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The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986, changed the way the world thinks about nuclear energy. (Photo by Stefan Krasowski) Photo used under CC BY

Chernobyl’s legacy: disease, defects, death

Large numbers of children are still being born with severe birth defects and rare cancers in areas near to Chernobyl, three decades after the world’s worst civil nuclear disaster.

BBC

Clinton uses Trump’s words against him

Hillary Clinton unveiled a major new attempt to use Donald Trump’s words against him over the weekend, as both she and rival Bernie Sanders adjusted course near the end of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Guardian

Clinton rebuffs faint praise from Koch

Bloomberg

Trump on the warpath against GOP rivals

TIME

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

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

N. Korea offers conditional halt to nuke tests

In a rare interview with a foreign media outlet, North Korean foreign minister Ri Su-yong has said it will suspend its nuclear tests if the US stops its military exercises with South Korea.

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

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

North Carolina LGBT law spurs repeal bill

While demonstrations circled North Carolina’s statehouse, for and against a Republican-backed law limiting public bathroom access for transgender people, House Democrats filed a repeal bill that stands little chance of passing.

ABC News

UK warns travelers on US anti-LGBT laws

CNN

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

US to launch free community college plan

The White House will launch a $100 million program to spur tuition-free community college programs across the country, Vice President Biden and his wife will announce Monday.

The Hill

America’s Promise fact sheet

Whitehouse.gov

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

USA Today publisher offers to buy Tribune

Gannett Co., which owns USA TODAY, said Monday it offered to buy Tribune Publishing for about $815 million, its second big expansion move since spinning off from its former parent less than a year ago.

USA TODAY

Justice OKs Charter buy of Time Warner Cable

The U.S. Justice Department approved Charter Communications Inc’s proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable Inc and Bright House networks, which would create the second-largest broadband provider.

Reuters

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

China tweaks controversial draft NGO law

China is set to pass a law governing foreign nongovernmental organizations, after state media said legislators recommended it be put to a vote following adjustments to some provisions criticized by foreign governments and civil society groups.

Reuters

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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