• The women who stepped in. Of the 201 powerful men ousted from their positions after sexual harassment and assault allegations over the past year, half have been replaced by women. This graphic visualizes how significant that change really is.
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• This legal climate. A group of 21 people, ages 11 to 22, are suing the Trump administration over its inaction on climate change, and they’re being represented by Julia Olson. Olson, the architect of the case and its argument that failing to act on climate change violates young people’s “constitutional rights to freedom from deprivation of life, liberty, and property,” is set to deliver opening arguments in Federal District Court in Eugene, Ore. on Monday.
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• Day O’Connor’s diagnosis. Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor revealed on Tuesday that she is suffering from dementia. O’Connor, who is now 88 and was the first woman on the Supreme Court, will step back from public life.
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• Halloween don’t. October means Halloween segments on morning talk shows, and Megyn Kelly’s did not go well. The NBC anchor said on Tuesday that blackface was “OK” when she was a kid “as long as you were dressing up as a character” and that she didn’t understand why some costumes, like the Real Housewives of New York‘s Luann de Lesseps wearing blackface to dress as Diana Ross, were offensive. Kelly apologized late Tuesday.
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Movers and Shakers: International Speedway Corporation has promoted Julie Giese to president of ISM Raceway. New York Public Radio has named Depelsha McGruder, formerly of MTV and BET Networks, COO. Yasi Baiani, formerly of FitBit, is the new VP of product management for Halo Neuroscience.
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