Newsletter: Today: How 1.1 Million OxyContins Made It to the Streets. Trying Times in Dallas.

I’m Davan Maharaj, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don’t want you to miss today.

TOP STORIES

How 1.1 Million OxyContins Made It to the Streets: What Purdue Pharma Knew

Inside Lake Medical’s leased office space near MacArthur Park, a doctor prescribed tens of thousands of highly addictive OxyContin pills each month. The drug’s maker, Purdue Pharma, tracked the surge in prescriptions, but it did not cut off the flow of pills or share what it knew with law enforcement for years. By then, 1.1 million pills had gone into the hands of Armenian mobsters, the Crips gang and other criminals. Read Part 2 of a Los Angeles Times investigation by reporters Harriet Ryan, Lisa Girion and Scott Glover that goes inside an L.A. drug ring and explains what Purdue knew.

More From The Times’ Investigation

-- How black-market OxyContin spurred a town’s descent into crime, addiction and heartbreak.

-- Watch the video explanation of how the L.A. drug ring worked.

-- Part 1: “You want a description of hell?” OxyContin’s 12-hour problem.

-- Have you or a loved one had an experience with OxyContin? Tell us here.

Trying Times in Dallas

On a day when Dallas’ police chief disclosed that last week’s shooter had bigger plans, a city shaken by violence looked for ways to move forward. At the black-majority Potter’s House megachurch, they remembered the shooting deaths of two black men by police in Minneapolis and Baton Rouge and the ambush in Dallas that killed five officers and wounded seven more plus two civilians. At a hospital, one of those civilians, Shetamia Taylor, recounted the terror of that night – and how, when the shooting started, she told her four sons to run.

Bill Clinton and the $1,400 Phone Bill

After Bill Clinton left the White House, his family was “dead broke” and deep in debt after lawyers’ fees, Hillary Clinton has said. That would change once the two of them got heavily into speechmaking for cash, to the eventual tune of $150 million. How did he do it? Records for a 2002 trip to the Bay Area involving a $1,400 hotel phone bill and $700 dinner for two give a glimpse.

Sanders’ Time to Step Aside?

A call to abolish the death penalty. An expansion of Social Security. A $15-per-hour federal minimum wage that would rise with inflation. Bernie Sanders didn’t get everything he wanted, but he did get some significant planks in the Democratic Party platform this weekend. Will he step aside, as many Democrats have made clear they want him to do? All we can say is keep an eye on Tuesday in New Hampshire.

Oscar Diversity: More Work to Be Done

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences wasn’t rebuilt in a day. Last month, it invited 683 people to join, its largest and most diverse class of invitees ever. To double the number of women and minorities by 2020, though, it still has ways to go. A Times analysis of the class of 2016 shows it’s already moved just over halfway toward its goal for nonwhites, but for women it’s only one-fifth of the way there. Why? Keep reading.

Life in an Irish Border Town

Two decades ago, the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland was marked with barbed wire, soldiers and watchtowers. These days, about the only way to tell the passing from one country to another is that the speed-limit signs switch from miles to kilometers. If Britain exits the European Union, that could change. “I can’t see them putting up checkpoints again,” says one farmer. “But then, no one knows exactly what’s going to happen.”

OUR MUST-READS FROM THE WEEKEND

-- Violence strikes across America. Will it change the presidential campaign?

-- Another financial crisis? Soaring global debt since 2008 raises risk as the world economy sputters.

-- “Respect is key”: Rappers the Game and Snoop Dogg led a unification march to LAPD headquarters and met with Chief Charlie Beck.

-- Selling secrets to the Russians? A Jason Bourne fan is arrested in a spy drama of his own.

-- A bon vivant artist who got death threats for spray painting a boulder in Joshua Tree has come clean.

-- As Japan’s population shrinks, bears and boars roam where schools and shrines once thrived.

-- Why the second movie is the biggest hurdle to becoming a filmmaker, especially for women and minorities.

-- Gay Talese’s book “The Voyeur’s Motel” got the author in hot water. But is it any good?

CALIFORNIA

-- Protesters shut down the 405 Freeway during a Black Lives Matter rally in Inglewood.

-- More than a month after taking place, the state’s primary is ending on a sour note.

-- The state has settled with an online charter school accused of false advertising.

-- A memorial is being planned to mark the 40-year anniversary of shootings at Cal State Fullerton.

-- How your Korean sashimi dinner gets here: From sea to tank to plate.

NATION-WORLD

-- A black man found hanging in an Atlanta park stirs fear and ugly memories.

-- Marijuana shops, forced to do business in cash, have become the targets of violent robberies.

-- A preacher who called 9/11 an “inside job” comes under scrutiny after the Bangladesh attack.

-- Japan’s ruling coalition wins the parliamentary election, opening the door to amend Japan’s postwar pacifist constitution.

-- Teens used the new, popular “Pokemon Go” app to rob people, police in Missouri said.

HOLLYWOOD AND THE ARTS

-- How the ballet world’s choreographer of the moment is still searching for his next move.

-- CNN is betting on Michaela Pereira to boost HLN and give the West Coast a live national morning show.

-- More women come forward as Fox News CEO Roger Ailes fights sexual harassment lawsuit by former anchor Gretchen Carlson.

-- “The Secret Life of Pets” chows down on “Finding Dory” and box office records.

-- Art world A-listers celebrated a woman who helped put L.A. on the art map.

BUSINESS

-- How millionaires under 40 manage their money.

-- Elon Musk tweets he might unveil a “Top Secret Tesla Masterplan” this week.

SPORTS

-- No “Brexit” for Andy Murray, who won his second Wimbledon title in four years.

-- Lakers rookie Ivica Zubac is living his dream of being an NBA player.

OPINION

-- George Skelton: The Dallas tragedy proves a good guy with a gun shouldn’t be the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun.

-- It’s time to tap the brakes on self-driving cars.

-- We should expand Social Security. Here’s how.

WHAT OUR EDITORS ARE READING

-- Profiles of each victim in the Dallas ambush. (The Dallas Morning News)

-- Behind the photo from Baton Rouge that’s become a social media phenomenon. (BBC)

-- Ever wanted to know which TV shows and movies the astronauts watch on the International Space Station? (Gizmodo)

ONLY IN CALIFORNIA

If you were governor for a weekend, what would you do? With Gov. Jerry Brown and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom both on vacation, Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León filled in and proclaimed July 8, 2016, to be “Vin Scully Day” in California. Yes, it just so happens that Dodger Stadium falls in his state Senate district. But he’s hardly the first acting governor to have some fun. Read on to see what Newsom did in 2013.

Please send comments and ideas to Davan Maharaj.