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2015 finish was the warmest year on record, and by the widest margin ever – nearly a third of one degree Fahrenheit warmer than 2014’s average. (Photo by NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Photo used under CC BY

2015 was warmest year on record, NASA and NOAA say

Not only did 2015 finish as the warmest year on record, but it did so by the widest margin ever. The year 2015 was nearly a third of one degree Fahrenheit warmer than 2014’s average.

NPR

Zika virus likely to spread to Southern US

As cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus are spreading across central and South America and the Caribbean, experts say it’s only a matter of time before the disease is transmitted within the United States.

U.S. News & World Report

Birth defects linked to Zika virus still rising in Brazil

FOX News

Governor’s approach set stage for Flint water crisis

No one put lead in Flint’s water deliberately, but the cost-cutting imperatives and imperious manner that led to the crisis were typical of Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration.

Guardian

How Flint residents are coping

CNN

Immigration case could limit executive power

The Supreme Court challenge to Obama’s immigration policies has the potential to move beyond the immigration issues at hand, to constrain the power of Obama’s successor to bypass Congress and act alone.

Reuters

Map:

Where states stand on immigration actions

Huffington Post

East braces for wallop from major snowstorm

A major, potentially “crippling” snowstorm is forecast to slam portions of the South, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast this weekend, likely halting road and air travel and causing widespread power outages.

USA TODAY

Storm Watch: when and where it will be worst

NBCNews.com

IN-DEPTH

Gossip isn’t a flaw – it’s a vital social skill

When disparaging gossip, we overlook the fact that it’s an essential part of what makes the social world tick; the nasty side of gossip overshadows the more benign ways in which it functions.

The New Republic

The rise of smuggling in ailing Venezuela

Hit by a spiraling recession, Venezuelans from all walks of life are making ends meet through the illicit trade of food, medicine and other state-subsidized goods.

Guardian

Special section:

Venezuela: a nation in a state

Economist

HUMAN RIGHTS

How last Nazis could be brought to justice

Hubert Zafke, a 95-year-old who served as a medic at the Auschwitz concentration camp, is the latest to be prosecuted in a push by German authorities to hold the last living Nazis accountable for the Holocaust.

TIME

Why Costco’s slavery lawsuit was dismissed

Costco filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit that alleged it had knowingly sold shrimp that had been produced with the use of slavery, and it was granted by the court.

Fortune

Boycott of Thai shrimp after slave labor report

BBC

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Obama considers action on campaign finance

Money-in-politics reformers are seizing on reports that President Obama is weighing the possibility of issuing an executive order to force companies doing business with the federal government to reveal their political spending.

The Hill

British lawmakers blast Trump

Parliament took up the topic after half a million people signed a petition calling for Trump to be excluded over his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States in the wake of extremist violence.

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Electric vehicle sales fall short of Obama goal

Today – with gas prices near $2 a gallon – only about 400,000 electric cars have been sold. Last year, sales fell 6 percent to about 115,000, despite the industry offering about 30 plug-in models, often at deep discounts.

Automotive News

Children can develop depression and anxiety trying to gain more friends on social media

Kids are developing depression and anxiety from having too few Facebook friends, experts warn. The recent phenomenon, known as “Facebook depression,” involves mainly millennial kids.

Courier Mail

Kenya remains show earliest signs of warfare

The 10,000-year-old remains of 27 people found at a remote site west of Lake Turkana show that they met violent deaths. They were left to die there rather than being buried.

BBC

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Volvo promises deathproof cars by 2020

Volvo has made a shocking pledge: By 2020, no one will be killed or seriously injured in a new Volvo car or SUV.

Fox59

IBM forecasts weak earnings for 2016

International Business Machines (IBM) Corp forecast weak earnings for this year after reporting an 8.5% fall in fourth-quarter revenue as a strong dollar and tepid IT spending weigh on Big Blue’s results.

The Times of India

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GOOD NEWS

Homeless woman gives birth near St. Peter’s Square, gets year’s hospitality at Vatican

A homeless woman gave birth on a cardboard box just outside St. Peter’s Square in near-freezing temperatures and later received an offer of one year’s hospitality in a Vatican institution.

Reuters

Spanish town celebrates turnip-throwing fest

Hundreds of people have been running through the streets of a tiny town in southwestern Spain, chasing a fancy-dressed, beast-like figure and pelting it with turnips.

ABC News

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Christie vetoes NJ bill standarding care fees

The bill, which easily passed through the N.J. senate and house, ended at the office of Gov. Chris Christie, who gave it a pocket veto along with 64 other pieces of legislation.

NonProfit Quarterly

Building rights divide Art Students League

The 140-year-old nonprofit art school is the scene of a “battle being fought between the school’s leadership and a faction of its 3,945 voting members” over the granting of air rights to build, in part, above the school.

NonProfit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Chile ups solar ambition with desert tower

200 meters (650 feet) above the desert, the Atacama 1 will harvest the sun’s energy from a surrounding field of giant mirrors.

Guardian

Uruguay makes dramatic shift to nearly 95% electricity from clean energy

Guardian

Study probes climate impact of Uber, Lyft

A team at the University of California, Berkeley, is looking into the climate impacts of Uber and Lyft, with results due out in the fall.

Guardian

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Microsoft to donate $1B cloud services

Microsoft announced Tuesday it will donate $1 billion in cloud computing services to nonprofits and university researchers over the next three years.

NBCNews.com

Christian charities tackle poverty in Israel

A recently released report by Israel’s National Insurance Institute shows that 1.7 million Israelis live below the poverty line, including 23 percent of the country’s seniors and 13.7 percent of working families.

Breaking Israel News

Photo of the Day

Children play on their father’s parked tricycle in Bacolod, Philippines. The photo was shot earlier this month. (Photo by Brian Evans via Flickr) Photo used under CC BY

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