* Kalief Browder, who received national attention after his torture at Rikers, commits suicide. * Suicide rate in black teenagers has doubled since the '90s, even as the white rate has fallen. * Turkish ruling party loss could open door to left-wing, pro-Kurd coalition—or extreme nationalists. * The HDP say
* Hackers expose US government employee data—that's three federal data breaches in the past year. * Officials believe China is behind the latest federal data attack, and that it was state-sponsored. * Yesterday marked the 26th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest. * "It's not just that
* South Korea closes more than 700 schools as a third person dies of MERS. * Two drugs already on pharmacy shelves are discovered to help treat Ebola. * The Red Cross raised a half-billion dollars for Haiti and built six homes. * Las Vegas, the youngest of the Southwest's water-
* "The Senate has been riven into a strange mix of groups united by their ideas about surveillance and security." * The morals of Russia's secret army of misinformation operators don't always match those of the trolls they portray. * California's constant new crisis. * Never
* India's "mytho-nationalist" worldview. * How a University of Arizona professor precipitated media's transformed coverage of Caitlyn Jenner. * Sort through The Counted: the people who've been killed by police in the US so far this year. * China's strategic investments in infrastructure
* The Patriot Act is only mostly dead—the USA Freedom Act is mostly the same, without bulk telecom surveillance. * Rand Paul was ready for his closeup in last night's congressional tussle over spying. * In a smartphone-connected world, hurdling corporate and cultural roadblocks in the fight for the
* Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert indicted for hiding payments made to alleged blackmailer. * Investigation into who owns London's most expensive mansion. * If you’re recovering a body in an apartment building, ask every tenant to make coffee—it covers the smell. * For the first time in
* The silence of FIFA's sponsors shows that the big business of global soccer still outweighs bad press. * Piers Morgan: Thank you, America, for bringing down one of the world's most "disgraced and disreputable" organizations. * The only way self-government can re-emerge in Libya,
* More than 1,100 dead from heat wave in India, where temperatures in some areas have hit 117 degrees. * "[Texas's] population and building booms are far outpacing efforts to reduce exposure to flood dangers." * FIFA officials arrested on corruption charges in Zurich to be extradited to
* Cleveland protests after police acquittal of cop who fired at least 15 rounds inside car of unarmed black couple. * In a $1 billion pay dispute, fuel retailers cut supply to Nigeria, shutting down businesses and transport. * Former Israeli PM Olmert sentenced to eight months in prison on fraud charges. * "
