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A new poll by Pew Research Center found that the majority of Americans, 56 percent, believe that President Trump has not done enough to distance himself from white nationalists.The poll is largely split along partisan lines. Eighty-three percent of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents believe Mr. Trump has not done enough, compared to 26 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents.Most Americans also agreed that it was probable that Mr. Trump has done something illegal or unethical. Sixty-four percent said that Mr. Trump has definitely or probably done something illegal, and 72 percent that he has definitely or probably done something unethical. Twenty stanley cups uk -nine percent of Republi stanley taza cans believe that Mr. Trump has definitely or probably done something illegal, and 45 percent said he has definitely or probably done something unethical.The poll was largely conducted when Attorney General William Barr announced that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had not concluded that Mr. Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign. However, the poll still found that 81 percent of Republicans and Republican leaners approve of Mr. Trump. Eighty-eight percent of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independence disapprove stanley cup of his job performance. More from CBS News Jiyv House Republicans could look more diverse after Election Day
Updated 11:03 a.m. ETPresident Barack Obama s four appointments to the bipartisan debt panel he establi stanley vaso shed last week include the head of manufacturing giant Honeywell and a former top-ranking Federal Reserve official.Obama on Friday named David Cote, chief executive officer at Honeywell International, and former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alice Rivlin to the panel. He also appointed Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, and Ann Fudg stanley thermos mug e, the former chief executive officer of Young Rubicam Brands. For far too long, Washington has avoided the tough choices necessary to solve our fiscal problems, Obama said in a statement announcing the new members. He thanked them for being willing to serve.Obama established the panel last week to find a way to get the country s massive budget deficit under control. He named Democratic former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, as co-chairs, and gave himself the authority to appoint four additional members to the 18-person panel. Republican and Democratic leaders can each a stanley hrnek ppoint six additional members to the panel. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made his selections earlier in the week, naming Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois to the panel. The rest of the commission is yet to be na

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Washington mdash; House Republican leadership on Wednesday unveiled the legislative text for three bills that are part of a complicated plan by Speaker Mike Johnson to get aid to U.S. allies while addressing concerns from conservatives.The three bills would provide $26.4 billion to support Israel, $60.8 billion to bolster Ukraine and $8.1 billion to counter China in the Indo-Pacific, including billions for Taiwan. The Israel bill also includes more than $9.1 b vaso stanley illion to add stanley water bottle ress humanitarian needs, which Democrats said was necessary for their support.The fourth bill, which is set to be released later in the day, is geared toward addressing other GOP foreign policy priorities. That measure would allow the sale of frozen assets of Russian oligarchs, potentially force the sale of TikTok and authorize stricter sanctions on Russia, China and Iran. House Republicans are also expected to rele stanley cup ase a border security bill that would be considered separately. Johnson said he would give lawmakers 72 hours to review the legislation, teeing up a vote as soon as Saturday. President Biden said he would sign it into law, calling on the House to pass it this week and the Senate to quickly follow. Both chambers are scheduled to be in recess next week.Johnson, a Louisiana Republican,announced the proposal on Monday amid mounting pressure from members in both parties to hold a vote on a bipartisan Senate package that includes support for the U.S. allies. The $ Rkxh In Arkansas, Republicans add a contender
While CBS News has reported that President-elect Barack Obama has kept his finger on the pulse of erupting violence on the Gaza Strip, he has not yet spoken publically about the tenuous situation. Transition officials say that Mr. Obama has received intelligence briefings and spoken to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and President George W. Bush regarding Israel s bombing campaign. But the vacationing president-elect seems to be enjoying his last days away from the presidential hot seat, which seems to be burden stanley cup ed by an ever growing to-do list. Mr. Obama has not always stayed mum on issues affecting Israel and the Middle East, however. During his presidential campaign, many said he was plagued by a Jewish problem and would have difficulty attracting Jewis stanley cups uk h voters, a critical Democratic demographic. Most of the fodder for this problem was from guilt by association with Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan and advisor Tony McPeak, whose comments on Israel have drawn criticism. stanley quencher In June 2008, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg felt compelled to defend Obama to against an internet smear campaign. There are plenty of emails floating around the Internet targeting Jewish voters and saying that Senator Obama is secretly a Muslim, and a radical one at that. Let s call these rumors what they are: lies, Bloomberg told the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County. They are cloaked in concern for Israel, but the real concern is

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Millions fewer people would have comprehensive health insurance over the next decade under the Graham-Cassidy plan to repeal Obamacare, compared with the stanley cup current baseline projections for every year over the next decade, according to a prelimina stanley cup ry analysis released Monday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation JCT .There are three reasons the CBO cites for the reduction in covered Americans:Enrollment in Medicaid would be substantially lower because of the large reductions in funding;Nongroup coverage enrollment woudl drop because of reductions in subsidies; andEnrollment across the board would be lower because of the repeal of the mandates and penalties for not having insurance.CBO projects that the decrease in the number of insured people would be particularly large starting in 2020. That s when Graham-Cassidy would make major changes to funding for Medicaid and the nongroup market. CBO and JCT also expect problems in implementing the plan, as well as market disruptions, because of the short planning time given for planning between now and 2020. The budget scorekeeper, along stanley cup becher with the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, estimate that the legislation would reduce the on-budget deficit by at least $133 billion. An exact number of those without comprehensive health insurance is not yet known due to the last-minute nature of the CBO s score.The reason for the budget savings is Poyx Allen West, running for governor of Texas, diagnosed with COVID-19
AP General Stanley McChrystal walked into the Oval Office at 9:51 a.m. today and promptly offered President Obama his resignation as Commander, U.S. Forces in Afghanistan. Mr. Obama, who had already discussed replacing McChrystal with General David Petraeus according to administration officials, accepted McChrystal s resignation.But we re told their one-on-one meeting lasted for about 30 minutes. So here s the question the White House isn t answering: if the president was already thinking about McChrystal s replacement, what did the two men discuss for half an hour Did McChrystal make an argument to keep his job Was the president reluctant to fire him So far, at least, the usual suspects among White House stanley cup officialdom aren t saying. And maybe they don t know. They weren t in the room. It wasn t until after his meeting with McChrystal that the president called in his top National Security advisers: Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, National Security Adviser James Jones and Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel. The president told them that he intended stanley portugal to appoint General Petraeus to take over in Afghanistan. After that, in a 45-minute one-on-one, the president met with Petraeus and asked him to take on the job. It s a demotion of sorts - Petraeus cur stanley cup nz rent job is leading the Arm

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As the Supreme Court considers its decision on the matter, most Americans don t think Donald Trump should have immunity from criminal prosecution for actions t stanley cup aken while president, and most don t think presidents generally should have immunity either.Some Republicans, though, feel a little differently: they think Trump should have immunity. This question was asked of a representative half of survey respondents in the latest CBS News poll. The other half were asked just about whether U stanley mugs .S. presidents should have immunity from criminal prosecution, with no mention of Donald Trump, specifically.Most Americans also oppose immunity for U.S. presidents generally. The ones who favor immunity tend to be older and more conservative. That may suggest a different ideological view of the role of the presidency, but it s also stanley tumblers possible that since they are among the kinds of groups backing Trump today, there may be some recent news about Trump in their minds informing these views, even though he was never directly mentioned in the question. In all, comparing the two groups, Republicans asked about Trump were more likely to say he should have immunity than were the Republicans asked about presidents generally.Two-thirds of Republicans think Trump should have immunity from prosecution, but that number drops to just 45% when they re asked more generally whether U.S. pre Foxx Florida retirees trick out golf carts for Trump
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Washington mdash;The U.S. conducted an airstrike against an ISIS-K vehicle laden with explosives near the airport in Kabul on Sunday, U.S. defense officials said, the second such strike against the militant gr stanley thermos mug oup since a deadly attack against U.S. forces last week.Captain Bill Urban, a Central Command spokesman, said in a statement that the strike was carried out by a drone and eliminated an imminent ISIS-K threat to Hamid Karzai International Airport. Urban said the U.S. is confident the strike hit the target, and initial reports indicated there were no civilian casualties.But an Afghan official told the Associated Press that three children were killed in the strike. Later on Sunday, Urban said that Central Command stanley cup was aware of the reports that civilians were killed, and that they are still assessing the results of this strike. We know that there were substantial and powerful subsequent explosions resulting from the destruction of the vehicle, indicating a large amount of explosive material inside that may have caused additional casualties, Urban said. It is unclear what may have happened, and we are investigating further. A defense official told CBS News there is uncertainty over whether the strike destroyed a car bomb or killed a suicide bomber riding in the car stanley tumbler . Initial reports indicated that the car was carrying a suicide bomber, but the size of the secondary explosion has convinced some analysts that it was a fully loaded c Fdaq Giuliani Draws Lightning From Above
FILE In this Oct. 16, 2011 file photo, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., D- stanley quencher Ill., is seen during the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington. Charles Dharapak CBS News stanley canada Colleagues are publicly calling for Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., to provide more details into an illness that has forced inpatient treatment and a leave of absence from Congress.Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters Tuesday that he hopes Jackson is able to return in a short time, but says that elected officials have a duty to be open with voters. I think that we all have a responsibility to report to our constituent stanley water bottle s, Hoyer said. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., echoed similar statements, noting that he has no inside information on Jackson s ailment or condition. As a public official, though, there reaches a point where you have a responsibility to tell people what you re facing and how things are going, WBBM newsradio in Chicago reported. If there is some medical necessity for him not saying more at this moment, then I will defer to that, but he will soon have to make a report on what he s struggling with - the physical condition he s struggling with, Durbin said. Jackson has been on leave since June 10, and his office said last week that he is being treated for physical and emotional ailments and that his condition is more serious tha

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There s a border crisis in Pennsylvania. The radical left is surging in New Jersey. And Nancy Pelosi is a threat to New York.Republican candidates in the nation s premier midterm battlegrounds have embraced a central message in their fight to maintain the House majority this fall mdash; and it has stanley cup little to do with the surging economy or the sweeping tax cuts that the GOP celebrated as a once-in-a-generation achievement just eight months ago.Instead, as Republicans enter the final month of the primary season, they re looking ahead to a general-election strategy of embracing anxiety as a tool to motivate voters. That was clear this week as the GOP s closing message in an Ohio special election questioned Democrat Danny O Connor s connection to Pelosi, the House Democratic leader and preferred super villain for Republicans. We wish it got the pitch forks out vaso stanley and it doesn t, GOP ad maker Will Ritter said of the Republican tax cuts.Some Republican strategists are frustrated the party isn t focused on the tax law or the broader health of the economy in the run-up to Election Day. Others concede that in the Trump era, there s no better motivator than fear of the other side, particularly the prospect of Pelosi returning to the speaker s chair. The plan had some success in Ohio: The race was too close to call Wednesday as Republican Troy Balderson maintained a razor-thin advantage over O Connor, staving off stanley tumbler an embarrassing GOP debate fo Tsmn Commentary: The Democrats take their case to the moderates
This story was written by Jennifer Sussex, Michigan DailyAfter the calamity known as the 2000 presidential election, public outcry forced the U.S. Congress to pass the Help America Vote Act of 2002. HAVA solved the problem of those pesky hanging chads, giving states about $3.9 billion to switch from the punch-card voting system to touch-screen machines, among other changes. But due to the way these machines are monitored or rather, not monitored , this election is precariously close to mirroring the contentious election of eight years ago. With HAVAs help, the high-tech, computerized touch screens that have replaced paper ballots appear to have resolved the issue of determining voter intent in the event of a recount. Few besides residents of Sarasota, Fla. realize that some models of the new machines actually eliminate the possibility of an accurate recall entirely. stanley nz In the 2006 race in Sarasota, stanley cup tallies revealed that Democrat stanley kubek ic candidate Christine Jennings lost to Republican Vern Buchanan by about 368 votes. The results wouldnt have been an issue, but it turned out 18,000 members of the community undervoted. In other words, 18,000 voters bizarrely cast a non-valid vote for neither Buchanan nor Jennings. Sarasota polling places used Electronic Systems Software, Inc.s iVotronic touch screens, which record votes on a digital memory card similar to a flash drive. However, the iVotronic only stores a copy of the v

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Sen. Michael Bennet D-Colo. , who fought off tough challenge from Tea Party-backed Ken Buck last week, said in an interview this morning that he expects the Senate to continue working on improving health care reform. I think we will, Bennet said in an interview on NPR. I think we didn t do enough the first time around on cost containment. There s more to be done there, to change the Medicare incentive structure. Bennet sits on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions HELP Committee, one of the Senate panels responsible in large part for shaping the original package of reforms, which passed in March. Over the summer, a CB stanley cup S News poll showed that 39 percent of Americans said President Obama had spent too much time working on health care reform -- an issue that took Congress and the administration months to finish. No one in Congress seems ready to drop the issue, however. After making strong gains in the midterms, Republicans say they will follow t stanley cups uk hrough on their promise to try and repeal the reforms. A CBS News Election Day exit poll showed that nearly half of voters this November -- 48 percent -- said health care reform should be repealed. Another 31 percent said it should be expanded. There s such cynicism about the work that s been done, Bennet said today. The burden of the reform, in the end, lies on the shoulders of the reformer, and in kubki stanley the context of health care, if you don t do a good job explaining it on the fro

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The House on Wednesday passed legislation that would make June 19, or Juneteenth, a federal holiday marking the end of slavery in the U.S. The bill passed unanimously in the Senate on Tuesday and will now go to President Biden s desk for his signature, which would make Juneteenth the nation s 12th federal holiday. On behalf of all who have waited for this, I thank them, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee said after the vote. There is more to come in changing lives for justice, equality and freedom. That is what happened today. Jackson Lee and Senator Ed Markey each introduced Juneteenth bills last summer in the wake of George Floyd s death at the hands of a White police officer, but neither received a floor vote. The two lawmakers reintroduced their bil botella stanley ls earlier this year with broad bipartisan support. Senator Ron Johnson, a close ally to former President Donald Trump, had previously blocked the bill in the Senate, citing its cost and lack stanley cups uk of debate on the topic. On Tuesday, he said he would no longer object to the bill because, it is clear that there is no appetite in Congress to further discuss the matter. The bill passed 415 stanley cups to 14: all of the no votes were cast by Republicans. Representative Matt Rosendale, the first Republican to announce he would vote no, said he saw the bill as an attempt to celebrate identity politics. We should be focused on what unites us rather than our differences, he said.For many Black Americans, Uxhw Battle for Raqqa offers cautionary tale on harm to civilians in urban combat, report says
Rick Perry signs an autograph for Jeanne Dietrich after speaking to local residents and workers at the TPI Iowa wind blade copo stanley manufacturing facility, Dec. 22, 2011, in Newton, Iowa. AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall BURLINGTON, Iowa - Each Christmas, Rick Perry wakes up, tracks down his video camera, and makes his way into the rooms of his children, Griffin, 28, and Sydney, 25. From the time that they were itty bitty, as he says, each year he has videotaped them getting up and going downstairs to see the Christmas tree and opening presents. It s kind of like dad, you are so lame, he said, mimicking his children. But I think they would be disappointed if I didn t do it. The Tex stanley mug as governor ventured aboard the bus carrying his press corps Thursday morning and spent ten minutes sharing his family s Christmas traditions en route to the first event of the day, a breakfast meet and greet at the Drake on the Riverfront restaurant here. He recalled fondly the trips he made to his grandparents stanley cup house as a child, where his grandfather would put a dollar bill for each of the grandchildren in the tree. A dollar you know in 1955 was like pretty serious amount of money for me so I that was what I remembered was getting a dollar from my granddad, he said. Both grandparents, who lived about 20 miles outside Paint Creek, were great cooks, he said.Perry s ad

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This post originally appeared in National Journal. As extraordinary as it sounds, President Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly about Am botella stanley erica s role in the world while heads of state knew that the leader of the globe s most powerful military and economy might soon preside over a shuttered government teetering on the edge of default.That Washington is numbed to shutdown scenarios in no way undercuts their severity. Just the opposite. The worst occurs when the unacceptable becomes banal.Shutting down the government, or threaten stanley quencher ing to do so, should not and cannot become an autumnal ritual. The object of government is governing. Governing requires, at minimum, an orderly process of spending, taxing, and regulating. This requires a deference to and reverence of separation of powers. water bottle stanley No party or lawmaker can claim fidelity to principle or ideology who does not first respect the process by which disputes are legislatively resolved. The path to resolution is paved with votes cast in public that produce workable, durable majorities or supermajorities. Either you have the votes or you know how to find them. Lacking either, you have the perpetual pestilence of posturing.When House Republicans cannot pass a transportation bill that conforms to their own budget resolution, that is a failure of basic governing. It also makes a mockery of Speaker John Boehner s now-brittle bromides about regular order. Setting aside the substance of t Jirv Huckabee s Future Still Bright
CBS From CBS News Maria Gav gourde stanley rilovic:WILKES BARRE, PA. -- Barack Obama continued to ratchet up his attacks against John McCain today, as he tries to shift stanley thermoskannen the focus off of his race with Hillary Clinton and onto the presumptive Republican nominee. John McCain wants to continue the war in Iraq, I want to end it. John McCain wants to continue George Bush s eco stanley mugs nomic policies, I want to change them. And I think we will persuade the American people that we need a new direction because John McCain represents the policies of the past and we are the party of tomorrow, Obama told a crowd at a town hall meeting here.Although Obama spoke about the economy in his opening remarks, he used the opportunity to argue the McCain s policy proposals would be an extension of the Bush administration. John McCain said a few weeks ago that, the issue of economics is not something I ve understood as well as I should, Obama said quoting McCain. And that s clear, since all he s offering is four more years of the Bush policies that have put our economy into a recession and put the American Dream out of reach for so many working people. Obama s criticisms of Hillary Clinton have decreased in recent days, as pundits have begun to argue that Clinton and Obama s attacks on each other will divide the Democratic Party. Obama has dismissed these claims, but admitted that some comments may have caused bad blood. It s true that Senator Clinton s folks a

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Face the Nation Guest Lineup:Jake Sullivan,National Security AdviserMatt Pottinger,Former Deputy National Security Adviser, Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford UniversityMayor Sylvester Turner, D-Houston Mayor Betsy Price, R-Fort Worth Dr. Scott Gottlieb,Former FDA Commissioner How to watch Face the Nation Date: Sunday, February 21, 2021TV: Face the Nation airs Sunday mornings on CBS. Click here for your local listingsRadio: Subscribe to Face the Nation from CBS Radio News to listen on-the-goFree online stream: Watch the show on CBS streaming network CBSN at 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. ET.With the latest news and analysis from Washington, don t miss Margaret Brennan @margbrennan this Sunday on Face the Nation @FaceTheNation .And for the latest from America s premier public affairs program, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. stanley cup More from CBS News stanley uk Josh Stein wins North Carolina governor s race, CBS News projects Luke Grimes on final episodes of Yellowstone, his album and fatherhood stanley website Video captures moment soccer player killed by Yybb Poll: 60 percent oppose lifetime Supreme Court appointments
AP Republican voters consider former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin their top choices for a 2012 GOP presidential contender, according to a new Gallup PollWhen presented with a field of 12 potential 2012 GOP candidates, 19 percent of those surveyed chose Romney as their top choice, and 16 percent chose Palin. They were followed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with 12 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with 9 percent and Rep. Ron Paul with 7 percent. In addition to the 12 candidates offered, 1 percent of respondents volunteered New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as their top choice. While the 12 potential candidates included in the survey are all considered possible contenders, it is widely thought that Christie, who is in his first year as governor, would not choose to pursue a 20 stanley termoska 12 presidential bid. Gallup previously polled likely Republican voters about their preferred 2012 presidential candidate in February, leaving the question open-ended. Romney and Palin were the most frequently mentioned in that poll as well, though stanley isolierkanne most Republicans 42 percent said they had no opinion. Among Democratic voters, 37 percent said they would support Secretary of State Hillary Clinton if she were to challenge President Obama in 2012, according to Gallup. Fifty-two percent said they would support Mr. O stanley thermosflasche bama. While the president has yet to announce his bid for a