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January 27, 2016 - Daily News Briefing

Denmark is asking migrants to hand over cash when they claim asylum there.

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Pope Francis held talks with Iran's president at the Vatican Tuesday, calling on Tehran to play a key role in stopping the spread of terrorism as Iran tries to improve its image in the global arena following an agreement on its nuclear program. The pontiff warmly clasped the hand of President Hassan Rouhani in the first official call paid on a pontiff by an Iranian president since 1999. They held 40 minutes of private talks before Rouhani met with other top Vatican officials.

US federal prisons will no longer hold juveniles or low-level offenders in solitary confinement, President Obama announced on Monday, the next step of his plan to make the criminal justice system "smarter, fairer, less expensive and more effective." "The United States is a nation of second chances, but the experience of solitary confinement too often undercuts that second chance," Mr. Obama wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The Washington Post, citing high rates of self-harm and recidivism among inmates who have been held in solitary. The change will impact about 10,000 prisoners held in federal jails, where the practice of keeping young inmates in solitary is already rare.

Dozens of people who were arrested in Iran for crimes committed before they turned 18 remain at risk of the death penalty despite recent reforms, with many having already spent years on death row, according to a report by Amnesty International released Tuesday. The London-based group also found that Iran has executed at least 73 juvenile offenders between 2005 and 2015, including at least four last year. Amnesty's 110-page report intensifies pressure on Iran at a time when Tehran is working to rebuild relations with the West following last year's landmark nuclear deal.

A Houston grand jury investigating accusations of criminal misconduct against Planned Parenthood has found no wrongdoing on the organization’s part, and instead indicted the two employees from the Center for Medical Progress. David Daleiden, director of the Center for Medical Progress, faces a felony charge of tampering with a government record – a charge that carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. He also faces a misdemeanor count related to soliciting the purchase of human organs.

Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo will donate a year's worth of bottled water to kids of Flint, Mich., the companies announced on Tuesday, joining a growing list of corporate, celebrity, and grassroots efforts to provide safe drinking water after the city's attempt at cost-saving exposed thousands of residents to lead poisoning. Collectively, the companies will send roughly 6.5 million bottles to Flint's schools, or 176 truckloads. The district has about 7,000 students, according to the Flint Community Schools website.

Naturally seeping oil, in small amounts, can actually contribute to growth in phytoplankton, according to researchers. Researcher Ajit Subramaniam, an oceanographer at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, analyzed the effects natural oil seeps on microorganisms in the Gulf of Mexico, and found that microorganisms called phytoplankton were twice as concentrated in areas where oil was seeping naturally than clearer waters, in a paper published online Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.

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