| A police van today at the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, where soccer officials were arrested. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters | Your Wednesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
Good morning. |
Here's what you need to know: |
• Soccer officials indicted. |
More arrests are likely after Swiss authorities today took several top global soccer officials into custody at a five-star resort in Zurich as they gathered for an annual meeting. |
The U.S. Justice Department wants them extradited on charges of widespread corruption over two decades in FIFA, soccer's global governing body. |
In a separate development, Swiss prosecutors launched a criminal case into how the bids to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup were awarded. |
• Second time around. |
Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who won the 2012 Iowa caucuses, is today expected to enter the race for the Republican presidential nomination. |
• More rain for Texas. |
Heavy rain is expected over the next few days in Oklahoma and Texas, where parts of Houston remain under water. |
Crews resume searches today for at least 13 missing people. |
• Heat wave in India. |
More than 1,000 people have died since last week in southern India, where temperatures have cracked the 120-degree mark in some areas. |
• A vote to abolish the death penalty. |
Lawmakers in Nebraska could vote as early as today to override the governor's veto of a bill to abolish the death penalty in the state. |
If the vote succeeds, Nebraska would be the first conservative state in more than 40 years to strike down the death penalty. |
• The president's move. |
The administration is considering its next legal step after a federal appeals court sided with states challenging the president's plan to allow undocumented immigrants to apply to stay in the U.S. |
• Plans for European migrants. |
The European Union today will disclose details of a plan to resettle new immigrants. |
One proposal would relocate 40,000 asylum seekers who have landed in Italy and Greece, according to Reuters. |
MARKETS |
• Organized crime syndicates accessed past tax returns of more than 100,000 people to file fraudulent returns, and the I.R.S. sent nearly $50 million in refunds before it detected the scheme, the agency said. |
• ReCode, the technology news website, is being acquired by Vox Media for an undisclosed price, giving the site access to a wider audience. |
• Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, both owned by Yum Brands, say they will get rid of artificial colors and flavors in their foods. |
• Wall Street stock futures are flat following a down day. European shares are mostly ahead, while Asian stocks ended mixed. |
NOTEWORTHY |
• Less hunger in the world. |
The number of people who go hungry declined from about one 1 billion 25 years ago to about 795 million in 2012, or about one person out of every nine, despite a surge in population growth, the U.N. reports today. |
Progress was most pronounced in East Asia, Southeast and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. |
• Penn State penalizes fraternity. |
A fraternity's recognition was revoked for three years after it posted images on its web page of drugs, underage drinking, hazing and nude, unconscious women. |
The administration said it found "a persistent series of deeply troubling activities" in the fraternity. |
• Scoreboard. |
The Houston Rockets try to keep their season alive at the Golden State Warriors (9 p.m. Eastern, ESPN). |
With the Cleveland Cavaliers' 118-88 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday, LeBron James became the first player to reach a fifth consecutive N.B.A. finals since 1966. |
The Anaheim Ducks have a chance to advance to the Stanley Cup finals tonight at the Chicago Blackhawks (8 p.m. Eastern, NBCSN). |
On Tuesday, the New York Rangers defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning, 7-3, to force a decisive Game 7 on Friday. |
• Who's bluffing? |
The annual World Series of Poker begins today in Las Vegas with a new event, the Colossus, that's expected to attract 10,000 players. |
That game has a relatively low buy-in for players — $565 each — for a shot at a share of a $5 million prize pool. The victor could win $600,000. |
• Broadway sets records. |
The 40 Broadway theaters broke a record for attendance, drawing more than 13 million people, and sold a record $1.365 billion worth of tickets in the year that ended Sunday. |
A boom in overall visits to New York, a relatively healthy economy and a diversity of theatrical offerings contributed to the growth. |
BACK STORY |
Despite today's indictments, soccer's global governing body says it will go ahead with Friday's vote for president of the organization. |
Neither candidate — Sepp Blatter, the four-term president, and his only opponent, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan — was named in the U.S. corruption indictments. |
Before the arrests, Mr. Blatter of Switzerland, whose tenure has not been pristine, was widely expected to win. Delegates from 209 countries meeting in Zurich will cast ballots. |
FIFA started out with a mission to regulate games around the globe and make sure that the rules of the sport were universal. |
But today's arrests confirm what many believed: that FIFA itself needs more oversight. |
FIF, which in French stands for the Federation Internationale de Football Association, was created in Paris on May 21, 1904. |
It was already under withering criticism for awarding the 2018 World Cup finals to Russia and the 2022 World Cup to Qatar after a process that was open to voting abuse. |
FIFA had hoped to turn its attention to the 2026 tournament after Friday's election, but it's unlikely that will now happen. |
Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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