Headlines from July 7, 2015

“Black hole awakens, erupts after 26 years”—suddenly, 8,000 light years doesn’t sound far enough away.
South Carolina measure to remove the Confederate flag heads to the House, where anything could happen.
Congress’s rewrite of No Child Left Behind will become a debate over how much government people want.
Is Tsipras a reckless revolutionary, a shrewd strategist, or a feckless fool? Nai.
Most Wanted fugitive hiked the Appalachian Trail for six years to evade capture.
Unlike police, prosecutor diversity is unwatched and uneven—and has more influence on who goes to jail.
Film chemistry shows effects of early and persistent white ethnocentrism.
Bernie Sanders lays out the political case for inviting the scorn of “the billionaire class.”
In six-year sample, Colorado thoroughly demonstrates free contraceptives offer public health boon.
It’s a different vibe, and not everyone likes it. When marijuana growers pivot to salad greens.
Finger-wagging linguistic instructions to “overly apologetic” women are thinly veiled commands to “talk like a man.”
Iranian-Americans find no translation for linguistic dance of deference central to their culture’s decorum.
Tsarnaev seeks a new trial, citing lack of evidence in the case that ended in his death sentence.
There’s a giant dome filled with plutonium that will go underwater on a Pacific island thanks to sea level rise.
Tracing the mp3 revolution to patient zero of the album leak.
Finding an outlet in an airport is a real challenge—try it blind! How the Internet of Things can aid the visually impaired.
San Fermín festival body count, day one: two Americans, one Briton gored, eight injured.
“I legitimized running with the bulls by saying I played soccer in high school and am generally faster than most people.”
“How to Unmarry Your Wife” author Sarah Viren talks about feeling remarried in Texas after the SCOTUS ruling (begins at 36:54).
“Having one state declare my marriage legal, and then another deem it illegal, has affected how I self-identify.”