Targeted: Israel says it bombed a Gaza mosque used to store weapons, a move that’s likely to stoke the flames. A military statement said the militant networks, their weapons, and facilities, are embedded within civilian areas. The statement said the militants “systematically use mosques to conceal weaponry and establish underground tunnel networks, abusing the holy nature of these sites for their own terror-orientedagendas.”Palestinian officials say 127 people have been killed and hundreds wounded in a week of fighting. Israel has been hit by hundreds of rockets, but no one has been killed.

Quake: A 6.8 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, site of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The area is under tsunami watch.

In the Black: The federal government made more money than it spent in June, $70.5 billion, and the deficit is down 28 percent so far in the 2014 fiscal year. The deficit is $366 billion, big, but still it’s the smallest since 2008.

In the Red: President Obama’s request of $3.7 billion to deal with the immigration crisis is too much, according to the head of the House Appropriations Committee. Republicans also say that the money, however much they choose to spend, will have to come with changes that speed the return of unaccompanied minors to their home countries.

Black and White and Read: Actor George Clooney took on the British tabloid The Daily Mail this week, demanding the retraction of a story that said his fiancée’s Lebanese mother objects to his upcoming wedding on religious grounds. Clooney wrote in a response published in USA today that, “The irresponsibility, in this day and age, to exploit religious differences where none exist, is at the very least negligent and more appropriately dangerous.”

He said the story was made up and the paper begrudgingly took it off its website. Clooney is frequently the subject of tabloid fiction and he has gone to battle against the paparazzi. But as the son of a former television anchor he likes reporters … the real ones.

Hoop Dreams: LeBron James, the basketball star excoriated as a deserter when he left his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers four years ago, announced he’s leaving the Miami Heat and returning. The 29-year-old is considered the best basketball player of his generation. He left seeking the NBA championship that had eluded him in Cleveland, and he’s going back with two of them. In his announcement on the Sports Illustrated website James said, “My relationship with northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn’t realize that four years ago. I do now.”

The Obit Page:John Siegenthaler, the revered former editor of the Nashville Tennessean who steered the paper to a national reputation, has died at age 86. Under Siegenthaler the paper investigated the Ku Klux Klan and corruption in the Teamsters union. He was known as a gentle but firm editor who was a close confidante of the Kennedy family. Not many newspaper editors are beloved, but he was.

>Thomas Erdelyi, the drummer and last surviving member of the 1970s band The Ramones, who played by the name Tommy Ramone, has died at age 62. The loud and fast beat of The Ramones pioneered punk rock. The other three original Ramones, all of whom performed under the last name Ramone, died between 2001 and 2004.

Nice: LA Clippers Owner Donald Sterling, who claims he’s not mentally incapacitated, vowed in court this week that he will never sell the $2 billion franchise, despite the NBA’s vote to force the sale. Also, when his wife of 58 years brushed past him in court he blurted out, “Stay away from me you pig!”

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