Mes: agosto 2019

Senate Democrats plan to slow down work in the upper chamber in an effort aimed at drawing attention to Republicans’ secret negotiations to craft legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare. A senior aide told CBS News’ Steven Portnoy that Democrats will begin a series of parliamentary moves at 4 p.m. ET Monday in an effort to slow the Senate agenda. Democrats plan to object to all requests for unanimous consent and they plan to make their own consent requests to move the health care negotiations into committee where the conversation can take place publicly. Democrats intend to hold the floor until late into the evening Monday, making a series of speeches condemning the closed-door GOP talks. “Republicans are drafting this bill in secret because they’re ashamed of it, plain and simple,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, 온라인카지노 said through an aide, calling the actions tonight “merely the first steps we’re prepared to take in order to shine a light on this shameful Trumpcare bill.” “If Republicans won’t relent and debate their health care bill in the open for the American people to see, then they shouldn’t expect business as usual in the Senate,” Schumer added. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, has said he’d like a vote on health care by Congress’s July 4 recess, but Senate Republicans have yet to release language. On Monday, Schumer,...

For the first time ever, U.S. attorneys say they have successfully prosecuted a top pharmaceutical executive in the government’s fight against opioids. A federal jury on Thursday convicted Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and 홀덤게임 four other former executives of the company. Prosecutors accused them of bribing doctors to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray – called...

(CBS/AP) CHENGDU, China — China has nearly mopped up a murder scandal that has roiled the country for months, but the last step — dealing with a fallen political star who was once among the Communist Party’s most popular figures — will be the most delicate of all. Bo Xilai’s former right-hand man and police chief, Wang Lijun, was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison for making a thwarted defection bid, and for helping Bo’s wife cover up the murder of a British businessman. Bo’s wife and other figures in the scandal were sentenced previously, and Beijing is keen to settle the fate of Bo himself before a once-a-decade change in leadership expected next month. Ever since Wang’s thwarted defection bid at a U.S. consulate in February made the scandal public, the question of what to do about Bo, then a powerful party boss in Chongqing city, has bedeviled Chinese leaders. It strained relations among Communist Party power brokers just as they were cutting deals to transfer of power to younger leaders; deciding whether to prosecute him or merely purge him from the party became part of the bargaining. Wang’s trial and verdict bode ill for Bo. The official account of the trial implied that Bo ignored his wife’s involvement in the murder after Wang told him about it. Though it referred to Bo by his position rather...

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(CBS/AP) VIENNA – Diplomats say the U.N. atomic agency has new intelligence that Iran has advanced its work on calculating the destructive power of a nuclear warhead, a step toward building such a weapon. The diplomats say the information — from the U.S., Israel and at least one other country — alleges the research was done within the past three years. Iran denies that it has worked on nuclear arms and says allegations to the contrary are based on fabricated intelligence. But the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) gives credence to the suspicions and says it cannot disprove them unless Iran starts cooperating with its probe of the allegations. U.S.: Israeli pressure over Iran “not useful”IAEA report: Iran covering work at ParchinIsrael, 하동출장마사지 U.S. play diplomatic chicken over Iran The information comes from six diplomats who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss intelligence. The IAEA has been pressing Iran for access to various sites where nuclear-related work is believed to have been carried out, but those requests have intensified in recent months in relation to one site in particular, the . Suspicion that Parchin was involved in a clandestine nuclear weapons program piqued in March 2012, when satellite imagery showed apparent earth-moving vehicles at Parchin – activity suggesting the Iranians might be trying to clean the site of traces...