 | | Donald J. Trump, left, and Jeb Bush at the presidential debate Wednesday night. Max Whittaker for The New York Times | Your Thursday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Republicans turn on Trump. |
| Several candidates used Wednesday night's three-hour debate to shame, criticize and mock the front-runner Donald J. Trump, who was his usual self. |
| The candidates also put more focus than in their first debate on the dangers facing the U.S. from abroad, but they could not agree on how to deal with adversaries. |
| • A cliffhanger on interest rates. |
| Janet L. Yellen, chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, explains and defends the central bank's highly anticipated decision on interest rates this afternoon. |
| U.S. rates have stayed near zero for nearly nine years to aid the economic recovery from the last financial crisis. The Fed is weighing whether recent growth is strong enough to warrant nudging them up. |
| The announcement on rates, which affect everything from mortgage payments to savings accounts, is at 2 p.m. Eastern, and Ms. Yellen's news conference is at 2:30. |
| • Mass evacuation in Chile. |
| At least five deaths were reported after an 8.3-magnitude earthquake, one of the largest in years, struck off the country's coast on Wednesday night, and more than one million people had been evacuated. |
| Tsunami alerts were issued for Peru, Hawaii, parts of California and as far away as New Zealand. |
| • Russia's Syrian ambitions. |
| President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is planning to unveil a peace plan for Syria and is pushing to meet with President Obama in an attempt to curry the West's favor. |
| Washington's goal of training 5,000 Syrian fighters will not be achieved anytime soon. Only four or five U.S.-trained fighters are on the ground to fight Islamic State militants, despite a $500 million program to raise an army. |
| • Jobs for migrants. |
| In Germany, which expects 800,000 migrants this year alone, Chancellor Angela Merkel and big business are mounting a vocal campaign to get the new arrivals into jobs quickly. |
| In Spain, a Syrian who was tripped last week by a Hungarian journalist has been offered a job by a soccer school in Madrid. |
| But the migrant crisis, complicated by the clash between national interests and Europewide policies, continues unabated. |
| • Progress on wildfires. |
| California fire officials say they have contained 30 percent of the 70,000-acre wildfire in the state's north. Some of the homes lost in the blaze belonged to firefighters who were at work. |
| • At the White House. |
| President Obama meets today with the three Americans who prevented an attack last month on a train in France. |
| Harry Reid, the Senate Democratic leader, and Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, visit in the afternoon. |
| MARKETS |
| • Federal prosecutors are expected to unveil today a settlement with General Motors of nearly $1 billion over its failure to disclose a safety defect in ignition switches tied to at least 124 deaths, people briefed on the case said. |
| That would be short of a record for the auto industry because of G.M.'s belated cooperation in the investigation. |
| • Cablevision would pass from family to French ownership if Altice, a European telecommunications giant, survives antitrust scrutiny of its $17.7 billion merger offer. |
| The transaction, announced today, would further realign an industry in upheaval as cable and telecom companies seek greater scale and negotiating power with content providers. |
| • The Justice Department said it would not try to block Expedia's $1.3 billion acquisition of its rival Orbitz, despite the combined company's dominance in the U.S. online reservations business. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are stagnant this morning ahead of the Fed's decision. European shares are higher, and Asian indexes ended mixed. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • "Want to bring it to the White House?" |
| President Obama turned to Twitter to extend an invitation to Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old high school student in Texas and a Muslim, who was suspended, handcuffed and detained after a teacher thought his homemade clock was a bomb. |
| The White House said the detention was a case study in unreasoned prejudice. The teenager, who likes tinkering and technology, is considering transferring to another school. |
| • Unsafe for teenagers? |
| Research in a major medical journal concludes that the antidepressant Paxil is not safe for teenagers, contradicting a drugmaker's assertion 14 years ago that the opposite is true. |
| • Deaths from soot and smog. |
| Air pollution is killing 3.3 million people a year worldwide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. |
| • Pennant races heat up. |
| The Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates, two of the top baseball teams in the National League, play today (12:35 p.m. Eastern, MLB Network), and the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros, two of the best in the American League, take the field tonight (8:05 p.m. Eastern, MLB Network). |
| The playoffs begin in two and a half weeks. |
| • What's on TV. |
| Some of the women who accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault and other misconduct discuss why they came forward and what comes next on "Cosby: The Women Speak" at 9 p.m. Eastern on A&E. |
| • The stars come out. |
| Celebrities and artists attend the inauguration dinner tonight of The Broad (pronounced brode), the art museum in Los Angeles that opens on Sunday. |
| Works by Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman and Roy Lichtenstein are among those on display. |
| BACK STORY |
| Science gets silly tonight, with the 25th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University. |
| A parody of the Nobels, these awards honor weird, imaginative or amusing — but quite genuine — scientific research. |
| Winners last year included research on the friction between a shoe, a banana peel and a floor; on people who see the face of Jesus in a piece of toast; and on the reaction of reindeer when they see humans disguised as polar bears. Really. |
| The Ig Nobels (pronounced with the accent on the last syllable) were started by Marc Abrahams, editor of the bimonthly Annals of Improbable Research, which mines such scientific gems from more than 20,000 research journals worldwide. |
| Although real Nobel laureates hand out the prizes, the ceremony (webcast at 6 p.m. Eastern) is typically as silly as the research subjects are, with the audience zinging paper airplanes at the winners. |
| Despite the veneer of ridicule, organizers insist on their website that an Ig Nobel is not a bad thing: |
| "A lot of good science gets attacked because of its absurdity. A lot of bad science gets revered despite its absurdity." |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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