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President Trump canceled a planned press conference at the G-20 summit in Argentina on Saturday, citing stanley cup respect for former President George H.W. Bush, who died on Fridayat the age of 94. Mr. Trump s planned unilateral news conference for Saturday afternoon was expected to cap an eventful trip, amid domestic legal concerns and troubled international relations. I was very much looking forward to having a press conference just prior to leaving Argentina because we have had such great success in our dealing with various countries and their leaders at the G20, Mr. Trump said in the first of two tweets. However, out of respect for the Bush Family and former President George H.W. Bush we will wait until after the funeral to have a press conference. Mr. Trump and the first lady will attend Bush s funeral at the National Cath stanley cup edral in Washington D.C. next week. The press availability was supposed to occur after Mr. Trump s meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He is meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping later in the day.Mr. Trump was expected to be asked about his relati stanley mug onship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, amid new developments in the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. What does Michael Cohen s plea deal mean for Mueller investigation 01:39 Ophj Some Clinton Backers Want To Keep Fighting
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Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, condemned President Obama s new budget Saturday as the latest in a series of fiscally irresponsible proposals from the White House, promising a very different fiscal roadmap from the Republican Congress in the coming weeks.The president could have laid out policies that would put us back on track to balanced budgets and more economic growth, Portman, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, said in stanley cup becher the weekly GOP address. He could have cut waste, made our government more efficient and effective, and done all in his power to ensure that every single dollar of the taxes we pay is spent wisely. But he didn t, an stanley drinking cup d that s why this new budget is so disappointing. stanley mugs Obama unveils $4 trillion budget 01:56 Portman said Mr. Obama s budget raises taxes by $2.1 trillion, creating the highest income tax burden on American families in our nation s history. He said the plan includes $1 trillion in new government spending, and it never balances itself -- not in five years, not in 10 years. Not ever. The president has argued America can afford to pull back somewhat from the austerity economics that held sway after the recession, given the accelerating job growth and economic growth in recent months. His budget includes new investments in h Vhvf Senate passes bill to let states tax Internet sales
Moderator Candy Crowley promised Tuesday that she won t be afraid to insert herself into the conversation at tonight s town hall debate despite pressure from the campaigns to largely keep quiet. The presidential campaigns put together a memorandum of understanding mandating that the moderator of the town-hall st stanley mug yle debate not ask follow-up questions or comment on either the questions asked by the audience stanley travel mug or the answers of the candidates during the debate or otherwise intervene in the debate except to acknowledge the questioners from the audience or enforce the time limits. The document is not released to the public but was leaked to Time Magazine, and it details how the campaigns come together to agree to a set of rules designed to protect the candidates from unexpected moments. After Crowley said last week that she planned to assert herself during the town hall debate - t stanley kaffeebecher elling CNN that [o]nce the table is kind of set by the town hall questioner, there is then time for me to say, Hey, wait a second, what about x, y, z - the campaigns complained to the Commission on Presidential Debates that she wasn t following their script. While the Commission is independent and did not publicly sign off on the memorandum of understanding, it is effectively controlled by the major parties. Frank Fahrenkopf, co-chairman of the Commission, told CBS News Monday that Crowley got out in front of herself in discussing her role as moderator. He
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As Congress debates increasing work requirements fo stanley cup r safety-net programs, new research from the Brookings Institution shows just how many Americans are dependent on that safety net.A stagnation of incomes across the board, coupled with an expansion of Medicaid and othe stanley puodelis r health-insurance payments, has helped the middle class benefit from so-called wealth redistribution just as much as the poorest Americans. In 2014, the middle 60 percent of Americans accounted for 46.8 percent of federal aid offered to people who qualify for such help, Brookings found. The poorest 20 percent accounted for 47.9 percent of these transfers. They include programs like SNAP formerly called food stamps , Medicaid and cost-sharing elements of the Affordable Care Act. America is nearing peak income inequality 01:15 That s the most recent year for which comprehensive data is available, but the trend has been visible since about 1990, the analysis shows. The culprit In a term: health care. As costs of medical care have continued to march upward, the safety net has gotten bigger, modestly, to subsidize some of them. stanley cup Medicaid expanded in the 1990s and again under the Affordable Care Act, which also created subsidies for middle-income people to buy health insurance. Medicare Part D, a pro Ezzh Dems Push Back On Rangel
Ratcheting up a growing controversy over how the Obama Administration enforces civil rights and voting rights laws, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said today it has evidence of possible unequal administration of justice within the Justice Department, citing testimony that revealed widespread, pervasive hostility against discriminati kubki stanley on and voter intimidation claims by whites.In a sharply worded letter to senior Justice Department official Thomas Perez, who heads the Civil Rights Division, the commission said it had evidence raising serious concerns about whether the department s policies are being pursued in a race-neutral fashion. The controversy erupted after the Obama Administration dropped most of a federal lawsuit against members of the New Black Panther Party, who were videotaped allegedly intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day in November 2008. The B stanley termosy ush Administration in January 2009 filed suit against three of the members and the New Black Panther Party, but the Obama Administration changed course four months later and dropped the complaint against all but one member, who was wielding a nightstick at the polli stanley quencher ng place. And it only sought a narrow injunction against him, banning him from Philadelphia polling places until 2012. A Justice Department spokeswoman said the top career attorney in the Civil Rights Division conducted a thorough review and determined the facts only supported c
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Russian-born businessman Felix Sater says he proposed giving a $50 million penthouse to Russian President Vladimir Putin to entice other buyers in the proposed Trump Tower Moscow project, CBS News Andres Triay has confirmed.Sater told BuzzFeed News that he and former longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen mdash; who pleaded guilt stanley cup y Thursday to lying to Congress over the proposed Moscow deal mdash; thought giving the pen botella stanley thouse to Putin would encourage other Russian buyers to purchase their own units in the building. Sater told BuzzFeed the Putin penthouse was his idea. An attorney for Sater confirmed to CBS News Sater was quoted accurately. My idea was to give a $50 million penthouse to Putin and charge $250 million more for the rest of the units. All the oligarchs would stanley us line up to live in the same building as Putin, Felix told BuzzFeed. The Trump Organization and the White House have not returned CBS News requests for comment.Sater, a real estate developer with past American mob ties, is one of the unnamed individuals in Cohen s guilty plea, CBS News confirmed. Cohen claimed to Congress that he primarily communicated with a Moscow-based development company through Sater, listed as Individual 2. Who is Felix Sater and what is his role in Michael Cohen s guilty plea Sater was the managing director of the Bayrock Group, a real estate conglomerate, when the Trump SoHo building in Manhattan was under construction. He was also an FBI infor Wlpb Gingrich wants to fight judicial supremacy
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday urged a roaring crowd of Republicans to exhaust thems stanley cup elves over the next two weeks to take back California and the country for the little guy. The former vice presidential candidate addressed more than 2,000 supporters at a Republican National Committee rally in Orange County, a conservative stronghold in a state where Republicans hope to make gains this year. The momentum is with us but now is not the time to let up, now is not the time to celebrate - not quite yet, Palin told a crowd wearing T-shirts reading Proud Conservative and buttons reading Is it 2012 yet We can t be thinking that it s over yet and we ve got it in the bag. As Yogi would ve said, It ain t over till it s over, she said, referring to New York Yankees great Yogi Berra. Soon we ll all be dancing, Palin added. The event was the culmination of a three-day promotional and political swing for Palin through California - a state where she gets mixed reviews.A Field Poll released last week found that 58 percent of the state s registered voters hold a negative view of Palin, although she remains quite popular among Republicans. In addition, two-thirds of independent voters would be less inclined to support a stanley cup candidate endorsed by her.The state stanley cup usa s two most prominent Republican candidates this year - gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman and Senate candidate Carly Fiorina - were absent from the rally, citing scheduling co
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The list of potential 2016 Republican candidate stanley thermos s has changed again this week as Rep. Paul Ryan confirmed he will not join his colleagues in a run for president, instead focusing on his role as chairman of Ways and Means Committee. His former running mate on the other hand, Mitt Romney, may be close to confirming his name on the ballot. The people I ve talked to say yes, this is for real stanley cups , and Republicans have rewarded people for doing this in the past, Republican strategist and CBS News contributor Frank Luntz said Tuesday on CBS This Morning. Richard Nixon was unable to win in 1960 -- they renominated him in 1968. Ronald Reagan in 1976 almost won the nomination -- he comes back in stanley flasche 1980. George Herbert Walker Bush -- 1980 to 88. Romney hasn t been clear in the past though. In October, he told CBS News Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes, I m not running. Mitt Romney could pull a lsquo;Nixonrsquo; in 2016 if he wins 00:38 If he does confirm the decision, Luntz said he will have to address three areas that left supporters disappointed with a loss in 2012. First, on election night, they thought he was going to win. Paul Ryan thought he was going to win. What was wrong with his staff With the input he was getting that he actually thought he was goin Tgah Washington Wrap
President Barack Obama stands with the co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Erskine Bowles, second from right, and Alan Simpson, right, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. AP A group of Democrats today pressed President Obama s bipartisan fiscal commission, which is will be putting fourth recommendations on December 1st to reduce the deficit, not to include any cuts to Social Security when they do. The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform should keep their paws off starbucks stanley cup Social Security, Rep. John Conyers D-Mich. said on a phone call with reporters, calling for no benefit cuts, no raising the retirement age, no privatization. Sen. Bernie Sanders I-Vt. said explicitly that the purpose of the call was to warn the commission not to include recommendations to cut Social Security. If you do we ll vote stanley thermos it down, and do everything we can to see it defeated, he said. Sanders and Sen. Sherrod Brown stanley cup D-Ohio have introduced a resolution to express Senate opposition to Social Security cuts, which has 12 cosponsors. More than 100 lawmakers have also signed a letter to be sent to Mr. Obama opposing such cuts. Liberals fear that the commission will recommend cuts to Social Security in part because of co-chair Alan Simpson s suggestion that the pro
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WASHINGTON -- President Trump s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, has dropped lawsuits against the company that compiled a dossier alleging the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russians in 2016, and the online news site that published it. Those actions are fueling concern in the president s inner circle that Cohen may cooperate with prosecutors.With court battles on several fronts, Cohen is under intense legal pressure.Attorney Jay Goldberg says he warned Mr. Trump in a phone call this weekend that Cohen s legal problems could be a liability for the president. To avoid jail, Michael could do what so many witnesses do -- he could add to the facts, stanley france he could change the facts, he could implicate the president when the president has done nothing, Goldberg said.Sources tell CBS News that Cohen expects to be charged in connection with the FBI raid last week in Manhattan. What could the FBI raid on Michael Cohen unveil 07:36 Investigators seized 10 boxes of documents and elect stanley tumblers ronic communications from Cohen s office, home and hotel ro stanley mug om. Over the years, Cohen has become known as Mr. Trump s fixer.Cohen did not respond to CBS News requests for comment Thursday nor did his attorney. In recent weeks his legal fight over a payment to adult-film star Stormy D Ymyx New Yorkers ramp up gay marriage campaign
By CBSNews s David MillerHillary Clinton wants her fellow Democrats to know that she s in it to win it with her recently launched presidential campaign, a fact made abundantly clear by the New York senator s presence at the Democratic National Committee s winter meeting, being held this week in Washington.The phrase, first used by Clinton when she launched her bid in January, reappeared in the second line of her speech Friday. It also could be found on buttons available at the campaign s exhibition hall table, which had all the trappings of a professional political operation mdash; including balloons, signs, stickers and pamphlets. In the main hall, where she and most of the other Democratic candidates spoke, volunteers wearing campaign t-shirts moved through the audience. They handed out signs for spectators to hold up during the senator s speech, a sight more c kubki stanley ommon to the party s national convention mdash; an event the senator clearly has her eyes on. Clinton was even accompanied by protesters, who w stanley cup ere unable to drown out the senator when she mentioned her support for a non-binding Senate resolution opposing President Bush s pl stanley water bottle an to send more troops to Iraq.But Clinton is not the only one who hopes an appearance at the winter meeting will start a journey that ends with earning the party s presidential nomination in 2008, and hers is not the only style on display. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama struck an understated tone. Unlik
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Interim Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile is coming under fire Monday after a newly rel stanley cup eased WikiLeaks email indicated she gave Hillary Clintonrsquo team an explicit heads-up about debate questions last spring.In one exchange, released in Mondayrsquo batch of emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podestarsquo account, Brazile apparently wrote to Podesta ahead of the March 6 Democratic d stanley cup usa ebate in Flint, Mich. One of the questions directed to HRC tomorrow is from a woman with a rash, the subject line of the email read. It continued: Her family has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will Hillary do as president to help the ppl [sic] of Flint. Inside the battle to stop attacks by Russian hackers stanley cup Fancy Bear 03:35 And in a March 12 email to Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri, Brazile wrote: From time to time I get the questions in advance. The email included the text of what looked like a question about the death penalty, presumably for a CNN town hall Clinton was doing the following day. Irsquo;ll send a few more, Brazile said.In a statement, CNN denied providing Brazile with any advance debate questions or preparation material and noted Aymy Poll: Hillary Clinton still a strong frontrunner in Iowa
North Carolina Democrat Kay Hagan has pulled off one of the early upsets of election night, knocking off Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole i stanley cup n a race that was one of the nastiest Senate contests in the country. Haganrsquo victory is especially sweet for Democrats because she is taking over the seat once held by the late Sen. Jesse Helms mdash; and because her election could signal a new era for southern Democrats. Dole had always been a favorite daughter of the Tar Heel State, yet Hagan ran an aggressive race, fueled by national Democratic money, that portrayed the incumbent as out of touch and ineffective. The race will perhaps be best remembered for Dolersquo infamous Godless ad mdash; a spot that accu stanley cup sed Hagan of cavorting with atheists who attended one of her fundraisers last year. That ad was widely denounced by local North Carolina newspapers and may have actually backfired on Dole. Dole, a former Cabinet secretary and a presidential candidate in 2000, was considered a rising force in Republican stanley cups uk politics when she claimed the North Carolina Senate seat in 2002. But Dolersquo star began to fizzle in 2006, when the Republicans lost their Senate majority on her watch as the chairwoman of National Republican Senatorial Committee. In the Senate over the past two years, Dole was rarely involved in major legislative negotiations and seemed marginalized after the debacle of her NRSC chairmanship. Dole was criticized th
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Do you need to spend a ton of money to enjoy the hell out of movies at home Nope鈥攖hat a myth. If you want to give your special person TV a boost, you can do it on a budget. Hey there! You might notice our gift guides look a little different this year. That because we ;re hoping to get you m stanley cup usa ore involve stanley cups d in them. All of our suggestions are posted in the discussion section. If you have experience or an opinion on one of our selections, let us know! Got a better idea Share it with us. We stanley kubek truly want to make sure these guides help people buy epic holiday gifts, and many minds are better than a few. Gift Guide 2012home theater Uldr Cops retrieve woman s body from river 鈥?turns out to be a sex doll
The U.S. Department of Transportation wants to ban electronic cigarettes, even while they only produce water vapor that doesn ;t contain any cancerous chemicals. They say this will increase the comfort of other passengers. Perhaps they should ban other things first. The logic is that the vapor from the e-cigs would bother other passenge stanley becher rs, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood: Airline passengers have rights, and this new rule would enhance passenger comfort and reduce any confusion surrounding the use of electronic cigarettes in flight. Do you know what really confuses me, Ray Do you know what really gets in my nostrils and my bloody nerves 5. Perfumes, colognes and scented deodorants. Why do people insist on dousing themse stanley cup lves on stanley tumbler perfumes when they come into a plane Aren ;t they aware that smelling like a walking whorehouse can bother people as much as a real cigarette At least, it bothers me to the point of nausea. 4. After-shaves. These are even worse than perfumes. I don ;t even like scented after-shaves in the open. There should be a worldwide ban on them, but airplanes would be enough for now. 3. People wearing socks and sandals. I remember that flight in which the passenger behind me was wearing these, probably after a long day of walking around the terminal, waiting for his flight to board. I had to hold my vomit for an entire intercontinental flight. 2. Not showering. Of course, the smell of sweat is even worse than numbers 4 o
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Last night season premiere of Supernatural was one helluva way 鈥?or should I say one heaven of a way 鈥?to start the seventh year of this series about monsters, magic, angels and demons. The sixth season ended with the Winchester brothers ; angel buddy Castiel swallowing every monstrous soul in Purgatory and turning into God. In this episode, Meet the New Boss, written by showrunner Sera Gamble, we see exactly what kind of God our humor-impaired angel turned out to be. The results, shall we say, are not pretty. But they made for one incredible episode. Spoilers ahead, my delightful protozoans! I should say at the outset that this was an exceptionally good episode from many angles: the pacing was terrific, the set pieces were poignant and funny, and new kinks were added to the show cosmology that were intrigu stanley us ing as well as making good sense. Of course it didn ;t hurt that Gamble script pulled out all the stop stanley tumblers s, bringing in both Death who ate some tasty pickle chips and Crowley the semi-deposed king of Hell to deal with Earth little God problem. stanley cup When God starts smiting, why not throw in a little Michele Bachmann joke We began right where we left off last season, with the new God Castiel telling everybody to kneel down before him and start worshiping. Since he already killed off Raphael and some of her hench-angels, that leaves only Sam, Dean, and Bobby on prostration duty. Unfortuna Ovwk Willy Loman Contemplates Twittercide
When I was a kid I had a little orange scooter. It was completely foot-powered鈥攏o motor or anything because that just wouldn ;t have ended well. But I always craved more speed from their gas-powered cousins. Now as an adult, I would love to jet around on a motorcycle, but without the special license and training, it just a bad idea. Though the Razor Dirt Rocket Bike is a downgraded, safer version. It only goes 15 miles per hour, and today it on sale for $99, $300 off the regular price. -LH Top Deals 鈥?RazorDirt Rocket Electric Bike MX500 for $100 normally $400 Savings of $300 / 75% off 鈥?The Complete Game for Boys for $20 normally $30 Savings of $10 / 33% off 鈥?Spiderman Super Hero Cufflinks for $4 with free stanley cup shipping normally $7.99 Savings of $4 / 50% stanley cup off Sort by: CategoryPrice Low to High Free Only = Free = Refurbished = Rebate Computing and Peripherals Tablets 鈥?10.1 8243; Toshiba Thrive 8GB Android Tablet REFURBISHED for $190 with free shipping normally $340 Savings of $150 / 44% off Peripherals 鈥?480GB SanDisk SDSSDX-480G-G25 Extreme 2.5 8243; SATA III Solid State Drive SSD for $446 with free shipping 鈥?240GB OCZ Agility 3 2.5 8243; SATA III Internal SSD for $180 with free shipping normally $250 Savings of $70 / 28% off use mail-in rebate form 鈥?Seagate ST750LX003 Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drive for $140 w stanley cup ith free shipping normally $149.99 Savings of $10 / 7% off 鈥?Canon PIXMA MX420 Wireless MFC Printer
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Post-Sandy conditions on Staten Island are both horrific and tragically underreported-many have died in mass flooding, either unwilling or unable to evacuate in time. Now we ;re getting reports that the casualties have become so bad that Egbert Intermediate School near Midland Beach has been turned into a makeshift overflow morgue. We spoke with one displaced couple who relayed information they ;d received from former neighbors, claiming that flooding deaths have been widely underestimated: 8220 everal people h stanley cup ave been able to see them pulling out bodies from flooded homes, our sources say, with multiple local tweeters corroborating the use of Egbert as body storage facility. One resident said her neighbor-a former NYPD officer-estimated as many as 60 unidentified bodies are being stored at the school, and that she personally witnessed 11 bodies on Tuesday morning being removed from Oakwood beach area. Another resident took to Reddit with more purported details: Its 19 as of last night. My father is a police captain in the NYPD, that was the latest from him. Could be more at this point, but 200 does seem like a stretch. Brother neighbor is a deputy near LBI, NJ. He says the death toll is going to go up. Said stanley cup he seen a number of bodies floating, chimed in another. ABC says at least 19 are dead in the borough-and it worth remembering that number could spike once au stanley mugs thorities go door to door Sguh Houses built on a shopping mall roof give residents a yard in the middle of the city
Danger Room has an awesomely comprehensive look at all the cell phone jammers the US military used during the Iraq War. Those jammers proved incredibly important in stripping insurgents of their most powerful weapon鈥攖he IED. The US government has spent $17 billion buying 50,000 jammer units with fantastic names like Warlock Green, Warlock Red, Warlock Duke, Acorn, and more. But in the beginning of the war, there was a little bit of a cat and mouse game between radio-frequency jammers and IEDs and jammers were far behind. They were too slow, they couldn ;t adapt as well and they could only offer protection of only a few yards. Hell, occasionally two jammers would lock onto each other and cancel one another out. But they got better. According to Danger Room: The Navy sent to Iraq hundreds of electronic warfare specialists, to bring the cacophony produced by 14 kinds of jammers into some sort of harmony. Protocols were established, to allow one device to send its signal and then go silent for a few milliseconds, so another gadget could broadcast; that allowed Warlock Red and Warlock Green to be packaged into a single, combination unit 8230;The intelligence specialists at the Combined Ex stanley water bottle plosive Exploitation Cells got faster and faster at stanley quencher analyzing which frequ stanley water jug encies the insurgents were using. That, in turn, allowed the jammers to be updated more quickly, so they could counter emerging threats. A new generations of jammers were introduced too, they could cover a broad ran
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