DailySource: Quality News from Around the Internet

Home

About us

Our Team

Opinion

These workers, photographed in 2015 in Goa, India, are in the nation’s growing, more financially secure nonfarm labor sector. (Photo by Ian D. Keating) Photo used under CC BY

Nonfarm income reducing poverty in India

The shift from farm work to nonfarm work are accelerating a decline in poverty in India. Nonfarm jobs pay more than farm jobs, and a steep rise in wages for rural unskilled labor propelled incomes from both.

The Indian Express

Obama, Indian PM Modi forge ‘unlikely friendship’

New Kerala

Rio‘s governor declares ’state of calamity’

Thee governor of Rio de Janeiro has declared a “state of calamity.” Interim Governor Francisco Dornelles says the state’s government is bankrupt and cannot meet its financial obligations ahead of the Olympic games.

NPR

Algorithm scans postings to predict ISIS attacks

A physicist from the University of Miami has created an algorithm that can scan ISIS’ social media posts and may one day be used to predict the group’s next terrorist attack.

MSN News

Sanders to return to Senate for gun vote

The Vermont senator will cast his first votes since January on gun legislation after his absence from a Democrat-led filibuster drew an angry response on social media.

USA TODAY

Democrats expect gun control votes after filibuster

CNN

State, local and LGBT leaders call for gun control after Orlando attack

Los Angeles Times

Breakdown of UK’s EU referendum

With the vote looming, experts fear a Brexit would rattle the global economy and undermine a geopolitical order in Europe that has held firm for more than 40 years.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Egypt sentences Al-Jazeera workers to death

An Egyptian court sentenced six people, including two Al-Jazeera employees, to death for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during the rule of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Associated Press

Pakistan: String of honor killings continue

A pregnant woman was killed by her family in eastern Pakistan because she married against family members’ wishes three years ago, according to police.

CNN

ANIMAL RIGHTS

Experts: Organic food is not better for you

Scientific studies do not show that organic products are more nutritious and safer than conventional foods.

Telegraph.co.uk

Mountain lions killed following attack

Two mountain lions were euthanized after a mother and her 5-year-old son were attacked near Aspen and the mother fought off the cat.

Denver Post

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Trump plans to bank on free publicity

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump distanced himself from his fundraising estimate of $1 billion, saying his campaign didn’t need much money to win the presidency because he gets so much free publicity.

Bloomberg

Special section:

The new Republican center of gravity

Guardian

Belgian police arrest 12 in overnight raids

Belgian authorities questioned 40 people and arrested 12 of them in an overnight raid related to a terrorism investigation, the federal prosecutor’s office said.

CNN

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

BP and Det norske will merge

Oil companies BP and Det norske have agreed to merge their Norwegian businesses in a $1.3 billion all-share deal to cut costs, challenge Statoil’s dominance of the local industry and look for more acquisitions.

Yahoo Finance

World Bank changing country classifications

The World Bank is switching to more precise, though unvarnished, descriptions of countries’ economies, removing the terms “developed” and “developing” as classifications.

Economic Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists turn CO2 into harmless rock

Scientists have a found a quick way to turn heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas into harmless rock. Experts say the results of a experiment conducted in Iceland offer hope for a weapon to help fight man-made global warming.

CBS News

Video: turning carbon emissions into stone

Scientific American

Emirates may help NASA reach Mars

NASA signed an agreement with the UAE’s space agency in Abu Dhabi, as it faces questions about the feasibility of a mission to Mars by the 2030s.

Christian Science Monitor

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Site edited by: Talena Ramnath, Catherine Lux, Jameson O'Neal and Chelsea Tamborski.

GOOD NEWS

3-D printed prosthesis lets girl play music

Born without her right hand, Cassie Stewart was unable to play certain instruments like her peers. Now she doesn’t have to worry, thanks to an invention by a high school student.

NBCNews.com

Orlando group blocks Westboro protesters

Olando Shakespeare Theater has joined efforts to keep protesters from Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church from disrupting the funerals of those killed at gay nightclub Pulse.

Orlando Sentinel

First family visits national parks

President Barack Obama and his family are visiting Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico and Yosemite National Park in California to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the National Park Service.

CNN

NGO AND NONPROFIT

Indian working for NGO abducted in Kabul

An Indian woman has been abducted in Kabul by suspected militants right outside her office with Ministry of External Affairs saying that officials are in touch with Afghan authorities to seek her early release.

IndiaTV News

India puts 3 US NGOs on watch list

Days before PM Narendra Modi left for a visit to the US, his government put three US-based non-governmental organizations on the watch list. This includes an NGO patronised by billionaire global investor George Soros.

Economic Times

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Gates names new director of K-12 philanthropy

Robert Hughes recently took the helm of the K-12 funding program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — at a time when the world’s largest funder looks to be in some rough waters.

Inside Philanthropy

Organization aims to bring in more POC

Philanthropy Northwest has launched the Momentum Fellowship. The program aims to prepare professionals from underrepresented communities for careers in the philanthropic sector.

Seattle Times

ENVIRONMENT

Some coral reefs aren’t dying as quickly

A newly published study in Nature identifies 15 places in the Pacific and Indian oceans where fish populations in coral reefs are doing better than ecological models predict they should be.

NPR

Consumers urged not to buy wild-caught fish as pets

Wisconsin Gazette

NZ: Poor farm season incites stealing crops

After increased demand and a poor farm season started driving up prices, some began stealing unripe avocados from farms and selling them to grocery stores and restaurants in Auckland.

MSN News

Photo of the Day

Paris lit the Eiffel Tower with rainbow hues in solidarity with the victims of the massacre at a gay club in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Soukéïna Felicianne) Photo used under CC BY

DailySource Most Popular

Features

About us

Ways to help

Other