 | | Hurricane Joaquin is a Category 3 storm as it heads toward the Bahamas today. NOAA, via European Pressphoto Agency | Your Thursday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Clash over Syrian targets. |
| The U.S. and Russian militaries, which are both carrying out airstrikes in Syria, could hold talks as early as today on avoiding unintended confrontations and to clarify which groups the Russians are targeting. |
| Russia's first airstrikes there, on Wednesday, appeared to be in areas with no known Islamic State presence, raising concerns that opponents of President Bashar al-Assad were being hit. |
| We sum up who's fighting whom five and a half years into the Syrian crisis. |
| • Cutting jail time. |
| A long-awaited bipartisan proposal to overhaul the criminal justice system, to be unveiled today, would reduce jail time for nonviolent offenders. |
| It would cut a 10-year mandatory minimum to five years for those who meet certain criteria and would trim penalties for prior drug offenses. |
| • Election 2016. |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton raised more than $28 million in the past three months, and Senator Bernie Sanders, her chief rival for the Democratic nomination, is close behind with more than $24 million. |
| But the Clinton campaign appears more focused on keeping Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. out of the race. |
| And we take a look at Donald J. Trump's silent partner, his wife, Melania. |
| • Addressing the U.N. |
| Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, in his speech at the United Nations today, may show that he has moved on from his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal. |
| On Wednesday, Western governments dropped plans for a U.N. inquiry into human rights violations in the war in Yemen, under pressure from Saudi Arabia. |
| • Struggle for strategic Afghan city. |
| In a highly fluid fight, the northern Afghanistan hub of Kunduz appears to still be in Taliban hands today, although the Afghan government claims it has been cleared of fighters. |
| • U.S. government shutdown averted. |
| The temporary federal spending bill, adopted just hours before the new fiscal year began today, leaves the core dispute between Republicans and Democrats unchanged. |
| Despite voting to fund the government through Dec. 11, Republicans are generally opposed to increasing spending, while Democrats want to lift spending caps that they say constrain the economy. |
| • The pope, the clerk and the culture wars. |
| The revelation that Pope Francis met with Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who went to jail for contempt of court after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, is cheering conservatives. |
| But some liberals said it negated much of the good will from the pope's U.S. trip last week. |
| • Storm watch. |
| Hurricane Joaquin is a Category 3 storm as it heads toward the Bahamas today. |
| Forecasters warn that it could make landfall on the East Coast of the United States by the weekend. |
| MARKETS |
| • Union workers at Fiat Chrysler appear to have soundly turned down a proposed contract that set no limit on the number of entry-level jobs, the first such rejection in more than 20 years. |
| The U.A.W. president must now decide whether to restart talks, call a strike or start negotiations with General Motors or Ford. |
| • The slump in China's manufacturing sector worsened in September, data released today showed. |
| Many economists now doubt the country will be able to reach its official target for economic growth of 7 percent this year. |
| • Peace has broken out between Google and Microsoft, which agreed to dismiss all of their 20 or so pending patent lawsuits against each other. |
| • High demand helped push the median sales price for a Manhattan apartment to a record at or just below a million dollars in the third quarter, according to several reports out today. |
| The median price reflects the middle of the market and is less affected by high-end sales. |
| • Global trade ministers are trying again this week in Atlanta to reach agreement on the largest regional free-trade pact ever. |
| Talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a priority for President Obama, deadlocked two months ago. |
| • Oregon's medicinal marijuana shops begin sales to recreational users today. |
| • Wall Street stock futures indicate a strong rise this morning. Shares are up worldwide today. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Scoreboard. |
| The Toronto Blue Jays clinched their first division title in 22 years, and the St. Louis Cardinals won their 11th title over the same period, on Wednesday night. |
| In pro football, the winless Baltimore Ravens visit the Pittsburgh Steelers (8:25 p.m. Eastern, CBS, NFL Network). |
| • Seriously silly. |
| The "Monty Python" comedians John Cleese and Eric Idle begin a U.S. tour tonight in Sarasota, Fla. |
| They offer a mix of scripted and improvised comedy with storytelling, musical numbers and "aquatic juggling" (don't ask). |
| • What's not on. |
| We've been mentioning all the fall TV series premieres this month, but our television reporter now looks back at five years of shows that never made it out of the fall. |
| On "The Late Show," which has no worries of being dropped, Secretary of State John Kerry is a guest (11:35 p.m. Eastern, CBS). |
| • It's good to be Alaskan. |
| Each person who has lived in the state for at least one year gets a $2,072 dividend from the Alaska Permanent Fund today. |
| Alaska began distributing the money, which comes from oil royalties, in 1982. The checks have totaled about $38,000 since then. |
| • China's National Day. |
| Today begins a weeklong holiday in China for the 66th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. About four million Chinese will celebrate with trips abroad. |
| • Go meatless? |
| Today is World Vegetarian Day, and we have 4,778 ways you can celebrate. |
| BACK STORY |
| The world's coffee producers would like you to celebrate the first International Coffee Day today. |
| While events are planned around the world, there will be none in Ethiopia, the original home of the coffee berry, or on the Arabian Peninsula, home of the first roasted coffee beans. |
| The birth of the planet's most widely imbibed psychoactive substance may have come when a ninth-century goat herder in Ethiopia noticed that his animals were acting a bit strangely after eating berries from a small tree. |
| Inside the red berries were coffee beans. A drink made from the berries confirmed their energy-boosting qualities. |
| The berries made their way to what is now Yemen, a short trip across the Red Sea. The drink made from the first roasted coffee berries was given the name qahwa — a poetic Arabic word for wine — from which the word coffee is derived. |
| Coffeehouses were built in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, as early as the 16th century. Word of the new beverage spread quickly by way of Muslim pilgrims, some of whom left the regions with beans. |
| Coffee then became popular throughout the Ottoman Empire, Europe and the American colonies. In 1773, the Boston Tea Party helped turn Americans' preference to coffee from tea, and it's been like that ever since. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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