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View in Browser | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. Tuesday, August 11, 2015 Tuesday, August 11, 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. There were more arrests in Ferguson, Mo., overnight after a new state of emergency was declared. Richard Perry/The New York Times Your Tuesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN Good morning. Here's what you need to know: • Ferguson on edge. The St. Louis County police force is in charge of maintaining calm today under a new state of emergency in Ferguson, Mo., where sporadic scuffles led to more arrests overnight. The 18-year-old man critically wounded by the police on Sunday was charged with felony assault on a law enforcement officer. • On the campaign trail. Donald J. Trump headlines a Republican Party event in Michigan tonight, after Megyn Kelly returned to her Fox News program on Monday night by addressing the uproar over his personal attacks on her. And Senator Bernie Sanders won his first major labor endorsement, from a nurses' union, in what may be a sign of a split in the Democratic Party's base. • Currency repercussions. China devalued its currency today in the face of weakening economic growth, a move that could make Chinese exports even cheaper and could inflame Western criticism of the country's market controls. The 1.9 percent devaluation, the largest since 1994, also jolted the currencies of countries like Australia and South Korea that count on China as a market for their exports. • Japan starts reactor. Japan took a step today toward ending a two-year freeze on the use of nuclear power. One of the dozens of reactors in the country that were taken offline after meltdowns at a plant in Fukushima in 2011 was restarted. • Australia's new emissions target. Lawmakers today approved curbing carbon gas emissions to at least 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, a goal that scales back a draft proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent. • Remaking Iraq's political system. Iraq's Parliament voted today to eliminate three vice presidencies and approved other overhauls proposed by the prime minister on Sunday. The measures could be a turning point in the dysfunctional politics that have persisted in the country since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003. • The yellow river. Some counties in Colorado and New Mexico declared emergencies after a mine spill sent three million gallons of toxic sludge stretching 100 miles through the regional river system. Environmental Protection Agency workers accidentally unleashed the spill as they inspected an abandoned mine site. MARKETS • Greek officials said today they had reached an agreement with creditors on terms of a third bailout, ahead of a payment due this month to the European Central Bank. The plan provides aid of about $94.4 billion, but whether it will be ratified by European governments remains unclear. • Google's reorganization into a holding company called Alphabet, a step to get a handle on its sprawl of businesses, is intended to let the divisions be nimble by giving them more room to make their own decisions. In extended-hours trading, the stock is ahead 6 percent, or more than $10 billion in value, an instant endorsement. Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, will run the umbrella company, while Sundar Pichai, 43, will lead the Google subsidiary. • Wall Street stock futures are down, along with European and Asian markets, on China's currency move. NOTEWORTHY • In contrast. It's the 50th anniversary of race riots in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, where community leaders say relations with the police have never been better. But it's not a utopia. • Short-story master returns. Fifteen short stories, loosely tied together and set on Maine's coast, make up "The State We're In," Ann Beattie's first new collection in more than a decade. It's released today. • Are you ready for some football? A new documentary series, "The Agent," follows four sports agents as they navigate contract negotiations, endorsement deals, recruiting and meeting with National Football League players (10 p.m. Eastern, Esquire). And "Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Houston Texans" debuts tonight (10 p.m. Eastern, HBO). • Descending sales. The soundtrack to "Descendants," Disney Channel's latest TV movie, tops the Billboard chart this week, but its sales were the lowest for any No. 1 album in 24 years. • From "Little House" to the big House? Melissa Gilbert, 51, best known for playing Laura Ingalls Wilder in the 1970s television drama "Little House on the Prairie," is running for Congress in Michigan. BACK STORY Whatever happened to that other Apple founder — the one who actually built the breakthrough computers? Steve Wozniak, widely recognized as the genius behind Apple's first products, turns 65 today. He is preparing for retirement in Australia, where he is an adjunct professor at the University of Technology. As sedate as that sounds, Woz has never been a geeky wallflower. Called gregarious and entertaining, Mr. Wozniak has spent much of the time since he left Apple 30 years ago working on philanthropic and business projects. He has taught in grade schools, organized rock festivals, devised products like wireless GPS and universal remote controls, written an autobiography and appeared on "Dancing With the Stars." Woz gave away or sold most of his Apple stock early on but still gets a company stipend. He met Steve Jobs in 1971, but it wasn't until 1976 that he developed the Apple I. Mr. Jobs, of course, was the marketing maestro who made it and the Apple II desirable to the public. Besides retirement, Mr. Wozniak is also looking forward to October's premiere of "Steve Jobs," the film based on the biography by Walter Isaacson, in which Woz is played by Seth Rogen. Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. Your Morning Briefing is published weekdays at 6 a.m. Eastern and updated on the web all morning. 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. ADVERTISEMENT FOLLOW NYTNOW @NYTNOW NYT Now app for iPhone Now the news keeps up with you Available on the App Store Get more NYTimes.com newsletters » | Sign Up for the Morning Briefing newsletter » ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's NYT Now newsletter. 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