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At the height of the pandemic, the meat processing industry worked closely with political appointees in the Trump administration to stave off health restrictions and keep slaughterhouses open even as COVID-19 spread rapidly among workers, according to a congressional report released Thursday.Meat companies pushed to keep their plants open despite company leaders knowing that workers were at high risk of catching the virus, the report by the House s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis found. The lobbying led to health and labor officials watering down their recommendations for the industry and culminated in an executive order stanley spain that President Donald Trump issued in the spring of 2020 designating meat plants as critical infrastructure that needed to remain open.Food workers were hit disproportionately early in the pandemic, with one study finding that havi stanley cup ng a beef or pork processing facility nearby more than doubled a U.S. co stanley tumbler unty s per capita coronavirus infection rates. Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn, who leads the subcommittee, said USDA officials and the industry prioritized production and profits over the health of workers and communities, with at least 59,000 workers catching COVID-19 and 269 dying. The shameful conduct of corporate executives pursuing profit at any cost during a crisis and government officials eager to do their bidding regardless of resulting harm to the public must never be repeated, Clyburn said. Form Pnwx Hollywood With A Twang For GOP
Updated at 4:30 p.m. ETBucking the Pentagon s top leaders, the chiefs of the Army and Marines urged Congress on Friday not stanley cup to allow openly gay people to serve in the military, at least not while troops are at war in Afghanistan.The generals publicly rebutted their own bosses and the White House, arguing that it is too risky to change the policy now. That gave political ammunition to congressional Republicans trying to retain the ban known as don t ask, don t tell. Additional CoverageIs Ending DADT Comparable to Racial Integration McCain: Pentagon s Don t Ask Study FlawedLieberman: Don t Ask Repeal Needs Time It s important that we re clear about the military risks, said Gen. George Casey, the Army s top officer. Repeal of don t ask, don t tell would be a major cultural and policy change in the middle of a war. President Obama has promised to jettison a policy he says is discriminatory, and asked Congress to repeal the 17-year-old law this year. Chances of that were slim to begin with, and they sank lower after Friday s blunt assessment that lifting the ban would tear the close bonds of the foxhole. Democrats have promised a vote this month.Both Casey and Mari stanley quencher ne Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos undercut Defense Secretary Robert Gates claim that the change is not too dangerous. Their views are the most closely watched because the Army and Marines are doing most of the fighting in stanley thermos Afghanistan, and did the same in Iraq.The

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BALTIMORE -- Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Friday that she will not seek re-election next year, nearly five months after the city erupted in rioting following the death of a man injured in police custody. Freddie Gray s family could receive millions 00:25 Rawlings-Blake made the announcement Friday at a news conference called only stanley italia 90 minutes earlier, a move that comes just days after officials said the city would pay stanley tumblers Freddie Gray s family $6.4 million to settle civil claims over his spinal injury.The mayor said she believes she could have won re-election, pointing to her work on the city s budget and pension system. How stanley cup ever, she said, not seeking re-election was the best decision for the city and for her family. Among other things, she said the city needed to get through the trials of the six police officers charged in Gray s death. It was a very difficult decision, but I knew I needed to spend time focused on the city s future, not my own, she said.When asked if she had effectively made herself a lame duck, Rawlings-Blake said that was not the case and that she was now focused on working for the city. She said she did not want every decision she made over the next 15 months to be evaluated in the context of a political campaign. I m Cosb Fauci says testing requirement under consideration for isolation guidelines
Updated 7:42 PM ETWASHINGTON In a historic argument for gay rights, President Barack Obama on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to overturn California s same-sex marriage ban and turn a skeptical eye on similar prohibitions across the stanley termosky country.The Obama administration s friend-of-the-court brief marked the first time a U.S. president has urged the high court to expand the right of gays and lesbians to wed. The filing unequivocally calls on the justices to strike down California s Proposition 8 ballot measure, although it stops short of the soaring rhetoric on marriage equality Obama expressed in his inaugural address in January. Californi stanley cup a is one of eight states that give gay couples all the benefits of marriage through civil unions or domestic partnership, but don t allow them to wed. The brief argues that in granting same-sex couples those rights, California has already acknowledged that gay relationships bear the same hallmarks as straight ones. They establish homes and lives together, support each other financially, share the joys and burdens of raising children, and provide care through illness and comfort at the moment of death, the administration wrote. stanley cup Obama s position, if adopted by the court, would likely result in gay marriage becoming legal in the seven other states: Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon and Rhode Island.In the longer term, the administration urges the justices to subject laws that disc

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Now that it s clear former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla., is seriously considering running for president in 2016, Republican donors who were ready to get behind another prospective candidate, Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., are rethinking their options. Those of us that have been dedicated to the Bush family for years would obviously have to take a Jeb candidacy into extremely serious consideration, Fred S. Zeidman, a Texas businessman, told the New York Times.Zeidman is part of a network of donors with strong ties to the Bush family -- he helped George W. Bush win the White House twic stanley spain e -- but he s also helped Christie build stanley thermos connections to potential financial backers. Like Zeidman, the New York Times found after talking to more than two dozen Republican donors, the GOP s core backers are torn between the two potential candidates. Jeb Bush for president has turned into a fam stanley cup ily discussion Could strong fundraising be Chris Christie s road to redemption Neither Bush nor Christie has officially announced whether they re running or not, but if both did, It would be awkward. It would be very awkward, Christine Todd Whitman, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, told the Times. Last year, Christie appeared to be the GOP establishment s preferred candidate. Even former First Lady Barbara Bush suggested her son Jeb Bush wouldn t be throwing his hat into the ring.In January, however, the scandal that erupted over the George Washington bridge lane c Uqss Fiscal cliff : It s more than just taxes
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A group of House Republicans are pushing to eliminate most federal taxes and replace them with a f stanley drinking cup ederal sales tax in a plan that would also abolish the Internal Revenue Service. But tax experts warn the so-called Fair Tax Act is no stanley cupe t so fair to working families while giving the wealthiest Americans a break.The bill, HR25, would eliminate all individual and corporate income taxes, capital gains, payroll taxes and estate taxes while imposing a 23% sales tax on goods and services. However, tax experts point out that the way the tax is calculated, Americans would pay closer to 30% more for everyday purchases.John Buhl, a researcher at the Tax Policy Center, said this would hit the middle class the hardest. Currently, there are deductions, both standard and itemized deductions, that help offset the income tax, but those would be eliminated. Those people will see tax increases and they could be quite sizable, Buhl said of the middle three income quintiles under th stanley cup e plan.While the bill would likely lead to a hike for middle-income Americans, it does include a monthly prebate for families depending on size and income, so lower-income families would likely not feel as big an impact mdash; but the greatest benefits would go to those with the highest incomes. The wealthiest of the wealthy would actually see the biggest tax cuts from this switch, Buhl said.Like middle-income Americans, older Americans would likely also face a greater t Iuqi Ivanka Trump rsquo company flourishing as she begins White House job
President Obama s birth certicificate, as released by the White House. AP Updated at 11:10 a.m.In an effort to finally put to rest questions about where he was born, the White House on Wednesday released President Obama s long-form bi stanley canada rth certificate. seen above Mr. Obama even made an impromptu appearance in the White House briefing room to urge the press and American citizens to drop the issue and focus on the nation s stanley mug real problems. We re not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers, Mr. Obama said. We ve got some enormous challenges out there. There are a lot of folks out there still looking for stanley mugs work... We do not have time for this kind of silliness. Mr. Obama had in 2008 released on the Internet his certificate of live birth -- a short-form birth certificate provided to all Hawaiians as proof of birth in state -- but that failed to quell rumors that the president was born outside of the U.S. see the certificate of live birth posted below Those rumors were brought back into the forefront of discussion in recent weeks thanks to questions from Donald Trump, a potential 2012 Republican presidential contender, who has said he is unconvincedof the president s origins. A recent CBS News/ New York Times poll showed that one in four Americans incorrectly believe Mr. Obama was born o

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Two commanders of the U.S. 7th Fleet were relieved of their command over a loss in confidence in their ability to command, the commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet announced Monday.Vice Adm. Phil Sawyer on Monday stanley flasche dismissed Rear Adm. Charles Williams, who is the commander of Task Force 70 CTF 70 , and Capt. Jeffrey Bennett, commander of Destroyer Squadron DESRON 15. Navy releases names of sailors killed or missing in USS John S. McCain collision 01:00 stanley cup quencher Bennett s command included the USS John McCain and the USS Fitzgerald, both destroyers that collided with tankers in separate incidents in just over the past four months. The McCain struck a tanker near Singapore in August, killing 10 U.S. sailors, and the Fitzgerald hit a merchant tanker close to Japan in June. Seven sailors died in that incident. Williams had the command of Task Force 70 and Carrier Strike Group 5, which meant that he oversaw the 7th Fleet s cruisers and destroyers, Carrier Air Wing 5, which is based in Atsugi, Japan, and the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier. The fatal collisions involving the McCain and the Fitzgerald recently followed two o stanley mugs ther less disastrous accidents. The cruiser Antietam ran aground in Tokyo Bay and another cruiser, the USS Lake Champlain, collided with a South Korean fi Cllq Rudy Giuliani releases statement to clarify his remarks on Trump
House and Senate Republican leaders have a tentative agreement on a budget that envisions $10 billion in Medicaid savings over the next five years and at least $70 billion in tax cuts, congressional officials said Thursday.These officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the tentative agreement also relies on savings from farm, student loan and pension programs to achieve the goal of cutting deficits in half over the next five years.The budget blueprint itself is nonbinding and does not require President Bush s signature. At the same time, it anticipates that Congress will enact follow-up legislation to implement its goals. Overall, officials said the agreement envisioned savings of roughly $35 billion over five years from federal benefit programs. If implemented, it would mark the first time since 1997 that lawmakers hav stanley cup becher e looked to this type of program for savings.The largest single portion of the $35 billion would come from Medicaid, which provides health care for low-income Americans, officials said. In political maneuvering over the issue this year, Democrats have repeatedly accused Republicans of planning cuts in the program. Republicans respond that despite the anti garrafinhas stanley cipated changes, overall Medicaid spending would rise annually from current levels.GOP leaders have been haggling for days in hopes of nailin stanley quencher g down an agreement before the Senate begins a weeklong break on Friday. Officials said leaders in both houses we