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| Britain, Tech, Climate Change: Your Tuesday Briefing | |
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| We’re covering President Trump’s state visit to Britain, tumbling tech stocks in the wake of antitrust concerns, and an infusion of immigrant talent in American tennis. | We’re covering President Trump’s state visit to Britain, tumbling tech stocks in the wake of antitrust concerns, and an infusion of immigrant talent in American tennis. |
| On the first day of President Trump’s three-day state visit, Queen Elizabeth II welcomed him to Buckingham Palace with an honor guard and royal artillery salute, while Mr. Trump carried on an ugly dispute with the mayor of London, whom he called a “stone cold loser” and said was doing a terrible job of running the capital city. | On the first day of President Trump’s three-day state visit, Queen Elizabeth II welcomed him to Buckingham Palace with an honor guard and royal artillery salute, while Mr. Trump carried on an ugly dispute with the mayor of London, whom he called a “stone cold loser” and said was doing a terrible job of running the capital city. |
| On Monday night, at a lavish state banquet, the queen, exchanging toasts with Mr. Trump, pointedly took note of the institutions, like NATO, that Britain and the U.S. helped create after World War II to prevent another war. | On Monday night, at a lavish state banquet, the queen, exchanging toasts with Mr. Trump, pointedly took note of the institutions, like NATO, that Britain and the U.S. helped create after World War II to prevent another war. |
| Next: Demonstrations are expected on Tuesday as Mr. Trump meets with Prime Minister Theresa May. He will visit France later in the week for D-Day commemorations. | Next: Demonstrations are expected on Tuesday as Mr. Trump meets with Prime Minister Theresa May. He will visit France later in the week for D-Day commemorations. |
| Photos: See the royal collection gift review, the arrival of the president’s helicopter and more. | Photos: See the royal collection gift review, the arrival of the president’s helicopter and more. |
| History: Trump’s love affair with the royal family dates back to his mother, a Scottish immigrant who was enthralled by the queen. Our correspondent took a look back at the president’s interactions with the royal family. | History: Trump’s love affair with the royal family dates back to his mother, a Scottish immigrant who was enthralled by the queen. Our correspondent took a look back at the president’s interactions with the royal family. |
| The U.S. government is stepping up its scrutiny of the world’s biggest tech companies, as regulators divvy up oversight of the Silicon Valley giants and lawmakers move to investigate whether they have stifled competition. | The U.S. government is stepping up its scrutiny of the world’s biggest tech companies, as regulators divvy up oversight of the Silicon Valley giants and lawmakers move to investigate whether they have stifled competition. |
| After recent negotiations, the Justice Department will handle Apple and Google, while the Federal Trade Commission will take Facebook and Amazon. | After recent negotiations, the Justice Department will handle Apple and Google, while the Federal Trade Commission will take Facebook and Amazon. |
| The intense new scrutiny on those companies could lead to the first overhaul of antitrust rules in decades. | The intense new scrutiny on those companies could lead to the first overhaul of antitrust rules in decades. |
| Markets: Technology stocks tumbled. Google shares dropped 7 percent, Amazon fell about 5 percent, and Apple was 1 percent lower. | Markets: Technology stocks tumbled. Google shares dropped 7 percent, Amazon fell about 5 percent, and Apple was 1 percent lower. |
| Reminder: European regulators have accused Google of abusing its dominance in the smartphone industry with its Android operating system, which is used in 80 percent of the world’s smartphones. They fined the company $5.1 billion in July. | Reminder: European regulators have accused Google of abusing its dominance in the smartphone industry with its Android operating system, which is used in 80 percent of the world’s smartphones. They fined the company $5.1 billion in July. |
| Many of the world’s biggest companies, including large European banks, are bracing for the prospect that climate change could substantially affect their bottom lines within the next five years. | Many of the world’s biggest companies, including large European banks, are bracing for the prospect that climate change could substantially affect their bottom lines within the next five years. |
| After analyzing submissions from 215 of the world’s 500 biggest corporations, the environmental nonprofit CDP wrote in a new report that these companies potentially faced roughly $1 trillion in costs related to climate change. | After analyzing submissions from 215 of the world’s 500 biggest corporations, the environmental nonprofit CDP wrote in a new report that these companies potentially faced roughly $1 trillion in costs related to climate change. |
| Total, a French energy company, is grappling with the possibility that ambitious efforts by nations to limit global warming could render some oil and gas reserves “unburnable.” BASF, a German chemical company, said it had a “significant corporate carbon footprint” that could scare off its environmentally conscious shareholders unless it took steps to act on climate change. | Total, a French energy company, is grappling with the possibility that ambitious efforts by nations to limit global warming could render some oil and gas reserves “unburnable.” BASF, a German chemical company, said it had a “significant corporate carbon footprint” that could scare off its environmentally conscious shareholders unless it took steps to act on climate change. |
| Other risks: The report comes as financial regulators have expressed growing concern that markets aren’t yet fully pricing in the potential financial consequences of climate change. | Other risks: The report comes as financial regulators have expressed growing concern that markets aren’t yet fully pricing in the potential financial consequences of climate change. |
| Last month, the European Central Bank warned that a spate of severe weather causing major losses, or an unexpectedly rapid shift away from fossil fuels, could hit the balance sheets of unprepared banks. | Last month, the European Central Bank warned that a spate of severe weather causing major losses, or an unexpectedly rapid shift away from fossil fuels, could hit the balance sheets of unprepared banks. |
| Increasing numbers of parents who used anonymous artificial insemination have been discovering years later through genetic tests that the sperm they bought was not from the donor they chose. | Increasing numbers of parents who used anonymous artificial insemination have been discovering years later through genetic tests that the sperm they bought was not from the donor they chose. |
| The legal remedies are slight, and the parents say sperm banks and fertility clinics ought to be better regulated. | The legal remedies are slight, and the parents say sperm banks and fertility clinics ought to be better regulated. |
| Trump Organization: The owners of a luxury hotel in Panama City that ousted the Trump Organization as property managers last year accused it of evading taxes in Panama and of creating a “false light” around the hotel’s finances. | Trump Organization: The owners of a luxury hotel in Panama City that ousted the Trump Organization as property managers last year accused it of evading taxes in Panama and of creating a “false light” around the hotel’s finances. |
| Canada: A national inquiry into the widespread killings and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls has equated the violence with genocide, according to a long-anticipated report. | Canada: A national inquiry into the widespread killings and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls has equated the violence with genocide, according to a long-anticipated report. |
| YouTube: The platform’s automated recommendation system, at times drawing on home movies of unwitting families, created a vast catalog of videos that experts say sexualize children. | YouTube: The platform’s automated recommendation system, at times drawing on home movies of unwitting families, created a vast catalog of videos that experts say sexualize children. |
| Sudan: The country’s military opened fire on pro-democracy protesters, and as many as 31 people were killed, according to witnesses, as power-sharing talks between the two groups collapsed. | Sudan: The country’s military opened fire on pro-democracy protesters, and as many as 31 people were killed, according to witnesses, as power-sharing talks between the two groups collapsed. |
| North Korea: Kim Yong-chol, a former spymaster, was reportedly seen over the weekend with the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, despite reports that he had been banished to a labor camp. | North Korea: Kim Yong-chol, a former spymaster, was reportedly seen over the weekend with the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, despite reports that he had been banished to a labor camp. |
| Fiat-Renault merger: With Renault’s board set to meet today to discuss a merger, France’s finance minister wants the government to have a seat on any new board, and Nissan spoke of a “fundamental review” of its current alliance. | Fiat-Renault merger: With Renault’s board set to meet today to discuss a merger, France’s finance minister wants the government to have a seat on any new board, and Nissan spoke of a “fundamental review” of its current alliance. |
| Snapshot: Above, Sofia Kenin. American tennis is getting an infusion of talent from immigrant families. Of the four American women still in contention in the French Open, two of them, including Kenin, are young and prodigious talents whose parents came to the U.S. from present-day Russia. | Snapshot: Above, Sofia Kenin. American tennis is getting an infusion of talent from immigrant families. Of the four American women still in contention in the French Open, two of them, including Kenin, are young and prodigious talents whose parents came to the U.S. from present-day Russia. |
| French Open results: Here are today’s results for the women and the men. | French Open results: Here are today’s results for the women and the men. |
| Tiananmen Square: It’s been 30 years since the bloody crackdown. Here’s a guide to our coverage and a look back at the ways the events have scarred and divided the public, and loomed over China’s place in the world. | Tiananmen Square: It’s been 30 years since the bloody crackdown. Here’s a guide to our coverage and a look back at the ways the events have scarred and divided the public, and loomed over China’s place in the world. |
| Stephen Colbert: The popularity of the comedian and his “Late Show” continues to grow. In an interview with The Times Magazine, he compared the daily news cycle to radioactive sludge. His job, he said, is “to be lowered like carbon rods into that radioactive sludge and absorb the radiation of the insanity that happened today.” Then, on camera, “I irradiate it back at the audience at a much lower, nonlethal rad level,” he said. | Stephen Colbert: The popularity of the comedian and his “Late Show” continues to grow. In an interview with The Times Magazine, he compared the daily news cycle to radioactive sludge. His job, he said, is “to be lowered like carbon rods into that radioactive sludge and absorb the radiation of the insanity that happened today.” Then, on camera, “I irradiate it back at the audience at a much lower, nonlethal rad level,” he said. |
| What we’re reading: This newsletter from the Margins, recommended by Peter Robins, an editor in our London newsroom. “Sweetgreen isn’t in London yet,” he says, “but what this writer calls ‘the Sweetgreen-ification of society’ — the way that clever branding and market segmentation is changing places where social classes used to mix, like the lunch line — is definitely visible here.” | What we’re reading: This newsletter from the Margins, recommended by Peter Robins, an editor in our London newsroom. “Sweetgreen isn’t in London yet,” he says, “but what this writer calls ‘the Sweetgreen-ification of society’ — the way that clever branding and market segmentation is changing places where social classes used to mix, like the lunch line — is definitely visible here.” |
| Cook: Fresh dill transforms a pot of rice into something really special. (Our Five Weeknight Dishes newsletter has more recommendations.) | Cook: Fresh dill transforms a pot of rice into something really special. (Our Five Weeknight Dishes newsletter has more recommendations.) |
| Watch: Anthony Huxley of New York City Ballet performs an excerpt from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” George Balanchine’s magical and extremely funny ballet. | Watch: Anthony Huxley of New York City Ballet performs an excerpt from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” George Balanchine’s magical and extremely funny ballet. |
| Read: The award-winning poet Ocean Vuong makes his fiction debut with “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.” His goal, he says, is to create “a new gaze, a new attribution to American identity.” | Read: The award-winning poet Ocean Vuong makes his fiction debut with “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.” His goal, he says, is to create “a new gaze, a new attribution to American identity.” |
| Listen: On her new single “Press,” Cardi B barks her rhymes densely and at a quick clip, emphasizing raw energy over clarity, our critic writes. | Listen: On her new single “Press,” Cardi B barks her rhymes densely and at a quick clip, emphasizing raw energy over clarity, our critic writes. |
| Smarter Living: Summoning a ride share is easier than ever, but there are some things you can do to make the ride easier and safer. Rather than heading into a specific app, you can have Google Maps, Apple Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa or Google Home summon a driver for you. When your ride arrives, ask the driver for the name of the passenger he or she is picking up. And sit directly behind the driver, where you’re harder to reach. | Smarter Living: Summoning a ride share is easier than ever, but there are some things you can do to make the ride easier and safer. Rather than heading into a specific app, you can have Google Maps, Apple Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa or Google Home summon a driver for you. When your ride arrives, ask the driver for the name of the passenger he or she is picking up. And sit directly behind the driver, where you’re harder to reach. |
| And the team at Wirecutter, a New York Times company, has pulled together a list of pool necessities. | And the team at Wirecutter, a New York Times company, has pulled together a list of pool necessities. |
| The liberation of Rome by Allied forces in World War II, on this day in 1944, has long been overshadowed in the history books by the invasion of the Normandy beaches two days later. | The liberation of Rome by Allied forces in World War II, on this day in 1944, has long been overshadowed in the history books by the invasion of the Normandy beaches two days later. |
| Half a million people jammed St. Peter’s Square to hear Pope Pius XII express the city’s gratitude for the entry of American troops and the peaceful withdrawal of the Germans. | Half a million people jammed St. Peter’s Square to hear Pope Pius XII express the city’s gratitude for the entry of American troops and the peaceful withdrawal of the Germans. |
| Rome was freed only because Gen. Mark W. Clark, the American leading the Fifth Army in Italy, disobeyed direct orders to attack the German line farther south. | Rome was freed only because Gen. Mark W. Clark, the American leading the Fifth Army in Italy, disobeyed direct orders to attack the German line farther south. |
| He may have felt pressure from President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a public relations victory. An American military historian wrote that Clark “considered Rome a gem belonging rightly in the crown” of his forces. | He may have felt pressure from President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a public relations victory. An American military historian wrote that Clark “considered Rome a gem belonging rightly in the crown” of his forces. |
| If he had followed his orders, many military experts believe that the Germans could have been stopped — and thus World War II ended — earlier. | If he had followed his orders, many military experts believe that the Germans could have been stopped — and thus World War II ended — earlier. |
| That’s it for this briefing. See you next time. | That’s it for this briefing. See you next time. |
| — Melina | — Melina |
| Thank youTo Mark Josephson, Eleanor Stanford and Kenneth R. Rosen for the break from the news. Victoria Shannon wrote today’s Back Story. You can reach the team at briefing@nytimes.com. | Thank youTo Mark Josephson, Eleanor Stanford and Kenneth R. Rosen for the break from the news. Victoria Shannon wrote today’s Back Story. You can reach the team at briefing@nytimes.com. |
| P.S.• We’re listening to “The Daily.” Our latest episode is about the legacy of Rachel Held Evans, a best-selling author who questioned the culture of evangelical Christianity. • Here’s today’s Mini Crossword puzzle, and a clue: St. Louis team in the Stanley Cup finals (5 letters). You can find all our puzzles here. • A scholarship in memory of Robert Pear, who covered health care and other critical national issues for The New York Times for 40 years, is being set up at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia. | P.S.• We’re listening to “The Daily.” Our latest episode is about the legacy of Rachel Held Evans, a best-selling author who questioned the culture of evangelical Christianity. • Here’s today’s Mini Crossword puzzle, and a clue: St. Louis team in the Stanley Cup finals (5 letters). You can find all our puzzles here. • A scholarship in memory of Robert Pear, who covered health care and other critical national issues for The New York Times for 40 years, is being set up at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia. |