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In Review: Week of 11/16-11/22

Amanda De Moraes November 24, 2013

POLITICS:

  • Sen. Kirsten Gillibran (D-NY) faces opposition from fellow senators in gaining support for her proposed bill aimed towards giving sexual assault victims in the military an alternate route to reporting assailants

  • Toronto City Council votes to strip Rob Ford, the city’s mayor, of all powers following a series of debates over the May release of a video of Ford smoking crack

  • President Obama’s approval ratings drop to an all-time low at 33%

[media-credit id=64 align=”alignleft” width=”216″]50 ANNIVERSARY OF JFK ASSASSINATION[/media-credit]

NATIONAL:

  • Tornadoes exploded across the Midwest on Sunday, the worst of which occurred in Illinois and killed 5 people

  • Barbara Park, author of the beloved children’s book series Junie B. Jones, passed away on Monday. She was 66.

  • Commemorative ceremonies take place across the nation to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy

  • Secretary of State John Kerry departs Friday for Geneva in order to take part in Iranian peace talks

  • Crushing winds strike San Francisco late Thursday, with 50,000 left without power and 2 dead

  • An Oklahoma City bomb scare turns out to be nothing more than a burrito

 

INTERNATIONAL:

  • Chinese People’s Supreme Court rules against torture as a method of obtaining confessions, as well as calling for watertight regulations regarding the death penalty

  • The future of U.S. troops in Afghanistan remains in limbo following President Hamid Karzai’s refusal to grant the U.S.’s requested extension past the 2014 withdrawal deadline

  • A Latvian supermarket collapse on Thursday leads to the death of at least 50 people

  • Oil product purchases have been suspended due to the explosion of an oil pipeline which connects Huangdao to the city of Weifang; the blast kiilled 35 people and has polluted 3,000 square meters of sea water as of this publication

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