A.M. Links: Incumbents Win on Primary Tuesday, John Kerry Calls For "Bigger" Approach During Temporary Gaza Ceasefire, San Antonio Spurs Hire Becky Hammon

  • Becky HammonIncumbent
    Sen. Pat Roberts defeated a Tea Party challenger in the Republican
    primary in Kansas. Reps. Tim Huelskamp and Mike Pompeo, who won as
    Tea Party candidates in 2010, survived “anti-Washington”
    challenges. So did Rep. Justin Amash in Michigan, handily, while an
    anti-surveillance amendment in
    Missouri
    passed overwhelmingly.
  • Secretary of State
    John Kerry
    is using a 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and
    Hamas in
    Gaza
    to call for a “bigger, broader approach” to
    negotiations—Operation
    Protective Edge
    enters day 29.
  • British Airways is suspending flights to Liberia and Sierra
    Leone through August over
    Ebola
    fears. More than 1,600 cases have been reported in West
    Africa so far.
  • At least 589 people are dead and more than 2,400 injured after
    a magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit the
    Yunnan
    province in southern China.
  • Rupert Murdoch has withdrawn a bid by
    21st Century Fox
    to take over Time Warner.
  • Apple and Samsung have agreed to end their patents fight in
    overseas courts, though they will continue to litigate in the
    United
    States
    .
  • The San Antonio Spurs hired WNBA player
    Becky Hammon
    as an assistant coach for next season. Meanwhile,

    Major League Baseball
    is expected to hire a new commissioner
    next week.

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