 | | The South Carolina Senate votes again today on whether to remove the Confederate battle flag. Travis Dove for The New York Times | Your Tuesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • A divided eurozone. |
| As they gather for a summit meeting today in Brussels, eurozone leaders appear at odds over their push for austerity in Greece to combat its staggering international debts. |
| But Greece's main political parties are united behind Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's insistence that the country be given relief from its debt load, immediate help to keep banks afloat and new bailout money. |
| The Greek financial system remains locked down until Thursday. We are following developments live. |
| • Lowering the Confederate flag? |
| After today's final vote in the South Carolina Senate, legislation to remove the battle flag from the grounds of the State House goes before the State House of Representatives, where the outcome is less certain. |
| Less than a month ago, before the killings at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, removing the flag appeared politically impossible. |
| • On Capitol Hill. |
| The Senate considers a major bipartisan education bill that rewrites the No Child Left Behind law, President George W. Bush's signature education plan, by shifting responsibility for public school standards back to the states, rather than keeping them with the federal government. |
| Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter and Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testify this morning before Congress on the strategy against Islamic State militants. |
| • At the White House. |
| President Obama holds talks today with the head of Vietnam's Communist Party. The meeting is driven by the two countries' desire to forge an alliance that could counteract China's rising power. |
| Mr. Obama also awaits news from Vienna on whether Secretary of State John Kerry and other negotiators can strike a deal on Iran's nuclear program by midnight. |
| • The lives of the poor. |
| The final report on the Millennium Development Goals, a set of targets created 15 years ago by the U.N., shows that global poverty has dropped sharply. |
| World leaders are scheduled to adopt the U.N.'s next set of development goals by September. |
| • Racial imbalance. |
| A study out today shows that 66 percent of states that elect prosecutors have no African-Americans in those positions. |
| Many experts say that the lack of diversity of prosecutors has more influence than police officers over the legal system. |
| • Murder charges for Mexican migrant. |
| Francisco Sanchez, 45, from Mexico, is arraigned today in San Francisco in the shooting death of Kathryn Steinle, 32, at a sightseeing pier last week. |
| Mr. Sanchez had been deported five times, and his case is receiving extra attention because of the nation's continuing immigration debate. |
| MARKETS |
| • Samsung said today it most likely extended its two-year streak of shrinking profits in the second quarter. Sales also probably fell, the company said in its preliminary report. |
| • Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, is taking her husband's seat on the board of SurveyMonkey, the online survey and polling company. |
| Dave Goldberg died at age 47 in May while on vacation. |
| • A skinny version of Oreos debuts in the U.S. next week, its maker says. Four Oreo Thins contain 140 calories, compared with 160 calories for three regular Oreos. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are rising. European shares are slightly lower, and Asian indexes ended widely mixed. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Run for your life! |
| Three people were gored and 10 others injured as thousands of people in Pamplona, Spain, raced ahead of six bulls along a 930-yard course from a holding pen to the city's bull ring. |
| Today was the first of eight daily runs in the annual Festival of San Fermín. |
| • Swim for your life? |
| It's Shark Week, and tonight's TV lineup includes "Return of the Great White Serial Killer," "Bride of Jaws" and a rare search for sharks off Cuba (8 p.m. to midnight, Eastern, Discovery Channel). |
| • New to read. |
| Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. president, reflects at the age of 90 on his public and private life, in "A Full Life," released today. He begins a book tour today in New York. |
| • High-speed crash. |
| After a collision of bikes took down about 20 riders and injured several on Monday, Stage 4 of the Tour de France gets underway at 8 a.m. Eastern (NBCSN) today. |
| At 138.6 miles, the stretch from Seraing, Belgium, to Cambrai, France, is the longest of the race and includes eight miles of potentially treacherous cobblestone. The race ends July 26 in Paris. |
| • Britain's 7/7. |
| A service at St. Paul's Cathedral today commemorates the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed 52 people in London. |
| The attack by four suicide bombers linked to Al Qaeda was the worst single terrorist atrocity on British soil. |
| • In memoriam. |
| Jerry Weintraub, 77, the veteran music and movie manager, promoter and producer, died Monday in Santa Barbara, Calif. |
| He worked with Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Led Zeppelin, Steven Soderbergh, Robert Altman and Michael Douglas, among others. |
| BACK STORY |
| For the first time in 58 years, a new novel by Ayn Rand, the best-selling author and libertarian philosopher who died in 1982, is being published today. |
| Ms. Rand brought her principles of individualism and capitalism together in a credo she called objectivism, whose disciples today include Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Rand Paul, the Kentucky senator. |
| She used her major fictional works, "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead," to spread her views. |
| "Ideal," the book published today by the New American Library, is not exactly a treatise on self-interest. |
| A thriller set in Hollywood, it revolves around a movie actress, Kay Gonda, who is accused of murder and is on the run. Ms. Rand wrote the novel when she was 29 and trying to make a living doing studio work in Los Angeles. |
| But something about "Ideal" dissatisfied her, and she ended up reconfiguring it as a play. It was not produced until 1989, and made its New York debut in 2010 (to lukewarm reviews, at best). |
| The Ayn Rand Institute discovered the novel among her papers three years ago. Today's edition includes both the novel and the play. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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