 | | The Taliban attacked the Parliament building in Kabul, Afghanistan, today. Massoud Hossaini/Associated Press | Your Monday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Politics of Charleston, S.C. |
| The Confederate battle flag that flies on the grounds of the South Carolina Capitol is in the sights of some politicians in the aftermath of the church shootings in Charleston. |
| And the campaigns of Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum and Rand Paul got donations from the leader of a white supremacist group tied to Dylann Storm Roof, the suspected gunman in the attack. |
| The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, where nine blacks were killed, reopened on Sunday. |
| • Europe's fight against smugglers. |
| European Union foreign ministers approved today the beginning of a military operation against human smugglers in the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea. |
| An estimated 100,000 migrants have made the journey this year. |
| • How to deal with Russia. |
| The U.S. defense secretary, who is in Europe this week, will lay out what he says is a two-pronged approach to dealing with Russia that works with the country on some issues while trying to deter and respond to its aggression. |
| • Afghan Parliament is attacked. |
| The Taliban attacked the Parliament building today, setting off at least one large bomb and igniting a gun battle with security forces. |
| • Lawmakers and immigration. |
| House Democrats visit a private detention center in Texas that is holding mothers and children who await rulings on their asylum claims. |
| Last year, human rights groups asked for the center to be closed because of accusations that guards had sexually abused and harassed detainees. |
| • Taylor Swift gets her way. |
| It took Apple less than 24 hours to change course after Taylor Swift complained it was not planning to pay royalties during the three-month free trial of its streaming music service that starts June 30. |
| MARKETS |
| • A fresh proposal from Greece over its debt is adding a note of optimism ahead of an emergency meeting tonight for leaders of the eurozone. |
| They are trying to prevent a Greek default on a $1.8 billion loan from the I.M.F. due at the end of the month. |
| • Cigna rejected Anthem's offer on Saturday to buy the smaller health insurer for $47 billion, in what would have been the biggest takeover in the industry. Together, they have about 53 million customers. |
| Several other health insurers are looking for merger partners to cut costs under the Affordable Care Act. |
| • Health insurers face another upheaval if the Supreme Court rules that millions of Americans are not eligible for subsidies to help defray the cost of their coverage. |
| The court is expected to decide by the end of June or in early July. |
| • Altice, the company led by the billionaire Patrick Drahi, offered to acquire Bouygues Telecom for about $11.3 billion to create France's largest cellphone company, ousting Orange as the leader. |
| Bouygues's board will meet on Tuesday to evaluate the proposal. |
| • Another unsolicited takeover bid is prompting a clash in the oil and gas pipeline business after the Williams Companies rejected a $48 billion takeover bid from Energy Transfer Equities. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are rising. European and Asian markets are ahead. |
| OVER THE WEEKEND |
| • Gunther Schuller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, conductor and author who drew on both classical and jazz, died on Sunday in Boston. He was 89. |
| • Egypt appointed its first ambassador to Israel since 2012, signaling improving ties between the two countries. |
| And Israel's prime minister criticized a French-led initiative for Mideast peace talks. |
| • The manhunt for two escaped murderers in New York zeroed in on a possible sighting, but they have not been found two weeks after their elaborate escape from a maximum-security prison. |
| • An Al Jazeera journalist was detained in Germany over an Egyptian arrest warrant. |
| • More than 120 people died during a heat wave in Pakistan. |
| • Saudi Arabia's checkbook diplomacy was revealed in documents released by WikiLeaks. |
| • Rolling out their mats: Millions of people across the world celebrated International Yoga Day. |
| • Fourteen watercolors and drawings presumed to be the work of a young Adolf Hitler were sold at auction in Germany. |
| • Jordan Spieth, 21, became the youngest winner of the U.S. Open since 1923. |
| • "Jurassic World" kept the No. 1 spot at the box office, edging out "Inside Out" and ending Pixar's two-decade run of continuous No. 1 releases. |
| • Catching up on TV: Episode recaps for the Season 2 premiere of "True Detective" and the series premiere of "Poldark." |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Breaking the fast. |
| President Obama hosts an iftar, the meal eaten by Muslims after sunset during the holy month of Ramadan, at the White House tonight. |
| • Win, or go home. |
| The Women's World Cup is in the round of 16: the U.S. plays Colombia at 8 p.m. Eastern (FS1). |
| • What's on TV. |
| "Requiem for the Dead: American Spring 2014" explores gun violence in America (9 p.m. Eastern, HBO). |
| • Cowabunga, dudes. |
| Sixty-six surfers in California broke the world record for the most people riding a wave on a surfboard at the same time on Saturday. |
| BACK STORY |
| You might have played for "funsies" or "keepsies" when you were a child, but today, marbles players are competing for college scholarships, sportsmanship awards and the crowns of king and queen at the National Marbles Tournament in Wildwood, N.J. |
| Marbles games have been played since ancient times with fruit pits, nuts and pebbles. Engraved marbles were found in earthen mounds built by early North American Indian tribes. Marbles made out of clay in the 1800s were the first mass-produced toy in the U.S. |
| Hundreds of marbles games exist and, of course, many more are created on playgrounds, sidewalks and driveways around the world. |
| The tournament's game is called ringer, in which players uses a "shooter" marble to knock 13 target marbles out of a circle. |
| Spectators will see advanced shots like the backspin, which causes the shooter marble to spin backward and stay within the circle. |
| The competitors, ages 7 to 14, follow detailed tournament rules, laid out in about 3,000 words. Maybe it's not such a child's game after all. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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