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The New York City Council approved a ban on most flavored e-cigarettes amid growing concerns over the deadly vaping crisis, CBS New York reports. The vote came just days after thesecond vaping-related deathin the city.Supporters of the ban say theflavored products target kids, but adult users worry they will be forced toreturn to traditional tobacco. We are taking a momentous step to protect the health of our young peopl stanley canada e mdash; a step that has been too long coming, Councilman Mark Levine said on the steps of City Hall. In the face of intense resistance from Big Tobacco and their allies, @NYCCouncil just voted, 42-2, to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes.No longer will kids in this city be lured into nicotine addiction by the easy availability of flavored vapes.So proud of my colleagues.mdash; stanley quencher Mark D. Levine @MarkLevineNYC November 26, 2019 After passage, opponents of the vote threw money from a balcony, shouting, Big tobacco thanks you, CBS New York reported. The concern is adults who vape as a means to quit smoking will go back to regular cigarettes.The increased popularity of vaping among middle and high school students spurred the ban even though it s already illegal for them to purchase e-cigarettes. This will not stop every kid who is determined to get flavored e-cig from doing so, said Levine. It will make it a lot tougher. It will stanley quencher remove the temptation. Ranu Will there be another Democratic debate Maybe!
CBS News Democrats and Republicans have seemingly agreed on at least one thing in the ongoing fiscal cliff talks -- say little about the details. While the atmosphere around the talks is positive, concrete progress is maddeningly slow, CBS News stanley cups Major Garrett reported. President Obama telephoned Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Monday while his top Capitol Hill Lieutenant, Rob Nabors, huddled for the second day in a row with senior staff to House Speaker John Boehner. And for a second day in a row, there is no discernible progress toward breaking the fiscal cliff stalemate. President Obama left that Washington drama behind and warned supporters in suburban Detroit the fiscal cliff is serious business. If Congress doesn t act soon, meaning in the next few weeks, starting on January 1st everybody s going to see their incomes taxes go up, Obama told the the crowd.Boehner and House Republicans want to preserve all of the Bush-era tax rates to expire at year s end, shielding ever stanley botella yone from a tax increase. Obama wants them to rise for households earning more than $250,000 and has so far resisted GOP demands for spending cuts for health care or education. I m not going to have a situation where the wealthiest among us, including folks like me, get to keep all our tax breaks, and then we re aski kubki stanley ng students to pay higher student loans, the president said. Even so, Democrats worry Mr. Obama might cave to Republicans. Their bigges

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A longtime Trump attorney oversaw an internal investigation of the Trump Organization s tax practices in 2017 and 2018, leading the company to do things differently, an exe stanley cup cutive testified Tuesday.The revelation came amid the second day of sworn testimony by Trump Organization controller Jeffrey McConney, who was the first witness called by the government in the company s New York criminal fraud trial.McConney said the investigation was led by Sheri Dillon, an attorney most known for a January 2017 press conference held by then-President-elect Donald Trump in which she and Trump displayed stacks of papers they said were related to his companies taxes. McConney s testimony was halted later Tuesday after he tested positive for COVID-19. The trial is expected to resume on Monday, Nov. 7.The Manhattan District Attorney s Office in 2021 charged former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg and the company, through two corporate entities mdash; the Trump Corporation and Trump Payroll Corporation mdash; with more than a dozen criminal counts related to allegations that certain executives were provided with untaxed indirect em stanley cup ployee compensation. Weisselberg entered a guilty plea in the case in August. The company maintains its innocence of all charges. Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Susan Hoffinger said during her opening statements Monday that company executives had been evading taxes for ye vaso stanley ars, but Lowx Nobody is above the law protests held nationwide to support Mueller s probe
CBS News GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The jury in the John Edwards political corruption trial is scheduled to resume deliberations Monday after failing to reach a verdict Friday, their first day of trying.Edwards is charged with six felony counts in connection with alleged campaign finance fraud.Prosecutors say Edwards belongs in prison for devis stanley quencher ing an elaborate scheme to use nearly $1 million from wealthy donors to hide his affair with Rielle Hunter, in violation of campaign finance rules, notes CBS News correspondent Anna Werner. But Edwards defense lawyer Abbe Lowell told jurors Edwards confessed his sins. ... But he has pleaded not guilty to violating the law. 48 Hours Mystery correspondent Erin Moriarty, who s also an attorney, says deliberations could take a while. This is a very, very difficult deliberation for them, she pointed out to CBS This Morning: Saturday co-hosts Jeff Glor and Rebecca Jarvis. When you read the jury instructions, they re told they have to look at the intent of the campaign donors, Rachel Bunny Mellon and Fred Baro stanley us n. The problem is, neither one of them testified. Fred Baron died in 2008 and Bunny Mellon is almost 102. So now, jurors have to go back to the hard evidence and try to figure out what was in their minds. Did they intend stanley cup these to be gifts, that they would have helped John Edwards no matter what, or was this definitely to affect the election And what s tough is, you know, all the e

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CBS From CBS News Fernando Suarez:SOUTH BEND, IND. -- In the face of growing criticism from economists and some in her party, Hillary Clinton said she will not give up in her purs stanley quencher uit to temporarily eliminate the federal gas tax for the summer. I am unabashed! I am unapologetic! I am going to fight for the middle class and I am going to take on the oil companies and everybody else who s had it their way for way too long! Clinton told a dismal crowd at an outdoor rally here.The federal gas tax holiday, first propos stanley cup ed by John McCain, has become a heated issue in the campaign. The plan would shelve the tax on gas from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend, a traditionally high travel time for Americans. Barack Obama does not favor th copo stanley e plan, which has created an opening for Clinton to criticize him - and vice versa - in these crucial final 48 hours before the primaries in Indiana and North Carolina. My opponent says, you know, that s a gimmick he doesn t want to take on the oil companies to make them pay the gas tax, he d rather you do it, but he attacks me because he doesn t have any plan for immediate relief, Clinton said to applause.With so many Americans feeling the pinch at the pump - with the average cost of gas topping $3.60 per gallon - it is no surprise that, politically, supporting the gas-tax holiday is highly popular among voters despite arguments form economists who say the overall savings will not be worth the pot

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The Federal Election Commission fined Sen. Ted Cruz s Senate campaign $35,000 on Friday for failing to adequately disclose $1 million in bank loans from Goldman Sachs and Citibank during his 2012 Senate campaign.The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center filed a complaintwith the FEC in 2016 about the loans, arguing that the failure to properly disclose them caused informational injury to voters.The Cruz campaign didn t immediately respond to CBS News request for comment butsaid in a statement to The Hill, As has repeatedly been reporte stanley cup d, the loans were public at the time and fully disclosed on Senate ethics disclosures, but they weren t reported correctly on the FEC forms. This agreed settlement resolves that filing mistake once and for all, the statement said.Cruz was first elected to the Senate in 2012 and was re-elected in 2018. stanley cup More from CBS News DACA recipient elected to New Mexico legislature and other historic election wins stanley quencher Fact checking Election Day 2024 claims Key moments of the 2024 campaign in photos Ysiu Speaker John Boehner cautions against sharp troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
This story was written by Nathan Swire, The DartmouthIn his first campaign appearance in the area since May, former New York City mayor and current Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani stressed economic growth and robust foreign engagement to an enthusiastic crowd of about 100 at Lebanon High School Tuesday night.The speech was arranged in a town-hall for caneca stanley mat, with approximately 20 minutes of speaking by Giuliani, followed by five questions from the audience.Massachusetts State Treasurer Joe Malone announced his su stanley cup pport for Giuliani before the talk. He appeared with former Massachusetts Gov. Paul Celucci, who also supports Giuliani over fellow former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Mayor Giuliani is the right man to serve as the next president of the United States, Malone said, before Giuliani entered to a standing ovation.G vaso stanley iuliani s major theme throughout the night was the economy. He emphasized tort reform, tying the idea of damage caps to strengthening the economy. He noted that when Texas put a hard cap on medical malpractice lawsuits, it saw an increase in the number of doctors working there by 9 percent in the first year after the reform and 30 percent in the second year. Keeps up like this we re going to have to go to Texas for medical care, he joked.In answering an audience member s question on losing manufacturing jobs overseas, Giuliani said the best way to correct trade imbalance is to export more, not to im

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This post originally appeared on Slate.With the government set to run out of money at midnight, the clock is ticking and no one is negotiating. House Republicans voted Saturday on a new set of amendments it would like to tie to continued funding of the government, and Senate Democrats promptly said, Nuts to you! They re going to vote to table the amendments on Mon stanley tumbler day, which will kick the issue back to the House. stanley deutschland Gov t shutdown: What does it mean for Wall Street 01:22 Depending on when the bill returns, Republicans may try one more gambit to chip away at Obamacare, but time is growing short. Update: There was talk among some in the House about attaching the so-called Vitter amendment to another funding bill and sending it back to the Senate. That measure, named after the Louisiana senator who sponsored it, would eliminate government subsidies for health care of members of Congress and their staff. According to one GOP aide the measure is losing some support because members have staffers and family who have pre-existing conditions and special needs and would benefit from keeping the subsidy w stanley cup quencher hich was an attempt by the Office of Personnel Management to fix the negative treatment of congressional employees under the ACA. After the House Monday gambit fails Fxel Trump s Interior secretary warns the border wall faces geographic obstacles
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AP MOSCOW 151; President Vladimir Putin says Russia can work with Mitt Romney if he s elected U.S. president, even though Romney has called Russia the United States stanley mugg No. 1 geopolitical foe. In an interview broadcast Thursday by the Kremlin-funded Russia Today TV channel, Putin made his first direct comments about the Republican challenger to President Barack Obama.Romney keeps up strong rhetoric on Russia We ll work with whichever president is elected by the American people. But our effort will be only as efficient as our partners will want it to be, Putin said.Putin expressed concern about how a Romney presidency would affect the long-running dispute over U.S.-led NATO plans to place elements of a missile-defense system in Europe. Russia contends the system could undermine its own defenses. Putin said if Romney is elected the missile defens stanley thermos e system will definitely be directed against Russia. The wide-ranging interview showed Putin s acerbic and combative side, particularly on the issue of the two-year prison sentence imposed last month on three members of the provocateur band Pussy Riot for their punk prayer prank in Moscow s main cathedral entreating the Virgin Mary to save Russia from Putin.Their conviction brought widespread criticism of Russia for stifling opposition and free speech.Putin briefly sparred with the English-speaking interviewer over how the band s n stanley tumbler ame could be translated into Russian, saying I think

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In rare public remarks, President Trump s son-in-law and top adviser, Jared Kushner, welcomed top technology company executives for a brainstorming session at the White House on Monday. Kushner kicked off t stanley cups uk he White House Technology Week as p stanley cups uk art of the administration s ongoing efforts to make progress on campaign promises. The event was hosted by the White House Office of American Innovation an stanley cup d the American Technology Council, which is led by Kushner. Monday s event was billed as a brainstorming session to help modernize the federal government s technology infrastructure and, according to Kushner, help bring business sensibility to the government. Many warned me bureaucracy would resist any change we tried to implement. So far I ve found exactly the opposite, said Kushner. He added, The goal is simple here, to improve the day-to-day lives of average citizens. That s a core promise and we are keeping it. Technology giants like Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and IBM CEO Ginni Rometty were on hand to help work on the country s biggest challenges. Kushner applauded the work already done by some agencies to modernize decades-old federal systems by making the government more transparent and responsive to citizens needs, including Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin s work in moving the agency to electronic health records. Shulkin said the VA would adopt a commercial product used by the Pentagon, part of an effo Oowg Obama Honors 16 with Presidential Medals of Freedom
Dotty Lynch, Douglas Kiker, Steve Chaggaris, Beth Lester, Natasha Kuzovich and Clothilde Ewing of the CBS News Political Unit have the latest from the nation s capital.Lieberman Releases First Ads: On Tuesday, Joe Lieberman s presidential campaign released its first television ads, going up in New Hampshire with two messages. Touting his Leadership with Integrity theme, Lieberman s ads focus on Iraq and tax policy. The ads style, which Lieberman media consultant Mandy Grunwald calls On the Road with Joe, is informal and fast-paced, designed to be able to react to things in the news. The first ad highlights Lieberman s v stanley mug otes in favor of the Iraq war resolution and the $87 billion reconstruction package. Taking an overt swing at President Bush and a thinly veiled swipe at his stanley cup Democratic rivals, Lieberman says, We had to make a choice. I didn t duck it. I didn t play politics. I voted to support our troops and finish the job. The ad seems to recall Lieberman s criticism of other Democratic candidates, including Sen. John Kerry and Gen. Wesley Clark, made stanley cup in Sunday s debate. Despite this, the campaign says the ads are not negative and that New Hampshire voters in particular value this kind of bluntness and integrity. The second ad, on Lieberman s tax plan, goes directly after the GOP. Lieberman intones, [Republicans are] going to ransack the whole Social Security trust fund if we don t stop them. I m Joe Lieberman and I approve this message because we need to restore

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W. Samuel Patten, 47, was sentenced to three years probation, ordered to complete 500 hours of community service and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine after pleading guilty in August 2018 to violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act FARA by failing to register as a foreign agent for his work on behalf of the Opposition Bloc, a Ukrainian political party. Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort also worked for the group.Patten, along with his friend Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian national who has since been indicted by the special counsel, where the two offered political consulting in Ukraine. In his sentencing memo, Patten s lawyers write, at no point did Mr. Patten know, believe, or suspect that Kilimnik was connected in any way to Russian intelligence. Additionally, Patten helped Ukrainian nationals donate $50,000 -- worth four tickets to the 2017 presidential inaug stanley cups uration -- even though foreign nationals are not allow to make donations to the Presidential Inaugural Committee. He also withheld documents from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. stanley us A condition of his probation is that he continues to participate in a mental health treatment program. In court Friday, Patten told Judge Amy Berman Jackson that he had behaved as though the law didn t appl stanley vaso y to me, and that was wrong. When imposing Friday s sentence, Jackson reprimanded Patten over his crimes, which had taken place over the four-year period, when he worked on beh Gcup Gingrich, Romney take shots at each other on immigration policy
This post originally appeared on Slate.On Monday, President Obama will preside over the grand reopening of his administration. It would be altogether fitting if he stepped to the microphone, looked down the mall, and let out a sigh: so many people expecting so much from a government that appears capable of so little. A second inaugural suggests new beginnings, but this one is being bookended by dead-end debates. Gridlock over the fiscal cliff preceded it and gridlock over the debt limit, sequester, and budget will follow. After the election, the same people are in power in all the branches of government and they don t get along. There s no indication that the president s clashes with House Republicans will end soon.Inaugural speeches are supposed to be huge and stirring. Presidents haul our heroes onstage, from George Washington to Martin Luther King Jr. George W. Bush brought the Liberty Bell. They use history to make greatness and achievements seem like something you can just take down from the shelf. Americans are not stuck in the rut of t stanley canada he day.Inauguration weekend: Washington gets ready to partyComplete coverage: The Presidential Inauguration 2013But this might be too much for Obama s second inaugural address: After the last four years, how do you stanley cup call the nation and its elected representatives to common acti stanley thermobecher on while standing on the steps of a building where collective action goes to die That bipartisan bag of tricks has been tried and it didn t work. People don t belie

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President Trump signaled Tuesday that the government could very well shut down next month if Democrats don t agree to his demands on military spending, his administration s plan to reduce crime and his border wall. Mr. Trump spoke to cameras at the White House at a table with Republicans leaders Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, and Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin. Democratic leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California, decided earlier in the day to pull out of the meeting. I m not really that surprised, the president said about Dem stanley cup ocrats decision not to attend. We have a lot of differences. They re weak on crime; they re weak on illegal immigration. They want the illegal folks to come pouring into our border and a lot of problems are being caused. The president accused Democrats of being all talk and no action. Both Ryan and McConnell ridiculed Democrats for skipping botella stanley the meeting, arguing that the White House must be part of the ultimate negotiation over government spending. Congress must pass a new spending bill by Dec. 8 or the government will shut down. Lawmakers return to Washington with a long to-do list stanley becher 05:05 But even before an omnibus appropriations package can be hashed out, Republicans and Democrats are divided Vavs Transcript: Chris Coons and James Lankford on Face the Nation, December 29, 2019
President Obama greets California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger during a press conference at the White House May 19, 2009. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images Could Arnold Schwarzenegger have taken a starring role in President Obama s cabinet Schwarzenegger, a moderate Republican cups stanley , was reportedly approached by administration officials about a cabinet position in January 2011, following his second term as governor of California, according to the Wall Street Journal. The newspaper attributes the information to people familiar with the matter. The conversation between the White House and Schwarzenegger happened before he admitted to having an extramarital affair in May 2011. Schwarzenegger had discussed future political aspirations, including presidential ambitions, with the media on several occasions, including in an interview with 60 Minutes in Dec. 2008. Schwarzenegger, who was born in Austria and is a naturalized U.S. citizen, said he would absolutely run for president if the Constitution were changed. stanley cup I think that I am always a person that looks for the next big goal, he said. Schwarzenegger had also specifically discussed the possibility of a cabinet position, telling ABC News in July 2008, before the president was elected, that he d talk to Mr. Obama if he called to inquire about a cabinet slot. stanley cup