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Nov 20 2016, 8:11 pm ET Obama Gives Advice to Democratic Party, His Views on Pelosi, More 4:58 ...

LAS VEGAS — In a blow to the Obama administration's labor-law plans, a federal court has blocked the start of a rule that would have made an estimated 4 million more American workers eligible for overtime pay heading into the holiday season. As a result of Tuesday's ruling, overtime changes set to take effect Dec. 1 are now unlikely be in play before vast power shifts to a Donald Trump administration, which has spoken out against Obama-backed government regulation and generally aligns with the business groups that stridently opposed the overtime rule. ...

Obama Defends His Administration's Terror Strategy 1:06 In his last major national security speech while in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama lauded his legacy while sounding notes of caution to an incoming president that h...

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Belarusian politician recalls his role 25 years ago in reaching deal that led to breakup of USSR without major bloodshed Soviet tanks near the Kremlin in August 1991 after an attempted coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. The deal signalling the USSR’s demise was signed months later. Photograph: Dima Tanin/AFP The man whose signature in effect dissolved the Soviet Union 25 years ago on Thursday has admitted that was not his intention as he travelled to the fateful meeting. The Belavezha Accords, which were signed in Belarus on 8 December 1991, broke up the Soviet Union and launched its constituent republics on the path to statehood. But Stanislav Shushkevich, then chairman of the Belarus supreme soviet, had no plans “to bring up the question about what the Soviet Union is and how it should exist” as he went to meet Russia’s Boris Yeltsin and President Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine at a state resort in the Belavezha forest, he ...

President-elect Trump will have about 4,000 government positions to fill, including some of the most important posts in the US government. As CNN details below, cabinet positions require Senate confirmation, but other key posts are completely up to the discretion of the President. So far 9 of the 16 'big' ones have been named... The Chosen Few Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis Retired Marine general A key figure in the Iraq war,  Gen. James Mattis  led troops and ultimately oversaw US Central Command. In Gen. James Mattis, Trump has a candidate who was held in high regard throughout the ranks of the Marine Corps during his 44 years of service. A seasoned combat commander, he led a task force into southern Afghanistan in 2001 and a Marine division at the time of the Iraq invasion in 2003. The retired four-star general, who was known as "Mad Dog," was lauded for his leadership of Ma...