 | | Residents reacted to news of a deadly attack at a church in Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday night. David Goldman/Associated Press | Your Thursday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Nine people are killed in church shooting. |
| Nine people are dead after a shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday night. |
| The police believe it was a hate crime and are searching for a white gunman. |
| We are at the scene and following developments in a live-blog. |
| • Pope pleads for "our ruined" planet. |
| Pope Francis officially issues today his encyclical, a papal letter sent to all bishops of the Roman Catholic Church, with a focus on the environment. |
| But it's not intended only for Catholics. On Wednesday, the pope said that everyone should help to save "our ruined" planet. |
| We are following the release with a live-blog today from Rome. |
| • Hong Kong rejects election plan. |
| The legislature in the semiautonomous Chinese territory rejected a plan today that would have allowed citizens to vote for the first time for their leader among candidates vetted by a pro-Beijing committee. |
| The proposal led to mass protests last year. The current system, in which the same committee chooses the leader, but without a public vote, remains in place. |
| • Record number of refugees. |
| Nearly 60 million people have been driven from their homes by war and persecution, and half of the displaced are children, according to new figures released today by the United Nations refugee agency. |
| • A woman's face on U.S. currency. |
| The $10 bill, which now shows the first Treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, will feature the portrait of a woman, whose identity is yet to be determined, the government decided. |
| Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew will choose the person by the end of the year, and the new note will appear in 2020 — the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. |
| • Here we go again on trade. |
| The House is expected today to pass a bill that would give President Obama accelerated negotiating authority to pursue a trade agreement with Pacific Rim nations. |
| It's essentially the same bill that was narrowly passed last week, before it was voted down in the Senate. |
| • Where to find a candidate. |
| The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, or Naleo, is holding a Democratic forum in Las Vegas today featuring Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. |
| And nearly the entire Republican field is participating in the Road to Majority Conference in Washington organized by the Faith & Freedom Coalition. |
| President Obama is also getting ready for the next election; he'll attend fund-raisers today in Los Angeles for the Democratic National Committee. |
| • Decisions, decisions. |
| The Supreme Court issues rulings today. We're waiting for the justices to weigh in on mighty matters like same-sex marriage and the health care law, but those aren't expected this morning. |
| MARKETS |
| • NBC is to announce today that Brian Williams will not return to his position as the anchor of its "Nightly News" show, but will take on a different role. |
| He was suspended four months ago for exaggerating his experiences in a helicopter attack in Iraq. |
| • The Federal Communications Commission is expected to approve today a proposal to subsidize broadband Internet connections for the poor. |
| • Fitbit begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange today. |
| The company, which sells wearable fitness-tracking bracelets and other devices, priced its initial public offering at $20 a share. |
| • Wall Street stock futures show little change this morning. European and Asian shares are lower. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • A holy month begins. |
| Ramadan, the monthlong period of fasting and reflection for more than 1.5 billion Muslims, starts today in much of the world. |
| • Teeing off. |
| The 115th U.S. Open, the second major golf championship of the year, opens today for its first time in the Pacific Northwest, in University Place, Wash. |
| Rory McIlroy, ranked No. 1 in the world, will find that most of the attention is on the No. 2, Jordan Spieth, the 21-year-old Masters champion. |
| Fox has the broadcast, and portions are also streamed online. |
| • He lived for baseball and books. |
| Nelson Doubleday Jr., grandson of the founder of the Doubleday publishing house and onetime owner of the New York Mets, died on Wednesday at his home in Locust Valley, N.Y. He was 81. |
| • What's on TV. |
| The new series "The Astronaut Wives Club" applies "the 'Mad Men' formula to the women who stood behind the heroes of the conquest of space," our TV critic writes (8 p.m. Eastern, ABC). |
| • Naughty, naughty. |
| "Grey," out today, is a new version of the best-selling "Fifty Shades of Grey," told from the point of view of the S-and-M-loving billionaire Christian Grey. |
| • Sorry, France. |
| More than 100,000 history buffs begin five days of commemorations today, the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, in Belgium. |
| Napoleon's defeat in the half-day battle against an international coalition ended France's supremacy in Europe and contributed to more than a century of British dominance. |
| • Congress acting like children. |
| Lawmakers, their families and staff members, among other guests, attend the Capitol Hill Ice Cream Party today. It's free and open to the public. |
| Who's sponsoring the event? The dairy industry, of course. |
| • Don't drive to work. |
| It's National Dump the Pump Day, so park your car and ride public transit. |
| BACK STORY |
| In the market for a multimillion-dollar Andy Warhol painting? Or maybe a sculpture by an up-and-coming artist for a few thousand bucks? |
| Those are standard purchases at Art Basel, the international art festival that opens to the public today in Switzerland. |
| But if those numbers make you cringe, you can still rub elbows with the world's leading art collectors (and maybe Leonardo DiCaprio) on a day pass for about $50. |
| Be careful what you bring. Selfie sticks are banned, and if it were up to the director, selfies would be too, after a number of visitors in previous years almost backed into artworks while trying to snap photos. |
| Unlike spectators, gallery owners have to go through hoops — and then pay $50,000 to $80,000 — to display their work in one of the 300 coveted spots. |
| Collectors who make the cut are pampered with benefits such as Champagne breakfasts and BMW car service. |
| They are also given early access to the fair so that they can comb through the works, wallets in hand, before roughly 92,000 visitors show up at the event, which runs through Sunday. |
| Kathryn Varn and Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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