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Merrick Garland is President Obama’s nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. (Photo by White House) Photo used under CC BY

Court nominee known for collegiality, legal care

President Obama’s choice to serve as the newest Supreme Court justice is Merrick Garland, a moderate federal appeals court judge and former prosecutor with a reputation for collegiality and meticulous legal reasoning.

NPR

Senate won’t consider nomination, Leader says

CNBC

Meet Merrick Garland

USA TODAY

Lula sworn in amid protests and challenges

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as President Dilma Rousseff’s chief of staff amid nationwide protests, legal challenges and an absent vice president as the political crisis that paralyzed the nation intensifies.

Bloomberg

N. Korea sentences US student to hard labor

North Korea’s highest court convicted 21-year-old University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier of subversion and sentenced him to 15 years of prison and hard labor.

NPR

Scans of Tut’s tomb suggest more chambers

For at least 3,339 years, nobody has seen what lies behind the west and north walls of the tomb of Tutankhamun. But this secret of three millennia might not last much longer.

National Geographic

King Tut‘s tomb: ’90%’ chance of hidden chambers

CNN

The draft EU-Turkey migrant deal, at a glance

The latest draft of a deal between the European Union and Turkey says both sides will pledge at a summit “to end the irregular migration from Turkey to the EU.”

ABC News

Kurdish rebels claim deadly Ankara blast

CNN

SeaWorld to phase out killer-whale shows

Embattled amusement-park operator SeaWorld Entertainment said that the killer whales currently living at its facilities will be its last as it will stop breeding them immediately and phase out orca shows.

USA TODAY

TERROR

Kerry: ISIS is committing genocide against Yazidis, Christians and Shiite Muslims

The designation marked the second time a U.S. executive branch has used the term “genocide” during an ongoing conflict. Congress had put mounting pressure on the State Department to label ISIS atrocities a genocide.

NBCNews.com

ISIS flag found at deadly shootout in Brussels

One suspect has been killed, two have been arrested and another two are armed and on the run after a shootout in Brussels following a police raid connected to the Paris attacks.

Telegraph.co.uk

French police arrest suspected planner of terror attacks

Guardian

Ivory Coast attack was revenge, al Qaida says

Al-Qaeda has said its attack on a beach resort in the Ivory Coast was revenge against French military intervention in the Sahel region. The attack at a coastal resort killed at least 18 people, including four French nationals.

Newsweek

HUMAN RIGHTS

Video of Japanese journalist captured in Syria

A video has surfaced of Japanese freelance journalist Junpei Yasuda for the first time since he was believed to be taken hostage by the al-Nusra Front in Syria last year.

TIME

US human rights credibility on line in Cuba

Obama should call for concrete measures to end systematic repression in Cuba during his visit to Havana from March 20 to 22, Human Rights Watch said.

Human Rights Watch

Obama abolishes last major restrictions on US travel to Cuba

ABC News

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Anonymous plans a new war on Donald Trump

Anonymous gives a “call to arms” inviting anyone with a computer to spread the word and participate in “Operation Trump,” now labeled “#OpTrump.”

Huffington Post

Paul Ryan isn’t interested in being nominated

House Speaker Paul Ryan’s spokeswoman says he is not interested in the Republican nomination for president.

MSN News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

EU aid in development in the most vulnerable districts of the central and Uva’

EU announced that it will co-sign two new support programs worth €38 million in total in the field of rural development and trade with Sri Lanka.

Pakistan Defense

Whatever happened to the British nightclub?

In 2005 there were 3,144 nightclubs across the country, but last year there were just 1,733. The long list of press articles reporting the demise of nightclubs in cities across the country reads like a never-ending body count.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists have discovered mysterious ‘fairy circles’ in the Australian outback

Mysterious circular patches of dry, barren land have been spotted scattered across the Australian outbreak. Known as ‘fairy circles’, these round patterns had previously only been seen in the dry grasslands of Namibia.

ScienceAlert.com

Eye lenses restored with child’s own stem cells

Stem cells could help treat people with cataracts and even some who are blind by regenerating eye tissue and replacing flawed lenses, according to new experiments in children and rabbits.

LiveScience

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GOOD NEWS

Denmark again happiest country on Earth

If you want to enjoy the highest quality of life possible, you may want to consider a move to Scandinavia. A new report on worldwide happiness names Denmark as the happiest country on Earth, beating Switzerland.

Quartz

Photos of top 10 happiest places

Forbes

Destitute man fingers fugitive, gets $100,000

A recently homeless San Francisco man who spotted an escaped kidnapper outside a McDonald’s across from Golden Gate Park and alerted police will get a $100,000 reward.

San Francisco Chronicle

NGO AND NONPROFIT

Mayor de Blasio’s NYC nonprofit to disband

Mayor de Blasio’s controversial political nonprofit — which raised millions for his pet projects while operating outside the city’s strict campaign finance rules — is disbanding.

New York Daily News

German NGO slams Turkey’s refugee plan

As EU leaders struggle to agree on a final action plan with Turkey, Germany’s largest immigration NGO has published a legal opinion questioning the legality of the proposals.

EurActiv Germany

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

$100 million granted for metabolic disease

Two grants totaling $100 million to the Indiana Biosciences Research Institute. The grants will support the institute’s charitable, educational, and scientific activities addressing metabolic disease and poor nutrition.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Ethiopia calls for more aid amid drought

Ethiopia’s leader urged the international community to donate more toward emergency food aid for millions of people amid a drought.

ABC News

Aid campaign features ‘Game of Thrones’

The actors in “Game of Thrones,” the epic fantasy series featuring story lines about civil war and banishment, are using the enormous popularity of their HBO series to raise money for real-life victims of conflict and exile.

New York Times

Game of Thrones cast star in ad campaign to support refugees

The Drum

ENVIRONMENT

Energy-poor Venezuela orders lights out

Venezuela is ordering businesses, factories, government buildings, and offices to shut down for an entire week as an extreme energy-saving measure in an oil-rich country that’s running out of power.

Grist

Storks skip migration to eat human leftovers

White storks have stopped migrating from Europe to Africa for the winter, researchers say. Instead, they stay in Spain and Portugal year-round, feasting on landfills’ “junk food.”

Christian Science Monitor

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