- Two natural disasters this week: In Idaho, the Beaver Creek wildfire has burned more than 100,000 acres, and in the Southeast, heavy flooding from Mississippi to NC is possible.
- Al-Jazeera America launches tomorrow in 40 million US homes, attempting to win viewers with long-form reporting and hard news.
- A Sunday lull in violent clashes in Egypt still left dozens dead as the Egyptian military claimed 36 criminals were killed attempting a jailbreak.
- Some 30,000 auto parts workers in South Africa have gone on strike this weekend, walking off the job in order to demand higher pay, halting production at GM and Nissan plants.
- Charges against a California driver involved in a fatal bike accident have grown from manslaughter to murder after tweets he made bragging about his reckless driving.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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