 | | There are rail disruptions in the northeast corridor today after an Amtrack train derailed, killing five and injuring dozens. Joseph Kaczmarek/Associated Press | Your Wednesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Fatal Amtrak derailment. |
| At least five people were killed and more than 60 injured when all six cars of a train headed to New York from Washington overturned in Philadelphia on Tuesday night. |
| Officials had still not accounted for all 238 passengers on board as of this morning. The heavily traveled corridor is disrupted as investigators search for the cause. We have live updates. |
| • Into the jury's hands. |
| A dozen jurors are expected to begin deliberating the fate of the convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after closing arguments today. |
| A decision would have to be unanimous for a death sentence to be issued. A divided jury means a life sentence. |
| • A quota system for migrants. |
| The European Commission is proposing today a quota system to help spread migrants across the Continent. |
| A majority of European Union governments have to agree to the measure for it to take effect. France, Germany and Italy are among the supporters. Britain is not. |
| • Renewed rescue efforts in Nepal. |
| Aftershocks continue today after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake on Tuesday hampered rescue efforts from the April 25 quake, with landslides cutting off some villages. |
| At least 65 people died and nearly 2,000 were injured in Nepal, and at least 17 died in India. A U.S. helicopter on an aid mission is missing. |
| • In Washington. |
| Two Saudi princes meet today with President Obama at the White House. They'll be telling him about their skepticism of his nuclear negotiations with Iran, Saudi Arabia's regional rival. |
| Those negotiations resumed this morning in Vienna. |
| • Executed for disrespect. |
| The No. 2 leader of North Korea's military was killed as a "traitor" for showing disrespect for its top leader, Kim Jong-un, and for falling asleep at military events. |
| Mr. Kim has terrorized the North Korean elite with executions while he struggles to establish his authority since the death of his father in 2011. |
| MARKETS |
| • Wall Street stock futures are rising. European stocks are ahead, and Asia ended mixed. |
| • Facebook today starts directly hosting articles from nine news organizations, including The New York Times, rather than forcing readers to follow links to other sites. |
| But the social media company's so-called instant articles could end up taking sizable traffic away from the news sites. |
| • Chicago faces higher borrowing costs after the city's credit rating was downgraded to junk status by Moody's Investors Service. |
| The city is wrestling with an underfunded pension system. |
| • Toyota and Nissan added 6.56 million vehicles to their global recalls of vehicles fitted with airbags made by Takata Corp. |
| Honda said it may expand its recalls as well. The faulty airbags have been tied to injuries and deaths. |
| • The eurozone economy grew 0.4 percent in the first quarter, officials said today, with gross domestic product accelerating in France and slowing in Germany. |
| Greece fell back into recession. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Early look at summer films. |
| The Cannes Film Festival opens today with "Standing Tall," the story of a children's magistrate and a teacher who try to steer kids clear of delinquency. The festival closes on May 24 with a documentary on climate change. |
| Hollywood films like "Mad Max: Fury Road" and Pixar's "Inside Out" also premiere at the festival, while the rest of us have to wait. |
| • Asia rules school rankings. |
| Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan are in the top five spots in one of the largest ever education rankings by test scores. The U.S. is 28th. |
| • Hockey and hoops. |
| It's win or go home when Washington visits New York in Game 7 of their second-round Stanley Cup playoff series (7:30 p.m. Eastern, NBCSN). On Tuesday night, Tampa Bay eliminated Montreal. |
| In the N.B.A. playoffs on TNT, it's Washington at Atlanta (8 p.m. Eastern) and Memphis at Golden State (10:30 p.m. Eastern). Both series are tied at two games apiece. |
| On Tuesday night, Cleveland defeated Chicago, 106-101, and the Rockets avoided elimination with a 124-103 victory over the Clippers. |
• Closer to champions.
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| Barcelona will face either Real Madrid or Juventus in the Champions League soccer final in Berlin next month. |
| The last semifinal match will be played tonight, when Juventus plays in Madrid. On Tuesday, Barcelona lost to Bayern Munich in the second leg of their semifinal, but won in aggregate. |
| BACK STORY |
| If you are a committed reader, then the author Mark Z. Danielewski is about to put that commitment to the test. |
| This week, the best-selling author of "House of Leaves" and "Only Revolutions" (a National Book Award finalist in 2006), released "The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May." |
| It's 880 pages long, set mainly in Los Angeles, but Texas, Singapore, Italy, Mexico and other locales provide a wide panorama for a big cast of characters, including a 12-year-old female protagonist who saves a cat. |
| It's actually more like 300 pages of text with many visuals and typographical twists. |
| But — wait for this — there are 26 more volumes to come. The second volume comes out in October. |
| Pantheon Books, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday, paid more than $1 million for the first 10 volumes, which are an attempt to create a "serial relationship" with readers, they say. |
| Mr. Danielewski says he has been influenced by "Moby-Dick," "The Lord of the Rings" and the manga series "Lone Wolf and Cub." |
| That Japanese classic, released in 1970, is an epic samurai tale that continues over 28 volumes, about 8,400 pages in all. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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