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A disappointing December for factory activity in China

Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 9:55 am

( ) -q-28- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “50 in November.”

China has reported its factory activity expanded at a slower pace in December, despite recent stimulus measures and in the face of increasing trade risks.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Overall, new orders rose to an eight-month high, while the exports order index rose to the highest level in four months.

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VERBATIM: China’s National Bureau of Statistics says the official Purchasing Managers’ Index, based on a survey of factory managers, slipped to 50.1 from 50.3 in November. It was the third straight monthly reading above 50, a level that indicates an expansion of manufacturing activity. A parallel purchasing managers’ index for the non-manufacturing sector, which covers construction and services, rose to 52.2 up from 50 in November.

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Greg Clugston SRN News White House correspondent

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Justice Department to curtail abortion clinic prosecutions

Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 7:09 am
The Trump administration is showing its commitment to the pro-life community. Not only did President Trump and Vice President Vance address Friday’s March for Life, the Justice Department announced that it’s scaling back prosecutions against pro-life protesters. The DOJ’s chief of staff said prosecutions and civil actions under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act or “FACE Act” will now be permitted only in “extraordinary circumstances.” The announcement came after the president pardoned 23 people convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances.
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Bob Agnew SRN News U.S. Senate correspondent

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Hegseth confirmed As Defense Secretary in tie-breaking Senate Vote

Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 10:45 pm
The Senate has voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary. Hegseth now steps into the role of helping fulfill President Trump’s vision to make America “strong again”. The decorated war veteran says he sees himself as a change agent, one who will restore what he calls a “warrior culture” to the Pentagon.  Hegseth said during his recent confirmation hearings “It’s time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm.”
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Bernie Bennett SRN News U.S. House correspondent

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Senate Closing in on Noem Confirmation Vote

Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 6:26 am

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate is heading towards a vote on confirming South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary. Correspondent Bernie Bennett has more on this story.

VERBATIM: It would place her at the head of a sprawling agency that will be essential to both national security and President Donald Trump’s plans to squash illegal immigration.
Republicans were determined to barrel through on Noem’s confirmation, threatening to keep the Senate working through the weekend to install Trump’s national security Cabinet officials.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth won confirmation Friday night, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were already in place.
Bernie Bennett in Washington.

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Michael Harrington SRN News religion desk editor

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A new Muslim terrorist group is operating in Nigeria

Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 8:17 am

A new Muslim terrorist group is operating in Nigeria

VERBATIM:  The African country is already beset with TWO such organizations — Boko Haram and the Fulani herdsmen — and now Lakurawa has arrived.  It’s not actually a new group — it has been terrorizing neighboring Mali and Niger for a number of years.  But now Lakurawa has set its sights on Nigeria, killing numerous Christians in the country’s troubled northern region.  Tens-of-thousands of believers have died at the hands Islamic terrorists over the last decade.  MH SRN NEWS.

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Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 6:53 am

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Gary Varvel
Tue, Jan 14, 2025

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