 | | Ceremonies are planned in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania today, 14 years after the Sept. 11 attacks. Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press | Your Friday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • A done deal. |
| The House votes as early as today on a resolution to approve the Iran nuclear accord. It's a way for Republicans to force Democrats to declare their support, in the hope that the issue will hurt them later. |
| The agreement will be formally adopted on Oct. 19, and it will take at least a few months for Iran to carry out the first steps for it to take effect. |
| The White House win raises questions about the influence of the pro-Israel group Aipac, which spent $30 million to try to kill the deal. |
| • Solemn anniversary. |
| After a moment of silence at the White House, President Obama heads to Fort Meade, Md., for a town-hall-style meeting with service members 14 years after the Sept. 11 attacks. |
| Ceremonies are planned at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in Lower Manhattan, in Washington and in Pennsylvania. |
| And the few artifacts from the World Trade Center housed in Hangar 17 at Kennedy International Airport paint a poignant picture of before and after 9/11. |
| • Migrants on the move. |
| Heavy rain is slowing the progress of thousands of migrants who are heading north from Greece today. A meeting today in Prague about Europe's proposed quota system for migrants will also help shape their fate. |
| President Obama told his administration to take in at least 10,000 displaced Syrians over the next year. "Ten thousand is just an embarrassingly low number," one human rights advocate said. |
| • Dark clouds. |
| After years of drought, emergency officials in California are preparing for floods and mudslides, as an El Niño weather system is forecast to drench the state by the end of the year. |
| And torrential rain caused flooding and landslides across much of Japan this week. At least three people are dead and more than 100,000 have been forced to flee their homes. |
| • Mr. Biden's late night. |
| Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. hinted during a "Late Show" interview on Thursday night that he may not be ready to run for president for a third time. |
| "Nobody has a right, in my view, to seek that office unless they are willing to give it 110 percent of who they are," he told Stephen Colbert. |
| • Flying the flag. |
| Palestinians will raise their flag in front of United Nations headquarters at the annual meeting of the General Assembly this month, despite opposition from Israel and the United States. |
| A vast majority of member countries voted in favor of granting "nonmember observer states" the right to fly their flags alongside those of full members. |
| MARKETS |
| • Wall Street stock futures are slightly negative this morning. European shares and most Asian indexes are also down. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • At the movies. |
| "90 Minutes in Heaven," opening today, is based on a best-selling memoir about the physical and spiritual recovery of Don Piper, a Texas pastor who was declared dead in a car crash. |
| And "Sleeping With Other People" is a comedy about romantically challenged friends who try to preserve their friendship by keeping it platonic. |
| Here's what else is coming to theaters today. |
| • Tennis tournament tries again. |
| A rainy Thursday in New York pushed the U.S. Open women's semifinals forward a day. It's Serena Williams vs. Roberta Vinci and Simona Halep vs. Flavia Pennetta, beginning at 11 a.m. Eastern on ESPN. |
| On the men's side, Novak Djokovic plays Marin Cilic, and Stan Wawrinka faces Roger Federer (5 p.m., ESPN). |
| • The N.F.L. lineup. |
| We analyze the best games this weekend, with betting lines, TV info and our expert predictions. |
| In Thursday night's opener, Tom Brady tossed four touchdown passes to lead the New England Patriots past the Pittsburgh Steelers, 28-21. |
| • Best sellers. |
| "The Nature of the Beast," Louise Penny's 11th novel about the Québécois detective Armand Gamache, lands at No. 3 on our hardcover fiction list. |
| And Steve Silberman's history of autism, "NeuroTribes," which includes portraits of historical figures who may have had Asperger's, is new at No. 8 on the hardcover nonfiction list. |
| Get an early look at all our best-seller lists from the Sunday Book Review. |
| • Ciao, Mamma. |
| The Abba-inspired Broadway musical "Mamma Mia" closes on Saturday after 14 years and 5,773 performances, a victim of economics. We offer a nostalgic salute. |
| • Blasts from the past. |
| "Paper Gods," Duran Duran's 14th album, includes collaborators like Nile Rodgers, Mark Ronson and Janelle Monáe. |
| Today's other releases include another '80s band, Slayer, with "Relentless"; Gary Clark Jr.'s "The Story of Sonny Boy Slim"; and "Me," the debut album from Empress Of, a.k.a the songwriter Lorely Rodriguez. |
| • Hardcourt luminaries. |
| The Basketball Hall of Fame inducts its new class tonight. The players Spencer Haywood, Dikembe Mutombo, Jo Jo White and Lisa Leslie, and the college coach John Calipari, are among the honorees. |
| • No, your TV isn't broken. |
| ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC are all showing a one-hour, star-studded fund-raising telecast for a new national education initiative called "Think It Up" (8 p.m. Eastern). |
| BACK STORY |
| Wish Uncle Sam a happy birthday on Sunday. The man who, legend has it, gave rise to the iconic symbol of the United States was born on Sept. 13, 1766, in Arlington, Mass. |
| Samuel Wilson was a meatpacker in upstate New York who helped feed American soldiers in the War of 1812, the fight between the United States and Britain that also inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner." |
| According to the legend, a worker wisecracked that the letters "U.S." on Mr. Wilson's shipping crates stood for "Uncle Sam" Wilson. The joke that the shipments came from Uncle Sam turned him into a stand-in for the federal government. |
| The somewhat random comment was picked up by others, and he started to appear in drawings in newspapers in the 1830s. |
| Thomas Nast, the cartoonist who gave us the donkey as a symbol for Democrats and the elephant for Republicans, made Uncle Sam's goatee famous. |
| No matter that Mr. Wilson, who died in 1854, was clean-shaven. His name, but not his likeness, was turned into a patriotic symbol replicated forevermore in political cartoons, ads, posters and fine art. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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