 | | A migrant on a train in Bicske, Hungary. Lawmakers in the country vote today on whether to tighten border controls. Petr David Josek/Associated Press | Your Friday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • More weapons for the Middle East. |
| A region troubled by war is about to get $1 billion worth of weapons, as the Pentagon finalizes an agreement to sell more arms to Saudi Arabia for its fight against rebels in neighboring Yemen. |
| The Saudi king meets today with President Obama at the White House. |
| • Who is Aylan Kurdi? |
| The death of the 3-year-old Syrian boy, who drowned off Turkey, has put the migration crisis into focus across Europe and even in Canada, where his family had applied for a visa. In this video, his father speaks about his loss. |
| Hungary's Parliament votes today on whether to tighten border controls, and members of the European Commission are on the Greek island of Kos, where many migrants have landed. |
| • Gay marriages move ahead. |
| A federal judge received commitments to begin providing marriage licenses from the deputies of Kim Davis, a county clerk who is in jail after defying a court order to issue licenses for same-sex marriages. |
| At least two couples were planning to seek licenses today. |
| • Campaign contrasts. |
| Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said on Thursday night that he was unsure whether he and his family had the "emotional energy" for a presidential bid. |
| And Donald J. Trump, who seems to have no doubts, stumbled on a foreign policy question. |
| • Behind bars. |
| The former president of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, wakes up this morning in jail. |
| A day after resigning, he is awaiting the conclusion of a hearing examining his role in a multimillion-dollar customs fraud case that has shaken the nation and sent reverberations throughout the region. |
| • Tom Brady wins again. |
| The N.F.L. will mostly likely seek an expedited review as it moves to appeal a federal judge's decision dismissing a four-game suspension for Tom Brady, a four-time Super Bowl champion. |
| On Thursday, the judge found "significant legal deficiencies" in the case that seemed at times like a personal showdown between the league's commissioner and Brady. |
| • Limiting how you can be tracked. |
| The U.S. Justice Department will require federal agents to seek warrants before using secretive equipment that can locate and track cellphones, the agency says. |
| The new policy, in response to demands from judges, lawmakers and privacy advocates, also limits what information may be collected and how long it can be stored. But the new rules don't apply to local police forces. |
| MARKETS |
| • August's U.S. employment report, due out this morning, is the last before the Federal Reserve's Sept. 16-17 meeting. |
| A healthy gain in the number of new jobs would provide one of the final pieces of evidence the Fed would need to start raising interest rates at that meeting. |
| • The average price of gasoline this Labor Day weekend — $2.44 a gallon — is the lowest in the U.S. at this time of year since 2004, and nearly $1 a gallon cheaper than a year ago. |
| • New smartwatches for the Christmas shopping season are among the headliners at the annual IFA consumer electronics show, opening in Berlin today. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are down sharply this morning, following declines in Europe and Asia. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • At the movies. |
| "Dragon Blade," opening in the U.S. today, is an eyeball-popping extravaganza featuring Jackie Chan, John Cusack, Adrien Brody and lots of horse-riding extras. It's a box-office smash in China. |
| Here's what else is coming to theaters today. |
| • Popular reads. |
| Ivan Doig's "Last Bus to Wisdom," about a boy and his uncle on a 1950s road trip through the West, is new to our hardcover fiction best-seller list. |
| Get an early look at all of our best-seller lists from the Sunday Book Review. |
| • At the U.S. Open. |
| Serena Williams, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal headline today's third-round action (1 to 6 p.m. Eastern, ESPN, 6 to 11 p.m. ESPN2 and our live blog). |
| The fourth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki failed to survive the second round on Thursday, and an unauthorized drone crashed into a section of empty seats during a second-round match. |
| • It's like Black Friday. |
| Stores including Target, Toys "R" Us and Walmart have been open since midnight, selling merchandise tied to the next "Star Wars" film, which opens worldwide on Dec. 18. |
| • New music. |
| The band A-ha, famous for "Take On Me," a smash hit in the 1980s, is releasing its 10th album, its first since 2009. It's called "Cast in Steel." |
| And Iron Maiden releases its first double-length studio album, "The Book Of Souls." |
| • What's on TV. |
| "American Masters: Althea" follows the story of Althea Gibson, the first African-American athlete to win at Wimbledon (9 p.m. Eastern, PBS, but check local listings). |
| • Looking ahead. |
| The 11th All-Africa Games kick off today and continue for the next two weeks in Brazzaville, the Republic of Congo. The Games began in 1965 and, like the Olympics, are held every four years. |
| BACK STORY |
| Summer is ending, so it's time to take your vacation photos to be developed. |
| O.K., we're kidding. In the era of digital photography, it's hard to fathom that the one-hour photo shop pioneered by Fotomat was such a large part of the American landscape as recently as 20 years ago. |
| Where 7,600 one-hour film processing shops dotted the country in 1993, only about 190 existed by 2013, the most recent year for which data is available. |
| And they are vanishing faster than any other sector tracked by the U.S. Census Bureau. CVS closed the last of its one-hour processing stations this summer. |
| Even Polaroid, that icon of instant photo gratification, makes mostly digital cameras now (though you can still buy a Polaroid OneStep). Other companies, like The Impossible Project, have sprung up that specialize in instant film photography. |
| You can still get real camera film developed at certain Costco, Target, Walgreens and Walmart locations, among other large chains. Or you can mail it to professional processors. |
| For those of you with very old film or negatives, some companies may be able to save your memories from physical oblivion. Film Rescue International, for one, has done so for the Smithsonian Institution and many others. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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