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Six of the 18 James Webb Space Telescope mirror segments are prepared for testing at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. (Photo by NASA/MSFC/Emmett Givens) Photo used under CC BY

Mammoth telescope readied for a million-mile journey

The biggest space mission ever attempted won’t be ready for launch until 2018, but preparations have been underway for more than a decade.

Christian Science Monitor

Slideshow of telescope under construction

Science

Trump wins S. Carolina; Clinton takes Nevada

Donald Trump has won the South Carolina Republican primary, a tremendous show of strength that validates his status as the GOP’s national front-runner. Jeb Bush is suspending his campaign after a poor showing.

CNN

Christian conservatives defend Trump after pope questions his embrace of Christianity

FOX News

N. Korea said to plan terror attack on South

North Korea is currently planning a “terrorist attack” on South Korea according to the South’s spy agency. A lawmaker briefed by the National Intelligence Service says leader Kim Jong Un himself ordered the preparations.

CNN

‘Kill a Mockingbird’ author Lee dead at 89

Harper Lee, author of the classic American novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” has died at 89. Lee won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961.

The Daily Beast

IN-DEPTH

Minimum wage hike bill passes in Oregon

Oregon lawmakers have approved landmark legislation that propels the state’s minimum wage for all workers to the highest rank in the U.S., and does so through an unparalleled tiered system based on geography.

CBS News

What makes Oregon’s minimum wage bill so unique?

Christian Science Monitor

Sanders dismisses inflation concerns about minimum wage hike

RealClearPolitics

What’s at stake in Apple’s FBI battle

The news this week that a magistrate ordered Apple to help the FBI hack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooter suspects has polarized the nation — and also generated some misinformation.

Wired

TERROR

Kurdish militant group TAK claims responsibility for Ankara bombing

A Kurdish militant group once linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) claimed responsibility on Friday for the bombing in the Turkish capital Ankara that killed 28 people this week.

Reuters

NYC officials decry Obama cuts to anti-terror

New York City officials today ripped into President Barack Obama’s proposed budget cuts to anti-terrorism programs—and Mayor Bill de Blasio said he’d personally appeal to the president to reconsider.

Observer

HUMAN RIGHTS

How Oman is helping close Guantanamo Bay

In January, the Pentagon transferred 10 low-level Guantanamo Bay detainees to Oman, marking the largest resettlement of such prisoners in a single day since the US military began detaining suspected terrorists there.

U.S. News & World Report

China to keep foreign media offline

A new directive issued by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has said that companies which have, at least in part, foreign ownership will be stopped from publishing online without state approval.

The Independent

US man freed after 43 years in solitary prison

A man who has been in solitary confinement for more than four decades in Louisiana has been freed, his lawyer says. Albert Woodfox was the last of a group known as “Angola Three” for their decades-long stays in isolation.

BBC

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Obama to governors: Protect voting rights

Obama told a group of Democratic governors that he will press the voting rights issue this year, a presidential election year and also his final year in office.

myStatesman

Voter ID law could be a problem for S Carolina

When South Carolina will cast ballot this month, they will confront a new voter ID law that is in place for the first time during a presidential election year. Some voters don’t understand it, and others don’t know it exists.

Huffington Post

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Uber loses $1 billion a year competing in China

The ride-hailing service is all-but dominant in the United States and popular in many other foreign markets, but it’s found Asia, especially mainland China, difficult to crack.

Christian Science Monitor

KVUE offering buyouts to selected employees

TV stations nationwide owned by McLean, Va.-based Tegna, including Austin’s KVUE, are offering early retirement packages to selected employees, the company confirmed Friday.

myStatesman

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Humans and Neanderthals mated 100,000 years ago, earlier than previously thought

New data suggests Neanderthals and humans mated 100,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. Researchers discovered the earlier interbreeding event using a variety of DNA analysis techniques.

Sci-Tech Today

Pluto’s largest moon once had an ocean

Scientists say the patterns of ice in canyons on Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, look as if some the frozen water was once liquid, suggesting Charon had an ocean in ancient times.

GeekWire

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Keep torture off limits

USA TODAY

Column (Neela Ghoshal):

It’s time to create a world that recognises the rights of transgender people

Guardian

Column (Amanda Marcotte):

Killer Mike’s “uterus” comment about Hillary hurts all women

Salon

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GOOD NEWS

This town is covered in citrus sculptures

As the saying goes, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But for the town of Menton, France, there’s another option when faced with an excess of citrus: make ten-foot-tall lemon sculptures.

Smithsonian Magazine

5-year-old leads blind grandmother to safety

A 5-year-old woke her blind grandmother during the night and led her to safety outside. She then began knocking on her neighbors doors to call 911.

MSN News

NGO AND NONPROFIT

Aid groups prepare for Zika spread in Tonga

Aid workers in Tonga are making last-minute preparations for the second tropical cyclone that is scheduled to hit the island this week, with fears that it could spread the Zika virus that just arrived in the South Pacific nation.

Reuters

Facebook launches site to help nonprofits

Facebook unveiled a new website Thursday designed to help charities use its promotional tools, part of an ongoing effort by the social-media site to expand its integration into the nonprofit world.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

ENVIRONMENT

How Obama became coal’s number 1 enemy

To Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the threat was clear: “Mr. Speaker, there is a war being waged on energy and on coal in this country. But it’s not coming from another country, it is coming from our own government.”

Grist

The California drought’s huge toll on forests

New research using high-tech tools to measure the moisture in trees found that 120 million trees across nearly every part of California are at risk of dying.

Huffington Post

Special section:

Drought map

Water Deeply

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Saudi Arabia halts $4B aid to Lebanon

Saudi Arabia is halting deals worth $4 billion aimed at equipping and supporting Lebanese security forces, a possible retaliation for the nation’s siding with Iran amid the kingdom’s spat with the country.

Gulf News

‘Financial Aid Saturdays’ program helps students find money for college

Financial Aid Saturdays helps Austin-area students and their parents apply for federal and state financial aid.

myStatesman

Harvard donor redirects gift after Palestine talk

A law firm that pledged $1 million to Harvard Law School has asked the institution to shift the money to other purposes after the money was used support a discussion hosted by a group that favors an independent Palestine.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

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Sonoran Desert at San Andreas Fault, Southern California (Photo by Dennis Sparks) Photo used under CC BY

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