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| South Sudan rivals talk peace while killing civilians - U.N. | | Saturday, February 20, 2016 2:23 AM | |
|  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - South Sudan's warring government and opposition are killing, abducting and displacing civilians and destroying property despite conciliatory rhetoric by both sides, the United Nations said on Friday. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is due to travel to South Sudan's capital, Juba, next Thursday to meet with President Salva Kiir. A political dispute between Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar two years ago sparked a civil war and renewed hostilities between Kiir's Dinka and Machar's Nuer people.
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| Social media rallies behind pop star Kesha in legal battle | | Saturday, February 20, 2016 2:23 AM | |
|  A Manhattan Supreme Court judge refused to grant recording artist Kesha a preliminary injunction temporarily releasing her from a contract with Sony Music on Friday, according to the New York Daily News, sending shock waves through social media. Kesha (real name Kesha Sebert) began her bid to break her contract in 2014 when she and music producer Dr. Luke sued each other. The hashtag #FreeKesha became the top-trending term on Twitter on Friday worldwide and in the United States, surpassing the news of the death of American author Harper Lee, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "To Kill a Mockingbird." Twitter users expressed outrage over the ruling.
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| Obama, justices pay respects to Scalia | | Saturday, February 20, 2016 1:23 AM | |
|  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, the U.S. Supreme Court's eight remaining members, former law clerks and thousands of ordinary Americans paid respects to the late Justice Antonin Scalia on Friday as his body lay in repose in the stately, white-marble courthouse. The president and first lady Michelle Obama were greeted by Chief Justice John Roberts, spoke with some Scalia family members and briefly stood in silence, heads bowed, in front of Scalia's casket during an afternoon visit. Scalia, a staunch conservative and one of the court's most consequential justices during his three decades on the bench, died last Saturday at age 79 at a Texas hunting resort.
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| White House, House Republicans spar over Zika, Ebola funding | |  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Friday that it would be "profoundly unwise" to plow money set aside for Ebola-related projects into research and mitigation efforts for the mosquito-borne Zika virus as several top Republican lawmakers have requested. Democratic President Barack Obama has asked the U.S. Congress for more than $1.8 billion to fight Zika in the United States and abroad, and pursue a vaccine. The Zika virus has been linked to birth defects in Brazil and spread to at least 31 other countries and territories, mostly in the Americas.
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| Common mobile software could have opened San Bernardino shooter's iPhone | |  The legal showdown over U.S. demands that Apple Inc unlock an iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter Rizwan Farook might have been avoided if his employer, which owns the device, had equipped it with special mobile phone software it issues to many workers. San Bernardino County, which employed Farook as an environmental health inspector, requires some, but not all, of its workers to install mobile-device management software made by Silicon Valley-based MobileIron Inc on government-issued phones, according to county spokesman David Wert.
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