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South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump this week in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Republic of Korea) Photo used under CC BY

N. Korea divisions shadow Trump-Moon summit

South Korea’s new leader Moon Jae-in will bring a fundamentally different view on North Korea when he meets Donald Trump for the first time at the White House this week. Cracks have emerged between the longstanding allies over how to force Kim Jong Un’s regime to drop its push for nuclear weapons.

Bloomberg

Trump considering China sanctions over North Korea

Guardian

New computer virus disrupts world business

A computer virus wreaked havoc on firms around the globe as it spread to more than 60 countries, disrupting ports from Mumbai to Los Angeles and halting work in Australia.

Reuters

Obama, Trump faulted for inaction on Russia

Both President Donald Trump and his predecessor, President Barack Obama, should have done more in response to Russian intelligence forces’ hacking of the 2016 presidential election, according to former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Nicholas Burns.

Newsweek

How one typo helped let Russian hackers in

CNN

Senate delays health bill vote; what’s next?

Senate Republicans regrouped for another round of health care negotiations after their first effort was stalled by deepening divisions that caused at least eight Republicans to come out against the current bill.

NBCNews.com

GOP senator: Tinkering won’t fix health bill

Google News

Key Republicans want to scrap health bill’s tax cuts for wealthy

Bloomberg

Pilot hunted in attack on Venezuela court

The Venezuelan military is hunting for a rogue elite police officer suspected of carrying out a helicopter attack on the country’s Supreme Court. Oscar Pérez posted Instagram videos admitting the attack and calling on Venezuelans to rise up against the government.

BBC

Government opponents block roads in Venezuela

Today Venezuela

HUMAN RIGHTS

Ivanka Trump’s two faces of human rights

Human rights have not been a centerpiece of Donald Trump’s foreign policy, but Ivanka Trump has pushed to put human trafficking on the agenda, and it has been one of her most effective forays into policy. But Ivanka Trump is a very complicated messenger for these issues.

Vanity Fair

Making Ivanka Trump shoes: Long hours, low pay and abuse

Associated Press

Extremists honor McVeigh as a hero, martyr

To most Americans, Timothy McVeigh is the perpetrator of the worst act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history, the murderer whose 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma took the lives of 168 innocents. But on the extremist fringes, McVeigh has become a hero.

Newsweek

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

US travel ban a blow to Sudan refugees

Dozens of Sudanese activists living in Egypt as refugees, many of whom fled fundamentalist Islamic militias and were close to approval for resettlement in the United States, now face legal limbo after the Supreme Court partially reinstated President Donald Trump’s travel ban on six Muslim nations, including Sudan.

Associated Press

Driver wrecks Ten Commandments monument

Less than a day after a monument of the Ten Commandments was installed outside the Arkansas State Capitol, it was destroyed when a man smashed a car into the stone.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Jellied sea creatures confound scientists

Drifting throngs of jellylike, glowing organisms native to tropical seas far from shore have invaded Pacific coastal waters from Southern California to the Gulf of Alaska this year, baffling researchers and frustrating fishing crews.

Business Insider

Photos of pyrosomes, colonies of tiny zooids

YouTube

Boaty McBoatface collects trove of data

The world’s most famous yellow submarine has returned home after a successful mission to Antarctica’s Weddell Sea. Expedition organizers say Boaty McBoatface captured “unprecedented” data during its maiden voyage, analyzing deep sea currents at depths exceeding 13,000 feet.

Gizmodo

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

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

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

Tunisia cracks down on NGOs

The Tunisian government has issued a statement ordering all nongovernmental organizations to declare all funds they receive from abroad and threatened to prosecute any party that failed to comply.

Al-Monitor

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

Activists in Leipzig, Germany, protest the planned deportation of failed asylum seekers to Afghanistan on Tuesday, June 28. The planned deportation at the Leipzig/Halle Airport was suspended. A spate of attacks in Kabul previously forced Germany to halt deportations. (Photo by Tim Wagner) Photo used under CC BY

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