Sonali Kohli

For all the talk of Americans’ lagging math scores compared to other countries, there are at least six Americans who can say they’re the best in the world—the team of high school students that won the International Mathematical Olympiad (via NPR) this month in Thailand. That ended a 21 year drought for the US.

Working women of color want pay raises, freedom to lead in their own style, and career resources to develop and advance. Many are not getting these resources, according to a new survey (pdf) from Working Mother Research Institute.

Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing terrorist who killed eight people in a bombing in Oslo and gunned down 69 more when he opened fire on a summer camp on a nearby island in July 2011, is now a college student.

As the US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states, the “what’s next?” calls began, and some quickly pointed out the awkward fact that many states which now allow same-sex couples to marry also fail to protect residents from being fired because they’re gay. The next big battle, some activists said, would be workplace discrimination against the LGBT community.

Visit the Central branch of New York City’s Queens Library at 12:55 pm on a Tuesday, and you’ll see about 100 people outside, waiting for the doors to open. At 1 pm they file in: Some settle in the comfy saucer chairs, while others rest in armchairs facing four TVs and open a newspaper. Splashes of blue and green interrupt white walls, and computer areas are separated by category: job information, adult learning center, and “young adult learning.”

IBM is going to make life a little bit easier for its working mothers with babies—the company will launch a program to ship employees’ expressed breast milk home when they’re traveling for work, the company tells Quartz.

America’s Boy Scouts are just one step away from repealing a ban on gay leadership. The national organization announced today (July 13) that its executive committee voted unanimously “to select adult leaders without regard to sexual orientation,” according to the release. The change will take effect on July 27, if the organizations’s National Executive Board ratifies the resolution.

Tennis legend Serena Williams secured the her fourth consecutive Grand Slam title with a Wimbledon win On July 11. Meanwhile, a 20-year-old video of her sister and fellow tennis superstar, Venus, has been making the rounds on Facebook. In the video, an interviewer asks Venus why she is so confident, prompting the Williams sisters’ father to interrupt.

The US national women’s soccer team celebrated its World Cup victory today (July 10) in New York City, with a ticker tape parade through downtown Manhattan’s “Canyon of Heroes.” Lining the route were scores of parents with their children. On parade: Female role models up real close and in person.

In case this wasn’t clear, you shouldn’t kiss a chicken. Or cuddle with it. Really, just don’t pick it up. That’s one message from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which put out a report last week on a salmonella outbreak happening in the US. There have been 181 cases of salmonella reported this year in the US, and 33 of those people have been hospitalized. No one has died.

A new ad from Procter & Gamble’s feminine hygiene brand Always asks girls, ”Have you ever been told because you’re a girl, that you should not do something?”

Two members of US Congress introduced a bill today (July 8), backed by the Obama administration, that would pay for two years of community and technical colleges for first-time American students.

You probably didn’t notice a recent change on Facebook in the US. It’s in the friends icon, on the top right corner of the page, next to your name. For years, that icon has been an image of a man and woman, with the man in front.

The rates of death due to heroin overdoses have nearly quadrupled in the US in the past decade, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As World Cup confetti swirled around the heads of the victorious US women’s soccer team on July 5, it was clear to anyone watching that this was a win for the history books. But while Abby Wambach and company will return home heroes, they will leave Vancouver with considerably less prize money than even the worst men’s World Cup competitors. Indeed, men’s soccer teams who were eliminated in the first round of the 2014 FIFA World Cup collected $8 million each, while the winners of this year’s entire women’s World Cup collected just $2 million.

Last week, the internet-famous New York City street photographer Brandon Stanton posted a poignant picture of an unnamed young boy sharing his fears about being gay.

The era of students taking out bigger loans than they can ever repay may be drawing to a close at US for-profit colleges.

The Girl Scouts of Western Washington gave a donor back $100,000 when the donor said the organization couldn’t use the money to support transgender girls. Instead, the regional Girl Scouts office took to the crowdfunding site Indiegogo to raise more than a quarter of a million dollars online from supporters of transgender girls in two days.

The Washington Post obtained university records showing that the University of Missouri at Kansas City passed up Hillary Clinton’s $275,000 speaking price tag for a gala luncheon last February celebrating the opening of a women’s hall of fame. Instead, it offered an hour-long gig to Chelsea Clinton, for a mere $65,000.

There’s been a lot of attention paid to the transgender community lately—Caitlyn Jenner’s highly-publicized coming out will be followed by a TV show about her transition; Amazon’s Transparent won two Golden Globes; Facebook and Google expanded their gender options; Orange is the New Black devoted significant screen time in its third season to transphobic hate crimes committed against Laverne Cox’s character, Sophia.

US senator and democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has proposed what many consider a highly unrealistic, if not radical, plan: Make college free for all Americans.

There are Facebook pages devoted to adult colorers. There are coloring clubs. People who motivate themselves to pay off debt by coloring. Game of Thrones is making a coloring book.

The Wall Street Journal published a cool data interactive this week: How Airbnb is taking over Paris (paywall). Among the most interesting tidbits is that in the Marais, a popular Airbnb neighborhood, the number of travelers who rented out homes via the service last summer actually outnumbered the residents. The Journal notes: