President Barack Obama will
sign an executive order requiring government contractors to provide
compensation data based on sex and race to the Labor Department
and prohibiting contractors from retaliating against employees who
discuss their pay with each other.- Jesse Jackson Jr., in prison for illegally using campaign funds
for other purchases, was
temporarily put into solitary confinement before being moved
from a prison in North Carolina to one in Alabama. Sources told the
Chicago Sun-Times that prison guards took offense to the
former congressman advising prisoners of their rights. - The Supreme Court declined to hear activist
Larry Klayman’s challenge to the National Security Agency’s mass
domestic metadata collection program before it makes its way
through federal appeals court. - The death toll from the Washington State mudslide has risen to
33. Of those, 30 have been identified. - The Democratic National Committee has dusted off
Vice President Joe Biden’s personal Twitter account to use for
campaigning. He still has his other official @VP account. - It took less than a week to claim all
85,000 visas for next year for high-skilled foreign workers to
work in the United States.
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