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A Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, or MOAB, is nicknamed Mother of All Bombs. One of the precision-guided munitions weighing 21,500 pounds was dropped on an ISIS target in Afghanistan. (Photo by U.S. Department of Defense) Photo used under CC BY

US drops ‘mother of all bombs’ in Afghanistan

The US military has dropped an enormous bomb in Afghanistan, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of the mission. The Massive Ordinance Air Blast Bomb, the “mother of all bombs,” is America’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb.

CNN

Q&A: The giant bomb the US just used

Bloomberg

Coalition strike kills 18 allied fighters in Syria

An airstrike that was meant to target ISIS in Syria instead killed 18 Syrian Democratic Forces personnel because it was “misdirected,” U.S. Central Command said. The strike by an aircraft from the U.S.-led coalition was called in by American allies, the U.S. military says.

NPR

Assad calls chemical attack a ‘total fabrication’

The Independent

Venezuela opposition strains security forces with protests

Venezuela’s opposition staged protests across the crisis-shaken South American nation as part of a bid to strain security forces. Protesters accuse the president of seizing dictatorial powers amid a punishing recession.

Reuters

US set to strike N. Korea if tensions flare

The U.S. is prepared to launch a pre-emptive strike with conventional weapons against North Korea should officials become convinced the reclusive nation is about to follow through with a nuclear weapons test, multiple senior U.S. intelligence officials say.

NBCNews.com

Pelosi calls for debate about force after ‘saber-rattling’ on N. Korea

The Hill

Referendum a tough test for Turkey’s Erdogan

Like the vast mosque he has commissioned atop one of Istanbul’s highest hills, President Tayyip Erdogan hopes this weekend’s referendum will be a crowning achievement in his drive to reshape Turkey.

Reuters

Norway focuses on humanity of prisoners

Bastoy is an open prison, a concept born in Finland in the 1930s and now part of the norm throughout Scandinavia, where prisoners can sometimes keep their jobs on the outside while serving time, commuting daily. Thirty percent of Norway’s prisons are open.

Huffington Post

HUMAN RIGHTS

Courts block 7 executions in Arkansas

A judge in Arkansas has issued an order blocking the state from executing six men. The state’s compressed schedule had drawn widespread attention — for both the pace of the executions and the manner in which the state obtained the drugs it planned to use in the lethal injections.

NPR

UNICEF seeks release of children in Myanmar

A top official from the U.N. children’s fund has sought the release of Rohingya children detained in a Myanmar army crackdown on the Muslim minority, the organization reports.

Reuters

US doctor charged with female genital mutilation

A Detroit emergency room physician was charged with mutilating the genitalia of two 7-year-old girls in what is believed to be the first case of its kind brought under federal law.

Detroit News

What is female genital mutilation?

Detroit Free Press

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Opposition urges DRC president to step down

Tensions have been building in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since December, when the president’s term ended but elections were not held. President Joseph Kabila is still in office, and many are angry about that.

NPR

General strike piles pressure on Kabila

Deutsche Welle

Trump signs anti-Planned Parenthood law

President Trump quietly signed legislation that rolls back an Obama-era rule protecting certain federal funds for Planned Parenthood and other organizations that provide legal abortions.

NPR

Trump: How his positions have shifted

Most candidates right and left comply with the public interest in what they would do by putting out policy papers and laying out facts and figures, numbers and details. Not Donald Trump. He likes to keep everyone guessing. And the country is now seeing just how much.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists turn desert air into water

Scientists have created a device that can pull drinking water from the air using only the power of sunlight. The water harvester is so effective that it even works well when humidity is as low as 20 percent—typical of many of the driest regions on Earth.

Newsweek

NASA: Saturn moon able to support life

NASA has new evidence that the most likely places to find life beyond Earth are Jupiter‘s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus. In terms of potential habitability, Enceladus particularly has almost all of the key ingredients for life as we know it, researchers said.

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

High BP now more common in poorer countries

Gone are the days when the prevalence of high blood pressure was the greatest in the wealthier nations of the world. Research published in the journal Circulation has yielded the finding that high blood pressure has become more common in low- and middle-income countries.

Parent Herald

Mumps outbreak in TX reaches 23-year high

Texas health authorities are trying to combat a record-breaking outbreak of mumps that has swept through the state. The Texas Department of State Health Services reported there have been 221 cases of mumps in the state this year.

ABC News

Uganda’s elephantiasis outbreak solved

Medical detectives in Uganda recently discovered that the wrong culprit had been blamed for an outbreak of crippling elephantiasis — legs so swollen that they resemble those of an elephant. As it turned out, one rare, neglected tropical disease had been mistaken for another.

CNN

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7 surprising, sobering facts about global health

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Pope washes prisoners’ feet in Easter custom

The pope celebrated Mass with prisoners in the maximum security facility, and urged them to “be the servant of others.”

NBCNews.com

Gritty Gary emerging as a model for civility

Gary, Indiana, hosts World Civility Day, drawing attendees from as far afield as Kenya as part of an ongoing campaign that has boosted not only civility but also the city’s own self-image.

Christian Science Monitor

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

UN chief calls for Western Sahara talks

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for talks over the long-running Western Sahara dispute, saying the negotiations should include proposals from both Morocco and the Polisario independence movement.

Reuters

Aid workers warn US cuts could cost lives

As the world suffers one of its most severe humanitarian crises in decades, President Donald Trump is threatening to drastically reduce foreign aid as part of his administration’s “America first” budget.

Huffington Post

Thousands protest in Hungary over education

Tens of thousands of protesters demonstrated Wednesday in the Hungarian capital to oppose government policies that are seen as limiting academic freedom and intimidating civic groups.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

US expanding early quake warning system

An early warning system for earthquakes has been expanded to Oregon and Washington, joining California in testing a prototype that could give people seconds or up to a minute of warning before strong shaking begins.

Associated Press

Renewables’ deep-sea mining conundrum

British scientists exploring an underwater mountain in the Atlantic Ocean have discovered a treasure trove of rare minerals used in a type of advanced solar panel, so the discovery raises a difficult question about whether the push for renewable energy may encourage mining of the seabed.

BBC

New Zealand braces for next bout of flooding

Less than a week after severe floods caused by Cyclone Debbie, residents of the North Island are preparing for the arrival of another storm system, ex-Tropical Cyclone Cook.

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

Amazon tells workers to ‘disagree, commit’

When there’s no consensus but a lot of conviction, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has this advice: "disagree and commit.” It’s one of the nuggets of wisdom he offered up in his yearly Letter to Shareholders this week.

USA TODAY

Appalachia’s new trail: finding life after coal

For decades, coal supplied many in Appalachia with a soot-stained, mountain-hollow version of a middle-class lifestyle. Now, in a bid to move the region beyond reliance on either government support or a single uncertain industry, a web of nonprofits is trying to resurrect eastern Kentucky and other parts of America’s penurious Coal Belt.

Christian Science Monitor

N. Korea and Syria concerns stall Wall Street

U.S. stock futures were flat this morning after what was tracking to be the lowest volume day of the year. The Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq on Monday did eke out their second positive session in three.

CNBC

Photo of the Day

Shot April 5, 2017, in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Maria Eklind) Photo used under CC BY

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