Norwegian Minister of Health and Care Ingvild Kjerkol sobs during a press conference at the Prime Minister's office SMK in Oslo, Norway, Friday April 12, 2024. Norway’s health minister resigned Friday, the second Norwegian government member to step down this year amid allegations they plagiarized academic works. (Cornelius Poppe/NTB Scanpix via AP)
Norwegian Minister of Health and Care Ingvild Kjerkol reacts during a press conference at the Prime Minister's office SMK in Oslo, Norway, Friday April 12, 2024. Norway’s health minister resigned Friday, the second Norwegian government member to step down this year amid allegations they plagiarized academic works. (Cornelius Poppe/NTB Scanpix via AP)
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, right, looks at Norwegian Minister of Health and Care Ingvild Kjerkol during a press conference at the Prime Minister's office SMK in Oslo, Norway, Friday April 12, 2024. Norway’s health minister resigned Friday, the second Norwegian government member to step down this year amid allegations they plagiarized academic works. (Cornelius Poppe/NTB Scanpix via AP)
FILE - Minister of Health and Care Ingvild Kjerkol sits in the parliamentary chamber in Oslo, Wednesday Jan. 17, 2024. The center-right opposition in Norway on Thursday called for the resignation of Norway’s Health Minister Ingvild Kjerkol after an academic plagiarism probe ruled that she cheated in her thesis from 2021. It was the latest case of unethical behavior in Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store's center-left government which took office in October 2021. (Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB via AP, File)