 | | A boat carrying migrants deflated off the coast of Greece on Sunday. European Union interior ministers meet today. Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters | Your Monday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Migrants front and center. |
| European Union interior ministers are debating plans today to relocate 160,000 migrants in Greece, Hungary and Italy to other European nations. Leaders of several countries have said they object to mandatory quotas. Here's what 160,000 migrants looks like. |
| Germany, which had been one of the most welcoming countries in Europe, has ordered temporary border restrictions and introduced spot checks on cars. Dozens of migrants drowned on Sunday as they tried to reach Greece. |
| • Tourists killed in Egypt. |
| Egyptian security forces opened fire on a caravan of vehicles late Sunday night, killing at least 12 people from Mexico and wounding 10 others, among them tourists and their Egyptian tour guides, officials said. |
| The vehicles were mistakenly thought to be carrying terrorists. |
| • Racial inequality in Missouri. |
| A commission appointed by the governor after the death of Michael Brown in August 2014 is calling for sweeping changes on matters of policing, the courts, education, health care, housing and more. |
| Among the top priorities outlined in the 198-page report that will be made public in Ferguson, Mo., this afternoon: increasing the minimum wage, expanding eligibility for Medicaid and consolidating the patchwork of 60 police forces and 81 municipal courts that cover St. Louis and its suburbs. |
| • Presidential road trip. |
| President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are in Iowa today for a back-to-school bus tour and to announce a change to the college financial aid system that will allow students to apply for assistance three months earlier. |
| On Saturday, Mr. Obama abandoned his two-year effort to create a system that explicitly rates the quality of colleges and universities, a plan that many college presidents opposed. |
| • Sanders to speak at evangelical school. |
| Senator Bernie Sanders speaks today at Liberty University in Virginia, the evangelical school founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, where Senator Ted Cruz announced his presidential candidacy. |
| "It is very easy for a candidate to speak to people who hold the same views," Mr. Sanders says. "It's harder but important to reach out to others who look at the world differently." |
| • Afghanistan jailbreak. |
| The Taliban stormed a prison today, freeing more than 350 prisoners and killing at least several police officers. |
| The militant group is still divided over who should succeed its founder, Mullah Muhammad Omar. |
| MARKETS |
| • Wall Street stock futures are higher, as are European indexes. Asian markets finished mixed. |
| • Airbus, the European plane maker, formally opens a jet assembly plant in Mobile, Ala., today, its first factory in the U.S. |
| • Labor contracts for the Detroit automakers — Ford, General Motors and Fiat Chrysler — expire late tonight. The leader of the 140,000-member United Auto Workers expects to reach agreements relatively quickly. |
| • A study found a link between lavish stock options for chief executives and serious product recalls. |
| OVER THE WEEKEND |
| • The California legislature approved assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, while the British Parliament rejected a similar measure. |
| • The U.S. dropped charges against a professor at Temple University suspected of sharing technology with China after acknowledging prosecutors and F.B.I. agents didn't understand the science at the heart of the case. |
| • A special report in The Times detailed how a young cancer victim chose to have her brain preserved, dreaming that it may be revived one day. |
| • Three inmates were killed and five were injured at the same Oklahoma prison where 11 inmates were injured in a brawl in June. |
| • Flavia Pennetta beat her fellow Italian Roberta Vinci in the U.S. Open women's final and then announced plans to retire. Novak Djokovic was the men's winner. |
| • Moses Malone, 60, the Hall of Fame basketball player who helped the Philadelphia 76ers win the 1983 N.B.A. title, died on Sunday. |
| • For the fifth straight weekend, a movie with a predominantly black cast topped the box office: "The Perfect Guy." |
| • Catching up on TV: Episode recaps for "Fear the Walking Dead" and "Masters of Sex." |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • A new view of Picasso. |
| "Picasso Sculpture," opening today at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is the first U.S. display of three-dimensional works by the artist in nearly half a century. |
| Our art critic sums it up: "Large, ambitious and unavoidably, dizzyingly peripatetic, this is a once-in-a-lifetime event." |
| • The man behind the mouse. |
| A four-hour documentary chronicles the life of Walt Disney, the storyteller who aimed to create "the happiest place on earth" (9 p.m. Eastern, Monday/Tuesday, PBS, but check local listings). |
| • Clutch plays. |
| Tony Romo led Dallas 72 yards down the field in 82 seconds, throwing an 11-yard touchdown pass that gave the Cowboys a 27-26 comeback victory over the New York Giants late Sunday night. Here's the full scoreboard. |
| In college football, No. 9 Notre Dame defeated Virginia on a 40-yard touchdown pass with 12 seconds left, No. 5 Michigan State held off No. 7 Oregon, and No. 6 Auburn survived in overtime against Jacksonville State. |
| • Happy new year. |
| The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, began at sundown on Sunday. We give readers of all faiths our best recipes for the High Holy Days. |
| BACK STORY |
| When Pope Francis visits the U.S. next week for the first time, his itinerary will include stops in New York and Philadelphia, the birthplaces of the only Roman Catholic saints born in the 13 original American colonies or 50 states. |
| The first, Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton of New York, was canonized 40 years ago today by Pope Paul VI. |
| Mother Seton was born in 1774, two years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence. |
| She started the first Catholic girl's school in the nation, in Emmitsburg, Md., and the first American congregation of religious sisters, the Sisters of Charity. |
| Mother Katharine Drexel, a Philadelphia nun who spent her life and her share of a family fortune on the network of schools for Native Americans and blacks that she started, is the first saint who was an American citizen from birth. |
| Mother Drexel died in 1955, and Pope John Paul II declared her a saint in 2000 — speedy, by modern church standards. |
| In his nearly 27-year papacy, John Paul II signed off on more canonizations (482) than all of his modern predecessors combined. |
| John Paul II also had a record sprint — nine years — to sainthood. |
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