Politics
New Mexico: Here’s what the largest female legislative majority in US history can accomplish
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/new-mexico-heres-what-the-largest-female-legislative-majority-in-us-history-can-accomplish/
Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping women, aid agency chief warns
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/wireStory/funding-cuts-afghanistan-biggest-threat-helping-women-aid-117856887
Trump decrees end of diversity programs, LGBTQ protections
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250120-trump-to-end-diversity-programs-define-two-genders-official
He oversaw the public executions of two women. Now he’s Syria’s new justice minister.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna186523
Freeland pitches herself as tested Trump negotiator, as protesters disrupt Liberal leadership launch
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7435563
House leader Karina Gould joins Liberal leadership race
https://globalnews.ca/news/10966058/karina-gould-liberal-leadership-race-2/amp/
WATCH: Burgum says missing and murdered Indigenous women are an ‘unseen tragedy’
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-burgum-says-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-are-an-unseen-tragedy
Handshake-gate in Syria
https://www.politico.eu/article/syria-germany-annalena-baerbock-handshake-france-barrot-no-surprise/
Carbon tax’s fate uncertain as Liberal leadership front-runners distance themselves from key policy
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/freeland-carbon-tax-carney-1.7432958
Harris declines to invite Vance for courtesy visit to vice president’s residence before inauguration
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harris-jd-vance-vice-presidents-residence/
UK women who suffer miscarriage should get two weeks’ paid leave, MPs say
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/15/uk-women-who-suffer-miscarriage-should-get-two-weeks-paid-leave-mps-say
