The U.S. Embassy in Rome has confirmed the Obama administration has agreed to pay the family of an Italian aid worker killed in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan last year 1 million euros.

Photos: Exploded dumpster, broken windows, evidence markers from scene of explosion in Chelsea in New York City, now sealed off by FBI. Our newsroom is in the area.

NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo, who placed Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold in 2014, reportedly earned nearly $120,000 last year. Thursday would have been Eric Garner’s 46th birthday.

From headlines: Bayer is now the largest supplier of seeds and agricultural chemicals in the world.

"Mexico smells like death... a common grave full of assassinated and disappeared people and the journalists who are killed for saying the truth."

Tyre King was an eighth-grader who played football and was in the young scholar’s program at his school. Police claim King pulled a BB gun from his waistband before he was shot.

"There’s an old proverb that talks about when children are born, children come out with their fists closed, because that’s where they keep all their gifts. And as you grow, your hands learn to unfold, because you’re learning to release your gifts to the world. And so, for the rest of your life, I want to see you live with your hands unfolded." - Albert Sykes

"Rodrigo Duterte is actually a compound of all the contradictions in Philippine society, contradictions which are now surfacing in a very vicious way." - Filipina activist Ninotchka Rosca

"The changes the Republicans made would have made it virtually impossible for those children to sue for compensation for the very serious injuries they received."

"I think an awfully lot of Wisconsinites are horrified, but also uncertain about how this thing gets fixed in this state."

"If hundreds of Native tribes and nations can join together in solidarity to resist a dangerous threat to their identity, to their existence, to their freedom, so must members of the press everywhere in condemning attacks on a fellow journalist. This is no time for silence."

"If he wants to close Guantánamo, he can. He can now. Now. He can give order, close Guantánamo. He can close Guantánamo. But he coward. He can’t take this decision, because he scared.” - Former Guantánamo prisoner Abu Wa’el Dhiab

In a powerful interview, Winona LaDuke links historic oil extraction on tribal land to intergenerational trauma among Native Americans: "90 percent of my community, generally, I would say, is just trying to survive."

"In 2008, Trump went in and actually trademarked his name in Russia. And the way he does his international business is by basically selling the rights to his name, so that other developers can slap it on their businesses."

Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald: "If Donald Trump wins this election and his company is not immediately shut down or forever severed from the Trump family, the foreign policy of the United States of America could well be for sale."

Edward Snowden on the Espionage Act: "This World War I-era law does not distinguish between those who freely give critical information to journalists in the public interest or spies who sell it to a foreign power for their own."

Snowden's supporters have launched a new call for President Obama to offer Snowden clemency, a plea agreement or a pardon before the end of his term. What do you think?

Amy Goodman: "We will fight this charge. Freedom of the press is essential to the functioning of a democratic society. North Dakota, muzzle the dogs, not the press."

"I am calling on President Obama today to ensure that this pipeline gets a full environmental and cultural impact analysis." - Bernie Sanders

"I am unendingly relieved," says Chelsea Manning. "I hope this sets a precedent for the thousands of trans people behind me hoping they will be given the treatment they need."