Minn. governor says race played role in fatal police shooting during traffic stop; Americans began the week celebrating freedom. Now they’re shocked and mourning once more.; Treasures from American history found preserved in 300-year-old human poop in an old brothel; ‘Total chaos’: 30-person brawl in N.Y. Walmart includes metal bats, thrown canned goods; Northeast battles gypsy moths, an insect plague stripping trees bare and delaying airplanes; The story behind the filming of the fatal Baton Rouge police shooting. It was no coincidence.; Judge orders Tamir Rice essays after Ohio brothers arrested in park with BB guns; Australian cops to Pokemon fans: Do not come looking for Pikachu in our police station;
 
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‘Like a little war': Snipers shoot 11 police officers during Dallas protest march, killing five
Three suspects are in custody, another is dead after a three-hour shootout with police. President Obama called the attack “vicious, calculated and despicable.”
Minn. governor says race played role in fatal police shooting during traffic stop
"He killed my boyfriend,” Philando Castile's girlfriend said on camera after he was fatally shot during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minn., near St. Paul.
 
Americans began the week celebrating freedom. Now they’re shocked and mourning once more.
After back-to-back fatal police shootings and a shooting rampage that injured six Dallas law enforcement officers and left five more dead, the first week of July has Americans emotionally exhausted.
 
Treasures from American history found preserved in 300-year-old human poop in an old brothel
More than 82,000 artifacts were found, preserved by 300-year-old human waste, during the construction of the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.
 
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‘Total chaos’: 30-person brawl in N.Y. Walmart includes metal bats, thrown canned goods
It's no surprise that Walmart, with 4,612 stores nationwide, is often the stage where many stories unfold -- and go viral.
 
Northeast battles gypsy moths, an insect plague stripping trees bare and delaying airplanes
This is may be the worst infestation of gypsy moth caterpillars, voracious pests that strip the leaves off of trees, since the 1980s.
 
The story behind the filming of the fatal Baton Rouge police shooting. It was no coincidence.
The first video from Baton Rouge came from an anti-violence organization that makes it its business to film crime.
 
Judge orders Tamir Rice essays after Ohio brothers arrested in park with BB guns
The judge said the essays should compare their case with that of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy who was shot and killed by police in 2014 when they mistook his fake gun for a real one.
 
Australian cops to Pokemon fans: Do not come looking for Pikachu in our police station
The new Pokemon Go augmented-reality game is less than 24 hours old, but it already has at least one police department in Australia advocating caution.
 
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