 | | Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece, right, with two of his ministers in Brussels today after a deal was announced. Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Associated Press | Your Monday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Breakthrough for Greece. |
| At a marathon session that ended early today, European leaders struck a deal meant to resolve Greece's debt crisis and avert a historic fracture in the Continent's common currency project. |
| The nation's third bailout in five years includes both "serious reforms and financial support," one participant said. |
| Greece still has a tortured road ahead. The plan now goes before Parliament in Athens, and talks on financial support from the International Monetary Fund begin. |
| • Deal or no deal. |
| If the final issues are resolved by negotiators for Iran and six world powers in the coming hours, a nuclear accord could be announced today. |
| Secretary of State John Kerry is hoping that an agreement would serve as a foundation for future diplomatic breakthroughs across the Middle East. |
| • At the White House. |
| President Obama speaks at the White House Conference on Aging, held once a decade, on the 50th anniversary of Medicare, Medicaid and the Older Americans Act. |
| • Where is Mexico's top drug lord? |
| The search is on for Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, who escaped from a maximum-security prison in central Mexico on Saturday. |
| He left through an opening measuring about 20 inches by 20 inches that had been dug from his shower and that led to a mile-long tunnel. It is his second escape. |
| He also faces indictments in at least seven American federal courts. |
| • Voting rights on trial. |
| A federal trial opening in North Carolina today is meant to determine whether sweeping changes in the state's election laws discriminate against black voters. |
| Legal experts say that the case, as well as one involving a Texas law requiring voters to show a photo ID, could help define voting rights across the country in the coming presidential election and beyond. |
| • Candidate No. 15. |
| Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin announces his candidacy for the 2016 Republican nomination for president this evening in Waukesha, Wis. He is already ahead in some opinion polls. |
| MARKETS |
| • Wall Street stock futures are up only modestly after the announcement of a Greek deal. |
| European shares advanced more than 1 percent, and Asian indexes mostly rose. |
| • Comcast, the largest U.S. cable TV operator, is starting a web-based video offering that includes a bundle of broadcast networks and the premium cable network HBO for $15 a month. |
| HBO, Showtime and CBS have also introduced à la carte streaming video offerings that do not require standard cable subscriptions. |
| • Sixteen companies — led by Starbucks and including CVS, Microsoft, Taco Bell, Target and Walmart — unveil a plan today to find jobs for 100,000 unemployed Americans ages 16 to 24 over the next three years. |
| • General Motors opens labor talks with the United Auto Workers union today, and Fiat Chrysler does so Tuesday, on contracts that expire in September. Ford starts later this month. |
| • Nintendo's chief executive, Satoru Iwata, died on Saturday at age 55, the company said. |
| OVER THE WEEKEND |
| • President Obama announced that he would designate new national monuments covering more than a million acres in California, Texas and Nevada, his latest use of executive power to preserve public land. |
| • Tens of thousands of people attended a ceremony observing the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia. Serbia's prime minister was chased away by the crowd. |
| • A report concluded that prominent psychologists worked closely with the C.I.A. to weaken dissent inside the agency over an interrogation program that included torture. |
| • Ellen Pao resigned as acting chief executive of the popular online message board Reddit. She lost a gender discrimination case this year against a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm. |
| • Pope Francis heads back to the Vatican today after his tour of three countries in South America, where he seemed to be asking for a social revolution. |
| • A major teachers union gave Hillary Rodham Clinton an early endorsement for president. She will present her economic vision in New York today. |
| • Donald J. Trump gave a fiery speech in front of a flag-waving crowd in Phoenix. |
| • Winners on grass: Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon. |
| • "Minions" took in about $115.2 million at the North American box office, one of the biggest weekend openings for an animated movie. |
| • Catching up on TV: Episode recaps for "True Detective" and the season premiere of "Masters of Sex." |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • A hip-hop Treasury secretary. |
| So what if the first U.S. Treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, gets removed from the $10 bill? |
| "Hamilton," a musical that begins previews tonight, has among the biggest advance ticket sales in Broadway history. |
| • Screen addiction. |
| The documentary "Web Junkie," highlights the harmful effects of video games on teenagers who become hooked (10 p.m. Eastern, PBS, but check local listings). |
| • Love the long ball? |
| Major League Baseball's Home Run Derby tonight (8 p.m. Eastern, ESPN) is part of the run-up to the All-Star Game on Tuesday in Cincinnati. |
| Here's our take on the best and the worst of baseball at the season's midway point. |
| • Click your heels three times... |
| The ruby red slippers Judy Garland wore in the "Wizard of Oz" (1939) were stolen about 10 years ago from a museum in her hometown, Grand Rapids, Mich. |
| Now there is a $1 million reward for them from an anonymous donor. |
| BACK STORY |
| Fifty-five years is surely a long time to wait for Tuesday's release of "Go Set a Watchman," Harper Lee's sequel of sorts (spoiler alert on link) to "To Kill a Mockingbird." |
| But readers will have to wait nearly twice as long to see 100 exclusive, secret works of literature. |
| That's the premise of the Future Library, a work of "public art" by the Scottish artist Katie Paterson. The project is gathering works from prominent authors that will remain unpublished and unread until 2114. |
| A new manuscript will be created every year between now and then. The prize-winning Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood made the first contribution in May. The best-selling British novelist David Mitchell is up next. |
| All the pages will be published using paper harvested from 1,000 trees that were recently planted in a forest outside Oslo. The works will be held in a room of a public library in that city. |
| Ms. Atwood gave us a literary crumb: "It's 'Scribbler Moon,' " she said of her work's title. "And that's the only part of it you will know for 100 years." |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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