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Inside San Francisco’s fight for family leave

It took three gay men and an unborn baby to make San Francisco the first US city to require employers to offer fully paid parental leave. The most prominent of the trio is Supervisor Scott Wiener – gay, single and childless – who introduced the measure.

Guardian

Progressive city again makes social history

FOX News

Somalia executes jihadists in reporter killing

Somalia executed two alleged members of al-Shabaab by firing squad in Mogadishu for the murder of a journalist last year. Hindia Haji Mohamed was killed in a remote-control bombing last December.

Vice

Sanders wins Wyoming, sets his sights on NY

Bernie Sanders won the U.S. presidential Democratic nominating contest in Wyoming, besting rival Hillary Clinton and adding to a string of victories as the two candidates gear up for a crucial matchup in New York.

Reuters

Trump visits 9/11 museum, makes donation

NBCNews.com

Detainee said to admit he’s ‘man in the hat’

Belgian prosecutors say apprehended terror suspect Mohamed Abrini has admitted being the “man in the hat” seen with the bombers at Brussels airport. He admitted being at the scene of the March 22 suicide bombings.

BBC

Sex abuse by former House speaker detailed

In a document that outlined sentencing recommendations, prosecutors said former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert molested at least four high school boys.

Reuters

Ex-Argentine prez tied to money laundering

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, former president of Argentina, could be facing charges related to money laundering.

The Hill

HUMAN RIGHTS

ISIS said to free hundreds of Syrian workers

About 300 workers and contractors have been released days after ISIS-linked militants took over a cement factory in Syria, the ISIS-affiliated Amaq news agency reported.

CNN

Myanmar court frees dozens of activists

Dozens of activists have been freed from prison in Myanmar, a day after Aung San Suu Kyi pledged to work to free political prisoners.

BBC

Jubilation photos

BBC

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

The Senate map is looking good for Democrats

Even before they were forced to decide whether to support Donald Trump and whether to consider Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Senate Republicans had their work cut out for them to keep control of the chamber.

Washington Post

Obama stresses down-ballot races at big-money Hollywood fundraiser

The Hill

Vatican trip could boost Sanders’ fight

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will speak at an event in the Vatican next week, likely broadening his appeal to Catholic voters ahead of crucial nominating contests in a series of Northeastern states.

Reuters

Sanders did not invite himself to Vatican

MSN News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Yahoo gives bidders another week

Yahoo has moved the deadline for its bids out another week to April 18, according to sources close to the situation and the bankers they talk to.

CNBC

Saudi Arabia to build a bridge to Egypt

Saudi Arabia and Egypt have agreed to build a bridge across the Red Sea to enjoin the two countries.Saudi King made an announcement Friday shortly after meeting with his Egyptian counterpart during a state visit to Egypt.

MSN News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

SpaceX makes breakthrough booster landing

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida on a cargo run for the International Space Station, and its reusable main-stage booster landed itself on an ocean platform in a dramatic spaceflight first.

Reuters

Drilling into ‘dinosaur crater’ begins

A UK-US-led expedition has got under way to drill into the Chicxulub Crater off the coast of Mexico. The deep scar made in the Earth’s surface 66 million years ago by the asteroid is believed to have ended the dinosaurs.

BBC

Lab-grown skin can grow hair and sweats

The latest artificial skin, developed by researchers in Japan, is so realistic, it’s able to grow new hairs and potentially even excrete sweat.

ScienceAlert

Study links human sacrifice, social hierarchies

Saying they found “a dark link between religion and the evolution of modern hierarchical societies,” scientists say ritual human sacrifice promoted stratified social systems.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Sailors rescue castaways who spelled ‘HELP’

Three castaways were rescued after a U.S Navy aircraft spotted the word “HELP” spelled out with palm leaves on the beach of a remote Pacific Island, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

MSN News

Syria releases American photographer

The Syrian government has freed an American freelance photographer who was abducted after traveling to the country in 2012, according to two U.S. officials.

MSN News

NGO AND NONPROFIT

Transparency NGO slams Turkish government

The far-reaching and unbridled influence of Turkey’s executive branch is stifling good governance in other state institutions, Transparency International has warned.

Public Finance International

NGO: Big oil spends millions to skirt laws

Giants of the oil and gas industry spent millions of dollars last year to manipulate lawmakers and public discourse on climate change, an NGO claimed.

Climate Change News

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Making the philanthropic sector inclusive

When it comes to diversifying American philanthropy, few would argue that there has been too little discussion about making the sector look more like the people it serves. The challenge is to set in motion the measures that assure greater diversity in the sector.

Nonprofit Quarterly

Houston’s wealth drives culture of giving

Long one of America’s largest cities, Houston has recently become one of its most prosperous, driven by growth in the oil, housing, and tech industries. This rising wealth has inspired tremendous philanthropy.

Forbes

ENVIRONMENT

California misses water conserving target

Residents of drought-plagued California fell just short of the state’s mandated water conservation target over the nine months that ended in February.

MSN News

Popocatepetl volcano erupts

The Popocatepetl volcano in central Mexico has had a series of eruptions, and images of the dramatic sight are making the Internet rounds.

NewsMax

Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano erupts

Bing.com

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An engraving illustrates British explorer James Cook witnessing a human sacrifice ritual in Tahiti in the 1770s. (Photo by From James Cook’s Voyages) Photo used under CC BY

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