Orlando, ‘Brexit,’ Eugene Cernan: Your Tuesday Briefing
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Good morning.
Here’s what you need to know:
• A packed calendar of confirmation hearings.
The Senate returns today for a week of meetings on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet picks before the main event on Friday: Inauguration Day.
A hearing for Betsy DeVos, the nominee for education secretary, was rescheduled amid Democratic concerns that her ethics paperwork was incomplete. As of Friday, it was still unfinished, but senators are expected to press ahead with her hearing today anyway.
Senators will also vet Representative Ryan Zinke of Montana, Mr. Trump’s pick for interior secretary, today.
• Trump seeks to reassure African-Americans.
On Monday’s holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. Trump met with the elder son of the civil rights leader.
The hastily arranged meeting occurred after Mr. Trump feuded with Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, who fought for civil rights alongside Dr. King.
• An uncertain world looks to Washington.
In a string of recent and sometimes contradictory interviews, Mr. Trump has escalated tensions with China and criticized the E.U., alarming allies in the West. Among his comments: NATO is “obsolete.”
• Britain wants a clean break from the E.U.
In a long-awaited speech, Prime Minister Theresa May stressed Britain’s determination to regain control of migration, even at the risk of losing access to Europe’s single market and its 500 million consumers.
• Suspect in Turkey rampage confesses after arrest.
Abdulgadir Masharipov, the man accused of carrying out the New Year’s Day attack at an Istanbul nightclub that left 39 dead, was arrested in an outlying district of the city, Turkish authorities said.
• Long search for Malaysian jet ends.
Nearly three years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared with 239 people on board, officials said today that they had called off the search for the plane in the Indian Ocean.
Business
• Political, economic, and social leaders are gathering in Davos, Switzerland, today for the start of the World Economic Forum. President Xi Jinping of China and Mrs. May are attending for the first time.
Separately, the combined wealth of the eight richest people in the world is as much as the assets of the poorest 3.6 billion people in the world, according to the charity Oxfam.
• The future of Samsung’s leadership is in turmoil after the company’s heir-apparent was accused by South Korean prosecutors of bribing President Park Geun-hye in exchange for political favors.
• Luxottica, which owns the Ray-Ban and Oakley brands, is planning to merge with Essilor in a $49 billion deal.
• U.S. stocks were mixed on Friday. (Markets in the U.S. were closed on Monday for the holiday.) Here’s a snapshot of global markets.
MARKET SNAPSHOT View Full Overview
- NIKKEI–1.48%CLOSED
- SHANGHAI+0.17%CLOSED
- S.& P. 500–0.19%
Over the holiday weekend
• The F.B.I. arrested the wife of Omar Mateen, the gunman who carried out a terrorist attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., last year, killing 49 people.
She is charged with obstructing the investigation and aiding him by providing material support.
• More than 300 U.S. Marines arrived in Norway to enhance the country’s defenses against Russia, which condemned the move.
The transfers reduced the population at the prison to 45.
• A Turkish cargo plane headed to Istanbul crashed in a village near an airport in Kyrgyzstan. At least 37 people were killed, most of them on the ground.
Noteworthy
• The last human to walk on the moon.
Eugene A. Cernan, who went to the moon twice and led the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, died on Monday at 82.
Before heading back to earth, Mr. Cernan said, “God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.”
• Sports roundup.
The N.F.L.’s conference title matchups are set for Sunday. Green Bay will face Atlanta (3:05 p.m. Eastern, Fox), and Pittsburgh will take on New England (6:40 p.m. Eastern, CBS).
Here are our previews of the games.
In college basketball, the Connecticut women’s team won its 91st game in a row on Saturday. The Huskies broke their own record, having won 90 straight from 2008 to 2010.
• Heading south.
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Back Story
Celebrations and tributes took place yesterday across the U.S. for Martin Luther King’s Birthday, but honors for the slain civil rights hero extend beyond America’s borders.
Statues of King appear in Westminster Abbey in London, as well as in Tuzla, a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Martin Luther King III visited the Bosnian monument in 2009 during a tour to promote tolerance a decade after a war fed by ethnic divisions tore the region apart.
A bust of King at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, may have been the most subversive.
The American sculptor Zenos Frudakis risked imprisonment for sneaking the work into the country in 1989, when apartheid was in effect.
Mr. Frudakis said that he was warned by the U.S. government that he might end up joining Nelson Mandela in “breaking rocks” on Robben Island.
“I did not breathe easy until my return flight,” he said.
The bust was placed inside the embassy near its outer fence, safe from the South African authorities but viewable by the public.
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