The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

This edition was published on May 14, 2017 at 1 PM E.T. [ Go to the front page ]
Please click here to view all archived editions for this day.

Home

About us

Our Team

Volunteer

Ways to help

Opinion

The shrine erected on the spot in Fatima, Portugal, where Catholics believe the Virgin Mary appeared to shepherd children. Pope Francis came to the shrine to canonize two of those children, Francisco and Jacinta Marto. (Photo by pcdazaro) Photo used under CC BY

Email_icon

Pope canonizes 2 saints at site of apparitions

Pope Francis canonized two new saints at a Mass in Fátima, Portugal. Francisco and Jacinta Marto were small children in Fátima on May 13, 1917, when they said they saw a vision of the Virgin Mary while they were tending sheep. The farm town became an important Catholic shrine.

Email_icon

NPR

Taliban attack on market leaves 19 dead

Police say Taliban fighters have launched an attack on a market in northern Afghanistan, killing four security forces. Taliban fighters launched the attack in the Burka district. Fighting has been heavy and is ongoing.

Email_icon

ABC News

N. Korea open to US talks ‘under right conditions’

North Korea would hold talks with the United States “under the right conditions,” a senior North Korean diplomat said. Choe Son Hui, director-general of the North America bureau chief of North Korea’s Foreign Ministry, spoke to reporters at the Beijing Airport in China.

Email_icon

CNN

Cyberextortion attack strikes many countries

Dozens of countries were hit with a huge cyberextortion attack that locked up computers and held users’ files for ransom at a multitude of hospitals, companies and government agencies.

Email_icon

Associated Press

Symbol_story

The Latest: FedEx confirms it was hit by malware attack

Email_icon

Associated Press

Comey substitute could be chosen ‘next week’

US President Donald Trump says he could announce a replacement for fired FBI Director James Comey by late next week. Defense lawyer Alice Fisher was the first candidate interviewed at the Justice Department.

Email_icon

BBC

Symbol_video

Trump says it would not be “inappropriate” to ask for Comey’s loyalty

Email_icon

CBS News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rights official alarmed by Muslim ’demonizing’

Gillian Triggs, president of the Australian Human Rights Commission, has expressed alarm at Australia’s growing tolerance for “demonizing” Muslims and hate speech directed at minorities.

Email_icon

The Guardian

Knesset’s new bill ’portrays racism as normal’

Israel‘’s Knesset has passed its first vote on a new bill defining Israel as “a national home of the Jewish people.”

Email_icon

Al Jazeera

Children in Barwon prison deprived of rights

Children detained in an adult prison in Victoria were deprived of their human rights and faced risks to their mental health, a supreme court judge has found.

Email_icon

The Guardian

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Palestinians hold local elections in W. Bank

Palestinians held municipal elections in the occupied West Bank, a first democratic exercise in years, but one that has also raised tensions between the rival Fatah and Hamas movements. The municipal ballot is seen as a popularity test for President Mahmoud Abbas.

Email_icon

Yahoo! News

Treasury to assist Trump-Russia probe

A unit of the U.S. Treasury Department that fights money laundering will provide financial records to an investigation by the Senate into possible ties between Russia and President Donald Trump and his associates, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Email_icon

Reuters

Symbol_story

Trump’s lawyers say his tax returns show few Russia dealings

Email_icon

CNNMoney

US in final stages of $100B arms deal

The United States is close to completing a series of deals to sell Saudi Arabia more than $100 billion in American arms and related maintenance, a senior White House official said, as President Donald Trump prepares to visit Riyadh in a week.

Email_icon

Reuters

Protesting pensioners throw punches in unrest

Elderly Venezuelan protesters threw punches and yelled curses at riot police blocking the latest in six weeks of demonstrations against President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government.

Email_icon

Reuters

Fierce exchanges in Iran final TV debate

Angry exchanges have erupted during the final televised debate before Iran’s presidential election next week.

Email_icon

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Israel tests wireless charging roads

The government is collaborating with Israeli start-up ElectRoad to install a public bus route in Tel Aviv, using an under-the-pavement wireless technology that eliminates the need for plug-in recharging stations.

Email_icon

Scientific American

Airline laptop ban could be extended to Europe

The Department of Homeland Security is weighing the possibility of expanding a ban on electronics larger than cell phones aboard U.S.-bound aircraft

Email_icon

Scientific American

Technology generates power from polluted air

Researchers have succeeded in developing a process that purifies air and, at the same time, generates power. The device must only be exposed to light in order to function.

Email_icon

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

Congo announces 9 suspected Ebola cases

ne person has been confirmed dead from Ebola in an outbreak in a remote corner of northern Congo as health authorities look into a total of nine suspected cases, including two other deaths, the country’s health minister and the World Health Organization said Friday.

Email_icon

Associated Press

Zika virus: Brazil says emergency is over

Brazil has declared an end to a national emergency over the Zika virus after a sharp decrease in cases.

Email_icon

BBC

Heroin epidemic driving spike In Hepatitis C

The number of new Hepatitis C cases leaped nearly 300 percent from 2010 to 2015, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the CDC points to the likely culprit behind the spike in cases of the infectious disease: the use of heroin and other injection drugs.

Email_icon

NPR

Symbol_story

Hepatitis C in pregnant women almost doubles amid opioid epidemic

Email_icon

CBS News

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Ludger Schadomsky):

Lessons for peace in Somalia

Email_icon

Column (Raphael Garcia):

There is no justice for the poor in Brazil

Email_icon

Al Jazeera

Column (Julian Brave NoiseCat):

The Dakota pipeline is already leaking. Why wait for a big spill to act?

Email_icon

The Guardian

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Catherine Lux, Iris Belen and Talena Ramnath.

GOOD NEWS

Trudeau takes son to work, melting hearts

Does Justin Trudeau always have to be so perfect? The Canadian prime minister is a popular world leader whose nation‘s open-door policy to Syrian refugees has won admirers around the globe. He’s also a doting dad to three children, the youngest of whom spent a day recently learning about his father’s job.

Email_icon

Today

RedRover to publish Kind News

Kind News magazine for children will enter a new chapter this summer, as its publication changes hands from The Humane Society of the United States to RedRover, another national animal welfare organization.

Email_icon

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Texas NPOs fearful over ‘sanctuary cities’ ban

With Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signing Senate Bill 4, the “sanctuary cities” ban, into law this week, local nonprofits are fearful about what this could mean for the safety of their clients and organizations overall.

Email_icon

Austin American-Statesman

Refugees’ dilemma: smugglers or rescue boat

A “ferry service” that encourages people smugglers or an essential humanitarian rescue service that saves thousands of African migrants making a dangerous sea crossing to Europe?

Email_icon

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

US Glacier national park losing its glaciers

It’s now “inevitable” that the contiguous United States will lose all of its glaciers within a matter of decades, according to scientists who have revealed the precipitous shrinkage of dozens of glaciers in Montana.

Email_icon

The Guardian

Indigenous land rights could save the climate

Indigenous peoples believe they preserve forests best - something that is becoming more important as the planet heats up. But indigenous peoples need land title to implement protection - why is this so contentious?

Email_icon

Symbol_story

‘Indigenous people are stabilizing the global climate’

Email_icon

Floating screens to clean Pacific garbage patch

The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch foundation that aims to deal with plastics polluting our seas, says it’s finally ready to put its technology to work. The organization has revealed that it plans to start cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in early 2018 using its newly redesigned cleaning system.

Email_icon

Engadget

BUSINESS

GE backs NAFTA, supports Mexico

General Electric praised Mexico as a big part of its future and said the company is “very supportive” of the North American Free Trade Agreement that U.S President Donald Trump has threatened to ditch.

Email_icon

Reuters

Wells Fargo bogus accounts balloon to 3.5M

Wells Fargo & Co may have opened as many as 3.5 million unauthorized customer accounts, far more than previously estimated, according to lawyers seeking approval of a $142 million settlement over the practice.

Email_icon

Reuters

Symbol_video

Wells Fargo opened twice as many fake accounts

Email_icon

CBS News

Fiat Chrysler recalls 1.3 million Ram pickups

Fiat Chrysler is recalling 1.3 million pickup trucks because of a software problem that may be tied to at least one death and two injuries.

Email_icon

CNNMoney

Photo of the Day

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch causes massive piles of trash to wash ashore on Hawaiian islands. (Photo by Justin Dolske) Photo used under CC BY

Email_icon

DailySource Most Popular

Most viewed

Most recent

Connect with Us

Nonprofitdonate

Or enter Amazon via the box below and they will donate 4-7% of all purchases you make in the next 24 hours to us.

Amazon.com Widgets

Take a Quick Tour

Tour

The Daily Quote

Well, it’s a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

Garry Trudeau

Email_icon

Daily Quote Archives

Email Newsletters

Browse Past Content

Scroll through recent items from your favorite sections:

Columns and Op-ed

The Daily Quote

Photo of the Day

Browse past editions

Makehomepage

Ways to Help

Spread the word

Other ways

Copyright © 2006-2025 The Daily Source. All rights reserved. Terms of Service

Website monitoring for The Daily Source provided for free by Nimsoft