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Flooding forces evacuations, threatens homes in Midwest

Swollen rivers rose across the U.S. Midwest, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people, threatening crops and livestock, and putting scores of buildings underwater. The Mississippi is poised to crest at or above record levels.

Reuters

Fears of New Year’s Eve terror attacks attend preparations for celebrations around world

Security fears provide a sobering backdrop to planned New Year’s Eve galas. In the U.S., police are tightening security in high-profile locations, including New York’s Times Square and the Rose Bowl site near Los Angeles.

CNN

2 held in New Year’s Eve terror plot in Turkey

CNN

Belgian soldiers, police had group sex amid Brussels terror lockdown, local media reports say

Guardian

In violence-racked Central African Republic, voters queue up with hopes of stability

Voters flooded the polling stations early and kept them busy until closing to vote in national elections meant to bring greater stability after years of violence.

ABC News

Fresh state laws illustrate divergence on guns, voting

Gun restrictions will ease in Texas but tighten in California; Oregon is making it easier to vote while North Caroline adds a step at the polls. The opposing directions reflect a nation with increasingly polarized politics.

Associated Press

After killings, Chicago mayor to purchase more Tasers, revise policy on use of force

In the face of outrage over police killings, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the interim Chicago police superintendent plan to increase the department’s use of Tasers and training in the use of nonlethal force.

CBS Chicago

If Cosby goes to trial in sexual assault case, other accusers could testify, expert says

Charged with aggravated indecent assault, the comedian is free on bail. Prosecutors could ask any of the defendant’s scores of accusers to help establish signature criminal conduct, a Pennsylvania attorney says.

NBCNews.com

Entertainer calm but frail at arraignment

ABC News

UK sperm bank turns away potential donors with dyslexia, raising classification question

The center’s policy of turning away donors who might pass on neurological diseases highlights a debate about whether dyslexia, which is associated with giftedness as well as limitations, should be regarded as a disability.

Guardian

Psychiatrists weigh in on ‘affluenza’ defense

As the teen who used the defense to escape jail time in drunk-driving deaths awaits extradition from Mexico, mental health experts stress that affluenza is not a recognized mental disorder.

CBS News

YEAR IN REVIEW

10 major scientific breakthroughs of 2015

Humanity took several significant leaps forward in the world of science this year, with two huge accomplishments in space exploration leading the way.

CTV

Top news photos of 2015

Associated Press

See the biggest medical breakthroughs of 2015

ABC News

International figures who died in 2015

BBC

IN-DEPTH

The price of secularism in Bangladesh

In support of gender equality, human rights and civil liberties, a group of bloggers is doing battle with Islamists online — and paying dearly for it.

New York Times Magazine

Can Hobby Lobby buy the Bible?

The retail chain’s evangelical Christian owners have amassed one of the world’s largest private collections of biblical antiquities, drawing scrutiny in a time of widespread antiquities violations.

The Atlantic

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Top aide to North Korea leader dies in crash

A senior North Korean ruling parry official and a top aid to leader Kim Jong Un has died in a car crash, the latest dramatic demise in the close circle of deputies to the country’s leader.

MSN News

Republican Pataki ending presidential bid

Pataki, 70, made the announcement in a prime-time TV ad that aired in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, which hold the first three contests in the battle for the party’s nomination.

MSN News

HUMAN RIGHTS

AP investigation helps free slaves

Four journalists tracked ships, located slaves and stalked refrigerated trucks to expose the abusive practices of the fishing industry in Southeast Asia. The investigation has led to the release of more than 2,000 slaves.

Associated Press

Burundi army defections signal ethnic divide

As conflict in Burundi escalates, Burundi’s president warned the world to stay out, threatening to attack any peacekeepers dispatched by regional countries.

ABC News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Puerto Rico to default on portion of debt

The commonwealth will not be able to make two of the 13 debt obligations due soon. The Obama administration called on Congress to approve an aid package.

CNBC

Two tech giants are tackling epidemic air pollution in China

Microsoft and IBM have developed smog forecasting technology that can help governments make the air breathable again.

Huffington Post

Southeast Asia launches huge trade bloc, common market

Ten Southeast Asian nations art starting an ambitious, U.S.-backed experiment: integrating their economies in a bid to bring more global sway and prosperity to the region’s 622 million citizens.

The Australian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The terrible beauty of brain surgery

To distinguish between a tumor and the brain tissue it resembles, surgeons keep the patient awake throughout the operation.

New York Times

This is what it’s like to be wide awake during brain surgery

TIME

Your sole chance to see Comet Catalina

In the coming weeks, one of the most beautiful comets we’ve ever discovered, Comet Catalina, will pass by Earth in what’s expected to be its first and only visit to the inner solar system.

ScienceAlert

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Regina Buono):

Economy vs. environment doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game

Forbes

Column (Kenneth Rapoza):

China starts breaking up its state-owned enterprises

Forbes

Column (Taymullah Taymullah Abdur-Rahman):

Affluenza vs Lowcashism: gibberish or justified?

Huffington Post

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GOOD NEWS

Solo rower, 53, completes 209-day voyage from North America to Australia

For seven months, John Beeden rowed his 20-foot long boat, named “Socks II,” sometimes 15 hours a day. When he arrived in northeast Australia, he set foot on dry land for the first time in 209 days.

PBS NewsHour

Young couple delivering newspapers in New Mexico buried in snow

The couple were finally freed from beneath the snow after a nearly 20 hour period where they tried to talk to each other to keep themselves awake.

MSN News

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Saint Luke’s Foundation awards $4.2 million to Cleveland nonprofits

Saint Luke’s Foundation has announced grants totaling more than $4.2 million in support of local nonprofits working to advance the foundation’s priorities of healthy people, strong neighborhoods, and resilient families.

Philanthropy News Digest

Mississippi yanks funding for troubled nonprofit’s programs that serve the poor

Operations are winding down at the troubled Gulf Coast Community Action Agency, a nonprofit organization that has served the poor for 46 years and managed a county Head Start program.

Sun Herald

ENVIRONMENT

From a rare Florida tree, genes to regrow forest of ancient giants

An experiment in regrowing forests of the world’s oldest trees led environmentalists this week to climb a nine-story-tall, 2,000-year-old Florida cypress known as Lady Liberty.

Yahoo! News

Blog:

Top ten victories for the environment and climate in 2015

(Huffington Post)

The Blog

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

What’s likely outcome of IRS proposal to add an alternative way to report donations?

The IRS has proposed a rule to allow a second way to permit donors to claim tax deductions for their charitable gifts which would make use of donor social security numbers.

Nonprofit Quarterly

India to aid unpaid worker in Saudi Arabia

The government will extend all help to an Indian man working in Saudi Arabia without being paid his salary for the last 28 months.

Times of India

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Sleeping fox. (Photo by Anthony Quintano) Photo used under CC BY

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