 | | Three major blazes have consumed 270,000 acres in California. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times | Your Tuesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Try, try again. |
| Senate Republicans today try for a second time to push forward a resolution rejecting the Iran nuclear deal, in the hope that some Democrats have had second thoughts about their vote last week. |
| The results, though, are expected to be the same. |
| • Discord over migrants. |
| There seems to be little chance that European interior ministers will endorse a plan to resettle 120,000 asylum seekers that would be required for member countries. On Monday, they agreed to share 40,000 migrants sheltering in Greece and Italy, but only on a voluntary basis. |
| As more countries increase border controls, with tough new laws taking effect today in Hungary, the European Union's principle of free movement among most member states could be at risk. |
| • What they left behind. |
| The increasingly empty neighborhoods of Syria — from the Damascus suburbs to the northern city of Aleppo — testify to the scale of the migrant exodus in Europe. |
| The war's toll includes more than 200,000 dead; four million people who have fled to Jordan, Lebanon or Turkey; and seven million displaced inside the country. |
| • "I felt like it was the end times." |
| That's how one resident describes the drought-fueled fires raging across California, where thousands of people have been forced to flee and up to 1,000 buildings have been destroyed in Napa Valley. |
| Despite the efforts of 11,000 firefighters, three major blazes have consumed 270,000 acres and remain largely out of control. A new study suggests that droughts may become more common in the state. |
| • Campus in mourning. |
| There will be no classes today at Delta State University in Mississippi, where a professor is believed to have shot and killed a colleague in his office and, hours earlier, a woman about 300 miles away. The suspect has been found dead. |
| Separately, five fraternity members from Baruch College in Manhattan will face murder charges in Pennsylvania for their involvement in the death of a freshman who was hazed during a rural retreat in 2013. |
| • Follow the leader. |
| Democrats are laying the groundwork for an ambitious reorganization of their struggling network of "super PACs." |
| The party would exploit the loopholes and legal gray areas that Republicans have already used to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for the 2016 campaign through such groups. |
| • Olympics deadline. |
| Los Angeles and the U.S. Olympic Committee have until today to submit a formal bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games. |
| The city projects the cost of hosting the summer games at about $4.5 billion, with enough revenue for a $161 million profit. |
| MARKETS |
| • Wall Street stock futures are trending negative. European markets are lower, and Asian indexes finished mixed. |
| • The Commerce Department releases data today on retail sales in August, and we'll be watching to see if the momentum from higher spending by consumers in July carries over. |
| • The world's automakers are in Frankfurt today for the International Motor Show. Executives will be talking about the slow but steady growth of battery-powered vehicles, and about efforts by Apple and Google to take over dashboards. |
| • A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled on Monday that copyright holders must consider fair use before asking services like YouTube to remove videos that include their content. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • So much to read. |
| Among the many fiction releases today are John Banville's "The Blue Guitar"; Lauren Groff's "Fates and Furies"; and Lily Tuck's "The Double Life of Liliane." |
| Some prominent nonfiction releases are Wil Haygood's "Showdown," a biography of Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to serve as a Supreme Court justice; Mary Karr's "The Art of Memoir"; and Andrea Wulf's "The Invention of Nature." |
| • What to watch. |
| The prime-time variety show returns — along with all the stunts, skits, mini game shows, audience giveaways and hidden camera pranks — with the debut of "Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris" (10 p.m. Eastern, NBC). |
| An angel tells a 14th-century Welsh swordsman to stop being a knight and start being a ruthless killer in "The Bastard Executioner" (10 p.m. Eastern, FX). |
| And Mindy Kaling's "The Mindy Project" returns today, beginning a 26-episode fourth season on Hulu. |
| • Vinyl's second life. |
| The few dozen plants around the world that make vinyl records are straining to keep up with exploding demand. |
| Last year, more than 13 million vinyl records were sold in the U.S., the highest count in 25 years. One reason? The fuller, warmer sound from vinyl's analog grooves. |
| • Scoreboard. |
| The Atlanta Falcons rallied to edge the Philadelphia Eagles, 26-24, and the San Francisco 49ers defeated the Minnesota Vikings, 20-3, on Monday Night Football. |
| On the baseball diamond, the two top teams in the American League West, the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros, continue their series (8 p.m. Eastern, ESPN). Here are Monday night's scores. |
| BACK STORY |
| King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain visit President Obama today in a meeting that the White House says reinforces "the strong and enduring ties between the American and Spanish people." |
| Spain, not Britain, was the first European country to establish its rule in what later became the U.S., founding St. Augustine, Fla., 450 years ago this month. (The king and queen visit there on Thursday and Friday.) |
| Spain's imperialist drive led to settlements in what is now Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and California. Spain also controlled Puerto Rico. |
| Spain and the English colonies skirmished along the Florida border in the century before the American Revolution, when Spain helped the 13 colonies gain independence and defeat their rivals, the British. |
| When the war was over, Spain had claim to territory comprising about half of today's lower 48 states. |
| That didn't last. By 1850, the U.S. and its army had taken much of that land from Spain and Mexico. |
| Hispanics became the first U.S. citizens in these new Southwest lands. And National Hispanic Heritage Month begins today. |
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