 | | Rescuers pulled a teenager out of the rubble in Nepal's capital today, five days after an earthquake struck. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters | Your Thursday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Cities in protest. |
| More marches are planned today after 60 protesters were arrested overnight in New York in one of many demonstrations. Others took place in Boston, Indianapolis, Washington and Ferguson, Mo. |
| Baltimore, which is under curfew, maintained an uneasy peace overnight over the unexplained death of Freddie Gray, 25, a black man who died of injuries suffered while in police custody. |
| • The newest 2016 entrant. |
| Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination today, in a liberal challenge to Hillary Rodham Clinton. |
| A self-described "Democratic socialist," Senator Sanders is considered a long shot who will bring attention to left-wing issues. |
| Other possible Democratic candidates include former Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland, former Senator Jim Webb of Virginia and former Gov. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island. |
| • A survivor's story. |
| Rescuers in Nepal's capital pulled a teenager from the rubble today, five days after the earthquake struck, to cheering crowds. |
| But officials said the chance of finding more survivors was bleak as the death toll neared 5,500, and pouring rain hampered their efforts. According to one economist's forecast, the cost of reconstruction could exceed $5 billion. |
| • Report: Psychologists supported torture. |
| The American Psychological Association secretly collaborated with the administration of President George W. Bush to bolster a justification for the torture of prisoners after Sept. 11, 2001, a new report says. |
| • More Nigerians rescued. |
| Another group of women and children kidnapped by Boko Haram militants was freed during an Nigerian Army operation in a remote region, a spokesman said today. |
| The hundreds of schoolgirls whose abduction made headlines more than a year ago were not among them. |
| • In court. |
| The relatives of the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are expected to testify today in the death penalty phase of the trial. |
| And the former rap music mogul Marion (Suge) Knight is due in a Los Angeles courtroom to be re-arraigned on a murder charge. |
| • Search for sailors. |
| The Coast Guard is in its final day of searching for three sailors lost off Alabama after a storm turned a weekend regatta into a disaster. The bodies of three people have already been recovered. |
| MARKETS |
| • Wall Street stock futures are falling, following European and Asian shares lower. |
| • Sony said today it expected its operating profit to more than quadruple this fiscal year, but that was less than analysts were expecting. |
| • The eurozone's inflation rate was unchanged this month, an improvement from recent deflation, officials said today. |
| • The social media app Secret, which lets people share information anonymously, is shutting down after months of declining use. |
| • Russia's central bank is expected to cut its main lending rate from 14 percent today. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Crash landing. |
| NASA's Messenger spacecraft, aloft since 2004, ends its journey today when it collides with Mercury, by design, at 8,750 miles per hour. |
| After documenting the presence of ice and discovering that Mercury shrank slightly as it cooled over billions of years, the spacecraft has run out of fuel. |
| • City of the big shoulder pads. |
| Chicago hosts the N.F.L. draft today through Saturday. The quarterbacks Jameis Winston of Florida State and Marcus Mariota of the University of Oregon, the last two Heisman Trophy winners, are expected to be the top picks. |
| The first round is at 8 p.m. Eastern (ESPN, NFL Network). Nearly 10 million viewers tuned in to watch first-round coverage last year. |
| • Internet Independence Day. |
| A group of libertarian-leaning tech pioneers including Mark Cuban, Ray Ozzie and Robert Metcalfe have declared today Internet Independence Day. |
| It's the day 20 years ago that they say was the final step in privatizing the Internet, when the government decommissioned a backbone network. The group opposes the Federal Communications Commission's latest moves on net neutrality. |
| • Poetry and jazz. |
| Today, the last day of National Poetry Month, is National Poem in Your Pocket Day, which encourages us to share a poem with others. |
| It's also International Jazz Day, and a daylong concert will be streamed live online from Unesco headquarters in Paris. |
| • In memoriam. |
| Jean Nidetch, who helped found Weight Watchers, the organization that turned dieting into a quasi-religious quest as well as a business, died in Florida. She was 91. |
| BACK STORY |
| Four years ago today, Navy SEAL Team 6 flew into Pakistan under cover of darkness to find and kill Osama bin Laden. |
| The first SEAL (Sea-Air-Land) units were officially created by President John F. Kennedy to patrol the shores and infiltrate the jungles of Vietnam. |
| (Today is also the 40th anniversary of the last U.S. soldiers and P.O.W.s officially leaving Vietnam as the government in Saigon announced its surrender.) |
| Currently, there are about 2,500 active-duty members in SEAL units. Only about 200 sailors pass the training program each year; the dropout rate is around 70 percent. |
| Their motto: "The only easy day was yesterday." |
| The small teams, which often work behind enemy lines, make secrecy and camaraderie lifesaving values, the commandos say. |
| But those qualities were tested after the Bin Laden raid, as different SEAL Team 6 members tried to take credit for killing the terrorist leader. |
| We're still not sure who shot him, and that's the way the commander wants it. |
| (Correction: We gave an incorrect link on Wednesday in the Morning Briefing to Freedom House's annual report of media freedoms and restrictions.) |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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