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The U.S. government is investigating several fires at predominantly black churches in the South.

Last week, several churches burned across Southern states in the U.S., including Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia. Additionally, a predominantly black church in Greeleyville, South Carolina, that was destroyed 20 years ago by Ku Klux Klan members, was on fire late last night, though the cause of the fire was still under investigation early Wednesday morning.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said that while three of the six fires that burned black churches last week are likely not hate crimes, the investigations are ongoing, BuzzFeed News’ Ema O'Connor reports. The ATF is required to investigate all church fires and bombings.

The fires happened less than a week after Dylann Roof killed nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

“I think the cause for alarm would be the proximity of these fires to the incident that occurred in Charleston,” an ATF source told BuzzFeed News. However, “based off of what fire investigators have found so far, there is no basis for a racial motivation,” ATF Public Information Officer Larry Priester said.

Greece became the first developed country to miss a debt payment to the International Monetary Fund.

At midnight Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund confirmed that Greece missed the deadline to repay its $1.7 billion debt, sending the country into deeper financial turmoil. Greece joins “some of the world’s poorest and worst governed nations, including Iraq, Sudan, Somalia and Zimbabwe,” a few of the countries that have missed IMF payments, according to the New York Times.

Demonstrators gather in front of the Greek Parliament.

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On Sunday, Greeks will vote on whether to accept the terms of a proposed bailout deal, though many say the vote is effectively a vote on Greece’s European Union membership. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has urged voters to not accept saying it would give him more leverage in negotiations, but the Financial Times on Wednesday reported that Tsipras told creditors he would be open to the bailout.

And a little extra.

BuzzFeed News’ Jim Waterson went to the streets of Athens to ask more than a dozen people what they think about Sunday’s vote. “Almost everyone, regardless of which way they intend to vote, wanted both an end to austerity measures and to remain in the European Union,” Waterson writes.

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And we’ll just leave this here: Greece’s debt crisis as explained through “Grease” GIFs.

WE’RE KEEPING AN EYE ON

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie entered the 2016 U.S. presidential race, and Hillary Clinton’s emails and Jeb Bush’s tax returns were released.

Here’s what you need to know:

• New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is the 14th Republican to enter the presidential race. Christie has faced political fallout from the “Bridgegate” scandal.

• The State Department released thousands of pages of Hillary Clinton’s emails last night in the first of the big releases. The emails show a number of top-level officials knew of and emailed Clinton at her personal address. The department is expected to release Clinton’s emails in batches this year, concluding in January 2016.

• Jeb Bush released 33 years of tax returns, showing his personal wealth has “skyrocketed” earning $28 million sinc