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Puerto Rico is going through a severe economic crisis; there have been drastic cuts in health, education, and public services as the government has run out of cash. (Photo by Lee Cannon)

Congress won’t save Puerto Rico from default

The U.S. House of Representatives is going on a weeklong recess, virtually guaranteeing there will be no congressional action before a $422 million debt payment on Monday, May 2, that Puerto Rico says it cannot pay.

NBCNews.com

Moody’s Hampton: Puerto Rico will set a precedent

Reuters

First US Zika death reported in Puerto Rico

A 70-year-old man infected with the Zika virus died in Puerto Rico in February - the first known death in the US to the mosquito-borne virus - Puerto Rico’s health secretary said.

BBC

Protesters and police collide at Trump rally

Protesters gathered outside a hotel while awaiting the GOP presidential front-runner, overrunning police barricades to hang “Dump Trump” banners and wave Mexican flags.

NBCNews.com

Trump’s new target: Bernie Sanders supporters

CNN

Iranian reformists strive to win more seats

Iranians voted in a second round of parliamentary elections, with allies of reformist President Hassan Rouhani seeking to wrest more seats from hardliners.

Reuters

Syrian troops commit ’monstrous’ violence

Syria called local truces but no halt to combat on the main battlefield in Aleppo, after a surge in fighting the United Nations said showed “monstrous disregard” for civilian lives.

Reuters

Teen birth rate is declining in US

The CDC announced that teen birth rates have declined 61 percent since the early 1990s. As of 2014, the birth rate among females age 15 to 19 has declined to 24.2 per 1,000.

Newsweek

RIGHTS

North Korea sentences American to 10 years

North Korea’s Supreme Court has sent another U.S. citizen to prison, sentencing a Korean-American man to 10 years in prison and hard labor over espionage charges. Kim Dong-chul is reportedly a former resident of Fairfax, VA.

NPR

Obama vows to admit more Syrian refugees

President Obama vowed that his administration would quicken its intake of Syrian refugees to reach the goal of allowing in 10,000 migrants that he set last year.

The Hill

Kansas withdraws from Syrian refugee program

Reuters

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

N. Korea to hold rare Party Congress

North Korea has announced that the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea’s Seventh Congress, a rare and potentially significant gathering, opens on May 6, the reclusive nation’s official news agency reports.

CNN

Korea No Intelligence on N. Korea’s Musudan Missile Launch

You Don’t Know Football

Security breach spurs White House lockdown

A man threw “personal belongings” over the fence of the White House, and was taken into custody. As of noon, the lock down was still in effect as the object was in the process of being screened by law enforcement.

MSN News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Comcast in talks to buy DreamWorks for $3B

Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation, has been searching for a buyer for the company, which has a current market value of $2.3 billion.

MSN Money

Mitsubishi admits to further misleading

The Japanese automaker admitted Tuesday that it had falsified fuel efficiency tests for the past quarter century, the latest revelation in a scandal that has rocked the company.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Weasel wipes out most powerful atom smasher

The world‘s largest atom smasher has been taken offline by a wayward weasel. The Large Hadron Collider unexpectedly shut down after the critter weaseled its way into the system’s transformer, causing an electrical outage.

Christian Science Monitor

Study: most dogs hate being hugged

If you love your dogs, you should hug them, right? Wrong. In an article published in Psychology Today, psychology professor and neuropsychological researcher Stanley Coren argues that most dogs are stressed by hugs.

U.S. News & World Report

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GOOD NEWS

Obamas, British royals exchange trash talk

Boom! There’s a social media war between the Obamas and Prince Harry, and the prince just brought in the Queen.

CNN

West Wing star crashes White House briefing

Actress Allison Janney, who played White House press secretary C.J. Cregg in the West Wing television series, crashed a press briefing Friday to highlight a White House initiative to prevent drug abuse.

CBS News

NGO AND NONPROFIT

Crackdown underscores NGOs’ power

From Malaysia to Morocco and from India to Ethiopia, governments have been cracking down on activists who are trying to hold them to account.

Christian Science Monitor

China law threatens foreign advocacy NGOs

China will enact a law codifying regressive policies against foreign NGOs and advocacy workers. The legislation would expand the discretionary powers of the police and make it harder for foreign NGOs to operate.

Time

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

JPMorgan Chase aids Houston flood relief

JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced that it will donate $50,000 from its foundation to support flood relief efforts in the Houston area. The grant will go toward The Greater Houston Storm Relief Fund to help flood victims.

The Street

Chobani workers get ownership stake

Greek yogurt maker Chobani CEO and Founder Hamdi Ulukaya told the company’s 2,000 full-time employees they’ll receive shares worth up to 10% of the company’s value, potentially making millionaires of some.

USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Rise in CO2 has ‘greened Planet Earth’

Carbon dioxide emissions from industrial society have driven a huge growth in trees and other plants. A new study says that if the extra green leaves were laid in a carpet, it would cover twice the continental USA.

BBC

Plant carbon dioxide may not make global warming worse, study suggests

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Records of climate data date back 700 years

Some of the oldest continuous historical records from around the world by Japanese monks show us how dramatically the climate has changed.

National Geographic

Photo of the Day

This photo of a Karo warrior, taken in Ethiopia, was uploaded to Flickr on April 28, 2016. (Photo by Rod Waddington) Photo used under CC BY

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