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Biden signs executive orders aimed at racial equity
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington DC [US], January 27 (ANI): US President Biden on Tuesday signed four executive actions meant to combat racism in various fields, in a bid to advance racial equity in the United States.
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Biden signs order to reverse Trump's transgender military ban
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [US] January 26 (ANI/Sputnik): President Joe Biden signed an executive order that brought in a policy of including all qualified Americans to serve in the US military, effectively overturning a ban on transgender persons that was introduced by the former Trump administration, t
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Biden announces 2 executive orders including one on aid for low-income Ame
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 23 (ANI): US President Joe Biden has announced two executive orders on Friday including one related to raising the minimum wage to USD 15 for the federal workforce and the other focused on expanding food assistance and delivering stimulus checks to very low-income Am
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COVID-19: Passengers flying to US will need to quarantine on arrival, says
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 22 (ANI): Passengers flying to the United States will be tested for COVID-19 before boarding a flight into the country, and they would need to undergo quarantine upon arrival, US President Joe Biden announced on Thursday.
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Biden to direct agencies to use Defense Production Act in COVID-19 fight
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 21 (ANI): US President Joe Biden will issue an executive order on Thursday directing agencies to use the Defense Production Act (DPA) and other powers to speed up the manufacturing of testing and vaccine supplies and other items needed to fight COVID-19 in the countr
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Biden signs order rejoining Paris climate accord
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 21 (ANI): The 46th US President Joe Biden signed an executive order to rejoin the Paris climate accord on Wednesday (local time).
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Biden signs order to end Trump's Muslim travel ban
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 21 (ANI): In a blow to his predecessor Donald Trump's actions to limit immigration, 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.
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Biden signs order to revoke Keystone XL permit, Canada expresses 'disappoi
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 21 (ANI): US President Joe Biden on Wednesday (local time) signed an executive order that revokes a key permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
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Biden signs first executive orders as president
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 21 (ANI): US President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed first executive actions, hours after he was sworn-in as 46th commander-in-chief.
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Trump amends order to deal with malicious cyber-enabled activities
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 20 (ANI): The outgoing US President Donald Trump on Tuesday amended an executive order to deal with the national emergency related to significant malicious cyber-enabled activities.
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Trump lifts travel ban on UK, Ireland, Brazil despite surge in COVID-19 ca
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 19 (ANI): Despite the fact that the US on Monday (local time) surpassed 24 million COVID-19 cases, President Donald Trump has issued an executive order lifting the travel restrictions, which were placed due to the pandemic, on much of Europe and Brazil with effect
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Biden to sign 'roughly dozen' executive orders on Inauguration Day
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 17 (ANI): On his first day of office, US President-elect Joe Biden will be signing several executive orders, including rejoining the Paris climate accord, extending pandemic-related limits on evictions and ending the travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries.
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