New Overtime Pay Rules Blocked, Nikki Haley Tapped for U.N. Ambassador, Americans Already Nostalgic for Obama: A.M. Links

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  A federal judge in Texas granted a preliminary injunction blocking the implementation of President Obama's executive action on overtime-pay eligibility.

• Donald Trump has reportedly tapped South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to be his administration's ambassador to the United Nations.
• The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that gun dealers can be held accountable for negligence, allowing a$22 2.2 million settlement to go forward. The case involved a gun and pawn shop that sold a weapon to a paranoid-schizophrenic woman, who later used it to kill her father.*
• Trump's immigration plans could spark a "tech brain drain," Wired worries.
• Obama's post-election approval rating was 57 percent, the highest it has been since September 2009.
• The Dalai Lama has "no worries" about Trump's election.
• Recount!

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* This erroneously stated earlier that the Court had awarded the settlement.