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Former FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding troubling conversations he had with President Donald Trump, who later fired him. Comey said the reasons the president gave for firing him were utterly false. (Photo by FBI) Photo used under CC BY

Comey: White House lied about reasons for firing

Fired FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that he was “confused” and “concerned” when President Donald Trump told the public he was firing him for undermining the morale of the agency he had led since 2013. “Those were lies, plain and simple,” Comey said.

NBCNews.com

Comey quotes Henry II: ‘Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?’

USA TODAY

Trump lawyer accuses Comey of ‘improperly’ leaking memo to press

The Hill

US shoots down Iranian-made drone in Syria

US aircraft shot down an Iranian-made drone that fired on coalition forces patrolling with partner forces in southern Syria, a coalition spokesman told reporters. This is the first time that pro-Syrian regime forces – which the US says includes Iranian-backed Shia militias – have fired on the US-led coalition.

CNN

UK election: Conservatives may lose outright majority

British Prime Minister Theresa May spectacularly lost her electoral gamble, according to an exit poll that suggested her Conservatives would fall short of a majority in parliament, throwing her Brexit plans into disarray. The exit poll predicted a “hung parliament” with no clear winner.

Reuters

May’s future in question as swing to Labor grows

Guardian

Qatar vows ‘no surrender’ in Arab dispute

Qatar has vowed it will “not surrender” its foreign policy in a row with other Arab states over its alleged connections to extremism. Qatar’s foreign minister said he favored diplomacy to resolve the escalating crisis and that there was no military solution.

BBC

Millions of Yemenis go hungry during Ramadan

While Muslims worldwide celebrate Ramadan with special meals and tasty treats, millions of Yemenis are suffering from an acute lack of food as the country’s two-year war rages on. According to aid agencies, 17 million people do not have enough to eat, in what the UN calls the “largest humanitarian crisis in the world.”

Al Jazeera

Why are there still famines?

BBC

Iran: Trump reaction to ISIS attacks ’repugnant’

Iran has slammed US President Donald Trump’s response the twin terror attacks in Tehran as “repugnant,” as the death toll from the ISIS-claimed assaults rose to 16.

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

US may pull out of UN Human Rights Council

The Trump administration is warning that the U.S. might leave the U.N. Human Rights Council, arguing that it displays anti-Israel bias and ignores violations by certain countries.

NPR

Amnesty urges UK to pressure Israel on rights

Amnesty International has called on the UK to ban the import of all goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements and use its influence to stop human rights abuses against Palestinians.

Yahoo! News

May will rip up human rights laws for terrorists

Speaking to Conservative activists in Slough, May said she wanted “longer prison sentences for those convicted of terrorist offences.” The prime minister went on to say she wanted to make it “easier for authorities to deport foreign terrorist suspects back to their own country.”

International Business Times

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

House Dem to begin impeachment proceedings

The day before former FBI Director James Comey testifies before Congress about his interactions with President Donald Trump regarding his probe of Russia’s interference in the 2016 campaign, a House Democrat plans to draft articles of impeachment.

CNN

Californians battle for single-payer health care

As Donald Trump and congressional Republicans struggle to repeal Obamacare, Democrats in the nation’s most populous state are pushing a very different reform proposal that would radically change the way health care is paid for.

Mother Jones

Senate OKs bill to make firing employees easier

The Senate approved broad legislation to make firing employees easier for the beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs, part of an accountability effort urged by President Donald Trump following years of high-profile problems.

Associated Press

Lawmakers consider penalties for opioid crimes

A draft of the legislation reviewed by NPR suggests the plan would give the attorney general a lot more power to ban all kinds of synthetic drugs, since criminals often change the recipe to evade law enforcement. It would impose a 10-year maximum sentence on people caught selling them as a first offense. That would double if they do it again.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Oldest bones ever found shake human story

Fossils recovered from an old mine on a desolate mountain in Morocco have rocked one of the most enduring foundations of the human story: that Homo sapiens arose in a cradle of humankind in East Africa 200,000 years ago.

Guardian

We’re older than we thought

NBCNews.com

Earth’s increased risk of getting hit by asteroid

Earth may be threatened by a newly discovered branch of a stream of meteoroids, increasing the risk that the planet will be struck by a meteoroid or asteroid.

LiveScience

GLOBAL HEALTH

Gamification used to promote health

Gamification, the use of game elements in non-game settings, is popping up everywhere in our daily lives, with applications to management, commerce and health. Why? Because the evidence suggests that it works.

UC-Berkeley

A push to vaccinate boys for HPV

A mum-of-two is calling for boys to receive a vaccine currently only given to girls to protect against cancer. The Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) jab is offered to teenage girls in the UK to protect against cervical cancer. A health committee will meet later to review whether boys should also be given the jab, which can protect against throat and penile cancers.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins):

NFL players to Congress: Let’s fix the justice system

CNN

Column (Arjun Sethi):

Donald Trump promised to go after leakers. Now he’s doing just that

The Guardian

Column (Bachir Amroune):

Young princes in the Persian Gulf are playing with fire

Deutsche Welle

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GOOD NEWS

Internet getting nicer, one meme at a time

In recent months, interest has surged in so-called wholesome memes, which aim to promote earnest messages of empowerment. There are now hundreds spreading across Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram and Reddit, whose “Wholesome Memes” forum has attracted more than half a million subscribers.

Time

Pirates usher, 99, shows way to happiness

What makes Phil famous around here is how long he‘s been around. At 99, he’s still working as an usher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, seating people in sweltering heat, climbing up and down stairs that would hospitalize most other soon-to-be centenarians.

CBS News

‘We survived and thrived’: LGBTQ grads reflect

The concept of a Lavender Graduation, a special rite of passage, was created by LGBTQ activist Ronni Sanlo, who started the first such ceremony at the University of Michigan in 1995. Today, more than 100 colleges, including Brown, Harvard, Georgetown, and Wisconsin, hold similar ceremonies.

NBCNews.com

Dad with ALS keeps vow to ‘tap out’ military grad

Today Show

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Women of color praise NoVo Foundation effort

When you decide to commit $90 million to a cause, it’s best to consult some experts. For the NoVo Foundation, those experts are girls and women of color. After hearing them describe their goals, challenges and ideas, the grant maker announced it would fund community-led programs that target racism and sexual violence and that help activists collaborate.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Special section:

7 nonprofits that empower young brown girls

NBCNews.com

Pro-Trump nonprofit runs ad attacking Comey

As former FBI Director James Comey is testifying before Congress, the nonprofit Great America Alliance will launch a 30-second attack ad labeling Comey a political “showboat” and saying he “put politics over protecting America.” It will run on CNN and Fox News.

Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

More states sign on to US Climate Alliance

Frustrated by President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, several governors have joined together to create the U.S. Climate Alliance.

USA TODAY

Environmentalists vow to fight coal mine

Indian mining giant Adani is set to go ahead with a massive coal mine in northeastern Australia. Environmental activists have warned of the danger to the Great Barrier Reef, calling it a “disaster for the climate.”

Deutsche Welle

BUSINESS

Sugar dispute threatens Mexico trade

Soda giant Coca-Cola Co and major corn syrup makers have joined the political battle against the U.S. sugar industry in recent weeks, as the deadline to hammer out a years-long trade dispute with Mexico nears.

Reuters

Concerns hang over global airlines conference

A deadly attack in London and debate over travel restrictions in the United States put safety concerns high on the agenda as global airline executives gathered for the industry’s largest meeting of the year.

Reuters

Paris accord retreat is ‘bad for business’

It’s “bad for business” remains one of President Trump’s main reasons for opposing the Paris Climate Agreement and other policies to slow heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. But it’s increasingly hard to square that dubious justification with the who’s who of American business leadership lined up in strong support of staying in the pact.

Star Tribune

Photo of the Day

Young women, and a boy, smile for a photographer in Tigray, Ethiopia. About 5 million Tigrayan people live in the Tigray region of Ethiopia and in bordering Eritrea. (Photo by Rod Waddington) Photo used under CC BY

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