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Great dig-out of 2016 follows brutal snowstorm

The sun came out, travel bans slowly lifted, and the great dig-out of 2016 was in full force across the East after a brutal, record-setting snowstorm paralyzed much of the region.

USA TODAY

Video of massive snowball fight in D.C.

Reuters

NC Good Samaritan shot dead helping during storm

CBS News

Romania offers $65M to Moldova if it reforms

Romania offered a loan of $65 million to Moldova to prevent the latter’s economy from collapsing. Romania’s Prime Minister said Moldova will have to fight corruption and make other reforms if it wanted the money.

International Business Times

Most Americans voice little faith in government

As voting nears, most Americans have little or no confidence in the federal government to confront the country’s most important priorities, according to a national survey.

Associated Press

Syrian attack kills 22 ahead of peace talks

At least 22 people have been killed in a double suicide bombing at an army checkpoint in the Syrian city of Homs, state TV reports. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the carnage.

Deutsche Welle

UN envoy sends invitations to peace talks

Globeandmail.com

Obama restricts use of solitary confinement

President Barack Obama said he will ban solitary confinement as a form of punishment for juvenile and low-level offenders in federal prisons. He said solitary confinement has the potential to cause “lasting psychological consequences.”

BBC

Homes in danger of falling off eroding cliffs

Some cliff side residents in Pacifica, California, are being forced to leave their homes as the ground outside their doors falls into the sea.

USA TODAY

El Niño erosion threatens California homes

ABC News

IN-DEPTH

A look at Egypt’s uprising, 5 years later

Five years ago, tens of thousands of Egyptians flooded into Cairo‘s Tahrir Square. Hopes were high that this marked a turning point, where the revolution’s demands of “bread, freedom and social justice” could be fulfilled.

NPR

Tahrir Square: was it ever ‘social media revolution?’

Guardian

Boosting economy is a way to beat extremism

Generating economic growth in the Middle East is crucial to defeating extremism, Iranian President Rouhani said, putting forward his country as a trade hub and pillar of stability.

Reuters

Pope urges Iran to act for peace in Middle East

Yahoo! News

TERROR

Suicide bomb attack kills 28 in Cameroon

Suicide bombers targeting a town in northern Cameroon killed 28 people and wounded 65 in one of the worst attacks yet in the Central African nation blamed on Nigeria’s Boko Haram.

Reuters

ISIS video purports to show Paris attackers

A new video released by ISIS shows nine of the extremists who carried out the attacks in Paris beheading and shooting captives, as well as training while plotting the carnage that left 130 dead in the French capital.

FOX News

Video suggests Paris attackers encrypted data

The Hill

HUMAN RIGHTS

Obama will push to clear Vietnam-era bombs

Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Laos ahead of a major push by the Obama administration to fix a decades-old wrong: clearing up leftover Vietnam-era U.S. bombs.

CNN

Al-Assad using foreign aid as bargaining chip

Fresh evidence has emerged of how starving Syrians are being forced to eat grass to survive. Aid agencies say that the al-Assad regime is using humanitarian aid as a bargaining chip.

National Post

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Anti-abortionists indicted in secret video case

A Houston grand jury indicted two anti-abortion activists in connection with undercover videos shot in Texas that purported to show fetal organ sales inside a Planned Parenthood clinic.

NBCNews.com

Full footage of video at heart of case

NPR

Clinton, Rubio get Des Moines Register nod

The Des Moines Register is endorsing Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president and Marco Rubio for the Republican nod, the Iowa newspaper announced.

CBS News

Obama boosts Clinton’s pitch to Democratic voters

The Fiscal Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

4D-printed structure changes shape in water

A team of scientists at Harvard University and has evolved their microscale 3-D printing technology to the fourth dimension, time. The team has unveiled 4D-printed structures that change shape when immersed in water.

Harvard Gazette

Face recognition software may protect whales

North Atlantic right whales are currently classified as endangered species. To help save these marine animals, scientists have developed a facial recognition software that can identify right whales in photos.

TechTimes

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Executive exodus delays a Twitter turnaround

Twitter Inc. fell after the company lost four executives, including its product and engineering chiefs, signaling any attempts to boost growth at the struggling social media company will be delayed.

Bloomberg

Iran wants to resume direct flights to US

Iran will need hundreds of new aircraft as it rejoins global aviation networks, a move that could include direct flights to the U.S. for the first time in 36 years.

CNNMoney

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GOOD NEWS

Thai airline treats ‘child angels’ like children – except when it treats them as luggage

A Thai airline will allow passengers to purchase seats for lifelike dolls that their owners treat as real children. No ticket? Please stow that child under the seat or in your overhead bin.

Bloomberg

Kind strangers bolster homeless man in snow

Passers-by offered money, a coat and a blanket to a homeless man begging for help as snow fell around him and his dog.

U.S. News & World Report

HUMOR

Tina Fey reprises Sarah Palin impersonation

Sarah Palin was back in the news last week, endorsing GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. So naturally, Tina Fey came back to “Saturday Night Live” to send up the former vice presidential candidate.

CBS News

Boss calls for relaxed culture – immediately

Warning of severe consequences if he didn’t see results, Pantheon Digital Consulting COO Daniel Abelson told employees he wants a relaxed, friendly company culture implemented by the end of the week.

The Onion

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

China expels Swedish NGO worker

A Swedish NGO worker has been forced to leave China three weeks after he was detained and investigated for allegedly running an “illegal organisation.”

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Israel delays vote on controversial NGO bill

A vote on Israel’s Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked’s proposed NGO transparency bill was postponed as the Knesset closed down ahead of a snowstorm, drawing cheers from opponents and activists.

Times of Israel

ENVIRONMENT

Court rejects stay on Clean Power Act

The US Court of Appeals rejected a stay of implementation request from a coalition of 27 states and numerous other groups regarding the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which will restrict greenhouse gas emissions.

Christian Science Monitor

Record heat caused by human influence

Last year’s record heat marks the latest in a string of more than a decade of hot years. Record temperatures are irrefutable, but that doesn’t mean everyone agrees that manmade climate change has caused them.

TIME

Read the report here

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Bill Gates and African magnate Aliko Dangote pledge $100M to solve malnutrition in Nigeria

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, and American software billionaire Bill Gates have announced a $100 million plan to cut malnutrition in Nigeria.

Guardian

University given $2M for transgender studies

American billionaire philanthropist Jennifer Pritzker has donated $2 million to a Canadian university to establish a chair of transgender studies, believed to be the only such research position in global academia.

Sydney Morning Herald

Self-made billionaires give more than heirs

Self-made billionaires are bigger philanthropists than those who inherit their wealth, research says. That might explain why the self-made wealthy plan to donate much of their wealth to charity.

NPR

Photo of the Day

Venetians began the annual carnival over the weekend with gala dinners, masked balls and canal parades. (Photo by Matteo Chinellato via Flickr) Photo used under CC BY

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