Today in Black History: NAACP attorney and Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black to serve on the Supreme Court, is born in 1908 in Baltimore.
The New York Times
Local
Malcolm Smith, Ex-New York Senate Majority Leader, Is Sentenced to 7 Years in Bribery Case
New York’s Rent Freeze May Change How Tenants Decide on Lease Duration
New York Democrats Join Mayor de Blasio in a Chorus of Dissent Against Governor Cuomo
‘Nothing Left to Lose’: How Mayor de Blasio Came to Call Out Governor Cuomo
Fewer New York City Students Must Go to School This Summer
New York Comptroller Faults Payment System in 39 City Agencies
National
Today in Politics: A Backlash Costs Donald Trump, and Possibly Republicans
Macy’s Drops Donald Trump’s Fashion Line Over Immigrant Remarks
Hillary Clinton, Loudly and Proudly, Taps Into a Vein of Support Among Gay Voters
Announcing Cuba Embassy Deal, Obama Declares ‘New Chapter’
Report Concludes Police Shooting Victim in Washington State Probably Had a Rock
A Call to Revise How Chicago Funds Teacher Pensions
Philly.com
Philly NAACP confab lands Obama
Jurors side with cops in unlawful-arrest case
A resignation among personnel moves at Philly school district
SAT snafu worries scholarship-seeking teen
Lawyer's solution to Philly's poor tax collection
The Christian Science Monitor
How Supreme Court ruling could jump-start political innovation
Same-sex marriage: Will conservative religious colleges lose tax-exempt status?
As South Carolina mulls furling flag, pro-Confederate protests grow (+video)
Chicago implements $10 minimum wage. Other cities aim for $15 by 2020.
The Washington Post
As Donald Trump surges in polls, Democrats cheer
Before church shooting, Dylann Roof went on tour of slavery and racism
Actor protests, tweets photo of Roof after TV Land pulls ‘Dukes of Hazzard’
Researcher who faked HIV vaccine results receives rare prison sentence
Gerrymandering didn’t make politics this vicious. But vicious politics will soon make gerrymandering so much worse.
Hispanic business group commends Macy's for ending ties with Trump
White support for the Confederate flag really is about racism, not Southern heritage
Former Moco Council member Valerie Ervin announces for Congress
D.C.’s Bowser hails increase in city minimum wage to $11.50 per hour
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Discrimination against gays still legal in Ohio
Ohio picks AIR to replace just-ousted PARCC for Common Core tests
Forming a more perfect union: Editorial Board Roundtable
Ohio tests group prenatal care model to combat infant mortality
The Detroit Free Press
Ex-DMC chief dies under police guard in Panama
Michigan Senate passes increase in gas tax
Detroit council rejects proposed water rate hike
Church leaders: Stop 'summer of killing' in Detroit
The Chicago Tribune
Preckwinkle defends quick tax hike push
CPS set for $200 million in cuts; mayor floats property tax plan
Former Illinois treasurer employees sue over firings
Judges opposed to gay marriage refusing to issue any licenses
The Los Angeles Times
U.S. economy adds 223,000 jobs in June
Wages shrink for state's middle-income workers
New L.A. school board members are sworn in, but old challenges remain
Attack on Chinese teen puts new focus on 'parachute kids' in California
L.A. councilman takes rare step in bid to expedite proposed gun-lock law
USA Today
Lost, stolen, broken: TSA pays millions for bag claims, USA TODAY investigation finds
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