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Electoral College system stubbornly resists reform

The casting of votes by presidential electors has not often, in modern American history, been a newsworthy moment. But 2016 is proving to be an unusual year. The electoral vote has been the occasion for much speculation, hope and debate.

Time

Trump presidency faces final test from opponents

BBC

Trump secures electoral college win with few surprises

NPR

Russian drinking deaths tied to sanctions

At least 48 people have died in Irkutsk, Siberia, after drinking bath essence as an alcohol substitute. After two years of Western economic sanctions, up to 12 million alcohol-starved Russians drink cheap surrogate alcohol, including perfume, after-shave and anti-freeze.

BBC

Financial crisis raises price of vodka

Newsweek

Russian ambassador shot dead in Turkey

A Turkish policeman has shot dead Russia‘s ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, apparently in protest at Russia’s involvement in Aleppo. Several other people were reportedly also injured in the attack, a day after protests in Turkey over Russian support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

BBC

Evacuations resume after delays in Aleppo

CNN

9 killed in terror truck attack in Berlin market

Police confirm at least nine people have been killed. The incident is being treated as an attack. No arrests have been made so far. The incident occurred on the Breitscheidplatz square, in a popular shopping district.

Deutsche Welle

Gunman wounds 3 in mosque attack in Switzerland

The Age

Venezuela postpones bank note ban

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro suspended the elimination of the country’s largest denomination bill, which had sparked cash shortages and nationwide unrest, saying the measure would be postponed until January.

Guardian

One child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen

More than 400,000 children are at risk of starvation in Yemen, with nearly 2.2 million in need of urgent care, according to UNICEF.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Record number of journalists jailed, study finds

The number of journalists detained worldwide rose in 2016, an increase related to Turkey where more than 100 journalists and media contributors are in jail, Reporters Without Borders says.

Daily Nation

A fight to save Afghan boys from sex slavery

Asia Times traced and interviewed 13 families across three Afghan provinces who said their children were taken for the pervasive practice of “bacha bazi,” or pedophilic exploitation, in Western-backed security forces.

Asia Times

Tillerson pick dims hopes of Russian activists

In Russia, supporters and opponents of President Vladimir Putin agree on very little. Yet as Donald Trump, the U.S. president-elect, prepares to enter the White House, there is one thing they are in full accordance on: For the next four years at least, the United States will stop promoting human rights and democracy in Russia.

Newsweek

Hunger stokes ethnic violence in S. Sudan

The UN Commission on Human Rights has warned that ethnic cleansing involving massacres, starvation and gang rape is taking place in South Sudan, threatening a repeat of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. An emergency session of the UN human rights council was told swift action was needed to avert disaster.

Guardian

Amid growing unrest, South Sudan kicks out aid workers

NPR

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

How Germany will crack down on fake news

Amid rising concerns of propaganda-fueled fake news and its impact on elections, Germany is taking steps to block the spread of false information across social media platforms such as Facebook.

Christian Science Monitor

Obamacare had its biggest day ever this week

While the Affordable Care Act faces a looming repeal by President-elect Donald Trump and the GOP-led Congress next year, its health insurance exchanges had a record day.

Huffington Post

Poles protest new media restrictions

Angry Warsaw residents block parliament as they rally against measures that would limit journalist access.

Al Jazeera

Zimbabwe’s ruling party endorses Mugabe for 2018 election

News24

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How lasers map the world for self-driving cars

For a car to drive itself, it needs to sense its surroundings. Laser arrays build a precise 3D model of every object near a car in seconds.

CNET News

‘Cooling’ hats for Qatar stadium builders

World Cup 2022 laborers in Qatar are to be given “cooling” hard hats which reduce their body temperature as they build football stadiums in the fierce desert heat, tournament organizers announced.

Al Jazeera

Antimatter excitation hints at universe’s origins

Scientists have used a laser to tickle atoms of antimatter and make them shine, a key step toward answering one of the great riddles of the universe. Theory predicts that the Big Bang produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter. So where did all the antimatter go?

CBS News

GLOBAL HEALTH

Female doctors reduce mortality, study finds

In a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers from Harvard University wanted to explore whether the sex of the doctor matters when it comes to patient outcomes. It turns out the patients treated by women had a 4 percent lower risk of dying prematurely.

Vox

CDC: Deaths from synthetic opioids rise

Death rates from synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, increased 72.2% from 2014 to 2015, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

FOX News

The 8 top reasons for insomnia

An estimated 25 to 30 percent of American adults suffer from insomnia. The figures are even greater for people over 65. Men start out with a higher rate of sleep issues, but women catch up to them by around age 50.

Huffington Post

BUSINESS

Platinum Partners execs charged in $1B fraud

Platinum Partners hedge-fund founder Mark Nordlicht and four others with ties to the New York City-based hedge fund were charged Monday in a $1 billion securities fraud indictment, one of the largest alleged scams since Bernard Madoff’s notorious Ponzi scheme.

USA TODAY

The 21 ‘worst’ airlines in the world revealed

According to Skytrax, an aviation ratings website that judges carriers according on the quality of their product and services. It lists 21 airlines that fall below the standard of a single start.

Telegraph.co.uk

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GOOD NEWS

Teacher’s post elicits 100s of shoe donations

A California teacher noticed several students running and playing in worn and tattered shoes. She wrote about it on Facebook. Ben Tracy reports on the overwhelming response from friends and strangers.

CBS News

Adoptive mother Kidman connected with role

Nicole Kidman’s latest role just might be closest to home. In the movie “Lion,” she plays fellow Australian Sue Brierly in the heartwrenching true story of a couple who adopt a lost Indian boy, and help him find his birth mother.

CBS News

Journalist: Familial love made Obama who he is

CBS News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Good news takeaways on future of aid for trade

2016 has been a year of trade setbacks, from Brexit’s implications to questions over U.S. support for the TPP. But there has been one bright spot: the growing popularity of “aid for trade,” a set of policies aimed at helping developing countries take advantage of international market openings.

Devex

EU’s Brexit negotiators prepare for disaster

Few Europeans wanted Britain to quit the European Union. But now that it is happening, foreign ministries and policy units across the EU are relishing the task ahead. As an intellectual exercise, managing the multifaceted complexities of Britain’s departure from the EU offers distinctively satisfying policy work.

Economist

IMF chief Lagarde guilty of negligence

A special French court convicted the International Monetary Fund’s Christine Lagarde of negligence for her role in a controversial 2008 arbitration award to a businessman.

USA TODAY

NGOs AND NPOs

NGOs in post-disaster Haiti: It’s complicated

The 2010 earthquake in Haiti was the deadliest quake ever recorded in the Western hemisphere, and nearly seven years later, Haitians are still feeling its after-effects in profound ways. One consequence is man-made: the proliferation of NGOs in Haiti.

CBS News

Worker: NGOs need foresight, acumen

My NGO was not the first to go through a process of change, but management failed to see that the downsizing became necessary because of its own incompetence.

Guardian

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

What to know about corporate philanthropy

Increasingly, a new kind of philanthropy is moving front and center in the corporate world: Proactive giving that’s closely aligned with the mission and assets of companies, and quite strategic. In some cases, corporate funders are even moving ahead of private foundations.

Inside Philanthropy

Watchdog: UK falling short in aid for girls

Britain is falling short in its ambitions to educate the poorest and most vulnerable girls around the world, the aid watchdog has found. The Independent Commission for Aid Impact said too many aid programs lost their focus on girls and in some cases abandoned goals.

Guardian

Aid to Africa projected to fall under Trump

allAfrica.com

Depressing news about mental health funding

Mental illness continues to be a neglected area of health funding in the grand scheme of philanthropic giving. And one of the many reasons this is disappointing is that mental illness is implicated in so many other problems that funders are seeking to address, such as poverty, homelessness and violence.

Inside Philanthropy

Sorry, fans: Jeddiism not a religion in UK

After nine months pondering such questions as whether “The Force” is with us, the UK’s official charity regulator has politely turned down an application for so-called “Jedi” beliefs to be recognised effectively as a religion.

Telegraph.co.uk

ENVIRONMENT

Obama may use 1953 law to block sea drilling

President Barack Obama is preparing to block the sale of new offshore drilling rights in much of the U.S. Arctic and parts of the Atlantic, a move that could indefinitely restrict oil production there, according to two people familiar with the decision.

Bloomberg

Species increasingly becoming endangered

Scientists say the planet is currently on the precipice of the sixth mass extinction, an event that could see the wiping out of at least 75 percent of the Earth’s species.

Huffington Post

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