Walmart says it will close its U.S. stores on Thanksgiving for the second consecutive year. It follows the decision by Target Corp., which announced back in January it would be closing its stores again on the annual late-November turkey feast.
Jobs report 'great news for our economy' -Biden
"This is historic progress," Biden said in a speech. "None of this success is an accident. It isn't luck."The Labor Department's closely watched employment report on Friday showed 559,000 nonfarm jobs created last month, with wages rising, though millions of unemployed Americans remained at home.
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