By Lauren Weber

INSIDE THE AFTERMATH OF THE BATON ROUGE OFFICER SHOOTING Three officers are dead and three more injured after Gavin Long opened fire on police responding to a call regarding a man "carrying a rifle." Here's what we know about Long, who is an former marine. Each of the three officers killed was married with children, and one of the officers had penned a heartbreaking letter on race relations with the police just weeks before his death. [Nina Golgowski and Lydia O'Connor, HuffPost]

OVER 6,000 DETAINED IN WAKE OF TURKEY COUP ATTEMPT "Not two days have passed since the bloody coup attempt in Turkey and at least 6,000 people have already been detained, Turkish officials say, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vows to 'clean all state institutions of the virus” of Fethullah Gulen supporters.'" Here's a rundown of how the coup failed, as well as a reminder of the history of coups in NATO nations. [Sophia Jones, HuffPost]

WHAT TO WATCH FOR DAY ONE OF THE GOP CONVENTION From Melania Trump's headliner speech to varying attempts at party unity. [NYT]

HOW YOUR POLITICAL PREFERENCES TRANSLATE TO FACEBOOK LIKES Adele vs. Ted Nugent. [WSJ | Paywall]

INSIDE THE POLITICO SHAKE-UP How the top two executives at the "Washington media juggernaut" ended up parting ways. [The Washingtonian]

'IN THE AGE OF ISIS, WHO'S A TERRORIST AND WHO'S SIMPLY DERANGED?' "The age of the Islamic State, in which the tools of terrorism appear increasingly crude and haphazard, has led to a reimagining of the common notion of who is and who is not a terrorist." [NYT]

EIGHT WAYS DONALD TRUMP AND MIKE PENCE HAD TO COORDINATE OVER THE WEEKEND From TPP to the Iraq War, this pair has some differences. [Howard Fineman, Jason Linkins and Lauren Weber, HuffPost]

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KIM KARDASHIAN FOLLOWED THROUGH And went hardcore after Taylor Swift by releasing footage of the pop star allegedly listening to "Famous." [HuffPost]

'THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS' CONTINUES ITS BOX OFFICE DOMINATION Proving not everyone chose to call the new "Ghostbusters" this weekend. [Reuters]

MEET YOUR NEW HAN SOLO Alden Ehrenreich is about to start breaking hearts everywhere. [People]

'LIFE AND LOSS ON METHADONE MILE' "Last night’s needles line the sidewalks at dawn along the blighted blocks where Massachusetts Avenue and Southampton Street meet. People emerge from shelters and halfway houses and trudge toward the methadone clinics that lend this place its ugly nickname." [The Boston Globe]

THE HOLLYWOOD CLASSIC SECRET: ABORTIONS A look at the morality clauses that dictated "secret procedures" for the brightest stars of the 20s through 50s. [Vanity Fair]

EVERLAST TALKS RAISING HIS DAUGHTER, WHO HAS CYSTIC FIBROSIS "Some days you really don’t know how you’re going to make it through but you get to work and before long the day is over and you've earned your rest. And you know it. Nothing I have ever done or will ever do will be more important to me than being a Dad." [Daily Beast]

HOW TO GET PEOPLE PUMPED UP...FOR WORK Happy Monday? [HuffPost]

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~ In case you missed it, Congress released the long-awaited "28 pages" regarding the alleged Saudi ties to 9/11.

~ Russia could be banned from the Olympics in Rio today for doping.

~ Feeling toasty? Blame the "heat dome" over most of the country.

~ Apparently quitting your job to play "Pokemon Go" is a thing now.

~ No more porn on Starbucks or McDonalds' Wi-Fi.

~ We love Zayn Malik's glow-in-the-dark lightsaber tattoo.

~ Speaking of, Carrie Fischer dropped some spoilers about "Star Wars" over the weekend. Click at your own risk.

~ This Disney intern was fired and rehired after posting an internal sign about alligators at Disney World.

~ Over 5.4 million bottles of Liquid Plumr have been recalled.

~ And in uplifting news this Monday, Trump's ghostwriter has some remorse about his work for the GOP presumed nominee. "I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.” 

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