Society
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau marches and dances in Toronto Pride parade 9news.au v
Thunderous applause greeted Mr Trudeau as he paraded down a main Toronto street on Sunday local time, waving a Canadian maple-leaf flag bordered with a rainbow.
Also see Syrian refugee marches beside Justin Trudeau in Canadian pride parade
Churches fighting Iowa officials over transgender bathroom rules desmoinesregister
A conservative church in Des Moines is suing the Iowa Civil Rights Commission in federal court, contending state officials are trying to censor religious teachings on biblical sexuality and forcing it to open its restrooms to members of the opposite sex.
Also see Iowa: 'Some' churches must comply with transgender bathroom laws
Another Gospel
Camps teach kids to put their faith into action religionnews
Instead of the traditional vacation Bible school, this downtown church partnered with seven other congregations — black, white, Baptist, Jewish, Episcopal, Pentecostal and nondenominational — to put on a community-organizing camp for kids aged 4 to 12.
“We Have the Power,” as the weeklong camp was dubbed, represents a recent movement within activist networks to invite children and youth into political action, and a renewed movement within religious communities to live out biblical teaching with good works.
Apostasy
300 denominations meet for ecumenical gathering in Munich christiantoday
In a meeting supported by Pope Francis and Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I, leaders of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, several Orthodox Churches, Protestant denominations and free evangelical denominations including some Baptists and Pentecostals debated for three days about how to walk towards "encounter, reconciliation and hope in a better future."
Crime
Google headquarters attacked, allegedly by man who thought company was watching him mercurynews
Federal prosecutors charged Raul Murillo Diaz, 30, with a single count of arson in a May 19 attack, according to an affidavit filed last week in U.S. District Court in San Jose. Investigators are seeking more information from Diaz about two other recent attacks, including the torching of a self-driving car.
Global Economy
Financial, political instability in Italy threatens fresh chaos for Europe reuters
Italy's bank shares plunged on Tuesday, shaking the financial foundations of the euro zone's third-largest economy and threatening contagion to other EU nations.
The crisis could push Italy back into recession and, in a doomsday scenario, generate a Greek-type meltdown that Europe would find almost impossible to contain
Israel
Iranian military official: We have 100,000 missiles in Lebanon ready to hit Israel jpost
Speaking in Tehran on Saturday at an iftar meal breaking the Ramadan fast, Rouhani said the pre-Iran nuclear-deal era is past and Iran now needs to take advantage of the new atmosphere to pursue its “national interests more than before,” Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
Nuclear
Federal contractors to start cleanup from Manhattan Project seattletimes
Officials say the contaminated soils will be temporarily stored at Tech Area 21 at Los Alamos National Laboratory and eventually will be shipped to a permanent area once tested.
The work will include five sites in a 1-acre area. About 125 cubic yards of soil is scheduled to be moved. One site contains arsenic and the other four contain plutonium, officials said.
Research
Costa Rica makes nuclear fusion history with plasma discharge ticotimes.net p
The first discharge of Costa Rica’s Stellarator-1 (SCR-1) lasted only 4.5 seconds but is considered the most complex applied physics research conducted in the country, TEC officials said during a special ceremony held Wednesday and broadcast live.
Costa Rica is just the sixth country in the world to have developed a stellarator, along with the U.S., Japan, Spain, Australia and Germany, according to a news release from TEC.
AI
Does the Fifth Amendment 'expose a serious flaw' in the Turing Test? wired.co.uk
Kevin Warwick and Huma Shah, who work at Coventry University, claim that if a machine were to take the Fifth Amendment and remain silent throughout the test, it could "potentially pass the test and thus be regarded as a thinking entity".
Robotics
Amazon’s latest robot champion uses deep learning to stock shelves theverge v
This year's contest was won by a joint team from the TU Delft Robotics Institute in the Netherlands and the company Delft Robotics (both named after the city of Delft). The team's robot managed to pick items from a mock Amazon warehouse shelf at a speed of around 100 an hour, reports TechRepublic, with a failure rate of 16.7 percent. That's slow compared to what a human can manage (around 400 items an hour), but a big improvement on last year's winner, which managed just 30 items in the same time. The team also won the stowing challenge, placing items back on the shelves.
Space
Juno Had a Glorious View During Its Final Approach to Jupiter gizmodo v
The time-lapse video...shows us the four largest moons of Jupiter—Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, from innermost to outermost—spinning around the gas giant like tiny hands on a clock from June 12th to June 29th.
Archaeology
Chinese Shrine May Contain Skull Bone of the Buddha newhistorian
Researchers say the parietal bone was kept inside a model of a Buddhist shrine known as a stupa. The 1,000-year-old meditation piece was discovered in a stone chest, in a crypt underneath the Buddhist temple. Inscriptions found with the stupa claim that the skull bone is from the Buddha himself.
Not overheared when shrine was visited: "Why do you seek the living among the dead?" (Luke 24:5)
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