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Cocoa pods on a cocoa plant growing wild by the roadside on the way from Cochin to Vagamon, India. (Photo by Shankar S.) Photo used under CC BY

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Is your candy bar fueling deforestation in W. Africa?

Your chocolate bar may be fuelling climate change, destroying protected forests and threatening elephants, chimpanzees and hippos in West Africa. Well-known brands, such as Mars and Nestle, are buying through global traders cocoa that is grown illegally in dwindling national parks and reserves in Ivory Coast and Ghana, according to an environmental group.

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Quake kills more than 200 in Central Mexico

The 7.1 magnitude earthquake caused dozens of buildings to collapse and sent residents fleeing to the streets.By midnight, at least 200 people had been killed across central Mexico, including more than 20 children who died after their school building collapsed.

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Al Jazeera

At UN, Trump bashes his global adversaries

He called North Korea’s Kim Jong Un “Rocket Man,” Iran’s rulers a “murderous regime,” and Venezuela “corrupt.” It was perhaps the most aggressive speech ever delivered by a U.S. president at the U.N., an organization devoted to seeking peace, promoting human rights and upholding international law.

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USA TODAY

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A blunt, fearful rant: Trump’s fulminations characteristic of demagogues

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Guardian

Iraqi forces ‘attack last ISIS bastion on border’

Iraqi forces are reported to have launched an operation to recapture the last stronghold of ISIS in the country’s western desert. A military source told the BBC that soldiers, Anbar provincial police and Sunni Arab tribal fighters have begun moving on the town of Ana.

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BBC

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‘Grave fears’ after Iraq moves 1,300 ISIS wives, children

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NPR

Kenya chief justice hits back at threats

Threats against Kenya’s judiciary are increasing after a Supreme Court ruling to invalidate President Uhuru Kenyatta’s win in last month’s election, the chief justice says. The “savage” demonstrations were “intended to intimidate the judiciary,” David Maraga said.

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BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Canada removing racist founder from $10 bill

The face of the controversial Glasgow-born founder of Canada, John Macdonald, is to be removed from the country’s $10 note, making way for civil rights activist Viola Desmond in what the central bank has described as a celebration of social justice and human rights.

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The Independent

Germany backs new anti-Semitism definition

The German government has given its backing to a new definition of anti-Semitism intended to inform the work of schools, police and courts. Cabinet ministers have expressed support for a definition that includes attacks against religious institutions, the state of Israel and non-Jews who are attacked for anti-Semitic reasons.

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ABC News

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Jewish woman sues neo-Nazi over ‘troll storm’

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Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Venezuela: Once-rich democracy nears collapse

Not far from the US, a desperate leader is steering a once-prosperous democracy toward dictatorship. Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, is scrambling to cling to power as his country is battered by an unprecedented economic crisis. And in the process, he’s becoming an autocrat.

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Vox

Few Republicans back border wall funding

President Trump has been adamant that he needs Congress to approve funding to start building his border wall, but Republicans on Capitol Hill are far less adamant about supporting it.

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USA TODAY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Findings challenge evolutionary origin of gut

How did the gut, the skin and musculature evolve? Through the investigation of the embryonic development of sea anemones, researchers have come to conclusions that challenge the 150-year-old hypothesis of the common evolutionary origin of the germ layers that form all later organs and tissues.

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ScienceDaily

Scientists discover an octopus city, ‘Octlantis’

A group of biologists just discovered an underwater city full of octopuses, and they’re calling it Octlanis. Although it sounds like something out science fiction, it’s a reality. The so-called city includes “dens made out of piles of sand and shells, and is home to up to 15 of the cephalopods,” the biologists told Science Alert.

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Deseret News

GLOBAL HEALTH

Teens hold off on drinking, driving, having sex

Today’s teenagers are holding off on things like driving, dating, and drinking. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Child Development, today’s teens are choosing to stay at home and use social apps rather than hit the convenience store with a fake ID or make out with a classmate.

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Fortune

World is running out of antibiotics, WHO says

Too few new antibiotics are under development to combat the threat of multidrug-resistant infections, according to a new World Health Organization report published Tuesday. Adding to the concern: It is likely that the speed of increasing resistance will outpace the slow drug development process.

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CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Memo to Trump fans: Conman-in-chief will betray you all

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Daily Beast

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There’s no crisis of free speech. Milo’s campus crusade is rank hypocrisy

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Guardian

Column (Jamelle Bouie):

It’s people who criticize racism who are silenced, not those who embrace it

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Slate

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Is Schumer having too much fun with Trump?

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Politico

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Patronizing assurances that no one was spying on political campaigns were false

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FOX News

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Groundhog Day for Obamacare repeal

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The Atlantic

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What if college players followed Kaepernick’s lead? They might find they have real power

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USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Woman gives back to family that helped her

Three years ago, TunDe Hector was down on her luck. Her car had run out of gas, she had $5 in her pocket and a long walk ahead of her in the pouring rain. But it was that same day Hector met a man who would change her life — and she didn’t know it at the time, but she would end up changing his as well.

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CBS News

Boston Strong: Jeff Bauman’s incredible story

Jeff Bauman became an unwitting hero after he lost both his legs in the Boston Marathon bombing. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Jeff in the film based on his inspiring story, “Stronger.”

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Off-duty firefighters save boy from burning car

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NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Blackbaud, Salesforce lauded as do-gooders

Two tech companies deeply involved in the nonprofit sector were tapped by Fortune magazine in its annual Changing the World list. Salesforce.com placed number 36 on the list and Blackbaud placed first among the publication’s six rising stars.

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NonProfit Times

Montgomery to honor lynching victims

The Equal Justice Institute, a nonprofit founded and led by activist and author Bryan Stevenson, released “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror,” a report that documented more than 4,000 lynchings of black people between 1877 and 1950. A Montgomery museum, “From Enslavement to Incarceration,” will honor them.

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Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Arctic sea ice shows considerable melting

This September, the extent of Arctic sea ice shrank to roughly 4.7 million square kilometers. Though slightly larger than last year, the minimum sea ice extent 2017 is average for the past 10 years and far below the numbers from 1979 to 2006. The Northeast Passage was traversable for ships without the need for icebreakers.

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ScienceDaily

3 ways nanomaterials combat climate change

The list of environmental problems that the world faces may be huge, but some strategies for solving them are remarkably small. First explored for applications in microscopy and computing, nanomaterials are emerging as useful for tackling threats to our planet’s well-being.

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Climate Central

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Did video games and iPads kill Toys R Us?

Toys R Us declared bankruptcy this week, but the batteries powering this bunny went dead long ago. A lot of factors are at “play,” but a big part of the issue is that the Batmobiles and Barbie dolls have been gathering dust in the rec room as children’s faces are lit by glowing apps and bleeping video games.

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NBCNews.com

Saudis about to pay 80 percent more for gas

Saudi Arabia is considering a plan to phase out subsidies for gasoline and jet fuel in November at the latest, as the world’s biggest oil exporter pushes a program to curtail spending after a global slump in prices.

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Bloomberg

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Americans work harder than anyone in world

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A local savings and lending group composed of South Sudanese refugees and their host community in Arua, Uganda, hold a weekly meeting under a tree at Katiku III, located inside Rhino Refugee Settlements in the West Nile region of Uganda. The European Commission’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) partners with several humanitarian organisations to help address the needs of the more than 1 million South Sudanese refugees in Uganda that have settled in Uganda. (Photo by European Commission DG ECHO) Photo used under CC BY

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