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Зібраних коштів має вистачити на ремонт згорілого Bistro Bistro – власник київського закладу
На ремонт київського закладу Bistro Bistro, в якому сталася пожежа 8 лютого, з пожертв уже зібрали необхідну суму. Про це повідомив у коментарі Радіо Свобода власник закладу Ян Монастирський.
«На ремонт зібраної суми має вистачити», – заявив Монастирський.
За його словами, причина пожежі – вибух та займання холодильника.
Речник Нацполіції у коментарі Радіо Свобода зазначив, що за фактом пожежі правоохоронці відкрили кримінальне провадження.
«Відкрили провадження – частина перша 272 статті – порушення правил безпеки під час виконання робіт із підвищеною небезпекою», – повідомили в Нацполіції.
Після того, як сталася пожежа, у соцмережах виникла дискусія. Частина користувачів поширювала заклики зібрати кошти на ремонт закладу.
Інша частина коментаторів обурилася з цього приводу, апелюючи до висловлювань власника Bistro Bistro щодо питання мови.
Монастирський відмовився коментувати Радіо Свобода свою позицію щодо мовного питання.
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Діти переселенців отримали право першочергового зарахування до дитячих садків – МінТот
Діти внутрішньо переміщених осіб отримали право першочергового зараховуватися до дитячих садків. Про це повідомляє Міністерство з питань реінтеграції тимчасово окупованих територій.
«Внаслідок збройної агресії Російської Федерації та тимчасової окупації частини території України велика кількість внутрішньо переміщених осіб зіштовхнулась з труднощами запису дитини в чергу для навчання в державних та комунальних закладах дошкільної освіти. Серед них чимало одиноких матерів з малолітніми дітьми, що значно ускладнює або навіть унеможливлює їх працевлаштування. В той же час, 27 січня 2021 року Кабінетом Міністрів України прийнято постанову № 86, якою затверджено Положення про заклад дошкільної освіти, що визначає основні засади діяльності таких закладів (крім будинків дитини, дитячих будинків інтернатного типу)», – мовиться у повідомленні.
За ініціативи МінТот, до положення додали норму, яка дозволяє дітям з числа внутрішніх переселенців та дітям зі статусом постраждалих від воєнних дій і збройних конфліктів гарантовано зараховуватися до закладів дошкільної освіти державної та комунальної форм власності першочергово.
За даними Міністерства соціальної політики, станом на початок 2021 року в Україні налічувалося понад 1,5 мільйона внутрішньо переміщених осіб.
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Український військовий поранений на Донбасі – ОТУ «Схід»
Український військовий отримав поранення від пострілу снайпера в зоні Операції Об’єднаних сил на Донбасі, повідомляє оперативно-тактичне угруповання «Схід» 10 лютого.
«Неподалік населеного пункту Піски російсько-окупаційні війська здійснили прицільний постріл по наших позиціях зі снайперської зброї. Внаслідок цього один український воїн отримав вогнепальне поранення. Військовослужбовця оперативно доправлено до лікувального закладу, де йому надається необхідна медична допомога. Стан здоров’я пораненого – задовільний», – стверджують у підрозділі.
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За повідомленням, українські військові «адекватно» відповіли на порушення режиму тиші з боку бойовиків. Про подію повідомили представників ОБСЄ через українську сторону Спільного центру контролю та координації питань припинення вогню та стабілізації лінії розмежування сторін.
Збройний конфлікт на Донбасі триває від 2014 року після російської окупації Криму. Україна і Захід звинувачують Росію у збройній підтримці бойовиків. Кремль відкидає ці звинувачення і заявляє, що на Донбасі можуть перебувати хіба що російські «добровольці».
За даними ООН, від квітня 2014-го до 31 липня 2020 року внаслідок збройного конфлікту на Донбасі загинули від 13 100 до 13 300 людей.
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By Gromada | 02/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Понад 10 мільйонів українців скористалися порталом «Дія» за рік – Федоров
Понад 10 мільйонів українців скористались державним порталом й додатком «Дія», що надає онлайн-доступ до низки державних послуг, за рік від моменту його запуску. Про це розповів віцепрем’єр-міністр – міністр цифрової трансформації України Михайло Федоров, розповідаючи про інновації в умовах пандемії в рамках тематичного форуму в Києві.
«Під час коронавірусу у п’ять разів збільшилася кількість користувачів державними послугами онлайн, реально трасформується споживацька поведінка», – сказав Федоров.
Михайло Федоров сформулював чотири цілі з цифрової трасформації країні, які наразі ставить перед своєю командою:
відцифрувати всі державні послуги, що є в країні;
покрити територію України на 95% інтернетом – мобільним і фіксованим;
навчити шість мільйонів людей базовій цифровій грамотності;
зробити один із найкращих у світі податкових і правових режимів для креативної і ІТ-індустрії.
Керівник проєкту «Дія» Мстислав Банік заявляв 7 лютого, що в квітні додаток поповниться новими послугами, що пов’язані з підприємництвом і ЄСВ. Наразі там вже є можливість відкрити ФОП, зареєструвати дитину, отримати допомогу по безробіттю, зареєструвати авто, отримати послуги з землеустрою та інше.
6 лютого 2020 року команда Міністерства цифрової трасформації презентувала застосунок «Дія». На початку у ньому працювали електронне посвідчення водія та свідоцтво для реєстрації (техпаспорт) автомобіля. Тоді розробники ставили перед собою таку задачу: протягом трьох років оцифрувати всі державні послуги, а 50 основних послуг – уже у 2020 році.
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By Gromada | 02/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Senate Schedules Confirmation Hearing for Merrick Garland
The Senate Judiciary Committee has set a confirmation hearing for Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s nominee for attorney general.Garland’s confirmation hearing will begin on February 22. The two-day hearing will include Garland’s testimony and a second day for outside witnesses to testify.The committee’s chair, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, said Garland’s hearing was particularly urgent after the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, when hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol as Congress was meeting to vote to certify Biden’s electoral win.The Field of Empty Chairs is seen during the 20th Remembrance Ceremony, the anniversary ceremony for victims of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma April 19, 2015.Garland is a federal appeals court judge who in 2016 was snubbed by Republicans for a seat on the Supreme Court. He held senior positions at the Justice Department decades ago, including as a supervisor of the prosecution of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.The pick will force Senate Republicans to contend with the nomination of someone they spurned four years ago — refusing even to hold hearings when a Supreme Court vacancy arose — but Biden is banking on Garland’s credentials and reputation for moderation to ensure confirmation.”Judge Garland will serve the Justice Department and our country with honor and integrity,” Durbin said. “He is a consensus pick who should be confirmed swiftly on his merits.”The committee is set to vote on Garland’s nomination on March 1.
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By Polityk | 02/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
US Senate Weighs Trump Role in January 6 Capitol Siege
The historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump started in the U.S. Senate Tuesday. Senators will have to decide if Trump incited the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol a month ago by urging his supporters to confront lawmakers as they were certifying that Democrat Joe Biden had defeated Trump in the 2020 election. VOA’s congressional correspondent Katherine Gypson has more.Camera: Mike Burke
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By Polityk | 02/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
US Senate to Proceed with Trump Impeachment Trial
The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to proceed with the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on a charge that he incited insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last month by urging hundreds of his supporters to confront lawmakers as they met to certify that Democrat Joe Biden had defeated him in last November’s election. The 56-44 vote to start hearing evidence in the case at mid-day Wednesday came after four hours of impassioned arguments about the constitutionality of holding the trial while Trump is no longer in office. Democratic lawmakers from the House of Representatives prosecuting the case against Trump said the former U.S. leader must be held to account for his actions in his final weeks in office. Trump’s two lawyers contended that the country’s Founding Fathers, in writing the Constitution, only intended for impeachment to be used as a tool to remove a president from office, an impossibility in Trump’s case since his four-year term ended January 20 as Biden was inaugurated. Acting Sergeant at Arms Timothy Blodgett, right, leads Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., second from right, the lead Democratic House impeachment manager, and other impeachment managers, through the Rotunda to the Senate, Feb. 9, 2021.As Trump’s impeachment trial opened, Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland, one of the House impeachment managers prosecuting Trump, said that if Trump is not held accountable, it “would create a brand-new January exception” where future presidents would not face consequences for any wrongdoing during their final month in office. Video of January 6 violence The Democrats showed the Senate a dramatic video of the chaos that unfolded in the Capitol on January 6, with rampaging protesters storming past authorities and lawmakers scrambling to avoid the violence, shortly after they had started to certify that Biden had defeated Trump in last November’s election. Raskin recalled that his chief of staff, daughter and son-in-law were forced to barricade themselves in House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s office and hide under a desk while rioters banged on the office door, “placing what they thought were their final texts and whispered phone calls to say their goodbyes. They thought they were gonna die.” FILE – Supporters of then-President Donald Trump riot in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021.Trump, who urged hundreds of supporters to confront lawmakers at the Capitol in a last-ditch effort to upend the election results, was impeached a week later and left office January 20 as Biden was inaugurated as the country’s 46th president. Raskin said that every day a president is in office “he’s prohibited from committing high crimes and misdemeanors” — the standard for conviction on impeachment charges — and cannot avoid responsibility for the deadly mayhem at the Capitol because he now is out of office. But Trump’s lawyers sharply disputed the legality of the Senate holding an impeachment trial on the allegation by the House of Representatives that Trump engaged in “incitement of insurrection” by urging his supporters to march on the Capitol and “fight like hell.” Trump lawyer Bruce Castor Jr. said, “The idea of a January exception [for presidential responsibility for his actions] is nonsense.” He said that if Trump committed any offenses, “arrest him,” now that he is a private citizen and no longer immune from prosecution. Castor quoted the Constitution saying that conviction on impeachment charges “shall not extend further than removal from office,” an impossibility since Trump’s four-year term in the White House has already ended. “The object of the Constitution has already been achieved,” Castor said. “He was removed by the voters.” Trump’s other lawyer, David Schoen, accused Democrats of pursuing the impeachment case against him “to eliminate Donald Trump from the American political scene.” He said “pure, raw, misguided partisanship” was at the heart of the Democrats’ case against the former president. In this image from video, the vote total on the question of the constitutionality of the impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump is displayed in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Feb. 9, 2021.Tuesday’s vote to proceed was expected. Last month, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a staunch Trump supporter, attempted to block the trial on the same constitutional grounds, but five Republicans joined all 50 Democrats in voting 55-45 to proceed with the trial. In the new vote Tuesday, another Republican, Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, also voted to go ahead with the trial. Senate vote However, it will take a two-thirds majority for conviction, meaning at least 11 more Republican senators would have to reverse their votes for the prosecution to prevail. The 100-seat Senate is currently evenly divided 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats. Paul says there is a “zero chance of conviction.” If Trump is convicted, the Senate, on a simple majority vote, could bar him from ever holding federal office again. In 1876, the Senate conducted an impeachment trial of a Cabinet secretary during the Grant administration who resigned moments before he was impeached. Trump was impeached by the House while still in office. The protest on January 6 turned into mayhem, as about 800 Trump supporters rampaged past authorities into the Capitol, smashed doors and windows, ransacked some congressional offices and scuffled with police. Five people were killed, including a Capitol Police officer whose death is being investigated as a homicide, and a rioter shot by an officer. FILE – Pro-Trump protesters storm the U.S. Capitol to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by Congress, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021.The 100 senators deciding the impeachment case against the single-term president are in a unique position: Many of them were witnesses themselves to the chaos as they fled the Senate chamber. Trump, the only U.S. president to be twice impeached, was acquitted a year ago when he was accused of soliciting the president of Ukraine to dig up dirt against Biden ahead of last November’s election. A week after the storming of the Capitol, the House voted 232-197, with 10 Republicans joining all 222 Democrats, to accuse Trump of “incitement of insurrection.” Then, on January 20, Biden was inaugurated and Trump, no longer in power, flew for the last time on Air Force One to his Atlantic coastline mansion in Florida, where he has stayed since. Trump has declined a request from Democrats to testify in his defense at his impeachment trial and is not expected to attend. The trial could last a week or longer. The nine Democratic House impeachment managers bringing the case against Trump – several of them former prosecutors – say that Trump, by urging his supporters to contest his election defeat at the Capitol, was “singularly responsible” for the riot that ensued. Trump urged supporters to come to Washington on January 6, saying it would be “wild.” At a rally near the White House shortly before his supporters walked 16 blocks to the Capitol, Trump continued his weekslong barrage of unfounded claims that election fraud had cost him another four-year term. Speaking for more than an hour, Trump told his supporters “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” by marching to the Capitol. Later in the week, the Senate will have an opportunity to debate whether to call witnesses. The House managers could call some of the rioters to testify they were responding to Trump’s call for them to confront lawmakers certifying Biden’s victory. Trump’s lawyers have mounted a vigorous defense and contend that the former president bears no responsibility for what occurred last month. In a brief filed Monday, they said the case against him amounts to “political theater” brought by anti-Trump Democrats. Trump’s lawyers suggested that he was simply exercising his constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech when he disputed the election results and argued that he explicitly encouraged his supporters to engage in a peaceful protest. “Instead, this was only ever a selfish attempt by Democratic leadership in the House to prey upon the feelings of horror and confusion that fell upon all Americans across the entire political spectrum upon seeing the destruction at the Capitol on Jan. 6 by a few hundred people,” the lawyers wrote. “Instead of acting to heal the nation, or at the very least focusing on prosecuting the lawbreakers who stormed the Capitol, the Speaker of the House (Nancy Pelosi) and her allies have tried to callously harness the chaos of the moment for their own political gain,” they wrote. In response, the House Democrats prosecuting Trump said, “We live in a nation governed by the rule of law, not mob violence incited by presidents who cannot accept their own electoral defeat.” “The evidence of President Trump’s conduct is overwhelming,” the managers wrote. “He has no valid excuse or defense for his actions. And his efforts to escape accountability are entirely unavailing. As charged in the Article of Impeachment, President Trump violated his Oath of Office and betrayed the American people.”
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By Polityk | 02/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
White House Distances Biden from Trump Impeachment Trial
U.S. President Joe Biden says while the impeachment trial of his predecessor is under way in the Senate, he will be focused on alleviating the suffering from the coronavirus pandemic.“I am not,” Biden replied when asked by reporters Tuesday in the Oval Office whether he is watching the trial. “We have already lost over 450,000 people, and we could lose a whole lot more if we don’t act and act decisively and quickly. … A lot of children are going to bed hungry. A lot of families are food insecure. They’re in trouble. That’s my job. The Senate has their job, and they’re about to begin it, and I am sure they are going to conduct themselves well.”The president added he will not be saying anything further about impeachment of former President Donald Trump, whom Biden defeated in last November’s election.White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Feb. 9, 2021, in Washington.“He’s not a pundit. He’s not going to opine on the back-and-forth arguments, nor is he watching them,” replied White House press secretary Jen Psaki, when asked earlier in the day by a reporter about the historic proceedings, which began Tuesday.Psaki was also asked how Biden, as the current officeholder, could not weigh in on whether it is constitutional for the Senate to put a former president on trial and whether it could set a dangerous precedent for the presidency.The press secretary did not give a direct answer.“He is going to wait for the Senate to determine the outcome of this,” she said during the White House daily media briefing. “His view is that his role should be currently focused on addressing the needs of the American people, putting people back to work, addressing the pandemic.”Focus on issues, not impeachmentThe White House is seeking to portray the president as focused on such issues while the impeachment trial takes place.The White House has arranged visits by Biden to the Defense Department and the National Institutes of Health this week. Next Tuesday, the president is to travel to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he will participate in a televised town hall-style event.During the February 16 live broadcast, the president will answer questions about his administration’s efforts “to contain the coronavirus pandemic and jump-start a troubled economy,” according to CNN, which will air the event. The cable network explained it will include “an invitation-only, socially distanced audience.”Administration officials say there is no political advantage for Biden, a former senator and vice president, to inject himself into the impeachment trial, which would be seen as a political move so early in his presidency and at a time when Americans are looking for him to focus on alleviating the suffering caused by the pandemic.Mob failed to stop certificationThe House of Representatives last month impeached Trump for inciting violence against the government on January 6, when a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol complex to try to halt the certification of electoral votes affirming Biden as the winner of last November’s election.Biden “has put out multiple statements conveying that what the (former) president did and his words and his actions, and of course the events of January 6, were a threat to our democracy,” Psaki said Tuesday.Trump is the first U.S. president to be impeached twice. The first time was in December of 2019 when the House voted he had abused his power and obstructed Congress, stemming from a July 2019 phone call in which he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce an investigation into Biden.The Senate acquitted Trump on both counts last year.
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By Polityk | 02/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
White House Budget chief Nominee Apologizes for Past Tweets
President Joe Biden’s choice to the lead the Office of Management and Budget apologized Tuesday for spending years attacking top Republicans on social media as she tried to convince senators she’ll leave partisan politics behind if confirmed.
Neera Tanden also admitted to spending “many months” removing past Twitter posts, saying, “I deleted tweets because I regretted them.” But she refused to say she did so to help her nomination.
“I know there have been some concerns about some of my past language on social media, and I regret that language and take responsibility for it,” Tanden, a former adviser to Hillary Clinton and the president of the center-left Center for American Progress, told a Senate committee.
She later added, “I deeply regret and apologize for my language.”
Tanden would be the first woman of color to lead the OMB. Her nomination requires approval from the Senate, which has moved fairly quickly to pass many of Biden’s choices for powerful posts. That’s despite it being divided 50-50 among Democrats and Republicans and this week grappling with the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.
Democrats hold the majority thanks to the tie-breaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris.
None in the party have yet opposed Tanden, meaning she’s likely to ultimately be approved. But Republicans have signaled that the process may trigger a political battle unseen with other Biden nominees, given her history of criticism of GOP lawmakers she’d now have to work with.
Republican Ohio Sen. Rob Portman noted that, despite going back and trying “to cover what you said” by deleting tweets, copious “harsh” criticism” and “personal attacks about specific senators” endured. He said that included Tanden calling Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton “a fraud” and tweeting that “vampires have more heart” than Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford said Tanden had tweeted more over the past four years than even Trump did.
“Something that this committee’s asked pretty frequently of nominees is, ‘Will you commit to working across the aisle?,'” Lankford said. “And that’s one that we have to ask you a little more blunt than others because it’s been pretty clear that hasn’t been your position in the past.”
Tanden said she recognizes “that this role is a bipartisan role, and I know I have to earn the trust of senators across the board.”
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that Biden remains confident Tanden will get confirmed, but that no one in the administration directed her to apologize to ease the process.
“We certainly did not ask her to make any specific comments in her testimony,” Psaki said.
With the coronavirus pandemic wreaking havoc on the economy, Tanden promised that she’d use the post of budget chief to “vigorously enforce my ironclad belief that our government should serve all Americans, regardless of party, in every corner of the country.”
Still, Senate discussion of Tanden’s nomination is likely to center more on her past tweets than her budget priorities. Cotton has said they were “filled with hate.” Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn suggested previously that she’d face “certainly a problematic path” to nomination.
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley offered another potential line of Republican criticism on Tuesday, noting that the Center for American Progress had collected large donations from Wall Street firms and groups associated with major tech firms while Tanden headed it.
“How can you ensure us that you’ll work to see that these Silicon Valley and Wall Street firms don’t exercise undo influence,” Hawley asked, “in the making of government policy and the control of our economy?”
Tanden replied that she’d called for higher taxes on tech companies and more regulation of Wall Street and major corporate interests because “we should be moving to rebalance power in our economy.”
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By Polityk | 02/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Trump Impeachment Trial Opens With Dramatic Video Montage – WATCH LIVE
Arguments are under way in Washington in the historic second impeachment trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump, with lawmakers set to decide whether it is legal under the Constitution to try him after he has already left office.Nine Democratic lawmakers from the House of Representatives, acting as prosecutors against the former U.S. leader, are arguing at Trump’s trial before the 100-member Senate that he should be held accountable for inciting the storming of the Capitol on January 6. They say he urged hundreds of supporters to confront lawmakers as they were certifying that Democrat Joe Biden had defeated him in last November’s election.Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland told the Senate that if Trump is not held accountable, it “would create a brand-new January exception” where future presidents would not face consequences for any wrongdoing during their final month in office through impeachment and trial in the Senate.WATCH TRIAL LIVEThe Democrats showed the Senate a video of the chaos that unfolded in the Capitol building, with rampaging protesters storming past authorities and lawmakers scrambling to avoid the violence. Trump’s lawyers are expected to respond that the trial is unconstitutional because the Constitution says impeachment is a tool to remove officials from office if they are found guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” That is impossible in Trump’s case, they contend, because Trump’s four-year term ended when Biden was inaugurated on January 20. The Senate, however, conducted an 1876 impeachment trial of a Cabinet secretary who resigned moments before he was impeached. Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives while still in office.Up to four hours of arguments are scheduled on the constitutional issue, but Trump’s legal effort to end the trial before it starts in earnest is likely to fail.FILE – Supporters of then-President Donald Trump riot in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021.Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a staunch Trump supporter, attempted last month to block the trial on the same grounds, but five Republicans joined all 50 Democrats in voting 55-45 to proceed with the trial. However it requires a two-thirds majority for conviction, meaning at least 12 of those Republican senators would have to reverse their votes for the prosecution to prevail. The 10-seat Senate is currently evenly divided 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats.Paul says there is a “zero chance of conviction.” If Trump is convicted, the Senate, on a simple majority vote, could bar him from ever holding federal office again. The protest January 6 turned into mayhem, as about 800 Trump supporters rampaged past authorities into the Capitol, smashed doors and windows, ransacked some congressional offices and scuffled with police. Five people were killed, including a Capitol Police officer and a rioter shot by an officer.FILE – Pro-Trump protesters storm the U.S. Capitol to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by Congress, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021.The 100 senators deciding the impeachment case against the single-term president are in a unique position: Many of them were witnesses themselves to the chaos as they fled the Senate chamber.Trump, the only U.S. president to be twice impeached, was acquitted a year ago when he was accused of soliciting the president of Ukraine to dig up dirt against Biden ahead of last November’s election.A week after the storming of the Capitol, the House voted 232-197, with 10 Republicans joining all 222 Democrats, to accuse Trump of “incitement of insurrection.” Then, on January 20, Biden was inaugurated as the country’s 46th president and Trump, no longer in power, flew for the last time on Air Force One to his Atlantic coastline mansion in Florida, where he has stayed since.Trump has declined a request from Democrats to testify in his defense at his impeachment trial and is not expected to attend. The trial could last a week or longer. The nine Democratic House impeachment managers bringing the case against Trump – several of them former prosecutors – say that Trump, by urging his supporters to contest his election defeat at the Capitol, was “singularly responsible” for the riot that ensued. Trump urged supporters to come to Washington on January 6, saying it would be “wild.” At a rally near the White House shortly before his supporters walked 16 blocks to the Capitol, Trump continued his weeks-long barrage of unfounded claims that election fraud had cost him another four-year term. At one time in speaking for more than an hour, Trump told his supporters “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” by marching to the Capitol.Later in the week, the Senate will have an opportunity to debate whether to call witnesses. The House managers could call some of the rioters to testify they were responding to Trump’s call for them on to confront lawmakers certifying Biden’s victory. Trump’s lawyers have mounted a vigorous defense and contend that the former president bears no responsibility for what occurred last month. In a brief filed Monday, they said the case against him amounts to “political theater” brought by anti-Trump Democrats. Trump’s lawyers suggested that he was simply exercising his constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech when he disputed the election results and argued that he explicitly encouraged his supporters to engage in a peaceful protest. “Instead, this was only ever a selfish attempt by Democratic leadership in the House to prey upon the feelings of horror and confusion that fell upon all Americans across the entire political spectrum upon seeing the destruction at the Capitol on Jan. 6 by a few hundred people,” the lawyers wrote.”Instead of acting to heal the nation, or at the very least focusing on prosecuting the lawbreakers who stormed the Capitol, the Speaker of the House (Nancy Pelosi) and her allies have tried to callously harness the chaos of the moment for their own political gain.” In response, the House Democrats prosecuting Trump said, “We live in a nation governed by the rule of law, not mob violence incited by presidents who cannot accept their own electoral defeat.” “The evidence of President Trump’s conduct is overwhelming,” the managers wrote. “He has no valid excuse or defense for his actions. And his efforts to escape accountability are entirely unavailing. As charged in the Article of Impeachment, President Trump violated his Oath of Office and betrayed the American people.”
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By Polityk | 02/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Гасили пожежі на Луганщині тільки «на папері»: ДБР повідомило про підозру 3 працівникам ДСНС
Державне бюро розслідувань повідомило про підозру трьом посадовцям Держслужби з надзвичайних ситуацій, які підробляли акти гасіння пожеж на Луганщині, передає у вівторок пресслужба ДБР.
«На початку липня 2020 року на території садівничого товариства №5 «Озеро Вовче» в Новоайдарському районі Луганської області виникли масштабні пожежі, внаслідок яких у вогні загинули троє людей, знищено житлові будинки, господарчі споруди та інше майно. Проте, за даними слідства, сили та засоби пожежно-рятувальних загонів до місця пожежі не виїжджали. Для викривлення статистичних показників працівники підрозділів ГУ ДСНС у Луганській області через деякий час після пожежі склали акти про пожежу. У ході досудового розслідування слідчими ДБР встановлено, що посадові особи вносили неправдиві дані в офіційні документи відносно керівників гасіння пожежі, сил та засобів, начебто залучених до роботи», – йдеться в повідомленні.
За даними ДБР, підозру оголосили за статтею про службове підроблення.
«У разі доведення вини посадовцям загрожує штраф від 2000 до 4000 неоподатковуваних мінімумів доходів громадян або обмеженням волі на строк до 3 років, з позбавленням права обіймати певні посади на строк до 3 років», – йдеться в повідомленні.
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У липні минулого року з двох лісництв у Новоайдарському районі Луганщини вогонь перекинувся на сусідні села. Тоді загинули троє людей, дев’ятьох – госпіталізували. Загалом за медичною допомогою до лікарень звернулися 42 людини.
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By Gromada | 02/09/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У Києві випало 30 сантиметрів снігу – фоторепортаж
Щоб витягати автомобілі зі снігових заметів, у столиці України 9 лютого вивели поліцейські бронетранспортери
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By Gromada | 02/09/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Печерський суд знову став на бік Портнова, який оприлюднив персональні дані учасників команди «Схеми»
Печерський суд вдруге став на сторону Андрія Портнова, який раніше оприлюднив у своєму телеграм-каналі персональні, захищені законом дані водіїв програми «Схеми»
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By VilneSlovo | 02/09/2021 | Повідомлення, Свобода слова
Синоптик Укргідрометцентру вважає, що потепління буде нескоро
Потепління в Україні буде нескоро, заявив начальник відділу метеорологічних прогнозів Укргідрометцентру Владислав Білик у коментарі Радіо Свобода.
«Нескоро. Не скажу вам. Точно, що влітку. Орієнтовно навіть до десятої доби за прогнозами потепління не буде», – сказав Білик.
За його словами, снігопади в Україні пов’язані з виходом циклону з південного заходу.
Припинення снігопадів синоптик очікує 13-14 лютого.
Снігопади на переважній частині території України почалися 8 лютого. Влада закликає громадян за можливості не користуватися власним транспортом та не паркувати автомобілі на узбіччях доріг, щоб не заважати прибиранню снігу.
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На в’їздах до Києва облаштували пункти обігріву для водіїв – КМДА
На восьми в’їздах до Києва силами Державної служби України з надзвичайних ситуацій розгорнуті пункти обігріву для водіїв у місцях зупинки великогабаритного транспорту, повідомляє Департамент муніципальної безпеки КМДА.
«Районні в місті Києві державні адміністрації забезпечують пункти обігріву їжею, чаєм, печивом, тож у наметах водії можуть зігрітися, попити чай та поїсти. Пункти обігріву розташовані на в’їздах до міста за напрямками: Обухів-Дніпро, Одеса, Бориспіль-Харків, Вишгород-Овруч, Ірпінь-Ковель, Житомир, Кільцева об’їзна дорога (Жулянський шляхопровід), Бровари-Чернігів», – йдеться в повідомленні.
Раніше через негоду влада Києва заборонила в’їзд великогабаритного транспорту до міста до покращення погодних умов.
8 лютого влада Києва закликала жителів залишати дітей вдома через негоду та не користуватися власним транспортом.
За інформацією Українського гідрометцентру, у Києві 9 лютого утримаються складні погодні умови: хуртовини, ожеледиця.
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By Gromada | 02/09/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Last US Vote Certified; New York Republican Elected to Congress
Democratic U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi conceded Monday that it was “time to close the book on this election,” hours after New York officials certified Republican Claudia Tenney’s razor-thin victory in the nation’s last undecided congressional race. Brindisi’s statement came three days after a state judge ruled that Tenney won the race for central New York’s 22nd Congressional District by 109 votes. Brindisi said he congratulated Tenney and offered to make the transition as smooth as possible after several months of legal wrangling over the results. “It has been the honor of a lifetime serving my hometown, the place I grew up and am raising my family,” Brindisi said in a prepared statement. “Unfortunately, this election and counting process was riddled with errors, inconsistencies and systematic violations of state and federal election laws.” FILE – Anthony Brindisi speaks to supporters on election night at the Delta Hotel in Utica, N.Y., Nov. 6, 2018.Judge Scott DelConte on Friday directed New York to certify results immediately. Commissioners with the state Board of Elections approved the results Monday in less than two minutes. Tenney had been the district’s representative for one term, until she was defeated by Brindisi in 2018. “Claudia looks forward to serving her constituents once again as their duly-elected representative in Congress,” campaign spokesperson Nick Stewart said in a prepared statement. DelConte’s ruling came after he spent three months reviewing ballot challenges and trying to fix a series of problems with vote tabulations. Tallies shifted as county election officials counted a flood of absentee ballots and courts weighed in on which challenged ballots could be counted. DelConte rejected an argument by Brindisi’s lawyers that certification of the election results should be delayed until an appeals court had a chance to review the case. The judge said that even if the results end up changing after any litigation, New York could simply amend its certification. The judge said only the U.S. House can order a new election or recount at this point. “Sadly, we may never know how many legal voters were turned away at the polls or ballots not counted due to the ineptitude of the Boards of Election, especially in Oneida County,” said Brindisi, hoping there will be an investigation into the “massive disenfranchisement of voters.” Democrats control the House with 221 seats. With Tenney yet to be sworn in, Republicans held 210 seats following the death on Sunday of U.S. Rep. Ron Wright of Texas, according to the House’s website.
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By Polityk | 02/09/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Trump’s Historic Second Impeachment Trial Starts Tuesday
The historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump starts Tuesday in the U.S. Senate, with Trump accused of inciting insurrection a month ago by urging his supporters to confront lawmakers at the U.S. Capitol as they were certifying that Democrat Joe Biden had defeated Trump in the 2020 election.The protest turned into mayhem, as about 800 supporters of Trump stormed past authorities into the Capitol, smashed doors and windows, ransacked some congressional offices and scuffled with police. Five people were left dead, including a Capitol Police officer whose death is under investigation as a homicide and a rioter shot by a police officer.The 100 senators — 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats — hearing the impeachment case against the single-term president are in a unique position: many of them were witnesses themselves to the chaos of January 6 as they fled the Senate chamber for their own safety.With a two-thirds vote needed for conviction, 17 Republicans would have to turn against Trump, their Republican colleague, for him to be convicted, assuming all 50 Democrats vote to convict. As such, Trump almost certainly will be acquitted, just as he was a year ago when he was accused of soliciting the president of Ukraine to dig up dirt against Biden ahead of last November’s election.FILE – U.S. President Donald Trump looks on at the end of his speech during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021.Whatever the outcome, however, Trump stands alone in more than two centuries of U.S. history as the only president to be impeached twice.A week after the storming of the Capitol, the House of Representatives voted 232-197, with 10 Republicans joining all 222 Democrats, to accuse Trump of “incitement of insurrection.” Then, on January 20, Biden was inaugurated as the country’s 46th president and Trump, no longer in power, flew for the last time on Air Force One to his Atlantic coastline mansion in Florida, where he has stayed since.Trump has declined a request from Democrats to testify in his defense at his impeachment trial and is not expected to attend it. The trial could last a week or longer.FILE – House impeachment managers walk the article of impeachment against former U.S. President Donald Trump through the Rotunda of the U.S. CapitolThe nine Democratic House impeachment managers bringing the case against Trump — several of them former prosecutors — claim that Trump, by urging his supporters to contest his election defeat at the Capitol, was “singularly responsible” for the riot that ensued.Trump urged supporters to come to Washington on January 6, saying it would be “wild.” At a rally near the White House shortly before his supporters walked 16 blocks to the Capitol, Trump continued his weeks-long barrage of unfounded claims that election fraud had cost him another four-year term.At one time in speaking for more than an hour, Trump told his supporters “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” by marching to the Capitol.But he also exhorted them, saying, “Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore and that’s what this is all about. To use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal.”“And we fight,” he said. “We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”Ahead of the trial, the House impeachment managers said in a legal brief, “President Trump’s responsibility for the events of January 6 is unmistakable” and that the former president’s “conduct must be declared unacceptable in the clearest and most unequivocal terms,” even though he is no longer in office.The U.S. Constitution allows for the removal of officials found guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Trump’s two experienced trial lawyers he hired — David Schoen and Bruce Castor — have argued that since Trump is no longer president, and therefore could not be removed from office, his impeachment trial is unconstitutional.The Senate, however, has conducted impeachment trials of former officials, not allowing them to avoid a trial for possible wrongdoing by resigning, as happened in an 1876 case, or in Trump’s case, by leaving office as his term ended. Moreover, the House impeachment lawyers argue that Trump incited the insurrection and was impeached by the House while he was still in office.FILE – In this image from video, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., makes a motion that the impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump is unconstitutional in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 26, 2021.Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a staunch Trump supporter, attempted to block the trial on such constitutional grounds, but five Republicans joined all 50 Democrats in voting 55-45 to proceed with the trial. But the vote also signaled Trump’s seeming Republican support for acquittal remains significant, more than enough to block his conviction.Paul says there is a “zero chance of conviction.” If Trump were to be convicted, the Senate, on a simple majority vote, could bar him from ever holding office again.On Tuesday, as the trial starts in earnest, lawyers for Trump and the House managers prosecuting him again are expected to debate the constitutionality of holding the trial. But assuming the Senate votes to go ahead with it, House managers would begin to present their case on Wednesday, likely showing some of the clips of hours of videos of the mayhem.FILE – In this Jan. 6, 2021, photo, supporters of President Donald Trump are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol in Washington.Then the president’s lawyers would respond with his defense. Later in the week, the Senate could debate whether to call witnesses if the House managers decide they want to have witnesses testify how they felt Trump had urged them on to confront lawmakers certifying Biden’s victory.Trump’s lawyers have mounted a vigorous defense and contend that the former president bears no responsibility for what occurred January 6.In a brief filed Monday, they contended that the case against him amounts to “political theater” brought by anti-Trump Democrats. Trump’s lawyers suggested that he was simply exercising his constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech when he disputed the election results and argued that he explicitly encouraged his supporters to engage in a peaceful protest.”Instead, this was only ever a selfish attempt by Democratic leadership in the House to prey upon the feelings of horror and confusion that fell upon all Americans across the entire political spectrum upon seeing the destruction at the Capitol on Jan. 6 by a few hundred people,” the lawyers wrote. “Instead of acting to heal the nation, or at the very least focusing on prosecuting the lawbreakers who stormed the Capitol, the Speaker of the House (Nancy Pelosi) and her allies have tried to callously harness the chaos of the moment for their own political gain.”In response, the House Democrats prosecuting Trump said, “We live in a nation governed by the rule of law, not mob violence incited by presidents who cannot accept their own electoral defeat.”“The evidence of President Trump’s conduct is overwhelming,” the managers wrote. “He has no valid excuse or defense for his actions. And his efforts to escape accountability are entirely unavailing. As charged in the Article of Impeachment, President Trump violated his Oath of Office and betrayed the American people.”
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By Polityk | 02/09/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
US Lawmakers to Juggle Economic Relief and Trump Impeachment Trial This Week
This week, Washington will tackle two important issues – the $1.9 trillion economic relief package President Joe Biden has proposed and the Senate impeachment trial of his immediate predecessor, Donald Trump. VOA’s Michelle Quinn reports.
Video editor: Mary Cieslak
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By Polityk | 02/09/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Потужний циклон: Київ та Львів засипало снігом, а Одеса готується до ожеледі (відео)
Обмежено рух вантажівок на деяких трасах у Київській, Полтавській, Рівненській, Житомирській, Черкаській, Чернігівській, Волинській областях. Рятувальники допомагають водіям подолати снігові замети.
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By Gromada | 02/08/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
В «Укравтодорі» повідомили, де обмежено рух дорогами через негоду
У держагенстві автомобільних доріг «Укравтодор» повідомили, що через снігопади і складні погодні умови наразі обмежено рух автотранспорту на окремих ділянках доріг у кількох областях України.
«З метою проведення снігоочисних робіт та для уникнення скупчення автотранспорту на проїзній частині доріг введені тимчасові обмеження для руху великовагового транспорту в областях», – повідомили у відомстві.
Обмеження стосуються доріг у Житомирській, Чернігівській, Волинській, Рівненській, Київській, Черкаській та Полтавській областях.
Із переліком ділянок доріг з обмеженнями в русі можна ознайомитися тут.
Повідомляється, що із 15:00 заборонено транзитний рух великовагового транспорту через Київ.
«Інформація про зняття обмеження та відновлення руху автотранспорту в областях буде надаватись додатково. Водіям великогабаритного транспорту на період негоди та діючих обмежень, просимо користуватися майданчиками для відстою, які розташовані вздовж державних автодоріг», – заявили в «Укравтодорі».
За даними Держслужби з надзвичайних ситуацій, станом на 18:00 понеділка спостерігається місцями невеликий сніг у Черкаській, Вінницькій, Житомирській, Рівненській, Кіровоградській, Київській, Хмельницькій, Полтавській, Донецькій областях та м. Київ. У Закарпатській області – невеликий дощ.
«Підрозділами ДСНС здійснено буксирування 72 транспортних засобів та надано допомогу 175 особам. Рух залізничного транспорту забезпечено. Аеропорти, за винятком міст Вінниця та Чернівці, працюють у штатному режимі», – повідомили у ДСНС.
За інформацією синоптиків, 9 лютого, крім західних областей, очікуються пориви вітру 15-20 м/с; на дорогах країни, крім південних та Закарпатської областей, ожеледиця; вночі у північних та Харківській областях значний сніг, хуртовини, в центральних областях значний мокрий сніг, налипання мокрого снігу, ожеледь. Температура повітря вночі 5-10° морозу, у південних областях 0-3° морозу; вдень від 3° морозу до 2° тепла, у південних областях 7-12° тепла.
На Київщині вночі значний сніг, хуртовина, вдень невеликий сніг. На дорогах ожеледиця. Вітер південно-східний з переходом на північно-західний, 7-12 м/с, вночі пориви 15-20 м/с. Температура вночі 7-9°, вдень 2-4° морозу.
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By Gromada | 02/08/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
З початку року в Києві зафіксували майже 2,5 тисячі звернень через домашнє насильство – КМДА
З початку року в Києві зафіксували 2419 звернень стосовно домашнього насильства, повідомила заступниця голови КМДА Марина Хонда. За її словами, до поліції звернулася 1861 людина.
«До міської служби «Телефон довіри» надійшло 558 звернень стосовно домашнього насильства. Запитувачі здебільшого потребували психологічної допомоги і підтримки. Хоча є й запити стосовно алгоритму поселення до кімнат кризового реагування. Варто зазначити, що з такими питаннями звертаються не тільки жінки, а й чоловіки та діти», – розповіла Марина Хонда.
Вона також додала, що за минулий тиждень зареєстровано 459 звернень стосовно домашнього насильства. Із них до поліції – 357, а до Центру гендерної рівності, запобігання та протидії насильству – 102 звернення.
У КМДА нагадують, що постраждалі від домашнього насильства можуть звернутися телефоном на гарячу лінію «15-00» або особисто до Центру гендерної рівності, протидії та запобігання насильству, що на вулиці Іллєнка, 20, у Києві.
У Мінсоцполітики раніше заявляли, що 2020-й виявився роком зростання звернень щодо домашнього насильства в Україні.
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By Gromada | 02/08/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Lawmakers to Tackle Economic Relief, Trump Impeachment Trial
This week, Washington will tackle two important issues – the $1.9 trillion economic relief package President Joe Biden has proposed and the Senate impeachment trial of his immediate predecessor, Donald Trump. VOA’s Michelle Quinn reports.
Video editor: Mary Cieslak
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By Polityk | 02/08/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
US Treasury Chief: Would Take Years for US Economy to Recover Without Aid Deal
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday it “will take years” to get the country’s coronavirus-ravaged economy back on track if Congress fails to enact President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package, rejecting Republican claims that it is too big. Yellen told CNN that with passage of the relief deal, the economy could return to what is considered full employment in the world’s biggest economy by 2022, with a 4% jobless rate compared to the 6.3% rate in January. “There’s tremendous suffering in the country,” she said, with nearly 10 million jobs lost in the coronavirus pandemic and a reported 4 million workers who have given up looking for new work. The government reported Friday that the United States added only 49,000 jobs in January. FILE – U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with a group of Republican Senators to discuss coronavirus federal aid legislation inside the Oval Office at the White House, Feb. 1, 2021.Biden also plans to send $1,400 checks to millions of adult Americans, but Yellen said precise details of what income level the payments would be cut off have yet to be worked out. Republicans opposed to Biden’s relief package are pointing to an opinion article published in The Washington Post last week by former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, a Democrat, suggesting that the size of Biden’s relief deal could “set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation.” Republican Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, in a CNN interview, said the U.S. is not facing “an economy in collapse.” He said it is too soon to enact another big coronavirus relief measure. “The ink is hardly dry on the last bill,” Toomey said, referring to a $900 billion package that then-President Donald Trump approved in late December. Toomey said that while Biden has “made great speeches on (political) unity, he’s governing from the hard left.”
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By Polityk | 02/08/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
В Україні працюють майже 4,8 тисячі пунктів обігріву – ДСНС
В Україні у зв’язку зі значним похолоданням розгорнули 4 778 стаціонарних і мобільних пунктів обігріву, повідомляє Державна служба з надзвичайних ситуацій.
«Це зроблено з метою недопущення випадків обмороження і загибелі людей. Так, станом на 7 лютого, місцевими органами влади у взаємодії з ДСНС розгорнуто 4 тисячі 778 пунктів обігріву, з них місцевим самоврядуванням – 4 тисячі 764 стаціонарних пункти, а ДСНС – 14 мобільних пунктів обігріву на базі наметів та транспортних засобів», – йдеться в повідомленні.
За даними ДСНС, 6 лютого до пунктів обігріву звернулися 443 людини.
В Україні 7-8 лютого, крім Закарпаття та півдня Одещини, значно знизиться температура: на півночі подекуди до -20…24 градусів, вдень – до -8…13 градусів. На півдні буде тепліше: до -5…10 градусів вночі, вдень – -4…+2. Крім того, в Укргідрометцентрі прогнозують сильні снігопади по країні, починаючи з 7-8 лютого.
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By Gromada | 02/07/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Biden Administration Suspends Trump Asylum Deals with El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
The Biden administration said on Saturday it was immediately suspending Trump-era asylum agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, part of a bid to undo his Republican predecessor’s hard-line immigration policies.In a statement, State Department Secretary Antony Blinken said the United States had “suspended and initiated the process to terminate the Asylum Cooperative Agreements with the Governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as the first concrete steps on the path to greater partnership and collaboration in the region laid out by President Biden.”The so-called “safe third country” agreements, inked in 2019 by the Trump administration and the Central American nations, force asylum seekers from the region to first seek refuge in those countries before applying in the United States.Part of a controversial bid by Trump to crack down on illegal immigrants from Central America who make up a large part of migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border, the policies were never implemented with El Salvador and Honduras, the State Department said on Saturday.Transfers under the U.S.-Guatemala agreement have been paused since mid-March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the statement added.The moves announced Saturday came after Biden unveiled a host of measures last week aimed at revamping the U.S. immigration system, including a task force to reunite families separated at the United States-Mexico border and another to increase an annual cap on refugees.One of the orders called for Blinken to “promptly consider” whether to notify the governments of the three countries that the United States intended to suspend and terminate the safe third country deals. It also called on the Secretary of Homeland Security and the attorney general to determine whether to rescind a rule implementing the agreements.
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By Polityk | 02/07/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Biden Gives California Woman Pep Talk in Weekly Address Revival
President Joe Biden gave a pep talk to a California woman who was laid off because of the coronavirus pandemic, during a conversation the White House said was part of an effort to help him engage more consistently with regular Americans.The White House on Saturday released a 2½-minute video of Biden’s long-distance telephone conversation with Michele Voelkert, identifying her only as Michele.After losing her job at a startup clothing company in July, she wrote Biden a letter. He read it, then called her.The Roseville, California, woman told Biden “it’s been a tough time” trying to find work.Biden, who spoke from his Oval Office desk, replied that his father used to say a job is about dignity and respect as much as it is about a paycheck. He described his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan, which calls for $1,400 payments to people like Voelkert, and other economic aid for individuals and small businesses. There’s also money to help distribute coronavirus vaccines.”I’ve been saying a long time, the idea that we think we can keep businesses open and moving and thriving without dealing with this pandemic is just a nonstarter,” Biden said.’Riding high’The Sacramento Bee said it spoke to Voelkert, 47, after the call.”It was the opportunity of the lifetime,” she said. “I’m still riding high.”The conversation is part of an effort to help Biden, who has largely limited his travel because of the pandemic, communicate directly with Americans, the White House said. Biden did fly to Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday to spend the weekend at home with his family.”There is a time-honored tradition in the country of hearing from the president in this way,” press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday in previewing the video. She referenced Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “fireside chats” and Ronald Reagan’s establishment of a weekly radio address.The radio address eventually grew to include a video version viewed over the internet.Psaki said Biden’s weekly address would be produced in a variety of forms.
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By Polityk | 02/07/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
