The Big Sell: Greece’s primary stock market dove 22.87 percent this morning when trading resumed after the markets were closed for five weeks during the country’s financial crisis. It didn’t come as a surprise. By comparison, the biggest drop …

Executive Order: President Obama is expected tomorrow to announce tough new regulations to dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions by power plants. If they pass legal challenges, the regulations would probably shut down hundreds of coal-fired power plants that can’t meet …

Nation: A federal judge in San Francisco has agreed to block an anti-abortion group from releasing more sting videos purporting to show employees of Planned Parenthood discussing the illegal sale of aborted fetal tissue. The Center for Medical Progress had …

Ski Report: The International Olympic Committee has chosen the winter wonderland of Beijing for the 2022 winter games. Beijing will re-use the Bird’s Nest stadium and the Water Cube from its summer games for indoor events like hockey. The mountain …

Clue: A piece of airplane wing that washed up on a remote island east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean has been identified as probably coming from a Boeing 777, leading investigators to suspect it may have been a wing …

Permawar: Afghanistan is investigating reports that Mullah Muhammad Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Taliban, is dead. Omar has not been seen in public since before the Taliban regime was toppled in 2001. A breakaway group of the Taliban claims …

Scout’s Honor: The Mormon church is threatening to disconnect from the Boy Scouts of America after the organization ended it ban on gay Scout leaders. The Scouts had left a loophole for religiously affiliated chapters to choose leaders according to …

Permawar: The US, Turkey, and Syrian rebels plan military action to clear Islamic State fighters out of a 60-mile strip of Syria along Turkey’s southern border. The area would be established as a safe zone for Syrians escaping their country’s …

Out of Africa: President Obama delivered a flattering but tough speech in Nairobi today, telling Kenyans they’ve come a long way in the world but that they still need to clean out corruption, shore up their shaky democracy, and end …

Permawar: For the second day Turkish warplanes have hit Islamic State targets inside Syria as well as Kurdish PKK militants inside northern Iraq. Striking the Kurds complicates matters because they’ve been working with the coalition fighting the Islamic State, but …