Welcome to the Morning Briefing on NYT Now.
Here’s what you need to know for Monday:
• National Guard called to Ferguson.
Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri said today that he is sending the National Guard to the St. Louis suburb after the police clashed with crowdsSunday night in the worst violence since the unrest started.
A private autopsy report showed that Michael Brown, the black teenager killed by an officer on Aug. 9, had been shot at least six times, including twice in the head.
Earlier, we misstated the date of Mr. Brown’s death.
• Militants in Iraq lose ground.
Kurdish forces, backed by U.S., have taken back part of the country’s largest dam from extremists.
The U.N. Security Council meets today, with talks focused on Iraq.
• Mideast deadline approaches.
Hamas and Israel have resumed their indirect negotiations in Cairo today, with the current five-day truce expiring at midnight local time.
On Sunday, the police blocked Israeli protesters who were shouting “death to the Arabs” from a wedding of a Jewish woman and a Muslim man.
• Gains for Ukraine’s army.
Troops have moved into the center of what had been a rebel-controlled city in eastern Ukraine, officials said, but fierce fighting with Russian-backed separatists continues.
Diplomats are meeting in Berlin today to discuss a settlement.
• A working holiday.
President Obama meets with the National Security Council on Iraq this morning at the White House. In the afternoon, the attorney general will update him on the situation in Ferguson, Mo.
Mr. Obama is expected to return to his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard on Tuesday.
• A busy day in Virginia politics.
The defense for former Gov. Robert McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, calls witnesses today to counter charges that the couple improperly gave benefits to a political donor.
And Representative Eric Cantor, the former majority leader who lost in a primary in June, will officially resign his House seat today.
• Julian Assange wants out.
The WikiLeaks founder, who has spent more than two years inside Ecuador’s embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden, said todaythat he planned to leave the building “soon.”
MARKETS
• Wall Street stocks are up. European indexes have gained about 1 percent, and Asian shares ended flat.
• Mercedes-Benz was found guilty today of manipulating the price of spare car parts in China.
Chinese authorities are also investigating BMW, Audi and Chrysler — as well as pharmaceuticals and technology companies — in an antitrust crackdown there.
• Amazon was targeted today in advertisements signed by more than 1,000 writers in leading publications in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The ad followed a similar tactic by U.S. writers last week, both accusing the online retailer of hurting authors in a dispute with publishers over e-book prices.
OVER THE WEEKEND
• Gov. Rick Perry of Texas said Saturday that he would not leave his office prematurely after he was indicted on two counts of abuse of power.
Mr. Perry, a Republican who is believed to have presidential aspirations in 2016, is accused of threatening to veto funding for the Democratic district attorney in Austin unless she stepped down from office.
• Thirty-five people were found inside a shipping container in London on Saturday, with one man who was already dead.
Officials said on Sunday that the migrants were Sikhs from Afghanistan.
• “The Expendables 3” and “The Giver,” which both opened this weekend, had disappointing results at the box office after both films received poor reviews.
NOTEWORTHY
• Pope calls for reconciliation.
Before leaving South Korea today, Pope Francis asked for reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula at a Mass in the capital’s main cathedral attended by the president and North Korean defectors.
The annual U.S.-South Korean military exercises also begin today.
• At the top, for now.
Florida State, the defending college football champion, is the preseason No. 1choice.
• Back from the sidelines.
Before Jim Tressel led Ohio State to the N.C.A.A. football championship in 2002, he was a coach at Youngstown State, a Division I-AA team that he led to four national championships.
Youngstown State installs him as president of the university today.
• Our youth, revisited.
Kenneth Lonergan’s drama, “This Is Our Youth,” about three teenage friends growing up on the Upper West Side in the early 1980s, makes its return to Broadway today after its initial premiere in 1996.
Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson star in the production, which ended its run in Chicago last month.
BACK STORY
Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo took the top spot in the movie box office for the second consecutive weekend in the latest incarnation of the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” series.
But one member of the crew is missing: Venus de Milo.
She was the only female turtle, and the only one to be named after a work of art instead of an artist.
In the world of “T.M.N.T.” these days, she’s turtur non grata.
She was introduced in 1997 in “The Next Mutation,” a low-budget, live-action TV series, but written out after a season. And Venus essentially disappeared.
Kevin Munroe, the director of the last turtle movie, 2007’s “T.M.N.T.,” says Peter Laird, the co-creator, forbade any mention of Venus, much less including her.
“You can’t even joke about that with Peter,” Mr. Munroe told the website Animated Views in 2007. “It’s just one of those things that he hates with a passion.”
So the turtles’ sewer lair in subterranean New York remains a boys’ club.
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