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Donald J. Trump announces that Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, has agreed to invest $50 billion in the U.S. and create 50,000 new jobs. SUBSCRIBE to ABC NEWS...

Delegates of the U.N. Human Rights Council opened a meeting in Geneva on Monday by standing silently with heads bowed, after the delegation of Venezuela’s leftist government requested a minute’s silence to “honor” the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

President Barack Obama's legal defense of some key initiatives including his signature healthcare law is collapsing as courts put cases on hold until after President-elect Donald Trump, hostile to the policies, assumes office on Jan. 20.

“57% of Republicans think free markets hurt us. 78% think gov should bribe companies. 75% think gov should threaten companies. Welp.”

"The threat to the First Amendment came from the Democratic side more," he says, arguing that journalists viewed a Democratic plank "overly charitably" as campaign finance reform.

Shaun King, a Black Lives Matter activist and columnist for The New York Daily News, announced on Monday his plans to organize a boycott of New York City, San Francisco and Standing Rock. [feature]

Republican leaders managed to derail impeachment of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen on Tuesday, sending the debate back to a committee for more study, where it will die when the Congress adjourns at the end of this year.

President Barack Obama told US Central Command Tuesday that the fight he's led against the Islamic State Group has been relentless, while demonstrating a shift in how the U.S. takes on terrorists around the world. (Dec. 6)

Ohio senators approved a bill Tuesday that would ban abortion once a heart beat can be detected.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump sold all of his shares in companies in June, aides said on Tuesday, a move that likely raised substantial cash ahead of the presidential election and could now ease some concerns about potential conflicts of interest.

It is a rare, rare, rare day when I disagree with Jonah. On Twitter we’ve been going back and forth on whether it would be a good thing for a social-media network like Facebook to attempt to weed out and crack down on “fake news.” Jonah asks, “What’s wrong with starting with the easy stuff: Say, Ukrainian or Macedonian websites that clearly have no reporters in the US?” I just have no faith Facebook would keep it at “the easy stuff.” This isn’t theoretical. We already know how loosely and arbitrarily the people running the world’s biggest social-media networks define “offensive” or “inappropriate” material, so I think we can make a good guess at how loosely and arbitrarily they would define “fake news.” Glenn Reynolds was temporarily suspended from Twitter for tweeting “run them down” in response to violent protesters surrounding a car on a highway. We have no idea whether Robert Stacy McCain and Milo Yiannopoulos genuinely sent Twitter messages that were beyond the pale, because Twitter doesn’t publicly give much details about why they ban an account, beyond “participating in or inciting targeted abuse of individuals.” Every major righty blogger got tons of vicious anti-Semitic crap this past election cycle with little or no response from Twitter management, but somehow Yiannopoulos’s attacks on actress Leslie Jones garnered permanent expulsion. YouTube currently lists 18 Prager U videos – over 10 percent of their entire collection — under “restricted mode.” Former Facebook workers told Gizmodo that they “routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential ‘trending’ news section.” The former curator was so troubled by the omissions that they kept a running log of them at the time; this individual provided the notes to Gizmodo. Among the deep-sixed or suppressed topics on the list: former IRS official Lois Lerner, who was accused by Republicans of inappropriately scrutinizing conservative groups; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; popular conservative news aggregator the Drudge Report; Chris Kyle, the former Navy SEAL who was murdered in 2013; and former Fox News contributor Steven Crowder. “I believe it had a chilling effect on conservative news,” the former curator said. And we’re supposed to cheer these guys on as they start taking out anything they determine to be “fake news”? I wish this was a better world, one where social-media company managers had genuine respect for a variety of viewpoints, and a clear record of distinguishing posts they disagreed with from posts that are genuinely threatening or inappropriate. In that world, we could cheer these companies on for taking a more active role in shutting down sites and posts that spread lies and insane conspiracy theories. But the argument that we empower social-media companies to shut down “fake news” is really difficult to accept in a world where Social Justice Warrior shame-mobs hunt for scalps through social-media firestorms.

Delay tactics could sap momentum from the president's first 100 days. "What goes around comes around," one lawmaker says.

While Jill Stein called off the statewide recount, some cities in Pennsylvania have recounted. Philadelphia, a Democrat stronghold, is one of those cities. They completed their recount and Hillary managed to eek out 5 NEW VOTES. That?s right??5! From Breitbart: A Philadelphia blog reports that Jill Stein’s much-touted recount in the deep-blue Pennsylvania city has netted only five votes for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. From Billy Penn: The great Philadelphia recount has ended, and Hillary Clinton got five more votes than she had in her previous total. Donald Trump’s number stayed the same, as did the totals for Independent ?

German chancellor Angela Merkel called for a ban on burqas “wherever it is legally possible” in a controversial speech Tuesday.

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Monday that Japan's SoftBank has agreed to invest $50 billion in the United States and create 50,000m more jobs for Americans.

Congress Demands Black History Smithsonian Include Clarence Thomas By Kevin Daley Reprinted with permission of the Daily Caller News Foundation A group of legislators led by Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn introduced a resolution Monday demanding the National Museum of African American History and Culture include Justice Clarence Thomas in its exhibits. A corresponding resolution […]

Jeff Bewkes said the "real threat" to the First Amendment did not come from President-elect Donald Trump during the campaign, but from the Democratic Party.

China calls on the US not to let Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen transit there when she visits Guatemala.

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President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday afternoon in Trump Tower that Sprint Corp. has agreed to invest $50 billion in ...

Carrier reached a deal with the Trump administration last week to keep jobs in the U.S.

Not all headlines are created equal. The headline “Carrier To Keep 1,000 Jobs In US” is not the same as the headline “SoftBank to Invest $50 Billion to Create 50,000 Jobs In US.” That’s because Donald Trump’s deal with Carrier is the height of crony capitalism; SoftBank’s decision to invest in the United States is, based on the information currently available, simply capitalism working as it should.

Jill Stein could be on the hook for millions of dollars to cover the cost of a Michigan election recount if a Republican-sponsored bill is enacted into law.

MIGRANTS sexually assaulted a group of 18-year-old girls and tried to drag one screaming teenager into an empty room against her will.