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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?House Republicans on Sunday issued a scathing report on their investigation into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, blaming the disastrous end of America longest war on President Joe Biden administration and minimizing the role of former President Donald Trump, who stanley cup had signed the withdrawal deal with the Taliban.The partisan review lays out the final months of military and civilian failures, following Trump February 2020 withdrawal deal, that allowed America fundamentalist Taliban enemy to sweep through and conquer all of the country even before the last U.S. officials flew out on Aug. 30, 2021. The chaotic exit left behind many American citizens, Afghan battlefield allies, women activists and others at risk from the Taliban.READ MORE: House GOP subpoenas Blinken to testify on U.S. withdrawal from AfghanistanBut House Republicans ; report breaks little new ground as the withdrawal has been exhaustively stanley cup litigated through several independent reviews. Previous investigations and analyses have pointed to a systemic failure spanning the last four presidential administrations and concluded that Biden and Trump share the heaviest blame.Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, who led the investigation as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the GOP review reveals that the Biden adminis stanley cup tration had the information and opportunity to take necessary steps to plan for the inevitable collapse of the Afghan gove Zybq I d like to know more about Fed 8212; and how it is neither a federal agency, nor does it have any reserves.
In a six to three ruling, the high court upheld key portions of a 50-year-old Virginia law banning cross carried out with the intent of intimidating.The court was more closely divided on the narrower issue of whether the cross burning law violates First Amendment protections, ruling five to four that the ban does not violate the constitutional guarantee of free speech. A lower court had ruled that the law infringed on free speech rights.The protections the First Amendment affords speech and expressive conduct are not absolute, Justice Sandra Day O 82 stanley cup 17;Connor wrote in delivering the maj stanley cup ority opinion of the court.O ;Connor called the act of burning a cross in the United State stanley cup s inextricably intertwined with the history of the Ku Klux Klan, which, following its formation in 1866, imposed a reign of terror throughout the South, whipping, threatening and murdering blacks, southern whites who disagreed with the Klan, and carpetbagger ; northern whites.While cross-burning does not inevitably convey a message of intimidation, often the cross-burner intends that the recipients of the message fear for their lives, O ;Connor said. And when a cross-burning is used to intimidate, few if any messages are more powerful.O ;Connor was joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer.Justices Anthony Kennedy, David Souter and Ruth Bader Gi
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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday that she tested positive for COVID-19 and would work at home while following isolation protocols. In a series of messages posted to Twitter, Bowser said she took an at-home test Wednesday after developing cold-like symptoms. She later confirmed those positive results with a PCR test, which is more precise.Bowser, 49, was elected Mayor in 2014 and will be running for a third term later this year. Her older stanley cup sister Mercia died of COVID-19 complications in February 2021 at the age of 64.READ MORE: Why scientists think the COVID era could cause more pr stanley cup olonged griefBowser positive test comes聽amid a mini-outbreak聽in high-level Washington political circles following Saturday night Gridiron Club dinner. More than a dozen guests who attended the A-list event 鈥?including two Cabinet members, journalists and multiple members of Congress 鈥?have tested positive this week.Bowser office said she did not attend the Gridiron event.Virus metrics in Washington have crept up in the past month according to the city health department. The聽weekly case rate per 10 stanley cup 0,000 residents聽climbed from 51 at the beginning of March to 110 at the end of March. But that still far below the weekly case rate of 865 per 100,000 residents reported in the second week of January during the omicron variant surge,Bowser has lifted most of the District COVID restrictions, including mask and vaccine mandates in mos Dlel Timeline: The Oil Spill at 100 Days
WASHINGTON 鈥?Defying the Republican-run Congress, President Barack Obama rejected a bill Tuesday to approve construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, wi stanley cup elding his veto power for only the third time in his presidency.Obama offered no indication of whether he ;ll eventually issue a permit for the pipeline, whose construction has become a flashpoint in the U.S. debate about environmental policy and climate change. Instead, Obama sought to reassert his authority to make the decision himself, rebuffing GOP lawmakers who will control both the House and Senate for the remainder of the president term.The presidential power to veto legislation is one I take seriously, Obama said in a brief notice delivered to the Senate. But I also take seriously my responsibility to the American people.Obama vetoed the bill in private with no fanfare, in contrast to the televised ceremony Republican leaders staged earlier this month when they signed the bill and sent it to the president. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Republicans were not even close to giving up the fight and derided the veto as a national embarrassment.The move sends the politically charged issue back to Congress, whe nike dunk re Republicans haven ;t shown they can muster the two-thirds majority in both chambers needed to override Obama veto. North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven, the bill chief GOP sponsor, said Republic stanley cup ans are about four votes sh
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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a frequent target of President Donald Trump wrath, faces the prospect of criminal charges after his lawyers failed to persuade senior Justice Department officials that he didn ;t intentionally lie to internal investigators.Two people familiar with the matter said Thursday that Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen declined an appeal from McCabe lawyers aimed at preventing a prosecution. The people weren ;t authorized to discuss the issue by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.Still, it wasn stanley cup 8217;t immediately clear when or even whether the United States Attorney Office in Washington, leading the investigation , mig stanley cup ht announce charges.Any indictment would put the s stanley cup potlight not only on McCabe actions, but also those of the Justice Department. McCabe attorneys are likely to argue that the prosecution of McCabe would be politically motivated, with the Justice Department carrying out a vendetta against a Trump adversary.They are likely to highlight the personal enmity between the two men , with Trump criticizing McCabe even before he took office and McCabe describing the president as a deliberate liar.READ MORE: Ex-FBI official Andrew McCabe sues over his firingMcCabe attorneys have argued that he should not face charges on accusations that he lied to internal investigators about whether he had authorized a news media leak related to an investig Nxry Biden calls Netanyahu s approach to war in Gaza a mistake, deepening rift between the two allies
Surveying a dizzying array of international crises, President Barack Obama stated the obvious: We live in a complex world and at a challenging time.And then suddenly, only a day later, the world had grown much more troubling, the challenges even more confounding.The downing Thursday of a passenger plane carrying nearly 300 people spread the impact of the standoff between Ukraine and Russia far around the globe. The prospect of more Mideast casualties was assured when Israeli launched a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip after efforts to arrange a cease-fire between the Israelis and Palestinians.Yet there was a ray of hope elsewhere at week end with the announcement that the U.S. and its negotiating partners had agreed to extend nuclear negotiations with Iran for four months rather than allowing the talks to collapse as a Sunday deadline neared.Still, there no guarantee of overcoming stubborn differences with Iran and reaching a final agreement. Obama also will have to find a way to stave off pressure from members of Congress, including some fellow Democrats, who see the extension as a stalling tactic by Iran and are anxious to further penalize Tehr stanley cup an.Increased economic pressure would strengthen our hand, but the administration opposes it, said Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. It should welcome co stanley cup ngressional efforts to ratchet up the economic pressure on Iran.The cascade o air max 1 f o
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?House Republicans on Sunday issued a scathing report on their investigation into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, blaming the disastrous end of America longest war on President Joe Biden administration and minimizing the role of former President Donald Trump, who stanley cup had signed the withdrawal deal with the Taliban.The partisan review lays out the final months of military and civilian failures, following Trump February 2020 withdrawal deal, that allowed America fundamentalist Taliban enemy to sweep through and conquer all of the country even before the last U.S. officials flew out on Aug. 30, 2021. The chaotic exit left behind many American citizens, Afghan battlefield allies, women activists and others at risk from the Taliban.READ MORE: House GOP subpoenas Blinken to testify on U.S. withdrawal from AfghanistanBut House Republicans ; report breaks little new ground as the withdrawal has been exhaustively stanley cup litigated through several independent reviews. Previous investigations and analyses have pointed to a systemic failure spanning the last four presidential administrations and concluded that Biden and Trump share the heaviest blame.Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, who led the investigation as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the GOP review reveals that the Biden adminis stanley cup tration had the information and opportunity to take necessary steps to plan for the inevitable collapse of the Afghan gove Zybq I d like to know more about Fed 8212; and how it is neither a federal agency, nor does it have any reserves.
In a six to three ruling, the high court upheld key portions of a 50-year-old Virginia law banning cross carried out with the intent of intimidating.The court was more closely divided on the narrower issue of whether the cross burning law violates First Amendment protections, ruling five to four that the ban does not violate the constitutional guarantee of free speech. A lower court had ruled that the law infringed on free speech rights.The protections the First Amendment affords speech and expressive conduct are not absolute, Justice Sandra Day O 82 stanley cup 17;Connor wrote in delivering the maj stanley cup ority opinion of the court.O ;Connor called the act of burning a cross in the United State stanley cup s inextricably intertwined with the history of the Ku Klux Klan, which, following its formation in 1866, imposed a reign of terror throughout the South, whipping, threatening and murdering blacks, southern whites who disagreed with the Klan, and carpetbagger ; northern whites.While cross-burning does not inevitably convey a message of intimidation, often the cross-burner intends that the recipients of the message fear for their lives, O ;Connor said. And when a cross-burning is used to intimidate, few if any messages are more powerful.O ;Connor was joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer.Justices Anthony Kennedy, David Souter and Ruth Bader Gi
Wvqd WATCH: Biden meets with China s Xi to discuss Taiwan, Ukraine and red lines
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday that she tested positive for COVID-19 and would work at home while following isolation protocols. In a series of messages posted to Twitter, Bowser said she took an at-home test Wednesday after developing cold-like symptoms. She later confirmed those positive results with a PCR test, which is more precise.Bowser, 49, was elected Mayor in 2014 and will be running for a third term later this year. Her older stanley cup sister Mercia died of COVID-19 complications in February 2021 at the age of 64.READ MORE: Why scientists think the COVID era could cause more pr stanley cup olonged griefBowser positive test comes聽amid a mini-outbreak聽in high-level Washington political circles following Saturday night Gridiron Club dinner. More than a dozen guests who attended the A-list event 鈥?including two Cabinet members, journalists and multiple members of Congress 鈥?have tested positive this week.Bowser office said she did not attend the Gridiron event.Virus metrics in Washington have crept up in the past month according to the city health department. The聽weekly case rate per 10 stanley cup 0,000 residents聽climbed from 51 at the beginning of March to 110 at the end of March. But that still far below the weekly case rate of 865 per 100,000 residents reported in the second week of January during the omicron variant surge,Bowser has lifted most of the District COVID restrictions, including mask and vaccine mandates in mos Dlel Timeline: The Oil Spill at 100 Days
WASHINGTON 鈥?Defying the Republican-run Congress, President Barack Obama rejected a bill Tuesday to approve construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, wi stanley cup elding his veto power for only the third time in his presidency.Obama offered no indication of whether he ;ll eventually issue a permit for the pipeline, whose construction has become a flashpoint in the U.S. debate about environmental policy and climate change. Instead, Obama sought to reassert his authority to make the decision himself, rebuffing GOP lawmakers who will control both the House and Senate for the remainder of the president term.The presidential power to veto legislation is one I take seriously, Obama said in a brief notice delivered to the Senate. But I also take seriously my responsibility to the American people.Obama vetoed the bill in private with no fanfare, in contrast to the televised ceremony Republican leaders staged earlier this month when they signed the bill and sent it to the president. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Republicans were not even close to giving up the fight and derided the veto as a national embarrassment.The move sends the politically charged issue back to Congress, whe nike dunk re Republicans haven ;t shown they can muster the two-thirds majority in both chambers needed to override Obama veto. North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven, the bill chief GOP sponsor, said Republic stanley cup ans are about four votes sh
Snmz WATCH: Dr. Sean Conley holds briefing on the president s health
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a frequent target of President Donald Trump wrath, faces the prospect of criminal charges after his lawyers failed to persuade senior Justice Department officials that he didn ;t intentionally lie to internal investigators.Two people familiar with the matter said Thursday that Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen declined an appeal from McCabe lawyers aimed at preventing a prosecution. The people weren ;t authorized to discuss the issue by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.Still, it wasn stanley cup 8217;t immediately clear when or even whether the United States Attorney Office in Washington, leading the investigation , mig stanley cup ht announce charges.Any indictment would put the s stanley cup potlight not only on McCabe actions, but also those of the Justice Department. McCabe attorneys are likely to argue that the prosecution of McCabe would be politically motivated, with the Justice Department carrying out a vendetta against a Trump adversary.They are likely to highlight the personal enmity between the two men , with Trump criticizing McCabe even before he took office and McCabe describing the president as a deliberate liar.READ MORE: Ex-FBI official Andrew McCabe sues over his firingMcCabe attorneys have argued that he should not face charges on accusations that he lied to internal investigators about whether he had authorized a news media leak related to an investig Nxry Biden calls Netanyahu s approach to war in Gaza a mistake, deepening rift between the two allies
Surveying a dizzying array of international crises, President Barack Obama stated the obvious: We live in a complex world and at a challenging time.And then suddenly, only a day later, the world had grown much more troubling, the challenges even more confounding.The downing Thursday of a passenger plane carrying nearly 300 people spread the impact of the standoff between Ukraine and Russia far around the globe. The prospect of more Mideast casualties was assured when Israeli launched a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip after efforts to arrange a cease-fire between the Israelis and Palestinians.Yet there was a ray of hope elsewhere at week end with the announcement that the U.S. and its negotiating partners had agreed to extend nuclear negotiations with Iran for four months rather than allowing the talks to collapse as a Sunday deadline neared.Still, there no guarantee of overcoming stubborn differences with Iran and reaching a final agreement. Obama also will have to find a way to stave off pressure from members of Congress, including some fellow Democrats, who see the extension as a stalling tactic by Iran and are anxious to further penalize Tehr stanley cup an.Increased economic pressure would strengthen our hand, but the administration opposes it, said Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. It should welcome co stanley cup ngressional efforts to ratchet up the economic pressure on Iran.The cascade o air max 1 f o
