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US action toward migrants ignites moral showdown

All migrants caught entering the U.S. illegally are now prosecuted for a misdemeanor; the government places children in custody. A U.S. senator criticized President Trump for using children as a “bargaining chip to try and extract his anti-immigrant agenda and to build his unnecessary and offensive border wall.”

New Mexico Political Report

Pope likens selective abortion to Nazi eugenics

Pope Francis has blasted the practice of terminating pregnancies in cases of fetal defects and compared abortion to “what the Nazis did to ensure the purity of the race.” He also slammed the concept of nontraditional families, insisting that “only one” kind of family should be accepted: that between “man and woman.”

Daily Beast

Rescue ships find haven as migrant debate roils EU

Ships in the Aquarius aid convoy have docked at the Spanish port of Valencia, ending a weeklong ordeal for hundreds of people who were rescued from the perilous Mediterranean only to become the latest pawn in Europe’s battle over immigration.

CBS News

Spain welcomes migrants from disputed ship

BBC

Migrant crisis to dominate Macron-Merkel meeting on EU

Sunday Express

Ex-rebel looks to defy odds in Colombia race

Gustavo Petro has gone from fearless lawmaker who tormented Colombia’s political class to a renegade mayor who took on powerful private interests and now a surprise, surging finalist in the country’s first presidential election since the signing of a historic peace accord.

Associated Press

Can leftist Petro become Colombian president?

Al Jazeera

Capitalists weigh cost of US-China trade war

Companies and trade groups in the U.S. and China have raised concern about the potential fallout from the escalating trade dispute between the world’s two biggest economies.

South China Morning Post

Chinese media suggests Trump is a ‘fool’

Newsweek

HUMAN RIGHTS

Iran slams US’ history of human rights denial

U.S. politicians and rights groups regularly condemn Iran for its human rights violations, but the Islamic Republic’s parliament hit back this week by publishing a report blasting Washington’s own record.

Newsweek

Strike kills terrorist who ordered Malala slain

The Pakistani terrorist leader who ordered the assassination of Malala Yousafzai was killed in a drone strike, according to Afghan officials. Mullah Fazlullah was allegedly killed in a strike on June 13 in the Dangam district of Kunar province in Afghanistan.

ABC News

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Trump ally Stone met with Russians about Clinton

CNN

Migrants saved but stranded on US warship

A U.S. Navy warship did the right thing. It saved the lives of dozens of people drowning off the coast of Libya. But what does it do with these people who have suffered so much?

Daily Beast

Congo President Kabila won’t seek third term

Congo’s current President Joseph Kabila won’t seek a third mandate in the African country’s upcoming December elections because of constitutional term limits.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Humans caused warming on the moon, too

According to the new study, the 12 Apollo astronauts who walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972 kicked aside so much dust that they revealed huge regions of darker, more heat-absorbing soil that may not have seen the light of day in billions of years. That raised the moon’s temperature.

LiveScience

Psychedelic drugs promote neural plasticity

A new study has found psychedelics, specifically DOI, DMT, and LSD, can change brain cells in rats and flies, making neurons more likely to branch out and connect with one another.

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

The end of aids: Battle is far from over

Though far apart, at-risk communities in Russia, Nigeria and Florida face surprisingly similar challenges. Access to consistent HIV treatment is often limited, social stigma results in isolation, and government response is slow.

PBS NewsHour

India set to ban e-cigarettes for good

Delhi is all set to ban e-cigarettes. Under provisions of law, sources in health ministry said, the government has already banned international expo on e-cigarettes in Delhi. Recently, the government also denied permission to a huge consignment of e-cigarettes in Delhi.

India Today

Hong Kong set to regulate e-cigarettes in same manner as traditional smoking

South China Morning Post

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Dyana Mason):

Separating migrant kids from families is bound to make a bad situation worse

U.S. News & World Report

Editorial:

The Observer view on migrants dying because Europe is pandering to populism

Guardian

Column (Kara Alaimo):

Who AT&T decision really hurts

CNN

Column (Jonathan Allen):

The Trump Doctrine: How to lose friends and influence enemies

NBCNews.com

Column (Stan Horaczek):

Is the net still neutral?

Popular Science

Column (Marc Schulman):

Tel Aviv diary: Pride week shows that Israel is not an occupying country and one of the world’s most liberal societies

Newsweek

Column (Olga Khazan):

Being black in America can be hazardous to your health

The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

In Denver, ‘Food is in when school is out’

Schools in Denver are wrapping up the school year, and that means many children may not be eating enough because they’re missing out on free or reduced school breakfast and lunch. The Summer for Food Service Program is available to alleviate that stress.

CBS Denver

Teacher leaves $1M for disabled students

Genevieve Via Cava loved teaching and loved her students. Now, seven years after her death, they are learning just how much. The Dumont Public Schools received a check from her estate for $1 million.

CNN

Son‘s Father’s Day surprise for dad with Alzheimer’s goes viral

CBS News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

NGO serving people with albinism is honored

An NGO based in Namibia has received an international award for the work it does among Namibians born with albinism. Germany announced that the Bari Bari Award has been awarded to SINASRA, the local NGO dedicated to improve the quality of life for albinos.

Namibia Economist

Common errors made by emerging nonprofits

A new nonprofit organization comes into being when a good-hearted, smart person sees a need that is not being met and sets out to address it. Here are four common mistakes that we see new and emerging nonprofits routinely making and how you can avoid them.

Forbes

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change to slash global veggie supply

The world’s supply of vegetables could fall by more than a third by 2050 unless urgent action is taken to combat climate change, according to a new study.

The Independent

Alien Anthropocene: How would other worlds battle climate change?

Scientific American

ECONOMY

Canadians boycott US goods over Trump tariffs

Canadians have started to boycott U.S. goods in the wake of President Trump’s war of words with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the recent steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada, the European Union, and Mexico.

The Hill

Why China ‘holds all aces’ in a trade war with US

CNBC

A $1.4T ‘surplus’ Trump’s not talking about

The U.S. has a surplus of $20 billion with China and $1.4 trillion with the rest of the world. That’s not a normal trade balance, of course, but an “aggregate sales surplus” which measures both direct trade and the sales of multinational companies.

Bloomberg

The UK moves to clean up dirty money

The British government of Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May is under pressure to staunch the flow of ill-gotten gains into the country via wealthy Russians in the wake of the attempted murder in March of Sergei Skripal.

U.S. News & World Report

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Shot during a political protest in La Paz, Bolivia, in 2009. (Photo by Danielle Pereira) Photo used under CC BY

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