Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.On today's podcast:(1) The European Central Bank doesn’t yet have sufficient evidence that inflation threats have passed, President Christine Lagarde said — feeding expectations that officials will take a break from cutting interest rates this month.(2) French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance and the left-wing New Popular Front are weighing whether to pull candidates from the second round of the legislative election on Sunday to keep the ascendant far right out of power.(3) Tuition caps and rising inflation have forced schools to slash costs and recruit more lucrative international students. That strategy is now colliding with limits on immigration.(4) The Democratic National Committee is considering formally nominating Joe Biden as early as mid-July to ensure that the president is on November ballots, while helping to stamp out intra-party chatter of replacing him after last week’s poor debate performance.(5) The criminal trial over Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election could be delayed for a year or more after the US Supreme Court ruled Monday that presidents have some immunity for their “official” acts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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