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Month: February 2021

Biden administration to remove Houthis from terrorist list, reversing Trump’s decision

The State Department has informed Congress of its intent to reverse the Trump administration’s eleventh-hour decision to designate Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a foreign terrorist organization, a State Department official said Friday. “After a comprehensive review, we can confirm that the secretary intends to revoke the foreign terrorist organization and specially designated global terrorist designations

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White House to reinstate regular presidential addresses to the nation in the style of FDR’s fireside chats

The White House plans to bring back presidential addresses directly to the American people this weekend, continuing in the tradition of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fireside chats. “This is a time-honored tradition in the country of hearing from the President in this way, from FDR’s Fireside Chats to Ronald Reagan establishing the weekly presidential radio

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Transgender Navy SEAL: Biden order ‘going to give a lot of other individuals that chance to finally be themselves’

When Navy SEAL Ashley Nefzger heard rumblings that President Joe Biden could sign an executive order to repeal a Trump-era ban on most transgender Americans joining the military, she was cautiously hopeful. “I didn’t necessarily want to get my hopes up,” she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on “Full Circle” Friday. “I was hopeful for it,

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Consumer: Jobs Report

Hiring remains slow as pandemic continues According to today’s consumer report, “the Department of Labor says the U.S economy added 49,000 jobs in Jan. A turnaround from last month’s drop of 227,000 jobs.”The unemployment rate fell from 6.7 to 6.3%. CBS News Business Analyst, Jill Schlesinger, says economists predict to see growth in the second

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