 | | Migrants arrived in Simpang Tiga, Indonesia, today after spending months at sea. Binsar Bakkara/Associated Press | Your Wednesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Major recall. |
| Federal regulators are still sorting out which makes and models will fall under a recall of 34 million cars, the largest in American history, saying it could take years to complete. |
| The Japanese company Takata on Tuesday acknowledged defects in its airbags, which can explode when they deploy. |
| • Breakthrough in migrant crisis. |
| After weeks of refusing, Malaysia and Indonesia agreed today to take in 7,000 Muslim migrants who are stranded at sea. More than 430 have already been brought ashore. |
| The European Parliament is no closer to deciding how to distribute migrants in the Mediterranean to ease Italy's burden. |
| • On Capitol Hill. |
| The Senate could vote this week on a bill to overhaul a program, revealed by Edward J. Snowden, that allows spy agencies to sweep up huge amounts of data about Americans' phone calls. |
| Senators also moved closer to passing a fast-track trade bill by limiting debate. It would give President Obama power to negotiate a sweeping Pacific Rim trade agreement. |
| • A higher floor on wages. |
| Los Angeles is the latest — and largest — U.S. city to increase its minimum wage, going to $15 an hour by 2020, from $9. The federal minimum wage is $7.25. |
| Supporters hope Tuesday's vote sets off a wave of increases across Southern California, a region with a vast low-wage work force, as well as nationally. |
| • Waco's clogged court system. |
| The cases of roughly 170 bikers arrested in the deadly shootout in Texas on Sunday could drag on for months or even years, experts say. |
| The number of defendants, the nature of the organized-crime charges and the difficulty prosecutors face in getting witnesses to assist them are contributing to the challenges. |
| • Israel begins, and ends, separate busing. |
| The prime minister suspended today a pilot program separating Palestinians and Jewish settlers on buses, just after they were imposed. |
| • The commander in chief's address. |
| President Obama gives the commencement speech at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., around 11 a.m. Eastern. |
| MARKETS |
| • Wall Street stock futures are unmoved this morning. European indexes are falling, and Asia ended mixed. |
| • The Swiss bank UBS said today it would pay more than $500 million in U.S. fines for its role in manipulating foreign exchange markets and benchmark interest rates. |
| The Justice Department is pursuing additional agreements with Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and the Royal Bank of Scotland. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • It's a bird... It's a secret plane... |
| A secretive U.S. Air Force space plane is scheduled to make a fourth trip into orbit today. |
| Few details have been revealed about what the unmanned X-37B spacecraft, which resembles a smaller version of NASA's retired space shuttles, will be doing. |
| • A challenge for kickers. |
| The N.F.L. voted to make extra points after touchdowns kicked from the 15-yard line instead of the 2-yard line, to make them more difficult. |
| • No Taylor Swift allowed. |
| Bars, live music venues, restaurants and shops across Spain will be more quiet today, the Day Without Music, to protest the 21 percent value-added tax on tickets and a 10 percent royalty charge on performances. |
| The Spanish promoters' association is leading the campaign. It says the taxes are damaging the live music business. |
| Ms. Swift kicks off her "1989" world tour tonight in Bossier City, La. We're guessing that no tax could affect her ironclad popularity. |
| • Scoreboard. |
| LeBron James plays in the Eastern Conference finals for the fifth consecutive year tonight, when his Cleveland Cavaliers visit the Atlanta Hawks for Game 1 (8:30 p.m. Eastern, TNT). James led the Miami Heat to four straight N.B.A. finals appearances and two titles from 2011 to 2014. |
| On Tuesday night, the Golden State Warriors won their first conference finals game since 1976. They held off the Houston Rockets, 110-106. |
| In the Stanley Cup playoffs, the New York Rangers are at the Tampa Bay Lightning for Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals (8 p.m. Eastern, NBCSN). The Lightning are banning Rangers apparel from certain areas of the arena. |
| And it took three overtimes for the Chicago Blackhawks to even the Western Conference finals with a 3-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks. |
| • In memoriam. |
| Dr. David Sackett, who proved the value of taking aspirin in preventing heart attacks and strokes, and who helped pioneer the use of statistical data in treating patients, died in Markdale, Ontario. He was 80. |
| • They're still looking. |
| Five years ago today, a thief stole five paintings with an estimated auction value of $120 million from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. |
| The hooded man squirmed through a window he smashed, cut the canvasses away from the frames, rolled them up and fled with a Picasso, Matisse and other works. |
| BACK STORY |
| There's a pretty good chance you'll come across a listicle today. |
| And when you do, you may want to consider who helped make them part of popular culture, beginning more than 30 years ago. |
| Tonight is the finale of "The Late Show With David Letterman," where, early on, the host wanted to make fun of our fondness for Top 10 lists. |
| So on Sept. 10, 1985, he and his writers came up with the sublimely ridiculous "Top 10 Things That Almost Rhyme With Peas." |
| Over the years, he has had celebrities (like Homer Simpson) and newsmakers (like a little-known senator named Barack Obama) perform the Top 10 list. |
| They even did pro and con lists, like "Top 10 Reasons to Nix the Top 10 List" and "Top 10 Reasons to Do the Top 10 List a Little Longer." |
| You can check out the Top 10 archive while you wait for tonight's swan song. Stephen Colbert takes Mr. Letterman's seat on Sept. 8. |
| Good night, Dave. Thanks for the 4,605 Top 10 lists. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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