Human Traffic: The refugee and immigration crisis of the Middle East and Europe came into focus yesterday when the decomposing bodies of at least 71 smuggled migrants were found abandoned in a truck by the side of an Austrian highway. A highway worker reported the presence of the truck with Hungarian plates parked in the emergency lane for several days.

Fifty-nine men, eight women and four children are presumed to have suffocated. Authorities believe they were Syrians.

The discovery came just as European leaders were meeting to talk about the flood of migrants crossing the Mediterranean and entering Europe. Also yesterday a boat capsized off Libya, killing a possible 200 migrants.

In the Austrian incident, three Bulgarian men thought to have been involved with the truck have been detained in Hungary. Authorities say the truck was likely used by a human smuggling operation either based in or passing through Hungary.

Nation: Three separate video investigative teams hired by Planned Parenthood say the “sting” videos shot by an anti-abortion group were edited and altered in a way that wouldn’t hold up in the court, the organization says.

According to the company Fusion GPS, all the five videos that purport to portray Planned Parenthood representatives talking about the illegal sale of fetal tissue were altered to make the organization look like it’s doing something its executives say they are not.

The videos have been used by Republican members of Congress and Presidential candidates in a campaign to take federal money away from Planned Parenthood.

Gunfire: Only hours after his television reporter daughter Alison was murdered on live television Wednesday, Andy Parker was calling for stricter gun laws. Although he said he is a supporter of the Second Amendment, Parker said on Fox News, “I’m going to do something, whatever it takes, to get gun legislation, to shame people, to shame legislators into doing something about closing loopholes and background checks. This is not the last you’ve heard of me. This is something that is Alison’s legacy that I want to make happen.”

Reality: Christian reality television star Josh Duggar has checked into a “long-term treatment center” after the revelation that he was a customer of the Ashley Madison adultery hookup website. The former star of “19 Kids and Counting” is married with four children. A statement from his parents said he had hurt his family and, “He has also brought great insult to the values and faith we hold dear.”

The Obit Page: Darryl Dawkins, the first player to jump directly from high school to the NBA, and whose powerful dunks smashed Plexiglas backboards, has died at age 58. At age 18 he was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers. He played 15 years of pro ball with the 76ers, the New Jersey Nets, the Utah Jazz and, the Detroit Pistons.

BookBeat: The investigative team that became famous in the Stieg Larsson novel “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” is returning to the bookstore in the new novel “The Girl in the Spider’s Web.” Of course, it wasn’t written by Larsson, who died of a heart attack at age 50 in 2004. Reviewers say Swedish journalist David Lagercrantz has done a credible job stepping in for the late creator of the crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the angry tattooed hacker Lisbeth Salander. It’s dreary socialist Sweden with the American National Security Agency as the villain. The NSA is the new SMERSH.

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