Good morning, everyone and news. It's beautiful outside. Let's keep this terse.

"Freewheeling militia violence" prompts John Kerry to gut (temporarily) the American embassy in Libya.

Ukrainian troops are hoping to take back territory from those pesky separatists, but they're also creeping ever closer to a border choked with possibly hostile Russian firepower.

The latest ridiculous impediment preventing Dutch investigators from examining the crash site of that Malaysian Airlines jet: Russian news media labeling it a "secret Dutch military mission."

There's a tenuous—and time-limited— ceasefire in Gaza, meaning its residents are relatively free to fully explore the ruination of their city. The death toll among Palestinians now tops 1,000.

"Heads down, hands up!" the official motto of Canadian SWAT officers.

Just beautiful (and deeply uncomfortable). A Tea Party-backed Florida congressman ignores literally every clue at his disposal, and assumes two American officials are emissaries from the Indian government.

Two carjackers in Philadelphia promptly crashed their stolen SUV into a family trying to raise money for church, killing three kids.

Quote from an 80-year-old Californian: "(She yelled) 'Don't shoot me, I'm pregnant! I'm going to have a baby!' and I shot her anyway." (She wasn't pregnant.)

The Ebola virus continues its terrifying romp around west Africa, with more than 1,000 infected in the last four months.

Summer's back.

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This guy's great.