- Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has deployed the National Guard to Ferguson after another night of protests broken up by tear gas, armored police vehicles, and sonic crowd control weapons.
- A report released by the Dallas Morning News finds construction workers in Texas are 22% more likely to die on the job than in any other state.
- Russia says it has worked out a deal to send humanitarian aid to Russian-occupied Crimea, but ceasefire talks between Moscow and Ukraine in Berlin are still stalled.
- US airstrikes have allowed Kurdish forces to take Iraq's Mosul Dam as peshmerga forces say they will gain total control as "just a matter of time".
- Germany's foreign intelligence service is claiming that recordings of Secretary of State John Kerry and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were made by accident, and have been deleted.
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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