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GWEN IFILL: Good evening. I’m Gwen Ifill.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And I’m Judy Woodruff.
GWEN IFILL: On the “NewsHour” tonight:
JAMES COMEY, Director, FBI: We hope that our fellow Americans will not let fear become disabling.
GWEN IFILL: A nation in mourning searches for answers. At least 49 innocent people are dead and 53 wounded in the worst mass shooting in modern American history — how a gay Orlando nightclub became a target for tragedy.
WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Here at this center, which is the hub of the LGBT community in Orlando, there is a mixture of sadness, and anger, and strength in the face of this horrendous act.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Also ahead: Presidential candidates weigh in with stark differences — how the murdering rampage in Florida will alter the campaign going forward.
GWEN IFILL: And we examine how Orlando is sparking a national debate on gun control and hate crimes.
JUDY WOODRUFF: All that on tonight’s “PBS NewsHour.”
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GWEN IFILL: And in the day’s other news: An Indiana man is jailed in Santa Monica, California, after police arrested him Sunday, heavily armed and headed to a gay pride parade. James Howell will appear in court tomorrow. Police say he was carrying three assault rifles and chemicals used in explosives.
JUDY WOODRUFF: The U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed Puerto Rico today over its debt crisis. The court ruled federal law bars the commonwealth from restructuring part of the $70 billion it owes. Instead, it must wait for Congress to finish debt relief legislation.
The justices also refused to freeze federal curbs on power plant emissions of mercury. Twenty states wanted the rules delayed.
GWEN IFILL: In Iraq, the government says it’s investigating reports that Shiite militias have killed Sunni men escaping from Fallujah. The Shiites are supporting an Iraqi army offensive to retake the city from Islamic State fighters. Iraqi troops have been slowly advancing into Fallujah for three weeks now. Over the weekend, 4,000 civilians managed to escape.
JUDY WOODRUFF: The city of Marseille, France, was rocked by soccer violence over the weekend between Russian and English fans at the European Championship tournament. European soccer’s governing body warned both sides, but a court handed down prison terms for only one side.
Emma Murphy of Independent Television News reports from Marseille.
EMMA MURPHY: That they were organized, determined, and extremely violent was obvious to anyone who saw the violence in Marseille this weekend.
Now the French authorities have admitted a gang of 150 known Russian hooligans managed to get into the country, and indeed the stadium, to foment three days of brutality. Not one has been arrested.
Describing them as ultra-rapid, ultra-violent and extremely well-trained, Marseille’s prosecutor acknowledged some had been stopped at the airport, but the rest breached French security and are free to infiltrate other games.
“The hooligans from Russia traveled from other countries on trains and in cars,” he told me. “We would have known and arrested them had they come through the airport.”
The Russians were the most organized and violent, but it was the English fans who were in court today, six in all arrested for violence.
During the course of the weekend, 35 people were injured, four seriously. These scenes led to UEFA’s threat to throw both England and Russia out of the tournament. Today, England’s manager and captain, Wayne Rooney, appealed to fans for no repeat.
ROY HODGSON, Manager, English National Soccer Team: I’m appealing to you to stay out of trouble and try and make certain these threats that are being issued are never carried out.
WAYNE ROONEY, Captain, English National Soccer Team: I would like to ask the fans, please, if you don’t have a ticket, don’t travel. And for the fans with tickets, be safe, be sensible.
EMMA MURPHY: This city is now calm for the first time in three days. And with today’s sentences, it seems the French authorities are keen to send out a strong message to deter others from violent actions.
However, with no Russians in custody, that message is significantly weakened.
JUDY WOODRUFF: The French prosecutor says police are studying closed-circuit TV footage, and trying to track down the Russians involved in the violence.
GWEN IFILL: Microsoft made a surprise move today and announced it is buying the professional networking site LinkedIn. The price tag? More than $26 billion. It’s the largest acquisition in Microsoft’s history, and it gives the software giant access to LinkedIn’s 430 million members.
JUDY WOODRUFF: The sell-off that hit Wall Street late last week carried over to today. The Dow Jones industrial average lost nearly 133 points to close at 17732. The Nasdaq fell 46 points, and the S&P 500 dropped 17.
GWEN IFILL: The Broadway musical “Hamilton” and the Pittsburgh Penguins now have something in common: Both are big winners. Pittsburgh took the National Hockey League title last night, beating the San Jose Sharks in six games. It’s the fourth Stanley Cup in the franchise’s history.
And “Hamilton,” the hip-hop stage biography of former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, won 11 Tony Awards, including best musical. That’s one shy of the record.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Still to come on the “NewsHour”: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump issue calls to action in response to the Orlando shooting; plus, a look at the prejudice the LGBT community still faces.
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