| By Derek Caney (@stax920)
Supporters of open-carry laws – allowing law-abiding citizens to display their firearms in public – say it's all about deterrence and exercising Second Amendment rights. But those laws aren't terribly helpful during a mass shooting, according to the police chief of Dallas, where five officers were killed last week by a lone sniper. Quote of the day: "It is increasingly challenging when people have AR-15s slung over, and shootings occur in a crowd. And they begin running, and we don’t know if they are a shooter or not. We don’t know who the 'good guy' versus who the 'bad guy' is, if everybody starts shooting." – David Brown, Dallas police chief Number of days since law enforcement officials were killed: 0 A prisoner shot up a southwest Michigan courthouse during a scuffle, killing two bailiffs and wounding two other people before officers killed him. The prisoner, Larry Darnell Gordon, took a gun from one of the two bailiffs escorting him to a courtroom and began shooting in what was likely an attempt to escape.
Who was that woman? 
REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman Her name is Ieshia Evans. She's a nurse who lives in Pennsylvania. She's the mother of a 5-year-old boy, and she traveled to Baton Rouge "because she wanted to look her son in the eyes to tell him she fought for his freedom," according to a Facebook friend of hers. Now she's the face of this generation's civil rights struggle.
Around the world - The Philippines won an arbitration ruling in international court, which said that China had no historic rights in disputed territory in the South China Sea, The Philippines challenged Beijing's right to exploit resources across the body of water through which $5 trillion in trade passes every year. China has pledged to ignore the ruling, saying the court has no jurisdiction.
- Britain will not rush to trigger divorce proceedings with the European Union, a leading ally of incoming Prime Minister Theresa May said. Chris Grayling, the leader of the House of Commons, said there was no hurry to invoke Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, which will formally launch the process of separation and start the clock ticking on a two-year countdown to Britain's actual departure.
- Iran may have reached a deal with Western powers on its nuclear program. But its elite Revolutionary Guard Corps hasn't changed its tense military posture in the Persian Gulf, at all. It's a worrying reminder of how little time American forces have to decide whether Iran's ships may pose a threat.
Around the country - Three former judges examining accusations of racial bias by police in San Francisco said black and Hispanic people were more likely to be searched without their consent by officers than white and Asian people.
- Bernie Sanders will join Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail for the first time today. He's expected to endorse the presumptive Democratic nominee at a New Hampshire rally. The appearance concludes weeks of negotiations between the two camps. Last week, Clinton added elements of Sanders' plans for free in-state college tuition and expanded affordable healthcare coverage to her stump speech.
- Lawyers for Chelsea Manning, the U.S. soldier imprisoned for leaking classified files, confirmed she attempted suicide last week. Her lawyers said the military committed a “gross breach of confidentiality” last week for revealing her “personal health information” and hospitalization to the press.
Around Wall Street - You've heard of RADAR – RAdio Detection And Ranging? Well, now there's LIDAR – LIght Detection And Ranging, otherwise known as laser scanning. And since the death of a motorist using Tesla's Autopilot system, LIDAR is expected to be increasingly used in self-driving systems.
- Elon Musk made an unusual admission last month that he had spoken to Tesla's biggest shareholders about combining the company with SolarCity, which he also controls. Such interactions don't violate SEC disclosure rules, but it does underscore an advantage that larger fund managers may have over smaller investors.
- Japan is expected to cut this fiscal year's consumer inflation forecast. It's also expected to issue an inflation forecast for fiscal 2017 that is much lower than the central bank's 2 percent target.
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