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The winner of the annual Nobel Peace Prize is set to be announced on Friday. The title has been bestowed upon U. S. presidents Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, activists Wangari Maathai and Malala Yousafzai—who won in 2014 alongside Kailash Satyarthi for their work “against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”—and organizations such as Doctors Without Borders and the World Food Programme.

When Mahrang Baloch accepted an invitation to attend an event in New York City this week in honor of her and 99 others recognized on this year’s TIME100 Next list, she anticipated that she might face some obstacles at the airport. After all, the 31-year-old doctor had become a household name in Pakistan for her advocacy defending the rights of the country’s Baloch minority — a fraught issue in a country where separatists have fought an insurgency for decades.

Influencers organizing around the hashtag #Tradwife have claimed the mantle of historical memory by tracing a line from Victorian wives and mothers to idealized 1950s housewives to themselves. They claim to be a new generation rediscovering womanly ideals despite the efforts of feminists to dupe women. They argue that women were once safe under patriarchal protection, able to revel in domesticity, and returning to that state would improve lives. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] One tradwife influencer, for example, has written that “women attending universities and having careers have made women much more unsafe than they were living under their fathers’ roof and then their husbands’” and argues that feminism “hoodwinked” women into believing they were oppressed.

Denver Post Broncos writer Parker Gabriel posts his Broncos Mailbag weekly during the season and periodically during the offseason. Click here to submit a question. Is Vance Joseph this era’s Wade Phillips or will we lose him to another head coaching job? There is no question he is proving to be one of the best defensive minds in football.

Interstate 25 was closed in both directions Tuesday due to “police activity” near Lone Tree, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. Related Articles Transportation | I-70 reopens after multi-hour closure in both directions near Idaho Springs Transportation | How to move faster around metro Denver at stake in RTD election battles Transportation | Pedestrian dies following vehicle crash on Colfax Avenue in Aurora Transportation | Truckers in the mountains must now carry chains in more parts of Colorado Transportation | Colorado, Federal boulevards will follow Colfax for Denver bus rapid transit expansion The southbound interstate was closed between Exit 195 for County Line Road and Exit 193 for Lincoln Avenue in Lone Tree and reopened around 1:30 p.m.

BOULDER — Rick George hopes Deion Sanders ain’t hard to keep. “We hope that Coach Prime finishes his career here,” the CU Buffs athletic director said at a news conference Tuesday when asked about his football coach, whose squad is off to a 4-1 start. “We think he can do significant things for us long-term with longevity. “For us, and I think Coach would sit here and tell you (that) we’re on the same page with where we want this program to go.” Sanders and CU are in the second season of a five-year, $29.5-million contract.