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Thursday, March 25, 2021
1) From ABC News, I’m Daria Albinger. White House aides and congressional delegation toured a tent-like facility on the Texas border today for migrant teenage boys. Julissa Reynoso, assistant to the President and chief of staff to the first lady, “Essentially, the agency that manages the caretaking of children while we find their relative and/or guardian in the United States and assured that a person that is going to be accompanying that child is the proper person.” The President tapping Vice President Harris to lead the effort to stem the crisis at the border.” The President has tapped her with leading the administration’s effort and looking at root causes of migration from Central America, while people making a dangerous journey for Mexico and northern triangle countries and coming to the US southern border. The President acknowledged he has given Kamala Harris a tough job, he said. He’s still smiling but he feels confident that she is a right person to lead this.” ABC’s Karen Travers.
2) Sexual assault in the military, the focus of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing. “The DOD’s most recent survey estimated almost 21,000 service members were sexually assaulted in 2018. That makes them more likely to be raped by their fellow service members than shot by the enemy in war.” New York, Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, the panel’s chair.
3) The U.S. women’s soccer team was at the White House on the Equal Pay Day. First Lady Dr. Jill Biden says it’s an issue which hits home for far too many women. “All these years later, there are women who are still in the exact same position. This is personal to me, because it’s personal to all women.” Equal Pay Day marks the day some most women must work to make the same amount their average male counterpart did last year.
4) Boulder, Colorado’s holding a procession to honor police officer Eric Talley, one of ten killed in this week’s supermarket shooting. You’re listening to ABC News.
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I’m Liz
Claman and this is the Fox Business Report.
Stocks losing steam into the close. Big tech
companies fell with the Tec heavy Nasdaq falling 2%. The Dow falling 3 points,
the Nasdaq down 266, S&P 500 down 21. Disney stocks fell 2%. The entertainment
giant said it will be raising prices for Disney Plus streaming service
for the first time by a dollar on March the 26th. And shares of movie theater operator
AMC Entertainment continue to fall with its stock dropping over 15%
after Disney said it was pushing back the release day of “Black Widow.” And
drug maker Merck has promoted the 30-year company veteran to the role of
finance chief. Caroline Litchfield will become its executive vice
president and chief financial officer on April the 1st. Litchfield is currently
the company’s treasurer and is set to succeed CFO Robert Davis, who will
be taking over Merck’s president and chief executive.
That’s your Fox Business Report. I’m Hilarie Barsky,
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