The Agency Running Obamacare Undermines It New York Times Under President Obama, the Department of Health and Human Services made promotional videos touting Obamacare. Under President Trump, it's posting people saying it's terrible, while also attacking the law on Twitter. One legal critic calls this "inconsistent with the constitutional duty to take care that the law is faithfully executed." But this article does not note earlier similar criticisms of the Obama administration's selective implementation of the law. FBI, DHS Warned in 2016 of Increasingly Violent Antifa Clashes Politico Federal authorities have been warning state and local officials since early 2016 that leftist extremists known as "antifa" had become increasingly confrontational and dangerous, so much so that the Department of Homeland Security formally classified their activities as "domestic terrorist violence," according to interviews and confidential law enforcement documents obtained by Politico. North Korea Defies Predictions With Bomb Milestone Washington Post With its most recent weapons test, North Korea might have erased remaining skepticism about its technical capabilities and demonstrated that it has a thermonuclear weapon capable of devastating a large city. Experts now have little doubt that North Korea will soon learn how to put the bomb on a missile that can travel halfway around the world. Florida Emails Show Sugar Lobbyist's Clout TCpalm South Florida water managers were on the verge of an agricultural pollution crackdown when they scrapped their plans and let a sugar lobbyist dictate edits to a report that paved the way for weaker regulations, an investigation drawing on hundreds of internal emails and other records shows. "Clearly, U.S. Sugar carries a big stick at the South Florida Water Management District," a former state environmental counsel says. Smugglers in a Rocky Mountain Plane Crash Daily Beast On Friday, Dec. 23, 1983, at 11:45 A.M., Tony Mink and his family rumbled off in a single-engine V-tailed Beechcraft Bonanza from Pueblo, Colorado's municipal airport -- and headed straight into a storm. On the ground, Adam grew more agitated by the minute. He knew something Tony's friend Keven didn't: There was a quarter million dollars aboard that Bonanza. Tony and Adam weren't salvagers. They were smugglers. The Azerbaijani Laundromat Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project From 2012 to 2014, members of the ruling elite in Azerbaijan laundered $2.8 billion through Britain using a series of shell companies. An investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and other news outlets uncovered a scheme to pay European politicians and journalists while the Azerbaijani government jailed human rights activists, opposition politicians and journalists. Getting Googled By Your Doctor Nautilus It is increasingly common for mental-health clinicians to Google their patients and make decisions based on what they find online. When patients won't open up about their lives, social media can fill in gaps. Yet given the obvious concerns about privacy and accuracy, that's a risky proposition. On the other hand, will doctors become liable for missing your latest Facebook post? |