Happy Friday! As always, your weekly roundup:
The United States and five of its allies have reached a historic agreement with Iran over its nuclear program.
A man who killed four Marines Thursday in shootings at a pair of military facilities in Chattanooga, started a blog about Islam just days ago that made references to jihad and life’s transience.
California Gov. Jerry Brown, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, and more than four dozen mayors and local officials will be at the Vatican in late July for workshops on modern slavery and climate change.
The Boy Scouts of America Executive Committee unanimously approved allowing gay adults to serve as leaders, officials said on Monday, in a major step toward dismantling a policy that has caused deep rifts in the 105-year-old organization. The group’s National Executive Board will meet to ratify the resolution—which includes exemptions for faith-based groups—on July 27, the Boy Scouts said in a statement.
The Little Sisters of the Poor—nuns who have refused to comply with the Affordable Care Act contraception mandate—lost their latest court case Tuesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled that the Little Sisters must comply with the law’s requirement that they allow their insurers to offer free contraception coverage to employees.
New images of Pluto have arrived from a NASA space probe this week, and they're already allowing scientists to update what we know about the dwarf planet–such as its size. NASA's New Horizons probe has traveled more than 3 billion miles to send photos and data about Pluto back to Earth.
Planned Parenthood said on Tuesday that a secretly recorded video that surfaced on the Internet falsely portrayed the reproductive health group’s participation in the sale of tissue and body parts from aborted fetuses. The non-profit organization said the video had been heavily edited and recorded by a group that was established to damage its reputation.
Fans queued at bookshops this week for the midnight release of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman.The book is set 20 years after the events of Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, but was actually written beforehand.
And now for the papal rapid fire roundup
This week, Pope Francis:
- Slammed the "idolatry of money."
- Got dressed in Burger King.
- Called Paraguayan women the “most glorious women of America.”
