 | | A vigil in Stillwater, Okla., after a car plowed into the crowd at the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade, killing four people. Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman, via Associated Press | Your Monday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Many votes to count. |
| Poland joins Europe's drift to the right after the main opposition party, out of power for about a decade, won the most votes in parliamentary elections. |
| In other weekend elections, Argentina now faces a presidential runoff to replace Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who is constitutionally barred from seeking a third consecutive term. |
| And in Guatemala, a former TV comedian, Jimmy Morales, won the presidency. |
| • Surging in Iowa. |
| Republican voters in Iowa, an early-nominating state, say Ben Carson is leading Donald J. Trump in the polls because of the retired neurosurgeon's low-pitched manner. |
| On Sunday, Mr. Carson said he believed that abortion should be outlawed even in cases of rape and incest, comparing the procedure with slavery. |
| • Tremors felt across South Asia. |
| Reports are beginning to come in after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake centered in northern Afghanistan was felt in Pakistan and India. |
| • Communists come together. |
| China's governing party begins its annual policy session today, attended by 205 members of its Central Committee, to start drafting the country's 13th five-year plan, which will begin in 2016. |
| The plan aims, in part, to bring more market discipline to bloated state-owned enterprises, and the meeting could bring leadership changes to reinforce President Xi Jinping's influence. |
| • At the White House. |
| Indonesia's president, Joko Widodo, will decide after a meeting with President Obama today whether his country, Southeast Asia's largest economy, will join the U.S.-led Pacific trade agreement. |
| They'll also discuss expanding cooperation on defense, trade and investment, and climate and energy. |
| • Homecoming fatalities. |
| A car plowed into the crowd at the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade on Saturday, killing four people, including a 2-year-old boy, and injuring at least 46 others. Five people remain in critical condition. |
| A 25-year-old driver, Adacia Avery Chambers, was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and is expected to be charged with four counts of second-degree murder today. |
| • Progress on refugees. |
| A pledge of coordinated action, made by Eastern and Central European leaders to address Europe's migration crisis, "does not solve the problem," Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said today. |
| But the agreement on Sunday to set up holding camps for 100,000 people is "a building stone" for a broader policy, she said. |
| • On Capitol Hill. |
| The House is expected to vote today on reauthorizing the U.S. Export-Import Bank, whose charter lapsed at the end of June. |
| The bank provides subsidies and loan guarantees to foreign buyers of U.S. goods, which critics have attacked as corporate welfare. |
| BUSINESS |
| • General Motors and the United Automobile Workers union reached a tentative agreement on a new national labor contract covering about 52,000 employees. |
| • Quarterly earnings reports and conference calls retain their ability to move markets, a study finds. Philips, PSA Peugeot Citroën and IAC are among those posting results today. |
| • The flagship Microsoft Store opens to the public on Fifth Avenue in New York today, where the new Surface Book laptop and Surface Pro 4 tablet will be available. |
| • Wall Street stock futures hint at a slight pullback in the market today. European shares are down, and Asian indexes ended mixed. |
| OVER THE WEEKEND |
| • The Obama administration called for a testing cap so that no child spends more than 2 percent of classroom instruction time taking exams. |
| • Hurricane Patricia spared Mexico from major damage and deaths, but its remnants pounded Texas and Louisiana with rain. |
| • Roman Catholic bishops opened the church doors a crack for Catholics who divorced and remarried, but firmly shut them to same-sex marriage. |
| • A Times examination of traffic stops and arrests in Greensboro, N.C., uncovered wide racial differences in measure after measure of police conduct. |
| • Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, made a qualified apology for his role in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and said the war had helped give rise to the Islamic State militant group. |
| • In memoriam: The Irish-born actress Maureen O'Hara died at 95, and Thomas G. Stemberg, the co-founder of Staples, died at 66. |
| • "The Martian" and "Goosebumps" finished atop the weekend box office in North America. |
| • Catching up on TV: Episode recaps for "Homeland," "The Affair," "The Leftovers," "The Walking Dead" and "The Knick." |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Super spy and superhero. |
| The James Bond film "Spectre" has its world premiere today in London. It's Daniel Craig's fourth appearance as the secret agent, this time opposite the Oscar winner Christoph Waltz as 007's nemesis. The movie opens in the U.S. on Nov. 6. |
| And "Supergirl" is a new series based on the DC Comics character Kara Zor-El, the caped cousin of Superman, who will no longer keep her powers a secret (8:30 p.m. Eastern, CBS). |
| • Scoreboard. |
| The New England Patriots and Carolina Panthers won on Sunday, joining the idle Bengals, Broncos and Packers as the only unbeaten N.F.L. teams. |
| Georgia Tech returned a blocked field-goal attempt 78 yards for a touchdown on the final play in an upset of Florida State on Saturday night. (College roundup and highlights.) |
| And title-starved fans of the Kansas City Royals and New York Mets are getting ready for Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday. |
| Elsewhere, Australia and New Zealand made it into the Rugby World Cup finals, and Lewis Hamilton won the U.S. Grand Prix and clinched the Formula One title. |
| • Sherlock returns. |
| Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are back in a new "Sherlock" episode on Jan. 1, the first time the BBC series arrives in Britain and the U.S. the same day. A trailer was released over the weekend. |
| BACK STORY |
| First, we got unmanned aircraft, in the way of drones. Now, we are getting unmanned air-traffic control towers. |
| A test is underway at the airport in Leesburg, Va., about 40 miles from Washington, of a system of computers, cameras and recording devices that could allow human controllers to guide flights from many miles away. |
| The remote systems could let airports without towers avoid the time and expense of building one, yet still attract airlines that want federally approved air control. |
| State and federal officials are converging in Leesburg today for a ceremony celebrating the test, conducted by the Swedish aeronautics company Saab. |
| Today, only one airport — in northern Sweden — relies on a virtual control tower. Takeoffs and landings there are guided by controllers looking at screens 90 miles away. |
| On Oct. 1, the Fort Collins-Loveland airport in Colorado was approved as the first testing ground for the Federal Aviation Administration's own virtual tower system. And Saab is testing others in Norway and Australia. |
| "Controllers are already spending most of their time looking at a screen instead of out a window," one Saab executive observed. |
| At the Swedish airfield, two microphones were added to the array of high-tech devices to pipe in the sounds of airplanes. |
| "Without the sound, the air traffic controllers felt very lost," another company official said. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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