* "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" rallies took place in 90+ cities last night over the shooting of Missouri's Michael Brown. * Transcript of Michael Brown's friend recounting what happened when the teen was killed. * Related: Reddit's live updates of police-scanner reports
* Today’s crossword puzzles riddled with sexism, and the gender gap in crossword creators is growing. * Tea Party challengers in the south resemble nothing more than the racist, fiery populists of recent history. * In 2013, black residents were over 13 times more likely to get arrested in Ferguson, Mo. * Checking
* The Israel-Hamas ceasefire ends this afternoon, and neither side appears ready to end their military campaigns. * For a few hours yesterday, the FAA restricted air travel above Ferguson, Mo., following the riots over Michael Brown's death. * Following the chokehold homicide of Eric Garner, NYPD is urged to
* Supplies of the experimental US ebola drug ZMapp are depleted after being donated to an unnamed West African country. * An algorithm predicted the ebola outbreak, nine days before the WHO issued its first statement on the epidemic. * Collection of Robin Williams's greatest movie scenes. * Robin Williams's
* The Islamic State begins ethnically cleansing Iraq's Yazidi religious minority. * Primer on the Yazidis, who many Muslims consider devil worshippers. * The current Ebola outbreak has been traced to a two-year-old boy in Guinea. * Medical examiner rules last week's death of James Brady—who was
* At the end of a three-day truce in Gaza, Israel resumes airstrikes following Palestinian rocket attacks. * Russia announces one-year ban on all meat, fruit, and vegetables from the US, EU, Canada, Australia, and Norway. * Russia, and the world, without Putin. * Dispatch from VICE reporter embedded with ISIS. * Three
* Minority Yazidi Iraqis are dying of thirst, stranded on a mountaintop. * Related: the amount of ISIS-controlled land in Iraq and Syria is now bigger than England. * Profile of Moner Mohammad Abusalha, first American suicide bomber in Syria. * Over two million people still pay monthly for access to AOL. * The
* Hamas as a political actor. * A primer on Mohammed Deif, the commander of Hamas's military wing. * Britain's Foreign Office minister resigns, protesting government silence on Gaza violence, and posts her resignation letter on Twitter. * Young people brought into the US illegally by their parents confront the
* Up to this point the experimental drug that appears to have saved an American ebola patient had only been tested on monkeys. * San Diego pharma company that produces the experimental ebola treatment says it's increasing production. * The paranoid hypochondriac's guide to the ebola outbreak. * Jimmy Carter:
* Israel bombards the Gaza town of Rafah, killing 100 people in 24 hours. * Israel declares a seven-hour ceasefire—a "humanitarian window"—for most of Gaza. * How the ICC can determine war crimes. * The conflict may be deescalating: Israel is pulling troops out of Gaza and stationing some
