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FEMA: Harvey will drive 30,000 to Texas shelters

More than 5,500 weary refugees of Tropical Storm Harvey’s fury sought refuge in the city’s cavernous convention center and other shelters as local, state and federal officials warned that the human crisis in Texas was just beginning.

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USA TODAY

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Here’s how you can help victims of Hurricane Harvey

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Harvey plays havoc with people living on the margins

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Reuters

Filipino mourners vent anger at crackdown

The death of a Philippines youth suspected of engagement in the drug trade has sparked outrage at President Rodrigo Duterte’s violent efforts to combat drug use.

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BBC

Hundreds of thousands march for unity in Barcelona

Hundreds of thousands marched in Barcelona in a show of unity amid chants of “I am not afraid” after two Islamist militant attacks in the Spanish region of Catalonia last week left 15 dead. The march was led by shopkeepers and residents of Las Ramblas boulevard, where a van ploughed into pedestrians, killing 13.

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Reuters

‘Restraint’ ends as N. Korea launches missile

North Korea launched three short-range ballistic missiles from its east coast into the sea over an hour, according to the U.S. Pacific Command. The launches are North Korea’s first test since the Fourth of July.

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NPR

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Kim Jong Un hires ex-KGB agents to protect him from US assassination

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Newsweek

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China’s Xi grapples with rising cost of backing Kim Jong Un

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Bloomberg

Trump inks ban on transgender recruits

President Donald Trump has formally directed the military not to move forward with an Obama-era plan that would have allowed transgender individuals to be recruited into the armed forces.

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CNN

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Cabinet member’s daughter rips transgender ban

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The Hill

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN rights panel warns US over racist rhetoric

United Nations human rights experts have called upon the US government and political leaders to “unequivocally and unconditionally” reject and condemn racist hate speech and crimes. The panel said it was “alarmed” by recent displays of racist violence.

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Rights activist argues to keep Confederate monuments

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Philippines rights body cautions police

Philippines rights body cautions police on protocol The Commission on Human Rights reminded police, particularly Chief Insp. Jovie Espenido, to follow protocol in conducting drug raids or buy-bust operations to avoid being accused of resorting to extrajudicial killings.

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Manila Times

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Why is it all going wrong for France’s Macron?

Emmanuel Macron’s poll ratings are plunging just a little more than three months since he stormed to the presidency promising a new beginning. In fact, at about 40 percent, they’re nearly as bad as Donald Trump’s.

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Bloomberg

Ryan breaks with Trump on Arpaio pardon

Speaker Paul Ryan disagrees with President Trump’s decision to pardon former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, The Wall Street Journal reported. The White House announced the president would pardon Arpaio, who had been found guilty of racially profiling.

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The Hill

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Heart attacks more common in cold weather

A 16-year study in more than 280,000 patients has suggested that air temperature is an external trigger for heart attack. The average number of heart attacks per day was significantly higher during seasons with colder outdoor temperatures as compared to warmer.

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ScienceDaily

Sexy female moths help mates snag mates

In insects such as the tobacco budworm moth, beauty is actually in the “nose” of the beholder, as females use chemical scents called pheromones to lure in potential mates. Some moths are more attractive than others. Biologists have learned that unattractive female moths better their odds of mating by hanging out with their more attractive counterparts.

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Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Swine flu claims over 1,000 lives in India in 2017

India looks like to be in the firm grip of an outbreak of swine flu with the recorded number of death rising to 1,094 over the last eight months, according to an official report. The past three weeks have experienced the highest number of casualties at 342.

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Global Health News

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Swine flu negative patients dying of same symptoms

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Tanzania’s Hadza diet may boost microbiome

For the past few years, scientists around the world have been accumulating evidence that the Western lifestyle is altering our micro biome, that collection of bacteria in our intestines that influences everything from metabolism and the immune system to moods and behavior.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Julie Bindel):

If women’s rights are human rights, why do rights organizations push for the decriminalisation of prostitution?

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The Independent

Afghanistan’s deeper challenge

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Fred Siegel and Sol Stern):

Let us now praise Muslim apostates

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City Journal

Column (Charles Kesler):

The Old New Left and the New New Left

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RealClearPolitics

Column (Fred Barnes):

For better or worse, Trump and the GOP need each other

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Weekly Standard

Column (Alexis Simendinger):

Trump to launch tax reform push, but hurdles are steep

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RealClearPolitics

Column (Simon Reich):

James Mattis now owns Trumps Afghanistan strategy

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Newsweek

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GOOD NEWS

Reporter helps save trucker stuck in flooding

A reporter with CBS Houston affiliate KHOU may have saved a truck driver’s life. Reporter Brandi Smith spotted a trapped driver as his tractor-trailer was being swallowed by floodwaters. She waved down a Harris county sheriff towing an airboat to effect the rescue.

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CBS News

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San Antonio offers relief to those escaping Harvey

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CBS News

Adaptive climbers reach new heights together

Paradox Sports is a non-profit rock climbing organization that is helping people with disabilities get involved in the adaptive climbing community.

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NBCNews.com

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Donors raise $15M for NYC poster museum

A group of poster-art aficionados has received gifts totaling $15 million toward the creation of the first museum in New York City devoted exclusively to poster art, artnet reports.

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Philanthropy News Digest

Philanthropy in China’s first Gilded Age

Reporting for Devex, “the media platform for the global development community,” Amy Lieberman interviewed Mei Hing Chak, founder and president of the Heung Kong Group, about her journey in philanthropy.

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Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Kenya enforcing plastic bag ban after delays

A ban on plastic carrier bags has come into force in Kenya, which means that anyone found selling, manufacturing or carrying them could face fines of up to $38,000 or prison sentences of up to four years. The government says the ban will help protect the environment.

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BBC

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New Zealand Greens aim to enact plastic bag ban

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Stuff

Zinke urges shrinking national monuments

Conservation safeguards on a “handful” of national monuments across the US could be rolled back following the delivery on Thursday of the White House’s long-awaited review of such public lands, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said.

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Guardian

BUSINESS

Amazon slashes Whole Foods prices on Day 1

Amazon.com Inc. spent its first day as the owner of a brick-and-mortar grocery chain cutting prices at Whole Foods Market as much as 43 percent. The marked-down items had orange signs reading “Whole Foods + Amazon.” The signs listed the old price, the new price and “More to come...”.

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Bloomberg

Apple cuts Iran-made apps over sanctions

About a dozen Iran-focused apps, including Delion Foods, a meals delivery startup, online store Digikala, Bamilo, an e-commerce marketplace, and ride-hailing app Snapp, have been removed from the Apple store due to sanctions put in place by the U.S. government.

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Bloomberg

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Demonstrators take part in a Stand in Solidarity With Charlottesville rally in Union Square in New York City. (Photo by Eden, Janine and Jim) Photo used under CC BY

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