- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doing important things to advance his country, like meeting with Justin Bieber.
- The bomb that went off near a synagogue in Santa Monica that was initially called an attack, then became a “freak industrial accident,” is once again a bombing, and it was possibly pulled off by a 61-year-old transient.
- France makes its first arrests after the burka ban.
- Writer Rivka Galchen is profiled at Gothamist.