Briefing

THE WEEK

REPUBLICANS WROTE TO IRAN

$310,000

Amount of money raised for an Arizona father whose wife died while giving birth to quadruplets

‘The decision to undercut our President and circumvent our constitutional system offends me as a matter of principle.’

VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, objecting to an open letter from 47 Republican Senators warning the leaders of Iran that the next President could undo “with the stroke of a pen” any agreement struck with the Obama Administration over Iran’s nuclear program

Samantha Bee

The Daily Show correspondent scored her own show on TBS with husband Jason Jones

GOOD WEEK

BAD WEEK

Bees

The removal of a swarm from a baseball game was called “mass bee genocide”

‘You are disgraceful. You have violated all that we stand for.’

DAVID BOREN, University of Oklahoma president, before expelling two members of the school’s chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity for their involvement in a video depicting students chanting a racial slur

790

Number of Australians who simultaneously went skinny-dipping in Perth, a new world record

‘Right now, I feel free … from Pharrell Williams’ and Robin Thicke’s chains.’

NONA GAYE, daughter of the late singer Marvin Gaye, after a jury ordered the artists to pay the Gaye family $7.4 million in a lawsuit that alleged that their 2013 hit song “Blurred Lines” infringed on the copyright of Gaye’s 1977 hit “Got to Give It Up”

‘We will have to go back to the drawing board.’

LIOW TIONG LAI, Malaysian Transport Minister, saying the countries leading the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished a year ago, will need a new approach if it’s not found by June

60

Pounds of gold (27 kg) a North Korean diplomat was caught with at a Bangladesh airport, worth some $1.4 million

‘The server will remain private.’

HILLARY CLINTON, likely presidential candidate, defending her decision not to turn over “personal” emails to the State Department, after a controversy surrounding her use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State

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