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DOJ Bestows ‘Early Christmas Present’ To Financial Giant Deutsche Bank

Also announced Friday were a settlement with Credit Suisse, also over toxic debt, as well as a DOJ lawsuit against British banking giant Barclays over similar misconduct.

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Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt. (Photo: Michael Probst/AP)

(REPORT) — German lender Deutsche Bank "got off easy" on Friday, having reached a $7.2 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) over sales of mortgage-backed securities that fueled the financial crisis. Of the $7.2 billion, just $3.1 billion is a cash penalty—the remaining $4.1 billion, economist Yves Smith explained at Naked

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Electoral College Revolt Growing Into ‘Powerful Show Of Force’

Lawrence Lessig says 20 Republican electors are considering a vote against Trump on December 19th.

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A man walks past a building with the phrase "Not Our President" written on the facade to protest against President-elect Donald Trump Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

With the Electoral College vote less than a week away, Harvard University constitutional law professor Lawrence Lessig says 20 Republican members are considering voting against Donald Trump—more than half the number needed to potentially block the real estate mogul's election. The 538 delegates to the Electoral College will gather at state

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Senate Republicans Block Sanders-Backed ‘Trump Proposal’ On Rx Drugs

‘It is incomprehensible to me that we have a major bill dealing with prescription drugs and yet we are running from the most important issue and that is the greed of the pharmaceutical industry’

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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a Bernie Sanders-backed amendment aimed at lowering prescription drug prices and allowing for the import of low-cost medicines from other countries. Sanders (I-Vt.) sought to attach the proposal to the controversial 21st Century Cures Act, which is ostensibly geared toward fueling medical innovation. Both

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Chilling ‘Professor Watchlist’ Aims To ‘Expose’ Leftist Educators

‘It would be easier to dismiss this rather silly project if the United States had not just elected a president who shouts over attempts at rational discourse and reactionary majorities in both houses of Congress’

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Charlie Kirk, of Turning Point USA, participates in a panel discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

"I am dangerous not to America but to the people soon to be in charge of it." So says one of roughly 200 college professors recently named to a conservative website's "Professor Watchlist"—a round-up of academics accused of "discriminat[ing] against conservative students and advanc[ing] leftist propaganda in the classroom." The list is based on

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Clinton Campaign To Join In Recount Effort, As Stein Officially Files In Wisconsin

Green Party’s Jill Stein also expected to pursue recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

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Jill Stein filing for a recount in Wisconsin on Friday, November 25. (Photo: Jill Stein/Facebook)

Hillary Clinton's campaign said Saturday it will participate in electoral recounts in Wisconsin—where such an effort was officially initiated on Friday—as well as in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who has raised more than $5 million toward the effort, filed for a recount in Wisconsin on Friday

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As Schools See Hate-Fueled Attacks Rise, Millions Demand Trump Speak Out

‘The presidency is about many things,’ groups declare in letter to president-elect. ‘Chiefly, it is about setting an example through your leadership.’

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Washington area high school students sitting on a park bench, from left, Makeda Lydia, 14, Sarah Tewodros, 14 and Serwah Lydia, 17, protest on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Facing increased reports of hate-fueled harassment, vandalism, property destruction, and assault in the wake of Donald Trump's election last week, more than 100 faith, labor, and civil rights groups on Friday sent a letter to the president-elect, urging him to "loudly, forcefully, unequivocally, and consistently" denounce such acts. The

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Betraying Water Protectors, Obama Set To Approve Dakota Access Pipeline

Green light could come just one day ahead of national #NoDAPL solidarity rallies planned for Tuesday.

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This March 22, 2012 file photo shows President Barack Obama arriving at the TransCanada Stillwater Pipe Yard in Cushing, Okla. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais).

UPDATE: The Obama administration said late Friday afternoon that no decision has been made on the disputed easement for the Dakota Access pipeline. # # # Even as water protectors continued to face off against police on Friday in North Dakota, news outlets reported that the Obama administration is set to approve the controversial Dakota Access

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