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12/30/16
TechNews for the week: December 30; December 28;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Syria declares countrywide cease-fire effective at midnight following its 'victories and advances';
Israeli PM, angered by anti-settlement U.N. vote, summons U.S. ambassador; Kerry says U.S. decision to abstain on U.N. settlement vote was 'in accordance with our values';
Fake news story sets off Israel-Pakistan Twitter feud;
Afghans who fled to Germany for safety are being sent back;
Obama sanctions Russian officials over election hacking; The luxurious, 45-acre Md. compound being shut down for alleged Russian espionage;
Republicans respond to Russia sanctions with disbelief over tactics and timing; GOP congressman: Russia did 'what the media should have done' by leaking emails;
Putin says he won't deport U.S. diplomats as he looks to cultivate relations with incoming Trump administration; Trump tweets praise of Putin for attack on Clinton;
Navy repeatedly dismissed evidence that 'Fat Leonard' was cheating the 7th Fleet;
The chaos theory of Trump: Sowing confusion through tweets; Trump seems to be using one of his favorite negotiating tactics on Lockheed Martin and Boeing;
Donald Trump plans to shut down his charitable foundation, which has been under scrutiny for months; On Twitter, he defends foundation, ignores legal controversy surrounding it;
Trump could quickly doom health law's subsidies for millions of Americans; These coal country voters backed Trump. Now they're worried about losing Obamacare;
Republicans have a massive plan to overhaul the tax code: here's how it would work; Why Walmart hates the proposed corporate tax cut;
Fox News wonders whether we should cancel food stamps because 0.09% of spending is fraudulent;
Sam Brownback urges Donald Trump to replicate his Kansas disaster on a national scale; Republicans to target unions, expand school choice in states;
Trump ally Carl Paladino: I was 'emotional' when I wished Obama dead and insulted the first lady; Adviser's tweets add intrigue to Trump aide's sudden resignation;
Trump Hotels has had its eye on China: but the door hasn't opened;
Will Trump Face Immediate Impeachment?
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Trump's Pick for Budget Chief Liked Gold, Had Dim View of Dollar;
Confederate flag defender S.C. Rep. Corley, facing domestic violence and gun charges;
Finance and Economics
The U.S. spends more on health care than any other country. Here's what we're buying; America's 25 Dying Industries; 4 Best Income Stocks Worth Buying in 2017;
Doubts Growing About Whether Trump Can Pass Infrastructure Plan In First 100 Days;
U.S. appeals court rejects SEC's use of administrative law judges; Google Saved $3.6B in Tax Via "Double Irish and Dutch Sandwich";
China To Embark On Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicle Development;
Trump Tweet Helps Boeing, Hurts Lockheed Martin; Trump And Perry Have Very Different Views Of Wind Energy;
Kasich Vetoes Bill To Weaken Ohio Clean Energy Mandate; Aviation Manufacturers Want Emissions Regulations To Stay Globally Competitive;
Ford To Unveil Its Next-Generation Self-Driving Car;
Other news
Americans, especially but not exclusively Trump voters, believe crazy, wrong things; Even when he's got a point on the economy, Trump can't help but overplay his hand;
A new solution for Trump and his team of billionaires: Ignore the law;
Chris Matthews is America's greatest champion of 'Love Actually.' So we watched it with him;
Education:
Hundreds Of For-Profit Colleges Over-Relying On GI Bill Funds;
Pentagon To Run New Manufacturing Education Program; Texas Students Use 3D Printing To Understand Calculus Concepts;
12/23/16
TechNews for the week: December 23; December 21; December 19;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Thousands evacuated from Aleppo after deal over besieged villages; Syrian military says it has retaken control of prized city of Aleppo;
How will Aleppo and Mosul survive today's wars? Their shared ancient history offers some clues;
ISIS claims responsibility for Berlin attack; ISIS-linked news agency releases video of Berlin attacker swearing allegiance to the radical group;
Russian ambassador to Turkey assassinated in Ankara ;
U.N. Security Council to vote on measure demanding an end Israeli settlements; U.S. declines to veto U.N. Security Council resolution for Israel to stop Jewish settlement activity;
Europe's Far-Right Anger is moving mainstream;
China will return naval drone seized in South China Sea to U.S.;
Russia Missing from Trump's Top Defense Priorities, According to DoD Memo;
Donald Trump embraces the risky 'Madman Theory' on foreign policy; Tense new battle over nuclear arms erupts between Donald Trump and his staff;
Trump continues to sow confusion over his plan for Muslims entering the country; Administration to shut down visitor registry program before Trump takes office;
Trump's OMB pick seems poised to ignite a worldwide financial crisis; Why The Republicans Don't Have An Obamacare Replacement Plan;
Trump May Have a $300 Million Conflict of Interest With Deutsche Bank; Trump team denies report saying sons selling access;
Election officials focus on whether voter ID laws contributed to Clinton's defeat; Emails between Clinton and top aide, but little else, spurred FBI to resume controversial probe;
A new poll shows 52% of Republicans actually think Trump won the popular vote; Schooled on Benghazi and Pizzagate, Trump team is heavy on conspiracy theorists;
N.C. lawmakers abandon attempt to repeal 'bathroom bill'; Why did deal to repeal HB2 come undone; How courts could view moves to strip NC Governor's power;
Minority workers are not taking jobs away from white people;
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Corruption Probe Will Have Impact On Legislative Process; South Carolina Bill Would Require Blocking of Obscene Content;
A proposed senior-living center turns neighbors against neighbors;
GOP want to make America Wealthy;
Finance and Economics
How Free Trade Left America Behind; Record Capital Rushes Out of Eurozone; Supreme Court to Hear Case on Patent Jurisdiction;
Republicans Seeking Immediate Cuts to Social Security? Not So Fast; U.S. population growth is lower than at any time since the Great Depression;
What everyone gets wrong about Dodd-Frank, according to 'Big Short' star; How Apple managed to pay a 0.005 percent tax rate in 2014;
Indigenous people are left poor as tech world takes lithium from under their feet to power phones and electric cars;
Efforts To Streamline Infrastructure Must Mind Environmental, Other Concerns;
China Launches Carbon Emissions-monitoring Satellite;
Hydroelectric Engineers To Use Abandoned Mine To Create Electricity;
Interior adopts controversial last-minute rule to make the coal industry cleaner; States Want To Scrap Clean Power Plan Even As They Near Targets;
Future Of Clean Energy Under Trump Administration Unclear; Mining Company Expects Trump's EPA To Allow Application For Alaska Copper, Gold Mine;
Obama invokes 1953 law to indefinitely block drilling in Arctic and Atlantic oceans;
Oklahoma Releases New Fracking Guidelines To Control Earthquake Risk; Baltimore County Weighs Solar Farm Restrictions;
Boeing Expands Job Cuts After Big Dividend Hike, $14 Billion Buyback;
Comcast wants in on your smart home; Walmart to stop selling "Bulletproof: Black Lives Matter" shirts after police protest;
Other news
How Russia overtook China as our biggest cyber enemy;
Trump's outrageous lies come straight from big businesses' playbook; As a victim of a Russian smear campaign, I understand the power of fake news;
Trump is on target to violate the Constitution the moment he takes the oath of office;
Why the white working class votes against itself; 5 ways of redrawing the U.S. electoral map that actually make sense;
Bill Gates says people with these 3 skills will be successful in the future job market; 10 Eagle Scout survival skills everyone should know;
Education:
Can Students Be Taught to Detect Fake News and Dubious Claims;
How Politics Shapes the Making of Higher-Education Regulations; Harvard Business Professor Urges Trump To Overhaul Education For Workforce;
GAO: Feds Tap Social Security Checks To Recover Unpaid Student Debt;
Education Dept. Denies Student-Aid Funds to For-Profit Law School; Two For-Profit Colleges Will Close Their Doors;
ED Identifies For-Profit Colleges That Exceeded 90/10 Rule; Delays Release Of Gainful Employment Template;
Amid Lurid Allegations, Minnesota Football Team Drops Threatened Boycott; Outcry at Loyola after students learn athlete accused of rape was enrolled for three years;
Princeton Cancels Men's Swimming and Diving Season Over Offensive Emails;
NCAA Makes Third Round of Allegations Against Chapel Hill in Fraud Case; NCAA says Fired Rutgers Coach Broke Rules in Talking to Instructor About Grade Change;
12/16/16
TechNews for the week: December 16; December 14; December 12;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Kurdish militants claim responsibility for Istanbul attack that killed 38;
Syrian forces push Aleppo rebels to the brink as city nears 'total collapse'; Aleppo hit by air strikes and shelling as evacuation stalls; Syria's Assad: Trump can be our natural ally;
Isis retakes ancient Syrian city of Palmyra; ISIS is making its own ammunition almost as fast as it can fire it;
Israel wants mosques to turn the volume way down; Israeli leader hints settler outpost evacuation nearing; Israel receive the first of its $5 billion order of U.S.-made F-35 jets;
Embassy move to Jerusalem a 'priority' for Trump; Trump picks a supporter of West Bank settlements for ambassador to Israel; West Bank Settlers Laud Trump Pick;
Taliban demands for cash stir fears of comeback in Pakistan's Swat Valley;
U.S. maintains military aid to Saudi Arabia despite rebukes over Yemen carnage;
China installs weapons systems on artificial islands; Chinese naval ship seized an unmanned U.S. ocean glider;
Philippines' Duterte tells U.S. to prepare to leave the country; Brazil's political problems;
The CIA concluded that Russia worked to elect Trump. Republicans now face an impossible choice; Officials: Master Spy Vladimir Putin Now Directly Linked to US Hacking;
FBI Director Accused Of Covering Up Russian Hack; FBI backs CIA view that Russia intervened to help Trump win election;
Partial transcript: 'Putin himself directed the covert cyberattacks'; U.S. election agency breached by hackers after November vote;
TRUMP: I'm a 'smart person,' don't need intelligence briefings every single day; Ex-CIA chief says Trump risks blame for an attack if he skips briefings;
Trump's national security adviser shared secrets without permission;
A Trump team member just compared climate science to the flat-Earth theory; Energy Dept. rejects Trump's request to name climate change workers, who remain worried;
On the day Trump said he'd clarify his business dealings, his conflicts of interest look thornier than ever; Democratic lawmakers: Trump's Washington hotel a conflict of interest;
Trump says he will hand over control of businesses to sons before inauguration; Trump is now inviting corruption;
Ivanka Trump in the East Wing is a lot less unusual than people are making it out to be;
After allegedly trying to suppress voting, Trump and his fans applaud lower black turnout; Putin is suddenly gaining popularity among conservatives;
Report ranks best and worst agencies for federal employees;
States with lots of Trump voters didn't get the jobs. Now they won't get the tax cuts;
A 'shameful and cowardly power grab' by Republicans is making Democrats in North Carolina furious; Proposed cuts to NC Gov.-elect's appointment powers passes NC House;
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Jurors convict Dylann Roof on all counts in church slayings;
Finance and Economics
Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate 25 base points; Crude Oil Soars After OPEC and Non-OPEC Countries Agree to Production Cuts;
Study: Obamacare repeal means a $197,000 tax cut for the 0.1 percent; FCC Chairman, Net Neutrality Advocate, to Step Down;
Chinese firm begins testing GMO corn seeds in U.S. greenhouse;
Prudential suspends insurance sales through Wells Fargo branches as California investigates; How Bank CEOs Want To Change Dodd-Frank;
Michigan Governor Signs Laws Regulating Self-Driving Cars; California To Adopt Energy Efficiency Standards For Computers;
Pipeline spills 176,000 gallons of crude into creek about 150 miles from Dakota Access protest camp;
Trump takes aim at Lockheed Martin over F-35 costs;
How blockchain will transform our cities;
Railroad Industry Divided On Cost, Effectiveness Of PTC;
Other news
10 books every small business owner and entrepreneur needs to read;
A new battle over whether slave torture was the foundation of the American economy;
Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the Modern Whistle-Blower;
Hillary Clinton Has Grounds To Challenge Constitutionality Of Electoral College And Become U.S. President;
Where Were Trump's Votes? Where the Jobs Weren't;
Education:
How Can Students Be Taught to Detect Fake News and Dubious Claims; We are teaching today's children the wrong type of maths;
Collinge: Failure To Address Student Loan Debt Will "Result In Disaster"; Economic Realities Have Altered Ph.D. Recipients' Plans for Future;
Enrollment Goals Remain Elusive for Small Colleges; Where Even Experts Can't Figure Out Tuition Costs;
First-generation students and transfer students are less likely to visit career-services offices as undergraduates;
Little Known About DeVos' Higher Education Views; Most Colleges Will Change Overtime Policies Despite Judge's Blocking of New Rule;
Education Dept. Upholds Revoking of Embattled Accreditor's Recognition; State Audit Finds U. of Louisville Foundation Broke Its Own Bylaws;
DeVry Agrees To Pay $100 Million For Misleading Ads;
California Must Continue Implementing Older Science Tests while testing new exams; The Problem of History in the Age of Abundance;
Data Show Election Of Donald Trump May Deter International Students;
Alt-Right 'Dark Enlightenment' Group Seeks Campus Safe Space;
U. Minnesota Football Team Calls a Boycott to Protest Players' Suspensions;
12/9/16
TechNews for the week: December 9; December 7; December 5;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Assad forces push deeper into rebel-held eastern Aleppo;
Italy PM Renzi says he will resign following referendum defeat; Iceland's Pirate party invited to form government;
John Key in sudden resignation as New Zealand prime minister; South Korea lawmakers impeach President Park Geun-hye over corruption scandal;
Israeli bill legalising settlements passes first hurdle; Kushner Foundation donated to West Bank Jewish settlements;
Maine Gov. Paul LePage Is Still Questioning Election Results, For No Apparent Reason;
Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste, fearing Congress would slash defense spending;
House passes stopgap measure as senators raise objections; Dems signal retreat on miners' aid;
Republicans admit it: Okay, yes, we really are big hypocrites;
Pope Francis condemns the 'sickness' of fake news; Trump has ushered in a world without facts;
Trump warns of 'retribution' for companies that offshore jobs, threatening 35 percent tariff; Wants names of Energy Dept. workers who attended climate meetings;
Republicans have a double standard when it comes to Trump's threats of 'retribution';
Carrier union leader on Trump's big deal: He 'lied his a-- off'; This is what happens when Donald Trump attacks a private citizen on Twitter;
Why Trump gets more hype out of 1,000 jobs than Obama does out of 16 million;
Trump sold all shares in companies in June, spokesman says, without proof; Trump, Cabinet could avoid millions in taxes thanks to this little-known law;
You Heard It Here First: Trump May Not Propose A Budget Next Year;
Trump over performed the most in counties with the highest drug, alcohol and suicide mortality rates;
None of the inauguration protests have their proper permits yet. Here's why;
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Mistrial declared in case of South Carolina officer who shot Walter Scott after traffic stop;
Finance and Economics
Life expectancy declines in America for the first time since 1993; Study Finds Children Increasingly Less Likely To Earn More Than Their Parents;
US Job Openings Slipped 1.8% In October; Who gets hurt when part-time work becomes the new normal; The seven excuses of highly paid chief executives;
Euro falls 1.5% after Italian referendum; Microsoft, LinkedIn merger cleared by European Commission;
CEO says Bringing Cisco's cash back to the US would cause a rush of dividends, buybacks and M&A;
10 Worst States for Taxes on Your Retirement Nest Egg; GOP introduces plan to massively cut Social Security;
Six maps that show the anatomy of America's vast infrastructure; House Passes $12B Water Bill Authorizing 30 New Infrastructure Projects;
Trump's Illusion: Why Jobs Will Flow to Mexico; Unskilled Manufacturing Jobs Aren't Coming Back: They Never Existed;
As Trump vows to stop flow of jobs overseas, U.S. plans to make fighter jets in India;
Supreme Court to Hear Patent Case on Sale of Printer Cartridges; Court backs Samsung in smartphone fight with Apple; rules for prosecutors in insider trading case;
Army Corps blocks route of Dakota Access oil pipeline; Trump sells his stake in Dakota Access Pipeline developer;
Kansas Farmer Lawsuit Aims To Stop Wind Farm To Protect Whooping Cranes;
Trump urges cancellation of order for new Boeing Air Force One; Koch brothers announce layoffs; Phone companies look to Trump;
Senate Approves Bill Protecting Right to Post Negative Reviews;
Troubled Navy ship class design infringed on patent, lawsuit claims;
Apple, Square Announce New Payments Partnership; Sears is on the brink of catastrophe as store closures loom and top execs flee the company;
Donald Trump Will Continue to Produce 'Celebrity Apprentice';
Other news
A harsh truth about fake news: Some people are super gullible; When it comes to fake internet news, 'buyer beware'; Why conservatives might be more likely to fall for fake news;
Presidents have the power to text all Americans;
It Was a Corruption Election. It's Time We Realized It.; Thank you, Trump voters, for this wonderful joke;
An Idiot's Guide to Islam in America;
Education:
PISA Results: Math Down, Science and Reading Flat for U.S. Students; Analysis: PISA Data Shows Attendance, School Climate Impacts Achievement;
Grades predict achievement better than IQ or standardized test scores; Millennials Opting For Real World Education To Achieve Success, Have Less Debt;
Employers Still Unfamiliar With Competency-Based Degrees; Analysis: DeVos Exercises "Free Market Approach" To School Choice;
What Private-College Presidents Make; 39 Private-College Leaders Earn More Than $1 Million;
Will Higher Education Be 'Trumped' by State Lawmakers? Unequal Higher Education System Is Due To White Flight;
A Population in Flux Forces Colleges to Adapt; How to Make Big Classes Feel Small; 5 Ways to Shake Up the Lecture;
New Mexico President's Fare-Thee-Well Gets Ugly;
VMI, Famed Military Academy, Giving Cadets Coloring Books for Stress; Virginia Military Institute Defends Use of Coloring Sheets at Campus Event;
Rundown of the Latest Campus-Climate Incidents Since Trump's Election;
NCAA Rules Ex-Official at Cal State-Northridge Committed Academic Misconduct; Baylor and U. of Louisville Get Heat From Accreditor;
12/2/16
TechNews for the week: December 2; November 30; November 28;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
'ISIS was a tsunami that swept away the Sunnis'; Assad's forces seize a third of rebel-held Aleppo as assault gains momentum;
Syrian rebels in secret talks with Moscow to end Aleppo fighting;
Russia has been in contact with Trump team over Syria;
Pakistan says Trump lavished its prime minister with praise in phone call;
Colombia passes a historic peace deal with FARC rebels to end the country's half-century war;
Obama administration throws cold water on vote recount effort;
Election recount will take place in Wisconsin, after Stein files petition; Clinton's campaign will participate in Wisconsin recount;
Trump's presidency, overseas business deals and relations with foreign governments could all become intertwined;
An entanglement of Donald Trump's presidential duties and private interests could lead to a muddy new world; son-in-law Jared Kushner poised to become presidential confidant;
Trump announces he will leave business 'in total': leaving open how he will avoid conflicts of interest; His stock holdings give him a personal stake in rules on banks and oil firms;
NYT publishes damning, deep look at Trump's commercial/presidential conflicts of interests, so Trump tweets crazy fake-vote conspiracy;
Trump issues stunning, baseless claim that 'millions' voted illegally; The most likely explanation for Trump's fraud claims is the simplest one: Ego;
Donald Trump v. the First Amendment, part five; Trump's Unsupported Tweet Prompts Calls to Delete Account;
Trump's Carrier deal raises red flags; Trump is shocked that Carrier took him literally. That doesn't bode well for his many promises; Carrier deal is right out of Putin's playbook;
Trump he might 'terminate' U.S. outreach to Cuba; Deporting convicted criminals is not as easy as it sounds;
Bannon allegedly told colleague restricting African-Americans from voting was 'not such a bad thing';
Voting rights advocates brace for 'biggest fight of our lifetime' during Trump administration;
Breitbart urges boycott of Kellogg's after cereal maker pulls ads;
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Leatherman: "I will remain in the senate" ; A look at Henry McMaster as governor;
Rural hospitals may be forced to close with the repeal of the Affordable Care Act;
Donald Trump wants to throw flag-burners in jail, technically South Carolina has an old law that would do just that;
Female, Black Engineering Students Report Disparities At Clemson;
Finance and Economics
Unemployment rate tumbles to 4.6%, lowest since August 2007; Corporate America's Profit Surge;
Chicago Stock Exchange tries to ease fears over China deal; Ford To Begin Testing Self-Driving Cars In Europe;
Wells Fargo wants claims over fake accounts settled out of court; Pimco to pay $20 million over misleading investors about ETF;
US ordered to halt illegal tax breaks for Boeing; Airbus A350-1000 Wide-Body Makes Maiden Flight; Reorganization To Cut 1,000 Positions;
California Cities Consider Taxing Video Streaming Services;
FCC: AT&T, Verizon Shouldn't Exempt Own Apps From Data Caps;
Tech Leaders Say Trump's Anti-Immigration Policies Will Not Save American Jobs; Pro-Trump Industries At Odds Over Renewable Fuel Standards Program;
Interior Official Urges Trump To See Coal Country Environmental Devastation; More Than 60 Business Leaders Testify Against Ohio's Plan To Freeze On Renewable Energy;
Experts Say Clean Energy Gaining Ground, But Traditional Energy Entrenched; Trump's Public Wind Energy Sourcing Claims Untrue;
Other news
Americans keep looking away from the election's most alarming story; The election really was rigged; How the electoral college gerrymanders the presidential vote;
They said despicable things about the Obamas but say they're not racists. Yes, they are;
Keith Olbermann offers a surprisingly easy and constitutional way to fire Donald Trump;
Education:
TIMSS Shows US Students Still Behind Many Asian Peers In Math And Science; A New Kind of Core Curriculum; When College Was a Public Good;
College's hidden costs: What the admissions office doesn't tell you; Universities Cutting Services For Older Students;
Moody's: Colleges Can Expect Another Year of Low Growth in Tuition Revenue; Colleges Reducing Out-Of-State Tuition To Attract More Students;
3 Public Universities in Illinois to Get $17 Million in Emergency Funds; Blocked Overtime Rule Sows Uncertainty for Colleges;
What Trump's education secretary pick means for student loan debt; $108 Billion in Student Debt Is Likely to Be Forgiven;
For-Profit College Sector Expects Regrowth Under Trump; California Higher-Education Leaders Urge Trump To Save DACA;
How Colleges Are Responding to Demands That They Become 'Sanctuary Campuses';
NSF Ranks R&D Spending in Higher Ed;
The Latest Campus-Climate Incidents Since Trump's Election;
Baylor represents worst of the worst, and they get a free pass;