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 …

Nation: The release of a dashcam video showing the arrest of a 28-year-old Texas woman who died three days later in jail has only compounded questions about her death. Sandra Bland was stopped for failure to signal and was arrested …

Greece: Banks opened today after three weeks of closure and Greeks woke up to a stiffly higher Value Added Tax of 23 percent on goods and services. The daily cash withdrawal limit of $65 has been raised to a weekly …

Nation: An American sailor has died of his injuries suffered in the Chattanooga mass shooting, bringing the number of dead to six, including the gunman. Randall Smith of Ohio was 24. Investigators are looking into what the Chattanooga shooter did …

Guilty: Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes now faces a hearing on whether he should be sentenced to death. In 12 hours of deliberations a Colorado jury found Holmes sane and guilty of murder yesterday. It took the judge an …

NukeDeal: President Obama spent more than an hour speaking to reporters yesterday, often speaking off the cuff, explaining and selling the Iran nuclear deal. In his prepared remarks he said, “With this deal, if Iran violates its commitments, there will …

Drachma Drama: Greece’s Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis accuses his country’s creditors of “terrorism” on the eve of a national vote on whether to accept a new bailout. “Why did they force us to close the banks?” he asked in an …

Greek Fire: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras pulled a double-reverse yesterday, urging Greeks again to vote “no” Sunday to a European bailout deal that he had mostly agreed to 24 hours earlier. “A ‘No’ vote is a decisive step toward …

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. …

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 …