Nation: The release of a dashcam video showing the arrest of a 28-year-old Texas woman who died three days later in jail has only compounded questions about her death. Sandra Bland was stopped for failure to signal and was arrested during an escalating argument with a state trooper.

But the video has anomalies suggesting it was altered and edited. Passing cars and people suddenly disappear and sometimes reappear while the audio continues.

Things went badly when Bland, still sitting in her car, refused to put out her cigarette and the trooper threatened her with his Taser shouting, “I will light you up.” Three days later Bland was found hanging in her jail cell. Jail authorities say she committed suicide, but her death is being investigated as a homicide.

Permawar: The Pentagon says an important leader of the Khorasan Group, an al Qaeda offshoot in Syria, was killed July 8 by an air strike while riding in a vehicle in Syria. Muhsin al-Fadhli, 34, was believed to have been among the handful of al Qaeda leaders who knew in advance about the Sept. 11 attacks.

Nation: A federal appeals court in Chicago threw out 5 of 18 corruption charges against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The court found in one instance that Blago did not break the law when he offered to appoint President Obama’s aide Valerie Jarrett to the president’s empty Senate seat in exchange for Blagojevich being appointed to Obama’s cabinet. That’s a political practice known as “log rolling,” which sounds like it should be illegal but isn’t. Originally sentenced to 14 years in prison, Blagojevich might have his sentence reduced.

The Apple Business: Apple computer sold 30 percent more iPhones than it did in the first three months of last year, and profits shot up 38 percent, but the company stock took a dive yesterday because investors are worried that the iWatch isn’t selling. Apple won’t give numbers, so the number for the day was 6, the percentage that Apple stock dropped. That’s $62 billion.,

The Obit Page: EL Doctorow, the prolific and award winning novelist who wrote “Ragtime,” “Billy Bathgate,” and “The March,” has died of lung cancer in Manhattan at age 84. Doctorow wrote stories that were a mixture of fact and fiction, populated by real historical characters intermingling in fiction. He rose to fame on “Ragtime,” a novel written in a style paced like the popular jazzy piano music of the time leading into World War 1.

>Theodore Bikel, the durable actor who did 2,000 performances as the singing Jewish peasant Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof,” died in Los Angeles at age 91. Bikel was the original Baron von Trapp in the Broadway production of “The Sound of Music” and went on to have a long career in television and the movies.

BookBeat: A series of drawings found in a drawer by the wife of the late “Dr. Seuss” is about to be published under the title “What Pet Should I Get?” 24 years after the death of the author Theodore Geisel. His books “The Cat in the Hat” and “Green Eggs and Ham” are staples of childhood reading. “What Pet” is 16 black and white drawings with a story written by Geisel about choices.

Limited Seating: With time ticking down to the first Republican presidential debate on August 5^th, host network Fox News is faced with winnowing 26 candidates down to 10 who have enough juice in the polls to be considered anything close to a serious candidate. Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio — they’re all in. But it’s unlikely you will see former NY Gov. George Pataki or South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham. Likewise former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.

Twelve of the candidates are people you likely have never heard from or about. Jim Hayden, Chris Hill, Michael Kinlaw, anyone? Anyone?