 | | Donald J. Trump returned the fire of rivals and moderators at the Republican debate on Thursday night. Doug Mills/The New York Times | Your Friday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • A rowdy debate. |
| Donald J. Trump was put on the defensive by his rivals and the moderators in Thursday's night Republican debate, and he returned their fire. |
| He refused to rule out a third-party bid if he does not win the party's nomination, and he dismissed George W. Bush's presidency as "a catastrophe." |
| Analysts say that Scott Walker, Marco Rubio and John Kasich had solid performances because they focused on the issues. Here's a full report card. |
| • What would Jon say? |
| The comedian Jon Stewart won't get a chance to mock the debate on his news-parody program, "The Daily Show," as he said farewell on Thursday with a passionate speech urging his audience not to accept misinformation. |
| Our TV critic writes that the finale had two moments that will stand the test of time: a sentimental speech from Stephen Colbert, a "Daily Show" graduate, and Mr. Stewart's monologue on the theme of falsehoods (though he used a much stronger word). |
| • Parting shot. |
| President Obama attends meetings at the White House today before leaving with his family for a two-week vacation on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. |
| Mr. Obama's push for approval of a nuclear deal with Iran received a blow on Thursday night when Senator Chuck Schumer, an influential Jewish voice on Capitol Hill, said he would oppose it. That paves the way for other Democrats to join the critics. |
| • U.S.-Vietnam relations. |
| Secretary of State John Kerry told a group of Vietnamese officials and business leaders today that improvements in human rights there would lead to deeper ties between the U.S. and Vietnam. |
| Mr. Kerry, who served in Vietnam before emerging as a critic of that war, also said that the nuclear agreement he negotiated with Iran was the best chance for a peaceful solution to that issue. |
| • At the United Nations. |
| The Security Council is preparing to take a major step this morning in holding chemical weapons users in the Syrian war accountable, with a resolution that creates an investigating panel to identify them. |
| The resolution is expected to pass easily, and it represents the most significant action by the Council on chemical weapons in Syria since its government pledged nearly two years ago to join the treaty that bans them. |
| • Psychologists at the ballot. |
| The American Psychological Association votes today on whether to prohibit psychologists from involvement in all national security interrogations. |
| An investigation found that prominent psychologists participated in interrogation techniques, during the administration of George W. Bush, that constituted torture. An approval would create a new obstacle in interrogating terrorism suspects outside of the traditional criminal justice system. |
| • Breakthrough in unsolved mystery? |
| Security footage from the night before the largest art theft in history, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990, is drawing new attention to a rookie security guard. |
| Officials say it shows the guard opening the same side doors the thieves used and admitting a man in a waist-length coat and upturned collar. The stolen pieces are valued at nearly half a billion dollars. |
| MARKETS |
| • U.S. employers added about 220,000 jobs in July, economists forecast, and the jobless rate is expected to have remained at its seven-year low of 5.3 percent. We'll get the official numbers this morning. |
| • Viacom reported weak earnings on Thursday, sending its shares down more than 14 percent and continuing a startling slump in major media stocks. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are trending down. European markets are lower, and most Asian indexes finished higher. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Hot ticket. |
| "Hamilton," the rap-driven portrait of the rise and fall of Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the Treasury, opened on Broadway on Thursday night. |
| Our critic, Ben Brantley, writes that the show is proof that the musical is both surviving and evolving in ways that should allow it to thrive. |
| • Back to save the world. |
| Marvel's longest-running, most dysfunctional group of superheroes returns with Miles Teller as Mr. Fantastic, Kate Mara as the Invisible Woman, Michael B. Jordan as the Human Torch and Jamie Bell as the Thing, in "Fantastic Four," opening today. |
| Here's what else is coming to theaters today. |
| • New and popular reads. |
| William Finnegan's surfing memoir, "Barbarian Days," debuts at No. 5 on our hardcover nonfiction list. Get an early look at all of our best-seller lists. |
| "To Hell and Back" and "Nagasaki" are two new reminders of the horrors caused by nuclear weapons, as Japan observes the 70th anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
| • Rapper's long hiatus ends. |
| Dr. Dre has released his first album in 16 years, "Compton," on Apple Music. More than six million copies of his last album, "The Chronic 2001," were sold. |
| Dr. Dre says he'll donate royalties to the city of Compton, Calif., for a performing arts center. |
| BACK STORY |
| Sixty years ago tonight, what's thought to be the first performance of a rock 'n' roll song on national television helped kick off the rock era. |
| "Rock Around the Clock," originally recorded by the band Bill Haley and His Comets, swept the U.S. in the summer of 1955. It was the theme song of the film "Blackboard Jungle." |
| The band's Aug. 7 TV performance, at Ed Sullivan's "Toast of the Town" concert in Stratford, Conn., helped clinch its members' fame in the U.S. and Europe. |
| The song also became the first rock single to hit No. 1 on the pop charts. ("Rock Around the Clock" became a hit again when it was included on the 1973 soundtrack of "American Graffiti.") |
| "Blackboard Jungle" was notable, too, for being Hollywood's first serious treatment of urban schools, and for having the first rock soundtrack. |
| The song was an important influence on the Beatles and other rock performers in the 1960s and '70s. Rock was said to be in trouble during discomania, but it never died. |
| So how long will the genre last? Demand is hard to predict, but there's plenty of supply. As Mick Jagger once said, "There is no future in rock 'n' roll, only recycled past." |
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