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July 05, 2013 | | MURDER CHARGES Less than a year ago, the New England Patriots player became a father and made a promise to "do the right things" for his daughter. Instead, as he sits in jail facing murder charges, a picture has emerged of a hot-tempered young man whose life away from the football field included blow-ups with his fiancée and friends, ugly bar fights, and regular police encounters. The Daily Beast's Christine Pelisek reports. EGYPT A public show of support for Egypt's ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, turned deadly on Friday as troops opened fire on a crowd. At least one man was killed outside the officers' club of the Presidential Club, which is where Morsi is believed to be detained, according to BBC. The Muslim Brotherhood is refusing to negotiate with the new government, saying it will now adopt the tactic that led to the deposition of their first democratically elected leader and take to the streets in protest. The post-coup military plan includes a suspension of the Constitution, the institution of an interim government and the promise of new elections within the year.
ECONOMICS The Labor Department's jobs report is in and the numbers are better than expected. The economy added 195,000 jobs in June, the same number added in May, and better than the 160,000 that analysts were predicting. The unemployment rate stayed at 7.6 percent. But in grimmer news, the U-6, the broadest measure of employment that includes unhappy part-timers and people who have given up, rose by half a percentage point to 14.3 percent--a significant increase. ZIMMERMAN TRIAL Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, the teenager who was shot to death last year, testified today that screams heard on the 911 tape belonged to her son and not to his killer, as George Zimmerman's defense asserts. "I heard my son screaming," she said from the witness stand, adding that she knew it was him the minute she heard the recording. Martin's older brother gave similar testimony. The family's account came as prosecutors wrap up their case, which has included three dozen witnesses, some offering conflicting accounts of the events. Zimmerman is on trial for second-degree murder for Martin's death and has said he acted in self-defense.
OF COURSE Can we just say at this point that every government is spying? France is the latest to be labeled Big Brother, now charged with surveiling its citizens' phone calls, emails, and Internet activity, according to an investigation by French newspaper Le Monde. The NSA-style program reportedly doesn't look at individual intercepts for content, but uses the data to connect the dots and networks of communication. The French daily called the intelligence agency's program illegal and "outside any serious control."
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