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Chief Jim Craft of the Lafayette police spoke to the news media today about the deadly shooting at a theater.

Chief Jim Craft of the Lafayette police spoke to the news media today about the deadly shooting at a theater. Paul Kieu/The Advertiser, via AP

Your Friday Briefing
By ADEEL HASSAN
Good morning.
Here's what you need to know:
• Mass shooting at movie theater.
Two moviegoers were killed and seven were wounded when a man opened fire during a showing of the comedy "Trainwreck" in Lafayette, La., on Thursday night.
The gunman, identified by the police as a 58-year-old "lone white male," killed himself. At least one of the wounded is in critical condition.
In a BBC interview broadcast earlier, President Obama said he was "frustrated" that the U.S. does not have "common-sense gun safety laws, even in the face of repeated mass killings."
• Criminal inquiry for Clinton's emails?
Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Hillary Rodham Clinton mishandled confidential government information on a private email account she used as secretary of state.
The Justice Department has not decided on the request, senior officials said. A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton's campaign declined to comment.
• In the land of his father.
President Obama today becomes the first American leader to visit Kenya.
He attends the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, meets Kenya's leader and speaks to civil-society officials. He'll also meet privately with his relatives. On Sunday, he travels to Ethiopia, also a first for a sitting U.S. president.
• A gloomy view of race relations.
Nearly six in 10 Americans, including a majority of both whites and blacks, think race relations are generally bad, and nearly four in 10 think they are getting worse, a New York Times/CBS News poll finds.
By comparison, two-thirds of Americans surveyed after President Obama took office said they believed that race relations were generally good.
• Escalating attacks on ISIS.
Turkish fighter jets bombed Islamic State targets in Syria today, their first direct combat with the militants on their border.
The development comes a day after Turkey agreed to let the U.S. military carry out airstrikes against ISIS from an air base near the Syrian border.
• Investigating a jail-cell death.
A Texas prosecutor has said that an autopsy of Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in jail after a minor traffic stop, points to a likely suicide. Her family is expected to seek an independent autopsy.
• Medical milestones.
Nigeria could fall off the list of countries where polio is endemic as it is believed to be polio-free for one year today. Most of the few remaining cases in the world are in Pakistan.
A vaccine against malaria, which kills about 600,000 people a year worldwide, most of them children in Africa, has cleared its first regulatory hurdle.
And the first in a new class of cholesterol drugs is expected to win approval today from U.S. regulators.
MARKETS
• Anthem said today it would buy Cigna in a deal valued at $54.2 billion, creating the largest U.S. health insurer.
• Amazon stock is ahead 17 percent after it did something completely out of character in the second quarter: It made a profit.
The share price makes the online retailer more valuable by market capitalization today than Walmart.
• World Trade Organization members agreed today to cut tariffs on $1 trillion worth of information technology products.
The update adds more than 200 products, from video games to medical equipment, to no-tariff and duty-free trade.
• CurrentC, the retail industry's answer to Apple Pay, expects to formally start taking transactions in the third quarter, a retailer said.
It was developed by a company that received funding from Walmart, Target, Best Buy and other chains.
• Wall Street stock futures are slightly ahead, as is European trading. Asian shares ended lower.
NOTEWORTHY
• Taking life's punches.
In "Southpaw," opening at movie theaters today, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a boxing champion whose life falls apart after his wife dies. Forest Whitaker plays the washed-up ex-boxer who vows to make him a new man.
And Cara Delevingne, the British model turned actress, stars as a high school student who mysteriously disappears in "Paper Towns," based on a novel by John Green, who also wrote "The Fault in Our Stars."
Here's what else is new in theaters.
• Popular reads.
"The Billion Dollar Spy," which refers to the research and manufacturing costs saved by the U.S. as a result of a Soviet spy's revelations, is new on our nonfiction best-seller list, along with Jimmy Carter's "A Full Life."
Get an early look at all our best-seller lists from the Sunday Book Review.
• Tech tips.
Cooking on the grill can be a challenge, but these apps offer recipes and tips to help.
And gadgets like powered bikes, backpacks with batteries, on-ear headphones, Bluetooth speakers and USB car chargers could improve your daily commute.
• Drug testing for gamers.
The Electronic Sports League will begin testing video-game players for performance-enhancing drugs at a tournament in August.
• Another world.
"Jurassic World," out for less than two months and already the third-highest grossing film in history, will get a sequel in 2018.
The actors Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard have agreed to return, as has the executive producer Steven Spielberg.
BACK STORY
The magic in the Harry Potter series may exist only in books and movies, but one aspect of its wizardry has made it into the real world: quidditch.
Twelve teams are competing in the inaugural International Quidditch Association European Games that begin today in Sarteano, Italy.
The game, in which players zip around with broomsticks and toss objects into goals on either end of a field, has become a franchise in itself, with its own governing body and tournaments, including the United States' own Quidditch World Cup.
To differentiate it from the game in J. K. Rowling's series, this version is known as muggle quidditch (using Ms. Rowling's term for nonwizards).
Other than actual flying, the rest of her creation is there: the brooms, the quaffles, even the golden snitch that Harry became so famous for catching in his mouth.
Well, kind of. The real-life snitch is a tennis ball attached to a person whose job it is to do anything in his or her power to protect the ball, even running off the field and playing pranks on other players.
It is a full-contact sport, which can result in brutal injuries. But the coed game is open to any muggle.
Kathryn Varn and Victoria Shannon contributed reporting.
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