 | | Firefighters in Lake County, Calif. Blazes are also raging in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Robert Galbraith/Reuters | Your Monday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
Good morning.
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| Here's what you need to know: |
| • The scorched West. |
| Montana declared a state of emergency as a dozen wildfires flared, fueled by drought and winds. |
| Fires are also raging in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and the wine region north of San Francisco. The city itself was enveloped in a smoky haze. |
| • Signal from missing plane. |
| Rescue crews are closing in on what they believe to be the crash site of an Indonesian jet carrying 54 people that vanished on Sunday in stormy weather in the mountainous eastern province of Papua. |
| Officials said today they had detected a signal identifying the location of the missing plane. No debris has been found. |
| • Trump's campaign break. |
| Donald J. Trump, the leader in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, reports for jury duty today in Manhattan. |
| He leaves us with his ideas on immigration: deporting immigrants in the U.S. living illegally and ending automatic citizenship for children born to foreigners in the U.S. |
| • Racial gap in the U.S. |
| A report to be released today shakes the long-held belief that higher education clears a path to financial equality for blacks and Hispanics, and contends that the problem is more deeply rooted. |
| And new research from Louisiana found that prosecutors used peremptory challenges three times as often to strike black potential jurors as others during the last decade. |
| • Target: U.S. heroin market. |
| The White House announces today a plan that pairs law enforcement officials with public health workers to emphasize treatment of heroin addicts rather than prosecution, The Washington Post reports. |
| The plan would cover 15 states. |
| • Appealing the football settlement. |
| A dozen objections are expected today against the billion-dollar N.F.L. settlement with football players over certain severe neurological diseases. |
| The players appealing say the deal is unfair, mostly because it does not cover future diagnoses of a degenerative condition linked to repeated hits to the head. |
| • Volcano watch. |
| Japan is monitoring activity at a volcano near its Sendai nuclear plant, the first reactor to be restarted since the meltdowns at Fukushima in 2011. |
| And a state of emergency continues in Ecuador over the increasing activity from the Cotopaxi volcano. It last had a major eruption in 1877. |
| MARKETS |
| • Wall Street stock futures show little movement. European and Asian shares are mixed. |
| • Japan's economy contracted in the second quarter, the government said today, the first setback since a short recession last year. Gross domestic product fell at an annualized rate of 1.6 percent. |
| • India's biggest airline placed Airbus's biggest order by units, for up to 250 A320neo single-aisle jets. The order from IndiGo could be worth $26.6 billion, based on list prices. |
| OVER THE WEEKEND |
| • At the Iowa State Fair, Hillary Rodham Clinton denounced Jeb Bush, Bernie Sanders discussed Social Security and crowds swarmed Donald J. Trump. |
| • Tens of thousands of Brazilians protested against President Dilma Rousseff, who is dealing with a bribery scandal and a weakening economy. |
| • National Security Agency files showed that the agency had been given access to billions of emails with the cooperation of AT&T. |
| • A technical glitch in an air traffic control system in Virginia disrupted flights and led to about 500 cancellations along the East Coast on Saturday. |
| • A Milwaukee Brewers minor leaguer, David Denson, became the first openly gay active player on a team affiliated with Major League Baseball. |
| And Michael Sam, the first openly gay player to be drafted into the N.F.L., is taking a break from football. |
| • A special report from The Times delved into the sometimes-punishing workplace that Amazon.com can be for white-collar workers. "Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk," one former employee said. |
| • Disney announced that it would build 14-acre "Star Wars" expansions at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. |
| • Jason Day of Australia earned his first major golf title, winning the P.G.A. Championship with a record of 20 under par. |
| • "Straight Outta Compton" was the winner at the North American box office, outperforming the big-budget summer movies "Terminator Genisys" and "Mad Max: Fury Road." |
| And Dr. Dre's "Compton: A Soundtrack" — a loose tie-in to the film — had 25 million streams and nearly half a million downloads through Apple's iTunes store. |
| • Catching up on TV: Episode recaps for "Masters of Sex" and "Hannibal." |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • The president's vacation. |
| As President Obama begins his final week on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., we look at what the president has been reading and listening to. |
| He's also preparing for life after the White House. |
| • The "drinkable book." |
| A book with pages that can be torn out to filter drinking water proved 99 percent effective in field trials, according to a study presented at the American Chemical Society meeting in Boston. |
| The pages, which are used like coffee filters, have bacteria-killing nanoparticles of silver or copper. |
| • Kardashian fatigue. |
| News outlets and social media bloggers around the word may try to give up on reporting on the Kardashians this week, thanks to a news anchor's rant that went viral. |
| • In memoriam. |
| Julian Bond, a former chairman of the N.A.A.C.P. and a leading figure of the 1960s civil rights movement, died at 75. |
| BACK STORY |
| Over the weekend, North Korea celebrated the anniversary of the Korean Peninsula's liberation from Japanese rule by creating its own time zone — 30 minutes behind South Korea's. |
| It joins a small club of countries that have time zones at the bottom of the hour. Nepal and the Chatham Islands in New Zealand are the only ones on the quarter-hour. |
| The North's new time zone returns it to the one it had used before Japan annexed it in 1910. |
| One of the most drastic time changes came when Samoa decided to cross the international date line to align itself more with Asia. So Dec. 30, 2011, never happened there. |
| The U.S. didn't get its four continental time zones until November 1883, at the urging of train executives. Before that, the country had hundreds of times, all set locally. |
| The following year, an international conference in Washington set the longitudinal line that runs through the London borough of Greenwich, home of the Royal Observatory, as the prime meridian. |
| Greenwich Mean Time thus became "time zero," and the world's 24 time zones grew from this. |
| Since all longitudinal lines converge at the North and South Poles, they don't have time zones. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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