Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the prime minister of Thailand, has been suspended by the country’s Constitutional Court pending an ethics investigation. A deadly border clash with Cambodia and a leaked phone call between Paetongtarn (pictured below) and Cambodian leader Hun Sen are behind the controversy. In the call, Paetongtarn referred to Thai military leaders as the “opposite side” and addressed Hun Sen as “uncle,” highlighting personal ties between their families. Paetongtarn’s father, Thaksin, served as prime minister but was ousted in 2006 and charged with corruption. Her aunt Yingluck also served as prime minister but was removed by court order in 2014. Tensions between the family and the Thai military were once kept in check by the popular King Bhumibol Adulyadej. But that stabilizing force was lost upon the 2016 ascension of his deeply unpopular son, Vajiralongkorn, whose peculiar antics—including traveling in public wearing a small midriff-baring tank top, and naming his poodle an air chief marshal—have caused concern throughout the land.

Sixty-one years ago today, U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, perhaps the most important U.S. law on civil rights since Reconstruction and a hallmark of the American civil rights movement. Today also marks a couple of notable birthday anniversaries. Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court justice, was born on this day in 1908. And Medgar Evers, the African American activist whose murder in 1963 received national attention and made him a martyr to the cause of civil rights, was born on July 2, 1925.