Deadliest day for police officers since 9/11

Friday, July 8, 2016

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By Lauren Weber

 

 

DEADLIEST DAY FOR POLICE OFFICERS SINCE 9/11 Five police officers are dead and six more injured after being shot "ambush-style" in a coordinated sniper attack during a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Dallas. One civilian was also wounded. Three suspects are in custody and a fourth has died. President Barack Obama has condemned the attack as "despicable" and called for action on gun control. And here's what we know about the police officers killed in the attack. [Nick Visser, HuffPost]

WITH NATION STILL REELING FROM STERLING AND CASTILE'S DEATHS Tributes have poured out for Alton Sterling and Philando Castile following their shooting deaths by police this week. The police officers involved in the Castile shooting have been identified, as Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton said he would not have been killed if he was white. [Sam Levine, HuffPost] 

SUPER TYPHOON BARRELS ONTO TAIWAN Two have already died and thousands have been evacuated for the monster storm. [CNN]

STATE DEPARTMENT TO OPEN INVESTIGATION INTO HILLARY CLINTON "The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it will conduct an internal review of whether Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her aides mishandled classified information, after the Justice Department declined to bring criminal charges." And this week's So That Happened takes a look at the FBI investigation. [Reuters]

THE HEAD OF THE IMF BELIEVES TRUMP'S TRADE POLICIES WOULD BE 'DISASTROUS' International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde said Donald Trump's plans for trade would diminish chances for global growth. [Alexander Kaufman and Ben Walsh, HuffPost]

THIS SENATOR IS SKIPPING THE GOP CONVENTION Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse would rather watch "dumpster fires" instead. This is an actual quote. [Alana Horowitz Satlin, HuffPost]

'TIME IN THE BOX' The New York Times interviews the last inmates under 22 still in solitary on Rikers Island. [NYT]

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TURNS OUT YOU CAN'T LIE ABOUT WHEN YOU OPENED AN EMAIL ANYMORE Here's how you know if the emails being sent to you are tracked. [Buzzfeed]

'THE NEW PROSTITUTION ECONOMY' "A growing number of young people are selling their bodies online to pay student loans, make the rent, or afford designer labels. Is it just an unorthodox way to make ends meet or a new kind of exploitation?" [Vanity Fair]

SO MUCH FOR A POKER FACE A producer let it slip that Lady Gaga is working on some new music. [HuffPost]

BOW DOWN TO SERENA WILLIAMS Who responded she preferred to be called "one of the greatest athletes of all time,” after being asked if she would go down in history "as one of the greatest female athletes of all time." [HuffPost]

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: MAYBE DON'T PLAY POKEMON GO AS YOUR WIFE GIVES BIRTH Not worth it. [Buzzfeed]

THE FAULTY $2 ROADSIDE DRUG TESTS SENDING PEOPLE TO JAIL "Widespread evidence shows that these tests routinely produce false positives. Why are police departments and prosecutors still using them?" [ProPublica]

 

 

 

GERMANY'S PLAN TO HALVE FOOD WASTE "Germany throws out 11 million kilograms of food every year and Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt has a plan to halve that amount by 2030. ... His vision is for food products to use smart packaging that can inform consumers when it is no longer edible." [HuffPost]

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