Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Solar Impulse: Your Tuesday Briefing
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Good morning.
Here’s what you need to know:
• Democrats struggle to unify.
Fractures in the party were exposed on Monday as supporters of Bernie Sanders booed when he urged them to vote for Hillary Clinton. They also booed Debbie Wasserman Schultz at a meeting of the delegation of her home-state, Florida, and even the pastor who delivered the convention’s invocation.
Outside the arena, protests took place. But the jeers turned into cheers when Elizabeth Warren and Michelle Obama delivered their addresses.
Here are our takeaways from the night, and what to expect on Day 2
• Inside the D.N.C. emails.
Democratic National Committee emails released by WikiLeaks show howdonors are coaxed and flattered, and give a glimpse of party power brokers and their sometimes contentious relationship with the news media.
Russian intelligence agencies are suspected in the hacking, and metadata from the released emails suggests that the documents passed through Russian computers. That is raising questions about whether the Kremlin is supporting Donald Trump.
• Church in France is attacked.
A priest in his 80s was killed today in France after attackers stormed a church. President François Hollande blamed Islamic State militants. In the past two weeks in Europe, three attackers have professed loyalty to the Islamic State, but none appeared to have been directed by the group.
Separately, one of the first major challenges for the next American president could be a return to guerrilla warfare in Iraq, where ISIS fighters who lost battles in Falluja and Ramadi have blended back into the populations there.
• Massacre in Japan.
A former worker broke into a home for the disabled outside Tokyo this morning and stabbed 19 people to death, the worst mass killing in decades in Japan, which has one of the world’s lowest crime rates.
The suspect turned himself in at a police station, telling officials that “all the handicapped should disappear.”
• Manhunt in Florida shooting.
The police have “three persons of interest” in custody and are searching for others who may have been involved in a nightclub attack in Fort Myers, Fla., early Monday that left two teenagers dead and at least 18 others wounded. They said the shooting wasn’t related to terrorism.
• Focus on the environment.
President Obama’s plan to limit carbon emissions from airplanes is pitting environmentalists against the airline industry.
The U.S. military’s use of a firefighting foam, which contains hazardous chemicals, may have contaminated water supplies near many bases. And wildfires are sweeping through nearly 50,000 acres in Southern California.
Business
• The Federal Reserve is unlikely to raise its benchmark interest rate when its policy-making committee meets today and Wednesday.
The Fed is said to be preparing to take new action against Goldman Sachs over a case in 2014 of the leaking of confidential government information.
• Breaking up big banks is a plank included in both the Democratic and the Republican platforms. We look back at a law that former President Bill Clinton signed in 1999 that freed banks to form “financial supermarkets.”
• Yahoo’s chief executive, Marissa Mayer, says she plans to stay, but her future role at the company is unclear after Verizon’s $4.8 billion purchase closes next year.
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