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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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Trump blames OPEC oil prices for ongoing Ukraine-Russia war

Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 7:07 am

President Trump is heaping blame on OPEC for the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war. During a speech to leaders at a global summit, the president said the OPEC+ alliance of oil exporting countries has kept the price of oil too high. Oil sales are the economic engine driving Moscow’s economy. The president said he hopes to meet with Russia’s Vladmir Putin soon “and get that war ended.”

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Bob Agnew SRN News U.S. Senate correspondent

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Senate Set To Hold Confirmation Vote For Hegseth

Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 2:45 pm
The Senate is expected to confirm Pete Hegseth today (Friday) as Defense Secretary. If Hegseth is confirmed as expected today, it won’t be by much. He narrowly survived a final procedural vote on Thursday despite th GOP’s 53-47 majority. The 51-49 cloture vote came as two Republicans—Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska—sided with Democrats. Hegseth retired from the Army with a rank of major after deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan.
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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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