BitGou: Wednesday Morning Briefing: As more women run for office, statehouses are poised to change

2018年8月15日星期三

Wednesday Morning Briefing: As more women run for office, statehouses are poised to change

Highlights

As women line up to run for U.S. political office at historic rates, state legislatures - where some of America’s most critical policy decisions get made - could see a slew of new female lawmakers after November’s vote, according to a Reuters analysis of election data.

Voters chose nominees yesterday in the key battleground states of Wisconsin and Minnesota, setting up what are expected to be tight races as November’s congressional elections draw near.

Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania sexually abused thousands of children over a 70-year period and silenced victims through "the weaponization of faith" and a systematic cover-up campaign by their bishops, the state attorney general said.

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#Turkey doubled tariffs on some U.S. imports including alcohol, cars and tobacco on Wednesday in retaliation for U.S. moves, but the lira rallied about 6 percent after central bank’s liquidity moves had the effect of supporting the currency https://reut.rs/2MNZfaH

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The plunge in Turkey’s lira to a series of record lows over the past week sent tremors through global markets. While the currency has recovered a little lost ground since yewsterday, investors are fretting about contagion via stress on foreign banks and firesales of emerging market assets.

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Rescuers searched for survivors amid the debris of Italy’s bridge collapse as the death toll climbed to 37 and the government blamed the bridge’s operator, demanding resignations and moving to strip its toll concession.

Israel allowed commercial goods back into the Gaza Strip today, in a sign of an easing of tensions as neighboring Egypt pursued a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian enclave’s dominant armed faction.

The Trump administration's plan to form an "Arab NATO" – a new security alliance of Sunni-led Gulf states, along with Egypt and Jordan – is structurally flawed and has little chance of curbing Iran, writes Maysam Behravesh, an affiliated researcher at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden.

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Business

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