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WASHINGTON --Boosting her social media outreach to younger voters, Hillary Rodham Clinton is seeking to offer reassurance to gay youths in a posting that is drawing wide online attention. Prediction from a grown-up: Your future is going to be amazing, Clinton wrote Friday on the Facebook page for Humans of New York, a popular blog. You will surprise yourself with what you re capable of and the incredible things you go on to do. Find the people who love and believe in you - there will be lots of them. Humans of New York via Facebook stanley bottles Humans of New York via Facebook The Democratic presidential candidate made the comment below a picture of an unnamed boy on that Facebook page with a tearful expression and a captioned quote that reads, I m homosexual and I m afraid about what my future will be and that people won t like me. The Clinton campaign confirmed Sunday that the posting, which is signed with an H, came personally from her. The posting has since drawn more than 68,000 l stanley website ikes as of Sunday evening and her reaction was noted in various news reports.Clinton has been seeking to embrace youth culture and gay rights activism, stanley cups having put the issue of gay marriage near the forefront of her campaign. The former secretary of state backed gay marriage in 2013 after she l Gzfk Ex-Aides Wary Of Bill Clinton s Tactics
With the Iraq war dominating the debate in Washington, President Bush has picked a fresh fight on the domestic policy front with his threat to veto bipartisan legislation that would expand a popular children s health care program.And that veto threat has ange stanley en mexico red one of the most important Republicans negotiat stanley cup ing on the bill stanley water bottle : Sen. Charles Grassley R-Iowa , the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee.After hearing Bush say Thursday that he was going to veto the bill in part because it would allow families of four making $80,000 to place their children on the the State Children s Health Insurance Program SCHIP , Grassley blasted the president, saying his assertion was dead wrong. The president has been served wrong information about what our bill will do, Grassley said Thursday between Senate votes. There s nothing in our bill that would do that. His understanding of the bill was wrong. Bush, in a morning news conference, told reporters that Congress has made the decision to expand the program up to $80,000. ... This is a step toward federalization of health care. Grassley said that a waiver to allow higher income families to utilize SCHIP has been taken out of the conference committee compromise forged between House and Senate negotiators over the past two days. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c84f6e30-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail
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Washingt stanley uk on mdash; Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges stemming from his efforts to remain in power after he lost the 2020 presidential election, adding to the former president s ongoing legal troubles as he mounts a stanley cup third bid for the White House.According to the indictment handed up Tuesday by a federal grand jury, Trump faces four charges: conspiracy to stanley tumbler defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights.Special counsel Jack Smith, in announcing the charges Tuesday, called what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, an unprecedented assault on democracy. It was fueled by lies: Lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government mdash; the nation s process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election. The indictment says of Trump that despite having lost, he was determined to remain in power. So, for over two months after the election, Trump spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won, the indictment states, and adds, These claims were false, and the defendant knew they were false, but repeated and widely disseminated them anyway. Trump indicted b Jlgd Former Defense Secretary: U.S. in Syria too late, left Iraq too soon
OBAMA AND WRIGHT....Like most of the micro-flaps from the campaign trail this year, I haven t had a lot to say about the Jeremiah Wright God damn America fracas. Mainly this is because I just don t care very much about this kind of stuff, but it s also because I haven t really been able to make up my mind about it. In one way, Rev. Wright s incendiary comments here ought to hurt Obama more than those from some ordinary supporter since stanley drink bottle Obama s relationship with Wright is both long and deep. In another way, though, they should hurt him less. After all, which is worse: the very human desire not to humiliate a longtime friend because he occasionally crosses a line Obama and Wright , or the cynical courtship of a powerful endorsement even though you already know the person in question has some odious public views McCain and John Hagee I d lean toward the latter, but, needless to say, copo stanley nobody asked me and it appears that the rest of the country doesn t agree.In any case, what s struck me the oddest about this whole affair has been the timing. Why now Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ have been on the radar screen for months, discussed on blogs, listservs, talk radio, and Fox News. So why did it suddenly become a national media storm now It probably isn t the result of campaign oppo stuff, since that would have been a lot more effective and helpful a couple of month stanley becher s ago. And the sermons themselves date back years, so it s not as if the material just
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Tbie Column: Big Voter Turnout Indicates Dire Circumstances
For months, the U.S. has been without a surgeon general, a largely ceremonial position affectionately dubbed the nation s top doctor. That could change with the Senate Democrats fin stanley cupe al days in office.Mr. Obama s nominee for the post, Dr. Vivek Murthy, cannot start his new job without first being confirmed by the Senate. However, his nomination fell victim to congressional gridlock over a lightning-rod political issue: guns.Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, blocked Murthy s nomination in February, arguing his non-clinical experience working with an offshoot of a pro-Obama campaign group made him overly political for the job. Among Murthy s sins, according to his detractors: promoting Obamacare in his role as co-founder of Doctors for America, including a tweet that tweaked the NRA while making his health care argument:After another high-profile Obama nominee was blocked, the White House decided to ease up on pushing for Murthy s confirmation. But a senior Democratic aide told CBS News that he is likely to finally get a vote during the final days stanley mugs that Democrats have control of the Senate. Because of a rule change earlier this year, he will only need 50 votes for confirmation. Waiting until Republicans take control in 2015 would all but certainly spe stanley cup ll the end of Murthy s chances.But it s not entirely clear that he will be confirmed. Some red-state Democrats who take pride in their record on gun control could oppose the nomination, even Kbui Pentagon planning for possible Pelosi trip to Taiwan: AP
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blogIn National Review Online Ramesh Ponnuru and Reihan Salam take issue with me very politely they call me a distinguished political journalist on whether the Republicans should go upscale or downscale. I say tentatively upscale, they say with intelligent qualifications downscale. It s a thoughtful article, and one worth pondering for a long time. Let me indicate where I agree and disagree.Disagree. They write, To the extent that Republicans have to choose among which group to find new voters, they should look first to downscale voters w termo stanley ithout college degrees. But they concede that the college-educated represent a large and growing share of the electorate--45 percent in 2008, over a third of whom have post-graduate degrees and that John McCain won non-college whites 58 percent to 40 percent. That strikes me as pretty good numbers for Republicans among that demographic, and just about as high as can be hoped for in any fairly close election. College-educated whites, in contrast, voted 51 percent to 47 percent for McCain. I think there s more room for improvement here. stanley termosar Disagree. They argue that high-education young voters tend to live in densely p stanley cup opulated metro areas with big government, and that they are looking to the Democrats for financial relief. They cite polling evidence that upscale liberals are liberal on economic as well as cultural issues, and they doubt that their minds
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WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trumprsquo plan to kill Obamacare died stanley cup last week. Or maybe it didnrsquo;t.The repeal effort seems to have assum stanley cup ed zombie status - somewhere between dead and alive.This is never-say-die Washington, where big legislative proposals that are in the casket one day can show signs of a pulse and start climbing out the next. Itrsquo a fairly common condition in the capital, where politicians who invest enormous political capital in a proposal are loath to let go.One of the keys to understanding Washington is to think a little bit like a coroner, says consultant Ari Fleischer, former press secretary to President George W. Bush. You have to know when somethingrsquo dead and when so stanley cups methingrsquo still kicking, and sometimes itrsquo hard to tell the difference. To say that Trump and Republican congressional leaders are sending mixed signals about the viability of the repeal effort is an understatement.Last week, when it became clear that House Republicans didnrsquo;t have enough votes to pass the health-care repeal bill, the White House said Trump had given it his all, left everything on the field, and was ready to move on.Next up: taxes, the president said, without blinking.His son Eric channeled Kenny Rogersrsquo; The Gambler in praising his father for knowing when to walk away. Guess what Wersquo;re moving on, the president Boud Reliability of expensive new voting machines called into question
Dotty Lynch, Douglas Kiker, Steve Chaggaris, Beth Lester and Clothilde Ewing of the CBS News Political Unit have the latest from the nation s capital. Countdown: With 34 days until Iowa and the holidays fast approaching, the Democratic campaigns are stanley cups uk in overdrive and the focus con stanley cup tinues to be Howard Dean. Over the weekend, Dean picked up the endorsement of Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., stanley mug the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, making him the the 21st House member to endorse the former Vermont governor. Speaking of governors, New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey plans ro endorse Dean this week, according to the Newark Star Ledger. Meanwhile, Dean will be in Arizona today to pick up the endorsement of former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt, according to the Arizona Republic. On Tuesday, Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman gave major policy speeches which included big digs at Dean. Kerry used a number of Dean s flip-flops in a foreign policy speech in Iowa to explain why he s better prepared to lead the country. Gov. Dean said that we should not go into Iraq unless the U.N. Security council gave us authorization. That is a fundamental misunderstanding of how a president protects the United States, Kerry explained. Perhaps it reflects inexperience, but for Howard Dean to permit a veto over when America can or cannot act not only becomes little more than a pretext for doing nothing -- it cedes our security and presidential responsibility to defend America to someone else -- a p
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ROOSEVELT ISLAND, New York--Hillary Clinton s campa stanley drinking cup ign held a grand opening on Roosevelt Island on Saturday. She reiterated that she wants to be a people s champion, fighting to rebalance an economy that has been tilted toward the billionaires and corporations. She aligned herself with factory employees and food-service workers who stand on their feet all day, and said she was running for the nurses who work the night shift, for the truckers who drive for hours and the farmers who feed us. For the veterans who serve our country. For the small business owners who took a risk. Her candidacy, she said, would be a fight for everyone who s been knocked down but refused to be knocked out. HIllary Clinton s long history in the public eyeThe event had all the things we ve come to expect in a modern political rally--a stage that allows the candidate to appear to be bathing in the crowds from all camera angles, vast screens showing the spectacle to those without choice seats, campaign v stanley cup ideographers grabbing vignettes to deliver over social media, organizers signing up volunteers, and teleprompters rising before the candidate, who stares into trash-can-sized lights that bathe her in just the right kind of glow, even though it s a bright sunny day. botella stanley Hillary Clinton holds first large 2016 campaign rally 02:16 Jrqq Kellyanne Conway accused of federal ethics violation
Former Vice President Cheney last month formall stanley trinkflaschen y asked the Central Intelligence Agency to de-classify top secret documents he believes show harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding helped prevent terrorist attacks against U.S. targets, according to a garrafinhas stanley source familiar with the effort. CheneyMonday nightdisclosed the request but did not point out it was made before President Barack Obama unsealed the top-secret torture memos.Cheney s decision sets up an potentially dramatic showdown between the president who believes the techniques amounted to unwise and immoral torture and the former vice president who believes the interrogations saved lives. Cheney, starting with an interview with POLITICO two months ago, has been on a campaign to warn Obama is making the country more vulnerable to attack by pulling back on Bush s policies. Now, the vice president wants to make public documents he argues will prove the efficacy of tactics critics call torture.I know specifically of reports that I read, that I saw that lay out what we learned through the interrogation process stanley hrnek and what the consequences were for the country, Cheney said on Fox News Channelrsquo Hannity. If wersquo;re going to have this debate, letrsquo have an honest debate. Top White House officials described the decision to release the torture memos Thursday as among the toughest of Obama s young presidency.
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Watch CBS This Morning and CBSN Tuesday to see more of Charlie Rose s interview with Hillary ClintonCINCINNATI -- Hillary Clinton believes that Donald Trump is the most dangerous man ever to run for president of the United States. What he has laid out is the most dangerous, reckless approach to being president than I think we ve ever seen, Clinton said in an hour-long interview with CBS This Morning stanley thermos mug host Charlie Rose Monday. Rose asked Clinton if Trump is the most dangerous man ever to run. I believe that, Clinton replied. I believe that. Clinton s interview, her first since Trump announced his running mate, took place at a campaign stop in Cincinnati, and it c stanley cup omes just days before Trump is set to be nominated by the Republican party at its convention in Cleveland. She was asked by Rose about Trum stanley cup p s vice presidential pick, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and her comment that he s the most extreme vice presidential nominee in a generation on social issues. On social issues I believe that s true, Clinton told Rose. And I recently read that he s not sure he believes in evolution. And since Trump doesn t believe in climate change, you know, perhaps there s a meeting of no minds there. She also talked a little about her own search for a running mate, though she gave away little about her process. I ve met with a bunch of folks, she said. She evaded a question about how close she is to making a decision. Rose noted that former Vi Xqrp Putin, Trump to hold first official meeting Friday on sidelines of G20 summit
CHO AND CHINA....Via stanley isolierkanne Ross Douthat, James Fallows tells the story of what happened when one reporter made one mistake and identified the Virginia Tech shooter as a Chinese national: Fox and Drudge pick it up and the Chinese media subsequently goes into full lockdown. Wow.Moral of the story: get your facts right, kids. Second moral: freedom of the press sucks in China. garrafinhas stanley ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8b70662-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8b70662-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8b70662-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-ch stanley cup ild 5 display: block;
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Biden spoke about the debt ceiling Friday, according to a Republican aide, a day after the Senate voted to raise the debt limit through early December, averting what threatened to be an economic disaster mdash; U.S. default.The short-term extension came after McConnell reversed course on a months long standoff with Democrats over the debt ceiling. Senate Republicans had pushed Democrats to use the budget process known as reconciliation to raise the debt limit, whic stanley thermos mug h would enable them to raise the debt ceiling with just a simple majority.Senate Democrats rejected that idea mdash; Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said using reconciliation would be convoluted and risky, and the measure could take weeks to pass. Earlier this week, as the country was approaching default, McConnell proposed a short-term extension of the deb stanley cup t limit to give Democrats until December 3 to use reconciliation to raise the debt ceiling for a longer period of time. Eleven Senate Republicans, including several memb stanley cup ers of Senate GOP leadership, voted with Democrats to advance the debt limit deal, breaking a filibuster. By supporting the procedural vote, the Republicans enabled the legislation to advance. In the final vote, which required a simple majority of 50 votes, no Republicans joined Democrats to raise the debt limit.McConnell also wrote a letter to the president, vowing that in December, he won t step in aga Sitd Democrats test 2016 waters, even as Clinton looms
White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee said in a CBSNews interview on Monday that job creation was the paramount issue in the Obama administrati stanley cup becher on - but that as the economy improved, the White House was trying to find a way to get the government out of its expanded role in the economy.Goolsbee, in an interview with CBS News political analyst John Dickerson at the White House, previewed President Obama s town hall with CBS News this week which airs on The Early Show on Thursday morning , and said Mr. Obama was eager stanley thermobecher to communicate to the American people all the things h stanley vattenflaska e s doing to get the U.S. economy turned around and fully recovering. Ask President Obama a question about the economy He s also wanting to hear from ordinary citizens and small business owners about where they re hurting, what are their concerns, what ideas they have so we can keep pushing on this agenda, Goolsbee told Dickerson. Echoing sentiments Mr. Obama has espoused in previous speeches, Goolsbee emphasized the White House s belief that growing the economy is about more than simply slashing its budget. We ve gotta live within our means, but... that doesn t mean we can afford to cut the education, the research and development and innovation, the investment stuff that we need to grow, Goolsbee said. He also noted that, despite recent economic hardships - namely, skyrocketing gas prices - the economy had seen major improvements in the last year
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By Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto and Fred BackusPresident Obama s job approval rating is just stanley cup 43 percent now, down slightly from earlier this month and the lowest since March 2012. Forty-nine percent disapprove, the highest it has been in two years. CBSNews His approva stanley kubek l rating among women has dropped since earlier in September, from 49 percent to 43 percent now.Positive assessments of the president s handling of the economy has also dropped five points in the last two weeks, to 41 percent now. Just 40 percent approve of his handling of foreign policy, while 49 percent disapprove - the highest disapproval he has ever received on this measure. This poll finds an uptick in evaluations of President Ob stanley romania ama s handling of the situation in Syria since the announcement of a plan to eradicate Syria s chemical weapons; still, a majority disapproves of that as well. Personal evaluations of the president are also down. Thirty percent say he cares a lot about people like themselves - the lowest level measured since he took office. Despite the other setbacks for the president in this poll, a majority of Americans 58 percent see him as a strong leader; those views have remained consistent for a few years, but are substantially lower than in the early years of his presidency.Congress and the President: Strengths and WeaknessesIn his dealings Qmcs Republican delegates nominate Mitt Romney
The White House this morning posted a new video showing President Obama giving Americans a tour of the HealthCare.gov website. Check it out at left. The video released today shows the American people just how easy using HealthCare.gov can be, the White House said. In the vid stanley cup eo, the President shows how consumers can find their insurance options and discusses stories of American s who suffered under the old health care system. The video comes as the A starbucks stanley cup ffordable Care Act is growing increasingly popular with the American people who are beginning to see the benefits of health reform. Seniors are receiving prescription drug rebate checks, small businesses are eligible for tax credits and some young adults are able to stay on their parents health insurance plan. Despite White House hopes that support for the health care bill would improve over time, support for the controversial measure has actually dropped since May, according to a CBS News poll earlier this month. It is up slightly since March. Forty-nine percent of Americans now disapprove of the health care reform meas stanley mug ure, according to the poll, which was conducted July 9 - 12. Thirty-six percent support the law. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d209d884-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-d209d884-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none;
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This article originally appeared on Slate.In Colorado, older voters who tend to vote more for Republicans are turning out and Democrats think the first-ever all mail-in ballot may have encouraged them. Some Democrats had originally thought the mail-in only ballots would help their turn-out efforts . So Democrat stanley cup s are now putting all of their hopes on younger voters, who traditionally don t turn out in midterm election years. One operative said Democrats need as much as 500,000 votes to come in today. A tall order. They re passing around stories about long lines in strongholds of Boulder and Denver, though. Today seems like a mad rush of younger voters, said one Democratic strategist in the state. But that s all anecdotal. A stanley kubek nother Democrat in the state sent this along: Long lines on college campuses stanley cup . They ll have to be satisfied with good stories until they can get actual numbers. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c89ab9be-1d18-4030-b505-8797a754ec38, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c89ab9be-1d18-4030-b505-8797a754ec38 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c89ab9be-1d18-4030-b505-8797a754ec38 ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; John Dickerson John Dickerson is the anchor of The Daily Repor Ospv Federal judge in Texas blocks Biden s student loan forgiveness plan
BROOKS ON KRISTOL.. copo stanley ..From the New York Observer:After last night s debate, New York Times columnist David Brooks was chatting with a group of people. One of them said: I hear you hired that conservative stanley cups uk Bill Kristol. David Brooks responded: More like a pseudoconservative. I have to open this one up to the floor. What do you think Brooks meant He s not seriously trying to suggest that Kristol doesn t really represent modern conservatism, is he I m stumped. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline stanley cup price -recirc-item--id-c8e531b8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8e531b8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8e531b8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;
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CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico mdash;Despite Mexican efforts to stop them at the border, about 2,000 Central American migrants swam or rafted across a river s stanley bottles eparating that country from Guatemala, re-formed their mass caravan in Mexico and vowed to resume their journey toward the United States.Their numbers swelled to stanley termohrnek about 5,000 overnight and at first light they set out walking toward the Mexican town of Tapachula, 10 abreast in a line stretching approximately a mile.It was not immediately clear where the additional travelers had materialized from since about 2,000 gathered on the Mexican side Saturday night. They seemed likely to be people who had been waiting on the bridge over the Suchiate River or in the Guatemalan town of Tecun Uman and who decided t stanley kubek o cross during the night. President Trump repeated his recent threats to seal the border to prevent the migrants from entering the U.S. in aseriesoftweetsSunday afternoon, blaming Democrats for the situation. Full efforts are being made to stop the onslaught of illegal aliens from crossing our Souther [sic] Border ... The Caravans are a disgrace to the Democrat Party. Change the immigration laws NOW! At dawn there were still an estimated 1,500 migrants on the Guatemalan side hoping to enter legally. They marched on through Mexico like a rag tag army of the poor, shouting triumphantly slogans like Si se pudo! or Yes, we could! As they passed through Mexican villages on the outskirts Uwjj Romney Takes Jab At Homeland Security
PHOENIX -- For the past several weeks, we ve seen signs the economy ma stanley thermobecher y be inching up.That s good news for President Obama and his reelection chances, since the economy is the number one issue for voters, and Republicans have been hammering him on it.But now there s some bad news for the president: Gas prices continue to rise, and Republicans are blaming him for it. You can expect it to com stanley cup e up in tonight s GOP debate in Arizona. The average price for a gallon of regular gas is now $3.59, up more than 20 cents in the last month.Newt Gingrich has made gas prices a centerpiece of his campaign. He s blaming Mr. Obama and promising change. There is no reason we can t get gasoline down between $2 and $2.50 a gallon, Gingrich asserts. Complete coverage: Election 2012Rick Santorum also blames Mr. Obama, saying his decisions, such as limiting oil exploration, have led to higher prices at the pump, all because of the radical environmentalist policies of th stanley cup is president. Mr. Obama can say there s been some good news lately: Unemployment, for example, rose through much of his term, but is now down to 2009 levels.Still, since he took office, gas prices have steadily been on the rise. That s a challenge, and a problem. Rising gasoline prices can become a very big political issue, because it affects everybody every week, says Daniel Yergin, author of The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. And that s w
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This is the second installment in a three-part series on the Trump admi stanley deutschland nistration s controversial Remain in Mexico program and its impact on thousands of asylum-seeking families. Read partsoneand three here. El Paso, Texas mdash; One afternoon in late Mar stanley cup ch, as Ricci walked through the markets in Ciudad Juaacute; stanley mugs rez looking for somewhere to buy lunch for her 4-year-old son, a man approached the boy and tried to snatch him away. Because there were a lot people, I pleaded for help, Ricci said of the brazen kidnapping attempt. She spoke in Spanish with CBS News in the federal building in El Paso, minutes before her hearing in immigration court. People helped me, and the man was not able to take my son. Living in Ciudad Juaacute;rez, one of the most dangerous cities in the world, was harrowing for Ricci, a 25-year-old single mother from an indigenous community in Honduras. It wasn t her choice to be in Mexico.Like tens of thousands of other migrants, mostly from Central America, she was placed in the Remain in Mexico program when she arrived at the border earlier this year. The controversial program, which the Trump administration is expanding despite a court challenge, requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for months while their claims are reviewed in the U.S. Ciudad Juaacute;rez is the destination for migrants like Ricci who seek asylum at a port of entry or another part of the border in the El Paso sector. Beyond th Mroj Ethics Group Calls For Sanford Investigation
AP Democrats are attempting to improve Americans access to medical care through their massive health insurance overhaul, but they may make it a little harder for those seeking out Botox or breast implants. The health care bill unveiled by Senate Majority Harry Reid on Wednesday night includes a 5 percent tax on elective cosmetic surgery. The tax is expected to raise an estimated $5.8 billion over 10 years to help pay for the $849 billion plan, the Agence France-Presse reports. The tax would only hit elective procedures -- it exempts any procedures necessary to ameliorate a deformity arising from, or directly related to, a congenital abnormality, a personal injury resulting from an accident or trauma, or disfiguring disease. It would go into effect, according to the bill, on Jan. 1, 2010.The botax, as some have called it, was originally considered in the Senate Finance Committee but was dropped at the time. Some evidence could suggest the measure may not raise as much revenue as expected. In 20 stanley cup 04, the state of New Jersey passed a 6 percent tax on plastic surgery that was expected to raise $24 million a year. However, it only brought in about $7.5 million in 2005, the National Journal stanley mug reported, and aroun stanley cup d $11 million in 2007.The market for cosmetic procedures does not seem to have suffered from the bad economy: the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reports that 12 million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures were performed in 2008
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Asng Rick Santorum quits presidential race, endorses Marco Rubio
President Biden took on a broad range of issues in his 2024 State of the Union address, advocating for his economic agenda, immigration reform, reproductive rights and other priorities, confronting foreign policy challenges including theIsrael-Hamas warand the war in Ukraine, and emphasizing the central importance of democratic va stanley canada lues.Read the full text of his prepared remarks, as released by the White House, below:Good eve stanley uk ning.Mr. Speaker. Madam Vice President. Members of Congress. My Fellow Americans. In January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation.He said, I address you at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union. Hitler was on the march. War was raging in Europe.President Roosevelt s purpose was to wake up the Congress and alert the American people that this was no ordinary moment. Freedom and democracy were under assault in the world. Tonight I come to the same chamber to address the nation. Now it is we who face an unprecedented moment in the history of the Union.And yes, my purpose tonight is to both wake up this Congress, and alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment either.Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today.What make stanley uk s our moment rare is that freedom and democracy are under attack, both at home and overseas, at the very same time.Overseas, Putin of Russia is on the march, invading Ukraine and sowing chaos througho Jchg 7 Questions For Obama About Blagojevich
Michelle Obama, stands at the podium as she tours the site of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Monday morning, Aug. 25, 2008. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak Updated 3:35 p.m. Eastern TimeFirst Lad stanley thermobecher y Michelle Obama announced Tuesday that the 2012 Democratic National Convention will be held in Charlotte, North Carolina. Charlotte won the convention over three other finalists: St. Louis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Cleveland. All the contending cities were places that Barack and I have grown to know and love, so it was a hard choice, the first lady said in an email to Organizing For America support stanley cup ers. But we are thrilled to be bringing the convention to Charlotte. Mr. Obama won the Tar Heel State by a tiny margin in 2008; the state s voters had previously chosen the Republican candidate in every presidential contest dating back to 1976. Democrats are ho stanley thermos ping that bringing the convention to Charlotte will help keep the traditionally-red state in the president s column. Mr. Obama won Colorado in 2008 after Democrats held their convention in Denver, the first time the state had gone to a Democrat since 1992. Mark Reese, 13, from Golden, Colo., waves a flag before Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, D-Ill., gives his speech during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008.
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