 | | Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi in 2011, before his father, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, was killed. Moises Saman for The New York Times | Your Tuesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • NATO's emergency session. |
| NATO ambassadors meet today in Brussels, at Turkey's request, to size up the threat the Islamic State extremist group poses to Turkey and to discuss the response. |
| It's only the fifth time in the group's nearly 70-year history that an emergency session has been called. |
| The U.S. and Turkey are finalizing plans to push the militants out of a strip of Syrian territory along the Turkish border. |
| • A presidential milestone. |
| President Obama addresses a meeting of the African Union today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the final day of his trip to Africa. |
| He is the first American leader to deliver a speech at the 54-member group. Investment in the continent and security are high on the agenda. |
| • Pushing the Iran deal. |
| The European Union's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, is meeting with the Iranian foreign minister and other senior officials in Tehran today, following the union's formal approval last week of the nuclear agreement. |
| The Europeans are hoping Congress will follow their lead. On Capitol Hill today, Secretary of State John Kerry testifies before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs with the Treasury secretary and energy secretary. |
| • Qaddafi son sentenced. |
| A court in Libya today sentenced Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, son of the dictator who ruled Libya for 42 years, in absentia to death, along with eight other former officials. |
| They were accused of war crimes and suppressing peaceful protests during the 2011 uprising against the dictatorship. |
| • Wanted: U.S. city for Olympic bid. |
| Los Angeles will get another look as a possible host city for the 2024 Summer Olympics after the U.S. Olympic Committee decided not to nominate Boston. |
| The city's bid was killed after the mayor said he would not agree to make taxpayers liable for cost overruns. San Francisco and Washington were the other original finalists. |
| MARKETS |
| • Wall Street stock futures and European shares are higher today after China's main index ended down only 1.7 percent. |
| • The Federal Reserve dissects the latest economic data today with an eye toward a future interest rate increase at the start of its regular two-day policy-making meeting. |
| • Trade negotiators from the U.S. and 11 other Pacific nations meet today in Maui, Hawaii, for one last push — with high hurdles to clear — to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the largest regional trade accord in history. |
| • Sanofi said today it would spend at least $1.7 billion to enter a venture with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals to develop drugs that harness the body's immune system to fight cancer. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • A football first. |
| The Arizona Cardinals hired Jen Welter, who played professional football for more than 14 years, as an assistant coaching intern to work with inside linebackers. |
| She is believed to be the first female coach in the National Football League. |
• Something old, something new.
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| A long-lost book by Dr. Seuss is published today after being found, along with other manuscripts, in his home in La Jolla, Calif., by his widow in 2013. |
| "What Pet Should I Get?" was likely written between 1958 and 1962 by the author whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel. At least two other books based on the rediscovered materials are also due to be published. |
| • THREE BILLION DOLLARS. |
| The Bloomberg Billionaires Index said today that Donald J. Trump's net worth is closer to $2.9 billion, less than the $10 billion he has said he's worth. |
| • Ms. MacGyver. |
| Twelve students, finalists out of nearly 2,000 applicants, today begin pitching their ideas for a new TV series starring a female engineer. |
| The Hollywood producers, scientists and students who are judges in the Next MacGyver Competition, the brainstorm of the U.S.C. Viterbi School of Engineering in Los Angeles, will select five winners to develop scripts. |
| • A stand against killer robots. |
| Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and hundreds of experts on artificial intelligence are calling for a worldwide ban on so-called autonomous weapons. |
| Robots capable of killing without human operators, which could be created in a few years, risk falling into the hands of terrorists, they said. |
| • Extreme sports. |
| It's forecast to be 113 degrees today for the 90 runners in the 135-mile Badwater 135 Ultramarathon, starting at North America's lowest point in Death Valley, Calif. |
| And in Kansas City, Kan., today's 10th annual MR340 gives canoeists and kayakers 88 hours to complete the 340-mile Missouri River course. Only two-thirds of the teams normally finish. |
| BACK STORY |
| Seventy years ago today, as World War II was nearing an end, a twin-engine B-25 bomber was on a personnel flight to La Guardia Airport in dense fog. |
| Trying to find his way instead to the airport in Newark in the blinding cloud, the pilot narrowly missed the Chrysler Building. |
| A minute later, the plane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building, then the world's tallest office building. |
| The three plane occupants died, as did 11 workers in the offices of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and dozens were injured. But the toll could have been far worse had it not been a Saturday morning. |
| "Brilliant orange flames shot as high as the observatory on the eighty-sixth floor of the building" above Fifth Avenue as the gas tanks exploded, The Times reported. |
| Miraculously, the building's standpipes were intact, and the fire took only 40 minutes to extinguish. |
| And despite the crater in the tower's north face, the building's structural integrity remained intact. |
| The legacy of the crash is landmark 1946 legislation that for the first time gave Americans the right to sue the federal government. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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