 | | Voters in Burundi go to the polls today amid election-related violence. Tyler Hicks/The New York Times | Your Tuesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • The future of U.S. roads. |
| The Senate may begin considering today a multiyear highway funding bill. The program's authorization expires at the end of July. |
| The House passed an $8.1 billion bill last week to extend funding through Dec. 18, but Senate Republicans seek a longer extension. |
| • The president's travels. |
| President Obama is in Pittsburgh today, addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention. He may remark on Donald J. Trump's comments about Senator John McCain's status as a war hero. |
| Mr. Obama then heads to New York to tape an appearance on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart. |
| • That makes 16. |
| The Ohio governor, John R. Kasich (KAY'-sik), is expected today to become the latest prominent Republican to enter the race for president. |
| Mr. Kasich knows that it takes guts, and a little chutzpah, to make it to the White House. |
| • Burundi votes amid violence. |
| At least two people died overnight before polls opened this morning in the small East African nation of Burundi. The violence began in April when the president announced his campaign for a third term. |
| Burundi, like its neighbor Rwanda, has seen decades of tensions between its minority Tutsi and majority Hutu population. The unrest is Burundi's worst crisis since an ethnically fueled civil war ended in 2005 with 300,000 dead. |
| • Iran's stamp of approval. |
| Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, who represented Tehran in recent nuclear negotiations, appears in his country's Parliament today to brief lawmakers on last week's agreement. |
| They are expected to debate the accord and to approve it. Iran's supreme leader has voiced support for it, quieting most hard-line critics. Of course, that may incite further dissent in the U.S. Congress. |
| • Jail cell death in Texas. |
| More details are expected today of the final hours in the life of Sandra Bland, a Chicago-area woman who was found hanged in jail three days after she was arrested during a traffic stop. |
| • Growing concern over displacement. |
| Natural disasters forced more than 19 million people from their homes in 2014, mostly the result of weather-related events that are becoming more intense and more frequent, a new report says. |
| • "Bold climate agreement." |
| Dozens of mayors from around the world will agree today to a Vatican declaration calling for their national leaders to approve an agreement that keeps global warming at a safe limit. |
| Those leaders are preparing for a major U.N. climate summit meeting in Paris in December. |
| • More children in poverty. |
| A new report on child welfare finds that more American children are living in poverty than before the Great Recession. |
| MARKETS |
| • Toshiba's chief executive stepped down today after an independent investigation found he had been aware the company had inflated its profit, Japan's biggest corporate scandal in years. |
| • A&P, a former titan of the grocery industry, is trying to sell more than 100 stores after filing for bankruptcy protection for the second time in five years. |
| • Apple's earnings, released today after the close of trading, will be examined for any clues about sales of its smartwatch. |
| Yahoo and Microsoft also post quarterly results today. |
| • Wall Street stock futures show little change from Monday's close. European indexes are slightly lower, while Asian shares ended higher. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • What's next for Bill Cosby. |
| Experts say that a deposition from a case settled in 2006 could be useful in four legal challenges against him. |
| But they also point out that the burden of proof is high, and that it could be difficult to bring new lawsuits about what happened many years ago. |
| • Before the escape. |
| "Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty" is a documentary about the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, who recently escaped from a Mexican prison. |
| The filmmakers investigated his empire, from the streets of Chicago to Mexico. They also talked to members of his cartel, and even to his mom (PBS; check local listings for time). |
| • New to bookshelves. |
| William Finnegan, a New Yorker writer, revisits his golden age of surfing and the search for the perfect wave in the memoir "Barbarian Days," released today. |
| Barton Swaim peers into modern politics with "The Speechwriter," which recounts his time working for former Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina. |
| In fiction, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, the award-winning author of "The Sound of Things Falling," has a new short story collection, "Lovers on All Saints' Day" translated into English for the first time. |
| • Success on two fronts. |
| Tyrese Gibson, one of the stars of the film "Furious 7," is at the top of the Billboard album chart with "Black Rose." |
| BACK STORY |
| The news report last week that Twitter had received a $31 billion takeover offer was not a big surprise to investors who frequently hear such rumors. |
| The only problem with this one was that it was a hoax. Someone went to the trouble of copying part of the Bloomberg News website and writing something that sort of read like a news article, probably to goose the stock price and profit from it. |
| Stock prices have long been manipulated by such fabrications. Just two months ago, Avon stock spiked on a takeover hoax — propagated by a Bulgarian who had fooled Wall Street twice before, federal officials say. |
| One of the most elaborate stock market hoaxes is also one of the oldest. In 1814, three men distributed pamphlets in London saying Napoleon Bonaparte was dead; separately, another man traveled to London from Dover, England, to spread the same news. |
| The reports sent the price of government securities soaring on the London Stock Exchange before Napoleon was declared very much alive. A member of Parliament and two others were later charged with fraud. |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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