Health inspectors in Kansas City, Missouri, destroyed hundreds of pounds of "perfectly good barbecue" moments before it was going to be served to the city's homeless. A pair of local community organizations had collected the food from a recent sporting event and were about to distribute it to about 150 people in need when inspectors arrived, a FOX affiliate reports. They said they couldn't confirm that the brisket, ribs, and sides came from a "permitted establishment," so they poured bleach on it.
"If you can think of the most magnificent barbecue spread, that's what we threw away," said an organizer. The Week Staff
Donald Trump reportedly 'surprised at the scope' of the president's duties
Donald Trump will be getting more help from the White House during the next several months than incoming presidents typically receive, The Wall Street Journalreports.
People with knowledge of Trump's meeting on Thursday with President Obama told the Journal Obama realized that Trump, who has no experience in government or the military, will need more guidance, and he will spend more time with him than previously expected. As Obama explained the duties that come along with running the country, "Trump seemed surprised by the scope," the Journal reports, and Trump's aides were also "unaware that the entire presidential staff working in the West Wing had to be replaced at the end of Mr. Obama's term."
Trump's transition team is not where it needs to be, people familiar with the process told WSJ. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) was supposed to lead the team, but he was replaced Friday by Mike Pence, the vice president-elect, following the conviction of Christie's onetime allies in the Bridgegate scandal.The team has been late in making announcements and decisions because of this, but also because Trump's own advisers were shocked he won on Tuesday and have been scrambling, a senior aide told WSJ. The communications director for the transition team declined to comment to the Journal. Catherine Garcia
Trump to supporters involved in threatening behavior: 'Stop it'
In a 60 Minutes segment that aired Sunday night, Donald Trump told supporters who may be engaged in harassment against minorities to knock it off.
"Stop it" Donald Trump says to any of his supporters who may be involved in threatening behavior
The interview was filmed Friday in New York City. Trump told Lesley Stahl he had not heard of any acts of violence in his name by or against supporters or any cases of his backers using racial slurs against blacks, Latinos, or gays. "I am very surprised to hear that — I hate to hear that," he said.
Asked if he wanted to tell his supporters anything, Trump responded, "I would say don't do it, that's terrible. I'm going to bring this country together." Stahl told him Muslims and Latinos are being harassed, and he interrupted her to say, "I am so saddened to hear that, and I say, stop it. If it, if it helps, I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: Stop it." Catherine Garcia
Harry Reid, GOP strategists slam Trump's top aide pick
Donald Trump's choice to name Stephen Bannon, his campaign's chief executive officer and the man described as turning a right-wing website into a "white ethno-nationalist propaganda mill," as his top aide in the White House has Democrats and Republicans alike speaking out.
A spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the pick"signals that white supremacists will be represented at the highest levels in Trump's White House. It is easy to see why the KKK views Trump as their champion, when Trump appoints one of the foremost peddlers of white supremacist themes and rhetoric as his top aide."
While under his tutelage, the Breitbart website published such headlines as "Bill Kristol, Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew," and, two weeks after the mass murder at a black church in South Carolina, "Hoist it high and proud: the confederate flag proclaims a glorious heritage." Bannon was also accused by his ex-wife of domestic violence, and telling her he didn't want to send their daughters to "school with Jews" because he "doesn't like Jews."
Republican strategist John Weaver sounded the alarm on Twitter Sunday evening, saying, "The racist, fascist extreme right is represented footsteps from the Oval Office. Be very vigilant America." Another GOP strategist, Ana Navarro,called Bannon a "white supremacist, anti-gay, anti-Semite, vindictive, scary-ass dude," and warned, "After vomiting, be afraid, America." Catherine Garcia
Mark Zuckerberg says he's working to get fake news, hoaxes off Facebook
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is promising users to do what he can to keep fake news and hoaxes off the social network.
The goal of Facebook is to "give every person a voice," Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page late Saturday night, and after the election, people are asking if fake news contributed to the result and if Facebook has any responsibility to prevent such false information from spreading. "Out of all the content on Facebook, more than 99 percent of what people see is authentic," he said. "Only a very small amount is fake news and hoaxes. The hoaxes that do exist are not limited to one partisan view, or even to politics." While overall it is "extremely unlikely" hoaxes had any affected on the election, Zuckerberg said, he doesn't want any hoaxes on the site, period.
"Our goal is to show people the content they will find most meaningful, and people want accurate news," he said. "We have already launched work enabling our community to flag hoaxes and fake news, and there is more we can do here." Zuckerberg said Facebook will share with users the changes they might eventually make to the News Feed, adding he's "proud" of the role the company took in the election, including helping "more than 2 million people register to vote" and connecting people to candidates "so they could hear from them directly and be better informed." Catherine Garcia
New Zealand hit with another strong earthquake
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck New Zealand's South Island early Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, less than 24 hours after an earlier quake hit the same area. The Monday quake hit at a depth of six miles about 75 miles northeast of Christchurch, the USGS said. Earlier on Sunday, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake centered north of Christchurch killed two people and damaged buildings, with tsunami waves caused by the quake arriving two hours later. Catherine Garcia
Trump selects Reince Priebus as chief of staff
Donald Trump on Sunday announced that Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee and a Washington insider who worked his way up the ranks of the Wisconsin Republican Party, will be his White House chief of staff.
Trump also named Stephen Bannon, the former head of a right-wing website and his campaign's chief executive officer, as his senior counselor and chief strategist. In a statement, Trump's transition team said Priebus, who is close friends with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and Bannon will work "as equal partners to transform the federal government." This is a classic Trump move, The New York Times notes, consistent with the "management style in his businesses and in his campaign: creating rival power structures beneath him and encouraging them to battle it out."
Several people familiar with the decisions being made by the transition team told the Times that Trump does listen to advice from his children and daughter Ivanka Trump's husband, Jared Kushner, who told Trump not to pick anyone controversial for the chief of staff position. Kushner has no experience in politics or government, but often has the last word in advising Trump, the Times says. Catherine Garcia
1 in 3 Clinton voters say Trump's win is illegitimate
Fully a third of Hillary Clinton voters say they do not believe President-elect Donald Trump's victory was legitimate, reveals a new Washington Post/ABC News poll released Sunday. Before Trump's win, some 22 percent of his voters said they might not accept the election results, a proportion outpaced by the 33 percent of Clinton backers who now reject the outcome.
Among Clinton voters, her female and minority supporters are the most likely to deem Trump an illegitimate winner. More than four in 10 pro-Clinton women question Trump's legitimacy, and 51 percent of Clinton's non-white voters say the same.
Saturday evening marked the fourth straight night of nationwide protests of Trump's triumph, turmoil the Trump camp says Democratic leadership has a responsibility to quell by embracing the president-elect. Bonnie Kristian
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