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View in Browser | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Tuesday, April 28, 2015 nytnow.com » Enjoy this newsletter? Get continuous updates on today's most important stories with the NYT Now app for iPhone. Download now. Cars and buildings were set on fire as rioting continued across Baltimore on Monday. Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Your Tuesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN Good morning. Here's what you need to know: • Baltimore's state of emergency. More National Guard were due in the city today after riots after Monday's funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died in police custody. At least 15 police officers were hurt, and six remained hospitalized. Two dozen people were arrested amid fires and looting. A daily curfew begins at 10 p.m. today, and the city's public schools are closed. • Nepal's devastation. Aid workers arriving at the edge of the earthquake's epicenter describe entire villages reduced to rubble, and the prime minister said today that the death toll could reach 10,000. The U.N. says that 8 million people — more than a quarter of the population — have been affected. • Justices debate same-sex marriage. Lines began forming at the Supreme Court last week for the few seats available to today's arguments over same-sex marriage, which exists in about three-fourths of U.S. states. The two major questions the justices face is whether states must allow same-sex couples to marry and whether states must recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. • Extreme weather and the pope. Scientists, economists and U.N. officials gather at the Vatican today to help build momentum for Pope Francis's campaign for a sweeping U.N. climate change accord. It comes as another scientific study this week links large-scale changes in weather to human influence on the climate. • On Capitol Hill. The Senate begins debate today on legislation that would allow Congress to review any nuclear deal with Iran, but it may not vote on the measure until next week. Among amendments being pushed by some Republicans is one that requires Iran to recognize Israel and another that requires Iran to release any detained Americans. MARKETS • Wall Street stock futures are slightly lower. European shares slipped sharply, and Asian indexes ended flat-to-lower. • The Federal Reserve begins two days of policy-setting meetings today. • Ford, UPS, Pfizer and Twitter are among a slew of companies reporting results today. Seventy percent off the Standard & Poor's 500 companies that have reported on the latest quarter so far were above analysts' expectations. • Apple shares were at a record high in premarket trading today after reporting a blowout quarter of sales and profit on Monday. NOTEWORTHY • A decade in captivity. Two of the women kidnapped by Ariel Castro, a Cleveland school-bus driver, share their stories of their abductions, captivity and escape in the new book "Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland." In a "20/20" special tonight, Robin Roberts interviews the two, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus (10 p.m. Eastern, ABC). • Check your attic lately? A painting by Gustave Courbet, rediscovered under the floorboards of an attic in France, is appearing today at an auction for the first time. It is expected to go for between $1.8 million and $2.5 million, and it's a main attraction in Christie's spring sale of 19th-century European art. • "Maus" trapped. "Maus," the Pulitzer-Prize winning graphic novel about a Jewish family during the Holocaust by Art Spiegelman, is off the shelves of Moscow's largest bookstores because of its swastika on the cover. Booksellers appeared to make the decision after a government plan to rid Moscow of Nazi symbols before Victory Day on May 9, commemorating the Soviet Union's defeat of Germany. • The fall of Saigon. "Last Days in Vietnam," Rory Kennedy's Oscar-nominated documentary, airs tonight with footage not seen in the earlier film version (9 p.m. Eastern, PBS, but check local listings). This week is the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. • In memoriam. Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, an Auschwitz survivor who battled both the Nazis and the Communists and later surprised even himself by being instrumental in reconciling Poland and Germany, died in Warsaw. He was 93. BACK STORY President Obama is hosting a glittering state dinner tonight, welcoming the Japanese prime minister and his wife to the White House. Ulysses S. Grant was the first president to have a state dinner for a foreign leader (for King David Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands, now known as Hawaii, in 1874). Lyndon B. Johnson hosted 54 in his five years as president, while Ronald Reagan hosted 35 during his eight years. There's been many fewer soirees this century. George W. Bush put on 14, and tonight will be Mr. Obama's eighth. It will be an opportunity for Michelle Obama to show off the Obama state china service, which she helped design. Fine presidential tableware, once paid for by the government, is today funded by the White House Historical Association, a private nonprofit group. The cost of state dinners, on the other hand, is picked up by the State Department — about $500,000 each. Despite the relative rarity of state dinners today, President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil canceled the one in her honor in 2013 after learning that the National Security Agency spied on her. Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. Your Morning Briefing is published weekdays at 6 a.m. Eastern and updated on the web all morning. What would you like to see here? Contact us at briefing@nytimes.com. 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