| By Derek Caney (@stax920)
The New Black Panther Party will test Ohio's open-carry laws this weekend during protests ahead of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Ohio officials have said it will be legal for protesters to carry weapons at demonstrations outside the convention under that state’s open-carry law, which allows civilians to carry guns in public. Quote of the day: "If it is an open state to carry, we will exercise our second amendment rights because there are other groups threatening to be there that are threatening to do harm to us." - Hashim Nzinga, chairman, New Black Panther Party Cleveland police are committed to a low profile ahead of the convention, too low if you ask the head of the city's police union. "We have no shields because they think it is too offensive. But a brick to the head is offensive to me," said Steve Loomis, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association. This is the gentleman who blamed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy brandishing a toy gun, for being killed by police seconds after they arrived on the scene.
President Obama paid tribute to the five fallen officers killed in Dallas in a memorial service, calling on the United States to reject despair. "I'm here to insist that we are not as divided as we seem," he said. He sought a balance between respect for law enforcement and concerns about racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.
Black Panthers? Meet the Pink Pistols 
Damien Chee (L) and Skylar Simon practice drawing their weapon during a firearms training class attended by members of the Pink Pistols, a national pro-gun LGBT organization, at the PMAA Gun Range in Salt Lake City, Utah, July 1, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
Around Wall Street - Overseas stock markets rallied overnight after the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indices hit new highsas the prospect of stimulative economic policy across the developed world eased immediate concern over Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
Digits of the day: 10 percent The pessimism that engulfed oil prices from 2014 and 2016 is starting to creep back into the market. Oil prices doubled – albeit from 13 year lows – between February and June on supply disruptions in Nigeria and Canada. But now it appears that a combination of brimming inventories and weaker demand is pushing prices back down. Since topping off in June, prices have slid 10 percent. - Anheuser-Busch InBev wants low and alcohol-free beer to account for 20 percent of its sales by the end of 2025 from 2.5 percent at the end of 2014. The market's growing 4 percent to 6 percent per year, helped by the fact that the beverages are starting to actually taste like beer.
Around the world - Technical hitches may have limited the death tolls in three suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia. But the coordination of the blasts suggests jihadists have the tools to sustain their bombing campaign. That five individuals were able to build or acquire explosive vests and to plot three attacks on the same day points to a command chain and supply network that presents a formidable threat, security analysts say.
- Iraqi government forces took another village from Islamic State in the region of Mosul, the country's second largest city, following the recapture of a nearby air base. The militants claimed another car bomb that killed nine people in Baghdad's northern outskirts.
- Theresa May formally moves into 10 Downing Street today to assume the mantle as Britain's prime minister, where she will try to guide country through its divorce from the European Union.
Around the country - For the first time, a federal judge suppressed evidence obtained without a warrant by U.S. law enforcement using a stingray, a surveillance device that can trick suspects' cell phones into revealing their locations. The court ruled that Raymond Lambis' rights were violated when the Drug Enforcement Administration used such a device without a warrant to find his Washington Heights apartment during a drug-trafficking probe.
- The unsolved investigation of the 1971 hijacking of a Seattle-bound airliner and the disappearance of the enigmatic, dapper suspect dubbed D.B. Cooper, is now officially one for the history books, not the FBI. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is closing the case, reasoning that its crime-fighting resources would be better used elsewhere.
- Surely we as a society don't need to be told that there are some places where it is inappropriate to play Pokemon Go. But it seems that the U.S. Holocaust Museum had to remind folks that the memorial dedicated to 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis is one of those places. Since it's come to this, let's also add Arlington National Cemetery to the list.
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