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Santa Clara County, which includes the city of San Jose, asked a federal court to block President Trump’s executive order that sought to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities. A federal judge has granted the request. (Photo by Anna Fox) Photo used under CC BY

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Judge blocks Trump order to squeeze sanctuary cities

A U.S. judge blocked President Donald Trump‘s executive order that sought to withhold federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities, dealing another legal blow to the administration’s efforts to toughen immigration enforcement.

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Reuters

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Texas poised to pass ‘sanctuary city’ ban with jail penalty

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Associated Press

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Trump’s tweets on court blocking ’sanctuary city’ order: 5 facts to know

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NPR

N. Korea faces tighter sanctions under Trump

The US is to tighten sanctions on North Korea and step up diplomatic moves aimed at pressuring the country to end its nuclear and missile programmes.

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BBC

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US wants to bring North Korea to ‘path of dialogue’

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Al Jazeera

Easing shutdown worries, Trump relents on subsidies

With just two days left to stop a partial shutdown of the federal government, the Trump administration removed another major sticking point in the spending bill negotiations.

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NPR

Trump ‘not to terminate NAFTA at this time’

President Donald Trump told the leaders of Canada and Mexico he was not immediately planning to end the North American Free Trade Agreement, a pact which he railed against as a candidate and as recently as last week declared was harmful to US workers.

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CNN

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NAFTA explained

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CNN

Le Pen upstages Macron in blue-collar votes

Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen turned an appliance factory into a battleground for France’s blue-collar vote, upstaging rival Emmanuel Macron with a surprise campaign stop at the plant threatened with closure.

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Associated Press

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Unprecedented politics: Battle for the presidency

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Le Monde Diplomatique

Assad government behind chemical attack

France’s foreign minister said chemical analysis of samples taken from the rebel-held village of Khan Sheikhoun “bears the signature” of President Bashar al-Assad’s government.

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Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Council to monitor human rights in Turkey

European lawmakers have voted to reopen a monitoring probe into Turkey over concerns about democracy and human rights. The vote sparked anger from Ankara as its relations with Europe continue to fray.

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German Jews fear Muslim anti-Semitism

Jews in Germany say they feel a “growing threat” of anti-Semitism, especially from Muslims but also from xenophobic far-right groups, a parliamentary report says.

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Yahoo! News

Human rights to protect against ‘mind hacking’

New human rights that would protect people from having their thoughts and other brain information stolen, abused, or hacked have been proposed by researchers.

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Guardian

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Death toll in Venezuela’s unrest rises to 26

Two Venezuelan men died from gunshots at political demonstrations, bringing to 26 the number of fatalities around this month‘s protests against President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government.

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Reuters

Flynn may have the broken law

Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn may have violated U.S. law by failing to disclose his business dealings with Russia and Turkey, the leader of the House Oversight Committee said.

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Bloomberg

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Will Michael Flynn go to jail?

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MSNBC

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The 4 Russia investigations in Congress, explained

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CNN

Turkey suspends over 9,000 police officers

Turkey’s police force has suspended more than 9,000 officers over alleged links to the US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen.

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BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Drugs in medicine cabinets may fight dementia

Tried, true, and FDA-approved drugs for cancer and depression—already in medicine cabinets—may also be long-sought treatments for devastating brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other forms of dementia, according to a new study in Brain, a Journal of Neurology.

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Ars Technica

Amazon to use driverless cars for deliveries

Amazon is constantly thinking of new ways it can cut costs and revolutionize the shipping and delivery industry. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Amazon formed a team about a year ago of a dozen employees to focus on driverless-vehicle technology and develop the company’s plans to use self-driving cars to better its business.

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Ars Technica

3 things to check in your data privacy settings

Unroll.Me is a free service that bundles subscription emails into a daily digest and helps you weed out other junk that clogs up your inbox. To make money, the company sells anonymized information scraped from its users email accounts.

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Popular Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Drug could save thousands of moms

About 1.2 percent of women who got tranexamic acid within three hours of a hemorrhage died, compared with 1.7 percent of the women who got the placebo.

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NPR

‘Superbug’ fungus menace in US hospitals

First identified in Japan in 2009, the fungus has spread to more than a dozen countries around the globe. The oldest of the 66 cases reported in the U.S. dates back to 2013, but most were reported in the last year.

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Associated Press

Africa to pilot world’s first malaria vaccine

Programs beginning next year in Ghana, Malawi and Kenya will test the vaccine’s effectiveness in children. The trial was announced ahead of World Malaria Day.

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GOOD NEWS

Egg freezing offered to female employees

British companies are in talks with IVF clinics about offering egg freezing as a perk for female employees.

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MSN

101 year old wins gold in 100-meter sprint

They say age is just a number, and Man Kaur can prove it. At 101 years old, the late-blooming Indian athlete was just over a minute short of beating Usain Bolt’s world record in a 100-meter sprint.

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FOX News

6-year-old boy recognized for saving a life

Karter Thorpe received a challenge coin and Civic Duty Award from the Franklin Police Department in front of City Council.

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WTKR

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Beyoncé’s awards four college scholarships

The Formation Scholars program will give awards to “young women who are unafraid to think outside the box and are bold, creative, conscious and confident,” according to the announcement.

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WTKR

WaterEquity launches $50M Impact Fund

The fund, which is projected to provide at least 4.6 million people in South and Southeast Asia with access to safe water and/or sanitation services, will target investments in enterprises with significant capacity to scale, a strong financial track record, and a deep reach into the neediest populations.

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Philanthropy News Digest

Volunteer time value pegged at $193 Billion

The value of a volunteer hour was estimated to be $24.14 in 2016, up 2.5 percent from $23.56 the previous year. More than 63 million Americans volunteered about 8 billion hours, which would equate to about $193 billion based on that hourly value.

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The NonProfit Times

ENVIRONMENT

The Arctic is a different place now

The Arctic is experiencing a profound shift into a new state as it loses ice and breaks high temperature records, a clear sign that some of the worst effects of climate change are already happening.

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Scientific American

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The globe must protect penguins’ Antarctic habitat

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US parks may lose federal protection

In a move that could allow him to roll back the protection of lands designated by Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, President Trump signed an executive order that reviews enforcement of the law that gives him power to designate lands as national monuments.

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CNN

Is climate change causing extreme weather?

After an unusually intense heat wave, downpour or drought, climate scientists inevitably receive phone calls and emails asking whether human-caused climate change played a role.

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ScienceDaily

BUSINESS

Fox News sued for racial discrimination

Eleven current and former employees of Fox News sue the network for racial discrimination.

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Reuters

Costco returns $3B to investors with dividend

Costco Wholesale Corp., the warehouse-club chain that’s largely avoided the retail industry’s distress, plans to return $3.1 billion to shareholders through the payment of a special dividend.

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Bloomberg

WTO ruling favors Mexico in US tuna spat

The World Trade Organization ruled Tuesday that Mexico’s tuna industry has been harmed by U.S. “dolphin-safe” labeling rules and says the country can seek retaliatory measures worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Associated Press

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A girl who belongs to the Wolayta people of southern Ethiopia. Uploaded April 9, 2017. (Photo by Rod Waddington) Photo used under CC BY

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