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Steve Bannon, the alt-right champion who strongly influenced President Trump’s stances on immigration and foreign relations, has left the administration. (Photo by Gage Skidmore) Photo used under CC BY

Bannon: ‘Trump presidency that we fought for is over’

With the departure from the White House of strategist Steve Bannon, who helped shape the so-called nationalist-populist program embraced by Donald Trump in his unlikely path to election, a new phase of the Trump presidency begins.

Weekly Standard

Bannon’s exit Leaves Trump untethered

The Atlantic

Sierra Leone mudslides death toll hits to 467

Sierra Leone is facing significant health challenges after this week’s devastating mudslides claimed at least 467 lives, a government health official said, with the number of dead expected to rise.

CNN

Pro-Maduro assembly seizes lawmaking ability

The Venezuelan Constituent Assembly, an extremely powerful group called into existence by President Nicolas Maduro, just granted itself another power — one that was once the exclusive province of the country’s elected congress: The 2-week-old assembly decreed it has the power to pass laws.

NPR

Assembly’s power grab spurs outrage

Reuters

Spanish police seek driver in Barcelona attack

The driver in Thursday’s van attack that killed 13 people in a tourist area of Barcelona may still be alive and on the run, Spanish police say. They are hunting for Moroccan-born Younes Abouyaaqoub, named by Spanish media as the suspected driver.

BBC

Wife, father of American killed in Barcelona open up about tragedy

ABC News

Finland killings: Knifeman ‘targeted women’

Police in Finland say a knifeman who killed two people in the south-western city of Turku appeared to choose women as targets. They are treating the attack as a terrorist incident. A suspect was arrested after being shot by police.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

2 Peruvians convicted of human-rights abuses

A Peruvian court has convicted two of the seven former military officers who were accused of torturing and murdering civilians in a poor highland province in 1983. The incidents occurred at the start of a bloody conflict between government forces and insurgents.

Reuters

Houthis urged to release Yemeni activist

International rights group Human Rights Watch urged Houthis in the Yemeni capital Sanaa to release a prominent activist “immediately and unconditionally.” HRW said Hisham Al-Omeisy has been an important public voice in Yemen, providing commentary on the country’s conflict.

Arab News

Report: Saudi coalition killed hundreds of kids in Yemen

The Independent

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Lebanon announces new ISIS offensive

Beirut has begun strikes against “Islamic State” positions near its border with Syria. The move is a precarious one, as it places the U.S.-backed army tenuously on the same side as Hezbollah and Bashar al-Assad.

Deutsche Welle

Erdogan to German Turks: Vote out Merkel

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slammed Germany’s three main political parties as “enemies of Turkey” ahead of parliamentary elections. The comments drew a swift rebuke from Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Deutsche Welle

German critic of Turkey’s Erdogan arrested in Spain

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Artificial womb raises hope for premature babies

An artificial womb has been successfully used to incubate healthy baby lambs for a period of one week, and researchers hope the technology will one day be able to do the same for extremely premature babies.

ScienceDaily

Fluid-filled transparent container simulates uterus environment

NBCNews.com

2.7-million-year-old ice core offers clues

Scientists have announced that a core drilled in Antarctica has yielded 2.7-million-year-old ice, an astonishing find 1.7 million years older than the previous record-holder. Bubbles in the ice contain greenhouse gases from Earth’s atmosphere at a time when the planet’s cycles of glacial advance and retreat were just beginning.

Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Florida hurt sick kids to help big GOP donors

In the spring and summer of 2015, Florida switched more than 13,000 children out of a highly respected program called Children’s Medical Services, a part of Florida Medicaid.

CNN

Many nurses lack knowledge of postpartum health risks

NPR

School exclusion, mental health problems linked

Excluding children from school may lead to long-term psychiatric problems and psychological distress, a major new study has shown. The research by the University of Exeter also finds that poor mental health can lead to school exclusion.

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Minor league team staff restores youth field

Members of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos front office, including PGA Tour star Bubba Watson, battled through rain and muddy conditions to help renovate a youth baseball field.

USA TODAY

A League of Their Own: Kids play ‘unorganized’ baseball for fun

NBCNews.com

What humpbacks teach us about compassion

Humpbacks whales are "amazing Buddhist warriors,” a researcher says. Humpbacks deliberately interfere with attacking killer whales, spending time and energy on a potentially injurious activity.

Smithsonian Magazine

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Religious leaders back Johnson Amendment

More than four thousand religious leaders have signed a letter asking Congress to preserve, in its current form, the Johnson Amendment, a law that effectively bars faith-based organizations from making political statements from the pulpit, Religion News Service reports.

Philanthropy News Digest

Nonprofit dissolution: How to close up shop

We have seen too many sudden closings of nonprofits lately. This article provides some do’s and don’ts of closing your doors with honor and integrity.

Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Trump reverses bottled water ban in parks

In 2011, the National Park Service put in place a policy to encourage national parks to end the sale of bottled water. The aim was to cut back on plastic litter. Now, The Trump administration has reversed this Obama-era policy.

NPR

Climate change to wreck doubters’ livelihoods

The small Louisiana town of Cameron could be the first in the U.S. to be fully submerged by rising sea levels – and yet locals, 90 percent of whom voted for Trump, still aren’t convinced about climate change.

Guardian

BUSINESS

The incredible shrinking airline seat

The industry has been squeezing airline passengers for years, reducing seat width and legroom. But competition and the courts may soon provide relief.

Bloomberg

VW Microbus coming back - all electric

Volkswagen has made it official: It’s bringing back one of America’s most beloved vehicles, the microbus, this time as a fully-electric van that will carry both people and cargo.

Forbes

Photo of the Day

A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, casting its shadow on the Earth. The shadow comprises two concentric cones called the umbra and the penumbra. Observers on the Earth who are within the smaller, central umbra see the Sun completely blocked. Within the larger penumbra, the Sun is only partially blocked. (Photo by NASA/Goddard Space Center) Photo used under CC BY

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