 | | A vigil in Roseburg, Ore., after a gunman killed nine people on a community college campus on Thursday. Amanda Lucier for The New York Times | Your Friday Briefing: Oregon Shooting, Syria Airstrikes and More By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • "Our thoughts and prayers are not enough." |
| President Obama angrily condemned on Thursday night the "routine" of mass shootings in the U.S., after a 26-year-old man killed nine people on a community college campus in Oregon before dying in an exchange of gunfire with the police. |
| Neighbors remember the gunman as a fragile young man with a shaved head and dark glasses who recoiled from social interaction. |
| • It's jobs day. |
| When the U.S. employment report for September comes out this morning, watch for a gain of more than 200,000 new jobs and an increase in hourly wages. |
| If those signs of a healthy labor market are confirmed, the Federal Reserve could have the ammunition it needs to raise interest rates this year. |
| August added a disappointing 173,000 jobs, but that initial number may be revised higher today. The unemployment rate of 5.1 percent is expected to stay the same. |
| • Hurricane batters the Bahamas. |
| Hurricane Joaquin is pounding the Bahamas with powerful wind and waves for a second day. |
| Though it may not directly hit the U.S., heavy rain and flash floods are possible on the Eastern Seaboard even if the storm stays offshore, the National Weather Service says. |
| • Ukraine's crisis overshadowed. |
| Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, meets the leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine in Paris today for talks that were to be about Ukraine. |
| But the focus is likely to switch to Syria, where Russia began airstrikes this week. A Russian official said today the strikes would last three to four months. (Here's a map of the battle across Syria.) |
| Moscow is determined to save Syria's leader, Bashar al-Assad. And Syria's foreign minister is to address the U.N. today. |
| • The Vatican weighs in. |
| Pope Francis did not hold a private meeting with Kim Davis last week in Washington, the Vatican said today. Instead, she was among dozens of guests invited by the Vatican ambassador for a brief meeting with the pope. |
| The Vatican said that Francis was unaware of the specifics of the case of Ms. Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refuses to grant marriage licenses to gay couples. The report of the meeting had heartened conservatives. |
| • U.S. military jet crashes in Afghanistan. |
| The Taliban claim to have shot down a C-130 plane that crashed at an airport on Thursday, killing six members of the U.S. armed forces, five civilian contractors and three Afghan civilians. |
| At the same time, the Taliban's rule in the strategic city of Kunduz shows evidence of harsh civilian abuses. |
| • Waiting for the vice president. |
| With less than two weeks before the first Democratic presidential debate, Joseph R. Biden Jr. hasn't announced a decision on whether to run. |
| This weekend, Mr. Biden addresses the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender group in the U.S. It has yet to make an endorsement. |
| MARKETS |
| • Amazon will stop selling streaming video players from Apple and Google in hopes of raising sales of its Fire TV devices and its Prime video service. |
| • Hackers stole the personal data of about 15 million potential T-Mobile customers, including Social Security numbers, home addresses and birth dates. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are slightly higher this morning. European shares are up strongly, and Asian indexes ended mixed. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • At the movies. |
| Matt Damon plays an astronaut left behind by his crew in "The Martian," a science-fiction thriller directed by Ridley Scott and opening nationwide today. |
| In "Freeheld," Julianne Moore stars as Laurel Hester, the New Jersey police detective who, dying of lung cancer, fought to be able to leave her pension to her domestic partner (played by Ellen Page). |
| And "He Named Me Malala" is a documentary portrait of Malala Yousafzai, the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| • Popular reads |
| Women dominate the top best-seller debuts this week: Mindy Kaling's "Why Not Me" (No. 1), Mary Karr's "The Art of Memoir" (No. 3) and Suzy Favor Hamilton's "Fast Girl" (No. 4) on our hardcover nonfiction list. |
| In fiction, "Devoted in Death" (No. 3) by J. D. Robb, who is actually the best-selling romance novelist Nora Roberts, and "Fates and Furies" by Laura Groff (No. 7) are new to the chart this week. |
| Get an early look at all of our best-seller lists. |
| • New sounds. |
| A sweeter, more chaste Janet Jackson is evident in "Unbreakable," her first album in seven years, which is released today. It includes a tribute to her brother Michael, who died in 2009. |
| Others with new albums today are Collective Soul and Avicii. |
| • Scoreboard. |
| The New York Yankees and Texas Rangers captured playoff spots on Thursday night. |
| In pro football, the Baltimore Ravens earned their first win of the season, 23-20, over the Pittsburgh Steelers. |
| • Season premieres. |
| The sitcom "Dr. Ken" stars Ken Jeong ("Hangover" films, "Community") as a suburban Korean-American doctor and father (8:30 p.m. Eastern, ABC). Mr. Jeong actually earned a medical degree before becoming a comedian. |
| On Saturday, Miley Cyrus is the host and musical guest as the 41st year of "Saturday Night Live" begins. Hillary Rodham Clinton is also expected to appear (11:30 p.m. Eastern, NBC). |
| • In case you missed it… |
| Our Sunday magazine's cover profile of Donald J. Trump, the confirmation of liquid water flowing on Mars and the new sexy look of veganism were some of our best-read articles this week. |
| BACK STORY |
| The "Peanuts" comic strip first appeared 65 years ago today in seven U.S. newspapers, appealing instantly to children and those who loved childhood. |
| Charles M. Schulz first drew Charlie Brown for a weekly single-panel cartoon called "Li'l Folks" in 1947, in The St. Paul Pioneer Press in Minnesota, where he was born. |
| When he expanded to a strip format in 1950, he was forced to change the name from "Li'l Folks" (which was too close to "Li'l Abner") to "Peanuts." |
| The hapless Charlie Brown was made to fail constantly, especially in baseball, most likely because readers could relate better to losing than to winning. Only twice, in 1993, did Charlie hit game-winning home runs. |
| Mr. Schulz died at age 77 on Feb. 12, 2000, hours before his final Sunday strip was published. By then, "Peanuts" had appeared in 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries and 21 languages, and he had drawn more than 18,250 strips. |
| When Mr. Schulz died, one cultural expert said that the comic strip was "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being." |
| The everlasting characters come back to life next month in "The Peanuts Movie," a 3-D animated film. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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