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Washington mdash; The CIA is trying to recruit Russian spies and entice them to reveal their secrets, targeting potential recruits with a dramatic video published across social media networks that promises to protect them if they come forward. The CIA wants to know the truth about Russia and we are looking for reliable people who know and can tell us this truth, the intelligence agency said in the caption of the video posted onYouTube. Your information may be more valuab stanley cups uk le than you think. The agency also posted the Russian-language video, entitled Why I made contact with the CIA: My decision, onFacebook,Twitter andTelegram. The two-minute video shows fictional Russian officers secretly contacting the CIA through its dark web portal. I survived. My family will survive. We will live with dignity thanks to my actions, a narrator says in Russian toward the end of the clip. We want to reach those brave Russians who feel compelled by the Russian government s unjust war to engage CIA and ensure they do so as securely as pos stanley quencher sible, a CIA official told CBS News. In today s Russia, it remains very difficult to speak out and telling the truth often carries serious consequences. CIA wants to know the truth about Russia and we are looking for trustworthy people who can tell stanley cup it to us and with whom we can communicate securely. The official, who provided details about the effort on condition of anonymity, said the video is meant to prov Ljjn Why is Mayorkas being impeached What to know about the House s push to punish the DHS secretary
Americans who make donations for Haitian earthquake victims would be able to write off charitable deductions from their 2009 taxes under a bill unveiled Friday by a bipartisan group of House and Senate leaders.The lawmakers said Friday they will introduce a bill allowing 2009 tax deductions for donations made by the end of February. Under current law, donors would have to wait until they file their 2010 returns next spring to take the deductions.Congress could act on the bill as early as next week, the lawmakers said in a statement. A similar law was enacted in 2005 for donations to victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami that happened in December 2004. This measure provides an immediate benefit for those who have already given and incentive for those who are considering a charitable contribution, said Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.The Red Cross estimates 45,000 to 50,000 people were killed in Tuesday s earthquake. stanley cup The tax bill is sponsored by the top Dem stanley cups uk ocrats and Republicans on the tax-writing committees in the House and Senate, giving it a good chance for enactmen stanley flask t. In addition to Rangel, the House bill is also sponsored by Democrat James Clyburn of South Carolina and Republicans Dave Camp of Michigan and Eric Cantor of Virginia. Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek of Florida announced similar legislation.In the Senate, the bill is sponsored by Democrat Max Baucus of Montana, chairman
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The California Republican Party won t be complying with Secretary of State Alex Padilla s cease-and-desist order to stop the use of unofficial ballot drop boxes, GOP officials told reporters on a call Wednesday.Party officials claim the drop boxes are legal under California s ballot harvesting laws.Republican staffers put up illegal ballot drop boxes in three countiesacross the state over the weekend. Some of the drop boxes were falsely labeled official, and law enforcement authorities are still searching for outstanding witnesses and suspects. But the state Republican Party has no plans to remove the boxes and may even add more. The California GOP says Padilla mischaracterized its ballot collection effort and insists it s not doing anything wrong. Padilla is arguing that harvested ballots must be signed by the voter and the person collecting it, and that person must identify his or her relationship to the voter. Padilla says that collecting the ballots at these unofficial boxes means neither party would be signing the ballot, which makes it illegal.Republicans counter stanley shop thatAssembly Bill 306 prohibits disqualifying a ballot solely becau stanley quencher se the person returning it did not provide on the identification envelope his or her name, relationship to the voter, stanley cup or signature, the statute reads. There is nothing illegal about the collection of ballots provided by voters, on a certainly volunteer basis, and entrusted to the persons who a Euln Stem Cell Research Halt Appealed by Justice Dept
U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed doubt Saturday that Iraq s government would follow through with its promises to secure Baghdad as she met with top Iraqi officials and American commanders.It was the third trip to Iraq for Clinton, a Democrat from New York who is considering running for president, and comes amid opposition from the Democratic-controlled Congress to President Bush s plans to send in 21,500 more troops to stop the rampant violence. I don t know that the American people or the Congress at this point believe this mission c stanley cup an work, she told ABC News in Baghdad. And in the absence of a commitment that is backed up by actions from the Iraqi government, why should we believe it Noting she had to travel wearing body armor and surrounded by soldiers and security guards, Clinton called the situation in Iraq heartbreaking. This is my third trip here. I ve seen the violence and security problems increase, not decrease, she said, calling on Bush to start withdrawing U.S. troops. That would really demonstrate to the Iraqis that we don t have an open-ended commitment, she said. We are not going to be here providing protection for their leaders, which we do. We are not going to be here standing by and trying stanley cup to be called in from time to time as they see fit. That is not in the cards. Clinton, who was making a one-day visit to the country, spoke to ABC exclusively after meeting with the t stanley portugal wo top military commander
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President Trump is rising up against congressional Democrats who want to see his financial data and question current and former White House aides. The president told The Washington Post his staffers should not testify on Capitol Hill. He said they cooperated fully with special counsel Robert Mueller and there is no reason to go any further, especially in Congress where it s very partisan. The House Judiciary Committee has sent a subpoena for testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn, a crucial witness in the Mueller inv stanley mug estigation.The president s new comments come as a senior administration official tells CBS News the White House will keep all of its legal options open in regard to any subpoena served on a current or former administration official. White House Counsel Don McGahn R attends a cabinet meeting with U.S. President Trump at the White House, October 17, 2018. Getty Images stanley tumbler McGahn is mentioned more than 150 times in the Mueller report. McGahn reco stanley tumblers unted in detail to investigators how the president ordered him to fire the special counsel and then pressured him to deny that ever happened.Mr. Trump is accusing House Democrats of trying to score political points, telling The Washington Post, I allowed my lawyers and all the people to go and testify to Mueller. ... I could have taken the absolute opposite route. House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Ojtu Welcome To Nader-Nader Land
The Obama campaign has announced a new Spanish-language radio ad to air in Texas. Barack Obama is talking to me. He s faced many of the same challenges that we ve faced in my family, an announcer says in the spot. His parents weren t rich, but through hard work, he earned a scholarship and found his way mdash; gradu stanley termosky ating from Harvard Law School. And instead of a stanley vattenflaska ccepting job offers that paid a lot of money, Obama decided to work with churches, giving a helping hand to those less fortunate in his community. The spot includes snippets of Obama speaking, but otherwise it s entirely in Spanish. It closes like this: Obama is talking to me...That s why I m talking to others mdash; my parents, my uncles, and my friends mdash; because politics isn t just for those who like to fight, it s for those who want to build a better future. Obama is talking to me, and he s talking to you too. If your Spanish is up to snuff, you can listen to the ad here. The Obama campaign is hoping to land a knockout blow on March 4th, when voters have their say in Texas, as well as Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont. Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, sees the day as a chance to recover after what is expected to be a tough February stanley isolierkanne . Both campaigns began airing television ads today in Texas and Ohio. Obama has struggled to attract Hispanic voters, though he has done increasingly well since the group broke for Clinton in large numbers in the Nevada caucuses. Some obse
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President Trump said he should have visited the Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day, which is a presidential tradition. I should ha stanley cup ve d stanley us one that, I was extremely busy on calls for the country, we did a lot of calling as you know, Mr. Trump told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace. Wallace had asked Mr. Trump why he didn t commemor stanley cup ate Veterans Day Monday with a visit to the cemetery, since he was in Washington on Monday. He also pointed out that his predecessor, President Obama observed Veterans Day at Arlington every year that he was in Washington.The president explained that he had recently returned from the American Cemetery in Paris and I really probably assumed that was fine and I was extremely busy because of affairs of state -- doing other things. Mr. Trump was criticized during that trip to France for not visiting a U.S. cemetery due to bad weather. The president, who was visiting France alongside other world leaders to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, eventually went to another U.S. cemetery in Paris.Arlington National Cemetery dates to the Civil War and hold the interred remains of American war dead in every conflict since. It contains some 400,000 graves. More from CBS News Trump addresses supporters before clinchin Yiwn Q amp;A: Latest developments in Dennis Hastert s case, possible plea deal
Getty Images for Clinton Foundation Fundraiser CBS News CHARLOTTE -- Former President Bill Clinton has not submitted his Democratic National Convention speech to the Obama campaign for vetting yet, but a senior campaign official told CBS News Monday that the campaign isn t concerned about it. He will get his speech done when he wants to ge stanley becher t his speech done. We re not worried one bit, the campaign official said. Mr. Clinton is slated to deliver a key speech at the convention in Charlotte, N.C. on Wednesday night and formally nomi stanley quencher nate President Obama for re-election. As for whether the Obama campaign plans to review the former president s speech before then, the campaign official told CBS News, Someone, somewhere will probably give it a read. Last week s Republican convention in Tampa, Fla., clearly illustrated what could go wrong when a featured speaker strays from the campaign message. Actor Clint Eastwood delivered an unusual speech stanley italia that didn t always align with Mitt Romney s positions on issues. Eastwood was subject to some ridicule after addressing an empty chair during his speech, pretending to talk to Mr. Obama. Democratic Convention 2012: complete coverageMr. Clinton hasn t always stayed on message for the Obama campaign. The Obama campaign, though, said that letting Mr. Clinton s speech go unvetted didn t run the same risk that Republicans ran by failing to review Eastwood s rema
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Former President Jimmy Carter is celebrating his 95th birthday on Tuesday, October 1, solidifying his spot as the longest living president in United States history.The 39th president, who s made a mark in his post-White House years as a human rights activist, author, professor, and church Sunday School teacher, is sharing the celebration wit stanley canada h the public by offering a discounted admission fee to his presidential library. The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta announced the admission price on Tuesday would be just 95 cents mdash; one penny for e stanley kubek very year Mr. Carter has been alive. Todayrsquo the day! Celebrate President Carterrsquo 95th by visiti stanley mug ng us for only 95 cents! See our GeorgiaOnMyScreen film TV exhibit, watch Smokey the Bandit, enter our STB costume contest! Wersquo;re open until 8pm! Kids 16 under free! https://t.co/seQ6TLF7YE Happy95thJimmy pic.twitter/buF2NDc5gFmdash; Jimmy Carter Library @CarterLibrary October 1, 2019 Mr. Carter officially became the oldest living presidentin history earlier this year, when he surpassed former President George H.W. Bush at 94 years and 172 days old. It s been 38 years since Mr. Carter left office, and he s continued to work hard even in his retirement. In 2002, he became the only U.S. president to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for work done after his time in office.He s written over 30 books and served as University Xyli Kosovo Independence Now Likely
White House hopeful Michele Bachmann on Wednesday rejected a fellow social conservative s plea for her to drop out of the race to support another long-shot candidate, Rick Santorum.Influential Iowa evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats called Bachmann stanley thermosflasche on Saturday and asked her to quit the race. On Tuesday, Vander Plaats personally announced his support of Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, though his organization, The Family Leader, announced it would remain officially neutral in the race. My numbers have always been above Senator Santorum s, so it makes no sense for me to drop out, Bachmann said in an interview with CBS The Early Show. In the latest CBS News poll released Tuesday, Bachmann received 4 percent support of likely Republican primary voters, compared to Santorum s 3 percent stanley cup . Only former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman was behind them. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich led with about 20 percent each. We are not looking at the national polls we are looking here in Iowa and here in Iowa, the tide has turned and an electric light switch gone off and we have tremendous momentum here in Iowa, Bachmann said. The Minnesota lawmaker said she is the only Republican candi stanley cup date in the race who can defeat President Obama and stand up to him in a debate. I m the only one that will be able to debate Barack Obama on the stage and defeat him and I think it s very important that we have a candi
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There is no evidence to date of any foreign interference in the 2018 midterm elections, according to a new joint report released by the Justice and Homeland Security Departments on Tuesday. While specific conclusions remain classified, the report found that no identified activities of a foreign government or foreign agent had a material impact on the integrity or security of election infrastructure or political/campaign infrastructure. The federal government worked with state and local officials in all 50 states and in more than 1,400 local jurisdictions to support efforts to secure election infrastructure and limit risk posed by foreign interference. This was a priority after the Russian government s widespreadinfluence efforts in the 2016 presidential election.The Russian government, operating through the Internet Research Agency IRA , managed to reach millions of users across stanley cups uk social media platforms, sowing dissension and spreading disinformation. Those efforts, experts warn, are stanley cup likely to pick up again. Theintelligence community recently concluded that foreign actors are still focused on targeting U.S. election systems. Our adversaries and strategic competitors probably already are looking to the 2020 U.S. elections as an opportunity to advance their interests, a recent threat assessment compiled by the intelligence community stanley uk said. We expect our adversaries and strategic competitors to refine their capabilities and add new tacti Elrd Biden could be Democrats best bet, new Iowa caucus poll finds
Sen. John Edwards announced he is running for president, becoming the third Democrat to officially enter the race to challenge President Bush. He wasted no time in taking the offensive, telling CBS News Correspondent Scott Pelley Thursday that he questioned President Bush s motives for seeking tax cuts. My difference with the president is not that I disagree that we need tax cuts. My differences is what those tax cuts do. I think we need tax cuts that go to people who need the tax cuts and for who it will have a real stanley cup impact on their lives. It will help them educate their kids, give them access to health care. Not tax cuts for the richest 1 percent of Americans, Edwards said.Edwards also insisted that although he is a millionaire trial lawyer, he is not out of touch with the concerns of low-income Americans. He also told Pelley voters should not be discouraged by concerns that a first-term senator lacks foreign policy experience. stanley cup President Reagan came to the office with very little foreign policy experience. We ve seen it in subsequent presidents, with President Clinton and with this president in the period immediately following 9/11. So I think that what the American people want, and what they should want, in leadership and crisis situations and times of uncertainly are leaders they can rely termo stanley on, Edwards told Pelley. Political analysts say Edwards has a selling point other democratic contenders do not: a southern heritage. The
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The following is a transcript of an interview with Senator Ted Cruz that aired Sunday, October 13, 2019, on Face the Nation MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to Face the Nation. We spoke yesterday with Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz. He s the highest ranking U.S. official to visit Hong Kong since pro democra stanley cup cy protests began four months ago. We asked him about the president saying that the situation in Hong Kong was dying down.SENATOR TED CRUZ: I ll tell you what s happening here in Hong Kong is inspiring. We ve seen over two million people come to the streets standing up for freedom, standing up for democracy and standing up against the oppression of the Chinese communist regime. And I think it is very much in the United States interest to support the people of Hong Kong. I m here, I m dressed in all blac stanley cup k standing in solidarity with the protesters. MARGARET BRENNAN: So the protests are not dying out as the president suggested SEN. CRUZ: The protests are continuing full force, and I ll tell you something that really illustrates just how powerful the protests are is- is what we ve seen happen with the NBA this past week. Daryl Morey, the general vaso stanley manager of the Rockets- my hometown team, I m a diehard Houston Rockets fan, but- but he tweeted a very benign tweet where he said Stand for freedom. Stand with Hong Kong, and- and the Chinese communist government, they just about lost it. They got so upset, they ended up boycotting the Rocke Cjqq Miracle on the Hudson pilot speaks out against privatization
This story was written by Pegah Yazdy, In 1952, amid a strong anti-communist sentiment in the nation, a law was passed in California that required all workers who were American citizens to sign a loyalty oath to be eligible to be hired for employment. Now, more than 50 years later, the law still stands and has been the subject of recent debate. stanley termoska When signing the loyalty oath, citizens agree to defend the constitutions of the United States and of California. The oath also states that the signer acknowledges he or she will not advocate nor become a member of any party or organization, political or otherwise, that advocates the overthrow of the government by force or other unlawful means. Wendy Gonaver, a prospective professor at California State University Fullerton, refused to sign the oath at the beginning of the school year and was not able to teach as a result. Clara Botes-Fellow, a spokeswoman for the Cali stanley fr fornia State University system, said Gonaver did not sign the oath because she believed the language of the oath was a violation of her First Amendment rights and an instrument of intimidation and religious discrimination. Gonaver, who is a Quaker from Pennsylvania, said she believes signing the stanley isolierkanne oath is an infringement of her religious rights, according to the Los Angeles Times. The Quaker religion preaches pacifis
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ALEXANDRIA, Va stanley canada . A computer hacker who helped theIslamic State by providing name stanley uk s of more than 1,000 U.S. government andmilitary workers as potential targets was sentenced Friday to 20 years inprison.The sentence was much higher than the 6-year term sought bydefense lawyers, who argued that their client, Ardit Ferizi, meant no real harmand is not a true supporter of the Islamic State.He was a nonsensical, misguided teenager who did notknow what he was doing, said public defender Elizabeth Mullin. Hehas never embraced ISILrsquo ideology. Ferizi, 20, a native of Kosovo who was arrested last year inMalaysia, is the first person vaso stanley convicted in the U.S. of both computer hackingand terrorism charges. He admitted hacking a private company and pulling outthe names, email passwords and phone numbers of about 1,300 people with .govand .mil addresses. The Islamic State published the names with a threat toattack.At Fridayrsquo sentencing hearing, Ferizi struggled to explainwhy he did it, when asked directly by U.S. District judge Leonie Brinkema foran explanation. He said that it all happened very quickly. I feel so bad for what I did, he said inAlbanian-accented English. I am very sorry for what I did, making peoplefeel scared.Prosecutors asked for the maximum sentence of 25 years.The defendantrsquo conduct has indefinitely put the livesof 1,300 military members and governm Skqc Analysis: Blockbuster day in Washington deals blows to Trump
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Sunday he will contemplate next year whether to run for president in 2008. I will be considering it next year, Giuliani said during a visit to Denmark. But he added that playing with the idea of running for the Republican nomination for president did not mean he would actually do it. Sometime you warm up and get ready and you don t get in and pitch, he told reporters, in a baseball analogy. Giuliani who was praised for his leadership following the Sept. 11 attacks on the stanley cups uk World Trade Center, thanked Danish firefighters who raised $8,400 in support for their New York colleagues. To us it was the only thing we could do, raise money and show our support, firefighter Jens Hjorth said. Eight firefighters from the station raised the money by recording a CD with six songs called The Skyline Changed. They sold 27,000 copies.On Sunday, the ba stanley thermobecher nd members handed over a copy of the CD to Giuliani, who in return gave them a FDNY hat.Giuliani was in Denmark to speak at a business leadership conference in the Danish capital on Monday.In 2000, Giuliani geared up for a hotly contested race for the U.S. Senate against then-candidate Hillary Clinton, who is now being talked about as a potenti stanley nz al presidential candidate in 2008. Before Guiliani s 2000 Senate campaign really got off the ground, he dropped out, after receiving a diagnosis of prostate cancer and deciding to focus instead on hi
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The following is a transcript of an interview with Rep. Tony Gonzales t stanley kubek hat aired on Sunday, Dec. 18. 2022, on Face the Nation. MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to Texas Republican Congressman Tony Gonzales whose district covers more than 800 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border in West Texas. Good morning to you, Congressman.REP. TONY GONZALES: Good morning, stanley termohrnek Margaret. Thank you for having me on. MARGARET BRENNAN: You heard the Senator they re calling for reform. But as you know, unless the Supreme Court steps in here, Title 42 is going away. What has the federal government told you is coming to your community in the coming days REP. GONZALES: Yeah, it is a dire situation in El Paso. As you know, the city declared a state of emergency stanley cup . This is something you do when there s a hurricane, a fire or an earthquake. What is happening is it s a hurricane of migrants, and everyone is impacted. I represent 823 miles of the southern border. I ve seen this exact play play out a year ago in Del Rio is what s happening in El Paso now. You know, I was just in El Paso a few days ago, and what I saw at the migrant center I had never seen before. I have visited- I had visited the processing center there many times. And what I saw were hundreds, over 500 migrants in a- in a pod, they call them pods, essentially a large cell that holds about 100 people. There s one bathroom, the odor is terrible. And there s eight pods in there. And so those are the good conditions. Cznr Amid calls for recusal, House Intel chairman Devin Nunes digs in
AP Photo Despite the fact that Sarah Palin uses her new book to air her grievances with John McCain s presidential campaign team, McCain reportedly said he enjoyed reading Palin s book stanley cup . I hope she sells lots of them, McCain told the Hill newspaper. Palin, who served as McCain s vice presidential running mate in the 2008 presidential election, accuses the McCain staff of micro-managing her and keeping her from the press, among other things.Some members of McCain s campaign staff have disputed her claims, and factual errors from her book have come to light, as well as discrepancies in her claims. McCain has largely stayed out of the debate over the veracity of Palin s claims, but he told the Hill that it was untrue that she was sent a $50,000 legal bill to pay for the vic stanley cup e presidential vetting process. He said the bill was in fact to pay for legal fees related to the Troopergate investigation into an alleged abuse of power by Palin. That was over the troopergate, McCain said, referring to the investigation into Palin s attempts to fire her ex-brother-in-law, state Trooper Mike Wooten. Meanwhile, Palin continues to promote her book with media interviews as well as on her new Twitter page, @SarahPalinUSA, whi stanley vaso ch shows the dates and locations of some of the stops on her book tour. Palin has yet to leave any messages on her new Twitter account and is not following anyone on the social networking site, but she has already amassed
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This is it: the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.With GOP nominee Donald Trump taking the stage, anything could happen. Trump will be the main attraction tonight, delivering his primetime speech and formally accepting the Republican nomination. The night s theme is Make America One stanley cup Again, a nod to the Republican unity that s thus far eluded Trump and his campaign.With that in mind, here s our much shorter daily list of what to watch as the GOP convention wraps up: 1. Trump, Trump, TrumpWhat Trump says tonight in his prim stanley cup etime appearance will help set the tone for the general election. Will he present a vision for the country and the means to attain it Or will he, as other speakers in Cleveland have done thus far, focus largely on bashing Hillary Clinton And then there s his delivery. Every interested election watcher has seen that there are two different Trumps when it comes to public speaking: there s brash, off-the-cuff Trump who shows up to his rallies who sometimes strays from the narrative of the day, and then there s the somewhat flat one who reads from a teleprompter for speeches on topics of import and policy proposals. It s a safe bet that Trump has prepared a speech for Thursday night, but will he stick to it How will he treat the skeptics in his party who have still not embraced his candidacy, and what will he say to un stanley flask ite his party His campaign chairman certainly hasn t been feeling Qmgt Grrrl Power On The Pentagon Beat
In what will be their final face-to-face meeting and possibly their last chance to address a nationwide television audience before Election Day, President Bush and John Kerry debate for the third time on Wednesday night.Time has dwindled since their first debate two weeks ago, but the s copo stanley takes have not shrunk. Polls show a tight race with no clear leader.The debate, scheduled for 9 p.m. ET at Arizona State University, is limited to economic and domestic policy, but there may be questions that allow Mr. Bush to discuss foreign policy, the war in Iraq and his campaign against terrorism mdash; all issues the Republican s campaign thinks he does well on. There could be times when those issues come up, said Bush campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel.When the wa stanley cup r on terror does come up, Kerry is likely to change the subject to the war in Iraq, which he has said was a mistake by the Bush administration, reports CBS News White House Correspondent Bill Plante. Watch the debate on your local CBS station, or here on CBSNews, beginning at 9 p.m. ET.For Mr. Bush, Wednesday s debate is a chance to revive in public opinion polls as the clock ticks down to Election Day, Nov. 2. His job-approval rating slumped to 47 percent in a USA Today-CNN-Gallup poll published Tue stanley cup sday mdash; one point above the lowest point in his presidency, reached in May.A new poll by CBS News released Tuesday gave Mr. Bush a 48-45 percent edge over Kerry among likely voters
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Saturday granting death benefits to the families of police officers, public health workers and other frontline workers who have died of the coronavirus. stanley cup quencher You gave your lives for us, we will be there for your families going forward, Cuomo said as he signed the legislation at his daily briefing on the virus. The bill passed by state lawmakers this past week provides an accidental death benefit that is more substantial than the regular death benefit that public workers families receive. Dozens of police officers, public health workers, transit workers and paramedics have died of COVID-19 in the months since New York became the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States. Cuomo said 67 people died of COVID-19 in the state on Friday, the same number as Thursday and a steep drop from the height of New York s outbreak in April when more than 700 people were dying of the virus daily. Speaking in the Bronx, Cuomo said he will focus this week on providing more testing for the coronavirus and more supp stanley cup lies like masks to neighborhoods in the outer boroughs of New York Ci stanley cups ty where infection rates remain stubbornly high. Cuomo said he is working with the leaders of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to make sure the agency is prepared for when New York City enters the first phase of loosening coronavirus restrictions on June 8. They have another week of work to do and they will be ready Hmsa Tom Steyer hoping for top-2 finish in Nevada caucuses
Breaking with the Whi stanley cups uk te House, the House Republican who chairs a panel that oversees the National Security Agency wants Congress to change a 1978 foreign intelligence law following the disclosure of President Bush s eavesdropping program.Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence, says the time has come for a complete review of the National Security Agency s program, spokesman Joel Hannahs said.She believes she has a constitutional responsibility to oversee this program, and the House Intelligence Committee is entitled to full briefings, he said. Hannahs also said that Wilson believes the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act needs to be updated to take into account new technology. The law governs the monitoring of calls inside the United States for national security reasons.The White House has insisted that it has the legal authority to monitor terror-related international communications in cases where one party stanley cup to the call is in the United States. Senior administration officials also say they were wit stanley cups uk hin the law when they chose to brief only Congress so-called Gang of Eight mdash; the leaders of the House and Senate and its intelligence committees.While the Gang of Eight can be notified, Wilson believes that is not oversight, Hannahs said.Aboard Air Force One, White House spokesman Scott McClellan on Wednesday reiterated the administration s position th
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