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In a gesture that fused her campaign’s aggressive social-media outreach to younger voters with her solidarity with the gay rights movement, Hillary Rodham Clinton has offered reassurance and support to an apprehensive gay youth.Read full article >>

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who last week announced his long-shot bid for the Republican presidential nomination, faces many challenges: a crowded and still-expanding field, scant support in national GOP polls, and voters in early primary states unsure about his sharp tongue and skeptical about his conservative bona fides.Read full article >>

NEITHER triceps nor triceratops could keep an emotional movie from rescuing at least one Pixar streak.Prior to “Inside Out,” each of Pixar’s 14 films had reached No. 1 at the box office. But for two straight weeks, the studio’s latest animated release had been unable to topple the record-breaking “Jurassic World” by most benchmarks.Read full article >>

The financial crisis in Greece has upended the lives — and livelihoods — of residents of the Mediterranean nation. The shutdown of the banking system has resulted in long lines at ATMs to withdraw a daily maximum of just 60 euros, about $67. Citizens have stockpiled food and fuel, leading to empty shelves at grocery stores and crowded gas stations. Business leaders have warned that shortages of crucial medicines could be next.Read full article >>

VIENNA — Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Sunday tamped down growing optimism that agreement on a nuclear deal with Iran is near, saying that negotiations “can go either way” as a Tuesday deadline approached.Read full article >>

ATHENS — After five months of bitter backroom talks and poisonous public smack-downs between officials in Greece and Europe, the fate of this nation-on-the-brink shifted into the hands of the Greek people on Sunday.Read full article >>

This post has been updated.Ted Cruz's presidential campaign has raised just over $14.2 million since announcing in mid-March, and its allied super PAC claims it has raised $37 million -- bringing the Texas Republican's haul to a hefty $51.2 million.Read full article >>

Tens of thousands of Seventh-day Adventists are meeting this week to face an issue as divisive as any in the Protestant group’s 152-year history: Does the Bible allow women to be ordained as clergy?The question has special complexity for Adventists, who to this day revere one of their founders who saw visions, a writer named Ellen White who is described in documents from her lifetime as “ordained.”Read full article >>

VIENNA — Nervous excitement vied with exhaustion as diplomats here entered the final hours of more than 18 months of negotiations that will either establish a new relationship between Iran and global powers, or collapse amid recriminations and threats to world peace.Read full article >>

It's decision day.After five years of bailouts, budget battles and a battered economy, Greece is on the brink of becoming the first country to leave the euro zone.If it seems as if you've been hearing some variation of that for a while now, that's because you have. This time might be different, though, since all the bad things people had only worried would happen are happening. Greece's government last week missed a critical debt payment to the International Monetary Fund, its banks have been forced to close... Читать дальше...

ATHENS — After five months of bitter backroom talks and poisonous public smack-downs between officials in Greece and Europe, the fate of this nation-on-the-brink shifted into the hands of the Greek people on Sunday.Read full article >>

Not the rain, not the seas of mud nor the sopping-wet grass could prevent a huge, eager and enthusiastic crowd from gathering on the Mall on Saturday night to celebrate the country’s birthday by watching and cheering at the annual fireworks show.Read full article >>

URBANDALE, Iowa — As this state’s most visible culture warriors, Bob Vander Plaats and Donna Red Wing have hurled insults at each other for years.Vander Plaats’s organization, The Family Leader, has derided same-sex marriages such as Red Wing’s as “unnatural.” Red Wing, leader of the LGBT rights group One Iowa, has called Vander Plaats “bigoted” and “cruel.”Read full article >>

They crowd downtown sidewalks, and their charter buses block the streets. They pester the locals for directions. Worst of all, they stubbornly refuse to learn to stand on the right, walk on the left on Metro escalators.Read full article >>

GORHAM, N.H. — For Hillary Rodham Clinton, walking in Saturday’s Fourth of July parade in this mountain hamlet was supposed to showcase the sometimes-stiff candidate as accessible and in touch with the people — a champion for everyday Americans, as the Democratic presidential front-runner likes to put it.Read full article >>

BASTROP, Texas — The office of the Bastrop County Republican Party is in an old lumber mill on Main Street, with peeling brown paint and a sign out front that captures the party’s feelings about the Obama administration: “WISE UP AMERICA!”Read full article >>

TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia’s president declared a state of emergency on Saturday in response to a second deadly attack on foreigners in three months, saying the country is “not safe” and risks collapse from further extremist attacks.Read full article >>

A pelting, late-afternoon storm Saturday disrupted Fourth of July celebrations across the Washington region, as thousands descended on the Mall for what they hoped would be a dazzling fireworks display.Read full article >>

The Gallup organization reported its latest findings on party identification late last week, and the report contained good news for the Democrats and a flashing yellow for Republicans.The Democrats “have regained an advantage” over the GOP in party affiliation, Gallup’s Jeffrey M. Jones wrote in an accompanying analysis. Republicans, he added, “have seemingly lost the momentum they had going into last fall’s elections.”Read full article >>

When Jamie Tyrone found out that she carries a gene that gives her a 91 percent chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease beginning around age 65, she sank into a depression so deep that at times she wanted to end her life. Read full article >>

The worst of the storms appears to be over, but they left behind a muddy mess.