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VIENNA — The United States and other world powers reached a historic agreement with Iran here Tuesday, aimed at preventing the Islamic republic from building a nuclear weapon in return for the lifting of sanctions that have isolated the country and hobbled its economy. Read full article >>

“I thought it might be funny for me to ghost ‘Pearls [Before Swine]’ sometime, just to flip it all on its head. It was just a silly idea.” — Bill Watterson to Comic Riffs, June 2014“The times have lightened. It’s a good time for silliness.” — Berkeley Breathed to Comic Riffs, July 2015Read full article >>

THE HISTORIC agreement announced by the United States and its partners with Iran on Tuesday offers the welcome prospect that, for the next 15 years, the Islamic republic will be restrained from producing a nuclear weapon. According to President Obama, it also opens “a different path” for a country that has been a determined American enemy for 35 years, “one of tolerance and peaceful resolution of conflict . . . more integration into the global economy, more engagement with the international community.”... Читать дальше...

The mother and uncle of a 9-year-old boy who died after he was handcuffed and beaten for eating birthday cake without permission have been charged with murder and child abuse in connection with his death, law enforcement authorities said.Read full article >>

JERUSALEM — Israeli leaders across the political spectrum condemned in stark apocalyptic language the Iranian nuclear pact announced by the United States and world powers Tuesday, calling it a historic mistake that frees Iran to sponsor global terror while assembling the expertise to build a nuclear bomb.Read full article >>

In the past few days, Americans have become aware that convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera -- a man better known as"El Chapo" ("Shorty" in English) --has once again escaped from a Mexican prison.Read full article >>

ATHENS — Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras scrambled on Tuesday to hold his government together a day after striking a cash-for-cuts deal with European creditors that some within his radical leftist party consider a grievous betrayal.Read full article >>

NEW YORK — Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley says that if elected he would take expansive executive actions to limit deportations and make other changes to what he calls the nation’s “inhumane” immigration system.Read full article >>

Cheers from hundreds of engineers, scientists and their families broke out early Tuesday morning at a laboratory in Maryland as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft finally reached Pluto after a 91/2-year mission.Read full article >>

As the world and Congress examine the Iran deal’s fine print, the strategic large print is clear enough. “[President] Obama wants this [deal] as a centerpiece of his legacy,” an anonymous U.S. diplomat is quoted as saying, “and he believes a peaceful Iran could be a bulwark against ISIS in the Middle East and the key to peace there.” Read full article >>

The debate over the future of the Iranian nuclear program quickly moved from the negotiating tables of Vienna to the halls of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, as skeptical lawmakers began taking stock of a deal they will have roughly two months to review and possibly reject. Read full article >>

VIENNA — A historic agreement Tuesday to limit Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief will ensure Iran has no possibility to achieve rapid nuclear weapons “breakout” capabilities for at least the next decade, U.S. leaders said.Read full article >>

With any luck, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just made its closest pass by Pluto. At 7:49 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, the probe — which took off from Earth over nine years ago — was meant to be slipping past Pluto, marking humankind’s first encounter with the dwarf planet.Read full article >>

After more than two weeks of wrangling and missed deadlines in Vienna, Iran and its international interlocutors have finally clinched a historic accord over Tehran's nuclear program. The diplomacy with Iran, which throughout has had its vociferous opponents, was aimed at curbing the Islamic Republic's ability to produce a nuclear weapon. A tentative framework was inked in April between Iran and its negotiating partners, which include the United States, Russia, Britain, France, China and Germany.Read... Читать дальше...

ATHENS — A day after Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras capitulated in Brussels to keep the euro zone together, he struggled Tuesday to keep his government from splitting apart amid growing backlash to the punishing terms of the rescue package.Read full article >>

JERUSALEM -- Israeli leaders across the political spectrum condemned in stark apocalyptic language the Iranian nuclear pact announced by the United States and world powers Tuesday, calling it a historic mistake that frees Iran to sponsor global terror while assembling the information and materials to build a nuclear weapon.Read full article >>

Enrique Peña Nieto was looking good, as usual.His thick head of dark hair was smoothed back. His trim figure was packed into an elegant suit and tie. And the handsome face that had won over Mexicans — 38 percent of them at least — 18 months ago now gleamed in the center of the television camera’s frame, just between a tricolor flag and a book simply titled: Mexico.Read full article >>

When headstones on the graves of fallen servicemen crack or fade with age, they’re hauled away to be honorably destroyed. Then the Department of Veterans Affairs replaces them.But at a veterans cemetery in Rhode Island, an employee who was supposed to be taking care of the graves pillaged more than 150 granite headstones, many of them still inscribed with the names of the veterans. Then he took the markers home to build a floor for his carport.Read full article >>

WAUKESHA, Wis. — In a time of polarized politics, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker offers no quarter, no retreat and no respite. He is a Midwesterner who may lack the charisma of others in the race but whose message is designed to rouse his party’s base in ways others may not. He is a paradox: colorless and unflappable, but a warrior still.Read full article >>

Officials in Dent County, Mo., are very upset. Not just upset — they feel “sadness, shame and outright revulsion,” in the words of the county’s Presiding Commissioner Darrell Skiles (R).“I had this feeling like when someone near and dear has passed away,” the commissioner told Buzzfeed. “Not the same, but similar.”Read full article >>

Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” goes on sale Tuesday — you may have heard — but the puzzle around the publication of the book isn’t clearing up anytime soon.The shocking revelation in the book is that in “Watchman,” set in the late 1950s, about 15 years after the iconic “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Atticus Finch has devolved from being a heroic lawyer to a petty bigot.Read full article >>

The Pentagon announced Monday that it will allow transgender members of the military to serve openly starting next year, marking an end to a long-standing policy that barred them from the armed forces.Read full article >>

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, whose time at the ramparts against Democrats and labor unions made him a national conservative hero, announced his presidential candidacy Monday, vowing to bring his combative style and an outsider’s perspective to the White House.Read full article >>

CINCINNATI — Everybody at the All-Star Game notices baseball has gotten radically younger in recent years. This year’s squads continue the theme with 20 players who are 25 or younger for Tuesday’s game. But some of the game’s best players, including Washington’s Bryce Harper and Max Scherzer, think another conclusion is coming into focus: Baseball is also getting more demanding and just plain better.Read full article >>

The judge settled his gaze on the homeless man accused of sleeping beside an office building in downtown Washington.It was a Saturday afternoon in early April at D.C. Superior Court, and Alfred Postell, a diagnosed schizophrenic, stood before Judge Thomas Motley. Read full article >>