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Trump Jr.’s refugee tweet stirs questions of taste

Social media have become home to two things in recent years: memes and public shaming. Both came into play when Donald Trump Jr. tweeted an image of a bowl of Skittles, comparing Syrian refugees to poisoned candy.

NPR

Venezuela: Newborns placed in boxes

Mesa de la Unidad Democratica, the coalition of opposition organizations that released images of newborns in cardboard boxes, claiming the scene is another sign of a crisis hitting the country’s health care system.

CNN

Nearly 1.5M without power in Puerto Rico

A power outage in Puerto Rico has left nearly 1.5 million people without power, according to a statement from the government-run electric company AEE.

CNN

Most of Puerto Rico still in the dark

USA TODAY

What is the potential to eradicate diseases?

Pledging $3bn to fund medical research over the next decade, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, said their ultimate goal was to “cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century”.

BBC

Can teenage defiance be manipulated for good?

A new study out today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that teenagers make wiser choices if they are encouraged to reimagine healthy behavior as an act of defiance.

(New York Times)

The Upshot

Migrants seek refuge in Calais at the “Jungle”

Thousands of migrants are crowded into tents and rickety shelters in the unofficial settlement known as the “Jungle,” on the edge of the Channel that divides northern France and Britain.

Time

Doctor struggles against famine in Yemen

After two years of war in Yemen and a Saudi-led blockade lasting 18 months millions of people are slowly starving - some are already dying for lack of food. One doctor in the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah is doing all she can to save them.

BBC

Yemen confict: ‘People pay heaviest price’

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Charlotte: Police will not release video of shooting

Charlotte police refused under pressure to release video that could resolve wildly different accounts of the shooting of a black man, as the National Guard arrived to try to head off a third night of violence in this city on edge.

Yahoo! News

Aleppo hit by worst strikes for months

Warplanes mounted the heaviest air strikes in months against rebel-held districts of the city of Aleppo overnight, as Russia and the Syrian government spurned a U.S. plea to halt flights.

Reuters

Syria’s war: UN appeals for passage of Aleppo aid

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Trump paid $8 million to his businesses

Donald Trump‘s campaign has paid his family’s businesses more than $8.2 million during the course of his White House bid, according to a new analysis.

MSN News

King uses n-word while introducing Trump

Boxing promoter Don King let the N-word slip while introducing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump today at a campaign event in Ohio.

ABC News

WAR AND TERRORISM

India backs off major retaliation for now

For all the shrill rhetoric immediately following Sunday’s attack on an Indian army camp in Kashmir the threat of a sudden escalation in hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals has receded for now.

Reuters

Eight arrested over to Nice truck attacker

French police on Tuesday arrested eight associates of the jihadist who killed 86 people when he ploughed his truck into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice, an investigation source said.

MSN News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Elon Musk plans to go beyond Mars

We already know SpaceX CEO Elon Musk plans to send people to Mars as soon as 2024. But over the weekend, he hinted on Twitter that his ambitions are much bigger: He wants to conquer the rest of our solar system as well.

Mashable

Trump tax plan would cost trillions

Over the last couple of months, Donald Trump has released an overhaul of revised tax plan would still cost the government trillions in revenues, according to a new analysis, though not as much as his last plan.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Experience doesn’t help birds avoid car strikes

Researchers suspected that experience with passing vehicles may cause birds to adjust their avoidance responses-specifically. Instead, they found that birds get worse with experience.

ScienceDaily

Scientists concerned over Trump’s climate stance

Hundreds of top scientists warned against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s vow to pull the United States out of the Paris climate-warming accord if elected in November.

Reuters

GLOBAL HEALTH

Why Zika mosquitoes prefer to bite people

Many of the approximately 3,500 mosquito species prefer to feed on the blood of cows, pigs or dog. But it‘s the small number that don’t that kill hundreds of thousands of people every year.

Business Insider

How Sri Lanka eradicated malaria

CNN

FDA wants an app to aid overdose victims

Hoping to reduce the death toll in the nation’s epidemic of opioid drug use, the Food and Drug Administration is calling for the development of a cellphone app that could quickly bring lifesaving medication to the rescue of a person in the throes of a potentially deadly overdose.

Columbus Dispatch

Opioid epidemic escalates

Des Moines Register

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Michael Shank):

Pardon Snowden, an American patriot

U.S. News & World Report

Column (Kelli Mosteller):

For Native Americans, land is more than just the ground beneath their feet

The Atlantic

Column (Meredith Tax):

Turkey is supporting the Syrian jihadis Washington says it wants to fight

The Nation

Column (Charles Murray):

America’s unprecedented upper class

Weekly Standard

Column (Peter Berkowitz):

How the Iran deal aids Hezbollah, imperils Israel

RealClearPolitics

Column (Jamelle Louie):

Nah, Trump’s still a birther; it’s the core of his political identity

Slate

Column (Marcus Heinrich):

When world’s dominant culture exalts war, no wonder there’s so much of it

Globalist

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GOOD NEWS

Former gang rivals providing gourmet meals

Tired of life on the streets, friends in Los Angeles are putting aside gang colors to provide home-cooked, gourmet meals to members of their community. Their popularity has grown enormously thanks to social media.

NBCNews.com

NGOs

NGO teaches humanitarian law to Syria rebels

The war in Syria seems the ultimate symbol of human rights violations, the place most foreign to humanitarian law. But Swiss NGO Geneva Call refuses to give up, continuing to work in this controversial field.

Swissinfo

NGOs demand action on Syrian refugees

Buenos Aires Herald

EU slams Egypt over NGO clampdown

An Egyptian court froze assets of five prominent human rights defenders and three non-governmental organizations, provoking fears of an intensified crackdown on civil society.

euractiv.com

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Britain to withhold aid if money is wasted

Britain will withhold foreign aid from countries if money is being wasted. New aid spending deals will include “performance agreements,” allowing ministers to take away 10 per cent of donations if certain strict targets are not met.

The Telegraph

TV veteran gets bang for philanthropic buck

A lot of what drives philanthropy “is ego” and “hero worship,” and it wastes fortunes, claims Tracey Durning. She devotes her considerable energy to building philanthropic systems that can help intractable environmental issues.

Barron’s

ENVIRONMENT

Indonesia: Haze may have caused deaths

Indonesian forest fires that choked a swath of Southeast Asia with a smoky haze for weeks in 2015 may have caused more than 100,000 premature deaths, according to new research.

South China Morning Post

Five-second rule for food on floor is false

Two Rutgers scientists debunked the “five-second rule” after testing various foods dropped on different types of flooring.

Daily Targum

Photo of the Day

Shot Sept. 16, 2016, in Stockholm, Sweden. (Photo by ulricaloeb) Photo used under CC BY

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