Vox Sentences: Is Europe finally waking up to its refugee crisis?

The refugee crisis continues; love wins again in Kentucky; and Hillary Clinton sorta-but-not-really apologizes about her emails.

Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.

TOP NEWS

The refugee crisis continues

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• The refugee crisis in Europe escalated on Friday as defiant migrants began a 300-mile walk from Hungary to Germany.

  [NBC News / Carlo Angerer and Claudio Lavanga]

• In response, Hungary agreed to bus them and thousands more migrants to the Austrian border.

  [New York Times / Palko Karasz, Anemona Hartocollis, and Dan Bilefsky]

• The UK also announced it will let in thousands of Syrian refugees.

  [The Guardian / Nicholas Watt]

• Refugees have been pouring out of Syria for years, but a viral photo of a drowned Syrian boy turned the issue into an international crisis this week.

  [New York Times / Anne Barnard and Karam Shoumali]

• Zack Beauchamp explained the background to the crisis: the Syrian civil war, which has killed 250,000 people and displaced millions.

  [Vox / Zack Beauchamp]

• In response to the growing crisis, the UN estimates EU nations will need to accept 200,000 refugees.

  [The Guardian / Jamie Grierson]

• Germany has become a leader in this crisis: Last week, it agreed to let Syrian refugees stay and apply for asylum.

  [Vox / Amanda Taub]

• Although a lot of the focus is on Europe right now, the US also carries some blame — it's allowed a pitiful amount of Syrian refugees since the civil war began.

  [Vox / Amanda Taub]

Love wins — again

Carter County Detention Center

• Same-sex couples finally received marriage licenses in Rowan County, Kentucky, on Friday — a day after a federal judge jailed a county clerk who defied court orders to let her office grant the licenses to opposite-sex and same-sex couples.

  [New York Times / Richard Fausset, John Mura, and Richard Pérez-Peña]

• Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis's refusal to grant marriage licenses, based on her opposition to same-sex marriages, became this week's proxy war over LGBTQ rights and religious liberty.

  [Vox / German Lopez]

• Davis's supporters argue that the government is violating her religious freedom by forcing her office to marry same-sex couples.

  [New York Times / Trip Gabriel]

• Mike Huckabee: "Kim Davis in federal custody removes all doubts about the criminalization of Christianity in this country."

  [Mike Huckabee]

• But Davis's jailing is how religious liberty is supposed to work: She was offered an accommodation (let deputy clerks marry people while she excuses herself from the process) and refused it, suggesting her real goal is to impose her beliefs on her entire office.

  [Vox / German Lopez]

• For more, read Vox's full explainer.

  [Vox / German Lopez]

Sorry not sorry about those emails

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• Hillary Clinton said she's sorry that people are confused about the process she used for emails as secretary of state.

  [MSNBC / Alex Seitz-Wald]

• Critics see Clinton's decision to store her emails as secretary of state on a private server as an attempt to avoid accountability — and potentially dangerous, since her server could be hacked.

  [Vox / Ezra Klein]

• Even some people in Clinton's party are angry.

  [New York Times / Patrick Healy, Jonathan Martin, and Maggie Haberman]

• Earlier this week, the State Department posted 4,368 documents, totaling 7,121 pages, in the latest monthly disclosure of emails sent and received by Clinton during her time as secretary of state.

  [New York Times / Peter Baker and Michael Schmidt]

• Rebecca Traister: "What if the big secret contained in Hillary Clinton's emails is that she’s not the monster her critics have portrayed her as for decades?"

  [New York Magazine / Rebecca Traister]

• A lot of the controversy may fall under the "Clinton rules": the harsh scrutiny the media applies to the Clinton camp.

  [Vox / Jon Allen]

MISCELLANEOUS

The world's ambivalent relationship with Taylor Swift, explained. [Fusion / Kelsey McKinney]

• How long do you have to live, statistically speaking? Find out here.

  [Washington Post / Kennedy Elliott and Christopher Ingraham]

• Here's how to make some money from global warming (or at least how some companies are).

  [Vox / Brad Plumer]

• Very conveniently, a Democratic senator came out against the Iran deal after its fate was already sealed (Congress can't stop it).

  [Washington Post / Ben Cardin]

• Donald Trump gave some bizarre answers to some foreign policy questions.

  [Vox / Max Fisher]

VERBATIM

"To me, they have become the image of an old couple living alone and still trying to come to terms with the loss of their way of life." [Quartz / Anand Katakam]

• "It seems like a crazy urban legend: In China, drivers who have injured pedestrians will sometimes then try to kill them. And yet not only is it true, it’s fairly common."

  [Slate / Geoffrey Sant]

• "I mastered a face, a kind of appalled, disapproving look for any time anybody even broached the subject of vaccine skepticism. Then I married an anti-vaxxer."

  [Vox / Adam Mongrain]

• "To call someone a Nazi is to accuse him of embracing evil. To call someone 'queer' is merely to accuse him of embracing a fellow-human being."

  [The New Yorker / Hendrik Hertzberg]

• "This four-year-old's smile is absolutely adorable if you can make it through the first two minutes of her blank stare."

  [Clickhole]

WATCH THIS

Vox / Max Fisher, Joe Posner, and Joss Fong

• How North Korea got crazy.

  [YouTube / Max Fisher, Joe Posner, and Joss Fong]

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