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Workers at chain restaurants like Qdoba are among workers whose hours and compensation will be dramatically affected by the Obama administration’s new overtime rules. (Photo by Adam Kiefaber) Photo used under CC BY

OT rules force businesses to make hard choices

The government’s new rules requiring overtime pay for millions of workers have small business owners facing some hard choices. The Labor Department regulations would double to $913 a week from $455.

The Blaze

Q&A: What you need to know about the new regs

USA TODAY

Critics decry overtime regs as ‘career killer’

FOX News

Russians building base at Syrian heritage site

The Russian military is constructing a new army base in Syria, within a protected zone listed as a world heritage site and without asking for permission from relevant authorities.

MSN News

Sanders wins Oregon, Clinton takes Kentucky

Sanders just won‘t go away – and that’s a growing problem for Clinton and the Democratic Party as the front-runner failed to score the victory needed.

FOX News

Bernie Sanders is running out of runway

U.S. News & World Report

Trump unveils list of Supreme Court picks

Trump unveiled a list of 11 judges he would consider nominating to fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia, an unusual move for a presidential candidate that underscores his efforts to appeal to conservatives.

CNN

1st of kidnapped schoolgirls found in Nigeria

One of the missing Chibok schoolgirls has been found in Nigeria. Amina Ali Nkeki was found carrying a baby by an army-backed vigilante group in the huge Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon.

BBC

CIA watchdog deletes torture report

The CIA’s internal watchdog says it accidentally deleted its only copy of the controversial “torture report” on the agency’s use of enhanced interrogations techniques.

FOX News

RIGHTS

LA schools reach $88 million settlement

Los Angeles Unified School District will pay $88 million to settle sexual abuse cases at two elementary schools where complaints about the teachers’ behavior had surfaced long before their arrest.

MSN News

Spotlight reveals abuse in schools

Today

Schools ordered to desegregate

Nearly 60 years after the landmark US supreme court ruling that ordered schools to integrate, the classrooms of Cleveland, Mississippi, are still divided by race.

MSN News

Mississippi, a half-century of legal battles

Education Week

GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Revelations in Trump financial declaration

Despite tirades against Oreo cookies and Carrier Air Conditioning on campaign trail, Trump owns bonds in companies that own them both.

Guardian

Iran seeks compensation from US

Iran passed a bill that the country’s government to seek compensation from the US for “material or moral damage” that Tehran has suffered as a result of “hostile” American policies over the past 63 years.

MSN News

State registers voters without approval

Connecticut would join four other states that have already passed automatic voter registration laws.

Huffington Post

Special section:

The National Voter Registration Act of 1993

The United States Department of Justice

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

SWIFT says second bank hit by malware

In the February hack, attackers made $951 million in bogus transactions from the Federal Reserve Bank of NY to a bank in the Philippines.

News Worms

China’s economic activity data disappoints

China‘s investment, factory output and retail sales all grew more slowly than expected in April, adding to doubts about whether the world’s second-largest economy is stabilizing.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Study: GMOs safe, but benefits exaggerated

The National Academy of Sciences has reaffirmed its judgment that GMOs are safe to eat. But the report struck a different tone from previous ones, with much more space devoted to social and economic concerns.

NPR

FL’s Aucilla River goldmine for artifacts

More than 14,500 years ago, a spring-fed pond served as an important water source for mastodons and the early Americans who hunted them. The site is now submerged beneath Florida’s Aucilla River.

National Geographic

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GOOD NEWS

Promising results found in virus research

A team including researchers from Singapore, Japan, and IBM have reported promising early tests of a new strategy for combating a broad spectrum of viruses, which they say may help overcome some shortcomings of vaccines.

Fortune

Stolen WWI cannon returned to vet hall

A Northern California man has returned a stolen World War One-era cannon that he had bought for $1,200 without knowing it had been taken from a local veteran’s hall.

Reuters

NGO AND NONPROFIT

Economic priority led to Minamata disease

Speakers noted that an overemphasis on economic growth was behind the mercury-poisoning illness as well as the nuclear disaster in Fukushima at a recent conference marking the 60th anniversary of the illness’ recognition.

Japan Today

Official accused of extorting bribes

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation has again summoned Anand Joshi, a “missing” undersecretary in the home ministry, for questioning. He is accused of corruption — demanding and accepting bribes from NGOs.

Hindustan Times

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Muslims and Jews paired to aid West Bank

A $100,000 solar panel project in Auja, West Bank, is the first substantial effort to be financed by a group involving both Jews and Muslims in the United States, and to have both Israeli Jews and Palestinian Muslims on its technical team.

New York Times

Global crises overwhelming aid system

The world’s top official managing migration flows has warned that the global aid system is crumbling under an overwhelming number of crises, from wars across the Middle East and Asia to natural disasters and earthquakes.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

UN elects new Environment Agency head

The U.N. General Assembly has elected Norway’s former environment minister Erik Solheim to head the U.N. environment agency.

ABC News

Great Barrier Reef bleaching rampant

The massive bleaching hitting the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia and reefs worldwide concerns researchers that the effects are irreversible.

NPR

Thailand to shut largest gold mine

Thailand will shutter its largest gold mine by the end of the year after the government said concern the project was damaging the environment and sickening workers outweighed its economic benefit.

Bloomberg

Photo of the Day

The Tsukiji Market in Tokyo is the biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world. Photo shot May 13, 2016. (Photo by Mark Gunn) Photo used under CC BY

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