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View in Browser | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. Monday, April 6, 2015 Monday, April 6, 2015 nytnow.com » Enjoy this newsletter? Get continuous updates on today's most important stories with the NYT Now app for iPhone. Download now. Rolling Stone has retracted an article on an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia that led to an uproar. Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress, via Associated Press Your Monday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN Good morning. Here's what you need to know: • Rolling Stone retracts article on gang rape. An independent report, published Sunday night, on a discredited article about a gang rape at the University of Virginia said the magazine's editorial process had failed at every stage. A news conference on the findings is scheduled today at noon; you can watch live online. • Sealing the Iran deal. In an interview with The Times, President Obama called last week's preliminary agreement a "once in a lifetime opportunity" to curb the spread of nuclear weapons in a dangerous region. Senate Republicans are planning a vote next week on legislation that would delay lifting sanctions on Iran for 60 days, and allow Congress to review a final agreement. • Two trials in Massachusetts near end. Closing arguments are scheduled today in the first phase of the Boston Marathon trial. And not far away, the lawyers for the former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez are expected to present their defense in his murder trial today. • Yemen's humanitarian emergency. The Red Cross is making aid flights today into Yemen, where Saudi-led airstrikes have targeted Iranian-backed Houthi rebels for the past two weeks. Ground fighting between the rebels and forces loyal to the ousted president has also increased. The United Nations says more than 500 people have been killed in recent fighting. • Ready to pay its debt. The Greek finance minister is meeting with Treasury officials today in Washington. He told the head of the International Monetary Fund on Sunday night that Athens would make a major debt payment due on Thursday. The Greek prime minister is heading to Moscow this week, where he might seek economic help, despite Russia's financial woes. He may also try to show his independence from creditors. • Kenya's aftermath. One of the four gunmen in Friday's terrorist attack in Kenya was the son of a government official, highlighting the country's challenges in tackling homegrown extremism. President Obama has said he will not change plans for his first presidential visit to Kenya this summer. MARKETS • Wall Street stock futures are trending negative. Major European markets are closed today for the Easter holiday. Asian shares closed broadly higher today. • Comcast is on a blitz to urge the U.S. government to approve its proposed takeover of Time Warner Cable. • Radio Shack has a blueprint for revival, courtesy of a hedge fund. • Wynn Resorts' board has been denounced in a shareholder report. • Chinese film studios are becoming closer partners of Hollywood. OVER THE WEEKEND • Pope Francis delivered an Easter message of peace, praising the Iran nuclear agreement and denouncing bloodshed worldwide. • Fidel Castro, the former Cuban president, appeared in public for the first time in 14 months. • Hillary Rodham Clinton is said to have leased two floors of a building in Brooklyn for use as her presidential campaign headquarters. • In memoriam: The gun control advocate Sarah Brady died on Friday. • Enslaved migrant fishermen were rescued from a remote Indonesian island where they were being held. • "Furious 7" had the biggest April opening in Hollywood history. • Catching up on TV: Recaps for "The Good Wife" and the season premieres of "Mad Men," "Wolf Hall" and "Outlander." NOTEWORTHY • The race at the White House. President Obama and Michelle Obama will host the annual Easter egg roll at the White House today. • Play ball! The St. Louis Cardinals cruised to a 3-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs in Major League Baseball's season opener on Sunday night. Cubs fans are beginning their 107th year of waiting for a World Series title. Opening day is today (all times Eastern, on ESPN): Blue Jays at Yankees, 1 p.m.; Mets at Nationals, 4 p.m.; Indians at Astros, 7 p.m.; Giants at Diamondbacks, 10 p.m., ESPN2. • The definition of dominance. The University of Connecticut will play for a third straight N.C.A.A. women's basketball national title, and a 10th over all, on Tuesday night against Notre Dame. It is a rematch of the 2014 championship game. And the Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2015 is announced today. BACK STORY Wisconsin ended Kentucky's undefeated season in the N.C.A.A. men's basketball semifinals on Saturday, in an upset for the ages. Though it's hard to imagine, the N.C.A.A. tournament was once an underdog. The National Invitation Tournament started in 1938, one year before the N.C.A.A.'s, and it attracted stronger fields, partly because it was held in New York, where there was more attention from the news media and from pro scouts. Several colleges chose over the years to participate in the N.I.T. rather than to accept invitations to the N.C.A.A. tournament. In the early 1980s, the N.C.A.A. struck back. It changed its rules so that all schools invited to its tournament would be required to boycott the N.I.T. or face penalties. The N.C.A.A. settled an antitrust suit filed by the N.I.T. in 2005, and it took over management of the smaller tournament. Hardly anyone knows that Stanford won the N.I.T. last week, but almost everyone will know who is crowned N.C.A.A. champion tonight (Wisconsin vs. Duke, 9 p.m. Eastern, CBS). 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. 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