Blame it on Rio: Just seven weeks from the opening of the summer Olympics, the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro is broke and the governor has declared a state of emergency. Public employees aren’t getting paid. Crime is rising because the cops don’t have gas for their cars.

The Rio de Janeiro state is heavily dependent on oil and gas revenue. Costs of hosting the Olympics have spiked while fuel prices are in the basement. The federal government is expected to prop up Rio through the Olympics. Gov. Francisco Dornelles said emergency measures are necessary to prevent “a total collapse in public security, health, education, transport and environmental management.”

Terror Bust: Belgian authorities say that dozens of raids across the country broke up a plot to attack soccer fans gathering to watch a televised match between the Irish and Belgian National teams. Forty people were taken in for questioning and three Belgians were charged with plotting to commit terrorist murder.

MP Murder: The man accused of murdering British Member of Parliament Jo Cox gave his name as “Death to traitors, freedom for Britain” in court yesterday. Thomas Mair, 52, refused to give his real name and address. The 41-year-old Cox was shot and stabbed to death.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremists, says Mair is a “white nationalist” who has bought literature on how to make guns and explosives from a neo-Nazi organization in the US.

Blame the Messenger: Russia has opened a criminal case against the former director of its anti-doping agency, after he said that his government had systematically provided performance-enhancing drugs to its Olympic athletes. Grigory Rodchenkov has publicly admitted that he helped to provide athletes with drugs and took part in the cover-up.

Social Page: The Clinton clan grew by one member yesterday. Chelsea Clinton had a second child, a son named Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky.

Hoop Dreams: The Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers play the final game of the NBA series tonight. Cleveland, powered by LeBron James with 181 points in six games, is trying to do something no team has ever done before; come back from three games behind to win the championship.

Miracle at Auction: Olympic gold medal hockey goalie Jim Craig has auctioned off the mask he wore during the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” victory over the Soviet Union for $137,849.16. He also put up his jersey, the American flag he draped over his shoulders after the gold medal game, and his gold medal, which didn’t fetch the $611,000 reserve price. Craig said he’s moving on in life and letting other people enjoy his memorabilia, but it sounds like he’s broke.

Ducktail: Garrison Keillor, the mild-mannered humorist of “A Prairie Home Companion,” writes for the Chicago Tribune about Donald Trump: “It is the most famous ducktail in America today, the hairdo of wayward youth of a bygone era, and it’s astonishing to imagine it under the spotlight in Cleveland, being cheered by Republican dignitaries. The class hood, the bully and braggart, the guy revving his pink Chevy to make the pipes rumble, presiding over the student council. This is the C-minus guy who sat behind you in history and poked you with his pencil and smirked when you asked him to stop. That smirk is now on every front page in America. It is not what anybody — left, right or center — looks for in a president. There’s no philosophy here, just an attitude.”

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