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PR faces huge challenges in rebuilding K-12 system

Puerto Rico’s education leaders face two inseparable challenges. They have the opportunity to recreate the U.S. territory’s long-struggling school system. But tens of thousands of Puerto Rican students and their families still go without basic necessities.

PBS NewsHour

Mainland Colleges Offer In-State Tuition To Students Affected By Hurricane Maria

NPR

Puerto Rico reopening some schools amid hurricane devastation

CNN

Saudi Arabia to let women into sports stadiums

Saudi Arabia is starting to ease restrictions on women spectators in sports stadiums. Starting in early 2018, women will be allowed into three arenas in major cities, according to the General Sport Authority, the governing body for sports.

CNN

Hundreds of thousands protest Catalan self-rule

Hundreds of thousands of protesters decrying the Catalan government’s push for independence came together in Barcelona to support Spanish unity. The rally capped a tumultuous weekend that saw the central government taking formal control of Catalonia.

NPR

Catalan parliament declares independence

BBC

Uganda hosts health summit amid outbreak

The U.S.-backed conference of the Global Health Security Agenda includes over 50 nations, nonprofits and other groups working to help poor countries deal with threats to public health. The summit comes amid an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever.

ABC News

Iran president turned down Trump meeting

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rebuffed a request from U.S. President Donald Trump to meet at the United Nations in New York in September, a day after the Trump made a speech highly critical of the Islamic republic, the state-run Fars News Agency said.

Bloomberg

FEMA disavows Puerto Rico power contract

The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it had no involvement in the decision to award a $300 million contract to restore Puerto Rico’s power grid to a tiny company in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s hometown.

PBS NewsHour

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN: Syrian forces executed April sarin attack

The Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad is to blame for a chemical attack on the opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhoun that killed dozens of people last April, according to a report sent to the United Nations Security Council.

Reuters

Syrian government responsible for sarin gas attack, according to UN watchdog

NPR

Global child labor rate has plunged since 2000

Roughly 100 million fewer children are having to work or are trapped in slavery or sexual trafficking, according to a progress report. But serious concerns remain about a slowdown in the rate at which children are being extracted from dangerous work conditions.

Christian Science Monitor

Rights group takes extreme tactic on Azerbaijan

The Council of Europe formally agreed to take legal action against Azerbaijan over its refusal to release an opposition politician from jail.

Politico

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Low turnout, deadly clashes in new Kenya vote

Clashes between Kenyan police and opposition supporters continued in several areas, after an opposition boycott of the repeat presidential election led to a sharply lower turnout. One man was shot dead, raising the death toll since the vote on Oct. 26 to at least five.

Associated Press

Turnout in Kenya’s election rerun at 33%, down from 80% in last vote

CNN

Northern Italy votes for more autonomy

More than 5 million Italians took part on Oct. 22 in two referendums granting autonomy to the rich, northern regions of Lombardy and Veneto, which drew inevitable comparisons to the independence ballot weeks earlier in Catalonia.

Economist

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Gene editing takes another step forward

Since its discovery in 2012, CRISPR-Cas9, a gene-editing technique, has gone from strength to strength. This tool, developed from a bacterial defence system that cuts up the DNA of invading viruses, permits genetic material to be edited easily and precisely.

Economist

Trump says experimental drone zones allowed

To hasten the development of commercial drones, the Trump administration invited state, local and tribal governments to establish experimental zones to test complex operations for the remote-controlled aircraft.

USA TODAY

Everything to know about President Donald Trump’s new drone program

Fortune

GLOBAL HEALTH

Plague kills 124, infects 1,200 in Madagascar

A plague outbreak in Madagascar has infected 1,192 people since August, with 124 deaths, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Madagascar’s National Bureau of Risk Management and Disaster reported on Oct. 23.

CNN

Deadly waterborne infections hit Puerto Rico

More than a month since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the death toll from the storm has risen to 51, according to Puerto Rico’s Department of Public Safety. The latest two victims died from leptospirosis, an infection that can spread through contaminated water.

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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We need to restore trust in free speech; we’re opening a new center to help

USA TODAY

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How to stop the Myanmar crisis? We can learn from Kosovo

Globeandmail.com

Column (Ben Adler):

EPA repeal of Clean Power Plan won’t get Trump what he wants

Reuters

Column (Josh Rivera):

Why thousands still die from witch hunts

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Opioid crisis has a new killer: fentanyl

USA TODAY

Column (Evan Schuurman):

Rohingya children need support, normality and education

Al Jazeera

Column (Arwa Mahdawi):

The troubling ascent of the LGBT right wing

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Sailors rescued after 5 months adrift in Pacific

Two U.S. yachtswomen and their two dogs have been rescued by the U.S. Navy after spending nearly five months adrift in the Pacific Ocean. They were rescued after a fishing vessel alerted U.S. authorities.

BBC

Wisconsin officer turns a sad birthday around

Officer Darryl Robinson from the Green Bay Police Department was called to an elementary school where a boy hadn’t been picked up after dismissal because his mother was in jail. And, he learned, it was the child’s eighth birthday.

CNN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

FB, Gateses to match #GivingTuesday gifts

Facebook has announced that it is once again partnering with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to match up to $2 million in donations for this year‘s #GivingTuesday event on Nov. 28.

Philanthropy News Digest

Nonprofit, vets protect rhinos from poachers

National parks in South Africa are under siege, plagued by rhino poachers. Poaching incidents are up by more than 8,000 percent across South Africa, from 13 cases in 2007 to nearly 1,100 in 2016. But there is hope in the form of a nonprofit called Rhino 911.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change starves bamboo-eating lemurs

Even though it is already the most endangered primate in the world, the greater bamboo lemur just can’t catch a break. Climate change is starving out this Madagascar native, according to a study published in Current Biology.

Scientific American

Iraq’s vast marshes are in peril yet again

Iraq’s marshes were reborn after the fall of Saddam Hussein, when residents dismantled dams he had built to root out Shiite rebels. But now, the largest wetlands in the Middle East are imperiled by government mismanagement and new upstream projects.

Associated Press

BUSINESS AND TRADE

US growth at above-forecast 3% in 3rd quarter

The U.S. economy expanded at a faster pace than forecast in the third quarter. Final sales to domestic purchasers, which strip out trade and inventories — the two most volatile components of the GDP calculation — climbed 1.8 percent, after rising 2.7 percent in the prior quarter.

Bloomberg

NAACP warns against flying American Airlines

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has issued a travel advisory warning African-American travelers to be careful when flying with American Airlines.

The Independent

Photo of the Day

The small town of Circleville, Ohio, hosts an annual pumpkin show. Each year, nearly 100,000 pumpkins, squash, and gourds are put on display. (Photo by Vasenka Photography) Photo used under CC BY

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