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  • Both of Ohio’s Senators want to meet a Friday deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown. Members of Congress are working on a short-term funding bill to keep the federal government open, but are still debating the inclusion of some controversial measures that likely won’t make the final resolution-- like fixes for insolvent workers’ pensions and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, or DACA. GOP leaders have, however, added 6 years of funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program to the continuing resolution.
  • The Falcon 9 rocket was carrying supplies to the International Space Station when it exploded June 28. Musk, the SpaceX CEO, said that going forward, the company will individually test each strut.
  • Under the terms of the deal, the toughest sanctions put in place against Iran by the world body would be dismantled in exchange for restrictions on some of the country's nuclear activities.
  • Threats to release some 37 million users' photographs and data come at a time when Ashley Madison's leaders have been discussing a potential $200 million stock offering.
  • American military personnel helped rescue some Americans and others in Mali after the hotel where they were staying was overrun by gunmen.
  • Satellite mapping has uncovered in Darfur a buried lakebed the size of Massachusetts. Scientists think its water may have seeped into a reservoir underneath it. If that's the case, it could help ease fighting in one of the driest places on Earth.
  • Thermometers in the western city of Phalodi registered a sizzling 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday. One resident told the BBC that it was so hot, his cellphone stopped working.
  • More than 20 athletes who won Olympic medals in Beijing are among those implicated. The new findings nearly double the number of implicated athletes from those games.
  • "Mr. President" and "The First Lady," a pair of mated bald eagles in the National Arboretum, are officially raising two eaglets: their second egg hatched overnight.
  • 2019 will be a big year for the two largest universities in Northeast Ohio. Both the University of Akron and Kent State are simultaneously undergoing a search for a new president and both will likely keep the candidates secret. University of Akron interim president John Green prefers to use the word “confidential” when describing the process of hiring a new president. He says it’s a trend among universities around the country.
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