Headlines from July 6, 2015

Today South Carolina lawmakers will start deciding the fate of the State House’s Confederate flag.
Reminder: The US Capitol is still full of statues of Confederates.
NASCAR fans at Daytona proudly display Confederate flags that have “absolutely nothing to do with slavery.”
“You never really know a person until you see them on the news in a bullet-proof vest, being escorted by police.”
Fear, not freedom, defines America for many, including Ta-Nehisi Coates—and, he fears, his son.
Clinton emails uncover State Dept.‘s role in 2009 Honduras power struggle.
“Germany is the country that has never repaid its debts. It has no standing to lecture other nations.”
Whether or not Greece stays in the euro, it’s going to cost Greece and the eurozone.
Economists doubt finances behind a flurry of record-setting healthcare mergers and acquisitions.
Tunisia, reeling from terror attack, pledges to close around 80 mosques accused of extremism.
An Indian state is in turmoil as hundreds killed in Mafia-like fallout from education scandal.
You have been a weak President, despite your strutting and barking. Nader’s letters to the president.
America’s fetish for automation is putting nuclear safety at risk.
War is not something that’s impossible anymore. How a new World War with Russia could happen.
2082: Nuclear war between the US and Russia. Disaster predictions, calculated.
Burt Shavitz, cofounder of Burt’s Bees, dies at 80.
In the long run, I got the land, and land is everything. A year ago, Burt Shavitz’s tell-all documentary debuted.
“In Vermont, any road that was ever officially entered into a town’s record books remains legally recognized, indefinitely.”
The story behind the wall of amps behind the Grateful Dead, pioneers of sonic tech that became the live music standard.
Smugglers posed as filmmakers to move hundreds of pounds of hash out of Morocco in 1972.
Astronomers say crust and ice suggest possible life on the Philae comet.
Sensor-laden Chicago could measure summer vibes—and tensions.
Indiana is getting closer to ending school-bus transportation for children heading to class.
Most of the time, weird news is snarky Mencken. Less commonly found: sympathy.
After his laptop crashes, aspiring rapper records album on Apple Store computers.