The Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court’s decision to allow a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis to get an abortion, Israel hit targets across Gaza as its war with Hamas entered its third month, nations clashed at COP28 over reducing the use of fossil fuels, and baseball star Shohei Ohtani said he’s signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
《イスラエルとハマスの戦い６４日目; There are reports that the head of the powerful oil cartel OPEC urged its member nations to reject any language calling for a reduction of fossil fuels; China, the world's largest , emitter of greenhouse gases, won't say whether it would agree to reductions in the use of oil, gas or coal; 》

Sickle cell disease is a chronic, debilitating condition that affects nearly 100,000 Americans, most of them with African ancestry. Now, the FDA has approved a groundbreaking treatment for it that uses the gene-editing tool CRISPR. John Yang speaks with Yale School of Medicine assistant professor Dr. Cece Calhoun and New York Times reporter Gina Kolata to learn more.
《try to figure out how do you treat this thing where you have one tiny change out of 3 billion DNA letters, one of them is changed and you have this awful disease; there was not a lot of money poured into doing research on sickle cell. there's a thought that that had a lot to do with the population that was that was affected, mostly black americans, hispanic americans, many of them without much money. and they didn't have a strong advocacy group; 》

Tensions are rising in South America as Venezuela threatens to take over a large region of Guyana that’s rich in resources. Venezuela on Saturday signaled openness to “high-level” talks to resolve the standoff, but Guyana has yet to respond. Ali Rogin speaks with Carolina Jimenez Sandoval, president of the Washington Office on Latin America, about the dispute’s history and latest developments.
《Last week, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held a referendum to declare sovereignty over a resource-rich region that makes up 2/3 of Guyana's territory; At the end of October, the opposition, for the first time in years, self-organized primary elections to choose one candidate who could run against Maduro in 2024. It seems the Maduro government underestimated this citizen exercise... Over 2.3 million people voted... And the support went overwhelmingly to one candidate, Maria Corina Machado; The U.S. government has very clearly said that it supports Guyana; ニコラス・マドゥロ; Essequibo; エセキボ;  》

This year’s Nobel laureates are set to receive their medals Sunday in a time-honored ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. Among them will be Harvard professor Claudia Goldin, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for her research on women in the American workforce. Economics correspondent Paul Solman speaks with Goldin about her trailblazing work.
《one against-the-grain finding that Rosie the Riveter was not a main driver; the most accurate image of Rosie, says Goldin, is Norman Rockwell's -- a temporary wartime factory worker whose job was to crush Hitler underfoot, not the now more famous image; the birth control pill, Goldin says. Easier access to the pill in the 1970's helped more women pursue life outside the home. it gave to women who were graduating from college the ability to have more time to form their careers, either in the workplace or by going to professional or graduate school. It led to -- causally led to an increase in the age at first marriage. And that meant that one could concentrate more on careers, and have the family later; today, with more than 77% of women in the workforce, up from 28% in 1940. And yet the gender wage gap has not closed all that much. Women earn 82 cents for every man's dollar. Some 20 years ago they earned 80 cents on the dollar; when men and women begin their lives as workers, they earned similar amounts. And as their lives progress, these differences widen. I mean, that is a fact; much of this occurs around the time of the birth of a child. That explains a large part of the widening gap between men and women as men and women get older. What women, particularly those who are mothers, lose relative to men who are fathers is not fully made up; fathers not only work more hours and thus make more money than mothers, they also make more than single men... there are several possibilities but the one that seems most believable is they somehow internally decide that they should rev up their energies to earn more, provide for the growing group of children; that was the story until the pandemic, which may now cause the pay gap to narrow; greedy jobs have gotten more flexible and flexible jobs have gotten more productive; I have the sense that this is not just my Nobel. It is a Nobel for women in general and, for that, I am very pleased; 》