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Presidential News
U.S. Adds 223,000 Jobs In June; Unemployment Rate Falls To 5.3%
Our President Sings Again
Handshake At Pres. Mandela’s Funeral Leads To U.S. And Cuba Opening Embassies For First Time Since 1961
WASHINGTON — U. S. em- ployers added a solid 223,000 jobs in June, and the unem- ployment rate fell to 5.3%, a seven-year low. The numbers reflect a job market moving close to full health and raise expectations that the Federal Reserve will start raising inter- est rates as early as Septem- ber.
The Labor Department said Thursday that the unemploy- ment rate dropped from 5.5% in May. The rate fell mostly be- cause many people out of work gave up on their job searches and were no longer counted as
unemployed.
Other details in the report
were less encouraging: The percentage of Americans working or looking for work fell to a 38-year low. Average hourly pay was flat. And em- ployers added 60,000 fewer jobs in April and May than the government had previously es- timated.
For the first five months of 2015, monthly job growth av- eraged 217,000, a healthy streak that has been steadily absorbing the unemployed as well as part-time workers looking for more hours.
President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron being criticized.
PRESIDENT OBAMA
At an event in Tennessee, President Obama took a question from an audience member named Davy Crock- ett and sang a bit of the theme song from the TV show after answering it.
“Davy, Davy Crockett”, the President sang, stating that many in the audience were too young to remember the show.
Middle East Allies Being Forced To Fight Battle With ISIS
Washington Navy Yard: Police Say 'All Clear' After Lockdown
President Obama and Cuban president Raul Castro shook hands at the memorial services for S. Africa’s president and hu- manitarian, Nelson Mandela in December 2013.
President Barack Obama announced Wednes- day that the U.S. and Cuba have struck a deal to open em- bassies in each other's capitals and re-establish diplomatic re- lations for the first time in half a century.
"The progress we make today is another demonstra- tion we don't have to be im- prisoned by the past," the President said.
President Obama empha- sized that the U.S. and Cuba have some shared interests, such as strong anti-terrorism policies and disaster response. But he acknowledged that the two nations still have "very se- rious differences" on issues like free speech.
"We won't hesitate to speak out when we see contradiction to those values," the President said.
According to a statement from the Cuban government, officials are aiming to reopen their embassy on or after July 20. White House deputy na- tional security adviser Ben Rhodes said that the U.S. will open its embassy in Cuba "shortly after" July 20.
"In making this decision, Cuba is encouraged by the re- ciprocal intention to develop respectful and cooperative re- lations between our two peo- ples and governments," Cuban President Raúl Castro wrote Obama in a letter.
This formal step follows President Obama's call to normalize relations and eco- nomic ties between the two countries after decades of Cold War hostilities. The U.S. sev- ered diplomatic relations with the country in 1961
Washington -Federal law en- forcement has given the "all clear" at the Washington Navy Yard on Thursday morning, after a lockdown forced work- ers to hold-in-place and filled the Southeast D.C. neighbor- hood with police and ambu- lance vehicles.
The U.S. Navy tweeted that the facility was under lockdown around 8 a.m. EDT. The com- plex is the site of a 2013 shoot- ing where 12 people were killed.
DC Police said in a statement around 10:15 a.m. that the search of the Navy Yard has been completed, and that no evidence of shooting or injured personnel have been found.
Police said a call was placed from inside a Navy Yard build- ing reporting possible gun shot sounds, which is what prompted the lockdown and in- vestigation. No additional de- tails were immediately available though a press confer- ence has been scheduled for later in the morning.
Police searched building 197 on Thursday morning, the same building where the 2013 Navy Yard shooting took place, a source with DC's Metropoli- tan Police Department tells CNN.
The law enforcement source said the original 911 call re- ported a shooting on the second floor.
Navy Commander Scott Williams, who was at the Navy Yard on Thursday morn- ing and during the attack two years ago, told CNN's "New Day" that the scene unfolding around the complex was "pretty much a mirror image of 2013".
The United States rejected attempts made by its Middle East allies to fly heavy weapons directly to Kurds fighting ISIS in Iraq.
Some of America's closest associates have slammed President Obama and other western leaders, including David Cameron, suggesting they are not showing leader- ship over the ISIS threat.
They have claimed that they have no other choice other than to "go it alone" and sup- ply weapons to the Kurds -
with officials seeking new ways to battle ISIS without America's approval.
A senior Arab official said that they will "have to find new ways of dealing with the threat" if western leaders are not prepared to do anything serious to defeat ISIS.
He said: “With [ISIS] mak- ing ground all the time we sim- ply cannot afford to wait for Washington to wake up to the enormity of the threat we face.”
President’s Meeting With Brazilian President Centered Around Venezuela
The two strongest eco- nomies in the Western Hemi- sphere discussed one of its most precarious when Brazil- ian President Dilma Rousseff met with Presi- dent Barack Obama on Tuesday at the White House. The leaders addressed the in- creasingly dire situation in Venezuela as the economy struggles and political dissi- dents remain jailed despite in- ternational calls for their release.
Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemispheric Af- fairs Roberta Jacobson confirmed that Venezuela would be on the agenda at Tuesday's bilateral meeting in Washington.
"The leaders are certainly going to speak about the im- portance of moving ahead on many of the concerns that they have in Venezuela," Jacob- son said at an event preview- ing the visit at the Atlantic Council. "We believe and have for a long time that Brazil is a crucial actor on Venezuela.”
President Obama met with the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday.
Regional leaders have trod lightly when it comes to calling out Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for his harsh crackdown on the polit- ical opposition, but Rousseff has a bit more leeway than President Obama does when it comes to Venezuela. American relations with Cara- cas remain fraught, and Maduro frequently blames his country's domestic issues on alleged coup attempts from the U.S. Rousseff's leftist Latin American government gives her more credibility with Caracas. Maduro announced last week that national elec- tions would be held December 6.
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