- Heavy flooding in the Midwest continues along the Mississippi River from Illinois into Louisiana as flood crests may not be reached in Southern states for another two weeks.
- Two are dead in a 6.7 magnitude earthquake in India's Manipur state along the country's border with Bangladesh with dozens injured.
- Saudi Arabia has cut all diplomatic ties with Iran after the Saudi embassy in Tehran was stormed over the weekend in response to the Saudi execution of a leading Shi'ite cleric.
- President Obama may journey to Cuba in an historic trip to mark normalization of relations between Washington and Havana, but further diplomatic steps need to be taken first.
- Apple will pay as much as $350 million to Italy in back taxes after a 2013 investigation found the tech giant moving revenue through its Irish affiliate to avoid payments.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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