* "If we were seen as living, we would not be dying simply because whites don’t like us." * FBI director says Charleston shooting isn't terrorism because the shooter lacked political motivation. * Hundreds of worshippers filled Emanuel AME Church yesterday. * Harlem church congregations swelled on Sunday, showing
* White Americans need to have an honest discussion about white culture. Because that isn't happening. * Today was the 14th time President Obama has given a speech following a mass shooting. * Lindsay Graham says the Confederate flag "works" in South Carolina—the shootings disprove that. * Dylann Roof
* Police identify Charleston church shooting suspect as 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof. * There would be no Dolezal story without the stories of Kalief Browder, Tamir Rice, and Renisha McBride. * How the Dominican Republic stripped 210,000 Haitian descendants of their citizenship. * We've overstressed our worker honeybees, and
* If the court cripples Obamacare, happy Republicans will face millions of unhappy, uninsured Americans. * Artificial trans fats to be phased out of US food supply over the next three years. * French ecology head says Nutella's use of palm oil contributes to deforestation. * Inside the dirty tactics of last
* US drone strike kills al Qaeda leader who refused to join ranks with ISIS. * Nearly 27 years after his father was elected president, Jeb Bush officially announces his campaign. * Source code of Jeb's website contained several paragraphs summarizing the Die Hard films. * South Korean government requires smartphone users
* With the transfer of six inmates to Oman, Guantánamo holds 116 remaining prisoners. * Hong Kong radicals arrested with explosives ahead of political reform legislation. * Greek state TV network back on the air two years after being closed for austerity. * Iowa Supreme Court rules people have a right to be drunk
* Ahead of UN investigation on Gaza War beach deaths, Israeli military says no laws were broken. * When cops kill people, "excited delirium" is often listed as cause of death— doctors say it's not real. * "I’m tired of explaining I’m capable of complex, rational
* History shows if IS wins, we'll first contain it then begrudgingly accept it. * Paul Ford explains code. * Visual politics of the Israeli occupation, where social media documents one side or the other—but never both. * Diane Rehm asks Bernie Sanders if he's an Israeli citizen because
* US to send 400 military trainers to Iraq to battle IS, and hopefully stay out of combat. * Cushy capitalist gigs await ex-Obama staffers on other side of revolving door. * McKinney cop who pulled gun on teens resigns after investigation finds his actions were "out of control." * Albert
* Patient zero in Seoul's MERS outbreak "coughed and wheezed his way through four hospitals." * Pools have a long history as a racist suburban site of urban ghettoization. * Summer: "the season of hyper-surveillance and even more aggressive policing of young people of color." * A
