 | | A protest in Baltimore. Public perceptions of race relations in America have grown substantially more negative, a new poll shows. David Goldman/Associated Press | Your Tuesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Rethinking policing. |
| Several big-city police departments are re-examining when officers should chase people or draw their guns, and rethinking the emphasis on how to use force, not how to avoid it. |
| That use of deadly force is driving a substantially more negative public perception of race relations in the U.S., a New York Times/CBS News poll finds. |
| • Another hat in the ring. |
| Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, returns today to his hometown, Hope, to make official his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. |
| • Gunman was known to F.B.I. |
| The F.B.I. had been monitoring one of the two gunmen who opened fire at a gathering in Garland, Tex., that showed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, which many Muslims consider to be blasphemous. |
| The American Freedom Defense Initiative, which sponsored the event, is on a list of hate groups compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center. |
| • Kerry in Somalia. |
| Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with Somalian leaders today during an unannounced visit there. |
| He is the first U.S. secretary of state to visit the African nation, which is struggling to rebuild after two decades of war. |
| • A new military leader. |
| President Obama will nominate today Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., a former top commander in Afghanistan who now serves as commandant of the Marine Corps, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. |
| He is expected to be confirmed quickly by the Senate. |
| • Peace talks on Syria. |
| In Geneva today, a U.N. envoy is meeting delegates of the Syrian government and some of the country's rebel groups, as well as representatives of Turkey and Iran. |
| The Islamic State and the Nusra Front, Al Qaeda's branch in Syria, have not been invited, despite the power they hold on the ground. |
| MARKETS |
| • Wall Street stock futures are flat. European indexes are moderately higher, and Asia ended mostly lower. |
| • The European economy is picking up steam, an official forecast today showed. |
| • The top 25 hedge fund managers reaped $11.62 billion in compensation in 2014, according to an annual ranking published today. |
| The highest paid, Kenneth C. Griffin of Citadel, took home $1.3 billion. |
| • Panera Bread plans to eliminate a variety of artificial preservatives, flavors and colors from its kitchens by the end of 2016. |
| In the past six months, at least a dozen food companies and restaurant businesses have announced similar moves in response to consumer demands for transparency and simplicity. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Free speech and satire. |
| The debate over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad will be front and center at tonight's PEN American Center's literary gala, where the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo receives an award for "freedom of expression courage." |
| Separately, "Look Who's Back," a satirical novel that imagines Adolf Hitler waking up on the streets of Berlin in 2011, is released today in the U.S. It has been translated into 42 languages, including Hebrew, and was a best seller in Germany. |
| • Top chef. |
| The New York chef Michael Anthony, of Gramercy Tavern and the newly opened restaurant Untitled in the Whitney Museum of American Art, won the James Beard Foundation award for outstanding chef. |
| Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., was named outstanding restaurant. |
| • Reading list. |
| The best-selling author David McCullough leads a banner day of book releases with "The Wright Brothers," who taught the world how to fly. |
| Also out today: Timothy Caulfield's "Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?";"When to Rob a Bank" from the authors of "Freakonomics"; Kate Atkinson's novel "A God in Ruins"; and Melissa Rivers's memoir of her mother, Joan Rivers, "The Book of Joan." |
| • In memoriam. |
| Officer Brian Moore, 25, of the New York Police Department, died on Monday, two days after a gunman opened fire on him in Queens. |
| And Joshua Ozersky, 47, who wrote about restaurants for Esquire and was the author of several books about food, died on Monday. He was in Chicago for the James Beard Foundation awards. |
| • M.V.P. |
| Stephen Curry, a 6-foot-3 point guard who was thought to be too small to play professional basketball, was named the N.B.A.'s most valuable player after leading the Golden State Warriors to a franchise-record 67 wins this season. |
| • It has nothing to do with tequila. |
| Cinco de Mayo, which is today, is the anniversary of the Mexican Army's defeat of French forces in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. |
| You can still drink, though, to celebrate Mexican heritage and pride. |
| BACK STORY |
| The British campaign season, by law, is about five weeks long. |
| It began on March 30, when Parliament was automatically dissolved by law, and the vote for the 650 seats in the House of Commons will be held on Thursday, 38 days later. |
| Here in the U.S., we have more than 550 days to go until our presidential election. |
| The founding fathers might be dismayed. |
| They thought the Electoral College would end up choosing our presidents. Instead, we got a swift dominance of political parties and what seems like their endless nominating process. |
| In Britain, the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act sets general elections for the first Thursday in May every five years. |
| Not that this means British politics is neat and tidy. Polls suggest that neither of the two main parties will get much more than a third of the vote. |
| So the process of forming a government afterward is likely to be a mess and to curb the prime minister's ability to carry out his agenda. |
| Now that sounds familiar. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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