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Department of Homeland Security DHS employees are calling on their leadership to rescind a recent directive instructing them to report colleagues they suspect of leaking sensitive government information, referring to it as an illegal gag order. In a letter Thu stanley cups rsday, the national council representing thousands of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS employees and the Government Accountability Project, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, urged DHS leadership to withdraw the directive, saying it violates legal protections for government whistleblowers and creates a chilling stanley termoska effect for the workfor stanley cup ce. When an agency unlawfully gags its employees, it threatens Congress s ability to engage in oversight; hampers citizens right to know about serious misconduct and threats to public safety; and undermines policy-making that depends on the information of whistleblowers, the letter obtained by CBS News said. The letter, which was addressed to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Deputy Undersecretary for Management Randolph Alles, responded to a message Alles emailed to department employees on October 13.In his email, which was obtained by CBS News separately through a DHS source, Alles urged department employees to be careful when handling all classified, controlled unclassified and draft information, citing unidentified incidents of sensitive documents being leaked to unauthorized external entities. Unaut Wuhi Who is Elizabeth Warren s refugee guest for Trump s joint address
AP Photo/Matthew Cavanaugh LANCASTER, N.H. - Mitt Romney said Thursday that he has no current plans to release his income tax returns, prompting President Obama s re-election campaign to blast the former Massachusetts governor for not hewing to tradition for presidential candidates.Interest in Romney s tax situation has been piqued by a New York Times story this week that Romney continued to receive profits from his private equity firm Bain Capital through February 2009, a decade after leaving the firm. Because much of that money could be considered carried interest, it would be eligible for 15 percent tax rate on capital gains rathe stanley vattenflaska r than the 35 percent that the wealthy typically pay on income. I can tell you we follow the tax laws, and if there s an opportunity to save taxes, we like anybody else in this country will stanley mugg follow that opportunity, Romney told reporters. But we don t have any current plans to release tax returns, but never say never. We ll see what the future holds. That pro stanley water jug mpted a response from Obama for America spokesman Ben LaBolt accusing Romney of favoring secrecy over openness. Although federal law does not obligate Romney to disclose details of his investments, candidates in the past often have done so either voluntarily or after being requested to do so. By declaring that, if nominated, he would not release his income tax returns, Mitt Romney is defying a practice to whic

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On this Face the Nation broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan:House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Mike Turner, Republican of OhioDeputy National Security Adviser Jon FinerDina Kawar, Jordanian Ambassador to the U.S.Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of MarylandReps. Mike Gallagher, Republican of Wisconsin, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, Democrat of IllinoisClickhere to browse full transcripts of Face the Nation. stanley cup MARGARET BRENNAN: I m Margaret Brennan in Washington. And this week on Face the Nation: From the Middle East to the Pacific rim, America s influence is being tested around the world. The deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas has entered week seven, with no clear end in sight, as Israeli forces intensify efforts to eliminate Hamas in Gaza. Caught in the crossfire, Palestinian ci stanley drinking cup vilians and a society on the brink of collapse. Are we any closer to rescuing more than 200 hostages, some Americans, still held by Hamas We will check in with some key players from the Biden administration, Capitol Hill, and around the world. Then: After President Biden s long-anticipated face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, what s next for America s relationship with its biggest rival We will hear from the bipartisan leaders of Congress China Committee. Finally, as tempers flare here in Washingtonhellip; Begin VT REPRESENTATIVE MARKWAYNE MULLIN R-Oklahoma : Well, stand your bu stanley mugs tt up then. SEAN O BRIEN Ge Jvmz Supreme Court s same-sex marriage decision poses new questions for Republicans
CBS News Asian-Americans are a small but fast-growing part of the American population that may in the coming years have more influence -- in politics and American life in general -- than some people may realize, a new study suggests.According to the far-reaching study from the Pew Research Center, Asian-Americans for the first time have su stanley becher rpassed Hispanics as the fastest-growing immigrant group in the United States. As of 2010, 36 percent of immigrants arriving in the U.S. are Asian, according to Census data, while just 31 percent are Hispanic. Asian-Americans still make up a relatively small portion of the country -- they accounted for 5.8 per stanley cup cent of the population in 2011 while Hispanics, by comparison, made up 16.7 percent of the population. Still, Asian-Americans are not only the fastest-growing racial group, but also the highest-income and best-educated, the survey shows. On top of that, Asian-American communities are growing in some key political regions like Northern Virginia. What we re really talking about is essentially a new immigrant community, Tritia Toyota, an anthropology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said at a panel discussion of the survey on Tuesday. If you hadn t been pa stanley cup ying attention in the past five years... this may come as a big surprise. The political impact the Asian-American community may have is limited, given that three in 10 Asian-American adults are not citizens. About h

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Jay Sekulow, a member of President Trump s legal team, said Sunday that the president is not and has not been under investigation. Sekulow s comments, in an interview with Face the Nation, came after Mr. Trump slammed reports that FBI Special stanley water bottle Counsel Robert Mueller is re stanley cups uk viewing whether or not Mr. Trump tried to obstruct justice amid ongoing investigations into any ties between his presidential campaign s or transition s associates and the Russian government. The Washington Post first reported the story. They made up a phony collusion with the Russians story, found zero proof, so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. Nice, Mr. Trump tweeted on Thursday. They made up a phony collusion with the Russians story, found zero proof, so now they go stanley cup for obstruction of justice on the phony story. Nicemdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump June 15, 2017 A day later, Mr. Trump said in a tweet, I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt. He appeared to be referring to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Huntmdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump June 16, 2017 But Sekulow says the legal team has received no notice of investigation. There has been no notification from the special counsel s office that the president is under in Icll Syrian forces on high alert over fears of U.S. strike after suspected gas attack
Republican congressional leaders stepped to the brink of agreement Wednesday on major Medicare legislation to create a prescription drug benefit for older Americans and carve out a vast new role for private insurance companies in the government-run health care program. I think it s a middle-of-the-road deal, said Sen. John Breaux of Louisiana, the stanley termosar first Democrat to swing behind the proposal after R stanley trinkflaschen epublicans scaled back their demand for competition between traditional Medicare and the private plans.GOP congressional officials said the Bush administration was ready to embrace the agreement, which Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist proposed to Breaux and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., late Tuesday night. Baucus said he, too, was inclined to give his support, pending a look at the fine print. There were critics aplenty, however, and some Democrats began an immediate effort to limit defections and defeat the measure on the Senate floor.Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota attacked it. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., referring to the remaining requirement for direct competition, said, We can t accept a proposal that s going to threaten the whole Medicare system. Additionally, officials said Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., the lead Hous stanley tazas e negotiator in months of arduous bargaining, objected to the terms that Frist, Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, had blessed and offered Democrats.St

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Early Sunday morning, six Guantanamo Bay detainees will walk out of the military prison to freedom to begin new lives in Uruguay. Th stanley website is is the largest single transfer of detainees out of the prison since President Obama pledged to close down the prison camp after he took office in 2009. It is also the first time that a South American country has agreed to resettle Guantanamo detainees.The six detainees include four Syrians, a lone Palestinian and a single Tunisian national. None of the prisoners had ever been charged with a crime. Most had been held for more than a decade without trial, and have all been cleared for transfer for some time.The detainees that the federal government said are being transferred are Ahmed Adnan Ahjam, Ali Hussain Shaabaan, Omar Mahmoud Faraj, Abdul Bin Mohammed Abis Ourgy, Mohammed Tahanmatan, and Jihad Diyab. There a stanley deutschland re now 136 detainees remaining at Guantanamo Bay, according to a Department of Defense press release.In a statement, Cliff Sloan, the U.S. Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure stanley cup , thanked the government of Uruguay for taking in the former prisoners. The support we are receiving from our friends and allies is critical to achieving our shared goal of closing Guantanamo, and this transfer is a major milestone in our efforts to close the facility, Sloan said. Court ruling could make graphic Gua Bdya Cheney Hires Mary Matalin
CBS News United States Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan has told members of Congress that he expects more resignations from agents involved in the Colombian prostitution scandal by the end of the week, according to a congressional staffer with knowledge of the investigation. One day after Sullivan announced that three agents involved, including two supervisors, would be leaving the service, investigation of the remaining eight agents continues. Polygraph tests have been conducted on the agents allegedly involved all week and will continue today and vaso stanley tomorrow. If they fail those tests, the agents would lose their security clearance which would bar them from the Secret Service completely. For the agents who do pass the tests, according to aides, Sullivan has said that the service is taking all the appropriate steps so they can make personnel decisions b stanley trinkflaschen ased on the law, but that ethics and standards are very important to the agency and the agents actions reflect poorly on them all stanley quencher . According to Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., the agents are all also undergoing drug testing.Source: Ousted Secret Service agent plans to sueReport: Colombian escort talks of encounter with Secret ServiceThe raucous party involving 11 secret service agents, 10 defense personnel and over multiple women, including prostitutes, occurred just over one week ago. The women had to check in at the hotel where the agents were staying and provide identification. A congressional staffer briefed on the matte

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Iran hit back on Tuesday morning after an angry warning from President Trump. Mr. Trump said in a Sunday tweet that Iranian President Hasan Rouhani would stanley tumbler SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE, if he threatens the United States.As CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports, on Tuesday a spokesman for Iran s Foreign Ministry said there would be equal countermeasures if the U.S. pushes ahead wit stanley cups h attempts to block Iranian oil exports. To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!mdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump July 23, 2018 If America wants to take a serious step in this direction it will definitely be met with a reaction and equal countermeasures from Iran, foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said according to Iran s state-run news agency IRNA. The same news agency quoted Armed Forces Chief of stanley spain Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri as saying U.S. threats would draw a strong, unimaginable and regrettable response from Iran, according to Reuters. Tensions have escalated enough since Sunday to draw a warning from the United Nations Security Council, the current leader of which told CBS News on Monday that the exchange of threats is Jzmc Is Jon Kyl Raising His Profile These Days
johnmccain Supporters of Sen. John McCain got a Halloween treat in their inboxes: Their candidate has already won the White House!Last night the McCain camp shot out a newspaper-themed E-mail with the subject McCain Beats Clinton. Clicking on the link brings you to a page on the campaign Web site that has what the campaign hopes will be the front page from Nov. 5, 2008. Republican Senator John McCain was elected president last evening, defeating Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic nominee, the story reads.That s a pretty confident claim from a candidate who ran third in the latest CBS News poll ndash; 11 points behind former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and 3 points behind former Senator Fred Thompson. Not to mention that Clinton hasn t quite wrapped up the Democratic race yet either. But team McCain fire stanley cup s its salvo directly at the former First Lady, not even mentioning other Republicans like Giuliani, Thompson or Mitt Romney ndash; let alone Democrats Sen. Barack Obama or former Sen. John Edwards. McCain s team credits the four-term senator s hypothetical win to sticking to the mess stanley cup usa age of reforming the culture of Washington and vigorously prosecuting the war on terror. The Web page claims that Political experts expressed surprise that McCain was able to wrest the mantle of change away from Clinton, given that she represented the party out of power which normal stanley mug ly lays claim to being the agent of change. It s t

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Republican Wisconsin state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos announced Wednesday that he has created a panel to investigate impeachment criteria, as he considers taking botella stanley that step against liberal state Supreme Court over comments she made during her winning campaign about redistricting and nearly $10 million in donations she received from the state Democratic Party.The impeachment criteria panel being created by Vos will be made up of three former Wisconsin Supreme Court justices whom Vos told The Associated Press he would not name until after their work is done. Vos said they were not being paid and he expected their work to be complete in the next few weeks. The move to further investigate possible impeachment against Protasiewicz comes the day after Vos and Republicans introduced a bill, modeled after the law in Iowa, where new maps would be drawn by nonpartisan legislative staff and be approved by the GOP-controlled Legislature for 2024. But Gov. Tony Evers said he would veto the plan and advocates criticized it because it gives the Legislature the ability to draw maps if those created by the nonpartisan staff are rejected two times.Vos said on WISN-AM, where he announced the formation of the impeachment review panel, th stanley italia at he was trying to provi stanley cup de an off-ramp to impeachment. That is my last option, Vos said of the possible impeachment. They re making it seem like I m foaming at the mouth to have an impeachment process. But that Vyce As hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians flee, many choose to stay behind: This is our country, not Russia s
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Updated: 5:50 p.m. ET CBS News A press briefing meant to promote the Republican National Committee s efforts to reach out to Hispanic voters went awry when the committee s director of Hispanic Outreach said Mitt Romney had not yet establ stanley cup ished an immigration policy. My understanding that he is still deciding what his position on immigration is, said Bettina Inclan, the RNC s Director of Hispanic Outreach when asked how she planned to deal with concerns from Hispanic voters that Republican policies on immigration are too restrictive.Within an hour of the briefing s conclusion, Inclan sent a tweet from her account saying, I misspoke, Romney s position on immigration is clear, with a link to the page on Romney s immigration policy from his website. However, Inclan was correct in suggesting that Romney s immigration policies are somewhat in flux. During the GOP primary, Romney moved to the right of most of his rivals on immigration, espousing a policy of self-deportation for people in the country and saying he would veto the Democratic version o stanley quencher f a key initiative, the Dream Act. But recently Romney said he would consider supp stanley borraccia orting a new version of the Dream Act proposed by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, It would allow some children of undocumented workers to remain in the country but, unlike the Democratic proposal, would offer no path to citizenship.The RNC e

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A tweet fired off in 2015 by a woman who described herself as a New York City mother of two, claimed to her stanley uk followers that her entire family got sick from a Wal-Mart t stanley cup urkey over Thanksgiving. My son Robert got in the hospital and he s still there, she wrote, according to a report Tuesday byThe Wall Street Journal. I don t know what to do! Shortly thereafter, according to the Journal, Twitter users spread the post and a news story was published saying 200 people were in critical condition after eating tainted turkey. However, no such thing happened, and the incident was ultimately determined to be a hoax. Listen to this episode on Stitcher That was a Russian test, cybersecurity expert Jim Lewis told Major Garrett on the latest episode of The Takeout podcast. Wal-Mart turkeys didn t make people ill. The people who tweeted about it and complained about it were imaginary figures created by the Russians. You got an echo effec stanley cup t from Americans. Lewis, who serves as a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS , and has advised a number of presidents on the issue of cybersecurity, joined Garrett for yogurt parfaits and ham steak at the Edgar ndash; a restaurant in downtown DC.He said this is just one case that reflects the culmination of methodical studies of American behavior. They ve been practicing for probably about four years, Lewis explained. Dqom Here s how Justice Dept lawyers argue Whitaker s appointment is lawful
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FROM THE CANDIDATESSEN. KAMALA HARRIS:Harris is still celebrating her performance at the South Carolina Democratic Convention. On Monday, her campaign announced four new endorsements related to the senator s state party convention speech on Saturday, saysCBS News campaign reporter Stephanie Ramirez. Kamala Harris spoke to us, not at us. She energized and affirmed in me the values that made me become a proud Democrat, said Paul Merlo, a volunteer coordinator with the Greenville County Democratic stanley cup Party, according to a campaign press release.South Carolina is the first test of how well the 2020 candidates will do among African American voters in the 2020 primaries. According to a CBS News Battleground Trackerpollreleased last week, about a third of black voters are considering Harris in the Palmetto state. Former Vice President Joe Biden was leading the pack for his party s nomination among South Carolina Democrats. BETO O ROURKE:The former congressman s new policy proposal aimed at improving the lives of veterans got arare public nod of approvalfrom Democr stanley tumbler atic Rep. A stanley cup nnie Kuster of New Hampshire, according toCBS News campaign reporter Nicole Sganga. The two lawmakers served together and sat side by side on the House Veterans Affairs Committee for six years.SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: Sanders introduced a plan to eliminate the $1.6 trillion in student debt currently held by 45 million Americans ndash; and he s looking to Wall Street to pay for Hxpm Lawmakers ask DOJ about fetal tissue law enforcement
President Obama acknowledged in an interview with CBS station KDKA Tuesday that there are risks to nuclear energy - even as his administration maintains in the wake of the disaster in Japan that nuclear plants in the United States are safe. Nuclear plants are designed to withstand certa stanley website in levels of earthquakes, but having said that, nothing s completely failsafe, nothing is completely foolproof, and so each time these kinds of events happen, I think it s very important for us to examine how we can further improve the safety and performance of these plants, he said. The president said the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which regulates nuclear power in the United States, is constantly monitoring seismic activity for earthquake risks. He added that the NRC thinks through all eventualities when stanley thermoskannen assessing risk. Obviously, all energy sources have their downside - I mean we saw that with the gulf spill last summer, he said. But I do think it s important for us to think through constantly how can we improve nuclear technologies to deal with additional safety concerns that people have. President Obama discusses nuclear power during an interview with CBS station KDKA in Pittsburgh, March 15, caneca stanley 2011. CBS On Tuesday morning, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in testimony before Congressthat Americans should have full confidence that the U

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Face the Nation Guest Lineup:Qin Gang - Chinese Ambassador to the U.S.Lloyd J. Austin III - Secretary of DefenseSenator Mitch McConnell - R Kentucky, Senate Minority LeaderOksana Markarova - Ukrainian Amba stanley mugs ssador to the U.S.Dr. Scott Gottlieb - Former FDA CommissionerHow to watch Face the Nation Date: Sunday, March 20, 2022TV: Face the Nation airs Sunday mornings on CBS. Click here for your local listingsRadio: Subscribe to Face the Nation from CBS Radio News to listen on-the-goFree online stream: Watch the show on CBS streaming network CBSN at 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. ET.With the stanley cups uk latest news stanley vaso and analysis from Washington, don t miss Margaret Brennan @margbrennan this Sunday on Face the Nation @FaceTheNation .And for the latest from America s premier public affairs program, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. More from CBS News Sen. Deb Fischer wins Nebraska Senate race, CBS News projects Tim Sheehy defeats Sen. Jon Tester in Montana, CBS News projects Why early election returns may not hold up as the night goes on Ahuc Michael Avenatti sentenced to 4 years in prison for defrauding Stormy Daniels
A Texas businessman who claims he was forced to make $75,000 in secret payments to the wife of Minnesota Sen. Norman Coleman has produced documents showing cash transfers to an insurance firm that employs the senator s wife Laurie.A lawyer for Paul McKim -- who is accusing Coleman pal Nasser Kazeminy of funneling cash to the Laurie Coleman -- handed over internal accounting sheets to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.They show a Kazeminy-controlled oil-rig servicing company paid service fees to the Mrs. Coleman s employer, the Hays Companies. McKim served as the company s CEO until last Friday. Here s the link. The key pages are 29-33. The documents, intended to bolster a lawsuit McKim filed Monday against Kazeminy over the latter s handling of the company s finances, includes an invoice for an April 2007 payment of $25,000 to the Hays company and a wire transfer showing the payout. But the most int stanley quencher eresting exhibit in an apprent ledger of past due payments to vendors that includes a $25,000 Hays payment -- circled in pen, with the handwritten instruction: Please pull this detail stanley cup and delete... 8/19/08 Another document in the packet contains a possible, more vanilla explanation: payment of an annual $100,000 for property...casualty and marine coverage for the company, Deep Marine Technology.Coleman is scheduled to stanley becher address the McKim lawsuit shortly. He s campaign has called the allegations false and claimed it was part of an el

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President Trump will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a two-day summit in Vietnam in late February, the president announced during his State of the Union address Tuesday. We continue our historic push for peace on the Korean peninsula, Mr. Trump said, adding he believed war would have broken out between the U.S. and stanley cup North Korea had he not been elected.The high-profile meeting on Feb. 27 and 28 would be the second one between the president and North Korea s authoritarian ruler. The two leaders met during a landmark summit in Singapore in June 2018 and agreed to flesh out details of an agreement to start the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula mdash; a long-sought and elusive foreign policy goal of American administrations since the 1950s. stanley cup A White House official with knowledge of the second summit s planning told CBS News that Vietnam was chosen as the location in part because of its good relationships with both the U.S stanley mug . and North Korea. The official also pointed to the trajectory of relations between America and Vietnam mdash; which were foes during the Vietnam War but have built a good relationship in recent years mdash; as a hopeful model for potential warmer relations between U.S. and North Korea. President Trump delivers his State of the Union address, Feb. 5, 2019. CBS News U.S. forces have been deploy Kidt Lieberman Rates Other Pols On Iraq
Congress returns to work in Washington this week with a to-do list worthy of an overworked single mom, but the issue likely to get the most attention is the so-called fiscal cliff. As the issue encompasses the entire federal budget and much of the tax code, the outcome of the negotiations will impact most Americans.With just over a month until the New Year, when the policies constituting the fiscal cliff are scheduled to go into effect, negotiations between President Obama and Congress resume this week and the political jockeying continued in earnest.I stanley kaffeebecher n a report released this morning, the White House is predicting economic strain if tax cuts for middle-class families aren t extended. The report by the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council says taxes on middle-class families will go up $2,200 per year if current tax rates vaso stanley expire and that $200 billion of consumer spending w stanley cup ould be lost. In a direct challenge to Republicans who are calling for holding off on raising tax rates for the nation s wealthiest, the White House adds, There is no reason to hold the middle class hostage while we debate tax cuts for the highest income earners. On Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R.-S.C., joined a chorus of Republicans - led by House Speaker John Boehner before Thanksgiving - indicating that he is willing to allow the federal government to take in more tax revenue by limiting some tax deductions and loopholes. He drew the line,