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A job seeker looks at a job listing board at the East Bay Career Center February 2, 2006 in Oakland, California.
The number of workers who filed for new jobless claims decreased last week with 803,000 filings. In the week prior, jobless claims stood at 892,000, the Labor Department said Wednesday.
This fall in jobless claims could be a sign that the economy is starting to recover from the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic but at a slow pace.
This notable decreased in claims marks the end of a three-month high. But claims are still hovering at the highest since September as states continue to impose restrictions on business activities to prevent coronavirus spread.
(Photo : Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images) The U.S. Capitol is seen ahead of the State of the Union on February 4, 2020 in Washington, DC.
The coronavirus relief bill was finally passed by Congress late Monday night after months of delays, but six GOP senators stood firmly against it.
The $900 billion relief bill received overwhelming support from the Senate except for these six GOP senators: Sens. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Ted Cruz (Texas), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Mike Lee (Utah), Rand Paul (Ky) and Rick Scott (Fla).
Fox News said in its report that, the GOP senators had a common theme in their rejection of the relief bill: in terms of the dollar amount and the bill s page count.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned 15 people, including those with questionable records and known misconducts.
Some of those who received a pardon from Trump were aides who lied in the Russia probe, Blackwater guards, and Republican politicians.
Trump pardoned George Papadopoulos, who spent 14 days in prison for allegedly lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) FBI in special counsel Robert Mueller s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Along with Papadopoulos, the president also pardoned Alex van der Zwaan, who was sentenced to 30 days in prison for also lying to Mueller s investigators about contacts with an official in Trump s campaign in 2016. Van der Zwaan, a Dutch, is the son-in-law of Russian billionaire German Khan.