- President Obama spoke about the weekend shooting
of 18-year-old
Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, calling it “tragic,” while
the
Department of Justice announced it would conduct a broad review
of police tactics nationwide. Gun sales in Ferguson have
quadrupled. The
Ferguson Police Department continues to withhold the name of
the officer who shot and killed Brown. A progressive reporter
heckled the Rev.
Al Sharpton, who arrived for protests in Ferguson, for being a
snitch. - The United States is sending 140 additional military advisers
to northern Iraq.
Iran and Saudi Arabia have both come out in support
of Haider
al-Abadi to replace Nouri
al-Maliki, who refuses to give up as prime minister of Iraq.
The Vatican,
meanwhile, has endorsed the U.S. air strikes in Iraq, something it
usually doesn’t do. - Russia has sent a convoy of aid to eastern
Ukraine. Ukrainian officials say they will consider any attempt
to deliver aid to eastern Ukraine without their consent an
invasion. - Officials from Israel and Palestine are expected to continue
negotiating as a ceasefire brokered by
Egypt comes to an end. Hamas, which rules Gaza, where the bulk
of civilian casualties have been, insists this would be the last
ceasefire they agree to. - Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has become the official
owner of the Los
Angeles Clippers after a judge approved Donald Sterling’s
wife’s authority to agree to a sale. - Actress
Lauren Bacall died at age 89.
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