It is possible that former
Pentagon official
Ashton Carter is President Barack Obama’s pick to be the next
secretary of defense, but it’s also possible it’s just a big
Beltway game of telephone that will end up with some media outlet
reporting that Elaine Schwartz, a dental hygienist from Akron,
Ohio, will be joining the president’s cabinet.- A cable failure caused a
massive power outage in Detroit, affecting even emergency
responders and jails. - A high school student in Georgia is starting a petition to try
to
kill off the federal school lunch guidelines after a cafeteria
worker denied her honey mustard, which certainly must be some sort
of United Nations violation. - New York City has allocated $130 million to reopen Arkham Asylum
increase health services for mentally troubled people in the
criminal justice system.
Ukraine’s parliament has finally hammered out the formation of
a new government.
Cyber Monday sales were up, but not by as much as analysts
predicted because sales are now things that are happening all the
time, spreading out consumer spending.
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