 | | Lawyers for Kim Davis, jailed because of her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals. Chris Tilley/Reuters | Your Tuesday Briefing By VICTORIA SHANNON |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Migrant crisis swells. |
| While Britain, France and Germany announced measures to take in more asylum seekers, Denmark made clear that migrants were not welcome. |
| The police there closed a highway and the government placed ads in Lebanese newspapers to deter migrants. |
| Hundreds of migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere have been passing through Denmark, via Hungary, in hopes of reaching Norway or Sweden, which have been more receptive to migrants. |
| • Debating the nuclear deal. |
| The Iran nuclear plan, whose adoption by the U.S. seems assured, is still in the line of fire. |
| Official debate opens when the Congress reconvenes today, and Dick Cheney and Hillary Rodham Clinton both present their views in Washington.. |
| • Catholic Church to update annulment process. |
| The Vatican is expected to announce today sweeping changes to annulments, the process sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church to end marriages. |
| Experts say the changes will most likely make the process easier and more accessible. |
| • Kim Davis appeals. |
| Lawyers for Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed last week because of her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. |
| • Ground Zero hearing. |
| The House Committee on Homeland Security holds a field hearing at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, with testimony from former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and the New York police and fire commissioners. |
| • A new late-night reign. |
| Stephen Colbert officially succeeds David Letterman as the host of "The Late Show" on CBS at 11:35 p.m. Eastern tonight. |
| His first guests include Hollywood royalty (George Clooney and Scarlett Johansson), a writer (Stephen King), tech stars (Elon Musk of Tesla Motors and Travis Kalanick of Uber) and a presidential hopeful (Jeb Bush). |
| MARKETS |
| • Wall Street stock futures are strongly higher this morning, as are shares in Europe and Asia. |
| • Verizon plans to announce this week the start of a free, ad-supported mobile streaming service called Go90. Aimed at 18- to 34-year-olds, the video service will also be available to non-Verizon customers. |
| OVER THE LONG WEEKEND |
| • President Obama signed an executive order requiring federal contractors to provide up to seven days of paid sick leave a year. |
| • A television comedian with no political experience won the first round of voting in Guatemala's presidential election, five days after a fraud investigation forced the president from office. A runoff vote is set for October. |
| • West Point officials confirmed that an annual pillow fight at the U.S. Military Academy, intended to let off steam, turned violent this year, leaving 30 cadets injured, including 24 with concussions. |
| • China, whose slowing economy has rocked the world's stock markets, revised its annual growth rate for 2014 to 7.3 percent from 7.4 percent. |
| • Toshiba posted a net loss for the last financial year, after twice delaying results because of a $1.3 billion accounting scandal. |
| • Thailand's military junta extended its rule by at least seven months when its reform council voted against a constitution written by its own drafting committee. |
| • Thousands of farmers snarled traffic and pelted the police with eggs in Brussels, demanding aid to offset falling prices for milk, pork and other agricultural products. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Sibling rivalry. |
| Venus and Serena Williams play each other tonight at the U.S. Open in New York as the men's and women's quarterfinals begin. |
| In today's other matches, Kristina Mladenovic plays Roberta Vinci; Jo-Wilfried Tsonga takes on Marin Cilic; and Novak Djokovic faces Feliciano Lopez (noon to 11 p.m. Eastern, ESPN). |
| Kevin Anderson upended the third-seeded Andy Murray on Monday in the biggest men's upset of the tournament. |
| • Summer at the movies. |
| Ticket sales at North American cinemas rose 10.4 percent, to $4.48 billion, this summer from a year ago, with movies from Universal and Disney controlling 60 percent of the market. |
| Universal's "Jurassic World" was the No. 1 draw of the season. Summer historically accounts for up to 40 percent of annual domestic ticket sales. |
| Over a quiet Labor Day weekend, Sony's faith-based drama "War Room" edged out "Straight Outta Compton." |
| • "Fear of Dying." |
| Erica Jong's "spiritual sequel" to her 1973 best-selling novel "Fear of Flying," which is about casual, consequence-free sex, is out today. |
| "Fear of Dying" focuses on a woman in her 60s, lusty and vivacious and searching for carnal satisfaction at a casual-sex site. |
| • Pope TV. |
| Pope Francis's visit to Havana, New York, Philadelphia and Washington will be broadcast around the clock on a Time Warner Cable channel, the Papal Visit 2015 channel, starting Sept. 20. |
| • Cecil hunter returns. |
| The dentist whose killing of Cecil the lion sparked an outcry has disputed some accounts of his hunt, and said he would be back to his Bloomington, Minn., practice today. |
| • A new political candidate. |
| At age 79, Frank Serpico — whose anti-corruption campaign against the New York City Police Department was portrayed by Al Pacino in a 1973 film — is entering politics, running for the board of Stuyvesant, N.Y., population about 2,200. |
| BACK STORY |
| A mammoth hurricane took Texas by surprise 115 years ago today, walloping Galveston with a direct hit. |
| At least 6,000 people were killed, the worst natural disaster to hit the U.S. |
| Forecasters in Cuba had accurately predicted the storm's track, but Washington ended all telegraphed weather data from Cubans days before the hurricane hit. |
| So the Texas coast was unprepared for 120-mile-an-hour winds and flooding that September afternoon. |
| After the devastation, the federal government tried to put the blame on the chief of the U.S. Weather Service bureau in Galveston, Isaac M. Cline. |
| Mr. Cline had advised against erecting sea walls in the city and had said that any hurricane threat there was "an absurd delusion." |
| But Mr. Cline and his family also lived in Galveston, and they paid the price dearly. Their home collapsed, and the waters carried its remnants into the Gulf of Mexico. His wife drowned. |
| Mr. Cline spent the next 50 years justifying his misjudgment, as Erik Larson documents in the book "Isaac's Storm." |
| Adeel Hassan contributed reporting. |
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