FINANCIAL TIMES: Greece’s parliament on Thursday backed a slew of fresh austerity measures demanded by the country’s creditors, clearing the way for talks to begin on a fresh €86bn bailout package to prevent the country crashing out of the eurozone… “I was blackmailed, there were no good options and I chose the least bad, the […]

SLATE COLUMN: …What worries these critics most is not that Iran might enrich its uranium into an A-bomb. (If that were the case, why would they so virulently oppose a deal that put off this prospect by more than a decade?) No, what worries them much more deeply is that Iran might rejoin the community […]

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE COLUMN: In her first public comments in months, Attorney General Kathleen Kane acknowledged Tuesday that her attorneys met with a district attorney investigating her for leaking secret information to a newspaper… Kane spoke about the investigation into her actions during a news conference at which she announced hundreds of criminal charges against former […]

FINANCIAL TIMES: The International Monetary Fund has sent a strong signal that it may walk away from Greece’s new bailout programme, arguing that it will not be able to participate if European creditors do not offer Athens substantial debt relief. .. In the three-page memo, sent to EU authorities at the weekend and obtained by […]

NEW YORK TIMES COLUMN: …“We are not measuring this deal by whether it is changing the regime inside of Iran,” said the president. “We’re not measuring this deal by whether we are solving every problem that can be traced back to Iran, whether we are eliminating all their nefarious activities around the globe. We are […]

NEW YORK TIMES: A secret International Monetary Fund study showed Greece needs far more debt relief than European governments have been willing to contemplate so far as fractious parties in Athens prepared to vote on a sweeping austerity package demanded by their lenders. The IMF’s stark warning on Greece’s debt was leaked as Prime Minister […]

NEW YORK TIMES: The guiding notion behind the creation of the European Union was to resolve problems like this through consensus and cooperation. Instead, the final 17-hour negotiating session was marked by acrimony not only between Greece and the European leaders, but also between Germany and France; between the German finance minister and the head […]

WGAL: “Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane today announced the arrest of Stephen R. Reed, the former Harrisburg mayor now charged with various crimes, including using public money while in office to illicitly obtain artifacts and other memorabilia. “This is one of the most disturbing cases of public corruption this office has investigated,” Attorney General Kane […]

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: Two weeks into a state budget impasse and six months into his first term, Gov. Tom Wolf faces the prospect of losing his chief of staff Katie McGinty to a U.S. Senate bid… “A number of people are trying to convince her to run,” Wolf said. “I don’t know what her decision is […]

JERUSALEM POST: …[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, who said that he would relate to the details of the accord at a later time, said that it is the result of wanting to reach an agreement “at any price.” The prime minister said that the powers negotiating with Iran – the US, Russia, China, France, Britain […]

NPR: President Obama has commuted the sentences of 46 mostly nonviolent drug offenders, nearly all of whom, the White House says, would have already served their time if they were convicted of the same crime today… In a note on the White House blog accompanying the announcement, Neil Eggleston, counsel to the president, noted: “[F]ederal […]