| Topsy-turvy Brexit politics and tensions in Hong Kong will likely simmer through the weekend, while India aims for the moon. | |  By Alisha Haridasani Gupta | | | With a bill stopping a no-deal exit from the E.U. on its way to becoming law, the British Parliament pivoted to the next big question: general elections. | | | Prime Minister Boris Johnson was expected to call for a snap election on Thursday but was essentially blocked by an opposition split not over whether to hold the vote, but when. | | | What’s next? The bill is now with the unelected House of Lords, which is expected to approve it by Friday evening. If passed, the bill could get a final sign off from the queen on Monday. | | | Boris Johnson: His actions in the past few days, from suspending Parliament early to kicking out rebel Conservative lawmakers, have decimated the narrow working majority of his party from 1 to minus 43. | | | Analysis: Mr. Johnson’s gambles may actually work in his favor, write our Interpreter columnists, and his defeats “may have been the best thing that could have happened to him, politically speaking.” | | | Mobile phones being charged in a makeshift shop at a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. Bernat Armangue/Associated Press | | | Citing state security and public safety, the Bangladeshi government has threatened to impose a communications blackout on Sunday at the camp housing them, the world’s largest. | | | Context: The Bangladeshi government wants to return the Rohingya to Myanmar and has declined to categorize most of them as refugees, costing them the rights that come with the designation. | | | Reports from the camp say that mobile internet service has already been disrupted at night and early in the morning, and a night curfew keeps aid workers and others out. | | | A protester in Hong Kong last month. Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times | | | There’s a wealth of reporting showing that the demonstrations against Beijing’s broadening control in Hong Kong have been largely leaderless. | | | But in state media and official statements, the authorities in China are building the case for American orchestration. They have also expressed their suspicions privately in meetings with U.S. counterparts, according to officials from both countries. | | | The evidence? Images of protesters waving the U.S. flag and statements of support from congressional leaders in Washington. | | | Analysis: China has a long history of blaming foreign forces for internal disputes, including the Tiananmen Square protests 30 years ago. Analysts say that the ferocity of China’s current finger pointing reflects an increasingly anxious leadership. | | | Rozette Rago for The New York Times | | | “Friends,” believe it or not, turns 25 this month. With one of the best casts in TV history, the comedy ran for an entire decade, typically had around 25 million to 30 million viewers a week and still somehow resonates today. | | | | | Do you love the Morning Briefing and want to help our journalists seek the truth? Support The New York Times for $2 a week. | | | Subscribe Today | | | | Hurricane Dorian: The death toll in the Bahamas, now 23, is expected to rise as floodwaters recede and rescuers are able to sift through the storm’s devastation. The storm is lashing the Carolinas as a Category 2, with rain, strong winds and tornadoes, and forecasters warned of eight-foot storm surges. | | | U.S.-China trade: Stocks around the world rose on Thursday after officials from Beijing and Washington said that stalled negotiations would restart in early October — the 13th round of talks. But the talks would take place after new American tariffs kick in, making it even more difficult to reach a consensus. | | | Japan: A train derailed after colliding with a truck in Yokohama, killing at least one person and injuring dozens of others. It was a rare accident for a country that boasts one of the world’s best rail safety records. | | | Amazon: The e-commerce giant has built a vast logistics network in the U.S. — including hiring contractor drivers across the country — to deliver goods ever more rapidly. A joint investigation between The Times and ProPublica found that the speed comes at a price: accidents that result in serious injuries and deaths. | | | Kasia Strek for The New York Times | | | What we’re watching: “GLOW,” on Netflix, a series that turns 1980s women’s wrestling into Pop Art. “You definitely should watch it, and Netflix should renew it,” our TV critic James Poniewozik says. “But if they don’t pick it up, ‘GLOW’ should totally go to Vegas.” | | | David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Vivian Lui. | | | Cook: Grab a bag of tortilla chips and some cowboy caviar (it’s not as fancy as it sounds). | | | Listen: The duo 100 gecs’s debut album, “1000 gecs,” smashes electro-pop, dance music and dozens of other rapid-fire reference points into something exhilarating. It’s a Critic’s Pick. | | | Smarter Living: Phasing out old-style light bulbs in your home can lower your electricity bill — and help the environment. Our Climate Fwd: newsletter looks at how the bulbs have lowered household energy use in the U.S. (though the Trump administration aims to relax rules requiring them). Pro tip: LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, are the most efficient bulbs on the market, and they last the longest — up to 25 years. | | | When Piggly Wiggly opened its doors on this day in 1916, grocery shopping changed forever. | | | It quickly became the standard. | | | A newly opened Piggly Wiggly supermarket in California in 1962. Allan Grant/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images | | | The store became a national chain, making its inventor, Clarence Saunders, a tycoon. His Pink Palace Mansion is a Tennessee landmark. | | | But by 1923, he was involved in a bitter dispute with the New York Stock Exchange. He’d cornered Piggly Wiggly stock in retaliation for traders shorting it. The fallout resulted in a slew of lawsuits and his ouster from Piggly Wiggly. | | | “They have it all — everything I built, the greatest stores of their kind in the world, but they didn’t get the man that was father to the idea,” Saunders said. “They have the body of Piggly Wiggly, but they didn’t get the soul.” | | Thank you
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