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View in Browser | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. Tuesday, April 14, 2015 Tuesday, April 14, 2015 nytnow.com » Enjoy this newsletter? Get continuous updates on today's most important stories with the NYT Now app for iPhone. Download now. The artist Michael Petry paid homage to the mathematician Alan Turing, who was portrayed in the movie "The Imitation Game." Michael Petry and Melissa Morgan Fine Art Your Tuesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN Good morning. Here's what you need to know: • Congress gets back to work. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to debate and vote on a measure today that would give Congress influence over a final nuclear agreement with Iran. President Obama has promised a veto. • Iraq's leader at the White House. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi will be looking to see how much support he will get from the Obama administration at today's meeting. And Mr. Obama will try to gauge whether Mr. Abadi is following up on his pledge to create an inclusive, multisectarian government. • Nigeria's missing schoolgirls. Nigeria's president-elect vowed today to try to free more than 200 girls abducted by militants a year ago today, but he also said it was not clear whether they would ever be found. Extremists have kidnapped at least 2,000 Nigerian women and girls since the start of 2014, many of whom have been sexually abused or trained to fight, Amnesty International said in a report today. • Campaign politics. In her first official campaign stop, Hillary Rodham Clinton is touring a community college and holding a round table with students and teachers in Monticello, Iowa, today. The state will host the nation's first presidential caucuses. And Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey is losing support in his home state for a potential presidential bid, according to a poll released today. • Atlanta educators back in court. A sentencing hearing resumes today for 10 former public school educators convicted this month of racketeering in one of the largest U.S. test-cheating scandals. • Mending ties. Senior officials from South Korea and Japan begin security talks today in Seoul after more than five years. South Korea has been protesting what it sees as Japan's attempt to gloss over its wartime past by making new claims to disputed islands. MARKETS • Wall Street stock futures are flat. European shares are lower, and Asian indexes closed mixed. • Nokia of Finland says it is in advanced talks to buy Alcatel-Lucent, in a deal that could value the French telecommunications equipment company at $13 billion. Nokia sold its cellphone handset business to Microsoft in 2013, while Alcatel has been trying to focus on a few profitable divisions. • The former governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, is joining the private equity firm Bain Capital as a partner to focus on socially oriented investments. NOTEWORTHY • Equal pay? Advocates say that today, Equal Pay Day, marks the extra 104 days of the year women need to earn what a man made in last year's 365. • If it's a publicity stunt, it's a costly one. The chief executive of a Seattle credit card processing company is cutting his million-dollar salary and using company profit to raise all of his 120 employees' pay to at least $70,000 this year. The paychecks of about 70 employees will grow, and 30 will have their salaries doubled. The boss says the move is intended to narrow the pay gap between executives and other members of staff. • New reads. Benjamin Percy's novel "The Dead Lands," out today, is a story of post-apocalyptic America, where a super-flu and nuclear fallout have apparently left only a few humans alive. Brad Gooch, known for his biographies of Frank O'Hara and Flannery O'Connor, releases "Smash Cut," his memoir of New York City life in the late 1970s and 1980s. • The day Lincoln was assassinated. The 150th anniversary of the assassination of Lincoln is observed today and Wednesday with round-the-clock dramatic retellings of the event at Ford's Theater in Washington, where he was shot by John Wilkes Booth a week after the Civil War effectively ended. • Scoops of delight. Today is Ben & Jerry's annual Free Cone Day, when you can get one cone or cup. Each outlet is collecting donations for a local charity. BACK STORY Interest in Alan Turing, the British genius and pioneer of computer science, has reached new heights since the release of the film "The Imitation Game," starring Benedict Cumberbatch. On Monday, a 56-page notebook Mr. Turing kept in the 1940s, while he was unlocking what were considered to be unbreakable Nazi codes, sold for more than $1 million at an auction in New York. The pages, sold to an unidentified buyer, contain notations that probably helped shorten World War II, as well as Mr. Turing's attempts at writing a computer language that would later lead to the creation of modern code. The computerized device you're using now exists in part thanks to Mr. Turing. Mr. Turing killed himself in 1954, two years after being convicted of "gross indecency" in connection with his homosexuality. He received a royal pardon in 2013. In Houston, a homage to Mr. Turing called "A.T. the Core of the Algorithm" is on display at an art gallery. It comprises 47 clusters (because 47 is a prime number) of heavily colored glass bubbles. The bubbles are meant to resemble apples, like the cyanide-soaked one that he is believed to have eaten. One theory had it that the Apple logo (the apple with a bite taken out of it) was also a tribute to Mr. Turing, but the designer of the logo denied it. Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. (In Monday's Morning Briefing, we gave an incorrect date for the shooting of Walter L. Scott, a black man killed by a white police officer in South Carolina. It was April 4, not last week.) Your Morning Briefing is published weekdays at 6 a.m. Eastern and updated on the web all morning. What would you like to see here? Contact us at briefing@nytimes.com. Want to get the briefing by email? Here's the sign-up. ADVERTISEMENT FOLLOW NYTNOW @NYTNOW NYT Now app for iPhone Now the news keeps up with you Available on the App Store Get more NYTimes.com newsletters » | Sign Up for the Morning Briefing newsletter » ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's NYT Now newsletter. As a member of the TRUSTe privacy program, we are committed to protecting your privacy. (....) | Privacy Policy | Contact | Advertise Copyright 2015 The New York Times Company | 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018