* BP to pay Gulf states $18.7 billion in oil spill settlement. * Cuba pioneers protocol to eliminate HIV and syphilis transmission from mother to baby. * HIV vaccine researcher goes to prison for faking results and taking more than $7 million in grants. * After decades of diminished crime, shooting and murder
* Greece to receive paperwork and side-eye for IMF default, which sounds more serious than it is. * Greek PM appears to soften on anti-austerity, and could remain in office. * Another historically black church was hit by arson last night, in South Carolina. * With no accelerant evidence, FBI suspects lightning,
* Ebola-free for more than a month, Liberia reports a new case of the virus. * Greek PM promises to resign if nation votes for austerity. * Everything you need to know about the Greek debt crisis. * New US pay rule would restore purchasing power for overtime workers to 1975 levels. * Utrecht
America is a proud nation of immigrants—try telling that to everyone on the other side of the door. Life as a white-collar undocumented immigrant in New York.
* SCOTUS takes a Monday victory lap with three final cases. * Arsonists have targeted at least six black churches in the South over the past week. * White supremacy, undercover. * Lessons learned by @afamhistfail after six years of teaching plantation tours. * Following ACA decision, investors bet on insurance market consolidation. * Texas to
“Newsome was halfway up the 30-foot pole when police demanded that she climb back down, but she continued upward and removed the flag.”
* Bree Newsome scaled the South Carolina State House flagpole and removed the Confederate flag. * Supreme Court rules against same-sex marriage bans. * Andrew Sullivan: "It is accomplished." * "A ban on discrimination in employment and housing based on sexual orientation or gender identity still eludes us." * Neither
* Supreme Court says Obamacare can keep tax subsidies. * Alabama governor removes Confederate flags from Capitol. * Democrat Jim Webb is the only 2016 hopeful who thinks maybe the Confederate flag should stay. * Bombing victim: Tsarnaev's apology was hollow and insincere. * Middle-class black families tend to live in lower-
A near-death experience makes this week’s International Asteroid Day a little more tricky to celebrate.
* NSA spied on French presidents from 2006 to 2012, according to Wikileaks. * UN Peacekeepers accused of sexually abusing children in the Central African Republic. * "Colleagues say they are witnessing a more human side of Obama than they have seen before." * Secret World War II mustard gas experiments grouped
