NYPD Officers Watch Gropers Attack Multiple Victims Before Making Arrests – Midtown – DNAinfo New York

A police officer arrested a man after watching him grope four women near the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, according to court documents.View Full Caption DNAinfo/Heather Holland NEW YORK CITY — Police Officer Joseph Pecora watched as a 44-year-old man groped a woman near the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree on a recent evening — but despite…

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Rick Perry, who forgot Dept. of Energy’s name, is Trump pick for energy secretary

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who infamously forgot the Department of Energy’s name in 2011 while running for president, to head that department in his future administration. According to CBS News, “two sources directly involved in the transition and selection process” said Perry had met with the president-elect at Trump Tower on…

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Donald Trump postpones news conference until January

storytext Donald Trump has decided to postpone his first press conference as President-elect until January, two transition sources confirmed to CNN. The press conference, previously scheduled for Thursday, had been advertised as an opportunity for him to address his plan for dealing with potential conflicts of interest stemming from his businesses. It was to be…

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Trump’s transition: sceptics guide every agency dealing with climate change | US news | The Guardian

The heads of Donald Trump’s transition teams for Nasa, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy, as well as his nominees to lead the EPA and the Department of the Interior, all question the science of human-caused climate change, in a signal of the president-elect’s determination to embark…

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Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence

The Washington Post late Friday night published an explosive story that, in many ways, is classic American journalism of the worst sort: The key claims are based exclusively on the unverified assertions of anonymous officials, who in turn are disseminating their own claims about what the CIA purportedly believes, all based on evidence that remains completely secret. These…

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Stein Campaign Forced into Plan C—or Maybe D?—After Federal Judge Ends Michigan Recount

Late on Wednesday night, the federal judge in Michigan whose emergency order set a statewide recount into motion earlier this week lifted that order, in deference to the state court of appeals, effectively ending the recount and confirming Donald Trump’s victory there over Hillary Clinton. The Green Party has petitioned for recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan,…

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