--- description: In the News: Hobby Lobby happened, what's next; Obama to issue executive action on immigration; GM issues another recall; Israel bombs Gaza after teen bodies found; and confidence in Obama falls. title: Morning Must Reads: July 1 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Morning Must Reads](/tag/morning-must-reads/) ## Morning Must Reads Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Morning Must Reads: July 1 by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 1, 2014 11:52 AM CUT  The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC. The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.Mark Wilson—Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 1, 2014 11:52 AM CUT * White House chooses Congressional fight over Hobby Lobby decision \[[TIME](http://time.com/2941491/hobby-lobby-white-house-politics-congress/ "undefined")\] * How John Roberts’ court is slowly bridging the political divide \[[TIME](http://time.com/2941260/supreme-court-partisanship-john-roberts/ "undefined")\] * Get ready for an even bigger threat to Obamacare \[[LA Times](http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0701-turley-obamacare-subsidy-halbig-20140701-story.html "undefined")\] * Obama’s immigration pivot \[[Politico](http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/immigration-reform-obama-108468.html?hp=f3 "undefined")\] * “General Motors Co. recalled another 8.5 million vehicles on Monday, including more than 8 million for ignition-switch defects, and said it knew of three deaths in accidents involving the affected cars.” \[[WSJ](http://online.wsj.com/articles/gm-to-recall-7-6-million-more-vehicles-in-u-s-1404153705 "undefined")\] * “Victims of General Motors’ faulty ignition switch could get as little as a few thousand dollars, or as much as millions of dollars, according to Kenneth Feinberg, who detailed on Monday the GM fund he’ll oversee to compensate for deaths and injuries.” \[[USA Today](http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/06/30/feinberg-gm-switch-compensation/11718321/ "undefined")\] * Fighting intensifies in Ukraine after cease-fire is ended \[[NYT](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/02/world/europe/ukraine.html?%5Fr=0 "undefined")\] * Poll: Confidence in Obama trails rating for Bush in 2006 \[[RealClearPolitics](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/06/30/poll%5Fconfidence%5Fin%5Fobama%5Ftrails%5Frating%5Ffor%5Fbush%5Fin%5F06%5F123153.html "undefined")\] * Parties looking for political edge in Supreme Court contraceptive ruling \[[TIME](http://time.com/2940924/hobby-lobby-obamacare-2014-midterm-elections/ "undefined")\] * Israeli bombs Gaza site hours after bodies of Israeli teens found \[[Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/01/us-palestinians-israel-strike-idUSKBN0F638Q20140701 "undefined")\] * “A senior Israeli government official on Monday likened Hamas to the brutal fighters sowing chaos in Iraq and said there could be no dealing with a Palestinian government that includes the group, just hours after three Israeli teenagers believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas were found dead.” \[[TIME](http://time.com/2942613/israeli-official-kidnapped-teen-murders-show-hamas-is-like-isis/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2944935/morning-must-reads-july-1/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2944935/morning-must-reads-july-1/"},"headline":"Morning Must Reads: July 1","datePublished":"2014-07-01T11:52:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:54:59.728Z","description":"In the News: Hobby Lobby happened, what's next; Obama to issue executive action on immigration; GM issues another recall; Israel bombs Gaza after teen bodies found; and confidence in Obama falls.","url":"https://time.com/2944935/morning-must-reads-july-1/","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/2944935/morning-must-reads-july-1/","name":"Morning Must Reads: July 1"}}]}] ```