* Obama likely to remove Cuba from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism. * ISIS hackers take control of French television station, prompting emergency meetings of European media. * Hillary Clinton to announce her presidential campaign on Twitter this weekend. * Facebook users who don't realize their news feed is
* White House backs state-level plan to end LGBT “conversion therapy.” * Critics accuse California of Ferguson's crimes: extracting big revenue from minor traffic violations. * Malawi police told to shoot anyone attacking albinos, whose body parts are prized by witch doctors. * Tens of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent
* US secretly tracked billions of calls nearly a decade before Sept. 11. * Kissinger: Rather than enabling American disengagement from the Middle East, a nuclear deal with Iran will deepen our involvement there. * The problem with saying “no one wants war” is that some people do want war. * Republicans keep wooing,
* The difference between "immediate" and "gradual" lifting of Iran sanctions is millions of barrels of oil suddenly flooding the market. * The climate has changed: Earth hasn't experienced a below average surface temperature since 1985. * After centuries of decline, the Native Hawaiian population is surging,
* Flamboyant foreign jihadists star for ISIS—but muscle, discipline, and strategy comes from Saddam's old network. * From Garissa to 1962, when Kenya refused to let northeast corner of the country join Somalia. * Iranians joke about the nuclear deal. * Weeks after Gov. Brownback signed education cutback, some Kansas schools
* Half a million children are suffering the psychological damage of growing up in war-torn Ukraine. * Jeb Bush vacillates on Indiana RFRA only two outrage-filled days after he supported it. * Most of our water footprints are spent making the food we consume—one liter of coffee takes 1,120
* Arkansas governor to reject legislation modeled on Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act. * See also: Connecticut's women's basketball team is on a collision course with Indiana's RFRA. * McDonald's to raise wages and offer paid vacation to workers at non-franchise restaurants,
* Assessment of mortal threats currently faced by nearly every significant initiative of the Obama Presidency. * Governor, Indiana is in a state of crisis. It is worse than you seem to understand. * Douthat: There's no reason to think we’ve reached a stopping point once the florists and bakers
* Negotiators meet in Switzerland this week to hammer out a framework for an accord over Iran’s nuclear program. * Results expected tomorrow from Nigeria's presidential election, widely lauded as a success. * This year there will be 14 or 15 presidential elections in Africa—two most likely free, eight
* Despite Netanyahu's denials, NSA documents show evidence that Israel spies on the US. * In private, Scott Walker backs what he can't say publicly: path to citizenship for immigrants already in the country. * Chief fanboy of The Wire President Obama interviews show's creator David Simon.
