| We’re covering the latest developments in Turkey’s operation against the Kurds in Syria, an anti-Semitic attack in Germany, and Apple’s decision to remove an app that had angered China. | |  By Chris Stanford | | | Civilians fled from Turkey's assault in the Ras al-Ain area of northeastern Syria on Wednesday. Delil Souleiman/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images | | | “It takes time to build trust,” said Paul Eaton, a retired major general and veteran of the Iraq war. “And any time you erode trust, like this, it’s that much harder to bring it back.” | | | At the end of the Persian Gulf war nearly 30 years ago, the U.S. allowed Saddam Hussein to crush insurgents in Iraq, including Kurdish groups, leaving him in power until the U.S. invaded more than a decade later. | | | What’s next: It’s too soon to say what will happen, but Pentagon officials express fear that Turkey’s incursion into Syria could lead to the release of tens of thousands of ISIS fighters and the return of the self-proclaimed caliphate that the U.S. and its partners have spent the past five years destroying. | | | Response: Mr. Trump said Turkey’s offensive, which has prompted criticism in Congress, was “a bad idea” but reiterated his opposition to “senseless wars.” He also said that the Kurds had fought with the U.S. only out of self-interest, and that “they didn’t help us in the Second World War.” | | | Their push comes despite the White House’s vow to put a “full halt” on cooperating with an inquiry it considers illegitimate. | | | News analysis: The administration’s case against the inquiry is more political than legal, but it “amounts to an unabashed challenge to America’s longstanding constitutional order,” our chief White House correspondent writes. | | | Another angle: Trey Gowdy, the former South Carolina congressman, will join Mr. Trump’s legal team. Mr. Gowdy led the investigation into the deadly 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. | | | The Daily: Today’s episode is about the White House’s response to the inquiry. | | | A memorial near the scene of the attack in Halle, Germany, on Wednesday. The city of 230,000 is about 100 miles southwest of Berlin. Jens Schlueter/Getty Images | | | The gunman was unable to enter the building, where 51 congregants were gathered for Yom Kippur, but fatally shot two people outside before driving away. The police later said a suspect had been arrested. | | | In the video, the gunman denied the Holocaust, denounced feminists and immigrants, and said, “The root of all these problems is the Jew.” | | | Related: Twitch, which has struggled to police its content, apologized and said that only five people had watched the shooting live. About 2,200 people viewed a recording before it was removed. | | | Transportation, particularly driving, is the largest source of greenhouse gases in the U.S. | | | The Times analyzed information that provides an astonishingly detailed look at carbon dioxide emissions. See how your area compares. | | | PAID POST: A MESSAGE FROM CAMPAIGN MONITOR | | Email Marketing 102: Work smarter, not harder. | | Working smarter means running beautiful, results-driven email marketing campaigns–without sacrificing any bandwidth along the way. And with Campaign Monitor, you'll have access to a drag-and-drop email builder, a gallery of templates, and personalized customer journeys–all the tools you need to replace ‘harder’ with smarter'. | | | Learn More | | | | Literature Nobels: Two prizes are to be announced today after last year’s was postponed following sexual abuse allegations involving the judging group. The announcement is expected around 7 a.m. Eastern. | | | Noah Berger/Associated Press | | | 52 Places traveler: In his latest dispatch, our columnist visits Lyon and Marseille, two French cities a quick train ride apart, but worlds away in other respects. | | | What we’re reading: This article from Slate, about America’s most-produced playwright. “A smart, eye-opening profile of Lauren Gunderson,” writes Dan Saltzstein, our senior editor for special projects. “Despite her massive success, I’d never heard of her — and maybe you haven’t either.” | | | Johnny Miller for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Erin Jeanne McDowell. | | | Cook: Make blondies with the flavors of s’mores — toasted marshmallows, chocolate and graham crackers. | | | Go: The creators of the musical “The Lightning Thief” have added songs to the Percy Jackson story, but they’re trying to avoid the movie’s mistakes. | | | A show known for raunchy satire and the delight it takes in offending large groups of people has had such scuffles before. | | | A scene from an episode of "South Park," titled "Band in China," that mocked Beijing's censors and the American businesses that try to appease them. Comedy Central | | | Catholic groups weren’t thrilled with the show’s depiction of the Virgin Mary. Neither were Mormons when the show mocked their history. | | | But in two decades of impropriety, actual censorship has been rare. | | | In 2006, Comedy Central stopped airing reruns of an episode mocking the Church of Scientology and Tom Cruise, which coincided with the release of a Cruise film from the network’s parent company. | | | In 2010, an episode satirizing the Prophet Muhammad drew a warning from a Muslim group. In the next episode, the show’s creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, covered the prophet’s cartoon image with a “CENSORED” graphic and bleeped mentions of his name. | | | That’s it for this briefing, but before you close this email, please consider subscribing to The New York Times. Your subscription helps support our in-depth, independent reporting. | | Thank you
Mark Josephson, Eleanor Stanford and Chris Harcum provided the break from the news. Nancy Coleman, a newsroom fellow on our Culture desk, wrote today’s Back Story. You can reach the team at briefing@nytimes.com. | | | Were you sent this briefing by a friend? Sign up here to get the Morning Briefing. | | |
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