By Lauren Weber
Thursday July 16th, 2015
TOP STORIES
GREEK PARLIAMENT APPROVES BAILOUT AMID ATHENS PROTESTS "Greek lawmakers voted overwhelmingly early Thursday to approve a harsh austerity bill demanded by bailout creditors, despite significant dissent from members of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' own left-wing party." In Athens, protests turned violent after protesters threw petrol bombs at police. And here's what the rest of the world can learn from Greece about their own debt. [AP]
DEFENDING THE IRAN DEAL President Barack Obama stressed that the Iran deal is "our best means of assuring that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon." And here's how the deal got finalized in the last 17 days. [Paige Lavender and Sam Stein, HuffPost]
THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES WITH THE MOST CASH Jeb Bush is leading fundraising totals, while Bernie Sanders and Ben Carson are cleaning up among small donors. [NYT]
THE MYTH OF THE ETHICAL SHOPPER "Consumers’ power, to the extent we had any, depended on brands forcing their supply chains to do better. Now they -- and we -- are losing that power." [Michael Hobbes, HuffPost]
AWESOME FIRST PHOTOS OF PLUTO A day after the infamous fly-by, NASA's New Horizons space probe has sent back a set of incredible photos of the planet and its moons. [David Freeman and Eliza Sankar-Gorton, HuffPost]
POLICE MISCONDUCT CASES' COSTS SOAR "The 10 cities with the largest police departments paid out $248.7 million last year in settlements and court judgments in police-misconduct cases, up 48% from $168.3 million in 2010, according to data gathered by The Wall Street Journal through public-records requests." [WSJ]
CAITLYN JENNER ACCEPTS ESPYs COURAGE AWARD "Trans people deserve something vital. They deserve your respect," Jenner said. "And from that respect comes a more compassionate community, a more empathetic society and a better world for all of us." [Maxwell Strachan, HuffPost]
WHAT’S BREWING
GEORGE H.W. BUSH BROKE A BONE IN HIS NECK The former president hurt his neck in a fall at his Maine compound, but is expected to a make a full recovery. [HuffPost]
NETFLIX TOPS 65 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS The juggernaut keeps on rolling on. [Variety]
FACEBOOK CONTROLS YOUR READING LIST "New research released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center with the Knight Foundation suggests that the social network’s hold on how we find news is continuing to grow. The problem here is that Facebook's News Feed uses an algorithm to select the posts it thinks you're most likely to read, which is worrisome for those who like to control their information diet." [HuffPost]
APPLE IS STILL PRODUCING iPODS No really, they just released a new version. [HuffPost]
SAYING NO TO THAT WEDDING INVITE You do not have to attend every wedding you are invited to. [WaPo]
HOW TO EMPTY SOMEONE ELSE'S BANK ACCOUNT From a professional identity thief (we promise, we are not that capable). [Bloomberg]
JUST GIVE J-LAW THE OSCAR ALREADY Jennifer Lawrence rocks her first trailer for the David O. Russell-directed "Joy," which also features Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper, because why not? [HuffPost]
WHAT'S WORKING
ELIMINATING AIDS BY 2030 "By 2030, AIDS could be a thing of the past, a new UNAIDS report has concluded. Since 2000, the number of new HIV cases has dropped by 35 percent -- from 3.1 million to 2 million. The drastic decline is attributed in large part to greater accessibility to antiretroviral drugs, community outreach programs and the effective mobilization of advocates worldwide, according to the report." [HuffPost]
ON THE BLOG
RECOGNIZING THE SREBRENICA MASSACRE AS GENOCIDE "Twenty years ago, a place in eastern Bosnia called Srebrenica entered the annals of genocides alongside Auschwitz-Birkenau, Musa Dagh, and Butare. Russia's veto last week of a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have condemned 'in the strongest terms the crime of genocide at Srebrenica' flies in the face of both history and international law. It is also fundamentally immoral." [HuffPost]
BEFORE YOU GO
~ Fingerboarding, the art of skating tiny skateboards with your fingers, can be a lucrative hobby.
~ Where has the axe gone?
~ Lyme disease is up 320% in America.
~ When you return to the Internet after six years in Iranian jail.
~ How to learn to ride a bike as an adult.
~ Why Kate Middleton can rock those heels while pushing a heavy pram.
~ Where all that ALS ice bucket money from last summer has gone.
~ Signing up for Hillary Clinton's campaign and ending up a model.
~ A deep dive into the world's sewers.
~ Post-apocalyptic Disney World does not look like a good time.
~ Bryce Harper has body issues like the rest of us plebeians. He just happens to be in the ESPN body issue.
~ Improving your golf swing, in one tweet.
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