The Supremes: The court issued rapid-fire decisions yesterday on executions, voting districts, air pollution, and Texas abortion clinics. The court gave Oklahoma the go-ahead to use an execution sedative that three inmates had argued is insufficient to avoid excruciating pain. …

Drachma Drama: About a third of Greece’s ATM’s ran out of money yesterday after Greeks rushed to the banks in response to the latest developments in the country’s credit crisis. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called for a quick national …

So Ordered: Same sex marriages began almost immediately yesterday in states where it had been illegal before the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling upholding marriage as a universal right. It could go down as one of the most monumental decisions in …

Developing: French authorities are investigating after at least two attackers stormed a factory near Lyon, France today in what appears to be a terrorist incident. Witnesses report explosions and seeing a man waving an Islamic flag. A decapitated body has …

The Bomber: At his formal death sentencing yesterday, Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev apologized for the first time saying, “I am sorry for the lives that I’ve taken, for the suffering that I’ve caused you, for the damage that I’ve …

Stars and Bars: The movement to cast out the Confederate flag is quickly growing. So far the big retailers Walmart, Sears, Amazon, eBay and Etsy all say they won’t sell the flag or merchandise that features it. In Charleston yesterday …

Stars and Barred: South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley yesterday called for the Confederate flag to be taken down from its mast on the capitol grounds. “We are not going to allow this symbol to divide us any longer. The fact …

World: A Taliban attack on the Afghan Parliament began today with a car bomb outside the building and evolved into a prolonged firefight. Police say all six Taliban gunmen were killed and about a dozen civilians injured. The attack was …

Stars and Bars: Last week’s racist massacre in a Charleston, SC church produced the usual calls for gun control, but louder voices might be for taking down the Confederate flag from the statehouse. Its defenders say the Stars and Bars …

Charleston: Relatives of the Charleston church shooting victims spoke emotionally yesterday at the bond hearing for 21-year-old Dylann Roof, who is charged with nine racially motivated murders. Felicia Sanders, the mother of 26-year old Tywanza Sanders, who was killed, said …