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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert is expected to plead guilty to charges related to his alleged efforts to conceal sexual misconduct, CBS News Charlie Brooks reports from Chicago.A judge in Chicago F stanley uk ederal Court convened a hearing Thursday in the case against Hastert, where Hastert s attorneys said the former speaker requests to plead guilty on October 28. The attorneys will present details of the plea to the judge on Monday, and he must approve the terms of the plea deal before it can be finalized.If it is finalized, Hastert s potentially dark secrets from his past could remain secret. Since the d stanley cup etails of the plea deal were not announced in court on Thursday, it s unclear specifically what he will plead to. Hastert, the longest serving Republican House speaker in history, was indicted this past May and charged with violating federal banking laws and lying to FBI investigators. According to the indictment, Hastert agreed to pay $3.5 million in 2010 to a person identified only as Individual A, in an effort to compensate and conceal Hastert s prior misconduct. Hastert pleaded not guilty in June. Law enforcement sources have told CBS News that the misconduct mentioned in court documents refers to sexual misconduct allegations involv stanley cup ing a young man that date back more than 30 years. From 1965-1981, Hastert was a popular teacher and wrestling coach in Yorkville, Illinois.To conceal the allegations of misconduct, prosecutors Bzns Clinton spokesman: Campaign could have released health info more quickly
This story was written by Colin Kavanaugh, Daily PennsylvanianDuring the final presidential debate on Wednesday night, fewer than a dozen students crowded around a living room TV, tuned in to Fox News and cheered on their candidate: Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee. On a largely l stanley quencher iberal campus, the College Republicans are ready to share their message with whomever is willing to listen. And they re stanley cup well aware that they re fighting against the tide. It s a great challenge, said College junior Zac Byer, president of the College Republicans. But we re dedicated, intelligent and concerned about the issues. The group s relatively small size, numbering about 50 active members, pales in comparison to the Penn Democrats, one of the largest organizations on campus. However, Byer said he believes the group is strengthened by its size and the unity of its members. The group seeks to unify members around a message of small government and opens its doors to Republicans of all leanings on fiscal stanley thermobecher and social issues. We don t want to limit students into a distinct category of Republicanism, Byer said. The diversity of the group was evident at Wednesday s debate party, when McCain and Democratic nominee Barack Obama were asked about their vice-presidential selections. The McCain campaign has presented his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, as a socially conservat
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President Obama on Monday unveiled his very own official, verified Twitter account, with the handle @POTUS for President of the United States . Hello, Twitter! It s Barack. Really! Six years in stanley cup , they re finally giving me my own account.mdash; President Obama @POTUS May 18, 2015 Previously, those looking for Mr. Obama s point of view on Twitter would have to tur stanley water bottle n to @WhiteHouse, the official account for the administration, or @BarackObama, an account run by Organizing for Action, the nonprofit that evolved from Mr. Obama s campaign organization Obama for America. When either of those accounts tweeted a message directly from Mr. Obama, it would end with the signature, -bo. Watch President Obama send his first tweet from @POTUS. FollowTheTweetshttps://t.co/N8JxY8kQIEmdash; The White House @WhiteHouse May 18, 2015 According to a White House press release, Mr. Obama sent his first @POTUS tweet from the O stanley cup becher val Office. The new account, the White House said, will serve as a new way for the president to engage directly with the American people, with tweets coming exclusively from him. By Monday evening, the president had accumulated more than 1.2 million followers. He also followed 65 other Twitter accounts, including the universities he attended, Chicago sports teams, cabinet agencies and members of his administration including Vice President Biden. He s also following the former presidents on Twitter -- George H.W. Bush Gtuj Amy Klobuchar dropping out of 2020 race and endorsing Joe Biden
President Bush is opening the White House this week to black leaders including pastors and legislators, a second-term overture to a community that overwhelmingly opposed his re-election. I believe in fresh starts, said Rep. Melvin Watt, D-N.C., new chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, which has had an adversarial relationship with the president but has a chance to get off on a better footing at a meeting Wednesday.The meeting with black la stanley cup wmakers comes after Mr. Bush is receiving 14 black clergy and 10 black leaders in business and non-profit agencies Tuesday afternoon at the White House. Exit polls showed that Mr. Bush received just 11 percent of the black vote in November s election, a slight increase over the 9 percent he received four years earlier. This is an opportunity for the president to talk about our priorities and the agenda, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. It s also an opportunity for the president to listen to issues of interest to these leaders. During last year s political campaigns, Republican officials said they were making a more concerted effort to reach out to blacks stanley quencher through religious leaders. Bush campaign aides cited issues such as school vouchers and the president s support of stanley becher a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage that could help him gain more support among blacks.Mr. Bush s efforts to steer more federal dollars to social programs conducted by so-called faith-based groups al
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Washington mdash; A retired Army lieutenant colonel was arrested Saturday and accused of illegally disclosing sensitive national defense information on a stanley cup foreign dating site, according to charging documents.David Franklin Slater, 63 mdash; who most recently worked as a civilian Air Force employee assigned stanley cup spain to United States Strategic Command USSTRATCOM mdash; allegedly communicated with an unnamed person claiming to be a woman living in Ukraine and sent the individual secret Pentagon documents about Russia s war in that country, court filings said.STRATCOM is the U.S. military combatant command responsible for nuclear deterrence and nuclear command and control and is headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. While working at STRATCOM, Slater had a Top Secret Security clearance, according to the filings, and received training for the proper handling of sensitive government information. Certain responsibilities are incumbent to individuals with access to Top Secret information. The allegations against Mr. Slater challenge whether he betrayed those responsibilities, said U.S. Attorney Susan Lehr for the District of Nebraska.After retiring from the army in 2020, prosecutors said Slater started working for STRATCOM stanley cup in August 2021, where he attended top secret briefings about the war in Ukraine. STRATCOM confirmed he was an employee in its Directorate of Logistics until 2022. Slater and the unnamed individual discussed th Fdhl Full transcript of Face the Nation, April 14, 2024
Prodded by national anger at Wall Street, the Senate on Thursday passed the most far-reaching restraints on big banks since the Great Depression. In its broad sweep, the massive bill would touch Wall Stre stanley quencher et CEOs and first-time home buyers, high-flying traders and small town lenders.The 59-39 vote represents an important achievement for President Barack Obama. The measure was his next top legislative priority after signing his health care bill into law on March 23, and he views t stanley cup oday s development as an important political win, reports CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller. The bill must now be reconciled with a House version that passed in December. A key House negotiator predicted the legislation would reach Obama s stanley cup desk before the Fourth of July.The legislation aims to prevent a recurrence of the near-meltdown of big Wall Street investment banks and the resulting costly bailouts. It calls for new ways to watch for risks in the financial system and makes it easier to liquidate large failing financial firms. It also writes new rules for complex securities blamed for helping precipitate the 2008 economic crisis, and it creates a new consumer protection agency. Obama Savors Chance at Another Legislative WinIt would impose new restraints on the largest, most interconnected banks and demand proof that borrowers could pay for the simplest of mortgages. Our goal is not to punish the banks but to protect the larger economy and
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Ciph McCain Touts Palin s National Security Chops
This post originally appeared on National Journal.You ve heard the phrase a million times. It s become an environmental earworm.Now, nearly 100 years after Patrick Geddes published Cities in Evolution, the book many assert gave rise to theconcept of Think Globally, Act Locally, that phrase now may have actual, practical meaning. Among the most interesting parts stanley cups of the National Climate Assessment is its emphasis on what local and state governments can do to adapt to climate change and minimize its potential ravages.Consider this section: Building codes and landscaping ordinances could be updated to improve energy efficiency, conserve water supplies, protect against insects t stanley cups hat spread disease such as dengue fever , reduce susceptibility to heat stress, and improve protection against extreme events. The last time I checked, neither Congress nor the federal government determined building codes or reworked ordinance on local water supplies or energy efficiency.The report also emphasizes the need for flexibility and resilience in the face of ongoing and future impacts. As anyone who has been through a catastrophic weather event can tell you, FEMA can help, but what cities and states must do in the immediate aftermath is be flexible and resilient. Neither are priorities in Washington just now. Not on climate change or anything else. The report does an excellent job of making the point that climate change is happening stanley cup now, Jerry Fhwo Gloria Steinem walks back slam of young women supporting Bernie Sanders
Chicago mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel, left, and his wife Amy Rule acknowledge the crowd during inaugural ceremonies Monday, May 16, 2011 in Chicago. AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast Rahm Emanuel, the former Obama administration official known for his aggressive partisanship, was sworn in as mayor of Chicago today with a promise to unite the city as it confronts its challenges.At the same time, Emanuel directly challenged Republican-led attempts at fiscal reform in states like Wisconsin and Ohio, saying that Chicago residents should take another course. stanley becher New times demand new answers; old problems cry out for better results, Emanuel said in his inaugural address. We simply stanley cup can t afford the size of city government that we had in the past. And taxpayers deserve a more effective and efficient government than the one we have today. As the 46th mayor of Chicago, Emanuel faces a $1.2 billion budget shortfall. Emanuel explicitly criticized the approach taken to address similar shortfalls by governments in Wisconsin and Ohio, where budget problems this year turned in vaso stanley to political battles over union rights. Leaders in those states, he said, were exploiting their financial crisis to achieve a political goal. That is not the right course for Chicago s future. Still, Emanuel called his city s financial situation difficult and profound. The former White House
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Tfkg Donald Trump harps on Jay Z s language at pro-Hillary Clinton rally
The Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who once marched beside Martin Luther King Jr. will find himself walking among a different congregation on Saturday. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., the youngest speaker at the 1963 stanley cup March on Washington, makes history again as the only sitting member of Congress to write a comic book. Between the fantastical creatures at Comic-Con, which bills itself as the focal point for the world of comics conventions, Lewis will promote his autobiographical trilogy about the civil rights movement, March. Comic-Con 2013 47 photos This story is about movement, Lewis told CBSNews. It s about people moving from a place of segregation to a place of reconciliation. It shows how people can overcome and build a sense of community. Lewis will retell the trilogy s first story at a Comic-Con presentation in San Diego. The tale chronicles Lewis leadership in the 1965 march from Selma to stanley water bottle Montgomery, Ala., later called Bloody Sunday. Ei stanley us ght days after this protest, former President Lyndon Johnson sent the Voting Rights Act to Congress. People bled and some died to participate, Lewis told CBSNews. I hope by reliving what happened and how it happened, people will connect with the Xuil Rep. Clyburn reveals Biden confided in him before picking Harris: I am having a little war between my head and my heart
AP Photo/Richard Lewis With President Obama s announcement that he is reversing former President George W. Bush s restrictions on federally-fund stanley isolierkanne ed embryonic stem cell research, we decided to take a look at CBS News polling on the topic and found the Americans have generally shown their support for the research.In 2007, the last time CBS News asked the question, 65 percent said they approved of medical research using embryonic stem cells compared to 25 percent who disapproved. At the time, 74 percent of Democrats approved as did 54 percent of Republicans.When CBS News first asked about medical research using embryonic stem cells in 2004, 50 percent approved of the idea. Support for it has been on the rise since then with 56 percent approving in 2005 and 59 percent in 2006.However, it should be noted that a recent Gallup poll comes at the question a different way -- specifically asking about the issue of government-funded research. In a poll last month, 52 percent said they support fewer or no restrictions on federally-funded research and 41 percent they support keeping the same restrictions or not funding the research at all. Those figures were a dip from a 2007 Gallup poll in which 60 percent of Americans said they supported fewer or no restriction stanley mug s on federally-funded research. Jennifer De Pinto, manager of election and survey information for CBS News, contribu stanley cup ted to this post.
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The Clintons, Americarsquo foremost would-be presidential dynasty, are apparently sticking around. Chelsea Clinton has new childrenrsquo book in the works. Itrsquo called She Persisted, a title provided by kid favorite stanley mug Mitch McConnell. Chelsea also has a Twitter account with over 1.5 million followers ndash; some of whom, we must assume, are actual living human stanley cup beings. Her tweets, Politico tells us, are proof of a ldquo picy and sarcastic online personality that has emerged since her motherrsquo defeat.But itrsquo not just Chelsea; Hillary persists as well. She said last week that she wants to come out of the woods and rejoin public life. There are also now at least two movies in production about her life, and thatrsquo not including the various dramatizations of the 2016 election wersquo;ve been threatened with. One concerns her brief fish-gutting days in Valdez, Alaska, after graduating from Wellesley in 1969. Being Hillary, shersquo t stanley termoska old a few different versions of the story over the years, which should provide the screenwriter with a little extra room for creative license. Hillary Clinton reemerges on national stage after 2016 race 03:55 There must be an audience for all this Clinton stuff, righ Khiq Leon Panetta on his concerns about Trump not getting daily intel briefings
CBS From CBS News John Bentley:PHILADELPHIA ndash; Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now, Barack Obama said today, as he delivered one of the most important speeches of his candidacy, confronting the issues of race in presidential politics and his own relationship with a controversial minister, Jeremiah Wright. Reverend Wright s comments were not only wrong but divisive, divisive at a time when we need unity, Obama said, racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems. Wright has received criticism for comments he s made from the pulpit, such as saying that blacks should condemn America for treating our citizens as less than human, and that the U.S. brought 9/11 on itself because of its foreign policy. Obama admitted he heard Wright preach things he did not agree with while he was a member of Wright s church for nearly 20 years. As imperfect as h stanley cup e may be, he has been like family to me, Obama said of Wright. I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. While Obama said the black community needed to embrace the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past, he took the white community to task as well. I can no stanley borraccia more disown him than stanley cup I can my white grandmother ndash; a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world
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Sjua Whistleblower claims possible improper efforts to influence IRS audits of Trump or Pence tax returns
The police chief who led the Orlando Police Department during the Pulse nightclub massacre has been elected sheriff of Orange County. John Mina ran as an Independent, defeating two candidates Tuesday in the race to replace Jerry Demings, the mayor-elect of Orlando.The Orlando Sentin stanley cup el reports Mina will lead the largest law enforcement agency in centralFlorida, with a $250 million budget and about 2,600 full-time employees.Mina campaigned on his four-year tenure as police chief. He originally joined the Orlando Police Department in 1991 and served various roles before becoming chief in 2014. Mina s opponents criticized his record throughout the campaign, including claims that his officers used excessive force. Orlando stanley water bottle Mayor Buddy Dyer, center right, and Orlando Police Chief John Mina, center left, arrive to a news conference after a fatal shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016. Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP 2018 Midterm Elections More stanley tumbler What is Prop 3 Voters in Michigan approve abortion rights amendment Lbst U.S. begins deporting migrants to Guatemala under asylum deal
Amid consumer outcry in the U.S. about soaring gasoline prices, Exxon Mobil Corp., the world s largest oil company, said Thursday that higher oil prices drove first-quarter profits up 7 percent from the prior ye stanley mug ar. Net income rose to $8.4 billion, or $1.37 per share, for the January-March period from $7.86 billion, or $1.22 per share, a year ago.Exxon Mobil said its earnings came in below its record fourth-quarter because all three of its business ndash; exploration and production; refining; chemicals ndash; didn t perform as well.Exxon s earnings follow ConocoPhillips s announcement Wednesday that its earnings rose 13 percent to $3.29 billion in the first quarter. Chevron is expected to announce Close to $4 billion in profits on stanley drink bottle Friday. The average retail price of gasoline in the U.S. is now $2.91 a gallon, or 68 cents higher than a year ago. Reports of the oil companies profits come as Washington lawmakers are looking to appease consumers with various proposals to make big oil companies pay more taxes or provide consumers with some other relief.Senate Republicans advocate sending $100 rebate checks to millions of taxpayers, and a Democrat is leading the campaign for a 60-day g caneca stanley asoline tax holiday. A vote is possible as early as this week on the Senate GOP approach, which calls for $100 rebate checks for taxpayers to cushion the impact of higher gasoline prices. The measure seems unlikely to prevail, at least initially, since i
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Washingt stanley cup on mdash; The former top counterintelligence official at the FBI s New York field office has been arrested and charged with violating U.S. sanctions on Russia and money laundering, the Justice Department said Monday.Charles McGonigal, 54, was accused in a five-count indictment of working for Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, who has been under U.S. sanctions since 2018. Sergey Shestakov, a former Russian diplom stanley website at turned U.S. citizen who worked as an interpreter for federal courts and prosecutors, was also charged in the scheme.Federal prosecutors allege the pair worked for Deripaska to investigate an unnamed rival Russian oligarch in 2021 in violation of U.S. sanctions and worked to conceal their activity. Shestakov faces an additional charge of lying to FBI investigators. McGonigal retired in 2018 after 22 years with the bureau, most recently as a special agent in charge of the FBI s Counterintelligence Division in New York. The Justice Department said he supervised and participated in investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska. In a separate stanley cup spain case, McGonigal is also facing federal charges in the District of Columbia related to at least $225,000 in cash he allegedly received from a person with business interests in Europe and who worked for a foreign intelligence service. In that nine-count indictment also unsealed Monday, McGonigal allegedly hid from the FBI the nature of his relationship with the f Udwz Soak The Rich, And What Do You Get
This video praising Sen. John Cornyn R-Tex. , which first aired at the Texas Republican convention earlier this month, has gotten some unlikely attention ndash; from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.The video portrays Cornyn dressed in cowboy regalia riding on a horse with a baritone narrator singing his praises to the tune of Jimmy Deanrsquo Big Bad John. It is now featured on the DSCCrsquo blog, and was also paro stanley cup died by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show this week.It features such classic lines, such as: He came down off the bench after doing his time. He fought heathens and all kinds of crime. He was just getting started and a long ways to go. We sent him to Washington to the really big show. Big John. Big Bad John. And this: Don t think that, big Johnny, we re sending you back. And you re doing the Lord s work for Texas, and we got your back. We ll call folk, we ll hustle, we ll outwork our foe. We ll tell souls in Texas you must get six mo . Well that place out yonder needs more men like you, who ll shoot straight and talk straight and enjoy a good brew. Cornyn is up for re-election this year, and is facing Democratic state senator Rick Noriega in the general election. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 { display: none; } inline-recirc-item--id- stanley becher c87ecc84-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c87ecc84-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d { stanley cup di
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Washington mdash; While Democrats have clinched control of the Senate with victorie stanley cup s in Arizona and Nevada, the party could end the 2022 midterm elections with an expanded majo stanley canada rity if it is successful in Georgia, where Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker will face each other in a head-to-head matchup known as a runoff election.Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed on Nov. 9 that the Senate race would advance to a runoff on Dec. 6, since none of the candidates on the ballot cleared the 50% threshold needed to declare victory. Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver won 2.1%, denying both Warnock and Walker a majority of the vote and triggering a second election to determine the winner.This is the second time in less than two years that Georgia vote stanley cup spain rs have ended up with a runoff election date. In the 2020 election, both Senate seats were up for grabs and both races headed to runoffs. Warnock and Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff ultimately defeated Republican incumbent Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, respectively, in the Jan. 5, 2021, contest. The sweep by the two Democrats solidified the party s control of the Senate. With Georgia back in the spotlight and the midterm election season effectively extended for another few weeks, here s a look at the history of the state s runoff system, how the upcoming election will work and what s at stake. The history of Georgia s runoff elec Ishq MicroPolitics
The question of whether the Horned Frogs are doomed to share the fate of the Thundering Herd and the Green Wave is not your typical topic of discussion in offi stanley en mexico cial Washington.But senators could look to the plight of the undefeated Texas Christian University Horned Frogs on Wednesday as they inquire about the fairness and legality of the Bowl Championship Series mdash; the method in place for crowning college football s national champion.Now 8-0, the Horned Frogs follow in the footsteps of the Marshall University Thundering Herd and the Tulane University Green Wave before them as little schools that could, but ultimately could not because they were shut out of the BCS bowls by a process critics say is unduly restrictive and exclusive. termo stanley To automatically qualify for an elite BCS bowl game, a team must finish in the top six in the BCS rankings and in the top 12 just to be eligible. The process favors the nation s six powerhouse football conferences and Notre Dame. The Horned Frogs are currently 12th. It makes it virtually impossible for any BCS school to become a guaranteed at-large team, Tulane University President Scott Cowen said Tuesday. He was testifying Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. There s no rationale for it other than they want it to be exclusive and have a concentration of money and po stanley water jug wer, he said.It was 1998 when Tulane went through its season undefeated, but had to settle for playing in the Liberty
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iSuppli believ stanley canada es that HP WebOS-powered Touchpad tablet has an estimated $318 worth of parts, with a manufacturing cost of $10. The 32GB 3G iPad 2, by comparison, had $325 worth of parts. The majority of the costs in the $599 32GB model went to the display technology, which accounted for $134 worth of the total price. Other significant costs included those for RAM, CPU and battery. The $499 16GB model had $296 worth of parts stanley cup and a $10 manufacturing cost . Ultimately, HP is making roug stanley flask hly $193 and $271 off each 16GB and 32GB TouchPad sale, respectively. [iSuppli] HP TouchPadTabletTablets Qjcf Watch British News Baffled by Mysterious Louise Boat Hackers
Years ago, rumor had it that David Cronenberg was remaking his insect body-splicing movie The Fly for Fox. Turns out we were misled: it wasn ;t a remake, it a sequel. And Cronenberg already written the screenplay. So what the hold-up stanley taza In an interview with STYD, Cronenberg revealed that it all up to the studio: The Fly is not exactly a remake, itvaso stanley 8217 sort of a sequel, kinda. Yeah, that was a thing. I ;ve written a script of that, and I don ;t know if that going to really happen, but that has to do with Fox. We ;re pretty shocked that the sequel- and remake-obsessed movie industry would pass on an already-written Cronenberg horror script. Here hoping the collective furor of the internet gets this project on the fast-track. stanley thermos mug HorrorMoviesThe Fly
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