A federal judge put a temporary restraining order on a Mississippi law that would have shut down the state’s only abortion clinic, hours after the law took effect. U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan set July 11th as the date to determine whether to block the law for a longer time. The law had required everyone who performs an abortion to be an OB-GYN with privileges to admit patients to a local hospital. The state’s lone abortion clinic, Jackson’s Women Health Organization, filed a lawsuit seeking to block the law, saying the privilege requirement is not medically necessary and the law was only written that way to shut down the clinic.

Exit polls on Sunday night indicated Enrique Pena Nieto won the country's election, Mexican state television reported. Pena Nieto will restore to power the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which was ousted from office 12 years ago after holding a monopoly for 70 years. Called the “largest and most complex election” ever to be held in Mexico, 79 million people are registered to vote Sunday, including 3.5 million first-time voters.

A surprise storm killed three people in eastern North Carolina Sunday evening, with strong winds uprooting trees and damaging homes. Officials said a 77-year-old woman and an elderly couple were killed in the storm. Extreme weather across the state has resulted in several storms and a record-breaking heat wave.

It was a pack of “goons” who trained their guns on two churches in a Kenyan town Sunday, according to police. An estimated 17 people were killed and dozens more wounded in the attacks, which also included grenade strikes at the houses of worship in Garissa, a town near Kenya’s border with Somalia. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but blame will likely be put on Al-Shabab, a Somalia-based group of Islamic militants who have launched assaults inside Kenya before. “It is a terrible scene. You can see bodies lying in the churches,” a local police chief said.

The Church of Scientology denied on Sunday reports that they are following Katie Holmes after she filed divorce papers from Tom Cruise. Gary Soter, a lawyer for the Church, contacted TMZ to deny the allegations and say it is not conducting surveillance on the star. Scientology is also reportedly the reason behind their split, and defectors of the religion have previously reported being “hunted down” after leaving. TMZ reported that photographers who have been following Holmes have reported several “mysterious men” and vehicles around Holmes’s New York apartment. Meanwhile, Cruise was sighted in a helicopter flying over Iceland on Sunday—the first time he’s been seen in public since the divorce announcement on Friday.

Officials are urging people to seek refuge in shelters as record-breaking temperatures sweep the nation. Twenty states have implemented some level of heat advisory warnings as 100-degree and higher temperatures affect the majority of the country. Four states have already declared states of emergency as huge storms add to the crisis, leaving millions without power and resulting in 13 casualties.

Marcus Agius resigned from his post as chairman of Barclays on Monday as the bank faces an interest-rate-rigging scandal. British and American regulators issued a $453 million fine to the institution after discovering some of its traders had manipulated the setting of the London interbank offering rate, which is the benchmark for setting derivative and financial product prices. Barclays admitted to submitting falsified low estimates of borrowing costs between 2007 and 2009 to make itself look more stable. A dozen additional banks are under investigation as well.

He's back! Tiger Woods took his third win this year and 74th total on the PGA Tour after beating Bo Van Pelt at Sunday's AT&T National. He finished with 2-under 69 and inched ahead of Jack Nicklaus on the tour’s career list, in second place behind Sam Snead, with eight wins to go to catch up. Woods is also now first on the PGA Tour money list and the FedEx Cup Standings for the first time since 2009.

It was strippers vs. teddy bears at the box office this weekend, and Ted took home the gold. Mark Wahlberg's latest project about a beer-drinking, foul-mouthed bear came in at number 1 this weekend, raking in $54.1 million dollars. Right behind it was Magic Mike, the scandalous Channing Tatum male stripper flick with $39.2 million.

For one second, it sure wreaked havoc on the Internet. Several high-profile websites, including Reddit and several other sites, experienced brief technical problems early Sunday due to a glitch brought on by the “leap second.” The Earth’s official timekeepers held back the clocks by a single second to keep them in sync with the planet’s daily rotation, and although the leap had been previously reported, some of the Internet’s fundamental software platforms could not cope with the extra second. Affected were the Linux operating system, used by FourSquare, Yelp, LinkedIn, Gawker and StumbleUpon, and the Java application system, used by Reddit. Other platforms, such as Google, planned ahead. To make matters worse, the leap second bug came as many Internet sites were recovering from an Amazon cloud outage in northern Virginia on Saturday—estimated to have taken down as much as one percent of the entire Internet.

Drumroll please...we have a winner! On Sunday, Spain became the first nation to win the European Championship twice in a row with a 4-0 win over Italy. The game, which took place in Kiev, Ukraine, inspired the New York Times soccer blog to wonder if the team, which also won the 2010 World Cup, could be called the greatest in soccer history.

After CNN reported on leaked emails regarding the Sandusky trial, the family of former Penn State coach Joe Paterno has lashed back. "Our message to everybody is slow down here," their spokesman said. The school turned over the emails, which show correspondence between then-President Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and other top level administrators, to the FBI. In one, Curley writes to Spanier that after discussing with Paterno, he thinks they should "work with" Sandusky rather than contact the authorities.

Drama fans, console yourselves: the country's second-largest satellite provider dropped AMC Networks from its programming Sunday as its contract expired. Dish said the network, which hosts popular shows such as Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead and Mad Men, was charging high fees and had low ratings. AMC struck back, issuing a press release that claimed Dish refused to discuss rates and noted that The Walking Dead is the highest-rated scripted drama on cable. AMC’s contract with AT&T U-verse also expired on Saturday, but negotiations have not yet broken down and the channel is still being broadcast for AT&T customers.

“You don’t always believe everything you read in the tabloids, do you?” Alec Baldwin asked a curious bystander moments before entering St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in New York to marry yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas on Saturday. Woody Allen, Robert Kennedy Jr., and Tina Fey were among the guests at the Mulberry Street church where Baldwin tied the knot with 28-year-old Thomas. The couple met in February 2011, when Baldwin approached Thomas at a Manhattan restaurant. “I was standing near the door with my friends when he walked up and took my hand and said, ‘I must know you,’” Thomas said.

It’s back to the negotiating table for 8,500 New York power workers and management Sunday after union employees were locked out early Sunday. The workers are trying to strike a pension deal with the company, and has hinted in negotiations that the company’s more than 3 million customers in New York City and the surrounding areas may have trouble getting electricity without the union labor. The union’s collective-bargaining agreement with the company expired late Saturday night, but both sides say they want to hash out a deal soon.

They have nowhere else to go. A trickle of ragged children fleeing violence in a stricken region of Sudan is growing as the young flee a country torn apart by violence. Some are calling it a frightening return to the “Lost Boys” period of the 1990s, when other children staggered singly or in groups from bloodshed that has never truly stopped. A United Nations refugee camp near the border of South Sudan and Sudan is growing at a rate of 1,000 people a day, filled with young refugees like 14-year-old Haidar Musa. “We don’t talk about our parents anymore,” Haidar said. “Even if we go back, we won’t find anybody.”

Until lately Latter-day Saints, 150 people gathered in the home city of the Mormon church to announce their break with the faith on Sunday. “This feels awesome,” said Utah resident Alison Lucas. “I don’t know if I would have had the courage except in a group.” The religion, known for the conformity of its membership, rarely sees such public displays of apostasy. The group signed a “Declaration of Independence From Mormonism” and cited the church’s strict stance against gay marriage as a cause for the demonstration. They also said they were discouraged by views the church holds that they said were racially or sexually prejudiced. The Mormom church claims 14.4 million adherents spread around the globe.

The United States continued its controversial drone program in Pakistan Sunday, killing eight suspected militants in the country’s volatile tribal region, Pakistani officials said. The strike targeted fighters linked to Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a war chieftain with suspected ties to the Pakistani Army. The drone strike Sunday consisted of four missiles fired in Dre Nishter, a village near the country’s border with Afghanistan, according to Pakistani officials. Meanwhile, it was revealed Sunday that major drone manufacturers like Northrop Grumman Corp. want to take their business abroad and have been lobbying the federal government to allow them to sell the nearly silent killing machines to foreign buyers.

As the the mercury soared Sunday, customers in states lashed by storms Friday night remained without power - and may have to suffer through the heat for severl more days. In Virginia, Gov. Bob McDonnell called the damage from the storm “a very dangerous situation,” as power company officials said it may take up to a week to restore service in some areas. Thirteen people were killed by the storm that left 3 million people without power. Communities around Washington, D.C., and in West Virginia were among the hardest hit, and states of emergency were declared in Maryland, Virginia, and the nation’s capital Saturday night.

Japan’s flipping the switch Sunday on its first nuclear reactor to go back online after a prolonged series of safety checks. Public opinion on the risks involved with nuclear power remains divided, however, and protests Friday drew tens of thousands of people who chanted “No to nuclear restarts”—an unusually public display of discontent in Japan. The country’s 50 nuclear reactors were powered down after the Fukushima disaster, but government officials have since said that nuclear power is necessary to meet the energy needs of modern Japan. “It is a lie that nuclear energy is clean,” one protester said. “After experiencing the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, how can Japan possibly want nuclear power?”

A new French law has led to a shortage of Breathalyzer kits in the country. With 4,000 people killed in accidents on French roads every year, the government has instituted a new measure that requires motorists to carry a Breathalyzer kit in their cars at all times or risk a fine. Drivers arriving in France from other European countries will also be expected to carry a kit, which some British drivers expect will lead to confusion. The law was approved under former president Nicolas Sarkozy and may save as many as 500 lives a year, according to the government.

Thousands in Hong Kong are expected to protest the swearing in of new Beijing-backed leader Leung Chun-ying on Sunday. The semiautonomous Chinese territory marks 15 years since control of the financial center transferred from British to Chinese rule this weekend. The 57-year-old Leung faces growing discontent with the influence China has over Hong Kong’s government, and during the ceremony Sunday a speech by Chinese President Hu Jintao was briefly interrupted by a protester. Hong Kong’s chief executive is chosen by a 1,200-member council of commercial leaders who kowtow to orders from Beijing, angry residents say.

World leaders said they had reached a transition plan for Syria at talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on Saturday as a car bomb killed 85 people in a funeral procession in the country. The plan does not include a demand that dictator Bashar al-Assad be removed from office. While China and Russia—both among the five nations with permanent seats on the U.N. Security Council—have resisted calls for boots on the ground, it is expected that the United States along with France and Great Britain may ask for military intervention as the slaughter continues. “I think people with blood on their hands hopefully are not the only people in Syria,” said United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan, whose earlier attempt at peace unraveled in recent months. “It is for the Syrian people to determine the future of the country.”

They may make Cory Booker queasy. But campaign strategists say President Obama’s aggressive attack ads against Mitt Romney’s business career have gained traction among swing-state voters—it’s just not clear how much. The Obama campaign has shelled out millions in ad buys to run commercials that show Romney as a cutthroat company man who was more than happy to squish a few workers—or whole businesses—now and then if it meant a couple bucks for the private equity firm he cofounded. Romney has made the decade he spent running Bain one of his most important campaign-trail talking points, and his camp is reportedly preparing a new series of ads that depict the president as a conniving political opportunist.

Nobody knows massive, shadowy, transnational money-making organizations like Rupert Murdoch. Perhaps that’s why the News Corp. mogul decided to weigh in on the Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes divorce via Twitter on Sunday. “Watch Katie Holmes & Scientology story,” Murdoch said. “Something creepy, maybe even evil, about these people.” All the usual Internet backlash ensued, but Murdoch stuck to his guns, tweeting later that “since Scientology tweets hundreds of attack. Expect they will increase and get worse and maybe threatening. Still stick to my story.” Murdoch’s critiques extended to the Church of Latter-day Saints after he was spurred by another tweeter’s question, writing, “Mormonism a mystery to me, but Mormons certainly not evil.”