Biden touts 'historic progress' on economy as job numbers fall short
The First Lady and President Joe Biden took a bike ride on her 70th birthday near their beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Attempt to hold a worker criminally liable for the spread of Covid resulted in Josefina Brito-Fernandez losing her license to work, fearing deportation ‘Juries are unpredictable and the risk of deportation was too great,’ said attorney Teri Lodge.
The European Commission has expressed concern about a new law Denmark has passed which lets it process asylum seekers outside Europe.Denmark already has one of Europe's harshest stances on immigration and aims to only accept refugees under the UN's quota system.On Thursday, 70 Danish lawmakers voted in favor of the new bill, while 24 were against it.The law is an apparent break with the EU's efforts to overhaul Europe's broken migration and asylum rules.
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