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Fast Food Nation: Trump Set to Name Minimum Wage-hating Burger Czar as Labor Secretary

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Donald Trump is leaning toward naming a fast food CEO to a key position tasked with enforcing the country’s workplace laws. Andrew Puzder, the head of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, is expected to be named Trump’s Secretary of Labor, according to Thursday reports in both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Though Trump routinely promised to “drain the swamp,” during the presidential campaign, he would be nominating, in Puzder, a man whose industry allies stand to benefit immensely from the appointment. Puzder…

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Keith Ellison Will Resign, If He Wins D.N.C. Vote

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Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) will relinquish his congressional seat, if elected Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman. The legislator told the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune on Wednesday morning that he would make the move, after hearing that many of his colleagues would not back another sitting lawmaker as head of the DNC. “Serving my neighbors in Congress and fighting for them has been the best job I’ve ever had,” Elllison said. “Until the DNC Chair election, I plan to continue doing just that,” he added. The vote…

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Congressional Dems Hone in on Russian Interference Claims, Accuse GOP of Stonewalling Probe

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Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, used a hearing on government transparency Wednesday to demand that the panel take action on allegations that the Russian government interfered in last month’s election. He charged that the committee’s chairman, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), is rebuffing requests for an investigation into the matter. “On November 17, 2016, I wrote a letter to the Chairman requesting that our committee conduct a bipartisan investigation into Russia’s role in interfering and influencing the 2016 presidential…

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Congress Expands Contractor Whistleblower Safeguards, But Next Snowden Still Exempt

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Congress made permanent and expanded protections granted to whistleblowers who work for federal contractors, readying the legislation for President Obama’s signature. The House of Representatives approved of the bill on Monday, in a voice vote with the rules under suspension, meaning it garnered support from more than two-thirds of the body. In June, the Senate approved of the measure by unanimous consent. The bill indefinitely extends a pilot whistleblower protection program for contractors, first established in 2013. It also grants the same protections to employees…

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GAO: Political Interference Baked into State Department’s Annual Human Trafficking Report

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Those who followed the life and death of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) are well aware that the State Department’s annual assessment of human trafficking can be highly politicized. In 2015, the department upgraded Malaysia to “Tier 2” from “Tier 3,” shortly after Congress forbade the President from negotiating the TPP with countries given the latter designation, in the Trafficking in Persons report (TIP). Not long after, Reuters revealed that officials appointed by President Obama had fought with career TIP bureaucrats on tier rankings–with an…

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800 Climate Scientists Warn Trump Presidency Could Be Defined by “Denial and Disaster”

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Hundreds of scientists and energy experts sent a letter to the President-elect of the United States on Tuesday, urging him to admit that climate change is real and to take specific steps to address it. The 800 signatories to the letter, all Americans or individuals working in the US, called on Donald Trump to publicly state that global warming is a “human caused, urgent threat.” “If not, you will become the only government leader in the world to deny climate science,” the message stated. The…

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Trump Deceit on Taiwan Call Masks Aggressive G.O.P. Outlook on China

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Donald Trump’s transition team carefully prepared for his recent controversial phone call with Taiwan’s President, according to a report published Sunday evening in The Washington Post. The President-elect had brushed off the Friday conversation as routine, rather than a breach of decades-long protocol. “The President of Taiwan CALLED ME today to wish me congratulations on winning the Presidency,” Trump tweeted immediately afterward. “Thank you!” The Post, however, called the flippancy of that assertion into disrepute, reporting that the chat had been “planned weeks ahead by…

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Water Protectors Overcome Pipe-Layers, DAPL Halted for Now

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Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, activists, and concerned citizens, who had camped out for months to protest the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) secured a rare victory over the forces of environmental degradation over the weekend. The Army Corps of Engineers decided on Sunday not to grant easement for Energy Transfer Partners to complete construction of its $3.7 billion pipeline. The corps said it would embark on a new study to look for alternative routes for the pipeline—a process that could…

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Bush SEC Official With Calamitous Record Advising Trump on Key Financial Regulators

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A key financial regulator advising Donald Trump on the presidential transition could see the US roll back its rules to the freewheeling, fraud-ridden days of the Second Bush Administration. Paul Atkins, a proponent of allowing the financial sector to run rampant, if it so wishes, is advising Trump on financial framework. He met with the President-elect this week, as key banking regulatory positions remain unfilled, including top positions at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). “Mr Atkins, who was…

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Dem Senators Call on W.H. to Declassify Documents on Russian Election Interference

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Several Senators penned a letter to President Obama this week, requesting the administration share with the public more information on claims that the Kremlin meddled in the recent US election. Both in the run up to, and after the election, allegations of Russian interference have been bandied around by Democratic political operatives and various news media outlets. Federal investigators, however, have released very little evidence to actually confirm those claims. “We believe there is additional information concerning the Russian Government and the US election that should…

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FBI Gains New Hacking Powers While GOP Congress Sits on Sidelines

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The FBI is now allowed to hack into computers anywhere in the world using only a single warrant, according to a new rule that was quietly implemented on Thursday. Prior to the new policy taking effect, federal computer investigators could only hack into a computer within the same district where they obtained a warrant from a judge. “Rule 41,” as it is known, changes those procedures, allowing feds to search potentially any computer, regardless of where the warrant was issued. Devices that investigators believe are…

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