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Losing a husband eases one’s stress, study finds

Marriage has long been thought to be beneficial, but a new study suggests that widows actually suffer less stress and frailty than wives whose husbands are still alive.

Telegraph.co.uk

Clinton warns about Trump’s evolution

Hillary Clinton warns voters to doubt Donald Drumpf’s evolving, softening image as the presidential campaign continues.

Sun Times National

Clinton rebuffs faint praise from Koch

Bloomberg

US to send 250 military personnel to Syria

President Obama will announce he is sending up to 250 additional military personnel to Syria to help local forces who have clawed back territory from ISIS in a string of wins.

Reuters

Syria truce in danger of collapse

BBC

Ohio murder sites: Grow operations found

Investigators found three marijuana “grow operations” at rural residences where eight family members were slain in southern Ohio, state Attorney General Mike DeWine said Sunday at a news conference.

CNN

Michelle Obama pushes graduates to vote

During one of her final commencement addresses as first lady, Michelle Obama urged students at historically black Jackson State University to use peaceful means toward making progressive change such as voting.

CNN

UK warns travelers on US anti-LGBT laws

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Mexican human rights case hampered

A panel of international experts accused Mexico’s government of undermining their probe into the fate of 43 trainee teachers apparently massacred in 2014, the most notorious human rights case in Mexico in recent years.

Reuters

Virginia governor restores felons’ voting rights

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed an order restoring the voting rights of more than 200,000 convicted felons who have completed their sentences.

Reuters

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

White House defends Biden after criticism of Israeli government

The White House on Tuesday defended Vice President Joe Biden a day after he criticized the Israeli government, saying he did not make Israel out to be a villain. Instead, he was offering tough love from a strong ally.

The Hill

Alabama may ban common abortion procedure

A commonly used second-trimester abortion procedure would be illegal under a new bill debated in the Alabama legislature.

TIME

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Volkswagen reaches deal with government

A person briefed on the matter says Volkswagen has reached an agreement with the U.S. government to spend just over $1 billion to compensate owners of diesel-powered cars that cheat on emissions tests.

TIME

Emissions bring bumpy ride for carmakers

BBC

Dow Jones holds 18,000 despite weak tech earnings

U.S. equities finished higher on Friday despite a batch of poor earnings news and under-performance by large-cap tech stocks.

MSN Money

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Solar-powered plane traverses the Pacific

Experimental solar-powered plane Solar Impulse 2 has landed in Mountain View, CA, after a three-day flight across the Pacific.

NPR

Evidence points toward early primate migration

Scientists have unearthed monkey teeth that could significantly change the animals’ migration history.

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Prince remembered as black youth advocate

Prince, the music icon who was found dead at his home in suburban Minneapolis on Thursday, is being remembered in Silicon Valley as a social innovator and a passionate advocate for Black youth.

USA TODAY

Computer scientists combat poaching

Using an artificial intelligence application that develops the most effective patrol routes, a team of researchers from the University of Southern California are proving that technology has a role to play in protecting wildlife.

Christian Science Monitor

NGO AND NONPROFIT

Nuns take aim at contraceptive mandate

A coalition of religious nonprofit organizations including Little Sisters of the Poor, a group of nuns who care for the impoverished elderly, aims to take a bite out of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

Economist

Egypt postpones NGO case during Kerry visit

An Egyptian court postponed on Wednesday the hearing of a human rights group, on a day when US Secretary of State John Kerry, who has raised the issue before, met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo.

Reuters

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Microsoft expands grants for PC training

Microsoft is investing $75 million into its YouthSpark program for helping children and students develop computer science skills. Now it’s expanding that program with a series of grants around the world.

The Next Web

Geffen gives $100M to Museum of Modern Art

New York’s Museum of Modern Art says it has received a $100 million gift from entertainment executive and philanthropist David Geffen.

MSN News

ENVIRONMENT

Solar power cost-effective, India official says

The cost of solar power in India is becoming increasingly affordable. The country’s energy minister, Piyush Goyal, now says that solar power is a more cost-effective option than the old fossil-fuel staple, coal.

ScienceAlert

Special section:

How Does Solar Power Save You Money?

LivingGreenMagazine

Fabric can help clean up oil spills at sea

Australian researchers have found a better way of cleaning them up before they destroy an entire ecosystem: a new fabric covered in nanostructures that attract oil and repel water. In other words, a mop for the ocean.

ScienceAlert

Nanogrid breaks down pollutants in water,

National Science Foundation

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