 | | Jeb Bush plans to declare his presidential bid in Florida today. Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times | Your Monday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Political dynasties. |
| Jeb Bush is expected to announce the start of his presidential campaign, after six months of speculation, at Miami Dade College this afternoon. |
| The two Bushes who served in the White House are not expected to attend, and the candidate has unveiled a logo that features just his first name. |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton, at her biggest campaign event to date, promised in New York on Saturday to close the gulf between the rich and poor. |
| • Low expectations for Yemen talks. |
| Delegates from the Houthi rebel group and the government it ousted meet separately in Geneva today for talks with U.N. officials, who will try to get them to meet at the same table. |
| The Houthis arrive strengthened by the capture of another provincial capital, despite facing airstrikes by Saudi Arabia. |
| • Caught in South Africa. |
| Sudan's president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who was indicted six years ago by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and genocide, was barred today from leaving South Africa. |
| He is visiting the country for an African Union summit meeting. |
| • Civil rights advocate postpones discussion. |
| Rachel A. Dolezal, the president of the Spokane, Wash., chapter of the N.A.A.C.P., postponed her talk today about her racial identity without rescheduling it. |
| Her parents said that she had portrayed herself as black but that she is actually white. |
| • Jailbreak inquiry. |
| Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York announces today an investigation by the state inspector general into how two convicted murderers escaped a maximum-security prison. |
| A prison employee charged with aiding the breakout has a court appearance today. |
| • Severe weather. |
| Showers and thunderstorms are forecast today across most of the U.S. The rainfall could lead to flash flooding from the Plains to the Midwest. |
| MARKETS |
| • Airbus and Boeing will dominate the Paris Air Show this week with their usual competition for orders, but analysts see a relatively quiet week of deals otherwise. |
| Airbus today followed Boeing in increasing its long-term forecast for commercial jet demand. |
| • The video game industry shows off its progress in virtual reality headsets and other devices this week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles starting today. |
| • Hudson's Bay, the Canadian owner of Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor, is expanding with today's acquisition of the Galeria Kaufhof department store chain in Germany and its Belgian subsidiary for $3.2 billion. |
| • China added a million millionaires last year, mostly from stock market gains. |
| That gives it the world's second-largest such population, four million, compared with seven million in the U.S., according to a report today by the Boston Consulting Group. |
| • Global stocks are falling, under pressure after the latest collapse in talks over the Greek debt crisis. |
| The Athens market itself is down almost 7 percent. |
| Saudi Arabia opened its stock market to foreigners for the first time today. |
| OVER THE WEEKEND |
| • The U.S. carried out a strike in Libya, its first since the NATO operation in 2011. |
| • John Kerry, secretary of state, was released from a hospital. He said there would be no delays in negotiating a final nuclear deal with Iran, whose president is optimistic two weeks before the deadline. |
| • The Pentagon proposed putting heavy weaponry in Eastern Europe to deter possible Russian aggression. |
| • Six prisoners held for more than 13 years at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, were transferred to Oman. The inmate population there is now 116. |
| • The maker of the "gun that won the West," Colt Defense, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. |
| • New mayors: Two far-left women took office in Madrid and Barcelona. And San Antonio, the only city among the 10 largest in the U.S. with a Hispanic majority, elected its first African-American mayor. |
| • The Philae spacecraft that landed on a comet last fall communicated with Earth after seven long months of silence. |
| • Inbee Park won her third consecutive Women's PGA Championship on Sunday and regained the No. 1 ranking in the world. |
| • "Jurassic World" might become the biggest domestic movie opening ever, ahead of "Marvel's The Avengers" in May 2012, when final sales are tallied. |
| It posted $204.6 million in estimated weekend sales at the North American box office and about $512 million worldwide. |
| • Catching up on TV: Episode recaps for "Orange is the New Black" and the season finales of "Silicon Valley," "Veep" and "Game of Thrones." |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Scoreboard. |
| The Chicago Blackhawks are on home ice with a chance to win their third Stanley Cup title in six seasons. Each game of the final against the Tampa Bay Lightning has been decided by one goal (8 p.m. Eastern, NBC). |
| Stephen Curry scored 37 points as the Golden State Warriors defeated Cleveland, 104-91, in Game 5 of the N.B.A. finals to take a 3-2 series lead. |
| • What's on TV. |
| Ray Liotta narrates the new series "The Making of the Mob: New York" (10 p.m. Eastern, AMC). A 25th-anniversary presentation of Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas" (1990) leads in at 7. |
| • Clarifying the law. |
| Maryland will limit the authorities' involvement in "free-range" parenting cases of children walking or playing alone outdoors. |
| And the right to be drunk on the front porch of a private home was upheld by the Iowa Supreme Court. |
| BACK STORY |
| It's O.K. not to know what Magna Carta means. |
| Even Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain couldn't come up with the translation from the Latin on the "Late Show With David Letterman" a few years back. |
| It means "Great Charter," and it's regarded as England's first step toward civil rights. It was signed 800 years ago today. |
| London had been captured by a group of barons rebelling against King John. When they negotiated peace, they put into a contract for the first time the principle that no one, not even a monarch, is above the law. |
| The barons' goal was to protect their privileges from royal power. In the process, individuals' rights — including the rights to justice and a fair trial — were raised above a king's whims. |
| But the king quickly asked the pope to annul the charter, which he did. Many of its clauses came in and out of favor over the next several centuries. |
| Today, only three clauses of the original Magna Carta remain on the books in Britain. And only four of the U.S. Bill of Rights' 27 provisions can be traced to it. |
| But its symbolism lives on. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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