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Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who has ordered probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses, made news in 2003 when he refused to remove this monument of the Ten Commandments (which he had commissioned) from the Alabama Judicial Building in defiance of a federal court order. (Photo by maorlando) Photo used under CC BY

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Syrians starved under gov’t siege reportedly resort to eating pets

Syrian activists have released harrowing video of children they say are starving to death in a southern Syrian town completely cut off by government forces and allied militias.

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Syrian government ‘to let aid into besieged Madaya’

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BBC

After sexual asssaults, Cologne mayor sparks fury by urging women to keep their distance

Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker has drawn ridicule online for proposing a “code of conduct” for women to prevent sexual assault, advising them to remain at “an arm‘s length” from strangers.

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BBC

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Questions unanswered in Cologne harassment case

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Cologne steps up security after NYE attacks

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Alabama chief justice orders halt to same-sex marriage

The chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court ordered probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, defying a U.S. Supreme Court decision that made marriage equality the law of the land.

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MSNBC

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Chief Justice’s administrative order on same sex marriage

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NPR

South Korea to inflict K-Pop blasts on Kim Jong Un for nuke test

With Kim Jong Un turning up the heat with North Korea’s fourth nuclear test, South Korea will respond Friday by pumping up the volume. Literally.

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Bloomberg

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N Korea’s claim of H-bomb test sparks alarm, doubts, warning of expanded sanctions

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Reuters

Republicans finally pass Obamacare repeal; given the inevitable veto, what’s the point?

House Republicans have passed a bill that guts Obamacare – their 62nd attempt to repeal or undermine the Affordable Care Act. This time it will get all the way to the desk of the president, who will veto it. Why bother?

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Christian Science Monitor

‘We don’t want you here,’ tribe tells occupiers

The leaders of the Burns Paiute tribe have a message for the men and women who have taken over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge outside Burns, Oregon: “Go home. We don’t want you here.”

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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.

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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.

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CNN

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Kenyan court declines to suspend law giving president power to appoint justices

Kenya’s high court has declined to suspend the implementation of a law that gives the president power to appoint the chief justice and deputy chief justice.

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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.

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The Hill

TERROR

Pakistani intelligence behind Pathankot terror attack, former top White House official says

Pakistan’s powerful intelligence agency ISI is behind the attack on Pathankot airbase in Punjab using a terrorist group it created 15 years ago, a former top White House official has said.

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ISIS researching attack modes, video shows

Islamic State has built a research center devoted to launching attacks in the West using driverless cars and rehabilitated anti-aircraft missiles, new footage from inside the terror group reveals.

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Guardian

Terror bill puts social media companies in bind

Social media websites do not have the technological ability to comply with a bill that would require technology companies to report on “actual knowledge of terrorist activity,” according to industry analysts.

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Bloomberg

HUMAN RIGHTS

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.

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Business Insider

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Here’s all of the area that ISIS controls

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DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

World Bank issues ‘perfect storm’ warning for 2016

Simultaneous slowdown in Brics economies would jeopardise chances of pick-up in global growth this year, report says

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Guardian

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.

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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.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Matt Taibi):

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

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Blog (Charles P. Pierce):

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

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Esquire

Truthful truckers: An electronic log could reduce accidents

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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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.

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WLWT

Tourists help save lion trapped by poacher’s noose in South Africa

The lion was found walking through a crocodile-infested river. He was tranquilized by a dart shot from a helicopter. He was finally freed from his noose by rescuers.

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CNN

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Minneapolis nonprofit has given needy kids 500,000 hats and mittens over 20 years

With no office and no paid staff, a Twin Cities nonprofit has managed to collect more than 500,000 mittens and hats for low-income children over the past two decades.

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Star Tribune

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.

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Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Drought, extreme heat reducing crop yields

Drought and extreme heat dramatically reduced production of key crops during the second half of the 20th century and will likely pose an increasingly dramatic problem in the coming decades, according to new research.

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TIME

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Extreme weather hits western farmers harder than elsewhere in the world

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Africa takes fresh look at GMO crops as drought blights continent

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Yahoo! 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.

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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.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NY state accepts bids for student loan relief

New York State has begun accepting applications for the Get On Your Feet loan forgiveness program, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced.

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CBS News

Five graduates who paid off student loans quickly

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