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The government's authority to collect bulk phone records expired. Justin Lane/European Pressphoto Agency
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Your Monday Briefing
By ADEEL HASSAN
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| Good morning. |
| Here’s what you need to know: |
| • Parts of the Patriot Act expire. |
| Congress will most likely approve a bill to reauthorize the government’s authorityto sweep up bulk phone data in a final round of votes this week. |
| That authority expired at 12:01 this morning in a political collision between post-9/11 terrorism policies and privacy rights. |
| • A dozen candidates and counting. |
| Senator Lindsey Grahamof South Carolina today becomes the ninth Republican to enter the race for the White House. |
| Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, a Democrat, began his presidential bid in Baltimore and visited Iowa and New Hampshire. |
| And overflow crowds at SenatorBernie Sanders’s first swing through Iowawere the first evidence that Hillary Rodham Clinton could face a credible challenge in the Iowa presidential caucuses. |
| • No relief in India. |
| Temperatures above 110 Fahrenheit continue in parts of India today as thedeath toll from a heat wave approaches 2,200. |
| Around the world, May was anextreme weather month. |
| • U.S. citizens held in Yemen. |
| Several American citizens are being detainedby the Houthis, a Shiite rebel group that controls the capital and parts of the country. |
| Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalitionare pounding Houthi militia positionsacross the country today, according to residents there. |
| • Baltimore violence. |
| Three fatal shootings in Baltimoreon Sunday made May the most violent month there in more than 40 years, with 43 homicides. |
| • At the White House. |
| President Obama hosts King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands and, later, a discussion with 75 young Southeast Asian leaders in a State Department program. |
| • Right to carry. |
| The governor of Texas is likely to sign legislation to allow licensed residents to carry concealed handguns in most state university buildings. |
| MARKETS |
| • Intel is close to clinching a takeover of fellow chipmaker Alterafor more than $15 billion, the latest sign of consolidation in the semiconductor industry. |
| • Humana, one of the country’s largest health insurers, is weighing a potential sale of itself after having been approached by several competitors. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are marginally higher. European indexes are mixed, and Asia ended mostly higher. |
| OVER THE WEEKEND |
| • Joseph R. Biden III, known as Beau, 46, the eldest son of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., died of brain cancer. |
| • Secretary of State John Kerry cut short his trip to Europe after breaking a leg while cyclingin France. |
| • Syrian Army airstrikes killed at least 70 people, most of them civilians, and wounded scores. |
| • A Chinese admiral said the country could set up an air defense zoneabove disputed areas of the South China Sea. |
| • An analysis by The Washington Post concluded that the rate of fatal police shootings nationwide this year is more than twicethe rate tallied by the government over the past decade. |
| • Nepalese children returned to schools, many of which are temporary, for the first time since the earthquake there five weeks ago. |
| • The Chicago Blackhawks reached the Stanley Cup Finalfor the third time in six seasons. They’ll play the Tampa Bay Lightningon Wednesday. |
| • The Spanish bicycle racer Alberto Contadorclinched his second Giro d’Italia title. |
| • A 92-year-old cancer survivor, Harriette Thompson of Charlotte, N.C., became the oldest woman to finish a marathon. |
| • The disaster thriller “San Andreas” won at the weekend movie box office. |
| • Catching up on TV: Episode recaps for “Game of Thrones,” “Veep” and “Silicon Valley.” |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • Can we dunk them in milk? |
| Dunkin’ Donuts starts selling Chips Ahoy doughnutsfilled with cookie dough-flavored buttercream today, targeting afternoon snackers. |
| • An all-star day. |
| Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray have fourth-round matches at the French Opentoday. Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova are also playing (5 a.m.-1 p.m. Eastern, ESPN2; 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Tennis Channel). |
| • On TV. |
| The comedian Tracy Morganis on the “Today” show on NBC (7 a.m. Eastern). It’s his first TV appearance since being injured in a car crash last June. |
| “American Genius,” an eight-part series on world-changing innovations, begins with two episodes (9 p.m. Eastern, National Geographic Channel). |
| And “The Whispers,” a series about a paranormal force that manipulates children into strange behavior, debuts (10 p.m. Eastern, ABC). Steven Spielberg is co-executive producer. |
| BACK STORY |
| People are hitting airports for the start of what is forecast to be a record travel season. |
| While you’re scrambling to send your last surreptitious text messages or beginning to leaf through your magazines, you may miss a curious reassurance in the mandatory safety briefing: |
| If the oxygen masks are deployed, air will flow through the mask, but the bag may not inflate. |
| What’s up with that? |
| Really, those plastic bags dropping down from over your head are not actually supposed to inflate. |
| The flow of oxygen is meant to supply a normal breathing volume. Only if you stopped breathing, or breathed very little, would the gas have a chance to stay in the bag long enough to inflate it. |
| Happy trails. |
| Andrea Kannapell and Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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