By VICTORIA SHANNON
APRIL 21, 2015
Good morning.
Here’s what you need to know:
• Headway in genetic testing.
Two advances in genetic tests for breast cancer are announced today that could make the process less expensive and more precise.
In one, a Silicon Valley start-up says it will offer a test on a sample of saliva that is so affordable that most women could get it.
• Morsi gets prison term.
An Egyptian court sentenced the deposed president Mohamed Morsi today to 20 years in prison over the deaths of protesters in 2012.
Mr. Morsi faces several other trials, as do thousands of Muslim Brotherhood loyalists.
• Migrant ship arrests.
The Italian authorities arrested the Tunisian captain and a Syrian crew member of the boat that sank off the Libyan coast this weekend, news reports said.
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As many as 900 migrants were on the ship, but only 28 survivors have been found.
• Auschwitz trial begins.
A trial opened today for a 93-year-old man who was a guard at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. Several Holocaust survivors are expected to attend the trial.
• Life, or death?
The jury in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing case reconvenes today to decide whether to sentence Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death, or to life in prison with no chance of parole.
The penalty phase is expected to be contentious and emotional.
• A symbolic gift.
The Japanese prime minister sent a gift to a Tokyo memorial for Japan’s war dead, including convicted war criminals from World War II.
The move is likely to anger South Korea and China, which view the shrine as a symbol of Japan’s inability to come to terms with its past.
MARKETS
• Wall Street stock futures are adding to Monday’s strong gains. European and Asian stocks are also ahead.
• Google today adds “mobile friendliness” to the 200 or so factors it uses to rank websites in its search results.
Websites that don’t meet Google’s criteria, like displaying links that are easy to click on, will fall in the rankings.
• Blue Bell Creameries, which distributes frozen desserts to about half the United States, is voluntarily recalling all of its products after the bacteria listeria was found in two cartons of ice cream.
Three infected adults in Kansas have died.
• Kraft Foods said it was removing remove preservatives and synthetic colors from its macaroni-and-cheese meal, using instead colors from sources like paprika, annatto and turmeric.
NOTEWORTHY
• Small but good.
The Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C., with a staff of about 80, won the most prestigious of the Pulitzer Prizes for journalism for a series on deaths from domestic abuse.
The Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Anthony Doerr’s best-selling novel, “All the Light We Cannot See,” which unfolds in Europe during World War II. (See a list of all of the winners.)
Separately, the Committee to Protect Journalists today releases its list of countries that most harshly censor the news media.
• Fifty-five years of tunes.
The “Ultimate Sinatra” box set packages 101 songs that span Frank Sinatra’s career from 1939 to 1993. Its release today comes ahead of what would have been the 100th birthday of Ol’ Blue Eyes in December.
In another genre entirely, an album of songs inspired by the music in the video game Grand Theft Auto V is out today. The hip-hop producers the Alchemist and Oh No are behind “Welcome to Los Santos.”
• Get your bids ready.
A rare, internally flawless 100-carat emerald-cut diamond is expected to fetch at least $19 million at a Sotheby’s jewelry auction in New York today.
But that wouldn’t be the record for a white diamond. That belongs to a 118-carat flawless oval-cut diamond that gaveled down at $30.6 million in Hong Kong in 2013.
• The first of two birthdays.
Queen Elizabeth II turns 89 today, and a 41-gun salute will be fired by the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery at midday in London. She is celebrating quietly with family at Windsor Castle.
Officially, Britain celebrates Her Majesty’s birthday in June. After the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in January, the queen became the world’s oldest living monarch.
• Percy Sledge tribute.
A funeral for the American R&B singer Percy Sledge is live-streamed at noon Eastern today after his death in Baton Rouge, La., at the age of 74 on April 14.
He was best known for his 1966 hit single “When a Man Loves a Woman.”
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APRIL 21, 2015
Good morning.
Here’s what you need to know:
• Headway in genetic testing.
Two advances in genetic tests for breast cancer are announced today that could make the process less expensive and more precise.
In one, a Silicon Valley start-up says it will offer a test on a sample of saliva that is so affordable that most women could get it.
• Morsi gets prison term.
An Egyptian court sentenced the deposed president Mohamed Morsi today to 20 years in prison over the deaths of protesters in 2012.
Mr. Morsi faces several other trials, as do thousands of Muslim Brotherhood loyalists.
• Migrant ship arrests.
The Italian authorities arrested the Tunisian captain and a Syrian crew member of the boat that sank off the Libyan coast this weekend, news reports said.
Interactive Feature | Get This Briefing by Email What you need to know to start your day, delivered to your inbox. Monday – Friday.
As many as 900 migrants were on the ship, but only 28 survivors have been found.
• Auschwitz trial begins.
A trial opened today for a 93-year-old man who was a guard at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. Several Holocaust survivors are expected to attend the trial.
• Life, or death?
The jury in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing case reconvenes today to decide whether to sentence Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death, or to life in prison with no chance of parole.
The penalty phase is expected to be contentious and emotional.
• A symbolic gift.
The Japanese prime minister sent a gift to a Tokyo memorial for Japan’s war dead, including convicted war criminals from World War II.
The move is likely to anger South Korea and China, which view the shrine as a symbol of Japan’s inability to come to terms with its past.
MARKETS
• Wall Street stock futures are adding to Monday’s strong gains. European and Asian stocks are also ahead.
• Google today adds “mobile friendliness” to the 200 or so factors it uses to rank websites in its search results.
Websites that don’t meet Google’s criteria, like displaying links that are easy to click on, will fall in the rankings.
• Blue Bell Creameries, which distributes frozen desserts to about half the United States, is voluntarily recalling all of its products after the bacteria listeria was found in two cartons of ice cream.
Three infected adults in Kansas have died.
• Kraft Foods said it was removing remove preservatives and synthetic colors from its macaroni-and-cheese meal, using instead colors from sources like paprika, annatto and turmeric.
NOTEWORTHY
• Small but good.
The Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C., with a staff of about 80, won the most prestigious of the Pulitzer Prizes for journalism for a series on deaths from domestic abuse.
The Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Anthony Doerr’s best-selling novel, “All the Light We Cannot See,” which unfolds in Europe during World War II. (See a list of all of the winners.)
Separately, the Committee to Protect Journalists today releases its list of countries that most harshly censor the news media.
• Fifty-five years of tunes.
The “Ultimate Sinatra” box set packages 101 songs that span Frank Sinatra’s career from 1939 to 1993. Its release today comes ahead of what would have been the 100th birthday of Ol’ Blue Eyes in December.
In another genre entirely, an album of songs inspired by the music in the video game Grand Theft Auto V is out today. The hip-hop producers the Alchemist and Oh No are behind “Welcome to Los Santos.”
• Get your bids ready.
A rare, internally flawless 100-carat emerald-cut diamond is expected to fetch at least $19 million at a Sotheby’s jewelry auction in New York today.
But that wouldn’t be the record for a white diamond. That belongs to a 118-carat flawless oval-cut diamond that gaveled down at $30.6 million in Hong Kong in 2013.
• The first of two birthdays.
Queen Elizabeth II turns 89 today, and a 41-gun salute will be fired by the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery at midday in London. She is celebrating quietly with family at Windsor Castle.
Officially, Britain celebrates Her Majesty’s birthday in June. After the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in January, the queen became the world’s oldest living monarch.
• Percy Sledge tribute.
A funeral for the American R&B singer Percy Sledge is live-streamed at noon Eastern today after his death in Baton Rouge, La., at the age of 74 on April 14.
He was best known for his 1966 hit single “When a Man Loves a Woman.”
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