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LIVINGSTON, N.J. — In the late 1970s, Chris Christie played catcher for the Lancers baseball team here at Livingston High School. He was also elected class president three times. On Tuesday, Christie returned to his alma mater’s gymnasium to announce his long-shot bid for the Republican presidential nomination with a speech that fused his trademark pugnacity with a pragmatic pitch.Read full article >>

The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will consider next term whether public employees can be compelled to pay fees to unions they do not want to join, a provision that union leaders say is vital to their continued success.Read full article >>

The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will consider next term whether public employees can be compelled to pay fees to unions they do not want to join, a provision that union leaders say is vital to their continued success..Read full article >>

The story was chilling and heartbreaking: A 3-year-old boy was found dead on a swing set, his mother pushing him on the swing.More than a month after Ji’Aire Donnell Lee’s death, police revealed more of the terrible story: Lee was alive when his mother sat him down on the swing. He stayed on it for almost two whole days.Read full article >>

ATHENS — Greece’s financial lifelines appeared set to expire Tuesday after European Union finance chiefs decided not to grant a last-minute bailout extension to the Mediterranean nation that is nearly out of cash.Read full article >>

June 30 is the 107th anniversary of the biggest asteroid strike on the Earth in recorded history.In 1908, an asteroid measuring perhaps 90-190 meters across struck Siberia, damaging over 2,000 square kilometers of Russian forest — an area that measures larger than New York’s five boroughs. Scientists estimate that the energy of that explosion was about 1,000 times that of the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.Read full article >>

Megan Ferland told Seattle Metropolitan that the Girl Scouts of Western Washington were “thrilled” to pull in a $100,000 donation earlier this year.Thrilled! And who wouldn’t be? One hundred thousand dollars is quite the haul. So, yeah, the reaction was pretty big, too.Read full article >>

VIENNA —The deadline for an agreement in the Iran nuclear talks was officially pushed back by a week on Tuesday as negotiators extended a temporary accord that limits Iran’s nuclear program. Without the last-minute extension, the interim agreement known as the joint plan of action would have expired at midnight. By announcing a new timeline with just a few hours to spare, the negotiators made official what they have acknowledged privately for days — they could not make the June 30 deadline.Read full... Читать дальше...

VIENNA —The deadline for an agreement in the Iran nuclear talks was officially pushed back by a week on Tuesday, as negotiators extended a temporary accord that limits Iran’s nuclear program. Without the last-minute extension, the interim agreement known as the joint plan of action would have expired at midnight. By announcing a new timeline with just a few hours to spare, the negotiators made official what they have acknowledged privately for days — they could not make the June 30 deadline.Read... Читать дальше...

Misty Copeland made history on Tuesday when she was promoted to principal dancer of the prestigious American Ballet Theatre, becoming the first African-American ballerina to reach the elite dance company's top rank.Read full article >>

When the University of Missouri at Kansas City was looking for a celebrity speaker to headline its gala luncheon marking the opening of a women’s hall of fame, one of the names that came to mind was Hillary Rodham Clinton.Read full article >>

MEXICO CITY — One of the risks of having a business empire with tentacles encircling the globe is that if you refer to your business partners as drug-runners and rapists, there are plenty of people to get upset.Read full article >>

This story has been updated.LIVINGSTON, N.J. -- Chris Christie, a onetime rising Republican star whose political stock fell sharply after a traffic scandal involving former aides and appointees, announced Tuesday that he is running for president, casting himself as a candidate who can work with both political parties to ease the "anxiety" over government dysfunction he says has seized the American people.Read full article >>

KABUL — A suicide bomber targeted a convoy of NATO troops Tuesday on the road between the international airport and the U.S. Embassy here in the Afghan capital, police and a NATO official said. It was not clear how many people were killed or wounded in the early afternoon attack.Read full article >>

Last night President Obama announced — in an article on the Huffington Post — that he will raise the threshold for overtime pay in American workplaces. The new regulations are substantively important for the millions of workers who will be affected, and they’re politically important as well. Republicans are going to squawk, saying that this change will cost jobs and is another example of Obama’s tyrannical rule. But they can’t stop it, and they’re going to lose the argument as well.Read full article... Читать дальше...

If you pay for good health insurance, shouldn’t you be able to afford the medicine you need?For Kristin Agar, a 63-year-old social worker in Little Rock, Ark., this has not been the case.In 2008, Agar began experiencing strange symptoms. Her feet swelled, her joints ached, a rash appeared on her face, and every night she would get a fever that would disappear in the morning.Read full article >>

A 17-year-old who died in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola, the first case in the country since it was declared free of the virus in May.The patient died at home in the rural village of of Nedowian in Margibi County, which is close to Monrovia, the country's capital city and one of the epicenters of the epidemic several months ago. Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah told FrontPageAfrica that residents are under quarantine and food, medicines and other items will be airlifted into Nedowian.Read... Читать дальше...

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush plans to release 33 years of tax returns on Tuesday, according to campaign aides familiar with his plans.The documents will be released on Bush's campaign Web site and with their release, Bush will have published more personal tax information than any presidential candidate ever of either party. In 1996, Bob Dole published 30 years of tax returns; in 2008, Barack Obama released seven years of returns. Most recently, GOP candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney released... Читать дальше...

“What is zero divided by zero?”If you ask Siri this question in the iOS 8 operating system, the iPhone’s virtual assistant will cleverly tell you that you’re making no sense.“Imagine that you have zero cookies,” Siri’s response begins, “and you split them evenly among zero friends. How many cookies does each person get? See? It doesn’t make sense.Read full article >>

For many Americans, the Confederate battle flag is an unmistakable symbol of slavery and oppression.But for Karen Cooper, a black woman who was born in New York but later settled in Virginia, the flag embodies something else entirely.Read full article >>

One of the nation’s premier academic journals of accounting has retracted 25 articles co-authored by a once-renowned professor who specialized in corporate ethics but was later accused of “fabricating” data.Read full article >>

One of the nation’s premier academic journals of accounting has retracted 25 articles co-authored by a once-renowned professor who specialized in corporate ethics but was later accused of “fabricating” data.Read full article >>

The Washington Post will begin encrypting parts of its Web site Tuesday, making it more difficult for hackers, government agencies and others to track the reading habits of people who visit the site.The added security will immediately apply to The Post’s homepage as well as stories on the site’s national security page and the technology policy blog The Switch. The encryption will roll out to the rest of the site over the coming months.Read full article >>

President Obama said Monday that he wants to require overtime pay for salaried workers who make up to $50,400 a year, a proposal that the White House estimates will cover nearly 5 million workers.The changes would go into effect in 2016 and would replace current overtime regulations, which require overtime pay for salaried workers making less than $23,660 a year. “Right now too many Americans are working long days for less pay than they deserve,” Obama wrote in a Huffington Post op-ed announcing the proposal. Читать дальше...

President Obama said Monday that he wants to require overtime pay for salaried workers who make up to $50,400 a year, a proposal that the White House estimates will cover nearly 5 million workers.The changes would go into effect in 2016 and would replace current overtime regulations, which require overtime pay for salaried workers making less than $23,660 a year. “Right now too many Americans are working long days for less pay than they deserve,” Obama wrote in a Huffington Post op-ed announcing the proposal. Читать дальше...