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View in Browser | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. Tuesday, July 14, 2015 Tuesday, July 14, 2015 nytnow.com » Enjoy this newsletter? The NYT Now app for iPhone is now completely free. It's the fastest way to catch up with the news throughout the day. Download now. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and other delegates struck a deal with Iran today. Carlos Barria/Reuters Your Tuesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN Good morning. Here's what you need to know: • A historic nuclear deal. Iran agreed this morning to significantly limit its nuclear ability for more than a decade in return for the end of international oil and financial sanctions. We have live coverage. The U.S. Congress now has 60 days to approve or reject the deal — a political agreement, not a legally binding treaty — reached with six other nations after 20 months of talks. Mr. Obama is expected to make a public statement in Washington at 7 a.m. Eastern. • Focus on criminal justice. President Obama addresses the annual N.A.A.C.P. convention in Philadelphia at 3 p.m. Eastern (live coverage). He'll speak about what he calls unfairness in much of the criminal justice system. On Monday, he commuted the sentences of 46 mostly nonviolent drug offenders. • Settlement with police victim's family. New York will pay $5.9 million to resolve a wrongful-death claim over the killing of Eric Garner a year ago. Federal, state and local inquiries into his death after a police officer used a chokehold to subdue him remain open. • Theater shooting trial wraps up. Closing arguments are due in the trial of James E. Holmes today in Colorado, and the jury could get the case this afternoon. The central question: Was he legally sane when he began the 2012 attack that left 12 dead and 70 wounded? • Steps toward equality. The Pentagon is moving to allow transgender people to serve openly in the military by early next year. And the executive committee of the Boy Scouts of America unanimously approved a resolution that would end the organization's blanket ban on gay adult leaders. • Reward for El Chapo. A reward of up to $3.8 million has been offered for information leading to the capture of the drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, who escaped from a maximum-security prison in Mexico on Saturday. The breakout has become a symbol of the president's inability to overcome the country's deep-seated corruption. • Inching toward a bailout. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece needs to persuade Parliament to approve by Wednesday the outlines of the most recent bailout deal. Including a missed payment late Monday, the country is now in arrears to the International Monetary Fund for about $2.2 billion, and debts to other creditors are coming due. • First glimpses of "Watchman." Harper Lee's novel "Go Set a Watchman" went on sale at 12:01 a.m. Eastern today. More than two million hardcover copies have been printed in the U.S. alone. But that wouldn't be a record. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and last volume in that series, sold 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours in the U.S. in 2007. MARKETS • The biggest U.S. bank, JPMorgan Chase, releases its second-quarter earnings this morning. Analysts are expecting slightly lower profit and revenue than a year ago. • Natural gas overtook coal as the top source of U.S. electric power for the first time this spring, according to a report from SNL Energy. Nuclear power came in third, at 20 percent. Gas production has been climbing because of hydraulic fracturing in shale formations. • Wall Street stock futures are little changed this morning after Monday's surge on the Greece deal. European shares are down slightly, and Asian indexes ended widely mixed. NOTEWORTHY • Better than selfies. We're expecting stunning pictures this morning from the NASA New Horizons spacecraft, which is making its closest approach to Pluto, about 7,800 miles above the surface. And "Mission Pluto" follows the nine-year, three billion-mile journey from its start to today (9 p.m. Eastern, National Geographic Channel). • There are other new books out today. A New Yorker writer fears her mind's decline in "Let's Be Less Stupid," and a correspondent for The Atlantic writes on race in America in "Between the World and Me," in today's nonfiction releases. Roberto Saviano, who went inside the world of Italian mob life in "Gomorrah" (2006), tackles cocaine trafficking in "ZeroZeroZero." He writes that legalization is the only reasonable solution. • All-American classic. Tonight's All-Star Game in Cincinnati between the American League and the National League determines which gets home field advantage in the World Series. The Kansas City Royals (seven players) and the St. Louis Cardinals (six) have the most representatives (first pitch at 8 p.m., Fox). BACK STORY Straddling the border between Switzerland and Italy is the stunning Matterhorn, which at 14,692 feet is one of the tallest peaks in the Alps. Edward Whymper, a Briton, and his party were the first to reach the summit, 150 years ago today. It should have been a joyous occasion. But descending after a ceremonial flag-planting, four of the seven men fell 4,000 feet to a glacier below when their hemp rope broke. Mr. Whymper and two guides from the village of Zermatt, Switzerland, were at the other end of the rope and survived. Since then, more than 500 climbers have died, mostly on the descent. The frayed rope of the Whymper expedition is on display in the Matterhorn Museum in Zermatt, which has become Switzerland's most popular tourist destinations, with nearly two million visitors each year. To commemorate the anniversary, a new $9 million base camp at 10,695 feet is unveiled today. And the mountain is closed to climbers for the first time ever. Mr. Whymper never returned to the Matterhorn. In his 1871 book, he advised: "Do nothing in haste; look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end." (Correction: Judy Garland's home state was incorrect in Monday's Morning Briefing. It is Minnesota, not Michigan.) Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. 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. 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