October 12, 2018

Top Political News

• Nikki Haley to Resign as Trump’s Ambassador to the U.N.
• Senators seek bipartisan sanctions inquiry in Khashoggi case.
• Washington State Strikes Down Death Penalty, Citing Racial Bias
• Hurricane Michael’s Deadly Strike Leaves Florida Panhandle Reeling.
• The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Energy & Natural Resources

• Christiansen becomes full chief of Forest Service.
• Trump Administration Seeks to Deploy Earthquake Sensors Faster
• EPA removes 22 cleaned-up sites from Superfund list
• New U.N. Climate Report Says Put a High Price on Carbon
• Trump raises ethanol use in gasoline, appeases farmers ahead of elections.

Indian Affairs

• Court strikes down Native American adoption law, saying it discriminates against non-Native Americans
• Cherokee Nation To Appeal Federal Court Decision Seen As Threat To Tribal Sovereignty
• Native American tribe slams Supreme Court decision upholding North Dakota voter ID law

Labor

• Lawsuit on status of Lyft drivers may be able to proceed
• Union Issues Debit Cards to Fight Trump Rule Choking Dues.
• A Sears bankruptcy could cause one of the biggest pension defaults ever, but the government would protect 90,000 retirees.

Taxation, Trade, & Defense

• When Designer Steel From Lapland Makes Sense, Despite Tariffs.
• Trump and Xi Plan to Meet Amid Trade Tension
•  From The Front Lines Of NAFTA, More Relief Than Rejoicing
• Trump Says He Doesn’t Want to Fire the Fed Chair. It Isn’t Clear If He Could

Technology

• The Key to Autonomous Driving? An Impossibly Perfect Map
• High-Tech Transport Is Already Here, and It’s Called Rail
• Mark Warner Is Coming for Tech’s Too-Powerful

Transportation

• California Gas Tax Fuels Congressional Battles.
• WRDA Overwhelmingly Passes in Senate, Heads to White House for President Trump’s Signature
• No Infrastructure Bill Yet, but Speaker Ryan Says House GOP Delivers Economic Agenda Ahead of Midterms
• Is Transit Doomed in the U.S.? Discuss
• A Map of Every Building in America.