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What to watch for today
South Sudan is on the verge of civil war. Rival government factions fought in Juba on Sunday, leaving at least 272 people dead and deflating hopes that peace between president Salva Kiir and vice president Riek Machar would hold. UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said the fighting “has the potential of reversing the progress made so far in the peace process.”
Theresa May launches her campaign for UK prime minister. The Conservative politician will focus on reigning in big business in her first campaign speech in Birmingham, and pledge to put workers and consumers on company boards.
Alcoa reports its earnings. Kicking off the second-quarter earnings season, the aluminum producer might reveal more information about its planned split into two entities. With aluminum prices at historical lows, investors will also be keen on the company’s market outlook (pdf).
Over the weekend
Line priced its IPO at the top of its range. The Japanese company, which makes a messaging app, could raise as much as $1.3 billion in this week’s IPO, after the company set the IPO price at ¥3,300 ($33) per share, which values the company at $6.9 billion.
More women accused Roger Ailes of sexual harassment. Over a dozen women have contacted the lawyer representing former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson in the days since she filed a complaint against the company’s CEO. They too allege that Ailes expected sexual favors in exchange for job opportunities.
Black Lives Matter protests continued throughout the weekend. Demonstrators gathered in New York, Baton Rouge, and London, among other cities. Deray Mckesson, a prominent leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, was arrested along with dozens of others in Baton Rouge on Saturday night. He broadcast the incident via Periscope, inciting #freederay to trend across Twitter.
Japanese voters supported the status quo. In Sunday’s parliamentary elections, prime minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party took the majority of seats that were up for grabs. The result could mean Japan is one step closer to changing the pacifist clause of its constitution, transforming its defensive army into a fully functioning military for the first time since World War 2.
Portugal defeated France in the Euro 2016 final. After moths plagued the pitch and Cristiano Ronaldo went down with an injury in the first half of the game, Portugal took home its first European soccer title. Éderzito António Macedo Lopes, AKA Eder, scored the game’s single, winning goal in extra time, no doubt breaking many hearts at the Stade de France. Parabéns, Portugal!
Serena Williams and Andy Murray took Wimbledon. Williams won her seventh Wimbledon, tying her with Steffi Graf for the most Grand Slam wins of all time. (Both women have 22.) Andy Murray beat Milos Raonic for the men’s singles’ title on Sunday, bringing the UK some much-needed good news.
Quartz obsession interlude
Keith Collins on the retro code that took America to the moon. “In the mid-1960s, a team of programmers at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory wrote the software that powered the Apollo 11 mission. Over the last decade, technology researchers worked with the code in semi-obscurity, until a former NASA intern uploaded the software to the code-sharing site Github on July 7.” Read more here.
Matters of debate
The Iraq war helps explain why Britain is in such a dark place today. The catastrophic decision to invade Iraq overshadowed any other achievement of New Labour. But in turning away from Blairism, many Brits also moved away from centrist, liberal, reformist politics.
Get the epidural. Natural childbirth involves excruciating pain (paywall), and once the baby is born, there’s plenty more pain to face.
The camera never tells the whole truth. While camera phones may provide more evidence, footage of police shootings is not enough to deliver accountability.
Surprising discoveries
Nordic countries might send senior citizens back to school. A proposal on mandatory further education aims to help senior citizens keep pace with the times and contribute to a competitive economy.
Astronauts have a penchant for masochistic horror movies. The in-flight entertainment in the International Space Station includes all four Alien films, Gravity, and Moon—movies where things go very wrong for astronauts.
Philistines were actually quite sophisticated. Archeologists have found jewelry and perfume oil buried in a 3,000-year-old philistine cemetery, suggesting these Old Testament people had an elegant, cosmopolitan way of life.
Freud’s notion of the “superego” isn’t as wacky as it sounds. Neuroscience research on metacognition roughly matches Freud’s theories on the role of our ethical compass.
Scientists have found a planet that gets triple sunsets. About four times the size of Jupiter, the planet orbits three stars, one that’s nearly twice the size of the sun.
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