But a research group led by the University of North Carolina Lineberg-er Comprehensive CancLineberg-er CentLineberg-er found that the “protection” from can-cer can take more than 20 year
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matches Alexander Torshin, deputy governor of the Russian Central Bank and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin
Butina has been in jail in Northern Virginia since she was charged in July
Prosecutors accused her of interacting with groups such as the NRA and ex-ploiting those connections to try to ad-vance Russian interests
Butina faces up to five years in
pris-on and a $250,000 fine Defense law-yers led by Robert Driscoll said guide-lines call for up to six months
She traveled to the United States in April 2015 to attend a gun conference, with the goal of influencing members
of the Republican Party
Butina’s Russian gun rights group, called Right to Bear Arms, hosted a delegation of former NRA presidents, board members and major donors in Moscow in December 2015, where she arranged a meeting between NRA in-siders and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
“We should let them express their gratitude now, we will put pressure on them quietly later,” Butina wrote to the Russian official after the meeting, ac-cording to the plea agreement
Butina entered the U.S in June 2016
on a student visa to attend graduate school at American University She helped the Russian official organize a delegation “hand-picked” by the offi-cial “to establish a back channel of communication” at the 2017 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington
Reaction to the delegation “will be relayed DIRECTLY” to the Russian president and foreign minister, ac-cording to an email from an American working with Butina quoted in the agreement
Prosecutors said Butina was in reg-ular contact with her Russian backers, including Torshin, a Kremlin-linked banker sanctioned by the U.S Trea-sury At one court hearing, prosecutors showed a photo of Butina dining with
a Russian diplomat suspected of being
an intelligence officer
Little new information was re-vealed about Butina’s activities during Thursday’s court hearing, though the judge described an incident that
played out last week that briefly threat-ened the plea agreement
Prosecutors led by assistant U.S at-torney Erik Kenerson alerted the judge that Butina may have been in contact with a journalist while in jail in violation
of the judge’s gag order in the case, which prohibits the parties from mak-ing public statements The journalist was not identified
The flap prompted the judge to hold a telephone conference with the lawyers Friday But Chutkan said Thursday she wasn’t making a finding about whether the call violated the gag order
The dispute was resolved by Chutkan appointing public defender A.J Kramer
to advise Butina on whether the allega-tion would increase pressure from her lawyers to urge her to plead guilty
Buti-na said she was satisfied with her law-yers and she signed the plea agreement Saturday
Chutkan set a status conference in the case for Feb 12 but did not immedi-ately set a sentencing date because of Butina’s obligation to cooperate with the government
Butina
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Women who recently gave birth
might have a higher risk of developing
breast cancer, a new study says
Past research suggests women who
have children tend to have a lower
breast cancer risk than those who do
not But a research group led by the
University of North Carolina
Lineberg-er Comprehensive CancLineberg-er CentLineberg-er
found that the “protection” from
can-cer can take more than 20 years after
women give birth to take effect
In an analysis of 15 prospective
studies from around the world, the
re-searchers suggest women who have
recently had a child are more at risk for
breast cancer than their childless
counterparts, according to the report
published in the peer-reviewed
med-ical journal Annals of Internal
Medicine
In women 55 and younger, breast
cancer risk was highest about five
years after giving birth, according to
the study The risk for those mothers
was 80 percent higher than women
who did not give birth Cancer risk
af-ter giving birth was higher for women
who had a family history of breast
can-cer Childbirth became protective only
after 23 years
Overall, younger women are still
less at risk for developing breast
can-cer than women over 50 Researchers
found no increased risk for women
who had their first child before age 25
“This is one piece of evidence that
can be considered for building new
prediction models … We want women
and their doctors not to assume that
recently having a child is always
pro-tective for breast cancer,” said Hazel
Nichols, a member of the Lineberger
Comprehensive Cancer Center who
was involved in the study
Study: New
mothers may
have higher
cancer risk
Congress approves overhaul of sexual harassment policies
Congress approved an overhaul Thursday of its process for handling sexual harassment claims, capping a tumultuous year that saw more than
a half-dozen lawmakers resign amid allegations of sexual misconduct
The bill that passed both cham-bers would hold lawmakers, includ-ing those who leave office, financially liable for settlements resulting from harassment and retaliation The leg-islation heads to President Donald Trump, who is likely to sign it
Serial killer, 78, pleads guilty
in Texas woman’s 1994 death
A 78-year-old prisoner who said
he killed about 90 people over nearly four decades as he moved around the country pleaded guilty to murder Thursday in the strangulation of a Texas woman in 1994 Samuel Little entered his plea in Odessa, where the body of Denise Christie Brothers was discovered in a vacant lot about a month after she disappeared
Yemen’s warring parties agree
on truce in key port city
Yemen’s warring sides agreed Thursday to an immediate cease-fire
in the strategic port city of Hodeida, where fighting has disrupted aid deliv-eries and left the country on the brink
of starvation in the 4-year-old civil war The agreement includes a with-drawal of combatants to outside the city limits within two weeks and was praised by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as “real pro-gress” to alleviate suffering and show commitment to a political solution
Police kill man in Strasbourg during hunt for market gunman
A French official, speaking on con-dition of anonymity, said a man killed Thursday night in a shootout with police in Strasbourg has been confirmed as the gunman who killed three people near a Christmas mar-ket Tuesday
From staff and wire reports
IN BRIEF
Childbirth ‘protection’
can take about 20 years
Ashley May
USA TODAY
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