Friday's Headlines: Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Trump's decision to undo Iran nuclear agreement could cause major breach with allies; As ACA enrollment nears, administration keeps cutting federal support of the law; Trump...
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee recognized the group for "its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition" of nuclear weapons. The award comes at a moment in which world peace seems especially fragile.
President Trump is expected to announce next week that he will "decertify" the international nuclear deal with Iran, kicking the issue to Congress. More than any other issue that has threatened transatlantic cohesion this year, decertifying Iranian compliance with the nuclear deal could start a chain of events that would sharply divide the United States from its closest traditional allies.
Supporters of the Affordable Care Act see the president's opposition even to policies wanted by conservative states as part of a broader campaign to undermine the law, with Trump personally intervening to stop changes sought in Iowa.
A change in the Obama-era rule could mean hundreds of thousands of American women would no longer have access to birth control free of charge. The move is almost certain to spark fresh litigation.
Fire departments traditionally have waited in shootings until police declare it safe for medics to treat victims. But when a concert outside the Mandalay Bay hotel was attacked, Nevada officials applied lessons from shootings in other states and sent medics in to work while police formed protective bubbles.
The 43-page proposal, expected to be made public in coming days, argues that Barack Obama's plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants overstepped its legal authority.
In a review of nine requests for Steven Mnuchin to fly on government planes, the Treasury Department inspector general's office found that Trump officials cut corners as they tried to justify the trips, as federal regulations require.
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