http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/26/business/latest-news-ferguson-protests-ozone-emissions-thanksgiving-turkey.html 2014-11-26 12:44:12 Latest News: Ferguson Protests, Ozone Emissions, Thanksgiving Turkey Here’s what you need to know to start your day. === Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • Ferguson’s streets are clear. National Guard reinforcements helped prevent a second night of arson and looting, and the suburb of St. Louis is quiet this morning after dozens of arrests overnight. Officer Darren Wilson told ABC News Lawyers for the Brown family say they will push for federal charges against the officer. • New controls on emissions. The Obama administration today The Supreme Court, meanwhile, agreed to hear a challenge to similar • Stormy weather. A nor’easter is bringing rain and snow from Boston to Washington today, a huge travel day. But the • Hong Kong camp is removed. The authorities today It was the most aggressive police move in weeks, and ended with several top leaders of the movement among the more than 100 people arrested. • Dropping out. Michèle A. Flournoy, a former undersecretary of defense, said she was She was considered to be at the top of President Obama’s short list of candidates to succeed Chuck Hagel, • Britain seeks added police power. Legislation that would give the police the power to seize the passports of people suspected of traveling for terrorism-related activities is It would also make it illegal for British insurance companies to reimburse anyone who provided ransom payments to free hostages. MARKETS • Wall Street stock futures U.S. markets are shut Thursday and • OPEC • Apple Fortune magazine notes that is higher than the gross domestic product of all but 19 of the world’s countries. NOTEWORTHY • Lucky birds. President Obama pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey and an alternate at the White House this afternoon. The birds then head to their permanent home at a farm in Leesburg, Va. • Too cute. In • But you can’t check it out. A first folio of Shakespeare’s plays “This is huge,” said Eric Rasmussen, an American Shakespeare expert who authenticated the volume, published in 1623. • Golden feet. Just after becoming the top scorer in Spanish soccer history, Lionel Messi set another record today with three goals in Barcelona’s 4-0 victory over Apoel Nicosia in Cyprus. Messi is now the European • Watch those vitamins. Large doses of antioxidant vitamins like C and E — already shown to be potentially harmful to runners — may also reduce • How to cook on Thanksgiving. We have BACK STORY Thanksgiving may be the most American of holidays, but one of the desserts people will be digging into is not as American as we think it is. Some of the main ingredients used in many apple pie recipes — apples, cinnamon, nutmeg — didn’t come from here. Apples’ ancestors (O.K., let’s call them seeds) came to the U.S. via European travelers, who got them from Cinnamon is native to Sri Lanka, the southwestern coast of India and Myanmar. It was once the most profitable spices of the first publicly traded company in history, the Dutch East India Company. Nutmeg comes from Indonesia and, yes, the Dutch brought it back to Europe around 1600, and made a tidy sum off that, too. So maybe we should start saying “as American as pumpkin pie”? Pumpkins, at least, are native to North America. The Morning Briefing won’t be published on Thanksgiving, but we are back at 6 a.m. Eastern on Friday. Have a happy holiday. Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. What would you like to see here? Contact us at Want to get the briefing by email? Here’s