| By Derek Caney (@stax920)
Montrell Jackson was 32 years old. He was a 10-year veteran of the Baton Rouge Police department. He was once injured trying to save a young child from a burning building, according to the Advocate, the city's local paper. And a few months ago, he welcomed a son into the world. Yesterday, he was one of three officers killed by an ex-Marine sergeant who served in Iraq. 
Gavin Long was 29 years old. He served in the Marines as a data network specialist from 2005 to 2010, during which he did a stint in Iraq from June 2008 to January 2009. He received a number of awards, including a good conduct medal. But something turned dark within him in the years that followed. In a recent YouTube video, he said of the shootings of police officers in Dallas, "It's justice." And yesterday, on his birthday, according to media reports, he killed three officers and wounded three others, before being shot dead by police.
Around the country - Cleveland's police union called for the suspension of a state law allowing people to openly carry firearms during the Republican National Convention, but Ohio's governor said he was powerless to act despite heightened security concerns following the Baton Rouge shootings.
- Federal election observers can only be sent to five states in this year’s presidential election. That's among the smallest deployments since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 to end racial discrimination at the ballot box. It's down from 11 states, mostly in the South, that had previously been certified as needing federal observers by the Justice Department. The plan reflects changes brought about by the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision to strike down parts of the Act, a signature legislative achievement of the 1960s civil rights movement.
- An important part of the Donald Trump narrative is that when he was on the brink of bankruptcy in 1990, he went to his lenders and asked to renegotiate his loans. The story's supposed to prove his exceptional negotiating skills and shrewd thinking. One problem: it's not true, according to people who were part of the negotiations. In fact, he didn't even acknowledge he had a problem until his lenders reviewed his books, realized he was about to go under, and summoned him for restructuring talks.
Around the world - Turkey suspended 8,000 police officers, widening a purge of the armed forces and judiciary after a failed military coup, and raising concerns that the NATO member was abandoning the rule of law. Several thousand prosecutors and judges have also been removed. More than 290 people were killed and around 1,400 wounded in the violence on Friday night, as a faction of the armed forces commandeered tanks, attack helicopters and fighter jets in a bid to seize power.
- The man who mowed through a crowd with a truck, killing 84 Bastille Day revelers in Nice, had phoned home hours earlier and sent a picture from the French city, his brother said. "That last day he said he was in Nice with his European friends to celebrate the national holiday," Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel's brother Jabeur said. In the photograph, "he seemed very happy and pleased, he was laughing a lot."
- Russia delivered the missile portion of an advanced S-300 surface-to-air defense system to Iran. Russia plans to finish the delivery of the whole system to Tehran by the end of this year, Tasnim news agency reported.
Around Wall Street - SoftBank plans to buy UK chip designer ARM Holdings for $32.2 billion in cash, betting that mobile internet services will transform the Japanese conglomerate.
- Wal-Mart unions in the United States and China have collaborated on strategy for recent strikes in China to fight work-schedule changes and what they say are low wages. The U.S. organization, OUR Walmart, is keen to maintain the relationship with its Chinese counterpart, Wal-Mart Chinese Workers Association, and believes such partnerships can boost the clout of the retailer’s global workforce.
- Hedge fund manager to Nintendo on Pokemon GO: Told you so. Seth Fischer, founder and chief investment officer at Oasis Management, is one of Asia's best-known hedge fund managers and has long been a small but loud Nintendo shareholder. Encouraged by the success of mobile games like "Candy Crush," he has campaigned for years for the Japanese console maker to develop and sell games for platforms run by Apple and Google. "I hope they will now understand the power of smartphones," Fischer told Reuters. "And as a result, I hope this means there is a whole change in strategy."
Today's reason to live Sisters of Mercy – Gimme Shelter |
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