 | | Senator Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Democratic debate in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Josh Haner/The NYT | Your Wednesday Briefing By VICTORIA SHANNON |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Democrats debate. |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton, alternately biting and humorous, forcefully went after Senator Bernie Sanders for his positions on gun control, health care and Syria in the first debate among Democratic presidential candidates. |
| In the low-drama gathering, Mr. Sanders turned on Mrs. Clinton over her proposals to address Wall Street wrongdoing, while her other rivals offered mostly oblique criticisms and diplomatic dismissals. |
| Our coverage includes video highlights, web reaction and fact-checking. |
| • Driving the attacks in Israel. |
| The latest violence comes mostly from a cadre of young Palestinians spurred on by social media campaigns — some by Hamas and other militant Islamist movements, others by enraged individuals. |
| Seemingly leaderless, they have killed seven Israelis and wounded scores in two dozen episodes since Oct. 1, the authorities said. |
| • U.S. troops in Afghanistan. |
| Senior officials say President Obama appears increasingly willing to keep U.S. forces in Afghanistan in numbers large enough to fight Qaeda and Islamic State militants beyond next year, which would mean abandoning his goal to bring almost all of them home before he leaves office. |
| The Taliban's recent advances in Afghanistan have convinced many of the need for troop strength there. |
| • A switch on fetal tissue. |
| Planned Parenthood says it will no longer accept reimbursement for the costs of providing fetal tissue for medical research. |
| The move comes after months of criticism of the organization, beginning with the release in July of undercover videos by anti-abortion groups. |
| • Carson pulls even. |
| Ben Carson is in a statistical tie with Donald J. Trump in a new Fox News poll of likely Republican voters. |
| With a margin of error of five percentage points, the survey found that 24 percent supported Mr. Trump and 23 percent backed Mr. Carson. |
| • Financial aid for alternative schools. |
| The U.S. Education Department unveils a pilot program today to allow students to use federal loans and grants for nontraditional education like boot camp software coding programs and MOOCs, or massive open online courses. |
| BUSINESS |
| • One of the largest initial public offerings of the year so far — of the First Data Corporation, the credit card and payment processor — is slated to price after the market closes today. |
| Albertsons, the food and drug retailer, also prices its I.P.O. today. Both are expected to start trading on Thursday. |
| • Apple could be liable for up to $862 million in damages after a U.S. jury found it used technology owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison without permission in chips found in many iPhones. |
| The trial now moves on to determining how much Apple will pay. |
| • Earnings reports due today include Bank of America, Delta Air Lines and Netflix. |
| • Wall Street stock futures indicate a slight decline. European and Asian shares are down across the board. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Of books and deals. |
| In a nod to current events, refugees get free admission this year to the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's biggest publishing trade show, which opens to the public today. |
| Around 300,000 visitors are expected before the fair ends Sunday. The author Salman Rushdie spoke at an opening news conference on Tuesday. |
| Separately, the Jamaican author Marlon James was awarded the Man Booker Prize, Britain's top literary award. His novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings" was inspired by the attempted killing of Bob Marley in the 1970s. |
| And the shortlist for the National Book Awards, which date to 1936, comes out today. Winners are announced Nov. 18. |
| • Speaking of new books… |
| In "Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life," Jonathan Bate gives an "incisive, humane and deeply absorbing account" of the British poet laureate and husband of Sylvia Plath, our book reviewer says. |
| • The Cubs advance. |
| The Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-4, to advance to the National League Championship Series on Sunday, while the Los Angeles Dodgers' 3-1 win over the New York Mets sets up a decisive fifth game on Thursday in their division series. |
| In today's games, the Toronto Blue Jays host the Texas Rangers, and the Kansas City Royals host the Houston Astros. |
| • Where the art money is. |
| What began in 1988 as a pop-up show of works by 16 young artists, organized in London by a student named Damien Hirst, this year features nine high-end auctions and 164 gallery shows from 27 countries. |
| Prices for artwork at Frieze Week, which starts today, typically range from about $10,000 to $1 million. |
| • Happy new year. |
| The Islamic lunar year of 1427 begins with the sighting of the crescent moon after sunset, likely to be tonight across the Muslim world, making Thursday a holiday. |
| The year's first month, Muharram, honors the Prophet Muhammad's journey to Medina, Saudi Arabia, from Mecca in what was the Gregorian year of 622 AD. |
| • In memoriam. |
| Kenneth Koe, a co-inventor of Zoloft, the antidepressant prescribed to tens of millions of people since 1991, died at age 90. |
| • Here's the episode recap for "Scream Queens." |
| BACK STORY |
| Did the once-in-a-generation super-harvest-blood-total-lunar-eclipse of last month whet your appetite for more astronomical oddities? |
| If so, then the night sky over the next two weeks offers some rare gems — including, possibly, the source of what some believe was the biblical star of Bethlehem 2,015 or so years ago. |
| Five planets of our solar system (six, if you count the one we're standing on) should be visible to the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere: the elusive Mercury, along with Mars, Venus and Jupiter, at sunrise on the East Coast, and Saturn at sunset. |
| With binoculars, or maybe without, you can even pick out a seventh, the blue-green-tinged Uranus. (Neptune and Pluto require a telescope.) |
| Another phenomenon, the zodiacal light, appears in the east before sunup. Also called the "false dawn," the cone of light is caused by sunlight reflecting off dust particles scattered between planets. |
| Theories about the star of Bethlehem, which the Bible says guided three Magi from Babylonia to Judea to find the newborn Jesus, include a meteor, comet, nova or supernova. |
| But some experts say the most likely explanation, given the timing, the location and the brightness, is the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, similar to what we can see this month. The two are at their closest the night of Oct. 25. |
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