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Monstrous Hurricane Irma kills 14, heads for Florida

The eye of Hurricane Irma grazed the Turks and Caicos Islands, rattling buildings after it smashed a string of Caribbean islands as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, killing 14 people on its way to Florida.

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Reuters

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Hurricane watches, warnings issued

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ABC News

Israeli jets hit Syria’s Masyaf chemical site

The Syrian army says Israeli jets have attacked a site in the west of the country where Western powers suspect chemical weapons are being produced. An army statement says rockets fired from Lebanese airspace hit a military post near Masyaf, killing two soldiers.

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BBC

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Syria warns Israel of ‘dangerous repercussions’ after attack her

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Court drops family limits in Muslim travel ban

A federal appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration can’t ban grandparents and other family members of citizens and legal residents from coming to the U.S. from six mainly Muslim countries.

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NPR

Trump sides with Dems on debt limit

President Donald Trump forged a surprising deal with Democrats in Congress to extend the U.S. debt limit and provide government funding until Dec. 15, embracing his political adversaries and blindsiding fellow Republicans.

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Reuters

Equifax cyberbreach exposes 143M consumers

An estimated 143 million U.S. consumers could be affected by a cybersecurity attack carried out by suspected criminal hackers, national credit-reporting company Equinox said.

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USA TODAY

Taliban attacks US base over insulting leaflet

A US citizen was wounded Wednesday following an apparent suicide attack at an entrance gate to Bagram Air Base in northern Afghanistan. A Taliban spokesman said the attack was carried out as revenge for leaflets distributed by US-led NATO forces in the area this week.

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CNN

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US apologizes for leaflets that offended Muslims

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FOX News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Egypt blocks Human Rights Watch website

Egypt has blocked the website of Human Rights Watch just a day after the organization released a report on systematic torture in the country’s jails. The report, titled “We Do Unreasonable Things Here” and based on the accounts of 19 former detainees and the family of another, claimed Egyptian authorities used arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances and torture.

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Al Jazeera

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Here’s the courageous website Egyptians can’t access

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Human Rights Watch

Trump admin backs anti-gay baker

The Trump administration is backing a Colorado baker who refused to create a cake for the wedding of a same-sex couple. The case -- one of the most important to be heard this term -- pits advocates for religious liberty against supporters of LGBT rights.

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CNN

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Trump Jr. attempts to explain Russia meeting

Few witnesses in the Russia probe have been as eagerly anticipated by the press and congressional investigators as Donald Trump, Jr., the President’s oldest son. Trump, Jr., was whisked into a Capitol Hill hearing room undetected, depriving a crowd of media onlookers a glimpse.

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Blumenthal: Trump Jr. testimony had ‘gaping holes’

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The Hill

Dems’ Russia strategy: No impeachment talk

Democratic lawmakers are being advised by a network of progressive activists trying – for the first time – to coordinate the party’s messaging on the special counsel investigation of President Trump’s Russia ties. A core piece of advice: Do not “invoke impeachment.”

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USA TODAY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Immune cells tell lung fungi to kill selves

Immune cells can turn certain invaders on themselves, forcing them to prematurely self-destruct, researchers have discovered. In mice, when white blood cells in the lungs engulf spores of a common airborne fungus, these immune cells release an enzyme that sends the fungal cells into programmed cell death.

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Science News

Skin cells turned directly into motor neurons

Scientists have converted skin cells from healthy adults directly into motor neurons without going through a stem cell state. The technique makes it possible to study motor neurons of the human central nervous system in the lab.

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ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

Anxiety over health ‘caused by cyber-chondria’

Worrying excessively about health, and going for unnecessary appointments and tests, is a growing problem - fuelled by looking up symptoms on the internet, researchers say.

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BBC

Why do people stop taking their meds? Cost

Almost one-third of people have stopped taking a prescription drug at some time without telling their health care provider, according to the latest NPR-Truven Health Analytics Health Poll.

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NPR

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A disease of extreme poverty thrives in US South

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Guardian

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Will Congress continue health care for 9 million children?

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GOOD NEWS

Off-duty firefighters save boy from burning car

The residents of Layton Avenue in Milwaukee began the day as neighbors but ended it as heroes. What should have been a quiet Sunday evening was interrupted when an SUV driving past their homes crashed and burst into flames.

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ABC News

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Centenarian a fixture in NYC neighborhood by caring about others

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CBS News

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Sweet video about a hungry Norwegian boy promotes compassion worldwide

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Huffington Post

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

My Brother’s Keeper, Obama Foundation merge

My Brother’s Keeper, a White House initiative that later spun off into a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit known as the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, or MBK, will merge with the Obama Foundation. MBK was one of Barack Obama’s most personal White House initiatives.

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Nonprofit Quarterly

Nonprofit sued over firing woman with cancer

The federal Equal Employment Opportunities Commission has filed a lawsuit against the Blood Bank of Hawaii claiming it wrongfully fired an employee battling cancer after she ran out of sick days.

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U.S. News & World Report

ENVIRONMENT

Sea salt contaminated by plastic, studies show

Sea salt around the world has been contaminated by plastic pollution, adding to experts’ fears that microplastics are becoming ubiquitous in the environment and finding their way into the food chain via the salt in our diets.

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Guardian

Links between climate change, hurricanes

With Texas just beginning to recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey and the Southeastern U.S. preparing for Hurricane Irma’s iminent arrival, people are naturally asking the question: What role might human-caused climate change be playing in all of this?

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Scientific American

BUSINESS

Travelers hop off Norwegian’s mystery cruise

Hundreds of passengers of the Norwegian Escape disembarked from the cruise ship in Miami to face Hurricane Irma rather than wait out the storm at sea.

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Bloomberg

Amazon shoppers complain of Irma gouging

As Hurricane Irma barrels down on Florida, residents are complaining that some Amazon sellers are jacking up the price of emergency supplies prior to the disaster.

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Fortune

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Shot at the Brighton Pride Parade. Approximately 300,000 people descended on the seaside city in August for one of the UK’s biggest annual summer Pride celebrations. (Photo by Reflected Serendipity) Photo used under CC BY

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