Protests against French president Emmanuel Macron’s decision to force a bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through parliament without a vote disrupted traffic, garbage collection and university campuses in Paris.

Macron has made the proposed pension changes the key priority of his second term, arguing that reform is needed to make the French economy more competitive and to keep the pension system from diving into deficit.

The North Dakota supreme court ruled Thursday that a state abortion ban will remain blocked while a lawsuit over its constitutionality proceeds.

The ban was designed to take effect once the U.S. supreme court overturned Roe v. Wade. But a district judge had put it on hold this summer while the Red River Women’s Clinic pursued a lawsuit arguing the state constitution protected a right to an abortion.

Minnesota regulators said Thursday they’re monitoring the cleanup of a leak of 400-thousand gallons of radioactive water from XCEL energy’s Monticello nuclear power plant, the company said there is no danger to the public.

The company said it notified the federal nuclear regulatory commission and the state on Nov. 22, the day after it confirmed the leak, which came from a pipe between two buildings.

Maddy Orr can be reached at orr04506@stthomas.edu