Trump cleaning out CIA

President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Indiana Senator Dan Coats as U.S. director of national intelligence, giving the retired lawmaker oversight of the spy agencies that have drawn skepticism from Trump.

Repealing & Replacing Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Mandatory wage increases lead to layoffs

This week, twenty states began implementing minimum wage increases that were passed during 2016.
As the country waits to see how these increased wages this will affect the economy, the U.S. territories have already provided us with a grim example.

Sen. Rand Paul on Friday said President-elect Donald Trump "fully supports" his plan to simultaneously repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

"I just spoke to [Trump] and he fully supports my plan to replace Obamacare the same day we repeal it," the Kentucky senator tweeted. "The time to act is now."

DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson designates elections ‘Critical Infrastructure’

US election systems will henceforth be treated as “critical infrastructure,” the Department of Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson decreed Friday in a move some are describing as a major federal overreach.

In a letter to the Associated Press, Johnson revealed the US government would monitor and intervene in future elections, a process previously handled on a state-by-state basis.

Donald Trump has been pretty understanding, but this is one step too far. Last night the CIA briefed Obama about the Russian hacks. Trump was supposed to be briefed tomorrow. Instead, the CIA info was “leaked” to NBC before they could tell Trump.

The CIA wasn’t supposed to brief the public until next week. Trump immediately went on the offensive, taking to Twitter to raise a HELLSTORM against the CIA.

The FBI never gained access to the DNC's hacked servers, instead relying on evidence provided from CrowdStrike

The FBI may have been forced into a misstep when investigating whether Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee -- the agency never directly examined the DNC servers that were breached.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has issued a blanket mandate requiring politically appointed ambassadors installed by President Barack Obama to leave their posts by Inauguration Day, the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand said on Friday.

Another mass shooting in another gun free zone
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At least five people are dead and multiple injured after a gunman opened fire inside the baggage area of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida.