Friday, October 6, 2017

Friday's Headlines: Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

 
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
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.
Trump's decision to undo Iran nuclear agreement could cause major breach with allies
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.
 
As ACA enrollment nears, administration keeps cutting federal support of the law
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. 
 
Trump administration could sharply limit ACA's contraception mandate
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.
 
Armed with a new approach, Las Vegas first responders rushed into chaos and gunfire to save lives
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.
 
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The firm that brought us 'Fearless Girl' underpaid women, U.S. says
A federal audit found that State Street Corporation paid many of its female and black employees less than their white, male counterparts.
 
 
Trump administration plans to scrap Obama's key effort to combat climate change
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.
 
Treasury secretary's military flights totaling $811,000 were legal but poorly justified, watchdog says
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.
 
Latvia's cellphones stopped working. Russia's war games may be to blame.
The Baltic country's emergency services hotline and part of its cell network went down during major Russian military exercises.
 
The troubling case of the young Japanese reporter who worked herself to death
Journalist Miwa Sado was killed, at the age of 31, by "karoshi" — the Japanese word for death due to overwork.
 
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Crocs on the runway, and other strange signs of the time
Shifts at legacy houses like Balenciaga and Givenchy should tell us something larger is happening in the culture.
 
     
 
 
 
 

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