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Continental Drift: Inside the global refugee crisis

We’re all migrants, or their descendants. But in recent years, that shared story has sunk into a swamp of despair and dispossession. Nearly 60 million people are on the run, fleeing war and persecution, according to the UN.

MSNBC

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UK asylum seekers relate horrors of home countries

The Independent

US urges Qatar, Saudi group to ‘lower rhetoric’

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called for a “lowering of rhetoric” between Qatar and a four-nation group led by Saudi Arabia after Doha denounced the latter’s sweeping list of demands. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and Egypt want Qatar to fight extremism and terrorism.

Asia Times Online

High court upholds part of Trump travel ban

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the government’s appeal of lower court rulings blocking President Trump’s immigration order from taking effect nationwide. It also granted the government’s request to reinstate part of Trump’s travel ban, which affects people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

The Hill

Refugee admissions nearly halved as court reviews travel ban

Guardian

Trump breaks White House Eid dinner tradition

U.S. President Donald Trump has broken a nearly 20-year-old tradition by failing to host a dinner marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Trump has been criticized for his use of anti-Muslim rhetoric, including on the campaign trail when he called for surveillance of U.S. mosques.

BBC

Messages to mark Eid al-Fitr 2017

Times of India

Court to hear plea to allow gay marriage bias

The U.S. Supreme Court stepped into a clash that pits gay rights against religious freedoms, agreeing to hear arguments from a Colorado baker who says he shouldn’t have to make cakes for same-sex weddings.

Bloomberg

Court rules for Missouri church denied state funds

Politico

HUMAN RIGHTS

40 convicted terrorists used human rights laws

The study highlights the near insurmountable problem for the Government in deporting dangerous jihadists and follows a series of Islamic State-inspired attacks in the UK.

MSN

Poland’s human rights official under fire

A leading Polish human rights official has come under fire for saying the “Polish nation” took part in the implementation of the Holocaust — a controversial statement in a country that never collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II.

Business Insider

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Israel nixes prayer equity; outrage ensues

An Israeli government decision to shelve a plan that would have allowed women to pray with men at the iconic Western Wall is drawing outrage from some American Jewish groups.

USA TODAY

Non-Orthodox Jewish movements strive for progress at Western Wall

Jerusalem Post

US mayors may shape national climate policy

With the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, national policy on climate change will emerge from U.S. cities working to reduce emissions and become more resilient to rising sea levels, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said at the annual U.S. Conferences of Mayors meeting in Miami Beach.

Associated Press

6 die, 15 missing after Colombia boat capsizes

Scuba divers continued searching for bodies in a reservoir near the Colombian city of Medellin where a tourist boat packed with more than 150 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized, leaving at least six people dead and 15 missing.

Associated Press

Video of capsizing party boat on reservoir

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Google to stop scanning Gmail

Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it would stop scanning Gmail content for creating personalized ads from later this year, bringing the widely used email service in line with its enterprise offering, G Suite.

Reuters

Gmail won’t scan e-mails for ads personalization

Ars Technica

Medical records join revenge porn, credit card numbers for Google removal

Ars Technica

Hackers hacked world’s most powerful people

Last year’s attack on DNC email servers was the work of Russian state backed hackers, U.S. intelligence agencies declared, while only last month the U.K’s National Health Service was targeted by hackers from North Korea, according to British security officials.

Newsweek

GLOBAL HEALTH

Ebola virus burial teams ‘saved 1000s of lives’

New research suggests Red Cross volunteers who helped bury most of the bodies of Ebola victims in West Africa could have prevented more than 10,000 cases of the deadly disease.

BBC

Hopes ride on marijuana amid opioid crisis

A handful of drugmakers are taking their first steps toward developing marijuana-based painkillers, alternatives to opioids that have led to widespread abuse and caused the U.S. health regulator to ask for a withdrawal of a popular drug this month.

Scientific American

Overdoses, fraud plague drug rehab industry

Thousands of addicts arrive in Palm Beach County, Florida, each year, hoping that at one of South Florida‘s many drug treatment centers, they’ll find recovery. And some do. But an investigation by NBC News has found that many of these vulnerable patients have become grist in an insurance fraud mill.

NBCNews.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Sarah Jones):

Secularism had a bad day at the Supreme Court.

The New Republic

Column (Elliott Abrams):

The downside of the Middle East ‘peace process’

Weekly Standard

Column (Christopher R. Riano and William N. Eskridge Jr.):

How marriage equality strengthened marriage and changed religion

Huffington Post

Column (Zoe Carpenter):

The Senate GOP isn’t fixing health care. It’s waging class war.

The Nation

Column (Amy Goodman and Dennis Moynihan):

Medicare for all: a prescription for what ails us

Truthdig

Column (Molly Ball):

Democrats will have to do better than Ossoff

The Atlantic

Blog (Neal Starkman):

The Great Penguin God: Even the irreverent have a right to devotion

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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GOOD NEWS

Tattoo parlor removes hateful ink

A gang tattoo or a symbol of hate can seem like a great idea to a prisoner. But long after people move on in their hearts, those tattoos can make it impossible to move on. One tattoo parlor in Baltimore has decided to help by using pigments for positive change.

CBS News

Grieving family learns homeless son still alive

Frank Kerrigan laid his son to rest in a California plot next to Kerrigan’s late wife, giving him a send off “he would have been proud of.” Weeks later, he got the shock of his life: His son Frankie, 57, was still alive.

NBCNews.com

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

PM Modi may face tough questions over NGOs

Three months after Christian charity Compassion International was forced to shut its operations in India following a government directive, the Indian side may be asked some tough questions from US interlocutors on the crackdown on NGOs during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington, D.C.

Indian Express

Amazon CEO wants ideas on philanthropy

Jeff Bezos wants your ideas on how he should spend his billions giving back. The Amazon CEO asked his Twitter followers to weigh in on how he could make a difference in the short-term.

USA TODAY

Bezos’ growing wealth might redefine philanthropy

Business Insider

ENVIRONMENT

Court says land regulation doesn‘t go ’too far’

By a 5-to-3 vote, the justices made it much harder for property owners to get compensation from the government when zoning regulations restrict the use of just part of landowners’ property.

NPR

Arkansas tries to stop herbicide damage

Arkansas’s pesticide regulators have stepped into the middle of an epic battle between weeds and chemicals, which has now morphed into a battle between farmers. Hundreds of farmers say their crops have been damaged by a weedkiller sprayed on neighboring fields.

NPR

How climate change affects people

According to a recent Yale survey, 7 in 10 Americans believe global warming is real and happening. And 6 in 10 believe it is affecting U.S. weather. But only 1 in 3 say they’ve personally felt its effects.

Popular Science

BUSINESS

Store closings have tripled so far this year

There have been 5,300 store closing announcements through June 20, making it the second worst year on record at the six-month mark. The worst year ever for store closings was 2008 during the Great Recession, when Credit Suisse counted 6,163 closings. But 2017 is poised to easily surpass that.

CNNMoney

Comcast accused of cutting competitor’s wires

Telecom Cable LLC had “229 satisfied customers” in Weston Lakes and Corrigan, Texas, when Comcast and its contractors sabotaged its network, the lawsuit filed last week in Harris County District Court said.

Ars Technica

Photo of the Day

An art exhibit at the Kassel Hauptbahnhof, a train station in Kassel, Germany. (Photo by Marco Brandstetter) Photo used under CC BY

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