Cars and buildings were set on fire as rioting continued across Baltimore on Monday.
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Good morning.
Here’s what you need to know:
• Baltimore’s state of emergency.
More National Guard were due in the city today after riots after Monday’s funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died in police custody.
At least 15 police officers were hurt, and six remained hospitalized. Two dozen people were arrested amid fires and looting.
A daily curfew begins at 10 p.m. today, and the city’s public schools are closed.
• Nepal’s devastation.
Aid workers
arriving at the edge of the earthquake’s epicenter describe entire
villages reduced to rubble, and the prime minister said today that the
death toll could reach 10,000.
The U.N. says that 8 million people — more than a quarter of the population — have been affected.
• Justices debate same-sex marriage.
Lines began forming at the Supreme Court last week for the few seats available to today’s arguments over same-sex marriage, which exists in about three-fourths of U.S. states.
The
two major questions the justices face is whether states must allow
same-sex couples to marry and whether states must recognize same-sex
marriages performed elsewhere.
• Extreme weather and the pope.
Scientists, economists and U.N. officials gather at the Vatican today to help build momentum for Pope Francis’s campaign for a sweeping U.N. climate change accord.
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It comes as another scientific study this week links large-scale changes in weather to human influence on the climate.
• Executions set.
After rejecting all appeals, Indonesia plans to execute eight foreigners who are death-row drug convicts within hours in one of the largest mass executions there in decades.
Relatives
and friends of the condemned visited them for a final time today.
President Joko Widodo has declared “a national emergency” of drug abuse.
• At the White House.
The
Japanese prime minister meets President Obama today to discuss the
12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, which is aimed at
thwarting China’s rising influence.
• On Capitol Hill.
The Senate begins debate today on legislation that would allow Congress to review any nuclear deal with Iran, but it may not vote on the measure until next week.
Among
amendments being pushed by some Republicans is one that requires Iran
to recognize Israel and another that requires Iran to release any
detained Americans.
MARKETS
• Wall Street stocks are slightly higher. European shares slipped sharply, and Asian indexes ended flat-to-lower.
• The Federal Reserve begins two days of policy-setting meetings today.
• Ford, UPS, Pfizer and Twitter are among a slew of companies reporting results today.
Seventy
percent off the Standard & Poor’s 500 companies that have reported
on the latest quarter so far were above analysts’ expectations.
• Apple shares were at a record high in premarket trading today after reporting a blowout quarter of sales and profit on Monday.
NOTEWORTHY
• A decade in captivity.
Two
of the women kidnapped by Ariel Castro, a Cleveland school-bus driver,
share their stories of their abductions, captivity and escape in the new
book “Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland.”
In a “20/20” special tonight, Robin Roberts interviews the two, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus (10 p.m. Eastern, ABC).
• Check your attic lately?
A painting by Gustave Courbet, rediscovered under the floorboards of an attic in France, is appearing today at an auction for the first time.
It is expected to go for between $1.8 million and $2.5 million, and it’s a main attraction in Christie’s spring sale of 19th-century European art.
• “Maus” trapped.
“Maus,” the Pulitzer-Prize winning graphic novel
about a Jewish family during the Holocaust by Art Spiegelman, is off
the shelves of Moscow’s largest bookstores because of its swastika on
the cover.
Booksellers
appeared to make the decision after a government plan to rid Moscow of
Nazi symbols before Victory Day on May 9, commemorating the Soviet
Union’s defeat of Germany.
• The fall of Saigon.
“Last Days in Vietnam,”
Rory Kennedy’s Oscar-nominated documentary, airs tonight with footage
not seen in the earlier film version (9 p.m. Eastern, PBS, but check local listings). This week is the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.
• In memoriam.
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski,
an Auschwitz survivor who battled both the Nazis and the Communists and
later surprised even himself by being instrumental in reconciling
Poland and Germany, died in Warsaw. He was 93.
BACK STORY
President Obama hosts a glittering state dinner tonight for the Japanese prime minister and his wife at the White House.
Ulysses S. Grant was the first president to have a state dinner for a foreign leader (for King David Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands, now known as Hawaii, in 1874).
Lyndon B. Johnson hosted 54 in his five years as president, while Ronald Reagan hosted 35 during his eight years.
There have been many fewer soirees this century. George W. Bush put on 14, and tonight will be Mr. Obama’s eighth.
It will be an opportunity for Michelle Obama to show off the Obama state china service, which she helped design.
Fine presidential tableware, once paid for by the government, is today funded by the White House Historical Association, a private nonprofit group.
The cost of state dinners, on the other hand, is picked up by the State Department — about $500,000 each.
Despite
the relative rarity of state dinners today, President Dilma Rousseff of
Brazil canceled the one in her honor in 2013 after learning that the
National Security Agency spied on her.
Victoria Shannon contributed reporting.
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