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Inclusive community renames Columbus Day

The US city of Bloomington in Indiana has renamed Good Friday and Columbus Day as “Spring Holiday” and “Fall Holiday” to be more “inclusive.” Mayor John Hamilton said the move would “better reflect cultural sensitivity in the workplace,” local media said.

BBC

White nationalists take post-election victory lap

NPR

India train derails, killing at least 119

At least 119 people were killed and more than 150 injured when an Indian express train derailed in northern state of Uttar Pradesh, with the toll set to rise .

Reuters

Photos of derailment

NBCNews.com

Obama, Xi stress stable relations amid uncertainty

U.S. President Barack Obama and China’s Xi Jinping stressed at a meeting the importance of continued stable relations between the world’s two biggest economies at a time the Chinese leader described as a “hinge moment” following the election of Donald Trump.

Bloomberg

Newspaper to Trump: Liquidate your holdings

The Wall Street Journal editorial page says President-elect Donald Trump should liquidate his stake in the family business. “Trump promised to change Washington‘s culture of self-dealing, and if he wants to succeed he’s going to have to make a sacrifice,” it wrote.

CNNMoney

Interview:

President-elect uniquely free of political baggage, Kissinger says

The Hill

Trump-Romney meeting another wild 2016 twist

CNN

Airstrikes shutter last hospital in Aleppo

There are currently no functioning hospitals in the rebel-held section of the Syrian city of Aleppo following days of heavy shelling and airstrikes by Syrian government and Russian warplanes, medical officials say. Airstrikes took out the last remaining hospital this week.

Time

Special section:

The battle for Aleppo

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Russian priests protest ban on religious insults

Two Russian Orthodox priests and a poet have protested in St. Petersburg against a provision in the country’s Criminal Code outlawing the “insulting of religious feelings.”

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Student held for FB posts is released on bail

Dilip Roy, a 22-year-old student activist, has been granted bail after spending more than two months in jail without charge in Bangladesh. He was arrested in August for two Facebook posts criticizing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Amnesty International

Gang kidnaps 10 in restive Mexican region

A group of armed men have kidnapped 10 people in the violent southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero, where 43 students were abducted and likely massacred two years ago.

Reuters

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

6 things to know about AG pick Jeff Sessions

President-elect Donald Trump announced that Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions would be his nominee for attorney general. Sessions was one of Trump’s most loyal advisers throughout the campaign, but who is he?

USA TODAY

Ivanka’s role at meeting alarms ethics adviser

Fortune

US intelligence chief James Clapper resigns

James Clapper, the U.S.’ top intelligence official, has submitted his letter of resignation, ensuring that President-elect Donald Trump will have the option to build his own network of intel leaders. The resignation was expected.

The Hill

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Hawking: Humanity needs new home

Celebrated theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has warned that humanity will not survive another 1,000 years on Earth unless the human race finds another planet to live on. Hawking painted a grave picture of the future.

The Independent

Scientists discover potentially habitable planet

Daily Caller

Crop yield gets big boost with modified genes

Researchers have bumped up crop productivity by as much as 20 percent by increasing the expression of genes that result in more efficient use of light in photosynthesis. Their work could help address the world’s future food needs.

ScienceDaily

FB grapples with hate speech, fake news

Facebook employees say there is a lot of internal turmoil about how the platform does and doesn’t censor content that users find offensive. Outside Facebook, the public is regularly confounded by the company’s decisions on controversial posts and fake news.

NPR

Facebook incorrectly displays memorial pages for living users

CNBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Surgeon general report tackles addiction

The U.S. surgeon general has issued a call to action to end what he said was a public health crisis of drug and alcohol addiction that is both underappreciated and underrated. Dr. Vivek Murthy said he hopes the report will galvanize work on the issue.

Scientific American

Manufacturing fear in the safest of times

The U.S. election reflects a society choked with fear. It‘s not just threats of terrorism, economic collapse, cyberwarfare and government corruption – each of which some 70 percent of our citizenry is afraid of, according to the Chapman University Survey on American Fears.

Rolling Stone

BUSINESS

Tesla calls solar roof a cheaper alternative

Just after a majority of Tesla Motors shareholders approved plans for the all-electric automaker to acquire solar energy firm SolarCity, Tesla CEO Elon Musk dropped a bombshell: The company’s new roof will cost less than traditional rooftop shingles to make and install.

Fortune

United cuts overhead bin use for low-fare fliers

United Continental has announced a new wrinkle in its service that is brilliant from a business perspective and contemptuous of consumers. It is implementing a new kind of cheap fare that will include no advance seat selection and almost no room for carry-ons.

Forbes

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Steve Phillips):

It’s time to diversity the Democratic Party leadership

The Nation

Column (Kaveh Waddell):

Trump’s CIA pick wants to return to a pre-Snowden world

The Atlantic

Column (Deirdre Fulton):

Trump’s business empire may present ‘most blatant conflicts of interest in history’

Truthdig

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GOOD NEWS

Elephant advocates set origami world record

This week, a massive herd of elephants took over the Bronx Zoo in New York City. Clocking in at 78,564 origami beasts, the collection was just officially recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest display of origami elephants and stands as a part of a larger campaign to raise awareness about the fight against elephant poaching.

Smithsonian Magazine

‘Secondhand first’: An antidote to fast fashion?

Clothes recycling charity Traid urges people to wear secondhand instead of buying new. Could instilling pride in wearing pre-owned clothes help avoid wasteful fast fashion?

Positive News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Developing countries brace for trade revamp

Donald Trump’s successful election platform called for a greater focus on economic interests on the home front. U.S. voters are looking to the president-elect to follow through on his promises to renegotiate or scrap key international trade agreements.

Devex

Pacific Rim leaders debate future of trade

Leaders of Pacific rim nations gathered in Peru on Friday seeking to salvage hopes for regional trade as prospects of a Donald Trump presidency in the United States sounded a possible death knell for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact.

Reuters

NGOs AND NPOs

Nonprofits ponder future under Trump agenda

The incoming president has charities pondering the big changes that lie ahead in the new administration and what they mean for fundraising, tax policy, spending, immigration, regulation, advocacy efforts, and more.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

What to do about nonprofit wage ghettos?

There are whole fields of nonprofit endeavor that, as currently structured, are dependent on paying below a living wage. It should come as no surprise that the workforces that fall under this category consist predominantly of women and people of color.

Nonprofit Quarterly

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

US election boosts ACLU giving more than 9/11

The American Civil Liberties Union has announced that since Election Day it has received the greatest outpouring of support in its nearly one-hundred-year history — including after the September 11 attacks.

Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

Making a case for wind-powered desalination

Waterworld

Desalination expensive -- and necessary

Newsy

China denies claim it invented climate change

Donald Trump, who‘s about to become the most powerful man in the world, is a climate change denier, having tweeted that global warming was “created by and for the Chinese.” This week, one of China’s foreign officials has called him out.

AOL News

2016 continues march toward setting heat record

Salon

Photo of the Day

Tens of thousands of Iraqis fleeing fighting in Mosul have sought refuge at camps for displaced persons, including the massive Hasansham camp. (Photo by European Commission DG ECHO) Photo used under CC BY

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