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This walrus in the Chukchi Sea doesn’t know it, but President Obama has taken executive action to preserve its ecosystem. (Photo by US Geological Survey) Photo used under CC BY

Eyeing Trump, Obama puts new limits on Arctic drilling

Looking to cement his environmental record, President Barack Obama has barred offshore drilling in areas of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans indefinitely. Obama relied on a 63-year-old law to prevent leasing of certain offshore areas.

CNN

Trudeau joins Obama in freezing arctic oil drilling

Bloomberg

Congo forces kill 26 opponents of strongman

Security forces shot dead at least 26 protesters who had gathered in the streets of Kinshasa and other cities of Democratic Republic of Congo to demand that President Joseph Kabila step down after his mandate expired overnight.

Sydney Morning Herald

ISIS boasts responsibility for deadly truck attack

ISIS has said one of its militants carried out the lorry attack on a Berlin Christmas market, which left 12 people dead. The identity of the attacker has not been established. There was no immediate way of verifying the claim.

BBC

Berlin attack latest in disturbing terror trend

USA TODAY

Pakistani, Afghan refugees in Germany fear backlash

Deutsche Welle

UN to monitor Aleppo evacuations

The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to approve a joint text from France and Russia for UN observers to monitor the evacuation of civilians from Aleppo. Tens of thousands have left since the weekend.

Deutsche Welle

Aleppo girl whose tweets captured world attention evacuated

Associated Press

Fireworks market blast kills 29 in Mexico

A powerful chain-reaction explosion ripped through Mexico’s best-known fireworks market on the northern outskirts of the capital, killing at least 29 people, injuring scores more and sending a huge plume of charcoal-gray smoke billowing into the sky.

ABC News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Record number of journalists jailed, study finds

The number of journalists detained worldwide rose in 2016, an increase related to Turkey where more than 100 journalists and media contributors are in jail, Reporters Without Borders says.

Daily Nation

A fight to save Afghan boys from sex slavery

Asia Times traced and interviewed 13 families across three Afghan provinces who said their children were taken for the pervasive practice of “bacha bazi,” or pedophilic exploitation, in Western-backed security forces.

Asia Times

Tillerson pick dims hopes of Russian activists

In Russia, supporters and opponents of President Vladimir Putin agree on very little. Yet as Donald Trump, the U.S. president-elect, prepares to enter the White House, there is one thing they are in full accordance on: For the next four years at least, the United States will stop promoting human rights and democracy in Russia.

Newsweek

Hunger stokes ethnic violence in S. Sudan

The UN Commission on Human Rights has warned that ethnic cleansing involving massacres, starvation and gang rape is taking place in South Sudan, threatening a repeat of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. An emergency session of the UN human rights council was told swift action was needed to avert disaster.

Guardian

Amid growing unrest, South Sudan kicks out aid workers

NPR

NC Legislature poised to repeal ’Bathroom Bill’

HB2 blocked local jurisdictions from passing anti-discrimination laws affecting anyone not protected at the state level, including gay and transgender people.

NPR

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Lawyer ‘appalled’ by warrant that shook Clinton

The FBI warrant that shook Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign in its final two weeks has been unsealed, and the lawyer who requested it says it offers “nothing at all” to merit the agency’s actions leading up to the election.

USA TODAY

How Germany will crack down on fake news

Amid rising concerns of propaganda-fueled fake news and its impact on elections, Germany is taking steps to block the spread of false information across social media platforms such as Facebook.

Christian Science Monitor

D.C. passes generous paid family leave bills

In a 9-4 vote, the D.C. City Council approved one of the most generous paid family leave plans in the country. The vote also rejected an 11th-hour proposed amendment to the bill that would change funding for the benefits.

PBS NewsHour

Minimum wage going up in 21 states, 22 cities

Millions of the lowest-wage workers across the country will get a raise in 2017. Some of those raises will be very minor -- a cost of living adjustment amounting to an extra nickel or dime an hour. But in several places the jump will be between $1 and $2 an hour.

CNNMoney

Report urges clearer guidance on phone tech

Clearer guidelines are needed for law enforcement’s use of secretive cellphone tracking technology, and police and federal agents should be upfront with a judge about their deployment, a House committee said.

Associated Press

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How lasers map the world for self-driving cars

For a car to drive itself, it needs to sense its surroundings. Laser arrays build a precise 3D model of every object near a car in seconds.

CNET News

‘Cooling’ hats for Qatar stadium builders

World Cup 2022 laborers in Qatar are to be given “cooling” hard hats which reduce their body temperature as they build football stadiums in the fierce desert heat, tournament organizers announced.

Al Jazeera

Antimatter excitation hints at universe’s origins

Scientists have used a laser to tickle atoms of antimatter and make them shine, a key step toward answering one of the great riddles of the universe. Theory predicts that the Big Bang produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter. So where did all the antimatter go?

CBS News

Scientists blast antimatter atoms wth a laser for the first time

NPR

GLOBAL HEALTH

Prostate cancer laser treatment ‘transformative’

The approach, tested across Europe, uses lasers and a drug made from deep sea bacteria to eliminate tumours, without causing severe side effects. Trials on 413 men - published in The Lancet Oncology - showed nearly half of them had no remaining trace of cancer.

BBC

Medicare outpatients billed more for some care

CBS News

Study casts doubts on sugar guidelines

A new industry-funded study published in a prominent medical journal questions the evidence used to generate the specific recommendations to limit sugar in our diets.

NPR

Healthy foods may not be as pricey as you think

CBS News

Pregnancy changes brain, scientists discover

The study includes data on 25 Spanish women scanned before and after their first pregnancies, along with 20 women who didn’t get pregnant during the study. The brain changes in the pregnancy group emerged from comparisons of those two groups.

Associated Press

BUSINESS

Trump immigration plan could cost U.S. billions

If the DACA is repealed, roughly 645,000 people would lose their legal right to work in the U.S., and possibly being deported. Terminating all of these workers and retraining replacements for them would cost businesses an estimated $3.4 billion.

CNNMoney

Things to ponder before buying a child a phone

Once parents realize the magnitude of the decision and how it is the “purchase of a huge life-changing experience,” they need to decide whether the time is right for their children.

CNN

Yellen underscores promise of college grads

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Monday that college graduates are entering the strongest job market the country has seen in nearly a decade, and their degree is more important than ever.

Associated Press

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GOOD NEWS

Adoptive mother Kidman connected with role

Nicole Kidman’s latest role just might be closest to home. In the movie “Lion,” she plays fellow Australian Sue Brierly in the heartwrenching true story of a couple who adopt a lost Indian boy, and help him find his birth mother.

CBS News

Journalist: Familial love made Obama who he is

CBS News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Good news takeaways on future of aid for trade

2016 has been a year of trade setbacks, from Brexit’s implications to questions over U.S. support for the TPP. But there has been one bright spot: the growing popularity of “aid for trade,” a set of policies aimed at helping developing countries take advantage of international market openings.

Devex

EU’s Brexit negotiators prepare for disaster

Few Europeans wanted Britain to quit the European Union. But now that it is happening, foreign ministries and policy units across the EU are relishing the task ahead. As an intellectual exercise, managing the multifaceted complexities of Britain’s departure from the EU offers distinctively satisfying policy work.

Economist

NGOs AND NPOs

NGOs in post-disaster Haiti: It’s complicated

The 2010 earthquake in Haiti was the deadliest quake ever recorded in the Western hemisphere, and nearly seven years later, Haitians are still feeling its after-effects in profound ways. One consequence is man-made: the proliferation of NGOs in Haiti.

CBS News

Worker: NGOs need foresight, acumen

My NGO was not the first to go through a process of change, but management failed to see that the downsizing became necessary because of its own incompetence.

Guardian

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

What to know about corporate philanthropy

Increasingly, a new kind of philanthropy is moving front and center in the corporate world: Proactive giving that’s closely aligned with the mission and assets of companies, and quite strategic. In some cases, corporate funders are even moving ahead of private foundations.

Inside Philanthropy

Watchdog: UK falling short in aid for girls

Britain is falling short in its ambitions to educate the poorest and most vulnerable girls around the world, the aid watchdog has found. The Independent Commission for Aid Impact said too many aid programs lost their focus on girls and in some cases abandoned goals.

Guardian

Aid to Africa projected to fall under Trump

allAfrica.com

Depressing news about mental health funding

Mental illness continues to be a neglected area of health funding in the grand scheme of philanthropic giving. And one of the many reasons this is disappointing is that mental illness is implicated in so many other problems that funders are seeking to address, such as poverty, homelessness and violence.

Inside Philanthropy

Sorry, fans: Jeddiism not a religion in UK

After nine months pondering such questions as whether “The Force” is with us, the UK’s official charity regulator has politely turned down an application for so-called “Jedi” beliefs to be recognised effectively as a religion.

Telegraph.co.uk

ENVIRONMENT

Renewable energy powers Las Vegas

The shift to renewable energy started in 2008 and has since saved the city roughly $5 million annually and decreased energy consumption by more than 30 percent.

Huffington Post

Obama may use 1953 law to block sea drilling

President Barack Obama is preparing to block the sale of new offshore drilling rights in much of the U.S. Arctic and parts of the Atlantic, a move that could indefinitely restrict oil production there, according to two people familiar with the decision.

Bloomberg

Photo of the Day

The use of a massive truck to attack holiday shoppers in Berlin is part of a disturbing trend in the terror movement. (Photo by quapan) Photo used under CC BY

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