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Scientists observe black hole gobbling star, belching plasma

For the first time, scientists observed a black hole both devouring a star and ripping a plasma “burp” as it consumed its meal — an incredibly rare find.

Discover

The mystery of the naked black hole

Science

FBI seeks to fill out mass shooters’ timeline

The FBI is requesting the public’s help in filling out a gap in the whereabouts of the two assailants after they killed 14 people in last month’s attack in San Bernardino.

ABC News

Public asked to help close 18-minute gap in San Bernardino probe

Reuters

UN condemns N. Korea claim of nuke test as ‘destabilizing’

The international fallout from North Korea’s announcement of a “successful” hydrogen bomb test has already begun, with world leaders slamming the development as a “grave threat” and “deeply worrying.”

CNBC

Obama spells out executive actions on gun sales

While in tears, Obama launched a final-year push to tighten sales of firearms, using his presidential powers in the absence of tougher gun restrictions.

Associated Press

Shares of Smith & Wesson soar on rush to buy guns

CBS News

Full video of president’s conference

White House

Oregon militants demand federal government transfer land management to local control

A leader of the small armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge says the group will go home when a plan to turn over management of federal lands to locals is implemented.

Associated Press

FBI monitors siege patiently, from a distance

Time

Protest leader took out $530,000 federal loan

CNN

IN-DEPTH

Sweden persuades dads to take plenty of leave

In some countries the idea of paternity leave has yet to take hold. In Sweden, which has been encouraging fathers to take paternity leave since 1974, there is now a new incentive for them to spend a full three months at home.

BBC

Iran’s Rouhani lashes out at Saudi Arabia over execution of prominent Shiite cleric

Iran’s President lashed out at Saudi Arabia, calling its decision to sever ties with Tehran after uproar over a prominent Shiite cleric’s execution a strange move in response to what he called justified criticism.

CNN

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

House Benghazi committee outlasts 9/11 panel

The House Select Committee on Benghazi has now surpassed the amount of time the 9/11 Commission took to conduct its investigation and release a final analysis.

The Hill

Obamacare vote to kick off combative year

Legislation repealing President Barack Obama’s health care law comes to the forefront as Congress reconvenes, marking a sharply partisan start to a congressional year in which legislating may take a back seat to politics.

U.S. News & World Report

TERROR

Site of San Bernardino mass shooting reopens

Employees at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino went back to work as the campus reopened for the first time since the Dec. 2 shooting that killed 14 people and wounded 22.

San Bernardino Press-Enterprise

Pakistan helps India investigate base attack

Pakistan says it is working on leads shared by India on the terror attack on Pathankot Air Base. India has shared the details of phone call records of the militants and the cellphone numbers of their Pakistan-based handlers.

Times of India

HUMAN RIGHTS

Coordinated sexual assaults stun Germany, add fuel to debate over immigration policy

The German government condemned dozens of apparently coordinated sexual assaults against women on New Year’s Eve in the western city of Cologne blamed on Arab men but warned against anti-migrant scapegoating.

MSN News

ISIS has lost ground — while making vital gains

The Islamic State’s territory in 2015 shrank by 40% from its maximum expansion in Iraq and by 20% in Syria as international forces pushed its militants out of several cities.

Business Insider

Special section:

Here’s all of the area that ISIS controls

Business Insider

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Should Tesla fear competitors?

Given the focus on clean vehicles and long term targets of zero emission, an increasing number of automakers are now investing heavily in electric vehicles.

Forbes

Iran, China to develop trade, transport ties

Chinese President Xi Jinping would visit Iran by next month to discuss bilateral economic ties, said Majid-Reza Hariri, the deputy head of Iran-China Joint Chamber of Commerce.

Tehran Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Researchers call for combining crowdsourced thinking with artificial intelligence

Combining human and computer intelligence could help solve the world‘s most vexing problems, researchers envisioned in an article published in the journal Science.

TechNewsWorld

State of emergency declared as Brazil faces virus that shrinks babies’ brains

Brazil has seen the number of babies born with microcephaly — a rare and devastating neurological disorder that causes newborns to develop abnormally small skulls and brains — increase dramatically.

Science Alert

Microsoft is building a drone army to catch mosquitoes and stop epidemics

ScienceAlert

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Matt Taibi):

A goofball billionaire mirror-gazer has unleashed a half-century of crackpot grievances

Rolling Stone

Blog (Charles P. Pierce):

What’s happening in Oregon is nothing less than armed sedition

Esquire

Editorial:

Truthful truckers: An electronic log could reduce accidents

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal and Chelsea Tamborski.

GOOD NEWS

Cincinnati woman builds ‘flash mob’ of mercy

Last winter, an online post inspired a Cincinnati woman to start her own way of spreading kindness. “The concept is somewhat of a flash mob, but with kind acts,” Liz Wu says.

WLWT

‘Secret Kindness Agents’ spread good will with smiles, encouragement, invitations

Inspired by a local author and university instructor, young people throughout the Omaha metro area are committing themselves to spreading kindness.

Omaha World-Herald

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Colorado nonprofit health news site shutters

The 5-year-old group, Health News Colorado, was not able to eliminate its dependence on a funder that shifted its priorities.

Nonprofit Quarterly

Are nonprofit insurers ‘legal fictions’ too?

In a recent court ruling, a New Jersey judge dubbed the modern nonprofit hospital a “legal fiction,” which brought its property tax status into immediate question.

NonProfit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

First in series of El Niño storms hits California

Forced by drought to become miserly with water, Californians were warned against reverting to old habits as the first of several storms spawned by El Niño drenched the state.

ABC News

Mudslides hit areas devoured by wildfires

CBS News

Major quake coming, Indian authorities warn

Disaster management experts have warned of a bigger catastrophe in northeastern India, earthquakes with a magnitude of 8.2 or greater that may hit the already ruptured Himalayan region.

Times of India

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Walmart heirs give $407 million to trust

Three heirs to the Walmart retail fortune collectively donated $407 million in company stock in late 2015 to a trust formed earlier last year to fund the family’s philanthropy.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Giant UK bank cuts ties with Muslim charity over fear that funds could go to terror groups

HSBC has ended its banking links with Britain’s biggest government-funded Muslim charity, Islamic Relief, amid concerns that cash for aid could end up with terrorist groups abroad.

The Sunday Times

Photo of the Day

Guinea puffer fish, indigenous to Baja, Mexico, waters, observed in the aquarium at Sonoran Desert Museum near Tucson, AZ. (Photo by Carolyn F. Chryst) Photo used under CC BY

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