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«Укрзалізниця» відновлює сполучення зі Словаччиною
Деталі в компанії пообіцяли надати пізніше
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By Gromada | 07/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У «Борисполі» повідомили про затримку 5 рейсів до Анталії
«Просимо пасажирів вказаних рейсів орієнтуватися на офіційну інформацію від представників авіакомпаній та відстежувати час вильоту на онлайн табло на сайті аеропорту», – заявили в аеропорту
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By Gromada | 07/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Pelosi Poised to Appoint Panel to Investigate Jan. 6 Capitol Attack
After months of disagreement, the U.S. House is set to vote on a select committee to investigate the events of Jan. 6, when supporters of former President Donald Trump rioted at the U.S. Capitol. VOA’s Congressional Correspondent Katherine Gypson has more.
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By Polityk | 07/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
З 1 липня підвищаться пенсії у понад 5 млн людей – Мінсоцполітики
Також з 1 липня буде встановлене підвищення у розмірі 100 гривень до страхової пенсії, призначеної в 2019-2020 роках, яка з 2019 року не перераховувалася
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By Gromada | 07/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Сімферопольська «справа Хізб ут-Тахрір»: суд не дозволив Муедінову повністю дослідити матеріали справи
Муедінов зміг ознайомитися менше ніж із третиною відповідних матеріалів, повідомляє омбудсменка Людмила Денісова
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By Gromada | 07/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Dies at 88
Donald Rumsfeld, a forceful U.S. defense secretary who was the main architect of the Iraq war until President George W. Bush replaced him as the United States found itself bogged down after 3.5 years of fighting, has died at age 88, his family said in a statement on Wednesday.”It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the passing of Donald Rumsfeld, an American statesman and devoted husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather,” the statement said. “At 88, he was surrounded by family in his beloved Taos, New Mexico.”The statement did not say when Rumsfeld died.Rumsfeld, who ranks with Vietnam War-era defense secretary Robert McNamara as the most powerful men to hold the post, brought charisma and bombast to the Pentagon job, projecting the Bush administration’s muscular approach to world affairs.Then President George W. Bush makes a statement to reporters while Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld look on following a Cabinet meeting, March 20, 2003.With Rumsfeld in charge, U.S. forces swiftly toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein but failed to maintain law and order in the aftermath, and Iraq descended into chaos with a bloody insurgency and violence between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims. U.S. troops remained in Iraq until 2011, long after he left his post.Rumsfeld played a leading role ahead of the war in making the case to the world for the March 2003 invasion. He warned of the dangers of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction but no such weapons were ever discovered.Only McNamara served as defense secretary for longer than Rumsfeld, who had two stints – from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, for whom he also served as White House chief of staff, and from 2001 to 2006 under Bush.Rumsfeld was known for imperious treatment of some military officers and members of Congress and infighting with other members of the Bush team, including Secretary of State Colin Powell. He also alienated U.S. allies in Europe.In 2004, Bush twice refused to accept Rumsfeld’s offer to resign after photos surfaced of U.S. personnel abusing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. The scandal triggered international condemnation of the United States.The United States faced global condemnation after the photos showed U.S. troops smiling, laughing and giving thumbs up as prisoners were forced into sexually abusive and humiliating positions including a naked human pyramid and simulated sex. One photo showed a prisoner forced to stand on a small box, his head covered in a black hood, with wires attached to his body.Rumsfeld personally authorized harsh interrogation techniques for detainees. The U.S. treatment of detainees in Iraq and foreign terrorism suspects at a special prison set up under Rumsfeld at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, drew international condemnation, with human rights activists and others saying prisoners were tortured.He was a close ally of Bush’s vice president, Dick Cheney, who had worked for Rumsfeld during the 1970s Republican presidencies of Richard Nixon and Ford.Rumsfeld became a lightning rod for criticism and, with the Iraq war largely a stalemate and public support eroding, Bush replaced him in November 2006 over Cheney’s objections.Days after vowing Rumsfeld would remain for the rest of his term, Bush announced his departure a day after mid-term elections in which Democrats took control of Congress from Bush’s Republicans amid voter anger over the Iraq War.Robert Gates, a soft-spoken but demanding former CIA director, took over from Rumsfeld in December 2006 and made sweeping strategic and military leadership changes in Iraq.Many historians and military experts blamed Rumsfeld for decisions that led to difficulties in Iraq. For example, Rumsfeld insisted on a relatively small invasion force, rejecting the views of many generals. The force then was insufficient to stabilize Iraq when Saddam fell.Rumsfeld also was accused of being slow to recognize the emergence of the insurgency in 2003 and the threat it posed.The U.S. occupation leader under Rumsfeld, L. Paul Bremer, quickly made two fateful decisions. One dissolved the Iraqi military, putting thousands of armed men on the streets rather than harnessing Iraqi soldiers as a reconstruction force as originally planned.The second barred from Iraq’s government even junior members of the former ruling Baath Party, essentially emptying the various ministries of the people who made the government operate.Rumsfeld also oversaw the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 to oust the Taliban leaders who had harbored the al Qaeda leaders responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. As he did in Iraq two years later, Rumsfeld sent a small force to Afghanistan, quickly chased the Taliban from power and then failed to establish law and order.U.S. forces during Rumsfeld’s tenure also were unable to track down Osama bin Laden. The al Qaeda chief slipped past a modest force of U.S. special operations troops and CIA officers along with allied Afghan fighters in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora in December 2001. U.S. forces killed him in 2011.Critics argue that had Rumsfeld devoted more troops to the Afghan effort, bin Laden may have been taken. But as he wrote in “Rumsfeld’s Rules,” his compilation of truisms dating to the 1970s: “If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.”Another quote from “Rumsfeld’s Rules” was equally apt: “It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.”Rumsfeld was known for his rollicking news conferences in which he sparred with reporters and offered memorable quotes.Speaking in 2002 about whether Iraq would give weapons of mass destruction to terrorists, he said: “Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”Rumsfeld later titled his memoir “Known and Unknown.””Stuff happens,” he told reporters in April 2003 amid rampant lawlessness in Baghdad after U.S. troops captured the Iraqi capital.During his time away from public service, Rumsfeld became wealthy as a successful businessman, serving as chief executive of two Fortune 500 companies. In 1988, he briefly ran for the Republican U.S. presidential nomination.Rumsfeld also served as a Navy pilot, U.S. NATO ambassador and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He and wife Joyce had three children.
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By Polityk | 07/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
US House Voting to Investigate January 6 Attack on Capitol
The House of Representatives is poised Wednesday to create a select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by hundreds of supporters of former President Donald Trump as lawmakers were certifying that Democrat Joe Biden had defeated him in last November’s election. The vote, formalizing creation of the committee that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced last week, is likely to occur almost entirely along party lines, with the slim Democratic House majority voting in favor and most Republicans against. Under the House resolution creating the committee, it would include 13 members, eight of them appointed by Pelosi and five named by Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican minority leader, “in consultation” with Pelosi, meaning she could veto his selections. A Pelosi aide said she is considering naming a Republican among her eight selections. FILE – House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy at the Capitol, May 13, 2021.But it remains unclear whether McCarthy plans to appoint any Republicans. He declined to answer questions about it on Tuesday, telling reporters, “The speaker has never talked to me about it.” A key House Republican leader, Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, on Tuesday recommended that Republican lawmakers oppose creation of the select committee, and some of the Republicans who favored creation of a bipartisan commission say they will vote against the select committee. The vote on the select House committee comes after the House, but not the Senate, approved creation of a bipartisan commission to investigate the attack on the Capitol, when about 800 people stormed past law enforcement officials, some of them smashing windows and doors, ransacking congressional offices and scuffling with police. FILE – Supporters of President Donald Trump gather outside the US Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021.Five people were left dead from the chaos, with one protester shot dead by police. More than 500 people have been charged with an array of criminal offenses, some as minor as trespassing and others more serious, such as assaulting police or vandalizing the Capitol, which sustained $1.5 million overall in property damage. Many of the suspects were identified by friends and relatives in scenes captured on security cameras or in videos shot by the rioters themselves and posted on social media. Most of the criminal cases have yet to be adjudicated, although defense lawyers have been negotiating dozens of deals with federal prosecutors for their clients to plead guilty. Trump’s role in inciting the riot is expected to be a key consideration for the select committee, as well as security failures at the Capitol. At a rally near the White House an hour before the mayhem unfolded 16 blocks away at the Capitol, Trump urged supporters to “fight like hell” to block Biden’s certification as winner of the Electoral College vote that determines the outcome of U.S. presidential elections. McCarthy’s phone call with Trump as the riot unfolded could be explored as well. To this day, Trump has made baseless claims that vote fraud cost him a second four-year term in the White House. He never called Biden to formally concede the election outcome and did not attend Biden’s January 20 inauguration. Now Trump is mulling whether to make another run for the presidency in 2024 and retains a wide base of support among Republican voters. Trump has started to endorse some congressional candidates who are opposing lawmakers who either voted to impeach or convict him in connection with the January 6 attack. The House impeached him for his role in the insurrection that day, but the Senate acquitted him in February after Biden had already assumed the presidency. FILE – Rioters storm the Capitol, in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021.”It is imperative that we seek the truth of what happened,” she said. “To do that, we had hoped that Congress would establish an independent, bipartisan 9/11-type commission. We were successful with a strong bipartisan vote in the House, but [Senate minority leader] Mitch McConnell asked [Republican] senators to ‘do him a personal favor’ and vote against the commission. Despite the support of seven Republican senators, there is no prospect for a commission at this time.” She said the select committee “will investigate and report upon the facts and causes of the attack. It will report on conclusions and recommendations for preventing any future assault. And it will find the truth.”
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By Polityk | 07/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Майже кожен четвертий український чоловік зазнав фізичного насильства на вулиці – Amnesty International
Найбільшу загрозу фізичного насильства чоловіки вбачають з боку інших чоловіків, переважно від незнайомців на вулиці, кримінальних груп та силовиків
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By Gromada | 06/30/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Росія: лідер ерзян прокоментував слова Путіна, який порівняв українців і росіян із «мордвою»
«Мордва – це така мініатюрна модель «російського світу», нав’язувана Путіним Україні», – сказав Сиресь Боляєнь
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By Gromada | 06/30/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Biden, Western Governors Discuss Wildfire Response
U.S. President Joe Biden is holding talks Wednesday with a group of governors from eight Western states about wildfire preparedness as much of the region deals with drought. Biden and other administration officials are speaking from the White House with the governors joining by video.White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters last week the meeting will “focus on how the federal government can improve wildfire preparedness and response efforts, protect public safety, and deliver assistance to our people in times of urgent need.” Those attending include Democratic governors Gavin Newsom of California, Jared Polis of Colorado, Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Steve Sisolak of Nevada, Kate Brown of Oregon and Jay Inslee of Washington, along with Republican governors Spencer Cox of Utah and Mark Gordon of Wyoming. Not among the group are three other Republican governors from the region: Doug Ducey of Arizona, Brad Little of Idaho and Greg Gianforte of Montana. Gianforte tweeted Friday that he was “disappointed to learn in news stories” that the president “didn’t offer a seat at the table to Montana and other states facing a severe wildfire season.” Disappointed to learn in news stories that @POTUS didn’t offer a seat at the table to Montana and other states facing a severe wildfire season.I hope his call for working together wasn’t just lip service and Montana’s invitation is just lost in the mail.https://t.co/MLnCbeHBFw— Governor Greg Gianforte (@GovGianforte) June 25, 2021The National Interagency Fire Center, which coordinates the mobilization of resources to battle wildfires in the United States, has warned that many Western states are facing a greater than usual likelihood that significant wildfires will occur in the next few months. The U.S. Drought Monitor reports wide areas of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah are experiencing extreme or exceptional drought.
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By Polityk | 06/30/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
В Івано-Франківській міськраді розповіли, чому було втрачено кілька сотень доз вакцини Covishield
В Івано-Франківській області станом на 30 травня 2021 року було втрачено 533 дози вакцини Covishield, розповіли у МОЗ
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By Gromada | 06/30/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Спека, град і шквали: синоптики розповіли, якою буде погода у перший день липня
У Києві в четвер короткочасний дощ, гроза. Температура 27-29°
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By Gromada | 06/30/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У кількох областях України оголошено надзвичайний рівень пожежної небезпеки – ДСНС
Попередження стосується передусім Вінницької, Хмельницької, Чернівецької та Луганської областей
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By Gromada | 06/30/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Посол Швеції привітав збірну України з перемогою в 1/8 фіналу Євро-2020 словами «Героям слава»
Тобіас Тіберг вбрався у спортивну футболку з національними символами України і взяв у руки два прапори – України та Швеції
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By Gromada | 06/30/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Радіо Свобода запускає новий мобільний застосунок
Встановлюйте оновлений застосунок Радіо Свобода на смартфони та планшети на платформах iOS та Android
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By Gromada | 06/30/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У Празі згадали порушення прав кримських татар
Показ фільму супроводжувала виставка фотографій російського журналіста Антона Наумлюка «Вкрадене кримське дитинство» про переслідування кримських татар після окупації півострова 2014 року
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By Gromada | 06/30/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
«Похорони мікробізнесу»: акція ФОПів у Києві (фоторепортаж)
Учасники акції вимагали збереження мікропідприємництва і спрощеної системи оподаткування обліку та звітності в Україні
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By Gromada | 06/29/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У Києві проведуть акцію на підтримку арештованого дописувача проєкту Крим.Реалії Владислава Єсипенка
«Журналісти і правозахисники зберуться в Києві, щоб висловити солідарність із заарештованим у Криму колегою, якого окупаційна влада переслідує за його журналістську діяльність»
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By VilneSlovo | 06/29/2021 | Повідомлення, Свобода слова
Can Money Absolve Sins of the Past?
The issue of reparations — making amends for historical wrongs perpetrated against a group or population — has always been highly controversial. But to the victims of atrocities like genocide and slavery, offering such compensation should be a no-brainer. VOA correspondent Mariama Diallo looks at examples of reparations as they relate to the debate over reparations for African Americans in the U.S.Henry Ridgwell contributed to this report.
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By Polityk | 06/29/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Biden Pushes for Adoption of Infrastructure Package
U.S. President Joe Biden heads to the midwestern state of Wisconsin Tuesday, making a pitch for congressional passage of a bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure package to repair the country’s crumbling roads and bridges, and at the same time boost blue-collar employment.
Biden is visiting the small city of La Crosse, population 52,000, and will tour its public transit center before speaking about what he sees as the merits of the infrastructure package he negotiated last week with a group of 10 centrist U.S. senators, five Republicans and five Democrats. WATCH LIVE at 2:00pm
He told a group of Democratic donors Monday night the spending package “signals to the world that we can function, we can deliver. We can do significant things and show that America is back.”
The measure focuses on fixing deteriorating roads and bridges that Americans encounter every day. But Biden emphasized it also would greatly expand high-speed internet in the U.S. in rural communities, replace lead pipes that imperil drinking water systems, install electric vehicle charging stations and invest in public transit systems.A White House memo said the construction package is four times the size of the infrastructure investment adopted after the Great Recession of 2008-2009 and the biggest since the Depression of the 1930s spawned President Franklin Roosevelt’s massive New Deal spending.
The package includes the largest investment in passenger rail services since the creation of the country’s Amtrak system. In Wisconsin alone, the White House said, the measure would help repair 979 bridges and more than 3,100 kilometers of highways in poor condition.
The White House emphasized that 90% of the jobs generated by the infrastructure spending could go to workers without college degrees.
“This is a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America,” the memo says.
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download this video to view it offline.Download File360p | 8 MB480p | 12 MB540p | 16 MB720p | 35 MB1080p | 65 MBOriginal | 74 MB Embed” />Copy Download AudioBiden’s push for adoption of the infrastructure package got off to a rocky start last week.
He announced it jointly with the bipartisan group of lawmakers, only to shortly later tell reporters he would reject it if Congress did not also approve trillions of dollars in new social spending legislation that he wants to aid families and advance clean energy but that most Republicans adamantly oppose.
On Saturday, Biden said that his comments “created the impression that I was issuing a veto threat on the very plan I had just agreed to, which was certainly not my intent.” Key Republican ‘Trusts’ Biden on Infrastructure Deal Mitt Romney says he believes the US leader still stands by the roads-and-bridges repair package he negotiated with a centrist group of senators
Biden walked back the infrastructure veto threat and said he wholeheartedly supports it and the still-developing social spending legislation, while recognizing that Republicans would try to defeat the so-called “human infrastructure” legislation. If Congress eventually approves the social safety legislation, it could be that only Democratic lawmakers vote for it.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that Biden is “eager” for Congress to approve both bills and that the president is going to “work his heart out” to make it happen.
“The president intends to sign both pieces of legislation into law,” Psaki said.
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By Polityk | 06/29/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
ДСНС обіцяє грози в Києві та регіонах до кінця дня
Грози, шквали, подекуди град очікуються по Україні, крім більшості південних областей
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By Gromada | 06/29/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Над станцією «Академік Вернадський» з’явилися рідкісні перламутрові хмари
В Антарктиці побачити їх можна переважно взимку, коли в нижніх шарах стратосфери (на висоті 15-27 кілометрів) температура опускається до аномального рівня (близько -85°С)
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By Gromada | 06/29/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
«Укрпошта» подовжила контракт зі Смілянським до 2023 року – він каже, що це його останній термін
Кандидатуру чинного очільника підтримали всі члени наглядової ради, в тому числі представники Міністерства інфраструктури
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By Gromada | 06/29/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
House to Vote on Bill Launching Probe of Capitol Insurrection
A new committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol would have 13 members and the power to subpoena witnesses, according to legislation released by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday. The House is expected to vote on the bill this week. The effort comes after Senate Republicans blocked the formation of an independent, bipartisan commission to probe the attack, in which hundreds of former President Donald Trump’s supporters violently broke into the Capitol and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory. The new, partisan House panel would have eight members appointed by Pelosi and five appointed “after consultation with” Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy. A Pelosi aide said the speaker is considering including a Republican among her appointments, which would bring the likely partisan split to 7-6. The aide was granted anonymity to discuss her thinking. Pelosi said in a statement that January 6 was “one of the darkest days in our nation’s history” and that the committee will seek the truth about it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California speaks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, June 28, 2021.”The select committee will investigate and report upon the facts and causes of the attack and report recommendations for preventing any future assault,” she said. Many Republicans were concerned about such a partisan probe, since majority Democrats are likely to investigate Trump’s role in the siege and the right-wing groups that were present for it. Almost three dozen House Republicans voted to create an independent panel, which would have had an even partisan split among members. Seven Republicans in the Senate supported moving forward on that bill, but that was short of the 10 Senate Republicans who would be necessary to pass it. As laid out in Pelosi’s legislation, the new select committee would have subpoena power and no specific end date. The panel can issue interim reports as it conducts the probe. Trump is not explicitly referenced in the legislation, which directs the select committee to investigate “facts, circumstances and causes relating to the January 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Complex and relating to the interference with the peaceful transfer of power.” The panel would also study “influencing factors that fomented such an attack on American representative democracy while engaged in a constitutional process.” The House passed the bill to form an independent commission last month, and Pelosi said it was her preference to have an independent panel lead the inquiry. But she said last week that Congress could not wait any longer to begin a deeper look at the insurrection so she would form the select panel. She has not said who will lead it. FILE – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York speaks with reporters at the Capitol, June 22, 2021.Still, Pelosi said the select committee could be complementary to an independent panel should one ever be formed and that she is “hopeful there could be a commission at some point.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has said he might hold a second vote, but there’s no indication that any Republican votes have changed. Many Republicans have made clear that they want to move on from the January 6 attack, brushing aside the many unanswered questions about the insurrection, including how the government and law enforcement missed intelligence leading up to the rioting, and the role of Trump before and during the insurrection. Others in the Republican Party have gone further, with one suggesting the rioters looked like tourists, and another insisting that a Trump supporter named Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed while trying to break into the House chamber, was “executed.” Two officers who battled the rioters, Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone and Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, have been lobbying Republicans to support an independent commission and met with McCarthy on Friday. Afterward, they said they had asked McCarthy to denounce Republican comments downplaying the violence. FILE – Michael Fanone, a Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer, leaves a meeting with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., at the Capitol in Washington, June 25, 2021.In the absence of an independent commission, Fanone said he asked McCarthy for a commitment not to put “the wrong people” on the new select panel and that McCarthy said he would take it seriously. McCarthy’s office did not respond to requests for comment on either the meeting or the legislation to form the select committee. The officers also asked McCarthy to denounce 21 Republicans who voted earlier this month against giving medals of honor to the U.S. Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police to thank them for their service on January 6. Dozens of those officers suffered injuries, including chemical burns, brain injuries and broken bones. McCarthy, who voted for the measure, told them he would deal with those members privately. Seven people died during and after the rioting, including Babbitt and three other Trump supporters who died of medical emergencies. Two police officers died by suicide in the days that followed, and a third officer, Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, collapsed and later died after engaging with the protesters. A medical examiner later determined he died of natural causes.
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By Polityk | 06/29/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Ми взяли тайм-аут для підготовки «Укрпошти» – Лазебна про доставку пенсій
«Укрпошта» буде готуватися до того, щоб давати спрощені або зручні, комфортні умови для людей»
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By Gromada | 06/29/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Міністр соцполітики розповіла деталі про виплату допомоги за медиків, загиблих від COVID-19
«Там, де підтверджені випадки, виплати йдуть, кошти є, заборгованості немає», – запевнила вона
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By Gromada | 06/28/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
