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President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to become U.S. secretary of state is in line to receive a $180 million retirement package.

Even as overall aid increases, the share of that money going to education has stagnated — leaving least developed countries in the lurch.

A new amendment strengthens existing sanctions and imposes new sanctions for human rights abuses, supplying arms to Syria's regime and "malicious cyber activity" on behalf of the Russian government.

It seems nothing is safe from fake news this year, not even the annual astronomical event. This year's Perseid show will be at its peak Saturday night into Sunday.

That's according to a new analysis from Save the Children. Yemen's outbreak is the world's worst in a single year since records have been kept, according to Oxfam.

The egg crisis is believed to have originated in Belgium in June and was then detected in the Netherlands. Millions of eggs have been recalled over concerns about the presence of an insecticide.

A crew plans to leave Nome, Alaska Thursday and sail to the North Pole. The voyage may now be possible due to sea ice melt in the Arctic caused by climate change.

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion," the former president tweeted. He was quoting Nelson Mandela, and it struck a chord for many.

The details of the measure will be worked out in talks with Congress; the effect on the deficit is unknown.

Rachel Martin talks to Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, about whether President Trump's alleged revealing of classified data is against the law.