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Article Title: CIA unveils new rules for collecting information on Americans
Snippet of Article: "...The guidelines were published two days before President elect-Donald Trump is sworn into office and may be changed by the new administration. Trump has said he favors stronger government surveillance powers..."
Article Title: Stolen Yahoo Data Includes Government Employee Information
Snippet of Article: "...More than 150,000 U.S. government and military employees are among the victims of Yahoo! Inc.’s newly disclosed data breach, and their names, passwords, telephone numbers, security questions, birth dates, and backup e-mail addresses are now in the hands of cybercriminals. It’s a leak that could allow foreign intelligence services to identify employees and hack their personal and work accounts, posing a threat to national security. These employees had given their official government accounts to Yahoo in case they were ever locked out of their e-mail..."
Article Title: Great Stocking Stuffer Christmas Idea: A 23andme DNA Ancestry Test Kit Article Title: 1851 Dakota Land Cession Treaties
Snippet of Article: "...in exchange for $3,750,000 (estimated at 12 cents per acre), to be paid over decades. Little of the payment was received. The treaty stipulated that they would retain a strip of land 20 miles wide, spanning the Minnesota River; this article was unilaterally removed by the U.S. Senate, but later reinstated by legislation...."
Article Title: 5 U.S.C. 3110 - Employment of relatives; restrictions
Snippet of Article: "...(3) “relative” means, with respect to a public official, an individual who is related to the public official as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, or half sister.
(b) A public official may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement, in or to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control any individual who is a relative of the public official. An individual may not be appointed, employed, promoted, or advanced in or to a civilian position in an agency if such appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement has been advocated by a public official, serving in or exercising jurisdiction or control over the agency, who is a relative of the individual..."
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Snippet of Article: "...During a campaign appearance in Rochester, New Hampshire, last October, the billionaire told a crowd he would not be accepting the $400,000 annual salary if he became president..."
Article Title: Trump Win Could Spell Quick Tax-Rate Cuts, Obamacare Repeal
Snippet of Article: "...foundation for serious tax reform.”
“He’s a total deal-maker,” centrist Pennsylvania lawmaker Charlie Dent said of Trump. “There is no question he’s extremely pragmatic."
Dan Holler of the conservative group Heritage Action said the new administration and congressional leaders can forge unity by repealing Obamacare quickly, loosening regulations and cutting taxes..."
Article Title: Federal employees behind in pay by 34 percent on average, salary council says
Snippet of Article: "...Federal workers earn 34.07 percent on average less than private-sector employees doing comparable work, according to the government’s official..."
Article Title: FBI has found no criminal wrongdoing in new Clinton emails, says James Comey
Snippet of Article: "...'You can’t review 650,000 emails in eight days,' Donald Trump told a campaign rally in Sterling Heights, Michigan on Sunday evening.
On 28 October, only 11 days before the presidential election, Comey sent congressional leaders a letter informing them that agents had discovered emails “that appear pertinent” to a prior investigation, into Clinton’s use of a private server while she was secretary of state. It was later reported that as many as 650,000 such emails were in question..."
Article Title: Electoral College (United States) Article Title: White House Readies to Fight Election Day Cyber Mayhem
Snippet of Article: "... Officials are alert for any attempts to create Election Day chaos, and say steps are being taken to prepare for worst-case scenarios, including a cyber-attack that shuts down part of the power grid or the internet.
But what is more likely, multiple U.S. officials say, is a lower-level effort by hackers ..."
Article Title: Should i move my investments prior to the election?
Question: Should i move my investments prior to the election? The big question in the upcoming election is should i shift my investments? The answer depends on many factors but statistically speaking, it depends on whether a Republican or Democrat is elected. According to an ABC article citing the well respected Bespoke Investment Group, currently 'the Dow is down 27.4% this year. How have stocks fared from Election Day to year's end? When a Democrat wins, stocks have lost 1%, while rising 4% if a Republican wins, Bespoke Investment Group says.' So, according to the article, it obviously does make a difference on what party is elected. Obviously the choice is yours. You can make a decision based on facts or you can play it like the lottery and let emotions determine your decision.
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Article Title: 0.3% COLA Increase for Federal Retirees and Social Security Recipients in 2017
Snippet of Article: "...overall, federal retirees will still see their overall income go down. The COLA increase for 2017 will be 0.3%. Low COLA and rising Insurance costs will hit federal retirees..."
Article Title: Obamacare Benchmark Premiums to Rise 25% in Sharpest Jump Yet
Snippet of Article: "...Monthly premiums for benchmark silver-level plans are going up by an average of 25 percent in the 38 states using the federal HealthCare.gov website, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a report today. Last year, premiums for the second-lowest-cost silver plans went up by 7.5 percent on average across 37 states..."
Article Title: Hackers Wrecked the Internet Today Using DVRs and Webcams
Snippet of Article: "...Last month, security researcher Bruce Schneier started sounding the alarm that someone or something was carefully probing the internet for weakness. A scary prospect on its own, and one followed shortly thereafter by the full release of the Mirai code for any ne'er-do-well to use. Today's attack, it would seem, is a confluence of these two events: An attacker who has been carefully surveying the internet for weak points is now openly wielding one of the most capable blunt weapons we've ever seen blast the web.
The most terrifying part: This is probably only the beginning..."
Article Title: USPS Inspector General reports massive increases in delayed mail
Snippet of Article: "...The report by the Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General disclosed that the Jan. 5, 2015, order to eliminate overnight first-class mail service and to lengthen delivery times boosted the amount of “delayed mail” dramatically, reduced mail performance scores, and cut mail processing productivity while increasing transportation costs.
For the nine months following the new standard, the inspector general said delayed mail processing reports soared by 51 percent compared to the same period a year earlier..."
Article Title: Democrat TSA Shutdown | Wasted Union Dues: AFGE Silent on Democrat Attack on Unionized TSA Workers The disgusting AF...
