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Mothers and children wait at the health center in Bolemba, Central African Republic. The clinic receives support from the United Nations Population Fund. The Trump administration has decided to pull $32.5 million in funding for UNFPA, claiming it supports a Chinese government family planning program that forces people to get abortions and sterilizations. The UN agency says that is not the case. (Photo by hdptcar) Photo used under CC BY

Trump yanks $32M in aid for UN family planning

The Trump administration will withhold $32.5 million in funding that had been earmarked this current fiscal year for the United Nations’ lead agency on family planning and maternal health, known as the UN Population Fund, or UNFPA.

NPR

South Africa’s rating cut to junk status

South Africas currency fell more than 2 percent to its weakest in almost three months after S&P Global Ratings cut the country’s credit score to sub-investment grade with a negative outlook.

CNBC

Chemical attack in Syria draws global outrage

A suspected chemical attack in Syria has drawn international condemnation, with the United States, France and Britain all pointing the finger at President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. At least 58 people, including 11 children, were killed in a rebel-held Syrian town.

Al Jazeera

On the record: President Trump vs. private citizen Trump on Syria

NPR

North Korea fires missile into sea off east coast

North Korea fired a ballistic missile from its east coast into the sea off the Peninsula, South Korea’s military said, ahead of a summit between U.S. and Chinese leaders who are set to discuss Pyongyang’s arms program.

Reuters

White House: ‘Clock has run out’ on Pyongyang

FOX News

Ecuadorians elect Socialist Moreno

Socialist Lenin Moreno has won Ecuador‘s closely contested presidential election. Moreno won 51.16 percent of the vote. Conservative Guillermo Lasso, whom three exit polls predicted would win, got 48.8 percent.

BBC

Assange, retaining hold on refuge, taunts loser

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Prosecutor loses job for death penalty stance

Gov. Rick Scott signed executive orders taking 21 first degree murder cases from Aramis Ayala, state attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit, due to her stance on the death penalty.

CNN

Equal Pay Day highlights gender wage gap

Equal Pay Day serves as a symbolic day for advocates in the U.S. to show support for women in the workforce and draw attention to the gender pay gap.

USA TODAY

EU, UN seek plan for Syria’s future

The European Union and the UN host a two-day conference on Syria’s future, with Russian-backed President Bashar al-Assad as firmly in place as ever despite efforts to oust him.

Yahoo! News

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Scandal and intrigue: The French election

Falls from grace, sudden departures and unlikely stars; France’s presidential election has been packed with dramatic moments and episodes. Here’s what you need to know about the campaign, which has featured as many twists and turns as a soap opera.

CNN

North Korea fires possible ballistic missile

North Korea fired a projectile into the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea. US and South Korean officials said. North Korea’s missile test comes just a day before Chinese President Xi Jinping visits US President Donald Trump for a summit in Florida.

CNN

EU at odds with Assad’s role in Syria

The EU has reasserted that Bashar al-Assad has no future in Syria, just days after the Trump administration said his departure was no longer a priority for settling the conflict.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Who carries insurance on self-driving cars?

An accident last month in Tempe, Ariz., involving a self-driving Uber car highlighted some novel new issues regarding fault and liability that experts say will come up more often as autonomous vehicles hit the road.

NPR

This AI device will be your personal assistant for the car

Yahoo! News

IBM could have a solution to self-driving cars’ problems

The e-commerce giant introduced a service called Amazon Cash, which lets people instantly add money to their Amazon accounts when visiting more than 10,000 retail locations, including CVS and Sheetz.

CNET News

Ice Age waterfalls cut off UK from Europe

For millions of years, Britain was part of Europe. A high ridge of limestone extended all the way to what is now France. But about 450,000 years ago, this rocky road was cut off by a flood of unimaginable proportions. Now, a team of researchers has detailed evidence of how this torrent of destruction was unleashed.

Science Mag

Magnetic brain stimulation causes weight loss

A new study finds that a noninvasive electromagnetic brain stimulation technique helps obese people lose weight, partly by changing the composition of their intestinal bacteria -- the so-called gut microbiota.

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

Global child mortality rate cut nearly in half

The world is doing a much better job of keeping babies alive long enough to become children, children alive long enough to become teens and teens alive long enough to fully grow up, according to a report in today’s JAMA Pediatrics.

NPR

Most kids who died of flu weren’t vaccinated

Most children who have died of flu in recent years were not vaccinated against the virus, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers reported.

NBCNews.com

7 reasons we’re at risk of a global pandemic

Public health experts believe we are at greater risk than ever of experiencing large-scale outbreaks and global pandemics like those we’ve seen before: SARS, swine flu, Ebola and Zika.

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

NYC presents $40M model of world monuments

The newest attraction in New York’s Times Square, Gulliver’s Gate, is a $40 million model the size of a football field, with tiny, interactive versions of the Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower, Buckingham Palace, the Great Wall of China, and the Great Pyramids.

ArtNet News

‘Gulliver’s Gate’ debuts its Lilliputian world

Reuters

A mobile directory of 600 books about diversity

Thomas’ app ― We Read Too ― launched in 2014 and has since grown to include over 600 relevant books. It’s also amassed over 15,000 iPhone users, who’ve downloaded the free app and suggested 1,600 other titles be added to the database.

Huffington Post

93 countries participated in Good Deeds Day

93 countries across the globe including the U.S.A., Taiwan, Portugal, Uganda, Poland, Italy, Spain, and Argentina, participated in International Good Deeds Day 2017.

Yahoo! News

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Billionaire helps ADL fight cyberhate

EBay founder and veteran philanthropist Pierre Omidyar is active in publicly criticizing the new president and his enablers in politics, business and the media. Among the many things that distresses Omidyar about what‘s happened to America’s politics is the rise of online trolling by a hate-filled populist right.

Inside Philanthropy

Hackers demanding ransoms from nonprofits

NetHope is a connector with 50 of the largest international organizations in the world. All of the 50 have staff dedicated to organizational technology and leaders overseeing such work. Yet when group members meet, the single most talked about topic is security.

NonProfit Times

BUSINESS

US stocks fall as auto sales trouble the market

U.S. stocks are falling as car makers drop after reporting disappointing March sales figures. Companies connected to the auto industry are also down, and investors appeared to take the report as a warning sign about other types of spending.

Associated Press

Fox News faces lawsuits over harrassment

Allegations of misconduct by senior staff continue to dog Fox News after three women filed a lawsuit claiming they were subject to “appalling discrimination” and “years-long relentless racial animus” at the hands of a former executive at the news company.

ABC News

The Nevada lithium rush to fuel tech devices

The race is on to get the mineral out of Clayton Valley and into your iPhones, Bolts, and Powerwalls. The four companies that in 2015 provided 88 percent of the world’s lithium can’t keep up.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

Human illness tied to environmental harm

A toxic environment is known to create health problems for people, but sick people can also create health problems for the environment.

Berkeley News

UK Conservatives push environmental laws

Significant majorities of Conservative voters want EU environmental regulations to be maintained or even strengthened in the wake of Brexit, a poll carried out for the Tory thinktank Bright Blue has found.

Guardian

EPA chief still questions human role in climate

EPA chief Scott Pruitt still doesn’t agree with the vast majority of climate scientists who say humans are the primary cause of climate change. Pruitt says one goal of the EPA is to measure just how much humans are accelerating climate change.

Huffington Post

Photo of the Day

Young performers play together during the 2017 Cherry Blossom Festival over the weekend in Washington, D.C. The festival, which this year runs through April 16, celebrates the 1912 gift of 3,000 cherry trees to Washington, D.C., by the mayor of Tokyo. (Photo by Hillel Steinberg) Photo used under CC BY

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