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Marines and soldiers attached to the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge unload drinking water at Cyril E. King Airport in St. Thomas. Kearsarge and the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit are assisting with relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. (Photo by U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kaitlyn E. Eads) Photo used under CC BY

Irma’s harsh toll: 67 dead, billions in property loss

Irma has finally relinquished its grip, but the storm that tore a massively destructive and deadly path from Barbuda to Georgia continues to exact a staggering toll. The storm is responsible for the deaths of least 67 people in the Caribbean and the U.S. Southeast.

The Weather Channel

6 nursing home deaths add to Irma’s toll

FOX News

S. Korea tests new stealth cruise missile

The Taurus missiles increase Seoul’s pre-emptive strike capacity. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has raised regional tensions with a series of nuclear and missile tests.

NBCNews.com

Russia sought broad reset with Trump

In the third month of Donald Trump’s presidency, Vladimir Putin dispatched one of his diplomats to the State Department to deliver a bold proposition: the full normalization of relations between the United States and Russia across all major branches of government.

BuzzFeed News

Dems, Trump strike tentative deal on dreamers

Congressional Democratic leaders say they’ve reached a tentative agreement with President Donald Trump to “quickly” advance legislation to protect from deportation about 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

Bloomberg

Inside Sanders‘ new ’Medicare for all’ bill

When Sen. Bernie Sanders did this in 2013, he did it alone. Nearly four years later, Sanders is set to introduce a new “Medicare for all” health care bill with nearly a third of the Senate Democratic caucus by his side.

CNN

Sanders announces bill at news conference

C-Span

Declassified list shows unexploded bombs

A top American military commander has declassified 81 locations of unexploded bombs dropped by the U.S.-led coalition in the battle to oust ISIS militants from Mosul, Iraq.

ABC News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Philippines rights panel’s budget slashed

Philippines politicians allied with President Rodrigo Duterte have slashed the annual budget for the Commission on Human Rights from $17 million to just $25. The commission’s chairman says he will take the issue to the Supreme Court if necessary.

Australian Broadcasting Company

HRW: Israeli banks back settlement expansion

A leading rights group says Israeli banks are contributing to the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank by providing loans and mortgages for construction there. A report by Human Rights Watch says no Israeli law requires the banks to provide such services for the settlements.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Jimmy Carter slams Trump, ‘oligarchy’

Former President Jimmy Carter offered a damning indictment of U.S. foreign policy and domestic affairs on Tuesday, saying money in politics makes the nation more like an “oligarchy than a democracy” and casting President Donald Trump as a disappointment on the world stage.

Telegraph.co.uk

N. Korea ‘preparing another nuclear test’

Undeterred by international condemnation of its latest nuclear test and a new round of sanctions, North Korea is reportedly preparing to carry out another underground atomic test.

Telegraph.co.uk

‘Quite backwards’: Chinese tourists gawk at impoverished North Koreans

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

iPhone X widens tech haves, have-nots gap

The $1,000 premium-tier model will be a hard-to-find product in the holiday-shopping season. That’s the point.

CNET News

iPhone 8 in 80 seconds: release date, news and features

Tech Radar

Ancient sunken city found in Mediterranean

Early on July 21, 365 CE, an 8.5 magnitude earthquake shook the eastern Mediterranean, triggering a powerful tsunami. The Roman port city of Neapolis was largely swallowed by the wave. Now, after being hidden under water for more than 16 centuries, the remains of Neapolis have been discovered off the coast of northeast Tunisia.

Mental Floss

GLOBAL HEALTH

U.S. cancer death rates dip but concerns linger

The U.S. cancer death rate dropped by 35 percent between 1991 and 2014 for children and by 25 percent for adults, according to the American Association for Cancer Research’s seventh annual Cancer Progress Report.

U.S. News & World Report

Special section:

Hedonism is good for your health

CNN

Women apt to lose interest in sex after a year

British women have a greater tendency than men to go off sex after a year with the same partner, research has suggested. The study found that women were four times more likely to show a lack of interest in sex after 12 months than those in shorter relationships.

The Times of London

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GOOD NEWS

Teacher’s charity wedding registry goes viral

Rickee Stewart had a novel idea: a charity wedding registry. When she put the registry on Donorschoose.org, hoping to collect essentials for students who are homeless, she was soon inundated by donations.

NBCNews.com

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofits cashing in on social ad plugs

Imagine that there is a whole host of individuals willing to support your organization’s mission, you need only find a way to reach them. That’s the magic of micro-targeting with social advertising, according to Chris Stergalas, senior online organizer for Working America.

NonProfit Times

Nonprofit colocation a better option than ever

As more education, training, support, and encouragement have developed, colocations, a one-time outlier in the nonprofit world, are evolving into an important and more common method for the efficient allocation of community investment.

Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

China plans to expand ethanol use by 2020

China plans to expand use of ethanol in gasoline nationwide by 2020 to curb smog and fossil fuel demand, the government said, joining United States, Brazil and other nations that use blended fuel.

ABC News

Chocolate industry drives rainforest disaster

Cocoa traders who sell to Mars, Nestlé, Mondelez and other big brands buy beans grown illegally inside protected areas in the Ivory Coast, where rainforest cover has been reduced by more than 80 percent since 1960.

Guardian

BUSINESS

Equifax melts down amid credit panic

Freezing your credit is the one move you need to make after the Equifax breach — but the credit bureaus aren’t always making it easy. All three major credit reporting agencies intermittently give error messages and prevent consumers from filing online requests to have their credit reports frozen.

NBCNews.com

US senator on Equifax hack: ‘Somebody needs to go to jail’

CNBC

Trump blocks Chinese purchase of US firm

The Trump administration has barred the sale of a US technology firm to a Chinese-backed company, citing national security risks. Since November, Chinese-backed Canyon Bridge Capital Partners has been seeking approval for a $1.3 billion deal to buy Lattice Semiconductor. Canyon Bridge said it was “disappointed” by the decision.

BBC

Photo of the Day

What to do at a sidewalk cafe when you don’t have a smartphone and are getting cold feet? Knitting socks in Bernkastel, Germany.) (Photo by Johan Neven) Photo used under CC BY

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