 | | A powerful earthquake shook Nepal today, just weeks after a temblor there killed thousands. Mast Irham/European Pressphoto Agency | Your Tuesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Another quake strikes Nepal. |
| A 7.3-magnitude earthquake shook the country today, less than three weeks after a 7.8-magnitude temblor killed an estimated 8,000 people. |
| Some deaths were cited in early reports from the scene. The epicenter was about 50 miles east of the capital, near the border with China, and the quake was felt as far away as New Delhi. |
| • A thaw in U.S.-Russia freeze. |
| Secretary of State John Kerry is in Sochi, Russia, meeting today with President Vladimir V. Putin. |
| Mr. Kerry wants Mr. Putin to push pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine to comply with a cease-fire that is often violated. He'll also check how much support Russia still has for Syria's leader, who continues to lose territory to rebels. |
| • A focus on the poor. |
| On the steps of the Capitol, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York reveals an effort to combat income inequality in America. He'll appear with Senator Elizabeth Warren, a champion of the left. |
| Separately, Joseph E. Stiglitz, an influential adviser to the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign, proposes rewriting the rules of the U.S. market economy to influence income distribution. |
| And President Obama participates in a conference on overcoming poverty at Georgetown University. You can watch at 11 a.m. Eastern. |
| • Talking strategy in Afghanistan. |
| The Afghan and Pakistani leaders are in Kabul today for talks on how to better fight militants on both sides of their border. Relations are improving after years of mistrust between the two nations. |
| On Monday, the White House rebutted an article by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour M. Hersh that challenges the narrative of the raid that captured Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011. |
| • Bring a Brink's truck. |
| A Picasso painting and a Giacometti sculpture broke art auction records, going for $179.4 million and $141.3 million, respectively, at Christie's on Monday night. |
| Hot on their heels, Roy Lichtenstein's 1962 comic book work "The Ring (Engagement)" could go for $50 million today at a Sotheby's auction. |
| • Tom Brady's appeal. |
| The agent for the New England Patriots quarterback and four-time Super Bowl winner is planning an aggressive appeal to the N.F.L.'s four-game suspension of Brady for "deflategate." |
| The league also fined the Patriots $1 million and took away two draft picks. The team owner denounced the penalties and said about Brady: "Our belief in him has not wavered." |
| MARKETS |
| • Wall Street stock futures are falling. European indexes are down sharply, and Asian shares ended mixed. |
| • Deaths tied to faulty ignition switches in G.M. cars have reached 100, far higher than the 13 known fatalities the company spoke of last year. |
| The total cements the defect as one of the deadliest automotive safety issues in American history. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Shift in religious beliefs. |
| The share of adults in the U.S. who are Christians has declined sharply since 2007, affecting nearly all major denominations, according to a survey released today by the Pew Research Center. |
| Still, seven in 10 Americans identify as Christians. |
| • C.I.A. official quashes Benghazi claims. |
| The former deputy director of the C.I.A. says that there is "no evidence" to support the Republican charge of "a conspiracy between the C.I.A. and the White House to spin the Benghazi story." |
| In "The Great War of Our Time," out today, he also concludes that the White House itself embellished some of the C.I.A. talking points on the attacks in Libya. |
| • New releases. |
| David Duchovny, best known for his acting role in "The X-Files," tries something new today, releasing his debut studio album, "Hell or Highwater." |
| In books, Lisa Lutz, the author of the "Spellman Files," explores female friendship in "How to Start a Fire," and the horror writer Adam Nevill publishes "No One Gets Out Alive." |
| • Scoreboard. |
| In tonight's N.B.A. playoffs on TNT, Chicago is at Cleveland, 7 p.m. Eastern, with the series tied 2-2; and the Los Angeles Clippers can clinch their first trip to the Western Conference finals with a win at Houston, 9:30 p.m. |
| Monday night, the Warriors routed the Grizzlies, and the Hawks beat the Wizards. |
| In hockey, Montreal faces elimination in the Stanley Cup playoffs at Tampa Bay in their second-round series at 7:30 p.m. on NBCSN. |
| • Micro-reads. |
| The Twitter Fiction Festival has begun and lots of authors are taking part. You don't even need an account to follow along. |
| BACK STORY |
| "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true." |
| That's one of the famously twisted quotes from Yogi Berra, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, who turns 90 today. |
| His record is impressive — he hit 358 home runs, was an All Star on 15 occasions and was named American League M.V.P. three times. But his paradoxical phrasing has also helped seal his place as a lovable American legend. |
| More of his verbal loop-de-loops: "He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious." |
| "If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop ′em." |
| "You can observe a lot by just watching." |
| He described a restaurant this way: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." |
| And then there's this: "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." |
| That one is often used today as advice for graduates, but it started out as real-life directions to his home in Montclair, N.J., as either route would have gotten you there. |
| Here's one that isn't a Yogi-ism: "The future ain't what it used to be." Its origin has been traced to a French philosopher in 1937. |
| In the immortal words of Yogi, "I really didn't say everything I said." |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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