A nine-year-old who spent the summer working as bat boy for Kansas collegiate baseball team the Liberal Bee Jays died Sunday evening, one day after he was hit in the head by a warmup swing during a National Baseball Congress World Series game.

According to police, an intoxicated man armed with multiple weapons was arrested in Oregon on Saturday after he drove into oncoming traffic, almost striking a patrol car.

On Sunday, the Nigerian army announced it had destroyed several Boko Haram terrorist camps, rescuing 178 captives, the BBC reports.

Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for 29-year-old Tremaine Wilbourn, the man believed to have shot and killed a Memphis police officer this weekend, the Associated Press reports.

Four people have died and dozens more have been sickened by a recent outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York City, CNN reports.

A wildfire has burned through nearly 46,000 acres and closed two highways north in Lake County, north of San Francisco, The Guardian reports. A firefighter was killed in a second fire, near the border with Oregon.

Congratulations to Kim Jong-un, this year’s recipient of the Sukarno Center’s “Global Statesman” award. Past recipients include Mahatma Gandhi, Aung San Suu Kyi (a political dissident turned Myanmar’s opposition leader), and Kim’s grandfather, Kim Il-sung, the founder of North Korea.

A teenage girl died on Sunday of injuries sustained when an anti-gay extremist stabbed her and several others during an attack on Jerusalem’s gay pride parade last week, the Associated Press reports.

“Calling practically all growing contemporary businesses ‘technology companies’ is about as useful as calling the enterprises of the industrial era ‘factory companies.’” Everything is tech and nothing is.

At a conference on Saturday, billionaire conservative puppeteer Charles Koch challenged around 450 fundraisers to advocate for the end of “corporate cronyism.” Hmm. What’s the play here, Charles?

After racist Truther status updates were found on his Facebook, part-time Donald Trump advisor Sam Nunberg “is no longer affiliated” with the leading Republican presidential candidate’s campaign. Nunberg had been rehired after resigning last year, following his coordination of a disastrous Buzzfeed profile.

Bobby Brown’s sister Leolah was escorted from her niece Bobbi Kristina’s memorial service on Saturday after lashing out verbally at Pat Houston, former manager and sister-in-law to Bobbi Kristina’s mother Whitney Houston.

The Times has a story today about Millennials embracing co-living spaces—basically just a euphemism for having more roommates than is healthy—focusing on something called Pure House. (What a name!) One of Pure House’s tenants is a man named Russell Jackson, who is 52 years old—not a Millennial.

“In the protests that have followed police shootings, demonstrators have often asked why officers are so rarely punished for shootings that seem unwarranted. Dr. Lewinski is part of the answer.”

Officials said Sunday that a manhunt was underway after a Memphis police officer was shot and killed on Saturday night during a traffic stop, the Associated Press reports.

A lion named Jericho, who CNN had reported dead on Saturday, is not dead, but is—thank goodness—still alive.

The first mention of Donald Trump in the New York Times was on October 17, 1973, in a front-page story on a Department of Justice lawsuit against Trump and his father, charging them with violation of the Fair Housing Act of 1968: “Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City.”

CNN reports that, according to a senior park official, Cecil the lion’s brother Jericho, who is also a lion, was killed on Saturday in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park. Others have called this account into question. [UPDATED.]

Snoop Dogg was stopped on Saturday by financial police in southern Italy while carrying $422,000 in cash, The Guardian reports. As this is above the limit that can be transported across European Union borders, Snoop’s lawyer says he will have to pay a fine.

It’s late July. There is a helicopter circling. A “ghetto bird” on this clear, dark blue night. I’m in my bed, staring at the ceiling fan, trying to sleep. It’s 1:30 a.m. It’s 2:00 a.m. I’m struggling. I’m tired. It’s hot. Someone’s dog is barking. I am now on Facebook, seeing post after post about rumors, or fact, of two black bodies being found in a car at a Taco Bell about 10 minutes away from where I rest my head. I think about how many pillows are being soaked by hot, angry tears of black families asking the questions that come along with this sort of thing.