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‘I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon.’

Rachel Dolezal, former head of the Spokane, Wash., NAACP, saying she identified as black since she was a child despite having two white parents. The controversy over her racial identity caused her to resign

175

Number of stores in North America that Gap plans to shutter in the next few years

$208.8 million

Amount grossed in the U.S. by Jurassic World on its first weekend, a new record

CVS Health

The drugstore chain will buy Target’s 1,660 health and clinic businesses

GOOD WEEK

BAD WEEK

Walgreens

The company’s British division will eliminate 700 nonstore jobs

‘HELLO EARTH! CAN YOU HEAR ME?’

The Philae comet lander, in a message posted on Twitter by the European Space Agency, after the space probe woke up from a seven-month hibernation. Traveling closer to the sun, the craft received enough radiation to recharge its batteries

‘It’s nobody’s turn.’

Jeb Bush, former Florida governor, formally launching his presidential campaign while playing down the legacy of Bushes in the White House, saying the race is “wide open” and that no one deserves the job “by right of … family or family narrative”

$10,000

Amount that an Arizona woman donated to charity so she could use a Taser on Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers

‘I DON’T THINK WE’LL GO WITH ANOTHER DIRECTION.’

Kim Kardashian West, saying she and her husband Kanye won’t name their second child South after naming their first daughter North

‘The creditors want to humiliate the Greek people.’

Alexis Tsipras, Greek Prime Minister, criticizing the austerity measures hobbling his country’s economy as European leaders try to reach a deal with Greece to exchange bailout money for fiscal reforms

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