The block at a landmark american restaurant closing its doors after eight decades. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im tamron hall filling in tonight for lester holt. We begin with president obamas unprecedented response to a cyber attack against this country. A strong strike back against russia for its hack of american political figures. Which the Intelligence Community says was meant, in part, to influence the president ial election. The late day announcement levies savetions on top russian government officials, companies, and hackers, and will force dozens of their diplomats to leave the united states. The administration also declassified information it says prufedz the methods russians used to hack. Congressional leaders of both parties are endorsing the move, but with three weeks left in an obama administration, will a President Trump back the decision . Just as i told russia to st
superstar whitney houston is being laid to rest. she reportedly spent all of her hundred million dollar fortune. steve, you do a lot of stories why does it happen so awn. they focus on their own artistry and leaf it back to others. going back to joe lewis. money went away and died broke. one good thing that comes from our list of top celebrities. making them conscious. when you make it how do you preserve it and create capitol instead of money going out. when i learnned that she spent 100 million, i was not surprised. no, and our heart goes out to the houston family. she was a national treasure. and to the issue. michael jackson and gary can cole man and debby reynold and
was hardly asking for anything. they asked for federal workers to increase the contribution from 1.2 to 1.5. not a big increase . lat s put it in context. there is an annual deficit running over a trillion dollars and the government spends a quarter of the gdp. if you are just comparing calories it is not that much of a divide but it is those benefits that are killing taxpayers. it s interesting upon. if you look at the report. you can make a case for asking them to do this. as usual. the devil is in the details. when we are talking about federal employees with only a high school degree, it is a weet deal. they are getting 70 percent more in benefits and a better salary. they are making less and even on the benefits . we have to not desspade them. phd s they move in and out of public and private service quickly. they are making advances in sell salary. and a doctor and community organizers doesn t count either . in terms of pay, each dollar they put in the government puts
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hadn t proved a common tie for all women at walmart. the company left many decisions to individual managers, so for the majority, justice scalia wrote, quote, it is unlikely all managers would exercise their discretion in a common way. the court acknowledged walmart had a written anti discrimination policy, and the justices didn t rule on the merits of the discrimination case, only whether it could be a class action, leaving some experts to call the ruling pro business. all together, it means businesses are less susceptible to these very large, multimillion or even billion-dollar lawsuits. reporter: but the plaintiffs have vowed to continue their fight, as individuals or in different size classes. we re going to have to splinter and regroup ourselves, and where we had one major class action, now we re going to have many, many women coming forth. reporter: the lawsuit is now likely smaller. clap your hands, raise your voice! reporter: but the implications of the su