 | | People fleeing the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, Mali, today after assailants took hostages there. Harouna Traore/Associated Press | Your Friday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Tightening borders. |
| European Union interior ministers today are discussing new border checks in their passport-free travel zone in response to the Paris attacks, which took about one year to plan. |
| France and Belgium are moving aggressively to strengthen their security forces, but doing so comes at the expense of civil liberties. |
| In the U.S., House lawmakers voted to impose stringent procedures on Syrians and Iraqis seeking resettlement. The bill's fate is uncertain in the Senate, and the president said he would veto it. |
| • Gunmen attack hotel in Africa. |
| At least two gunmen stormed the U.S.-owned Radisson hotel in Mali's capital today and seized around 170 hostages. The hotel is popular with foreigners working in the country. |
| The hotel manager said perhaps three people were dead, and there were indications that the hostage takers were releasing Muslims and continuing to hold non-Muslims. |
| • Israeli spy released. |
| Jonathan J. Pollard, the American convicted of spying on behalf of Israel, was released on parole today from a federal prison in Butner, N.C., after serving 30 years of a life sentence. |
| The Obama administration has no plans to grant his request to leave the U.S. and move to Israel. Here's a look at his case. |
| • President Obama overseas. |
| President Obama arrived in Malaysia today for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit meeting, where trade and maritime security are on the agenda. |
| • Candidates make their cases. |
| Bernie Sanders presented himself as the heir to the policies and ideals of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a rare formal address on Thursday. |
| He's struggling to attract more voters to his bid for the Democratic nomination against Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is calling for speeding up the U.S.-led operations against the Islamic State. |
| • Protests on campus. |
| Princeton students ended a 32-hour sit-in that focused on the use of former President Woodrow Wilson's name in public spaces on campus. Mr. Wilson, who was in the White House from 1913 to 1921, held racist views. |
| And portraits of black faculty members were defaced at Harvard Law School. |
| • Reverse border crossings. |
| More immigrants from Mexico are leaving the U.S. than coming into the country, a new report says. |
| The finding points to the end of the largest wave of immigration from a single country in American history. |
| • Homelessness drops slightly. |
| The number of homeless people in the U.S. declined slightly since last year, a new government survey shows. |
| But 17 states posted increases, including the two most populous: New York was up nearly 10 percent from last year and California up 1.6 percent. |
| BUSINESS |
| • Genetically engineered salmon would not have to be labeled as such, the Food and Drug Administration said, consistent with its stance on genetically modified corn, soybeans and other crops. |
| The F.D.A. approved the salmon as the first genetically altered animal fit for consumption. |
| • U.S. finance agencies issued new rules to discourage American companies from moving their headquarters abroad in search of lower tax rates. |
| The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is already weighing ways to bypass so-called inversion rules in its plan to buy Allergan, based in Ireland, for about $150 billion. |
| • Warren E. Buffett's grandson is getting into the family business with a new company called i(x) Investments. He aims to invest in companies that are working on clean energy, sustainable agriculture and water scarcity. |
| • Wall Street stock futures show little movement. European trading is choppy, and Asian indexes ended mostly higher. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • At the movies. |
| Jennifer Lawrence returns for the final time as Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2," opening today. |
| "Secret in Their Eyes" is a thriller about a young girl's murder and the F.B.I. investigators who finally get a new lead 13 years later. It stars Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and Chiwetel Ejiofor. |
| Cate Blanchett plays an elegant married woman in 1950s New York, and Rooney Mara is a young department store clerk with whom she has an affair, in "Carol." |
| Here's what else is coming to theaters today. |
| • Adele's return. |
| The British singer's first album in nearly five years, "25," is out today. It is poised to be one of the biggest hits in years, but it won't be available for streaming. |
| Adele will perform some of her new music this weekend as the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live" (11:30 p.m. Eastern, NBC). |
| • Popular reads. |
| "Destiny and Power," the biography of President George Bush, debuts at No. 1 on our hardcover nonfiction best-seller list. |
| Mitch Albom's "The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto" and Isabel Allende's "The Japanese Lover" are new to the fiction rankings. |
| Find a weekend read on our best-seller lists. |
| • Baseball honors. |
| The Washington Nationals' Bryce Harper and the Toronto Blue Jays' Josh Donaldson easily won their first Most Valuable Player Awards. |
| • In case you missed it … |
| Among our most popular articles this week were on the disparity between the responses to last week's Paris and Beirut attacks; why a militant's own family wanted him dead; and the mistakes that led to the rise of the Islamic State. |
| BACK STORY |
| Classical music has been part of the soundscape of feature films from the earliest days of the "talkies." |
| But in "Fantasia," which debuted 75 years ago this month, the music was a co-star, not a supporting player. |
| The movie, Walt Disney's most artistically ambitious feature — and his only animated feature film to reach the two-hour mark — was dreamed up to bring highbrow masterpieces to everyone. |
| It didn't succeed, at first. |
| The film features unrelated segments set to music performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. |
| "Sorcerer's Apprentice," accompanying an 1897 composition by Paul Dukas, features Mickey Mouse as a wannabe magician. |
| Animation for "The Rite of Spring," composed by Igor Stravinsky, tells the story of evolution. |
| And "Dance of the Hours," from the opera "La Gioconda," becomes a comic ballet performed by animals. |
| Even as the first American film to have stereo sound — though most theaters couldn't accommodate the new technology — "Fantasia" was a $2.3 million flop (the equivalent of about $39 million today). |
| "Fantasia" finally recovered its cost after many rereleases over the years. A sequel, "Fantasia 2000," was released in 1999. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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