Teenagers in suburban Dayton, Ohio, are heading to community colleges after manufacturing plants closed.

As Plants Close, Teenagers Focus More on College

The black and white bars designed in the 1970s to read prices and track inventory are now scanned more than 10 billion times a day.

Game Changer in Retailing, Bar Code Is 35

The president is unwilling to deepen the deficit, but House and Senate leaders do not like his proposals or one another’s.

Obama and Congress Clash on How to Pay for Health Care

Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is hailing the pullout of American forces from Iraqi cities, but the risk of renewed insurgent violence remains.

Premier Casting U.S. Withdrawal as Iraq Victory

Michael Jackson, 50, who went from boy wonder to global pop superstar to sad figure haunted by lawsuits, paparazzi and failed plastic surgery, died Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital.

A Star Idolized and Haunted, Michael Jackson Dies at 50

In a 5-to-4 ruling, the Supreme Court said analysts must testify when scientific evidence is used in criminal cases.

Justices Rule Lab Analysts Must Testify on Results

Options continued to shrink for the opposition as Iran’s main oversight group said that the election had been the “healthiest” since 1979.

Iranian Leaders Gaining the Edge Over Protesters

A car belonging to Michael Jackson’s doctor was seized for possible medications or other evidence.

Medication Is a Focus of Jackson Inquiry

Michael Jackson's prodigious musical talents were matched by a genius for deploying the symbolic language of fashion in an age dominated by visual mediums.

A Sequined Glove That Mesmerized the World

A group of the city’s top high school seniors, from a variety of economic and cultural backgrounds, met as they prepared for their next chapter.

In Uncertain Times, Valedictorians Look Ahead

In a worldwide event, amateur radio operators will talk to each other by bouncing their messages off the craggy face of the moon.

A Ham Radio Weekend for Talking to the Moon

The AARP saving cash by cutting the match to its 401(k) plan is akin to the Teamsters hiring nonunion labor.

Et Tu, AARP? Good Guys Cut 401(k)s, Too

Relationships between gay and straight men aren’t always easy, but stereotypes are falling.

I Love You, Man (as a Friend)

Despite strong social riptides working against it, the marriage bond is far stronger in 21st-century America than many assume.

Marriage Stands Up for Itself

A letter to potential buyers said the company intended to make a deal quickly and initial bids were due on July 8.

Times Co. May Include 2nd Paper in Globe Sale

The Brown family is the fifth set of owners in a grand 24-room Victorian mansion steeped in history in Staten Island.

For a Family, Elaborate Elbow Room

While the U.S. law may help raise demand for new cars, it is more restrictive than a similar law that proved popular in Germany.

Rules May Limit Cash for Clunkers Program

In parking lots around suburban train stations, the recession has produced a few more empty places, yet opened up few of the permits that allow drivers to use them.

Slump Opens Spaces at the Station

It’s hard not to see an ill-fated stock manipulation case as an example of misplaced priorities at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Chasing Small Fry, S.E.C. Let Madoff Get Away

New York City’s tough rental market can make scams harder to spot.

Renters Get Swindled and Scammed

The 219-212 vote marked the first time that either house of Congress has approved a bill aimed at curbing the heat-trapping gases scientists have linked to climate change, and it could lead to sweeping changes in the economy.

House Passes Bill to Address Threat of Climate Change

Last year, Kohlberg Kravis Robers hinted an initial public offering would fetch up to $15 billion; now its value appears to be half to a third that amount.

K.K.R. Valuation Returns to Earth

An article on Wednesday about newly released White House tapes from the Nixon administration misstated the date of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, which President Richard M. Nixon was recorded privately discussing. It was Jan. 22, 1973, not Jan. 23. 

Corrections

The Iquitos Journal article on Monday, about the Jews of Iquitos, Peru, a decaying Amazon jungle city that thrived as a 19th century trading post before the decline of the rubber business, referred incorrectly to the location of Manaus, Brazil, another Amazon jungle city that suffered when the rubber business weakened. It is downriver from Iquitos, not upriver.

An article on Tuesday about a Congressional commission’s plan to issue standards to reduce sexual assault in prison misstated the source of most assaults. More prisoners report being sexually assaulted by staff members than by other inmates, not the reverse.

June 26, 2009

Headlines from June 26, 2009

As Plants Close, Teenagers Focus More on College

Game Changer in Retailing, Bar Code Is 35

Obama and Congress Clash on How to Pay for Health Care

Premier Casting U.S. Withdrawal as Iraq Victory

A Star Idolized and Haunted, Michael Jackson Dies at 50

Billboard 200

The E.N.D.

Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King

Relapse

Chickenfoot

The Last

Historical Context for June 26, 2009