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With far more than military hearts and minds at stake, the presidential contenders are clashing over who best stands for U.S. soldiers mdash; President Bush accusing his opponent of denigrating them, Sen. John Kerry insisting you don t honor American troops by putting them in greater danger than they ought to be. The candidates all but climbed into uniform in their determination to identify with troops in Iraq, even as those men and women prepared for what could be a massive assault with heavy political implications back home.In the campaign s closing days, a larger purpose is at work than making common cause with the armed forces. Mr. Bush and Kerry are raising overarching questions about the stanley drink bottle other s judgment under pressure, a tactic being carried forward into their tours of Midwestern battleground states Thursday and beyond. Mr. Bush was stumping in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, in the reverse order of his Pennsylvania-Ohio-Michigan swing Wednesday that was capped by an early evening crowd of close to 20,000 at the Pontiac, Mich., Silverdome, one of the best turnouts of his campaign. Kerry was focusing on Ohio and Wisconsin before swinging south to spend Friday in Florida.The Democrat kept up his drumbeat of criticism over the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a large cache of explosives in Iraq, and the president struck back by saying the senator simply does not know what happ stanley thermoskannen ened there. stanley mugs A political candida

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WASHINGTON AP -- U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Libya continued for a second day Tuesday, as President Barack Obama called the new bombing campaign critical to protecting U.S. national security interests.The strikes are needed to ensure that Libya s fragile new Government of National Accord is able to finish the job and drive the militants out of the troubled North African country, President Obama said.Mr. Obama authorized the Pentagon to open a new, more persistent military front against Islamic State insurgents in Libya after the internationally backed government there asked for help with precision-targeting inside the city of Sirte. President Barack Obama answers questions during a joint stanley bottles news conference with Singapore s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016. AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais President Obama told reporters Tuesday at a White House news confe stanley quencher rence that the stanley thermos mug campaign would continue for as long as necessary to assure that ISIL does not get a stronghold in Libya. And he reiterated his regret that conditions in the country deteriorated since the NATO-led bombing campaign that drove longtime strongman Moammar Gadhafi from power in 2011. I think that all of us collectively were not sufficiently attentive to what had to happen the day after and the day after and the day Ulpo Happy To Be Here
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Former President Obama hit the campaign trail in Richmond, Virginia, Thursday night to stump for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam at a campaign event for the Democratic nominee, his second campaign stop of the day for a gubernatorial candidate. America is a story of progress, Mr. Obama said. Ralph Northam wants progress. He wants to take us forward, not backwards. This election matters, because our democracy is at stake, and it s at stake right here stanley cup in Virginia, Mr. Obama continued. At a time when politics seems so divided and so nasty, the question is whether voters can support and embrace a candidate like Northam who brings people together, the former president said. Northam faces Republican nominee Ed Gillespie on Election Day, Nov. 7. The former president s speech started out calm, but eventually became louder and more passionate, remini stanley tumblers scent of the speeches Mr. Obama gave about equality and American values when he himself was a candidate and president. Folks don t feel good now about what they see, Mr. Obama said. Instead of politics reflecting values, politics are infecting communities, he claimed. We ve got folks who are deliberately trying to make folks angry, and get the base riled up for a polit botella stanley ical advantage, the former president said, without mentioning his successor or Republicans in general.Mr. Obama mentioned the tragic events in Charlottesville, Virginia, when a woman was killed during Lbtr Here s what happens after Mueller submits his long-awaited report
President Obama speaks during the AIPAC Policy Conference at the Washington Convention Center on March 4, 2012 in Washington. JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images Updated March 5, 11:40 a.m. ETAt the annual American-Israel Public Affairs C stanley thermos ommittee AIPAC conference in Washington, President Obama promised the crowd that the United States would stand by Israel, but he warned against a rush to war with Iran. The day before his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Obama attempted to assure the pro-Israel audience th stanley mug at the United States will not sit idly by and watch Iran build a nuclear weapon. I have said that when it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table, and I mean what I say, the president said. The president had a similar message for Iran: Iran s leaders should understand that I termo stanley do not have a policy of containment; I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. But, the president urged more diplomacy, first, and to tame down any talk of military strikes against Iran. I only use force when the time and circumstances demand it, he said. Already, there is too much loose talk of war. The president urged continued use of sanctions, travel restrictions and efforts to choke off the Iranian regime, but he said that the United States is willin

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AP Photo/Ron Edmonds One of President Obama s top economic advisers said Monday that the nation s budget problems are largely attributable to two things: rising health care costs and the policies of the Bush administration. Putting the country back on the path to fiscal soundness will require reforming health care, Christina Romer, the head of the president s Council of Economic Advisers, said in a speech at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank. That means adopting policies that slow the growing rate of health care costs, such as a government-run health insurance plan, or public option, she said. There s no way we can get out of this if we don t s stanley botella low the growth rate of health care costs, Romer sa stanley thermoskannen id. Earlier this month, the U.S. Treasury Department reported the federal budget deficit reache stanley mugg d a record $1.4 trillion for the 2009 fiscal year, or about 10 percent of Gross Domestic Product. The Obama administration has estimated that a cumulative deficit from 2010 to 2019 would reach $9 trillion. By far the lion s share of the projected cumulative deficit is due to policy actions taken in the last administration, Romer said. In the absence of these actions, we could have had an economic downturn as severe as the current one and responded to it as aggressively as we have, all while keeping the budget roughly balanced over the next 10 years. Entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid account for ne

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The website for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group formed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to push stronger gun safety laws, is registered to NYC government servers and administered by NYC government staffers, according to Politico, raising questions about whether Bloomberg has blurred the line between his dual roles as mayor and advocate.The domain names for the gun group - mayorsagainstillegalguns and mayorsagainstillegalguns.org - are both registered under the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, which was first reported by Ace of Spades blogger John Ekdahl.Bloomberg has poured millions of dollars into an action fund associated with the group, lobbying members of Congress and the public to support stricter gun control laws. Critics have questioned why a website a stanley quencher ssociated with a group that spends millions of dollars of private money on political causes is being managed by the city government. Bloomberg s aides forcefully defended the arrangement, batting down questions of impropriety by p stanley cups ointing out the distinction between Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which is the co stanley cups uk alition of mayors, and the group s action fund, which is the vehicle for political spending. The activities of the mayors group are in the interest of keeping New York City safe, John McCarthy, a spokesman for Bloomberg, told Politico. He is acting in his capacity as mayor of New York City. Critics have raised Kbhd Upcoming Supreme Court abortion decision puts spotlight on medication abortion
The battle for control of Congress is in its final hours mdash; and both sides are pulling out all the stops, putting their most visible party members on the campaign trail, reports CBS News correspondent Aleen Sirgany. President Bush is rallying for Republicans in three states Monday mdash; Florida, Arkansas and Texas. But in Florida, GOP gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist skipped a scheduled appearance with the president to camp copo stanley aign elsewhere in the state. He insisted it had nothing to do with Mr. Bush s approval ratings.The Democrats are counting on star power from big names such as former President Bill Clinton and his wife, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. They campaigned in Virginia for Senat stanley mug e challenger Jim Webb and Rhode Island for Senate candidate Sheldon Whitehouse. stanley canada Republicans and Democrats sent thousands of volunteers to states with the most contested races to work phone banks and canvass neighborhoods to turn out voters.Up for grabs are 435 House seats, 33 Senate seats, governorships in 36 states, and thousands of state legislative and local races. In 37 states, voters also will determine the fate of ballot initiatives, including whether to ban gay marriage, raise the minimum wage, endorse expanded embryonic stem cell research and mdash; in South Dakota mdash; impose the country s most stringent abortion restrictions. A CBS News analysis shows 52 competitive House races, nearly all of them involving Repu

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President Trump s impeachment trial is keeping senators running for president off the campaign trail for the second week in a row. But Senator Elizabeth Warren has found a creative way to engage voters in her absence: her dog Bailey.With just a few days until the Democratic caucuses, the golden retriever pup has become the face of Warren s campaign, lining up for selfies in her place. Alex Warren holds the leash as a young girl and her mother pet Bailey Warren, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren s golden retriever, during a meet and greet at Wartburg College at Wartburg College in Waverly, I stanley shop owa, on January 29, 2020, while Elizabeth Warren remains in Washington, DC, for the Trump impeachment trial. JIM WATSON / AFP / Getty Images Volunteers and supporters pet Bailey Warren, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren s golden retriever, during a meet and greet at the Waterloo Field Office in Waterloo, Iowa on January 29, 2020. stanley drinking cup JIM WATSON / AFP / Getty Images Former presidential candidate Juliaacute;n Castro is fighting for Warren in Iowa, as is her husband, Bruce Mann. But Bailey Warren has become her star surrogate in Iowa. stanley cup becher Bailey is happy to be here, Mann said to a crowd of supporters on Wednesday. Qgzj Senate passes bipartisan highway bill, moves to the House
HARTFORD, Conn. - The cost of the compromise needed to raise the federal debt ceiling likely will inflict more fiscal pain on states still struggling to recover from the recession and the end of federal stimulus spending.President Barack Obama and Republicans sealed a deal Sunday to avoid the nation s first financial default and raise the debt limit while slashing more than $2 trillion from federal spending over a decade. Obama said that, if enacted, the agreement would mean the lowest level of domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president more than half a century ago.While the details of the spending cuts to states remain unclear, lawmakers from both parties have discussed the need to cut or impose caps on so-called discretionary spending over the next decade. That could mean wide-ranging cuts stanley cup in fede stanley cup ral aid to states, affecting everything from the Head Start school readiness program, Meals on Wheels and worker training initiatives to funding for transit agencies and education grants that serve disabled children.Financial markets show optimism on debt dealBoehner trumpets GOP influence in debt debatePresident Obama: Deal reached on debt crisisSpecial section: America s debt battleThere also was concern among governors, state lawmakers and state a stanley cup gency heads that Congress would make deep reductions or changes in federal aid for health services for the needy, most notably through Medicaid. That could shift more of the costs on

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What is a caucus and how does it work TheIowa caucuses, the first 2024 preside stanley cup ntial nominating contest, took place on Jan. 15, and Nevada will hold caucuses on Feb. 8.Nevada held primaries for Democrats, which President Biden handily won, on Feb. 6 and for Republicans, which got a little bit more complicated. Former President Donald Trump wasn t on the ballot for the primary, but Nikki Haley was and yet came in second to none of these candidates. CBS News projects that former President Donald Trump will win the Nevada Republican caucuses Thursday, easily defeating challenger Ryan Binkley. Haley wasn t on the ballot f stanley cup or the caucuses, all but assuring a victory for Trump.Trump won the Iowa caucuses, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis coming in sec stanley cup ond and Haley landing in third. The field of Republicans vying for the party s presidential nomination narrowed after that, with biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamysuspending his campaignimmediately after his fourth-place finish and DeSantis dropping out a few days later. Here s a guide to the caucuses, including what to expect in Nevada, which is also holding a primary the same week. When are the 2024 Nevada caucuses The Nevada caucuses will be held on Thursday, Feb. 8, from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m PT 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m ET .The Nevada primary was held on Tuesday, Feb. 6. But the caucuses are the only GOP race in Nevada that will determine delegates. Haley is on the primary b Lakc Ted Cruz launches ad against John Kasich in Wisconsin
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WASHINGTON -- Incoming White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has been promising to pursue leakers throughout the Trump administration, and now, it seems, he believes his own information has been leaked.On Wednesday night, Scaramucci tweeted: In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony. I will be contacting@FBIand the@TheJusticeDept swamp@Reince45 A screengrab shows a tweet, which was later deleted, poste stanley cups d to White House communications director A stanley cup nthony Scaramucci s account on July 26, 2017. The tweet was later deleted from Scaramucci s account. That mention of White House chief of staff Reince Priebus -- after swamp -- in this tweet is a little mysterious. However, stanley deutschland in the past few days, Priebus has seen two of his allies in the White House depart for reasons related to Scaramucci; outgoing press secretary Sean Spicer and another press aide, Michael Short.Multiple news organizations drew the link from the structure of Scaramucci s original tweet, reporting that he appeared to be suggesting that Priebus should be investigated in relation to leaking information to the media. Scaramucci, however, denied the insinuation, saying in a subsequent tweet that he was merely putting all leakers on notice that all Sr Adm officials are helping to end illegal leaks. Wrong! Tweet was public notice to leakers that all Sr Adm officials are helping to end illegal leaks. Twyn Marco Rubio suggests Donald Trump wet his pants, Trump hurls insults back
INTERVENTION....Jon Chait today:Must I really explain why it s OK to favor some wars but oppose others Apparently so. In particular, Chait wants to explain why liberals who supported intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo might not support continued intervention in Iraq:The key fact in Bosnia is that people were not, for the most part, slaughtering one another. Serbs were garrafinhas stanley slaughtering Bosnian Muslims and later Kosovars . That s a situation in which American military force could clearly solve the problem. All we had to do was inflict enough punishment upon the aggressors to make them stop.In Iraq, on the other hand, you really do have ethnic groups slaughtering one another. One of those groups, the Shiites, is mainly using the machinery of the state. The other group, the Sunnis, is using insurgent tactics. But the point is, we can t kill our way out of the problem, because success would entail not just persuading one side to stop its aggression but persuading both sides to make peace. And the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government shows no signs of wanting to make the concessions it needs to make for peace.There s actually an even stronger case to be made here. Consider the Kosovo war. We came in at the end of nearly a decade of fighting in the former Yugoslavia, when the ethnic violence in the region was finally showing signs of burning itself out. We had the stanley canada undivided support of NATO. The postwar occup termo stanley ation was conducted with plenty of troops. And since the end of the war the

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Security is being tightened across the country due to concerns about unrest linked to Election Day. New steel fencing went up around the White House Compl stanley spain ex on Monday, and theNew York CityPolice Department put businesses on alert as stores there and around the country board up as a precaution.With one day t stanley cups uk o go, political tensions remain high. In Houston, vandals targeted the county s Democratic Party headquarters, spray-painting the windows with the words elections no ... revolution yes. In Beverly Hills, protesters and counter protesters threw punches over the weekend.Beverly Hills police chief has warned about election-motivated violence. He told CBS News on Monday that his officers are working 12-hour shifts with no days off. Basically what stanley thermos we are doing is preparing for the worst and hoping for the best, Chief Dominick Rivetti said.In recent weeks, the FBI has arrested militia members who were allegedly planning attacks. Starting Tuesday, officials will be monitoring events across the country from a command center at FBI headquarters. A woman walks past a Vote sign on wooden boards covering the exterior of Chloe Gallery in San Francisco, on Monday, November 2, 2020, ahead of Election Day. Jeff Chiu / AP Washington, D.C., is likely to get extra attention. City homeland security officials are bracing for half a dozen protests Dpzo Trump classified documents trial could be delayed, as judge considers schedule changes
Dotty Lynch, Douglas Kiker, Beth Lester, Clothilde Ewing, Cody Kucharczyk, Dan Furman and Nathaniel Franks of the CBS News Political Unit have the latest from the nation s capital.Tuesday s Headlines* Rolls Out Veep * Veep Pick Tick Tock* Republicans Waste No Time Reacting to Edwards Pick * The McCain of Our ExistenceKerry Rolls Out Veep: To a cheering crowd in Pittsburgh, Sen. John Kerry announced that his vice president is ... Sen. John Edwards. After months of hush-hush vetting and rampant speculation, the final sign, reading Kerry stanley cup amp; Edwards, was put up only moments before Kerry began speaking, reports CBS News Steve Chaggaris. And in a sign of just how secret the decision was, one placard was spotted at the Pittsburgh announcement rally that read Kerry/Edwards on one side and Kerry/Graham, on the other.Now that news of Kerry s vice presidential pick is finally out, the two have a full schedule planned for the next few days. But they are taking their time going public. CBS News has learned that Sen. and Mrs. Edwards will head from Washington to Pittsburgh o stanley kubek n Tuesday afternoon, but may not appear with Kerry until Wednesday morning. Edwards spent the morning huddling with staff in his Georgetown home. Edwards and his wife will spend the night at Teresa Heinz Kerry s farm outside Pittsburgh. Kerry himself will detour from his announcement speech to a long-scheduled event in Indi stanley cup anapolis, where he will speak to the African

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CBS News Live Video Live The 2016 race that began 595 days ago and involved22 major candidates is expected to end Tuesday as millions of voters head to the polls across the U.S. to cast their ballots for president, vice president, their representatives in Congress an stanley cup d other elected officials.CBS News Election Center: Live resultsOn Monday, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state and former first lady, held a small 4-percentage-point lead over GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, according to a CBS News poll measuring the state of the race before the polls opened. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, is Clintonrsquo vice presidential nominee and Republican Gov. Mike Penceis Trumprsquo running mate.Check out where the two major candidates stand on major policy issues like guns, education, tax reform, the military, the economy and much more.Where does Hillary Clinton stand Where does Donald Trump stand While deadlines to register have passed in most states, 13 states and Washington, D.C. offer same-day registration, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Millions of voters have also alread stanley cup becher y cast ballots in 36 states and D.C. where early voting is offered.Early voting update and analysis of North Carolina Florida stanley cups uk Potential impact of Hispani Oecl Donald Trump s best faces of the Republican debate
House Oversight and Government Reform and Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman D-Calif. has accused the State Department s inspector general,Howard Krongard, of blocking several investigsations in a bid to protect the State Department and the White House from political embarrassment. Waxman made the allegations in a letter to Krongard today. Waxman said that current and former employeesemployees of the Office of Inspector General have contacted my staff with allegations that you interfered with on-going investigations stanley cup to prevent political fallout from the probes from damaging the Bush administration.According to Waxman, Krongard: refused to send investigators to Iraq and Afghanistan to look into allegations of wasteful spending or procurement fraud stanley drink bottle ; blocked a Justice Department probe into the waste, fraud and abuse at the new U.S. embassy in Baghdad, and followed highly irregular procedures in exonerating the prime contractor, First Kuwaiti Trading Company, of charges of labor trafficking ; blocked the investigation and potential criminal prosecution of a large State Deparment contractor operating in Afghanistan ; improperly tipped off Kenneth Timlinson, head of the Broadcasting Board of Governors parent agency for the Voice of America and a friend offormer top White Hous stanley water bottle e official Karl Rove,about an investigation into allegations of misconduct by him; did not provide Congress with information about security problems at U.S. embassies; and weakened audit

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The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Tuesday that aims to boost U.S. semiconductor production stanley mugs and the development of artificial intelligence and other technology in the face of growing international competition, most notably from China.The 68-32 vote for the bill demonstrated that confronting China economically is an issue that unites both parties in Congress. That s a rarity in an era of division as pressure grows on Democrats to change Senate rules to push past Republican opposition and gridlock.The centerpiece of the bill is a $50 billion emergency allotment to the Commerce Department to stand up semiconductor development and manufacturing through research and incentive programs previously authorized by Congress. The bill s overall cost would increase spending by about $250 billion with most of the spending occurring in the first five years. China reacted hastily and angrily. Beijing said stanley cup Washington is engaging in paranoid delusion, Agence France-Presse reported, citing state media. China s top legislature s foreign affairs committee depicted the bill as an attempt to interf stanley cups ere in China s internal affairs and deprive it of its legitimate right to development through technology and economic decoupling. Supporters described it as the biggest investment in scientific research that the country has seen in decades. It comes as the nation s share of semiconductor manufacturing globally has steadily eroded from 37% in 1990 to about 1 Dfjv Obama: The Past Versus the Future
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President Trump on Thursday indicated t stanley quencher hat he would be open to eliminating the debt ceiling entirely, after siding with Democrats over his own party on a debt limit extension deal Wednesday.Mr. Trump, asked in a meeting with cabinet officials if he was open to eliminating the debt limit completely, said there are many good reasons to do that. It could be discussed, the president said, according to the White House press pool. There are a lot of good reasons to do that. The debt ceiling is a cap Congress sets on how much debt the U.S. Treasury can issue, determining how much money the federal government can borrow.The president s remarks come a day after he stunned GOP leadership and even his own White House staff by making a spontaneous deal with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to extend the debt limit for three months instead of 18, lik stanley taza e Republicans had wanted, CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett has reported.But Mr. Trump s latest comments toying with the idea of eliminating the debt ceiling entirely clash with earlier stanley polska statements he has made attacking Congress and former President Barack Obama for extending the debt limit instead of curbing spending. In July 2011, Mr. Trump said Congress problem is spending, not revenue, and the debt limit shouldn t be raised until Obama-era spending is contained. Congress is back.TIME TO CUT, CAP AND BALANCE.There is no re Nost No Single-term Pledge For McCain
AP The White House says about 8,000 temporary firefighters and their families will get access to federal health insurance following a petition drive bolstered by this year s historic fire season in the West. The White House says abo stanley thermobecher ut 8,000 temporary firefighters and their families will get access to federal health insurance following a petition drive bolstered by this year s historic fire season in the West.President Barack Obama says the nation has been inspired by the heroism of firefighters battling deadly wildfires this summer. Obama says he has directed his adminis stanley water jug tration to ensure the firefighters can count on the care and protection they need. The temporary firefighters weren t covered by federal health insurance because under federal rules, temporary seasonal employees can t buy into federal insurance plans. Seasonal firefighters seek health insuranceMembers of a South Dakota-based hotshot crew who fought wildfires this year launched a petition drive seeking the health benefits and gathered more than 125,000 signatures. Obamacare: Health Care Reform stanley mug More Affordable Care Act has reduced disparities in health care, r