July 1, 2016

• 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.
• 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.
• Hillary Clinton says goodbye to The Toast. This is not a joke.