, Brittan Atkinson, was charged with one count of violating a federal statute that governs interstate communications, according to the newly unsealed indictment.Atkinson allegedly sent an email to Mark Zaid, the attorney representing the whistleblower, stanley water bottle on November 7, one day after Mr. Trump held a campaign rally in Louisiana,during which he read aloudyears-old tweets from Zaid and flashed a paper bearing his photo to the audience The email to Zaid read, All traitors must die miserable deaths. Those that represent traitors shall meet the same fate. We will hunt you down and bleed you out like the pigs you are. We have nothing but time, and you are running out. Keep looking over your shoulder. We know who you are, where you live, and who you associate with. We are all strangers in a crowd to you. The filing was first discovered by Seamus Hughes, deputy director of George Was stanley cup hington University s Program on Extremism. Zaid is not named in the document but confirmed to CBS News he received the email. I hope this indictment sends a message to others that such behavior stanley cup will not be tolerated by a civil society that is governed by law, Zaid told CBS News in an email. It s not appropriate for anyone to threaten anothe Srov Rep. Ilhan Omar thanks Fox News for condemning Jeanine Pirro s remarks
Barack Obama campaign manager David Plouffe has released a me stanley nz mo to reporters attempting to lower expectations for Obama s performance on Super Tuesday. Two weeks ago, a Clinton campaign adviser told CBS News that they believed they could wrap up the nomination on February 5th, he writes in his opening paragraph. As the inevitable national frontru stanley drink bottle nner, tomorrow should be the day when she sews up the nomination or builds a formidable delegate lead. But because of Obama s growing momentum across the country, the Clinton campaign is now unlikely gourde stanley to reach their stated goals of wrapping up the nomination tomorrow. That paragraph sets the tone for the rest of the memo, in which Plouffe argues that anything less than a resounding win for Clinton is a victory for Obama. Senator Clinton is certainly the favorite on February 5, given the huge leads she has held in many of these contests throughout the course of the campaign and the political, historical and geographic advantages she enjoys in many of these states, he writes.A CBS News poll released yesterday shows that Clinton and Obama are now running about even nationally, though the former first lady holds a 49 percent to 31 percent lead in Super Tuesday states. Plouffe writes that Clinton should still win California, where she once led by double-digits, but is unlikely to achieve her goal of getting a sizeable share of the delegates. Recent polls show a tightening race in

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Washington mdash; The nomination of Xavier Becerra to lea stanley cup d the Department of Health and Human Services is likely to clear the Senate after a pair of key senators, Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Susan Collins of Maine, announced their support.The Senate has yet to vote to confirm Becerra, the attorney general of California, as secretary of Health and Human Services, after the Senate Finance Committee deadlocked on party lines when it voted on whether to advance his nomination to the floor last week. But on Thursday, the upper chamber voted 51-48 to bypass the panel and allow Becerra s nomination to be considered by the full Senate.Collins was stanley uk the only Republican to join Democrats in the vote, which came after she and Manchin announced their support for Becerra s nomination. Their backing effectively ensures his confirmation, though by a narrow margin, with a vote expected in the coming days. Because the Senate is evenly stanley tumbler divided 50-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting tie-breaking votes, losing the support of one Democrat could spell doom for a nominee. In a statement announcing her support, Collins said she and Becerra have had several discussions about shared policy goals, including lowering drug prices and reducing dependence on foreign countries for drug manufacturing. Although there are issues where I strongly disagree with Mr. Becerra, I believe he merits confirmation as HHS Secretary, the Maine Repub Uojd McConnell tells AP he s skeptical of trying to repeal Obamacare again
CBS From CBS News Maria Gavrilovic: CHICAGO ndash; While Barack Obama has tried to avoid talking about Rev. Jeremiah Wright r stanley cup ecently, his former pastor has n stanley cup ot been keeping a low profile, scheduling a slew of public appearances. When asked if he believed that will hurt him in the upcoming stanley cup primaries, Obama dodged the question, telling reporters, I ll let you prognosticate. In an interview with Fox News Sunday, Obama said he did not discourage Wright from making appearances and understands why his desire to speak. He is somebody who has obviously been the subject of some pretty sharp attacks, Obama said. It s understandable that somebody, after an entire career of service, would want to defend themselves. When the controversy surrounding Obama s relationship with Rev. Wright first broke, Wright remained quiet. Instead, Obama gave a number of interviews and addressed questions about Wright. The controversy seemed to fade away ndash; during six weeks of campaigning in Pennsylvania, Obama was asked by voters about Wright only twice. Going forward, the campaign appears to want to put an end to questions about Wright. Communications Director Robert Gibbs did not have a comment about Wright s appearance at the NAACP Freedom Dinner last night. We ve said all we re going to say, Gibbs said. Wright didn t have much to say about his most famous parishioner, either. I m not here for political reasons, he said at the dinner. I