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October 19, 2019 Issue 2.
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Weekly Brief
This week the ACLU filed a lawsuit for separated immigrant families. The federal suit filed Thursday seeks what could be millions of dollars in damages on behalf of thousands of immigrant families separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill last week that bans for-profit prisons and immigrant detention facilities from operating in California.
Two researchers from MIT and a third from Harvard University won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for groundbreaking research in the fight to reduce global poverty. 46-year-old Esther Duflo is the youngest person ever to win the prize and only the second woman.
Investigators tracked a Bitcoin trail of cryptocurrency transactions that led to the takedown of a massive child pornography site on the dark web.
Hundreds of scientists declared support for Extinction Rebellion, saying the need for governments to act on man-made climate change is too urgent to keep quiet.
After imposing a total communications blackout two months ago, India has partially restored mobile phone connections to roughly eight million people in the Kashmir Valley.
When a Florida man learned that more than 400 students in his area couldn't afford school lunches, Andrew Levy paid off the lunch debt for all nine schools; “Children shouldn’t learn hungry,” he said.
Two NASA astronauts underwent the first all-female spacewalk on Friday. Christina Koch and Jessica Meir stepped outside the International Space Station to replace a faulty device.
Democrat Elijah Cummings, veteran Baltimore congressman, civil rights icon and key figure in the Trump impeachment inquiry, has died at the age of 68 following a long period of ill health.
China will take countermeasures against the U.S. in response to the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, a bill passed by the House of Representatives on Tuesday that shows support for Hong Kong following four months of protests in the city. The bill addresses whether recent political developments in Hong Kong require the U.S. to change its special trading status. Exports from mainland China traveling through Hong Kong can potentially evade U.S. export controls and sanctions. Also, amid the ongoing trade war, the U.S. and China announced the first phase of a trade deal that would see Beijing raise its agricultural purchases to as much as $50 billion.
