 | | President Obama in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, today. Doug Mills/The New York Times | Your Monday Briefing By VICTORIA SHANNON |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • A U.S.-Turkish alliance. |
| Turkey and the United States agreed on a general plan to allow American warplanes, Syrian insurgents and Turkish forces to work together to force Islamic State militants out of a 60-mile-long strip of northern Syria along the Turkish border. |
| The plan, though lacking details, would significantly intensify American and Turkish military action against the Islamic State extremist group in Syria. |
| • Obama in Ethiopia. |
| Human rights issues are on the agenda for President Obama's visit to Ethiopia today, but investment, trade and terrorism were likely to take precedence in his meeting with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on Monday. |
| On Tuesday, he addresses the African Union, the first American president to do so. |
| • Death of Bobbi Kristina Brown. |
| The only child of the pop stars Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, who was found unconscious in a bathtub on Jan. 31, died on Sunday. She was 22. |
| Her mother was found submerged in a hotel bathtub in 2012. |
| • New lease on life for bank?. |
| A bill that includes reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank is expected to pass the Senate early this week. |
| A bipartisan Senate vote on Sunday broke a filibuster and allowed supporters to attach a measure to a three-year highway and infrastructure bill that would reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. |
| The agency's authorization expired on June 30, halting all new loan guarantees and other assistance to foreign customers seeking to purchase goods from American companies. |
| • Disarray in spy death case. |
| The long-running inquiry into the poisoning death in London of a former K.G.B. officer, Alexander V. Litvinenko, was set to find out today whether a prominent Russian suspect would decline to testify. |
| British lawyers say Dmitri V. Kovtun's withdrawal would be a deliberate attempt by the Kremlin to undermine the investigation. |
| MARKETS |
| • China's stock markets plunged today, after a three-week rally, casting new doubt on the government's unprecedented measures to support share prices. |
| The main Shanghai share index plunged 8.5 percent on Monday, its steepest one-day drop in eight years. |
| • Wall Street stock futures show little direction this morning. European shares are down about 1 percent. |
| • The Israeli drug maker Teva Pharmaceuticals agreed today to acquire the generic drug division of Allergan for $40.5 billion in cash and stock. |
| The transaction is the latest in what has been a frenzied period of deal-making in the pharmaceutical sector. |
| • Greece's stock exchange will remain closed today, awaiting a government decree. It has been shut since June 29, when the government imposed capital controls to ward off a collapse of the country's banking system |
| • The Apple Watch will be available at Best Buy, the first retailer other than Apple to offer it, starting Aug. 7. |
| OVER THE WEEKEND |
| • President Obama delivered a tough-love message before leaving Kenya, challenging his ancestral home to tackle corruption, sexism and division. |
| • Relatives and friends recounted happy memories of Sandra Bland's faith and social activism at her funeral in suburban Chicago, but also opening restated their belief that her death in a Texas jail was no suicide. |
| • Federal regulators levied a penalty of $105 million — their largest ever for recall violations — against Fiat Chrysler for failing to complete 23 safety recalls covering more than 11 million vehicles. |
| • In a striking admission, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria said in a televised address that the country's army faced a manpower shortage and had ceded some areas to insurgents in order to hold onto others. |
| • Spelman College discontinued a professorship endowed by Bill Cosby after suspending the professorship last year. |
| • Marvel's "Ant-Man" was again the No. 1 draw at the North American box office over the weekend, followed by Adam Sandler's "Pixels." |
| Overall ticket sales decreased 3.7 percent from the same three days last year, but whether the decline was because of reluctance to visit cinemas after the Louisiana shooting will likely never be known for certain. |
| • Chris Froome became the first Briton to capture two Tour de France titles, winning by 72 seconds. |
| • Thirty-two years after Juan Marichal became the first Dominican to enter the Baseball Hall of Fame, Pedro Martinez became the second. Craig Biggio, Randy Johnson and John Smoltz were also inducted before an estimated 45,000 fans. |
| • Catching up on TV: Episode recaps for "True Detective" and "Masters of Sex." |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • End of gay ban, mostly. |
| The Boy Scouts of America is expected today to end its blanket ban on gay leaders. |
| But some scouting groups will still be able to limit leadership jobs to heterosexuals. |
| • Trump abroad. |
| In Scotland, Donald J. Trump is known primarily for his influence on the country's golf scene. The Women's British Open is held this week at his most recent purchase, Royal Turnberry — or Trump Turnberry, as it is now labeled. |
| • Undercover album. |
| The rapper Prince Harvey releases a new album, "Phatass," which was recorded in secret at the Soho branch of the Apple store in New York after his own computers failed, leaving him unable to record at home. |
| He says he visited the store every day for four months and hid his work in the computer's trash folder. "Phatass" stands for "Prince Harvey at the Apple Store: Soho." |
| BACK STORY |
| Seventy-five years ago today, he first uttered those memorable words — "Eh, what's up, doc?" — before staring down the barrel of a gun. |
| That's when Warner Bros. released the cartoon "A Wild Hare" and the world discovered the lovable, cotton-tailed Bugs Bunny and his co-star, the shotgun-toting Elmer Fudd. |
| Primitive versions of Bugs had appeared as early as 1938 in Warner cartoons. |
| But in "A Wild Hare," the 1940 animated short, Fudd is constantly befuddled by Bugs, who shows his trademark wisecracking, street-smart cool right from the start. |
| In his eight-minute debut, Bugs wears white gloves, kisses Fudd multiple times, makes ballet moves, and pretty convincingly fakes his own death. Fudd even sobs, "I'm a wabbit killer!" |
| It's almost impossible to imagine one without the other. One short, "The Old Grey Hare" (1944), even explores the idea that there would be no meaning to Fudd's life if the pursuit of Bugs ended. |
| But it looks like Elmer Fudd is getting a rest as Bugs Bunny's nemesis. |
| In "Wabbit — A Looney Toons Production," a series of new cartoons coming this fall to the Boomerang Network, Bugs faces off with some new challengers. |
| That's all, folks. |
| Adeel Hassan contributed reporting. |
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