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Різанина в Кривому Розі: суд взяв підозрюваного під варту на два місяці
Суд обрав запобіжний захід 29-річному жителю Кривого Рогу, підозрюваному у вчиненні різанини посеред міста – два місяці тримання під вартою без права звільнення під заставу. Відповідне рішення у понеділок, 9 листопада, ухвалив Центрально-Міський районний суд Кривого Рогу, передає кореспондент Радіо Свобода.
Судове засідання тривало з самого ранку і закінчилося лише увечері. На початку розгляду підозрюваний подав клопотання про відведення судді, однак його не задовольнили.
Розслідуванням справи займається Криворізький відділ поліції.
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Проти чоловіка відкрито кримінальне провадження за статтею 115 (умисне вбивство) Кримінального кодексу України. Йому повідомили про підозру у вбивстві двох і замаху на вісьмох людей. Заарештованому загрожує від 10 до 15 років позбавлення волі або довічне ув’язнення.
Усіх травмованих через інцидент доправили до лікарні. Станом на 9 листопада четверо з них – на амбулаторному лікуванні, ще четверо – в стаціонарі травматології.
Двоє загиблих – це 31-річний син та його 66-річний батько. У Кривому Розі оголосили 9 листопада днем жалоби.
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By Gromada | 11/09/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Всі послуги на лінії розмежування можна отримати, не заходячи на підконтрольну територію – штаб ООС
Всі послуги, що українська сторона розгорнула на контрольно-пропускних пунктах через лінію розмежування на Донбасі, можна отримати не заходячи на підконтрольну Україні територію. Про це в ефірі Радіо Донбас.Реалії (проєкт Радіо Свобода) заявив заступник командувача Операції об’єднаних сил Богдан Бондар.
«Ті ЦНАПи та послуги, які ми розгорнули практично на КПВВ, вони дозволяють, навіть не заходячи на територію України до кінця, вирішити питання і потім повертатися знову на непідконтрольну територію», – зазначив Бондар.
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Штаб ООС 10 листопада планує відновити пропуск осіб і транспортних засобів через лінію розмежування на Донбасі. На території Донецької області через КПВВ «Гнутове», «Новотроїцьке», «Мар’їнка», «Майорське», а на Луганщині – через КПВВ «Станиця Луганська» та новостворені контрольні пункти в’їзду-виїзду «Щастя» та «Золоте».
На пунктах пропуску працюватимуть відділення «Ощадбанку», пошти та Центри надання адміністративних послуг.
Пропуск громадян і транспортних засобів відбуватиметься щоденно з 8:00 до 16:00 за київським часом.
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Своєю чергою, підтримувані Росією угруповання «ДНР» та «ЛНР» на підконтрольних інформаційних ресурсах заявляють про те, що не відкриватимуть пункти пропуску зі свого боку.
Про відкриття нових пунктів пропуску на лінії розмежування 28 жовтня домовилася Тристороння контактна група з врегулювання конфлікту на Донбасі.
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».
your ad hereBy Gromada | 11/09/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
German Chancellor Congratulates Biden, Harris on Election Victory
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday congratulated the new U.S. president-elect and his running mate on their projected election victory and said the U.S. and its European partners must stand together to deal with the challenges of our time.
At a news conference in Berlin, Merkel said Biden has decades of experience in both domestic and foreign policy and knows Germany and Europe well. She said she had fond memories of good encounters and discussions with the former vice president.
The German chancellor also warmly congratulated Harris as future vice president, noting she will be the first woman to serve in that position. Merkel said Harris, as the child of two immigrants, is an inspiration for many people and example of what is possible in America, and added, “I am looking forward to meeting her.”
Merkel said the U.S., Germany and the rest of the European Union must stand “side by side” to face the big challenges of our time, including the COVID-19 pandemic, global warming and terrorism. She said they must work for “an open world economy and free trade, because this is the basis of our prosperity on either side of the Atlantic.”
Merkel also said she recognized Germans and Europeans have to take on more responsibility in their partnership with the United States. “America is and remains our most important ally. But it expects us, and rightly so, to make stronger efforts to take care of our security and to stand up for our convictions in the world,” she said.
Germany currently holds the rotating EU presidency.
Relations between Merkel and President Donald Trump had been strained over issues such as funding for NATO and relations with Russia.
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By Polityk | 11/09/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Biden Gets to Work on Coronavirus, Transition as Trump Refuses to Concede Defeat
Democrat Joe Biden, the projected winner of the long and contentious U.S. presidential election over Republican President Donald Trump, has moved quickly to start preparations to take over the U.S. government when he is inaugurated January 20 and reverse some key Trump policies. The move comes as Trump is contesting the outcome of the November 3 election through lawsuits, claiming, without evidence, that vote-counting irregularities in several states where Biden won narrow pluralities and all their electoral votes, would reverse the result and hand him a second term. LIVE: PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDENSorry, but your browser cannot support embedded video of this type, you can
In this image from video, former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy speaks during the fourth night of the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 20, 2020. (Democratic National Convention via AP)Coronavirus advisory panel
Biden announced Monday the formation of a 13-member coronavirus advisory panel co-chaired by former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. David Kessler and Yale University associate professor and associate dean Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith. “Dealing with the coronavirus pandemic is one of the most important battles our administration will face, and I will be informed by science and by experts,” Biden said in a statement. Biden, during the campaign, regularly assailed Trump for his handling of the pandemic as the death toll of Americans rose to a world-leading total of 237,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. Trump in recent weeks has said the U.S. is “rounding the turn” on COVID-19. People line up at a COVID-19 rapid test site, Nov. 7, 2020 in Miami Beach, Fla.During the past week, the United States averaged more than 100,000 new coronavirus cases per day. The Biden-Harris transition website lays out a seven-point plan against the coronavirus, including ”regular, reliable, and free testing” for all Americans, an “effective, equitable distribution of treatments and vaccines” once they become available and an attempt to implement a nationwide mask mandate that many oppose as an intrusion on their individual freedom. Climate change, Muslim ban
Aides say that on his first days in office, Biden plans for the United States to rejoin the Paris climate accord that Trump withdrew from and reverse Trump’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization. Biden plans to repeal the ban on almost all travel from some Muslim-majority countries, and to reinstate the program that allows young people, often called “Dreamers,” who were brought illegally into the U.S. as children, to remain in the country. During the campaign, Biden also said he plans to rejoin the international accord to restrain Iran’s nuclear weapons development that Trump rebuked and pulled the U.S. from. U.S. transitions in power can often bring swift policy shifts but the one from Trump to Biden could be among the most jarring in recent U.S. political history. One Biden aide told CNN, “Across the board we will continue laying the foundation for the incoming Biden-Harris administration to successfully restore faith and trust in our institutions and lead the federal government.” Trump won’t concede
Trump has declined to concede or call Biden. President Donald Trump returns to the White House after news media declared Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to be the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, in Washington, Nov. 7, 2020.The Trump campaign is pursuing multiple court cases starting Monday, although there were scant reports of irregularities during last Tuesday’s voting or in the days of vote counting since then, tabulations that are still going on in numerous states even though the outcome in almost all the country’s 50 states is not in doubt. A majority of 270 votes in the country’s 538-member Electoral College, with the most populous states holding the most sway, determines the outcome of U.S. presidential elections, not the national popular vote. Biden currently holds a 4-million vote edge in the national vote count. Biden passed the 270-vote Electoral College majority threshold on Saturday when it became apparent he had amassed a narrow, but decisive popular vote lead in the eastern state of Pennsylvania and won its 20 electoral votes. At that point, all major television news organizations, including Trump favorite Fox News, and leading newspapers, declared Biden the winner. Trump has railed against the outcome, while praising himself Saturday on Twitter, saying, “71,000,000 Legal Votes. The most EVER for a sitting President!” Biden currently has 75.2 million votes. A Joe Biden supporter holds up a message for President Donald Trump during a rally near the White House, Nov. 7, 2020. (Margaret Besheer/VOA)Thousands celebrate Biden-Harris victory
Thousands of people massed in the streets in large Democratic-dominated cities across the country on Saturday to celebrate Trump’s defeat, including in Washington, outside the White House.Some shouted, “You’re fired,” Trump’s signature line from his one-time television reality show, “The Apprentice,” before he won the presidency in 2016 over Democrat Hillary Clinton. Republican Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, who is leading the bipartisan effort planning the January 20 inauguration, said it “seems unlikely” that vote projections showing Biden as the presidential winner would change in the coming days. But he told ABC’s “This Week” show it was reasonable for Republicans to wait a little longer for state election officials to tabulate the official outcome and in some cases, such as in the southern state of Georgia where Biden leads narrowly, to conduct a recount. Biden and Harris launched Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts using the handle @Transition46, a reference that Biden will be the country’s 46th president in its 244-year history. On the Biden-Harris website, BuildBackBetter.com, he said, ”We’ll rise stronger than we were before. We will act on the first day of my presidency to get COVID under control. We will act to pass my economic plan that will finally reward work, not wealth, in this country. We’ll act to restore faith in our democracy and our faith in one another. “We’ll once more become one nation, under God, indivisible, a nation united, a nation strengthened, a nation healed,” he said. FILE – Protesters hold their fists in the air during a rally in Las Vegas against police brutality sparked by the death of George Floyd, June 5, 2020.Racial injustice
The website said it would also address racial inequity and police reform in the U.S. by working with Congress to institute a “nationwide ban on chokeholds” during police arrests of criminal suspects, stop “the transfer of weapons of war to police forces,” establish a “model use of force standard” and create a “national police oversight commission.” The Biden-Harris website also said, “The moment has come for our nation to deal with systemic racism. To deal with the growing economic inequality in our nation. And to deal with the denial of the promise of this nation — to so many.”
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By Polityk | 11/09/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
В СБУ підтвердили відкриття кримінальної справи проти Шарія за мапу України без Криму
Йдеться про «посягання на територіальну цілісність і недоторканність України»
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By Gromada | 11/09/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Лікарні з понеділка припиняють проводити планові операції, переходять лише на лікування COVID-19 – Ляшко
Українські клініки з понеділка припиняють приймати на планові операції, переходять лише на лікування пацієнтів із COVID-19, повідомив заступник міністра охорони здоров’я, головний санітарний лікар України Віктор Ляшко.
«З понеділка всі планові госпіталізації заборонені, наші лікарні приймають лише ургентних хворих і, виключно, хворих на коронавірус», – сказав Ляшко на брифінгу за результатами селекторних нарад із регіонами України.
Також, за його словами, найближчим часом буде ухвалене урядове рішення про «більш жорсткий карантин на вихідний день».
«Ми будемо робити все можливе для того, щоб врятувати систему охорони здоров’я від колапсу і не зупиняти нашу економіку», – сказав Ляшко.
Головний санітарний лікар оцінив ситуацію з COVID-19 в Україні як «вкрай напружену».
За час пандемії в Україні виявили 469 018 випадків COVID-19. Одужали 209 143 людини, померли 8 565.
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By Gromada | 11/09/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У День української писемності та мови відбудеться ювілейний диктант національної єдності
Радіодиктант національної єдності був започаткований у 2000 році з метою єднання навколо мови
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By Gromada | 11/09/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
After a Divisive Election, How Does America Move Forward?
American voters waited days to hear the projected results of the 2020 election, with voter turnout at record numbers. Amid a pandemic and a strong partisan divide, how does the country heal? Esha Sarai reports from Philadelphia.
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By Polityk | 11/09/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
What It Means in the US to Become President-Elect
In the United States, Democrat Joe Biden is now being called the president-elect.That means Biden, a fixture on the Washington political scene for nearly a half century, is the country’s leader-in-waiting.President-elect is a descriptive term not an official office. As such, Biden has no power in the government, and he won’t until he is inaugurated at noon on January 20, 2021.But Biden is already considering key appointments to his administration, and he says that in the first days after taking office he will reverse several policies of the incumbent he defeated, Republican President Donald Trump.So, there is much for Biden to consider and prepare for in the next 2.5 months, but he does not yet have any authority in an official capacity.Trump remains president as his four-year term as the country’s 45th president winds down. The U.S. election won’t be officially certified for weeks.First, election officials in each of the country’s 50 states and the District of Columbia must certify the official vote count for Biden and Trump. Numerous states are still counting ballots from Tuesday’s election and the weeks of early voting.The U.S. elects its presidents through an indirect form of democracy, in the 538-member Electoral College, where a majority of 270 votes are needed to claim the presidency. The most populous states hold the most sway in determining the outcome, not the national popular vote.In all but two states, the vote-count winner collects all of the state’s electors. In lightly populated Maine and Nebraska, the electors are determined by congressional district and the statewide outcome. Both Biden and Trump have state-by-state lists of pledged electors who then cast their votes in the Electoral College in mid-December, depending on the outcome in the individual states. Congress then certifies the overall Electoral College result in early January, about two weeks before Inauguration Day.Trump has filed numerous lawsuits claiming irregularities in the voting and vote counting over the past several days. He says, without evidence so far, that those irregularities would reverse the presumed Biden victory and hand Trump a second four-year term.But all U.S. major television networks and leading newspapers have declared Biden the winner, even as Trump continued Sunday to claim that he was cheated out of reelection.So, with Biden ahead in the unofficial Electoral College count and believed to have more electors than the 270 majority he needs to claim the presidency, he is being called the president-elect.
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By Polityk | 11/09/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
В разі карантину через КПВВ у Щасті мають пропускати гуманітарні вантажі – Резніков
Україна готова розгортати гуманітарні табори на лінії розмежування біля контрольних пунктів в’їзду та виїзду з окупованих територій, повідомив віцепрем’єр-міністр і міністр з реінтеграції окупованих територій Олексій Резніков. Про це він сказав у інтерв’ю Радіо Свобода.
«Ми готові розгортати гуманітарні табори на лінії розмежування, біля наших КПВВ і забезпечувати, включно з аптечними кіосками. Ми у спрощеному режимі приймаємо гуманітарні вантажі від гуманітарних організацій. А Мінсоцполітики у швидкий спосіб дає дозвіл відповідно. І ті вантажі потім можуть потрапити, знову ж таки через КПВВ, на окуповані території в інтересах людей», – сказав він.
Резніков нагадав, що 10 числа планується відкриття двох пунктів перетину лінії розмежування в Луганській області – в Золотому та Щасті.
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«Ми можемо допомагати через поставки гуманітарних вантажів. Я дуже вдячний і ПРООН, і Червоному Хресту, і іншим гуманітарним організаціям. І ми поставили технічне завдання колегам, які готові працювати над підготовкою КПВВ в Щасті для того, щоб забезпечити можливість перетину КПВВ гуманітарним вантажам, навіть якщо буде обмеження перетину людей у зв’язку з обмеженнями карантинними», – зазначив він.
На питання, чи йдеться про українські чи міжнародні гуманітарні вантажі, Резніков відповів: «будь-які».
«Питання стоїть у тому, що гуманітарна допомога має бути. І не має значення, який прапор наклеєний на тому чи іншому ящику», – сказав урядовець.
Єдиний чинний КПВВ в Луганській області – в Станиці Луганській – лишається зачиненим до 15 листопада. Його закрили з 15 жовтня.
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By Gromada | 11/09/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Biden Moves Quickly on US Government Transition
Democrat Joe Biden, the projected winner of the long and contentious U.S. presidential election over Republican President Donald Trump, moved quickly Sunday to start preparations to take over the U.S. government when he is inaugurated January 20 and reverse some key Trump policies. President-elect Biden and his running mate, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, launched a website for their transition to power, saying they would immediately focus on the coronavirus pandemic, the recession in the world’s biggest economy wrought by the pandemic, climate change and systemic racism. “We are preparing to lead on Day One, ensuring the Biden-Harris administration is able to take on the most urgent challenges we face: protecting and preserving our nation’s health, renewing our opportunity to succeed, advancing racial equity, and fighting the climate crisis.” We are preparing to lead on Day One, ensuring the Biden-Harris administration is able to take on the most urgent challenges we face: protecting and preserving our nation’s health, renewing our opportunity to succeed, advancing racial equity, and fighting the climate crisis.— Biden-Harris Presidential Transition (@Transition46) November 8, 2020They declared, “We stand together as one America. We will rise stronger than we were before.” Aides say that on his first days in office, Biden plans for the United States to rejoin the Paris climate accord that Trump withdrew from and reverse Trump’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization. Biden plans to repeal the ban on almost all travel from some Muslim-majority countries, and to reinstate the program that allows young people, often called “Dreamers,” who were brought illegally into the U.S. as children, to remain in the country. During the campaign, Biden also said he plans to rejoin the international accord to restrain Iran’s nuclear weapons development that Trump rebuked and pulled the U.S. from. U.S. transitions in power can often bring swift policy shifts but the one from Trump to Biden could be among the most jarring in recent U.S. political history. One Biden aide told CNN, “Across the board we will continue laying the foundation for the incoming Biden-Harris administration to successfully restore faith and trust in our institutions and lead the federal government.” During his four years in the White House, Trump has often delighted in pushing aside political norms, and the likely end of his effort to win a second four-year term in the White House after the 2020 campaign is no different. Trump has not conceded
He has declined to concede or call Biden. Trump is contesting the outcome through lawsuits, claiming, without evidence, that vote-counting irregularities in several states where Biden won narrow pluralities and all their electoral votes, would reverse the result and hand him a second term. The Trump campaign is pursuing multiple court cases starting Monday, although there were scant reports of irregularities during last Tuesday’s voting or in the days of vote counting since then, tabulations that are still going on in numerous states even though the outcome in almost all the country’s 50 states is not in doubt. Majority of electoral votes
A majority of 270 votes in the country’s 538-member Electoral College, with the most populous states holding the most sway, determines the outcome of U.S. presidential elections, not the national popular vote even as Biden currently holds a 4-million vote edge in the national vote count. Biden passed the 270-vote Electoral College majority threshold on Saturday when it became apparent, he had amassed a narrow, but decisive popular vote lead in the eastern state of Pennsylvania and won its 20 electoral votes. At that point, all major television news organizations, including Trump favorite Fox News, and leading newspapers, declared Biden the winner. Trump has railed against the outcome, while praising himself Saturday on Twitter, saying, “71,000,000 Legal Votes. The most EVER for a sitting President!” 71,000,000 Legal Votes. The most EVER for a sitting President!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) U.S. President Donald Trump enters the Presidential motorcade before traveling to an undisclosed location at the south portico of the White House in Washington, Nov. 8, 2020.Back on golf course
Trump played golf again Sunday for the second straight day, while retweeting election fraud claims from supporters, such as one from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who said, “We believe these people are thieves. The big city machines are corrupt. This was a stolen election.” Twitter said Gingrich’s claim “about election fraud is disputed.” Trump was greeted at the golf course he owns in Virginia outside Washington by a handful of people, including two holding Trump 2020 signs. But another sign said, “Orange Crushed.” Supporters of President-Elect Joe Biden display signs of protest as the motorcade of U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, Nov. 8, 2020.Americans celebrate Biden-Harris victory
Thousands of people massed in the streets in large Democratic-dominated cities across the country on Saturday to celebrate Trump’s defeat, including in Washington, outside the White House. Some shouted, “You’re fired,” Trump’s signature line from his one-time television reality show, “The Apprentice,” before he won the presidency in 2016 over Democrat Hillary Clinton. Americans React to Joe Biden-Kamala Harris Election Win After clinching win in Pennsylvania to collect 273 electoral votes, former vice president becomes country’s oldest president ever Republican Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, who is leading the bipartisan effort planning the January 20 inauguration, said it “seems unlikely” that vote projections showing Biden as the presidential winner would change in the coming days. But he told ABC’s “This Week” show it was reasonable for Republicans to wait a little longer for state election officials to tabulate the official outcome and in some cases, such as in the southern state of Georgia where Biden leads narrowly, to conduct a recount. @Transition46
Biden and Harris launched Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts using the handle @Transition46, a reference that Biden will be the country’s 46th president in its 244-year history. On the Biden-Harris website, FILE – Artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg walks among thousands of white flags planted in remembrance of Americans who have died of COVID-19 near Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington.Record-breaking coronavirus deaths
On Saturday, the United States recorded more than 100,000 new coronavirus cases for the fourth consecutive day.
The Biden-Harris transition website lays out a seven-point plan against the coronavirus, including “regular, reliable, and free testing” for all Americans, an “effective, equitable distribution of treatments and vaccines” once they become available and an attempt to implement a nationwide mask mandate that many oppose as an intrusion on their individual freedom. “The American people deserve an urgent, robust, and professional response to the growing public health and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak,” the website reads. The website said it would also address racial inequity and police reform in the U.S. by working with Congress to institute a “nationwide ban on chokeholds” during police arrests of criminal suspects, stop “the transfer of weapons of war to police forces,” establish a “model use of force standard” and create a “national police oversight commission.” The Biden-Harris website also said, “The moment has come for our nation to deal with systemic racism. To deal with the growing economic inequality in our nation. And to deal with the denial of the promise of this nation — to so many.”
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By Polityk | 11/09/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Former Republican US President Bush Congratulates Biden
Former Republican U.S. President George W. Bush on Sunday congratulated the projected winner of last week’s election, Joe Biden, saying the Democratic president-elect had “won his opportunity to lead and unify our country.”Bush, who served as the country’s chief executive from 2001 to early 2009, said he has “political differences” with Biden, but that he offered him “my prayers for his success and my pledge to help in any way I can.” Bush also called Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to congratulate her.Bush said he thanked Biden for the “patriotic message” he delivered Saturday night in Wilmington, Delaware, near his home as he claimed victory over the Republican incumbent, President Donald Trump, after four days of vote counting following the official Election Day on Tuesday and weeks of early voting. Bush described Trump’s total of more than 70 million votes – some 4 million less than Biden’s count — as “an extraordinary political achievement.”Trump has not conceded losing to Biden and filed numerous lawsuits claiming irregularities cost him re-election to a second four-year term.Bush said Trump “has the right to request recounts and pursue legal challenges, and any unresolved issues will be properly adjudicated.” But Bush said, “The American people can have confidence that this election was fundamentally fair, its integrity will be upheld, and its outcome is clear.”
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By Polityk | 11/08/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Резніков: Росії невигідно продовжувати війну проти України
Продовження війни проти України економічно невигідне для Росії, вважає міністр з питань реінтеграції тимчасово окупованих територій Олексій Резніков. Про це він повідомив в інтерв’ю Радіо Свобода.
«Я неодноразово це говорив, що для Російської Федерації продовження ведення цієї гібридної війни проти України є невигідним, є непрагматичним. І от у цьому головна «сіль». І я вважаю, що заради того, щоб знайти прагматичний вихід, вони будуть готові на завершення цієї гібридної війни», – сказав Резніков.
На його думку, прагматична невиправданість продовження агресії може стати важелем впливу на Кремль, в тому числі в переговорах по звільненню утримуваних.
«Для них той маневр, який вони зробили в 2014 році, вже несе шкоду, а не несе користь. Їм треба ж утримувати приблизно 3-3,5 мільйони людей на окупованому Донбасі, забезпечувати їм пенсії, бюджетні виплати, ставити питання про підтримання порядку. І економічно вони вже не справляються на сьогодні, вони не забезпечують робочі місця. Навіть в клініках вони не можуть забезпечити нормальний рівень медичного обслуговування людей під час пандемії», – констатував міністр.
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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 | 11/08/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Резніков: повернути Крим може бути «легше», ніж окуповану частину Донбасу
Повернення анексованого Криму під контроль України може бути «легшим варіантом», ніж повернення окупованої частини Донбасу, вважає віцепрем’єр-міністр, міністр з питань реінтеграції тимчасово окупованих територій України Олексій Резніков. Таку думку він висловив у інтерв’ю Радіо Свобода.
«Я вам скажу, що історія з Кримом і повернення Криму назад в Україну повноцінно як окуповану сьогодні територію більш навіть, можливо, легкий варіант, тому що там не було бойових дій, як на частково окупованому Донбасі. Менше крові пролито», – сказав Резніков.
При цьому він погодився, що заміщення населення в Криму після анексії – це «завдання, яке треба вирішувати».
«Легко все не буває. Ми з вами живемо сьогодні в світі, коли класичні війни вже не ведуться, а ведуться гібридні війни. Тому відповіддю і захистом від гібридної агресії повинні бути так само гібридні ходи», – додав міністр.
За даними пресслужби Офісу генерального прокурора України, за час анексії Криму Росією півострів залишили майже 48 тисяч осіб. Водночас здійснюється активне заселення півострова росіянами.
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У Міністерстві з питань реінтеграції окупованих територій України звернули увагу на те, що до початку анексії населення в Севастополі становило 400 тисяч осіб. У відомстві вважають, що більшість новоприбулих – російські військові, і наполягають, що йдеться про навмисне заміщення населення міста.
У березні 2020 року Кримстат повідомив, що, за офіційними даними, на півострів із Росії після 2014 року в’їхали понад 172 тисячі осіб: із них у Криму зареєструвалися 96 тисяч, в Севастополі – 76 тисяч.
your ad hereBy Gromada | 11/08/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
На початку нового тижня в Україні опадів не буде – синоптики
У найближчу добу, 9 листопада, погоду в Україні визначатиме волога й відносно тепла повітряна маса, опадів не очікується, вночі та вранці скрізь, крім північної частини, туман. Як повідомляє Укргідрометцентр, вітер буде північно-західний, 3-8 м/с. Температура вночі 1-6 тепла, в Карпатах 0-2 морозу; вдень 6-11 тепла, в Закарпатській і Одеській областях до +14.
«Надалі, по тижню, похолодання додаватиме по 2-5 градусів, поки в другій половині тижня не поповзуть нічні «мінуси», – повідомила у фейсбуці синоптик Наталка Діденко.
У Києві в понеділок без опадів. Температура вночі 4-6 тепла, вдень 8-10.
За даними Центральної геофізичної обсерваторії, в Києві 9 листопада найвищу температуру вдень у 17,8 тепла фіксували в 2010 році, а найнижчу нічну – 15 градусів морозу – у 1888 році.
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Жінок більше серед тих, хто захворів на COVID-19 минулої доби у Києві – Кличко
Мер Києва Віталій Кличко повідомив, що серед загального числа у 943 хворих на COVID-19 у Києві за минулу добу – понад пів тисячі – жінки.
«Захворіли 526 жінок віком від 18 до 95 років і 371 чоловік віком від 18 до 95 років. А також 24 дівчинки від двох років до 17 та 22 хлопчики від двох місяців до 17 років», – повідомив Кличко.
Він зазначив, що серед, хто захворів, є і 27 медиків.
За минулу добу у столиці 15 людей померли, 117 одужали, додав Кличко.
«Найбільше випадків захворювання минулої доби виявили в Шевченківському районі – 158, в Деснянському – 128 та 111 випадків – у Дніпровському районі, – зауважив мер Києва.
Від початку пандемії, станом на 8 листопада, у столиці України виявили 44 172 випадки COVID-19, померли 867 киян, одужали – 16 497.
За весь час пандемії в Україні захворіла 460 331 людина, одужали – 206 866, померли – 8 450.
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By Gromada | 11/08/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
За минулу добу в Україні на COVID-19 захворіли 9 397 людей – МОЗ
У Міністерстві охорони здоров’я повідомили, що за минулу добу в Україні виявили 9 397 випадків COVID-19.
«З них дітей – 315, медпрацівників – 326. Також за останню добу госпіталізовано – 1157 осіб; летальних випадків – 138; одужало – 2 637 осіб», – йдеться в повідомленні.
За даними МОЗ, за останню добу найбільша кількість підтверджених випадків зареєстрована у Харківській області (1 074), Києві (943) та Запорізькій області (688).
За весь час пандемії, станом на 8 листопада, в Україні захворіла 460 331 людина, одужали – 206 866, померли – 8 450.
За даними Університету Джонса Гопкінса, станом на 8 листопада у світі виявили понад 49,8 мільйона інфікованих коронавірусом. Від COVID-19 померли більш ніж 1,2 мільйона людей, одужали понад 32 мільйона.
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By Gromada | 11/08/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У першій половині дня 8 листопада у Києві буде туман і погана видимість на дорогах – КМДА
У першій половині дня 8 листопада в Києві очікується туман, видимість 200-500 м (I рівень небезпечності, жовтий), повідомляє пресслужба Київміськадміністрації з посиланням на синоптиків.
«Погодні умови можуть призвести до порушення руху на окремих ділянках доріг і вулиць», – йдеться в повідомленні.
За даними Укргідрометцентру, у неділю-понеділок у більшості областей України вночі та вранці місцями туман.
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By Gromada | 11/08/2020 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
People Take to US Streets to Celebrate – And Protest – Election Results
After several tense days of vote counting, Americans spent Saturday celebrating – and protesting – the results of the US presidential race. Michelle Quinn reports.
Producer: Miguel Amaya
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By Polityk | 11/08/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Biden Seeks Unity After Election Win
President-elect Joe Biden promoted a message of unity and bridging America’s political divide hours after news networks projected him winning the U.S. presidential election. VOA White House Correspondent Patsy Widakuswara reports from Washington.
Producer: Barry Unger
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By Polityk | 11/08/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Harris Makes History Amid Rough and Tumble of Campaign
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris parlayed a career as a California prosecutor, attorney general and U.S. senator to the second most powerful job in the United States.Harris will be the first African American woman and first South Asian American to be vice president when she and President-elect Joe Biden take their oaths of office on January 20.She introduced herself at the Democratic convention as the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants and pledged to work to make America more inclusive after four years of the Trump administration, which she described as making the country more divided.Harris has said that she and Biden share a “vision of our nation as a beloved community – where all are welcome, no matter what we look like, where we come from, or who we love.”The Biden-Harris ticket was forged despite sharp differences between the two during the Democratic Party’s presidential primary election season in debating race relations, use of busing to integrate schools and Biden’s civil rights record as a U.S. senator from Delaware.In accepting her party’s vice presidential nomination after ending her own presidential campaign, Harris asked Americans to join her in fighting racism and xenophobia.“There is no vaccine for racism. We’ve got to do the work,” she said.FILE – Vice President Mike Pence takes notes as then-Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris answers a question during the vice presidential debate, Oct. 7, 2020, at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.Yet the ensuing presidential campaign was bruising at times for a woman of color who was seeking to make political history. President Donald Trump referred to Harris as a “monster” in an interview in early October, the morning after Harris and Republican Vice President Mike Pence squared off in a nationally televised debate.Harris refused to respond beyond dismissing the president’s comment as “childish,” but it was emblematic of racial and gender barriers that she has had to contend with throughout her political career, according to her allies and minority advocacy groups. Biden responded, calling Trump’s comments “despicable” and “so beneath the office of the presidency.”Since late summer, Harris has spent her time crisscrossing the U.S. to campaign for Biden.Debate stageHarris was not always on the same page as Biden. Before becoming his running mate, Harris was herself seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.One of the most dramatic moments of the nominating contest came on a debate stage in June 2019, when Harris directly challenged Biden, one of the party’s long-standing leaders, about his views on America’s often troubled race relations — and his prior work in the U.S. Senate with lawmakers with a segregationist past.FILE – Sen. Kamala Harris speaks as former Vice President Joe Biden listens during the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN, July 31, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Mich.With measured precision, Harris told Biden, two decades her elder, “It was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing.””You know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools,” Harris continued, “and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me.”Biden was stunned by the attack and protested that he was only opposed to forced busing mandated by the federal government — although he often had worked as a senator himself in the 1970s and 1980s to oppose school busing to racially desegregate schools. He later apologized for his comments, though, about his working relationships with Southern lawmakers who had a checkered history on racial equality.History-making selectionNow, whatever animosity might have been generated more than a year ago on the debate stage has dissipated. After a lengthy search for a vice presidential running mate, Biden picked the 56-year-old Harris less than three months before the November 3 national election.Biden’s selection of Harris was history-making. Harris was the fourth woman to be on a major party national ticket, but the first African American woman and first Asian American.The three women previously on U.S. national political tickets – two vice presidential candidates and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016 – all lost. Harris is now poised to become the highest-ranking female U.S. official in the country’s 244-year history.FILE – Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris takes questions after voting in Los Angeles, June 7, 2016.Political viewsHarris holds reliably left-of-center views on promoting access to health care in the U.S., banning assault weapons, granting a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, and ensuring workplace equality for women and gay people.But the progressive wing of the U.S. Democratic Party questioned her background as a tough prosecutor in San Francisco and later as California attorney general before winning a Senate seat in 2016.At one point during her career, she declared, “If you carry an illegal gun in the city of San Francisco and your case is brought to my office, you are going to spend time in jail. Period.” Another time, she said, “It is not progressive to be soft on crime.”To some, Harris has seemed to be a political contradiction, saying she would not seek the death penalty for capital punishment crimes in California yet defending the state’s death penalty when the statute was challenged.Even so, she brought a new political energy to Biden’s run for the presidency, his third over a three-decade span but the first in which he won the party’s nomination.Confronting powerAs a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Harris sparred with Trump administration officials and received media attention for her pointed questions of two of the president’s conservative Supreme Court nominees, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.FILE – Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, speak as protesters rally against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Sept. 28, 2018, at the Supreme Court in Washington.During October hearings for a third conservative Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, Harris was more restrained in her questioning at a time when she was both a senator and the vice presidential nominee.Harris voted against all three of the conservative nominees, as did most Democrats, although all were confirmed by the Senate to lifetime appointments to the country’s highest court.The California senator is also remembered for sharply questioning Attorney General William Barr in May 2019, asking him, “Has the president or anyone at the White House ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone? Yes or no, please, sir.” Barr had no immediate answer and she subsequently called for his resignation.’Nasty’ labelTrump called her questioning of Barr “nasty,” a descriptor he employed again after Biden announced his decision to select Harris as his running mate. Trump, who donated to Harris’s California campaign for state attorney general several years ago, also called her the “meanest” and “most horrible” and said she had been “disrespectful” to Biden in her 2019 debate stage attacks.Harris has worked on politically bipartisan pieces of legislation with Republicans. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Trump supporter, said of Harris: “She’s hard-nosed. She’s smart. She’s tough.”Harris says she has limits when pursuing legislation grounded in ideology, telling The New York Times a year ago: “Policy has to be relevant. That’s my guiding principle: ‘Is it relevant?’ Not, ‘Is it a beautiful sonnet?’ “Harris and Biden got to know each other several years ago. Harris worked closely with Biden’s son, Beau Biden, on issues when the younger Biden and Harris both served as state attorneys general. Beau Biden died of brain cancer at age 46 in May 2015.
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By Polityk | 11/08/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Young Voters Celebrate Biden’s Projected Election Win
Young voters, including many of color, turned out in record numbers this election and overwhelmingly supported the Democratic ticket, helping to push projected election winners Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to secure the highest offices in the U.S.“This victory belongs to young people,” said Rachel Fleischer, executive director of the Washington-based youth advocacy group Young Invincibles, in a statement released Saturday. “Young voters … came out in force and continue to actively shape the future of our country. Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump attend a ‘Stop the Steal’ protest outside the Wisconsin State Capitol, following the announcement that U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has won the 2020 election, in Madison, Wisconsin.Jackie Juergensen, a junior at University of Maryland who also voted for Trump, said, “A big issue that was important to me this election was voting pro-life. Trump is one of the most pro-life presidents we’ve had in recent history.” The youth vote was particularly strong among young people of color. An analysis from CIRCLE showed major impact by youth of color in key battleground states, such as Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania. In North Carolina and Georgia, for example, 90% or more of Black youths voted for Biden, while more than half of white youths supported Trump, CIRCLE reported.
“Let me be extremely clear: It was Black youth in places like Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia that made the difference in the youth vote in this election they deserve massive credit …” tweeted David Hogg, a youth activist who was at Marjory Stoneham Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018 during a mass shooting.“We have a lot more work to do but I just wanted to say I am so thankful to all of the gun violence survivors the parents that have gone through unimaginable trauma and pain and have had to push for this for decades we have to hold Joe Biden accountable but this is a big win,” Hogg tweeted from a celebratory crowd in Washington. We have a lot more work to do but I just wanted to say I am so thankful to all of the gun violence survivors the parents that have gone through unimaginable trauma and pain and have had to push for this for decades we have to hold Joe Biden accountable but this is a big win. pic.twitter.com/1dGA9VhDvP— David Hogg Vote ? (@davidhogg111) November 7, 2020Cameron Emamdjomeh, a student at Louisiana State University who said he voted for Biden, said in an interview, “I voted because I feel it is important for our voices to be heard and to participate in the election. One way the election could impact me is the way that COVID is taken care of. I am so tired of this pandemic.” Voutsinas-Klose said he was “extremely happy” about the projected Biden victory. “However, I’m disheartened by some Democratic losses down-ballot and the likelihood that [Kentucky Senator] Mitch McConnell keeps the Senate. “The fact that this election was as close as it was is a testament to the deep problems facing this country,” he said. “We have a lot more work to do to save our planet, recover from coronavirus and help the poor.”
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By Polityk | 11/08/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Biden Transition Team Didn’t Wait for Verdict to Get Busy
Joe Biden’s transition team didn’t wait for a verdict in the presidential race before getting to work. Well before Saturday’s victory for Biden, longtime aide Ted Kaufman had been leading efforts to ensure the former vice president can begin building out a government in anticipation of a victory. Kaufman is a former senator from Delaware who was appointed to fill the seat vacated when Biden was elected vice president. He also worked on Barack Obama’s transition team in 2008, and helped write legislation formalizing the presidential transition process. Biden first asked Kaufman to start work on a just-in-case transition in April, shortly after the former vice president locked up the presidential nomination at the conclusion of a once-crowded Democratic primary. The transition can be a frenzied process even under normal circumstances. It was at least somewhat reminiscent of the 2000 presidential race and that year’s postelection legal fight over the recount in Florida. After more than a month, the dispute between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore was decided by the Supreme Court — truncating the transition period to just 39 days before the January 2001 inauguration. Clay Johnson, who headed Bush’s transition team, said Biden’s advisers couldn’t “wait to be sure that the president-elect really is the president-elect.” Johnson said that in June of 1999 — about 17 months before Election Day 2000 — Bush approached him about heading the possible transition, having seen his father go through the process 11 years earlier. Prior to Election Day, Bush had already settled on Andy Card to serve as chief of staff for both the transition and at the White House. Johnson thought they were ahead of schedule. But then came the recount. After an initial 10 days or so, Bush’s running mate, Dick Cheney, told Johnson to begin raising money and making staffing decisions, declaring that the race “is going to be resolved one way or the other.” The Bush team was unable to conduct FBI background checks on potential Cabinet members and other appointees with no official winner declared. Instead, it used a former White House general counsel from the Reagan administration to conduct interviews designed to screen for potential problems that might have turned up in background checks. “You have to assume you are it and not be presumptuous but they better be working hard as if they are it,” Johnson said of Biden’s team. “And they should have started doing that last Tuesday night.” Biden’s campaign has refused to comment on the transition process. His closest advisers say the top priority will be announcing a White House chief of staff, then assembling the pieces needed to tackle the coronavirus. A president gets 4,000 appointees, and more than 1,200 of them must be confirmed by the Senate. That could be a challenge for Biden since the Senate may well remain controlled by the Republicans. The transition process formally starts once the General Service Administration determines the winner based on all available facts. That’s vague enough guidance that Trump could pressure the agency’s director to stall. It’s also unclear if the president would meet personally with Biden. Obama met with Trump less than a week after the election, but there was no dispute about him having topped Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College. Whenever the process starts, Biden will have to cope with the coronavirus, which has killed more than 230,000 Americans. Biden has promised to use his transition period to meet with the governors of every state and ask them to impose a nationwide mask-wearing mandate. He says he plans to go around any holdouts to secure such rules from county and local officials. Another key decision will be how Biden deploys his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris. His campaign has indicated that Biden will establish a White House-level coronavirus task force like Trump did, but it’s not clear if he will tap Harris to run it. Vice President Mike Pence heads the current panel. Biden has been huddling in his Wilmington home with top advisers and family. Harris has stuck close too, occupying a Delaware hotel with her family since election night and joining Biden as he gave remarks in recent days. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, a former Biden presidential primary rival, said he expects Harris to be “a real partner” to Biden and hopes to see her “managing major issues of importance.”
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By Polityk | 11/08/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Kamala Harris Projected to Be First Woman of Color Elected US Vice President
Kamala Harris is making history as the first woman of color projected to become vice president of the United States, shattering barriers that have kept men — almost all of them white — entrenched at the highest levels of American politics for more than two centuries.The 56-year-old California senator is also the first person of Black and South Asian descent elected to the vice presidency. She represents the multiculturalism that defines America but is largely absent from Washington’s power centers. Her Black identity has allowed her to speak in personal terms in a year of reckoning over police brutality and systemic racism.Harris has been a rising star in Democratic politics for much of the last two decades, serving as San Francisco’s district attorney and California’s attorney general before becoming a U.S. senator. After Harris ended her own 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, Joe Biden tapped her as his running mate. They will be sworn in as president and vice president on Jan. 20.Biden’s running mate selection carried added significance because he will be the oldest president ever inaugurated, at 78, and hasn’t committed to seeking a second term in 2024.Harris often framed her candidacy as part of the legacy — often undervalued — of pioneering Black women who came before her, including educator Mary McLeod Bethune, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer and Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the first Black candidate to seek a major party’s presidential nomination, in 1972. “We’re not often taught their stories,” Harris said in August as she accepted her party’s vice presidential nomination. “But as Americans, we all stand on their shoulders.”That history was on Sara Twyman’s mind recently as she watched Harris campaign in Las Vegas and wore a sweatshirt featuring the senator’s name alongside Chisholm.”It’s high time that a woman gets to the highest levels of our government,” said Twyman, who is 35 and Black.Despite the excitement surrounding Harris, she and Biden face steep challenges, including deepening racial tensions in the U.S. in the wake of a pandemic that has taken a disproportionate toll on people of color and a series of police killings of Black Americans. Harris’ past work as a prosecutor has prompted skepticism among progressives and young voters who are looking to her to back sweeping institutional change over incremental reforms in policing, drug policy and more.Jessica Byrd, who leads the Movement for Black Lives’ Electoral Justice Project and The Frontline, a multiracial coalition effort to galvanize voters, said she plans to engage in the rigorous organizing work needed to push Harris and Biden toward more progressive policies.”I deeply believe in the power of Black women’s leadership, even when all of our politics don’t align,” Byrd said. “I want us to be committed to the idea that representation is exciting and it’s worthy of celebration and also that we have millions of Black women who deserve a fair shot.”Harris is the second Black woman elected to the Senate. Her colleague, Sen. Cory Booker, who is also Black, said her very presence makes the institution “more accessible to more people” and suggested she would accomplish the same with the vice presidency.Harris was born in 1964 to two parents active in the civil rights movement. Shyamala Gopalan, from India, and Donald Harris, from Jamaica, met at the University of California, Berkeley, then a hotbed of 1960s activism. They divorced when Harris and her sister were girls, and Harris was raised by her late mother, whom she considers the most important influence in her life. Kamala is Sanskrit for “lotus flower,” and Harris gave nods to her Indian heritage throughout the campaign, including with a callout to her “chitthis,” a Tamil word for a maternal aunt, in her first speech as Biden’s running mate. When Georgia Sen. David Perdue mocked her name in an October rally, the hashtag #MyNameIs took off on Twitter, with South Asians sharing the meanings behind their names. The mocking of her name by Republicans, including Trump, was just one of the attacks Harris faced. Trump and his allies sought to brand her as radical and a socialist despite her more centrist record, an effort aimed at making people uncomfortable about the prospect of a Black woman in leadership. She was the target of online disinformation laced with racism and sexism about her qualifications to serve as president.Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal of Washington said Harris’ power comes not just from her life experience but also from the people she already represents. California is the nation’s most populous and one of its most diverse states; nearly 40% of people are Latino and 15% are Asian. In Congress, Harris and Jayapal have teamed up on bills to ensure legal representation for Muslims targeted by Trump’s 2017 travel ban and to extend rights to domestic workers.”That’s the kind of policy that also happens when you have voices like ours at the table,” said Jayapal, who in 2016 was the first South Asian woman elected to the U.S. House. Harris won election to the Senate that same year. Harris’ mother raised her daughters with the understanding the world would see them as Black women, Harris has said, and that is how she describes herself today. She attended Howard University, one of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities, and pledged Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation’s first sorority created by and for Black women. She campaigned regularly at HBCUs and tried to address the concerns of young Black men and women eager for strong efforts to dismantle systemic racism. Her victory could usher more Black women and people of color into politics.San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who considers Harris a mentor, views Harris’ success through the lens of her own identity as the granddaughter of a sharecropper. “African Americans are not far removed from slavery and the horrors of racism in this country, and we’re still feeling the impacts of that with how we’re treated and what’s happening around this racial uprising,” she said. Harris’ candidacy “instills a lot of pride and a lot of hope and a lot of excitement in what is possible.”Harris is married to a Jewish man, Doug Emhoff, whose children from a previous marriage call her “Momala.” The excitement about her candidacy extends to women across races. Friends Sarah Lane and Kelli Hodge, each with three daughters, brought all six girls to a Harris rally in Phoenix in the race’s closing days. “This car is full of little girls who dream big. Go Kamala!” read a sign taped on the car’s trunk. Lane, a 41-year-old attorney who is of Hispanic and Asian heritage, volunteered for Biden and Harris, her first time ever working for a political campaign. Asked why she brought her daughters, ages 6, 9 and 11, to see Harris, she answered, “I want my girls to see what women can do.”
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By Polityk | 11/08/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Joe Biden Is Projected to Win US Presidential Election
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a fixture in Washington political circles for nearly a half century, has been projected the winner of the U.S. presidency and stands to be inaugurated January 20, becoming the country’s oldest leader ever.Biden, a Democrat who served 36 years in the U.S. Senate and eight years as second in command to former President Barack Obama, was projected by news organizations to have defeated incumbent Republican President Donald Trump in a bitter campaign and after days of post-election ballot counting. The results are still to be officially certified and are subject to court challenges, butthey are expected to stand.Biden won the presidency by capturing at least 270 of the 538 Electoral College votes.Biden’s win makes Trump the third U.S. chief executive in the last four decades to lose re-election after a single four-year tenure as the American leader.Biden’s victory came days after the official Election Day on Tuesday as election officials in a half dozen states completed tabulating millions of votes on mail-in ballots sent in by voters who wanted to stay away from polling stations out of fear of contracting the coronavirus.Biden, who will be 78 by Inauguration Day, won the presidency on his third try after failing to win the Democratic Party nomination in both 1988 and 2008, when he garnered little support either year.Now he will take over the U.S. government accompanied by his vice-presidential running mate, California Senator Kamala Harris, the first woman in the country’s 244-year history ever elected as either president or vice president. She is the daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother and was the first woman of color on a U.S. national political ticket.Biden, after Trump’s “America First” credo in which he withdrew the U.S. from several international treaties, has promised the U.S. will re-engage across the world, rejoining the Paris climate change accord and the pact to restrain Iran from nuclear weapons development.The U.S. employs an indirect form of democracy, not a national popular vote, to pick its leaders. The outcome is effectively decided in state-by-state elections throughout the 50-state country and the national capital, Washington, D.C. The winner needs 270 or more electoral votes in the 538-member Electoral College.
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By Polityk | 11/07/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
Biden Projects Confidence as Lead Increases in Key States
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden stopped short of declaring victory as he spoke from his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, Friday night but projected confidence as votes continue to be tallied in key battleground states. VOA’s Penny Dixon voices this update from White House Correspondent Patsy Widakuswara.
Producer: Kim Weeks
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By Polityk | 11/07/2020 | Повідомлення, Політика
