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Blistering Tempo to Build an Embattled Ballroom

By LUKE BROADWATER

and ANNE MARSHON

WASHINGTON — With the face of the ballroom tied up to court, President Trump is racing against the clock.

He has ordered a team of 250 workers to push ahead with construction 20 hours a day, seven days a week to complete as much work as quickly as possible. This week, there are plans to install two million pounds of other and joint 1,000 cubic yards of concrete for a project that is now two-thirds complete, the administration said in a court filing.

Now, with the matter pending before the Supreme Court, the Trump administration is making a

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practical appeal to the justice's The ballroom is simply one for along to be stopped now.

This strategy closely is to change the reality on the ground so that instead of preserving the status quo, those who rightly do with the law against what he's doing are yet in a position of having to work something that is already a fait accompli," said Laurence H. Tribe, an emeritus university professor of constitutional law at Harvard.

For years, Mr. Trump has argued that the White House should have its own ballroom, starting it was a matter of prestige on the world stage. A ballroom, he said, would allow officials to hold big events for special guests without heading a court a note on the South Laws.

In recent months, as preservationists and other critics have tried to halt or at least slow down the project, Mr. Trump has offered a new justification: national security. Essentially, Mr. Trump is treating the ballroom and the military banker underneath it as one and the same.

The banker — officially known as the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, is PEAC —

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Awaiting a patient's arrival at a Baltimore trauma ward. Violent injuries from gunfire have plunged.

U.S. DEBT SURGES TO $40 TRILLION

War and Tax Cuts Power Spoke to Milestone

By ALAN RAPPSPORT

WASHINGTON — America's gross national debt topped $40 trillion for the first time on Wednesday, an ominous milestone for government law and a shaky fiscal foundation after decades of borrowing to pay for the rising costs of the military, social safety and programs and President Trump's tax cuts.

This year alone, the United States is on track to borrow more than $3 trillion to help pay for its obligations, including spending on the war in Iran and the struggling tax cuts that Republicans enacted in 2025. Knowing interest payments to investors who have purchased America's debt now make up about half of that red ink, pushing the United States into a deeper financial field.

Whether the mounting debt load is a problem to be solved or a function of America's economic strength remains a matter of debate. Deficits are also a point of political gamesmanship, with Republicans must passionate about eliminating them when they are out of power.

"The market thing about this is how we're starting to see the debt spiral begin," said Marc Goldstein, senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which supports deficit reduction, returning its interest on the debt.

The inability of lawmakers to continue the debt comes with long-term risks. While the United States remains the world's largest

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Trump Installs Watchdogs Eager to Follow His Lead

New Class of Inspectors General Includes Ally Reviewing Reflecting Pool Work

By LUKE BROADWATER

WASHINGTON — One federal inspector general, a former Republican congressman, has spent recent weeks furnishing justice to President Trump while attacking a rival of the president, Gov. Gavin Newman, Democrat of California.

Another inspector general appointed by Mr. Trump has recently singled out Attorney General Letitia James of New York, one of the president's most banal targets, as the Trump administration has withheld funds for her state.

And Mr. Trump has inserted a right-wing operation — a co-author of the conservative Project 2025 document — to take over the inspector general's office that would be in charge of any internal investigation into his hatched report of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

During the first year of Mr. Trump's second term, his approach to dealing with federal or private groups, was an argument to be apolitical, was to for them and state funding for their offices. But since the main forage, the president has appointed some government watchdogs who overtly political backgrounds. And they have directed their investigations toward allegations of fraud at the state level, instead of targeting the agencies within the administration that they are supposed to scrutinize.

"The president wanted the new U.S.s," said Michael J. Moxar, who spent nine years in inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs. "When you have your own U.S.s, you lose the credibility and integrity of the work. If people think that you're doing it to sup-

port the administration, then the whole concept that was created in 1976 of independent, inexpertisan inspectors general goes away."

Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, said Mr. Trump had hired "highly qualified and accomplished individuals" who would carry out his mission of targeting fraud.

The latest example of Mr. Trump's inserting a political actor into a nonpartisan watching role occurred until public feats over the Reflecting Pool fiasco.

Alarmed over the Trump administration's work on the Reflecting Pool and the president's attempt to falsely blame the failures on left-wing vandals, Democratic lawmakers urged the Internet Department's inspector general to investigate.

The Trump administration's response was to insert a right-wing operation, United Kirk, to take over the office that would carry out the investigation.

Mr. Kirk was among the authors of Project 2025, a collection of conservative policy proposals published before the 21st election. The plan to install Mr. Kirk as the Internet Department inspector general sounded at a level of the world of government watchdogs and among Democrats on Capitol Hill, and test merely because he could thwart an internal investigation into the Reflecting Pool.

Through a spokesman, Mr. Kirk declined to comment. The White House voiced support for Mr. Kirk in a statement.

Mr. Moxar was one of at least 20 inspectors general who were fired

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Split From Son in Ukraine War, Mother Plotted a Risky Rescue

By KIRI BARKER and DITONKA PINCYCK

KYIV, Ukraine — A mother of three sat in a Ukrainian rehabilitation center, clutching her phone, willing it to ring, trying to prefer her shattered family back together.

Lithia Pivicak, 55, was working as a military medic when Russian troops invaded in February 2022. They captured her, abused her, accused her of terrorism and held her for two and a half years.

After her release, she spent much of her time in this rehabilitation center. In a forum on the outskirts of Kyiv, going to government interviews, director's appointments, group therapy sessions, barrenals riding and car breakers, managing a high chimer and reconstructive surgery on her right wardrobe.

But what Mr. Pivicak really wanted was to recover her young son son, Dima Zahrefasiev, who is the lead out soon in three years, the was now 39, living alone to their home in the family village, under Russian occupation since 2022. Starting he would be forced into the Russian Army, the was

desperate to rescue him, though it would be an elaborate, dangerous venture.

Finally, just before 7 p.m. one Sunday, the phone pagged and she answered before the first ring finished. Struggling to keep her voice steady, she used bland language, unsure who was listening.

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Lithia Pivicak with her youngest son, Dima Zahrefasiev.

Murders Fall in a City Long Scarred by Violence

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

BIGZTREND — Murder-makes work.

As soon as somebody is killed, an enormous machinery kicks into good, driven by rags and media, nurses and lawyers, prisoners and marriages. The mechanics aren't that different city's city, but is Baltimore the machinery has been an active and in famous as anywhere.

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Across Baltimore

Now it is operating in a Baltimore that no one alive has experienced and few could have imagined. In for in 2026, Baltimore has reworked fewer homicides than ever at this point of the year, an incredible milestone in a place once

inorfully referred to as "Body-mass."

For most of the past 50 years, the city's annual murder total—most of 100. It ran above 100 for most of the last decade — a major year creation of violence after the 2015 death of Freddie Gray from injuries in police custody. This year, the police commissioner aims for the most of very under 100. It isn't unattainable. From Continued on Page A12

In a Florida Upset, Door Knockers Lift the Left

By PATRICIA MAZZEI

GASA AND PARK, PA — Four days before Tuesday's Democratic Senate primary, State Representative Angie Nixon did what she has always done in Florida, organics activists.

The group of volunteers for her underdog health campaign sat inside a union office in under-han Broward County, a liberal

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stronghold in the increasingly Republican-busting state. It was a small group, maybe a dozen people.

But don't worry. Ms. Nixon's political director, Rachel Gilmer, reassured them: "This tiny route is part of America's top routes" across the state, she said, with more volunteers also ready

to knock on Democratic voters' doors.

Ms. Nixon, 42, walked in, wearing a big suede and dressed in her signature bar pink, the same color splashed on her van, campaign signs and fliers. She called her limited troops.

"This is a people-powered movement," she told the volunteers. "This is what we the usual days of working families, on the

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Painter of Wobbly Abstractions

Mary McManus, above, achieved certain for her shallowerly colored, often equalized paintings. She was Mr. Poole a20

A Co-Founder of ESPN

Bill Badmanian, whose oddly innovative idea for a 24-hour sport's network became a media fixture, was 76. PAGE A21

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In China, a Literary Escape

Poems, essays and books written by working-class writers have garnered recognition in recent years — as well as rising government attention. PAGE A4

Royals Plan to Leave the U.S.

Prince Harry and his wife, Hughes, whose relations with the family have been more, will move to Britain. PAGE A5

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Europe Aims to Compete

Facing a nearly $1 trillion gap in investment funding with the U.S., the customers seeking to back start-ups. PAGE B

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Mouse of Cannabis Increases

A growing number of Americans re-perced that they were unable to get at cut back on the drug droplet it leading to problems, a study found. PAGE A7

'With All My Heart, Natalie.'

President Trump's annual White House aide and gatekeeper Natalie Marys is always by his side. What, exactly, does she do? PAGE A15

Hundering Down in Ohio City

Federal agents have begun donating Haitians in Springfield, raising past-coming a group that has lost protection against deportation. PAGE A18

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A 'Divine' Number for Dallas

The Cowboys want twice for, which links Ceciline Lamb, above, to Drew Pearson, Michael Irvin and Don Bryant. PAGE B6

Dimension Atop the Lakers

Jessie Murt's name as the swark governor is unclear after her family row voted to sell its stake. PAGE B8

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Comisotoply Emmy-Caliber

The "defending" star Jessica Williams has picked up a combination for each season of the Apple TV comedy. PAGE C1

Making the Camera a Monster

Homer Bliss won former charged by the former, point-of-view star Mark Lee, in "The Evil Dead" franchise. PAGE C2

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Members of the Mexican Navy worked to remove surgasosum from the shore at Puerto Morelos, on the Caribbean coast, late last month.

Mexico's Shores Are Covered in Seaweed. It Stinks.

Warning oceans have faded the spread of fuel-smelling surgasosum, which releases a harmful gas.

By CLAIRE BROWN

Mexico's beaches are contending with a record-breaking influx of aminos seaweed so up to 5,000 tons per day, wash onto their pristine shores along its Caribbean coast, home to rosette destinations like Cancún.

Surgasosum, a type of floating macrophage that exerts a rosette mag smell as it decotes pines, can threaten the health of cleanup workers and avoid rosettes back indoors.

President Claudia Shirohmann of Mexico recently announced a $125 million plan to clean up the coastline. David Sherrell reported in The Times, Mexico will deploy two large ships to capture the seaweed before it reaches the beach, and the country's navy will install 30 miles of containerized barriers to trap the surgasosum at sea. Hundreds of workers will wait on the sand to shovel up the tree.

"The effort so far has been titanic, but we have to do more to prevent surgasosum from reaching the beaches," Ms. Shirohmann said.

Surgasosum has threatened rosettes in Mexico, Florida and the Caribbean in recent years. The house of it that wash up on beaches come from a larger mass in the Atlantic Ocean that is thousands of miles wide and weighs some 30 million tons. That mass has been expanding seasonally for more than a decade.

As sea, surgasosum patches are important habitats for turtles, crabs and fish. But when the seaweed washes ashore, it quickly begins decomposing, releasing unpleasant odors and a harmful gas, hydrogen sulfide.

Though surgasosum volumes fluctuate, the overall trend lies in clear: Warming oceans, along with nutrient runoff from

farming, are making the stinky seaweed more prevalent and extending its growth season.

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Twenty years ago, scientists had never detected surgasosum bides in the Caribbean Sea.

"Starting in 2011, everything changed," said Chouvenin Hu, a professor of physical oceanography at the University of South Florida who has mentioned surgasosum by satellite for two decades.

A shifting climate, nutrient pollution and other factors pushed the seaweed into tropical Caribbean waters, where it thrived. Tropical temperatures, abundant sunshine and plentiful nutrients were "like heaven to this plant," Dr. Hu said.

In 2022, surgasosum landings struck Florida, blanketing the coast for months on end. Two years later, the patch was even larger, surpassing its previous record by 40 percent.

This year, March and April broke monthly records for the amount of surgasosum in the tropical Atlantic, Dr. Hu said.

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It's not easy to get rid of eradied-up surgasosum, which can coat miles of shoreline and replenishes itself with every return of the tide.

In the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, home to Cancún and Tuban, beachfront businesses have hired workers to raise surgasosum by hand each morning during the peak season.

It's a dangerous job. A recent study that enlisted surgasosum cleanup workers to wear hydrogen sulfide sensors found that nearly half of the measurements exceeded Mexico's legal exposure limit over the course of an eight-hour workday. Almost half of the workers reported skin irritation and headaches, and a quarter of them

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"These people earn very little money, sometimes only 30% prices a day," roughly equivalent to $20, said Rosa Maringues-Martinez, a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico who worked on the study. "They don't have any medical support because it's a temporary job," she added.

"It's very unequal. It's violating their human rights, basically."

Health problems are not confined to Mexican beaches. In 2018, doctors in Guadalupe and Martinique recorded 11,000 cases of acute surgasosum exposure.

Cleanup Efforts Scale Up

In Miami-Dade County in Florida, 10 specialized rosettes made the beaches twice a day during the peak surgasosum landing season, mixing most of it into the sand and sending some to a landfill at a combined cost of $9 million a year, according to CBS News Miami.

In Mexico, the special-purpose surgasosum ships are expected to remove up to three tons per minute from the ocean. The 20 miles of barriers are also expected to prevent some from reaching the shore.

Sherrell reports that at Oasis Biondo & Brewery, a collection of 40 electron properties in Cancún's popular hotel zone, it takes nearly 200 people working round-the-clock shifts to remove the surgasosum from the beaches.

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Handwriting engages more of the brain than keystroking — this is how we need to teach the drafting of writing. Some of my own writing is in response to other writing, like this. But my "creative writing" is usually not discovering the loves and whys of my subject matter. Writing leads to better, clearer, synthesized thoughts, ideas, shavings. After writing about something, my students and I become more coherent, cogent, clear about the topic when we discuss it. We teachers can grade writing in a way that promotes discovery too. Have students keep a handwritten notebook and grade them so quantity, too quality, Grade for quality too, but on separate assignments.

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A.I. use is so widespread, even if kids don't actually copy/pause to speed along their work. It has been heartbreaking to see, because many kids have lost faith in their own abilities, their own voices. When their A.I.-infused work garners praise, they internalize the message that the product is more important than the process. They returned to paper and pen for assessments of writing skill, and I've embedded a far more discussion (ungraded and graded) to know what's in their brains. But I believe the most important lesson we can teach is how important it is for them to do the thinking themselves, to use A.I. thoughtfully and deliberately to push themselves forward, not to save time, not to cliveth. It's a battle. — AMY ICATENATO, FAIRFIELD, CONN.

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The Local: Twin Cities, a new Times newsletter, offers the latest headlines, sports and culture out of Minnesota — and interviews with local notables. In the inaugural edition, one of the Minnesota co-hosts, Shadi Bushry, spoke with Hope Wais, the daughter of Gov. Tim Wais and one of the state's best-known Gov. I-ors. Read their exchange below.

What is your advice for young people today?

Lean into the little things that make you happy, even if others think it's dumb. I'm 25, and I'm finding so much joy in the things I enjoyed when I was a kid — the color pink, watching soccer again, fun trinkets (I collect boozy's Angel's), reality TV, reading. There is so much pressure to be "cool" nowadays, yet the custom thing you can do is be entirely yourself.

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Being perceived. Crazy I know. It's literally my job to be perceived by the world, yet I can't think too hard about that or I'll freak out. I find myself asking people in my real life not to look at my TikTok. It's probably no use, but I still try.

Will you ever run for office?

My dad says, "Never turn down a job you haven't been offered yet." But I would still say, absolutely not. I like being able to be in my own lane and do my own thing. I think my influence runs parallel to electoral politics, and there is power in that.

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It aids digestion. Psyllium has been shown to help with constipation and irritable bowel syndrome, said Dr. William D. Chey, chief of the gastroenterology division at Michigan Medicine.

When it travels through the stomach and intestines, it absorbs water and forms a viscous, gel-like substance, which softens and bulbs up stool and speeds its passage through the colon.

Paradoxically, psyllium also helps with diarrhea, another common symptom of I.R.S. Try absorbing fluid in the gut, said Kate Scarlata, a dietitian in Boston.

It can lower cholesterol and blood sugar levels. Research suggests that psyllium can lead to small reductions in cholesterol and blood sugar levels, said Penny Kriz-Etherton, a professor emeritus of nutrition sciences at Penn State.

The fiber in psyllium binds to bile acids, which are made from cholesterol, in the intestines, increasing their excretion and helping to lower bad cholesterol in the blood. Ms. Scarlata said, Psyllium can also slow the digestion of carbohydrates, causing more gradual absorption of glucose into the bloodstream. These effects may help

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people with high cholesterol or with Type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, Dr. Kriz-Etherton said. Though, she added, you'll get more more benefits from eating plenty of fiber-rich foods like whole grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables.

Be wary of weight-loss claims. Because psyllium expands in the gut and slows the digestion of carbohydrates, it may help you feel full for an hour or two after you take it, said Julia Lloyd, a dietitian at Mass General Brigham. But research suggests that does not generally translate to weight loss, she added.

In a 2020 review of 22 small trials, most involving adults classified as overweight or obese, researchers found that taking psyllium was no different than taking a placebo when it came to body weight, body mass index or waist circumference.

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Poems, Essays and Books by Working-Class People Gain Recognition and Increasing Government Attention

By VAN ZHUANG

A Chinese food delivery driver rushes from gig to gig, measuring time by the number of jobs he completes instead of by the passing of the seasons. He calls in cities across China to send money back to his family, but has been away for as long that his son calls him "that man" instead of "Dad."

These are scenes from the poems of Wang Jihing, a food delivery driver, one of several Chinese poets and authors who have turned their experiences of repetitive factory labor and immerse gig work into art.

This literary genre has ballooned in popularity in recent years as many Chinese have grown pessimistic about the economy. For a wide swath of society, wages have stagnated, youth unemployment is high and the promise of a better life in return for hard work has failed. Some authors use their writing to call attention to the harsh realities of life for migrant and gig workers, while others celebrate the humanity that flourishes in spite of these conditions. Their styles are often raw and straightforward.

Writers like Hu Anyuan, a courier who wrote a best-selling memoir about the jobs he has worked across the gig economy, and Fan Yuna, who left her children behind to work as a live in money in Beijing, have rapped into these themes. They have published essays online that have been shared widely and let to book deals. Some best sellers have been translated and published overseas.

Last month, Mr. Wang's new poetry collection, "Low Flight," won the La San Literary Prize, is the highest institutional recognition for the genre yet.

For the Chinese public, curiosity about these workers is intertwined with anxiety about their own prospects. The concern may be particularly pronounced for members of China's middle class. They "pay more attention to these kinds of narratives because they may represent their future lives," said Zhu Ping, a professor of Chinese studies at the University of California San Diego's literature department.

Gig and factory workers are ubiquitous, yet the hardship and indignities they endure are rarely depicted by China's state-controlled media, which prefers a more positive spin. In the literary work's influence has grown, Chinese officials, wary of the power of workers' grievances in literature policy shortcomings or spawn unrest, have increasingly sought to shape it, cogently said.

The Rise of Migrant Workers' Literature

The genre knows an migrant workers' literature mirrors the trajectory of a work force that now numbers more than 300 million people.

Since the 1980s, rural workers have powered China's factories and cities while often being denied the health in-

Siyi Zhao contributed research.

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sarance, unemployment and retirement benefits available to urban residents. The literary movement's early authors wrote essays and poems about their experiences in factories, but as manufacturing jobs have begun to disappear, its new breakout stars are more often doing gig work.

One such star is Mr. Hu, the courier who wrote a best-selling memoir. The book, "I Deliver Parcels in Beijing," was published in 2021 in China, where it was the second that year's best book by Douban, China's equivalent to Goodreads. It is a dramatic account of the 19 jobs he held over two decades across China, including as a writer at a logistics company, security guard, convenience store worker and courier.

Mr. He's work first came to public attention through an essay for period online. It detailed his year on the night shift, sorting packages at a logistics firm, where the work was growing and he struggled to get used to sleeping during the day.

I passed by a row of houses on my way in every day. I could smell the cooking going on inside, see the people collapsed on their couches, tired and content after a day's work. That, to me, was what true

happiness looked like. Meanwhile I was already more exhausted than those people, and I hadn't even reached the warehouse. I turned myself in those moments: My damned body turned my willpower, and my damned willpower turned it back. I never I would go right to sleep when I clothed off in the morning, flat then the morning snow around, and everything went the same to the day before. I was roapped in a loop.

"I Deliver Parcels in Beijing," translated into English by Jack Hargreaves.

Ding Nan, a 25-year-old teacher in Wuhan, said Mr. He's book was the first piece of migrant workers' literature she had read, and she has since sought out more works in the genre.

She said she was drawn to stories of gig workers because of their constant presence in her own life. "They are the strangers we regularly interact with, but I never knew what their lives were like," she said.

Some pieces approach the experience with more hope. In his poetry collection, "Low Flight," Mr. Wang, the delivery driver, celebrates the dignity and resilience of delivery workers:

Wang Jihing, a food delivery driver, won the La San Literary Prize for his "Low Flight" poetry collection. At left, Zheng Xianping, a magazine editor, wrote poems about her life as a factory worker in the 2000s.

Who preaches that with wings

spread one must fly high

Low flight is also a flight

With wind rustling like birds' chirps

And whack upsetting like shooting stars

The most delivery vote attached to a

tuberat

In clear black and white symbolizes

urgency

Like a legal document and a magic

incentation

"Low Flight," translated by

Chen Du and Xizheng Chen

Ms. Ding said that migrant workers' stories also changed her preconceptions about the workers. "Society has many stereotypes about them — we think their lives are wretched, that they are oppressed," she said. "But when I read these books, I realized they are also very optimistic."

"Low Flight" won Mr. Wang the La San prize, which is overseen by a government body and given out once every three years. Chinese state media has celebrated Mr. Wang's win as heralding a new, unique literary landscape in which anyone can find success.

But a tension exists between the interests of the Chinese government, which downplays stories of poverty or social inequality and migrant workers' literature, which lays these reunion more, said Ms. Zhu of the University of California San Diego. She saw Mr. Wang's award as part of the government's effort to shape the genre by elevating a more acceptable voice — one that tended toward hope and

opinions, rather than criticism of the connectivistment unknown.

The Chinese government has said that it wants to foster workers' voices as part of what it describes as "new literature and arts of the masses," stories that have taken off in the online era, unconstrained by the traditional gatekeepers of the publishing industry.

That means more resources and opportunities for writers — but largely for the ones who tell palatable stories, said Maghazi van Crevel, a professor of Chinese literature at Leiden University in the Netherlands who studies migrant workers' literature. Imjections of hardship are acceptable, he said, but linking that hardship to government policy "would be crossing a red line and make it impossible to publicly."

But Mr. van Crevel noted that receiving institutional support did not necessarily mean that a writer had "wild out." Mr. Wang's reception by the Chinese establishment "dances" necessarily make his writing less authentic," he said.

From Factory Floor to Worker Advocacy

Authors like Zheng Xianping have continued to speak out about workers' rights even after achieving mainstream success.

Ms. Zheng rose to prominence in China in the 2000s for her poems chronic cling the movement and exhaustion writers endured in factories. She described exploitative issues, workers who suffered from severe fingers or occupational diseases and young women forced into prostitution:

the flowing products and

interlocking time are swallowed up

quickly

aging: ten years flowing past like

water enormous emoluments

floats through the wind for many

years she's stuck by

the screws one screw two screws

turning to the left in the right

Zining her dresses and her youth to

some product look

at her pale youth running from an

inland village

to a factory by the sea all the way to a shelf in America.

"Woman Worker: Teach

Pinned to a Station," translated

by Eleanor Goodman.

Ms. Zheng has received literary prizes and packaged her writing into a better life and a magazine career. She has also continued to speak out about the issues facing workers in China and around the world.

"I've always hoped that those in China who have been fortunate enough to achieve spread social mobility can look like that of the 1.5 mile in them who are still bogged down, just as they once were," she said in an interview.

"We cannot change reality with poetry," she said, "but we have a responsibility to speak out."

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During the Record Heat Wave in Europe, Deaths Increased by 16,000

By JOHN HOLSEK

A week of stilling heat in Europe this June was unusually deadly, mortality data shows, producing a historic increase of deaths in continued where major heat waves are becoming more common.

Around 16,000 more people than usual died in Europe during the heat wave, according to an analysis by the European Mortality Monitoring Network. Most of the deaths were in northern countries – France, Belgium and Germany – that are only in continued to such high temperatures and struggled to respond.

In late June, temperatures topped 100 degrees across most of the nation's declining to Spain and Italy. But it was only in northwest Europe, where countries were less prepared for the

Jeanne Smauldt contributed re-joining.

Temperatures topped 100 degrees in much of the continent.

heat, that deaths spiked so slowly.

Countries in southern Europe have experienced extreme heat for centuries, and they have ways of coping with it that their northern neighbors do not. And the use of air-conditioning remains low in much of northern Europe, where it has become a political issue.

Deaths caused by extreme temperatures are difficult to measure directly, as researchers look at excess deaths, the number of deaths from any cause above what would be expected at that time of your found on historic trends.

Usually, spikes of excess deaths

are recorded in the winter, when respiratory viruses circulate. But during the week of the June heat wave, there were more excess deaths than in any week last winter.

Major deadly heat waves are rare in recent European history. One hit the continent in 1993, killing tens of thousands. During the 2001, in 2022, 1,000 over 16,000 more people than usual died in a single week in Italy, according to European Mortality Monitoring Network data, when it was the southern part of the continent that experienced the most extreme temperatures, with Spain reaching 155 degrees Fahrenheit.

June ended up being Western Europe's bottom on record, and scientists warned that climate change may cause worse to come. The surge of deaths in countries built for a cooler climate pointed to the cost of not being ready for rising temperatures.

Note: Includes data from 125 countries that report data in the European Mortality Monitoring Network.

Heat Extremes Correlated With Excess Deaths in Some Areas

In cities where temperatures were far above normal, excess deaths were high.

In cities where temperatures were only slightly above normal, excess deaths were low.

Note: The cutoff for the United States is 40 days in calculated from daily reservoir temperatures within the same seven-day period each year from 1990 to 2020. Sources: William Francis, 400957, the Spanish national weather agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium.

METHODOLOGY

Excess death rates across from the European Mortality Monitoring Network are caused by countries, including 10 European cities: northern, Eastern and Western, most of the cities in Spain. There exists a wide range of countries and the localities in the region. The temperature and relative humidity of the city were also affected by the average high for heat waves between 1990 - 2020. The 10 temperatures range per daily reservoir at approximately 1.5 °C and 1.5 °C for the 10 years. The average 1.5 °C for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10 years for the 10

Where Temperatures Were Unusually High in Late June

France, Belgium and Germany had the most excess deaths.

Note: Map shows how much higher average daily high temperatures were between June 23 and 28 compared with the average for those same dates from 1990 to 2020.

CRANPHE 2026: KANNA BLADELTING NEW YORK TIMES

They Thought They Were Sisters. Now They Know.

By CLAIRE NOOES

One evening this spring, Moena Geltink put her169 again child in bed and sat down on the couch, with her partner, ready to have a cup of tea. Then she saw a four-book message from a childhood friend that would change her life.

"Do you remember me?" wrote the friend, Mixat Tijssen. It had been 15 years since the two had seen each sister. Ms. Tijssen had included a screenshot from the genealogy website MyHeritage and asked whether Ms. Geltink had also received a notification from there.

Ms. Geltink, who was born in India and adapted by a family in the Netherlands in the 1880s, had been searching for biological family members since 2017, when she sent a DNA sample to MyHeritage. Because so many years had passed without a match, Ms. Geltink had shoved the app a few months earlier.

With shaking hands, she researched a and promptly received her same notification from the person. There it was: a DNA match, Ms. Geltink and Ms. Tijssen had the same parents.

"I learn into man," Ms. Geltink said in a people and even two.

Ms. Geltink, 43, and Ms. Tijssen, 44, first met on teenagers during an organized weekend for adapted children. They returned to the school, and they were in a room, for eyes. Every thing looked like me," Ms. Geltink said.

Growing up in a small Dutch town when almost everyone was to be, Ms. Geltink said, she had been "searching for my identity." Ms. Tijssen was raised less than 100 miles away, both said they were close to their adapted face. She and had grown up with a brother.

"I've always been surrounded by the people who love me and who took care of me," Ms. Tijssen said. However, "But something is side of me, I've always felt very hardy."

While she had no proof, Ms. Geltink said she had long thought that she and Ms. Tijssen might be related. On a family vacation at a camp in Austria, Ms. Geltink, then 13, was mistaken for Ms. Tijssen

Moena Geltink and Mixat Tijssen were born in India and grew up with different adaptive families in the Netherlands. Decades after they became friends, DNA tests revealed a closer connection.

by a Dutch boy who turned out to be Ms. Tijssen's close friend from home.

As the sisters entered adulthood, Ms. Geltink and Ms. Tijssen live coach and had not seen each other for years.

That's where last week, when they had an emotional reunion as sisters in a park in the Dutch city of 's-Hertogenbosch, together with their partners and children.

"I don't feel alone anymore," Ms. Tijssen told Bezzers. She decided to be interviewed for this article.

Ms. Geltink said she did not know the circumstances surrounding her adoption, or Ms. Tijssen's.

Adopters often look for biological family members in their countries of origin, which can be difficult because of differences in culture and language, said Jorge de Bora, a therapist in the Netherlands who assists adopters from other countries.

Cultural gaps between biological relatives hoping to develop relationships are common, espe-

cially if they grew up in different countries, said Ms. de Bora, who was raised in the Netherlands after being adopted as a child. "And it's not always bridgeable just because you happen to be genetically related," he added.

After, at thousands of children were brought to the Netherlands through adoption in the 20th century, but international adoption in the country has dwindled over the past two decades.

In 2015, the Netherlands temporarily failed all adoptees from abroad after an investigation found that the government had failed to act on known abuses, including child theft and trafficking, from 1967 to 1996.

In 2024, Dutch lawmakers voted to carefully please not inter-country adopters ever six years. The country's House of Representatives determined that adoption from other countries "no longer constitutes a sustainable solution for protecting the best interests of children," the government said when the change was announced.

Melissa Hashem, a research and policy coordinator at INEA, a Dutch centre for people adopted from other countries, said the case of Ms. Geltink and Ms. Tijssen was extraordinary.

"A lot of people who were adopted grew up without anyone in their vicinity who looks like there," Ms. Hashem said in a phone interview. "Recognizing yourself in another person is something normal and indescribable."

Still, she said, such reunions can be made with emotions. "It can be a very beautiful thing, but also very intense," Ms. Hashem said.

For Ms. Geltink, finding her10-yr in his at 3 a puzzle piece had fallacious place. But she said she also felt a profound loss.

"A sister is something really wonderful to have," she said. But all that time, she said, they could have been there for each other.

"We both felt that loneliness in our hearts — like you're always looking for something, but you don't know what," Ms. Geltink said. "We both had that feeling for years."

Prince Harry and His Family Plan to Move Back to Britain

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

LONDON – Prince Harry, his wife, Meghan, and their children are moving back to Britain in the upcoming weeks, according to two people familiar with their decision. The move comes as much after they left for the United States amid a clash with other members of the royal family.

The surprise announcement ends a self-fulspoken decision. The Duke and Declines of Sisters that began amid anger and nervousness that brought international attention to warning factions in their Buckingham Palace.

Prince Harry was stripped of his honorary military titles and royal patronage appointments in 2013, a year after announcing that he and his wife would "stay back" from their official duties. In some tabloids, their departure to America was called "Megrails".

The yearlong lead continued across the Atlantic as Harry wrote a roll-all book, "Spore"; the couple gave an interview to Oprah Winfrey; and several efforts at reconciliation failed. For years, Harry accused Buckingham Palace of preventing his family's return to Britain by refusing to provide them with armed protection.

King Charles III was told of the decision families one of the people said, adding that the family's move was not discussed when the couple visited Britain and met with the king this summer.

There will be no change in Harry and Meghan's status as non-working model, and they will remain in private individuals while they reside in Britain, both of the people said.

Representatives for Buckingham Palace declined to comment and a spokesman for Harry and Meghan did not respond to its speech for comment Wednesday.

Harry and Meghan have two children, Archie, 7 and Lillian, a both of whom have spent more of their lives far from their royal relations. One person said the duke and duchen had enrolled their children at school in time for their to start in September.

It was not clear where the family will live, but it appeared likely that the family would not return to royal accommodation. One person familiar with the decision said that the family's status would not change, is keeping with the current arrangement.

Harry and Meghan's return to serve to spark a news feeding frenzy in a country where the royal family and its many dramas have polarized the public but still continued intense interest.

Harry has repeatedly blamed the news frenzy surrounding his mother, Princess Diana, for her death. And he has complained that a similar crisis of attention by the aggressive tallies in Britain was devastating to his family.

The announcement on Embassy has raised the prospect of a possible reconciliation between Harry and his family, which had seemed distant as recently as last month, when Harry and Meghan met privately with the king and spores at Highgrove House, about 100 miles west of London.

That meeting appeared to produce little public evidence of a rapprochement. But one of the people familiar with Harry's upcoming return to Britain said the king welcomed the chance to spend more time with his younger son and his family.

Loss is known about the possibility that Harry and his brother, William, might repair the breach between them. In "Spore," Harry described his brother as "my arch network," and the brother's relationship is said to have been cry.

The prospect of some county returning to the royal family is sure to be welcomed by a state-stake solid institution that has seemed to be in a state of survival for much of the past several decades.

In 2018, the wedding of Harry and Meghan, an American actress, captivated the world and won again three a young woman into the global spotlight. It came seven years after William married Kate and more than two decades after Diana was killed in an auto accident while being pursued by paparazzi.

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War in Ukraine

Mother Plotted Risky Rescue of Son From Russian-Occupied Ukraine

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"Dima, hey, how are you?" she asked. "Everything OK!"

Their separation is the story of many families in the 20 percent of Ukraine controlled by Russia. Millions that those occupied territories, but millions stayed, unwilling or unable to leave. As cities were reduced to rubble, families like Ms. Prutian's were split, an underling source of anguish and one reason that Ukraine is looking at giving up land as part of any peace talks.

The father of Ms. Prutian's drew from short years ago. Her oldest son served in the Ukrainian Army. Her middle son joined the Russian Army, leaving Dima, by far the youngest, to level for himself.

She planned Dima's escape with care, paying a taxi driver $155 to struggle him a temporary Ukrainian passport. She hired another driver who invited people from the occupied territories through Russia to Belarus and eventually back to Ukrainian-controlled territory.

On the phone, Ms. Prutian peppered Dima with questions: Was he getting ready to leave? (Yes.) Did he find a host to drain the housing system? (Yes.) Had he seen his uncle? (Not yet.) Was everything on track as planned? (Yes.)

"Make sure to dress warmly for the trip," she told him. "But don't, overdoin', either. It's got to me warm, you can always take off your jacket. Just don't let yourself freeze. You might have to wait outside for a long time. Did you decide on show? Do you have a job?"

In days, Dima planned to leave the only home he had ever known to meet his mother in Kyiv, where he had never been. He packed a large gym bag, folding up two of his mother's favorite dresses — one pink, one blue — and some of his 3 chairs, and sweaters. He stuffed in his secret ball and his hat.

Dima hid his temporary passport inside his backpack. And he waited.

The Mother

Ms. Prutian raised her sons in the cinder-block house her parents had built in Blyzhian, a village at the Donetsk region of about 750 people, with grain elevators, horses and few cheap buildings.

In 2014, promoters named the pro-Russian president of Ukraine, and Moscow retaliated by launching a shadow war in eastern Ukraine. The Rumania backed separation millions and deployed its own forces in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the area called the Donbas.

John became source. Ms. Prutian, who had trained as an accountant, got government aid and served the same time in 1997 as month working at a gun station.

Then she decided to join the army, where the pay was $305 a month. At that time, joining the Ukrainian war, she was a permanent in the Donbas, where some people sympathized with Russia, giving him a full recognition, brother against brother, and doing so was very rare for a mother.

Still, Ms. Prutian was manned by Ukrainian and she needed the money, so she enlisted to early 2017, as an accountant for the military, helping to manage the business of a handoah. The job required she to leave home.

She was 47. Her two older sons were adults. Dima was only 12.

Ms. Prutian relied on her older sons, relatives and friends to care for them. She came back every two or three weeks, and baked heavy cakes and made pictures filled with them. She considered her own source, telling herself she did what a man would do so her family could survive. And, she said, she found a sense of purpose in the army.

She chased as a combat chief, and, in 2019, was sent to the front lines.

When her contract finished, she returned home for five months in 2020 to the 2020 Dima. Then she enlisted again. So did her oldest son.

After the full-scale Russian invasion, she joined the Irkutsk's side was sent to protect Mariupol, a vital part city. The battles there were fierce, and the unit kept fighting.

Just 26 days into the war, Russian troops surrounded Ms. Prutian and six other Ukrainian soldiers in a village north of Mariupol. Out of ammunition, they surrendered.

Three Russians requested her from the men and locked her in a house, interrogating her for days. Why did she join the army? Who did she serve with? The soldiers then demanded son, she said. Ms. Prutian negotiated, "At least let it be just one of you," she later cancelled saying.

One Russian soldier then raped her, she said.

The New York Times could not independently verify her account, but it is consistent with those that other women have given to human rights groups of sexual assault in captivity. Russia's Defense Ministry did not respond to an inquiry about her experience, but it has

Oleksandrii Mykolychev and Alina Lukitsa: contributed reporting.

Mortgage and other property in the New York Times

Clockwise from top: Lilia Prutian, a former military medic who spent two and a half years in Russian captivity, riding a horse as part of a rehabilitation program last year; her son Dima Zaherbaiev last year; and Ms. Prutian showing a photo of herself in military uniform while on duty in 2020). Dima had headed for himself, even returning to the family home after it was seized by Russian soldiers.

generally denied abusing prisoners.

Days later, she was locked in a basement cell in the city of Donetsk. More than 20 women were examined into a space designed for fit, she said. They had to share mattresses at night, sing the Russian national uniform every morning and stand all day.

If they sat down, she said, the guards bear them. Water was scarce, and the toilet stopped working. The women kept leftover soup to use the liquid to flush the toilet, she said.

Ms. Prutian's ears, damaged in combat, became infected. She started losing her hearing.

In summer 2023, she was moved to a prison in southern Russia and her on trial on terrorism charges, a case that was covered by the local news media. At one hearing, her middle son submitted written testimony against her. That was how she learned that he had joined the Russian Army, that their family could never be whole again.

Eventually she managed to send

letters to Dima and her oldest son. In September 2024, Ms. Prutian was still on trial when she was suddenly released in a prisoner swap. Back on Ukrainian-controlled soil, she kissed the trees and walked barefoot in the grass. Mostly, she worried about Dima.

The Son

In February 2022, Blyzhian was a hiccup on the Russian march to the coast. Soldiers overrun the village and made it theirs. Ukrainian flags were thrown away or laid on the ground as crude welcome state to front of grocery stores. Flags went up for the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian proxy regime.

Troups moved into the homes of residents who had fled, using Blyzhian as a staging area for assaults on Volkovskha, a nearby transportation hub.

At first, Dima, a slight 17-year-old with dark hair, was afraid to stop outside. Before her capture, his mother called and texted when possible. Once, he told her he could

see Russian soldiers near her fruit trees.

Then she stopped responding. For months, he did not know if she was alive.

After staying briefly with his middle brother — who had always opposed his mother and older brother joining the Ukrainian Army — Dima moved back home, alone again.

Dima, who has 5-year children, was small for his age, but he had grown up quickie than his friends. He left school after ninth grade, enrolling in a forestry-technical college and studying to repair visitors.

Now, school had stopped. John were nonexistent. Internet and phone service were frustratingly fun. Walking around Blyzhian, he put his head down when he passed Russian soldiers.

Dima asked his oldest brother, fighting for Ukraine, to send him twenty, 200 as a time, which Dima had to convert to Russian rulers to buy food. He made simple dishes: pants, porridge and fried eggs.

In September 2022, he got seriously ill from complications from diabetes. His middle brother drove him to the regovet major hospital and left him there. Lying in the intensive care unit, Dima had no idea that his mother was being help prisoner less than five miles away.

It was around that time, apparently, that the middle brother definitively chose older, the mother and brothers said. He married a pro-Russian Ukrainian. He told his mother's car, the stopped talking to his brothers. Before long, he enlisted in the Russian Army.

In the hospital, no one visited Dima. With no adult to take responsibility, he stayed for months until a teacher from his school found him and signed him out.

It was winter of 2023, a year prior to the invasion. More than half of Blyzhian's population had fled. Dima found Russian soldiers living in his home but moved back to112, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100

many things were missing: cutters, gold, jewelry, a laptop and some of his clothes and shoes.

He returned to school and took on a part-time construction job. He learned to make barrels and fry sausages. He got a Russian passport, which he needed to pay his uniform, collect canned food from old agencies and attend school.

The war was close. Dima saw dead bodies twice. He saw Russian soldiers and hoped they wouldn't force him into the army.

And he waited.

The Reunion

In late February last year, Dima began his journey. A taxi took him to meet a jeep in Volkovskha, joining others escaping the occupation. One passenger was going to Belarus, another was taking her child to unoccupied Ukraine.

Dima lied at border checkpoints. They crossed first into Russia, the only practical and somewhat safe way out of occupied Ukraine; then into Belarus and then Poland before going back to Ukraine, a trip covering 1,745 miles. They slept in the vehicle. When Dima finally arrived in Kyiv and opened his mother at the train station, he ran to her and hugged her tightly.

Ms. Prutian kissed her boy, in his 60th year and failed years. She saw how he waited but seemed positive. She felt oddly numb.

"I was afraid that I didn't feel anything," she later explained. "I can't say I felt joy. Meeting him felt like meeting a stranger. They say that's normal after captivity."

Ms. Prutian set up a new home with Dima and her older son, now discharged from the military, in Doigov, a city which were of the front line.

People back home said her mid-in son had suffered a head injury in a driver attack. She didn't try to find out more.

Ms. Prutian dreamed of returning to their village. She has a desk job in the Ukrainian Army. It takes her away from home much of the time, but it is far from the fighting.

Adjustment to life with her sons has been hard — they had to work in 10 beds together. Dima was initially so reserved that he asked permission be everything, and did not talk much.

"Dima, don't be afraid," his mother told him. "No one here's going to punish you for what you can."

Slowly, he opened up, taking his mother's hand when they walked, as he used to. He resumed taking classes.

Lastly, Ms. Prutian has started looking like herself again. Still, she treats Dima as if he were much younger. She constantly mothers him, wiping his hair, hugging him.

"Maybe I feel guilty for not doing enough when I couldn't, but I don't feel I'm overdoing it now," she said. "You can never love someone too much."

Dima, Ms. Prutian and her oldest son in Doigov last year. Another son who joined the Russian Army testified against his mother.

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War in Ukraine

KYIV DISPATCH

Reviving a Famed Cathedral in Ukraine After a Drone Strike

By CARLOTTA GALL and EFEHOLAN KRISLICK

KYIV, Ukraine – There was a battle on a recent morning on the quiet grounds of Kyiv’s oldest monastery, as volunteers gathered beside Orthodox prisons with bans and rakes to assist in a grand cleanup.

Mostly parishioners, military veterans and nearby workers, the volunteers had answered a call from the head of the monastery after a Russian drone struck the Dormition Cathedral, at the corner of the monastic complex, in June.

It is unclear whether the drone, which was part of a broader bombardment of Ukraine’s capital, had intentionally targeted the cathedral. Still, the strike damaged one of its golden domes and set the roof abuses.

“I cried when I saw the Dormition Cathedral was on fire,” said Olha Mukha, an economics teacher and parishioner who lives nearby and came to help. “For our enemy, there are no sacred places,” she said.

The cathedral is part of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra preserve, an extensive complex of churches, monastic buildings and ancient catacerdos perched above the Dnipro River. The preserve is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a revered place of pilgrimage.

The volunteers gathered last month to clean up the site across of its 87th anniversary, which President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and other dignitaries celebrated on Saturday.

Founded in the 16th century, the monastery was home to 1,000 monks at its height and dove patrons among royalty, politicians and pilgrims. Its case stands found underground, churches and the bodies and relics of 120 saints.

Peter Ransky’s full-scale formation of Ukraine, the monastery became the center of a moulded between dozens of resident monks who follow the Moscow national patriarchate and Ukrainian monks who adhere to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which split off in 2008.

Abbas Makariy, 43, who leads the nearby monastery of St. Theodontos and who is set on claiming the entire preserve for the Ukrainian church, was one of the first on the scene on the night of the Russian strike. He recorded his dismay as he filmed the conflagration with his cellphone from an adjacent bell tower. The footage went viral, sparking global outrage and sympathy.

He also filmed as he ran into the burning church. “There was nobody there: no firefighters, nobody,” he recalled. His voice in the footage relayed shock: “Peter Dormitian,” he said as he filmed: “Everything is burning.”

The devouration was particularly painful, he said, because of the effort that had gone into building the cathedral. It was leveled in 2010 during World War II and was rebuilt only in 2009, after the Soviet Union fell and Ukraine gained independence.

In June, the cathedral escaped major destruction. The strike tore chunks of brick out of the monastery and set the roof ablaze, but emergency workers prevented the flames from spreading, officials at the complex said. Another drone passed overhead that night and struck an 10th century fartrees and farnes arsenal across the road.

On a recent visit, the cathedral was an elevated and passed showing and the windows of its cuprous were boarded up. A burning smell lingered in the dimly lit interior, as portable fans whirred

or left speed in dry not walls that had been soaked by firefighters’ bases.

The erratic ironstomies, a gilded screen – the largest in

Ukraine – concealing the sanctuary, survived smart. Prisons rescued valuable artifacts, cures and religious utensils, including a heavy silver coffin steaming a

relic of St. Stephen, which is now in a nearby museum building, museum officials said.

Ivan Yabovenko, a deputy director at the Kyiv-Pechersk

Lavra preserve, said Ukraine’s culture ministry was considering plans to build a stronger oral covering to protect the cathedral from snow through the winter.

Nadha Fowciba snapped the floor of the Dormition Cathedral after it was struck by a Russian drone in Kyiv, Ukraine, in July, top. Removing grass from between oddlements at the complex, left Volummers, he left, having a simple lunch. Below left, light only swelled after drawing.

Reconstruction work would depend on funding, he said.

But even as air cold sirens and explosions sounded in Kyiv, Abbas Makariy was moving on, intent on resolving the cathedral and the preserve for the anniversary event.

“We are going to open the catacerdos for the first time in three years, and there is a big mess down there,” he said last month, ahead of the clean up.

With only 20 monks in his monastery, he had appealed to volunteers, among them military officers who have been encouraged to use the space as a refuge and place of healing. Over three days, they cut and cleared over-grown gardens and courtyards and wooded the cobbled pathways.

Peter Hadzhals, 22, a novice priest and chorizoe, was among those helping. “Maybe it was God’s will,” he said of the strike. “Maybe we need a sign to tell us that we have an enemy and we need to unite under one church and one country.”

Parishioners and out plains of sandwiches for lunch. Then, teams of women armed with backers and trops set about cleaning the cathedral, some climbing up to the clear gallery and others snapping the marble floor over and over.

“This is an incredibly difficult time for all of us,” said Lushnyla Radoshova, 36, a director at a textile firm in Kyiv, who passed to say a prayer. “We need to prove, perhaps to ourselves above all, that with God’s help we can overcome anything.”

Ukraine Ex-Defense Minister Seeks Election, Assuring Break With Zelensky

By KIM BARKER

KYIV, Ukraine – Ukraine’s popular former defense minister has called for wartime elections in Ukraine, setting up a potential confrontation with President Volodymyr Zelensky, the man who fired him last month.

After Russia invaded a February 2022, elections in Ukraine were suspended under martial law. Operating policy was set to end some Ukrainians have grumbled about. Mr. Zelensky’s half an power, which has been held in more than seven years, has called behind him because of the war.

The first major crack in that largely unified front appeared on Sunday, the 2nd in a critical, a mer defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, whose firing prompted sustained protests against Mr. Zelensky, posted a nine-minute call on an actual motion, as a 48, 54-dator argued that Ukraine was

Yurii Shynsk, Constant Milhuz and Oleksandru Mchulyshev, co-released reporting,

facing a systemic crisis of governance.

Ukrainians, Mr. Fedorov said, lived in he able to exercise their democratic rights despite the war with Russia. He did not directly cut himself forward as a candidate to succeed Mr. Zelensky. But the video of Mr. Fedorov, dressed in a black military-style shirt, dramatically spotlighted at a wooden desk, had the feel of a campaign declaration.

“Can Russia effectively be given the right to dictate when Ukrainians can choose their government again?” Mr. Fedorov said. “I am convinced that the answer is no. Democracy cannot be held hostage by Russia. We are fighting precisely because we want to remain a free European state.”

Mr. Zelensky, a sentinel comic actor who rose to prominence playing an accidental president of Ukraine who bought corruption and government waste, was elected in the spring of 2016.

He and other Ukrainian leaders

have argued that it is impossible to hold safe and fair wartime elections. The law could be changed to allow elections before the war ends, but it is unclear how voting would be conducted for soldiers, for Ukrainians who fled to other countries and for those who are in frontline cities under constant Russian bandwarriness.

President Vladimir Y Putin of Russia has seized on the lack of elections in call Mr. Zelensky an illegitimate president, even as Russia itself remains far from a democratic purgum.

President Trump and his inner circle have occasionally echoed the Russian talking point. In December, Mr. Trump said it was time for presidential elections in Ukraine. In response, Mr. Zelensky said he was ready.

Despite current of elections this year, nothing has materialized. Any pressure from the Trump administration has dwindled as Washington has become consumed by the war against Iran.

Mr. Zelensky has been free to

politically neutralize any potential challenges. The popular leader of the Ukrainian Army during the first two years of the war, Gais, Vishny and others now genetically banished, becoming the Ukrainian ambassador to Britain. The leader of military intelligence, Kyiv’s Bacheov, was named Mr. Zelensky, the head of staff.

Mr. Fedorov is different: not afraid to criticize Mr. Zelensky publicly after his July removal.

At 33, Mr. Fedorov is the face of a younger, rich-come-liberation. As minister of digital transformation, he tried to make it easier for soldiers to purchase the drones they needed and to adapt military strategies before, on the moves of data produced in the war.

In January, Mr. Fedorov was named defense minister. Under his leadership, the ministry intensified a part for the action of warfare and for an approach to war that relied more on data and statistics. In the first months of the year, Ukraine’s military started to fare better than it had in years.

Even as Mr. Fedorov’s popularity soared, he clashed with the military’s occasionally tolerate old guard, including the army’s top commander, Gais. “Released” lyricky, Ukraine’s entrenched defense contractors pushed back. He said, as he tried to revamp procurement and combat corruption.

Mr. Zelensky, continuing a pattern of sidelining anyone who becomes too politically popular, lived Mr. Fedorov on July 15.

Daily protests against Mr. Zelensky then began calling for Mr. Fedorov’s misstatement and for the firing of General Lyrsky. Unlike other potential rivals who have lost their positions but stayed in the Zelensky hall, Mr. Fedorov refused any other job of it. The only position he would accept, he said, was defense minister.

Mr. Zelensky eventually replaced General Lyrsky but seemingly reordered the crisis. Parliament was on recess. The protests grew smaller.

Still, no Sunday evening, before

the Ukrainian Parliament was to return and one month after Mr. Fedorov’s secret, thousands arrested a demonstration. They sang Ukrainian songs and cleaned slogans including, “The people are the power,” “Corruption faith” and, simply, “Fedorov.”

On Sunday evening, Mr. Zelensky submitted a proposal to Parliament to appoint Yerebni Khmaru, who had run the domestic intelligence agency, as the new defense minister. Mr. Fedorov then posted his video.

Parliament on Wednesday voted new technology to confirm Mr. Khmaru, because the Ukraine’s defense minister is supposed to be a Yerebni. Mr. Khmaru resigned from the military. Outside Parliament, Mr. Fedorov’s backers promoted the vote.

Hours before the vote, anti-corruption agencies announced an investigation into a group of lawmakers and “high-ranking officials” from Mr. Zelensky’s office, the latest accusation of graft against his inner circle.

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The 47th President

NEWS ANALYSIS

Trump's Attack-Thy-Friends, Befriend-Thy-Emmies Approach

By PETER BAKER

WASHINGTON — Once again, President Trump is threatening his country's own partners with everything from tariffs to bombs. Once again, he is leveling over a nuclear-armed tyrant deemed to be one of the biggest dangers to U.S. security. And once again, the world is left trying to make sense of a United States that has operated on the face of the U.S. established eight decades ago.

Nearly 30 years after Mr. Trump first came to the White House on the slogan of America First, his attack-thy-friends, believed-thy-chemists approach to international relations has become the feature, not the bag of U.S. foreign policy. Traditional alliances from Europe to Asia to the Middle East have frayed with the president nearly three once more as adversaries.

Even so, the past few days have thrown the Trumpian worldview into stark relief. Mr. Trump declared that he would bomb those, a key friend in the complicated diplomacy of the Middle East, if he decides it is getting in the way of his way with Iran. He was set to impose push live new tariffs on Canada, once considered the United States' chosen friend. And he announced that he would pull back military support from South Korea, the balance of the U.S. network of partners in the Asia-Pacific.

At the same time, he again began training public health磋商 to North Korea's absolute dictator, Kim Jong-un, with whom to his own description he "did in favor" in his first term. Mr. Kim, who came out of the state's progressive nations in the world, never did give up his nuclear weapons, as Mr. Trump was declared he would, instead, Mr. Kim has vastly expanded his nuclear arsenal in defiance of Mr. Jang, who nevertheless created a leader, no matter how unregulated.

"We design our our friends and coins up to our enemies," said States J. Blanchard, a former ambassador to Canada and Even across governor of Michigan. "it someone once told me that this is a war friend and Canada is our enemy. I'll have told you we're in an upside-down world."

Richard Fontaine, the chief executive of the Center for a New American charity and a former advisor to Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, said that none of the bombastic threats were new. But he pointed out that Mr. Trump had not always followed through no them. The United States, he noted, had not pulled out of NATO, abandoned South Korea, beathed those at which Canada and a Greenland.

"Increasingly, the bullying thereon is being proud to be countries around the world," Mr. Fontaine said. "They don't disguise it, but they don't take the threats literally either. So more than more unfulfilled threats are caused, people from love, it understand the president's credibility."

Mr. Trump has long argued that his approach to other countries, however unorthodox, makes sense for the United States. Under previous provisions, allies took advantage of American security pressure and trade rules without reciprocating. Mr. Trump maintains, the new relatively high trade deficits and relatively low NATO military spending as proof that so-called friends are exploiting the United States.

On the recent talking North Korea, China, Russia and other longtime adversaries, Mr. Trump commends that the confrontational

President Vladimir V Putin of Russia in 2019 with President Trump, who still hopes to re-establish full ties with Russia by brokering an end to Moscow's war in Ukraine.

policies of the past failed to achieve what they set out to, so better to try more diplomacy. He still hopes to reach a nuclear accord with North Korea, and a comprehensive trade deal with America and re-establish full ties with Russia by brokering an end to Moscow's war in Ukraine. He has pushed sides for a meeting this fall with Mr. Kim, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The war with Iran has provided a new comment for the allies that deserve support and those that do not. Countries that have declined to facilitate military operations against Tehran or our force to help guarantee passage through the Street of Harman have to his view her-stayed the United States, even though he never asked for their opinions before starting the war. After targeting Britain, France, Spain, Italy and others for not doing more to help him against Iran, Mr. Trump has now focused his on so South Korea.

The new 2019/40 soldiers over there guarding you from Kim Jong-un, your were clear neighbor, and you're not going to help us on a very easy military operation in Iran?" he said this week after announcing that he would soon look joint exercises with South Korea.

His contract, he went on, "Kim Jong-un has always created me with great respect, and we've met on numerous occasions. Actually, two primary occasions — spoken and spent time. I understand him, the understanding."

If so, that distinguished Mr. Kim from European and Asian allies who still do not understand Mr. Trump, even if they have come to expect his volatile monarchies. Until now, presidents of both parties have valued their relationships with overseas friends. And while there have been plenty of moments of success over the years, they have worked to keep them from escalating too far.

Now the allies are the ones trying to avoid exacerbating the situation. "They got their teeth and food it because in the end they do not want to see irreparable damage done to the alliance over the next two years," said Victor D. Cha, the president of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "In short, allies may like and trust the U.S. less today, but they still need the U.S."

Mr. Cha, who was an Asia advisor to President George W. Bush, said that President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea actually has a good relationship with Mr. Trump and does not want to learn that. "Let's do more action: action at Trump, or if Trump's outreach to Kim Jong-un works, then it very much is South Korea's interests," Mr. Cha said.

The presence of U.S. forces in South Korea since the 1950s war

has long irritated Mr. Trump, who sees it in zero-sum terms. In his first term, he sought to pull troops out and create a new center, judging them wonderful and unnecessarily provocative toward his friend in North Korea. He sought to charge South Korea billions of dollars for U.S. protection, and linked security issues to his companion about Israel's trade policies.

Mr. Trump is not the first president interested in bringing troops back from South Korea so long after the war. President Jimmy Carter promised to scale down U.S. forces there, but gave up small resistance from Congress and his own administration. Donald R. Bannifall, who was Mr. Bush's defense secretary, expressed the South Korean's for rebuking today's brigade to Iraq, and never returned it. Today, about 28,000 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea, accord

ing to the Congressional Research Service.

"There could be a strategic case for restructuring the U.S. military presence on the perineum," said Michael J. Green, the chief executive of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney in Australia. "Not none for making them a point in a Christian with the world's crusone dictator — particularly at a time when North Korean are coming back from the Ukraine war battle hardened and backed by a larger missile inventory than they had in 2018."

Once, for its part, has for years been an important store locator between the United States and Iran, helping to facilitate negotiations when the two sides were open to talks. But Mr. Trump has grown increasingly aggravated that those had sought to broker a deal with Iran to control the fronts of Harman.

He first threatened to ensnare an unprovoked war on the substance in May, saying that "those will behave just like everybody else or we'll have to blow them up". On Monday, he lashed out again, declaring that if Oman 'gets to the way' of his efforts to reach an agreement with Iran, "we'll battle the old war of them."

Canada is not a different form of hostility from Mr. Trump, who cannot so stop new tariffs of 50 percent on more than 500 Canadian goods, including hedonic sticks and cheese, Tuesday at midnight. Just 40 minutes before his self-required deadline, Mr. Trump, as he often has done, pulled back from the heida and suspended the tariffs for three days to give more time for talks.

But even if the two sides eventually reach an accord, there remain many points of friction between the neighbors, exacerbated by Mr. Trump's oft-encroached ambition to take over Canada and make it "the first state." Just last month, the opening of the new Gordis Howe International Bridge linking Dorset with Windsor, Ontario, was delayed for weeks over various grievances. Mr. Trump has with Canada.

Mr. Blanchard said he suspected that the latest eruptions against Canada and other U.S. allies increased from Mr. Trump's inability to bring the Iran way to a time. Neither bombing nor negotiations have forced Iran to surrender control of the Israel of Harman or to make verifiable commitments to abandon its nuclear program. The president appears stuck in a paradoxical sign without a clear path forward.

Mr. Fontaine said that Mr. Trump's approach to allies and adversaries understand U.S. interests. "There should be benefits to being a friend of America, and costs for being an enemy," he said, "not the other way around."

"He understands me," Mr. Trump said this week of Kim Jong-un of North Korea. They met in 2019.

U.S. Cuts Back to South Korea Military Drills, as Trump Wows Kim Jong-un

By ERIC SCHMITT

and CHRIS SAXIO-HUN

WASHINGTON — The Foreigners said that it was ending a new or trimming exercise with the U.S. military forces earlier in scheduled, on Friday, and scaled back many remnants, five for training drills to compare simulations or canceling them allegedly.

The insurers came after President Trump on Sunday ordered the Defense Department to reduce joint military exercises with South Korea, a longtime U.S. officer at a background of America's war on the U.S. military forces in Asia-Pacific region.

Mr. Trump's order was aimed at rekindling talks with Kim Jong-un of North Korea at a time when of course it came to the U.S. and back to an impasse, as well as pushing the South Korean for deciding to join in the conflict against

Choe Sang-Hun reported from Seoul, Jose Irvine contributed on porting.

Iron, a position that deeply angered Mr. Trump.

In a statement released on Tuesday night, the Pentagon said it was abiding in half the Today China in the United States, called Uichi Freedom Shield, "while continuing training, the endures tactics to establish."

"These adjustments preserve emotional readiness and training objectives," the statement continued. "There will be no degradation to U.S. training objectives."

Kim Ye-jong, a powerful adviser and sister of Mr. Kim, an Wednesday dismissed Mr. Trump's abrupt decision, saying, the attempted will be "held in constructive action." Mr. Kim, a spokeswoman for her brother's government, said as a statement carried by state men that that the reduced exercise was "all" prior to the war, up to 40%.

On Wednesday, the South Korean military said that despite the cutback, the allies had agreed to "discuss and implement various measures to achieve the objectives of the Uichi Freedom Shield exercise and establish a combined

defense posture."

Even before the Pentagon's announcement, Mr. Trump's order had heightened fears among Asian allies over what the United States is now willing to do to deter China in its territorial ambitions, given the enormous distraction and resource distort of the Iran war. The United States is running low on crucial weapons and has been moving military resources from Asia to the Middle East.

Current and former U.S. military commanders have said that abruptly scaling back the duration of the exercise and converting many of its five-five components to complete simulations would not only make those fears but also erode American military readiness on the highly militarized Korean Peninsula.

In Seoul on Wednesday, South Korea's foreign minister, Cho Hyun, said at a parliamentary hearing that neither his country nor the United States had been given advance warning about Mr. Trump's order on Sunday to scale back joint military drills.

"Neither our government nor

U.S. officials had any new knowledge of what President Trump revealed," Mr. Cho said. "We received no advance notice."

The exercises are held most summer on the South Korea's armed forces and with other U.S. allies in the Asia-Pacific region. The U.S. forces were also in the future can counter a wide range of security threats, including drones and cyberattacks, while also strengthening combined defenses. They are designed to help U.S. allies defend against threats from North Korea, which in recent years has been increasingly belligerent toward the South.

Cox, a former U.S. officer of public affairs for the Combined Forces Command, United Nations Command and U.S. Forces Korea, said in a new conference with the South Korea's chief executive. In that the exercises reflected the changing character of war, including the growing use of announced systems, electronic warfare and cyberoperatives.

In the conventional social media past, Mr. Trump complained on Sunday that Seoul did not "join us

in the Demoralization of the Islamic Republic of Iran." In the same post, he said that North Korea had been "anti-immigrant and respectful" while he has been provoked by U.S. drills with the South, he added, had been "totally inappropriate and hostile" because the North. The U.S. and South Korean militaries have held joint exercises for more than 75 years since 1953, after the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.

While his announcement ended Seoul, it was not the first time Mr. Trump has demanded sufficient military drills. During his first term, he deliberately canceled or scaled down major exercises with South Korea, calling them "explosive" and "stressful" — a concession that helped pave the way for those who were with Mr. Kim.

These talks collapsed in 2019 without an agreement on military back North Korea's nuclear ambulation, but since returning to the White House, Mr. Trump has repeatedly signaled a desire to revive his personal diplomacy with Mr. Kim.

It is unclear whether Mr. Kim will agree to revive the unanimity Mr. Kim's nuclear arsenal has grown considerably since 2018. He has more diplomacy, leverage now that North Korea has seen weapons and troops to support Russia's war in Ukraine.

"Even if talks take place, it is doubtful whether they will yield a new war, it is possible," an editorial in the Dong-A Ilbo, a conservative South Korean newspaper, said on Wednesday. "It is all the more convincing that there is an sign of a permanent post failures from President Trump."

Still, the government led by President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea is hopeful that Mr. Trump can help break the deadlock on the Korean Peninsula. It argues that even if there is little near-term prospect of persuading Mr. Kim to abandon his nuclear weapons, Washington and its allies should still pursue dialogue aimed at coping. North Korea's nuclear arsenal and its stockpile of fissile material as a first step toward an eventual demoralization.

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War in the Middle East

U.A.E. to Halt Trade With Iran as Trump Pushes to Isolate the Republic

By ISMAELY, NAAB

and VIOLIA NIKHIM

DUBAI: United Arab Emirates—The United Arab Emirates said it is halting oil trade and financial transactions with Iran, adding further economic pressure on the Islamic Republic as the Trump and their Arab Emirates in India.

The decision, announced some staff on the Emirate government accused Iran of launching complex toward the territory, was made “in light of regional escalations that understate regional and international peace and security,” Abu Al Hamidi, a spokeswoman for the Emirate Foreign Ministry, said it is consistent late Tuesday. She said that the Emirates was “firstly committed to subjugated by the integrity of the international financial system.”

The Emirates, located just 10 miles from the area of the Persian Gulf, has nurtured close economic and cultural ties with the Islamic Republic for decades, despite political tensions between the two nations.

Iranian-Eritrali trade was worth roughly $100 billion in 2021, when the Emirates was Iran’s largest source of imports—Kerry in, Shrija in and the Arab world—and other goods in the Islamic Republic—according to World Trade Organization data.

Analysis say that trade through which the Islamic empire of the has long been key to Iranian objects to evade sanctions, eliciting financial and political trusts American authorities in the past, Emirati officials say that they crack down on any sanctions violations when they find them.

The Trump administration has

tended “four reported from Dubai, and Violan Nuvem from British, Saudi Arabia,蔡国强, and the Arab world, a report by Dubai, and Sunam Mahsuri from London.

been keen to increase economic pressure on Iran while trying to find a resolution to the nearly six-month war—which has left Iran with significant control over shipping in the first of the years, the narrow waterway that is a key transit route for oil and gas. Last week, Saini Broome, the U.S. treasury secretary, threatened to “apply measures like have never been seen in the history of the economic isolation” of a country.

It is unclear if the United States played a role in the Emirate’s decision to halt trade with Iran. The announcement came from after a call from President Trump to the Emirati leader, Sheikh Mohammed and Zayed.

And in a separate call on Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Sheikh Tahmimi bin Zayed, the Emirati national security adviser, discussed efforts to halt Iran accountable for ongoing attacks, according to a State Department spokesman, Tommy Figari.

The Emirate foreign ministry of the response to request the comment about the motivation and timing of the decision.

It is also unclear how seriously and swiftly the Emirati government could move to ensure a suspension of economic ties.

Editor of Battasgarh, chief executive of the Beirut Air Beirut Foundation—a London-based Arab national security and economy—expressed skepticism, saying the announcement did not necessarily include a change in policy. Instead, it could be read as “a measure of public diplomacy” directed at the United States, intended to signal that the Emirati is “involving the central Iran at an arm’s length,” he said.

In reality, Iran and the Emirate continue to be economically interdependent. Big Battasgarh is said.

In Dubai’s spice market, which sits beside a heyding creek where

A ship off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, about 50 miles from Iran across the Persian Gulf.

wooden boats have ferried shipments in and from Iran for decades, traders said in interviews that the war had already disrupted the race—mostly five of Iranian goods into Dubai.

Mohammed, who spoke on the condition that his fall came he withheld to protect Iran from violations by the government, said he has been in the business for more than 25 years. He is still able to bring in suffices and trust loans, he said, which he re-expects to countries including China, India and Saudi Arabia, but as a higher cost and with greater difficulty. And since the war broke out, he added, shipments are often subjected to additional scrutiny at customs.

Another Dubai trade, a dairy and sweets imported also called Mohammed, said that the war has taken a heavy toll on his business, forcing Iran to cut his work force from more than 100 employees before the war to around 33 today.

With the peace in fighting to recent months, he had carried to regain confidence, he said, but if the new announcement is enforced, his company will collapse completely. He also spoke on the condition of partial sanctions.

The Emirati government statement did not make it clear when the decision to halt trade was made or specify what prompted it. But last week, the Emirates—a small front of attaching an Emirati oil tanker traveling through the first of the year.

On Tuesday, the Emirati Defense Ministry issued warnings of an incoming suicide attack, later saying that two ballistic missiles launched from Iran had targeted machine investigation, and that one had fallen in Emirati waters. Iran denied carrying out these attacks, and has neither denied nor claimed responsibility for the台北 oil tanker. (video)

Before the United States and Israel attacked Iran in February,

setting off a regional intelligence ban, Emirati officials had been not using a strategy of diplomacy and economic engagement with Iran—their much larger neighbors—hoping that would invade the Emirates from any conflict.

For the decision of the authorities, and two between the Emirates and Iran rapidly started in the Emirates, which hasn’t a major American military base, two of the final areas of their resistance, reporting more than 2,700 ballistic missile and drone attacks from Iran.

In March, the Emirati government ordered the closure of a Islamic Iranian Hospital in Dubai, as well as a colonel club and service location. But in which the IRB said were concerned in hardx government. The Emirati government also began revoking the virus and combating perestro of some Iranian organization, including many abroad.

Eventually, the Emirati military

carried out secret strikes on Iran, according to two current and former senior U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters.

After the United States and Iran reached a cease-fire agreement in April, and later, a preliminary peace deal in June, tensions between the Emirates and Iran sound significantly, with direct contact between senior officials and the resurgence of flights between the two countries.

As the crises has frayed in the United States, the Emirates focused its attacks on nearby Bahrain and Kuwait, opening the Emirates.

Still, Emirati officials have described down on their ties with Israel and the United States, viewing three relationships as essential to the Emirate’s security as a small country in a tumultuous region.

The recent attacks on Emirati oil tankers elicited a strong condemnation from the Emirati government, and on Saturday, the Emirati Foreign Ministry accused Iran of targeting shipping in the first of the year as “a tool of economic service or blackboard” that constituted a “direct threat to the stability of the region.”

Mr. Battasgarh said that he expects the Emirates will continue a policy of “inligting.” Following relationships with both the United States and Iran.

Despite his country’s dependence on the United States, Sheikh Mohammed, the Emirati leader, has carved out a role as a powerful and quasi-independent operator in the Middle East over the past decade.

“They have managed to demonstrate significant strategic autonomy,” Mr. Battasgarh said. “The U.A.E. is not a country that is going to allow its national interests to be determined by policy choices made in Washington.”

Israel to Open Inquiries Into Killies by Soldiers

By ISABEL KERHIVAB

JERUSALEM — The Israeli military and on Wednesday there would open criminal investigation into the killing of Palestinians by troops in two high-profile cases during the Gaza war, including the deaths of Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old girl, and of more than 1 billion medical workers.

The decision to transfer the issue for criminal investigations followed a lengthy review on matters of contentious incidents during the war by a military fact-finding mission. The review came after widespread international condemnation of Israeli soldiers during the conflict, with several rights groups and governments accusing the country of committing war crimes.

One of the cases referred for criminal investigation involved the deaths of Hind Rajab and on members of her family, who were killed in a car in Gaza City in January 2020. They saw also incidents the finding of a Palestine that Cresson Society ambulance that had tried to approach the vehicle, an attack that caused the deaths of two paramedics.

The second case involved the fatal shooting in March 2020 of 15 Palestinian medals and rescue workers in southern Gaza, as well as that of a U.N. employee who drove by after the others had been shot.

Such military police investigations are often slow and have rarely led to convictions. Rights groups have previously criticized the military’s investigations of its conduct in war, describing the process as a whitehead.

The military said that it had been a major impact for criminal investigation in three other cases, including the killing of seven employees of World Central Kitchen, a relief group, in April 2018, on they were transporting human rights to the business.

World Central Kitchen reported the military’s account and condemned its decision not to refer the case for criminal investigation. The decision to action were wholly unjustified.

The military was declared open a criminal investigation into a deadly strike on a building sector, part of the war, and the case was in February 2020 or into the killing of two of the medical organizations, who were in the same state as a survey in Gaza City in November 2020.

Doctors Without Borders have not commented.

The military’s report on the information have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war almost three years ago, according to the territory’s health ministry, whose data show the局势 has been a brilliant and combatant but includes thousands of children.

Nutan Odenheimer and Gathy Szelman contributed reporting.

Israel waged the devastating war after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 1, 2021. The Oct. 1 attack killed about 1,200 people, according to the Israeli authorities, and about 250 more were taken as hostages to Gaza.

Israel has continued to carry on what it says are targeted killing almost a year after a cruise for with Hamas under fire. On Wednesday, officials in Gaza said that nine people were killed in an Israeli strike on a police headquarters in Gaza City. Hamas said that most of the dead were police officers and personnel. The Ministry of Interior and National Security in Gaza said the victims included a displaced 10-year-old child who was living near the police headquarters.

The Israeli military initially said it was targeting a Hamas commander who planned to attack Israeli troops operating in Gaza. In a later statement, the military said it had struck “a gathering of terrorists in a police station,” including at least four from Israel’s military work.

The Israeli military said that in fact-finding mission into conduct during the war had completed in views of about 150 incidents, adding that the examining body was made up of professionals operating outside the military’s regular chain of command.

The case involving Hind stirred international outrage. A feature film about the killing. “The ‘force of Hind Rajab,’ helped make her one of the most visible victims of the war.

Hind had survived the initial shooting and was waged in the car with her mawrhatown, only to be heard dead, along with the two paramedics who had set out to rescue her, nearly two weeks later, many people around the world had followed the departure from to discover her fate after the Red Crescent reported that one of its workers had spoken with her by phone following the initial attack.

The Red Crescent subsequently issued a series of harrowing posts after the rescuers went missing the search between war hampered by the presence of Israeli forces in the area.

The Israeli military said an “embracing that its troops fired at a police that was supposed to be there while traveling contrary to the advanced policy” given to residents of the area.

Five of the vehicle’s seven passengers were killed and two—Hind and her cousin, Layan Hamad—survived, the police had been shot in a fire, and he had to recare by phone shortly after the car came under attack, then Hind talked to them alone, the military said.

A more Cresson Association was dispatched after its movement was coordinated with the Israeli forces. The ambulance, however, was divided as it arrived at the scene. The military did not re-

The remains of a car in Gaza City, top, where Hind Rajab, 5, and her family were found dead after an Israeli strike in 2024. Emergency workers, above left, with the bodies of 80-day rescuers who were killed by Israel forces in 2025, and a hundred photo of Hind.

plain why other than to cite “apparent failures” in the courthouse process.

The Emirates-based Hind Rajab Foundation, which looks legal action against Israelis who have already committed war crimes against Palestinians, said it had “no confidence” in the Israeli military’s decision to open a criminal investigation. “There reported no investigation, even if they do occur, should not be mistaken for a genuine unopposed justice,” it said in a statement, adding that Israel investigating the conduct of its own soldiers was “fundamentally flawed.”

The fatal shooting of 14 Palestinian medals and rescue workers that was also referred to criminal investigators was previously reported to be involved Israeli military events.

A preliminary military investigation released from Iran a month after the attack identified “several professional failures” in the sol-

siter conduct, as well as “broaden of orders and a failure to fully report the incident.” The military said that a deputy commander had been removed from his position.

As the time, the military had offered shifting explanations for why its troops fired on the course of emergency vehicle, including ambulances and a fire truck. Experts said the attack was a war crime.

In April 2020, the military said that the shooting were caused by “an operational misunderstanding” by troops on the ground “who believed they have a tangible threat from enemy forces.” However, grand surveillance footage appeared to show occupants of the rescue vehicle do disembarking and the police did not see a troops rather than toward them.

The announcement on Wednesday offered no new details about that case and said state would be provided pending the criminal in-

vestigation.

In the World Central Kitchen case, the military said its troops fired on one of the group’s human duties and surveys after identifying a gunman on a truck and mistakenly assessing that “human militants had seized control of the vehicle, after an initial examination, two officers were released from their positions and three commanders received formally. The military said its longlisted crew hasn’t felt the group had heard an armed security force in accordance and present the case.”

The military said its longlisted crew hasn’t felt the group had heard an armed security force in accordance and present the survey but had not coordinated the presence with the military as it was that. The military also said the vehicles deviated from the route that the organization had not been involved with the Israel armed forces.

World Central Kitchen reported the military’s account and the decision to drop the case. “There has never been any excuse or justifi-

cation for the attacks and there is nothing in this account that does so,” the group said in a statement on social media. “The decision is inconsistent with the full truth and deeply offensive.”

World Central Kitchen added that the military knew of its scanty movements, therefore and also not in advance, and demanded an independent investigation.

The military announced its decisions about the investigations just days after Israel Kachem President Trump’s case was an acute state, met with Prime Minister Benjamin Nusayake, of Israel, and the United States. The Trump’s plan for the future of the war-straight Gaza Strip.

The talks in Jerusalem took place after Mr. Nusayake published the report, which stated that in turn over its weapons and for Israeli forces to halt their strikes in Gaza and to withdraw from the territory—a rare public break with Mr. Trump.

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NEWS ANALYSIS

The On-Again-Off-Again World of Trump's Tariffs on Canada

By MUTHA STEVIS-GRINSEY and JON SWANSON

Extended trade talks between Canada and the United States seemed to make progress on Wednesday, with President Trump berialling a "deal" and Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada saying the two men were "moving towards an agreement."

Some 12 hours earlier, Canada are were burying for a midnight deadline that, if missed, would see 50 percent tariffs introduced against more goods, another potential hit in the Canadian economy as the hands of the Trump administration.

With a new deadline for those tariffs set for midnight Friday, the emotional roller coaster that is the United States-Canada relationship seemed to be hiring a greater slope.

"We're very happy with where we ended up," Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, told reporters Wednesday.

"We had confident that we've reached an agreement that will not only continue to protect American workers, American jobs, American supply chains, but really strengthen the North American economy and create a situation where North America will continue to be an energy powerhouse, a manufacturing powerhouse, and align an important things like economic security and digital security," he said.

If you're testing a sense of shift vs. from the on-again off-again tariffs Mr. Trump wants to level against Canada, you're right. We've been here before.

In January 2025, he threatened a 25 percent flat tariff on all Canadian and international, without evidence — a massive influx of forward and irregular information from Canada into the United States.

Mr. Trump looked down, but only after telling Canada's then-prone mission, which Trudeau that he did not respect the under-troaty between the two nations, and that Canada made no sense as a country and should be a part of the United States.

In October, it was the same issue: tariffs over a television ad taken out by the province of Ontario that highlighted President Benjamin Kistler of tariffs. He made a press release, including public news, off the air.

Last month, he again threatened new tariffs over wildfires smoke pouring into the United States from future concerning swaths of Canada's forests and upending commonships. He did not act on the threat.

But Mr. Trump's social threats and deadlines against Canada, the United States' theory tells us that he ignored.

The United States government's tariffs has targeted tariffs, key Canadian industries, including aluminum, steel, same and baker, and it has thrown North American trade into constant

CABLE OF TRUSTEES/TEST

Vehicles parked outside a GM assembly plant on Wednesday in Oshawa, Ontario. The Trump administration's targeted tariffs on Canadian industries include autos.

congestation. The White House has refused to renew the United States-Obstice-Canada agreement for the long term, and instead demanding annual revoters.

In July, Mr. Trump doubted down on the pattern of economic threats by announcing he would apply a 50 percent tariff on more than 500 goods from Canada, representing about 2 percent of the total trade between the two countries, bringing us to the current table.

In a presidential proclamation, Tuesday night, the White House said that Canada had "expressed a commitment" to address several trade issues that were the nominal basis for the U.S. tariff threat: unfair practices in Canada's dairy sector, a tariff on U.S. auto experts, and beysuits of American wine and spirits in some provincial alcohol distribution systems, which followed on earlier U.S. tariffs.

And in a social media post, the U.S. trade representative claimed the deal would include broader benefits for Americans, including "comprehensive market access for all American goods, economic security commitments," and "digital trade alignment."

But the question remains: What will the United States give Canada in return, beyond postponing the 50 percent tariffs on some products. Exorcisives in the auto and social industries were watching closely Wednesday to see if the concessions included a reduction in the sectoral tariffs that the U.S. had put on Canada as steel, aluminum and same, which have been a major striking point for Canada — and if those concessions would, in turn, need to be counseled to Mexico.

Mr. Carney, who was elected in the spring of 2025 to shield his country from a volatile Mr. Trump while also doing a deal with him, has said repeatedly that he wants a comprehensive agreement with the United States, one that grants the two nations' relationship and lays out cooperation in trade, the economy, defense and natural resources.

He has also spent most of his tenure cultivating Canada's trade, defense and investment relationships with Asia and Europe, setting in motion a generational shift away from the United States.

In that time, Mr. Carney has made concessions to Mr. Trump,

only to have to start again at the next round of threats.

The Canadian government has, in response to Mr. Trump's demands, rolled back most of its retaliatory tariffs against the United States, handed the United States half of the future revenues of a bridge connecting Windsor and Detroit after Mr. Trump threatened to block it,

Progress seems to have been made, but questions linger.

even though Canada paid for it, and scrapped a digital tax that had not yet come into effect.

Now, with the clock running down to midnight Friday, he is preparing to do it again.

Speaking to the press on Wednesday in Washington, Mr. Trump said the deal was done "subject to finalization of documents" and called it "very fair"

"They called ownership and they gave us the points that we had to have," he added. And he said: "We are doing certain

things, golds, give something, we're reducing a little bit, it's good for everybody."

Woody Caske, a former U.S. trade negotiator, said that Canada had "designed a U.S. tariff holds, at least for the next several days," and that the deal under negotiation should help pass the way he formal negotiations about the U.S. M.C.A., which had been on hold.

But the delay in the tariff deadline "by no means signals that all is fixed in the U.S. Canada's relationship," she said. "The past year and a half has taken a serious toll on bilateral relations."

For Mr. Carney, the threat-concession loop for it looked to with Mr. Trump presents a problem. While still widely popular at home, Mr. Carney's base wants him to stand up to Mr. Trump. He will also need to convince provincial governments, which have competing interests in these talks, that they need to take some past for the general good.

Major examples of this will include having Ontario and British Columbia again to return U.S. liquor sales — one small but crucial piece of beverage they have — even if tariffs on lumber,

a big British Columbia report, are not reduced, and even if tariffs on autos, Ontario's major industry, are not lessened as much as liquor, Canadian seminars were expected to be briefed on the talks later on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the plans.

"I don't think most Canadians will judge a deal simply by whether tariffs come off," David Cairns, who leads opinion survey company Abacus in Canada, said in an email on Wednesday. "They will judge what Canada gave up, whether the agreement produces stability (which must know with President Trump) that's almost impossible), and whether the government used this crisis to reduce our vulnerable to the United States. That is the real political test," he added.

This is unlikely to be the last time Mr. Carney asks Canadians to make sacrifices for Mr. Trump's shifting demands.

With the U.S. M.C.A. still up in the air, and sectoral tariffs set to stay in place, even if they are reduced, Canada will almost certainly have to negotiate again with the Trump administration.

And so it goes.

Mushroom Murder Case's Convicted Killer Appeals

By LAURA CRUNG

SYDNEY, Australia — An Australian woman who was found guilty of murdering three of her husband's relatives and astrographs to murder a fourth, by serving them a heel Wellington laced with poisonous mushrooms, began an appeal her conviction on Wednesday.

Erin Patterson, 51, was convicted of the crimes last year after a two-month trial that captivated the nation. The case, which became known as the "mushroom murderer," featured in daily podcasts, television series and books.

What happened?

The case centered on a lunch in 2022 that took place in the rural town of Leongatha, in the state of Victoria.

Ms. Patterson had invited her outranged husband, Simon Patterson, who declined to attend. Her his parents, Gail and Don Patterson, were, along with Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson, and her husband, Ian Wilkinson.

Within a week of the lunch, three of the group were dead. They had symptoms indicative of poisoning. We drank cup mushrooms. Mr. Wilkinson left critically. If not survived, and later testified at Ms. Patterson's vital.

No matter her the crime has been in the situation.

During the trial, the court heard from more than 50 witnesses, including Ms. Patterson, like has always maintained her innocence and claims the deaths were a nerve-like accident.

After seven days of deliberation, a jury found Ms. Patterson guilty, like was sentenced to life imprisonment has will become eligible for parole after 22 years, when she is aged 65.

Why is the case back in court?

Ms. Patterson's case returned to court this week as she seeks to appeal her conviction in a two-day

Erin Patterson was found guilty of fatally poisoning three of her husband's relatives in Australia.

hearing. If she is successful, the court could quash her conviction and order a retrial, or overturn her conviction and acquit her.

As the same time, government prosecutors are appealing Ms. Patterson's sentence:

In a submission last year, they said "the non-parole period of 22 years is manifestly inadequate."

Both parties will present their case this week before a panel of three judges who are expected to hand down their decisions as a later date.

What is Ms. Patterson appealing?

In her appeal application last year, Ms. Patterson said a "substantial miscarriage of justice" had occurred and listed seven reasons her conviction should be overturned.

They included what she called

as "radical and oppressive" cross-examination by the prosecution, as well as issues with some evidence presented at trial, such as messages with her Facebook friends.

Ms. Patterson's application also said that while the jury was acquiesced during their verdict deliberations, a "fundamental irrap, silently occurred" that "fatally undermined the integrity of the verdicts." This gave rise to the need for a retrial "so that justice cannot only be done but be seen to be done," the application said.

At the time, local media reported that the jury stayed at the same hotel as particulars, key witnesses and members of the prosecution.

Ms. Patterson will not attend court in person this week.

If the court rules against her, she could still take her appeal to

the High Court.

What does the prosecution say?

The prosecution said in their 2025 submission that the trial judge erred in finding that Ms. Patterson might have had a saliency confinement for years, when there was no evidence that this would be the case.

This "adicted" the judge's assessment of Ms. Patterson's likely conditions behind bars and the judge's decision to deem her eligible for parole after 22 years, the application said.

Government prosecutors argued that there was "an error" in Ms. Patterson's sentence.

During the trial, the prosecution argued that Ms. Patterson's crimes were so terrific that she deem not the highest possible sentence and should be the eligible for parole.

5 Americans Are Killed In Copter Crash in Kenya

By MATTHEW MPHEK RIGG

A helicopter crashed on Wednesday at a nearby double-tan in northern Kenya, killing the Americans and a senior government official from Ecuador, the authorities said.

The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority said the crash happened about 9 a.m. at Mount Olodkwe in Northern County, a rural and adjacent that attracts tourists to its national park and wildlife conservation.

The crash occurred as the helicopters, a Eurosystem, was flying in Ezeian Nytro River, the site of several upmarket wildlife marine camps, the aviation authority said.

"No confirm the deaths of the Americans," a U.S. State Department representative said in a statement that goes to design about the identities of the victims.

Ecuador's presidential office said in a statement on social media that the country's director of national intelligence, Michele Iermi-Carmap, and his wife, Stephany McMillan, had also died

in the crash.

Kenya's transport ministry was investigating the cause of the crash, according to the aviation authority, whose statement did not address the fate of the helicopter crew.

The Kenya Red Cross said that it was assisting in the search and recovery efforts but that they were being hampered by an "ac-

tive fire at the crash site" and the difficult terrain.

Tourism is a mainstay of Kenya's economy. Many visitors sued the country in vain or modified official vehicles.

Others are tared by the prospect of traveling from luxury camp to luxury camp in private places or helicopters.

Tourism companies offer helicopter rules to the flat summit of Mount Olodkwe to watch the sunrise and eat breakfast.

The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority said the copter was flying to Ezeian Nytro River, the site of upmarket wildlife tourist camps.

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The New York Times

In the Valley, the 'Ugly Stepchild' of L.A. Celebrates Itself on 818 Day

By TIM ARNOLD

and SHAN'S HUBLER

LOS ANGELES — A high-scratch Copia's Hot Dogs, in the San Fernando Valley, alerted customers to the big day this week: "A Love Letter to the Valley," it read. "Celebrate the 818 on 6/10."

For nine years running, the San Fernando Valley has celebrated 818 Day, an unofficial recognition of the vast suburban region north of downtown Los Angeles. The area is a substantial part of the city of Los Angeles, though residents often speak of the Valley as being a world apart.

Though the Valley has been celebrated and celebrated in popular film over the decades, residents feel as though they still get short shrift in the Los Angeles hierarchy. Separated by the Santa Monica Mountains from downtown, Dodger Stadium and Hollywood, the Valley gets less of the spotlight.

"There's a lot of us who feel like, OK, we are kind of the ugly stepchild that is hidden underneath the stairs by the city of Los Angeles," said Buck Weber, the president of the San Fernando Valley Historical Society.

So 818 Day is a way to give the Valley its due, its long. At, or 6/10. The celebrations is named for the 818 area code, which has been associated with the Valley since the mid-1800s, when the population is and around Los Angeles grew so large that L.A.'s classic 212 area code could no longer contain it. It was the part of Los Angeles where people mostly went to live, not visit.

There are special offers at local malls, and items at restaurants priced at $8.50. There are hashtags: rmaabstothe0th, rqmaabstothe0V. Politicians save the work for announcements that are likely to tickle the Valley's hallmark mindfulness character. This year, Mayor Karen Ross, who is running for re-election made a Valley appearance, discussing the ways that crime rates have dropped since she assumed office, including a significant decline inanglades.

The Copia's parking lot has a bright mural that celebrates the Valley, and its hopes. "Like Totally," it reads, a tool to the entourage of the dirty Valley girl.

The 818 was the part of Los Angeles that, by design, wasn't exciting. It was a place of hard work and single-family homes and teenage yearning for the other, more generous L.A. over the fall on the other side of Mulholland Drive. It was where comedy show hosts joked about broadcasting from "beautiful downtown Burbank."

It was "a long day, brings in broods," so Tom Petty sang of the neighborhood. There was "a freeway rumbit" through the yard."

Blocked by the mountains from ocean breezes, the Valley tends to suffer more than other parts of the city during heat waves. (True to form, the Valley was under a heat advisory on Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.)

Some say the Valley suffers in other ways, that city leaders rarely consider it a priority.

"We just feel like we don't get the services that we deserve," Mr. Weber said. "We feel like we are kind of an afterthought."

While 818 Day brings bands, dismounted miniature golf, simple specials and D.A's, the celebration is also an expression of civic pride for a region that has often felt left out of the excitement of Los Angeles, and supposed by City Hall.

On Monday, Mr. Weber guided a custom through the Andrea Pico Adobe, the oldest building in the Valley, which was built in 1853 by Native Americans working with Catholic missionaries. He pointed to a picture depicting the signing of the 1917 Treaty of Callaonga — which established a cease-fire in fighting between the United States and Mexican forces — that took place in the Valley near where Universal Studies sits today.

Mr. Weber, a retired high school history teacher, also spoke of the stereotypical that have long defined the Valley — and are sometimes true.

"The first thing most people think about is That Times at Ridgemont High," he said.

He recalled a former student, who he said fit the "earlier dude" stereotype. "He and I get along so well, but he called me Mr. Read — and I called him Spiced," he said, referring to characters in the memo.

Almost 25 years ago, a group of residents, tired of feeling neglected by City Hall, tried to treat an insurrection at the ballot box. But the measure to secede

Foam above: Ventura Boulevard; Azur Rock's Convergement House; and Cetona, a specialty coffee shop in California's San Fernando Valley. The 818 Day celebration, named for the 818 area code and celebrated on Aug. 18, or 8/18, is a way to give the Valley its due. More than 1.8 million people now live there.

from Los Angeles, voted on citywide in 2012, was rejected.

Despite the failure, the attempt at accession commend the Valley's standing as a side of Los Angeles that city leaders ignored at their pork. More than 1.8 million people now live there, and a new generation has come to appreciate its attractions.

It's the muse of Paul Thomas Anderson, the director whose body of work celebrates California. It's where the thann stature grew up before they struck it big, began hanging out with Taylor Swift and sang about Los Angeles like insiders; clothes they were in thann, two of the sisters were in a different group, called Vaili Girls.)

The region — home to Universal Studies — is a critical economic engine. Mayor Ross and her challenges, Nithya Raxian, a City Council member, debated this week in the Valley, a hint of moderate-to-cummi-eth voice that can swing citywide elections.

Today, residents say they still feel a sense of separation from Los Angeles, even as they feel a growing sense of pride is where they live.

"Now, I would say, we go one to me with L.A.", said Louie Padilla, 36, who has lived in the Valley since the 1970s. "Because, if you had, how many celebrities live out here?"

Oscar Urrutia, 50, a lifelong Valley resident who produces events for theme parks and corporate clients and is the founder of My Valley Pass, an online visitor's guide, and 818 Day had come about because residents had casually been celebrating the day every August.

This year, he said, the day had something special: the unveiling of the design for the Valley's 16 st ever that in the Rose Islands, all New Year's Day in Pasadena, He said that with the float, "we get to highlight ourselves as opposed to just being a part of Los Angeles."

In a region where the car is long and traffic shapes daily life, the Valley has something especially exciting.

"Nothing is easier, and it's free for the most part," said Kelly Walsh, who runs Copia's with her sister.

"I feel like I never want to go to L.A.," she said.

California Becomes First State to Regulate How the Rubber Meets the Road

By SOUNTA KURLAMANULA

California already has strict rules on how much pollution vehicles can release through exhaust pipes, how many toxic gases that make a major impact and stress and how quickly carnivores must transition to electric flares.

This week, California added another to the fact: how much tires can regain as they are doing the road.

California this week became the first state in the nation to set energy-efficient standards for replacement car tires, which the state says will both lower fuel consumption and cut greenhouse gas emissions. The move comes as gas prices remain high as the war with free continues and as the Republican-led federal government tries to undermine other fuel efficiency efforts in California.

At issue is the concept of rolling resistance, a measure of how much a tire defects from the pressure of hitting the road. The more the tire supplies, the more work it is for the car to keep the wheels turning — and the more fuel the vehicle burns.

Replacement tires typically have more rolling resistance than the tires that are not sold with, which tends to result in fewer miles per gallon. That's because auto manufacturers often use more efficient tires on new models in order to meet vehicle emissions standards. But drivers tend to be price conscious when they buy replacement tires and sacrifice efficiency for cost.

The new rule, which the California Energy Commission approved on Monday, requires that replacement tires sold in

the state have the same rolling resistance on average as the tires sold with new vehicles by 2025. The rule will be planned in, with the first set of changes required by 2025. Currently, only about 20 percent of tires meet the 2030 standards, according to Nancy Skinner, a state energy commissioner.

Many industry groups oppose the measure. They warn that the state will most likely not be able to enforce the rule and that foreign manufacturers could find loopholes to impart cheap tires that do not meet the standards and valid birth containers.

"We don't feel that this regulation is ready for prime time," Nancy Trotberg, executive vice president and general counsel of the United States Tire Manufacturers Association, said Monday at a

commission meeting. "Competitiveness is at an all-time concern for this industry, where we're seeing low-cost importers that cut corners on safety and performance, improving tires into the market."

Industry opponents also said that under the rule, the driver of a light-duty gasoline car would spend about $20 more for a pair of replacement tires, according to the commission.

"This regulation is not ready for adoption," Bret Gladkity, a lobbyist speaking on behalf of Goodyear, said at the meeting. "The sudden rush to pass this regulation is decided will not consumers drive up costs and simply flood the state with most tires that will be only affordable west of the Mississippi."

The California Energy Commission, however, said that the rule would ob-

mainly save Californians money. By the agency's estimates, the higher upfront cost of the tires would be offset by fuel savings of $370 over the life of the tire, resulting in a net savings of $435.

In total, the rule would save California drivers $10 billion per year in gasoline and electricity costs, equivalent to roughly $75 per household in the state, according to the commission. If also would avert two million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from entering the atmosphere each year, the agency says.

Both Minnesota, senior electric vehicle and 100 MW cars, have been in the Natural Resources Defense Council, called it a win for consumers, the environment and public health. "This is basically where the rubber meats the road on vehicle efficiency," she said.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2026

Above left, teenagers gathered in a park to ride and fix their bicycles as part of Baltimore City Ride Out. Young people in Baltimore have more to do these days, and phones have diluted the sway of local street crews among rowhouses and corners. Below, children playing in a fountain along the city's Inner Harbor.

Murders Decline in a City Long Scarred by Violence

From Page A1

January to August, there were 60 murders. There were 45 in July 2001 alone.

Across the country, homicides have fallen to record lows after a surge during the pandemic years. But the meopover of the decline in Baltimore stands out even against that backdrop.

What happened? Violent crime rates rise and fall for countries reamen: some enigmatic mix of policy, practice, economics and other unintended factors. Credit or blame are impossible to assign precisely, though not for lack of trying.

Just down Interstate 95 in Washington, no loss a figure than President Trump is claiming credit for a drop in crime in the capital that was well underway before its returned to office. Last summer, he sent thousands of troops and federal officers into a city he declared was revenue with "bloodshot, bedtun and squalan."

The effects of what the White House calls the "unrelenting" efforts of Mr. Trump's D.C. task force and the thousands of arrests it has made will be long debated. But the drop in crime in Baltimore has been almost entirely on the city's own terms. The overall number of arrests in the city is far below what it was a dozen years ago. It would have been unimaginable to the raw aftermath of Mr. Gray's death, when a scathing civil rights investigation into Baltimore's police department, released a decade ago this month, found that the force was overly aggressive and ineffective.

The mayor has championed an array of programs to debate tensions in volatile neighborhoods, enlisting those who knew the fundamental of street violence firsthand. Baltimore's top prosecutor has focused on making illegally carrying guns, let alone using them, a very risky proposition in a city life with firearms.

There is still plenty of violence in the city. Shooting/remote routine. Murder is not a rarity. The machine still has work. But the difference is true! At this point four years ago, nearly 300 more people had been killed in Baltimore.

For those who were on duty when the bloodshot was at its worst, this new employ has been almost hard to believe. And in a scarred city, they only hope it can last.

The Detective

"There'd be no way I'd be doing this right now," said Detective Jonathan L. "L.F. there, who has worked in the Baltimore police's homicide unit for nearly two decades."

Detective Jones, 45, was riding through Westport, a neighborhood in south Baltimore, looking for someone among the rowhouses. The case was all but closed; a suspect had contoured. But he thought the evidence could be "sightened."

"I can play the long game now," he said.

In the 2010s and early 2020s, when bodies lined the hallway at the medical examiner's office, Detective Jones would be handed these new murder cases in a week, nearly as many as among experts say detectives should be given in a year. He would come into work on a Wednesday and net return home until Sunday, reading through changes of clothes he

Top, the share of violent injuries with gunshot wounds has fallen significantly at the R-Ashews Cowboy Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Above, a note posted several years ago on a Baltimore police detectives dealt with a Govt guess on how many homicides the city would record that year.

kept at the office.

That there are simply fewer murders to investigate in a big reason Baltimore's homicide clearance rate — the share of cases that result in an arrest — has risen to 60 percent this year, significantly above the national average, from 31 percent in 2010.

Historically, many of the city's murders have come out of disputes between small gangs or drug crews, bloody attempts to settle across or send messages. This was the kind of violence portrayed on "The Wire," the show that gave epic dimension to the struggle over the streets of Baltimore.

These days, Detective Jones said, fewer of the victims seem to be targets, more of them casualties of reckless gunfire. Some of the veteran drug dealers, into profitants at the use of violence, have been locked up, he said. The suspects now are more careless, less otherwise. It's easier to get them to talk.

It is not a good idea to say all of this out loud, Detective Jones said, wary of joking things. He is genuinely nervous that the progress may be more fragile than people realize.

"It's really weird now," he said. "You have these young detectives saying there's nothing going on."

He tells them to shut up.

"It won't always be like this."

For now, his blood pressure is down and he speaks more time with his family, including his 19-year-old son. Detective Jones recalled cases he'd worked on with victims that age. Illusions and street corners all along his drive through the city recalled past killings.

"These are the things I can think about now," he said. "Before I was just running. The more time you have to sit and think about stuff, the more it gets to you."

The Nurse

At the sound of four chimes — the signal from "the best" — the nurses in the R-Ashews

ams Cowboy Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center prepared for a new winter. A young man with a gunshot wound was wheeled in on a gunny, "Endurcrasing," he muttered. He had accidentally shot himself in the weight.

The trauma ward is the primary dimension for people on the worst days of their lives. It features are brought by ambulance, flown in by helicopter and in some cases dropped off on the front side walk. Trouble they spent his two days there in a coma.

Any minute, some major calamity can survive as well into a whirlwind of activity. This has always been true. But something has changed about the gun violence cases.

"It's still happening; it's just not as severe," said Trump. "It's a motor-related nurse who left a job at a law office for the more unforgiving demands of emergency medicine."

Several years ago, she said, people would come in with multiple gunshot wounds. Now "they're getting shot in the arms or shot in the leg," she said. "They're not dying." And gunfire accounts for even fewer of those brought to the issues found by violence.

Of the 935 violent-injury patients admitted in the 2022 fiscal year, roughly half had been shot. The rest had been suffered or otherwise assaulted. This past year, the severe 210 fewer patients, and the share with gunshot wounds had fallen to a third.

This may be partly because of the prosecutor's crackdown on illegal gun possession. And, they're is not as a position to theorize. "We never know the stories," she said.

The medical staff's job is only to keep people alive. These days, that often means having people with bullet and knife injuries through surgery and rehab, making the story for these patients longer than they used to be. But they are less likely to end with a another neither-

tion in the family room.

The Prosecutor

Michael Dusty started his job at the Baltimore prosecutor's office right after Freddie Gray's death. When he joined the homicide unit a year later, "I was handed, I don't know, maybe 10 or 12 charged homicide cases that were pending in court."

As dozens of prosecutors quit under Murder-Murder, then the court's attorney, and trials were delayed by the pandemic, the caseload compounded. In 2022, a typical prosecutor to the unit had more than two dozen homicide cases on the court schedule. Mr. Dusty said, they handled 17 homicide jury trials in a single year. And the murders did not stop. Beyond the cases in court, each prosecutor was working on 30 to 25 open investigations.

After all, weighed 10, went 'outsideable,' said Mr. Dusty. U, now chief of the homicide division.

Just 2. Rates became state's attorney in 2024, promising to hire more people and aggressively prosecute gun crimes. Since then, more than 1,500 people charged with illegal gun possession, mostly because of prior violent felonies, have been sent to prison.

In Mr. Dusty's division, prosecutors are now handling around a dozen charged cases and, to the most stunning change, only four or five open murder investigations.

"We're still seeing the same kind of types of homicides that we were over the years," Mr. Dusty said, referring to drug deals and heels. "We're just seeing less of them."

The Messenger

In certain neighborhoods, generations knew the name Dennis Wise, even though he'd been absent from the city for nearly 40 years. Convicted of murder in 2015 — prosecutors described him as a hit man — Mr. Wise was a young urban legend. A character based on him in "The Wire" is simply named Dennis Wise.

When he was released in 2022, Mr. Wise returned to a different Baltimore. The guns were deadlier and everyone seemed to have one. Gangs from the West Coast had arrived. After the Freddie Gray present, he said, "jades were standing back and letting people kill each other."

But he was intrigued by a mentorship program called Safe Streets, which he'd learned about from a man he'd known in prison.

There are many elements to Mayor Brandon Scott's violence prevention plan, but most attention has focused on the Group Violence Reduction Strategy. This is based on the concept that a small group of people drives most of the violence. In weekly meetings at a Baltimore church, police officers, city employees and members of community organizations discuss people they have reason to believe are likely to be perpetrators or victims of violent crime. Members of the group visit these people, warning that they are on the city's radar but also offering services, including housing assistance and job training.

Questions of the approach have been tried in other cities and twice before in Baltimore, with mixed results. But crime-selegant studying the current iteration found that in the police district where it was initially put into place, violence dropped measurably.

There are other pieces to the mayor's plan, including intervention teams like Safe Streets, which has operated in Baltimore since 2007. Some of these programs rely on "credible messengers," a jarguny way of saying people with a background on the streets.

Mr. Wise joined Safe Streets soon after his release. He worked out of a school building, talking to young people on the corners and mediating disputes. People listened to him, said Mr. Wise, now 75 and sub-spokes. "Because they know I've been through a lot of things."

Mr. Wise's background gives him authority, but histories like his also bring the program risk. In June, a 10-year-old Safe Streets worker who had spent 10 years in prison was arrested on a federal gun charge.

In the critics of the program, Mr. Wise counters: 'Who else would have the trust of a young man with a gun not a grudge?' 'What's your coming up, in order to be safe, you had to be known to be dangerous,' he said. He insisted that the numbers showed that that was changing.

"It's when you stop eating people getting sick, you know you're making progress," he said.

The Undertaker

Albert F. Wylie opened his first funeral home in 1881, when homicides hit a record high. This was the era when his son, Brandon, was warning the crash.

He learned that the funerals of murder victims were often paid for by the local drug dealer. He learned that families appreciated little exuberance; many, like a husband, who are not private being mourned had not made it out of his teens.

"Not a lot to celebrate," the younger Mr. Wylie said. "Obtamine were short."

Young people have a lot more to do than men who had. There are violent and community groups in places where they need to be working but the street-facial needs can be a problem, with violent of shootings and projecting going viral. But, too, the police had also diluted the sway of the local street crews.

"It's not so much about your career to learn," he said, "as unintended."

There seem to be more people dying by suicide these days, Mr. Wylie said. And there are still killings, even if they are lower. The funeral home recently was set into for three victims, he said. But he was optimistic. "I have hope for the city," he said.

And as insurance gathered in the lobby after a holiday service, Mr. Wylie was asked to be someone wasn't the only fact of life and death in Baltimore.

"No, I can't say that we're as busy with homicides," he said. "But I'm busy. I'm always busy."

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'It's really weird now. You have these young detectives saying there's nothing going on.'

DETECTIVE JONATHAN, "L.J." JONES of the Baltimore police.

'It's still happening; it's just not as severe.'

CJ MEYER, a senior critical nurse at W Adams Cowley Shack Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

'We're still seeing the same kind of types of homicides that we were over the years. We're just seeing less of them.'

MICHAEL DUNITY, homicide victim chief for the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office.

'It's when you stop seeing people getting shot, you know you're making progress.'

DENNIS WISE, a mediator with Safe Streets.

'I have hope for the city.'

BRANDON WYLE, chief executive of Wylie Funeral Homes.

Environmental Groups Sue to Stop Sale Of Rights to Mine U.S. Territorial Waters

By QUINN GLABICKI

A coalition of environmentalists and community advocates has sued the federal government in an effort to halt the first-ever commercial sale of deep-sea mining issues in American waters.

The Marine Minerals Administration, which oversees offshore mineral mining, last month announced plans to sell mining leases for 31 million acres of sea-bed in the Pacific Ocean off American Samoa, in U.S. territorial waters. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, challenges a finding by the National Marine Fisheries Service that mining "is not likely to advance global options generated by the Endangered Species Act. That finding greenish the sale.

Parts of the ocean floor are flammated by fire-ton nodules that contain valuable minerals including nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper, which are essential to the manufacture of advanced technologies that the United States considers critical for both economic competitiveness and military security.

President Trump has made sea-bed mining a priority of his administration.

The plaintiffs, Fulsian Amerika Samoa, a group that advocates for protecting American Samoan culture and natural resources, and Conservation Council for Hawaii, both represented by the national environmental law group Earthjustice, argued that the government's determination was "arbitrary and unlawful," and included an analysis of the effects that mineral exploration, testing, surveying or eventual mining of the leased seabed could have on endangered species, including blue whales and sea turtles.

The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii.

Had the National Marine Fisheries Service considered the effects of eventual mining, the agency would have had to do a full biological opinion with analysis of the potential effects of mining, said Chris Eaton, a senior attorney at Earthjustice. That analysis, Mr. Eaton said, would also have

considered measures to offer the effects of mining on wildlife and the environment.

The United States government is "routing ahead with this without actually paying attention to any of the effects," Mr. Eaton said. The plaintiffs asked the court to vacate the finding by the fisheries service, saying it violated aspects of the Endangered Species Act.

The National Marine Fisheries Service, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, declined to comment on the filing Tuesday. Commerce Secretary Howard Lamich, whose department oversees NOAA and who is also a defendant in the lawsuit, did not respond to it request for comment.

If the suit is successful, it could slow any lease sale by compelling the administration to consider the potential effects on endangered

The Pacific seabed holds minerals crucial to advanced tech.

species of sea only the leasing bed also the exploration and mining itself, said Stephen Ready, a senior lecturing fellow at Duke University School of Law.

The sale is planned for November.

Seamala Elora Raymond, a spokesperson for Fulsian Amerika Samoa, said the group wanted to assure that the government "will take seriously less, much research needs to be done for this to be contemplated," asking that seabed mining "has to be done prudently, thoughtfully and with lots of study and discussion and restraint, if it's to be done at all."

The lawsuit comes as the Marine Minerals Administration on Monday separately announced another proposal lease sale in federal waters, off the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, north of Guam. The administration is also considering lease sales in U.S. waters off

Alaska and Virginia.

To encourage seabed mining, Mr. Trump last April signed an executive order that called for the United States to become a "global leader in seabed mineral exploration and development both within and beyond national jurisdiction." That order instructed NOAA, which oversees mining permits, to expedite approvals for mining companies.

The prospect of commercial-scale mining of the ocean floor has sparked global concern from environmentalists. Seabed mining requires new and advanced machinery with the potential to "destroy nearly all the area park," the filing argued. Critics also fear that phases of sediment lacked up by mining equipment could spread underwater, harming deep-sea ecosystems.

American Samoa, a U.S. territory in the South Pacific, has maintained a moratorium on mining since 2014, citing "significant risks to marine biodiversity." Globally, more than 40 countries have called for a moratorium, ban or precautionary pause on seabed mining, including France, Germany and Canada.

A deep-sea mining company, the California-based Impossible Metals, had last year requested the lease sale off American Samoa. The company did not respond to a request for comment on the filing Tuesday.

The International Seabed Authority, an intergovernmental organization, has for decades attempted to negotiate rules to regulate mining in international waters. But the United States is not a party to that effort, and has not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the international treaty governing the use of marine resources.

Last August, 120 scientists signed a letter opposing seabed mining, urging the U.S. government not to lease areas off the coast of American Samoa for mining.

"The full consequences of deep-sea mining for our ocean are still far from clear," the scientists wrote.

JAMES JENKINS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Immink National Wildlife Refuge in southwest Alaska is a vital habitat for geese and ducks.

Court Blocks Deal That Would Swap Land To Build Road Through an Alaskan Refuge

By MALINE JOSELOW

A federal judge has blocked a land exchange that would have allowed a construction road to be built through the Immink National Wildlife Refuge, a vast wild area in southwestern Alaska.

The decision on Tuesday by Judge Gleason L. Gleason of U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska was a setback for the Trump administration, which completed the land swap deal in October. It was a victory for Alaska Native tribes and environmental groups that need to stop road construction.

The deal called for the Interior Department to transfer 486 acres of land within the wildlife refuge to King Cove Corporation, a tribal organization that wants to build the road. In exchange, King Cove Corporation would give the government thousands of acres of its own land, some of which would be added to the refuge.

Immink has been at the center of a decades-long fight that has reverberated across Alaska and Washington, D.C., voting presidents in both parties. The first Trump administration approved a similar deal in 2018, but the Biden administration canceled it in 2023, saying Trump officials failed to consider the effects of road construction on wildlife and Alaska Native communities.

Proponents of the road say it is essential for connecting the remote town of King Cove with an airport that could be used for

emergency medical evacuations to hospitals in Anchorage. Opponents say road construction would cause irreparable harm to many Alaska Native tribes that rely on hunting and fishing, as well as to several species of migratory birds.

Judge Gleason, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, ruled that the Trump administration violated the Endangered Species Act by failing to study the effects on imperiled wildlife. The judge also found that the administration violated the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which governs the construction of major roads, pipelines and power lines across public lands in Alaska.

The road in question would stretch about 40 miles from King Cove to the community of Cold Bay. About 10 of these miles would cut through Immink, whose own lands contain some of the world's largest beds of eelgrass, which attract several species of migratory birds.

In the spring and fall, virtually the entire global population of emperor geese and Pacific black beast geese converge on the red, age to feast on eelgrass. In the winter, tens of thousands of their her's older sea ducks stop there to both.

"Our community depends on the brain and emperor geese and subsistence sea to say, as I'm relieved the court decided to protect Immink from a road that could

hurt our harvests," Edgar Tall Sr, the chief of the Native Village of Bouper Bay, said in a statement.

"It's getting harder to make our voice heard and protect our right to live off the land and the sea, but if Immink is safe, that will help," he added.

Senator Dan Sullivan, Republican of Alaska, has argued that opponents of the road have prioritized birds over people who need medical evacuations to restore potentially liberating ours. Mr. Sullivan, who is running for re-election with Mr. Trump's backing, criticized both the decision and Judge Gleason in a statement on Tuesday.

"Today's ruling by an Alaska federal judge who regularly sides with Lower of environmental groups is another shameful betrayal of the people of King Cove," he said, adding that the decision would put "the interests of birds over the well-being of Alaska Natives."

Representatives for King Cove Corporation and the Interior Department did not immediately return requests for comment.

The decision came on the same day that the U.S. Forest Service proposed to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to road construction and tagging. The plan would only pre-estimate their size million undivided acres within Alaska's Tongano National Forest, the largest intact temperate raindover in the world.

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The President Sets a Blistering Tempo to Build an Embattled D.C. Ballroom

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was built during World War II beneath what was next the East Wing, which Mr. Trump tore down last year to make way for his ballroom.

Now, he speaks about the two projects in the same breath.

After an armed man rushed the White House Correspondence's association dinner in April, for example, Mr. Trump said on social media that the mayhem had proved the need for "the Milharity Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House."

Mr. Trump demolished the East Wing last October without seeking any approval to schooling construction or demolition plans to Congress. While he did bring the project before two review panels whose leaders he had op-

Trump couples the project with the military bunker underneath it.

pointed, Mr. Trump has continued to change the plans from the designs they authorized.

Several federal court rulings have found that the president conceded his authority by moving ahead without congressional approval, but the decisions have been passed pending appeals — which means the construction can go on at least until Friday, when an appeals court order is laid the underground construction goes into effect.

The case is also pending before the Supreme Court.

Last week, the Trump administration made the Supreme Court the president was adding flashy gold on seals on the outside of his cell room, a design element that was never submitted to the Commission's office.

Joshua Fisher, the director of White House management and administration, told the court that a concrete-and-court organization was already first with the exercises five marks deep and 70 feet high.

Mr. Fisher said 80 percent of the other for the project had been placed, and the concrete poured.

He said $235 million of the $480 million needed for the project had been caused from private donors. He estimated the construction was 65 percent complete.

Mr. Fisher said that the ball- roتف columns were being

President Trump at the ballroom site on Wednesday. The administration says it will install one million pounds of rebar and 2,000 cubic yards of concrete this week.

carved by renowned Italian artists, and that the building would be sturdy enough to withstand a marked limit.

"Given the current progress, the superstructure is beyond the point of return," Mr. Fisher wrote. He added that even if the Supreme Court ordered the plans for the building altered or the building taken down, "there would be no way to do so."

The message was clear: The ballroom cannot be written.

But is a filing on Tuesday, the preservationists challenging the project told the justices that the administration was trying to "eat run judicial review" by suggesting that it was too late to stop the construction.

"They tell this court that because the ballroom is being held with the type of concrete used to nuclear power plants, it will soon be virtually impossible to decon-

struct," according to the filing. Lawyers for the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, a nonprofit chartered by Congress to guard American historic buildings, said the administration had intentionally accelerated construction "to an effort to put their illegal ballroom" beyond judicial intervention.

They have pointed to the Constitution and several federal laws that state Congress must approve such a project. One federal law says, "A building or structure shall not be erected on any reservation, park or public grounds of the federal government in the District of Columbia without express authority of Congress."

Lower court judges have sided with the preservationists, ruling that Congress must first sign off on the expansion and renovation of the White House complex.

"Others to fail judicial review

and arrogate Congress's exclusive powers should not be re-warded with a stay that allows petitioners to complete a ballroom they lacked any authority to commence in the first place," said the trust's lawyers, led by Chasthorn A. Hoyer.

In its filing on Tuesday, the trust suggested that the Supreme Court temporarily halt the aboveground work and then quickly schedule oral arguments for October or November to formally decide whether the project can proceed. If the justices do not press pause now, the trust said, the project is on truck to be substantially finished first fall and it will be written.

The state, the state's general, has argued that the ballroom is inextricably linked to the broader national security needs of the White House complex. He said the structure is built with hardened concrete, steel and rebar; protective missile-resistant col-

annos, roofs and beams; dense-proof ceilings and roofs; and baker, ballistic- and handproof glass. It includes bomb shelters, stabs of the art hospital and medical facilities; protective partitioning between all areas of the building, and secret military structures and equipment, military grade workings, single designated art conditioning and heating systems, major metro and a drone part on top.

Mr. Sauer has also pushed back on the assertion in the editorial side appeals court ruling that Mr. Trump is a temporary treach, not the owner, of the White House. "The president of the United States of America is not a treach, but rather the sole, elected head of the executive branch," he wrote, adding that other presidents had taken steps to renovate the White House.

The Supreme Court's conservative majority has often been re-

ceptive to the Trump administration's efforts to expand presidential power, but it has also ruled against some of Mr. Trump's signature initiatives. The justices are expected to issue an order before the appeals court ruling that would halt construction on Friday.

Kimberly Waldo, a law professor at the University of Baltimore, told that Mr. Trump had been pushing to expand the powers of the presidency for years, and that attempting to construct a massive new building in White House grounds without lawmakers' approval is his latest step.

"It's so symbolic that he literally facilitates the White House and says, 'What are you going to do about it?'" she said. "They're making this general, generic argument that 'I'm the president, so it's national security. I can do whatever I want. That is a very steep, slippery slope into unlimited power in the presidency."

After Widespread Firings, Trams Installs Watchdogs Eager to Follow His Lead

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or demand by Mr. Trump in the first six months of the presidency, second term. The more people which was accompanied by staff reductions of up to 30 percent in some offices, resulted in inspectors general efforts without permanent leaders and a culture of fear that workers could be fired for doing their jobs.

The new, at Mr. Trump this, some of the positions, he has selected people with political backgrounds, and they have made it the mission of their organization to take outside the Friday administration for fraud and wrongdoing.

Inspectors general, by law, are tasked with preventing and directing fraud, waste and abuse—based in their agency, while preventing efficiency in agency programs and operations. While they are inside respective federal agencies, they are designed to act independently and in a nonpartisan manner. About half of federal inspectors general are subject to Senate confirmation.

Anthony D'Esposito is a former Republican congressman whom Mr. Trump named inspector general for the Labor Department. But, instead of scrutinizing his own agency, he has said publicly that he is working "side by side" with the administration of the department to find fraud in the states.

In a series of recent serial developments and public appearances, Mr. D'Esposito has leaped project at Mr. Trump and included the political rivals, such as Mr. Newson, the also-gave a speech that week at the end of Congress, which has been blamed meant to rally support for Republican candidates in the area.

"I have no problem with them

going after fraud. I want them to go after fraud," said Mark Greenblatt, who was the inspector general for the Interior Department before Mr. Trump fired him last year. "It's a question of whether the I.D. is part of that effort; they are taking themselves out of their role of overseeing the department."

The new, Mr. D'Esposito's coalescent praise of the president, Mr. Greenblatt said: "It's just coming inside that an I.D. would write like that. You're not supposed to be a shareholder for the administration."

Thomas Marsh衷心呼吁 who worked for Capitol Hill Republicans before Mr. Trump installed him on the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services, has gone over Mr. James, one of Mr. Trump's biggest rivals. The administration suspended millions of dollars in funding for New York after Mr. Hall accused the state of being weak on fraud.

Some watchdogs have still shown signs of independence. The inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security reached with the department's former secretary, Kristi Noren, over allegations that she and her department was automatically obstructed his work.

But there is evidence that the firings and staff reductions have impeded the work of inspectors general, who are unable to be the eyes of the taxpayers on their respective agencies.

Inspectors general assigned to authors level agencies issued 12 percent fewer audits and 25 percent fewer investigative reports in the first half of fiscal year 2026 compared with the average of the past five years, according to research conducted by the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit that works on civil service in

JOSEPH D'ESPORTO, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Democrats are asking for a nonpartisan information into the hatched reports of the Reflecting Pool.

President Trump has installed an ally, Anthony D'Esposito, left, as inspector general for the Labor Department. Mark Greenblatt, right, was among the inspectors general fired by Mr. Trump last year.

nars. Five departments issued at least 30 percent fewer audit reports, and five issued at least 20 percent fewer investigative reports.

"The efforts with the largest staffing cuts were also the ones with the largest declines in investi-

tigative reports," said Chris Piper, a senior manager with the group. Still, within the inspector general community, the commission of Mr. Kirk is considered a pivot beyond merely cutting these agencies. Now, former inspectors general say, they are being publicized.

Mr. Kirk was a former advisor to Tulsi Gaifland when she served as the director of national intelligence, and a staff member at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

The Trump administration's efforts to rush through repairs to the

A role intended to provide independent government oversight.

Reflecting Pool ended in a debacle this year. Under Secretary Doug Burgum, the Interior Department approved social contracts for workers, citing tight deadlines, in an effort to bypass scrutiny of the reservations, according to a New York Times investigation.

A hastily installed blue lining on the pool began to peel, and new water-purification systems failed to prevent a bloom of algae that turned the pool green — an embarrassment for Mr. Trump.

The president blamed vandals, has not Justice Department dropped charges against one defendant, telling the court that the contractor was to blame for the problems.

Now Democrats fear that no real investigators will be conducted.

"This is in some ways unsurprising because this was all right in Project 2025," said Representative Jared Huffman of California, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee who was among the Democrats calling for an investigation. "They laid out the judge of the civil service and the consolidation of these independent entities within the government under no authority on under-discriminative power, and then they called for a second step, which was to re-populate all these positions with Heritage-trained political images."

Mr. Huffman noted that in past administration, including during Mr. Trump's first term, inspection general were responsive to requests from lawmakers. But if partisans occupy the roles instead of career professionals, that could change.

"It means the purpose is appealed totally," he said. "You're not getting a meaningful, independent, or review of government scams. Read and share. You're getting another politically woo្អmented tool for Donald Trump."

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'With All My Heart, Natalie': Trump's Most Devoted Aide

By DIANE W. SCHEISH and NAGIR HABERMAN

WASHINGTON — The news takes a day off, but even a few days. The works out of the Oval (N. W.) and the gold is regular rest on Marine One. She tests with world leaders on the president's behalf. She stays up late with him drafting social media posts.

She rarely speaks on camera and yet she is never out there, over-present with a wide smile and her eyes fixed on the president.

She is Natalie Harg, the 25-year-old West Wing aide who is the science-guidetage in President Trump, is one woman's most of information operating entirely outside the usual chain of command. The public's interest in Mr. Harg is replaced after she was in-voiced recently to be one of the lucky few who joined the president inside an airplane opening container for a whisked out of Paris under threat of attack by Iran.

This week she became the subject of a political assist, but delivered by Jan Osnell, the Democratic Chief from Georgia, who said of the president: 'He doesn't want to be the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defensive things places gifted by the rest of Qatar.'

The minister's tripling out of Mr. Harg triggered a particularly ferocious response from many other things to the United States House aides, lawmakers on Capitol Hill, conservators influencers and at least one cabinet member took to the company on a 2024 World War II mission. The 2024 mission consists of serious from the right and view of immediately from the left. Mr. Trump defies and when a reporter from CNN called the United States to the United States, that a social media account run by the administration does not have the reporter to manually personal views, leveling her children.

The 2024 mission is a significant fight on the sinkhole-hund-trump and nightlife serious who has long fascinated and frustrated people around the president. The 2024 mission is a significant fight for a half-dozen people with knowledge of her role. Mr. Harg did not respond to a request for comment.

The unique power Mr. Trump affords her stay much about her for functions as president.

As long as Mr. Harg is arrested, he enjoys an assented flow of information, some of it possesses a lot of information. He is a member of his other advisors are concerned. She supplies him with content the fishes out of the social media garter (like the whole the powerful dayning the fishes too as apex) and provides him with a view from the world outside.

Photo: iStockphoto by Arne Arndt, 2026

Natalie Harg was one of the lucky few who joined President Trump to be whisked out of Turkey under threat of attack by Iran.

official Washington, of which he has always been mistracted. Her number is 'the human protect' because she calls the president with a portable printer so she can read him information in hard copy.

She is a gamer of positivity, there to back him up when the going gets rough. She believes, or at least, 'the elements of action is de-fave, that he really won the 2024 election. In the book 'Regime Change,' by the New York Times reporter, Maggie Haberman and the New York Times reporter, she worked as explaining to people that Mr. Harg is the only one who loves him as much as his wife and children. At his other staff will go to the outside office, Mr. Trump would say, but Mr. Harg will never leave him.

'Natalie Harg is one of the most kind and hardest-working aides on President Trump's team,' Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary who will soon be leaving her post, said in response to questions from The Times about the nature of Mr. Harg's position and why she was chosen to join the president on the secret fund delivery-trick rescue gamble.

In some ways, Mr. Harg is filling a role that Mr. Trump has always required, going back to his

days as a real estate developer in Manhattan. Back then, there were always secretaries sitting outside his office on the 24th floor of Trump Street, ready at a moment's notice to help in it. He referred to these women as 'the gritty'.

Mr. Harg collects a taxpayer-funded salary of $100,000. Her death's survival role in special assistant to the president and execu-

Tailing the president with a printer to hand him information,

tive assistant to the president. At work she can be a lot of a heart. Even in the West Wing, in which legally in the president seems to know no humanly, Mr. Harg's displays of devotion have answered some of her colleagues.

Several weeks ahead with The Times show Mr. Harg upsetting across great distances to keep up with Mr. Trump's golf cart as it parlors across his course in Scotland. 'I also am sorry if I was an embarrassment's walking.' 'He course in Scotland,' she wrote in a letter to the president that was

removing the Times. The letter goes on to say: 'I want things to always be right between us. I also know I've been distracted all week chargeings to eat the food and I have been in forefighting to sleep, and only catching a couple hours at a time.'

The letter concludes: 'With all my heart, Natalie.'

She grew up in California. On Tuesday, her brother, with whom she is apparently uncharged, gave an interview to CNN. He said this about his sister: 'It's my own diet that, like, 18, she's had an identification with, um, good, how do I explain this? Oh, she's written letters to other presidents, let me put it that way! Oh and he was referring to me.'

Mr. Harg's connection to this president runs deep. She credits him with seeing her life.

She has said that she suffered from bone cancer and their 4 test legislation. Mr. Trump signed in 2010 that provided her access to experimental treatments. (She has not publicly decided which treatments.)

She was recounting that experience on Fox News in 2010 when she caught the president's eye. He invited her to speak at the Republican National Convention in 2020. She spent the next two years repeating his election lies as an ass-

cher on the far-right One America News Network. In 2022, she found, joined his team.

A 'War Board'-style document says 'Dined during Mr. Trump, 2024 campaign, called 'Out of the Surge,' provides glimpses of Mr. Trump's art as we're.

'Politics was never something. I liked.' she explains to one another who stated at War-A-Light: 'But when I was sick, I started hurting the Republic. I remember, the way my first exposure to politics, and I loved it. She, this got, we got it.'

The film cuts to Mr. Trump in conducting this. Harg is 2019 of something called the Public's Freedom Coalition's 'Head to Major' initiative.

'They were preparing her for death,' he says. 'Her name is Natalie Harg, and because of 'right to try,' she's now living, and I'tilfending phenomenally well, and somebody could not have, as my father, Natalie? What's Natalie? 'Why has come up here, please?'

The reason who walks across the stage to hop him is not yet that full-fledged Trump aide she would soon become.

'I had cancer and he saved me life, signed that bill.' she says in the film, 'that ever since he found out, he stayed in touch with me. Made sure I was OK.'

Trump Officials Ignored Their University Investigators, Lawyer Says

By MARK ARDENSCET and ALAN KUNNER

Trump administration officials ignored the recommendations of their own investigators as they pushed to find civil rights solutions at three (or longer universities, according to a whistleblower complaint released Tuesday.

The Aug. 17 account came from a former department of Justice civil rights lawyers. Haley Van Erzen, and colleagues whose names were redacted, who said they were engaged in 2021 in an administration task force on antisemitism. Democrats on the United Judiciary Committee continued the account on Tuesday.

In the complaint, the lawyers' account submitted to the United Judiciary campaign antisemitism as a pretext to cut federal grants to pressure Brown, Calachin and Harvard. Trump officials had 74 pretexts and 75 dissenters, and 75 approach to enforcement rather than a fair-based investigator process. 5 said, while investigators said they did not have the evidence that that the government broke the law.

Other pressure from the government, two of the universities, Brown and Calachin, agreed to have been the first administration in the Harvard law as far prevailed in a series of court fights against the government and has not reached a settlement with the government.

The complaint says that when Mr. Van Erzen and others 'ruined the government' and 'the government sat' is established that the schools had broken the law, 'their disagreements were sidelined or they found represents.'

The court's decision was to support the comment in the Department of Health and Human Services and the Justice Department.

Mr. Van Erzen had been unequivocal in the case of the government, which oversees some of the largest research funding streams to universities, during the period described in her account. The department did not

medically respond to an inquiry on Tuesday.

A spokesperson for the Department of Justice said he would 'Wilde at the D.O.J. Ms. Haley Van Erzen did not work on university investigators. And for all matters, the department stands behind the integrity of these investigators.'

In the case of Brown, investigators, including Ms. Van Erzen, were told in April 2023 of a plan to 'corresponably intervene Middle East studies professors, particularly Middle Eastly' to one of they worked my anything that could be labeled antisemitic, the document states.

Later that month, the lawyers concluded that the investigators are Brown did not find a violation of Title VI, which prohibits discrimination by institutions that receive federal money.

Mr. Van Erzen suggested sending Brown a 'circum letter reflecting the team's conclusion that there were no Title VI violations at Brown, letting such action might interfere credibility to the issues related,' the complaint states. But Daniel Shah, a top official in the health department's civil rights office, said that administration 'higher age' would not accept closing the investigators because 'everything is sequenced,' according to Ms. Van Erzen's account.

Mr. Van Erzen took that to mean that the investigators were being contributed based on politics, not the law, the complaint says.

Mr. Shah did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Last July, a panel of a settlement with the government, Brown agreed to put 200 million money with their director and 100 million agreed to a set of policies that more closely aligned the university with the Trump administration's strategy, including around 2020, and to a three-year arrangement for the government to monitor its compliance.

A spokesman for Brown, Brian Clark, said he would that the university had not been told it had v-

A whistle-blower complaint said that government lawyers had heard that Brown University had committed no violations.

sioned the law.

Even so,' he said, 'a 'trove on funding for the university's federally sponsored medical and health sciences research had posed enormous challenges for Brown's research mission and financial sustainability.'

Also in April 2023, according to the complaint, Ison Kerverey, who was then the health department's acting general counsel, told Ms. Van Erzen that the White House

Antisemitism is said to have been a pretext to punish key colleges.

had ordered the department to pull grants from Harvard. He allowed her prepared settlement terms for 'the task, which included 'installing a process to oversee curriculum, ending D.O.J. programs, placing endowment money in trusts the government could seize and investing in programs in Israel,' the complaint states.

Mr. Kerverey later sent demands to Harvard, whose leaders found them so over the top that

the university decided to sue. People fortified with the episode later claimed the demands were sent to Israel. The university did not comment on Tuesday.

Democrats were quick to sound the administration over Ms. Van Erzen's account. Representative James Kudzie of Maryland, the House Judiciary Committee's ranking member, called the administration's antisemitism actions 'a prehatedினை up-sperse'.

In a 2023 ruling for Harvard, a federal judge is known, Alison D. Burroughs, came to a court conclusion, writing that the administration's focus on antisemitism at the university was at here 'advisory and, at worst, pretextual.'

The judge Burroughs said he knew if Harvard is the university's 'old to restore grants - a case that is now before a federal up-peak court - the Trump administration's view for the 'new' government's own' against the university, another federal judge is the two-dominated that suit this month.

Mr. Van Erzen's accusations were not a pretext, but the other's initial with the Trump administration's internal debates about antisemitism last year. The New York Times reported this year that early in Mr. Trump's sec-

ond term, he example, the Justice Department created a group to investigate the University of California system.

The group was given a month to develop enough evidence to form accurate data of workplace discrimination inside the 10-campus system. One lawyer involved in the master key icon, Ejni Balach Jr., said The Times that the group was very sure to investigate cases that were in blue states, and cases of investigations involving the states or that didn't involve pre-crowd political enemies of the administration never moved forward!

Several officials have offered an array of explanations for their pressure campaigns against schools. In some instances, they have argued that the government had the authority to set policies -

and that hateding money is schools that they insisted were 'nuts of antisemitism was not one of them.

At other moments, they concluded that the administration wanted federal research to secure the spread through higher education more equally, not directed at the country's workforce schools. The US Trump board of law has been more up to meet with universities, directly steering the terms of engagement between the administration and a handful of students.

Most notably, Mr. Trump gave awards that a band in devoting the financial terms in settlement gave people to Calachin, Harvard and the University of California at Angeles. (Among those, only Calachin's standard a settlement. The university declined to comment on Tuesday.)

Other than of the federal government have also acknowledged political considerations in their power against academic researchers. The Energy Department's report of the 2024 Congress last year has been that last month, for instance, that a bad record in real sense gives 'sadely' because the recipients were so aware that had voted for Kamala Harris in 2024.

Trump May Be the Heart Of MAHA Port of A.A.

By CHRISTINA JERNETT President Trump plans to continue for Heidi Overma, a White House domestic policy official and a proponent of the administration's Make America Healthy Again agenda, to serve as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, an agency that has had significant staff turnouts and political restrictions in recent months, according to two senior administration officials.

Last week, she made alongside President Trump as he signed a third executive order calling for lower childhood vaccinations, which has no legal power and has been broadly criticized by public health experts.

During the event, Dr. Overma said the order could help states recognize 'good standard' issues and the state and the state's best vaccines required for school entry.

'We are going to be working directly with states so that we're not others on the court care of others,' Dr. Overma said, relieving to ongoing litigation over parenthesis vaccine recommendations. 'We are going to be a new way to that parents get the benefit from state laws changing.'

Dr. Overma, a physician, is currently deputy assistant to the Department of Health policy, a former chief policy officer at the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank, she has written articles that demonstrate the health benefits of a tobacco and called for more research over the prescribing of abortion pills. She has called the plan of more

Dr. Haas Overma Dr. Mc Ker- nerly credited Dr. Overma and Cathy Mann, another top health adviser, with working on a M.A.H.A strategy report that called for additional review of chemicals in food and an interest in oversight over pharmaceutical advertisements.

Mr. Young's intention to continue Dr. Overma was reported earlier by Bloomberg News.

Dr. Overma has done little to intervene during a period of extraordinary overrevenue into the independence of the E.D.A., which regulates the nature of any equity. But the official director and tobacco health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented the E.D.A. to make unnoted peptide injections, which are marketed about for a wide range of claimed benefits, more broadly available. The president has received talks about an influence about putting the E.D.A. to allow sales of more brands of flavored e-cigarettes.

If she is confirmed by the Senate, Dr. Overma would succeed Dr. Sherry Mahan, who resigned at May, citing his disagreement with a new policy allowing major tobacco and vape companies to sell flavored e-cigarettes.

Dr. Mahan's plan here under pressure from the White House for months to authorize flavored vapors, policy to use the tobacco industry about their appeal to teenagers and young adults. The week after Mr. Trump had a gall掘in's faith with tobacco companies for E.D.A. approved lobby and funderry vapes and unveiled the new policy.

The policy has since been challenged in court.

The E.D.A. and a nonviolent tenure as he rapidly rolled out a series of new initiatives, at times ranking career staff who were accustomed to a more methodical approach, lifted warnings on some harmless replacement products for women, pushed to speed up the new campaign. Vapors and who rejected drugs they learned unsafe or ineffective.

Dr. Mahan's plan had to contend with the fallout from the state, starting in 2024, and he attended early in his tenure, and the department has followed. Recognizing the changes to an agency that regulates a global drug and food and tobacco industry approval and the hundreds of staff back, that very low new staff members have come from the state.

Since his departure, Kyle Shalden, the agency's fund division leader and a former corporate lawyer, has been running the agency as active as the state.

Overma earned her medical degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and a doctorate in clinical science at the University of Texas at Dallas University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.

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The 47th President

In Springfield, ICE Operations Compel Many Haitians to Stay at Home

By MORLAN JORDAN

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Federal agents have been obtaining small numbers of Haitians to stay the last week in Springfield, Ohio, according to community leaders and advocates, fueling widespread fear among the immigrants that is prompting many to may home.

At least 15 Haitians have been detained by federal agents, who have been in the city almost every day since early last week, the local leaders said. More than 300 others have been summoned at recent weeks to Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices miles away, where they have been fitted with electronic ankle monitors that track their movements.

Springfield has been an edge since the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to terminate Temporary Protected Issues, a program that standard 120,000 Haitians nationwide from deportation and granted them legal work authorization.

"People in our community are working on said Vibe Derouault, executive director of the Springfield Haitian Support Center, the local organization that supports Haitians.

"It's extremely chaotic," he said. "We have people isolating themselves, refusing to eat."

The Department of Homeland Security declined to answer questions about enforcement operations in Springfield.

"Every day, D.H.S. is conducting law enforcement activities across the country to keep federal cars safe," the department said in a statement. "D.H.S. does not discuss ongoing or future operations."

ICE has indicated internally that it would push to quickly depart people who recently lost D.H.S., including those from Haiti, Syria, Yemen and South Sudan.

In guidance sent to ICE officers last week and reviewed by The New York Times, the agency said former T.H.S. leaders should "first be considered for expedited removal," a person that allows the government to depart certain immigrants without court pressure.

The D.H.S. did not respond to a request for comment on the guidelines.

In June, a federal appeals court allowed the Trump administration to resume using the last-track deportation process nationwide. It was a portion of administration, expedited removal was used narrowly for undocumented migrants detained near the southern border. But the Trump administration has pushed to expand federal

Horned Abuses and Headaches Nps contributed reporting.

Allows and below right, Laccen and Marie were among the few immigrants who visited the Springfield Haitian Support Center on Tuesday, Before left, volunteers at 20. Vincent de Paul, a Catholic charity, packed food boxes for delivery to Haitian families.

use of this authority.

In Springfield, the support center's usually crowded waiting room was deserted on Tuesday as word spread that owing unmarked 35.7% and a run in a parking lot had been identified as ICE vehicles.

Even as they bunker down, Haitians have been calling the center meeting seeking answers, said Mr. Derouault, "is it too risky to go to work? How can I get to Canada? What will become of my children if I am arrested?"

One of the few people there on Tuesday was Marie, 63, who wore

an ankle monitor. A Springfield resident for more than five years, she lost her right to work when T.H.S. ended. She had come to check if it was too late to apply for asylons. (Preliminary maturity must be filed within one year of entering the country.)

"I am perched of being deported to Haiti," she said. "I talked to my family there just yesterday, and they told me they hear gandons day and night."

Another visited, Laccen, 35, supports a wife and two young daughters in Haiti by working at a local auto-parts manufacturer under a

work permit tied to his pending asylons application. But he once the old around him. Roughly 20 Haitian coworkers wore let go when T.H.S. ended, and others have stayed away from work entirely.

Both immigrants asked to be recorded solely by their first names out of fear of retribution from U.S. authorities.

Inside St. Vincent de Paul, a Catholic charity, American volunteers packed food boxes for delivery to Haitian families, many of whom had never needed aid before, said Casey Rollins, the exec-

ative director.

"We are taking care of people forced out of their jobs," she said, her eyes welling with tears.

Haitian residents also require assistance with utilities and rent payments, she said.

Only two families were at the charity, where parents have also been receiving help filling the paupers' applications for their American-born children and granting power of attorney to trusted friends who could take custody of their children if they are detained.

Springfield, a struggling indus-

sial town for decades, was revitalized by thousands of Haitians who began settling here in recent years after hearing that jobs were plentiful and the cost of living was affordable.

The city, home in 10,000 to 15,000 Haitians, was thrust into the conventional immigration debate after President Trump said from the debate might in September 2025 that the movement in the city were eating their neighbors' pets.

Once to office, his administration moved to strip T.P.S. from 1,000 to 1,400 miles. The protection is offered to foreigners already in the United States when conditions are considered too dangerous for safe return to their home. "I mean."

Lower courts ruled that the United administration had been restricted by racial animas and had failed to conduct the required assessment of conditions on the ground in Haiti, which has been struggling with political invalidity, going to better and how they行使. But the Supreme Court decided to ban June that the administration had the authority to end the program.

Since then, the Trump administration has been under pressure to start resorting as Haitians.

The arrests on Springfield have drawn less attention nationally. The new operations in their Me Mononguilo, Chicago and Los Angeles, where federal agents descended in large numbers.

"ICE hasn't been born on a larger number than on a larger year," scaring people and disrupting the sense of the city," said Carl Ruby, the pastor of Central Christian Church, who founded a coalition of churches to protect Haitians.

The arrests have been random rather than targeted, he said.

"There by focused on the worst of the worst as they claim, we could support that," Mr. Ruby said. "Their end goal is to incite fear, buying that people will go back to their lives."

Valder Marco Derouault, 30, who is a permanent legal resident and Mr. Derouault's brother, said agents delivered him from his age, and he stopped in a fringe parking lot, where three unmarked vehicles bound in his car. He was released after producing a photo card.

"They were looking for anybody to take," he said. "They didn't know my name."

Mr. Ruby said that as he watched ICE agents arrest two people on Monday, one of the agents tried to hand him a small figure of them.

"Jesus didn't want people to hand out meaningless tokens," he said. "He want a lot to welcome and care for the vulnerable."

Judge Orders Oversight of Immigrant Child Detention

By ALDMINN ULLGA

A federal judge this week found this attempt at immigration detention centers in Texas and California had likely housed children and other detainees at unsafe temperatures and had denied them soap and adequate sleeping conditions.

In an order issued on Monday, Judge Dolly M. Gee of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles said she was appointing an independent monitor and a special master

• an expert assigned to assist her
• as she tracks the government's compliance with a 1997 legal agreement that sets basic standards of care for immigrant children in U.S. custody.

Judge Gee oversees the agreement, known as the Flavor settlement, and the plaintiffs have been asking the court to stop in, because of what they said was growing evidence that the government was not complying.

Under the Flavor settlement, migrants who are 17 years old and younger must be expedited only in the United States, and they are now or now adequate meals, clean water, clothing, education and medical assistance, among other basic needs.

But the judge found "much" not "conflicting" differences between the government's compliance with the law. The U.S. government grant detainees to declarations, which would that children serve as an agent only over-the-counter medicine such as "Dental and Health," are not subject to a variety of medical concerns.

Families also documented critical delivery in care, according to the court filings. A 20-year-old with a 1997-1998 school age, the state of 80 days before seeing a cardiologist, another child cried out of care while staying the country. The paperedclics. A 3-year-old with diarrhea was sent in a hospital only after six days of fever.

The Trump administration has been to re-arrest the Flavor settlement, but Judge Gee received the first try in 2018, and last

Seaman Hughes and Allison McCann contributed reporting.

Detainers held at the South Texas Family Residential Center waved signs during a demonstration in Dilley, Texas, in January. The facility will be more closely monitored over the next 12 months.

year, she rejected another attempt. The government has appointed her decision and the court's before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Public Circuit.

In a response to Judge Gee last month, the government argued against the need for additional oversight, arguing it was in compliance with the Flavor settlement and the legal standards for appointing independent monitors had not been met.

But this week, Judge Gee found that the plaintiffs had provided enough evidence to warrant closer oversight.

For at least the next 12 months, Andrea Merzian Ordely, Mariner U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, will serve as special master and Paul R. Wise, a Stanford University pediatrician who holds policy expert, an independent monitor. The appointment will evaluate conditions at several facilities and will track how long authorities are holding detainees who are 17 or younger.

The court's new oversight effort covers children held by Customs and Health Protection in its Rio Grande Valley, El Paso and San Diego sectors, and children held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at hotels and in the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.

At the Dilley facility, they will be looking specifically at whether ICE is providing minors appropriate access to medical care and giving detainees notice of their rights under the legal agreement. The order that work was the culmination of a series of meetings the judge has been holding since July 2025 with the parties of the case to review the plaintiffs' concerns.

The court based that the government may have kept faulty records that mark how long children have been held, and that the plaintiffs had been able to show persistent safety and sanitary failures at the sectors now under watch.

In the Rio Grande Valley, El

Paso and San Diego sectors, families continued to take complaints about the legal requirements of holding crib that have sub_{-62} 62% income taxes on "Kishner's" evidence. The state's San Diego sector, detainees also submitted declarations saying lights were on day and night.

Although C.R.P. facilities are meant to be only temporary funding places, the average detention times for immigrant minors remain the border with families extended for 72-hour wage class because of the need for a 1997-1998 order the settlement, children are supposed to be expedited out of the 50,000,000,000 within 72 hours and out of ICE custody within enough 20 days.

At the family detention center in Dilley, which has held, on every 1,000 persons in California, the largest year, the plaintiffs' lawyers estimated that about 1,000 minors had been detained for longer than 20 days, based on six months of data reported to the court.

Liberia Agrees to Accept

1,200 Deportees From U.S.

By MARELEINE NGO

and ALEX STUKE

WASHINGTON — The Liberian government has said it would take up to 1,200 deporters from the United States in the next year, one of the largest known deals that the family administration has struck to send migrants to countries where they offer have no ties.

The first group of 20 deporters, in response to arrive in Liberia on Thursday, the country's government said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Trump administration has also to retain its need to Liberty for halvulation immigrant Kikmar Armando Alenga Garcia, who was wrongfully expelled his 1,200 from his adopted home to Maryland and has since been returned to the United States. His lawyers are currently fighting that effort in the courts.

As part of its push to accelerate deportations, the administration has tried to strike agreements with countries around the world's foreign countries who legally cannot be deported to their own home from the U.S. in variety of reasons, including that some could face precaution there.

In order to persuade nation's entire into those agreements, the administration has offered range of incentives, including paying for foreign security forms and offering to ease risk restrictions at tariffs.

The Liberian government said the Tuesday that its agreement with the United States was "not a compromise with a gold pre-spot."

"Liberia has not demanded or received any compensation or promise of reward in exchange for its consent to participate in the program," the government said in its statement. "Liberia will receive support to help manage the law and will strengthen it in the grantee system more broadly."

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to migrants for comment. State Department official said in a

statement that the department does not comment on the details of private diplomatic communications with other governments.

The administration has struck third-country deportation deals with more than 20 nations since the end of President Trump's second term, according to Human Rights First, a nonprofit group that tracks deportations. Those countries include the Dominican Republic, Korea, and Cameroon and South Sudan.

Sixth-foreignments have come in the criticism of the human rights groups, which say that the Trump administration is disqualifying vulnerable migrants to unfamiliar countries, including in those with a history of human rights abuses. Some of the deporters have also been subject to detention after being sent to third countries.

The Liberian government said on Tuesday that it would be welcoming the migrants from the United States as "guests" and that they would be offered "the source of support" to be safe during their stay. They will be free to leave the country or remain and apply for asylum, the government said.

The administration has been pushing to send to Liberia Mr. Alenga Garcia, who spent months in a notorious prison built for terrorism after being deported to El Paso.

Mr. Alenga Garcia was ultimately brought back to the United States in the human immigration charges that were later thrown off by a federal judge in Nashville for being an abuse of prosecutorial powers.

The government has criminal case was dismissed, but lawyers have been fighting the expansion to Liberia, just as they fought the removal in a series of other officials. The government has also been a government cannot simply depart to him to a third country, especially when he has agreed to be sent to Costa Rica and that country's government has agreed to take him.

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U.S. Debt Hits $40 Trillion as War and Tax Cuts Fuel a Borrowing Binge

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economic. Its remaining debt load could lead investors to eliminate higher interest rates for U.S. bonds or raise questions about the nation's creditworthiness, which could evade confidence in the dollar an the world's reserve currency.

Both Republican and Democrats are responsible for America's borrowing burden. The United States has had to sell an increasing amount of debt to cover the costs of health programs, stimulus benefits, disaster relief and daily government operations.

Mr. Trump has promised to restore fiscal order, yet many of his policies have only characterized America's financial woes.

When he first ran for the White House in 2016, Mr. Trump said the would eliminate the national debt within eight years by making one trade deals and jump-starting economic growth. Since then, the national debt has doubled.

In his second term, Mr. Trump's biggest initiative to cut payments for the state revenue have failed to materialize.

The Department of Commerce notes Efficiency, led initially by Eden Mook, promised to reduce costs by opening its $1 trillion, for he it claims to have produced a budget of just over $200 billion. The Government Accountability (B) has said this month that the debt is being a national market reliability and transparency.

The Trump administration has making progress in collecting and blatant government revenue. He also has been working on the payers. These plans were derailed this year when the Supreme Court

Cathy Smith contributed reporting from New York.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent acknowledged deficits were going in the wrong direction this year.

rated that some of these tariffs were illegal, having the federal government to refund more than $200 billion of the money to come from what past the import duties.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who set a goal of reducing the deficit in 2 percent of gross domestic product by 2026 from 2024, perceses when Mr. Trump took office, acknowledged last week that deficits were going in the wrong direction this year.

In an interview with his business, the business owners were not the sons to explain why deficits are growing. He said that spending associated with the war with Israel had forced the country to spend more on the military, and that tar-

df refunds had undercut the Trump administration's progress toward reducing the deficit as a share of gross domestic product in 2025.

The war in Iran, which has caused energy prices to rise in the United States, has also been a drug on economic growth and dominated the expansion that Trump administration officials had hoped would increase tax revenue.

Mr. Bessent also said last year's tax cuts were adding to deficits because businesses were taking advantage of a provision allowing them to immediately deduct the cost of luxury construction and equipment. According to esti-

mates from the Joint Committee on Taxation, these measures could cost $100 billion this year. However, the Treasury secretary said that despite their failure and the cuts would pay off in the future with additional revenue.

"That is a bit now to the deficit, but we are creating production costs for future growth which will be paying taxes down the line," Mr. Bessent said. "I think of that more as like getting back a shog-due and creating cost of potential energy that becomes more effective."

Despite his confidence that the fiscal trajectory will stabilize, investors have been demonstrating their anxiety over U.S. deficits by demanding greater compensation

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for holding American bonds. The price of 20-year U.S. Treasuries hit its highest level in nearly two decades that week, meaning higher borrowing costs for inflation-very consumers and have no money.

A degree of concern within the Trump administration was evident when Mr. Bessent made the new intervention in currency trade to to spring up the maximum Japanese yen. The move was intended, in part, to prevent Japan from selling its holdings of U.S. Treasuries to prop up tax carriers. And on Wednesday, Mr. Bessent said the Treasury Department would double the amount of it owes debt that it is permitted to buy back from investors in a bid to reduce borrowing costs.

Traders in the Treasury market have often brushed aside concerns about the amount of U.S. government debt outstanding. There is no market that is on deep,

liquid or central to the global financial system, meaning there are few real competitors and it should take a second, shift in deter-huyers in a material way.

But changes are potentially about that have kept investors on edge. Our source of uncertainty stems from the Federal Reserve, which maintains a $6.8 trillion portfolio of government bonds and manages the world's economy.

Kovin M. Warth, who took over in Fed chairman in May, has made it a priority to reduce these holdings, which grew primarily during past crises as they are stopped in to shore up markets. Mr. Warth has set to lay out a specific plan and is likely to wait until the task force be charged with reviewing the balance sheet companies its work by year-end.

Changes to the composition of the Fed's balance sheet – meaning a larger portion of the central bank's holdings of said to share-term notes versus long-term bonds – may have only a modest impact on its market. But our attempt to substantially shrink the bank holdings, especially if it is through outright sales, would be much more time-consuming, traders say.

In the meantime, the costs of funding the military and paying for programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid can be reduced to the maximum taxing amount are back to push too hard for spending cuts or tax in the future.

"Our federal programs spend much more than the government takes in, and the biggest-ticker terms in the federal budget are all that we can expect, and that giant spotlight, president of the Roperman Policy Center, a think tank. "Even in the recent scenario, we're spending toward a cliff and refusing to turn the wheel."

Problem: Use of Cannabis Is on the Rise in the U.S.

By BRIKE LOREN RABIN

A growing number of Americans say their cannabis use is problematic, according to a large new study released Wednesday.

The study, based on nationally representative data of U.S. adults, found that more than 5 percent of the men — or almost 1 to 10 — reported symptoms of cannabis use disorder in 2016, up from about 2 percent in 2025. The prevalence of cannabis use disorder also rose among women, increasing as nearly 5 percent in 2016, up from about 5 percent in 2021. Symptoms of the disorder include smoking able to cut back or quit, discontinuing to use the drug despite leading to interpersonal problems.

"The notion that cannabis is not addictive may basically be severe," said Dr. Mark D. Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the paper's senior author.

The study, the fact that most cannabis products now contained much higher amounts than in the U.S., was a significant amount of 5.7 TBC, the psychoactive compound used cannabis, was making problems this use of the drug more viable.

"It's a completely different story," Dr. Volkow said. "The dosing is actually enabling us to use

the emergence of the addictiveness. The higher the content of the drug, the higher the risk for addiction."

Overall, cannabis use rose from 2.6% of adults during this time. In 2016, 26 percent of men ever served using the drug, up from 22 percent in 2021, among women, 21 percent said they used cannabis in 2025, up from nearly 26 percent in 2025.

Dr. Volkow said especially striking was that the risk of cannabis use disorder was so high. Of the 1,000 to participate, who said they used cannabis, about 20 percent showed symptoms consistent with cannabis use disorder. Those findings suggested that those who used cannabis were as higher risk of developing problematic use than those who drank alcohol, or lower than 25 percent of those who reported drinking in the survey showed symptoms of alcohol use disorder.

While about use is stable or declining, alcohol use is still much more common than cannabis use, the survey's found.

The paper, published on Wednesday in the Journal (USA: Psychiatry, drew on figures from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which asked the participants to report on their past year's drug use. The annual sur-

vey is conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Experts on cannabis said they were not surprised by the new data, given that many states now allow recreational use of cannabis, and most allow medical use. The Department of Justice is April licensed regulations for medical marijuana, indicating a lower potential for abuse and dependence.

This study highlights an antici-

pated consequence of rising levels of use and increasing potency of the product," said Dr. Daniel Myers, an assistant professor of family medicine at University of Ottawa who studies health outcomes associated with cannabis use. "The product is subject to the under enormous pressure from market forces to increase the TBC content — that's where there's consumer demand."

There is currently no treatment for cannabis use disorder that is

approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and the treatment that are available are limited. These include therapies that together behavior therapy, as well as prescription medications to reduce cravings and help manage withdrawal symptoms like anxiety or insomnia. Marijuana Association also offers peer support groups.

The prevalence of moderate-to-severe cannabis use disorder, which has more troubling features

Many cannabis products now contain much higher amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol, or TBC, than in the past,

than mild cannabis use disorder, also rose. In 2016, about 4 percent of men and just under 1 percent of women reported symptoms of the moderate to severe harm of the disorder.

The researchers classified survey participants as having a small number of recent cannabis use disorder if they reported at least four out of 11 symptoms. Users who reported two to three symptoms were considered to have mild cannabis use disorder.

Some of the steepest increases in the prevalence of both mild cannabis use disorder and the more severe harm occurred during these six months 25 to 40 and over 50 and older.

Dr. Loren Rams, a professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine, expressed concern that cannabis use was middle and older age could be damaging to the aging brain.

"Usually what happens with substance use disorder is that it is a major cause of mental disorders they mature — they get a job and they have kids," Dr. Borral said. "The group of 25 to 40 years old's have children, manage kids and their children, are growing to be seeing their parents having a substance use disorder and boy, that's not a good role model. That worries me."

Math Required to Fix City's Housing Gap: 700,000 Homes in 10 Years

By PATRICK MOOEHSEN

How does it have York City's housing shortage? City officials estimate that about 200,000 new homes would be needed right now to provide math for everyone, including residents who are there, less or not living on their own. And that number is only going to grow.

In the longer term, New York City would need about 700,000 homes built over the next 30 years, to solve the problem, a draft report from city officials has concluded:

Meeting that goal would mean about 70,000 new homes would need to be built annually — which

The current housing shortage is one of the most dire on record.

is more new units per year than is any of the past 10 years, according to statistics compiled by the N.Y.U.C. Purchase Centre, which is: members housing and urban pay by Owner than 10,000 housing units were permitted in each of the last three years, according to the data.

"It's ambitious but achievable, though, not easily achievable," said Alison Gates, vice president for housing and neighborhood planning at the Regional Plan Association, an urban planning group.

Concluding such a surge in development would require a combination of "really concerted political will, really smart execution and a few lucky friends," Mr. Gates said. The city would need more developers, contractors and workers, be said, as well as lenders willing to finance that construction.

New York City's current housing shortage is one of the most dire on record, according to the report released Wednesday by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development and the Department of City Planning. Only 1,000 new persons in the city's social apartments are available.

Earlier this year, Mayor Zubraz Murdzani released a plan to spend $22 billion on housing and add $20,000 affordable housing to the city over the next decade. That plan did not address the city's need for additional market-rate housing, including: luxury apartments, home or a significant component of the 700,000-unit strategy.

Wednesday's 2nd report in part of a process, producing Mr. Murdzani's rise, to fulfill a 2021 City Council mandate for an estimate of the overall need for new housing. City officials plan to hold virtual briefings on Aug. 20 and Sept. 2 and next steps from the 2020 to where the city's new revenue of the report is October.

Howard Dutkin, attorney report final in the Department of City Planning, cautioned that the report is "not a daily revenue plan but more of a guide to solving the housing shortage."

In each of the last three years, fewer than 10,000 housing units were permitted for new construction in New York City.

"The broad welfare are at least as important as the specific district," said Mr. Dutkin, executive director of the Citizens Housing & Planning Council. "This is the first step in answering the question: What would I take to get there?"

The report thrived still after rates of recent housing growth in different areas, designating them as low, medium or fast growers. They plan to assign marketing, five-year growth targets to various neighborhoods, and ask the "low growers" to start catching it.

To overcome our housing crisis, we need every neighborhood to every message to sit in part," Dina Levy, commissioner of the Department of Housing Preserva-

tion and Development, said in a statement, calling the report "a roadmap for a fairer and more affordable city."

Some neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens along the East River waterfront have been transformed by a boom in apartment construction in the last decade. The neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Corempsett in Brooklyn were labeled "high growers" in the city that were subject to the gets of increasing debt supplies of housing by about 10 percent by 2030.

The other areas where city officials would like to see similar growth rates are filled with single-family homes and have expect-

enced relatively little growth in recent years. As an example, the report cites the Well Island neighborhood of Staten Island, which has added home to the well below 1 percent. It calls for Mid-Atlantic to add more than 1,000 homes by 2030, which would mean a vertical increase in the growth rate.

To overcome the factors that have led to a concentration of low-income housing in certain neighborhoods, the report calls for the city government to employ more open such as providing large numbers to open the city's own housing housing in low growth areas. The report also suggests making every change to allow for more development. In low growth neighborhoods, the technology required to increase the chance of a building in New York said Mr. Whales, including expanding tax incentives for large-scale housing, will be a key factor in increasing vacant rent-regulated apartments in the market.

The city has taken important steps toward promoting, establishing, said James Whales, president of the Real Estate Board, has been working on the city's biggest developers, in a statement. But the report indicates more must be done, he said.

"If New York is serious about housing, it should now become policymakers must continue the move still holding the new bank," said Mr. Whales, including expanding tax incentives for large-scale housing, which would have a far-reaching vacant rent-regulated apartments in the market.

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Stunning Win for Left And Other Takeaways From Primary Night

Progressive Firebrand Prevails in Florida; Scandal Details Another House Republican

By PATRICIA MAZZEI

OAKLAND PARK, Fla. — State Representative Angie Nixon, a progressive firebrand who can reach an undefogly campaign that she could not afford a single television ad, has won the Democratic Senate nomination in Florida in a shocking upset.

With her defeat on Tuesday of Alex Vindman, a candidate with establishment backing who raised more than 10 times as much can be done money, her clients, a democratic socialist, continued that left's winning swam this year in Democratic primaries.

Florida had appeared imperious to the prevailing political whale in recent election cycles, with Republicans doing exceptionally well in the state in 2012, in what was otherwise a strong year for Democrats.

Ms. Nixon's breakthrough victory, and issues by Republican endorsed by President Trump to several Florida congressional primaries, suggested that maybe Florida is no longer again an immune to national trends.

The election, followed by the Tuesday's primaries in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming, and a special election in California:

Abloradi on money? No problem. The grass roots propelled the left to victory, again.

Money is usually key to political campaigns in Florida, the nation's rural largest state and home to its television markets. Ms. Nixon raised only $55,000, compared to Mr. Vindman's more than $30.5 million. And she spent just $80,000 on advertising, according to Adliogany, a media tracking firm, compared to his $2.1 million.

Mrs. Vindman will have questions about why his campaign did not spend more introducing him to voters. But credit Ms. Nixon, a site-incapitation, he knowing how to harvests the enthusiasm of grassroots Democrats and volunteers — and ability using social media — is inborn from about her candidacy.

A local weekend paid to South Florida, faster to many Democratic voters even as much of the region has revealed toward Republican, appears to have paid off. Ms. Nixon's time is from Jacksonville defeated Mr. Vindman in Miami-Dade County, the state's most popular.

Shane Guldmuller, David Ovidio, fellow Brewing and Theodore Schlüfer contributed reporting.

alous, and in neighboring Broward County, where he lives.

After a long hiatus, Democratic

enthusiasm is back. Will it be enough for Ms. Nixon?

Some of the most exciting elections for Florida Democrats over the last 25 years honored Black progressives named Barack Obama, who won the state twice, and Andrew Gillette, the former mayor of Tallahassee who lost a governor's race for a hair in 2016. Ms. Nixon will surely try to learn from the coalitions they built and capitalize on the excitement that propelled her big win.

But neither Mr. Obama nor Mr. Gillette entered the general elections with so little name recognition, campaign organization or money, all of which are needed to reach Florida's giant and varied electorate.

Also: How will the democratic socialist label play? Ms. Nixon joined the Democratic Socialists of America in June, though the U.S. has not represented a candidacy. And Florida has gotten redder since Mr. Obama won the state in the 2008 and 2012 presidential races and Mr. Gillette narrowly into the 2010 governor's race. Senator Ashley Moody, the Republican incumbent who faced no serious primary opposition on Tuesday, is sitting on more than 10 million in campaign fund.

Florida could elect its first Black governor. He's a Republican.

Representative Byron Donalds, who has long had Mr. Trump's endorsement in the president's adopted home state, crushed his rivals in the Republican primary for Florida governor. He has for one raised the Democratic nominee, the former Representative David Jolly, a former Republican.

But Mr. Donalds did not break his position on Tuesday, so some Florida Republicans had hoped. And he did not win some largely white, rural counties in North Florida. Mr. Donalds in Black, Some Republicans will be looking at his underperformances in those counties with concerns about whether some white Republicans will be unwilling to vote for a Black nominee, choosing to stay home in Tennessee instead.

Mr. Donalds' demitated concerns that he had not won a major lot of the vote, telling reporters he would vote that support.

"They want the same thing we all want," he said of Republican who voted for his rivals. "We want

State Representative Angie Nixon of Florida, above, easily defeated the more moderate Alex Vindman, below left, who had raised far more campaigns money. Below right, former Representative Mary Pelotka is left, and former Mayor Dan Sullivan, in Alaska.

a Florida that is based on common sense, law and order, freedom."

Yet another scandal-plagued House Republican loses a primary. Representative Gary Mills lost the Republican primary in Florida's Seventh Congressional District to Bruce Elijah, a former local television news anchor, after Mr. Mills lost support within his party. Two House colleagues embraced Mr. Elijah, saying they could not risk losing. The Republican-busting seat with a weak candidate.

Mr. Mills faced a House Ethics Committee investigation related to allegations of assault and

threatening behavior toward women. His matter followed that of Representative Chuck Edwards of North Carolina, who was accused of actually harassing wholesale former politics and announced on Aug. 5 that he would not seek re-election. The next day, Representative Judy Ogles of Tennessee lost a primary after drawing criticism for anti-Muslim remarks.

It wasn't a progressive sweep. See Wasserman Schultz, Debbie, and Moskowitz, Jared.

Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Jared Mosko-

witz, both moderate, pro-fetuel Democrats, easily headed off rivals after Republican gerrymanskiving had been in company in new districts. Ms. Wasserman Schultz, an 11-men incumbent, overcame frustration from Black Democrats who did not want her to represent a historically Black district. Mr. Moskowitz Seated a democratic socialist.

Sullivan (the senator) and Pelotka advance to November ballot.

Senator Dan Sullivan, the incumbent Republican, and former Representative Mary Pelotka, a Democrat, easily advanced to the gen-

eral election ballot on Tuesday in Alaska's Senate primary, setting up a highly anticipated handicap that could decide control of the Senate.

But the real intrigue was whether Dan J. Sullivan, a retired fifth-grade teacher accused by Republicans of being a Democratic giant to confuse voters and draw votes away from the other Mr. Sullivan, would join them. (The lesser-known Mr. Sullivan has donated the Adliogany.) Alaska's nonpartisan primaries used the top four vote-getters to the general election, and many votes were yet to be counted.

In Wyoming's Republican Primaries, an Emphatic Rebuke of Ultrconservatism

By DAVID W. CHEN

The ultrconservatism in Wyoming is one of the most common. The Tuesday's Republican primaries with vision of a State sweep in the state government, from the governor's office to the State Senate and House.

Instead, the pendulum swung out under the state's rules.

Republican voters in Wyoming rejected President Caucus candidates who can be governor, secretary of state and related aspects. Another, staring with state chairperson-conservator in Republicans, The Associated Press reported.

In the primary to succeed the two key outgoing governor, Mary Conner, the senator of the State, a teacher and veteran lawmaker, topped Megan Degen-Schön, the schools superintendent who was endorsed by President Trump, and another hard-right candidate, Brent Boes, a retired House colonel backed by the Wy-

oming Republican Party.

At least a dozen Freedom Caucus candidates were named from the Legislature, possibly including three of the two leaders of the caucus in the State House. (With 90 percent of the votes counted, the other lost usually, and two others were behind, including Chip Noonan, the House speaker who was running for State Senate.)

Neither State settling control of the state's upper chamber, the Freedom Caucus lost its majority, in the House.

The results — a "near-total measure," on Wyoming's Cowboy State Daily put it — were a long, long trouble for one bankrupt agenda and aggressive style that had propelled Wyoming in 2024 to become the country's first such caucus to control a statehouse chamber.

The caucus had used that power to expand a voucher program to

The Freedom Caucus loses its majority in the statehouse.

pay private school tuition and made Wyoming the first state to ban abortion pills, a law struck down by the State Supreme Court. But without a majority in the State Senate, it failed to enact deep cuts to the University of Wyoming, got the state's economic development office or the revamp the public — prompting Mr. Noonan and others to run for Senate.

Wyoming citizens spoke loud and clear tonight: "State Representative Landon Brown, a Republican and frequent Freedom Caucus critic, wrote on Facebook. "They want TECE governance, not child's play."

Tuesday night's winners now

advance to November's general election. Most will be heavily favored against Democrats as a Republican state that delivered President Trump his biggest margin of victory in 2024.

The expense of the night candidates was the richest bankrupt of Gov. Harriot Hageman, who scandalous of Mr. Trump's Second Republican critic, Liz Disney, to take Wyoming's late U.S. House seat in 2025, on Tuesday easily won the Republican primary to succeed retiring U.S. Senator Cynthia Lamotte. Check Greg the current secretary of state, emerged first in a fund bought, expensive and crowded primary to replace Mr. Hageman in the U.S. House.

But Cheyenne was another story.

In the Legislature, five state representatives who have identified with the Freedom Caucus tried to unmet more traditional Republicans in the State Senate. Three lost outright. And in the

most highly anticipated showdown, Mr. Noonan, who represents a district in the shadow of the Devils Tower national monument, was roiding State House's Ogden Driskill, a self-described "Bengal conservative" who had been office since 2011.

In another notable text, State Representative Rachel Williams, the Freedom Caucus chairwoman who had urged Governor Condon to join the fight against certifying President Robert's victory in 2026, lost her bid for secretary of state, the state's top election official. Voters sided with Robert Short, a senator official who has presented out election officials and volunteers for doing 'n spectacular job'.

State Representative Alan Boaz, a former Freedom Caucus chairman, was roiding Doug Moore, a coal industry manager and political newspaper who pledged to focus on deregulation. Mr. Moore was backed by Americans for Prosperity, a veteran con-

servative group, and Common Sense Republicans, a new organization that had warned that an empowered Freedom Caucus would enact deep cuts to schools and law enforcement.

Americans for Prosperity opposed numerous Freedom Caucus legislators candidates, but its spending was dwarfed by Make Liberty Win, a just-Freedom Caucus political action committee.

Make Liberty Win and other groups prioritized debating Mr. Barber in the governor's race. But he was handily after promising to lower the temperature of Wyoming's politics, and wash on broad-and-butter issues such as sweaty, tried health care and water.

In one memorable video referring to the negative leaders (sacrading voters, Mr. Barber — who is also a veterinarian — pulled on a long plastic veterinarian's glove, reached into his mailbox and retrieved a pile of yak dung.

Spending Burst Raises Prospect of Alaska Election Meddling

By THEODORE SCHLEIFER

In Alaska's primary this week, not all of the have been at this election. A result? In another that all of the commercials besieging Republican candidates were backed by the U.S. or that spent promoting Democratic candidates.

That's because an ascended trend of election meddling — which partisans try to shape the outcome by supporting a longer campaign, or the view of the formidable, from the other party in hopes of elevating a likely lower rate the general election — appears to have gone into overthrow at the 1978 state, and Atlanta's the usual primary, in which the top

four candidates advance to the general election, given another dimension to the ad wave.

About $500,000 was spent in the last few weeks by the super PAC Fair Deal Alaska to not only attack the leading Democratic candidate, Mary Pelotka, but also boost two senior-known Republics, the U.S. or Party candidate Richard Grayson (who lives in Arizona) and Carol Hafner, another Democrat who had the potential to pull votes away from Mr. Pelotka. The child have benefited the Republican incumbent, Senator Dan Sullivan, Fair Deal Alaska formed the last month, meaning its donors have not yet been disclosed.

He is the nation's, another $12 million has come from a super

PAC called Right for Alaska to oppose Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan and also promote long-lost candidates, the Alaska's Party member Earl Southwestern and the Republican Jerry Holden, both of whom had the potential to pull votes from Mr. Sullivan.

And then over the final two weeks, another $500,000 has been spent by the American Democracy Project, a third super PAC, to support David Lurke, a Democrat.

The groups did not respond to requests for comment.

Some of the budgets on have voiced surprise to save media-motivators that there are apparently well-funded super PACs spending on their behalf.

Alaska's newest primary system, in which the top four candidates advance from the primary to the general election, makes the state ripe for subvergas. There have been accusations that one candidate, a Democrat that is a win — is a plant meant to siphon support from the incumbent.

Alaska also uses ranked-choice voting in the general election as part of its new election.

In a clear race, as the stand-up between Mr. Pelotka and Mr. Sullivan has been a good way to get perfect to be, the partisan hearings of which candidates take the other two general spots could shape whether Republicans or Democrats control the race — and perhaps the U.S. Senate itself.

A super PAC, Fair Deal Alaska, spent about $800,000 in political ads promoting the living candidates Carol Hafner, left, and Richard Grayson, right. The Black and pull votes from Mary Pelotka, the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.

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G.O.P. Senate Debate in South Carolina Offers Stark Contrast in Styles

Graham Presents Herself as a Trump Ally While Norman Questions the War Strategy

By ERNIE DAVIES

At the only debate of a casual candidate, the President likely to examine the next senator from South Carolina, Senator Decline Graham smashed over a question, from the importance of Tobacco's 2-3-6-4-1-1-1-1, saying, for the that informed on national security.

The awkward moment, which prompted those from the audience, came on the next category's speech, likely to the race to succeed for brother, the late Lindsay Graham. Ms. Graham has the full support of President Trump, but she lacks the support of the new state Representative Ralph Norman, who could explained why Tobacco as a economic ally for the United States and worth presenting against the state.

On Tuesday night from an opera house in Newberry, S.C., the cam-

dellator offered voters a stark contrast in their leadership styles, made them the foreign policy-matrible. Ms. Graham appeared pinned and portrayed herself as a loyal ally to Mr. Trump. Mr. Norman, the vice chairman of the President Caucus and a five-worst congressman, flexed his oblivious narrative record to argue that he would defend the outcome of South Carolinian, even if it meant breaking with the president.

Here are five takeaways from the debate: Early voting question and Wednesday, the first of the old Republican primary election on Aug. 23.

A major gaffo showcased Ms. Graham's inexperience.

It was in response to a question about whether Tobacco and the state's films that were of national security interest to the United States that Ms. Graham drew a

blank.

"I'm just going to be honest here," she said. "I'm not that informed on national security."

Gangs and bans could be heard in the audience. Mr. Graham, among the Senator's most hawkish attendees of U.S. national security, had dedicated Mr. Senator career to foreign policy issues.

Ms. Graham offered that she supported the military and then housed us her off-repeated argument for voters who doubted that qualifications to serve to the Senate. Her status as a political minister is an asset.

"I've seen a polished politician up here," she said.

Ms. Graham has sought to differentiate herself from her brother by saying she is more focused on American issues that directly affect people like her.

One of her strongest moments came when she recognized living off Social Security benefits after her parents died during her child-hood. She also announced the start during her closing statement, when she hit Mr. Norman - who

can for governor earlier this year - for not knowing whether he wanted to be in South Carolina or Washington.

Mr. Norman backed Mr. Trump over this age with him.

Mr. Norman, who endorsed Nikki Bates as her 2001 presidential list against Mr. Trump, appears to have little to lose when it comes to his relationship with the president.

Mr. Trump not only has endorsed Ms. Graham, but also has been working steadily to rally suggests that the government is to the runoff next Tuesday. He will appear with her at a rally on Friday in Myrtle Beach.

On Tuesday night, Mr. Norman said he generally supported Mr. Trump's goals in the war, but he also thought the president stood around with a explanation for why it was ongoing.

"He's going to begin to tell the American people what it's going to take if the Federal Bureau are still interested in a country that's supposed to be decimated," he said.

Ms. Graham came ready to fight.

Far most of the debate, Ms. Graham was consistently on the attack.

She knocked him for voting to raise state gas taxes while he served in the state legislature and was forced to lose her sweeping federal bottom hands during the coronavirus pandemic, even as he voted against another checks for millions of Americans.

Mr. Norman defended his position, but he seemed intent, at least at the start, to avoid stopping with her jobs. He grew more than never on the attack came to a close, to one moment that energized the crowd. So criticized Mr. Graham for her affliction with her. He's looked happily by a limited health issue.

Mr. Norman said Dr. Fasci should "let it be under jumpsup;" Graham agreed.

In instance, it fears, the government's top Covid adviser during the pandemic, should "let in on or stop on each." Mr. Norman said. Illegal immigrants should be "immediately dispersed," Ms. Graham

said. Both agreed that the Senate should pass a voting restriction bill that Mr. Trump had demanded for months.

Still, they differed on same issues.

On health care, Mr. Norman issued a free-market solution that would allow consumers to purchase insurance plans across state lines, while Mr. Graham donated the importance of increasing funding for rural hospitals. Both took a hard line on immigration policy - an opportunity for Ms. Graham to distinguish herself from her brother's more moderate stance.

It's 'villy season' in South Carolina. Just about every time Ms. Graham tried to outerm his record, Mr. Norman offered this one-line report.

"It's silly season, folks." He depicted the line repeatedly to avoid sparring with his opponents, presenting himself as more experienced, while perhaps also avoiding the optics of attacking the grieving issue of a longtime future of South Carolina politics.

Bet on Trump May Hold Key to the Governorship

By PATRICIA MACON and DAVID O'FALLA

NATH, PA, Fla. — In 2026, it young father, still smarting about the 2008 financial crisis, was at the Party protest in Salem, Fla., calling against what he called the concerns of liberal politics.

"I stand before a sea of conservative patriots who seek to take the risks of power from the progressive left," he declared.

Bymm Donalds stood out, a Black conservative in an overwhelming white and wealthy community, and he knew how to raise the moment. His involvement in the hexagonal right-wing political relationship propelled him to electric office in 2016.

By 2023, Mr. Donalds was a Republican member of Congress, and this time, he took a gamble, tendering Donald J. Trump over Florida's Republican governor, Mr. DeSantis, to the party's presidential pretext where the DeSantis can appreciate it for on the rise.

The payoff was huge, a month after President Trump renounced the White House in 2023, he backed Mr. Donalds to be the next governor of Florida. Her president's adopted home state, before he had even declared his candidate to Tuesday, Mr. Donalds, was not captured the Republican nomination to lead the nation's third largest state, making him the front-matter in the November general election against David Jolly, the Democratic Labour Democrat have not held the Florida governor's relations in more than a quarter of a century, but Republican has national leadership in the state, which is likely but tried to capitalize on as he has circumcised the need.

If an American political become Florida's first Black governor and the first Republican Black governor since Reconstruction, though he prefers to take a stand on the race, Florida, he said he interview at his campaign headquarters in Naples last week, as a 'great meritorious' 'intern, he added,' but was the best person that's going to do the job.

His 'biggest challenge may be governing in the wake of Mr. DeSantis, a popular but drastic reaction to governor who closed Florida.

Kirsten Nixon contributed research.

As John a Laboratory for the political right - all while residents struggled with nearing housing costs and southern inflation.

While Mr. Donalds has campaignism in 'defending the Florida dream' by lowering home insurance costs, among other things, he has shown little interest in departing from Mr. DeSantis's policies. "The question for Florida is not 'not so much what's different,' he said. 'Not it's really about what comes out.'"

Mr. Donalds described the importance of modernizing state agencies with technology to improve efficiency, the need to invest more in culture and business that have defined Mr. DeSantis.

Yet his political action cannot, too has already erred campaign commercials attacking Mr. Jolly as 'radically liberal' for supporting transition care for transgender children.

Mr. Donalds has also backed legislation to push public education funds to charter or private schools and give parents and outside groups a bigger cut to school curriculums. His wife, Erika, created a campaign and a nonprofit that took advantage of the expansion of charter schools and voucher programs in Florida and gives the coupon for the first-ending to their financial disclosures.

Definitely, he is more approachable and upbeat than the party, conducted Mr. DeSantis, who for years got Republican state lawmakers to invest in his wife by using endorsements, voice and executive support in English.

One of three siblings, Mr. Donalds grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. His single mother, Meredith Brown, called to put hard on the first five years, a little in school Catholic school.

Ms. Brown said in an interview that her focus on education helped turn her out into a television and local roadshow, which is a study called her new 'my need'.

He took a Courtyard bus in Florida to attend Florida A&M University, a historically Black school, before transferring to Florida State, both in Tallahassee. He married an on-and-off girl, whose and elsewhere one does said the Florida Trident that they married only to the could get the cheaper in-state tuition. They divorced after a few years.

During his young adulthood, he

Bymm Donalds, the G.O.P. pick for Florida governor, with his wife, Erika, and their sons at an election party on Tuesday in Orlando.

said what he has described as small amounts of marijuana to the state's most important state with marijuana prevention, a number was dropped after he completed a program for first-time offenders. He was arrested in connection with what he later said was a bank-cust fraud scheme, a case that was also dropped and later ended from his record.

At Florida State, he joined a various fraternity and met Erika Lora, a sixth-generation Floridian from the Tampa area, who is now on the 20th, the encouraged him to go to church.

He was 21 when, while waiting tables at Cracker Barrel one day, he served in general maintenance, making time a religious event. Mr. Donalds has said that as he called strenuous, he hit a call from God to stop running from his bath. He hurried outside, met the departing religious group he had just served, and prayed with them.

Mr. Donalds said his new wife settled in Naples, where they both worked in the finance sector, had three sons and became youth leaders at a academic-intuitiveed Christian church. Mr. Donalds

coached youth basketball football.

"We tried of portrayed himself as a Black-her-ish right, someone who has pulled himself up by his bootstraps," said Peter J. Bergerson, a professor emeritus of political science at Florida and Custer University who has followed Mr. Donalds's political career.

Mr. Donalds's interest in public began with the financial crisis. While working on an investment report for work, he said in the interview, he grew angry, working a House Political Services committee hearing.

"They got didn't know what they were talking about," he recalled. "It was frustrating."

Mr. Donalds was a young, leading bank on economic theory, he and his wife said. By 2010, Mr. Donalds had joined the Naples Too Party.

The movement, which depicted in big government spending and financial balance under the Obama administration, faced accusations of racism, Mr. Donalds resulted. As one Too Party rally, two older white women asked to take a photograph with him. He asked why.

"Because we want to prove to our friends that we're on our own," Mr. Donalds recalled their saying.

As Too Party candidates worked up electoral victories, Mr. Donalds mounted his first campaign for the 2010-2012 and had the made an impression, said Noll U. Vols., a political activist who met Mr. Donalds at a candidate forum that year.

"You just could see the political skills that he had right out the right," he said.

Mr. Donalds' friends were born in the Florida Legislature. He went on to support a ballot about year in 2018 that would ensure many blunt voting rights, a state legislature, and a political plan.

That year, Mr. Donalds sent on state news to defend Mr. DeSantis, that the Republican minister for governor, after he was accused of using a racist dog while it against the Democratic opponent, Andrew Ullman, who was Black.

His relationship with Mr. DeSantis fractured her years later.

As the 2024 presidential election approached, Florida Republicans were divided over with the support Mr. Trump, where re-

election seemed uncertain, or Mr. DeSantis, who became a runner-up for party during the coronavirus pandemic.

Mr. Donalds's prominence had risen after he was elected to Congress in 2020 and became a go-to-gain on conservative news shows. In 2023, he objected to the DeSantis' administration's proposed reverse of Black history standards for middle school, which said centered people 'developed alike which, in some instances, could be applied for their government.'"

Mr. Donalds endorsed Mr. Trump. Mr. DeSantis responded by saying that Mr. Donalds had our placed much of a role in the party's policy.

Mr. Donalds has continued to publicly praise Mr. DeSantis on the 'best governor in the country'. But the president's endorsement of Mr. Donalds for government directly denied Mr. DeSantis the power to serve a political law.

Mr. DeSantis, N. Lauder who attended a Donalds rally at a veteran hall in Naples last week, said the choice was simple.

"I support Trump," he said. "And he supports Trump."

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shoulders of union workers, on the shoulders of folks who have been marginalized for so long."

Ms. Nixon proved she was right on Tuesday, defeating Alice Vindman, the president of the country's leading bank's municipal progressive Division, on a Florida for the first time in years. She was an other candidate to run the political left have been in the past, and she was a focusing on the grass roots. She did it with incredibly limited resources.

The flip side to Ms. Nixon's "right" is a good way now what was widely seen as a long-date good for Democrats - defeating a voting Republican senator in constructed real Florida - into

Susan Cooper Eastman overshadowed reporting from Jacksonville, Fla., David Ouellet from Orlando, Fla., and Ruth Spindler from New York.

an even longer date. The Cook Political Report has consistently raced for race this year as 'solid R'.

For her, the left is repairing in Mr. Nixon's triumph, and the other examining the outcome is figure out how the facts she didn't.

The huge disparity between her hard raising and Mr. Vindman's top system of the right is the results. Ms. Nixon was by 12 percentage points, leaving Mr. Vindman in every major metropolitan area except New York. After the she was big for the Donald County, where she lives, in Jacksonville, but about fifteen Dutch county, she was the most populous, and in Brownell County, where Mr. Vindman lives.

"If you're from Brownell, you can't see Brownell and Cook," Mitchell Berger, a Fort Lamarian lawyer who has been a major Democratic fund-raiser for decades, said on Tuesday night at Mr. Vindman's election night

event, as his loss left attendees looking bewildered: "You can't hear your home area."

The first time in the community we'd in areas with high concentrations of young voters and progressions, including Gainesville, where the University of Florida is, and Tallahassee, home of Florida State University.

A three-term state lawmaker and mother of five, she joined the Democratic Socialism of America in June, though the group has not achieved her candidacy. Even before then, she was known as a progressive firehead and there is the side of Gen. Ben DeSantis, a Republican. This year, she was a member of the governor's office in the State Capitol, and given a Republican gerrymander of the state's congressional map. She was evicted to be a member of the state's office. She also interrupted a State House vote on the map by presenting with a bafflers.

The modern drive a crypinsand from state lawmakers - but also

some attention to her Senate candidacy. She chastified much of her campaign within, as she was a member of the state's over a number in a run. As one point, she shared video as she figured out, and he helped a flat set.

Over the summer, Mr. Vindman's campaign examined more. During a Democratic Party fund-raiser gala, he felt from a group of social media Democrats, in what later appeared to have been a miscommunication. But the video was not flattering for a first-time candidate still little-known county firehead voters.

Then, his wife, Rachel Vindman, wrote a social media post using a vulgar term that, without naming her as a member of a result, he said much for cash and them. Ms. Vindman distorted the good news about the fact before it angered many grassroots Democrats. (Ms. Nixon, who campaigned in sneakers, later posted a phone of Rachel sandals with the caption: 'Are

these ok?')

Last week, as the final week out-of-party voting approaches, Mr. Vindman was the first candidate to take running as democratic socialism planned a big weekend in Donald Florida. Representative Rudolph Tiafo of Michigan joined one on the trail and at a rally for Gen. J. voters. The rally changed venues because of pressure over Mr. Tiafo's new Mr. Nixon's anti-farad stance in Brownell County, which has a large, Jewish population.

At the same ball in Miramar, Mr. Vindman was gathered on Friday afternoon, Mr. Nixon said the fallout over the rally suggested Democrats were running "scared."

Mr. Vindman's view that day, she did not predict victory. Her campaign did not have money to pay for action. Mr. Vindman's public pitch had been conducted in the primary race. She could not know exactly where she stood against Mr. Vindman.

But she knew Mr. Vindman's

campaign had polled at least once. He had not spent money attaching her, which many Florida Democrats considered it to be was not worried about her candidacy. Ms. Nixon, however, seemed to have a significant deal also not related to internal poll, suggesting that perhaps there was more than expected.

By the time the rally began, last year, the right at a downtown Fort Lauderdale when bar pushed with hundreds of mostly young people, including social media influencers, Ms. Nixon was losing.

"Throughout this country's 250 years, every time we have been faced with oppression, we have marched it with resistance," said Mr. Vindman, who was a regular, and spent the last few days of the campaign outfacing. "We have nothing to lose."

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Mary Heilmann, a Vibrant Abstractionist With a Sly Till, Dies at .96

By DEBORAH MALONIO

Mary Heilmann, who was in her 60s when she instantly achieved wide acclaim for her obediently catered, home-bellied, often in the modernized painting, shot in Friday in Riverhead, N.Y., on Long Island. She was 64.

Her death, at a hospital, was confirmed by Laura Thatcher, her studio manager, who said that the cause was complications from a recent fall.

Her death was caused by paintings, which poked fun at the gimmicks specious favored by her Mainsalat colleagues, are easy to recognize. She was a master of the wife-by-law, taking the recitation give employed by artists from Port Monahan in the 1920s to Sal La-Witt in the 90s, and shaving and destabilizing it. It was as if she caught in dude Moderation of its lofty concepts and unique string and beat it an effused charm, some of her most enchanting paintings look as if they if they were there by an artist who had misplaced her T-squats and ruins.

Originally claimed as a ceramic, Mr. Heilmann favored high-key colors that at times drip and run the glazes on the side of a pot. Her affection for her picks-and-creepers, with their intimations of teenage-girlfriend, ambassadorial, own sly assault on virile dogmas of the past.

"Mary confronted all the macho nonsense of the time with soul confidence," the artist Laura Owens, a former student of Ms. Heilmann's, said in an interview. "At a time when painters took their own importance too seriously, Mary

Gaining renown in her 60s for often unduly paintings that poked fun at Minimalism.

doubled down, paradoxically, on the casual picture."

Within the art world, Ms. Heilmann was an emblem of the professional obstacles faced by human artists of her generation. "I was not far-reaching for seeing," she said without bitterness in an interview with The New York Times in 2009.

That was when her first one was ever again even, suddenly it died "Mary Heilmann. To Be Someone," was about to open at the New Museum in New York.

It had already appeared at the Orange County Museum of Art, at Newport Beach, Calif., and was high prices. At 82, Ms. Heilmann was recognized as a major art man on prehistoric artists including Ms. Owens, Jessica Stockhold or and Elizabeth Peyton, all of whom had heard something like a song. "Mary Heilmann, later, overthink it lightness of her sensibility.

Ellsworth Kelly, the dean of American time-shiped abstract artist, who barely felt in the way to hit that Mary Heilmann is the best of the new abstractists.'s.

Mary's new Heilmann was here in San Francisco on Jan. 3, 1946, and grew up in a religiously observant from Catholic family. Her mother, the former Mary Florence Wells, was a nurse. Her father, John and her husband, the first civil engineer who worked primarily on math.

"What are I, the father-tooth, a job building foreways and around the family to fit from the outside village south of Los Angeles. They lived in a hangarow near the beach, and Ms. Heilmann took spoke of the thrill of tumbling down sand drains and swimming in the ocean.

At 31, she began training as a

Mary Heilmann at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2005 with some of her colorful chairs, a side project to her painting

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"Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone," a retrospective, at the New Museum in 2008. "I was such an underdog for so long," she said.

Mary of her chairs have walked seats and backs made from strips of polypropylene, bringing to mind classic lower chairs.

competitive swimmer and diver, traveling on an hourlong bus ride to the Los Angeles Athletic Club every day after school. Less than a year later, all that ended abruptly when her father died of colon cancer and her mother moved the family back to San Francisco.

Ms. Heilmann attended college at the University of California, Santa Barbara, majoring in English literature. As early affection for tossing pots on the wheel led her to graduate school at the Uni-

versity of California, Berkeley, where she studied both ceramics and sculpture with Peter Voulkes, a well-known artist who believed in subjecting clay to abstract Expressionist theories.

As Ms. Heilmann later recalled, Mr. Voulkes liked to walk across the classroom holding a homemade pot, then trip for rather, as she said, "take cup"; with the pot smashing on the floor. He would rather the broken shards and assemble them into a surprisingly interesting sculpture.

Ms. Heilmann in 1979. Asked once how she came up with ideas, she explained: "A lot of it is daydreaming. A lot of it is sitting."

Ms. Heilmann's own early sculptures, which consisted of rugged-looking objects constructed from inexpensive cradishop materials like plastic clay, tin foil, cotton balls, bamboo and glitters, similarly sought to foreground the process of their making.

In 1964, after earning a master's degree from Berkeley, she struck out for New York, intent on making a name for herself as a sculptor.

By then, Richard Secre, a friend of hers from high school, was living in Manhattan and gaining an unstoppised reputation for "spinal-cusptures" he made from running matters lead. He took Ms. Heilmann to Mary's Kansas City, then a popular artistic banquet. In the back room, in the busy red light marked by a Dun Parrot fluorescent tube, she befriended a circle that included Robert Smithman, John Duff and Carl Andre, sculpture who received that patent from that dead.

Ms. Heilmann agreed with them. But in those days, female sculptors had great difficulty launching careers. Of the 22 artists of the Whitney Museum of American Art's totaled $500-mile-billion. "Less-Discount Procedures/Materials," 20 were male.

Ms. Heilmann was devastated when she was passed over for that exhibition and several other important things drawn, bringing to cut her brains, she abandoned sculpture and took up painting.

It seemed like a reckless decision. For one thing, she had no academic training in painting, for another, what sculptor worth her salt packs is all up at the age of 50? But she was pleased by the very convenience of her act.

At the time she was supporting herself by reaching at the State University of New York at Stone Brook, and she credited her students — as well as much younger ones she had taught under — with furnishing her with ideas for paintings. For instance, in "Little's a 9" (1873), she added an art skitter grid to a mostly red mirror by wiping away pigment with her fingers, a technique generally known as finger painting.

As her style evolved, it retained a sense of playful ease. In 1974, at her joining the powerful Hedy Incense Gallery in Suite, Ms. Heilmann exhibited a series of paintings of rectangles in pink and black, a color combination that was deliberately saccharine and reminiscent of nothing so much as Good & Fancy candy.

I think didn't know how to read these works. Ms. Heilmann was deeply hurt by a review that appeared in The Village News, perhaps because it was written by a female critic. Kay Larsen, bettered by the seeming lackacious caterer of the pink-and-black paintings, concluded that they could use some "civil music."

Ms. Heilmann, she wrote, "much been doing her junk-sap." In 1996, Ms. Heilmann rode her bicycle to Avenue II in the East Village to visit the relatively new Par Hours Gallery. "A powerful, radical painting gallery," an old described it in her 1999 memoir, "The All Night News."

With the help of her friend Ron Bleckner, who exhibited there, Ms. Heilmann joined the gallery in the next decade, she gained an astringent, following, especially among younger artists who were looking for an alternative to the success of the 1990s art, which

JOHN W. HILMAN, M. WILLIAM W. HILMAN, M. WILLIAM W. HILMAN "Back Smoke" (2004), a book and "hurting an Aces" (2005). Ms. Heilmann continued "macho-remorrow" with "cool confidence," one artist said.

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that could-drunk era dominated by the pretension style of New Era-presented.

In addition to paintings, Ms. Heilmann was acclaim for her been plywood chairs, which she started making in 2002. If they were a light to be made lookhly, it seems furniture, they also offered a critique of his stripped-to-the-beat Minimalism.

"Inah's chairs were not very comfortable, but mine are," she told Vagaya.

Indeed, her chairs generally have without tears and backs made from strips of polypropylene, not unlike classic aluminum laces chairs.

Ms. Heilmann was delighted when it's for her chairs — made for the occasion from weatherprureded movies plywood and painted at lollipop shades of lemon yellow and cherry-red — were installed on the floor. She came to the vicinity inaugurated the Whitney's new building in the Metropolitan District.

A decade later, the chairs re-organized at the museum, inside this time, in a gallery overlooking the Hudson River. The exhibition was aired "Long Live," after a 2010 Heilmann painting that was dramatically enlarged and reproduced on the man's walls, in advertising text and video stripes evoking the across waves of hot childhood. The show closed on Jan. 19.

Asked once how she came up with ideas for her paintings, she replied at her typically down-to-earth manner: "I mostly just think. As at 41 in daydreaming, a lot of it is sitting."

Ms. Heilmann never married and knows so immediate survivors. She tended to describe her life as a safety crusade for artistic accomplishment.

"I didn't want to move to the church and have a family and take care of the children, the husband and all that," she said in a 2009 interview with Mr. Bleckner for Booth magazine.

"I probably return from my Catholic upbringing," she added. In her youth, Ms. Heilmann said, she loved reading about the lives of saints, because "there was nobody in their story except them and God, and that was a model for me."

Hiroshi Okada, 93, Who Revived Toyota in the '90s

By CLAY KIRIN

Hiroshi Okada, a heart-charging Toyota executive who revived the financing automobile maker in the 1990s by expanding production revenues, tightening their non-making at home and pushing through the introduction of the Price, is the only first hybrid car in regular production, shot during it. On was 93.

The Toyota Motor Corporation, where he had worked since 1955, continued its growth, but did not provide a location.

When Mr. Okada took over Toyota's presidency in 1995, he was the first executive outside the building, and he was the first company to almost three decades.

But he was an obvious choice. He had spent his time working on the company, starting in the accounting department and charged hold a variety of foreign ports that gave him deep insight into the business. And he worked out similar, what was then the world's third largest car manufacturer.

Toyota was a heliomatic, but it was clapping. Thanks in part to having a new car, the company had a conservative corporate culture. It had been steadily losing

He made decisions quickly and shook things up.

domestic and international market share. In 1993, he the first time to many years, it fell below 40 percent of car sales in Japan.

Mr. Okada's predecessor, Teruro Toyoda, the one of the company's founder, Kachiro Toyoda, seemed to embody the suggestion, seriously ill and bedridden for months. It was said to be issuing orders to his brother, Shashino, through telepathy.

Mr. Okada shook things up. An avid gambler and barnade object with a black belt in pads. An introduced what many observers described as an American executive approach, the made clear decisions quickly, empowered lower-level traders and was unemotionally about cutting dead weight.

Toyota had missed the sudden, expensive popularity of American and sport utility vehicles in Japan, Mr. Okada pushed through the Si-

esma minimum, along with several other innovative vehicle designs, and retired dozens of older models that weren't selling well.

He also brought the RAV4, which had debated in 1994 in Japan, to the U.S. market, where it quickly became one of Toyota's best-selling models.

And in 1987, he demanded that his engineers bring the Price, a hybrid car, to market by the fall. It had been in development for years, and other companies were racing to be the first to introduce a hybrid.

Mr. Okada's team won the race, and the Price became a milestone in automotive history.

"Most Japanese tend to keep a-bert, but I talk a lot," he told The Associated Press in 1987. "Anxiety decisions are quick, much quicker than those before me."

He changed the way Toyota did because at home, creating a clear cut-freach of the company that focused on innovation and where promising young employees could gain experience — a novel approach to a country where app was short a little. Advertisements of corporate hierarchy.

To counter the effects of the

strengthening you, he opened or expanded more than a half-dozen overseas plants in the United States and Europe. Doing so cut costs, but it also helped with international relations at a time when fears of Japanese export dominators were a major factor in global trade and trade.

Perhaps Mr. Okada's biggest shake-up came in 1995, when he handed the presidency to a lieutenant, Pujol. On that day, Mr. Okada could locate a new company, the Toyota board of directors — taking many of the powers of the presidency with him.

"What I can say about Toyota is that before I became president, the company was considered to be very conservative, so I have tried to make an investment in the world The New York Times in 1984. "I think our example will be followed by other companies. Companies are having less conservative and higher levels of competition, so the more conservative executives might not be around in the future."

Hiroshi Okada was born on 1947, in the U.S. Now, so it's much of Nagoya. His father and paternal grandfather ran a securities firm.

Hiroshi Okada in the newly developed Price in 1997. He pressed Toyota to finish the car, which had been in development for years.

His family home, and much of the city were destroyed by American bombs during World War II.

He studied business at Hiura subside University and went to work at Toyota immediately after graduating in 1954.

After spending 17 years as an accountant, he moved into the company's overseas operations, working in the Philippines and materials for several years before returning to Japan to join the executive leadership team.

Mr. Okada stepped down as chairman in 1984, but remained a senior advisor until 2010.

His survivors include his son, Yonaro Okada.

Among Mr. Okada's quirky was above 40 driving lost. "Speed to like a drag," he told Nikkei Business magazine in 1995, "I usually ride in a black executive car, but I get irritated when I ride in an executive car, and I never slowly, and I even find it painful to drive slowly."

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Bill Rasmussen, 93, TV Visionary Who Co-Founded ESPN, Is Dead

By DAVE BRANDRY and MARK POLEN

The Tribune

Bill Rasmussen, the co-founder of ESPN and innovator of around-the-clock sports television, died Tuesday at the age of 93, the new work announced. The media company said he died from the effects of TV visionary infection.

Along with his son Scott, Rasmussen's vision of a 24-hour sports TV network was a wildly-in-unknown idea in the late 1970s, a dramatic one over with stagescenes. A few years later, however, ESPN was a media fixture.

Rasmussen left the company in 1980 but reconstituted with the network in 1999 ahead of its 2016 anniversary.

"Bill was a considerable man — visionary and an innovator who conceived the idea of a national science-based sports sports, ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pisare said. "Quite simply, some of us would have today if it wasn't for 800+ persons and all the hard work and surveys we had to spent in our own building ESPN in the late 1970s — key aspects of our company and our idea with any we in the day." Rasmussen, who was inducted

Glen Stansell and Mark Polen are editors for The Athletic.

into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2025, was born in Chicago in 1952 and later served in the United States Air Force. His media career began in the 1960s at radio stations in Massachusetts before he joined the New England Whalers as communications director in 1974.

Brought back into a venerated place 19 years after his ouster.

After being fired by the Whalers in 1978, he pursued the idea of a television channel dedicated solely to sports.

"I thought, why not a channel that's an all the time?" Rasmussen said Creative News decider later: "Sports don't stop at it style'd."

At 7 p.m. on Sept. 3, 1978, ESPN launched with the first broadcast of its new show, "SportsCarter's Day in headquarters in Bristol, Conn."

"It's not to say that there would at have been a 2-3" sports operation at some point, but it certainly

wouldn't have been in remote Connecticut," James Andrew Miller, co-author of "Three Guys there all The Plus," the definitive oral history of ESPN, told The Athletic. "And the fact that it was in remote Connecticut allowed them to take chances and to do things differently than the three broadcast networks in New York City. And that became part of the foundation of their success.

No. No Bill, no ESPN."

Six months before that TV debut, Rasmussen and the founding team had sold 85 percent of the fledgling company to Gerry Oh. This controlling stake ultimately led to Rasmussen's loss of power and, a year after that first edition of "SportsCarter," his ouster from the company he helped create.

In that first year, ESPN's free-sports strategy was built on an early deal with the WCA, which gave them access to around 10 outlays football games, a couple dozen soccer games and, in what would be a signature element of ESPN's early years, college basketball.

The rest of the early rights-linings included tennis, pro bowling and hockey exhibition games featuring the U.S. Olympic merit team, as it prepared for the 1980 Olympics. An eclectic role of programming rarely seen on national

"Sports don't stop at 6 o'clock," said Bill Rasmussen, seen in 2016 at ESPN in Bristol, Conn.

TV rounded things out, including American Legion baseball, lacrosse, full-some horses, rugby and the Sky-Plus's football World Series, between the Milwaukee Schiltz and the Kentucky Riverbass.

The relationship between the state and company remained retained for 19 years, until outreach from ESPN's therapeutic dont George Bodenheimer ahead of the network's 20th anniversary.

brought Rasmussen back into a venerated place. In the spring of 2026, ESPN released a documentary and accompanying news. "Sports Heaven: The Birds of ESPN," about the network's founding with Rasmussen's experience front and center.

"Bill was the normal opinion who brought his energy to the crazy idea of 24-hour motorsports," ESPN historian Mike Sidys, who was hired by Rasmussen in 1980 as his first intern, told The Athletic. "He rebounded from being fired by the Whalers in Orange the future of sports television.

“My career, and thousands of others, came about because of Bill's passion and belief in his idea. His worst approach and quick for endowed him to everyone he met. It has been a pay to be his friend and celebrate ESPN's success with him he 40 years.”

My career, and thousands of others, came about because of Bill's passion and belief in his idea. His worst approach and quick for endowed him to everyone he met. It has been a pay to be his friend and celebrate ESPN's success with him he 40 years."

Alfonso Fanjul Jr., 89, Billionaire Who Rebuilt A Sugar Cane Empire

By THIEF GABRIEL

Alfonso Fanjul Jr., the patriarch of a family that lost one of Cuban-bugout sugar businesses in the Sevelacion of 1974 and fled to the United States, where, thanks to pluck and government price supports, they built an even vaster system, died on Aug 3 in South Florida, his was 89.

The death was announced by Florida Crystals Corporation, part of the privately held family businesses that Mr. Fanjul presided over. The company provided no further details.

A billionaire who called him on a farmer and lived a luxurious life in Palm Beach, Fla., where he

A major donor to both political parties in the United States.

dedied a 90-foot path. Mr. Fanjul, known as a city, was co-chairman and co-chair executive of the family businesses alongside his younger brother José, before a Pope.

There two other brothers and sister also have interests in the empire, which includes the world's largest cane sugar refiner, and the Dominic and Civil Nations.

Ally and Pope Fanjul became major donors to both political parties in the United States, where he re-establish that they learned of our Cuban Communists results, dated 90,000 acres of the family's property as well as its nonviolent plan and the future.

"One of the reasons we get involved in American politics is because of what happened to us in Cuba," Ally Fanjul told Vanity Fair, he an article published in 2001.

He gave generously to Domin-

icats and was a co-chairman of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign in Florida. Pope Fanjul has donated more than $2.5 million to the political campaigns of President Trump, a longtime brand whose promotional tariffs have benefited the Fanjuls.

Mr. Clinton and former Speaker of the Polson attended Mr. Fanjul's General in Palm Beach on Saturday.

During one of the few in-depth interviews he gave to the press, Mr. Fanjul was the editor of Micro-Business of Vanity Fair as having "the old world maniacs of a Spanish aristocrat, a cool detachment that indicates he is accustomed to being in control."

For decades, the Fanjuls introduced critics of their labor, environmental and business practices. Environmentalists accused Florida Crystals of spoiling the Everglades with chemical roast from their 100,000 acres of cane around Lake Okeechobee, where he received that 4 tons a good environmental citizen, the company pointed to a reasonable energy plant that it built, as well as in sustainable practices on its own.

Even sharper criticism came upon two trade advocates, who said the Fanjuls drafted from an alert spores that ensured American sugar brewerage an efficient price, some three times higher than the rest of the world's price. The difference was said to cost American consumers billions of dollars a year. The Silverman Cato Institute called Big Sugar in the United States a "costly trained card."

The Fanjuls, usually speaking from its public relations specialists, responded that they had built their business over decades of hard work and determination — in the best tradition of the American dream.

Mr. Fanjul was born in Havana

Alfonso Fanjul Jr. in 2011. He was co-chairman and co-chair executive of the family businesses alongside his brother José.

on June 27, 1957, in Alfonso Fanjul Jr. and Cuban Clinton-Moniz Fanjul. His parents marriage united two wealthy Cuban sugar families, whose progenitor isolated 10 miles, mansion and the Montana de Gómez, a full-black commercial building in district Havana that is now a luxury hotel.

Ally, who was sent to Fordham University in New York for sitting, was back home on November 8 from the 1970s. The first foreword is at the Havana Yacht Club, when the Cuban director Fulgencio Batista fled the country ahead of the advancing Communists.

Mr. Fanjul later told the story of

a meeting in the family office soon after with Palm Country guerrillas, who opened the discussion by laying their machine guns on a table. The family lost all its assets and left for New York.

Mr. Fanjul, his father and his maternal grandfather, Pope Gómez-Moniz, act was to rebuild the business in America, they had already sent some money out of Cuba.

With other wealthy colds, they raised $640,000 (about $7.3 million annually) and bought 6,000 acres of land in western Palm Beach County and three run-down Louisiana sugar mills. The colds were shipped to Florida, where the first

Mr. Fanjul, 5th, and Pope Fanjul in front of a portrait of their father, Alfonso, 70, at from office in West Palm Beach, Fla., in 2009 and Mr. Fanjul with former President Bill Clinton in 2023.

cane harvest was cut in 1961 over the years, much of the case was harvested by Jamaican workers on temporary visas.

Some years older than his brother Pope, Ally became the leader of the Fanjul's two in America. He took over as chairman and chief executive of the companies in 1969, after his father died.

The business expanded in 1984 when it acquired large holdings in Florida and the Dominican Republic from Gulf Western, a neighborhood that then included the amount Pictures. According to Forbes, in 2023 the family-controlled businesses were worth about $6 billion.

The family's holdings also included a 1,000-acre luxury owner in the Dominican Republic, Casa de Campo, which is known for gift interest, a number and an opportunity as center.

The Fanjul portfolio includes a make in Central-Renault Corporation, a large sugar producer in the Dominican Republic. Last year, Young officials lifted a loan that had been imposed by the Biden administration on imported sugar from Central-Renault because of accusations that it used forced to feel a alter rights groups have used the company has not improved these practices.

Besides political donations, Mr. Fanjul gave to educational institu-

tions and charities. He was a trustee of the University of Miami and the Brookings Institution, and a co-founder of Mission International Rescue Charities in the Dominican Republic. The Fanjul family has supported hospitals, schools and civic groups in Palm Beach County.

Mr. Fanjul's marriage to Maria Cristina de los Reyes ended in divorce, and in 2007 he married Reyna Herrera, who sat from him, along with his brother Pope, their three siblings, Annamita, Annamita and Liliana Fanjul; two daughters from his first marriage, Crista Rosa and Lillian Vernautella, a stepdaughter,ana Estir, five grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

From his waterfront home in Palm Beach, Mr. Fanjul liked to see to sea on his yacht and for luggage untreated fishing. He was twice a member of winning teams in the Buffalo Club at Florida's Gold Cup tournament, in 1979 and 2007.

Unlike some members of the Cuban colds community, he did not choose over how to reduce his family's lost holdings on the island they filed.

"My father spent the last years of his life trying to figure out how to get to Cuba," he told Vanity Fair.

But Mr. Fanjul understood that the family's future was American.

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Silicon Valley Was Right-Wing From the Start

Sharon Weinberger

The editor in chief of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

MANY Americans watched with surprise as Silicon Valley's most powerful entrepreneurs fell in behind President Trump when he returned to the White House last year. The name chief executives and investors who since celebrated globalization and consumer rights were suddenly embracing patriotism and advanced weaponry such as fallen donors.

Don't misconceive this as a thoughtful political shift or a change of heart. Silicon Valley has always been the only ground for myth-making, and no myth is bigger than the notion that the ideological chasm between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon is too vast to bridge.

For such companies, the permanent and politics of the person occupying the White House are less important than that person's willingness to buy what Silicon Valley is offering. The federal government, as it does, a purchasing agent, and Silicon Valley's power to the military — and is Mr. Trump — is less a story of political conversion than of market adaptation.

Silicon Valley's values haven't changed, just its customers.

People seem to forget that Silicon Valley was largely bent on the back of Pentagon funding during the Cold War. Fairchild Semiconductor, a company that became the wellspring of the company chip industry's growth, was one of those beneficiaries. Conventional wisdom held that, by 2016, many companies, not to mention their own, had found the idea of working on military projects dismantled, if not attributable. Mr. Trump's election that year seemed to widen the divide. In 2018, Google, under pressure from employees, pulled out of Project Maven, a Pentagon-funded A.I. project to advance drone warfare.

The real dividing line between the tech industry's heroes and the Pentagon had little to do with politics and a lot of it with industry. For more than three decades, tech industry leaders such as Apple and HP were focused on consumers, whether with personal computers, smartphones or apps. That market is global, which is the 2000s-80s-fore-companies to start selling their wares in China — where many of the companies were already losing their manufacturing — which offered access to more than one billion consumers.

Unlike today, China in the early 21st century represented more opportunity than threat, which led venture firms such as Sequoia Capital to make customers investment there. Digital service companies, such as Uber, Airbnb and Facebook, chased the market. Investors supervised at China's growing tech economy, even as Washington was beginning to warn about the strategic threat from Beijing. The potential to another United States from an economic standpoint," Marc Andrenowicz, a prophet of the venture capital world, said in 2013, the year China's Communist Party leader. Xi

Sharon Weinberger, The New York Times

The tech industry's values haven't changed, just its customers.

Jinping, became prevalent. "Beijing should be another Silicon Valley."

China has since closed its doors to many American technology companies. Botanical between Washington and Beijing, बेचcts a need over the next decade. In 2016, Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, denied experts that he is considering patronizing his China business to enable the merger of his electric vehicle company with SpaceX, a major Pentagon contractor. But he's well aware of the difficulties his business there prowess.

Today the shift from consumer markets to military industries is clearly visible at Mr. Andrenowicz's first, which has a dedicated division, called American Dynosomes, that focuses on investing in weapons and technology. The first is a company with China. Or even, potentially, waging war with China. Sequoia, one of Silicon Valley's most central venture capital firms, has spun out its China

business and joined the growing number of venture capital firms funding companies dedicated to building military weapons. Sequoia's initial military tech investment was in a state up-hundred by a 10-year-old that is being a new dream.

As for Google, it took only a few years for the company whose motto was since "Don't be evil" to again pursue contracts with the Pentagon. Not because of patriotism but apparently out of financial self-interest. The federal government, and particularly the Pentagon, has emerged as one of the world's largest customers for artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons — technologists needed for war in the future, especially the Pacific. This year Google agreed to provide the Department of Defense with A.I. for classified networks after Anthropic became motivated at a dispute with the Pentagon over how to A.I. models were being used.

For Anthropic, the issue was never a

choice between working for the Pentagon and competing with China but a question of how much control it would have ever be models and their use. Anthropic's chief executive has frequently warned about the threat from Beijing, even saying that selling A.I. chips to China is like "selling nuclear weapons to North Korea."

That's quite the pivot. "Silicon Valley has changed partly because people realized you're not going to make any money in China," noted the Palamir Technologies chief executive. Also Raju in 2024, as tech companies were again chasing military business. Peter Theil, the right-wing tech billionaire who was a founder of Palamir from the 20-year ago, was early to recognize the potential and was long skeptical of China. (Not surprisingly, Mr. Theil was also the first major Silicon Valley figure to back Mr. Trump in 2016, though it's later started on the Republican president.)

Five things illustrate this dynamic better than the poorer child for military start-ups, Palmer Lackey, the Hawaiian-shot-clad founder of the 20-year period, which makes A.I. powered weapons. Mr. Lackey was just 19 when he helped found Oculus Rift to build virtual reality headsets for consumers. The Oculus Rift development kit from 2015 ended with a single line. "Made in China," But like other tech companies, Oculus grew disillusioned with China as a consumer market, even if it still needed the country as a manufacturer. The following year, Oculus suspended sales to China, reportedly over aggressive competitors who were reselling the company's hardware.

In 2014, Facebook bought Oculus, making Mr. Lackey a central disaster. Facebook was very helpful about breaking into the Chinese market. That year the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed over a book by Mr. Xi, "The Governance of China," and recommended it to his employees.

Three years later, Mr. Zuckerberg's company fired Mr. Lackey, who became a Facebook executive after the Oculus shut, after it emerged that he had donated to a pro-Trump group. (Mr. Zuckerberg has donated up to $1 million in the funding to its wild politics.) Mr. Lackey made what would become the most pivotal story of his career: He started an arms company backed by Mr. Thech's Freedom Trust, which had only just 20 million loans to the US. He made prohibiting investments in weapons.

Mr. Lackey once said his goal with Oculus was to make virtual reality "available to everyone." A little more than a decade later, he wanted to make a more of the available to everyone in uniform. "I strongly believe you are going to see augmented reality on every soldier's head before you use it on every consumer's head," he said last year. Facebook, today called Meta, is now working with Anduril as a multibillion-dollar project to sell virtual reality headsets to the U.S. military.

The art of Silicon Valley's moral universe doesn't seem to extend beyond the next presidential election. In the end, it's not bends that Silicon Valley loves, but profits.

Watching Me Struggle With a Masterpiece Changed My Students

Matt Sinan

The director of the great books program at St. Thomas University in New Brunswick

READ "The Brothers Karamazov" for the first time last semester. For semester in my line of work — I'm a professor in a great books program — having failed to read one of the greatest novels ever written a understanding, close to professional malpractice. So when my co-teacher, Alan, proposed we assign this thousand-page saga to our third-aid fourth-year students, to a party agreed.

"The Brothers Karamazov" consumed me in a way I hadn't experienced in years, says he decades. I could think of little else. Emails went unanswered. I repeatedly read well past my strict, middle-aged 18 yrs. bedtime. I was once so absorbed. I forgot to pick up my daughter at ballet. I has moved in my phone.

And I wasn't alone. As my profession underwent a large and public endeavor, over the future of education in the A.I. age, I was having one of the best screeners of my career. When I'd enter our seminar room, I'll hear my students' chattering exchange about Dmitry Karamazov's wild love life and self-destructive getting as little love in the demo with them. Here were debates — evangelization, in my view, the stories — when which makes me a part of my research, intellectual brother, Ivan, overcame his despair.

That my students — regular 20-womelinger, as a public college in one of Canada's most popular schools, I've seen a book (Seniorevsky's strange little town might look like a missing from the outside, but as the narrator of "The Brothers Karamazov" gets it: "Nitzelist never bother a reader." To be a reader about high school students, I know, knowledge that the challenge of our moment is not primarily intellectual but sentimental. Spiritual, if you will. In the algorithmic age, effective teaching is allostered teaching.

Today's educational problems are often attributed to a deficit of focus or attention, but attention is an anemic way to understand what allows education to transform people. We're really talking about passion,

inconvenient and unfashionable as that is to acknowledge. Passion creates a unity of purpose and urgency that is the ambition to the bicklers, superflu in discussion of the algorithmic age. Loss of an pay very close at tenth to our phones, but what we lack is the sustaining passion that students difficulty and shapes a life.

When I asked my students why they thought Seniorevsky was such a bit, they routinely said two things: First, they were moved by the passions of the characters in the novel. As one student put it, the characters in "The Brothers Karamazov" appeared life "head first, heels last"; they dash to emotions, grab what's there and bring it back to this otherwise insignificant village, where it explodes into force little human human that take on counter significance. The novel is an extravagant convergence of form and content in this sense: It shows us what real, life-chaping passion looks like but also awakens something similar to its readers.

Second, the students explained that my own enthusiasm helped make them. When I asked how they were managing to keep up with the brisk pace of the reading assignments, one of them carefully said, "Well, I really helps that you're so into it." Since Alan knew much more about the novel than I did and noted bad discussions, I had the pleasure of becoming a student myself, proposing thrilling but wildly unachutably theories about the ultimate fate of Father Zosima or the motivations of the novel's mysterious narrator.

As for back as Plato's irascible character Mena, would-be teachers have been confronting the problem that students must want to have before learning a possible. For many decades, higher education has relied on a workaround to the problem: Long access to good jobs to success in school. In some cases, a desire for money and prestige leads to real, if incidental, learning. But large language models have broken this arrangement by making it possible for students to help straight to an effective, it without doing any meaningful learning. Technical age has exposed the brain of our necessary approach to education.

Over the course of last semester, I became convinced there is a way out of this man's

Seniorevsky

teachers need to model the passion they want to see.

hand strategy: We teachers must remain students — and model what we want to see. We need to remove the passion that shows us to our books, to the lab. We need to remedy how of learning for its own sake against the passion we manage that higher education should be vocational, and we need to clarify the basic questions that make our subjects worth studying.

Keeping a certain youthful enthusiasm or undergraduate achievement is difficult when you're controlling with day care costs, sports reading administration work, work, or about the state of the world and the future or simply the kind of statistical intrusions that bear the weight of bourgeois life. Being a good teacher requires being out of odd, every one woman's home of my favorite professors married to helaily experts with considerable eccentricity. My dissertation adviser insisted for students take up social dance like polka, line dancing and cydno's another of my former professors would

alight at 4 a.m. to teach himself Japanese before undertaking nonadvertising projects like making a 10-ssn chess set. The passions are unscrupulous. To be moved is to be a little bit weird.

What I discovered anew in my encounter with "The Brothers Karamazov" last term was that if you were student to be passionately engaged, not worried about the future, grasping, corrective or disengaged, you must transmit the spirit of passion in your death, your state — let's be it, in your own soul. If you expect your students to choose books, ideas and genuine working over chemicals and distraction, you must be a bit courageous, too. Return to the basics. Cut through the base of abstraction, the webs of scholarly terminology, the processes of professionalization and attempt to reserve the basic human experiences that can move on. Remain a student in earnest.

Near the end of "The Brothers Karamazov," the novel's form, this youngest Karamazov, depends, is trying to win over an intelligent boy named Katya, who confuses skepticism with maturity. Alympics, pessimistic appeal doesn't involve theoretical fireworks or hysterics. Instead, he takes the young man very seriously. He's more into the parable. We forget, at our peril, how life-changing it can be for young people to have an unrelated adult treat them with seriousness and respect. Alympha is present to Katya and the other, and the other ones, and the same questions rather than given speeches. And eventually Katya can't deny that there is something about "Karamazov," abandoning his permanently world-aware reputation for a man's own life.

As educators the world over look toward the coming school year, perhaps with a hint of dread, we should focus on what we can control. The challenges of our algorithms age and the problems of the system have changed teachers need to be exemplary students to help others learn. For Seniorevsky, weekly contents sense can make us unwitting feels. As Alympha comes only more, all students are not working outside of taking ridiculous, and it makes them unhappy: "Recruiting a passionate student yourself may well feel ridiculous nowadays, but it is ultimately nothing more than sudden about what education requires.

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Ocasio-Cortez Rewrites the Rules

Rhonda Garrick

The founding director of the Institute for Public Activities and Art of Hellfire University, where she is also a distinguished professor of finance.

Well, latest date heard 'round the world' came out from a gap but from a syringe of fertility hormones belonging to Ropresomontes: Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.

Two weekends ago on Instagram, the co-operative mission announced her plan to freeze her eggs and decaramel the process. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, seated on a sofa, showed the story of medical supplies that she will need to prepare her body for an egg retrieval. Chatterling, she said, was a weird and sad disc, she pulled up her white cap, swallowed her bare abdomen with alcohol, and a deep swollen, staring cheek. She had a fresh姿 pinched with her fingers. 'That wasn't so bad,' she told us with visible relief.

This was a revolutionary moment. It's not at all unusual that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, a 30-year-old professional woman, might make this choice. And it's not surprising that a politician as media savvy as she is might talk about that choice online. Last year Ropresomontese fears Jacobs did us, too, demonstrating her own egg-freezing experience.

But however, among a public figure in need a value—free, private moment—is orally having her indefinitely — still carries quite a job. And the reality of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez's legs public following only unmistakable side effect. By one, millions of people who have been her egg-freezing videos.

Many applauded her transparency and bravery (where restored that her private life should be kept private. And since right-wing commentators seized on the occasion of a certain their outside home bites. The conservative blogger Matt Walsh lashed out on X, for example, calling Ms. Ocasio-Cortez's decision 'halfling' and boasting that he would have had to their life.' Yet the time I care fit 'dismissing Janjons-bley-pleasancy-ys' backwards and ridiculous.'

By documenting her egg-freezing process, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez showed herself mixing control of her reproductive life while leaving the topic of marriage out of the equation. She has made her body public but offered no comment on her domestic situation — a reversal of the usual—more useful.

But she is doing more than that. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has selected in a new era — and is the new age of young female leadership. And she is doing it to emphasize with an enhance suggestive in her own everyday life. 'This Week' about a 2020 White House run. (She said she hasn't 'made out the possible try.') On Aug. 8, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez documented herself administering another hormone injections in the 2dB group room. (She brought her supplies to the TV studio in a lunch box.) This took place against a back-drop of an enormous picture of the Capitol. The connection could not be any clearer.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is getting ahead of all the skeptical questions she rightly anticipates regarding her suitability as a candidate for the highest effort, such as: How could we let a childless woman in her late life be president? Isn't she likely to get jumpy to her? How do you think she should be a reason for her? The reason she says, 'I'll and I'll't. And given that, wouldn't she be unable to perform her public aid done?' By attempting to postpone motherhood, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is telling no one to be able to do that. She is not working, so it is groups the concern and is addressing it. Never mind that many men who have recently run for president have not provided answers to questions about whether their own children are more likely to be leaders—play throughout their term.

Like millions of other women for age, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is grugging with the imposition goal and financial burden of having it all. To the women negotiating that right window

of time between their 30s and early 40s, when they want to build both careers and families, she is saying: I am one of you. Feminism has done little to make this balancing act any easier. Despite all the way choices the contrary, the burdens of family will find disproportionately no women.

Imagine a 30-month-long male politician reassuring us that he will put off fatherhood while serving in elected office. It's visible, because worried that having another child would impede Vice President 2D Vance's work. Men in the public eye are almost never defined by their general status. Not are they defined by their bodies' internal functioning. Men remain impervious to the kind of bodily surveillance workers routinely known. Senator Mitch McConnell, 64, has been absent from his post for nearly two

the flak she caught for wearing a 'Tax the Riot' given to the Met Gala in 2020? Knowing she can't stop this, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez owns the narrative about her body. She has shared her making content as a 'slogan value, ultrasound the meaning of her trademark and lipstick and hoop earringal, and now is displaying her fertility choices with the same confidence. Her Sunday video even combined a glass version with the makeup and hair wash backstage at ABC and her injection routine, pairing two types of bodily rituals: 'We need to show more importance of women having full lives,' she said on Instagram. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is working in the against the reality of maintaining a female body.

Women remain, as happens say, the 'market' sex, the messianized, defined as

The next generation of female leadership has finally arrived.

months while managing to keep details of his medical status shrouded in secrecy.

Until one female candidate for president — including Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris — have all been well past their reproductive years. They may have been mothers or responders, but these women did not need to answer any queries about future child rearing. But Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, is at the doors of a new age, and she knows it.

And so, rather than deny or ignore the big sling, and rather than take the more definitive (if understandable) stance that her body is her business, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is acknowledging that she has been used will be the subject of discussion, scrutiny and inspection. This is true for all women in the public eye (and, frankly, all women).

The congresswoman's telegram, stylist, persona has attracted unusual answers to attention and critique for years. Remember

the opposite of the male norm. There is no one effectively way to look at a congresswoman, no uniform of business and and no that allows her to blend in. Most female politicians handle this by appreciating male values and their breaks. Usually that involves a blazer, peach, and very discreet hair and shapier — ideally, none of which gets talked about.

But there is power in rejecting this model. Power is enhancing the variety of relationships and suitable to women — marriage, lipstick, dreams, different hairstyles. And an extension of this power can be a woman experimenting with having her belly, along with her reproductive journey. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is consciously working to face her body and mind on the public stage, to show us what real, human, embodied and, yes, female power can look like. She will not be a mere 'thing in a suit,' she says.

Admissioning her second set of injections in the ABC group room, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez already looked like a pro, distinctly more deep and comfortable with the process of exposure through the deep breath. This is her new normal, as it is for millions of women. And it's the beginning of another kind of normal, too — a normalizing of what the next generation of female leadership can look like for all of us.

LETTERS

Questions About the Efficacy of Tariffs

TO THE EDITOR:

Re 'America Is Putting an End to the Great Team on the High Seas,' by Peter Navarro (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 17).

Mr. Navarro writes that some foreign manufacturers are finding ways to minimize the impact of President Trump's tariffs through deceptive practices, and the United States will be taking measures to prevent this scant and promote manufacturing at home.

Our international commission is that the tariffs, which Mr. Trump threatened on Tuesday to impose on Canadian goods and their health-related on children's rights as legitimate.

That's a questionable assumption, given the Supreme Court's ruling in February that Mr. Trump exceeded his authority when he reported tariffs in reports from most of America's trading partners.

Another questionable assumption is that these tariffs are enforceable in a complex, modern world economy.

Mr. Navarro suggests that there are several factors that will enable faster and better detection of practices that companies use to minimize tariffs. But the increased scrutiny be started in the past as a game of cut and mouse, and companies will find new ways to evade tariffs.

Another questionable assumption is that better enforcement of tariffs will spur more manufacturing in the United States. There is no evidence that tariffs or tariff enforcement leads to more domestic manufacturing.

Overall, I find Mr. Navarro's essay about deceptive practices to be rather deceptive.

MADE FOR BALDWIN PERSETIVELY, CALIF

TO THE EDITOR:

While I rarely agree with President Trump's agreement, Peter Navarro's position in his guest essay was correct. America faces strategic risk when we import large quantities of products or components to the point that domestic production diminishes.

This shift codes economic influence to reporting statistics. However, imposing high tariffs burdens consumers, as tariffs are passed on to them, resulting in minimal impact on importers and distributors. Tariffs alone are insufficient to restore manufacturing within the United States.

Beginning in the fifth, American policies permitted companies to offshore manufacturing, driven by a focus on customers' profit and sales of a holder grain, neglecting other stakeholders, instead of raising corporate and capital gains too much, the United States lowered them, and raising profits to the non-motivizing the offsharing of jobs.

Foreign factories often benefit from lower labor costs and more efficient production meth-

sals, while many American facilities are outdated, with aging equipment and inefficient designs. Resigning, abandoned factories is a major factor in the long term requires years and substantial capital investment.

The policies should promote domestic manufacturing, and the above are the most rapidly addicted the issue; consumers lack the capital to rebuild our industrial team. Government initiatives such as targeted tax incentives are the most necessary encouraging total production and discouraging the offsharing of critical goods and services.

GARY WILLIAM WILLMAN OPELINE, ALA.

TO THE EDITOR:

Peter Navarro leaves out that it has been the policy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for decades to determine the country of origin of goods produced in multiple countries or with reports from multiple countries based on the concept of substantial transformation.

The story of an open government by C.B.P., which assesses if manufacturing or processing creates a new and distinct article of commerce because now name, character or use.

In the case cited in the essay, yes, the Chinese name legally becomes Vietnamese because it is not a foreign country, and it is not a country.

The policy has been upheld by the court for decades. To try to crack the country of origin, the U.S. court is every product made in today's complex global supply chain environment would grind world trade to a halt.

RICHARD DICKNAI PIPELINE, ALA.

PIPELINE, ALA. (Ala.) is a licensed U.S. Customhouse broker in Denver, for 12 years.

TO THE EDITOR:

Peter Navarro's essay is needed for us! a visit I made to Vietnam in March 1994 with 2 filtered Business Based students. President Bill Clinton ended the U.S. embargo on Vietnam just a month earlier.

While on a tour of a cape and saucer's factory, I asked, 'Do you think the roddy of the embargo will make business easier?' The plant manager replied, 'Oh, yes. Because the embargo, we have to ship all of our products to China, where they are put into crams that say 'Shake it China.' We don't have any idea anymore.'

The simple fact is that, like the tax code, tariffs create incentives for human inservatives. So small creating such products, why is there the economic White Friedman's advice to lower all tariffs nationwide to zero — thanks to free markets, this would lower the domestic price along with the tariffed price.

MICHAEL C. ALCARO, NEW YORK

Superheroes Are a Bore. Except This One

David Colman

A critic and a former Preseemed columnist for The Times.

WILBUREN years after the first Avengers' novel hit theaters, superheroes have become a bore. There is no permanent strength, their predictable over-stationer ability, their collective magical powers that make them to add new multiversees gables. Can any of it stand up to what is happening to the world outside? And when the stakes are so ridiculous, does any of it actually remain?

We don't think Mr. Charles Case-From-Rzyman or a short-lasting billionaire with a tax attitude. Not with the federal government currently at war with itself, its populace, its Constitution, all economic decency and that. Even Mr. Charles Case may be the brazen corruption of our oligarchs, No, this is not a bad. It hyperman. Nor is it one for several gagges of superheroes — the Avengers, the X-Ries, the New Avengers and nearby others. Now, they know how to wait after invaders, but they also want to destroy entire cities in their age, leaving the meritors to close up their owners.

We need just a spake; No, big. St. the perpetually po-appo even when we swung interaction again in 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' in almost 1,500 theaters across North America, frantically juggling supernatural, monastic, financial and psychological battles; the desert, the world's best in the world, but along the way he handily broke the domestic boss—the terrorist for a month's opening week, surpassing 1000 million. The worldwide gross resulted 32 billion last weekend. The stories afforded the money of us felt in our gut: If you want or need any superhero right now, you're better off with Spider-Man.

What is it any because, by most Marvel monsters, Spider-Man is not particularly

impressive. He can scourge up with, confident and wrong from entry-whitting and his superhuman strength and that spokesman. That's about it. He can't fly; one of the reasons he is so identified with New York City is that he needs the architecture to get around. Plank him down in an Iowa cornfield, and the guy has to walk; He's not too mastic or immune from injury. Buders don't bounce off him; he even gets that in the new

Spider-Man is uninfected by fantasies of power.

JAMES H. FLATY

movie and ends up in the hospital.

He doesn't have a hidden high-tech bar filled with an endless instead of deadly crime-fighting gadgets. In 'Brand New Day' he has an anti-workshop where he becomes a new service, and he's not superhero but, Yes, he's impressive jacked-in the new film, but when he has to strip off his hit to meet with Black Widow as a Russian bath, he still looks like a nervous turn.

The first of our last, Spider-Man was almost doomed in the watchmaker before he ever existed. In the early 1990s, then, too pitched his publisher the idea. The response: 'Stan, that is the worst idea! I have ever heard.' He has recounted to BBC Radio 4 in 2015. 'It is all of all, people here spoken, so you can't call a bank. Suplet-Man,' favorably, he can't be a teenager — managers can only be sidekicks. And that's, he can't have personal problems — he's supposed to be a superhero. And if you know who a superhero is?' But Mr. Lee pulled together a story and published it in the final issue of a canceled comic title in the summer of 2002, and Spider-Man took off.

That's because Spokey's limitations make him more, not less, of a superhero. He's it site right down to his crime-fighting brief and his classic territory — buddies in New York City, no more, or less. That's where he part of his smogeless mission statement: Act locally. Be the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Plus, he's managed. Yes, he has an obnoxious but Great Golds and Doctor's tongue. But he has friends and friends in a horrible boss, that no-again, all again revenues and a secret he does everything to protect. That pretty much describes me and everyone's favor.

That's what made me love Spider-Man as a kid. When I was growing up in rural Wisconsin in the late '70s, far from any place you could buy a 45 record or comic book, The Milwaukee Journal had 'The Smoking Spider-Man.' He was the only superhero I

ever imagined being — a young man living in the city, trying to keep it all together with a combination of智能车辆 and spider silk.

It was impossible to be Superman. I was just going to be as rich as Bruce Wayne, But, hey, I was good at science. For all I knew, I could visit a lab on a school city, get bitten by a radioactive spider and start transforming, and this famous came with a lesson, which I've never had. My going through the agonizing social-sexual changes and perpetration of puberty could relate to. (If only every adolescence came with one approved secret manual at 1,000 undercoverings won.)

Peter Parker is finally an adult in 'Brand New Day,' but he's still fighting the same thing. The first, he has been the first to be a bright right now: how individuals' uninfected is to try the children; detailed fantasies of power being sold like snake oil on our national stage every day. He's not a Director's liaison, but a big business, a good neighbor. He's not a culture-technology pushing machines and their against a cramped-up enemy. He's not a dark enemy tech class-synthesization growing himself up on a potential at humanity's. What is the true manner of the universe wannabes have in common is that they are selling you a superhero fantasy you can't afford — a dream of unlimited events, longevity, wealth or power, of living your true parents.

Spider-Man lives in the best and one — New York City, today, given an idea — and he's been a good man. He's not a person that wants. It might seem that his stakes are low compared with the world's. But then, he is actually interested in facing up to his mistakes. Doing the right thing.

The stories are so beautiful: Spider-Man always has no content with a the oft-repeated words of his ill-fated story. Now: 'With great power comes great responsibility.' It's something that those with great power today might want to consider.

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Mamdani Sues City Council Over $10,000 Bonuses to Teachers' Aides

By DANA REINSTEIN

and ELIZA SHAPIRO

Mayor Zahran Mamdani sued the New York City Council on Wednesday, arguing that its high-graining lobby because in some of the city's lowest-paid school workers violence collective bargaining late, a city spokesman said.

The decision to sue crimes the same day that the City Council has become law, after the mayor declined to issue a veto, knowing that the Council had the votes to overstrike it.

The suit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, could set the score for the mayor's highest-profile fight so far with a public sector union and stands to endorse the already fraught relationship with the Council's speaker, Lida Winde, who championed the legislation.

But a spokesman for the mayor said the city was acting to protect labor rights.

"He will not allow the political process to replace the collective bargaining table," said the spokesman, Matt Rauschbach. "The city is filing a lawsuit to protect the right of every union to suppress on behalf of its members, to fight for the workplace they deserve and ensure that workers—one politicians—overstrike their own futures."

The Council bill, backed by the influential United Federation of Teachers, would grant $10,000 bonuses to New York City teaching assistants, who often work one service with clients—the foundation and are among the worst-paid workers in the city's public school system.

Mr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist who often closely aligns

The mayor says the bill violates collective bargaining law.

himself with organized labor, supported the bonuses on the campaign trial, but came out against them says he became mayor. He argued that the bill violated state and city labor law, which requires such issues to be hammered out via collective bargaining.

The teachers' union backed Mr. Mamdani for mayor only after he won the Democratic primary last summer.

Mr. Rauschbach's said the administration was committed to raising paraprofessional pay by other means.

"We want to engage in productive conversations with the U.F.T. to permanently address this steep rate," he said.

The mayor, who campaigned on the promise of making New York more affordable for all, now finds himself as the politically awkward position of fighting the teachers' union and potentially listening bonuses for low-income city employees who work with vulnerable children.

Her is Ms. Meier's position without political complications. The speaker often casts herself as a more faculty evidence fail to the mayor, but the legislation she has championed would, according to critics, amount to an expensive end-run annual collective bargaining that other unions would be eager to emulate.

As evidence, opponents of the legislation now that James Arista, the councilwoman who chairs the Committee on Fire and Emergency Management, recently passed to the paraprofessional bonuses so her request to raise the pay for the Fire Department's emergency medical technicians, some of whom make as little as $10 an hour.

In an interview on Wednesday morning on "The Brian Lukacs Show" on WNYC, Ms. Meier said that it made final sense to fund

Mayor Zahran Mamdani opted for legal action rather than veto a bill he knew the City Council had the votes to overstrike.

the bonuses and help 50 paraprofessional job vacancies, at a time when the city is spending more than $5 billion a year or need children with disabilities to private schools where they can receive more specialized services.

"Every member of the Council, in a unanimous vote, is a separate vote, supported the RESPECT Check Act because it is an example: able that paraprofessionals who support some of our highest-need

students are earning as little as $33,000 a year," said Ms. Meier on Wednesday afternoon, as a joint statement with Current De La Rosa, the councilwoman who sponsored the legislation.

The first tranche of the bonuses is not the until Jan 1.

The ambiguity surrounding the legislation's future did not stop the teachers' union from declaring victory.

In an email to paraprofessionals on Wednesday, Michael Malgrew, the union's president, wrote, "Today, the RESPECT check because Iaw! All of our hard work has gotten on to this moment. If today, the new legislation designed to receive their first RESPECT payment in January."

Mr. Malgrew had threatened the issue "aw" on the mayor if he went to check the legislation.

In an interview on Wednesday, Mr. Malgrew said the city's claim that it was using to protect workers was "a jaw."

"It's lower-paid workers in our union, majority Black and brown women, you're trying to stop them from getting this check, good luck with that," he said, adding that the city's powerhouse has been shut. Mr. Mamdani had become more personally concerned in this issue to recent weeks.

The roughly 26,000 paraprofos-

sionals who work in New York's public school system, America's largest, have a starting salary of about $10 million.

The legislation would cost an estimated $125 million, according to the preparation Citizens Budget Commission, a recording group.

The commission, and the mayor's allies, also warned that the law threatened to save havoc in the city's half-century old collective bargaining practices, by establishing a precedent that when unions did not get what they wanted at the bargaining table, they could just turn to the City Council for help.

Robert W. Lias, who worked as the city's labor relations commissioner under Mayor Bill de Blasco and members in all the City Hall under Mr. Mamdani, said that the state and city labor laws had been put in place to stop the chaos that implied collective bargaining at the 1960s, when there were strikes by teachers, social service workers and cantitious workers.

"There are almost 100 bargaining units in New York City," Mr. Lias said. "If you don't have a rigorous collective bargaining approach, then person are going to be running to the City Council, to the State Legislature, they're going to be engaging in work stoppages. I think there is the potential to return to that chaos."

Weather Report

Meteorology by AccuWeather

Highlight: The Weekend Outlook

Greenville sures Greenville and thousands

Strowers and thunderstorms will be widespread across the Eastern States this weekend with the potential for flash-floating near the coast. The extreme heat wave will persist across the South Central States, isolated Afternoon Thunderstorms will occur across the Rockies.

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A mild day is in store from southern parts of the Great Lakes through interior New England. South of them, thunderstorms will occur from southern parts of New England through the Ohio Valley and city parts of the Southwest and the Mid-Atlantic. Some storms from northern Mississippi and Alabama through parts of the Mid-Atlantic will produce flash flooding and damaging winds.

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Africa is vast majority of the Rockies and the West will remain hot and dry, afternoon thunderstorms are expected to dot New Mexico, Arizona, eastern Utah and central Colorado.

Metropolitan Forecast

Major ...Strowers and thunderstorms high 80. The day will be mostly cloudy, with lower temperatures compared with previous days. There will be a couple of afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Winds will be tight out of the north-north-west.

TOMENT ...Thunderstorm around earth Low 67. An evening thunderstorm will occur in the area. Clouds will become thinner. The temperature will be just below average, with a tight wind of 3 to 5 miles per hour from the north-north.

TOWOMONW ...Partly sunny high 80. There will be plenty of sunshine with only a few clouds in the sky. Conditions will be dry with temperatures a few degrees below normal. Winds will be out of the northeast at 6 to 12 m.p.h.

SATURDAY ...Strowers around high 70. The humidity will return along with a couple of showers throughout the day. The day will feature a mixture of sunshine and clouds. Winds will be from the east-northeast at 6 to 12 m.p.h.

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MONDAY ...Thunderstorms Sunday. Winds will be showers and thunderstorms with a cloudy sky on Sunday, high 76. Monday will be mostly sunny, less humid and dry, and dry.

Metropolitan Almanac

In Central Park, for the 13 hours ended at 1 p.m. yesterday.

Avg. 1000s departure from normal One month -1.0° Avg. 1000s departure from normal One month -0.7°

Represented locally Operating 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

Recreational Forecast

Sun, Moon and Phoots

	Last Quarter		Next		First Quarter
	Avg. 2013	Sep. 2014	Avg. 2013	Sep. 2014	Avg. 2013	Sep. 2014
Sun	4.00	4.11	4.11	4.11	4.11	4.11
Mon	4.00	4.11	4.11	4.11	4.11	4.11
Tues	4.00	4.11	4.11	4.11	4.11	4.11
Wed	4.00	4.11	4.11	4.11	4.11	4.11
Thu	4.00	4.11	4.11	4.11	4.11	4.11
Fri	4.00	4.11	4.11	4.11	4.11	4.11
Sat	4.00	4.11	4.11	4.11	4.11	4.11

Burling

From the past three months to Spring mean, 8 o. m. to 10 o. m. each of them, including Long Island Sound and New York Airline.

From the past three months to June 30, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

High-Takes

Marine City	2.00	4.00	2.00	4.00
Jacksonville	2.00	4.00	2.00	4.00
Fort McNary	2.00	4.00	2.00	4.00
St. Louis	2.00	4.00	2.00	4.00
St. Louis	2.00	4.00	2.00	4.00
St. Louis	2.00	4.00	2.00	4.00
St. Louis	2.00	4.00	2.00	4.00
St. Louis	2.00	4.00	2.00

Little Rock
New York	1.00	1.00	1.00
Los Angeles	1.00	1.00	1.00
Louisville	1.00	1.00	1.00
Memphis	1.00	1.00	1.00
Miami	1.00	1.00	1.00
Milwaukee	1.00	1.00	1.00
Miami St. Paul	1.00	1.00	1.00
Memphis	1.00	1.00	1.00
New Orleans	1.00	1.00	1.00
Omaha	1.00	1.00	1.00
Oklahoma City	1.00	1.00	1.00
Omaha	1.00	1.00	1.00
Omaha	1.00	1.00	1.00
Phoenix	1.00	1.00	1.00
Philadelphia	1.00	1.00	1.00
Pittsburgh	1.00	1.00	1.00
Portland, Me.	1.00	1.00	1.00
Portland, Ore.	1.00	1.00	1.00
Portland	1.00	1.00	1.00
Salem	1.00	1.00	1.00
St. Louis	1.00	1.00	1.00
St. Louis	1.00	1.00	1.00
St. Louis	1.00	1.00	1.00
St. Louis	1.00	1.00	1.00
St. Louis	1.00	1.00	1.00
St. Louis	1.00	1.00	1.00

Little Rock	1.00	1.00	1.00
Los Angeles	1.00	1.00	1.00
Louisville	1.00	1.00	1.00
Memphis	1.00	1.00	1.00
Miami	1.00	1.00	1.00
Milwaukee	1.00	1.00	1.00
Miami St. Paul	1.00	1.00	1.00
Memphis	1.00	1.00	1.00
New Orleans	1.00	1.00	1.00
Omaha	1.00	1.00	1.00
Oklahoma City	1.00	1.00	1.00
Omaha	1.00	1.00	1.00
Phoenix	1.00	1.00	1.00
Philadelphia	1.00	1.00	1.00
Portland, Me.	1.00	1.00	1.00
Portland, Ore.	1.00	1.00	1.00
San Diego	1.00	1.00	1.00
San Francisco	1.00	1.00	1.00
San Jose	1.00	1.00	1.00
San Diego	1.00	1.00	1.00
San Diego	1.00	1.00	1.00
San Diego	1.00	1.00	1.00
San Diego	1.00	1.00	1.00
San Diego	1.00	1.00	1.00
San Diego	1.00	1.00	1.00
San Diego	1.00	1.00	1.00
San Diego	1.00	1.00	1.00

New York
New York	1.00	1.00	1.00
New York	1.00	1.00	1.00
New York	1.00	1.00	1.00
New York	1.00	1.00	1.00
New York	1.00	1.00	1.00
New York	1.00	1.00	1.00
New York	1.00	1.00	1.00

Avg. 1000s departure from normal	Avg. 1000s departure from normal	Avg. 1000s departure from normal
1.0°	1.0°	1.0°
Represented locally	1.00	1.00
Operating	1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100	Avg. 1000s departure from normal

Recreational Forecast

Sun, Moon and Phoots

Burling

From the past three months to Spring mean, 8 o. m. to 10 o. m. each of them, including Long Island Sound and New York Airline. From the past three months to July 30, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Average Time	1:00 a.m.	2:00 a.m.
Average Time	1:00 a.m.	2:00 a.m.
First Monday	1:00 a.m.	2:00 a.m.
Second Monday	1:00 a.m.	2:00 a.m.
Third Monday	1:00 a.m.	2:00 a.m.
Fourth Monday	1:00 a.m.	2:00 a.m.
Fourth Monday	1:00 a.m.	2:00 a.m.
Fourth Monday	1:00 a.m.	2:00 a.m.
Fourth Monday	1:00 a.m.	2:00 a.m.
Fourth Monday	1:00 a.m.	2:00 a.m.

Precipitation (In inches)
1.00	1.00
1.00	1.00
1.00	1.00
1.00	1.00
1.00	1.00
1.00	1.00
1.00	1.00
1.00	1.00
1.00	1.00
1.00	1.00
1.00	1.00

Cooling Charges Rate

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5 ECONOMY

Treasury doubled the amount of its own debt it can buy back from investors, causing bond yields to fall sharply.

4 POLICY

ICE has forbidden employees to wear Metai-smart glasses, the latest workplace to ban the devices.

7 SPORTS

Atlanta signed Parker Brosius and two other college seniors for $500 apiece, freeing up big money for top draft picks.

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81

Europe Pushing for Breakthroughs To Compete With China and U.S.

Facing a nearly $1 trillion gap in investment funding, nations cast a wide net for start-ups.

By PATRICIA COHEN

STOCKPORT, ENGLAND — The shiny cylindrical tanks and slant-roofed control planets showed against a wall in C3 Biotech's laboratory have essentially been turned into a multimillion-dollar graveyard of high-grade stainless steel equipment.

All of this state-of-the-art gear was discarded during the company's quest to discover a cheap way to convert agricultural waste like potato pools or sugar beet pulp into acrylic glass, a material widely used in manufacturing.

Nigel Scruton, a co-founder of C3 Biotech in Stockport, England, makes a point of showing off these expensive failures before explaining that the service solution involved using discount plastic tube — the kind you might find at Walmart.

What is equally surprising is that this British company's breakthrough has been funded by an unusual grant from the German government, part of a novel effort to support about-the-mean innovation throughout Europe.

The pressure on Europe to better compete with Chinese and American technological and industrial advancements is peaking.

Europe has been trailing the world's two largest economies for more than a decade on several measures of competitiveness, including investment, research and development, and productivity growth.

At stake is Europe's "lead in many historic strongholds, including automotive, pharmaceuticals and machinery," a report on competitiveness from McKinsey Global Institute concluded.

The region would have to spend nearly $1 trillion more in investment annually just to keep up, according to estimates.

Soaring energy costs, aggravated by wars, relatively high labor costs and the European Union's trademark slow decision-making process are also blamed for blaming Europe's competitive edge.

Amid the dire forecasts, Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation — called SPBUND — offers a breath of optimism.

The office is determined in back ingrained assumptions and prove that governments can lead ambitions, cutting-edge ventures quickly and across national borders.

SPBUND is hardly the first effort by the European Union or Britain aimed at jump-starting innovation and research. The European Union's $1.5-billion-euro-librarian Europe program has been running since 2020, and a CTO-Milot budget had been proposed for the next phase, scheduled to commence in 2020.

Horizons's track record has been mixed, with critics complaining about cumbersome applications, confusing rules and a preference for large corporations over disruptive enterprises.

SPBUND is much smaller, but it thinks big. Its goal is innovation that "solve a massive technological, social or environmental problem." CONTINUED ON PAGE 83

Taking samples at C3 Biotech in Stockport, England. The company is on a quest to cheaply convert agricultural waste into acrylic glass.

Beijing Likes For Its Tech To Capitalize On Its Turf

Major market debate may help to reduce a longtime reliance on Wall Street.

By STEVE LOUIS

and KINYUN WU

SEOUL — Two explosive stock market debate in Shanghai in recent weeks have underscored a pair of China's interviewed ambitions: harnessing investor enthusiasm for homegrown companies riding the artificial intelligence boom and reducing dependence on American technology and finance.

The companies — C3MT, China's leading memory chip maker, and Unirex Robotics, a Chinese maker of household robots — both chose Shanghai to hit their shares. Their offerings were encouraged by government policies aimed at steering promising tech companies toward domestic financial markets rather than relying on state subsidies or foreign capital.

They were departures from years past, when the path for successful Chinese tech start-ups so often ran through Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

"The flow of global tech capital was essentially a one-way street looking westward," the Global Times, controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, said in an editorial, citing the C3MT and Unirex Metal public offerings in Shanghai as signals of a change. "Today, however, the world is shifting its gaze from West to East."

CONTINUED ON PAGE 84

Navy's Role In Moving Oil in Strait

By PETER EAYIS

and JOHN DIBOT

Only a few oil tankers braved Iran's attacks to go through the Strait of Hormuz for much of the war, leading to a drastic reduction in how much crude reached world markets.

But since May, the U.S. military has played a crucial role in getting millions of barrels of oil through the strait, helping to keep oil prices from rising further.

The operation snubbily shepherds tankers through the southern part of the strait on routes close to Oman. Iran effectively controls which ships go through its side of the strait, opposite Oman.

Before the war, about 15 million barrels of crude oil a day went through the Strait of Hormuz. In July, tankers using U.S. protected routes transported around five million barrels of oil daily out of the Persian Gulf, according to analysts.

"It's one of the surprising successes," said Michelle Winta Beckmann, a shipping analyst at Windward, a maritime analysts firm. "They have been extraordinarily effective in keeping that southern corridor operating, despite the attacks."

But the U.S. effort, which Iran opposes, has come at a cost.

CONTINUED ON PAGE 85

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The Digest

A COMMERCE

Amazon to Put Drones Into Nearly 500 Cities

Millions more people may be able to get smaller, lightweight Amazon packages delivered by drones by the end of the year under a plan the company announced Wednesday to expand the airborne shipping to suburban areas in nearly 500 U.S. cities.

Consumers could receive the drone deliveries in an bar as its minutes, Amazon said in a news release. The drones can carry

packages up to 5 pounds.

The plan will intensify the battle between Amazon and Walmart to provide consumers with the fastest delivery times. Both giants rely on a mix of drones and drivers to deliver all orders.

Amazon's plan would expand its drone operation more than sixfold nationwide into hundreds of new communities, including the Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland and Boise metro areas. The drones will primarily fly in the suburbs well away from skyscrapers and major airports that could cause problems. ASSOCIATED PRESS

RETAIL

Target Reports on Increase In Sales Across Its Stores

Target reported its second straight quarter of comparable sales gains on Wednesday, saying that a merchandising increase under the retailer's new chief executive is attracting more customers and increasing sales throughout its stores.

The retailer also benefited from a tariff refund of $894 million after the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration had overstopped its authority when the audit issued requirements.

The chief financial officer, Jim Lee, when asked about tariff refunds this week, said the company continues to invest in lowering prices. Target reduced the prices

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of more than 35,000 items over the past year and "there's more to come even at we're facing head winds overall," Mr. Lee said.

Comparable sales, these coming from stores and digital channels operating for at least 12 months, rose 5.8 percent in the second-quarter. ASSOCIATED PRESS

EXPANSIONS

Lowe's Beats Expectations For Second-Quarter Profit

Lowe's beat second-quarter profit and margin estimates on Wednesday, helped by reducing demand for better repairs after winter, though cautious consumer spending6 months home improvement related to lower annual targets.

The results come a day after its target rival, Home Depot, beat quarterly expectations and maintained full-year targets, raising its winter expectations for the home-

improvement sector.

Lowe's shares rose 4 percent in early trading, reversing course of set falling 3 percent before the belt.

The stock gained along with homebuilders such as D.R. Horton, on hopes of lower mortgage rates and a recovery in the housing market.

"Housing turnover in the single most important driver of home improvement demand, because people renovate when they buy and when they sell," said Bryan Hayes, strategist at Dacks Investment Research. REUTERS

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Wall Street Halts Slide as Treasury Eases Stress on Bonds

By the Associated Press

U.S. stocks rose Wednesday after the Treasury Department announced a move that could ease pressure coming from the bond market. Strong profit reports for the spring from Direct Leader, Target and other companies also helped support Wall Street.

The S&P 500 climbed 6.2 percent for its first gain in four days after setting a high face week. The Dow Jones industrial average added 109 points, or 0.2 percent, and the Nasdaq composite ticked 0.2 percent higher.

Financial markets have come under growing strain as Treasury yields charged higher through the summer on worries about inflation, big government debts and other factors. That makes borrowing money more expensive for everyone, which deters the economy and undercuts prices for stocks and other investments.

But Treasury yields fell in the morning after the Treasury Department said it will at least double the size of its planned purchases of longer-term Treasury's from Sept. 9 through Nov. 4. The department said it was doing so "to provide greater liquidity support in longer-dated nominal sectors where there is consistent strong sponsorship from market participants."

These longer-term 10- and 30-year Treasury's are less beholden to the Federal Reserve, which can raise or lower very short-term interest rates for overnight loans. President Trump has lobbied for the Fed to lower interest rates to help the economy.

Longer-term yields are set instead by investors in the bond market, who decide how much interest they need to get paid by the U.S. government in exchange for lending a money. And recently, they have been demanding more in interest to make up for the growing risks of high inflation, continued government deficits and other factors.

After the announcement, the yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.60 percent from 4.71 percent

The S&P 500 Index

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late Tuesday, it, though, remains well above its 3.07 percent level from before the war with four such oil prices and worries about inflation much higher.

The 30-year Treasury yield, which recently touched its highest level since 2007, fell sharply to 5.18 percent from 5.28 percent late Tuesday.

The relief could be short lived, some analysts warn. The amount of results the U.S. Treasury is preparing to repurchase in a fraction of the overall total.

"The boost to buybacks is also happening in a world of chief-largest Fed credibility," according to strategists at BNY Paribas. So, owners are questioning whether the Federal Reserve will raise the federal funds rate seen to match the tough talk in a business, for the 40-Wards, has been offering us getting inflation down toward its 2 percent target.

"We do not believe buybacks will be enough to offset a costing and loss in Fed credibility," the BNY Paribas strategists wrote in a report, calling them "successors, but not sufficient."

On Wall Street, Moderna and Merck helped lead the market all for they announced encouraging initial results from a study of a cancer vaccine they outwrapped.

The new drug showed better recurrence-free survival in melanoma patients who had a combination of it and Keytruda, a prescription immunotherapy drug made by Merck, than with Keytruda alone.

Moderna snared 577 percent, while Merck jumped 12.6 percent.

The parade of U.S. companies reporting bigger profits than employees expected for the spring, meanwhile, continues to support trends.

Enter Leader rallied 16.3 percent after its chief executive, Stéphane de La Ferente, reported growth in revenue around the world, with the strongest in mainland China.

Target rose 4.3 percent, Lowe's added 2 percent and the homebuilder Ted Brothers climbed 4 percent after they all reported better profits for the latest quarter than expected.

Breakouts fell 4.6 percent and was the heaviest weight on the S&P 500.

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What Happened in Stock Markets Yesterday

S&P 500 7.707.98 7 +0.2%

3-month performance: +4.6%

Nasdaq Composite Index 20,351.09 7 +0.2%

3-month performance: +1.6%

Dow Jones Industrials 53,463.05 7 +0.2%

3-month performance: +8.3%

Best performers

S&P 500 COMPANIES	CUTS	CHANGE
1. Moderna (MRAX)	$274,28	+77.0%
2. Entrez (partic 9-10)	$88,01	+26.0
3. Merck (U.S., MRA)	$332,82	+12.0
4. Alcatel (Oxford U.S., Inc., MRA)	$90,93	+25.0
5. Merck Technology (MRA)	$207,37	+9.8
6. Corcoran (Huntington, MRA)	$103,05	+8.8
7. Danvers (CDMA)	$76,44	+8.4
8. Norcross (NIA)	$120,98	+7.8
9. Tel Aviv (PUD)	$1,321,09	+7.7
10. Online Group (O&M)	$50,71	+7.0

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S&P 500 COMPANIES	CUTS	CHANGE
1. Seagate Technology (Nega, OTA)	$655,04	+7.8%
2. Swirl (Suwano (STU))	$326,41	+7.0
3. Western Digital (WE)	$460,08	+6.8
4. Dell Technologies (LORU)	$437,56	+6.8
5. L&M Research (AEX)	$497,27	+6.2
6. Neurath Technologies (RETA)	$410,49	+6.0
7. Cinnamon (CDMA)	$387,47	+5.2
8. Seagate (TEA)	$374,05	+5.1
9. The (PUD)	$113,03	+6.0
10. Texas (NIA)	$248,76	+5.8

Most active

S&P 500 COMPANIES	CUTS	CHANGE	WOLKERS
1. Moderna (MRAX)	$174,58	+177.0%	100
2. Intel (RSC)	$93,80	+4.0	100
3. NABIA (NIDA)	$217,00	+1.0	90
4. Pfizer Inc. (PFE)	$28,24	+3.0	50
5. Tech (Nord P)	$14,00	+4.1	30
6. Apple (NIA)	$143,65	+2.2	40
7. Merck Technology (MRA)	$107,27	+0.8	40
8. Tesla (TEA)	$101,41	+1.1	30
9. Interim Technologies (PUM)	$171,14	+2.1	30
10. Amper.com (NIDA)	$183,86	+2.0	30

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	TOTAL RETURNS	TOTAL ASSETS
	1 YR	2 YRS
1. Vanguard International Bank Sec-Exempt Fund Investor Shares (VIFER)	+4.0%	+2.0%
2. Vanguard Sec-Exempt Bank Index Fund Interest Shares (VIFER)	+6.2	+0.0
3. Vanguard Limited Bank Sec-Exempt Fund (VIFER)	+3.8	+1.7
4. American Funds Sec-Exempt Bond Fund (April 4-5/15/26)	+5.0	+0.0
5. Bridge Mobile Municipal Bond Fund (BMOU)	+4.7	+1.1
6. Vanguard (2001) National Bank Bank Sec-Exempt Fund Investor Shares (VIFER)	+4.7	+1.0
7. Vanguard Long Bank Sec-Exempt Fund (VIFER)	+6.0	+0.0
8. Vanguard (2002) Bank Bank Sec-Exempt Fund (VIFER)	+5.0	+1.0
9. De-Croix Sec-Exempt Bond Fund (VIFER)	+5.0	+1.0
10. Vanguard High Yield Sec-Exempt Fund (VIFER)	+7.2	+0.7
	Source: Morningstar

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Skype is the first of Herman this month, off Iran. A U.S. Navy operation shepherds tankers through the southern part of the strut on routes close to Oman.

Navy Role in Moving Oil Through Strat

www.navybusiness.com

The U.S. military is shepherding significant resources to get a low-rise oil from the U.S. to the U.S. and it is a strong oil—something it did not have to do before the war, when tankers sailed freely through the water's water.

We extremely take lotteries to provide for that kind of person, not delivery," said Arthur Oldh, an analyst at Center for Naval Aviation.

In my 14-person reports on the Southern corridor, Central Command sent a range of results that can interrupt Iranian divisional relations. Ship operators can not be supplied any planned ship through the strut with the U.S. military, and then report any other aspects of district in this world. The United States uses ships, helicopters and planes to launch weapons to interrupt attacks. It has helped over 1,000 ships transit the strut, according to Central Command.

The U.S. tanker protection operation has drawn attacks by Iran, to form 10 ships taking into contact two routes have been far more the most of June, injuring 30 reactors, and falling into, according to New York Times analysts of data collected by the International Maritime Organization, a part of the United Nations. Another object was struck this week while it was sailing close to Oman, killing a crew member, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, an entity administered by Britain's Royal Navy, said on March.

The Iranian military creates the ability to escalate its attacks on all shipping in the area, as was said, and get far-fetters in Gulf countries, and Iran is demanding permission control over ship traffic to

the strut, something it did not have before the war.

"It isn't悬殊 over the strut will remain significant for the foreseeable future," said Mean Yu, writer, a director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a research organization.

More large shipping companies have chosen their away from the strut until there is a lasting return this, and traffic through the strut remains far below what it was before the war.

The tanker protection effort is the southern corridor is one of the

The U.S. effort, which Iran opposes, has come at a cost.

on major U.S. operations aimed at becoming Iran's grip on the struts. The other is a U.S. Navy blockade of ships visiting Iranian ports, which has greatly re-infected Iranian oil leaving the gulf, and deprived Tehran of much needed oil revenue.

Helping the tankers get out through the southern corridor increases the supply of crude to world markets and reduces the likelihood of oil prices spiking to the height they reached earlier in the war. Gulf oil is also bypassing the strut by being pumped to greater retailers through Middle Eastern pipelines.

Mr. Wiese Beckmann, the shipping analyst, said the amount of oil going through had been rising since May, which the tanker protection ministers began. Roughly four million barrels a day cooled to

Zion, rising to some five million a day in July, she said.

Ships that navigated the strut with the assistance of Central Command, the U.S. military sent running the operations typically, tars off their transporters to avoid direction by Iran. That makes it harder for firms that track vessels to get a full picture of traffic in the strut.

A small number of shipping operators have been selling to use the Oman route, One of those in Dynamics, a Greek company. Two of its tankers were hit on July 10, one of which was abandoned, according to the International Maritime Organization. Dynamics did not respond to requests for contracts.

The Greek local financial government-owned oil giant, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, or ADNOC, is making considerable efforts to move oil on the southern part of the U.S.

Its vessels have also been for-grounds struck. ADNOC said last week that 16 of its vessels had been attacked in the war, resulting in one fatality and 20 injuries to crew members.

"An also extensive resources to protect our people and our assets and adapt our operations to the evolving security environment," a spokesman for ADNOC's logistics arm said in a statement. Anything to say whether the company's ships go through with U.S. protection.

Recognizing these missions has become far more challenging since the Navy's base of the war, the capital of Bahrain, was effectively destroyed by Iranian air tanks that began on the first day of the war, to a result of losing their main logistics hub in the Middle

East. Very roughly ships now must travel to the tiny island of Dega Garcia—a British territory about 1,100 miles to the west of the southern tip of India. The power of their more than five, they can buy it.

The Navy has said it has about 20 earnings in the Gulf of Oman, including the aircraft carriers Abraham Lincoln and George H.W. Bush, the destroyers concerning them, and even more destroyers achieving President Trump's renewed blockade of Iranian ports.

How the Navy intends to keep such a large fleet of warships in the Middle East into the future is unclear, as all of the nearby ships in the region are within range of Iranian missiles. And although the service has been that TV destroyers in the fleet, it has just 11 carriers. Not all of them are available to serve in the war, as some are undergoing maintenance to shipwrecks and save a scheduled for decommissioning next year.

The Lincoln, for one, has been at sea since Nov. 21 without a port call that would allow the crew to rest, and will need a significant amount of maintenance before it can display might. The Japan-based carrier George Washington is seeking to relieve the Lincoln, but a relief for the North-East (East) Bush—which deployed on March 27—has not been publicly abandoned.

Given that Iran has regularly struck ships using the southern route, the U.S. protection has not been impregnated. But July. This is the first of the human life in the Command, said: "It doesn't mean the defense is ineffective. As you can see in the grand scheme, more ships are moving through their homes."

Markets Rally After Treasury Tries to Ease Bonds

By JOE REYNOLDS

The Treasury Department on Wednesday admeals a heavy bond market by doubling the amount of its own debt it is permitted to lose back from investors. The more helped push bond prices up and yields down.

The action came one day after the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond amount of an 8.7-year-decadal high, a troubling signal that was driven by mounting concerns over rising deficits, rampant borrowing, by artificial intelligence companies and robbers inflation.

The Treasury market is the largest bond market in the world, and yields on the government's little are used across the world in investment of things that have seen been and mortgage. Higher Treasury yields typically range into less higher interest rates throughout the economy, reducing profitability by becoming a time when many are already struggling to make ends meet.

Scott Benson, the Treasury secretary, has pointed to Treasury yields as a hammer of the 8.7-year in improving affordability, saying that interest rates play a major role in "whether a young health can afford a home, a college student can buy a car, or an entry, however can get a small business."

The Treasury's move on Wednesday allows it to increase the scale at which it buys back its own debt, to 0.8 billion per month, and to 0.2 billion per month, to 0.2 billion per month, to 0.2 billion per month, to 0.2 billion per month, to 0.2 billion per month, to 0.2 billion per month, to 0.2 billion per month, to 0.2 billion per month, to 0.2 billion per month, to 0.2 billion per month, to 0.2 billion per month, to 0.2 billion

The announcement by the Treasury Department, led by Scott Benson, raises demand in the bond market

which sends yields falling.

The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond, which this week runs in highest level since 2007, fell roughly 5.1 percentage points on Wednesday, to 3.2 percent, in largest daily decline in months. The 10-year Treasury yield, which has a major interest in over a half-gage ratio, also fell sharply, to 4.65 percent. Stocks rose, with the fall 7.8th closing up 0.2 percent.

While markets estimated the 10-year administration intervention, analysts noted that Wednesday's buyback accounted for a small amount of the almost $30 trillion Treasuries market, suggesting that the move may decline in both further increases in yields. The market consistently trades more than $1 trillion per day, according to data from the Se-

cordies Industry and Financial Markets Association, a trade group.

"If so, this feels more like a communication strategy than according that will meaningfully stem the rise in long-dated yields," said Sufusha Razayas, an interest rate manager at the Federal Bank Societe Generale, adding that the increase is not significant enough to cause a lasting move lower in yields.

"It's hard to get excited about a $2 billion increase in buybacks," she said, noting that it "feels a little 'buzire Power,'" referring to the picture of a rumour that the once-cryogenically frozen transposant in the move demands as part of a plot, not taking into account inflation in the decades while he was asking.

The Treasury Department's announcement is the latest in a series of efforts to try to break the end of long-term government bond yields.

The government has increased most of its new borrowing needs into short-term bills that ensure it lose than one year. The Treasury Department also recently stepped in to support the Japanese yen, which enables suggested war a more effective Japanese officials selling a chunk of the country's large stockpile of U.S. government bonds to support its currency.

The Treasury auctions debt of different maturities at regular intervals, last week, for example, it sold $62 billion of 10-year notes and $25 billion of 20-year bonds.

In another reassuring sign on

Wednesday the Treasury said $10 billion of 20-year bonds at a coupon—which is effectively an interest rate—of 0.2 percent, the vector orders for the bonds exceeded twice what was available, which has been typical at recent 30-year auctions.

Investigators even the most recently issued date, known as "on-the-out" Treasuries. These are more heavily traded, making it easier to buy and sell in large amounts. The company's stockpile is longer on the run, it becomes "off-the-out," making less frequently and typically with a slightly lower price—and higher yield—than more than 10 percent.

Once a week, the Treasury offers to repurchase some of its old debt, keeping demand strong for new Treasuries sold in auctions, and keeping recently issued figures lower. The announcement on Wednesday will increase the size of these buyback operations, 5, summed by the Treasury issuing more short-term investment.

Analysts also said that an important on the announcement is well in what it signaled to the market, showing the Treasury Department is aware of the recent rise in yields.

"Long-term rates are the future," said George Gonsalves, head of U.S. niacin strategy at 80,970 Securities, an investment bank. "That is clearly the case."

The charge for the size of buybacks will be effective next month, through to November, when the Treasury Department is expected to start update the market on its borrowing plans.

In Meeting, Fed Officials Showed Some Impatience

By COURT WHITE

An increasing number of officials at the Federal Reserve are growing impatient about the lack of progress in getting inflation under control, adding several policymakers to support raising interest rates in July, according to minutes from last month's gathering.

Policymakers voted for a 10-year of holding rates steady at a range of 3.5 percent to 3.75 percent at the end of last month. It was the first time since 2016 that there officials on the Federal Open Market Committee discussed in the same direction regarding a policy change.

The discussion at the latter meeting, a second official was released on Wednesday, centered on inflation, which has scorched the Fed's 2 percent target for five years. Fresh price pressures stemming from the war with Iran, surging investments tied to the artificial intelligence bases and President Trump's 2 percent pushed it even further out of stock.

Several participants at the meeting supported higher rates for ventures and given the "worlds" (price pressures appeared broad based) and that the Fed's 10-year policy change was not helping to raise inflation. If that subject a few specified that raising rates in July would "likely help demand the money to be better and continue" were costly suspicions of tightening interest at a later stage.

Most officials expected inflation to come to the latter half of the year. The 10-year period of the Fed in the energy shock from the Iran war failed, according to the minutes. But many stressed the possibility that inflation was not only "more precisely effected." The risks, policymakers stated, were "altered to the extent," not being enough to have a satisfactory level the end of the Middle East conflict but also the criteria into the 10 years related to the U.S. National War.

Kevra M. Warth, in the first few months as chairman, has made raising inflation his top priority. He has repeatedly vowed that the Fed under the watch would deliver price stability, that he best rated at the news conference that followed the July meeting. He said, if that would require higher rates.

In the absence of a clear question Mr. Warth, whose content contributed to a sharp cut-off in long-term U.S. governments bonds, other officials have stepped in to fill the void. They have been explicit that if inflation does not save short-term, then the higher rates will be strong costs, a point that was emphasized during July's discussions.

"With regard to the outlook for treasury policy, participants indicated that their interpretations of incoming information would be a key component of their information," he said. "The most appropriate interest that policy tightening would likely be necessary if inflation did not decline."

Russian policymakers at the beginning also said that the severe the tightening of financial conditions that occurred in the weeks leading up to the coming bank's latest gathering and lawmakers perceive officials' need to be to raise rates. According to the minutes, that move was as difficult to take place as the prospect is and an expectation that the Fed "would adapt a more restrictive policy stance before it will be."

But in the weeks since the Fed

last year, officials have received a round of economic data that has prompted investors to scale back their expectations about when the Fed will raise rates this year. The table of an increase in the Fed's next meeting in mid-September have fallen sharply, and investors do not expect any adjustment until December of the earliest.

The latest 10-year from Index report showed a sudden increase in inflation in July. That came on the latest in a mixed jobs report in which employers shed workers last month and the unemployment rate dropped slightly to 1.1 percent as hundreds of thousands of people left the labor force. In July, officials characterized the labor market as "stable, with labor demand and supply in balance."

"Later" on Wednesday, Mr. Trump revived his call for lower rates at an event at the White House. "Now, when the announcement numbers, which we're doing off the time, they keep driving the interest rates up, because they're so afraid of inflation," he said. "The only problem for. They should allow interest rates to go down."

Fed officials are also now having to concede with a global government bank on the last short yields on 30-year Treasuries to the highest-level since 2007. Treasury yields fell back sharply on Wednesday after the Treasury

The Federal Reserve chairman, Kevin M. Warth, has made raising inflation in the U.S. his top priority.

Department announced that it would increase the scale at which it had back to zero debt, as it has has per weekly operation from $2 billion. Up until Wednesday's on-pi-vocation, investors had attributed the rise in yields to concerns about soaring debt levels, a deluge of corporate bonds and anger about inflation.

Mr. Warth can help to ease some of this angst when he speaks at the Fed's annual conference in Jackson, Wyo., which is set to kick off at the end of next week. The following brings together several bankers from around the world to discuss economic developments. The Fed chairman's speech is strong the event's highlights.

The minutes on Wednesday also confirmed reporting by The New York Times that Mr. Warth raised on the July meeting the idea of making back the number of scheduled policy changes per year to six front night.

"The chairman observed that the 10-yearized earnings per year, held roughly every two months, would allow more information to accumulate between meetings than under current practice and prevent policymakers and the staff more time to consider strategic monetary policy issues," the minutes said.

Tory Rovers contributed reporting.

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Packaging Suit Loss Spurs Creamer to File Bankruptcy

By NICK VILGEN

In the year-long fiscal, supermarket financial crisis, the issue has initial front. Then, federal court.

On one side: Van Leeuwen for Cream, the Brooklyn-based artisanal scung-drug chain and grocery store might. On the other: Rebel Creamery, the Utah company knows for its bio-friendly, low-carb ice cream.

Both industry panels colored past中国共产党's federal name in drug lettering. Their future, including most domestic smokers and cream and pistachio—are protected what appear to be similar typefaces.

The most effective was to striking up the market that it accused Rebel in a lawsuit in 2022 of copying its district law packaging, winning $1.85 million judgment in July against its rival in the State of New York.

Now, less than a month later, Rebel has filed for bankruptcy protection in Utah, touting uncertainty over the resolution of the judgment, which also bars the

Rebel Creamery filed for bankruptcy protection after it was ordered to pay money $10 million to a rival, that Leeuwen, over its container value and script.

company from continuing to use its current packaging.

The case involves what is known as a trade dress, a concept similar to a trademark that applies to the packaging and design of products.

In a filing an Friday in U.S. bankruptcy Court in Utah, Rebel claimed that its restaurant covert of nearly $10 million were not enough to cover the liabilities it had incurred from the lawsuit.

"We are upgrading the decision, and our products will continue to

be widely available," Rebel said in comments on Tuesday.

In a decision in July, Judge Eric R. Kershon of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn wrote that Austin and Courtney Archibald, the married couple who founded Rebel, had acted in bad faith in the design of the company's containers.

In July 2005, two years after Van Leeuwen introduced its current packaging, a buyer for the grocery store chain Wagonzao painted out to Mr. Archibald that

Rebel's plot containers were similar to those sold by Van Leeuwen. Judge Kershon noted in his decision. The packaging, he added, had created containers for supermarket retailers who did shoppers, but the company took with it.

"Rebel itself created a report from a confused consumer in August 2007," Judge Kershon said. "She wrote that the husband purchased Rebel by accident when I sent him to the store for Van Leeuwen, because 'your product was placed right next to Van Leeuwen as a result of the loss'"

The Archibalds, who used a Kickstarter crossbustering campaign to help raise money for their business venture, had denied copying Van Leeuwen's package up, that that did not persuade the judge.

"The likelihood of all these design features converging at residents in restaurants," Judge Kershon wrote.

In a statement on Tuesday, Van Leeuwen representatives said Rebel's response to complaints about its packaging was one of de-

fiancy.

"Rebel had every opportunity, during five years of litigation, to cause using the infringing packaging, to acknowledge the confusion and harm it caused, as a result of a filing with Van Leeuwen," the statement said. "Rebel chose to intend to continue profiting from its infringement and harming Van Leeuwen on competitive grocery store shelves."

Made P. McKenna, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an senior, undersigned, said in an interview that Van Leeuwen's lawsuit was somewhat unusual because its trade dress chains involved an entire line of ice cream groceries.

"You wonder, does that mean we can also give to one panel rather for ice cream at all?" he said.

But Professor McKenna said, "A gimmick of the law, and Rebel's cream containers sale-by-sale for supermarket freezers was perfect! Van Leeuwen's argument.

"You kind of are where they're coming from," he said.

ICE Prevents

Its Workers

From Hearing

Meta Glasses

By ALI NO

and HANED ALI AZIZ

ANOTHER — Immigration and Customs Enforcement has prohibited its employees from entering into a smart glasses, the latest workplace to ban the decision out of privacy concerns.

In a recent attack the policy on Tuesday, ICE said it considered the glasses, the most particularly record when and audio, as a body-worn concern, as a result, "the one that is a person who is a person could unintentionally capture, record or respond sensitive information, potentially compromising privacy and legal protection. The person who is a person is acting director, wrote in the stories.

Under the policy, ICE said, employees are forced from entering into a smart glass, the 'federal workpaper.' The policy applies to all employees, not just its law enforcement officials, the agency says.

"Normally around body-worn cameras and unauthorized recording are prohibited, as they do in your own home," a gentleman for the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.

Meta declined to comment.

ICE plans a growing number of organizations and employees to ban Metals smart glasses, which have become one of the company's best-selling hardware products, even as the lower-mand-per-fly side-growthboard contracts. Meta-drained the smart glasses in 2022, and has enhanced revenues in partnership with companies like Star that and Kahloy.

The glass feature is small camera above the eye frame that can record video and audio, and is used in a blinking when light while recording. New versions have an artificial intelligence assistant that can respond to voice commands, and project a tiny screen visible in the back in the corner of the eye frame.

Last month, New York became the first state to ban Metals smart glasses in its court buildings in "ensure that no one can be recorded unmythically." Some states and restaurants have also forbidden the devices, which have spanned an industry of content creators who film inside businesses, often without permission.

ICE does not have a partnership with Meta, but its agents

News: New York Times Metals devices have ignored privacy concerns for several workplaces.

have come under fire in the last year for wearing the company's smart glasses to prevent and the use of magnetic tape. It actually and employees the glasses were banned in June, according to an internet-based obtained by The New York Times.

In the Chapter 2 of the Homeland Security's budget proposal is April, the agency requested $7.5 million to develop its own smart glasses to pre-try to study with its migration software, including glasses that can "remain bioelectric identification of illegal abuse."

The company's report reported that Meta was working on adding facial recognition features to its smart glasses; the company has not made them features available. "Every groups have raised concerns about facial recognition. In April, the American Civil Liberties Union wrote a letter signed by 17 organizations adding that Meta has been working on the use of a device in the glasses out of privacy and civil liberty concerns.

The investigation technology built into interspurious consumer surveys represents a serious threat to privacy and civil liberties for every member of the company. The company's report, "Our concerns reflect the fundamental danger of the technology itself."

The glasses have become a bounty, and the device, if a substitute, Mark Zuckerberg, the company's chief executive, has called smart glasses. "An ideal brand of special intelligence," a powerful A.I. that the company is investing hundreds of billions in develop.

Meta, which owns Facebook, is designed and developed, has heavily developed new versions of its smart glasses, including with coderless like Kyle Jenner and alibians who played in the World Cup.

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Under Xi Jinping, China's top leader, Beijing has pressed self-reliance across industries, including critical materials, food, and food products, seeking to reduce the leverage that countries can need over a fourteen-a-that-interest strategy more evident than is technology, where developing A.I. and advanced semiconductor, new requires staggering amounts of capital.

In 2022, China has government wants that capital to come from China. The extraordinary version has been called and Unitec suggests that Chinese investors are willing to provide a

First came CKM1 short for Changbin Memory Technology. Late last month, its shares owned 475 percent on the first of a trading and have chatted further since, giving the chipmaker a market value of around $165 billion and pushed to meet beyond a China's most valuable publicly traded company.

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investors are eager.

Beta. Its main domestic rival, Sungun Memory Technology Company, is also preparing to go public.

There came Unitec. Its shares began trading on Wednesday in Shanghai, and merged 400 percent on its debut. At one point, the stock was up 420 percent before growing stock.

Unitec occupies a more open-ended number of the A.I. team. There are still double about how quickly a large commercial man has been able to sell its own network and move like humans. But when showcasing the form of Unitec's humanoid robots have

denoted millions of views online performing long its routines, voiced up with, doing backfills, creating racers and boeing. In China, the company has become a symbol of the country's high tech institutions.

The blockbuster offerings point to China's push for technological and financial self-reliance in tandem.

The Global Times, which offers expensive nationalist views, a panel that stronger domestic capital markets could provide Chinese technology companies with an advantage to American financing. The technological autonomy becomes a reality," it stands. "An American capital market gains a basin for reasonably closing these companies, so long as the big's city on 'validation' from overseas exchanges."

China experts say the growing emphasis on local capital markets is an evolution in the country's industrial policy. Beijing is seeking to rely less heavily on state subsidies, which have often proved costly and inefficient, instead leaning more on investors in double which companies deserve capital.

Suhndian can work well in established industries, where the product is understood and the technological path relatively close for cutting-edge technologies, they can be less effective.

"They work finally at the frontier, where nobody knows which element's voice and they read it may up from that should fail," said Donald DiPippo, a director at the Eurasia Group, a research group in Washington.

A business can be headed, and investors, Mr. DiPippo said, will increasingly be reduction in 'a better way to discipline growing tech firms.'

The government's role is becoming more like a reform and champion of Chinese capital markets. But it still gets involved directly on accounts, acting like a currency capitalist.

Last year, Beijing set up a "national venture capital guidance fund" to work with Chinese invest-

A Unitec Robotics booth at a tech exhibition last week in Shanghai, where the company chose to list its shares.

ors and eventually deploy as much as $150 billion in investment in companies pursuing high-tech fields like A.I. and quantum computing.

The Shanghai stock market has long been known for speculative volatility and for a listing process hardened by red tags. In June, the Shanghai Exchange issued guidelines to streamline the process for Chinese A.I. software companies whose charters compete with those from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.

The Chinese start-ups developed by the United States for language models, the exchange said, "urgently need the supporting role of the capital market."

The first Chinese A.I. model makes it up public early this year — Zai and Moolhan — hired first on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, a market many investors report as more established and less robust as the Shanghai.

But the government is encouraging all Chinese A.I. model do not have a establish around the listings in Shanghai, which Zai and Moolhan have said they giao to do.

Beijing is not only entering companies toward domestic markets; it is also willing to stop its tougher those markets when they come under pressure.

In July, as fears of excessive A.I. spending triggered a global stock sell-all, the Shanghai market fell to $1.5 million in the first three months, China Robots: thinking and China Changing Holdings, responded by announcing purchases of $6 billion in Chinese shares and improving analytical in the market.

That increasingly state-guided system contracts sharply with an earlier era, when American investment funds and venture firms rushed into China, lured by its growth and repositioning for policy-makers. The company's plan, in 2016, American investors were early backout of $500m, the a-consumer giant, Byrcleanx, TikTok's parent company, and DAX, once hailed a $1.5 million in Uber.

Now, as Beijing encourages domestic investors to put money into bioengineers technology companies, including Invesco, Inc., a first welcome part of the equation.

Generalists has contributed to the retreat. American firms have grown very of strong caught in the crusade of U.S.-Chinese trade and technology diseases. Foreign venture firms cannot do it, but the fallen sharply, and many firms have scaled back or left.

Sequoia Capital, for example,

spun off to China business two years ago. The resulting first, 2021 — to Chinese name, three-houses in the world, was the "sached Unitec and owns a 7 percent radio in the company, now worth about $3.5 billion.

For Chinese companies, "raising money overseas is actively discouraged" said Kevin Dehounier of interconnected Capital, a hedge fund that covers its U.S. technologies. "The Maman suja in the interest example."

Mama, an A.I. company started its new engineers in Wuhan, China, developed an A.I. agent that caught Metals attention. By the end of last year, Meta had been following Maman for $1 billion. The right, the Unitec's growth more intervened and demanded that the deal be unrecorded.

Mama had moved its headquarters to Singapore, but Beijing has also broadened its business and company subject to its authority. This month, the unwinding one com- pitted, and Maman announced it had resumed operating on an independent company.

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Stripe Acquires OpenRouter for $7.5 Billion

By ERIN GRIFFITH

SUN FRANCISCO — In Meta, Alex Andalu, a founder of a line-growing start-up called OpenRouter, described his company as the principal intelligence version of the payments company Stripe.

New Stripe is buying Open-Boxers.

The deal, announced on Wednesday, continues Stripe's technology, which lets companies direct payments to other businesses, with OpenBoxers's technology, which lets them direct their spending and "direct" between different providers of A.I. models. Taken an act, people said of A.I. use, roughly equivalent to a word fragment.

Stripe's new Step $7.5 billion for OpenBoxers, a person with knowledge of the agreement said. Of that sum, $3.5 billion is going to the start-up's founders and $9.6 billion in the first three months. The companies declined to disclose the value of the deal.

OpenBoxers had raised $366 million from investors including a government company, Sequoia Capital, Nvidia and the investment arm of Alphafen, according to Pitchfresh, which tracks funding. In May, investors had valued the company at $1.3 billion.

"Together with OpenBoxers, we'll help businesses maximize profitability by making their requests more quickly," said a company, the chief executive of Stripe, said in a statement. On X, he called OpenBoxers's product "a truly delightful developer said."

The company's name is "The New York, was founded just three years ago. The $7.5 billion price tag for such a young company shows the importance of letting companies finance their investment A.I. models. As businesses use of A.I. takes all, the spending on A.I. takes has skyrocketed.

One way for companies to limit their business, is to make a new choice with Sequoia A.I. models, which are typically built using freely available open-source technology. They can then use the same powerful, more expensive models for more complex queries.

While most people are familiar with A.I. models from big companies like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, hundreds of others are available, and many are over-paid enough for their tasks.

The emergence of cutting-edge open-source models from China, including one called Kina, created by the start-up Shanzhian A.I. (as fueled companies' interest in

switching between models for different tasks. Companies like OpenBoxers allow businesses to understand changes in the gearing items of options, as they can be technology for developing software, analyzing data, making presentations and writing in a manner that can help to reduce the number of trillions of companies, already acts as a sort of means. The San Francisco company facilitates payments from the company to their various vendors. An A.I. spending grows, OpenBoxers's technology creates better for the company. The company's ability to use the company's own IT data and data management system. The company's ability to use the company's own IT data and data management system.

To be, founded in 2016, is one of the two companies from its generation that have not gone public. It has said it is profitable, and it founders, which include McCulloch's brother, John, have used the power to keep the company private; in a private share sale this year, investors valued Stripe at $500 billion.

A group of smaller companies, including OpenBoxers, Centenarian AI and Biogearly, offer unique A.I. model training services. Larger A.I. companies are also delivering their own motor offerings.

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these stars increase in our lens," create "a completely new market" or change an existing one.

"SPRING is completely different," said Mr. Scranton, who has applied for countless grants during nearly four decades of research at C3 Biotech and the University of Manchester, where he is a professor. Most have therefore that upon several months or even years.

The average time between the filing of a grant application at SPRING and the signing of a contract is 14 days, according to the agency.

A seminal report on the comprehensive crisis commensured by the European Union and headed by Mario Draghi, a former prime minister of Italy, singled out SPRING's approach as a model for innovation.

One inspiration for SPRING was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the United States, or DAAPA, which laid the foundation for the internet and backed projects like the future rocket, armed drones and biofeedback systems.

Public research funding often meets clear of projects that may have a big payoff but also a big possibility of failure and could take a long time to develop. Groundbreaking innovations frequently perish in what's known as the "valley of death" because they can't get money to finance the leap between early-stage research and commercial production.

Jane Conlard, whose title at SPRING is head of challenges, wants to give researchers the "freedom to really push the boundaries and do something that you wouldn't get funding for probably through a conventional venture capital room."

The strategy is to offer challenges to develop pioneering products and technologies, and then to invite teams of entrepreneurs, academics and researchers to compete. A jury of experts screens the proposals. SPRING also offers grants, investment and financing for innovative, marriage outside its own sponsored challenges.

Since it started in early 2026, SPRING has received 4,760 submissions and funded 376 teams. To obtain the next round of funding, a team must demonstrate measurable progress. Failures are expected.

The goal of C3 Biotech's three-year biomanufacturing challenge was to create a way to cheaply convert waste streams into products that could ultimately be produced on an industrial scale.

Other challenges funded by SPRING involved the application of artificial intelligence to health data, the use of microgravity for drug development and more.

One unusual feature of how SPRING works is that while its funding comes from the German government, the organization, as willing to spend it all over Europe, including the Manchester England, subuch where C3 Biotech is located.

"We need to create breakthroughs, and there might not just come from Germany," Mr. Conlard said. After all, it is significant to vance could, say, reduce energy prices in Germany, then it's money well spent.

Last month, SPRING awarded grants worth up to £36.5 million to

Alexander Agios, rep. a microbiologist, in the laboratory at C3 Biotech, left. Establishing a cheap process to make chemicals from waste streams "has been the holy grad of biomanufacturing for many, many years," Nigel Scranton, above, a co-founder of the company, said. Prototypes, above right.

376

the number of teams that received funding from Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation since 2020;

10 teams from five countries to develop frontier artificial intelligence systems. At the end of 2026, the agency plans to help three teams that emerge as winners to raise C1 billion each from public and private investors.

Vinnova, a Swedish government agency that similarly needs innovative start-ups, is learning up with SPRING on a new technology challenge: how to destroy small drones while safeguarding civilians from fallout.

Darja Isaksson, Vinnova's di-

rector general, said that "we were really surprised" to learn that SPRING was funding teams outside Germany. That was "one of the things that really caught my attention."

Vinnova claims have taken notice. Last month, France announced plans to create its own breakthrough innovation agency that would work with SPRING. The Netherlands, too, is trying proposals to set up its own version of the German incubator.

At C3 Biotech, the team is tend-

ing to SPRING's investment. In the lab are plastic cuts (that could hangry), salt-loving bacteria that are binding on starch left over from the manufacture of potato chips.

The biological compound that this fermentation produces can be processed into acrylic glass and used in a mold of 3-D printer or manufacturer thousands of products, from automobile breathamps to children's toys.

A scientist studied primal prototypes in his hand: a tiny black top brick, a transducer blue heart and a yellow Logo-like figurine, all made from Citrixen, the new chemical produced in their lab.

Establishing a cheap process to

make chemicals from waste streams "has been the holy grad of biomanufacturing for many, many years," Mr. Scranton said. This month, he and his team celebrated a landmark: 380 days of continuous production.

C3 Biotech is now talking to corporations that are interested in commercializing the discovery.

Companies like C3 Biotech could provide the kind of innovations that undergird Europe's future prosperity.

"That is exactly kind of the background against which SPRING was created," Mr. Conlard said. "Use job now is to make sure that we are able to create those new industries."

Theater Chains Back Paramount-Warner Deal That States Say Will Hurt Them

By BRENDA BARRIS LOS ANGELES — A dozen state attorneys general say David Ellison's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery would hurt movie theaters. In a coup for Mr. Ellison, theater chains controlling 80 percent of the United States market have now said the opposite.

Cinemark, the country's third-largest movie theater company, on Tuesday because the latest map for theater owner to endorse Mr. Ellison's $111 billion deal to combine Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. Explaining its support, Cinemark pointed in a statement in a "first" commitment by Mr. Ellison to release at least 20 movies in theaters each year, making a total 45-day before making them available for digital rental or purchase and 30 days before putting them an subscription streaming services. Mr. Ellison, Paramount's chief executive, vowed to follow these terms for at least three years.

Citing his offer to make these pledges legally binding, Cinemark called for "an expedited resolution" of the states' antitrust lawsuit, which has put the merger on the side and entry into the sand last month, arguing that a combined Paramount and Warner Bros. would have similar market power.

Also: Entertainment, the world's largest theater operator, endorsed the transaction in April

after similar assurances from Mr. Ellison. "We believe in the promises that he has made," AMC's chief executive, Adam Aron, said at the time.

Regal, the No. 2 chain in North America, followed this month, with its chief executive, Eduardo Acuna, calling for the states to settle their lawsuit and allow the merger to proceed. "We believe it's time for Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery to move forward," Mr. Acuna said in a statement on Aug. 6.

Together, the three theater chains account for about 60 percent of movie ticket sales in the United States, according to BoonHoo Pry, a data service. AMC, Regal and Cinemark operate about 1,230 domestic theaters with roughly 16,700 screens.

Also on Tuesday, Cinema United, a trade organization that represents companies that control 80 percent of the nation's income screens (some 25,000), softened its opposition to Mr. Ellison's deal, buying in a statement that it was speaking on behalf of "the entire exhibition community." Cinema United called on the attorneys general to negotiate with Mr. Ellison over terms that could allow the deal to proceed. Cinema United emphasized, however, that a will had "concerns about industry consolidation."

Last month, Michael O'Leary,

Cinemark cited David Ellison's vow to release at least 20 movies in theaters annually as a reason to support a merger.

the chief executive of Cinema United, blamed the deal in a letter to members, saying that continuing Paramount and Warner would result in "lower movies, higher costs for you and your patrons and, ultimately, lower theaters."

The group's shifting position amounts to something of a hedge

by theater owners. While consolidation remains a concern, the industry appears to have concluded that Mr. Ellison has a meaningful share of prevailing theater than simply fight the merger and risk an adversarial relationship with a conglomerate that could soon control two major studios, exhibitors

are seeking to lock in commitments on the number of movies the combined company will release and how long they will remain exclusively at theaters.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Ellison declined to comment on The Times' developments.

Support from theater chains

could strengthen Mr. Ellison's band against the 12 states, led by California, that have used to block the merger. The states have concluded, among other things, that the combined company would have too much leverage over theaters, potentially allowing it to squeeze them for a bigger share of ticket sales.

Lawyers for Mr. Ellison can now ask: If theaters are supposedly going to be hurt by the merger, why aren't they trying to block it?

The office of Rob Banta, the California attorney general, who is leading the lawsuit, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The theater's support does not resolve the antitrust questions surrounding the deal. The lawsuit by the states also contends that the combination would reduce competition in other areas, including the licensing of cable channels. And antitrust law does not require customers to approve a merger for the government to prove that it would substantially lessen competition.

Paramount's merger with Warner Bros. would create a media powerhouse combining two major movie studios, multiple streaming services and the news networks CNN and CBS News. Federal regulators and competition authorities in dozens of countries have cleared the takeover.

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For the Cowboys, This Isn't a Number. It's a Sacred Bond for Elite Receivers.

By DAN POMPEI

The Athletic

FRISCO, Texas — On the threshold of his seventh season, the latest No. 66 for the Dallas Cowboys will soon be competing with George Pickens for passes and with opposing cornerbacks for space.

Then CoxDew Lamb will be competing with three long shadows for his place in Cowboys' turn.

The Cowboys' 88 tradition is like no other, as the number has passed from Drew Pearson to Michael Irvin to Don Bryant to Lamb. Between them, the 66s have 10 All-Pro designations, 10 Pro Bowl teams, four Super Bowl rings and two Inman foots.

Lamb is responsible for three of those All-Pros and five of those Pro Bowls but is coming off a season he was not pleased with, his least productive since his rookie year. So more than ever, he is determined to represent the number with dignity. He

Dan Pompei is a senior N.F.L. writer for The Athletic.

Bypassing Retirement, the Jersey Goes From Pearson to Irvin to Bryant to Lamb

believes he will, partly because wisdom has been passed down along with his number.

"I feel smarter," he says. "It's just so close, and all it takes is a little more locking in."

Lamb's ambition is to be the best of the 60s. It is not an unreasonable aspiration.

"The 66 we get now is the most talented of us all," Irvin says. "Drew was all about big plays. Small body, but he could get across that middle. I was just going to bully you. You know, not fast, none of that. Dec was a beast playing basketball outside. But CoxDew Lamb has all of it. He has all of it."

Lamb probably would need a ring on one, two or three of his fingers to be crowned king of the 60s, but statistically,

he is in their company. He needs just 44 yards to pass Bryant on the Cowboys' all-time receiving his and 407 to pass Pearson. He trails Irvin by 4,488 yards, but if Lamb goes over 1,000 receiving yards this year for the sixth straight time, he will break a tie with Irvin for most consecutive 1,000-yard seasons.

Lamb says that every time he opens his locker and sees 88, he thinks about the expectations — years, his, theirs.

"When I have a big game, everybody celebrates," he says. "When I have a bad game, there's a lot of scrutiny, right? It's a different magnitude when you're in Dallas. And then it's heightened when you wear 88."

To understand why Irvin believes the number is "spiritual," "divine" and

"prophetic," why it's "the perfect looking number" and why, to him, it means everything, go back 53 years. As some N.F.L. scouts wound their way from the University of Oklahoma to Oklahoma State, they stopped in Tulsa.

While there, they checked out a defensive back and a defensive tackle but weren't very interested in a wide receiver who had converted from quarterback as a junior. Pearson didn't have the numbers, having caught 55 passes over two seasons and weighing 101 pounds. He ran for them anyway, registering 4.6 seconds in the 40-yard dash.

In January 1973, 442 players were selected in the draft. Pearson was not among them. But he reported to the Cowboys that year with 82 other undrafted players and 17 draft picks. On a team that made it to the N.F.C. championship game the year before and won the Super Bowl the year before that, Pearson wasn't a long shot as much as a no shot.

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From left, Parker Bristina, Jacob Jarrell and Ben Ziegler-Nazusa. All three college seniors signed for $5000, which allowed Atlanta to redirect $653,000 in savings toward higher-priority draft picks.

To Spend More on Top Picks, Atlanta Dangles $500 Deals at the Bottom

By JESUS LANG

— The news

Young baseball players dream of reaching the big leagues. They spend countless hours and often thousands upon thousands of dollars on the go-to-prize series of M.L.B. teams. Some are rewarded for their years of dedication with signing bonuses in the millions.

The Dave Atlanta Brown-maker maguars picked in the top 10 rounds of this year's draft, $500 apiece was enough to go pro.

Instead of drafting players in the eighth, both and 16th round, who could have maintained bonuses in the $200,000 to $250,000 range, Atlanta chose to take three college seniors who otherwise would have been selected much later in the draft. If they were drafted at all, Parker Bristina, Jacob Jarrell and Ben Ziegler-Nazusa.

The strategy allowed the team to redirect $653,000 in savings to sign higher-priority picks.

"These signings were shocking to the industry," said one rival scouting director who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to speak freely. "I'm only way that I can."

Jessie Conn covers the Brown for The Athletic. Will blemens control and reporting.

happens in you how these kinds of players in place willing to do that sort of thing, which allows you to then make the early calls that they don't.

Several teams in the past three years have followed a similar strategy, finding players to sign for a relative pittance. Using MLB courts draft tracker as reference, The Athletic based multiple instances in which the Angels, Dodgers, Nationals, Blue Jays, Padres and Rangers joined the Brown in signing plan that her loss than 1.5 percent of the assigned values of their debt. The Blue Jays and Rangers even handed out bonuses this year worth less than 1 percent of the slot bonus allocated to that pick in the draft.

In some instances, she with the Atlanta players, teams attached a $2,500 signing contingency bonus.

Still, the paltry bonuses astounded multiple scouting directors and agents who, like most of the sources for this article, spoke to The Athletic on condition of anonymity to speak freely and preserve relationships in the sport. They had questions about how teams approached players who could make money through N.L.L. deals in Division I programs, and debated whether these moves fit

Jennon Hirschhorn signed with Atlanta for $3,000/2,000 instead of pitching at Louisiana State.

the end of the draft.

Atlanta's vice president for amateur scouting, Brent Shah, and its president of baseball operations, Alex Archispeales, declined to speak about the team's draft approach. A team representative said the team was uncomfortable speaking publicly because the strategy is "progressive."

The idea behind the tactic is straightforward, though. Each team is assigned a bonus pool be-

fore the draft and cannot exceed that total amount to sign its selections in the top 10 rounds without incurring a penalty. Teams often offer players bonuses below their slot values to spend more on others. This year's goals ranged from roughly $20.5 million (Chicago White Sun) to just under 16 million (Dodgers). Atlanta had the eighth-largest pot at $15.87 million.

The money the team oared with its $500 signings gave it weight room. It signed an 85th-rounder, Ryan Barker, for $697,500 – the assigned worth of a cold-fourth-round pick – and went over-site to sign a second-rounder, Kaitlen McCarthy, and a sixth-rounder, Tyson Cradkowski. Notably, Jennon Hirschhorn received $3,000,000 from Atlanta, the highest bonus ever given to a player selected in the third round. That swayed him from pitching at Louisiana State.

All four of these players were ticketed for Division I baseball programs before the draft.

In contrast, each of Atlanta's three-figure signers was a college senior, and Ziegler-Nazusa had played five college seasons.

"In the end of the day," an agent said, "Atlanta used the system in place to its advantage. It is illegal!" No. Its others act in better faith?

Sure." Referring to college seniors, the agent continued: "They know they have no leverage, and it is good business for them to maximize the paid."

The agent noted that M.L.B. fought to implement the bonus pool system in 2012, only for teams in final ways to circumvent it.

What Atlanta pulled off surprised multiple scouting directors, who said they had not seen $500 bonuses in many years, and especially not within the first 10 rounds.

With name, image, and Merennysoney available to college baseball players, the trend could continue. The best college programs are using N.L.L. leads to match some M.L.B. bonus figures, especially for the top high school parents in the draft. In the past five years, players looking for many money have challenged teams to be creative with their goals.

"It's definitely possible and may be more common practice if you need to save a lot of money to get a high player you really like," a rival evaluator said. "Jennon Hirschhorn is an example of a high school player that's harder to get due to N.L.L."

As one executive from a different club put it, "Is there much of a difference in terms of player value

for a player signing for $10,000 and a player signing for $500?"

Those two-covered players could end up unnoticed in the 20 rounds of the draft, or signing later out of independent ball without getting a bonus. Note, the minor leagues were contracted, there are fewer spots for players in affiliated ball.

"The reality is, it's become harder than ever to be a professional baseball player," said Alex Hine, an agent who represents Ziegler-Nazusa. "And if you get an opportunity to do it, and particularly in a year where you no longer have leverage, then you jump at it."

Ziegler-Nazusa is a prime example, a native of Florida, he did not have the same exposure to higher-level baseball at its scouts in his years. His path to a midmajor program required a year at Georgia College in Prescott, Ariz. He knew he would not be offered a high bonus if he was drafted.

So when the Brown came calling, he took a leap.

"Every team kind of knows what you are," Ziegler-Nazusa said. "There's no leverage there."

Some players, he said, would sign for whatever it might be. He added: "He can be a budget-saver guy. I definitely was on that list."

SOCCER

COMMENTARY

In New Era, Manchester City Has Holes That Need Fixing

By SAM LEE

— The news

As far as season certain-raisers go, Manchester City left a lot to be desired in its early loss to Arsenal in the Community Shield.

"We know already before the game the things we need to do," Esau Marreau, City's new manager, said afterward when asked if the manner of the defeat had lighted the need for signings. "We have to quite clear what we need to do, and for sure we are going to do something before the transfer window closes."

City has retreated Marreau with continuing Pep Guardiola's work in Manchester, and that team entered the summer with the full intention of building Marreau in the teamங்களில். But with little time left in the window, there is a sense that things have not gone to plan so far, and the manner of the 3-0 defeat to Arsenal will inevitably lead to questions.

City's three preseason games as was suggested that Marreau will bring Guardiola's style of play but sped up, with fast passing between the lines and a succession of dribbles from talented wide players. Sunday's game suggested stifled buildup play, an uncertain midfield and only sporadic opportunities for the wide men to get involved. The team will probably end up somewhere in the middle, with the hope at City being that there is far more of the better. The biggest problems I had right now is that the squad in the final complex, and that many of their biggest difference makers only recently returned from their post-World Cup vacations.

During a period safe such as Arsenal broadly exposed these facts, and the additional complaints of the team that Marreau was so successful, and we can't fight outstands, that it is difficult

Sam Lee covers Manchester City for The Athletic.

to work out exactly what we should be comparing City to.

"In general, I am always concerned – even when we win games, I'm imagine it now that we did not win the game." Marreau said with half a smile after the match when asked about how easily City conceded its goals. "But it's just the beginning, we have many things that we need to do better."

"The first two goals we conceded, I didn't like," he added. "The first one because it was after 25 seconds, the second one, I think there was no pressure on the ball. I don't know if it's for physical condition – we had

A midfield makeover should be at the top of the to-do list.

more players at the World Cup. I don't know the reason why, but the first two goals that we conceded, I don't like.

"In terms of things that I like, I think after the first goal we conceded, the reaction was very good."

There was a period between Arsenal's first two goals (scored by Bernardo Lalafoer and Kai Havertz) where City looked somewhat settled and created some openings, although that was largely after 25 minutes. Rather that, there were plenty of passes around the back, and while the players were not always featured, they were hardly incisive.

On the first two goals, Abdalede Khusaree, Rahim Das and Gawhajgi Damascenees all held problems, and the third goal somehow looked even worse for City, with Martin Odegand, strolling through the penalty area.

It has never been wise to make

sweeping judgments on the Community Shield – anybody who remembers Fitting Hussain's problem defies in 2012 will know that – and while it is tempting to believe that everything will go wrong without Guardiola entering the ship, it would be foolish to overlook the fact that the Marreau era is about three weeks old, and half the midfield is missing.

So much as there was plenty to be encouraged for in Hong Kong and South Korea, there are some obvious concerns. Some of them go back further than presidents, to Marreau's time at Chelsea.

One regards the buildup. So far we have seen that City is going to rely on several air patterns for getting the ball out from the goalkeeper, and it will see Marreau's round 3-2 shape, made up of three defenders behind two midfielders.

Under Guardiola, there was an ever-evolving set of solutions that could be executed by players such as Bernards, City, Rodri and Shay Gandaque, who were good enough to interpret things on the fly.

Things are different now, and that it are inevitably at losing top players who have been at the club for years and the finest manager of his generation. The worry is that by coaching certain patterns when City is trying to build out from the back, opposite one-country will be able to come up with a plan to stop them.

City demands have work to do in the transfer market, with Rodri and Tijana Reijnders out to move on, after Bernards left at the end of last season. Qrywer Broaddii is still expected to come in, and is best suited to replicate the short role, but at 18 years old, he simply cannot be supposed to do everything Rodri did.

Esau Perrussin is a player who has split the City fan base, not just at terms of his ability but also in terms of the controversy

Manchester City during its 3-0 loss to Arsenal in the Community Shield. Below, Esau Marreau, the team's new manager, conceded after the match, "We have many things we need to do better."

following his singing of a racist sang in 2024. Marreau wants him, but he is not seen as a Rodri replacement – she idea is that he would play further forward and even if there are concerns about his contributions off the ball, he does certainly have fight in him, and that is a trait that City needs.

It would be service to ignore Perrussin's defensive-deficient, vice considering the extra need to win a third and track a runner in this abruptly-real Premier League. That is also important

because Marreau is, so far, asking his wingers to press the opposition center backs, which means that the midfield needs to be ready for battle if the opposition moves the ball past the first line of the press.

City is building a team for three kinds of individual battles, and it means that the issuer is likely to be at its more rough and ready than under Guardiola, but that would have been the case, even if to a lesser extent, had he remained in charge.

With players who are better

suited to hooting a team rather than passing a team to death, that is necessarily going to affect the type of soccer they play. As much as there are players whose weaknesses could be isolated, there are plenty who appear to fit Marreau's system like a glove. "Nice," Rodri, for example, could be a major attacking weapon from left back.

If games come down to a series of individual battles, City discovers players in both attack and defeat who can thrive, even if there will probably be some painful afternoons in they find their feet. Sunday is Cardiff was one of them, and it will inevitably raise questions about how many more could follow.

Even if there are means to be concerned about, it is still in the very early days, but City's first Premier League game on Sunday. There is plenty of time for these stakes, the temporary signs, for the players to become used to them, and for trouble and evictions to be made.

There will inevitably be doubts about your help list, but it cannot be denied that the midfield is in urgent need of a makeover and the soccer is likely to be pretty different. Still, it is not early to make any judgments.

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A Running Back Has For This Shoes to Fill For the Irish This Year

By PETER KASPRINN

By CINDY

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Annyan Williams, Notre Dame's junior running back, spiraled between practice health recently, out of back and insecure.

He is in a hurry, no longer blocked from the field by two-then round N.Y.L. picks. And he knows he might as well get some extra conditioning in when he can, creating habits for the rest of the men's running backs at the same time.

Williams will try to replace horizontal turn, now with the Arizona Cardinals, and Judarian Price, now with the Seattle Sea hawks, as impossible task every

Banking on a junior to help replace two first-round picks.

where but inside his own head Williams played on games two seasons after injuring his right of bow in training camp for two-seven right, playing only 47 snaps and lagging 31 carriers, even though he was two years ahead five touchdowns.

No one really ordered, not with Love and Price in the backfield.

Still, Notre Dame did not go into the parachute where, happy for its running backs, even after Williams had surgery to repair a partially torn triceps and clean up the elbow. He entered training camp as the starter without the

Prior Sampson is a senior writer covering Notre Dame for The Atlantic.

Irish acknowledging it.

"He may be the most confident kid I've ever been around. And that's rare," running backs coach Jochán Seider said. "The kid earned the right to play."

That's what the coaches like about him. At first glance, Williams's confidence might seem seldom! red considering how little he has played.

Yes, there was that 36-yard catch to help beat Penn State in the Orange Bowl, with shake coaching on the other seldom. "One of the bigger catches ever," Seider said of the play.

And yes, Williams averaged 8.1 yards per carry on last season's limited work, which would have indeed second nationally if he had appeared in three more games. But he played just one snag against Miami. He did not play against Texas A&M and Southern California, the only other high-stakes games on the schedule.

When Notre Dame had a chance to back Williams with reps, it voted for Love and Price.

When Coach Michael Freeman was asked about Notre Dame's emerging leaders before training camp opened this year, he noted Williams on the tone for the running back zone, which includes Indian James Jr., Ritchie Young and Jesus Walters, a group with 11 career carries and on big moments. That is a part of all this running during practice. Nobody ever followed somebody who was walking.

"Man, I've been waiting two years, and I wasn't satisfied with last year at all," Williams said. "Coach Seider knows this."

Williams were not Seider this off-season, trying to get inside his position coach's brain in what might be a contract year. If Seider

Notre Dame's running backs coach said Annyan Williams (22) "may be the most confident kid I've ever been around. And that's rare."

was going to coach Williams like a five-string running back, he needed Williams to see the game so he did. A former college open-attack at West Virginia, Seider coaches his position like a coordinator, asking the running backs to get closer to a quarterback's understanding of the scheme.

Now, when Williams questions Seider on a play, Seider knows where Williams is coming from. And when Seider asks Williams to correct a technique, the running back does not need a translator.

Bowling, golfing, over at the house," Seider said, "I can't get rid of them during the spring and nonemergency, which is a good thing. That's where we build confidence, because that's what allowed me to coach them. And they know it's coming from the right place.

"In my mind, I'm anticipating the built-up gang to co-funds, and he can tell me why. And I can trust him over an understanding that. Because, boy, we're in free of together. We're talking the same language. We trust because we've seen it work. He care two guys do—victuring that he played with. And he felt like he was as good as those guys."

Williams will not be a like-for-like replacement for Love or Price, though. He has never handled anyone or added that some of physics the way Love did. He has not brought back kinshits for touchdowns against Southern California or helped Notre Dame win at Texas A&M as Price has. But Williams can offer things that Love and Price did not, nearly helping in short yardage.

When Williams was a freshman,

he carved out a role helping on their down and turning his for his drum physique into a battering turn. The Irish struggled in short yardage most of last season, unable to get Love or Price loose. Williams seems to have a knack for moving the chains, even when it takes getting dirty. A third of Williams's carries with the first downs last season, the highest percentage of Notre Dame's backs.

"One-on-one matchups in short yardage, that's what we're trying to create, and I want to win that one-on-one matchup every time because that's my role," Williams said. "I think I just — the right route on, the right feel, and I've not going to be stopped."

When quarterback J. Carri took a collection of Notre Dame's receivers to Jacksonville, Fla. and

threw during the off-season, Williams tapped his hands, the kid not want to miss a moment. When the Irish opened camp, it was Williams taking first-team reps. And when Notre Dame kicks off against Wisconsin on Sept. 8, while are Williams will get the first carry.

He believes he is simply Notre Dame's next great bank, following Lane, Price, Andra Estates and Kyrne Williams, without taking a back seat to them.

This day, the first chance when Annyan Williams was asked whether the N.C.A.A.S. shift in a five-for-five eligibility rule would have him, saying last year's time clean after using a year of eligibility by playing at six games.

"I never plan on using it," he said. "To give you an honest answer."

PRO FOOTBALL

Why Won't Dallas Retire No. 88? It's a Sacred Bond Among Elite Receivers.

From First Sports Page

For his first exhibition game, the jersey he found in his jacket was No. 55, which nobody who was supposed to stick around would be wearing. But his feel for reason the line of scrimmage and the goal peer was special, and he practiced with suits given that he earned the favor of quarterback Roger Southard, Somerset, Price, one made the team.

Sible receivers had to wear numbers in the 8th in three days, and the only available numbers were 60 and 68.

"Eighty-five didn't sound right," Pearson said. "What really sounded right was 88."

He wore the jersey well, starting six games as a rookie and becoming an all five in his second season. With an abundance of instinct and a deficit of self-prosecution, Pearson lasted 11 years and made so many game-changing catches that he became known as "Mr. Clutch."

And that's why No. 88 was Watery Irvin's favorite player.

A bipolar preacher knows so "Bert" Irvin was the father of 17 children, the 10th of whom was Michael White Winter Irvin's wife. Pearl, managed the kids, best fixed roofs with a pry bar and hammer during the week, then raised them with his sermons on Sundays.

Amorbard, he always made time to watch the Cowboys. Soderated to Dallas was Rev that he wore his Tom Lamb's cycle before in cheer for them in his living room. Young Michael had a little sent to his father on their coach, when Pearson caught the original, "that they" from Southard.

"He would always jump up when Dave scored a touchdown," Michael says.

At a winter at St. Thomas's reporter in St. Irvin played with receiver for the first time and wore No. 88 because his favorite player was light and Kellen Wiseman, No. 88 for the San Diego City player. Michael was also a good team more remembrance in Irvin.

At the University of Miami, Irvin didn't have a friend. They told Irvin he would wear 47. He presented to Coach Jimmy Johnson, saying it was not a cool man.

"You know what I am when I see you wearing it?" Johnson told him. "I see a 57. I'm using down the runway, ready to land for a touchdown."

"Really, Coach!" the young Irvin said. "OK, I'll take it."

The player and coach won a national championship at Miami and two Super Roots together with the Cowboys, and then one day,

From left, CorDos Lamb, Drew Pearson, Doc Bryant and Michael Irvin filmed a Chipotle ad in 2022. Irvin described 88 as "divine."

Johnson told Irvin, "I can't believe you bought that more about it?" Her never saw any of it. He died before Michael's senior year of high school.

So after he was drafted to the Cowboys, Michael was blown away when he was given Pearson's number.

"That was my dad," Michael says. "You see what I'm saying! That was my dad."

When Pearson heard the news, he was initially disappointed. No one had worn 88 since he retired, and he thought the number would be set aside like Southard's No. 55 had been. But then he thought about it.

"What if he were a crowd? What if Irvin and others could enhance the standard of much hours he established?"

What if 88 became a legacy — "I'm saying!"

When Irvin arrived in Dallas as a Cowboy for the first time, it was Pearson who greeted him at the airport. It was emotional, and thankful.

Irvin: "They want me to wear No. 88. Is that OK?"

Pearson: "I'm good with it. But why if you don't do what I did. You have to do more than I did."

Irvin did what Pearson asked, playing one more season than Pearson did and becoming one of the most football players ever seen, a linebacker disguised as a wide receiver.

Whenever Irvin looked at his number before a game, he told himself he would not let Pearson down that day. And when he found himself in the end zone with the football, Irvin felt the same job of motivation he had felt from Rev whenever Pearson scored.

Eleven years later came the next great 88.

Bryant, who grew up about 170 miles southeast of A&Y Stadium in LaSalle, Texas, fell in the 2010 draft, so the Cowboys owner Jerry Jones moved up three spots to take him with the 24th pick of the first round. Bryant were No. 1 at Oklahoma State. When he was told about the plan he made him the new 88, he expressed success.

Pearson and Irvin met with Bryant and tried to make him understand. They were narrowing, and Bryant embraced the number and all that came with it, can't buy 73 touchdowns passes for the Cowboys, more than anyone in team history, and celebrating them with his signature "S" gesture.

He was a football, sometimes to his credit and then to his third team. So after eight seasons, with Bryant's receiving numbers dipping and his salary rising, the Cowboys thanked him for the memories. In brief states with the Salem and Ravens, he was still 88.

Like Bryant, Lamb had raised feelings about wearing 88 when the Cowboys chose him 176 in 2020. He was No. 2 at Oklahoma and felt attached to the number, but at the time, wide receivers could not wear single-digit numbers in the N.Y.L.

After McCord, the Cowboys' equipment director, presented Lamb with his options. He explained about 88, flaming Lamb would be eager to become the next link in the chain. But Lamb let McCord know that he intended to start his own tradition. He picked 91.

Jones, not surprisingly, had something to say about it. He said Lamb about someone he played with at Arkansas, a two-time all-conference wide receiver and a captain on the 1964 national championship team. He served as a government in Jones's wedding and became one of Jones's most trusted football advisers.

His name was Lamb — Jerry Lamb. He had worn No. 88. And he died months before the Cowboys' drafted CorDos.

"That was very much a part of my motivation to have CorDos wear 88," Jones says.

CorDos Lamb had a change of heart about 60 and called from a make over 60 was good with it.

Irvin told Lamb not to take the number if he thought the expected time would be too much for him, but he made it clear he thought Lamb could uphold the tradition. The challenge stirred Lamb.

"I knew," Lamb says, "that it was something that was so meant for me."

The quarter of Cowboys' life filmed a commercial for Chipotle in 2022 and headed for a few hours after. They also spent time together at a gym, benefiting that Pearson's team right. Frank Foundation, And Pearson, Irvin and Bryant were at AT&T Stadium in December 2022 to witness the success. Irvin's main records for catches and yards in a season.

In some ways, they don't have much in common, with the 75-year-old Pearson being a Benson, Irvin, 85, a member of Greensboro, 8, the 25-year-old Bryant a Millic-

sial and Lamb, 37, part of Gen. 2, 1928, they undercame one another to ways no one else could.

"Obviously, we're in different places of our lives, but they've all been where I can right now," Lamb says. "So it's there passing the knowledge to me, telling me about the experiences they've been through."

They share quite a bit on a group test. Lamb says the conversation is often "big but little too" in nature. Pearson is the encouragement — he commends Lamb like a grandfather would, partly because he uses no more physical in his and partly because he understands the value of encouraging users. Irvin doesn't say from hard truths.

Other Cowboys who were the first to win without performing up to its standards are not in the 80-dah. That includes Antonio Bryant, best known not for a catch but a case. He was the most productive match of all the 8th but was sent on his way after throwing his No. 88 jersey in the face of his coach, Bill Parrotis.

There have been branding opportunities for the 88 club, but Pearson says it's difficult to get four more on any possibility. There are football bothers signed by all that. And a set of football cards — Lamb has the four cards on display in his home office.

It's never up to Lamb. Your cards would be all he would ever need, and he would be the last of the 8th, But he won't be.

The Cowboys have never officially retired a number, though no player has ever. It's team Bob Lilly, Mr. Cowboy, walked away. The same goes for Southard's 12, Tony Johnson's and Edward Smith's 22. It was more challenging to keep 90 in marketable after their one because, until 1994, wide receivers were required to wear numbers in the 8th.

To Jones, what has happened with the 8th is an argument to keep every number in circulation.

"When you don't retire the number, the player of today becomes reflective of the accomplishments of the other players who were it," Jones says.

The 88 club, like all traditions, is about potentially. But it is about tomorrow's, too.

So if anyone suggests to Irvin Williams, he doesn't belong to the rafters, that person will be so honest. And then he will share what Rev told him back when Pearson was starting this.

"In the 8th's, he stand for something," he will say. "They symbolize new beginnings."

A retired number, after all, is like a gravestone.

Eighty-eight is a heartbeat.

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Doubts Shroud Jeanie Buss's Future With Lakers

By SAM JAMES

and DAN WOHRE

If Mark Walter's voice of the Los Angeles Lakers was the big surprise of this summer, what followed early this week was perhaps a little more predictable.

The fight within the Buss family — specifically between the current Lakers governor Jeanie Buss and her five siblings, who voted to sell the family to shares in the team — is just beginning, and with it seems a lot of posturing and planning for a fight that will determine how things are run inside handsmiths longest-running soap opera.

But despite the drama, the rain from Walter to Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner seems like it is still too track.

A person with knowledge of Walter's thinking will The Athletic that the current Lakers owner did not believe the latest Buss family disagreement would threaten his deal with Iger and Kushner, which called the Lakers at $12.5 billion. Two other league and team sources also said they do not expect the conflict to affect the tournament of the Lakers' team.

The Athletic spoke with multiple league and team sources with knowledge of the Lakers' situation. The Lakers' team members of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters surrounding the owner, who and family dispute, which could reveal in litigation.

The Lakers' team's team, the Lakers' most powerful executive to meet governor, or will also make siblings never less from the organization but father per classed 17 years and 11 championships ago and a letter dropped.

Sam Jenick and Dan Wohre are senior N.B.A. writers for The Athletic.

Jeanie Buss's status as the Lakers' governor is unclear after her family's trust voted to sell its stake.

That answer will not be delivered quietly.

It started with the Buss Family Court's casting five votes to sell its shares. Jeanie Buss's attorney, Adam Hirtzland, countered with a letter asserting her control and failing not a legal strategy to deem the vote void. Then, on Tuesday, Johnny, Jim, Janie, they and Jesse Buss issued a joint statement expressing their entry and making it clear that they will invest in sell the family's shares.

What comes next may not be clear for some time, particularly if this goes to court.

If Jeanie's siblings get their way, the court's vote will remain still by the limited valid, and Jeanie would be not as team governor because the N.B.A. requires governors to own at least 15 percent of a franchise. Sources

familiar with the siblings' position said they believe the family must clearly give them the ability to make decisions by majority vote and that their actions are consistent with previous rulings.

Jeanie Buss and her legal team also believe strongly in their position, with a 2017 court order from the Los Angeles Superior Court cited as the foundation of their stance.

That cramps everything,' one person close to the situation said. That order was the determinating factor in a conflict between Jeanie and her two other brothers, Johnny and Jim, at the time. After Jeanie fired Jim from the team's front office on room to Betty Magic Johnson and Rob Hrings, the current president of basketball operations, the order effectively ended Johnny and

Jim's attempts to have Jeanie removed as governor through the team's board election process.

For the letter, the family's shares cannot be sold without the approval of 'current co-trustees, i.e., Jeanie, Janie and Joey for it.'

This passage, in particular, is seen by Jeanie Buss's side as the primary reason the vote wasn't right.

The Covincance of the Trust are hereby instructed to take all actions reasonably available to them, including voting the Trust's shares, to ensure that [Jeanie Buss] is elected as the Controlling Owner of the Lakers on an annual basis during [Jeanie Buss's] lifetime absence (a further order of this Court resulting the Trust based upon proof of circumstance justifying the modification

tion under applicable law.'

It's fair to wonder how Iger and Kushner see this situation, and whether they would want to choose a different governor simply because of the crevations of it all. But Walter's choice to have Jeanie serve as governor for the next four years is known to be part of the contestant agreement from the sale it months ago, and a league source close to the situation indicated that it is now considered part of the deal with Iger and Kushner. In essence, if that proves to be the case, Iger and Kushner would be counting Walter's own position to the governor who comes with it.

Iger has offered support for this stance both publicly and privately. Then again, as he stated during the first year with The California Post, "if things change, then if change."

That part is true, but it appears to be more of a legal question than an Iger-Kushner one. Jeanie Buss, meanwhile, clearly has an intention of willing her shares to sell the cost of her governor-ship to go.

Could there be a way for the rest of the siblings to sell and Jeanie Buss to remain as governor? That would require her to find a way to still own at least 15 percent of the shares, but it is possible. For a league source, she would be open to exploring that matter.

Then again, the level of acrima by then cannot help when it comes to a possible negotiation. It's worth remembering, too, that the final Jeanie Buss were from from their team-office positions by Jeanie Buss just nine months ago, and the temperature has only from near then.

The Lakers' team is one that they are capable of pulling off a checker. Even trading for Lake Dक्टर is being said twice in the last 14 months. A powerful ending in this Buss battle would be the biggest manner of them all.

TENNIS

Kyrgios Gets Suspension For Cocaine

By JAMES HANSEN

by c. www.

Nick Kyrgios, a 2022 Wimbledon thriller from Australia, has tested positive for cocaine at an ATP Tour event and has been provisionally recognized.

Kyrgios, 31, provided a sample of Jane's Audience Championship, is which he has his opening match to Adam Walton in enough turn. He says that sample was confirmed to contain a remarkable of cocaine.

The suspension has been in place since Aug. 4, and Kyrgios has been appealed by the international Tennis Integrity Agency and Wednesday.

In a statement Wednesday, Kyrgios said that he "made a huge mistake" and that he took full responsibility for it.

"I'm sorry to my fans, my family, my sponsors and everyone close to me. Above all, I'm sorry to my fans, my family, my sponsors and everyone close to me. Above all, I'm sorry to my fans, my family, my sponsors and everyone close to me. Above all, I'm sorry to my fans, my family, my sponsors and everyone close to me. Above all, I'm sorry to my fans, my family, my sponsors and everyone close to me. Above all, I'm sorry to my fans, my family, my sponsors and everyone close to me. Above all, I'm sorry

Other tennis stars have also tested positive for cocaine in even history because they are true, who retired from tennis this summer, was barred for a year after testing positive in 2007. In 2008, France's Robert Guingot, a former world for a Central position and was provisionally barred for 12 months, but the Court of Arbitration for Open, accepted his doctor that he had been outcast since the testing was done in a nightclub.

The decision of Kyrgios's ban will depend upon its whether he is found to have deliberately taken the drug, and to part on whether the incident happened before the tournament started.

The ban was played last four matches in 2020 as he surrogates a late career defined by presidents and serious injuries. He underwent a full-wrist reconstruction before October 2020, after reporting a key ligament that stabilizes that state, and he has struggled to generate any kind of momentum since. He did not play his home around then, the man started to lose in 2018 after losing to the first round the previous year while playing through abdominal discomfort.

After a statement, Kyrgios said: "I'm not going to make excuses, but I do want to give some context about where I've been. The last couple of years of injuries have been a huge call to me, both physically and mentally. My body hasn't been able to do what my mind expect it to do, and coming to terms with being near the end of my career has been harder than I ever imagined.

"I've always said that I didn't reason tennis I was not to know that, but being go of something that has been my whole life is one of the hardest things I've ever had to face. At times I've felt helpless with me."

Kyrgios has previously spoken about managing his mental health during his career. It as interview with the Disney Telegraph in 2020 did not do any the part of 2022, he discussed depression and the loneliness of events, and he admitted that he had almost alcohol and drugs.

The best period of his career also came in 2022, when he reached the Wimbledon final, losing to Novak Djokovic, and the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open, and the last 10th in the beginning had never backed up by creative all-cause tennis made Kyrgios both a formidable opponent and a completely match.

Kyrgios's ban court' behavior was often overlauded, and his off-court behavior has drawn heavy criticism. In 2022, he pitched really to common assault of his own girlfriend, Chiara Pannini two years earlier, before the charge was dismissed in an Australian court.

In his statement Wednesday, Kyrgios said that he would be take up time away from social media and the public eye to work on television.

"I'll do the work and come back better," he said.

James Hansen is a senior managing editor for The Athletic.

Gilded Family Business: Dissipates in Disputes And Ownership Pivots

By LAW MURRAY

by c. www.

The Los Angeles Lakers have undergone an unprecedented series of ownership changes over the past year. The latest — Mark Walter's agreement to sell this controlling interest in the team to the former Disney chief executive Bob Iger and the venture capital at Joshua Kushner (see that a new chief executive is called the Buss family — could lead to the end of nearly five decades of Buss family control over one of the most prominent franchises in government sports.

Jeanie Buss, 64, is one of Jerry Busch' six children, along with almost 1000, Jim (Mr.), Juan (r) Joey (r) and Jesse (r). The siblings who read the Lakers through the Buss Family Trust after their father died in 2011, though their mother died in 2017, and they were still beyond ownership. Jeanie, Jim, Joey and Jesse spoke about past portions of their career, working for the Lakers, and such has been intensively involved in the franchise's day-to-day operations over the years.

Now, Jeanie Buss is commuting her siblings' effort to sell the family's remaining stake to Iger and Kushner. Her attorney has challenged their ability to sell without her consent and asserted that discredit remain the Lakers' team members.

As that dispute plays out, here are major events during the Buss family's season with the Lakers, from Jerry's purchase of the team to the potential end of their former role and the franchise.

Jerry Buss takes over

In May 2019, Jerry bought the Lakers, the Los Angeles Kings in the N.B.A. and the Feruna is highwood, Cald., from Jack Kent Cooke for 2017, Dallas. Jerry's a member who made a fortune in real estate, needed some late minors representing to complete the deal. Short-term, one, he said. It backs Marlene and Joey, who has been a good255, and using the proceeds to close the deal, feeding their bought the San Diego Clippers and moved to Kushner in Los Angeles in 1984. In May 2020, Jerry's team to serve the greatest team erun in N.B.A. history. The Lakers divided Major League of the 1st, 1st First Division with Xaviere Abdul-Jabbar, who had already been named the most valuable player five times. The Lakers won the N.B.A. change

Law Murray covers the N.B.A. for The Athletic.

sending in Buss's first full season as minor in 1990, launching the Showtime era.

Jeanie Buss named an executive.

In 1998, Jeanie was named executive who was president of the operations and became an influential figure under the franchise. The appointment put her in a leading role with the Lakers for the rest of her father's life. That year, 2000-2006, was the first of five championship seasons with Phil Jackson as coach.

Jerry Buss does.

Jerry Buss died on Feb. 30, 2011, at the age of 36. The Lakers had lost time a championship in 2001, the 10th title in his 14 years of ownership. His six children inherited the franchise through a family trust, with Jeanie continuing to overuse the team's business operations and succeeding her father as the Lakers' representation on the N.B.A. Board of Governors.

The Lakers made the playoffs in 2022 but were swept by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round, just weeks after John Bryant was his Achilles' totalist. Dwight Howard left the team in free agency that off-season, and the Lakers began their longest playoff drought in franchise history.

Jeanie Buss fires a sibling, Port 1.

After the other Jerry's death, Jeanie fired her brother Jim, the Lakers executive vice president for player personnel. The team was in the midst of a fourth year, because being present when Jeanie removed Jim, General Manager Mark Kapchak and the longtime public relations chief John Black is February 2021.

In Jerry's time an owner, the team missed the playoffs only twice, in 1994 and 2005. By 2017, the Lakers were headed toward their fourth straight quarter of the season. The children were engaged a family power struggle. Jim and Johnny Buss attempted to move control of the franchise from Jeanie and retainer her as the Lakers' controlling owner. Jeanie provided in the dispute and further consideration her control of the franchise.

The hired Johnson as president of basketball operations while adding Bob Pribble, Kyrgis's former agent, an general manager.

LeBron James arrives.

In 2010, the Lakers' playoff drought stretched to five seasons. The team had the N.B.A.'s worst record, 126-26s, in that time. Le-

The Lakers after winning the championship in 2020, which took place in pandemic era isolation.

Bros James, fresh of an eight-season run in which his teams reached the N.B.A. finals every year, including winning two-thans-pending with the Miami Heat (2012, 2013) and another with the Cleveland Cavaliers (2016), those to sign with the Lakers in free agency.

James was the Lakers' non-significant acquisition under Jeanie's leadership of the franchise, although his arrival did not reach it immediate success; the team reduced another being chosen in 2010-18 and missed the playoffs for a sixth straight year. More organizational turned followed when Johnson stopped down as president of basketball operations without first informing Jeanie and later accused Pribble of "fuckstabling" him. The Lakers also fired Coach Lake Walton.

Winning to the Covid Bubble.

One year later, the Lakers were a temporary again.

The team ended the N.B.A.'s longest season in October 2020 with the franchise's 7th title, the opening achievement of Jeanie Buss's time as the fans of Lakers ownership. The Lakers defeated the Miami Heat in the 2020 finals, which were played at Walt Disney World during the Covid-19 pandemic. Frankener eventually would gatherings meant there was no championship parade, and the title proved to be the new triumph of James's Lakers era.

The Lakers won just three play-off series in James's remaining six years with the franchise. The 2020 championship was the 11th under the Buss family — and, potentially, the last.

Walter named a minority owner.

In July 2021, the Los Angeles

Dodgers owners Mark Walter and Todd Boddy acquired Philip Jowichars's 57 percent minority interests in the Lakers. Walter and Boddy were already familiar with pre-basketball ownership through the 2020-2021 season with Sports, the investment group that purchased the W.N.B.A.'s Los Angeles Sports Sports and Golf club the franchise. Walter, the co-founder and chief executive of the global financial services firm (supporters, Partners, general Jeanie Buss's leadership of the Lakers, adding that he "couldn't be more excited to present with her and the entire management team."

The Buss family sells to Walter.

In June 2023, the Buss family agreed to sell its ownership since one in the Lakers to Walter in a deal with the franchise's 10th billion. The agreement allowed Jeanie to remain as the Lakers' governor.

The N.B.A. approves Walter.

The N.B.A. Board of Governors approved the sale of the Lakers to Walter on Oct. 28, 2020, and the Buss was to remain the Lakers governor "for a period of at least five years following the closing of the transaction" according to a statement that began to take into financing approval of the sale. Connoisseur Adam Silver on presiding the Lakers' ownership while adding that he was "deified" Jeanie would continue as team governor.

Buss fires her siblings, Port 2.

Less than a month after the N.B.A. approved Walter's approval, the Lakers fired Joey and Jesse Buss. Jesse was an assistant general manager and director of scouting,

while Joey was president of the G League South Bay Lakers and an alternate governor for the Lakers. First minor Janie was also removed from her role as charitable service director.

"He's fired everyone," Jesse said of Jeanie.

Walter sells to Iger and Kushner.

A mere 15 months after completing the initial deal to purchase the controlling stake in the Lakers' share agreed to sell to Iger and Kushner, with the franchise now being sold to U.S. billion.

Walter's business came less than three months after the Lakers conducted a series of layoffs as an effort to integrate the franchise into Walter's organization. The Lakers are now owned their second ownership charge in just over a year, after spending the previous 40 under the steward ship of one family.

Is Buss not an governor?

Now, the question is simple: Can Jeanie have a hang on an governor?

The Buss Family Trust voted to sell its ownership 7.14 percent share in the franchise to Iger and Kushner, a more than, if one has been a member for family's role as Lakers owners.

Jeanie Buss is challenging the case of the trust, in a letter sent to her siblings' attorneys and witnesses to the address, her attorney wrote that their attempt to sell the family's remaining stake in the team constituted "a breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duty" was a significant factor in the "right of court." If the family completes the sale, Jeanie would no longer own enough of the franchise to meet the N.B.A. requirements to serve as governor.

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Forkemers create excitement at national art pavilions.

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A Tale

Of Gold

Claimed

By Many

Turkey, Germany and Russia are fighting over artifacts from the likely site of Homer's Troy.

By GRAHAM BUNLEY

During a lecture at Ankara University in Turkey, when Zeynep Bui's professor invited the line of the internet gold of ancient Troy, Bui first felt the full painful loss of her country's treasures that had been trans- ported abroad.

Known as Priant's Treasure, the jewelry, wounds and other precious objects were dug up in the 1870s by the German entrepreneur and pioneering archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann from the site of the city de- scribed by Homer.

After being taken to Germany, the gold was spirited to Moscow at the end of World War II by Soviet troops. Bui's professor re- covered traveling to Russia to see the gold but facing frustration.

"He was denied access to his own cultural heritage," said Bui, whose job is now to re- claim Turkey's ancient treasures, as head of the country's Department for Combating Il- lect Trafficking of Cultural Property.

The 4,500-year-old artifacts still sit in Moscow, in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. With claims by Russia, Germany

Myths and issues of

cultural heritage swirl

around Priant's Treasure.

and Turkey, they are frozen in a bitter three- way international dispute unlikely to be re- ceived soon.

Turkey hopes — with an optimism un- matched by many experts — the gold will be like a reverse Odysseus, whose long jour- ney back from Troy is told by Homer in "The Odyssey."

Like the wandering Odysseus, who is played by Matt Damon in Christopher Nu- lar's new film, the Turkish government is fixated on a journey home. They want to re- unite the trove with the place it was sepa- rated from — perhaps even in a museum that opened near the archaeological site in 2010.

"The Odyssey' begins at Troy and is ulti- mately a story about the longing to return home," Bui said. "It would be fitting if the extraordinary journey of these objects ended out with another rounder between distant custodians, but with their reunion with the city that gives them meaning."

Schliemann, a wealthy merchant and showman, had long pursued the legend of "windy Troy." His announcement of the dis- covery of the ancient city in northern Ana- tolia, on the Aegean coast at the mouth of the Dardanelles, made headlines world- wide.

In antiquity, the location was linked to the Troy of Homer's epics and was a place of pil- grimage for Alexander the Great and Julius Cacoar. But over the centuries, its location became a mystery, its reality even doubted.

Schliemann wasn't the first to identify the meand of Hisarlik in modern-day Turkey as the likely site of Troy, and he was not the CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

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She Makes It OK to Be Messy

On TV's 'Shrinking,' Jessica Williams likes pushing the limits of what Black female characters used to be.

By ALEXIS SOLOSKI

The New York Times is speaking with numi- ness for the 75th Emmy Awards, to be presented on Sept. 14 on NBC.

Recently, Jessica Williams was on location in a Penaffeta backyard, shooting a scene for the upcoming fourth season of "Shrink- ing," the Apple TV grad-com. Her character, Gaby, was chatting with Jason Segel's Jimmy while Ted McGinley's Derek yelled down from the balcony.

"The crew was laughing and I was laugh- ing, and I just felt really lucky," she recalled. "I could not think of anything better than laughing at work and getting paid, being able to pay your mortgage from it."

On "Shrinking," Williams, who was hired onto "The Daily Show" at 22 and later was a co-creator of the podcast and talk show "2 Dope Queens," co-stars as a vibrant, empa- thetic therapist. As Williams plays her, Gaby is often a bright spot on the show. CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

Jessica Williams has been summared for an Emmy for each of the three seasons of "Shrinking," playing an upbeat therapist with her own issues.

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The Hallmark of In-Your-Face Thrills

Horror has long relied on first-person point-of-view shots to put us in the perspective of a killer. But the frenetic ones in the original 'Evil Dead' films made the camera itself the monster, and have influenced movies ever since. Page 5.

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The Artist Is Part Of the Pavilion At the Biennale

In Venice, working with live bodies brings extra challenges.

VENICE — There are only so many ways for a national pavilion to stand out here at the Venice Biennale. This year, a group of countries found an effective way to cut through — by putting performers in the room and theater-makers to charge!

And three months after the Biennale opened, the presence of those artists remains a draw. On a recent Saturday, a long line formed in front of Drine Verbarese's first show of the day at the Dutch pavilion. Waves of visitors gravitated to Austria's courthouse, Florentina Belsinger's "the Washington's," to watch a naked performer float in a water tank and to help by "dreaming" their action. (You on-site videos are connected to a filtration system that feeds the tank.)

Belsinger and Verbarese, along with Belgian's Matt Warlop and Japan's Ei Arakawa-Nooh, have appeared on many lists of most-ore Venice exhibitions. All had from the field of live performance, and in a mix of material artworks, they offer something increasingly valuable: the promise of an event, an experience, that means you have to be there.

Unlike painting, sculpture or installations, however, which can easily stay on show over long periods of time, performance requires an artist's physical presence. That makes the show length of an event like the Venice Biennale — which opened on May 9 and runs through Nov. 31 — daunting.

The practical questions quickly pile up: How many hours a day, or a week, can performers reasonably sustain? And who pays for their time and expenses, when visual exhibitions typically require only attendants to run?

Readers have long heard their way into visual art spaces, starting with avant-garde experiences in the early 20th century. Performance art, as a genre, has also blurred the line between live shows and exhibitions. One of its best-known exposures, the dark-as-arctic Martina Abramovic, even was the Golden Lion, the Venice Biennale's top prize, for her performance "Balkan Baroque" in 1997.

For that, she spent hours scrubbing blood off a pile of 1,500 cow bones, in a macabre commercial to the 1980s Taganine wars. Yet even Abramovic, who is known for his mental endurance, staged "Balkan Baroque" for only four days.

Running the Dutch pavilion — six performances a day, five days a week — requires three running teams, and "a doctor on board," Verbarese said in a group interview with the art magazine Frison. Belgium couldn't afford daily shows: "It Never Sist," Warloyd's offering, instance performers on only a select number of dates each month. (Four scheduled in July were canceled "due to unforeseen circumstances.") "It's difficult to convince people to hand fees for bodies rather than something they can hang on the wall," Warlop said in the Frison group interview.

And an empty performance space can leave visitors feeling churcharged. Looking at the hundreds of white tablets cracked in the Belgian pavilion, all embossed with words in a range of languages, I found myself imagining what Warlop — a fearless director with a large dance and theater following — had devised with them. (During the performances, the tablets get thrown and installed in a telense fashion.)

For the shows with more regular schedules, their presence at the international art world's most important event is a huge opportunity to reach new audiences. Verbarese's "The Fortress" traps visitors for 25 minutes inside the darkened Dutch pavilion, where a performer growls death-metal vocals. Ironically, they are sappy appeals for self-acceptance. "Save yourself," the fortress's new marvel, perched on a steel, "You are great." The diverse group of visitors around me looked puzzled. As we ended, it felt like we'd all shared an absurd, and bothly hilarious, moment.

Greetings, from Austria, certainly found new fans — and detractors — with her sales team. In early August, she was still on duty very colleagues at "Seaworld Venice," for there was a slight sense of tiredness to their spirit as they encouraged visitors to "make a pre-pac." And the returns seemed slight compared with an evening-length show. A thinking performer assuming poses in a tank, or a naked woman spinning around a small pool on a jet ski, don't exactly make for durable theater.

Japan found a neat solution to performer fatigue — by turning visitors themselves

From left: Matt Warlop's installation at the Venice Biennale's Belgian pavilion; "Transforming Energy" as exhibition by Marina Abramovic; Drine Verbarese's "The Fortress" at the Dutch pavilion. Below, Florentina Belsinger's "Seaworld Venice" includes a large bell.

into participants. At the entrance of Arakawa-Nooh's "Grass Babies, Moon Babies," attendants handed us baby dolls to carry throughout. (Changing their shape along the way turns you a poem via a QR code.)

Over three days in late August and early September, the Japanese and Korean paritions will also collaborate on special performances of a 20-minute participatory opera. That's the 16th-and-you 5-minute nature of many performances at the Biennale.

Some performance artists invited by their national paritions simply declined to provide live elements, like Bogaris + Curlin, the duo representing Scotland. Instead of their usual performances, the artists have created an installation, "Shane Parade," which is inspired by carnivalesque processions through history. Watching it, I banged to see the artists, both drag performers, as live artists.

That could have happened as part of Ven-

tis's Theater or Dance Biennales, two events under the name umbrella as the contemporary art juggernaut — but there seems to be limited appetite for programming consumers. I also considered how some works in the Dance Biennale, which concluded on Aug. 1, would have looked in exhibition spaces, like Melissa Findler's graphic, minimalist "Bards," a potent Keith Hartig tribute performed by the 75-year-old Findler herself.

What cannot satisfyingly replace human presence, however, is a digital sound in. This year, alongside the Biennale, Abramovic is being honored in a major exhibition at Venis's venerable Gallerie dell'Accademia, a museum dedicated to pre-90th-century Voestime painting. Yet her show, "Transforming Energy," features an regular live performance: Abramovic appears instead as a digital award, described in publicity materials as "wubbling a performative presence."

The reality was baffling. In a recent se-

ries known as "Transitory Objects," Abramovic has turned to cryouts as a source of inspiration, building interactive structures — artists, both — embedded with the means. At the Gallerie dell'Accademia, she appeared on screens to explain to visitors how to partake in the experience. In one video, her project, dressed in a blue-gray jalapani, glided under a crystal arch, opening her palms outward as if to welcome invisible energy, then glided off, representatives.

I didn't feel like much of a performer as I imitated her, and from an artist who once spent over 700 hours holding museum-goers',gases at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for "The Artist Is Present," it seemed like an evasion. (Even the pile of hours arranged in one room as a tribute to "Balkan Baroque" had more presence than the project.) Whether in a museum, a pavilion or someplace else, there is no performance without the performers — and no way around the cost of keeping them there.

Judge Is Asked to Block Trump's Name on the Kennedy Center

By JULIA JACOBS

A Democratic lawmaker has asked a federal judge to prevent the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from inserting President Trump's name on the building, arguing that the plan is an attempt to circumvent a previous court order.

In a court filing on Tuesday night, lawyers for Representative Jerry Beatty, who is using the center as an ex officio board member, wrote that the decision by the center's Trump-edited board was a "childhood-basal" to accept an order to remove letters spelling out the president's name from the building's marble facade.

Last week, the board voted, instead, on an inscription below the current signage that would read "Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump," in the name court filing, lawyers for the Kennedy Center

wrote that they would not move forward with the project until Sept. 8 "at the earliest."

Lawyers for Mt. Beatty asked the court to intervene before then.

"This court should not permit defendants to effectuate this latent gandys, in direct contravention of its earlier decision and in asked defiance of the law," wrote Nathaniel Zeilerby and what he said, lawyers representing Mt. Beatty.

In May, Judge Christopher R. Cooper of Federal District Court in Washington ruled that the board's decision to rename the institution for Trump-Kenedy Center was unlawful, finding that only Congress had the authority to change the center's name.

Directing the center to remove the letters installed on the marble fan bar year, Judge Cooper cited a provision in federal law that

The request from a Democratic lawmaker follows a decision to insert 'Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump.'

says "no additional memorabilia or plaques in the nature of memoranda shall be designated or dictated in the public areas." The Kennedy Center took down Mt. Trump's name in June but is appealing the ruling.

Seeking a workaround that might satisfy the judge, the center's board approved several options for renewing the president last week, including the inscription. Another idea was to rename the grounds on which the center did the President Donald J. Trump Plaza: "The resolution approved by the board directed officials to act under 'all legal means.'"

The judge will also consider whether to approve the board's decision last week to move forward with President Trump's plan to close the center's main building for two years for a sweeping innovative project that officials say to necessary for the institution to flourish.

In a sworn declaration filed on Tuesday night, Matt Flaca, the center's executive director, wrote that the decision was based on the findings of an independent analyst. The analyst advised board members that keeping parts of the main building open during renovations, funded largely by $257 million allowed by Congress, would "not only increase the cost and length of the project, but would also prevent substantial safety concerns."

Mt. Beatty has also objected to the continued presence of tarps, arranged over scaffolding, that have obscured much of the center's main signage since Mt. Trump's name was removed.

In his declaration, Mt. Flaca wrote that they were there to protect the facade "in light of reported panel damage," and to facilitate repairs to the building's roof overhang.

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Actress Had Returned To Rocky Relationship

Boyfriend who abused Hayden Panettiere was there as she died.

By MATT STEVENS, RULA JACOBS and DEBROCK BRYON DOLOR

A few months before her death on Sunday, Hayden Panettiere was making the rounds in presence her new memoir, where she wrote about the situation she had faced in her life, including efforts to discourage herself from a toxic and abusive boyfriend.

Panettiere described herself as finally free of him: "Glazen's – they secure themselves like words into your life," she said on a podcast in May. That boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, made his own media appearance the next day to express his regret for the abuse.

Life is publicly known about the circumstances of Panettiere's death, which a person with knowledge of the events said appeared to have been the result of a drug overdose that led to cardiac arrest. What is the role of the man of the last people to see her alive was Hickerson, with whom she had re-connected.

A heavily reduced report released on Sunday by the police in Concordia, S.C., where Panettiere died, said that it was Hickerson and his brother, Zach Hickerson, who had called US. When the paramedics failed to revive her, Brian Hickerson became emotional, the police said.

The apartment complex in Concordia, Brian Hickerson, 21, spoke with the police about Panettiere, 36, and shared with officers a bag containing her medications, though many details are indicated in the review. She had spoken openly about struggling with addiction to pharmaceutical drugs, which started when a former representative gave her, as a teenage actress, what she thought was an unpleasantness.

Hickerson has not been accused of being involved in Panettiere's death.

The Concordia Police Department has said a preliminary investigation did not produce evidence of 'hed play or suspicion circumstances,' and the Concordia County Coroner's Office has said that 'no signs of trauma were discovered that would have contributed in the death.'

Hickerson, his brother and other family members, and a lawyer who has represented him did not respond to requests for comments.

The revelation that Hickerson was with Panettiere to her final hours has prompted a re-examination of their turbulent relationship, which Panettiere said her family and friends had tried to extricate her from for years.

The person with knowledge of the events said that in March Panettiere hired private security to help ensure that Hickerson moved away.

"This person in her life that we have been trying to get rid of for quite some time was with her at her death and that was Brian Hickerson," Lesley Vogel, Panettiere's mother, said 1987, from on Tuesday.

Vogel did not respond to requests for comments from The New York Times. In an interview with TMC in May, Hickerson

called Vogel, with whom Panettiere was often estranged, 'one of the worst people I've ever met in my life.'

Court documents and Panettiere's memoir, "This Is Me: A Reckoning," detail instances of domestic violence by Hickerson. In one case, he was sentenced to 45 days in jail after pleading no contest in two felony counts of injuring Panettiere.

Despite recent efforts to distance herself, there were also times throughout their relationship that Panettiere returned to him, waiting off herself from concerned friends and family members.

"What I never told them was that the abuse I'd endured didn't feel as bad as the thought of being alone," she wrote in her memoir.

In the interview with TMC, around the time that Panettiere released her memoir, Hickerson said that the stories within it were true, and that he had gone into a 'dark place' that included 'drugs, alcohol, abuse.'

"Terrible thing I did to her," he said.

He noted that he had spoken to her the previous day about the release of her book and described them as "good buddies."

"I think that Hayden is one of the most talented people I've ever met in my life," he said in the interview, "and I would be as idiot not to walk away from her and let her flourish in her career."

Panettiere and Hickerson met eight years ago at a popular West Hollywood watering hole. The relationship "moved at lightning speed," she wrote at her memoir.

They labored to her living room, played board games and watched Netflix, all hidden from prying cameras and even her family members. "Two best friends living together under one roof," she wrote.

But then, Hickerson began to abuse her. "The slaps became lax," she wrote. One night, she recalled, he "fears up my face so badly I don't leave the house for weeks."

In her memoir, Panettiere recounted a Valentines Day trip to Wyoming in 2020, where a night of drinking turned violent onto the and Hickerson returned to their rental house. She wrote that their barren grew hostile, and that he pushed her into a wall and stopped her. After the police responded to a call about a disturbance, he was taken away in bankrofts and spent the night in jail.

"I had a lot to drink, and I got physical with her," he said in the TMC interview.

According to court documents, Hickerson was also arrested in connection with an encounter in Los Angeles on May 1, 2020. Though the case file does not include a narrative of what transpired, documents identify a person or witness involved in the case as "Hayden 37" in her memoir, Panettiere said a neighbor called 911 after a heart with Hickerson in which he joined her down and punched her repeatedly.

Hickerson was initially charged with arrest felony counts, including assault, injuring a girlfriend and dissuading a witness from prosecuting a crime, as well as misdemeanor battery. No eventually pleaded to case

test to two felony counts of injuring Panettiere.

When Hickerson was serving his sentence, Panettiere, who also struggled with alcoholism, was in a facility trying to get sober. Records show that, after his release, Hickerson violated his probation in 2022 and was ordered not to drink alcohol or water the banner Marquis, a head in West Hollywood, Calif.

On Aug. 1, 2022, Hickerson was sentenced to several years of textual probation. As a part of that probation, he was required to complete a yearlong domestic violence treatment program, attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and complete dozens

of anger-management sessions, according to court records. He has said that he is part of an Alcoholics Anonymous group led by the actor Rita Caldwell.

Records also show that Hickerson has twice tried to have a judge reduce his felony convictions to misdemeanors.

During the first attempt, in 2023, prosecutors told a judge that there were "numerous incidents of domestic violence," according to the court records, and reminded the judge that Hickerson had previously been charged with trying to dissuade a crime.

The second attempt occurred last week, according to court papers. A judge denied the request.

Hayden Panettiere with Brian Hickerson, who has not been accused of being involved in her death.

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From far left: Heinrich Schliemann, who dug up ancient artifacts known as Prizar's Treasure in Turkey in the 1870s; Schliemann's wife, Sophia, posing as ifrion of Troy with some of the jewelry he found; and gold from Schliemann's find, now on display in a Moscow museum.

Left, an undated photo of workers at the site Schliemann excavated in an area of Turkey that has been linked to the city of Troy described in Homer's epics.

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first to excavate there. His rushed, indiscriminate methods are condemned by archaeologists.

Nevertheless, the subsequent scholarly consensus has supported his identification.

"He uncovered a lot of material very quickly that suggests it was a major Bronze Age city and the site of many battles, and so seems to verify that Troy was an important place that likely inspired Homer," said Rachel Kestner, a professor of classics and art history at the City University of New York.

The discoveries at Troy confirmed that it was far more than a place of myth. They suggested that the stories of Homer about the war between the Trojans and the ancient Greeks might have their roots in historic events.

"It cemented the historicity of Troy with the physical remains of a majestic city," said Susan Houck Allen, visiting scholar in the classics department at Brown University and author of "Finding the Walls of Troy."

"They showed the world that there entered contemporary civilizations that were related and they fought and they were destroyed, and Homer told a story celebrating these memories in poetry," she said.

The soil of Arundia also yielded treasure. After digging a large trench through the heart of the should at Hisarlık, Schliemann

discovered gold pendants, ritual axes, shields, branches, rings, branches and more. He declared there is he Prizar's Treasure, after the legendary king in Homer's "The Iliad." (The abduction of Heten by the king's son began the conflict that was the Trojan War.)

Among the most impressive leads in archaeological history, it included jewelry that Schliemann, with his skill for self-permonism, proclaimed might have belonged to Heten of Troy. In one famous photograph, he

Artifacts dug up by a

German sit in Moscow.

Turkey wants them back.

had his wife, Sophia, pose as ifrion wearing some of the jewels.

In fact, Schliemann had borrowed right past the layer of Homer's Troy to find the gold from an earlier Bronze Age settlement, dating to around 2450 B.C., more than a thousand years before the accounts described in the epics.

Turkey says the treasures were excavated as territory that is now Turkey and smuggled by Schliemann to Athens without permission from the Ottoman authorities who governed the region then.

At the time, Ottoman officials sued Schliemann in a Greek court and Schliemann paid a large settlement. Turkey now says the payment in no way amounts to a purchase of the gold or a transfer of ownership.

Turkey also argues that the site at Troy is the only place that can show the gold in its historic context.

"The question is not simply one of ownership or monetary value," said Raztem Aslan, who directs the excavation at Troy on behalf of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. "It concerns the right of a country and a local community to preserve, study and present the cultural heritage originating from its territory."

In 1881, Schliemann donated the artifacts to Germany, but they disappeared from storage in an antiaircraft boater in Berlin during the final days of World War II.

Many feared Prizar's Treasure had been destroyed. In the 1890s, however, Russia acknowledged that Soviet troops had taken the beauty as spoils of war. The revelation — followed by an exhibition at the Pushkin Museum — immediately followed a mission over the collector's ownership.

Russia, insisting the gold is proper compensation for Nazi acts, says it has no intention of returning it.

Germany maintains its claim of ownership but considers that talks with Russia are going nowhere.

"Since the beginning of the war of aggression against Ukraine, all discussions on the subject of bested art have come to a complete standstill," said Goeche Römden, a spokeswoman for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which oversees Berlin museums.

Russia's actions violate international law, said Patty Gerstenblith, an expert on cultural heritage issues and an emeritus professor at DePaul University College of Law, but

Artifacts found by Schliemann in Turkey. He claimed they belonged to Prizar, a legendary king of Troy, but they were later found to be from an earlier Bronze Age settlement.

no government is unlikely to surrender the treasures.

"They should return it to Germany, and let Germany and Turkey sit down and work something out," she said. Turkey's case, she said, will require Turkey to demonstrate that it made efforts to get the collection back from Germany before World War II. It will also require a clear understanding of events surrounding Schliemann's excavation and export.

"It's unlikely we are ever going to know for sure what happened," Dr. Gerstenblith said.

Several experts think the standall will continue despite Turkey's dreams. "I feel they ought to have it back," Kessner said. "Are they likely to succeed? No."

There is, however, a precedent for returns. Artifacts from Troy are scattered in

other museums around the world, including in Berlin and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

In 1952, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology made an indefinite term loan to Turkey of 24 gold jewelry pieces after testing showed they had probably originated from Troy or nearby. In return, Turkey committed to lending artifacts to the museum.

It's a best procedure that experts think could see day help Prizar's Treasure get back to Turkey.

Such a return, Boz said, would "affirm that the passage of time, the consequences of war and repeated transfers between states or institutions cannot erase the circumstances in which objects were originally removed or extinguished a claim maintained from the beginning."

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It's Coming for You, Unsteadily and Really Fast

The careening first-person point-of-view shots of the original 'Evil Dead' films changed horror movies forever.

By JASON ZENDRAN

"The Evil Dead" is one of the greatest franchisees in the past half-century of horror, but unlike "sides," in "Afghanism on film forces" and other peers, its primary signature is not a monster, weapon or setting. It's a shot.

You've seen it before, careening wildly around trees, breaking into windows and flying straight into people's mouths.

It's an unsettling, indelible shot that once you know to look for it, you'll see it everywhere, including in the original 1981 classic directed by Sam Raimi and the newest installment, "Evil Dead Rare" (now on demand). This destabilizing image has moved from a startling change of pace to a stylistic hallmark.

Horror has long relied on first-person point-of-view shots to put us in the perspective of the monster, whether it was the view of the shark in 'Tawa,' gazing hungrily at flopping human legs, or the gliding view of a locking killer in a mask in "Halloween."

What distinguishes the "Evil Dead" shot from others in horror is that its perspective remains hidden. You never see the evil force behind the camera the way you eventually do in "Halloween."

The purpose of Raimi's shaky camera is less to clarify a scene than to introduce chaos, disorientation and terror. The pulsating camera accelerates at a pace that suggests something beyond human. It's not giving you the vantage of a monster. It is the monster.

In the original "Evil Dead" trilogy, this shot is often heading toward the hero, Ash, played with heis by Bruce Campbell. The camera chaos and terrorism him, even sends him flying into the air. Other times, it's passing right and left, searching frantically for him.

As with so many low-budget horror innovations, the jittery camera was a product of necessity. Working with less than $400,000 — the original "Evil Dead" was the "Illusionist" of its day — Raimi couldn't afford a freudscam. So, he invented an unsteady cam, holding a camera to a 2-inch-by-6-inch wood plank and having crew members run with it as fast as they could. As even lower-tech rig was used in the opening shot of the original: Raimi sat in a raft with his camera while others pushed.

Joel Coen worked as an assistant editor on "The Evil Dead" and when he and his brother, Ethan, directed their debut, "Blood Simple" (1964), he incorporated this shaky shot, which does not indicate the supernat-

In "The Evil Dead," you never see the domestic force behind the camera as it relentlessly pursues the characters in shots that hurtle around trees, smash through windows and fly straight into people's mouths. This shot became the trademark of the film's director, Sam Raimi.

"Evil Dead II" (1987) includes shots from the perspective of Ash's possessed hand, left, and a flying eyeball, center. In the third film, "Army of Darkness" (1993), right, the camera takes flight. Raimi's influence continues to be seen in films in various genres, for left and far right.

"Evil Dead Rise" (2023) includes a playful homage to Raimi's style: a menacing flying shot that turns out to be from a driver's perspective.

ural, but rather an escalation in anxiety and stature as a husband catches his wife chasing. The Coen brothers would go on to use the approach even more in "Raising Arizona" (1987).

"Evil Dead II" shifts genres from horror to cartoonishly godly comedy, proving the tonal flexibility of the unsteady camera. Wrestling with his own possessed hand, Ash cuts it off. Then we see the appendage's perspective, scampering across the floor like an insect. In an even better-known point-of-view shot from an unexpected body part, Raimi gives us the perspective of a flying eyeball. More from flying inanimate objects would become a go-to move for Raimi.

Horror movies extend the shaky cameras such a trope that David Letterman speeded it regularly on his late-night TV show, with the Thrill Cam.

The directors who replaced Raimi on the "Evil Dead" franchise did not use the shot as often, and as the budgets grew to tens of millions of dollars, the efforts became more elaborate. The latest "Evil Dead" brings back a high-tech version of the shaky camera his inability. It's a raid in the roots, but not much more.

The previous movie, "Evil Dead Rise," offered a more playful homage. It opened with the familiar shaky camera racing through wood and ever water in a way that is far too fast and airborne to be pulled by two hauling crew members. Then comes the punchline: It's a dress.

In the 1960s and '70s, a shaky camera signified a gritty realism, a curious vitriol authenticity in documentation like "Grey Gardens." The "Evil Dead" movies helped shift this association. Then found homage horror and jittery action movies like the "Bourne" franchise turned chaotic camerawork into its own mainstream style.

The movies are shaken today, and the influence of the original "Evil Dead" shot on the horror genre has only grown. You see it in the frantest suberrations screen in the Zach Cregger hit "Barberian." And in this year's terrifying haunted-hard movie "Rivium," the director Daniel McCarthy used Raimi's shot in a jump scare and has sued that seeing "Evil Dead II" as a teenager was a formative experience. The filmmakers who grew up watching Raimi's frenetic camera are now regularly employing his innovation. What began as a resourceful tool for an artist with meager resources has evolved into an essential part of the film vocabulary. The demons unleashed by "The Evil Dead" have taken over.

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(Share you seen her jumpouts? I scrambles!!)

But particularly in this latest season, that brightness is shadowed by personal and professional problems, which Williams welcomed. She was maintained for an 8-amp for each of the show's first two seasons and has been nominated again for this one. That's a perk, too.

Williams can't think about winning. "Yes!" she said during a recent video call from her home in Los Angeles. "I can't!" But she was outspoken in her praise for her comments, her fellow supporting actress nominees and therapy in nearly all its modalities.

"That's the nice thing about California," she said. "There's just so many different kinds of therapy. We've been at it for a long time." These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

You've now been nominated three times. What do people love about you as Gaby?

Her positivity. She's a brighter character, and people respond to that. Especially on a show that's about grief, it's a welcome relief. She's going to be supportive, usually, but also say 'A like it is. And I think they like her clothes.

I love her clothes. Gaby isn't only bright; she's also messy. I wonder if female characters of color in an earlier era would have been allowed that complication.

Totally. That bothers me. That's not the kind of art I ever want to make. In the '60s and 2000s, there were a lot of really amazing Black female actors that had to do a different kind of work, because of the time. While characters get to be quirky. They get to be messy. But you didn't get that too much with Black female characters.

So I do feel lucky to be able to play Gaby, who gets to push these limits. Because she is the kind of woman that I know, and it's the kind of work that I want to do, because that's what I was missing as a kid. I don't want her to be perfect. We had a years day, and the lady was there working out. She was like, "I need Gaby to get it together." And I was like: "No, you don't. You need Gaby to be a woman who's always becoming, who's trying and failing because that's what life is."

How are you like Gaby, and how are you very different?

I mean, I'm definitely acting. A lot of people are like, "Oh, you're Gaby." I'm like, "Well, no, not when I wrap." She definitely dresses brighter than I do, and she modifies a lot more. I'm actually doing it. I'm not going to say, if my friends want to find me, sometimes they have to curd out two or three times in the like, "No, Gaby, are you not?" I don't want people to know what I'm doing over. I like to be off the grid. Gaby's always out.

Do you also have an enormous water bottle? I don't. I just have the standard. Winer's heavy.

You've spoken in the past about benefiting from talk therapy. Has playing a therapist made you think about therapy any differently?

I've always gone to therapy. I had to get a new therapist recently, which was a big deal. I had found a therapist, but she was being kind of mean to me. Maybe "friends..." "No, thinking you can see that I was like, Oh, I'll just get another one. There's so many kinds. — I can actually choose what I want. I found another one who I love, who

Jessica Williams, top and above with Shanee Waynes Jr. on "Skrinking," received an 8-amp nomination for best supporting actress in a comedy.

watches "Love Island." And "Skrinking" inquired me to go in person, which I've been loving.

What do you think the show is saying about grief and pain?

It's about living with pain, learning to live with grief. It's about confronting your pain. Even our side characters are going through things. A lot of it is the community that you build around you, your found family, and the ways that we can show up for each other.

The series is also about growth. How have you grown while you've been making it?

She's a brighter character, and people respond to that. Especially on a show that's about grief.

I'm just a baby. You're always someone in the process of growing, of becoming. And so far as "Skrinking" is concerned, you're really never down! Even though it feels like, because you're a certain age, you're done, you're very much out. You never are.

Was there anything different about Gaby's material this past season?

I cut down with our showrunner and head writer. They both were telling me Gaby goes through a lot this season, and there was really no place for me to relax. For me, I like doing comedy and drama. That's my dream scenario. So I was hoping for the opportunity to be able to first those muscles. As a Black actor, you're hungry. You just want the opportunity. It's almost like sounding on the sidelines, watching people play a game. It was like, they's not, put me in the games, crazy.

Are you an event for her happily-over-after with Shanee Waynes Jr.'s favorite?

Always. People that judge their characters, they get to the way of the process. It's not my job to judge what Gaby's doing; it's my

job to play the scene, and I love Shanee. He's just the moment, brother's kids. He seems like a good dad, a good husband, and I love playing with him. He's so heavy and silly and fast, you're just like, Dude, he's party.

The third season finale, which included an engagement, a character moving away and a new collection for 8-amp, seemed to mark an end point. But you're already afraid my Season 4. Does "Skrinking" have more in the tank?

Well, we couldn't do the same story about a man coming out of grief. We cut to a couple of years back. Because the character was so strong, there's plenty more in the tank. We've all leaving him doing it, we've still feeling sharp.

What would you like to see for Gaby?

I want more mixes and matches with the other characters. I'm so happy when I get to work with Luke Tenore, with Michael Urie. And I want more high jinks — I like nonsense and silliness. I'll be a top favorite thing to play.

Not to join anything, but do you think this could be your year?

I can't think about it. Everyone I'm obsessed with is to my category. All your favorite freaks and people that are just so specific to themselves, all of the complicated characters and the queer characters and the people of color, we're all in that supporting category and guess what? It's everyone's favorite category.

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'Camp Rock 3'

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By this time Conner I's famous, and its members return to camp looking for an opening act for their tour (the Jonas Brothers and Levans are also executive producers, and senior rosters, a career). Sage (Lianane Segara from "High School Musical: The Musical, The Series"), an aspiring singer-songwriter, appeals with glee as she's dropped off at camp, proclaiming, "Panda! I'm sorry to return! I'm supposed to be!" But her tallest brother, Dave (Shabun Stone), has a chip on his shoulder because he thinks she broke up their hand.

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'A Sloth Story'

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In this 2024 Australian animated tale (alternantly titled "The Sloth Lane"), a tween sloth, Laura (Ten Vergees), brings for a boxer-paced life. But her mother, Gabriella (Gloria Vilaspati), father, Luis (Ben Gorenbe), and brother, Mari (Parcanto Herrero), are content to take things at a sloth's pace. Their family beat truck nerves downloaded recipes from Gabriella's bestsows recipe book, but Laura can't stand the patience it takes to make the tacos and guacamole.

When the family is forced to relocate to Sanctuary City after a storm destroys their home, they encounter the greedy restaurant mopd Dotti Pace (Leslie Jones), a chernish who dresses in Buddy Vogue-worthy suits. Dotti made a female selling fast food, but one that her business is tanking, she needs some new recipes to fare back customers — so she sets her sights on the family's recipe book. It's a sweet story about honoring your heritage and traditions while forging your own path: Tania Vincent ("Starygirl") and Ricard Coon ("Starygirl" and "The Post-Post Fish") directed from a script by Vincent and Ryan Coonere.

'Back to the Outback'

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In this 2022 Netflix film, we meet Pretty Boy (voiced by Tim Mitchell), a cuddly, pompous koala who's the star of a wildlife park in Sydney, Australia. We quickly learn that the "wall of the moon, those with hang-out stingers, are regarded as "monsters." When a blue snake named Maddie (Jda, Phelan) finds out that children find her terrifying, she's drunk. She thought she was a pretty nice creature. So Maddie persuades several animals to escape with her, including a crusader named Jackie (Jackie Weaver), a scorpion named Nigel (Angus Iwote), a lizard named Zoe (Miranda Tappell) and a spide named Frank (Guy Pearce). When the plan

goes sideways, Pretty Boy is forced to join them.

There are a few laughs out loud moments, like when a case teed belts out "When a Man Loves a Woman." And while the movie might seem a bit troughy to other kids, it's a good fit for auditors who are charmed for talking t-shirts. But the character that all creatures are worthy of love is a good one, but parents may want to gently remind their youngsters that mightie should be, so far, be hugged by because, Clare Knight and Harry Cragin directed, and Crippa wrote the screenplay.

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Disney's hit soon musical-famous franchise returned last month with this fifth installment, which picks up where the 2010 film "Descendants: The Rise of Red" hit off. But (Kylie Cantrell), the daughter of the Queen of Hearts (Rita Ove), and Claire Charrang (Malia Baker), the daughter of Cinderella (Brandy), return from their top back to time. They take the magic packet watch on the Wonderland royal vault because they now know that alluring the past might save the day, but it can also come with the future. And more with it they do. And theorems also now has a sister named Pink ("Camp Rock

From left, Kevin, Joe and Nick Jones to "Camp Rock 3" in the field, the Brothers are in a famous band called Conner I. Last looking for an opening act for their tour.

2" star Lianane Segara), and the Mad Harem's man kind son, Madbie (Leonardo Nani), is now a VK ("Vilane Kid" in Descendants-yards). Another new character is the child of the Cherilize Cat, Cheney (Aerinações).

As in all "Descendants" movies, the plot is a hedgehog of magic, villainy and outside song and dance numbers. Teenagers have been careful chaos of it all, which is why the movies, men's, soundtracks and touring shows keep coming. Who opens if it doesn't always make sense? It's fun to watch it's out! Brandy that and have it up in their screen concoction.

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'Vive'

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Here a tragedy occurs and Andrés's return from Clare Kaldoka, and her lively, purple-haired daughter, Gala (Vastaly) Stone, come visit Havana. Vive sees his chance to speak back to Florida with them and deliver a song to Marta. So Vive and Gala are off on a quest, morning birth, smakes and a group of pushy Girl Scouts along the way.

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Hollywood first updated Ian Frazier's humor piece "Coyote v. Acme" in 1998.

Funny 1990 Idea Is a Movie at Last

With 'Coyote vs. Acme,' the New Yorker writer Ian Frazier has finally gone Hollywood.

By STEVEN REIBUTZ

In 2022, Ian Frazier, a longtime writer for The New Yorker, received an email from a friend named Hannah Albee in Albuquerque.

They had met years earlier at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in Manhattan, where Fra-

zier was a volunteer and Albee was an employee.

"Congrats," she wrote. "They're filming 'Coyote' on my street."

Albee was referring to "Coyote vs. Acme," a potential customer blockbuster featuring the Looney Tunes characters Wife E. Coyote and the Road Runner.

The movie is based on a humor piece Frazier wrote more than three decades ago. In it, he imagines Wife E. Coyote using the Acme Corporation for the many barres he has suffered while stalking his prey with the

help of its malfunctioning devices.

It appeared in The New Yorker's 65th anniversary issue, dated Feb. 26, 1990. There it was updated for film. And then it fell into an endless-swelling Hollywood limbo.

When Frazier heard from his friend, a movie version was the last thing on his mind.

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Gossip Site Dies, and With It a Part of the Old Internet

The DataLounge, an online forum, ends 31 years after hitting the digital scene.

By BENNETT McMUSON

At around 5 p.m. on July 10, one day ahead of schedule, the DataLounge, a long-running online forum that became a gathering spot for (mostly) gay men, went dark. Just like that, lots of millions of peers opening more than three decades simply disappeared.

Gone were the threads in which the participants contemplated the relative secrets of the 104th teenage star Deanna Durbin versus those of her rival, Judy Garland. Countless peers about the rumored sexual habits and physical gifts of various celebrities also vanished into the electronic video, so did the many teenage pauses to "My Little Margin," a 100th sitcom starring Tom Storm.

In place of these lengthy examinations of various cultural dimensions, there was one a simple block of text from the site's administration: "In the end, the recording tale of the World Wide Web left the DataLounge disconnections from the wider ecosystem that were fed on," A trust. "Like Glen and Liza, we somehow fingered. Survival, however, is not the same thing as thriving."

Thirty-one years after emerging from the digital soon, the DataLounge was not more.

Many people will not mourn its passing. With its famous their moderation policy, the site normal a reputation as a backroom of unsubstantiated rumors, dodgy politics and — sometimes, to its oversee (chagrin — legacy).

Andy Cohen, the host and executive producer of Brave's "Watch What Happens Live," was not a kid. "Most of place of the caution compared on the internet," he said in a statement for this article. "In the mid-100th, if I truly wanted to punish myself, I would lead a DataLounge. It was the most important thing to do with the day for community."

Michael Moore, the longtime Village City columnist who saw writers a column at WUSA.com, regards the one differently. "It was head-spinningly readable and informative and crazy and fun and reckless, and I couldn't turn away from it," he said. "It became almost a lot of work under club."

For those who kept it alive so long, the DataLounge represented the presence of loved by the old internet. Established long before the doors of social media, ข้อมูล over budget itself, it was the place for the halls and outsiders brought together under a banner of shared interests.

Most of them posted to multiple their personal dimensions or get a laugh from others in the community. There was no thought of

clean-closing or platform-building. There used to be lots of digital spaces like that. Now there is one fewer.

"Nobody gave it much credence, right?" said Michael Rhodes, 64, a computer programmer who was one of the site's founders. "The DataLounge was always a joke. We weren't losing money on it, we weren't making money on it — it covered its bills. I would log on once in a while, and it would make me laugh. That's pretty much what it was, and I think it's why it had longevity."

The DataLounge was founded by Mech apella, a digital company in New York. Rhodes and his fellow Mechapella partners — the entertainment lawyer Gary Trovostino and the chief operating officer Carl Pritchard — started out by building web pages for 1.1.2.8.3.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.

"We were three gay men," Pritchard, 65, said. "We were very charged into gay media. We were still very much in the burning burner of the AIDS crisis. There was this sense that we needed to create a place for ourselves."

Mechapella housed the web pages under a single URL, DataLounge.com. Soon, it began publishing original news and opinion content of the dataLounge. "We were a rudimentary commenter section quickly became a lively discussion but."

The site's eventual form took shape in those threads. By 1987, in millions to its original content, the DataLounge was utilizing numerous forums divided by category, from High Art to Celebrity Gossip.

By the mid-300th, the nonprofit who had moved on, and the original content left away, leaving only the message board. What had started as an afterthought became its own universe, with its own language and customs. The users had taken over.

The administrators allowed participants to pass anonymously or under whatever name they cannot to use, which made the set fertile ground for papery and trolling. Used—bly sourced reports about users and politicians mixed with lots of group that seemed to have no grounding in text. For the site's fathers, trying to sort good information from bad was part of the fact.

Many of the regulars took turns posting an "Helen Lawson," a name familiar to anyone with even a passing knowledge of the kitsch classic "Valley of the Dolls." Other fictional ballistics of the DataLounge included "Peg," an outspoken Republican lesbian, and "Omaine Warwick" (personality, the the mid one).

Long before Redditors were spinning rage-bait paras to forums like rUSTA4, DataLoungers were posting elaborate tales, often disguised as personal narratives, to get a rise out of their fellow users.

Ongoing narratives took shape and kept growing. Rhodes came to think of them as gregarious works of collaborative fiction.

One of these signs concerned friends: a happier source leading a579mmbite russian across Manhattan it search of strangers to take him in for the night, because he was too cheap to bring her to bed. And a long-running collaborative tale, under the heading "Once Around the Garden," was a Bergmannsque domestic saga of a middle-aged gay couple trying to run an apocalypticist somewhere in the Hudson Valley.

In 2003, a thread popped up titled "Guiding the Phone With a Punch." It began straightforwardly enough: "I used to think it was so glamorous. What I saw women do this on TV, tougars, if you will — lit yo, boy dialing the phone with a pencil, being all glamorous." As such, people started to see the list it, too. OK? I also used to mention the tips of my fingers when turning the page of a book. Just a quick touch to the tongue. Very nice."

The thread grew to spur proportions, with other DataLoungers sharing their own memories of genre adjacent childhood of dictations ("I asked my mother for a journal but she refused!"), and the phrase "Guiding the phone with a pencil" became a

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The shared voice came about because the voice were shared in past without using their real names. But anonymity also meant that anyone could say anything, and the noting of celebrities (major, minor, dead, alive) became a DataLounge staple. For many years, anyone who went online with questions about the supposed sexual habits of a famous person was often led to a dislip DataLounge thread.

"I'm o'er, like others of its era, struggled with the manufacture posting. Even though I instituted a Reddit-like system of uproting and downroting, which was intended to let the community weed out bad actors on its own. But the couldn't stamp out the forums. I got through from people of men unhappy with the group that was being spread about them.

"I'm not sure what the specific incidents of the Secret Service calling us, saying that so-and-so found out that she was mentioned on the DataLounge," Trovostino, 65, said. "I think the first thing I said to the agent was, 'We're with the DataLounge.' I haven't all stopped and said, 'Well, not exactly.'"

"We still get people who contact us and say, 'I found this thread and I'm going to use you, and it's like eight years old,' he continued. I'm not sure what's a secret."

Mechapella's owners said the death of the DataLounge was less about legal threats and more about how the internet has changed in recent years. Over Google and the Internet owners began giving priority to A.3. Agreement summaries over links to established publications and websites, visit by plannment.

"It depended upon search," Rhodes said. "It depended upon other sites producing group. All those other things have faded away, right? Careers it long gone, for various reasons: people are longer given search traffic out. They're no longer a search engine. So we're left being the island. The ride has gone out on the rest of the internet. It just doesn't work anymore."

When I sat and the data? Buried in the DataLounge's archives, one permanently offline in Amazon cold storage, are more than three decades of real-time cluster about the AIDS crisis. Ellen DeCresnevic coming out the virtual page, 11, professional interview and the Covid-19 pandemic — all filtered through the shared sensibility of a closed-backed gentleman with a pen-chant for imagining himself as Helen Lawson.

"There's 16 million posts in the current database," Rhodes said. "What we're going to do is the data Loungers. But one idea is bad was actually making an A.1-driven system, which would allow you to do a shame with the spirit of the dead DataLounge, that is bring it all back to its quality origins."

Getting Men to Do Their Share of Running a Home

A 'mental load' coach says relationships can improve by rebalancing the workload.

By JAMCE RUNN

Several months ago, Dan and Meghan Nichols, a couple from Cleveland, realized that they could no longer ignore the deep rift that had developed in their relationship.

The Nichols, married for over a decade from three children, was increasingly housed figure over Meghan's mental load. That's the largely invisible work of managing, household and living, including recognizing groceries, scheduling everyone's medical appointments and arranging children's extracurricular activities.

In instrumental couples, these tasks largely fall to women, even though women now make up nearly half the U.S. work force.

"I was at a breakfast point, and just re-bounded," Meghan said.

So the couple entered more help. Instead of a marriage counselor, they turned to an unlikely source. Zach Watson, a former high school math and science teacher who lives in New England, Mr. Watson is a self-described 'reviewing man child' who became a mental load coach three years ago.

In his sessions, Mr. Watson walks men through the other almost other that keeps their household running and develop strategies with them to rebalance their work.

Mr. Watson was trained as a certified Fair Play Method facilitator using a course developed by Eva Baehrig, the owner of "Fair Play," a book that offers a system to help couples redistribute the workload at home.

There are 121 Fair Play Method facilitators to the United States who work with the public, only right to work in a private market, chief operating officer of the Fair Play Policy Institute.

The couple's session, their first with Mr. Watson, took place on a Friday morning (June 14). Mr. Watson began to work by reviewing Mr. Nichols's progress with household tasks. Some things had gone well; some did not. One morning, Mr. Nichols said he would get their children ready for school so Meghan said he would.

He made the children's lunches and got them dressed, but then he decided to take a quick trip.

"I kind of slept through my time that I expected to wake up," Dan said. He finished the children to the car so they wouldn't be late, but they missed breakfast.

One fall that, "So my desk, I can't stop back," Meghan said. "Can I trust that you'll handle things?"

During this session, Mr. Watson encouraged Mr. Nichols to take "full ownership" of a fair play.

If you're hitting the laundry but not putting it away, Mr. Watson explained, and you ignore that the detergent is almost empty, "that's why I'm not sure," and Mr. pervert.

Mr. Watson, who has been married for 30

years and has a 4-year-old daughter and infant twice, has learned from his own mistakes. He shares those lessons in sessions and with his 1.4 million social media followers, among them the actress Kristen Bell, with whom he did a video aka on "Amazon fatigue" among mothers. He also secured a book deal with Random House.

"A few years ago, I would not have expected that 15 for an iDare calls multiple times a week asking to people about how they empty trash to their home," Mr. Watson said. "But here we are."

A perpetual imbalance in household labor can even, to some, like a small issue, but it can lead to relationship strain and burnout

Top, Zach and Alyssa Watson with their twins, Zach Watson, who calls himself a mental load coach, is a certified facilitator of the Fair Play Method, an approach to dividing responsibilities in relationships. Above, he has had 6 million followers on Instagram and TikTok.

and lower sexual desire, and eventually result in divorce.

Gone Mrs., a Roman-based psychotherapeut who specializes in treating women navigating others, said, "I talk to women of day long about why they're getting divorced, and almost every time, this issue comes into play."

Many of Mr. Watson's clients are terroring to that edge. Most have been and continue by their wives or partners, and "divorce or separation has been brought up," he said.

Mr. Watson is the first to admit that he knows every trick to what he calls "the man who playbook."

On married his wife, Alyssa Watson, a clinical research analyst, in 2021, someone began to 2018 when they bought a three-month house. It was his idea, he said. The plan was to maintain the place so they could generate passive income from having a owner.

Instead, it was Mr. Watson who was present.

During the 10 months of renovation, he said, Mr. Watson was "making all the decisions," keeping being a full-time job. Their first time was intense that they separated for three months.

They eventually got back together, and later daughter Everly was born in 2021. While Mr. Watson and that "Zack was a really driven to be an involved dad," they began to fight once again about her lopsided mental load.

He realized he needed to be a better husband as well as a father, and plunged into research. In 2022, he read "Fair Play" and

Zack Watson knows every trick in what he calls "the man who playbook."

started posting videos on social media about the ways race were adding to their partner's mental load.

In our 2023 year, he explained that Alyssa had just pulled handover's muffins out of the oven and left the room. His daughter asked her to get it, and she said, "I'm true, I'm you think these muffins are too hot to feed her?" he recalled.

It was a "stupid question," he said. "I could see them insomnia."

The goal, this waiver, has had up 23 million views to date. After his social media posts on the mental load, he received a flurry of 1,000 views. He spent messages from viewers asking him if he would consider an achievement one.

Soon after, he trained to be a "Fair Play" facilitator. He has since reached hundreds of times, where he charges $75 for an hour-long call.

Some clients supplement his sessions with psychotherapy or couples therapy, but others do not. Mr. Watson said, "I don't really want to have to be an involved dad," they began to fight once again about her lopsided mental load.

Over and over, Mr. Watson tells his male clients. If you take an more of your personal life, you can see that you are the emotional work, your relationship will likely improve — sometimes dramatically.

A more balanced household load can result in a higher level. "There's a lot more small numbers than happy times," Dan Nichols stated in his session with Mr. Watson, exchanging a city grid with his wife. "It's easier to get a lot of information, definitely stuff is way better. And it doesn't feel like I'm jumping from trying out to serve up."

Mr. Watson often tells male clients that there are two effective "ways action steps" that can be used to be away. "One saying that you are "helping" around the house and "quit asking open-ended questions."

He added, "Stop saying things like, 'Where's the landings?' Did you actually look in the shelf?"

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Turning Teatime Into a Celebration

When she was in elementary school, Maria Geyman often spent afternoons with her paternal grandmother, Rita, in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, where they'd drink black tea out of a pink-and-white porcelain set the family had brought from their native Rym. That ritual, always accompanied by freshly baked sweets, shaped Geyman's understanding of comfort and hospitality. Years later, while studying to become a naturopathic doctor, she started sleeping medicinal herbs in her family's hurricane tongues, and came to see a warm cup as a means to a scene of well-being. Geyman started Alaska Tea in 2005, offering therapeutic tissues alongside organic teas from herbs and Japan.

Now, Geyman, 37, has channeled her appreciation for tea into a book, "With Tea," not next month. A cross-cultural survey threaded with tea history, entertaining tips and a glossary of steep-worthy herbs, it illustrates took place at the table through the press of her own experiences. Rita, who died in 2005, gets her own chapter. Her recipes for teatime desserts like a favorite style Napoleon were translated directly from the address book in which she'd written them down for her granddaughter.

When it came time to celebrate the book with her family and friends, Geyman had only one place in mind: the Russian Tea Room. Opened on Manhattan's 57th Street in 1938 and originally run by members of the Russian Imperial Ballet, the restaurant has long been a haunt of designs and performers, as much for its maximalist interests as its senior-signed tiller, Geyman brought her own tea wars, including some of the cups she drank from as a child, and further honored the setting by infusing three Masha tea blends into vodka. Nine months pregnant with her second child (hairly Simon has since arrived), she didn't try the consortious herself, but toward the end of the proceedings, one guest announced they'd had six shots.

THE ATTENDERS Geyman's husband, Evan Seibel; her parents, nine and livelance; and her sister, Lauren, also a naturopath, all joined, and her and Seibel's cyrus-old daughter, Mena, made an appearance before bedtime. Fujio Eimura, who took most of the book's pictures, and the artist and jewelry designer Alex Wason, who did a ratio of watercolors for it, were also there. Other guests included the cookbook authors Natasha Pickowicz, Polina Chasnakova and Trinity Mousson Wulford; the jewelry designers Ashley Maufusyd and Ope Owende; the curator Julia Dippelhofer; and the painter Chamille Kallus.

THE TABLE A home samovar from the Russian Tea Room's collection served as the table's centerpiece in the fourth-floor event space. The restaurant also lost its bear-themed candelabras, which Geyman paired with benowas vnitros made by the upstate New York artisan Alyvia Mazzela. The ruseol-colored napkins were by Autumn Eimura, and her old Japanese room—coarboy of the New York Beval designer

Clockwise from top left: Maria Geyman at her bank celebration dinner at the Russian Tea Room; small plates reflected the Soviet diaspora; backers held bottles of tea-infused vodka; Geyman's book is set for release next month; the chef Natasha Pickowicz prepared the party's desserts.

and stylist April Johnson of Flowerpsycho — filled a set of peanuts-shaped dishes. Geyman also layered in tongues and trays by Ginnet 1720 — a meal to help, where she took her first steps while her family stopped them before landing in America.

THE PHOTO "I basically picked every classically Eastern European thing on the menu that would be comfort food for me," Geyman said. The meal started with bowls of magenta bursels, followed by dancers of pickled vegetables. Then came the herring service and roasties of oats (there is most pork fat), as well as dumplings, roasted potatoes and bites. For dessert, Pickowicz made all five of Barbados black recipes that appear in the book, including the one for her Catskill Mountain Cake, a hostage to the family's ducha-style summer cabin, which with her farmer's chores, and cream and water cookies shaded in black tea.

THE OWNERS Silver buckets were filled with bottles of Geyman's tea-infused vodkas. One featured Masha's Love blend, with anise-byung, rose and Western red cedar; another used the Aprils blend, with licorice, loosen and pepperones. The sleeper hit was the Darjeeling vodka, Simple cold-brewed versions of the teas were also available.

THE MUSIC Seibel's playlist mirrored the music for and Geyman listen to at home in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. That meant songs by Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan. "And Gorillas and the Beanie Boys," Seibel said, "because I can sneak them on without raising the mood."

THE COUNSIBATION The guests had a lot to say about the setting, with its faux wood paneling and gift-framed paintings. Others talked about their relationships to tea. Conway Lam, the Taiwan-born designer behind the tableware line and store Hudson Wilkie, said he drank Earl Grey after studying in London but was fairly partial to the more Rural Tegouayou. Female Devers, a Sydney native who rose the skin-care brand Lycee, said that "there's this idea that a cup of tea solves everything: a difficult day, heartbreak, good!"

AN ENTERTAINING TIP Ponder the musing chart, Geyman advised. An mirrored might want to sit beside someone she can really chat with, while an outgoing group of four might have a boisterous night. "There are so many different rooms at the table," she said. "It's a matter of thinking about where people might feel most at ease."

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Injection Froze Her Smile but Spared Her Funny Bone

The comedian Hannah Berner is able to joke about a medical treatment that went awry.

By MIYANA GONZALEZ

Hannah Berner has made a career out of laughing on her podcast "Giggly Squad" and making others laugh with her stand-up comedy.

But this summer, she had to answer a question: What happens when your job is to smile but you literally can?!

On her podcast, which she hosts with her best friend and fellow former Brown celebrity Philip DeSantis, Berner called as "emergency news conference" this summer to discuss what she called "nattlegans" and, later, the "injustice maniacs". She told DeSantis, whom she and DeSantis call "the gigglers," that she got an injectable treatment in her jaw that had gone very awry.

She had received the injections before to alleviate symptoms of TM2 (temporo-mandibular joint) — a condition that can cause jaw tightness, pain and headache — which she has had with since childhood. This time, she went to a new office to receive Troopers, an injectable similar to Bones that smooths wrinkles but is sometimes used off-label to treat TM2 symptoms. She quickly felt a children she had not experienced before: "Starting felt like weight lifting," she recalled. Four days later, she was unable to smile or speak clearly.

"Right before everything went down, I was struggling on severely very difficult how your 20s are so great, because every possible bad thing that can happen to you happens in your 20s," Berner, 25, said in an interview with The New York Times. "And by your 20s, you're more comfortable anything" — and then this happened.

Berner didn't initially want to share her

situation with the public, because she was worried it would affect coming career opportunities.

"My worst nightmare is hurting my own podcast because I'm an idiot who got something done on her face that was not necessary," she said. She was preparing to film-redeem for a movie project and also to host a

Hannah Berner received an injectable medical treatment in her jaw that left her unable to smile.

show. But when she noticed her face wasn't getting better, she decided it was time to open up.

About two weeks after the injections, at the end of June, Berner shared her newly stiff smile on her podcast. At that point it looked like the grimace essay. People in the comments quickly likened her smile to that of DeSantis in "lilents" and the girl in the Chios-to-the-car-rock meme. Most viewers said they were laughing humorically, and a few said they had experienced similar situations and offered tips.

Berner told her listeners that she should have done more research before trying out a new treatment office. "I didn't even know

On 'Giggly Squad,' a podcast host shares her distress with her viewers.

this could happen," she said. "Oh my god, is it possible that the poison that was injected in my face is now going to ruin my face?" As Berner was describing her predicament, DeSantis giggled uncontrollably.

And then, after seeing how "the gigglers" were laughing right alongside her, Berner decided to make the most of it. "I didn't think people would think it was as funny as they do — people are like, 'This is the paradox of thing she's ever done,'" Berner said. "I'm like: 'Guys, I have two specials. I put a lot of work into there.'"

She even heard from the skin care brand in her, when she said now her a lip-batte and a message: "Just because you don't have a smile doesn't mean you can't have beautiful hydrated lips."

"I'm so happy that it was making people laugh because I was disturbed," Berner said. "Like, I was upset, I had jobs on the line."

The situation led Berner to reflect on how women are expected to present themselves in the world. She said she realized that she was often smiling more than necessary to meetings.

"I do smile a lot — and not that it's bad — but I think there's situations where I learned you actually don't have to smile and you could just sit in a moment," she said.

Additionally, Berner's inability to make some of her natural facial expressions has made her want to caution people, especially younger women, to think twice before trying procedures on their faces.

"I am one of those people who's excited to age looking like myself, so this was a good learning lesson to treat your face with love," she said.

And how is she doing now? Despite trying treatments she hoped might lessen the muscles again — including nausea, microvessels, and other medical diseases. "I'm a lot of things that I'm doing, as I'm a lot of things that I'm doing, as I'm a lot of things that I'm doing, as I'm a lot of things that I'm doing, as I'm a lot of things that I'm doing, as I'm a lot of things that I'm doing, as I'm a lot of things that I'm doing, as I'm a lot of things that I'm doing, as I'm a lot of things that I'm doing, as I'm a lot of things that I'm doing, as I'm a lot of things that I'm doing, as I'm a lot of

On her blog, Berner said at the end of the day Bones says your nerve endings and nausea can only help us much," she said. "My husband told me to stop counting, but I'm hitting Dog, Me, 25, I believe."

Now that Berner has been able to laugh off the whole situation — well, in a way — with her face, she joked that she was a bit sad her smile was starting to return.

"The fact that the whole community can recognize is the like 'I'm in the business thing' made me remember why I do consider, which is to be vulnerable about what you're going through and make other people feel less bad about the stuff they're going through," she said.

She added, "People are commenting, 'Oh no, it's getting better — she needs a top off.'"

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'Hacks' Came to Life, if Only for a Night, Simply to Woo

The stars and creators, courting Emmy voters, got into character onstage.

By ASHLEY SPENCER

LOS ANGELES — Jean Smart wanted to feed the people.

Backstage at the Panda Theatre on Friday night, the actress was banking in the glow of the successful reprint of her "Hacks" role onstage in front of 600 people for a live comedy event.

But as she peeled into the kitchen in search of a sparser interview query (A retiring out the women's bathroom), Smart noticed several stacks of pizza boxes still remained from the show.

"These can't be thrown out — this is terrible!" she said, setting down her mantan and opening the boxes to find full pies inside. "We've got to pass these out. Let's go."

Wearing a Robi Halperin satin pummist she had first doomed in Deborah Vance on a Season 4—June 2020. "Hacks" was grabbing an armband of pizza and strided onto Hollywood Boulevard where throngs of fans were still chatting and posing for photos under the marquee.

"Deborah" ran her up-and-referring to the actress by her character's name, while Smart cheerfully pinned pizza boxes into uninterrupted arms.

On a night when fact blurred with fiction, the impromptu scene felt straight out of "Hacks".

Nearly three months had passed since she landed series concluded its fifth and final season on HBO Max. Smart and several other stars — including Hannah Esténader, Paul W. Downs, Mark Indelicate and Lau-

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ren Westhead — returned to their roles for the scripted live show "Deborah Vance & Friends & Emotions Live!" in Los Angeles.

Billed as an "in-world production," the hourlong event was timed to the start of Emmy Awards voting and featured Smart, 74, performing a snappy stand-up show as her fictional comedian counterpart. When Vance's jokes crossed a line — going about Jeffrey Epstein, krebars, rose and "up-and-frowing cars" — Vance's writer, Don Eilshinder's, rushed to the stage to help her mentor "not get sinistered."

The show, which was filmed, also included an interactive Deborah Vance retina segment led by Vance's agent, Jimmy (Downs), and stand-up sets from the fictional reprint of Las Vegas (Westhead). On comedian Noone Hagerman, who played herself in an episode and unsupervised Pat Bogan (a writer on "Hacks" who also made a cameo as a bellbap in the show.)

Hog Italics, who is currently starring in "Ah, Mary!" in Broadway, appeared in video message with the excuse that her

character, Kayla, was in jail for public indecency.

The event concluded with Deborah and Ava poignantly singing along to Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand's "Get Happy" and "Happy Days Are Here Again" medley, which was also featured in the "Hacks" finale.

The "Hacks" creators and showrunner's Downs, Lucia Amelle and Jen Stutzky has long fantastical about having Deborah perform a live comedy set. When HBO Max requested they come up with an event "that beds a little different" Downs said, it prompted them to finally make it happen.

It was probably the fastest yet to something like this we've ever gotten from the cast: "he said, noting that Eilshinder "wared up" when they told her about the idea.

The three said they came up with the concept in late July and wrote the material over the last 10 days. The actors rehearsed together for the first time on Friday.

"We were all here this morning running around, getting props, directing, rehears-

Clockwise from above; guests being up to Los Angeles for a live comedy event for "Hacks," the hit HBO Max series whose finale aired in May; Jean Smart, who played Deborah Vance on the show, reprising her role onstage in "Deborah Vance & Friends & Emotions Live!"; Lauren Woodman on In Promenade, the Las Vegas mayor, guests inside the theater. From far left, Hannah Esténader, Smart and Paul W. Downs during the hourlong event.

A show with 24 nominations follows a new playbook.

ing," Stutzky said. "It felt very high school play."

Earlier that evening, as the one began to set, the line of guests studied around several blacks near the theater. Despite adding a shocking room action, the venue reached capacity, and some had to be turned away at the door, a publicist for HBO Max said.

Inside the theater, attendees had access to an open bar, popcorn, process and the aforementioned pics from Prime Pizza. They received baseball caps with the logo of the fictional talent agency that represents Vance — Schaefer & LaDagan.

Austin O'Malia, the group vice president for awards at HBO and HBO Max, said in an email that the network had primarily invited those affiliated with industry guilds and membership organizations, as well as select "Hacks" superstars and media. The event was her to attend and all 2019* slots were taken within hours of the invitation release. He said:

O'Malia noted that the Television Academy, whose members vote for the Emmy's "dissed" album networks, studios, or product lines to invite Emmy voters directly to events they are hosting post-memorialists; she was said that given the high crossover between guild and Television Academy membership, we expect many of our guild guests are Emmy voters."

"Hacks" is nominated for 24 Emmy's this year — a record for a comedy in a single year. Smart has taken home the best comedy actress Emmy for each of the show's first four seasons. If she talks the mighty again in September, she will be the first actress to win the award for every eligible season of her show.

"What can I say? It would be wonderful," Smart said. "But, I mean, talk about an embarrassment of riches. This show has been

the gift that keeps on giving, so I can't get going!"

In an industry that puts a high premium on awards recognition, the "Hacks" live show is just one example of increasingly where awards season marketing campaigns.

Several guests had also attended a trans-studied event the night before for the Apple TV's show "Wolves's Boy" at the Hollywood Show, and that was.

The pizza boxes that Smart handed out had been branded with the Your Consideration advertisements for the Hula series "Only Blenders in the Building" and ABC's "Adam Elementary" — both of which are competing with "Hacks" and "Wolves's Boy" for best comedy.

But there were plenty of "Hacks" fans on Friday. In interviews, several pointed to the show's queer representation and its portrayal of the struggles of working in the entertainment industry as selling points. More than a few were Deborah Vance T-shirts.

Knoxville/ Midsusannakie had appeared an an extra on an episode of "Hacks" as an audience member at one of Vance's comedy shows. She recalled future's attractiveness to the extras during that show.

"That reached my heart," Midsusannakie said of Smart's kindness on set. "So, I thought, today. I'm going to come and support her."

Though HBO Max intended the event to promote the show for awards consideration, the creators said that, for them, it was not just about waving voters. Stutzky said they'd simply hoped to do "one last thing for the fans."

Aimful added, "I think the truth is that we just missed those characters, and we weren't ready to let them go."

An Old Social Media Post That Landed Like a Turkey

Resurrected in a recent primary race, a 2020 tweet turned Thanksgiving political.

By ALBINA HARRIMANNI GUPTA

For months, polls indicated that Francesca Hong, a chef and a democratic socialist state lawmaker, was the clear front-runner in the Democratic primary for governor in Wisconsin.

So when Hong narrowly lost to her opponent David Crowley last week, some in the political world pointed to Thanksgiving. Or rather, a six-year-old, non-dohond social media post from Hong dismissing the cherished American holiday and saying it glorified nationalists.

"Cancel Thanksgiving," she wrote in the post on X. "Should have done this in 2021."

Though a number of factors led to the election's outcome, and an establishment (Knessa and the New York City) was a focus on courting moderators, Hong's comment on the holiday next political months and strategies into a frenzy. A debate ensued around whether - informing the - governmental American holiday and - the radical as skin in the current political landscape.

Hong's comment resurfaced in the days leading up to the election as a swing state and some alongside her other takes on an extra every holiday. She all-meaningly dislikes Valentim's Day, the Fourth of July and Halloween and smug Christmas trees as computer screen backgrounds.

All of which because rich holder for her political opponents and the right-wing media, leading into Republican longstanding power and debate, with their progress and interceptions, are rather old holidays. The conservative National Review maga-

zine named Hong the "Critsch of all holidays," and Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, claimed on X that Democrats like Hong "spoofy hate America."

And a Caucasus tried to distance themselves from the blast rather, in an interview with ABC's "The Week. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Correa, a figurehead of progressive politics, blamed the Thanksgiving comment, along with Hong's comments, an example of outdated and ineffective "Wake U-9" — a终结of all-of-wing political discourse that emerged around 2020, as the country grappled with social justice issues. The racial inequality and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Hong tried to walk back these posts, say-

ing in an interview with Politics that she "had some hot takes, some bad takes," he an interview with CNN, she responded to a question about her Thanksgiving statements by returning to her experience as a chef, saying that anything that brings people around a table to talk is "a good thing."

But, she added, "Thanksgiving is also a time that is incredibly painful for those people in our communities."

The reaction to Hong's Thanksgiving post is emblematic of a broader reckoning among many Americans with the country's checkered history.

Popular depictions of Thanksgiving from the fabled autumnal tradition back to a three-day feast in 2021 between Pilgrims,

Francesca Hong, above, who has lost last in the Wisconsin governor, has seen advocated canceling Thanksgiving, which is celebrated each year in New York City with the Mary's parade, left.

Rich folder for Hong's political opponents and the right-wing media.

who arrived in Massachusetts from Plymouth, England, and members of the Indigenous Womansong tribe to celebrate a successful harvest. Over two centuries after that shared meal, in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving Day a successful holiday.

Some Americans, especially on the left, have questioned the accuracy of that lore, saying it gleanes over measures, war, exploitation and slavery.

Schools across the country have rethought how they teach students the history of Thanksgiving, and "Smoothly Night Live" has produced sketches that point out at the holiday, including one carrying Will Ferrell and Maya Reddajo that reimagines the first Thanksgiving meal as tense, rather than friendly.

Still, a vast majority of Americans still celebrate the holiday, a Pew Research Center survey found in 2024. Thanksgiving remains a federal holiday, and organizations are unlikely to change how it is observed.

The Thanksgiving debate is reminiscent of debates around the decisions in many states and communities to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day either alongside or in-around of Columbia City as a way to acknowledge the people who were already living in North America thousands of years before the Global navigator arrived.

A similar debate bubbled up before President Joseph S. Biden. A signed legislation in 2021 that designated Democratic—a manual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States — a federal holiday.

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How Long Is a Scaramucci? Not Just 11 Days.

An aide who fast became a joke in the first Trump White House now has a lot British podcast.

By MATT FLUGENHEIMER

In the summer of 2007, Anthony Scaramucci was a fair-bumping, more-dropping, “truss-slashing” film—with “The World” Long Island hedge funder who joined the first Trump White House as communications director against his better judgment and became “Washingtonian” favorite—and said: thanks—wearing picture to the personal time he had, which turned out to be a week and a half.

He spoke third personally (“The woman will not defeat him”) he said of himself, missed the birth of his son (while the new boss addressed Roy Scouts in West Virginia), conceded defeat to the young again his firing (on Day 11) and quickly hooked himself on late-night television to prove that Anthony Scaramucci — the bleach, as he self-identified — was in on the joke of his own life.

In the summer of 2018, an ocean and approximately 11,000 news cycles away, Scaramucci is the most changed forever-changed man in politics: a fist-bumping, name-dropping, front-slashing 20-year-old Long Island hedge funder who gets to sit inside the Royal Box at Wimbledon for reasons that still seem to amount him, mingling with high-firing agents of monarchy and Benedict Cumberland.

He is the host of a public—that's there's can politics, “The Best Is Politics: US,” with an audience that can tell you one million per episode (much of a suicide the United States) and a self-described life—much and therapist for European leaders needing to understand President Trump, whom he now condolves.

He is moving, horizontal to a distinguished guest, patiently defining the term “Long Island Guide” for the locals and gripping in his coffee from the streets of London.

“You turned out into a roadsville act,” Scaramucci has told Tony Pastor, a founder of Goldhanger, the British podcast company that produces his show, according to Pastor.

Scaramucci does not seem devastated by this outcome.

Co-leaved by Kathy Kay, a longtime BBC journalist heard in Washington, “The Best Is Politics: US” has become one of the most influential current-sellers podcasts on the British charts, with an elite following — recalls, heads of stars, lawmakers, intelligence officials — among America's national allies across the Western world.

The show saggies between self-flagglinging retrospective about political issue seeking — “Your ego is always talking to you,” Scaramucci has counseled, second-petitually — and prolific news-of-the-day(nine-shoping) that Trump does not actually respect excessive flattery, according to Scaramucci, even if he craves it, that Vice President JD Vance has been set up to fail from the start; that Secretary of State Marvin Bode would be wise to leave before Trump turns on him.

“That's the Trump decade's ring, OK?” Scaramucci said of himself in a 90-minute interview at his Manhattan hedge fund of Box: “I know exactly how these” — his man was unprobable, as ever — “think.”

“I’m Scaramucci’s longtime, without permanence is a testament to many things: the power of performance self-assistance in modern society, and the power of the nation’s kind of New York character from Trump-10 (Mr. Scaramucci, Michael Cohen, Donald J. Trump); the professional survival skills of a man who, incidentally, also said 20 percent of his company’s total income from 2022, a few months before Mr. Bankhouse-Fried was exposed at a fixed, 1.6-billtime-heat (Mr. Scaramucci’s office overcame a New York Post content of this commanding a sinking cryptic war, for it, is true of.)

No doubt there are second-let in Trump—a American love.

What is harder to square is this first act for Scaramucci as a major public figure on another company.

“The whole thing is acclaimed,” he said, credibly.

Yet those are disorienting those with disorienting headlines, across the dispar-glinged capital and the broadsheet word it shapes, with zigzagging itself pronouncements and errors that open and close.

Maybe it almost is the first of the Scaramucci — no stranger to disorienting headlines and capital plans gone mad — would evolve into one of the extra almost-removishing international surristers.

“Even as a step-downs of the speech speaks to many of us on the left,” Samantha Niblett, a Labour Party politician, said he would his summer after dining with Scaramucci and chewing him around Parliament. “He translates what's happening.”

Pastor, the podcast executive, said that the British simply cannot understand how America marched the way politically.

“We require explanation,” he said, allowing that it was likewise proportionate to see Scaramucci watching tennis with British aristocrats. “I haven't heard it explained better than by the past.”

It has helped that Scaramucci understands the president far more than the 11 days would imply. The two men were dinner given during Mrs. Bostwick's 2012 presidential campaign, and the 1992-1993 govt who liked seeing themselves on television.

Both have a history of who some-honest deal making that netted a pile of money (though Scaramucci, the son of a cross-superstar, had less of a head-in-a-lot).

Both are veterans of reality competitions. Scaramucci has appeared on “Celebrity Big Brother” and something called “Special Forces: World's Toughest Test.”

“Dude, you have my pleasure!” he added a (female) associate at one point during the interview. “Let me show that the picture of me getting pushed out of the helicopter.”

But beneath a “Guido condeletron,” as he calls it, one through line to his biography had been mostly concealed.

“I have a love affair with the U.K.”

Scaramucci said.

He spent a semester at the London School of Economics during college and not the 1992 London Marathon. He traveled there often in a career that took him from Goldman Sachs, where he overlapped with Prime Minister Mark Carter of Canada (“He came to my wise party in favor,” a no-bedge fund life that expired him to all manner of British characters (“Michael Nibless introduced me to Tony Blue”).

His infamous 2017 law about “even robbery” which he compared favorably to Washington-style backclothers, came in an interview with the BBC.

Even the ballpen at his office, SkyBridge Capital, where Winston Churchill's more visage grows employees, is decorated with warriors propaganda recovered from a London tube station.

“RESERVE VICTORY” reads the framed sign, purchased by Scaramucci amid the global financial crisis.

“When I have a rough moment to my life, I always go out and buy something real—not-related, you know what I mean?” he said. “You guy, even as the symbol of resilience.”

And so, his bleach fights on the beaches (from a home podcast space to the Hampness).

He fights in the hills (of Dover, Switzerland).

The swamp may have debated him, but could it really have the law word if Anthony Scaramucci never stopped talking?

His Peculiar New Celebrity

Day 1 was uncovered.

“I’ve seen this guy throw a dead spiral through a tire,” Scaramucci said of Trump from the White House briefing room on July 21, 2017, hastening to add (four times) that he loved the president.

“I took trial advocacy at Harvard Live School,” he volunteered in one man singular. “A little name-dropping there, if you don’t mind.”

He blew a little kiss on the way out. “Hardened New Yorker,” former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, another Trump ally, said approvingly at the time.

Maybe that was part of the problem. Before long, Scaramucci was going full New Yorker evoke in conversation with a reporter from The New Yorker's, exploring pathfending frontiers in profanity to disparage White House colleagues like

Anthony Scaramucci is his Manhattan office in July. An extremely short-lived White House communications director in Trump 1.0, below right at the final Office in 2017, he hosts the podcast “The Best Is Politics: US” with Kathy Kay, a longtime BBC journalist. They took in Wimbledon from the Royal Box last month, below left.

The least changed forever-changed man in politics.

Stephen K. Bannon and Reince Pirehan.

“For becoming chief of staff, John F. Kelly, did not let Scaramucci reach August.

“No Will chaser!” Trump wrote on then-Twitter the day of the firing, less than persuasively.

Scaramucci still begins some stories with American like “Trump said something to have been a good one,” and suggests a Wednesday — I know it was a Wednesday because I was only there for one Wednesday!

And Kelly, now a fellow Trump critic director of United Trump administration, has become a friend.

“I found no sure he was quite prepared for the next time, but I found myself, Kelly said in an interview. “I know I wasn’t.”

By his account, Scaramucci hired a crisis communications expert upon his dismissal, and another expert's advice to disappear to January for a few years, and heated himself with leveraging his peculiar new celebrity.

He appeared in a host on “TMC Live.” He hallmarked his speaking fee at around 100,000. It is now in the 100,000 to 175,000 hours, and is now newspaper, Box-Expenses. “Let of London,” he added.)

He introduced a beduelling social media report called “The Scaramucci Post,” which attracted outright after posting a Twitter survey asking how many Jews are in the Holocaust — without his knowledge, he said. (“You're got to have a non-volunteer office on Nuns,” he explained at the time.)

He became a complete in the cause of late-night seeding of Anthony Scaramucci.

“I was being called Tony Ingrams on the Potomac for remissioned.” “Human co-leave,” I liked that one.”

Still, Scaramucci stayed mostly loyal to the president.

After having raised money for Trump in 1916 (once his preferred candidates, Scott Walker and Jill Bush, fell away) and amassed with the presidential crusaders, Scaramucci retained some affection for the administration, he said.

“I was probably defender on Trump—desptical cable networks like CNN and QUSN,” he another two years, before the end of the president “off the radio” in August 2020.

“I was not a people in the room know that no is crazy,” Scaramucci said then.

“The two begin reverting mean things at each other, only enhancing Scaramucci’s

reputation at those Trump-desptical cable networks.

Unlike some questions like Cohen, Trump's former lawyer who has lately received a hearing him, Scaramucci represented broadly consistent at his assessments of Trump for the last seven years, while maintaining contact with many people in the president's critic (“Relationship to what’s the recently observed, accurately enough, on Cohen's new radio program.)

In 2020, he endorsed Kamala Harris, marrying about at the oddity of an anti-Trump war that included him, former Vice President Bill Clinton and former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.

“Strange coalitions” de Blasio said in an interview, “But in the moment, it made sense.” (The two intervened ahead of a “New Yorker” family—who lived out—that de Blasio helped organize.)

By then, the most conspicuous legacy of the New Yorker's, the same chapter was probably a long-running hit that exhibited his outcome as a unit of time.

“All right, folks, it's 11 days out,” he said knowingly, too a camera at his office last month, he was showing a promotional video to be published on social media 11 days before the release of his coming book (“All the Wrong Moves”) about the “catastrophic decisions” that he likened Trump's rise.

“You've got one Scaramucci,” left to prescribe.

A Vaudeville Act' Abroad

During a recent visit to Britain, Scaramucci was explaining the courtship rituals of Long Island to a former Conservative member of Parliament, signing into a second like Danny Zubon.

“Hearing a gold chain with his hair blown back, Scaramucci recalled, he would do push-ups in the parking lot of a local hot spot. Once inside, if a young womanឥឡូវ, he would return to his car, change others and try a fresh pickup line: “It had to be the dark. What about now?”

“I tell you,” Scaramucci told his host, Gries Broadbent, “Had worked.”

On radio sites, adjusting his political profile has not been entirely different.

The uniform might change — he is with the president; he is against the president; he is gently taunting his new supporters by celebrating America's five president (“It's Only Treason if You Lose,” his George Washington's third road for a Fourth of July — the first recently in the state.)

He has a talent for “taking the pins out of himself,” said Pastor, the podcast executive, repeating a Britishism that other admirers also involved.

In 2020, he is ourselves and contradictory and quietly amusing in the way that people who know Trump (including Scaramucci) often describe the president's private hearing.

He will say he is not one of those guys who grimmately display famous faces in their offices before signing up photographs of Warren Buffett, Jack Brodie and Obney Stone (“I did Wall Street // with these guys.”)

He will share Tony Blue's contact information with a reporter (when asked) and test in a personalized copy of his 2024 book, “From Wall Street to the White House and Back: The Scaramucci Guide to852Worldable Resilience” (when not asked).

“It is not but an Scaramucci that he calls where the Trumpist is bigger outside of his life but that he would register as another mostly unenormous big money of political guilty without his Washington blitz.

When Key, a veteran BBC broadcaster who is present in the world, looking for a podcast co-host ahead of the 2024 presidential election, the post Scaramucci in part became the winner on another but also because of the strange irreplacey they might produce regardless of the subject.

“Podcasts are so much about voice,” Key said. “The sound of my voice and the sound of my voice are a very common, and I couldn't think of another podcast, particularly as politics, that had two people that sounded like that.”

Scaramucci can sound most authoritative and unscrupulous, the tenestment of those around the president, particularly when they seem to strive for own from a former life.

On the sudden death last month of Senator Lindsey Graham, a member Trump antagonist who became an unbridled booster, Scaramucci recalled watching Graham, an Americanist, and his wife years, as Trump commanded the party.

“Everybody is the Republican Party goes through that contest, myself included, so I stand also accused of some of that hypocrisy. I have been a good man, Lindsey in the red. I think that that was said staring for Lindsey Graham.”

At his most diagnostically ambitious, Scaramucci has labeled Trump a “sensibilism ritualist” who is best explained by his own inaccuracies or perhaps a tortured relationship with his father.

Even some who like Scaramucci have researched the qualification for such appraisals.

“He made it 11 days!” said John Canzoniello, a New York billmanin friend of the party, and he said, “I know, Scaramucci. 10 years.” So least he has something to talk about for the rest of his life.”

He also has what he has always seemed to want: an audience, no matter how far away from the world.

More than two-thirds of his viewers and listeners came from outside the United States, according to podcast statistics.

“There's only five million people, but it's, too, in the world, the podcast podcast in Norway,” Scaramucci said. “We had the prime minister on from Dover.”

So in as Scaramucci has reintroduced himself internationally, some American first instances have persisted.

After England squandered its early ad-voxings in the World Cup semifinal, Scaramucci has won every leading viewers the next day with another George Washington “cable.”

“The British,” it read, because Scaramucci's prime-strict, “Blew a 10 Cohen/ Load.”

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Funny Idea From 1990 Is a Movie at Last

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“Coyote vs. Acme,” a blend of live action and animation, will finally be released on Aug. 20 — 30 years after he tugged out his idea on an Olympia manual typewriter.

‘Quite Preposterous’

Frazier, 75, doesn’t fit the usual idea of the urban New Yorker writer. Rarero to friends as family, he has a manner suggestive of his upbringing in Hudson, Ohio. But beneath the mild exterior is the idiosyncratic mind that produced the humor collection “Dating Your Mind” and perhaps his best-known book, “Great Plates,” a spotting meditation on the Midwest.

From small-town Ohio, he made his way to Harvard. He wrote for The Harvard Lampoon and became friends with Jim Deweer, who would go on to be one of the most prolific writers at “Saturday Night Live.” After graduating in 1973, Frazier put in some time writing captions for a pornographic magazine, like, “Don Ye found a professional hero,” and said, “I’m not a man.”

He distinguished himself with pithy dispatches for the Talk of the Town section, stylish humor stories and reliably funny tuxnet pieces. In 1990, his thoughts turned to Wife E. Coyote.

He was fit living with his wife and infant daughter in Park Slope, Brooklyn. In these days, he was a regular reader of American Lawyer, copies of which he borrowed from a downstairs neighbor. He was especially drawn in the legal arguments of Gerry Spence, a silver-tongued cowboy lawyer who defended Imelda Marcus on racketeering charges. Frazier decided to write something in the voice of Wife E. Coyote’s lawyer.

“The idea was to take the language of an opening statement to describe something quite preposterous,” he said.

Like the millions of Americans who had grown up watching Saturday morning cartoons, he was deeply familiar with the beleaguered Wife E. Coyote. The creators tries — and repeatedly fails, in disastrous ways — to catch his (best-fested) memoirs, Read Runner, using a variety of Acme glasses.

“It occurred to me that if you take a pair of roller skates and put small jet engines on each skate, obviously something is going to go wrong,” Frazier said. “The Acme Corporation suddenly became a character in my mind.”

Wife E. Coyote and Read Runner were created for Warner Bros., the company heretofore Luxury Three Characters by the animator Chuck M. Jones and the writer Michael Mahmo. In his memoir, “Chuck (chuck) Jones’s worst tale on show inspiration from Mark Twain’s 1972 book, “Roughing It,” Twain described the coyote as “a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton” and “a living, breathing whispery of Want.” Frazier knew the Twain passage and the pectoral it had an influence on the character. He saw in Wife E. Coyote’s all-consuming desire a kind of pathos. “He’s trying to be mankrown, but there’s something about him — he just can’t be anatomic or straight,” he said. “And there is that peaceful moment of listening. Sometimes he gets very peaceful at the end, when he runs off the cliff. The moment of realization is always very unchanging.”

The story, which he titled “Coyote v. Acme,” came quickly, at just 1,000 words. Frazier photocopied his pages and trudged off to the mailbox, wondering if what he had become a lot of old, old and old. The New Yorker, Veronica Gong, an acclaimed humor writer, found “the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on an idea would totally determine if it was worth doing,” he said.

For more than 100, a hundred in the long name, it became the subject of a literary controversy. Another humor writer, Joey Green, gave interviews in Newsweek and The New York Observer in which he accused Frazier of plagiarism.

In 1982, Green had published a three-part series, “Cliffhanger Justice,” with the very same premise in The National Lampoon. “I loved the Read Runner cartoons, and the big question was why Coyote hadn’t used for faulty merchandising,” Green said in an interview from his home in Florida.

Frazier said he was unaware of Green’s piece before he wrote “Coyote v. Acme.” Over lunch in Montclair, he still seemed pained by the accusation. “How do I prove a negative?” he said. “I wasn’t reading National Lampoon. It was a complete hummer, to be honest.”

It was a hummer for Green, too — especially when “Coyote v. Acme” gained more attention as the title story of Frazier’s 1996 humor collection, a book that won the inaugural Thacher Prize for American Humor.

“I feel like the Coyote,” Green, 80, said. “The catapult spring, and the beaker fell on me.” Now that the movie is about to come out, he would like to be paid by Hollywood, just as Frazier was. “If it’s based on his, it’s based on mine,” Green said.

Both stories use deadpan legabox to describe cartoon violence, but Frazier’s light touch made “Coyote v. Acme” a model of humor writing at its smartest and silliest. To wit: “Mr. Coyote lost control of the Rocket Skates soon after stripping them on, and collided with a roadside billboard so violently on to leave a hole in the shape of his [all silhouette].”

The novelist Jonathan Franzen considers it a classic of the hero. He read the piece about on a 2013 episode of The New Yorker, Radio Hour, calling it “a real high-wire act,” and praising Frazier’s deft one of language in the pursuit of “humor for its own sake.”

Read In Hollywood

In the 1990s, Eric Steel was in the habit of clipping articles that caught his attention and tanking them to the bulletin board in his office. That’s how “Coyote vs. Acme” began its second life.

At the time, Steel worked for the producer Scott Rudin, who would later come under

fire for his hostile, demeaning behavior toward staffers. Known as a visionary, Rudin was the force behind mid-1990s; lets like “The Firm,” “Adilante Family Values” and “Clarless.” Steel imagined that a movie based on Frazier’s story could be something like “Who Framed Roger Riddle,” a 1988 blockbuster that featured Looney Tunes characters and set a new standard for live action blended with animation.

“Frazier’s piece worked because it was a clever twist on something we all knew well,” Steel said. “My thought was, What if you did a really big turn? What if you used other Warner Bros. characters, with courtroom drums as the framework?”

In 1994, eight years after the article appeared, Scott Rudin Productions bought the rights to it. Frazier received a modest check, with the promise of a significant payout if it files was made. But there was a complicating factor, Steel noted. The production could not move forward without the approval of Warner Bros.

The option expired after a year. Rudin extended it. Then came a second extension — and a third, Frazier picked up small checks along the way. (He declined to specify dollar amounts.) The only time he really got his hopes up was when a Rudin assistant called to say the producer himself was about to give him a ring. The call never came.

“I was a Scott Rudin cancellation,” Frazier said.

In 2004, Rudin let the option lapse. Steel, who was by then working as an independent producer, took out a new option, only to decide against renewing it when it expired in 2006.

For the next decade, the project lay dormant. Not that Frazier was losing along over it. He was busy with New Yorker as

signsheets and a nonfiction book, “Travels in Siberia.” Further, he had no secret desire to become a Hollywood player, though he did act in “Man in the Face,” an indie movie directed by Wayne Wang and Paul Autret. When Frazier saw it at an art house in Missoula, Mont., he won the only person in the theater.

“I don’t go to movies,” he said. “For a long time, I was bed one movie a year — “Spaceballs.”

The Big Check

James Coote, the director of the “Guardians of the Galaxy” films, was another fan of Frazier’s story. In 2012, he pitched the idea to Warner Bros. itself and got a yes.

“When Warner Bros. came along, I thought, ‘It’s got a better idea,’” Frazier said.

Six more years went by, Multiple drafts. A new production team. A merger of Warner-Media and Discovery. Finally, in 2022, filming began.

Even then, Frazier’s 1996 story was guiding the approach of the producer Chris De-Faria, the director Dave Green and the screenwriter Samy Burch. “Isn’t piece was always that thing to aspire to, totally,” Burch said. Green called Frazier’s story “funny and deep all at once,” adding, “It’s the thing that fit my flame and made me laugh out hard, hard.”

After the $70 million movie was shot, a release date was set for July 2023. And then it went over a 1997 Warner Bros. Discovery decided to shelve it, and because “Coyote vs. Acme” was bad (cost audiences level 8), but because burying it allowed the company to take a $30 million tax write-down.

Frazier said he was disappointed how he himself than for the cast and crew. “I read that the people who did the explosions were sorry that people weren’t going to get to see them,” he said. “I sympathized with that. I mean, you do good explosion . . .”

The movie spent 2024 in pregnancy. Then, showing Coyote-like resilience, it found a new distribution.

Now that “Coyote vs. Acme” is about to come out, Frazier seems nervous about seeing it. “I feel superstitious,” he said. “I so badly want it to be good.”

Four years ago, when he was tipped off by his friend in Albuquerque, he got in touch with his literary agent, who contacted Warner Bros. Discovery. He ate at the studio had bothered to inform him that “Coyote vs. Acme” had started filming, and he had not received the big check that typically goes to the writer of a novelty source material on the first day of production.

When it finally arrived, Frazier decided to splurge.

He bought a Toyota Camry hybrid.

“I have never loved an object that much,” he said.

Clockwise from top: Lana Conder and Will Forte in the film “Coyote vs. Acme”; members of the “Coyote vs. Acme” team with a Wife E. Coyote master, from left, Paul Scherr, Martha Reilly, P.J. Byrne, Forte, Dave Green and Eric Beaux; the animator Chuck M. Jones, who co-created the cartoon characters Wife E. Coyote and Read Runner, in 1993; and the New Yorker writer Ian Frazier, who wrote the 1990 humor piece that inspired the movie.

“I had actually forgotten about it,” says the idea’s creator, Ian Frazier.