Overtime pay battle stumps employers

A federal judge's injunction of President Barack Obama's attempt to expand overtime pay for 4.2 million workers has left some employers unsure of how to allot future salaries while their employees wonder how they will be paid. The regulation was scheduled to go into effect today, but U.S. District Court Judge Amos L. Mazzant III issued an injunction on Nov. 22, to the U.S. Department of Labor's dismay.

Congress sends legislation honoring WWII spies to Obama

Congress is sending President Barack Obama legislation to give the Congressional Gold Medal to World War II spies who served behind enemy lines in Nazi Germany and the Pacific theater. The Office of Strategic Services was formed in 1942 and at one point employed almost 13,000 men and women recruited from all branches of the military.

Graham Writing Bill to Protect Dreamers

Sen. Lindsey Graham is readying legislation that would extend legal protections for previously undocumented immigrants who came here as children -- benefits granted under a 2012 directive from President Barack Obama that are at risk with the incoming Trump administration. On the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed to revoke Obama's executive actions on immigration, including one that has shielded more than 740,000 young undocumented immigrants from being deported and gave them permits to work legally.

Just one Trump transition aide for U.S. spy agencies: officials

Only one member of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is dealing with the CIA and the 16 other offices and agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, four U.S. officials said Wednesday. Geoffrey Kahn, a former House intelligence committee staffer, is the only person named so far to Trump's intelligence community "landing team," they said.

Obama welcomes 4 Nobel Prize laureates, minus Dylan

President Barack Obama with the 2016 American Nobel Prize winners in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. With Obama are from left, Oliver Hart, Laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, from Harvard University, F. Duncan M. Haldane, Laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics from Princeton University, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry from Northwestern University, and J. Michael Kosterlitz, Laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, from Brown University.

Unforgettable quotes from 11 of the most powerful leaders in the world

It's no coincidence that the most powerful leaders in the world - from Barack Obama to Bill Gates to Vladimir Putin - are gifted speakers who win support, shape minds, and even stir controversy with their words. Though his speaking habits are unconventional - and often contentious - US President-Elect Donald Trump now joins the same ranks as these powerful leaders.

CannaNative’s Cedric Black Eagle Invited to President Obama’s 2016…

CannaNative a , LLC announced today that President Obama has invited his adopted native family Mary Black Eagle and her son, Cedric Black Eagle, co-founder of CannaNative a and former Chairman of the Crow Tribe of Montana, to a Holiday Reception at the White House on Friday, Dec. 2. In May, 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama visited the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana and was ceremoniously adopted into the Crow Nation and bestowed the name, "One Who Helps People Throughout The Land" by the late Hartford Jr. AKA and Mary Black Eagle, who became his sponsors -- or new Crow Tribe adopted parents, according to native custom.

Reckoning for Pelosi as House Democrats vote for leader

" Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi faces a challenge to her job as frustrated House Democrats meet to select a new slate of leaders. Pelosi is likely to be re-elected easily Wednesday despite disenchantment among some in the Democratic caucus she has led since 2002.

Trump tapping Washington, Wall Street veterans for top jobs

Steven Mnuchin, national finance chairman of President-elect Donald Trump's campaign, walks to lunch at Trump Tower, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in New York. Steven Mnuchin, national finance chairman of President-elect Donald Trump's campaign, walks to lunch at Trump Tower, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in New York.

Treasury nominee Mnuchin was Trumpa s top fundraiser

Steven Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump's expected choice to be the nation's 77th treasury secretary, has had a long history as a successful financial executive and a shorter but significant period in a job that ushered him into Trump's inner circle: head of Trump's campaign finance operation. When Mnuchin, 53, was chosen by Trump as his national finance director in May, he told The Associated Press that the two men had been friends for 15 years.

GOP leaders set for House vote on medical research bill

Republican leaders are ready to push through the House a compromise medical research bill that's prompted complaints from Democrats and consumer groups but seems all but certain to sail through Congress with momentum built by victories that it delivers for both parties and the White House. The legislation envisions spending $6.3 billion over the coming decade, including $4.8 billion for National Institutes of Health research.

Treasury nominee Mnuchin was Trump’s top fundraiser

Steven Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump's expected choice to be the nation's 77th treasury secretary, has had a long history as a successful financial executive and a shorter but significant period in a job that ushered him into Trump's inner circle: head of Trump's campaign finance operation. When Mnuchin, 53, was chosen by Trump as his national finance director in May, he told The Associated Press that the two men had been friends for 15 years.

Commentary: Trump immigration plan sound

Donald Trump has a well thought-out immigration program, far better than anything Hillary Clinton ever came up with, and it's not mass deportation for every illegal immigrant in the land. Much was spelled out months ago and a major modification was added later, but now it seems no one has been listening, and so we are having weeping and gnashing of teeth.

In a race to the finish, Obama administration presses ahead with ambitious rules

President Barack Obama talks with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. As the future Trump administration begins to take shape, the Obama White House is engaged in a frenzied, final effort to put in place as many new rules and regulations as time allows.

Trump picks Mnuchin as treasury secretary

Elaine Chao's record at the Labor Department suggests she'd have a light hand when it comes to safety regulation as transportation secretary and would seek to shift responsibility from the federal government to... Trump has a follow-up meeting Tuesday with the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, who has become a symbol of the internal divisions agitating the transition team. Reaching deep into conservative territory, President-elect Donald Trump chose Georgia Rep. Tom Price to oversee the nation's health care system on Tuesday, picking a fierce "Obamacare" critic who also has championed... President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday received only his third top-secret intelligence briefing since his election four weeks ago.