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Retired military working dog Lucca visits Stephanie Carter, wife of U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, with GySgt. Chris Willingham at Camp Pendleton, California, in August 2015. (Photo by Cpl. Seth Starr/USMC) Photo used under CC BY

Heroic USMC dog awarded top canine medal

A heroic US Marine Corps German shepherd that lost a leg sniffing out a roadside bomb in Afghanistan was awarded the world’s highest honor for service dogs during a special awards ceremony.

FOX News

Support for torture grows despite inefficacy

Terrorism concerns appear to be fueling a rising acceptance of torture in the U.S., a poll shows. But torture doesn’t accomplish what Donald Trump claims it does, most experts say.

Christian Science Monitor

The debate over torture

Christian Science Monitor

Iceland prime minister quits over corruption

Iceland Prime Minister is to resign, due to leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm which have revealed the finances of politicians and public figures worldwide.

Reuters

Special section:

The Panama Papers: Politicians, criminals and rogue industry that hides their cash

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

California sets the bar for US minimum wage

California is set to adopt a new a law that gradually will raise minimum wages across the state to $15 an hour by 2022. The Golden State will be a testbed for income inequality solutions.

Christian Science Monitor

Brown calls livable wage part of living in ‘moral community’

NBC Los Angeles

Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge

The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the way all states draw their legislative districts, rejecting a conservative challenge that could have given more clout to white, rural voters.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Princeton keeps Wilson’s name despite racism

Woodrow Wilson‘s name will remain on Princeton University’s public policy school, despite calls to remove it because the former U.S. president was a racial segregationist.

ABC News

Anti-Muslim protest: masks and lots of guns

A tense protest in front of a South Dallas mosque had police out in force. Anti-Muslim demonstrators, most of them armed, were easily outnumbered almost 10 to 1 by mosque supporters, some of whom were also armed.

CBS News

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

Obama: Iran not following ‘spirit’ of deal

President Obama criticized Iranian leaders for undermining the “spirit” of last year’s historic nuclear agreement due to its continued support of Hezbollah, ballistic missile tests, and other aggressive behavior.

The Hill

Iran warns Obama and the United States to back off

Townhall.com

Republicans talking up Paul Ryan as nominee

On the eve of the Wisconsin primaries, top Republicans are becoming increasingly vocal about their long-held belief that Speaker Paul Ryan will wind up as the nominee, perhaps on the fourth ballot at a chaotic convention.

Politico

Will Paul Ryan be the Republican nominee?

Washington Post

Trump pushes Kasich to drop out

Donald Trump is pushing Republican rival John Kasich to get out of the White House race, arguing that the Ohio governor shouldn’t be allowed to collect future delegates because the nomination is already beyond his grasp.

U.S. News & World Report

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Alaska Air buys Virgin America for $2.6 billion

Alaska Air Group Inc. is buying Virgin America in a deal worth $2.6 billion, making Alaska the biggest carrier on the West Coast and reigniting the debate over airline consolidation.

ABC News

$20 billion BP oil spill settlement gets approval

A federal judge in New Orleans has granted final approval to an estimated $20 billion settlement, resolving years of litigation over the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

TIME

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Study links human sacrifice, social hierarchies

Saying they found “a dark link between religion and the evolution of modern hierarchical societies,” scientists say ritual human sacrifice promoted stratified social systems.

NPR

Amazon CEO: Top-shelf Kindle coming soon

Attention all bookworms: The next top-shelf Amazon Kindle e-reader is about to arrive. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Monday revealed in a tweet that the new Kindle is “almost ready,” with details coming next week.

CNET News

FCC unveils ‘nutrition facts’ broadband labels

The Federal Communications Commission has unveiled new broadband labels, modeled after the nutrition facts label found on food products, as a way to give consumers more details about their home and mobile internet service.

The Verge

What to know about the government’s plan to protect your privacy from ISPs

CNET News

Columns And Op-Ed

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GOOD NEWS

How malaria gave us mauve

Every once in a while the color mauve has a moment, but the color’s origins are linked to something that seems far more random—malaria. It all started when an 18-year-old made a mistake that would change the world.

Smithsonian Magazine

The haircare queen: from favela to millionaire

Zica Assis could never have imagined that her decision to stop straightening her hair would see her move from the poverty of a Rio de Janeiro favela or shantytown, to being the owner of a multi-million dollar business.

BBC

NGO AND NONPROFIT

Nonprofit private schools are often very white

Fifty years after a court ruling and federal legislation abolished the legalized separation of white and black students, segregation still very much exists today in private schools, according to a recent study.

Nonprofitquarterly.org

NGO condemns shipbreaking yard shooting

Guards at a shipbreaking company in Bangladesh injured seven people when they opened fire on a crowd protesting against the death of a worker. NGO Shipbreaking Platform condemned the shooting.

Splash247

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

GE gives $50M to Boston causes

General Electric Co. — poised to celebrate its arrival in Boston with an event featuring both the mayor and the governor — said it will pump $50 million in “philanthropic commitments” into Boston and the state.

Boston Herald

Gates helps cultivate Saudi philanthropists

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has helped launch the Saudi Philanthropic Fellowship Program - an initiative devised in collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The billionaire was in Riyadh for the Saudi Philanthropic Fellowship Program.

Gulf Business

ENVIRONMENT

Predicting heat waves may be possible

A study declared that scientists may be able to forecast such spikes up to 50 days ahead of time by measuring temperature patterns in the Pacific, giving people and farmers critical warning to prepare for extreme weather.

Inquisitr

Logging OK’d in Europe’s last primeval forest

Poland has approved large-scale logging in Europe’s last primeval woodland in a bid to combat a beetle infestation despite protests from scientists, ecologists and the EU.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

People living in the rural hinterlands of Ethiopia travel to the cities in search of water. The trip can take several hours in both directions. Those who have donkey carts fill up whatever containers they can and as many as they can afford. (Photo by U.S. Embassy/Addis Ababa) Photo used under CC BY

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