NEWS 2A ❚ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2018 ❚ USA TODAY Study: New mothers may have higher cancer risk Childbirth ‘protection’ can take about 20 years Ashley May USA TODAY 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 not But a research group led by the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center found that the “protection” from cancer 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 researchers 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 medical 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 after giving birth was higher for women who had a family history of breast cancer Childbirth became protective only after 23 years Overall, younger women are still less at risk for developing breast cancer 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 protective for breast cancer,” said Hazel Nichols, a member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center who was involved in the study IN BRIEF Butina Congress approves overhaul of sexual harassment policies Continued from Page 1A 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 chambers would hold lawmakers, including those who leave office, financially liable for settlements resulting from harassment and retaliation The legislation 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 deliveries and left the country on the brink of starvation in the 4-year-old civil war The agreement includes a withdrawal of combatants to outside the city limits within two weeks and was praised by United Nations SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres as “real progress” 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 condition 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 market Tuesday From staff and wire reports ADVERTISEMENT 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 exploiting those connections to try to advance Russian interests Butina faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine Defense lawyers led by Robert Driscoll said guidelines 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 insiders 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, according 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 official “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, according to an email from an American working with Butina quoted in the agreement Prosecutors said Butina was in regular contact with her Russian backers, including Torshin, a Kremlin-linked banker sanctioned by the U.S Treasury 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 revealed about Butina’s activities during Thursday’s court hearing, though the judge described an incident that ADVERTISEMENT played out last week that briefly threatened the plea agreement Prosecutors led by assistant U.S attorney 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 making 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 allegation would increase pressure from her lawyers to urge her to plead guilty Butina said she was satisfied with her lawyers and she signed the plea agreement Saturday Chutkan set a status conference in the case for Feb 12 but did not immediately set a sentencing date because of Butina’s obligation to cooperate with the government Corrections & Clarifications USA TODAY is committed to accuracy To reach us, contact Standards Editor Manny Garcia at 800-872-7073 or e-mail accuracy@usatoday.com Please indicate whether you’re responding to content online, on social media or in the newspaper 7950 Jones Branch Dr., McLean, Va 22108, 703-854-3400 Published by Gannett, Volume 37, No 64 (ISSN0734-7456) SUBSCRIPTIONS 1-800-USA-0001 Monday – Friday, a.m – p.m ET Regular U.S subscription rates: $29 per month; $348 per year For customer service-related inquiries, please contact Barb 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and his administration are damaging the United States Abruptly and unilaterally breaking off long-standing commitments is counter-productive and picking fights with other governments, including allies, reduces U.S bargaining power and is often self destructive We are scholars and practitioners in the fields of peace studies and conflict resolution Our work provides sound grounding from which to devise better foreign policies and actions This has been increasingly recognized in the work of nongovernmental organizations and of federal and state agencies, including the Departments of State, Defense, and Justice, and the United States Institute of Peace Often, the result has been the effective and peaceful transformation of multilateral relations and deadly civil conflicts to the benefit of Americans We believe that the Trump administration is overly reliant on the use and threatened use of increasing military forces, while it under-funds and under-utilizes the Department of State 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University Kevin Avruch - George Mason University Eileen Babbitt - Tufts University Emile Bruneau - University of Pennsylvania Heidi Burgess - University of Colorado Guy Burgess - University of Colorado Steven Carlton-Ford - University of Cincinnati Alison Castel - Regis University Diane Chido - DC Analytics Peter Coleman - Columbia University Barbara Leigh Cooney - University of Hawaii David Cortright - University of Notre Dame Patrick Coy - Kent State University Carol Daniel - George Mason University Cheryl Duckworth - Nova Southeastern University Daniel Druckman - George Mason University Gavan Duffy - Syracuse University Larry Dunn - Fresno Pacific University John Feffer-Foreign Policy In Focus, Institute for Policy Studies Steven Feldstein - Boise State University Gordon Fellman - Brandeis University Volker Franke - Founder, TRENDS Global Medrad Gabel - Pacem in Terris Paula Garb - University of California, Irvine Michelle Gawerc Loyola University Maryland Catherine Gerard - 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SUNY-Albany Laura Zanotti Virginia Tech Stephen Zunes - University of San Francisco NON-U.S BASED Victoria Araj - University of Bradford, UK Dominik Balthasar - University of Basel Daniel Bar-Tal - Tel Aviv University Stefano Boca - University of Palermo Christine Cheng - King's College London Aleksandra Cislak - Nicolaus Copernicus University Rosalie Clarke - Nottingham Trent University Kevin Clements - NCPACS, University of Otago Hector Cuadra-Montiel - El Colegio de San Luis A.C., México Martina Fischer - Peace Researcher and Political Analyst, Berlin (Germany) Maggie Gamberton - University of York Lisa Gibson - University of Nottingham Galia Golan - Hebrew University of Jerusalem Miguel Henriques - Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano Cristiano Inguglia - University of Palermo, Italy Amal Jamal - Tel Aviv University Lior Lehrs - Hebrew University of Jerusalem Pierre Lizee - Brock University Paola Lozada - Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador Gearoid Millar - University of Aberdeen Dario Paez - Basque Country University Giula Piccolino - Loughborough University (UK) Heidi Riley - University College Dublin Michel Smetana - Charles University / Peace Research Center Prague Nigel Young - Editor, Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace, OUP Published: December 14, 2018 in USA Today, p 2, in weekend, District of Columbia, edition