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

• Israel escalates its war on Gaza, leveling high-rise buildings. 

• The U.S. starts drone flights over Syria. 

• Obama will be addressing mental health access fixes to veterans today. 

• No one seems to know whether California’s remaining nuclear plant can survive an earthquake. 

• Bedbugs are catching rides on New York City’s N line. 

• California’s governor signs an anti-theft smartphone kill switch bill into law. 

• This is what diversity apparently looks like at the Emmys. 

• Finally. The WHO makes new suggestions on e-cigarettes, including banning their use indoors.  

• A Dallas family finds an intact woolly mammoth skeleton in a mud pit on its ranch.