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View in Browser | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. Thursday, June 25, 2015 Thursday, June 25, 2015 nytnow.com » Enjoy this newsletter? The NYT Now app for iPhone is now completely free. It's the fastest way to catch up with the news throughout the day. Download now. The family of the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, who died in the Charleston shootings. His funeral is today. Travis Dove for The New York Times Your Thursday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN Good morning. Here's what you need to know: • Eulogies in Charleston, S.C. The funerals for the nine victims of last week's church shootings begin today. President Obama will speak at the service for Clementa C. Pinckney, the church's pastor and a state senator. The Justice Department is preparing to file federal hate-crime charges against Dylann Roof, 21, the man accused of the shootings. • A case for war crimes. Palestinians are preparing to submit to the International Criminal Court today what they called evidence of Israeli war crimes. They are expected to incorporate parts of this week's United Nations report that found that both Israel and Palestinian militants might have committed war crimes in last summer's conflict in Gaza. • Support for same-sex marriage. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that 57 percent of Americans want the Supreme Court to rule that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, and that 37 percent oppose such a ruling. A decision is expected in days. • Vaccine vote. California's General Assembly is scheduled to vote on a highly contested bill that would require many more children to be vaccinated against diseases. The Senate passed the bill in May. • A catalog of abuses. The State Department issues its report on global human rights for 2014. Secretary of State John Kerry will give details at 1:15 p.m. Eastern. • The manhunt in New York. A second prison employee is due to be arraigned today in connection with the escape of two convicted killers from a maximum-security prison nearly three weeks ago. • "I am sorry for the lives that I've taken..." Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's apology in court on Wednesday, before being formally sentenced to death, is unlikely to be the end of the Boston Marathon bombing proceedings. Appeals by Mr. Tsarnaev's lawyers could take years, if not decades, to wend their way through the courts. • Militants retake Syrian border town. Islamic State fighters entered Kobani today, months after being driven out in a battle with Kurdish troops, activists and residents are saying. • Onward on trade. With Senate passage of a fast-track bill, President Obama now has the leverage he wanted to wrap up a trade pact bringing together 12 nations along the Pacific Rim. Talks should resume soon. His victory was sealed by an alliance with Republicans, and White House officials see room for further consensus. • Who are we? The U.S. Census Bureau releases 2014 population estimates for the nation, states and counties by age, sex and race. MARKETS • The Greek prime minister is plowing ahead today with negotiations with the country's creditors. He has until Tuesday to cut a deal for rescue aid. In the U.S. today, a Senate banking subcommittee looks at the global impact of a Greek default. • Toyota and Nissan are expanding their North American recall to three million cars in the rest of the world, to replace potentially deadly passenger-side airbag inflaters made by Takata. • Wall Street stock futures are gaining. European shares are mixed, pending word on Greece, and Asian indexes fell. NOTEWORTHY • A long, long climb to the top. "Before This World," the 17th studio album by James Taylor, 67, opened at the top of Billboard's album chart. It's his first No. 1 album, 45 years after his debut. • Jazz in Beijing. The Blue Note Jazz Club announces plans today to open locations in China and Hawaii, a sign of a large and growing market for jazz in the Pacific Rim. • Exploring the South's history. A colleague at the Book Review suggests five works that offer a primer on the Confederacy, amid the debate about the Confederate battle flag. • What's on TV. In the new "American Takedown," Morgan Spurlock ("Super Size Me") goes inside tactical law-enforcement units across the country (10 p.m. Eastern, A&E). • College champs. With a 4-2 win over Vanderbilt, Virginia won the baseball College World Series, ending a 60-year drought for Atlantic Coast Conference teams. • Bring lots of napkins. The four-day Luling Watermelon Thump in Luling, Tex., starts today, with contests for the biggest melon, longest seed-spitting and speediest eating among the events. BACK STORY The annual N.B.A. draft, when 30 teams make their best guess at which college or international player is worth spending millions on, is tonight in Brooklyn (7 p.m. Eastern, ESPN). The picks provide promise and peril for teams and fans. Consider the Chicago Bulls. They wouldn't have had six championships in the 1990s if the team hadn't snatched up Michael Jordan with the No. 3 pick in 1984. Two years later, the Boston Celtics thought they had the next Jordan — only to see that player, Len Bias, die two days later of a cocaine overdose. Since then, the draft has added many global names — Yao Ming, Tony Parker and Dirk Nowitzki — and high school superstars — LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett. (High school seniors have since become ineligible.) Tonight is unusual in that the player selected first will probably join the first player selected in each of the last two drafts — Anthony Bennett and Andrew Wiggins — on the Minnesota Timberwolves. Having the league's worst record helped the team secure the top pick. The more a team loses, the better the odds of having the No. 1 selection. And with it comes the pressure of picking a winner. 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. (.....) | Privacy Policy | Contact | Advertise Copyright 2015 The New York Times Company | 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018