- Despite a UN Security Council call for an immediate cease fire in Gaza, Israeli officials say and end to violence will only come with the end to rockets fired by Hamas into Israel.
- A tentative bipartisan agreement on fixing the US Veterans Administration is expected to be announced in a Capitol Hill deal Monday afternoon.
- Fighting continues in eastern Ukraine near the crash site of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 as Ukrainian troops move to capture the area from pro-Russian separatists.
- Discount store chain Dollar Tree will buy rival Family Dollar in a $9.2 billion deal that has been approved by both companies and should close in early 2015.
- Vice magazine is reporting that two Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judges are shareholders in Verizon, one of the phone carriers the court is allowing the NSA to access.
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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