1776 COALITION 01/02/2016 IRAN DENIES ROCKET

	New Year’s Surprise: Obama Regulation To Give Work-Permits To Foreign College-Graduates As the nation prepares to ring in the New Year, President Barack Obama is preparing a colossal new executive action that could print-up work permits for a huge number of foreign white-collar graduates every year, above and beyond the levels... Read More

	Happy New Year! State drops 5,500 pages of Clinton emails The State Department on Thursday afternoon released a batch of 5,500 pages of Hillary Clinton's emails online, in its second-to-last tranche of the former secretary of State's messages. Thursday's dump — coming the afternoon of New Year's Eve — is... Read More

	Top Carson campaign staffers resign Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s campaign was shaken up Thursday by the resignation of three of his most senior staffers -- as the former neurosurgeon sees a drop in poll numbers and is raking in more donations than his GOP... Read More

	Central Texas businesses have mixed Open Carry policies Businesses in Central Texas are making a decision on their policy regarding the new open carry law in Texas that takes effect on January 1. Retailers in our area have mixed policies or no rules yet. Bird-Kultgen Ford in Waco,... Read More

	Puerto Rico avoids loan default by dipping into cash reserves Puerto Rico will skirt a catastrophic default on the vast majority of more than $1 billion in bond payments due in early January, an outcome that required island officials to raid cash set aside to pay other debts. The financial... Read More

Iran denies it fired rockets near U.S. warship in Gulf Iran denied on Thursday that its Revolutionary Guards launched rockets near a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Gulf on Saturday and condemned U.S. plans for new sanctions over its ballistic missile program. The dispute comes after Iran and six world... Read More