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View in Browser | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. Thursday, July 2, 2015 Thursday, July 2, 2015 nytnow.com » Enjoy this newsletter? The NYT Now app for iPhone is now completely free. It's the fastest way to catch up with the news throughout the day. Download now. A recruitment fair in San Francisco. U.S. jobs numbers are out today. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Your Thursday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN Good morning. Here's what you need to know: • It's jobs day. U.S. job creation in June probably held above the critical 200,000 level, according to forecasts for today's monthly employment report. A strong number would make an interest-rate increase by the Fed more likely for September than for later. Many economists believe U.S. hiring momentum will continue into the summer. • What now for Greece? Greece is effectively out of money, analysts say, with little prospect of resuming bailout negotiations with its international creditors until Greeks vote on Sunday on a bailout offer, now expired. European leaders have made sometimes contradictory statements about whether a bailout deal is still on the table. • Nuclear negotiations intensify. The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency is in Iran today for talks with Iran's president and top national security officials, in an effort to resolve differences over the inspection of military sites. At the same time, the foreign ministers of Britain, China, France and Germany are expected to join the main talks in Vienna ahead of a deadline Tuesday. • Egypt strikes militants. Airstrikes continued today in the Sinai Peninsula in an operation against the Islamic State's local affiliate. The army says 17 soldiers were among those killed when the extremists staged synchronized raids on military checkpoints on Wednesday. • The president's day. President Obama speaks about the economy at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. We expect him to talk about a new rule expanding overtime pay. On Wednesday, Mr. Obama disagreed with our suggestion to add green peas to guacamole. • Record water saving. Officials in drought-stricken California report that urban water usage in May plunged 29 percent, although the number may have been skewed by unusual rains. • Polar bears at risk sooner. About a third of the world's polar bears could be in danger from greenhouse gas emissions in as soon as a decade, updated scientific models show. MARKETS • Wall Street stock futures are slightly ahead. European shares are flat in uncertain trading. Chinese stocks sank again, falling 3.5 percent, while the rest of Asia was mostly higher. • The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration presses Fiat Chrysler executives at a hearing today to explain why the automaker has been slow to recall vehicles with safety defects. • Federal prosecutors are investigating whether U.S. airlines colluded to limit seating, two years after the Justice Department approved the latest in a wave of airline mergers. About 80 percent of the nation's air traffic comes from four airlines — American, Delta, Southwest and United — amid surging profits. NOTEWORTHY • It's a rematch. The England defender Laura Bassett scored into her own net to deliver a 2-1 victory to Japan in the second semifinal of the Women's World Cup on Wednesday night. Japan, the defending champion, advances to play the U.S. in the final on Sunday. In the 2011 championship game, Japan beat the U.S. on penalty kicks after overtime ended at 2-2. • Giving it all away. A Saudi prince says his entire $32 billion fortune will go to charitable causes like disease eradication, disaster relief and the electrification of isolated areas. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is the latest hugely wealthy individual to shift his fortune into philanthropy. • Shark alert. Swimmers will be on the lookout for sharks this holiday weekend, after another attack in the Outer Banks of North Carolina this week. It was the state's seventh attack this year, and the nation's 24th. An average year sees one or two in North Carolina and 30 to 40 nationally. • Deadheads bid farewell. The original members of the Grateful Dead hold their last three performances in Chicago starting Friday, billed as "Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead." The shows will be webcast via YouTube, shown in movie theaters and offered on cable TV pay-per-view. • On the music charts. The rock band Breaking Benjamin has its first No. 1 album, and Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again" notches its 11th week as the top single on the Billboard charts. • Years of giving. Today is the 150th anniversary of the global charity the Salvation Army. It was founded when the Methodist preacher William Booth and his wife, Catherine, started the Christian Revival Society to bring salvation to the poor and needy in London. It acquired its current name in 1878. BACK STORY Something peculiar is happening with the fan voting for the All-Star baseball game: A team in one of the smallest markets, the Kansas City Royals, is in command of the balloting, which ends tonight. Major League Baseball allows each fan 35 online ballots to determine the starting lineup of the July 14 game in Cincinnati. As of two weeks ago, Royals players led the voting in eight of the nine American League positions. A week ago, they led in seven. It's down to five now, with players from a few other teams in contention for roster spots. (But not the Yankees.) In October, the Royals finished one win short of their first World Series title since 1985. This year, they have the best winning percentage in the American League. No doubt, they have solid players. But their fans voted early and often, prompting a backlash outside the Kansas City area. M.L.B. officials, fearing fraud, have canceled 60 million to 65 million of the more than 500 million votes cast. That's four times the number of votes in the last presidential election. And you don't have to stand in line. Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. The Morning Briefing won't be published Friday in observance of Independence Day. We'll be back at 6 a.m. Eastern on Monday. What would you like to see here? Contact us at briefing@nytimes.com. Want to get the briefing by email? Here's the sign-up. 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