Here’s a look at some of the big events that have happened in the world recently:

Uber Called Out for Sexism

Once an employee for Uber, Susan Fowler has called out Uber’s sexist workplace environment and prompted a reaction from the company. She claims that she was harassed by her manager, and when she reported the incidents to human resources, she was brushed off. HR apparently claimed that they did not want to reprimand the manager because he “was a high performer.”

15.1% of Uber’s engineers, product managers, and scientists are women, and Fowler described her workplace as a “game-of-thrones political war” where underhanded deals and threats are common. The company has also received at least 3 lawsuits from 2 countries from employees claiming sexual harassment and abuse.

Fowler’s story has prompted other employees to speak out, and Travis Kalanick, Uber’s chief executive, has opened an investigation on the accusations that were brought up. Board member Arianna Huffington and former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. are now investigating the harassment and the human resources department, and Kalanick promises to deliver a diversity report providing more details on how many women and minorities work at Uber.

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Certain News Outlets Banned From a White House Briefing

Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, banned reporters from several news organizations, including the New York Times and CNN, from attending a non-televised briefing at the White House on Friday, February 24th.

The White House claimed that they were not excluding certain news organizations because they were critical to President Trump, and deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders said that “everyone was represented.” Reporters from Fox News, CBS, NBC, Time, the Associated Press, and others were invited to the briefing. However, Time and the Associated Press did not attend as a way to protest the ban.

Secretary Spicer has said before that he believes that free press “makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship,” and his ban has been called “un-American” by reporters.

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New Information on Kim Jong Nam Assassination

Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, died on Monday, February 13th while on the way to the hospital after being attacked by two women. Malaysian investigators say that the women attacked him with VX nerve agent, an extremely dangerous chemical weapon that is banned in the United States.

The assassination appears to have been orchestrated by two groups that met in Malaysia shortly before the assassination. One group included Ri Jae Nam, a North Korean state security department member, and Ri Ji Hyon, a foreign ministry worker. The second group was another pair made up of a state security member, O Jong Gil, and a foreign ministry worker, Hong Song Hac. Each group recruited one assassin to carry out the murder, and the four men fled to North Korea after Kim Jong Nam’s death.

The attackers, 25-year old Siti Aisyah and 28-year old Doan Thi Huong, are now being held in police custody. Aisyah claims that she believed the nerve agent was baby oil and that she was helping with a prank, but Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar says that both women were clearly instructed to kill Mr. Kim.

The killing has been called “an act of systematic terror ordered by Kim Jong Un.”

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