So It Goes – Anthony Scaramucci Fired After Just Ten Days: Here’s What We’re Reading Today
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Provinces to be kept from recouping full medical costs of OxyContin crisis
“A proposed legal settlement involving the drug company whose pill triggered Canada’s deadly opioid epidemic shuts the door on the provinces taking action to recoup the costs of treating people dependent on painkillers.
“Purdue Pharma, maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, has agreed to pay $20-million, including $2-million to provincial health insurers, to settle the long-standing class-action suit. An Ontario court judge approved the proposed national settlement two weeks ago. Courts in three other provinces, including Nova Scotia on Tuesday, must also approve the settlement before it becomes final.”
+1: Toronto cops still aren’t carrying the life-saving opioid overdose antidote – Vice News
2. Anthony Scaramucci fired after just ten days as White House communications director
“President Trump on Monday removed Anthony Scaramucci from his role as White House communications director just days after the New York financier was named to the job – a move made at the request of new White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, according to two people with knowledge of the decision.
“Scaramucci’s brief tenure in the role had been marked by turmoil as he feuded publicly with former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus. Scaramucci’s arrival at the White House prompted press secretary Sean Spicer to resign in protest.”
+1: Scaramucci’s fed-up wife filed for divorce while nine months pregnant – Page Six
+1: The spectacular self-destruction of Anthony Scaramucci – The Atlantic
3. Putin’s bet on a Trump presidency is backfiring incredibly
“President Vladimir Putin bet that Donald Trump, who had spoken fondly of Russia and its authoritarian leader for years, would treat his nation as Mr. Putin has longed to have it treated by the West. That is, as the superpower it once was, or at least a major force to be reckoned with, from Syria to Europe, and boasting a military revived after two decades of neglect.
“That bet has now backfired, spectacularly. If the sanctions overwhelmingly passed by Congress last week sent any message to Moscow, it was that Mr. Trump’s hands are now tied in dealing with Moscow, probably for years to come.”
4. Los Angeles reaches deal to host 2028 Olympic Games
“The city’s mayor told BuzzFeed News the latter date was ‘financially so attractive, we’d be stupid not to take 2028.’ The deal paves the way for Paris to host the 2024 Summer Games.”
5. 2017 is so far the second-hottest year on record thanks to global warming
“With the first six months of 2017 in the books, average global surface temperatures so far this year are 0.94°C above the 1950–1980 average, according to NASA. That makes 2017 the second-hottest first six calendar months on record, behind only 2016.”
