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Fighting Ebola Workshop at Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health (Photo by Ted Eytan)

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The Vatican’s new stance toward gays, divorcees

The Vatican took the first steps toward reforming its approach to long-taboo topics within the Catholic Church: homosexuality, divorce, and premarital sex.

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The Atlantic

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NC magistrate won’t marry two men despite ban lift

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ABC News

Russian human rights group faces threat of closure

Russia’s justice ministry has asked the supreme court to close Memorial, the country’s best-known human rights organization which groups together more than 50 agencies nationwide.

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Guardian

2nd Texas health-care worker tests positive for Ebola

A second hospital worker who helped care for Ebola patient Thomas Duncan has tested positive for the disease, prompting local officials to warn that more cases are “a real possibility.”

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USA TODAY

Ebola lessons we need to learn from Dallas

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IDEAS

Egypt should release arrested university students

Egyptian authorities should release more than 110 university students arrested since October 11, 2014. The arrests appear to be directed at the students’ peaceful exercise of the right to free assembly.

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Human Rights Watch

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US student arrested in Egypt says he fainted from fear

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CNN

Supreme Court stops parts of Texas abortion law

The U.S. Supreme Court blocked key parts of a 2013 Texas law that closed all but eight facilities providing abortions in America’s second most-populous state.

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Huffington Post

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Hillary Clinton speaks about philanthropy, net neutrality in salesforce keynote

Clinton delivered the keynote address at the annual event where she praised Salesforce’s philanthropic efforts, emphasized the importance of net neutrality and sidestepped questions about future presidential plans.

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Mashable

Giving discarded laptops new lives and new homes

Globetops is an organization that refurbishes donated laptops and sends them to worthwhile applicants throughout the world.

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Daily Good

HUMAN RIGHTS

5 Ohio teens charged with dumping urine on autistic boy in fake ‘ice bucket challenge’

Five suburban Ohio teenage boys were charged with dumping a bucket of urine, water and tobacco spit on an autistic 15-year-old boy who thought he was participating in the ice bucket challenge for charity.

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FOX News

Pastor forced vasectomies, abortions because kids take money from church

Former members of Grace Cathedral have accused televangelist Ernest Angley of forcing them to have abortions, and vasectomies. They said that he sexually abused boys in the church, which he has denied.

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AlterNet

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Australia asylum cases challenged in court

Australia faced two court challenges to its controversial asylum-seeker policies. The High Court began questioning a law that detained 157 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seekers on the seas after sailing for India.

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Al Jazeera

Hong Kong police use sledgehammers, chainsaws to clear protest barriers, open road

Hundreds of Hong Kong police used sledgehammers and chainsaws to tear down barricades erected by pro-democracy protesters near government offices and the financial center, reopening a major road for the first time in two weeks.

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Reuters

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Hong Kong tycoon calls for protests to end after tension over police beating

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Reuters

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Switzerland bucks EU youth unemployment trend

Country’s youth apprenticeship program is credited with one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe.

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Al Jazeera

Facebook and Apple now pay for women to freeze eggs

Facebook recently began covering egg freezing, and Apple will start in January. The firms appear to be the first major employers to offer this coverage for non-medical reasons.

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NBCNews.com

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA plans two new missions to mine ice water on the moon

NASA scientists are launching two missions to mine ice water stored on the moon in an attempt to help lay the foundations to extend the possibility of human survival outside the Earth.

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Tech Times

Volcanoes erupted ‘recently’ on the moon

Recent discoveries by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show some spots that may have experienced volcanic eruptions much later on the moon — some as recent as 33 million years ago.

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Lunar eclipse seen from another planet

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Slate

Columns And Op-Ed

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Health care cartels limit Americans’ options

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USA TODAY

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The humanitarian crisis of water access in Detroit

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Nonprofit Quarterly

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Why Nigeria was able to beat Ebola, but not Boko Haram

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The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

Ohio boasts 65 ‘bicentennial’ farms that have been in their families for 200 years

Family farms are much more than just a slice of the past. They may also be one of the keys to a brighter, greener future — and nothing proves their timelessness quite like Central Ohio’s collection of bicentennial farms.

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Huffington Post

The emotional moment this man saw for the first time in 33 years thanks to a ‘bionic eye’

Larry Hester has spent almost half his life blind. A degenerative condition called retinitis pigmentosa destroyed his photoreceptor cells. But, thanks to new “bionic eye” technology, Hester is no longer entirely in the dark.

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Huffington Post

NONPROFITS & NGOS

Nonprofit celebrates 60 years teaching Earth stewardship

For 60 years, the Thorne Nature Experience has been dedicated to connecting Boulder County kids with nature, with hopes those children will become stewards of the Earth.

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Boulder News

NGOs extend all possible help to victims of Cyclone Hudhud

Several organisations, including NGOs and voluntary organisations, are lending their support and help to Hudhud cyclone affected families in Visakhapatnam and neighboring districts.

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The Hindu

ENVIRONMENT

Activists use GPS to track illegal loggers in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

Hi-tech undercover operation used GPS tracking on timber trucks for the first time, as well as satellite and aerial images to reveal extent of illegal logging in Brazilian Amazon

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Guardian

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3 Cambodian log traders charged over journalist murder

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The Malaysian Insider

Drugs flushed into the environment could be cause of wildlife decline

Potent pharmaceuticals flushed into the environment via human and animal sewage could be a hidden cause of the global wildlife crisis, according to new research.

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Guardian

Photo of the Day

The early morning sun lights the north face of Mt. Shuksan in the Cascade mountain range in north Washington near the Canadian border. The full moon shines in the distance. (Photo by Drew Brayshaw)

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