 | | Chief Jim Craft of the Lafayette police spoke to the news media today about the deadly shooting at a theater. Paul Kieu/The Advertiser, via AP | Your Friday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Mass shooting at movie theater. |
| Two moviegoers were killed and seven were wounded when a man opened fire during a showing of the comedy "Trainwreck" in Lafayette, La., on Thursday night. |
| The gunman, identified by the police as a 58-year-old "lone white male," killed himself. At least one of the wounded is in critical condition. |
| In a BBC interview broadcast earlier, President Obama said he was "frustrated" that the U.S. does not have "common-sense gun safety laws, even in the face of repeated mass killings." |
| • Criminal inquiry for Clinton's emails? |
| Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Hillary Rodham Clinton mishandled confidential government information on a private email account she used as secretary of state. |
| The Justice Department has not decided on the request, senior officials said. A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton's campaign declined to comment. |
| • In the land of his father. |
| President Obama today becomes the first American leader to visit Kenya. |
| He attends the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, meets Kenya's leader and speaks to civil-society officials. He'll also meet privately with his relatives. On Sunday, he travels to Ethiopia, also a first for a sitting U.S. president. |
| • A gloomy view of race relations. |
| Nearly six in 10 Americans, including a majority of both whites and blacks, think race relations are generally bad, and nearly four in 10 think they are getting worse, a New York Times/CBS News poll finds. |
| By comparison, two-thirds of Americans surveyed after President Obama took office said they believed that race relations were generally good. |
| • Escalating attacks on ISIS. |
| Turkish fighter jets bombed Islamic State targets in Syria today, their first direct combat with the militants on their border. |
| The development comes a day after Turkey agreed to let the U.S. military carry out airstrikes against ISIS from an air base near the Syrian border. |
| • Investigating a jail-cell death. |
| A Texas prosecutor has said that an autopsy of Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in jail after a minor traffic stop, points to a likely suicide. Her family is expected to seek an independent autopsy. |
| • Medical milestones. |
| Nigeria could fall off the list of countries where polio is endemic as it is believed to be polio-free for one year today. Most of the few remaining cases in the world are in Pakistan. |
| A vaccine against malaria, which kills about 600,000 people a year worldwide, most of them children in Africa, has cleared its first regulatory hurdle. |
| And the first in a new class of cholesterol drugs is expected to win approval today from U.S. regulators. |
| MARKETS |
| • Anthem said today it would buy Cigna in a deal valued at $54.2 billion, creating the largest U.S. health insurer. |
| • Amazon stock is ahead 17 percent after it did something completely out of character in the second quarter: It made a profit. |
| The share price makes the online retailer more valuable by market capitalization today than Walmart. |
| • World Trade Organization members agreed today to cut tariffs on $1 trillion worth of information technology products. |
| The update adds more than 200 products, from video games to medical equipment, to no-tariff and duty-free trade. |
| • CurrentC, the retail industry's answer to Apple Pay, expects to formally start taking transactions in the third quarter, a retailer said. |
| It was developed by a company that received funding from Walmart, Target, Best Buy and other chains. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are slightly ahead, as is European trading. Asian shares ended lower. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Taking life's punches. |
| In "Southpaw," opening at movie theaters today, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a boxing champion whose life falls apart after his wife dies. Forest Whitaker plays the washed-up ex-boxer who vows to make him a new man. |
| And Cara Delevingne, the British model turned actress, stars as a high school student who mysteriously disappears in "Paper Towns," based on a novel by John Green, who also wrote "The Fault in Our Stars." |
| Here's what else is new in theaters. |
| • Popular reads. |
| "The Billion Dollar Spy," which refers to the research and manufacturing costs saved by the U.S. as a result of a Soviet spy's revelations, is new on our nonfiction best-seller list, along with Jimmy Carter's "A Full Life." |
| Get an early look at all our best-seller lists from the Sunday Book Review. |
| • Tech tips. |
| Cooking on the grill can be a challenge, but these apps offer recipes and tips to help. |
| And gadgets like powered bikes, backpacks with batteries, on-ear headphones, Bluetooth speakers and USB car chargers could improve your daily commute. |
| • Drug testing for gamers. |
| The Electronic Sports League will begin testing video-game players for performance-enhancing drugs at a tournament in August. |
| • Another world. |
| "Jurassic World," out for less than two months and already the third-highest grossing film in history, will get a sequel in 2018. |
| The actors Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard have agreed to return, as has the executive producer Steven Spielberg. |
| BACK STORY |
| The magic in the Harry Potter series may exist only in books and movies, but one aspect of its wizardry has made it into the real world: quidditch. |
| Twelve teams are competing in the inaugural International Quidditch Association European Games that begin today in Sarteano, Italy. |
| The game, in which players zip around with broomsticks and toss objects into goals on either end of a field, has become a franchise in itself, with its own governing body and tournaments, including the United States' own Quidditch World Cup. |
| To differentiate it from the game in J. K. Rowling's series, this version is known as muggle quidditch (using Ms. Rowling's term for nonwizards). |
| Other than actual flying, the rest of her creation is there: the brooms, the quaffles, even the golden snitch that Harry became so famous for catching in his mouth. |
| Well, kind of. The real-life snitch is a tennis ball attached to a person whose job it is to do anything in his or her power to protect the ball, even running off the field and playing pranks on other players. |
| It is a full-contact sport, which can result in brutal injuries. But the coed game is open to any muggle. |
| Kathryn Varn and Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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