July 1, 2016

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Happy Canada Day: Unlike almost every country on the planet, Canada is welcoming Syrian refugees.

Police in Turkey have now detained 24 suspects in connection with the Istanbul airport attack.

I hadn’t seen a dead child until last week. Now I’ve seen a few. Inside a hospital in Afghanistan’s most violent province.

If Brexit happens, London will be replaced as the world’s financial capital—here are some contenders.

This weekend’s close election in Australia will probably decide the fate of the Great Barrier Reef.

Taiwanese navy patrol boat inadvertently fires missile toward China, killing a fishing boat captain.

Today’s terrifying headline: “Chris Christie Becomes Powerful Figure In Donald Trump Campaign.”

Republican senator from Utah: “He accused my best friend’s father of conspiring to kill JFK.”

Americans love Mexican beer so much that a brewery by the border has depleted its municipality’s potable water.

“Pretending globalization is a matter of siphoning from the poor-but-less-poor to the more-poor is a willful deception.”

AmeriCorps shuts down federal health care training program after some volunteers act as abortion doulas.

Horrific history of the practice of “sex testing” female world-class athletes.

Minor league baseball teams are asking Congress to exempt them from minimum wage laws.

Al Gore’s daughter arrested at pipeline protest in Boston.

“It has always seemed both fitting and unlikely that late capitalism’s trade mag would so often look like an elaborate Dada prank.”

A small strip of a New Orleans suburb is the arrest capital of the US.