--- title: Morning Must Reads: June 30 description: In the News: Blackwater warning came before shooting; Obama defends Clinton amid wealth comments; Facebook manipulated your newsfeed; Obama to tap P&G chief to head VA canonical: https://time.com/2940347/morning-must-reads-june-30/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-30T12:30:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:53:38.178Z article:section: Politics og:title: Morning Must Reads: June 30 og:description: In the News: Blackwater warning came before shooting; Obama defends Clinton amid wealth comments; Facebook manipulated your newsfeed; Obama to tap P&G chief to head VA og:url: https://time.com/2940347/morning-must-reads-june-30/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Morning Must Reads og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Morning Must Reads: June 30 twitter:description: In the News: Blackwater warning came before shooting; Obama defends Clinton amid wealth comments; Facebook manipulated your newsfeed; Obama to tap P&G chief to head VA twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Morning Must Reads: June 30 > Sponsored content. 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Mark Wilson—Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Jun 30, 2014 12:30 PM UTC * Before shooting in Iraq, a warning on Blackwater \[[NYT](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/us/before-shooting-in-iraq-warning-on-blackwater.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LedeSum&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&%5Fr=0)\] * Obama to tap soap salesman to clean up VA \[[TIME](http://time.com/2938609/obama-to-tap-soap-salesman-to-clean-up-va/)\] * “The extremist Sunni group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) on Sunday declared a new caliphate — or an Islamic state to claim dominion over Muslims across the globe — on the territory it holds in the two countries.” \[[TIME](http://time.com/2938317/isis-militants-declare-islamist-caliphate/)\] * ” The U.S. Justice Department is expected to announce on Monday a settlement with BNP Paribas involving a record fine of nearly $9 billion over alleged U.S. sanctions violations by France’s biggest bank, sources familiar with the matter said.” \[[Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/30/us-bnp-paribas-usa-idUSKBN0F40ZM20140630)\] * Supreme Court poised to rule on O-care’s birth control mandate \[[The Hill](http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/legal-challenges/210878-court-poised-to-rule-on-o-cares-birth-control-mandate)\] * Background From TIME: Hobby Lobby’s contraception showdown \[[TIME](http://time.com/2926404/the-contraception-showdown/)\] * Big Unions could take a big SCOTUS hit \[[Politico](http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/supreme-court-unions-108419.html?hp=t2%5Fs)\] * White House to seek $2 billion to stem rise of kids crossing the border illegally \[[TIME](http://time.com/2937878/white-house-immigration-unaccompanied-minors-central-america/)\] * “President Barack Obama doesn’t believe comments made by his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about how she and former President Bill Clinton were ‘not only dead broke but in debt’ when they exited the White House will matter too much if she chooses to run for president.” \[[ABC News](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/06/hillary-clinton-dead-broke-comment-wont-make-a-big-difference-says-president-obama/)\] * Everything we know about Facebook’s secret mood manipulation experiment \[[The Atlantic](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everything-we-know-about-facebooks-secret-mood-manipulation-experiment/373648/)\] * The pitchforks are coming for us plutocrats \[[Politico Magazine](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html?ml=tb#.U7FX2I1dXNc)\] * Psych evaluation: Oscar Pistorius not mentally incapacitated during shooting \[[CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/30/world/africa/oscar-pistorius-trial/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2940347/morning-must-reads-june-30/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2940347/morning-must-reads-june-30/"},"headline":"Morning Must Reads: June 30","datePublished":"2014-06-30T12:30:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:53:38.178Z","description":"In the News: Blackwater warning came before shooting; Obama defends Clinton amid wealth comments; Facebook manipulated your newsfeed; Obama to tap P&G chief to head VA","url":"https://time.com/2940347/morning-must-reads-june-30/","keywords":["Morning Must Reads"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Morning Must Reads","caption":"Capitol","creditText":"Mark Wilson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/morning-must-reads/","name":"Morning Must Reads"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2940347/morning-must-reads-june-30/","name":"Morning Must Reads: June 30"}}]}] ```