Morning Must Reads August 5
A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas meant to last at least three days and end nearly a month of fighting went into effect in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning. The fighting has killed 1,900 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and some 67 Israelis, The second American aid worker diagnosed with Ebola in Liberia will arrive on Tuesday for care at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital, Researchers in London predicted joy for 18,000 people by creating a model that linked self-reported happiness to recent expectations and rewards, Private contractors are receiving huge amounts of federal grant money to shelter some of the 57,000 unaccompanied children who have trudged across the southern border this year the Department of Health and Human Services shelled out 671 million in 2014, A child crying on Game of Thrones jogged a foster parent's memory that he had left a 10-month-old girl inside a sweltering car while he and his partner smoked marijuana at their house, police said the infant died after spending more than two hours inside the vehicle, Eighteen months before the first presidential caucus of the 2016 campaign, both Democrats and Republicans are again turning their backs on a vulnerable group of votersIowans serving in the military overseas, A two-and-a-half-year federal investigation reveals that officers at New York City's Department of Correction often use excessive force when punishing teenage inmates, many of whom have mental illnesses, and that officers lack accountability for such actions, The Gravity star earned more money than any other Hollywood actress over the last year, with estimated earnings of 51 million and largely because of the out-of-this-world thriller Jennifer Lawrence and Jennifer Aniston came in second and third, respectively, The U.S. Army's retrenchment of 550 majors is hitting black officers harder than those from other ethnic groups, as almost one-tenth of black majors are being let go while the same proportion for white majors is only 5.6 and 8 for Latinos, Russian operators are leaving tourists stranded over a "negative political and economic situation," a mark that Western sanctions are having an effect, as energy giant Lukoil scales back investment plans and top banks scramble to reassure investors, Theodore Wafer, a resident of suburban Detroit, said during his murder trial that he didn't want to be a victim when an inebriated but unarmed 19-year-old, Renisha McBride, was banging on his doors before dawn one morning last year, Thunderstorms and huge downpours are forecast for the next three days, forcing rescuers to race against the clock many residents have been evacuated but tens of thousands more remain at risk from aftershocks, landslides and flooding