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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, one of the key leaders of the GOP, has announced he does not stand with GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. (Photo by Gage Skidmore) Photo used under CC BY

The GOP is crumbling before our very eyes

Donald Trump has erupted and the Grand Old Party may never be the same. Many Republicans have called on their presidential nominee to exit the race. House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled his support, and Trump fired back against Ryan and the Republican establishment.

USA TODAY

A psychologist examines Donald Trump

The Atlantic

Russia and Turkey sign gas deal

Turkey and Russia signed an agreement for the construction of a major undersea gas pipeline and vowed to seek common ground on the war in Syria, accelerating a normalization in ties.

Reuters

US urges calm as Turkey, Iraq tensions risk ISIS fight

US officials are urging calm between Turkey and Iraq to keep the flaring tensions between the two key American allies from jeopardizing the fight against ISIS.

CNN

ISIS losing ground as assault on Mosul looms

FOX News

Haiti needs ‘massive response’ to halt cholera

Many parts of Haiti devastated by Hurricane Matthew were still without aid as the U.N. launched an emergency appeal for almost $120 milion in life-saving help for 750,000 survivors at risk of starvation or cholera.

NBCNews.com

1.4 million need help in Haiti

Al Jazeera

Hundreds in China protest loss of military jobs

Police in Beijing blocked off streets near a major military building in Beijing, as hundreds of people wearing green camouflage uniforms chanted and waved national flags to protest against the loss of their posts.

Asia Times Online

1,600 flee bloody tribal clashes in Darfur

The U.N. reported that 1600 people were displaced in east Jebel Marra in Darfur due to tribal clashes between farmers and pastoralists.

Sudan Tribune

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Tribe to continue fight against pipeline

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will keep fighting the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline after a federal court rejected its request to halt construction on the project, which the tribe says would destroy some of its sacred sites.

NBCNews.com

Samsung investigating replacement phone fires

Samsung Electronics said it’s investigating a Galaxy Note 7 that is reported to have caught fire in Kentucky, a third incident in less than a week involving its replacement phones.

USA TODAY

HUMAN RIGHTS

Yazidi survivor Murad wins human rights award

A Yazidi woman who was tortured and raped by Islamic State group militants has won a human rights award. Iraqi activist Nadia Murad was awarded the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by the Council of Europe.

BBC

Chess master wins rights case against Russia

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Russia illegally detained international chess star and opposition leader Garry Kasparov in May 2007, when Kasparov was trying to attend a march against the administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

NPR

Iran asks UN to aid Yemeni bomb victims

Iran’s foreign minister is asking U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to use his “good offices” to arrange for an Iranian aircraft to bring humanitarian supplies to victims of the deadly attack on a funeral home in Yemen’s capital and evacuate the injured.

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Wild chimp mothers teach young to use tools

The first documented evidence of wild chimpanzee mothers teaching their offspring to use tools has been captured by video cameras set to record chimpanzee tool-using activity at termite mounds in the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo, according to new research from anthropologists.

ScienceDaily

Mars-bound astronauts face dementia risk

Will astronauts traveling to Mars remember much of it? That’s the question concerning scientists probing a phenomenon called “space brain.” Scientists have found that exposure to highly energetic charged particles causes significant long-term brain damage in test rodents.

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

Where is the best place in the world to be a girl?

A new ranking of 144 countries based on an analysis of issues that affect girls and young women has put Sweden at the top of the list and Niger at the bottom.

Telegraph.co.uk

How back pain took over the world

The things that make us low-level miserable are now more likely to be simple aches and pains, rather than frightening, communicable diseases like diarrhea. That’s encouraging, but it’s still a little sad. People all over the world increasingly live long, great lives, only to spend their golden years slathered in IcyHot. Why?

The Atlantic

Progress on neglected tropical diseases

Huffington Post

Superbugs reach apex of global health worries

Superbugs have been elevated to the top of the global agenda, with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, GlaxoSmithKline drug firm boss Sir Andrew Witty, and others meeting at the United Nations to keep antibiotics and other drugs working for future generations.

Al Jazeera

Superbug infections: Could salt be the solution?

Global News

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GOOD NEWS

How to improve police-public relations

Simmering tensions between police and communities came to a head with tragic consequence in the US this year. Around the world, the dynamic between people and those appointed to keep the peace is often uneasy. Five experts suggest ways forward for better relations between police and the public.

Positive News

For families, Mall of America takes a holiday

The biggest mall in the US has drawn a line in the sand when it comes to opening on Thanksgiving Day. It had been among the growing list of retailers that open their doors on Thanksgiving night to stretch Black Friday amid a fierce battle for consumers’ holiday spending.

Sunnyskyz.com

NGOs AND NPOs

Bangladesh wants to silence civil society

A new measure passed by Bangladesh’s parliament makes it a criminal offense to make “malicious” comments on any constitutional bodies in the country. Many say the controversial move is a blow to freedom of expression.

Deutsche Welle

Civil societies urge S. African leader to resign

Save South Africa – a new coalition of civil society organisations described as being united in their “deep concern” at President Jacob Zuma’s leadership – has called on the him to resign.

TimesLive

PHILANTHROPY

Authors propose $1B bet against incarceration

Approximately 12 million Americans cycle through jails every year, with 2 million incarcerated at any given time. The figure represents one-quarter of the world’s population of incarcerated individuals.

NonProfit Times

ENVIRONMENT

Hurricane Matthew was deceptively powerful

As Hurricane Matthew barreled toward the Southeast, millions of Americans fixated on a single measure of its destructive power: wind speed. But it was rain, not wind, that dealt the most damage as Matthew rumbled ashore.

Major storms such as Hurricane Matthew, which has slammed into Haiti and now the U.S., will grow in menace as the world warms and sea levels rise, scientists have warned.

Newsweek

How Waffle House uses Twitter to aid recovery efforts

Smithsonian Magazine

Hurricane Matthew swamps Carolinas, triggering flash flooding

The Weather Channel

Photo of the Day

A dancer performs the Chonguinada, a dance that originated in the Chongos district of Peru, in Lima on Oct. 4, 2016. (Photo by Art DiNo) Photo used under CC BY

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