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Justin Holcomb, The waiver required for Retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis to become the next Secretary of Defense was passed through the Senate on Thursday. Mattis answered questions during his hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday morning, hoping to influence legislators to grant him the waiver. Current laws deny military officers from taking cabinet
Senate confirmation hearings this week for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for top jobs - from secretary of state to attorney general - should provide a test of his ability to work with fellow Republicans in Congress to enact his agenda. Trump’s challenge is to ensure the 100-member Senate’s 52 Republicans stick together to confirm his
WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump, a harsh critic of U.S. intelligence agencies, is working with top advisers on a plan that would restructure and pare back the nations’ top spy agency, people familiar with the planning said, prompted by a belief that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has become bloated and politicized.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday was expected to name a senior Goldman Sachs banker to coordinate economic policy across his administration, turning again to Wall Street for expertise in managing the world’s largest economy. Trump’s pick of Gary Cohn, 56, the firm’s president and chief operating officer, to head his White House National Economic
Maxim Lott, The social media site Reddit.com, which has hundreds of millions of users, has begun censoring one the site’s most active communities: supporters of President-elect Donald Trump. The trouble began over the Thanksgiving holiday when Reddit’s CEO, Steve Huffman, secretly used his administrative access to the site to alter angry comments directed at him
Bill Murchison, True, Reince Priebus needs to revoke the boss’s Twitter access so as to head off random rants about stolen votes by the millions and zillions. Likewise, Kellyanne Conway needs to consider whether the job of presidential adviser includes lobbying the president in front of a TV audience over whom to name or not
Adam Shaw, As Twitter, Reddit and other social media networks are cracking down on the so-called “alt-right,” some are taking matters into their own hands and migrating away from traditional forms of social media and to new ones that claim to be more welcoming to free speech. Twitter has been particularly strong in cracking down
What is Gab.ai ? #SpeakFreely Gab is a people first social network. Users can post “Gabs,” which have a 300 character limit. -Users can follow other Gabbers and be followed back. -Users can upvote or downvote Gabs. Gab is an online social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send and read short blog-like