 | | Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered aides to give her email server and a backup thumb drive to the Justice Department. Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times | Your Wednesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
• Scrutiny of Clinton's emails.
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| The Justice Department will receive Hillary Rodham Clinton's private email server, which housed the personal account she used while secretary of state, along with a thumb drive that contained copies of the emails. |
| The F.B.I. and the Justice Department want both the server and the thumb drive to investigate how classified information was handled on the account. |
| • Candidates on the issues. |
| Donald J. Trump may or may not release specific policy plans, he said Tuesday night, telling a Times reporter that he wants "a certain flexibility." |
| And Jeb Bush blamed Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Obama for the early withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq and for the chaos sweeping the Mideast. |
| Mr. Bush did not acknowledge that his brother, former President George W. Bush, signed the agreement to pull forces out of Iraq by Dec. 31, 2011. |
| • Super showdown. |
| The Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, a four-time Super Bowl champion, and the N.F.L. commissioner Roger Goodell will be in federal court in Lower Manhattan today for a settlement conference between the players' union and the league on Mr. Brady's suspension over underinflated footballs. |
| If they can't get it settled today, the two sides will file briefs on Friday and will reconvene next week. They have asked the judge for a decision by Sept. 4, six days before the Patriots' opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers. |
| • Syria peace efforts. |
| Meetings suggest that Russia and the U.S., whose differences over Syria's multisided civil war have hindered efforts to resolve the conflict, are trying to find a political solution and better strategies to fight the Islamic State. |
| A deeper collapse in Syria could further strengthen the militants. |
| • Change of heart. |
| Gary Samore, the leader of the bipartisan advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran, decided to resign after concluding that the nuclear accord reached last month was in the best interest of the U.S. |
| • Vote on prostitution policy. |
| After days of emotional debates and intense lobbying, Amnesty International delegates voted to support a policy that calls for the decriminalization of the sex trade, concluding that it is the best way to reduce risks for prostitutes. |
| • Use of police force. |
| A state of emergency could be lifted today in Ferguson, Mo. The police released surveillance video that they say shows an 18-year-old man who was shot by their officers pulling a gun out of his waistband and pointing it. |
| In Arlington, Tex., a white rookie police officer, who shot and killed an unarmed black college football player after he had broken into a car dealership, was fired. |
| And a Justice Department survey on the use of police force is proving to be almost useless. |
| • Where murders are soaring. |
| El Salvador is suffering violence at levels not seen since the civil war of the 1980s, as the government struggles to rein in powerful criminal gangs. |
| MARKETS |
| • Another steep devaluation of China's currency overnight is jolting markets around the world. |
| Wall Street stock futures this morning indicate a 1 percent fall today. European and Asian shares are down 1 percent to 3 percent. |
| China's moves are intended in part to offset the country's slowing economy, which could hinder growth around the world. |
| • Pearson is now completely out of the news business and will focus on education after the sale of its 50 percent stake in the Economist Group. |
| The biggest chunk was bought by Exor, the Agnelli family's investment company, which is a major shareholder of Fiat Chrysler. Pearson sold The Financial Times to Nikkei, a Japanese media company, last month. |
| • Alibaba, the Chinese equivalent of Amazon.com, is expected to show lower earnings in its quarterly report this morning, mostly because of business investments. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • The president's message. |
| President Obama is on vacation, but he sent The Times a letter to the editor in response to a story on the Voting Rights Act. |
| "I am where I am today only because men and women like Rosanell Eaton refused to accept anything less than a full measure of equality," he writes. |
| • Make a wish. |
| The oldest meteor shower known to Earth, the Perseids, is at its peak this week. Clear skies in most of the U.S. tonight will help with the view, starting about 10 p.m. Eastern (live-stream, NASA). |
| You can expect one shooting star a minute. They are actually pieces of a comet hitting the atmosphere at 140,000 miles per hour and burning up. |
| • Sucker punch. |
| The starting quarterback for the New York Jets had his jaw broken — not on the field, or by an opponent, but by a teammate in the locker room. |
| Geno Smith is expected to miss the next six to 10 weeks, and Ikemefuna Enemkpali, who threw the punch, was quickly let go by the Jets. |
| • When to release a film. |
| At the beginning of the summer, there were 10 films scheduled to open this weekend; now, there are nearly two dozen. So how is a film's opening date set? |
| The answer involves factors as varied as holidays in India and when Labor Day falls. |
| • Home sweet home. |
| Tuesday was the first time in Major League Baseball history that all 15 home teams won on the same day. |
| • Who's on first. |
| George Clooney and Jeb Bush will be on the Sept. 8 debut of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on CBS. Kendrick Lamar will be the first musical guest. |
| • Elvis returns. |
| The U.S. Postal Service dedicates the Elvis Presley Forever stamp today at Graceland, the Elvis Presley estate in Memphis. |
| He joins Lydia Mendoza, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin in a stamp series of music icons. Elvis first got a stamp in 1993. |
| • Anyone have a turntable? |
| Today is Vinyl Record Day, observing the day in 1877 when Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. And, yes, vinyl is still alive. |
| BACK STORY |
| About 10,000 people are expected today in St. Paul, Minn., to celebrate the Internet's greatest cultural contribution: cat videos. |
| The Walker Art Center, the contemporary art museum of Minneapolis, is hosting its fourth annual Internet Cat Video Festival. |
| The event began in 2012 as an experiment — would people gather publicly to watch YouTube clips? — and quickly spread, like the videos that inspired it. |
| The reels the museum curated from past festivals have been shown at events in Florida, Montana, Oklahoma and other states. |
| And the Museum of the Moving Image in New York just opened an exhibit on "How Cats Took Over the Internet," billed as an exploration of "the aesthetics of cuteness." |
| One highlight is a half-hour reel of cat videos compiled by Will Braden, curator of the Walker's festival. |
| If you can't make it to Minnesota tonight, you can still peruse the contenders for the Golden Kitty prize. |
| Five felines, including Grumpy Cat and Henri le Chat Noir (a French cat filled with ennui), are competing in the "people's choice" hall of fame. |
| Disclosure: We voted for the fearless guard cat who sent a black bear running. |
| Stacy Cowley and Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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