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View in Browser | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. Wednesday, May 27, 2015 Wednesday, May 27, 2015 nytnow.com » Memorial Day Sale: Get 50% off the subscription of your choice for 26 weeks. A police van today at the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, where soccer officials were arrested. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters Your Wednesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN Good morning. Here's what you need to know: • Soccer officials indicted. More arrests are likely after Swiss authorities today took several top global soccer officials into custody at a five-star resort in Zurich as they gathered for an annual meeting. The U.S. Justice Department wants them extradited on charges of widespread corruption over two decades in FIFA, soccer's global governing body. In a separate development, Swiss prosecutors launched a criminal case into how the bids to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup were awarded. • Second time around. Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who won the 2012 Iowa caucuses, is today expected to enter the race for the Republican presidential nomination. • More rain for Texas. Heavy rain is expected over the next few days in Oklahoma and Texas, where parts of Houston remain under water. Crews resume searches today for at least 13 missing people. • Heat wave in India. More than 1,000 people have died since last week in southern India, where temperatures have cracked the 120-degree mark in some areas. • A vote to abolish the death penalty. Lawmakers in Nebraska could vote as early as today to override the governor's veto of a bill to abolish the death penalty in the state. If the vote succeeds, Nebraska would be the first conservative state in more than 40 years to strike down the death penalty. • The president's move. The administration is considering its next legal step after a federal appeals court sided with states challenging the president's plan to allow undocumented immigrants to apply to stay in the U.S. • Plans for European migrants. The European Union today will disclose details of a plan to resettle new immigrants. One proposal would relocate 40,000 asylum seekers who have landed in Italy and Greece, according to Reuters. MARKETS • Organized crime syndicates accessed past tax returns of more than 100,000 people to file fraudulent returns, and the I.R.S. sent nearly $50 million in refunds before it detected the scheme, the agency said. • ReCode, the technology news website, is being acquired by Vox Media for an undisclosed price, giving the site access to a wider audience. • Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, both owned by Yum Brands, say they will get rid of artificial colors and flavors in their foods. • Wall Street stock futures are flat following a down day. European shares are mostly ahead, while Asian stocks ended mixed. NOTEWORTHY • Less hunger in the world. The number of people who go hungry declined from about one 1 billion 25 years ago to about 795 million in 2012, or about one person out of every nine, despite a surge in population growth, the U.N. reports today. Progress was most pronounced in East Asia, Southeast and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. • Penn State penalizes fraternity. A fraternity's recognition was revoked for three years after it posted images on its web page of drugs, underage drinking, hazing and nude, unconscious women. The administration said it found "a persistent series of deeply troubling activities" in the fraternity. • Scoreboard. The Houston Rockets try to keep their season alive at the Golden State Warriors (9 p.m. Eastern, ESPN). With the Cleveland Cavaliers' 118-88 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday, LeBron James became the first player to reach a fifth consecutive N.B.A. finals since 1966. The Anaheim Ducks have a chance to advance to the Stanley Cup finals tonight at the Chicago Blackhawks (8 p.m. Eastern, NBCSN). On Tuesday, the New York Rangers defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning, 7-3, to force a decisive Game 7 on Friday. • Who's bluffing? The annual World Series of Poker begins today in Las Vegas with a new event, the Colossus, that's expected to attract 10,000 players. That game has a relatively low buy-in for players — $565 each — for a shot at a share of a $5 million prize pool. The victor could win $600,000. • Broadway sets records. The 40 Broadway theaters broke a record for attendance, drawing more than 13 million people, and sold a record $1.365 billion worth of tickets in the year that ended Sunday. A boom in overall visits to New York, a relatively healthy economy and a diversity of theatrical offerings contributed to the growth. BACK STORY Despite today's indictments, soccer's global governing body says it will go ahead with Friday's vote for president of the organization. Neither candidate — Sepp Blatter, the four-term president, and his only opponent, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan — was named in the U.S. corruption indictments. Before the arrests, Mr. Blatter of Switzerland, whose tenure has not been pristine, was widely expected to win. Delegates from 209 countries meeting in Zurich will cast ballots. FIFA started out with a mission to regulate games around the globe and make sure that the rules of the sport were universal. But today's arrests confirm what many believed: that FIFA itself needs more oversight. FIF, which in French stands for the Federation Internationale de Football Association, was created in Paris on May 21, 1904. It was already under withering criticism for awarding the 2018 World Cup finals to Russia and the 2022 World Cup to Qatar after a process that was open to voting abuse. FIFA had hoped to turn its attention to the 2026 tournament after Friday's election, but it's unlikely that will now happen. 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. Want to get the briefing by email? Here's the sign-up. ADVERTISEMENT FOLLOW NYTNOW @NYTNOW NYT Now app for iPhone Now the news keeps up with you Available on the App Store Get more NYTimes.com newsletters » | Sign Up for the Morning Briefing newsletter » ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's NYT Now newsletter. As a member of the TRUSTe privacy program, we are committed to protecting your privacy. 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