Here’s what I’m reading up on this Friday morning: 

• The City of New York settles with the wrongfully convicted Central Park Five for $40 million. 

• Obama will send as many as 300 military advisors to Iraq to assess the situation with ISIS (or ISIL).

• A U.N. refugee agency report indicates that more than 50 million people were displaced in 2013.  

• Oil is trading at a nine-month high this morning over escalating violence and uncertainty in Iraq. 

• Harley-Davidson reveals its first electric motorcycle. 

• Colombia wins against Ivory Coast in the World Cup and celebrates beautifully. 

• 11-year old Lucy Li likes ice cream and plays a mean game of golf. 

• The C.D.C. is monitoring and treating up to 75 people who may have unintentionally been exposed to anthrax at a government lab.

• Fish-eating spiders all over the world bite the neck of fish twice their size, drag them to land and devour them.