Press Digest: New York Times business news - June 15

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June 15 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
     
- U.S. and Iranian officials said they had agreed on a framework to end their war, halt the U.S. blockade of Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a preliminary pact that sent oil prices falling but leaves the fate of Iran's nuclear program to further negotiations.
     
- President Trump said the agreement he had reached with Iran would ultimately assure that the Strait of Hormuz was “permanently toll-free,” and asserted that, despite the objections from Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he had saved Israel from nuclear obliteration.
     
- Paramount Skydance PSKY.O chief executive David Ellison attends the Ultimate Fighting Championship event at the White House after the Justice Department cleared Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros WBD.O.

- U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, the former head of the chamber's Republican majority, was admitted to the hospital Sunday morning.    

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