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Flags were at half-staff as Arizona mourns the loss of 19 firefighters. The hotshots were killed Sunday when winds unexpectedly shifted a blaze they were fighting.

Airs Tues., June 30, 2015 at 8 p.m. & Sat., July 4 at 11 a.m. on KPBS TV

Cartoonist Guy Delisle turns his attention from places like Myanmar and North Korea to the more domestic struggle of child rearing in his wry new book, A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting. Reviewer Glen Weldon says it's slighter than Delisle's travel books, but "brighter and funnier as well."

By midnight Texas time, it was all over but the parliamentary inquiries. After a nearly 11-hour filibuster attempt by state Sen. Wendy Davis to block sweeping restrictions on abortion, the Republican-dominated Texas Senate successfully shut down the filibuster on points of order. (See update at the bottom of this post.)

It didn't take long after the news broke about the Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision tossing out a key piece of the Voting Rights Act for the fears of voting advocates, or the hopes of VRA critics, to be realized.

Pop Culture And The Recent Supreme Court Ruling

Secretary of State John Kerry held a press conference Tuesday with the Saudi foreign minister. Prince Saud al-Faisal said his country cannot ignore Iran and Hezbollah's support of Assad's regime. NPR foreign correspondent Deb Amos explains Saudi Arabia's role in Syria.

Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) crowned the U.S. Border Patrol as the winner of its first Golden Padlock Award. The award recognizes an "unrelenting commitment to undermining the public's right to know."

Actor James Gandolfini died of cardiac arrest, The Los Angeles Times reports, citing the doctor in charge of the emergency department at the hospital in Rome where the Sopranos star was admitted.

What do you do with something that seems designed only to offend? Ignore it, or say something?