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A petition calling for President Zelensky to support a new bill that would completely ban the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church will be taken under consideration by the head of state. Any petition registered on the official site of the President of Ukraine that receives at least 25,000 votes must then be officially considered by the President. As of 1:30 PM, November 29, the petition, authored by Deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko of the European Solidarity Party, has received 25,879 votes. The petition calls for the President to support draft law 8221, “which provides for a ban on the activities of institution subordinate...

Interest groups will blitz Capitol Hill this week in an attempt to revive a nearly dead immigration overhaul, with a mission of bringing it back for one more try on the Senate floor. President Bush also will personally make his pitch in a rare Capitol Hill trip Tuesday. But whether they have the influence to push a bipartisan compromise past a political stalemate could determine whether Bush gets an immigration bill this year — or the issue fades until after he leaves office. Frank Sharry, executive director for the National Immigration Forum — a coalition of Hispanic Advocacy groups, business...