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Donald J. Trump's call to bar Muslims from the U.S. has drawn condemnation as well as support. Scott Olson/Getty Images
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Your Wednesday Briefing
By ADEEL HASSAN
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| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Trump fallout continues. |
| Donald J. Trump's call to bar Muslims from the U.S. is still reverberating around the world, igniting widespread condemnation. His supporters, however, see things differently. |
| The Pentagon is warning that comments like Mr. Trump's could fuel the Islamic State terrorist group's narrative of a U.S. war with Islam. Meanwhile, some legal scholars say a ban on Muslims could survive a court challenge if applied only to foreigners. |
| • On the campaign trail. |
| Hillary Clinton blasted Mr. Trump's proposal and accused other Republican presidential candidates of maligning Muslims in their own ways. On "The Tonight Show," Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont left no question that he considered Mr. Trump a rabble-rouser. |
| The House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, said comments like Mr. Trump's are not what the country stands for, and other Republicans joined the outcry. |
| • Environment and energy. |
| Bill Gates is acting as an envoy between the worlds of business and policy, pushing for clean technology. Here's the latest from the Paris climate talks. |
| Trying to rank the world's cleanest cities is no simple matter. |
| And lower oil prices, improvements in gasoline engines and technologies that produce cleaner vehicles have dimmed the future of diesel fuel in cars. |
| • On Capitol Hill. |
| Congressional negotiators are nearly certain to miss a Friday deadline for a $1.1 trillion spending bill, so they'll need a short-term extension to continue funding the government. |
| The Senate is likely to vote today to revise the No Child Left Behind law, George W. Bush's education initiative, effectively ending 14 troubled years of federal control in education policy. |
| • Drug prices in the spotlight. |
| The Senate Special Committee on Aging holds a hearing today to examine sudden huge increases in the prices of older drugs, including Turing Pharmaceuticals' overnight increase — to $750 a pill from $13.50 — for a 62-year-old drug that treats a parasitic infection. |
| Turing was founded by a former hedge fund manager, Martin Shkreli, who has become a symbol of pharmaceutical industry greed. |
| • At the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| The justices hear a major case on affirmative action in higher education today, one that has the potential to limit or do away with racial preferences in admissions decisions at colleges and universities. |
| It's the court's second look at the admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin. Its decision to revisit the case struck many supporters of affirmative action as an ominous sign. |
| • The man who bought the guns. |
| Federal officials are taking a careful look at Enrique Marquez, a former neighbor of Syed Rizwan Farook, who bought the two assault rifles that were used in last week's deadly rampage in San Bernardino, Calif. |
| As the U.S. takes on Islamic State militants, there is a focus on the online community of sympathizers in the country, who fit no single profile. |
| • Infant deaths reach new low in U.S. |
| The rate fell more than 13 percent from 2005 to 2013, and a further 2.3 percent in 2014, but the U.S. still has one of the highest rates among developed nations. |
| BUSINESS |
| • Dow Chemical and DuPont, two of the biggest and oldest chemical companies in the U.S., are talking about merging. Each has a market value of about $60 billion. |
| • Chipotle Mexican Grill's stock continued to fall after worries about food safety spread to Boston, where 80 college students became ill after eating at one of its restaurants. |
| The chain had already been dealing with an E. coli outbreak that infected customers in nine states. |
| • The European Commission will unveil proposals today to give people across Europe access to digital content on sites like Netflix when they travel beyond their national borders. |
| • It's not a good time to own a mine. "The world of commodities has been turned upside down," one energy historian says. |
| • The gunmaker Smith & Wesson nearly tripled its profit in the three months to Oct. 31, compared with a year earlier. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are negative. European markets are lower, and Asian markets finished mixed. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • In memoriam. |
| Douglas Tompkins, 72, founder of the clothing brands North Face and Esprit, died on Tuesday after a kayaking accident in the Patagonia region of Chile. |
| And Tibor Rubin, a Hungarian-born Medal of Honor winner who joined the U.S. Army to thank the nation whose troops rescued him from a concentration camp, has died at 86. |
| • A historical milestone. |
| President Obama speaks today at an event at the Capitol commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment, which formally abolished slavery. |
| • Long-distance delivery. |
| A shipment of groceries and other supplies that left Cape Canaveral on Sunday should arrive today at the International Space Station, the first American delivery since spring. |
| • Sports roundup. |
| The Yankees acquired Starlin Castro from the Cubs; the Cubs signed Ben Zobrist, their top free-agent target; and the Dodgers' Yasiel Puig is headed back to Cuba on a good-will tour. |
| And here are Tuesday night's game recaps from the N.B.A. and N.H.L. |
| • What's new to watch. |
| In "Melting: Last Race to the Pole," two adventurers brave the Arctic Ocean's thinning ice as they try to navigate 480 miles to the North Pole in a record-breaking 48 days (9 p.m. Eastern, Animal Planet). |
| The stars of "Empire," Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard, host a holiday variety special (9 p.m. Eastern, Fox). |
| And the town's residents decide to arm themselves on the season finale of "South Park" (10 p.m. Eastern, Comedy Central). |
| • Time's Person of the Year. |
| The magazine reveals who it believes has most influenced the world, for better or worse, on NBC's "Today" show. |
| BACK STORY |
| An election took place today across an archipelago that stretches farther than the U.S. does from coast to coast: Indonesia. |
| No one's sure how many islands make up the country, which is the world's fourth most populous and the largest Muslim-majority nation. Some local officials say 17,000; others say 15,000. Only about 6,000 are inhabited. |
| The country has 300 ethnic groups, bound into a nation that held its first simultaneous local elections. |
| That's about 100 million eligible voters, choosing regional leaders for the next five years across 269 provinces, regencies and municipalities. |
| Direct elections are a recent development, begun in 2005 after seven decades of dictatorship, during which local officials were appointed from Indonesia's most populous island, Java. |
| Before that, Indonesians were ruled from even farther away, by the Dutch East India Company and the Netherlands, for more than 300 years. |
| One beneficiary of direct elections is President Joko Widodo, a former carpenter who was born in a slum. He was elected to the country's highest office in 2014 after winning a reputation, as a mayor and a governor, for running relatively clean administrations and listening to the concerns of the people. |
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