влада, вибори, народ
Афганістан: президент скликає нараду через наступ «Талібану»
Міністр оборони Великої Британії назвав виведення міжнародного контингенту з Афганістану «помилкою в тому вигляді, в якому це було зроблено»
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By Gromada | 08/13/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Можливого спільника Ігоря Безлера залишили під вартою
Обвинувачений мав давати пояснення у суді, однак його не доправили до Слов’янська зі слідчого ізолятора Маріуполя
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By Gromada | 08/13/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Метаболізм у віці від 20 до 60 років не сповільнюється – дослідження
«Швидкість метаболізму дійсно стабільна протягом усього дорослого життя, від 20 до 60 років», – сказав автор дослідження Герман Понцер, доцент кафедри еволюційної антропології в університеті Дьюк
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By Gromada | 08/13/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
US Population Diversifying, as Number of Whites Declines for First Time
The United States is growing more racially diverse as the white population declined over the past decade for the first time in the country’s history, a new detailed look at the 2020 Census shows. The Census Bureau said Thursday that its once-a-decade head count showed 331.4 million people living in the U.S. last year, up just 7.4% since 2010. It was the slowest growth in any decade since the census was started in 1790, except during the Great Depression in the 1930s. But the racial and ethnic makeup of the country was changing; people were moving more frequently to metropolitan areas, often to the Southern and Western states; and Americans were often leaving smaller communities, further diminishing their populations. People identifying as white remained the largest population group in the U.S. — 204.3 million — but the total was down 8.6% from 2010. A county map of the United States and Puerto Rico shows percentage change in population from 2010 to 2020.The next largest group, people who identified as Hispanic or Latino, totaled 62.1 million in 2020, a segment of Americans that grew 23% during the decade. People identifying with two or more racial heritages totaled 33.8 million, a 276% increase over 2010. African Americans totaled 46.9 million, but as a group trailed people who identified as “some other race” or in a combination group, at 49.9 million. Asian Americans totaled 24 million, American Indian and Alaska Natives were 9.7 million, and the “Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander” alone or in combination group, 1.6 million. Some demographers say the white population could still be the largest single group by 2045 but will likely be outnumbered by a mix of other racial groups, including Latino, Black, Asian American and others. Half or more of the population growth among U.S. minorities in the past decade came from Hispanics, who have doubled their share of the country’s population over the past three decades. Rural communities in the U.S. were depopulating from 2010 to 2020. More than half of U.S. counties (52%) had smaller populations by the end of the decade. FILE – Uptown Manhattan is seen from the Empire State Building in New York City, May 18, 2021.The list of the 10 biggest cities in the country remained unchanged over the past decade, with New York City at the top with 8.8 million residents. All 10 of the biggest cities had a million or more residents for the first time, with the fastest big-city growth (11.2%) in Phoenix, Arizona, in the Southwest. Census officials said the head count showed 312 of the 384 U.S. metropolitan areas gained population between 2010 and 2020, with 72 losing residents. The fastest growing population center was The Villages in Florida, a retirement community popular with Northerners looking to move to Florida for its warm winters. It grew 39% from about 93,000 people to about 130,000. Redistricting Aside from a snapshot of who Americans are, the census data will play an important role in U.S. politics. State lawmakers across much of the country – or politically independent commissions in some states – will use the information to redraw the geographic lines for congressional and state legislative districts that in most cases will likely be used in elections through 2030. Both Republicans and Democrats have often tried to draw the lines to their advantage where they control state legislatures, crowding as many of their opponents’ likely voters as they can into a handful of electoral districts in hopes of winning most of the others. A small number of states, however, have adopted the use of independent commissions to redraw their legislative districts, hoping to make the once-a-decade process fairer to both political parties. FILE – A lawmaker studies a district map during a joint select committee meeting on redistricting in Raleigh, N.C., July 26, 2017.In any case, the redrawing of districts each decade spawns numerous lawsuits from both parties, each alleging that the other has unfairly skewed the process in its favor, leaving it to judges to make final determinations of the exact geographic lines. The redistricting set to take place throughout much of the country in the coming months is expected to be particularly contentious this time. In November 2022, political control of Congress is at stake, with all 435 House seats up for election and Republicans needing to pick up only five seats to win control from the Democrats. Analysts say Republican-controlled state legislatures could secure that many through redistricting alone. A third of the seats in the Senate, now divided evenly with 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats, are also up for grabs, but the census has no bearing on the voting, since each state is represented by two senators, regardless of population. In the House, demographic shifts in the U.S. will affect the number of House seats in 13 states, with Republican-controlled Texas gaining two seats, five states each gaining another congressman and seven states losing one each. The bigger population growth in Southern states in the past decade, where congressional representation is growing, would seem to favor Republicans, while lesser growth in Northern states could mostly hurt Democratic election chances in upcoming years.
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By Polityk | 08/13/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Мінкульт розширив перелік проєктів, які підпадають під «Велику реставрацію»
В Україні почалася реалізація програми «Велика реставрація», в рамках якої протягом трьох років планують реставрувати близько 150 об’єктів історичної і культурної спадщини
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By Gromada | 08/13/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Відомий український гонщик встановив рекорд швидкості у США на електромотоциклі
Електромотоцикл, на якому Сергій Мельник здійснив рекондний заїзд, розроблений на базі мотоцикла «Дніпро», що вироблявся Київським мотоциклетним заводом
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By Gromada | 08/13/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У Києві з’явиться скульптурна композиція, присвячена Іванові Франку – Кличко
Каменяр постане на місці демонтованого в рамках декомунізації пам’ятника Мануїльському
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By Gromada | 08/12/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
«Укрзалізниця» запускає 6 рейсів до різних міст на «найцікавіші культурні події»
Окрім спальних, потяг має три фестивальні вагони
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By Gromada | 08/12/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Kentucky Sen. Paul Failed to Disclose Wife’s Stock Trade
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul waited more than a year to disclose that his wife purchased stock in a company that makes a COVID-19 treatment, an investment made after Congress was briefed on the threat of the virus but before the public was largely aware of its danger.
The Republican filed a mandatory disclosure Wednesday revealing on Feb. 26, 2020 that Kelley Paul purchased somewhere between $1,001 and $15,000 worth of stock in Gilead, which makes the antiviral drug remdesivir. Under a 2012 law called the Stock Act, which was enacted to stop lawmakers from trading on insider information, any such sale should have been reported within 45 days.
Word of the looming danger posed by the coronavirus began to spread through Congress in late January 2020, after members received the first of several briefings on the economic and public health threat that it posed.
The disclosure, made 16 months late, adds Paul to a growing list of lawmakers from both parties who have drawn scrutiny for their stock trading during the outbreak, which was declared a pandemic in March 2020.
In a statement, a Paul spokeswoman Kelsey Cooper said Kelley Paul used her own earnings to make the investment, which she lost money on. She said the failure by the senator, who is an eye surgeon, to disclose the trade was an oversight.
“Last year Dr. Paul completed the reporting form for an investment made by his wife using her own earnings, an investment which she has lost money on,” Cooper said. “In the process of preparing to file his annual financial disclosure for last year, he learned that the form was not transmitted and promptly alerted the filing office and requested their guidance. In accordance with that guidance he filed both reports yesterday.”
Gilead stock traded for about $75 a share on the day Kelley Paul made her purchase. It rose to about $84 a share in April 2020, before dropping. Shares now trade at about $70 apiece.
The Kentucky senator is not the first member of Congress to disclose trades that critics have suggested were timed to benefit from the pandemic. He’s also not the first who has failed to disclose trades in the required period of time.
Yet the $1,001 to $15,000 invested by his wife is also miniscule compared to some other lawmakers, who have bought or sold hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of dollars worth of stock during the pandemic. (Congressional financial disclosures give dollar ranges for the value of assets, not specific dollar figures.)
The Associated Press previously reported that Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski of New Jersey repeatedly failed to disclose trades worth as much as $1 million in medical and tech companies that had a stake in the virus response.
Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, of Georgia, both lost their runoff bids for the Senate in January after their own stock trades became a major campaign issue. Both were investigated by the Justice Department, and ultimately cleared.
Perdue had dumped between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock in a company where he was formerly a board member. After markets crashed, he bought it back and earned a windfall after its price skyrocketed.
Loeffler and her husband, the CEO and chairman of the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, dumped millions of dollars in stock following a briefing on the virus.
Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina drew perhaps the most scrutiny for his trades. He stepped aside as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee after the FBI obtained a search warrant to seize a cellphone.
Burr and his wife sold between $600,000 and $1.7 million in more than 30 transactions in late January and mid-February, just before the market began to dive and government health officials began to sound alarms about the virus. Burr was captured in a recording privately warning a group of influential constituents in early 2020 to prepare for economic devastation.
The Justice Department investigated Burr’s actions, but did not file charges and closed the case.
Paul, however, is unique in some respects. The first senator to catch COVID-19, he has repeatedly railed against mask mandates and other public health tools to stop the spread of the virus.
YouTube suspended Paul for seven days on Tuesday and removed a video he posted that claimed cloth masks don’t prevent infection, saying it violated policies on COVID-19 misinformation.
It’s the second time this month that one of Paul’s videos has been taken down by YouTube for breaking its rules about misleading content. Paul called YouTube’s decision a “badge of honor” in a tweet.
Paul’s filing of the mandatory disclosure was first reported by The Washington Post.
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By Polityk | 08/12/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
У 2020 році в Україні за сексуальні домагання не засудили жодної людини – ДСА
У березні президент України Володимир Зеленський підписав закон про кримінальну відповідальність за сексуальне домагання дітей
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By Gromada | 08/12/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
КМДА закликає Мінкульт прискорити внесення понад 1400 об’єктів до реєстру пам’яток архітектури
За повідомленням, у квітні 2021-го до Департаменту надійшли накази про занесення усього 73 об’єктів культурної спадщини до реєстру нерухомих пам’яток
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By Gromada | 08/12/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Справа Вороненкова, дрифт на Софійській площі, тестування ліків від COVID-19 – головне на ранок
Число хворих на COVID-19 продовжує зростати, український військовий поранений на Донбасі
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By Gromada | 08/12/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
12 серпня – що очікувати в цей день і що було в історії
У столиці Данії розпочнеться фестиваль ЛГБТ-культури World Pride 2021
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By Gromada | 08/12/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Співачка Alyona Alyona повідомила про повістку на допит після дрифту на Софійській площі
Cпівачка була присутня під час зйомки компанії Red Bull
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By Gromada | 08/12/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Київ: біля станції метро «Арсенальна» з’явиться наземний перехід
Підрядник має завершити розробку проєкту до початку грудня цього року
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By Gromada | 08/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Мінкульт звернувся до правоохоронних органів через дрифт на Софійській площі – Ткаченко
Також стало відомо, що співачка Alyona Alyona була присутня під час зйомки компанії Red Bull. Вона у середу разом з активістами долучилася до миття Софійської площі від слідів шин
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By Gromada | 08/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Опитування: 70% українців не згодні з тезою Путіна про «єдність росіян та українців»
Незгоду з Путіним висловили 52 відсотки опитаних на сході України (22 відсотки згодні), 59 відсотків на півдні (19 відсотків згодні), у центрі – відповідно 74 і 12 відсотків, на заході країни – відповідно 90 і 0,4 відсотка
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By Gromada | 08/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Талашка відсторонили від роботи в КНУТКіТ на час перевірки, вона ще не почалася
Проректора університету вказала на те, що наразі в розпорядженні комісії є тільки ті дані, які вдалося отримати з соцмереж
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By Gromada | 08/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
US Senate Approves $3.5 Trillion Budget Resolution
The U.S. Senate narrowly passed a $3.5 trillion budget resolution early Wednesday providing the framework for spending on family services, health and environmental programs. The package includes many priorities of President Joe Biden and was supported only by senators from his Democratic Party in the 50 to 49 vote. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the budget resolution would “provide historic investments in American jobs, American families, and the fight against climate change.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y. walks off the Senate floor and pumps his fists as the Senate approves a $1 trillion bipartisan cornerstone of the Biden agenda to the House, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Aug. 10, 2021.“It puts us on track to bring a generational transformation to how our economy works for average Americans,” Schumer tweeted early Wednesday. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged in a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday ahead of the vote that the minority Republicans lacked the votes to stop the Democratic majority and called the legislation “absolutely jaw-dropping.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell arrives as the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package is about to be voted on by the Senate in Washington, Aug. 10, 2021.“People want to pretend this is just business as usual. Just liberals doing liberal things using Senate procedure. Make no mistake. This reckless taxing and spending spree is like nothing we’ve seen,” McConnell said. The legislation would provide universal pre-kindergarten instruction, free community college classes, expanded health care for older Americans and child care funding. It would also fund the fight against the effects of climate change, make immigration law changes and attempt to lower prescription drug prices. Democrats plan to pay for the programs by increasing taxes on corporations and the wealthy, allowing the government to negotiate pharmaceutical prices, taxing imported carbon fuels and strengthening tax collections by the Internal Revenue Service. With no Republican support, Democrats are proceeding under a special process known as a budget reconciliation. That allows the bill to advance with only a simple majority and not be subject to a potential filibuster, an action minority Republicans could have used to block or delay a vote. The House of Representatives, which also has a Democratic majority, is expected to consider the blueprint legislation when its members return from a recess in two weeks. The specifics of the spending programs would be filled out in subsequent legislation developed in coming months. Some information for this report came from the Associated Press and Reuters.
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By Polityk | 08/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Частково вироблена в Україні ракета-носій вивела на орбіту корабель Cygnus, який доправляє вантаж на МКС
Усього з 2013 року ракета-носій «Антарес» стартувала 15 разів, 14 з них – успішно
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By Gromada | 08/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У Києві тимчасово скасовують рух міської електрички
Про відновлення руху обіцяють повідомити додатково
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By Gromada | 08/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Помер останній онук Івана Франка
Завдяки клопотанням Роланда Франка 1996 року Україна безкоштовно одержала від Великої Британії науково-дослідну станцію «Фарадей»
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By Gromada | 08/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Biden Praises Senate Vote on Key Piece of His Economic Agenda
“Today, we proved that democracy can still work,” U.S. President Joe Biden said after senators from both parties came together to approve a $1 trillion infrastructure plan.The 69-30 Senate vote sends the legislation to the House of Representatives for consideration next month.House passage is less certain, with some progressive Democrats saying the total spending is too little. But the president hailed Tuesday’s action as moving a step closer to “a once-in-a-generation investment in our nation’s infrastructure.”If approved, the package will initiate one of the biggest public endeavors in decades in the United States to fix deteriorating roads and bridges, expand broadband internet service, and replace lead pipes used to convey drinking water.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell arrives as the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package is about to be voted on by the Senate in Washington, Aug. 10, 2021.Biden thanked by name the Republican leader in the Senate, Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, for supporting the bill.McConnell and 18 other Republicans joined all 50 members of the Democratic caucus to approve the infrastructure legislation.Republicans who supported it ignored pleas from former president Donald Trump to vote against it.”I have quietly said for years that Mitch McConnell is the most overrated man in politics — now I don’t have to be quiet anymore,” Trump said in a statement just prior to the Senate vote.While in office, Trump supported an even bigger infrastructure package that never came to fruition. ”After years and years of ‘infrastructure week,’ we’re on the cusp of an infrastructure decade that I truly believe will transform America,” Biden said, contrasting his legislative effort to that of his predecessor.”Bipartisan collaboration is the only way to create durable policy in a divided country,” Jason Grumet, founder and president of the Bipartisan Policy Center, said in a statement. “The hard work and courage exhibited by Senators from both parties and the White House deserves recognition, but there is more work to be done. We encourage the House to act quickly to advance this legislation and make a positive difference in the lives of every American.”Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Aug. 6, 2021.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released a statement saying her chamber will continue to work with the Senate “to ensure that our priorities For the People are included in the final infrastructure and reconciliation packages, in a way that is resilient and will Build Back Better.”The For the People Act contains sweeping voting rights legislation previously passed by the House.The infrastructure spending package — nearly half of it composed of new government funding — would also build new sewers, expand passenger rail and transit systems, and modernize airports. A group of 10 centrist Republican and Democratic lawmakers agreed more than a month ago on the outlines of the deal, but it took the weeks since then to craft the specifics of the bill, which exceeds 2,700 pages.Biden said the legislation would “create millions of good union jobs all across the country,” most of them in the construction trades. Senator Mike Lee was one of the Republicans who voted against the bill, calling it a drastic expansion of federal power and contending that it exacerbates “our already dangerous inflation.”The legislation’s taxes and regulation “will hamper and harm our infrastructure,” Lee added in a tweeted statement.pic.twitter.com/6DM1mXPFey— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) August 10, 2021Biden has previously stated that the spending is essential for economic growth and to compete with America’s chief economic rival, China. ”This is the type of infrastructure investment manufacturers have long championed, and the bipartisan approach shows that our legislators can indeed still come together to accomplish transformational change,” National Association of Manufacturers President and CEO Jay Timmons said in a statement. “We now urge members of the House to follow the Senate’s example, pass this bipartisan bill and send it to the president’s desk for his signature without delay.”Next on tap for the Senate is consideration of Biden’s much larger $3.5 trillion social safety net legislation that would provide universal prekindergarten instruction, free community college classes, expanded health care for older Americans and child care funding. It would also fund the fight against the effects of climate change, make immigration law changes and attempt to lower prescription drug prices.Republicans are uniformly panning the proposal, and so far, none support it.Democrats in the Senate are hoping to band together to pass the outlines of the spending on a 51-50 vote, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tiebreaking vote. But it could take months of negotiations in both the Senate and House, in conjunction with Biden and his aides, to spell out the specifics of the legislation.
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By Polityk | 08/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
US Senate Adopts $1 Trillion Infrastructure Package
The U.S. Senate, in a rare bipartisan vote of approval in politically fractious Washington, adopted Tuesday a $1 trillion infrastructure plan to fix the country’s deteriorating roads and bridges and expand broadband internet service.The 69-to-30 vote for the measure, one of the biggest U.S. public works efforts in years, sends the legislation to the House of Representatives for consideration in September. House passage is less certain, with some progressive Democrats saying the total spending is too little.The White House supports the package, one of the cornerstones of President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign. It’s an attempt by him to show voters that Republican and Democratic lawmakers can agree on major legislation at a time when they are divided on numerous other issues, including taxation, immigration policies, social welfare spending and more.On the final vote, 19 of the 50 Republicans in the Senate joined all 50 members of the Democratic caucus to approve the legislation. Republicans who supported it ignored pleas from former president Donald Trump to vote against it, even though Trump while in office supported an even bigger infrastructure package that never came to fruition.Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, walk out of a budget resolution meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Aug. 9, 2021.The infrastructure spending, with nearly half of it in new government funding, would repair aging roads and bridges and broadband expansion, pay for replacement of dangerous lead-piped drinking water systems, add new sewer infrastructure, expand passenger rail and transit systems, and make airport improvements.A group of 10 centrist Republican and Democratic lawmakers agreed more than a month ago on the outlines of the deal, but it took the weeks since then to craft the specifics of a more than 2,700-page piece of legislation. Biden says the measure would add nearly 200,000 jobs a year, most of them in the construction trades, to the U.S. economy over the next decade.When he first announced the plan in March, Biden said, “The United States of America is the wealthiest country in the world, yet we rank 13th when it comes to the overall quality of our infrastructure.”“After decades of disinvestment, our roads, bridges, and water systems are crumbling,” he said, “Our electric grid is vulnerable to catastrophic outages. Too many lack access to affordable, high-speed Internet and to quality housing.”Biden since then has often pushed for its adoption, saying it was essential for economic growth and in competition with its chief economic rival, China.Next on tap for the Senate is consideration of Biden’s much larger $3.5 trillion social safety net legislation that would provide universal pre-kindergarten instruction, free community college classes, expanded health care for older Americans, childcare funding, money to combat the effects of climate change, make immigration law changes and attempt to lower prescription drug prices.Republicans are uniformly panning the proposal, and so far, none support it. Democrats in the Senate are hoping to band together to pass the outlines of the spending on a 51-50 vote, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote.But it could take months of negotiations in both the Senate and House, in conjunction with Biden and his aides, to spell out the specifics of the legislation.Some information for this report came from the Associated Press and Reuters.
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By Polityk | 08/11/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
До України зі Швеції привезли «оригінал Конституції Пилипа Орлика» – джерела
Частковий переклад латинською мовою староукраїнського оригіналу мають виставити до Дня Незалежності в Софії Київській
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By Gromada | 08/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Дрифт на Софійській площі в Києві: вилучені автомобілі, кримінальне провадження, 50 тисяч гривень шкоди і 1700 гривень штрафу
Поліція почала провадження за статтею про хуліганство, яка в разі визнання винним передбачає обмеження волі до 5 років або позбавлення волі до 4 років
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By Gromada | 08/10/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
