 | | A flyer for a rally to be held by Pope Francis in Washington. Zach Gibson/The New York Times | Your Tuesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Pontiff's arrival in U.S. |
| In an unusual gesture, President Obama greets Pope Francis on his 4 p.m. arrival today at Andrews Air Force Base from Cuba, where he offers his final Mass today. |
| The Roman Catholic Church that he'll encounter on his first visit to the U.S. is in transition, and its power base is shifting. |
| Here's where Francis stands on issues of particular importance to Americans. And here's our full coverage of the papal visit. |
| • China's leader visits U.S. |
| President Xi Jinping, described as the most powerful leader of the Chinese Communist Party in generations, arrives today in Seattle, where he will address a business dinner. |
| The U.S. and China have been negotiating what could become the first arms control accord for cyberspace, with a goal of announcing an agreement during Mr. Xi's seven-day U.S. visit. |
| Adding to the strain in relations is the arrest of an American businesswoman accused of stealing state secrets in China. |
| • Huddled masses. |
| European Union ministers debate proposals today in Brussels for how to accommodate 120,000 refugees. National leaders take up the crisis in an emergency meeting on Wednesday. |
| The newest migrants to the U.S., a new report finds, are assimilating into society as fast and as broadly as the previous ones. |
| • On Capitol Hill. |
| Senate Democratic leaders plan today to unveil a measure strongly backing Mr. Obama's aggressive climate change agenda. |
| They hope it will demonstrate a new unity for the party on energy and global warming policy in the coming years. |
| • White House hopefuls. |
| In Iowa today, Hillary Rodham Clinton announces a plan to deal with rising drug prices, after the price of a specialty drug was raised to $750 per tablet, from $13.50, and later rescinded. |
| "Never Enough," a biography of Donald J. Trump, is released today, and Mr. Trump will appear tonight on "The Late Show" (11:35 p.m. Eastern, CBS). |
| And Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin quit the race for the Republican presidential nomination, while urging some of his 15 former rivals to do the same in hopes of uniting the party around an alternative to Mr. Trump. |
| • Campus scourge. |
| More than one-fourth of undergraduate women at 27 prominent universities experience unwanted sexual contact — anything from touching to rape — while in college, according to one of the largest studies of its kind. |
| MARKETS |
| • Volkswagen's emissions-cheating crisis grows as more countries, from France to South Korea, announced investigations, and the company said it would set aside $6.5 billion to deal with the fallout. |
| Many Volkswagen owners who thought they were buying fuel-efficient vehicles are left angry and feeling betrayed after the company's admission that it rigged pollution results. |
| • Apple is still working out whether it will make a self-driving car, an electric vehicle or a combination of the two, according to a person with knowledge of the product. |
| But it is committing hundreds of people to the effort, and it is meeting with officials of the California Department of Motor Vehicles and of a testing ground for self-driving cars. |
| • Banks have eliminated over 20 percent of their Wall Street front-office jobs since 2011, often leading to commercial real estate shake-ups. |
| • Brian Williams is expected to return to the air on MSNBC today in his new role as a breaking news anchor, covering Pope Francis' U.S. visit, after Mr. Williams's admission in February that he had embellished accounts of his reporting. |
| • Wall Street stock futures indicate a sharp decline this morning. European shares are lower, and Asia ended mostly higher. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Fresh reads. |
| "Mycroft Holmes," released today, is an action novel that follows Sherlock Holmes's older and smarter brother, Mycroft. It was written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the highest scorer in N.B.A. history, and Anna Waterhouse. |
| Elizabeth Gilbert of "Eat, Pray, Love" fame is back with a self-help book, "Big Magic," about how to live a creative life. |
| And "The Nixon Tapes: 1973" follows up last year's best-selling "The Nixon Tapes: 1971-1972." The 848-page book has highlights of more than 3,700 hours of recorded conversations. |
| • Prime-time puppets. |
| "The Muppets" are back tonight for their first regular TV gig since 1996 in a behind-the-scenes mockumentary about the making of a late-night talk show starring Miss Piggy (8 p.m. Eastern, ABC). |
| In "Limitless," a man's use of a brain-enhancing drug makes him invaluable to the F.B.I. It's a spinoff of the 2011 film of the same title starring Bradley Cooper, who will pop up in this series (10 p.m. Eastern, CBS). |
| And Jamie Lee Curtis plays a college dean in the new slasher comedy, "Scream Queens" (8 p.m. Eastern, Fox). |
| • Scoreboard. |
| Major League Baseball's postseason begin two weeks from today, and the Toronto Blue Jays host the New York Yankees in a series that will most likely determine their playoff position (7 p.m. Eastern, ESPN). Toronto won Monday night, 4-2. The Astros, Cubs and Cardinals also won. |
| And the New York Jets beat the Indianapolis Colts, 20-7, on "Monday Night Football." |
| • He's a spry 100. |
| Don Pellmann set five world records at the San Diego Senior Olympics on Sunday and became the first centenarian to break 27 seconds in the 100 meters. |
| • In memoriam. |
| Robert E. Simon Jr., who sold his interest in Carnegie Hall to build a model suburb out of 7,000 acres of woods and fields 20 miles west of Washington in the 1960s, died Monday at age 101. |
| The resulting town — Reston, Va., whose name incorporates his initials — grew to a population of 60,000 and is sometimes listed as a "best place to live in America." |
| BACK STORY |
| In the middle of the Live Aid concert in July 1985 to raise money for starving Ethiopians, Bob Dylan went off-script to make a pitch for some of the funds, "one or two million, maybe," to help family farmers in America. |
| Some Live Aid supporters found his comments crass and nationalistic. But 30 years later, what became the Farm Aid concert that September is still raising money for small farms. |
| The most recent Farm Aid concert drew about 26,000 people to Chicago over the weekend. It was headlined, as usual, by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young, who founded the benefit show. |
| In the 1980s, thousands of small operators lost their farms when they couldn't make mortgage payments, victims of a crash in the value of farmland as well as drought. |
| Johnny Cash, the Beach Boys, Foreigner, Billy Joel and B. B. King were among more than 50 performers at the first Farm Aid in Champaign, Ill. |
| In Chicago on Saturday, the lineup and the attendance were significantly more modest. |
| And now, the money — $48 million has been raised since 1985 — goes to support sustainable agriculture as well as a disaster fund and rural service organizations. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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