US President Joe Biden signs order to end travel ban
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday has ended the Muslim travel ban , which blocked travel to the United States from several predominantly Muslim and African countries.
Hours after taking the office, Biden on Wednesday signed 17 executive orders memorandums and proclamations, including ending the Muslim travel ban.
He has directed the State Department to restart visa processing for individuals from the affected countries and to develop ways to address the harm caused to those who were prevented from coming to the United States because of the ban, The New York Times reported.
BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT/PARIS (dpa-AFX) - Risks surrounding the euro area growth outlook remain tilted to the downside, but are now less pronounced, the European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde
Jan 19, 2021
Members of the Quick Response Team are planning a day of action to provide people in need with necessary resources. From left are Sandra Hassenpflug, Kate Layne, Janet Askins and Raven Lee.PHOTO BY EDDIE TRIZZINO
FAIRMONTÂ â As part of its mission to respond to community needs, the Marion County Quick Response Team is planning a day of action to take place in February.
Sandra Hassenpflug, director of nursing at the Marion County Health Department, said the team is planning to approach people referred by organizations such as Friendship Fairmont, Scott Place Shelter and Communities of Shalom to provide them resources and supplies.
Christopher Williams works daily to carry on the legacy of civil rights leader James Farmer.
The legacy is in his job descriptionâassistant director of the University of Mary Washingtonâs James Farmer Multicultural Center. It informs the work he does at the center along with Director Marion Sanfordâcoordinating social justice teach-ins, creating a social justice fall break trip, curating a human rights film series and talking daily with students and community members about Black history and anti-racism.
The legacy of James Farmerâwho founded the Committee on Racial Equality, led the first Freedom Rides and taught at UMW from 1984 to 1998âis also personal for Williams. He is a product of the James Farmer Scholars Program, which was created in 1987 to assist selected public school students in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Caroline and Westmoreland counties with preparing for and enrolling in higher education.
For those unfamiliar with the concept, Blue Monday is supposed to be the most depressing day of winter, the date determined by a scientific formula that combines such factors as post-Christmas debt, filthy weather and guilt over New Year’s resolutions that disappeared before the last of the shortbread. Note the phrase “supposed to be.” It turns out the science is wobbly, as the whole Blue Monday exercise was launched in 2005 on behalf of a British vacation-travel company eager to herd pasty-fleshed tourists to the sort of hot, sun-soaked destinations favoured by spring break college kids and Alberta politicians. The psychologist who put his name to the formula in 2005 now campaigns against the very idea of Blue Monday.