Travel ban; Nor'easter - CBS News Brief, Feb. 10, 2017
Travel ban
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has announced it will not reinstate President Trump’s 90-day ban on travelers from seven countries: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia. The government had asked for a stay of a temporary restraining order that suspended the implementation of the travel ban.
Travel ban impact
The Global Business Travel Association says $185 million in business travel bookings were lost in the week following President Trump’s travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries. We look at how the order, currently suspended by federal courts, could hit revenues from travel into and out of the U.S.
Nor’easter
The Northeast is digging out from its first major winter storm of 2017. New York and other major cities were walloped with a foot or more of snow. Schools are closed for a second day across New England and hundreds of commercial airline flights are canceled.
HHS chief
The Senate has confirmed Rep. Tom Price to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Price, 62, is a Georgia Republican who spent his career as an orthopedic surgeon before entering Congress in 2005. During a confirmation hearing last month, he told lawmakers Obamacare would be replaced piece-by-piece.
Terror plot
French police have arrested four people including a teenage girl on suspicion of planning attacks in the country, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. Explosive materials found in a makeshift laboratory, and an attack thwarted thanks to the arrests in the southern Montpellier region.
Saw it coming?
One of the prevailing narratives of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was that she and those around her fully expected that she would win the presidency, and that her defeat came as a shock. But one of her closest aides tells CBS News that while Clinton was devastated by her loss to Donald Trump, she may have been among those least surprised by it.
Immigrant economy
The furor over immigration in the U.S. tends to overlook one thing; immigrants’ oversized impact on the economy. With some 25 million people from abroad living in the country today, we take a quantitative look at how immigrants compare with native-born Americans in terms of employment, earnings and other key economic measures.
Beijing binge buying
The focus on trade relations between the U.S. and China tends to focus on the number of U.S. jobs exported to the People’s Republic, but another, less-discussed migration is also underway: The growing number of U.S. companies bought by Chinese businesses. What’s driving China’s acquisition binge in the U.S., and why does it matter.
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