 | | There are growing calls for South Carolina to remove the Confederate flag from the State House grounds. Jason Miczek/Reuters | Your Tuesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Confederate flag under scrutiny. |
| The South Carolina General Assembly is expected to meet today, and many will rally outside the capitol building to asklawmakers to remove the battle flag from the State House grounds. |
| Gov. Nikki R. Haley called for taking down the flag on Monday, five days after nine African-Americans were killed in a historic black church in Charleston. Doing so requires the approval of the legislature. |
| • U.S. and China come together. |
| Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew host the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington, amid strains over the cybertheft of personal information from 14 million federal workers in the U.S. |
| • Talks and more talks. |
| The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine meet today in Paris to discuss the Ukraine conflict. Kremlin officials are furious about the extension of economic sanctions. |
| Separately, diplomats from six world powers and Iran are in Vienna for talks to seal a deal on Tehran's nuclear future ahead of the deadline, which is one week from today. |
| • The state of our health care. |
| The share of poor Americans who were uninsured fell substantially in 2014, according to the first full year of federal data since the Affordable Care Act extended coverage to millions last year. |
| The findings are in the National Health Interview Survey, released today. |
| • Trade vote déjà vu. |
| For the second time, the Senate votes today on whether to cut off debate on legislation to grant President Obama enhanced power to negotiate a sweeping trade accord with the Pacific Rim. |
| If supporters can muster the 60 votes they need, final passage on Wednesday of so-called trade promotion authority is all but assured. |
| • Patriots star makes his case. |
| Tom Brady, a four-time Super Bowl winner, is at the N.F.L.'s headquarters in New York today to appeal his suspension over the underinflated footballs in the A.F.C. Championship game in January. |
| Commissioner Roger Goodell will hear the appeal in what has come to be known as "deflategate." |
| • Extreme weather. |
| Pakistan's military is responding today to a heat wave that has killed hundreds. |
| In the U.S., severe storms with tornadoes have hit the Midwest and wildfires are spreading in four Western states. |
| Over the next century, more people than previously thought will be exposed to floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather associated with climate change, according to a report in the British medical journal The Lancet. |
| • It's still early, but... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton is leading her nearest Democratic competitor by 60 percentage points, and she holds an advantage against the top Republican contenders. |
| It's all in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. |
| MARKETS |
| • Greek debt talks continue, with an eye to the summit meeting on Thursday and Friday of all 28 European Union leaders in Brussels. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are narrowly higher. European and Asian shares are up. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • U.S. advances at World Cup. |
| The American women prevailed, 2-0, over Colombia on Monday night. The U.S. face China in the quarterfinals on Friday. |
| It's a rematch of the memorable final of the 1999 Women's World Cup, won by the Americans on penalty kicks. |
| • First lady, and editor. |
| Michelle Obama was the guest editor of the July-August issue of More magazine, which hits newsstands today. The issue's theme is "More Impact." |
| • Diverse holidays. |
| New York is expected today to add the Lunar New Year as a day off for the city's public schools, just three months after it added two Muslim holy days to the school calendar. |
| • Emergency visas only. |
| The State Department computer system that processes 50,000 travel visas a week is not expected to come back online before next week, the government said. |
| It was idled by an unexplained hardware failure two weeks ago. |
| • Royal travels. |
| Queen Elizabeth II arrives in Germany today for a four-day state visit. She will attend a state banquet, travel to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel. |
| • New sounds. |
| Kacey Musgraves releases her second major label album, "Pageant Material," and once again she'll be pegged as an agent of change for the country music genre, according to our music critic. |
| • Fresh reads. |
| Milan Kundera, author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," releases today "The Festival of Insignificance," and Don Winslow returns to the drug wars in the thriller "The Cartel." |
| Scott Sherman tells how New Yorkers fought to keep their libraries in "Patience and Fortitude," and "How to Catch a Russian Spy" is the true story of an American civilian who became a double agent. |
| • In memoriam. |
| Walter Scheib, the executive chef of the White House during the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, was found dead near a hiking trail in New Mexico. He was 61. |
| Daniel D. Villanueva, a former kicker for the Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys who also founded the Univision broadcasting network, died in California. He was 77. |
| BACK STORY |
| Members of search crews in wooded areas of upstate New York who are looking for two prison escapees are at risk of contracting Lyme disease, and South Koreans face an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). |
| On the surface, Lyme and MERS have nothing in common, but they were both named after a place — a practice that has recently been criticized. |
| A tick-borne disease that first sickened children and adults in the 1970s appeared in Old Lyme, Conn. It became known as Lyme disease, although it has been found around the world. |
| MERS is a viral respiratory illness that was first reported in Saudi Arabia, where more than 1,000 people have been infected since 2012 and about 450 have died. |
| The World Health Organization became concerned about the inaccuracies and stigmas that the names cause, and officials there recently gave guidance for naming new human infectious diseases. |
| They frown on names referring to animals (mad cow), places (West Nile), people (Alzheimer's) and groups (Legionnaires). |
| New names might look like A(H1N1) pdm09 instead of swine flu. The pigs' reputation would be better protected, and so would our health — W.H.O. says — if names are more precise. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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