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View in Browser | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. Wednesday, July 15, 2015 Wednesday, July 15, 2015 nytnow.com » Enjoy this newsletter? The NYT Now app for iPhone is now completely free. It's the fastest way to catch up with the news throughout the day. Download now. Iranians celebrated the nuclear deal on Tuesday. Republicans have vowed to kill the accord. Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times Your Wednesday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN Good morning. Here's what you need to know: • Nuclear deal fallout. President Obama uses a White House news conference today (1 p.m. Eastern) to sell his administration's historic nuclear deal to Congress. Republican leaders are vowing to kill the agreement, while Mideast allies seem split over the accord. • Greece not out of the woods. The International Monetary Fund and Parliament in Athens both stand in the way of Monday's bailout agreement for Greece. The I.M.F. is threatening to withdraw support unless European leaders agree to substantial relief for $331 billion in Greek debt, an aggressive stance that sets up a standoff with Germany and other eurozone creditors. And lawmakers have a critical vote today on whether to accept the creditors' conditions in order to open detailed negotiations for a bailout package of up to about $95 billion over the next three years. • Planned Parenthood video. After a video circulated that surreptitiously captured a Planned Parenthood official explaining how the group provides fetal parts to medical researchers, the organization defended the practice, saying it had patients' permission. • Help wanted: Drone pilots. The U.S. Air Force is expected to announce today a plan to give its pilots thousands of dollars in bonus pay if they commit to flying remotely piloted craft for five years or more. It's one measure being taken to address a shortage of drone pilots. • Death camp conviction. A 94-year-old former Nazi sergeant who served at the Auschwitz death camp was convicted today on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder. • Picture perfect. The first batch of data from the New Horizons spacecraft arrives this morning on Earth, including sharper images of Pluto — 10 times the resolution of the image released on Tuesday. • A president's promise. Mr. Obama speaks about expanding economic opportunity during a visit to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, the country's third-largest Native American tribe, with about 200,000 members. MARKETS • Janet L. Yellen fields questions from lawmakers today and Thursday at the Federal Reserve's semiannual update before Congress. An interest-rate increase for the first time in ages is due soon, by all indications, but no one knows when. • China's economy continued to stabilize, growing 7 percent in the second quarter, the government said today, the same pace as in the first quarter. The Shanghai stock market fell 3 percent. • Sergio Marchionne, the chief executive of Fiat Chrysler, says he has no plans to make another offer to merge with General Motors, four months after his overture was rejected. • U.S. regulators are now investigating airbag inflaters made by ARC Automotive, a Tennessee supplier that uses the same explosive compound used by the Japanese company Takata. Millions of cars using Takata airbags have been recalled. • Robert A. Iger, Disney's chief executive, said today in China that the $5.5 billion Shanghai Disneyland will feature a "Pirates of the Caribbean" area and the company's biggest castle. • Wall Street stock futures are flat, as are European shares. NOTEWORTHY • Caitlyn Jenner's red carpet debut. Ms. Jenner makes her first major public appearance tonight to receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award for sports excellence at the ESPY Awards in Los Angeles. Past winners include Muhammad Ali, Nelson Mandela and Billie Jean King. All 10 of Ms. Jenner's children and grandchildren are expected to be onstage when she accepts. Don't look for it on ESPN, though (8 p.m., ABC). • Toy kingdom ends its reign. The flagship F.A.O. Schwarz toy store in New York closes its doors today, a victim of rising rents and discount retailing. • For laughs. "The Jim Gaffigan Show," a fictionalized version of the life of the comedian Jim Gaffigan, and "Impastor," about a fake minister whose whole life is a fib, debut today (10 and 10:30 p.m. Eastern, TV Land). • Ruling on hit song. A judge cut more than $2 million from a copyright infringement verdict against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams over "Blurred Lines." But Marvin Gaye's family will also get a big chunk of future earnings from the 2013 song. • A midsummer classic. Mike Trout became the first player to win the Most Valuable Player Award in the All-Star Game two years in a row on Tuesday night, helping the American League beat the National League, 6-3. BACK STORY A report last week drew substantial attention in the news media when it found that white men make up 79 percent of the 2,437 elected state and local prosecutors across the U.S. Behind the headlines is the group responsible for the findings: the Women Donors Network. Little known outside its field, the San Francisco-based network is a nonprofit whose roughly 200 members each donate more than $25,000 a year to charity groups and social causes. "Philanthropists give money away," says Donna P. Hall, the group's president and chief executive. "Our women are actively involved in the things they're giving money to." The group, in its 25th year, is an offshoot of an effort to educate women who inherited money about investing their wealth. Now, the organization is taking an analytical approach to race, class and gender issues, which is where last week's report comes in. Organizations with similar goals include Women Moving Millions, the Global Fund for Women and the Women's Funding Network. They are all conscious of research showing that women of all ages give to charities at higher rates than men; women ages 50 and over give 89 percent more to charities than their male counterparts. Kathryn Varn and Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. Your Morning Briefing is published weekdays at 6 a.m. Eastern and updated on the web all morning. What would you like to see here? Contact us at briefing@nytimes.com. Want to get the briefing by email? Here's the sign-up. ADVERTISEMENT FOLLOW NYTNOW @NYTNOW NYT Now app for iPhone Now the news keeps up with you Available on the App Store Get more NYTimes.com newsletters » | Sign Up for the Morning Briefing newsletter » ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's NYT Now newsletter. As a member of the TRUSTe privacy program, we are committed to protecting your privacy. 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