 | | Protesters on Thursday in Panama City, where the Summit of the Americas opens today. President Obama and Raúl Castro of Cuba will attend. Arnulfo Franco/Associated Press | Your Friday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • U.S.-Cuba milestones. |
| President Obama could remove Cuba from the list of countries that Washington says sponsor terrorism, eliminating a big hurdle toward normalizing ties. |
| On Thursday night, the two countries held their highest-level meeting since the early days of the Cuban revolution in the late 1950s. Mr. Obama and President Raúl Castro will both be at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City today, though they are not scheduled to formally meet. |
| • Police tactics under scrutiny. |
| The anti-crime strategy used by the mostly white force in North Charleston, S.C., has led to a decrease in violent crime, but days after an officer shot and killed a black man, many black residents say it came at too high a cost. |
| The city has become something of a window onto many of the policing issues playing out nationally. |
| • Officers are taped beating a man. |
| A television news camera caught sheriff's deputies pummeling and kicking a suspect after a chase through the California desert on Thursday. |
| Officers pursued the man by foot, in a helicopter and with off-road vehicles, and an investigation has been ordered. |
| • The fight for Yemen. |
| The United Nations Security Council could vote as early as today on a resolution to effectively impose an arms embargo on the Iran-allied Houthi rebels that control much of the country. |
| Iranian leaders have lashed out against Saudi airstrikes in Yemen, warning that the campaign would end in defeat. |
| • Gun gathering. |
| About a dozen prominent Republicans, including would-be presidential candidates, will join an estimated 70,000 people at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting, which runs through Sunday in Nashville. |
| The event coincides with a debate by Tennessee lawmakers over a measure that would allow people to carry guns in parks. |
| • Cleanup in the Midwest. |
| Tornadoes touched down in Illinois, Iowa and Ohio, and one death was reported on Thursday. More devastation could be reported this morning. |
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| MARKETS |
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| • Wall Street stock futures are trending negative. European stocks hit a record high, and Asian indexes closed mostly up. |
| • Samsung's new Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge smartphones go on sale today. The Edge has a unique curved screen. |
| • The Apple Watch is available for pre-order today. You can also make an appointment to try it on at Apple's retail stores. |
| • Sabra has recalled 30,000 cases of hummus because of the discovery of listeria, now linked to three deaths and five illnesses. |
| • Sprint is doubling its retail footprint today by opening 1,435 co-branded stores with RadioShack. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Romance on the big screen. |
| In "The Longest Ride," a film opening today, two young people from different backgrounds find that the road to enduring love is paved with complications, some preposterous, some life-threatening. It's based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. |
| Here's what else is coming to theaters today. |
| • Popular reads. |
| "Becoming Steve Jobs" debuts at No. 2 on our hardcover nonfiction list. It's a more sympathetic portrait of the Apple co-founder than Walter Isaacson's 2011 biography. |
| Get an early look at all our best-seller lists from the Sunday Book Review. |
| And F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic "The Great Gatsby" was released 90 years ago today. |
| • Superheroes and Jedi knights. |
| Netflix releases all 13 episodes of the first season of "Marvel's Daredevil," starring Charlie Cox ("Boardwalk Empire") as Matt Murdock, the victim of a childhood accident that blinded him but gave him extrasensory powers. |
| And all six parts of the "Star Wars" saga are available for streaming for the first time today. The seventh film in the franchise is out in theaters on Dec. 18. |
| • Tech tips. |
| This week we have some fun with trivia game apps, and we troubleshoot iTunes. |
| • Inspired by a show about nothing. |
| "The Album About Nothing," by the rapper Wale and inspired by the TV show "Seinfeld," is No. 1 this week on Billboard's chart. It features Jerry Seinfeld himself. |
| Wale's 2008 breakthrough, "The Mixtape About Nothing," used samples from the hit show. |
| • Start your baking. |
| The National Pie Championships begin today in Orlando, Fla. We don't want you to feel left out, so check out the dozens of pie recipes on the NYT Cooking section of our website, or download the new iPhone app. |
| It's all free, but you have to pay for the ingredients. |
| BACK STORY |
| M'athchomaroon! |
| That's "hello" in Dothraki, a language not taught on any college campus. But 20 million people are getting excited to hear it again when the fifth season of "Game of Thrones" begins Sunday night on HBO. |
| The smash hit is based on George R.R. Martin's best-selling series of fantasy novels, which include a scattering of Dothraki expressions. |
| The language was expanded by David J. Peterson, a co-founder of the Language Creation Society, who won a contest to invent new words for the show's pilot. |
| He followed a long tradition of constructing new languages to add reality to fictional worlds. |
| J.R.R. Tolkien invented 14 tongues for his Middle Earth books, according to one estimate, and once said his stories "were made rather to provide a world for the languages than the reverse." |
| More recently, Klingon went far beyond "Star Trek" and now has its own language institute. |
| Dothraki appears to be on a similar trajectory. There is now a book-and-CD set that helps fans "speak with confidence." |
| The language has about 2,000 words now, but the aim is for 10,000 — the equivalent of what you need for college-level foreign language proficiency. |
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