Issuing a "heartfelt appeal" in a public address in the Vatican, the Pope said the migrants needed "a safe port".

Both Italy and Malta have refused to allow the two ships to land.

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He said he did not think he would have to reduce the $5.6bn (£4.4bn) in funds he was demanding and repeated a threat to declare a national emergency.

His new chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said earlier he expected the shutdown to "drag on a lot longer".

Read more at BBC News.

Travel Channel host Andrew Zimmern is under fire for for saying that Chinese food in the Midwest is served in “horses–t restaurants.”

Zimmern, a well-known TV chef, travels around the world trying strange food for his show Bizarre Foods. Zimmern also hosts The Zimmern List.

Read more at Time.

Mel Greaves has a simple goal in life. He is trying to create a yoghurt-like drink that would stop children from developing leukaemia.

The idea might seem eccentric; cancers are not usually defeated so simply. However, Professor Greaves is confident and, given his experience in the field, his ideas are being taken seriously by other cancer researchers.

Read more at The Guardian.

All throughout her childhood, Dana Anhalt grew sicker and sicker, and at 37, she almost lost the ability to walk or use her hands. Sometimes the artist from Huntington, New York, weighed as little as 70 pounds, according to her GoFundMe page.

"I became ravaged by excruciating joint pain," Anhalt wrote. "My symptom list stretched to four single-spaced pages. I started fading fast as every system of my body broke down."

Read more at Prevention.

Sony’s PlayStation once again took first place for the most-seen gaming industry commercials, its third time in a row. Meanwhile, Nintendo edged up a bit with 21.4 percent of TV ad impressions for gaming brands, while chart newcomer Oculus VR made an appearance at No. 4.

GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than eight million smart TVs, to bring you a monthly report on TV advertising by the gaming industry. These are the ads, and by extension the games, that game makers are putting major muscle behind.

Read more at Venture Beat.

Frustrated by little pay and better opportunities elsewhere, public school teachers and education employees in the United States are quitting their jobs at the fastest rate on record.

During the first 10 months of the year, public educators, including teachers, community college faculty members, and school psychologists, quit their positions at a rate of 83 per 10,000, Labor Department figures obtained by The Wall Street Journal show. That’s the highest rate since the government started collecting the data in 2001. It’s also nearly double the 48 per 10,000 educators who quit their positions in 2009, the year with the lowest number of departures.

Read more at Fortune.

There comes a time where most business owners may feel that an online presence will be needed to further grow their business, especially with B2C (Business-to-Customer) ventures.

The problem is that a lot of business owners do not understand what is needed to build and launch a website.

Read more at HackerNoon.

Women’s health has come a long way since the March 2010 passing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. 

But President Obama’s signature legislation has faced a political and legal onslaught in the years since. And American society is now shifting toward a view that would imperil freedom of choice in women’s health.

Read more at Yahoo.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act made the most sweeping changes to the U.S. tax code in several decades, and the first time most Americans will really feel its impact is when they file their 2018 tax return sometime in 2019.

With that in mind, here are five deductions or types of deductions that can still save you lots of money under the new tax law and what you need to know about each.

Read more at Fool.