Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd https://cnn.it/3xdHZD6
美國明尼蘇達州的一個陪審團20日針對非裔男子佛洛伊德遭謀殺案做出裁決，判定白人警察肖文謀殺佛洛伊德的三項罪名都成立。美國總統拜登在事後的演說中表示：「今天的判決是向前邁出的一步，它可以是美國向正義邁出的一大步。」
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New Mexico this week became the third state to make it easier to sue police officers for civil-rights violations, as it enacted a law barring a legal defense known as qualified immunity.
如果你在財政上有了一個名為稅收抵免的錘子，也許一切看起來都像顆釘子。
美國總統拜登(Joe Biden)的基建計劃提出了一些行之有效的方法來促進清潔能源的發展，例如將現有的太陽能和風能稅收抵免延長10年。更有意思的是，該計劃為高壓輸電線路引入了投資稅收抵免，目的是鼓勵建設至少20吉瓦的輸電能力。這大致相當於得克薩斯州電網的風力發電量，風力發電在得州電網佔有重要地位。
拜登政府的方向無疑是正確的：根據普林斯頓大學(Princeton University)去年12月發表的研究報告，為了到2050年實現拜登的淨零排放目標，美國需要到2030年前將電力傳輸系統擴大60%，到2050年前可能需要擴大兩倍。這是因為可再生能源豐富的地方，如風力最強的地方，不一定靠近電力需求較大的人口中心。
...A year after the pandemic turned the nation’s digital divide into an education emergency, President Biden, inheriting the problem, is making affordable broadband a top priority, comparing it to the effort to spread electricity across the country. His $2 trillion infrastructure plan, announced on Wednesday, includes $100 billion to extend fast internet access to every home.
The money is meant to improve the economy by enabling all Americans to work, get medical care and take classes from wherever they live. Although the government has spent billions on the digital divide in the past, the efforts have failed to close it partly because people in different areas have different problems. Affordability is the main culprit in urban and suburban areas. In many rural areas, internet service isn’t available at all because of the high costs of installation.
“We’ll make sure every single American has access to high-quality, affordable, high speed internet,” Mr. Biden said in a speech on Wednesday. “And when I say affordable, I mean it. Americans pay too much for internet. We will drive down the price for families who have service now. We will make it easier for families who don’t have affordable service to be able to get it now.”
“Investment upfront to build out infrastructure and support internet providers is fantastic,” Mr. Bouhmad said. He added that residents in places like Baltimore would continue to need federal subsidies and that the administration should focus on the costs of broadband as a major hurdle.
“Availability doesn’t equal accessibility in terms of price and user experience,” he said.
Divided by generation and ethnicity, but galvanized by a surge of racially motivated attacks, Asian-Americans are growing rapidly as political players.
