*1. WIN SOME. LOSE SOME.
Whether you are a "winner" or "loser" is dependent on which side of the isle you sit.
"The Senate on Monday failed to advance four separate measures aimed at curbing gun sales. Eight days after a gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State killed 49 people in an Orlando, Fla., nightclub, the Senate deadlocked, largely along party lines, on amendments to block people on the federal terrorism watch list from buying guns and to close loopholes in background check laws. Families of gun violence victims looked on from the Senate chamber as the votes were held. "From NYT - Senate Rejects 4 Measures to Control Gun Sales - NYTimes.com
+ "The Supreme Court refused on Monday to hear a Second Amendment challenge to a Connecticut law banning many semiautomatic rifles. The law, enacted in 2013 in the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., made it a crime to sell or possess the firearms, which critics call assault weapons." From NYT - Supreme Court Turns Away Challenge to Connecticut Ban on Semiautomatic Weapons
*2. FAST TIMES AT BEIJING HIGH
"China dominates a biannual ranking of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers, called the Top500. Not only does China have the world’s fastest machine for the seventh consecutive time, it has the largest number of computers among the top 500 — a first for any country other than the United States. While the Chinese have perfected the manufacture of traditional supercomputers pioneered by American companies like IBM and Cray, the United States may focus on new, more efficient supercomputers that might lead to machines intended for challenges like artificial intelligence." From NYT - China Wins New Bragging Rights in Supercomputers
*3. WHO LOOKS LIKE A TERRORIST?
"A Dartmouth College researcher and a nonprofit group say they have created a technology that can help Internet companies instantly detect images and videos generated by terrorists and their supporters and remove them from their platforms. But a number of major social-media companies are wary of the idea. They say there is no clear consensus in the United States, and globally, as to what constitutes a terrorist image, and they might end up expunging material posted by researchers or media organizations." From WaPo - There’s a new tool to take down terrorism images online. But social-media companies are wary of it.
+ "Mathematicians have concluded that profiling’s efficacy is so limited that randomly selecting people for scrutiny may be the better policy. It isn’t possible to build a highly accurate profile of a potential evildoer, and profiling can easily lead to wasting resources checking and rechecking the same innocent people over and over again." From WaPo - Who ‘looks like’ a terrorist in America?
+ How Do You Stop a Future Terrorist When the Only Evidence Is a Thought? From NYT
*4. BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE SOME CHANGE?
"Mr. Trump began June with just $1.3 million in cash on hand, a figure more typical for a campaign for the House of Representatives than the White House. He trailed Hillary Clinton, who raised more than $28 million in May, by more than $41 million, according to reports filed late Monday night with the Federal Election Commission." From NYT - Donald Trump Starts Summer Push With Crippling Money Deficit
++ Donald Trump Hints He May Fund Race Himself From NYT
+ "A campaign to stop Donald Trump from becoming the Republican presidential nominee has the support of nearly 400 delegates to the GOP’s convention next month, quickly transforming what began as an idea tossed around on social media into a force that could derail a national campaign. 'If the next few weeks are anything like the last two,' a senior GOP official told me [Michael Gerson], 'anything could happen at the convention.'" From WaPo - New anti-Trump movement grows to include hundreds of GOP delegates and A delegate revolt has become Republicans’ only option
++ ‘Dump Trump’ Is Doomed, But We Can’t Take Our Eyes Off It From FiveThirtyEight
*5. THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
"Rates of marijuana use among Colorado's teenagers are essentially unchanged in the years since the state's voters legalized marijuana in 2012, new survey data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment shows." From WaPo - Now we know what happens to teens when you make pot legal
*BOTTOM OF THE NEWS
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