Here’s what I’m reading up on this morning: 

• Hurricane Arthur threatens the South on the eve of the Fourth of July. 

• Employers add 288,000 jobs in June (though it’s still bad for the longterm unemployed). 

• Israel increases its troops on the border with Gaza. 

• Delusional anti-immigrant activists pack a city meeting in Murrieta, California. 

• Mean In? Facebook’s Sheryl Sanderg is sorry not sorry about her company’s emotional manipulation. 

• Writer Walter Dean Myers, who asked, "Where are the people of color in children’s books?" has passed away at 76. 

• The Ebola virus combined death toll rises to 476 in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. 

• Kangaroos use their powerful tails as a fifth leg.