 | | The funeral of one of the victims of the church shootings in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday. President Obama will attend a service today for the pastor. Jim Watson/AFP- Getty Images | Your Friday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Judgment day. |
| Today the Supreme Court is expected to decide whether to establish a national right to same-sex marriage, or if states may use a drug linked to apparently botched executions to carry out death sentences. |
| A decision on either case is expected to arrive before noon, and we'll have live coverage. |
| • Eulogies in Charleston, S.C. |
| The funerals for the nine victims of last week's church shootings continue today. |
| President Obama will speak at the service for Clementa C. Pinckney, the church's pastor and a state senator. It will be the first eulogy Mr. Obama gives after a racially motivated killing. |
| • Suspected terror attack at French factory. |
| A car rammed into a U.S. gas company in eastern France today, exploding gas containers and leaving one dead and several wounded. |
| A suspect was arrested and was reported to have been carrying an Islamist flag, which was found nearby. |
| • On Capitol Hill. |
| Legislators begin their Independence Day break today, one week before the rest of the nation. |
| The House canceled votes planned for today so that some members could travel to Charleston for the funerals of the victims in the church shootings. |
| • The final countdown. |
| Secretary of State John Kerry is traveling to Vienna today for nuclear talks on Iran, as are foreign ministers from the other nations at the negotiating table — Britain, China, Germany, Russia and, of course, Iran. |
| They will have to bridge differences on the limits Tehran must accept on its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. The deadline to reach a deal is Tuesday. |
| • A breakthrough for migrants. |
| After hours of heated discussions, European leaders agreed early today to take in tens of thousands of migrants on a voluntary basis. |
| About 40,000 people from Italy and Greece will be relocated to other countries. An additional 20,000, mostly from Syria and Iraq, will be resettled from camps outside Europe. |
| • New questions about Clinton's emails. |
| At least 15 emails sent or received by Hillary Rodham Clinton were missing from records that she turned over, the State Department said late on Thursday. |
| The findings are inconsistent with her statement that all her work emails were in the hands of the federal government, which opens the door for Republican lawmakers to investigate the issue further. |
| • Plane crash way up north. |
| The authorities in rural Alaska will be searching today for the bodies of nine people who were killed when a small plane carrying tourists from a cruise ship slammed into a cliff above a lake. |
| MARKETS |
| • President François Hollande of France condemned violent protests against Uber, but added that the company's low-cost service should be dismantled. |
| • Greece failed again to reach an agreement with its creditors, setting up a last-ditch effort on Saturday to avert a default next week. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are directionless. European indexes are lower, and Asian shares finished broadly lower. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • At the movies. |
| A foulmouthed teddy bear (the voice of Seth MacFarlane) marries a beautiful human and wants to have a baby in "Ted 2," the sequel to the comedy "Ted" that opens today. |
| It stars Mark Wahlberg, and our film critic calls it "insultingly lazy hack work." Here's what else is new in theaters. |
| • Best sellers. |
| Joseph Finder's thriller "The Fixer" enters our hardcover fiction list at No. 14. It's about an unemployed journalist who moves back to his childhood home and discovers millions of dollars hidden in the walls. |
| Get an early look at all of our best-seller lists. |
| • Muggles on stage. |
| The author J.K. Rowling announced today that a new play, called "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," will open at the Palace Theater in London in the summer of 2016. |
| • What's on. |
| Aretha Franklin, Emmylou Harris, Darlene Love, and Lyle Lovett are among the performers today at a celebration of gospel music that the Obamas will attend (9 p.m. Eastern, PBS, check local listings). |
| • Scoreboard. |
| The U.S. faces China in the quarterfinals of the women's World Cup. It's a rematch of the memorable final of the 1999 tournament, won by the Americans on penalty kicks (7:30 p.m. Eastern, Fox). At 4 p.m., France plays Germany. |
| And the National Hockey League draft begins, with seven rounds split over two days, at BB&T Center in Sunrise, Fla. (7 p.m. Eastern, NBCSN). |
| • Dog days. |
| The annual World's Ugliest Dog contest, part of the Sonoma-Marin Fair in California, is today. You can vote, but the photos aren't pretty. |
| It's also Take Your Dog to Work Day. But check with your boss first. |
| BACK STORY |
| Alice Liddell is an unfamiliar name to most people, but the character she inspired is one of the most recognizable in the world. |
| She was the young muse for Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," which has been translated into 174 languages. |
| This year is the 150th anniversary of the work. The original manuscript was brought to the U.S. for an Alice exhibit, opening today, at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. |
| The book was a milestone when it was published in Victorian England. Until then, children's books were intended to give lessons. |
| But Mr. Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford lecturer in mathematics, created a fantastical world with a disobedient heroine and satirized royal politics. |
| While on a boating trip near Oxford, he regaled the daughters of the dean who hired him with a tale that had both logic puzzles and talking animals. One daughter, Alice, begged him to write down the story. |
| So he wrote "Alice's Adventures Under Ground" for her, and gave her a handwritten, illustrated copy. Then he expanded it into what was published. |
| A sequel followed in 1871, called "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There." |
| Without that curious young girl, we might never have read about Wonderland. |
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