Day: January 4, 2017

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Later this month, Barack Obama will become the first president in at least 40 years to leave the office with a smaller federal prison system than he started with. In 2015, the total incarceration rate – including state prisons, federal prisons and local jails – fell to 670 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents.

Suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore gets Bill of Rights award

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who is appealing his suspension for his conviction on judicial ethics charges related to his stance against gay marriage, was recently awarded the 2016 Bill of Rights Award by the Bill of Rights Bicentennial Committee of Concordville, Pennsylvania. The committee announced the award on Dec. 15, which was the 225th anniversary of the adoption of the Bill of Rights, according to a press release Wednesday from Liberty Counsel, the legal group representing Moore.

Why your viral a heroesa probably shouldna t be the Twitter accounts of brands

“In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them” – Deuteronomy 32:35 “Our community manager was unaware of the recent evolution of the Pepe meme’s meaning, and this tweet was promptly deleted.” – The Wendy’s brand Twitter account, Jan. 4. Just 24 short hours ago, the Wendy’s brand Twitter account was the Internet’s latest hero, because it “owned” a troll who questioned whether the fast-food company’s hamburgers were really never frozen.

Top Senate Dem warns Trump on Supreme Court pick

The top Democrat in the Senate is warning President-elect Donald Trump about his eventual Supreme Court choice: Name a “mainstream” nominee or Democrats will oppose the individual “with everything we have.” “My worry is, with the hard right running the show, that the likelihood of the nominee being mainstream is decreasing every day,” New York Sen. Chuck Schumer said Wednesday in an interview.

‘Obama Out’: President ending reign as pop culture king

From his campaign fist bump to his theatrical mic drop at the last White House correspondents’ dinner, Barack Obama ruled as America’s pop culture president. His two terms played out like a running chronicle of the trends of our times: slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon, reading mean tweets with Jimmy Kimmel, filling out his NCAA basketball bracket on ESPN, cruising with Jerry Seinfeld on “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”

Your Jan. 4 Pre-Trip: UberFreight takes on trucking

Uber recently unveiled a new website for its delivery service called UberFreight . According to a Futurism report, details about the new service are sparse, “but it’s likely the plan is to use test runs of the technology to gather real-life data that will ‘educate’ the self-driving algorithms.”

After Ripping Wall Street, Trump Taps Insider to Police Industry

Donald Trump ridiculed Wall Street on the campaign trail, and frequently criticized his political opponents for their ties to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Now, Trump is relying on a lawyer who has spent his career representing financial firms, and has his own close ties to Goldman, to lead Wall Street’s top regulator. Trump will pick Sullivan & Cromwell partner Jay Clayton to run the Securities and Exchange Commission, the president-elect’s transition team said in a statement Wednesday.

Meet Russia’s favorite congressman. He drunkenly arm-wrestled Putin to decide the Cold War.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher finally has his moment in the sun. With the election of Donald Trump and with building relations with Russia as a foreign policy priority, Rohrabacher’s long-standing and often lonely efforts to do the same are suddenly bearing fruit, as our Robert Costa reports : Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican ally of President-elect Donald Trump and a longtime enthusiast of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Wednesday that he is planning to lead a congressional delegation to Russia next month and expects to meet with Russian officials to discuss “how we can work with the Duma.”

A Mexican politician just took his protest right through Trump’s front door

It’s no surprise that a Mexican politician would object to Donald Trump’s proposed border wall – but only in Trump’s America could one raise those objections in the president-elect’s own building. That’s exactly what happened Wednesday morning when Mexican politician Gerardo FernA ndez NoroA a walked into Trump Tower, sat down in front of the golden elevator bank, and held up a sign showing a map of the United States labeled, “Mexico in 1830.”

Republicans vow to get rid of Obamacare but givea

Republicans vow to get rid of Obamacare but give no details Vice President-elect Mike Pence meets with GOP on dumping health care law, while Obama looks to defend. Check out this story on portclintonnewsherald.com: http://usat.ly/2hRPBqg Vice President-elect Mike Pence meets with Republican members of Congress Wednesday to discuss ways of dismantling the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.

How Megyn Kelly made 2 big enemies and won millions of admirers

How Megyn Kelly made 2 big enemies and won millions of admirers Megyn Kelly had one hell of a year, but will her Fox News audience follow her to NBC? Check out this story on portclintonnewsherald.com: http://usat.ly/2hT0B6E The former Fox News anchor found herself in the news rather than just reporting it, a dual role she managed during one of the most contentious presidential elections in history. Perhaps most famously, President-elect Donald Trump attacked her after she posed a question about his comments on women.

Kansas Congressman’s son ‘dabs’ during swearing-in photo op

A new Kansas Congressman is dishing out discipline after his 17-year-old son pulled a dance move resembling a sneeze during a photo shoot with House Speaker Paul Ryan after the U.S. House of Representatives swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol. During the photo shoot Tuesday, Cal Marshall held the Bible with his father and Ryan.

Civil Rights at Risk Under Jeff Sessions

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, cheers on the crowd during a Trump rally in Mobile, Alabama, in December. Confirmation hearings for Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, named by Donald Trump to be attorney general of the United States, will begin on Jan. 10, before Trump is even inaugurated.

Gaslighting and the Left’s War on Reality

Donald Trump’s victory over one of the most powerful political machines in American history has given mainstream America the opportunity to turn America onto a sensible course. The success or failure of that turnaround, however, depends largely on the ability of mainstream Americans to see through the left’s longstanding use of a vile political tactic known as gaslighting.

Trump names Wall Street lawyer Clayton as SEC chairman

” President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday chose a Wall Street attorney with experience in corporate mergers and public stock launches as his nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Trump announced his nomination of Jay Clayton, a partner in the law firm Sullivan and Cromwell, as chairman of the independent agency that oversees Wall Street and the financial markets.

The Most Vulnerable NASA Missions Under Trump

About a week before the presidential election, NASA invited reporters to its facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, to look at the observatory it hopes to launch in two years, to a point far beyond Hubble’s orbit, where it will continue that telescope’s search for distant stars and galaxies. Charlie Bolden, the head of the space agency, took questions, including one from a reporter for The Guardian , who asked Bolden whether the program was safe, regardless of the election’s outcome.

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United States President-elect Donald Trump has mocked an upcoming intelligence briefing on alleged Russian hacking in the U.S. presidential election, implying the U.S. authorities will fabricate the contents of the briefing. Trump tweeted that he was originally scheduled to receive the briefing on Tuesday, Jan. 3, but the meeting was delayed until Friday because “perhaps more time [was] needed to build a case.”

U.S. House makes it easier to repeal Obamacare, harder for lawmakers to protest

WASHINGTON — House Republicans, after dropping plans to eliminate an independent ethics office, approved new rules that would fine lawmakers if they broadcast from the floor, as Democrats did last year to demand new gun safety legislation. The rules package, which passed with no Democratic support, 234-193, also will make it easier for the House GOP to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which provides health insurance for more than 20 million Americans, without offering any way to replace their coverage.

Obama, Pence To Visit Capitol Hill for Healthcare Talks

President Barack Obama is traveling to the Capitol to give congressional Democrats advice on how to combat the Republican drive to dismantle his health care overhaul. Vice President-elect Mike Pence is meeting with GOP lawmakers to discuss the best way to send Obama’s cherished law to its graveyard and replace it with – well, something.

The 15 Warnings Signs of Impending Tyranny

2. Repeatedly claim massive voter fraud in the absence of any evidence, in order to restrict voting in subsequent elections. 5. Hold few if any press conferences , preferring to communicate with the public directly through mass rallies and unfiltered statements .

.com | California gets ready to protect foreigners from Trump

California, home to many foreigners without residence papers, is girding to fight any attempt by President-elect Donald Trump to expel them. Trump, who takes office on January 20, has vowed to deport from the country as many as three million immigrants with criminal records and build a wall along the border with Mexico.

DHS chief: Don’t use ‘Dreamer’ info to deport them

Department of Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson is warning lawmakers that personal information collected by his agency for applications for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, or so-called Dreamers, should not be used in the future to deport them. Johnson’s veiled warning to incoming President Donald Trump and his administration could be useful in upcoming court cases if Trump revokes an executive order signed by President Barack Obama.

Chuck Schumer: Trump opposition leader

Chuck Schumer arrived for his first day as Senate Democratic leader to a large, new Capitol suite still strewn with unpacked boxes. “It’s a little fancier than I’m used to, but it goes with the territory,” Schumer told us, as he sat down for his maiden television interview as the Senate’s top Democrat.