 | | The Chicago Blackhawks won their third Stanley Cup in six seasons on Monday night. Christian K. Lee/Associated Press | Your Tuesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Militant leaders killed? |
| Al Qaeda said today that Nasser al-Wuhayshi, its No. 2 figure and leader of its affiliate in Yemen, died in a U.S. missile strike. If true, it would be the biggest blow to the group since the killing of Osama bin Laden. |
| A Libyan militant group released today a list of people it says died in a separate U.S. attack, but it did not include Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an extremist leader linked to Al Qaeda who some had said was killed. |
| • Benghazi panel meets again. |
| Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of the Clintons, is scheduled to testify today about frequent emails about Libya he sent to Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was secretary of state. |
| His messages raise questions about whether the State Department and Mrs. Clinton complied with a series of requests from the House panel investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. |
| • Verdicts for Egypt's president. |
| Mohamed Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president, who was overthrown in 2013, will learn his final verdict today in connection with fatal riots outside his Cairo palace in 2012 as well as a prison-break case. |
| If the death sentence is upheld, it would have to be verified by the country's top religious official. Earlier today, he was given a life sentence on a charge of spying. |
| • Trying again on trade. |
| The House may vote today on an extension for a bill to help workers who have been displaced by global trade agreements. |
| That is tied to a package that would give President Obama fast-track authority to advance trade negotiations. |
| • Disgraced rights advocate to speak. |
| Rachel A. Dolezal, who resigned as president of the N.A.A.C.P. chapter in Spokane, Wash., will appear on the "Today" show (7 a.m. Eastern, NBC). |
| She'll be speaking publicly for the first time since she drew scrutiny and ridicule for having said for years that her background was partly black. Last week her parents said that she has no black ancestry. |
| • Pope calls for urgent action on climate. |
| Pope Francis urged people of all religions to take swift action to reduce the use of fossil fuels, according to a draft of his environmental encyclical. |
| The Vatican warned that the document, posted online by an Italian magazine, did not represent the final version, due on Thursday. |
| • "A big day for our country." |
| That's what Donald Trump, 68, says about today, when he will announce his presidential intentions in New York. |
| His financial disclosure forms, required of all candidates for president, will be closely read if he decides to run. Mr. Trump calls himself a billionaire, but some have questioned that. |
| • Texas braces for more flooding. |
| Up to 12 inches of rain could hit eastern Texas today as Tropical Storm Bill approaches the Gulf Coast. |
| MARKETS |
| • The Fed starts a two-day policy meeting today with odds against an interest rate rise. |
| The big question for mortgage seekers and other rate watchers is whether an increase will come in September or October. |
| • The clothing retailer Gap updates its turnaround plan today. It is shutting 175 stores, mostly in the U.S., and cutting 250 corporate jobs. |
| • Wall Street stock futures continue to fall, along with shares in Europe and Asia, as investors grow more bearish about Greece's prospects. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • A hockey dynasty. |
| After it went 50 years without a title, the Chicago Blackhawks won their third Stanley Cup in six seasons by beating the Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-0, on Monday to end a tightly fought six-game hockey series. |
| The Golden State Warriors are one victory from their first N.B.A. title since 1975, despite LeBron James's superhuman efforts for the Cleveland Cavaliers (9 p.m. Eastern, ABC). |
| The U.S. has its eye on the next round of the women's World Cup, the knockout stage, as it faces Nigeria (8 p.m. Eastern, Fox). |
| • What's on. |
| George Wendt, who played Norm on "Cheers," returns to Boston in "Clipped," a new comedy set in a city barbershop (10 p.m. Eastern, TBS). |
| Jennifer Beals plays a cardiothoracic surgeon investigating the afterlife on the new medical drama "Proof" (10 p.m. Eastern, TNT). |
| And after solitary confinement was in the news last week, "Solitary Nation" takes viewers inside prisoners' lives (10 p.m. Eastern, PBS, but check local listings). |
| • New to read. |
| Emily Bingham's new biography "Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham" is a look at a "heartbreaker" from the 1920s and '30s. |
| For more recent tales of love, the comedian Aziz Ansari offers advice in "Modern Romance." |
| And "Pirate Hunters," by Robert Kurson, is a story about a real-life treasure hunt. |
| • Fresh notes. |
| James Taylor releases "Before This World," his first studio album of new songs since "October Road" in 2002. |
| Other new releases: Ryn Weaver, Adam Lambert, Hilary Duff and Third Eye Blind. |
| • A big deal. |
| Today is the 82nd anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt introducing the first of his New Deal recovery programs. |
| They aimed to provide relief for the poor and unemployed and to help the economy rebound with overhauls to the financial system. |
| BACK STORY |
| It's likely that many people celebrating James Joyce's 1922 masterpiece "Ulysses" today haven't actually read the 800-page novel. |
| But that won't stop their Bloomsday festivities. |
| The book follows a day — June 16, 1904 — in the life of a Dubliner, Leopold Bloom. |
| Commemorations in scores of cities worldwide include Irish breakfasts of liver and kidneys (as described in the book), marathon readings, Edwardian costumes and pub crawls. |
| Today, some critics and academics rank "Ulysses" among the greatest books ever written — a far cry from its original reception. |
| Virginia Woolf called it an "illiterate, underbred" book. Gertrude Stein labeled Joyce "incomprehensible." |
| And The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice called the work vulgar and indecent, leading it to be banned in the United States until 1933. |
| Would it be obscene if published in this century for the first time? |
| "By the standards of today's dirty books, 'Ulysses' seems pretty tame," one critic writes. |
| Another writer notes that most of today's Amazon.com reviews don't even mention the sex. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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