Egypt's parliament is set to meet on Tuesday, after President Morsi ordered the body to reconvene. The parliament will meet in spite of the Supreme Court's ruling on Monday, which called the decision to dissolve parliament last month "final and not subject to appeal." Parliment speaker Saad al-Katatni explained that the lower house would sit at noon on Tuesday and that the body plans to discuss "how to implement the court ruling." One European diplomatic source said, "The test will come when we see how the soldiers guarding the parliament building behave when MP's try to convene."  

President Obama called on Congress to pass a one year extension of Bush-era tax cuts just for Americans making under $250,000 a year. "Those tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans are also the tax cuts that are least likely to promote growth," he said during a ceremony at the White House, Monday. "We don't need more top down economics. We have tried that theory. We have seen what happened. We can't afford to go back to it." House Republicans want to keep the tax cuts in place permanently for both middle- and upper-income Americans, and congressional Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have been pushing to extend them to anyone earning up to $1 million. Obama’s initiative to extend them for just one year and just to those in the middle class is an effort on his part to make Republicans’ demands look unreasonable, though it will likely do little to break through the gridlock that already exists in Congress.

European Union finance ministers agreed on the terms of a bailout for Spain’s banks. Finance ministers for the 17 countries that use the Euro will return to Brussels on July 20 to finalize the agreement, but 30 billion euros can be ready by the end of the month. Overall, Dutch finance minister Jan Kees de Jager said Spanish banks will most likely receive 100 billion euros. Under the agreement, finance ministers from all 27 European Union countries are expected to approve a one-year extension, until 2014, of Spain’s deadline for achieving a budget deficit of 3 percent. Additionally, specific banks will have specific conditions associated with the agreement. Eurozone chief Jean-Claude Juncker said, “We are convinced that this conditionality will succeed in addressing the remaining weakness in the Spanish banking sector.”

President Obama’s campaign announced Monday that it raised a total of $71 million in June. “Good news first: June was our best month yet,” Obama’s chief operating officer, Ann Marie Habershaw, told supporters. “We exceeded expectations—more than 706,000 people like you stepped up and pitched in for a grand total of $71 million raised for this campaign and the Democratic Party.” The bad news, she noted, was that “we still got beat. Handily. Romney and the RNC pulled in a whopping $106 million.”

A federal judge on Monday dismissed Lance Armstrong's suit against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which has been conducting an investigation into charges that Armstrong used drugs during his years a champion cyclist. The seven-time Tour de France winner filed the lawsuit Monday and is expected to argue that the USADA’s doping investigations violate the constitutional rights of athletes. Armstrong is also asking the court to drop all doping charges against him. The USADA says it has more than 10 former teammates who will testify that Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career. If found guilty, Armstrong would be banned from cycling for life and stripped of his Tour de France victories. Armstrong's lawyers said he plans to refile the lawsuit on Tuesday.

Five people have been indicted in the death of an Arizona-Mexico Border Patrol agent, the Justice Department announced Monday, in connection with an investigation of the failed Operation Fast and Furious. Agent Brian Terry was killed in a gunfight in December 2010, and it was later revealed that the guns abandoned at the crime scene had been purchased by a “straw buyer” for smugglers in Operation Fast and Furious. The Justice Department contends that the five defendants illegally entered the U.S. from Mexico to buy weapons and use them to rob marijuana traffickers, but their plan was foiled when they ran into Terry and other Border Patrol agents. Four out of the five defendants are fugitives.

Passengers on a Spirit airlines flight from Los Angeles to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, ended up traveling for 19 hours after the flight was diverted due to a “disruptive” passenger. An 81-year-old blind man, who had reportedly been “kicking and screaming,” was removed from the plane in Houston. But the other passengers spent several hours on the tarmac before being allowed off. Then they were told that they had to be transferred to Dallas, because the airline does not operate any flights from Houston to Ft. Lauderdale. The travelers, who had departed Los Angeles at 10 pm on Saturday, finally arrived in Florida at 8 pm on Sunday night. One passenger said, "It was terrible. It was unreal. It was painful. Nineteen hours we were in this mess."

A federal hearing officer on Tuesday ruled an Indiana law illegal that would have barred low-income women from using Medicaid to receive any kind of reproductive care from Planned Parenthood. The law was deemed illegal because it would deny women the freedom to choose their health-care provider. Tuesday’s hearing upheld an earlier decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services, which had ruled that it alters the way Medicaid is run in Indiana, thus making it unacceptable. Federal law already bans women from using Medicaid to pay for abortions, but the Indiana law, signed in 2011 by Gov. Mitch Daniels, had been designed to prevent Planned Parenthood from performing abortions, since it would lose all Medicaid funds.

We’re gonna need a bigger kayak. A great white shark was spotted following two kayakers off Nauset Beach in Massachusetts on Saturday. One of the two men noticed the shark and paddled to shore, but Walter Szulc Jr. did not spot the creature until it was just a few feet from him. “It was good-sized, it had a fin sticking out, so I just turned and paddled,” Szulc said. This was the first time Szulc had ever been kayaking. Three sharks have been spotted in the waters off of Cape Cod since June 30.

R&B singer Usher Raymond’s 11-year-old stepson, Kyle Glover, has been declared brain dead after being hit with a Jet Ski.  Glover and a 15-year-old girl were riding in an inner tube on Atlanta’s Lake Lanier, when they were hit by a Jet Ski being driven by Jeffrey S. Hubbard, a friend of the family. Tameka Foster, Glover’s mother, said, “He’s bad.” The second victim in the accident escaped with a broken arm and a cut to the head. Foster married Usher in 2007, but the couple divorced in 2009 and they are currently involved in a custody battle. On Monday, officials said Hubbard is under investigation for the accident, although both victims were wearing life vests and alcohol was not a factor.

Sunday a French television channel broadcast a recorded conversation between police and killer Mohamed Merah during his March shootout in Toulouse that resulted in the deaths of three soldiers, four Jews, and ultimately Merah himself. The broadcast sparked outrage from relatives of Merah’s victims, launching an investigation from the French police into how and why the television channel broadcast the recordings. Manuel Valls, France’s interior minister, said the decision to broadcast the dialogue was in poor taste, especially because court proceedings for the shootings were still in motion at the time.

President Hamid Karzai has ordered the arrest of Taliban members who publicly executed a woman for adultery in Afghanistan. The video of the brutal execution, which surfaced last week, shows a burqa-clad woman crouching on the ground as she’s shot nine times in front of a cheering mob. Afghan officials say a manhunt is underway for the Taliban executioners, who are believed to have been fighting over the woman they executed for adultery. The incident has raised international outrage and concern over what the 2014 withdrawal of NATO troops in Afghanistan will mean for women in the country. The United States issued a statement condemning the killing “in the strongest possible terms,” calling it a “cold-blooded murder.”

Oscar winner Ernest Borgnine has died, his longtime spokesman Harry Flynn confirmed Sunday. Borgnine was 95. Born Ermes Effron Borgnino in 1917 in Hamden, Conn., Borgnine began acting in the Navy during World War II. He made his film debut in 1951’s The Whistle at Eaton Falls and won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in 1955’s Marty. Over his five-decade career, Borgnine’s impressive résumé included The Dirty Dozen, The Wild Bunch, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Poseidon Adventure, and he starred in the ABC comedy series McHale’s Navy from 1962 to 1966. In 2009 he was nominated for a guest-star Emmy for an appearance on ER, and he even appeared in 2011’s Love’s Christmas Journey.

Forecasters say the powerful Hurricane Emilia in the Pacific Ocean could “become a major hurricane” as its winds reached 110 miles per hour on Tuesday. As of 2 p.m. PST, the eye of the hurricane was located around 680 miles south of the tip of Baja California, and is progressing northwest at a speed of 15 miles per hour. Emilia isn’t alone in the Pacific: Hurricane Daniel, with winds of 75 miles per hour, has been churning, but it is even farther from California than Emilia and has already been losing strength over the past few days and is expected to continue to weaken.

Remarkably, the marriage ended faster than their whirlwind romance began. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have officially reached a divorce settlement, and from the few details that were released the proceedings seemingly went off without a hitch. Holmes, 33, filed for divorce from Cruise, 50, on June 28 in New York City, seeking sole legal custody of their 6-year-old daughter. “We are committed to working together as parents to accomplish what is in our daughter Suri’s best interests,” the former couple said in a statement. They also stressed their respect for “each of our respective beliefs.” Most details are being kept quiet, but TMZ reported Monday that there is a clause in the divorce agreement that stipulates how much Cruise and Holmes can discuss the subject of religion, including Scientology, but those restrictions can be eased the older Suri gets.

The United Nations’ envoy to Syria and the Arab League, Kofi Annan, held “constructive” talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus Monday. Assad reportedly claimed that any effort to end the 16 months of violence that has torn through his country has been hindered by the U.S.’s support of “terrorists” and support from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey—both via weaponry and other logistical aid—to the rebels attempting to take down his regime. The two have agreed on an “approach” to end the violence. “We know that [Annan] is coming up against countless obstacles, but his plan should not be allowed to fail. It is a very good plan,” Assad told a German television station.

Speak no evil, pleads Scientology leader Daniele Lattanzi. In an email to Ray McKay, a “well-known OSA operative,” Lattanzi offers a step-by-step guide to censoring the image of Scientology on the Internet when covering the Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise divorce, claiming the media are skewing the truth of Scientology. “Well, I am not somebody that I am going to simply stand and watch a bunch of uninformed people putting my religion under the carpet,” he wrote. Marty Rathbun, who released the email and was once Tom Cruise’s spiritual mentor, calls this email attempt “like showing up to a nuclear war with a squirt gun.” The church claims it had nothing to do with the email and issued a response: “An email from a Scientologist is no more from the Church of Scientology than an email from a Catholic is from the Vatican.”

Texas Gov.—and onetime presidential hopeful—Rick Perry announced Monday that, constitutional or not, his state won’t implement the key aspects of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. “I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors who reject the Obamacare power grab,” Perry declared in a statement. “Neither a ‘state’ exchange nor the expansion of Medicaid under this program would result in better ‘patient protection’ or in more ‘affordable care.’ They would only make Texas a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to health care.” According to the governor’s office, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius can expect a letter from Perry explaining his opposition to receiving federal funds to provide Medicaid to more Texans as well as creating an online insurance exchange. While states who opt out of the Medicaid expansion may not be penalized, the federal government will intervene and impose an insurance exchange program for any state that does not develop its own.

Former Missouri governor Roger Wilson was sentenced to two years of federal probation for hiding the source of a $5,000 contribution to the Missouri Democratic Party, after pleading guilty in April. Wilson admitted to acting with the late Douglas Morgan to hide Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance Co. as the source of the 2009 contribution. Wilson was interim president of the company while Morgan was chairman of the board. As part of his sentence, Wilson must also perform 100 hours of community service and pay a $5,000 fine. He was governor of Missouri from October 2000 to January 2001, serving the last three months of his predecessor’s term.

Inflation in China has reached its slowest pace in two and a half years, which could encourage the world’s second-largest economy to increase bank lending—the country’s central bank already brought down benchmark interest rates last week for the second time in under a month. “Inflation is falling fast and is likely to remain tamed for the rest of this year,” said an HSBC economist. “This leaves sufficient room for policy easing, and Beijing’s top leaders confirmed their willingness to do so.” While Beijing was once concerned with rising food prices, the current slow economic growth suggests a dip in the cost of goods, which could hurt corporations.

Don’t bank on sending any important emails tomorrow—you might not have Internet connection. As the FBI has worked to track down cyberthieves over the past few months, it has whittled down the number of possible infected computers to 300,000, and tomorrow it plans to shut these servers down. “Initially some domains will be cached, which will mean Web access will be spotty,” said Sean Sullivan, a security researcher at F-Secure. “People will be confused about why some things work and some do not.” Johannes Ullrich, a researcher with the SANS security institute, expects the impact to be minimal, as many of the infected systems are no longer used or maintained.

Starting in September, female Marines will be allowed to participate in the Combat Endurance Test, one of the last male-only entities of the U.S. military as well as one of the most grueling. Including volunteer female officers in the 86-day course is an experiment to see whether female Marines can and should engage in more intensive combat roles. The study could take at least a year, and the Marine Corps is not expecting many volunteers—women make up only 6 percent of the Marines, and many male Marines avoid the labor-intensive course as it is.

That was quick. Just 11 days after Ann Curry’s tearful goodbye to Today viewers, veteran reporter Savannah Guthrie was introduced as the show’s new co-host Monday. “It truly is a new day around here ... I’m pleased to be sharing this new day with Savannah Guthrie, who after several years of playing a great role on this program, takes a step forward this morning and joins us as co-anchor of Today,” co-host Matt Lauer told viewers. “You bring a great attitude and what we like to call a weird sense of humor to this program, so we’re all very happy to have you.” Guthrie responded by thanking Lauer and joking, “It’s 7:02 and he’s already calling me weird!”

The euro zone is in the process of creating a new agency to supervise banks within the currency union that would report to the European Central Bank. Germany and other European nations with strong economies see the establishment of one overarching authority as necessary to keep the rest of the bloc in line. The objective, at first, is to get all of the euro-zone countries’ biggest banks regulated and then maybe move on to smaller banks.

Is it hot in here, or is it just 2012? The last 12 months have seen the hottest average temperatures ever recorded, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Monday. Last week’s heat wave across much of the country helped contribute to the record temperatures, and the last half of June broke or tied 170 all-time-high temperature records in cities across the lower 48 states. “Temperatures in South Carolina (113 degrees) and Georgia (112 degrees) are currently under review by the U.S. State Climate Extremes Committee as possible all-time statewide temperature records,” NOAA said.

A judge ruled Samsung the victor in Apple’s patent infringement lawsuit by virtue of the fact that Samsung’s products are simply “not as cool” as Apple’s. Apple had filed suit claiming Samsung had “slavishly” copied its iPhone and iPad designs, but a judge found that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets “do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design,” and thus the “overall impression produced is different.” The two companies have been going head to head over patents in court in roughly 10 countries. But on the heels of its latest victory, Samsung is apparently feeling quite confident, warning that “innovation in the industry could be harmed” if Apple continues to “make excessive legal complaints” abroad.