A.M. Links: South Carolina Votes to Remove Confederate Flag from State Capitol, Baltimore Mayor Fires Police Commissioner, Greece Seeks Last-Ditch Bailout

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  The South Carolina legislature has voted to remove the Confederate battle flag from statehouse grounds.

• Jeb Bush "is enjoying an unmistakable spike in the polls."

• Oklahoma has set execution dates for the three inmates who lost before the Supreme Court in last month's Eighth Amendment case Glossip v. Gross.

• Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake fired the city's police commissioner yesterday.

• What went wrong yesterday at the New York Stock Exchange?

• "Facing a midnight deadline from European creditors, Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras huddled with government and political leaders Thursday to finalize details of the debt-laden country's last-ditch request for a fresh bailout."

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