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As Pentagon vacancies peak, time runs out to fill jobs
Of 60 Senate-confirmable positions at the Pentagon, more than one third are unfilled, and time is running out for the Trump administration on the Senate’s abbreviated, election-year calendar.
By Joe Gould
This week in Congress: Farewell to President Bush
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of Dec. 3.
Justice official: Feds have expanding role in fighting abusive cybercrime
Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco delivered the 2017 Cybercrime Symposium Keynote address, with the symposium’s topic being “When Cybercrime Turns Violent and Abusive.” Blanco spent much of the speech calling for more federal and private sector involvement in combating cyberbullying, cyber harassment, cyberstalking, sextortion, doxing and non-consensual pornography.
Asked to serve, some CEOs say no more to Trump
First it was the leader of a major U.S. pharmaceutical, then the CEO of an athletic gear company, and before the day had ended, the chief executive of a $170 billion tech giant.
By Linda A. Johnson
Exec resigns from president's council, Trump lashes out
The CEO of the nation’s third largest pharmaceutical company resigned from a manufacturing council that advises President Donald Trump days after racially tinged clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, citing “a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism.”
By Linda A. Johnson