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A case to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court could limit unions’ ability to collect fees from nonmembers. (Photo by U.S. Department of Education)

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Public employee unions face hurdle in court

As it prepares to kick off a new year, the Supreme Court is seemingly poised to deal a major blow to the nation’s public employee unions by wiping out, or at least weakening, their ability to collect fees from nonmembers.

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USA TODAY

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Questions and answers about Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association

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Fresno Bee

Obama aims to define legacy in State of Union

For his seventh address, Obama plans to skip the traditional list of proposals, new policies and appeals for new laws in favor of a broad overview of what he has accomplished and what is undone in his final year in office.

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Christian Science Monitor

‘El Chapo’ tipped his hand with queries about biopic

One of the world’s most notorious outlaws thought about one thing after escaping from a Mexican prison for a second time: a movie about himself, the infamous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera.

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CNN

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Sons of ‘El Chapo’ threaten Mexican government on social media

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CNN

German police fire water cannons to disperse ‘anti-Islamization’ protest after sex assaults

Police in the western German city of Cologne have broken up a protest by an “anti-Islamization” group. Water cannons were used to disperse demonstrators protesting after the New Year’s Eve attacks on women.

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Video of police containment of anti-immigrant protest

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BBC

SpaceX to retry landing rocket on sea barge

SpaceX will attempt to land its next Falcon 9 rocket on a barge in the Pacific Ocean, seeking another milestone after landing a booster on the ground in a spaceflight first.

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Reuters

IN-DEPTH

Obama security team asks Silicon Valley CEOs how to thwart use of Internet to foment terror

Much of the national security leadership of the Obama administration is flying to California to seek tech firms’ help in figuring out how to thwart terrorists who use the Internet to recruit, radicalize and plan attacks.

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MSN Money

Human actions create Anthropocene era

Anthropocene is different from the previous epoch, the Holocene, because of how human actions have affected “measurable signals in geological strata” of sediments and ice.

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GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Protesters upset Trump rally despite screening

A rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Vermont was disrupted repeatedly by protesters despite attempts by Trump’s staff to screen the crowd.

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MSN News

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Silently protesting Muslim woman ejected from Trump rally

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CNN

Tensions high as N. Korea raises threat of war

Tensions remained high on the fortified border dividing North and South Korea as the resumption of propaganda broadcasts prompted Pyongyang to raise the risk of war, overshadowing North Korea’s nuclear test.

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Bloomberg

TERROR

Belgian police find possible bomb-making site

Belgian police have found a Brussels flat where bombs used in the Paris attacks could have been made and where key suspect Salah Abdeslam may have hidden after the massacre, prosecutors said Friday.

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MSN News

Israeli forces kill Tel Aviv shooting suspect

An Israeli Arab wanted for shooting dead three people in Tel Aviv on 1 January has been killed by security forces in northern Israel. Nashat Melhem was tracked down to a mosque in his home town of Arara and killed in a gun battle.

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BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

British protesters gather at Embassy to urge Saudi Arabia to free dissident blogger

Protesters held a vigil outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in London for dissident blogger Raif Badawi, who was imprisoned for ten years and sentenced to 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam.

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International Business Times

Yemen rescinds expulsion of UN rights envoy

Yemen’s U.N. Ambassador said in a letter to the U.N. secretary-general that the government had decided “to maintain the status quo” of the representative, George Abu al-Zulof.

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ABC News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

World’s richest lose $194B in downturn

The world’s 400 richest people lost almost $194 billion this week as world stock markets began the year with a shudder on poor economic data in China and falling oil prices.

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Bloomberg

Rough start to 2016? Here’s how to trade it

Using big data cruncher Kensho, we found some of the best historical trades at the start of new calendar years looking back over the past 20 years.

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CNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Brainwaves analyzed to predict speech

Extrasensory perception (ESP) and telepathy have not been scientifically proven. However, new research suggests mind reading may not be all that far fetched.

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Your Neanderthal DNA may have given you allergies

Two research teams reported that in many people, a group of genes that governs the first line of defense against pathogens was probably inherited from Neanderthals

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Columns And Op-Ed

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GOOD NEWS

Having more children may reduce a woman’s rate of aging, research suggests

New research suggests that the number of children a woman could affect the rate at which her body ages, with more children leading to a slower rate of biological aging.

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Yahoo! News

How you could live if you won the jackpot

Given that the lottery winner is probably unfamiliar with the world of the rich and famous, here’s a guide to the splendid ways the winner can spend this newfound fortune.

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CBS News

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Powerball Jackpot: The Fantasy of Winning Big

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ABC News

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Rights groups fight India’s exception to ban on use of animals in performance

Animal welfare groups have decided to challenge the Union government’s decision to create an exception to the Supreme Court ban and allow Jallikattu, a bull-taming sport in Tamil Nadu, though with safeguards.

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Are there too many NGOs on Lesbos?

An outpouring of goodwill has seen volunteers flock to the Greek island of Lesbos, but the mayor says the presence of unregistered NGOs is more disruptive than useful.

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Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Lacking state help, organizations provide bottled water to people of lead-poisoned Flint

Michigan has declared the Flint water crisis an emergency — but the state has not yet provided bottled water even though lead levels are still high. Churches and other organizations have been left to fill the gap.

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NBCNews.com

Beijing to shut 2,500 firms to fight pollution

Beijing will close 2,500 small polluting firms this year in its latest effort to combat pollution, state news agency Xinhua reported on Saturday, citing the municipal government.

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Reuters

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Beijing imposed $28 million in pollution fines last year - Xinhua

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Reuters

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Leaders of nonprofits and foundations applaud White House for actions to limit gun sales

Some nonprofit and foundation leaders are heralding a move by the White House this week to curb gun violence and called on others to take up the issue.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Foundations support new theater works

The Wallace Alexander Gerbode and William and Flora Hewlett foundations have announced grants totaling $300,000 in support of the creation and production of new theater works by California playwrights.

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Philanthropy News Digest

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Clach Leathad, the mountain in the background, is shrouded by clouds on a chilly January day in the West Highlands of Scotland. The lake in the foreground, Lochan na h’Achlaise, began to freeze overnight. (Photo by John McSporran via Flickr) Photo used under CC BY

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