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Zelenskyy defiantly provides his location in Kyiv: ‘I’m not afraid of anyone’
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed to not depart Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv, going as far as to disclose that he’s in his workplace as Russian forces proceed their assault on town.
“On Bankova Avenue,” Zelenskyy mentioned in a Monday social media submit. “Not hiding, and I’m not afraid of anybody.” Bankova Avenue is the place the presidential places of work are positioned.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
(Ukrainian Presidential Press Workplace by way of AP)
The Ukrainian chief defiantly pointed his digital camera out the window, displaying that it was nighttime in Kyiv, after which made remarks from his workplace.
Zelenskyy additionally warned that different NATO members could possibly be subsequent if Russia succeeds in Ukraine, saying that Russia will need “an increasing number of.”
“We are going to come first, you’ll come second,” he advised ABC Information Monday. “As a result of the extra this beast will eat, he desires an increasing number of.”
Zelenskyy vowed that he could be “staying in Kyiv” regardless of the Russian invasion of town, regardless of already surviving three makes an attempt on his life for the reason that begin of the ar.
“I’m right here,” Zelenskyy mentioned.
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USAID inspector general fired days after publishing report critical of aid pause
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The White House has fired the inspector general of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Fox News has learned.
USAID Inspector General Paul Martin was fired Tuesday, though rather than coming from USAID acting administrator and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the firing reportedly came from the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.
The dismissal comes days after the USAID inspector general published a report that was critical of the Trump administration’s pause on aid.
It also comes a day after USAID warned that the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID had made it all but impossible to monitor $8.2 billion in humanitarian funds.
DESIGNATED TERRORISTS, EXTREMIST GROUPS RAKED IN MILLIONS FROM USAID, MULTIYEAR STUDY REVEALS
A United States Agency for International Development (USAID) flag in front of the agency’s offices in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
USAID is under fire from the Trump administration as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its chair, Elon Musk, investigate the agency’s spending practices and prepare to revamp and potentially shutter the agency.
The agency announced on its website Feb. 4, that nearly all personnel would be placed on leave by Friday, making a few exceptions for those in roles related to “mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs.”
Its overseas missions reportedly had also been told to shut down.
USAID EMPLOYEE SAYS STAFFERS HID PRIDE FLAGS, ‘INCRIMINATING’ BOOKS WHEN DOGE ARRIVED
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The Trump administration fired USAID’s inspector general on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File/Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Lawmakers, news outlets and think tanks have dug into past reports related to USAID spending amid the apparent dismantling of the agency, finding countless examples of money channeled to questionable organizations or programs, such as creating a version of “Sesame Street” in Iraq, or funding pottery classes in Morocco.
This week, it was discovered that USAID provided millions of dollars in funding to extremist groups tied to designated terrorist organizations and their allies, according to a report published by Middle East Forum, a U.S. think tank.
USAID was established in 1961 under the Kennedy administration, operating as an independent agency that works closely with the State Department to allocate civilian foreign aid.
Under Rubio, the agency could be abolished after its reorganization over the coming days, he said in a letter to bipartisan lawmakers on Feb. 3.
Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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U.S. Army Corps begins clearing tons of fire debris in Altadena and Pacific Palisades
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In a pivotal milestone in Los Angeles County’s long road to recovery from the deadly wildfires in early January, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Tuesday began clearing debris from burned properties in Altadena and Pacific Palisades.
The cleanup marks the start of a years-long rebuilding process for thousands of Californians who lost homes and businesses in the Eaton and Palisades fires. More than 9,400 structures were destroyed in Altadena, and more than 6,800 in Pacific Palisades.
The cleanup will be a massive logistical operation, with thousands of contractors from the Army Corps and private firms working to dispose of as much as 4.5 million tons of fire debris, more than 10 times as much as from the fire that devastated Maui in 2023.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said federal, state and local officials had worked to hack through “bureaucratic thickets” to speed L.A.’s cleanup and recovery process. Debris clearance beginning 35 days after the wildfire was twice as fast as the timeline after the 2018 Woolsey fire, which destroyed more than 1,600 homes in the Thousand Oaks, Oak Park, Agoura Hills and Malibu areas.
Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a news conference at Odyssey Charter School as work begins to remove Eaton fire debris in Altadena.
(Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)
“This is unprecedented in California history,” Newsom said at a news conference Tuesday morning in Altadena, alongside Maj. Gen. Jason Kelly of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other state and local officials.
Surrounded by blocks of wreckage, the group stood in the parking lot of a school that appeared miraculously untouched by the flames. But behind them, the fire’s destruction stretched as far as the eye could see, reducing once-vibrant neighborhoods to a lunar landscape of charred homes punctuated with yellow bulldozers and the bright California and U.S. flags.
Margot Stueber of Altadena, whose house was first in line for debris clearance, said she had cried every day since losing her home in Janes Village, a collection of historic 1920s cottages, in the Eaton Fire.
“This is my first happy day,” Stueber told the gaggle of reporters lined up in front of her. She leaned in to hug Newsom after she spoke.
Within a few minutes, workers in vests and hard hats piloting hulking excavator bulldozers would begin collecting the debris, scooping up fields of twisted metal, charred concrete, ash and other unrecognizable remnants of family homes lost in the fires and preparing to truck it away.
But before the Army Corps can clear a property, contractors from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency complete what’s known as “phase one” debris removal, sifting through the rubble to gather potentially hazardous household items — such as paint, propane tanks and lithium ion batteries — that cannot be trucked to normal landfills.
The EPA is working under a Feb. 28 deadline, said Robert Fenton, the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator for Region 9. Newsom said Tuesday that nearly two-thirds of the EPA cleanup will be finished this week. That cleanup is mandatory, and property owners will not be billed, officials said.
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Workers prepare to clear charred debris near Odyssey Charter School after the Eaton fire in Altadena.
(Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)
Hazardous household items from the burn area are being sorted and temporarily stored at four sites nearby: Irwindale’s Lario Park and the Altadena Golf Course for debris from the Eaton fire, and the former Topanga Ranch Motel and Will Rogers State Beach for the Palisades fire. The debris will stay at those sites until it is shipped to specialized facilities for disposal or recycling.
Before starting fire debris removal, known as “phase two,” the Army Corps needs opt-in paperwork from homeowners who want the corps to clear their land. More than 7,300 L.A. County property owners had completed those forms by Monday, an “unprecedented” number, Fenton said. The paperwork, called right-of-entry forms, are due March 31.
Property owners can also choose to clear debris themselves by paying out of pocket for a specialized, licensed contractor or going through their insurance companies. So far, 315 property owners have opted out of having the government remove their debris, Newsom said.
“The vast majority of people have decided to get this done — it’s done for free,” Newsom said.
Newsom stressed that different phases of the cleanup are happening concurrently, with debris removal beginning on properties where hazardous waste was already cleared. And eventually, rebuilding can begin even as debris removal continues on nearby properties, Newsom said.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom hugs District 5 Supervisor Kathryn Barger during a news conference at Odyssey Charter School in Altadena.
(Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Tuesday that residents can further speed the debris clearance process by organizing with their neighbors to submit opt-in forms for a whole block. That way, she said, the corps “can clear an entire area instead of going house by house.”
Bass joined Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath and other officials in Pacific Palisades on Tuesday afternoon as debris clearance began in those devastated neighborhoods. On Livorno Drive, a street in the Palisades overlooking the ocean, dozens of people wearing neon construction vests and hard hats stood by the twisted wreckage of burned homes.
Property owners will receive a phone call three to five days before the corps enters their property, and again a day in advance, said Col. Eric Swenson of the Army Corps on Monday. He said crews will walk around the property when they arrive to tally what debris will be removed. He encouraged property owners to attend the site assessment and talk to the crew about any areas of their property that “they’re interested in us using additional caution around.”
Swenson said general fire ash and debris will be carted into lined trucks and driven to approved landfills. Those facilities include the Simi Valley Landfill, the Azusa Land Reclamation site, Badlands Sanitary Landfill in Moreno Valley, Calabasas Landfill in Agoura, El Sobrante Landfill in Corona, Lamb Canyon Landfill in Beaumont, and Sunshine Canyon Landfill in Sylmar.
Other forms of waste, including metal and concrete, will be sent to staging areas for repackaging and sorting before going to a specialized landfill. Swenson said the corps will also scrape off the top six inches of contaminated soil from the burn area.
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FBI must release Mar-a-Lago probe records despite Trump's criminal immunity: judge
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FBI records from the Mar-a-Lago classified documents probe will soon be released despite the dismissal of the case against President Donald Trump and his presidential immunity, according to a federal judge’s ruling Monday.
In a court filing first obtained by Politico, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell found that the FBI must disclose more information related to the case by Feb. 20.
The decision concerned a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case brought by journalist Jason Leopold.
Leopold filed a request with the FBI in 2022 after reports that Trump during his first term “allegedly flushed some presidential records down the toilet when he was still in the White House and brought presidential records, including sensitive classified documents, to his personal residence in Florida,” according to the filing.
The FBI asked the court to authorize withholding the records under Exemption 7A, which concerns “records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that production of such law enforcement records or information…could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.”
CBS STAFFERS UPSET OVER ‘60 MINUTES’ DRAMA, ADMIT KAMALA HARRIS INTERVIEW EDITS WERE AN ‘UNFORCED ERROR’
Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Jan. 7, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
In light of the SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity as well as Trump’s election win in November, Trump is exempt from criminal proceedings, but Howell found the documents could still be released because of that fact, as there are no law enforcement proceedings against him.
“Somewhat ironically, the constitutional and procedural safeguards attached to the criminal process include significant confidentiality mechanisms…. with a parallel safeguard in Exemption 7(A) to help preserve the necessary confidentiality of ongoing criminal investigations leading to anticipated enforcement actions, but for an immune president, Exemption 7(A) may simply be unavailable, as it is here,” Howell said.
DEMOCRAT LAWMAKERS FACE BACKLASH FOR INVOKING ‘UNHINGED’ VIOLENT RHETORIC AGAINST MUSK
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Documents were seized during the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence on Aug. 8, 2022. (Department of Justice via AP/File)
“Defendants’ motion for summary judgment seeking judgment in their favor as to the legality of relying on Exemption 7(A) to withhold entirely the FBI’s investigative files from the processing of the FOIA request at issue and to assert a Glomar response to the sixth category of requested information, must be denied, and plaintiff’s cross motion for summary judgment as to these legal issues is granted,” the decision concluded. “The parties are directed to submit jointly, by February 20, 2025, a status report proposing a schedule to govern future proceedings to conclude this case expeditiously.”
Howell also noted that though Trump is immune from prosecution, anyone who may have helped to “aid, abet and execute criminal acts,” is not.
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Former President Donald Trump headlines a Republican National Committee spring donor retreat in Palm Beach, Fla., on May 4, 2024. (Donald Trump 2024 campaign)
“Of course, while the Supreme Court has provided a protective and presumptive immunity cloak for a president’s conduct, that cloak is not so large to extend to those who aid, abet and execute criminal acts on behalf of a criminally immune president,” Howell wrote in a footnote. “The excuse offered after World War II by enablers of the fascist Nazi regime of ‘just following orders’ has long been rejected in this country’s jurisprudence.”
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