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As political protests continue to break out across the country, a new law in Tennessee seeks to protect drivers involved in an injury of a protester. The way it's written HB 668 would protect drivers from civil liability if a protester is hit in the public right-of-way. That's if the driver is using due care.

The bill would not provide criminal protection.

Donald Trump’s Labor Secretary Pick Andrew Puzder Owes Millions To UBS As Bank Seeks Waiver From Sanctions
President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Department of Labor personally owes millions of dollars to a convicted bank that is relying on the same department to waive sanctions for its crimes, according to federal records. The ties between Trump’s embattled appointee Andrew Puzder and the multinational bank UBS were listed in federal documents reviewed by International Business Times - but they were not explicitly acknowledged in Puzder’s ethics agreement with federal regulators.

In 2009, UBS admitted to the Justice Department that it had “participated in a scheme to defraud the United States” by helping customers evade taxes. In 2015, UBS plead guilty to manipulating interest rates in violation of a previous deferred prosecution agreement. The case -- in which prosecutors determined the bank engaged in “ deceptive currency trading and sales practices” -- could trigger federal prohibitions designed to prevent convicted banks from managing billions of dollars of workers’ pension money.

But if Puzder’s nomination is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he would head a Labor Department empowered to waive such punishments. The Department of Labor notes that the Secretary of Labor is the federal official who decides whether to grant companies the key designation -- and waivers - they require to manage retirement assets.