🇺🇸✈️ US Under Secretary of State Jose Fernandez will visit Honduras and Costa Rica this week to meet with government officials, business leaders and civil society representatives to offer US support for regional investment objectives, health and environment programs and pandemic relief, the State Department said
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🇺🇸👮♂️About 400 bulletproof vests destined for Ukraine have been stolen from the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America in NYC, local police told Sputnik.
A police officer said the vests have not been found yet
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A police officer said the vests have not been found yet
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💵The Federal Reserve is trying to rein in inflation, increasing its benchmark rate a quarter of a point on Wednesday.
The mechanics are relatively straightforward: The Fed sets off a domino effect by raising its federal fund's rate — the rate banks charge one another for overnight loans. Whether directly or indirectly, the number of borrowing costs goes up. In theory, this slows demand for goods and taps the brakes on inflation.
The increase was the first bump in the benchmark rate since the pandemic gripped the world in March 2020 and pushed the pace to near zero. However, the global economic situation is only slightly less complicated today than when the coronavirus closed down large swaths of the global economy.
The Fed is anticipating more rate increases as the year goes on. For now, consumers may feel the sting of higher prices more acutely than the pain of a quarter-point bump. But the effects of the Fed's moves will be more pronounced the further the central bank goes.
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The mechanics are relatively straightforward: The Fed sets off a domino effect by raising its federal fund's rate — the rate banks charge one another for overnight loans. Whether directly or indirectly, the number of borrowing costs goes up. In theory, this slows demand for goods and taps the brakes on inflation.
The increase was the first bump in the benchmark rate since the pandemic gripped the world in March 2020 and pushed the pace to near zero. However, the global economic situation is only slightly less complicated today than when the coronavirus closed down large swaths of the global economy.
The Fed is anticipating more rate increases as the year goes on. For now, consumers may feel the sting of higher prices more acutely than the pain of a quarter-point bump. But the effects of the Fed's moves will be more pronounced the further the central bank goes.
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇸 Moscow is calling on Washington to stop spreading false information and engage in objective coverage of events in Ukraine, the Russian Embassy in the United States said, commenting on publications in US media about an alleged air strike by Russian troops on a theater building in Mariupol.
"We draw attention to the ongoing disinformation campaign in the American media about what is happening in Ukraine. Another example was the fake circulated in the local press about the alleged involvement of the Russian Armed Forces in the attack on the Mariupol drama theater... We urge you to stop lying and engage in objective coverage of events in Ukraine," the embassy said on Telegram.
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"We draw attention to the ongoing disinformation campaign in the American media about what is happening in Ukraine. Another example was the fake circulated in the local press about the alleged involvement of the Russian Armed Forces in the attack on the Mariupol drama theater... We urge you to stop lying and engage in objective coverage of events in Ukraine," the embassy said on Telegram.
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📝 It’s ‘Alarming’: Children Are Severely Behind in Reading
The kindergarten crisis of last year, when millions of 5-year-olds spent months outside of classrooms, has become this year’s reading emergency.
As the pandemic enters its third year, a cluster of new studies now shows that about a third of children in the youngest grades are missing reading benchmarks, up significantly from before the pandemic.
Children in every demographic group have been affected, but Black and Hispanic children, as well as those from low-income families, those with disabilities, and those who are not fluent in English, have fallen the furthest behind. “We’re in new territory,” Dr. Hogan said about the pandemic’s toll on reading. If children do not become competent readers by the end of elementary school, the risks are “pretty dramatic,” she said.
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The kindergarten crisis of last year, when millions of 5-year-olds spent months outside of classrooms, has become this year’s reading emergency.
As the pandemic enters its third year, a cluster of new studies now shows that about a third of children in the youngest grades are missing reading benchmarks, up significantly from before the pandemic.
Children in every demographic group have been affected, but Black and Hispanic children, as well as those from low-income families, those with disabilities, and those who are not fluent in English, have fallen the furthest behind. “We’re in new territory,” Dr. Hogan said about the pandemic’s toll on reading. If children do not become competent readers by the end of elementary school, the risks are “pretty dramatic,” she said.
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🔎The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit stayed a Louisiana federal judge’s order blocking the federal government from calculating the cost of climate change
The decision means that, at least until there’s a ruling on the case’s merits, the Biden administration can continue to consider the economic cost of climate change as it writes new rules, and strengthen existing ones that could inch the country closer to Biden’s goal of cutting emissions in half by the end of the decade compared with 2005 levels.
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit stayed an order issued last month by a U.S. District Court judge in Louisiana that prevented agencies from considering the harm climate change causes, known as the “social cost of carbon.”
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The decision means that, at least until there’s a ruling on the case’s merits, the Biden administration can continue to consider the economic cost of climate change as it writes new rules, and strengthen existing ones that could inch the country closer to Biden’s goal of cutting emissions in half by the end of the decade compared with 2005 levels.
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit stayed an order issued last month by a U.S. District Court judge in Louisiana that prevented agencies from considering the harm climate change causes, known as the “social cost of carbon.”
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🚨🚓Deadly Officer-Involved Shooting Caught On Cell Phone Video at Shopping M ll in Tacoma, Washington
Police confirmed there was an officer-involved shooting near the Tacoma Mall around 3:30 p.m. local time Wednesday. Local media reports the shooting occurred at the West entrance of the shopping center and the suspect is dead.
It was unclear what led up to the gunfire or if the officer was injured. A weapon was recovered at the scene, police say.
Roads in the area were closed due to the investigation.
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Police confirmed there was an officer-involved shooting near the Tacoma Mall around 3:30 p.m. local time Wednesday. Local media reports the shooting occurred at the West entrance of the shopping center and the suspect is dead.
It was unclear what led up to the gunfire or if the officer was injured. A weapon was recovered at the scene, police say.
Roads in the area were closed due to the investigation.
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⚡️ Russian Emergencies Ministry supplies 2,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Donbass, Ukraine
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⚡️ DPR asked Russia to strengthen air defense of breakaway Republic, work in progress, Republic's Head says
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The Russian Defense Ministry published footage of the destruction of the Ukrainian army infrastructure at night by Su-25 attack aircraft
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⚡️ The Russian Defense Ministry says will present new documents on activities of biolaboratories in Ukraine, export of biomaterials to UK
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After Joe Biden called Vladimir Putin a "war criminal", the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, shot back at POTUS. The Russian space chief has shared archived video of then-Senator Biden revealing that it was he who proposed the bombing of Belgrade during NATO's infamous bombing of Yugoslavia, which left thousands dead and injured.
😉 Biden may have swept it under the rug, but the Internet never forgets
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📌 The Russian Defence Ministry has provided a briefing on the Ukraine op:
▪️ Russian specialists have studied original documents from the Kharkov laboratory on the implementation of a secret project by the US to study ways of transmitting diseases to humans;
▪️ New documents on the export of a large amount of human biomaterials from the territory of Ukraine to the UK and other European countries will be presented;
▪️ On the evening of March 16, high-precision weapons hit Ukranian storage facilities loaded with missiles and ammunition, including Tochka-U tactical missile systems;
▪️ The warplanes and air defence units of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down one Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter and one Mi-8, as well as 12 drones, including 3 Bayraktar TB-2 in Ukraine in the past 24 hours;
▪️ A total of 181 Ukrainian aircraft and helicopters, 172 drones, 170 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,379 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 133 multiple launch rocket systems, 514 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,168 special military vehicle units were destroyed during the operation
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▪️ Russian specialists have studied original documents from the Kharkov laboratory on the implementation of a secret project by the US to study ways of transmitting diseases to humans;
▪️ New documents on the export of a large amount of human biomaterials from the territory of Ukraine to the UK and other European countries will be presented;
▪️ On the evening of March 16, high-precision weapons hit Ukranian storage facilities loaded with missiles and ammunition, including Tochka-U tactical missile systems;
▪️ The warplanes and air defence units of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down one Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter and one Mi-8, as well as 12 drones, including 3 Bayraktar TB-2 in Ukraine in the past 24 hours;
▪️ A total of 181 Ukrainian aircraft and helicopters, 172 drones, 170 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,379 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 133 multiple launch rocket systems, 514 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,168 special military vehicle units were destroyed during the operation
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⚡️ Foreign Embassies and representative offices of Ukraine are recruiting foreign citizens into 'Zelensky's corps', Russian Foreign Ministry says
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⚡️ Lithuanian parliament unanimously adopts resolution calling on un to close sky over Ukraine, vote's results say
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The Russian Defence Ministry has published photos of one of the Bayraktar drones shot down in Ukraine
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