June 17, 2016

• "Secret" memo sees dozens of US diplomats urging Obama to attack Assad, in response to more than 400,000 dead.
• The vast majority of mass shooters use handguns, not assault rifles, in their attacks.
• See also: FBI crime data shows murder victims by weapon, 2010–2014.
• Brexit campaign suspended for a second day after the murder of Labour lawmaker Jo Cox.
• Suspected MP killer bought gun guides from American neo-Nazis.
• Woman goes mushroom-hunting without a gun, gets stalked by a wolf for 12 hours until she leads it to a bear.
• Turkey questions whether Erdogan's college degree is a forgery.
• With design help from Face the Nation's John Dickerson, Field Notes releases a reporter's notebook.
• Trump is right that America needs to rebuild infrastructure, wrong on why and how.
• George W. Bush returns to politics to raise money for senators endangered by Trump.
• Sanders tells supporters he's no longer actively challenging Clinton; the goal is to "defeat Trump badly."
• And/or: Leading voices on why the Democrats will remain divided.
• Strike Debt movement: John Oliver’s debt-buying stunt was cute, but nowhere close to radical.
• Can you imagine sitting on death row, and you don't even have an attorney for five years?
• Footage from one of Japan's most dangerous festivals, that's run uninterrupted for 1200 years.
• Bolivia rejects chickens sent to poor countries by Bill Gates—after all, it exports hens.
• Philly mayor wins nation’s biggest soda tax by keeping story focused on what the tax will pay for.
• Mars Inc. may pull M&Ms from desserts like McDonald's McFlurry, for fear of overloading people with sugar.
• Master hucksters and four thousand believers attend the world’s biggest UFO festival.
• Phrases sought in Goldman Sachs' surveillance of employees' email.
• Facebook’s AI software can map more of the planet in a week than humanity has mapped over our entire history.
• Calendar plug-in features the best of fictional holidays.