 | | Secretary of State John Kerry, in Madrid today, urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to agree on steps to calm unrest. Francisco Seco/Associated Press | Your Monday Briefing By VICTORIA SHANNON |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • U.S. presses for Middle East talks. |
| Secretary of State John Kerry, in Madrid today, urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to agree on steps to calm unrest in talks this week. |
| In the latest violence, a Palestinian fatally shot a soldier and wounded at least nine other people in the southern Israel desert city of Beersheba. |
| Mr. Kerry also said he would meet with leaders from Jordan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, in Europe this week to discuss the Syrian conflict. |
| • National elections. |
| Canadians go to the polls today to decide whether Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party or Tom Mulcair of the New Democrats, a left-of-center party, will be able to challenge to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government. |
| And Egyptians are voting in their country's first parliamentary elections in four years, to replace the legislature that was dissolved in 2012. |
| • Britain's Chinese connection. |
| Economic deals are in the cards this week as the president of China arrives in London for the first state visit to Britain by a Chinese leader in a decade, including a stay at Buckingham Palac. |
| The British government is emphasizing the economic relationship between the two countries over human rights issues. |
| • House Republicans still seeking leader. |
| Members of Congress return to Washington this week to confront the leadership crisis over filling the role of House speaker, with the focus still on Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin. |
| And partisan tensions on the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, erupted Sunday, four days before Hillary Rodham Clinton is scheduled to testify. |
| • The stars come out at the White House. |
| Despite having met last week with the Sudanese president, who is accused of war crimes, Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim high school student who was arrested in Texas over his homemade clock, is due to take part in White House Astronomy Night tonight. |
| President Obama also hosts a round table with chief executives on global warming as five days of climate talks begin in Bonn, Germany. |
| • Dennis Hastert plea deal. |
| The charges against the former House speaker J. Dennis Hastert may become public today with the filing of his written plea bargain. |
| Government sources say he hid payments to a former student to conceal sexual misconduct when he was a high school wrestling coach. |
| • Mexico's human rights record. |
| The State Department says that Mexico failed to reach some human rights goals, setting off a cutoff of millions of dollars in aid, The Washington Post reported. |
| BUSINESS |
| • China's economic growth missed the government's official target of 7 percent in the third quarter, slowing to 6.9 percent from a deepening industrial rout and slumping stock market. |
| • Deutsche Bank will split its investment bank in two and let several top executives go as Germany's largest lender tries to overcome legal and management issues. |
| • Shareholders of two of the largest health insurers in the U.S.>, Aetna and Humana, vote today on their $37 billion merger. |
| • Morgan Stanley and I.B.M. unveil their latest quarterly results today. |
| • Wall Street stock futures show little change. European markets are slightly higher, and Asian shares ended mixed. |
| OVER THE WEEKEND |
| • CNBC said it would allow the Republican candidates 30-second opening and closing statements at the next presidential debate, on Oct. 28 in Boulder, Colo., bowing to their demands. |
| • Nebraska's new law abolishing the death penalty was upended by a petition drive that will force a statewide referendum on the issue next year. |
| • The Obama administration shut the door on drilling in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska over the next two years. |
| • The company behind Match.com, Tinder and OkCupid filed plans to trade stock on the Nasdaq market. |
| • The new chief executive of United Airlines, Oscar Munoz, remains hospitalized after having a heart attack. |
| • Lamar Odom, the basketball and reality-TV star, regained consciousness in a Las Vegas hospital. |
| • Steve Ballmer now owns more of Twitter than its chief executive, Jack Dorsey, after buying a 4 percent stake. |
| • In college football, Michigan lost to Michigan State over a fumbled snap. |
| • Tracy Morgan returned to host "Saturday Night Live" 16 months after a car accident nearly killed him. |
| • "Goosebumps," the adaptation of R.L. Stine's books, led the weekend North American box office, pushing "The Martian" to No. 2. |
| • Here are your episode recaps for "The Knick," "The Affair," "Homeland," "The Leftovers" and "The Walking Dead." |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Reaching higher. |
| Michelle Obama today unveils a public awareness campaign and the BetterMakeRoom.org website promoting education after high school, backed by more than 20 media, business and nonprofit groups. |
| • Scoreboard. |
| The Toronto Blue Jays host the series-leading Kansas City Royals tonight in the American League Championship Series. |
| The New York Mets are also two wins from a pennant, in the National League. The series shifts to the Chicago Cubs' home field on Tuesday. |
| And five pro football teams are still unbeaten in Week 6 of the N.F.L. season. The New York Giants take on the Philadelphia Eagles tonight. |
| • Marketing "Star Wars." |
| The trailer for the coming film "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" premieres tonight during halftime for "Monday Night Football" on ESPN as tickets go on sale today for the Dec. 18 opening. |
| • In case you missed it. |
| George Bell was one of many anonymous New Yorkers who die alone each year, and readers reacted to his story. |
| And we brought together the star of "Homeland" and the head of the real Department of Homeland Security for a chat. |
| BACK STORY |
| As American credit cards enter the 21st century with the kind of chip-embedded plastic that Europeans have used since 1991, glitches and cautions abound. |
| The chips help reduce fraud when they are used in person, but some experts are cautioning shoppers to be extra vigilant with their online purchases and with "phishing" email scams in case would-be thieves start turning their attention to the Internet. |
| And then there's the fallout for companies that rely on automatic credit card payments. |
| Since many of us received new cards from MasterCard and the other major issuers in recent weeks, regular charges from the old cards may fail to register. |
| Last week, Netflix, for one, blamed the new chip cards for its slowing growth in memberships.. |
| The video streaming company, which relies on monthly subscriptions, said an unusual number of its 69 million accounts were canceled last quarter, and it expects the issue to continue through the end of the year. |
| Online music services, media subscriptions, dating websites and other businesses may also get caught in the undertow before we realize that our accounts can't be automatically charged. |
| Often, it's only the expiration date that has changed on the new cards. So that hiccup getting in the way of your Netflix binging may just be a sign you need to change the date. |
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