 | | A protest in Tokyo today against efforts to expand the Japanese military. Kimimasa Mayama/European Pressphoto Agency | Your Thursday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Japan's military legislation. |
| The lower house of Parliament today approved a set of bills to allow a greater role for the military. The changes would allow troops to fight overseas for the first time since World War II. |
| The bills will move to the upper house for a vote. Some observers say the prime minister could lose his job over the issue, because of public opposition. |
| • Focus on criminal justice. |
| President Obama visits the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution near Oklahoma City today, where he will talk about the need for more humane conditions in prisons. |
| On Wednesday, former President Bill Clinton conceded that the anti-crime legislation that he had considered one of his top accomplishments sent minor criminals to prison "for way too long." |
| • On Capitol Hill. |
| The Senate is expected today to pass a major bipartisan education bill that rewrites the No Child Left Behind law, President George W. Bush's signature education legislation, by shifting responsibility for public school standards from the federal government back to the states. |
| It would then have to be reconciled with a House bill that further reduces the federal guidelines. |
| • Planned Parenthood targeted. |
| House Republicans will investigate Planned Parenthood after anti-abortion activists released a video of an official from the organization explaining how it provides fetal tissue to researchers. |
• Moving forward on Greece.
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| With parliamentary approval secured for new austerity measures in Greece, the European Central Bank and eurozone finance ministers meet separately today to consider new financing for the country until a long-term agreement can be reached. |
| • Nice to meet you, Pluto. |
| The first close-up image of Pluto reveals mountains of ice as tall as the Rockies. "We can be very sure that water is there in great abundance," one surprised scientist says. |
| The absence of craters points to a surface that is quite young, no more than 100 million years old. |
| MARKETS |
| • Canada is most likely back in a recession, with the economy having shrunk in the second quarter, the central bank says. |
| The value of the Canadian dollar fell again, despite the Bank of Canada's second cut in interest rates this year. |
| • The European Commission is investigating the chip maker Qualcomm for possible antitrust violations, the latest inquiry into U.S. technology giants. |
| • The Pabst Brewing Company, based in Los Angeles, will open a brewery next year in Milwaukee, where it was founded in 1844. It closed its last brewery there nearly 20 years ago. |
| • Uniqlo, the Japanese clothes retailer, today disassociated itself with a video circulating on the Internet that shows a couple having sex in one of its stores in China. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are rising on the heels of a strong jump in European shares. Asia stocks also ended higher. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • A clear favorite. |
| The British Open is underway, with Jordan Spieth, 21, halfway to a Grand Slam (Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA Championship), which no golfer has ever done. (Leaderboard.) |
| Rory McIlroy isn't defending his title, having injured his ankle playing soccer. |
| • Contenders and winners. |
| The Emmy Awards nominations for TV's best drama, comedy, mini-series, TV movie and acting roles are announced this morning from Los Angeles (streaming, 11:30 a.m. Eastern). |
| • What's on TV. |
| In "Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll," Denis Leary plays a washed-up singer who's trying to re-establish his career long after his influential band imploded (10 p.m. Eastern, FX). |
| • There are beaches there? |
| The U.S. beach volleyball tour today makes its first stop in Manhattan in its 33-year history. Men's qualifying begins on the island, while the women play across the East River in Brooklyn. |
| • Quotable. |
| "I'm here to promote a simple idea: accepting people for who they are," Caitlyn Jenner said in an acceptance speech at the ESPY Awards. |
| • In memoriam. |
| Robert Broadbent, a retailing executive who was instrumental in luring the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to Cleveland in 1986, died on Monday at age 94. |
| BACK STORY |
| After a 1948 visit to Henry Ford's Greenfield Village museum complex in Michigan, Walt Disney returned to Southern California with an idea to build an amusement park modeled after a village. |
| That seed blossomed into the 85-acre Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, Calif., which commemorates its 60th anniversary on Friday (admission in 1955: $1). |
| The park's celebration includes a blinged-out Sleeping Beauty Castle and juiced-up parades and fireworks (admission in 2015: $99). |
| But it won't include the Disneyland Band, which has performed since the day the park opened, specializing in circa-1900 tunes. The group is being replaced with a new sound and high-end choreography. |
| The Disneyland Resort has not been all Mickey Mouse fun and games, of course. |
| It is, after all, where this year's American measles outbreak originated, where a fast-access system for the disabled was abused, and where a rogue magic carpet ride left Aladdin and Jasmine hanging on for their lives. |
| Still, an average 44,000 people walk through the gates every day. One California couple visited the park 366 days in a row without getting sick of it. |
| Indeed, for many it is surely the "happiest place on Earth," as the official tagline puts it. |
| Kathryn Varn and Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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