Senator Sanders

Fourth of July Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday marched in two Independence Day parades in Iowa, Politico reported. Sanders said his message is about working people. “We've got the right issues,” Sanders said in reports on CNN, WHO-TV and KDSM-TV in Des Moines and WPTZ-TV in Vermont. Sanders spent the Fourth of July in Iowa, NBC Nightly News reported.  Sanders “is drawing huge crowds in Iowa,” WCAX-TV reported. LINK, VIDEO, VIDEO, VIDEO, VIDEO, VIDEO, VIDEO

Burlington “Sanders is the political phenomenon of the moment and that speaks to hunger among a large number of Americans for blunt talk on the working-class issues of social and economic inequality," the Burlington Free Press said in a Sunday editorial. LINK

World

Iran Key elements of a nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers appeared to be falling into place on Saturday, just ahead of a July 7 deadline, according to officials involved in negotiations in Vienna, The Wall Street Journal reported. LINK

Greece Greeks were voting Sunday in a bailout referendum that will decide the country's future, with opinion polls showing people evenly split on whether to accept creditors' proposals for more austerity in exchange for rescue loans or defiantly reject the deal, The Associated Press reported. LINK

National

Roping the Press Hillary Clinton's campaign used a rope to keep journalists away from the candidate on Saturday while she walked in this small town's July Fourth parade. Campaign aides said they brought the rope out because they feared the press scrum would obstruct the view of New Hampshire voters attending the parade, CNN reported. LINK

Vermont

Wet June Following a dry spring, parts of Vermont were pummeled by rain in June, giving a soggy start to the hiking and camping season, AP reported. LINK