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View in Browser | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. Thursday, July 30, 2015 Thursday, July 30, 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. Police officers on the island of Réunion on Wednesday, inspecting what appeared to be a plane part. Prisca Bigot/Zinfos974, via Reuters Your Thursday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN Good morning. Here's what you need to know: • Debris from Flight 370? Officials were cautious today, reluctant to fan hopes after the discovery of possible wreckage from a Malaysian plane that vanished last year with 239 people on board. Investigators are going to Réunion, an island in the Indian Ocean, to examine the debris. U.S. officials who have seen photos concluded that it came from a Boeing 777 like that of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. • Murder charge for police officer. The prosecutor called for disbanding the campus police force after a white University of Cincinnati police officer was indicted in the shooting death of an unarmed black man during a traffic stop on July 19. The crucial evidence was Officer Ray Tensing's body camera, which captured the moment when he shot Samuel Dubose in the head. If convicted, he faces life in prison. • Taliban renounce peace talks. The Taliban's official spokesman rejected a second round of peace talks with the Afghan government, a day after the death of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban's leader, was declared. The militant group seems poised to take the city of Kunduz, the first major city to be taken by the Taliban since they were ousted in 2001. • Put it off till tomorrow. The Senate will move today to approve a three-month extension to the highway bill passed by the House. The short-term patch is the 34th extension since 2009 and it puts off contentious debate over a long-term transportation bill until the fall. • And then there were 17. Former Gov. Jim Gilmore of Virginia filed the paperwork to run for president, according to the Federal Election Commission. A former prosecutor and Virginia attorney general, Mr. Gilmore joins a crowded Republican presidential field. • Execution in India. Yakub Memon, a central figure in a series of bombings in Mumbai that killed 257 people in 1993, was hanged early today at a prison in central India. Of those convicted of crimes related to the bombings, which also injured 700 people, he is the only one to have been executed. • Think it's hot where you are? Iraq's Council of Ministers declared a four-day mandatory holiday beginning today as temperatures have soared above 120 degrees. MARKETS • The first estimate of the U.S. economy's growth in the second quarter is due this morning, with economists expecting to see an annual rate of around 2.6 percent. • Sony reported a 39 percent rise in profit on strong sales of camera sensors and PlayStations, while Samsung's earnings fell for a fifth straight quarter after a slowdown in smartphones. • Royal Dutch Shell is cutting 6,500 jobs after saying its profit fell sharply in the second quarter because of lower oil and gas prices. • Deutsche Bank's new chief executive signaled today that he plans major changes in the bank, Germany's largest, despite posting a tripling of profit in the latest quarter. • Wall Street stock futures are slightly lower. European indexes are ahead, while Asia ended widely mixed. NOTEWORTHY • Hunter becomes target. Dr. Walter J. Palmer, the dentist and hunter who killed Cecil, a lion, after the animal was lured out of its sanctuary in Zimbabwe, is facing an onslaught on the Internet. He has gone from being a dentist in Minnesota to a villain at the center of a firestorm over the ethics of big-game hunting. • Millennials less likely to leave home. A study shows that more members of the millennial generation have yet to leave their parents' home even though the economy has improved and jobs are more easily available. Increased student debt loads and higher rents in popular cities may be partly to blame. • Rolling Stone in the spotlight. Will Dana, the managing editor of Rolling Stone, will leave the magazine, months after an article about a supposed gang rape at the University of Virginia was retracted. No successor has been named. And three former members of a fraternity have filed a lawsuit against Rolling Stone for defamation and infliction of emotional distress, saying the article had a "devastating effect" on their reputations. BACK STORY A gang of wingless birds is catapulting back onto smartphone screens today. Angry Birds 2, the official sequel to what was once the best-selling mobile app game, is now available in app stores. Angry Birds — along with more than a dozen related versions — has been downloaded more than two and half a billion times since it was first released in December 2009. But in the last two years, its maker, the Finnish company Rovio, has failed to rank in the top 10 game publishers by revenue. The new version is still a destructive battle between noble, self-sacrificing birds and greedy, thieving pigs. Players catapult birds into structures to knock them down and kill the pigs inside, which have stolen the birds' eggs. The structures react to the birds' impact somewhat according to the laws of physics. But they're suicide missions because each bird that is hurled dies. Version 2 gives players choices of targets, new strategies and characters, daily tournaments, and better animation. It is free for Android and Apple phones. Rovio is hoping to pump up interest before an animated film featuring the birds and the pigs comes out next summer. 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