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LONDON — He said he felt sorrow and betrayal. He begged, and he blamed. With Greece’s future in Europe on the line, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker pulled off an emotional tour de force Monday as he sought to talk the country down from its perch at the edge of the abyss.Read full article >>

The Supreme Court on Monday put a temporary hold on a Texas law that would have led to the closures of all but a handful of the state’s abortion clinics.The law, which was to go into effect Wednesday, requires clinics to adhere to strict, hospital-like facilities requirements. Just nine of the approximately 20 clinics in the state would have met that requirement, abortion rights groups have said.Read full article >>

New guidelines issued Monday for the treatment of strokes recommend that doctors use a device that can grab and remove blood clots, along with a clot-dissolving drug, when certain people suffer life-threatening blockages of blood to their brains.Read full article >>

CAIRO — A powerful car bomb killed Egypt’s top prosecutor Monday in a high-profile assassination that underscored the apparently expanding reach of militants and their ability to mount a sophisticated strike against a well-protected senior official.Read full article >>

(This post has been updated.)NBCUniversal announced Monday that it would no longer be working with Donald Trump, including on his hit reality show "The Apprentice."Following the lead of Spanish-language broadcaster Univision, which severed its partnership with Trump last week, NBC cited Trump's "recent derogatory statements" about Mexican immigrants.Read full article >>

The Supreme Court dealt a major blow on Monday to the Obama administration’s efforts to reduce emissions of toxic mercury from coal-burning power plants, saying federal regulators failed to properly consider the costs of pollution controls.Read full article >>

It started with a leak, just a little water on a hallway floor.That led to questions about bathtub installation, then sprinkler issues and finally allegations of improper fireproofing. Now all the residents of 3303 Water St. NW have to pack up their multimillion-dollar condominiums this summer and move out for repairs.Read full article >>

ATHENS — Greeks faced shuttered banks and a closed stock market Monday at the beginning of a fateful week that may determine whether they will be able to hold on to the euro currency.The blows from the breakdown in talks between Greece and its creditors also pummeled financial markets. Asian and European exchanges were down sharply, the euro slumped, and Wall Street plummeted, with Greece less than 24 hours away from being unable to pay its bills.Read full article >>

French police detained two Uber executives in the latest crackdown on the company's ride-hailing app.Police brought in Thibaud Simphal, the manager of Uber France, and Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, the general manager for Western Europe, for questioning, according to a report from Reuters. Other outlets, including Agence France-Presse and the Associated Press also reported sources saying that two managers were picked up, but did not name the executives.Read full article >>

Bristol Palin would like to set a few things straight.The 24-year-old, who announced that she was pregnant with her second child last week, recently made clear on her personal blog that this new baby was definitely “planned.”Read full article >>

The Supreme Court passed on a chance to expand the constitutional protections enjoyed by members of Congress.The justices on Monday declined without comment the case of former congressman Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.), who recently began a three-year federal prison term after being convicted on 17 counts including wire fraud, extortion and money laundering. Prosecutors said Renzi, who served from 2003 to 2009, used his office to press parties involved in a federal land deal to do business with a friend who owed him hundreds of thousands of dollars... Читать дальше...

Marco Rubio was 28 when he was elected to the Florida legislature. He was about to become a father and was struggling to balance the financial demands of a growing family with his political aspirations. Read full article >>

The governor of Puerto Rico has decided that the island cannot pay back more than $70 billion in debt, setting up an unprecedented financial crisis that could rock the municipal bond market and lead to higher borrowing costs for governments across the United States.Read full article >>

The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 on Monday that independent commissions may draw electoral district lines, saying that the people have a right to try to make the congressional redistricting process less partisan.Read full article >>

The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 on Monday to uphold a procedure used by states to carry out executions by lethal injection. The justices were considering a challenge brought by death-row inmates in Oklahoma, who allege that the use of a sedative called midazolam has resulted in troubling executions that violate the Constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Problematic executions in Oklahoma and elsewhere have captured national headlines since early last year.Read full article >>

More than a decade ago, the music industry was in crisis. Songs were being passed around the Internet illegally free of charge. CD sales were in decline. So major labels and musicians embraced Apple, which convinced consumers to open their wallets again by buying digital songs through iTunes.Read full article >>

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether the University of Texas’s race-conscious admissions plan is constitutional.Two years ago, the court voted 7 to 1 to send the plan back for further judicial view and told the lower court to apply the kind of rigorous evaluation that must accompany any government action that considers race.Read full article >>

On Tuesday, June 30, at a moment before 8 p.m. Eastern time, the entire planet will get a bonus second. “Leap” seconds aren't a new thing — they used to come around about once a year, starting in 1972, but they've become less common in the past few. The leap second is your periodic reminder that time as we know it is but a construct and that everything you know is a lie. Or that the Earth is gradually slowing down, anyway.Read full article >>

Martha Stewart Living set the agenda for homemaking for decades. A model turned stockbroker (turned caterer, turned author, turned retail consultant, turned talk show host), Stewart was a 20th century authority on simple, do-it-yourself, classy quality.Read full article >>

Global markets were diving Monday morning after Greece closed its banks and appeared increasingly likely to miss a critical debt payment on Tuesday, potentially setting off a default that could lead to the country's exit from the eurozone. Yet while economists say the Greek crisis would certainly be a roadblock for the U.S. economic recovery and a setback for the global economy, it may not be a disaster unless it sparks a broader panic.Read full article >>

ATHENS — Greek citizens on Monday woke to shuttered banks and a closed stock market at the beginning of a fateful week that may determine whether they will be able to hold on to the euro currency. European markets were tumbling sharply after Greek leaders early Monday closed banks for six business days and imposed strict limits on ATM withdrawals, in a bid to stem bank failures as an international bailout was set to expire Tuesday. Greece’s creditors and its leaders were poised to keep talking about... Читать дальше...

ATHENS — Greek leaders planned to shutter their banks for six business days starting Monday and impose strict limits on ATM withdrawals amid rising global concerns about the nation’s economic future.Sunday’s decision to declare a bank holiday was a signal that Greece’s five-year battle to stay in the shared euro currency may swiftly be coming to an end, as leaders elsewhere urged steps to find a way to avoid that. Panicked citizens tried to pull their money from their accounts while they still could. Читать дальше...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton  (R) on Sunday advised county clerks, magistrates and others who have religious objections to same-sex marriage that they may opt out of providing services to same-sex couples seeking marriage licenses.Read full article >>

The governor of Puerto Rico has decided that the island cannot pay back more than $70 billion in debt, setting up an unprecedented financial crisis that could rock the municipal bond market and lead to higher borrowing costs for governments across the United States.Read full article >>