 | | The names of the 301 people who died in a Turkish mining accident last year. Employees of the mining company go on trial today. Ozan Kose/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images | Your Monday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • The starting line is filling in. |
| Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, once a protégé of Jeb Bush, is getting a head start on his mentor with today's official announcement of his run for the White House. Mr. Rubio joins Ted Cruz and Rand Paul as declared Republican candidates. |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton, who began her second presidential bid on Sunday with an online video, will hold small events in the coming weeks, in contrast with the Republicans, who are playing to bigger crowds. |
| • Blackwater sentencing. |
| Four former security contractors are scheduled to be sentenced today in federal court over a shooting that left 17 civilians dead in Baghdad in 2007. |
| The shooting brought worldwide attention to the trend of privatizing American security operations in combat zones. |
| • Trial opens in mine disaster. |
| Forty-five employees of a mining company, including a top executive, go on trial today in Turkey on charges of negligence in the deaths of 301 miners last year. |
| With elections in June, the governing party needs to show its core working-class constituency that it can get a measure of justice for the victims' families. |
| • "The Tin Drum" author dies. |
| Günter Grass, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and social critic, died today at the age of 87, his foundation said. |
| The author was the voice of a generation of Germans who came of age in World War II, but he stunned the world when he revealed in 2006 that he had been a member of the Waffen-SS. |
| • A no-drama election. |
| Sudan is holding its first national vote today since the 2011 secession of South Sudan. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who has ruled the country for 25 years and is wanted by the International Criminal Court, is expected to win. |
| As long as he remains president, he is immune from facing genocide charges from the Darfur conflict, which left 300,000 people dead and two million displaced. |
| • "Heat Week." |
| Sit-ins are planned this week at Harvard to urge the school to remove investments in fossil fuel companies from its endowment and to call attention to climate change. |
| Last month, a state judge threw out a lawsuit brought by students seeking the same results. |
| • French family feud. |
| Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front party, said today he would not run in regional elections this year, after a public disagreement with his daughter, Marine, the party leader. |
| MARKETS |
| • Wall Street stock futures are slightly lower. European shares are little changed, and Asia ended mostly higher. |
| • Apple may release figures today for the first weekend of Apple Watch sales. One research firm estimated one million were ordered the first day. |
| • China today limited residents of Shenzhen to one visit to Hong Kong a week, after protests about visitors smuggling goods back to China. |
| • Most of the mutual funds run by big banks underperform benchmarks, according to industry data. |
| OVER THE WEEKEND |
| • The leaders of the United States and Cuba held face-to-face talks for the first time in half a century, in Panama City. |
| • The pastor at the funeral of Walter L. Scott, whose shooting by a white police officer last week was captured on video, told mourners that he was killed because he was black. |
| • Pope Francis called the killing of Armenians under Ottoman rule in World War I a "genocide," which infuriated Turkey's government. |
| • Holocaust survivors and veterans commemorated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. |
| • The Secret Service suspended a uniformed officer who was arrested after being accused of breaking into his ex-girlfriend's home and threatening to assault her. |
| • Jordan Spieth, 21, won the Masters golf tournament with a score that matched the record Tiger Woods set in 1997 on his way to his first major title, also at age 21. |
| • "Furious 7" was the box office winner again. |
| • Catching up on TV: Episode recaps for the season premieres of "Game of Thrones," "Mad Men," "Veep" and "Silicon Valley," and for the six-part mini-series "Wolf Hall." |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Near-universal health insurance. |
| Almost nine out of 10 American adults say they have health insurance, according to a closely followed Gallup survey released today. The share of uninsured dropped to 11.9 percent for the first three months of this year, it said. |
| Separately, a new study shows that at every income level, people's health improves the more money they make. |
| • A skywalker's next challenge. |
| The high-wire performer Nik Wallenda announces his next stunt at a news conference today in New York. |
| He's already walked above Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon, and between two Chicago skyscrapers. |
| • New "Face the Nation" host. |
| John Dickerson, the political director at CBS News, will be the new host of the Sunday morning news program after Bob Schieffer retires this summer. |
| BACK STORY |
| At 2:13 a.m. on Saturday, one of the longest baseball games in history ended after six hours and 49 minutes. The visiting Red Sox beat the Yankees, 6-5, in 19 innings. |
| Thirty-four years ago this week, two minor-league teams began what became professional baseball's longest game. It ended a couple of months later. |
| As dawn approached on Easter Sunday in 1981, the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings were tied 2-2 in Pawtucket, R.I. |
| But at 4:09 a.m., after eight hours and seven minutes, and 32 innings, the umpires were ordered to suspend play until a later date. |
| Only 19 fans remained, along with players, coaches and staff. There were also two reporters, one scorer and two broadcasters. |
| When the game resumed in June, the stadium was filled with 6,000 fans and 150 journalists to witness the historic conclusion. |
| It took only 18 minutes and one inning to finish, with the Sox winning on a bases-loaded bloop single in the bottom of the 33rd inning. |
| The bat used in the winning hit is at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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