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Some North Koreans eke out a living on the gray market, selling items like cigarettes on roadsides. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue) Photo used under CC BY

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Oil sanctions risk pushing North Korea over the edge

The UN sanctions on North Korea has loopholes, and China is only enforcing those that hit at Pyongyang’s weapons-making capabilities. North Korea, is making threats and using their hostages in order to get Chinese oil and food.

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Time

San Francisco mandates paid parental leave

San Francisco has become the first US municipality to mandate employers offer fully paid parental leave, and activists hope the progressive new law will pave the way for policies across the country.

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San Francisco new paid leave law: another job killer

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Forbes

Cruz drew from Trump base; Sanders sparked more hope

The Wisconsin GOP primary was difficult for Trump, not just because he lost to Cruz but because he significantly under-performed among groups of voters who had been his strongest supporters.

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Mississippi allows denial of service to gays

Gov. Phil Bryant has signed a controversial bill into law stating that the state will not punish people who refuse to provide services to people because of a religious opposition.

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Pressure mounts to repeal NC’s anti-LGBT law

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Iceland prime minister quits over corruption

Iceland Prime Minister is to resign, due to leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm which have revealed the finances of politicians and public figures worldwide.

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Reuters

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The Panama Papers: Politicians, criminals and rogue industry that hides their cash

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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Suu Kyi will be Myanmar’s de facto leader

Myanmar’s parliament has approved a new post for Aung San Suu Kyi. The constitution bans her from becoming president, but her new role is similar to that of a prime minister.

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HUMAN RIGHTS

20 million drink arsenic-laced water

Approximately 20 years after initially coming to international attention, an estimated 20 million people in Bangladesh – mostly rural poor – still drink water contaminated over the national standard.

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HumanRightsWatch

Women suffer under ISIS

Islamic State routinely imposes abusive restrictions on other Iraqi women and girls and severely limits their freedom of movement and access to health care and education in areas under its control.

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HumanRightsWatch

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

Sanders under fire for edit board interview

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders endured quite the grilling by the editorial board of the New York Daily News, and his answers — or lack thereof, in some cases — are drawing some serious criticism.

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Sanders struggles with big banks question

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CNN

Republicans talking up Paul Ryan as nominee

On the eve of the Wisconsin primaries, top Republicans are becoming increasingly vocal about their long-held belief that Speaker Paul Ryan will wind up as the nominee, perhaps on the fourth ballot at a chaotic convention.

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Will Paul Ryan be the Republican nominee?

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Washington Post

Alabama governor facing impeachment attempt

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley was hit Tuesday with a longshot impeachment effort in the wake of a scandal involving a former top aide, the latest sign of his growing political troubles.

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DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Alaska Air buys Virgin America for $2.6 billion

Alaska Air Group Inc. is buying Virgin America in a deal worth $2.6 billion, making Alaska the biggest carrier on the West Coast and reigniting the debate over airline consolidation.

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ABC News

$20 billion BP oil spill settlement gets approval

A federal judge in New Orleans has granted final approval to an estimated $20 billion settlement, resolving years of litigation over the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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TIME

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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.

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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.

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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.

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GOOD NEWS

Name of A. Scalia School Of Law tweaked

It must have seemed a straightforward way to honor a U.S. Supreme Court justice who was famous for prizing straightforwardness. But then people began to titter about the acronym of the Antonin Scalia School of Law.

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Heroic USMC dog awarded top canine medal

A heroic US Marine Corps German shepherd that lost a leg sniffing out a roadside bomb in Afghanistan was awarded the world’s highest honor for service dogs during a special awards ceremony.

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FOX News

NGO AND NONPROFIT

Nonprofit private schools are often very white

Fifty years after a court ruling and federal legislation abolished the legalized separation of white and black students, segregation still very much exists today in private schools, according to a recent study.

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Nonprofitquarterly.org

NGO condemns shipbreaking yard shooting

Guards at a shipbreaking company in Bangladesh injured seven people when they opened fire on a crowd protesting against the death of a worker. NGO Shipbreaking Platform condemned the shooting.

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PHILANTHROPY AND AID

GE gives $50M to Boston causes

General Electric Co. — poised to celebrate its arrival in Boston with an event featuring both the mayor and the governor — said it will pump $50 million in “philanthropic commitments” into Boston and the state.

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Gates helps cultivate Saudi philanthropists

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has helped launch the Saudi Philanthropic Fellowship Program - an initiative devised in collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The billionaire was in Riyadh for the Saudi Philanthropic Fellowship Program.

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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.

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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.

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Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano erupts

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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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