 | | An attendee at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on Thursday. Todd Heisler/The NYT | Your Friday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Pope Francis takes Manhattan. |
| Francis' tour of New York today will take him from the U.N., where he will urge the world's leaders to act on behalf of the poor and neglected, to a school in East Harlem, and a procession through Central Park. |
| He'll also lead a multifaith service at the September 11 Memorial and Museum and a Mass for thousands at Madison Square Garden. Then it's off to Philadelphia for the weekend. |
| Full schedule and coverage, plus the papal visit in pictures. |
| • At the White House. |
| President Obama welcomes China's president, Xi Jinping, for a state visit, complete with a 21-gun salute and red carpet ceremony on the South Lawn, a news conference in the East Room, and a state dinner. |
| Mr. Xi will announce a landmark commitment to limit and put a price on greenhouse gas emissions, a big step for the world's most-polluting nation. |
| • Following the email trail. |
| The F.B.I. investigation into Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails is raising complex questions about whether State Department officials broke laws or rules by sending information to Mrs. Clinton's personal email account when she served as secretary of state. Mrs. Clinton is not a target of the investigation, officials have said. |
| And Mrs. Clinton was directly involved in arranging a new government position that allowed a top aide to work for a private consulting firm while at the State Department, newly released documents show. |
| A new poll in New Hampshire shows Senator Bernie Sanders surging ahead with 46 percent of the vote to 30 percent for Mrs. Clinton. |
| • A safety review for Mecca. |
| Saudi Arabia's king has ordered an inquiry into the deadliest day in 25 years at the annual pilgrimage, or hajj, for Muslims. |
| On Thursday, more than 700 pilgrims were killed and more than 850 others injured in a stampede outside the holy city. Here's how it happened and a look at why huge crowds panic. |
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| • Searching for a way out. |
| Nigel Farage, the leader of the far-right U.K. Independence Party, gives the keynote address today at the party's annual conference, as it focuses on campaigning for a British exit from the European Union. |
| In Spain, Catalonia's political groups are holding their final rallies before Sunday's elections, which are being framed by those in the province, Spain's wealthiest, as a referendum on independence. |
| MARKETS |
| • Wall Street stock futures are rising, after Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, said she expects the U.S. central bank to begin raising interest rates this year. |
| European markets are sharply higher, and Asian indexes are mixed. |
| • Apple's latest iPhones, the 6s and the 6s Plus, go on sale today in stores in the U.S. and nine other countries, including China and England. Global preorders for the phones have exceeded forecasts, the company says. |
| • Volkswagen is expected to name a new chief executive today as it deals with a widening emissions scandal. |
| • An extradition hearing begins today, in the case of Navinder Singh Sarao, 36, of England, who's wanted by the U.S. on fraud charges in connection to the Wall Street "flash crash" in 2010, when investors saw almost $1 trillion erased from stocks in minutes. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • At the movies. |
| In the generation-gap comedy "The Intern," an Internet company boss (Anne Hathaway) is somewhat thrown when she has to deal with her new kid: a widowed retiree (Robert De Niro). |
| And a single dad is evicted from his house in "99 Homes," a drama about predatory real estate brokers and their prey. It's an NYT Critics' pick. |
| Here's everything else coming to theaters today. |
| • Popular reads. |
| Among the nonfiction debuts on our best-seller lists: "Accidental Saints," in which a pastor (and former comic) documents encounters with grace and finding divinity in unlikely places; and "Black Earth," a new interpretation of the Holocaust centering on an ecological crisis. |
| Get an early look at all the charts from the Sunday Book Review. |
| • New sounds. |
| Don Henley, a founding member of The Eagles, releases "Cass County," his first solo album in 15 years, featuring guest appearances from Miranda Lambert, Mick Jagger, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton and Martina McBride. |
| Also new today: Tony Bennett and Bill Charlap put a fresh spin on the American songbook with "The Silver Lining," and Sam Smith's "Writing's On The Wall," the theme song to the coming James Bond film "Spectre." |
| • The Hemingway story. |
| The first major museum exhibition devoted to Ernest Hemingway and his work opens today in New York at the Morgan Library & Museum. |
| • Scoreboard. |
| The Kansas City Royals clinched their first division title in 30 years, with a 10-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday night. Here are all the scores, and this weekend's national TV schedule. |
| • In case you missed it… |
| Some of our most popular reads this week were: the "50 of Our Best" feature; how a drug went from $13.50 a tablet to $750 overnight; upheaval in the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S.; and the obituary for Yogi Berra. |
| BACK STORY |
| One-hit wonders refer to those with a single career success — from the playing fields to book publishing and everything in between. |
| But today, National One-Hit Wonder Day, is reserved for glorifying that special category of artists with one Top 40 hit or signature song. |
| Among the more recent staples of the not entirely flattering category are: Soft Cell's "Tainted Love," Vanilla Ice's "Ice, Ice Baby," Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy," Los del Río's "Macarena" and Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out?" |
| The "one-hit wonder" label isn't so easy to remove. Take the Norwegian band, A-ha. It's famous for "Take On Me," a No. 1 smash on the Billboard chart in 1985. |
| The band followed it up with a second Billboard Top 40 single, "The Sun Always Shines on TV," and is still touring and recording (the ban released its 10th album, "Cast in Steel," this month). But the band rarely fails to make a "one-hit wonder" chart. |
| "For us, you have to make peace with that song because it's stronger than you in a way," Morten Harket, a band member, recently said. "It's not going away." |
| The one-hit phenomenon is beginning to fizzle a little. Songs are staying on the chart longer, taking up space that would be going to new hits and the next potential contender for greatest one-hit wonder. |
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