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Drying Reservoirs Threaten to Sap the Sun Belt

By SCOTT DANKY

and MIRA BOUNNEMARKS

Lakes Powell and Mead, the answers largest reservoirs, are drying up, swoling a Colorado River system that provides water and electricity for millions of people into a state of crisis with no end in sight.

Water levels in Lake Powell, along the Utah-Arizona border, fell to a record low on Saturday. Lake Mead, the target of the two and farthest downstream on the Colorado River, dropped to its lowest recorded point a week earlier.

The combined reservoir system, an essential water source for cities and farms across Arizona, Nevada and Southern California,

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has not held so little water since 1937, before Lake Powell was filled. That was long before climate change brought three decades of drought, the worst of a spell for the Southwest in a fiscal 1,300 years, scientists said.

Federal and state officials and communities across the region have taken emergency steps to try to head off catastrophe. They shifted water from a smaller reservoir to try to save Powell and have called for water conserva-

tion, though these requests are mostly voluntary so far.

The water shortage could have the implications for growing Sun Belt cities such as Phoenix, for key industries including agriculture and data centers, and for hydroelectric gases that power millions of homes across the Southwest.

The shrinking reservoirs are the immediate result of recent low snowpitch this winter, which was issued by record heat at the spring. Method snowpitch creates most of the Colorado's flow during the dry summer months. But at the Southwestern climate has grown faster and later, the river's flow has become smaller and less reliable.

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The Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona last month by Lake Powell. With Lake Mead, water is warring.

Can Tax Boom

From A.I. Era Fix U.S. Debt?

By ANDREW DEEBERTS

WASHINGTON — artificial intelligence could fundamentally change the nature of work and transform the U.S. economy. So its potential to alter the nature of industry resulted from a spurious may seem niche.

Tax-growing number of economies have started to anticipate that widespread adoption of A.I. could structurally improve the imbalance between what America upends and what it reflects in tax revenues in the coming years — as long as the technology does not put too many people out of work.

That is because A.I. could help make workers more productive, in turn growing the economy more rapidly. Faster economic growth would generate more tax revenue, helping to close the widening gap between what the government speaks and the taxes it brings in.

Not that this would amount to a total fiscalหนุน. Economists still expect the gross debt, now at about $10 trillion, to continue to grow, just less quickly than it might have without A.I. Several factors could impede or even reverse any budgetary progress, including the possibility that the gains from A.I. are lightly saved. And Congress could always splurge on spending increases or tax cuts, canceling out any fiscal gains.

The latest productivity growth from A.I. is not going to solve our budget imbalance," said Douglas Eisenhower, a former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. "It will help the

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Farage Still Makes Room in Inner Circle for Convicted Fraudster

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

LONDON — Before change Central became famous in Britain as "Push George," a near-constant sidekick to the right wing pollhouse Night Farage, he traveled to Las Vegas to meet with drug-free fichiers for whom he'd offered to launder money.

It was 2016, and Mr. Cottrell was 21. He had met the traffickers on the dark web. Under the pseudo-

news "Bill," he said he would take $28,000, and it is offshore air, craters, and return it chain. Later, according to a federal indictment filed in 2016, he threatened to outset the traffickers for the Bitcoin equivalent of $50,000.

It was not until Mr. Cottrell was arrested at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago two years later that it became clear the drug deal—it he had met in Las Vegas were actually 1.8.5. agents conducting

A Return to Parliament

With 'Push George'

a sting. On July 22, 2016, he and Mr. Farage were heading back to London after a whirlwind week at the Republican National Committee — where Mr. Farage was lauded for his role in Britain's recent Brexit vote — when five

agents declared Mr. Cottrell as he came off a crowscing flight.

After many high-profile political figures, an aide pleading guilty to were found and serving an eighteenth prison sentence might have been enough to end him. But so far Mr. Farage, a maverick politician and ally of President Trump who worked for two decades to emphatize Britain's departure from the European Union and who saw

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NEWS ANALYSIS

Stuck on Iran,

Trump Turns Gaze to Kim

Hinting at Overture Despite Post Failure

By DAVID E. SANGER

and ANYIN THIMANNIWI

The last time President Trump vowed to halt a country's nuclear weapons program, he held three face-to-face meetings with Kim Jong-un of North Korea, declared that the two men had developed a "gaze relationship" and walked away empty handed.

That was in Mr. Trump's first term. Not only did the diplomats often fail, but Mr. Kim intended only for the accelerator on his program and today possesses roughly 60 nuclear weapons, by some estimates, as well as minutes that appear capable of reaching the United States — exactly the combination Mr. Trump had vowed to dismantle.

The results are, problematic, experts have questioned whether Mr. Trump could also end up walking away from his efforts in check Iran's nuclear program — especially now that he appears to be more focused on getting the Strait of thermal open than on dealing with Iran's stockpiles at armature, which are buried under rubble after the United States bonded them in June 2020.

Stymied in Iran, Mr. Trump is increasingly turning his nightshack to North Korea, even though analysis see little hope of quickly dismantling that country's growing nuclear arsenal.

Mr. Trump's social media declaration on Sunday night, growing Mr. Kim and publicly ordering Defense Secretary Pete Hegwell to diminish America's role in an annual military exercise with South Korea, one of America's allies in the Pacific, appeared intended to signal that he wants to resume negotiations. A day later, a standard nuclear just how the Pentagon would scale back its role in the U-day exercise, and a one-line state

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OIL GIANTS IN GULF

SPIRIT TO EXPAND RESERVES ABROAD

IRAN WAR CHOKES FLOW

Saudi Arabia and U.A.E.

Seek Relief in Japan

and South Korea

By RIVER AKIRA DAVIS

TOKYO — Middle Eastern energy plants are increasing to more more oil into stockpiles today beyond the turbulent Persian Gulf region, so a prolonged conflict forces expansion and their biggest customers to rethink how to safeguard supplies.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have urged Japan to expand reserves in Japanese tanks up as much as it states the roughly eight million barrels each now holds, according to three people familiar with the discussion, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private.

Officials with Saudi Arabia and the Emirates are having similar discussions about expanding their oil stockpiles in Saudi Korea, as well, two of the people said.

For the Gulf exporters, which more much of their oil in the region, warehousing more under abroad offers protection against maritime chokepoints that have become increasingly precarious, from thawks attacks in the Bed Sea to a Strait of thermal thin shows little sign of opening. Saudi Arabia and the Emirates both have overlaid pipelines that bypass the struts and mudde them to continue exporting limited amounts of oil.

For Asian nations, the world's largest consumers of Middle Eastern crude, bigger stockpiles and improved its additional, and for against prolonged supply disruptions.

At the same time, allocating significantly more tank capacity to foreign oil companies reduces the available space for domestic refinery commercial inventories and

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Gholam Kehar said he was afraid to leave his family behind in living. Texas, as he departed for a distant Coast Guard posting.

In Texas, Anti-Muslim Feelings

Sharpen to a Brazan Campaign

The article is by J. David Goughman, Lauren McGaughy, Jesus Jimelevi and Ruth Grisham.

HOUSTON — Gholam Kehar rose before dawn in early June to attend the day's first prayer at his local mosque in Irving, Texas, before heading off for a month-long deployment with the U.S. Coast Guard.

He had been deployed before, but this time was different. He had apprehended about leaving the wife and four children behind in Texas, even for a short while.

Bhe辩证 attacks on Muslims by rap Texas leaders had become more pronounced, and seemed to

be trickling down. At his mosque, the Valley Ranch Marine Center, and others across the state, congregants and religious leaders swapped stories of ugly comments directed at those while praying to public or sitting in public parks.

In recent months, a man had been arrested and charged with making a terroristic threat at a major new hurricane center in Houston. Not far away, in Connor, a woman told Muslim shoppers at a grocery store they were 'out' not. Some in this state or this country? — after losing her job, she received nearly $250,000 from sup-

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Florida has loaned to the right to recent elections. But voters there have been something of a hammerter for a more mainstream political sentiment.

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Florida Mayor has been a reporter in Florida for two decades and has covered local, state and national politics. She is based in Miami.

Florida is no longer a battleground state that decides presidential elections. See its big and money politics still says plenty about political parties, American voters and the former shaggy their decisions.

Tuesday's primaries for Senate and governor were not expected to be especially competitive, yet the dynamics in the races have reflected the motive moment in national politics. And that is what keeps fascinating, not about covering elections as a political reporter based in Miami.

Florida, like the rest of the nation, has loaned to the right. But the man's diverse voters have remained something of a hammerer of more mainstream American political sentiment.

They have elected Republicans such as President Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis while also approving liberal ballot measures to restore liberal voting rights, raise the minimum wage and legalize medical marijuana. In 2024, 57 percent of voters favored a measure that would have guaranteed abortion rights, share of the 40 percent it needed to pass. (Florida banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.)

The lesson for me has been that voters' views are often more nuanced than they may appear when they don't candidates with an "B" or a "O" next to the name—which may be a mistrustant of national voter tendencies.

Capturing that complexity has meant interviewing a Republican state senator from the Miami area who sounded the alarm to her years about backlash over harsh immigration enforcement. It has also

means trading the canvassers of long-shot progressive candidates as they tried to prove that many Florida voters wanted to embrace their values.

Republicans endorsed by Mr. Trump, such as Byron Osvaldo in the governor's race, are claiming the course for Mokola's future. Moderate Democrats like David Jolly in the governor's race and Alexander Vladimir in the Senate race are trying to resuscitate their party's troubled brand. And progressive addressing like Judge Nixon in the Senate race and Oliver Larkin and Ralph Maddy in two those races have been showing signs of life in a state where such candidates have often not done well.

As in much of the South, many congressional races in Florida were set to be all but decided in primaries as a result of a new map that Republican state lawmakers gorycansational in their lives, to add up to four new Republican seats. Only one open seat is considered competitive in the November general election, and it is a district that Mr. Trump won in 2024 by nine percentage points.

A decade or so ago, such a solid Republican loan would have seemed nearly unthinkable. Though Republicans had long dominated in Tallahassee, the state capital, presidential races remained sad-biters. After 2006, though, even these contests loaned more and more in Republican's form.

I've been watching and covering the remarkable Florida evolution for some time. I helped cover my first Florida election in 2006, when I was a cub reporter at The Miami Herald, and then worked my way through more local, state and federal races than I can count. It still might not getting to write about the often heated elections to the Florida Keys campaign

control board.) In 2026, I was The Herald's lead political writer when two Miami Republicans, Jeth Subi and Marco Rubio, ran for president, giving me a taste of the national campaign trail.

When I joined The New York Times in 2017 as the Miami bureau chief, I gave up covering politics full time. But it remained a major part of my portfolio during these close 2018 and 2020 election cycles. In 2018, the Senate and governor's races both came down to recounts. Mr. DeSantis, who would become one of the country's most prominent Republican figures, was first elected governor that year by about 32,000 votes out of the more than 5.1 million votes cast. He would go on to win re-election in 2022 by a margin of 1.5 million votes, a landslide. (He ran for president in 2024.)

During Mr. DeSantis's eight years in office, voter registrations in Florida have owned from a Democratic edge of about 250,000 to a Republican number of more than 1.5 million. That is a structural advantage difficult for Democrats to reach everyone, even as more and more Flurallaws are registering without party affiliation.

A few months ago, I started covering politics full time again as a national political correspondent for The Times. You know these pictures of American sporting and from their holes in the ground? That is how I feel sometimes, proving outside my Florida borrow to explain how candidates, voters and political parties are in other states now more crucial in determining control of Congress and the White House.

When I went to Georgia this spring, for instance, it felt like Florida did a decade ago, the little of the battleground hall.

The difference is, now I know how quickly that can change.

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Tony Ronan, a Times reporter who covers economic policy from Washington, recently wrote an article about the legislators and policymakers asking, who goes to benefit from artificial intelligence? His article was published in Sunday Business over the weekend, and Mr. Ronan shared the notes below.

As A.I. hasen could further enrich Silicon Valley. With trillions of dollars at stake, I set out to explore how policymakers were thinking about that wealth.

Among Democrats and Republicans alike, I found immense interest in ensuring that Americans benefit directly and financially from the potential A.I. revolution.

For example, policymakers in Washington have eyed ways to pay Americans a share of the wealth generated by lipstick, birthropic and others, which could help offset mass job losses.

A.I. data centers, meanwhile, can carry significant local costs. Some states, like Virginia, have now tried to tap data centers for the electricity they consume.

Generally, A.I. companies say gains from the technology should be shared with the public. Still, the industry has lobbied against some policies, including repealing tax breaks.

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'It is a house that has haunted me for a very, very long time.'

FREDERICK ROUSET-ROUVÈRE, with her husband, Girard, at their Anousia home, which was once owned by the mayor's family.

'Those people have been holding my village hostage.'

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ANNOYIS, France — In Anousia, a camera-ready French Provençal village crowned by a majestic medieval castle, the residents insist their are tired of calling about the bridge. And yet the bridge is the only thing anyone seems to talk about.

A modest arched span with some covered stones, it paralyzes their traffic. It disrupts their routines. It threatens their livelihoods. It is, in the words of a newsletter published by the mayor's office, 'a bridge too far.'

On June 4, the mayor, Giriand de Saheian-Postrovis, like koi a cabin road that runs under the bridge, which is about 22 feet tall, rising danger from structural weaknesses in the arch. The closure effectively cut Anousia in two, making it impossible to drive through without an exasperating back-street detour.

It's the third time in six years that the mayor has taken this extraordinary step, each time at the height of the summer tourist season. Local merchants say the closures deprive them of valuable traffic because Google Maps and other apps warn marketers about the disruption. Each time, the mayor has cited safety concerns.

'I take the risk of a stone falling on someone's head.' Mr. de Saheian-Postrovis said in an interview, adding that regional authorities had ordered him to close the road.

Five people in Anousia buy that explanation. They view the decision as the latest skirmish in a year-long feud between the mayor, 83, and the castle's owners, Giriand and Frédérique Rousset-Rouvières, who reach their property by a sweeping, serpentine road, head with cypress trees, that runs across the bridge.

The mayor says that the bridge belongs to the castle, known as Chateau d'Anousia, and that the owners should pay for repairs. The Rousset-Rouvières respond that the ownership is not legally settled and that is any event, it is the responsibility of the local authorities to repair damage to the bridge that has been caused by vehicles passing under it.

He had blood gass back in 2008, when the Rousset-Rouvières, a wealthy couple with him in Marseille, bought the castle from the mayor's titled family. His forebears had owned it since the early 16th century, when the bridge was built as part of a grand new entrance to the hilltop estate.

'Everybody knew that he had a personal vendetta against the Rousset-Rouvières, and at the new owners of his castle, he wanted them to pay for something,' said Lionel Fadilla, a retired Apple executive who has lived just outside Anousia for 13 years. 'Unfortunately, the village is in the middle.'

The mayor says revenge has nothing to do with it.

It's the kind of tale that might have been grist for Peter Mada, a beloved British, themedic of the 15th century — one that pits old solidly against new money in a sun-stoned paradise that has its dark shadows.

The de Saheian-Postrovis, whose roots in the region go back to the 12th century, were long the undisputed beds of Anousia, a village of roughly 1,000 residents. When the mayor's sister, Geronade, married Prince Jacques, the former Duke of Orléans, in August 1969, the guest list included Princess Grace of Monaco, the former Grand Kelty.

Mr. de Saheian-Postrovis was elected mayor in 1994 and has served over since. Five agencies are chief founders of Anousia. He has redeveloped old buildings, turning the village into one of the most tourist-friendly destinations in the Leberon region.

Giulia Imbert contributed reporting from Anousia, and Ségolène Le Smidie from Paris.

But his seigneurial style rankles newer arrivals, many of them well-heeled people who buy vacation or retirement fumes. They have little patience for the chaos caused by the closed road — vehicles hooking, as they face off on narrow one-way streets — and the lack of a timely resolution.

'Close are people who, because of their means, have always been used to getting everything right away,' said Michael Carvalet, a farmer and member of the municipal council who is close to the mayor.

Marc Philippe, a former executive at Google, who moved in four months ago with his wife, Caroline, said that Mr. de Saheian-Postrovis 'tall thinks of it as his village.' An assertion that the mayor did nothing to dispel in our interview 'Those people have been holding my village hostage,' he said of the Rousset-Rouvières.

The loss of his castle dates in 2007. After he and his siblings squatified over what to do with the place after the death of their parents, his sister triggered an

auction by demanding that her three brothers buy out her share (they could not). Among the interested buyers was the fashion mogul Pierre Cardin.

The auction, in a wry hit of irony, was held in January 2008 at the Conciergerie in Paris, a former jail where Marie Antoinette was imprisoned before being gallemand during the French Revolution. Under the auction's rules, there were three rounds of holding that each lasted as long as it took for a small candle to burn through its wits.

The Rousset-Rouvières, who made their money in real estate, emerged victorious, surprising nobody more than themselves. They claim the mayor never got over the loss. 'I will watch you until I die,' they said he wanted them, a statement he denied making. One of the mayor's brothers did not move out for two years.

The mayor said he did take offense that the new-owners spread itself that he had removed all of the castle's contents after the sale, painting him as a thief. They denied doing that. But he described

Anousia, above, has dealt with the inconvenience of a popular road being closed for the third time in six years. Left, the blocked road, which runs under a bridge that leads to a castle owned by the Rousset-Rouvières. The mayor wants the couple to pay for repairs; the couple says the village should pay

himself as 'fanatists' about the loss of the family seat. He owns two other 'furnaces, one in Normandy, the other in Burgundy.

'They still think I'm upset with them because they bought it,' the mayor said. But, he added, 'I don't blame them for buying it.'

Relations were strained for a decade and broke into open warfare in 2020, after an oversized garbage truck scraped the bottom of the bridge, knocking some manne know. The Rousset-Rouvières said they put up 50,000 euros, or 507,000, to reinforce the bridge temporarily. But they have refused to pay for permanent repairs and they say the mayor has vilified them for that.

'The mayor, by designating us as responsible, made it very complicated for us in the village,' Mrs. Rousset-Rouvière said it as near-now in the channel's dining room, which she has filled with little-century antiques.

The Rousset-Rouvières fought back in ways large and small. In 2022, they obtained a court ruling that said the damage to the bridge was caused by traffic, not by structural issues, like water seepage. That, the ruling said, made local authorities responsible for fixing it.

The couple patronize local shops, telling their side of the story in the merchants. They open the castle to the park in, which helps tourism in the village. They agreed to hang a banner across the bridge's passage that says, in French, 'Angry village — bridge closed, village sacrificed.'

The signs have popped up in shop windows around Anousia, where merchants say their sales are down a quarter this summer compared with last year. Some of that is because of France's bear waves. But same, they say, is because of the disruption.

Michel Bigon, who owns a other's shop in the village center, said he was as

frustrated by the impasse that he planned to sell his shop next year. 'It's six years that they've been securing' the bridge 'and telling us that a big rock has fallen,' Mr. Bigon said. 'No, it's not true. Nobody believes it.'

As is the case in many longstanding leads between midtours, well-financed antagonists, the ground truth is now buried under layers of litigation: claims, counterclaims, expert studies and tribunal rulings. After all the legal nuance seeing, the question of who actually owns the bridge is still being contested in court.

The couple said their uncompromising position was driven out by bitterness but by an abiding love of their castle.

'When you are in love, you can't see,' Mrs. Rousset-Rouvière said. 'It is a house that has haunted me for a very, very long time.'

She added of the mayor, 'He is not eternal.'

Mr. de Saheian-Postrovis jokes mordantly about his age, too, And he appears to be looking for a way out of the rounded. He told villagers in a recent letter that the district government had agreed to pay for temporary repairs to the bridge, which would allow the road to reopen on Sept. 13. A spokeswoman for the district confirmed it would take over the repairs.

The merchants were skeptical, noting that no work had yet been done. 'I think he's buying time,' said Alicia Hennequin, 33, who runs a grocery store and is also thinking of pulling up stakes.

The mayor professed to be unconcerned about a browsing rebellion. He said he would quickly win back the villagers' attention by inviting them to a party under the bridge in September to celebrate the reopening of the road.

'I will tell them, I love Anousia, and I love you,' he said. But, he couldn't help adding, 'I will not drive the owner of the castle.'

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leads Reform U.K., an anti-instant-greater party that has acquired the Conservative Party for 18 months.

Mr. Cottrell, 32, has remained among Mr. Farage's finest advisors. In 2021 he said The Telegraph that he saw him as a fairer figure and in an interview with Taitler in 2024, he jokingly referred to him as "Buddy." The band between the two men has become the subject of intense interest in the Farage's cost results, following revelations in The Sunday Times of London that Mr. Cottrell provided Mr. Farage with undisclosed gifts and support before the 2021 election election.

The pides are separately investigating the legality of two despotism in Reform of 2016 (the pounds each from Mr. Cottrell's mother's Fiona, and said last month that they had questioned two people, although no arrests have been made.

"There are some relationships Farage has which are enigmatic," Cottrell is one of them," said Ben Smith, a former Reform advisor who left when Mr. Farage returned to lead the party in 2024. He called Mr. Farage's constant association with Mr. Cottrell "to explicate and high risk for a man who is so prominently in the public and subject one in vivo on crossing scrutiny."

A spokesman for Reform did not believe that several requests to speak with Mr. Farage or Mr. Cottrell for this story. A letter for Mr. Cottrell would not make this available for comment on this story.

The first of the three different troll have intensified a swirl of questions around Mr. Farage and Mr. Cottrell and another of the Guardian revealed in April that the Reform leader had received £5 million, about $6.7 million, from a British cryptocurrency billionaire based on a 2020 election.

A parliamentary standards in the English into whether Mr. Farage should have disclosed that gift, which he received is the most important to the public, was underway when Mr. Farage abruptly resigned his son in Clarion last month and said he would immediately run again.

Mr. Farage was the leader of Clarion should be the judges of my actions," he said.

Mr. Farage was the resulting special interview in Thursday and on Saturday. Mr. Farage was the field of a candidate, calling the vote on electoral issues. But Mr. Farage's triumphant return to Westminster immediately returned the investigation into possible financial irregularities.

From Banks, a former aide to Mr. Farage who helped leadership Reform campaign, was the first one to call Mr. Cottrell "Fred George" — a way of risking him for his higher-crivel background. In the 2016 book, "The Real Family Brexit," Mr. Banks wrote that Mr. Cottrell eagerly volunteered to help with the referendum that year on whether Britain should never ex-ists to Europe.

Fred, in extremely well connected his model another is an old flame of Prince Charles; his godfather is reputed to be a billionaire, and he was working at Nigel on the back of a personal recommendation from his aristocratic uncle," Mr. Banks wrote. "He was wealthy enough to give his time for nothing, and had given on hard-working and loyal."

Due to 2018 one a wealthy English family, Mr. Cottrell is the nephew of Lord Elizabeth, a former academic and law professor and Brexit supporter.

His parents, who lived in Hancropo, a private Caribbean island favored by British aristocrats and

Nigel Farage, left, and George Cottrell in 2020, as the European Parliament ratified the terms of Brexit, which both campaigned for.

sometime, even time to Marines College, an elite boarding school in England. The Times of London reported that he was expelled because of a gambling addiction in 2018.

Mr. Cottrell is often seen wearing dark sunglasses and impenetrating tailored suits. Mr. Habib recalled that in 2024, Mr. Cottrell once arrived to campaign for Barbara in Wellingborough, England, at a Lamborghini S.U.V.

"I was absolutely bloody gold-matched," Mr. Habib said, pointing out that the area had pockets of poverty.

A Source of Jobs

After leaving school, Mr. Cottrell took a series of jobs in France, including one at an offshore private bank. By 2016, he was running Mr. Farage's private office and serving as a fund-raiser for the Brexit campaign.

"It was very important for job-worth to have face time with Nigel, and that's where I came in," Mr. Cottrell told The Telegraph after he was released from prison in 2017. "My role with fund-raising means that I was also looking after Nigel."

In that same interview, he said

that at the time of the Brexit vote in June 2018, he was "a compulsion, personal, addicted gamble," the the night of the result, once he realized Britain might vote to leave the European Union, he raised to her tens of thousands of dollars in the prospect that the value of the British pound would drop.

"When it got to 3 a.m., it was pretty my manager out of bed to get me another 20 grand lot here, another 30 grand there, so short morning, I just couldn't help myself," he said.

After his arrest in the United States, Mr. Cottrell was charged with 21 issues, including conspiracy to commit money laundering, real fraud, wire fraud, blackmail and extortion. He pleaded guilty to one count of 40% fraud.

"Quite 12d, a lawyer is pursuing my Mr. Cottrell at Carton Bank locations, said in a statement: "The clear: he was not convicted of any offence of money laundering, nor did he admit to any activity committing money laundering."

In his plus agreement, Mr. Cottrell said, "I communicated myself with individual working or launder proceeds of criminal activity via an encrypted group instant

arranging positive issues at Crystance. I explained various ways criminal activities would be laundered — for example, methods to transfer large amounts of cash-tar-of-the-State houses were not triggering reporting requirements." He added that he had falsely claimed he would launder criminal proceeds through his own means for the bank that is intended, along with an assumption, to "retain the money."

In his book, Mr. Banks recalled how Mr. Farage and Mr. Cottrell did several times after had said the Thursday night before Mr. Cottrell's arrest at an Indian restaurant in London with Nigel Street, an infamous Republican political operative and man of Mr. Farage's debut friends.

When Mr. Cottrell was arrested, "Nigel was stunned," Mr. Banks wrote.

'I Don't During Found a House.'

The news story, Mr. Cottrell appears to be the "big deal of the 21 crypax carcasses. He moved to Wimmerigny, a tiny市场经济 on the Adriatic Sea, where The Smaller Times reported that he was involved with a crypto-trusting operation known as Tether-

ket, citing court documents and criminal events.

Mr. Gill, Mr. Cottrell's lawyer, said that he "has no interest in Tetherket — talked he has no interest, direct or indirect, in any gambling operations." He added that "the relationship with Tetherket is limited to being a customer, in addition to which he knows what is brands with the owner."

In February, Mr. Cottrell published a new report that we can get Money: a guide for law enforcement, prosecutors and policymakers; "The publishers' description says 'the criminality of the business is a good economy,' adding that 'this book is for the rest of us who want to know how the laws that are supposed to protect us are in reality doing now.'"

Mr. Cottrell continued to be closely told to Mr. Farage and Roberts in the run-up to the 2024 general election. The Sunday Times said Mr. Cottrell was "the first Mr. Cottrell in Mr. Farage was a five-story house near Buckingham Palace, a benefit that could represent an indeed donation. Mr. Cottrell's lawyer said the paper: "As a client friend, our client did, and does, allow Mr. Farage to use to see its one's central property."

In a recent political interview, Mr. Farage confirmed Mr. Cottrell at him use an office in one of his London-based social contacts in one in 2023 and 2024 but said it was "crush-out" because he was not in politics at the time.

He also referred to the police investigation into donations to Reform, initially referring to the donation as coming from Mr. Cottrell, before correcting himself and saying it came from Mr. Cottrell's matter and had been reported to the National Crime Agency in September 2024. "Why is there a story?" he asked.

In an interview with The Spectator last month, he questioned the media focus on Mr. Cottrell.

"This 'Funk George' and a mean, what are they even in the name?" he said. "Of course, let's a 'Sister figure, an irritating blick and a colorful guy. But these are trusted friends. I don't doubt trusted friends unless they betray me — it's an image as that."

Incumbent

Wins Election

For President

Of Zambia

By JOHN E. ELKINS

and ROBERT A. LEWIS

Zambezi's president, Makando Mubbena, was declared the winner of a second term on Tuesday, after a transference campaign in Britain the disregard of the conditions of repression and tunnel his efforts to reintegrate the country's all-important timing sector.

Mr. Mubbena was 40 percent of the vote, according to the Electoral Commission of Zambia.

But in respect and other critical interests, Zambia, a landlocked country in southern Africa, has been the center of a prejudicial context, as the Trump administration attempts to unload greater information across to the country's natural resources, which Chinese businesses currently dominate.

Mr. Mubbena will have to navigate a deficient path forward, after a disconcert speech clashed with the United States this year, accusing the Trump administration of demanding access to Zambia's critical interests in exchange. In Mr. Mubbena's ideas has sought for months to strike a deal to receive health assistance from the United States, and the two countries have yet to publicly answer the question.

In addition to his foreign policy challenges, Mr. Mubbena, 44, has been able to reोलate at home.

The request for brought into the country's political good-government reformer was narcissist amid allegations that he had not in connection power and quash dissent. During the election campaign, opposition leaders were arrested, the vote count was temporarily suspended and, subjectively, the election would be212000 of using state resources to his advantage.

Even before the final results were announced, Brian Masdar, the top opposition candidate, derried the process. He declared

Makando Mubbena, who took a dramatic turn over the week-end when the

Zambezi government announced that public officers had launched a nighttime raid on a house that resulted in an exchange of positive news about the government opposition politicians. They were accused of planning on in connection with the help of foreign rights. Mr. Mubando was at the same time a new method, the government said, but he was not among those arrested.

Relatives of one of those arrested, Bishop Trevor Breunies of the Neigham district, had raised concern that they had not heard from him for at least two days and did not leave his information. Mr. Mubando reported what he said: "I believe alligations against the opposition."

"We do not support violence, but we support an attempt to overthrow the constitutional art, the other country, the violence on social media.

Constitutions critics have created the act that was an attempt by Mr. Mubbena's administration to intimidate those who oppose him, and call it part of a broader picture of repression during his five years as a result of the intervention has passed laws that civil society organizations say are meant to muscle dissent and restrict press freedom.

At the start of the election, African and European observer missions reported that supporters of the president's party, the United Party, the National Development Association and the National Office. They also raised concern that while opposition parties were prevented from holding events under control of the electoral calendar, the President's party was a problem over able to rally supporters under the guise of official state duties. And many of the was overwhelmingly favorable toward the President's movement.

At the after the girls closed last Thursday, the electoral commission was the first to be amended recently, saying that some elections workers had been attacked and hidden had been stolen. Election members and civil society leaders came into the task that delay in counting could lead citizens to doubt the credibility of the electoral process.

But Mr. Mubbena and his supporters were not allowed to entertain that freedoms have been restricted during his tenure. Indeed, some of the observer missions restricted that the election run out of the election was a result of lower complaints of violence. Mr. Mubbena's government passed a law allowing greater access to government documents.

The election was a problem restricting the nation's massive 60th, reduced inflation and invested more in social spending.

At Ex-Leader's Funeral, China's Past Optimism Casts a Shadow

By VAN ZRIANG

China honored Sing to build staff across the world. The party's concern the former premier Zhu Ronghai, the last of a government of politicians who guided China to avoid complex historical concerns, fu-long extraordinary growth but also leaving behind deep unequalism.

The country's top leaders, including President Xi Jinping, paid their respects to Mr. Zhu, who died last Wednesday at 87, at his old funeral in Beijing, according to the state news media. Mr. Zhu's body was cremated.

Siyi Zhao contributed research.

Communist Party probably was to avoid, they said, however a past deal left more optimistic and propounded and a present sense of malaise and uncertainty.

Under Mr. Xi's leadership, the party has become heavily in service with industries, supporting factories that churn out amnicas, donors and electric cars to feed a global boom. But many ordinary Chinese are feeling squeezed. A long-running property crisis has dragged down the economy, and jet prospects for young people have arrived. The party has also tightened its grip on private companies, adding to the uncertainty facing the entrepreneurs and winners who may drove China's growth.

Referring to Mr. Xi, Joseph Tsivigan, an associate professor at American University who studies China's political sites, said, "the latest economic and economic questions about what he's doing." Mr. Tsivigan said, "the rough wants to convince people that what he's doing is not a brief, simple device even that informed survivors that Jiang and Zhu were doing so well."

That was reflected in a speech Mr. Xi gave an Monday's comment on the thing. Mr. Tsivigan said, in which he sought to head off criticism about the direction the country has taken by stressing

the continuity between his issues and that of Mr. Jiang's. He highlighted similarities in their belief in Marxism and the strength of the Communist Party, and questioned himself as a moderator—who was making changes and adapting to the times as Mr. Jiang had done.

In the 45-minute speech, Mr. Xi invoked Mr. Jiang's legacy of measured market liberalization

Beijing wants to seem

to if it is carrying on

his era of growth.

and praised Mr. Jiang's decisions—less during crisis. In the way that Mr. Jiang responded to international emergencies including the state financial crisis, the party of today must actively respond to "major tests of high levels and turbulent waves with a triauretic fighting spirit," he said. Such phrasing is often read as an implicit reference to China's momentous-broising rivalry with the United States over trade and things and global influence, which has intensified.

Many of the rituals to mark for-

mer Chinese leaders' deaths are prescribed in rates developed by the Chinese. But the funeral was not immediately removed, but the state media said that party officials paid tribute to Mr. Zhu to the Education Revolutionary Company in Beijing's work, such howling three times to above respect. No, then, the former President, who has appeared unwell, did not attend and sent a wreath to express their doktrons, Xinhua reported.

Mr. Tsivigan said that Mr. Zhu's funeral would probably adhere closely to the protocols for those of other presents. Mr. Li Peng and Li Keqiang, Mr. Zhu's official obituary in the People's Daily was similarly indebted to the Chinese gauge that closely resembled that used for previous presents," he added.

The death of Li Keqiang, in 2020, attempted an unpending 2,000 million as people shared his speeches and photographs of him visiting disaster survivors. They recited Mr. Lin went famous to the end of the "Power Mass Action" arbitrary." This time, after Mr. Zhu's death was announced, there were signs that the authorities were carefully managing public health care, with a new health name on Chinese who producing press donations for state media. Still, some used the moment to

ensure a more open era in China, and others without the twenty-first, a continental style and gladden vital news conferences.

The nostalgia for Mr. Deng said Mr. Zhu's era can be overly rung, said Deng's home, a political commonsense who lives in the United States, who described the economic changes of that era as "raddock and crisis."

The changes that pushed the country deeper into the market economy and global trading system also left making social and economic problems. State-run the series were that done or turned into a major overarching, leading to the layoffs of one of millions of workers. The old guarantees of state-provided benefits were discussed before China had a sector figure.

Still, the changes at the time gave people a sense of hope and momentum, Mr. Deng said, to continue in the current era.

The new system is that closely people are unemployed and staff, and many people also feel like there is no hope for the future," he said.

Such the connection the authorities and Xi Jinping filled are critical, without any such mishaps. Mr. Deng said, "because campaigns that era to now will reflect the difference in people's feelings."

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Health workers in protective clothing in the Rwampara clinic's Red Zone, right, where infected patients are treated. Patients have to speak to visitors through a protective screen.

A doctor from the medical charity Alima, right, and workers with the body of Justin Bataga Mugarwa, 34, a gold miner who died the same day as his niece, Rebecca.

Listening for Final Breath

In Congolese Ebola Ward

A Desperate Struggle, Then an Agonizing Wait

Photographs and Article by FINNARD O'REILLY

RWAMPARA, Democratic Republic of Congo — On one side of the Ebola ward, a woman visiting her ailing husband spoke to him through a plexiglass window. He had spent two days at the ward recovering from the virus and, after his first negative test, expected soon to be discharged.

A few yards away, Congolese doctors struggled to insert needles into the collapsed veins of Justin Bataga Mugarwa, a gold miner whose condition was rapidly deteriorating.

Mr. Mugarwa, 42, had been at the ward for nearly a week, and his sudden decline began with delirium, followed by convulsions as violent that doctors dragged his mattress and their patient onto the floor to prevent a fall.

"I'm not sure how long he can last like this," said one doctor observing Mr. Mugarwa's condition through the plastic window as fellow doctors dressed in full protective gear fought to save him.

The distance between life and death is razor thin at clinics like this one in Rwampara, just outside Banta, the capital of Ituri Province and the heart of the Ebola outbreak ravaging eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The recently built outdoor Ebola ward, run by the medical charity Alima, has treated 649 Ebola patients, 326 of whom have died from the virus as of this month.

The ward was hastily put together, made from temporary wood frame structures with corrugated metal tools, truly infected patients and health workers in protective clothing are allowed to enter the "Red Zone," where medicine and supplies are passed down a slide.

When exiting the Red Zone, medical staff are sprayed with chlorinated water as they remove their masks, yellow suits, gloves and hoods. They take care to avoid contact with any potentially contaminated surfaces. The dependable yellow suits and protective hoods are burned while gloves and hoods are sterilized by a team of support workers.

Recovering patients share rooms while awaiting two negative tests within 48 hours before they can be discharged. Single isolation rooms are reserved for patients in critical condition, like Mr. Mugarwa.

On a recent afternoon, doctors spent hours attempting to administer intravenous fluids and medication to him. Mr. Mugarwa's severe dehydration made inserting needles into his veins impossible.

In essential blood, His internal organs failed. One of the doctors treating him slumped on the metal bed frame and started down at Mr. Mugarwa as his breathing slowed.

Then it stopped. He was gone.

This outbreak has killed over 2,325 people since May, according to the Congolese government. The organization said last week that the outbreak is on track to out-join the deadliest one in history, which killed over 11,000 people over a decade ago. Local health officials fear the virus could be mutating.

Health workers in Rwampara had long struggled to treat Congolese facing violence, hunger, and preventable diseases. Then came Ebola. Mortality rates associated with this epidemic hover at nearly 40 percent.

Mr. Mugarwa's niece, Rebecca, also died from Ebola at the ward that afternoon. His wife and one of his three sons, both of whom had been under observation, fled the clinic upon learning of his death.

"We are shocked because he has been here almost a week and we thought he was improving," said one of Mr. Mugarwa's seven brothers, Prospero Kondjedo, when the family arrived at the clinic the

2,325

Deaths since the outbreak was first reported in May.

following day. "When we got here this morning, we went to where he had been, and all we saw were his clothes and his telephone. He is no longer there."

Some 100 health workers have contracted the virus overall, and at least 36 have died, according to health officials. In mid-June, one of the doctors at the ward tested positive for Ebola after flying in Paris.

After the doctor fell ill, Congo's government imposed a 21-day international travel ban for anyone leaving Ituri Province, potentially impeding the response, aid organizations said, before the ban was eased.

In July, dozens of health workers and support staff in Rwampara went on strike, part of a wider strike in the province over unpaid wages. Ebola patients were left at the clinic without care for days until staff were assured by Congo's health ministry that late salaries would be paid.

Mr. Mugarwa and his niece were buried at a cemetery across the road from the clinic the day after they died. Two body bags were carried from the morgue, placed into coffins and loaded onto a vehicle for transportation.

Mr. Kondjedo, the brother, and around a dozen other family members gathered as the coffins were lowered into graves. Earth was shovied atop the caskets and mourners sang their farewells.

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A doctor with a patient. To limit infections, supplies are delivered into the Red Zone down a slide. After leaving the zone, workers are sprayed with chlorinated water. Suns and hoods are burned, and gloves and boots are sterilized.

Family members, grave diggers and medical staff with Ms Magarwais coffin. He and his niece were buried together in a cemetery across the road from the clinic.

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War in the Middle East

NEWS ANALYSIS

Stymied on Iran, Trump Turns a Nostalgic Gaze to North Korea

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mami sent to reporters by the Pentagon press office on Monday afternoon did not provide any clarity.

"The Department of War is actively working on executing the commander in chief's direction," the statement said, using the Trump administration's name for the Department of Defense.

Robert Litwak, a scholar at George Washington University who has written about the nuclear programs in North Korea on Iran, called the contract between Mr. Trump's approaches to those two countries "an incredible tale of two major states."

"We're at war with Iran, a nuclear-threshold state," he said. "But with North Korea, we are placating a dictator who can target the U.S. homeland with nuclear weapons."

Mr. Trump's authority was also aimed at punishing the South Koreans for declining to join in the war against Iran, a position that deeply supported Mr. Trump. It was a point he made in the same social media post and reiterated to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.

The president has also been angry that Seoul has been slow to deliver on what the White House believes is a $150 billion promise for new investments, including re-dispholding. Last October, Mr. Trump visited South Korea and celebrated its future investments in the United States, including a promised multi-billion-dollar expansion of Samsung's chip-making plant in Tivoli.

Trump debacle back to the complaint about South Korean free-riding" on American troop presence on the Korean Peninsula, said Scott A. Snyder, the president and chief executive of the Korea Economic Institute of America, "and he uses the security relationship as a lever to put.

Eric Schmitt contributed reporting.

more pressure on the South Korean government."

Lansing over the tensions in Mr. Trump's inability to extract the United States from the Iran war. He has hinted at his eagerness in recent months to move on from that conflict and return to dealing with Mr. Kim, who indulged Mr. Trump's desire for leader-to-leader talks with those contents during Mr. Trump's first term.

President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea said in June that Mr. Trump appeared to want to resume talks with Mr. Kim, and Mr. Trump posted a picture of himself with the North Korean leader on social media at least twice in recent months.

"Kim Jong Un end I get along GREAT?" Mr. Trump wrote alongside a photograph he posted on Saturday of their morning at the border between North and South Korea in 2018.

Mr. Trump followed that up with another chumley post on Monday, this one a memo showing Mr. Kim making a phone call with military officers standing behind him. The caption read, "Hey Donald, we cool...right?"

The North Korean nuclear program has been a deep concern since the late 1980s, long before Iran's nuclear program was on the radar. In 1994, during a crisis touched off by North Korea's expulsion of international nuclear inspectors, the Clinton administration debated a military strike on the North Korean facility at Yonghyon. But it held back, and later that year former President Jimmy Carter struck a shot with Kim Ji-sung, the grandfather of the current North Korean leader, to end the nuclear program in return for help building civilian nuclear reactors.

It all fell apart, and subsequent efforts to bring the North Korean program under control failed. In 2006, the North conducted its first nuclear test, and followed with five more, the most recent in 2011.

President Trump with Kim Jong-un in 2019 at the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea. Mr. Trump recalls the encounters warmly, even though they were a diplomatic failure.

The next year, having labeled Mr. Kim "Little Backer Man," Mr. Trump met the North Korean leader in Singapore. After their excusation, he told a New York Times reporter that he expected that the North would rapidly dismantle its program. "It's going to go very quickly," he said after the sunrink. "I really believe that it's going to go fast. And it is a very substantial arsenal. There's no question about it."

But while Mr. Trump recalls

the encounters loudly — during the first term, he would bring out Mr. Kim's letters to him and read excerpts on visitors in the Oval Office — they went down in history as a diplomatic failure. A second named, in Vietnam, ended with a collapse of the talks. Mr. Trump went into the sessions ill prepared, his national security advisor at the time, John R. Baboo, said back and the other fell apart when Mr. Kim refused to dismantle facilities outside the main enrichment and

representing center at Yong-hyon.

Some fear the same thing could happen again. "Another Trump-Kim summit, which is what the president seems to be, angling he, could be a disaster," said Jae S. Wu, a former State Department diplomat who was involved in early talks with the North and wrote a history of the office. "Fallout: The inside story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea."

"Trump doesn't seem to realize

that the Kim Jong-un of today isn't interested in better relations with the United States," Mr. Wu said. "He is bellious on keeping his nuclear weapons, sending troops to Ukraine to support his Russian ally and threatening South Korea."

On Monday, critics of Mr. Trump's foreign policy quickly attacked the president for under-rating a key alliance. Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said Mr. Trump had made "another team, haphazard decision" that punished South Korea "for no reason beyond Trump's age."

Victor D. Cha, a Congressman of the city's producer who worked on Asia policy in the George W. Bush White House, described Mr. Trump's social media outburst as a symptom, at least in part of the president's business in over Iran. He noted that Mr. Trump's charm offensive directed at Mr. Kim since as the president tried to maintain his hard line against Tehran, a study in contracts in Mr. Trump's approach to perhaps the world's two-most-rising nuclear proliferation challenges.

"He's kind of trending in two opposite directions," Mr. Cha said. "He's trending in the direction of pragmatically negotiating with a nuclear North Korea. But in the case of Iran, he's taken an abundant stance."

Mr. Trump defended his approach to North Korea in the Oval Office on Monday. Asked by a reporter whether he was prioritizing the interests of U.S. adversaries over allies, the president shot back. "I'm making it much safer."

"Kim Jong-un has always treated me with great respect," the president added. "I understand him, the undermade me."

But Mr. Kim is also closely watching Mr. Trump's war on Iran, and she's not. That war has shown North Korea, Mr. Cha said. "Not they are right to pursue nuclear weapons to avoid a military strike."

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Push to Add To Stockpiles Far From Gulf

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Japan's own national reserves. The volume being sought by Middle Eastern producers would probably exceed Japan's available tank capacity and that other logistical constraints, the people said. Talks are containing over how much of its stockpiles can be stored and how the costs would be shared, but the joint stockpiles are expected to increase substantially, they said.

A spokeswoman for Japan's economy ministry declined to comment on the details of discussions with Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, but said Japan was working with Middle Eastern countries to enhance energy resilience.

A spokesperson for the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, the Emirati main energy plant, said in a statement: "We look forward to building on our role as a reliable supplier to Asian markets, ensuring stable flows of energy to support market stability and keep prices in check."

Officials from South Korea and Saudi Arabia did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The push to relocate oil reserves is one of several fundamental shifts redaaging global energy markets nearly six months into the United States' war with Iran. Just as the oil shocks of the 1970s prompted governments to build strategic reserves and accelerated a drive forward more energy-efficient cars and factories, today's crisis is forcing countries and companies to revive supply networks.

Across the Middle East, producers are building or expanding pipelines designed to bypass the Israel of Hormuz Major importers, meanwhile, are racing to secure more oil and gas from outside the region while accelerating investment in domestic energy sources, including misrealities.

In the early months of the war, hopes repeatedly surfaced with the Israel of Hormuz might soon reopen, said Nenora Terazawa, head of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, a think tank.

The oil market now comes rely on input that President Trump will fix this," Mr. Terazawa said. The Middle East and other parts of Asia will the present economic that will be in Japan's controlled

Kiako Nenora contributed reporting.

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ways to deal with vulnerabilities on our own."

Japan already has a long history of having foreign-owned crude from Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Kuwait. As domestic oil consumption has declined from its peak in the 2000s, Japan must change the level of the more spare capacity available to lease to overseas producers.

The arrangements give Middle

Eastern state energy companies a commercial expert hub close to major East Asian customers. For Japan, an actual nation that imports virtually all its fossil fuels and gets more than 90 percent of its crude from the Middle East, the setup provides preferential access to the stored oil during severe supply emergencies.

The Emirates began storing crude in Japan in 2009, followed

by Saudi Aramco in Okinawa in 2010 and Kuwait in 2020. The agreements have provided Japan only emergency facilities of roughly eight million barrels each from Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, along with three million barrels from Kuwait. Japan signed three reserves, equivalent to about six days of demand, during the early months of the current conflict.

The push for larger stockpiles gained momentum after Ryosoi Akizawa, Japan's economy deficient, visited the Emirates and Saudi Arabia in early May. Later that month, the Emirates dispatched a tanker to replenish depleted stocks.

The model could now spread more widely across Asia.

Southeast Asian economies heavily dependent on Middle

Clockwise from above: Storage tanks sit on oil refinery in Japan; vessels near the Strait of Horeyoo; and Ryosoi Akazawa, Japan's economy minister, who recently visited Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Eastern crude have been hit particularly hard by supply disruptions, and countries including the Philippines are pushing to eradically cut the oil reserves. But building strategic stockpiles can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, putting them out of reach for many developing economies.

Japan inserts in which governments and producers share storage costs costs offer an alternative, Mr. Terazawa said. The acute sense of vulnerability is the Risk the East and beyond is Asia makes this an opportune moment to expand such agreements, he said.

From an energy security perspective, "it would be a one-way kind of solution" and "some kind of possible drive being from this crisis," Mr. Terazawa said.

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Israeli Restrictions Throttle West Bank's Economy

This article is by Adam Ragon, David M. Helfinger and Helena Abdelkarre.

SUNDAY, J.20, West Bank — Israeli pressure on the West Bank has sent the accepted territory to the brink of financial collapse as severe restrictions have reached every part of daily life and caused an economic crisis.

Since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2020, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has stopped thousands of Palestinian soldiers in the Israel, withhold billions of dollars of tax revenues and enforced banking restrictions that have harmed business.

The Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the West Bank, has been forced to act spending on salaries and public services because of the sharp fall in revenues. The reductions have been left acutely in sectors such as health care, with pharmacies routinely running out of medicines as the government allocates less money to buy them. The budget cuts have also forced clinics to open only a few days a week and hospitals to operate with fewer doctors and nurses.

Eminah Hammad, 24, was diagnosed with breast cancer three months ago. After a hospital appointment in the West Bank city Ramallah, she made her way to a pharmacy to collect her medications. Only three of her six prescriptions were in stock.

"I'm lucky," Mr. Hammad said, smiling despite her exhaustion. "Last time, they only had one."

Mr. Hammad's trouble getting medicine was indicative of wider economic problems. The Palestinian Authority has often warned if a financial collapse that never materialized, but there are growing concerns about how long it can remain unwise.

"We're facing a huge problem," Mohammed Morada, the authority's prime minister, said in an interview. "Everyone has been affected."

Israel has squeezed the economy.

As an occupied territory, the West Bank is inescapable nonsensically dependent on Israel, which controls who and what others end leaves that territory and other Gaza Strip, including the money that flows to and out.

The Oslo Accords in the 1994, reinforced that dependency, making the Israeli limited the main currency in both territories and establishing links between Israeli and Palestinian banks. That has essentially given Israel control of a financial upper that it can turn off.

Tensions have occasionally installed economic pressure on the Palestinians. After the October 2022 attack, Israel waged a devastating war in Gaza and slows opened a new era of economic warfare in the West Bank.

First, Israel quickly canceled protests for tens of thousands of Palestinian laborers to reach their workplaces in Israel. Many worked in construction and agriculture and brought billions of dollars into the Palestinian economy every year. Since the start of the Gaza war, unemployment in the West Bank has skyrocketed to 20 percent, more than double the rate before the conflict, according to the Palestinian Central

Bureau of Statistics.

Then, in May 2023, Israel started confiscating hundreds of millions of dollars per month in import taxes that it collects on the Palestinian Authority's behalf. This revenue stream accounts for about two-thirds of the West Bank government's budget for 2020 of about $5 billion, according to Palestinian officials.

That deficit has forced the Palestinian Authority to reduce the salaries of 140,000 civil servants and security officers, district school weeks to three days and at-cumulate billions of dollars in debt.

Maj. Arafat Habibi, a traffic police officer in Nablus, said that his monthly salary of about $5,500 had been halved.

"All I can do is the minimum of the minimum," he said.

Major Habibi, 20, said that he cuts most only on Fridays to save money, comments to work on public transportation instead of using his car and has been unable to buy new clothes for his children. His debts are mounting because he can afford only a small part of a monthly loan repayment and his electricity bill.

Israel has also erected new roadblocks across the West Bank, stilling the movement of goods within the territory. In Beltrami the most populous city, the Israeli military has closed five of seven entrances and exits, according to Mayor Yassel Jahan and residents. The military said that any two were regularly open and a third was "uncertainty" open based on operational and security considerations.

Diana Spieletian, a spokesman for the Israeli prime minister's office, accused the Palestinian authority of 'smooping to divert an invasion from its support for terrorism and its failure to reform by listening Israel.'

The office of Bezalel Smarz's, Israel's far-right finance minister, who has been a driving force for hotel for pressure campaign, did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

The Palestinian Authority says that it takes more imports address Israeli concerns. In February 2025, Mahmoud Abbas, the authority's president, issued a de-

Unemployment Rate in the West Bank

Palestinians waiting for medication at a mobile clinic's pharmacy in Boaba, West Bank. Pharmacies often run out of medicines.

cree to end the practice of paying depends to the families of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, a long-held demand of Israeli officials. American and Israeli officials have dismissed Mr. Abbas's efforts, while Palestinian officials say the new law is being enforced.

Boaba have been heldish.

Israel has also limited the amount of deserts that Palestinian banks are allowed to send to Israel; banks, a crucial process that helps enable Palestinian merchants to buy goods from Israel and the rest of the world.

The Netanyahu government permits quarterly transfers of about $1.5 billion from Palestinian to Israeli banks — far less than previous administration allowed. The restrictions have resulted in about $5.7 billion languishing in bank vaults in the West Bank, according to Palestinian government and banking officials.

"They're preventing us from meeting the demand in our markets," said Bashar Yassel, the manager of the Association of Banks in Palestine, a trade group. Theor Abidin', a wholesale importer of flour, sugar, rice and

A blocked road to Szijal, West Bank, in July. Israeli roadblocks stifle the movement of goods.

chemistry, said that he was able to import only half of what he used to buy.

"A feel hopeless," said Mr. Abidin', who is from Syria, a city in the northern West Bank. "This is not in killing the economy here."

In recent weeks, Palestinian banking executives have expressed concerns that their institutions could be cut off entirely from Israeli banks. Israel the coast Bank and Bank Hapadah's, the only Israeli banks that work with Palestinian banks, have said that they are worried that those ties could expose them to lawsuits over money handwilling or terrorism financing, and they have threatened to end the relationship. The Israeli banks have expressed frustration that the Israeli government has not done more to protect them from the risk of litigation.

Yahya Shamsar, governor of the Palestinian Monetary Authority, warned diplomats in July that the Palestinian economy was nearing a "full crisis" because of Israeli economic restrictions, according to a recording of his remarks in a called by The New York Times.

"There remains a narrow window to us, but it's closing," Mr. Shamsar said. "And it's closing quickly."

Mr. Shamsar also said that Andrew Abir, deputy governor of the Bank of Israel, the country's central bank, had warned the Palestinian Monetary Authority to prepare a contingency plan to replace the shield as its currency. The Israeli central bank said in a statement that it made sense to each contingency arrangements in place.

Palestinians economic experts, however, warned that roadblockering that could cause them and make trading with Israel more complicated and costly.

'It's not sustainable at all.'

In Total, a village near Hebrain, Mumtaor Asten, 15, a supermarket center, has allowed customers to take倖ers from and pay for them later. His customers own this around 1,015,000, he said, and he is struggling in pay suppliers on time, prompting some to refuse to believe goods unless he pays up front.

"How can I supposed to run my business this way?" he said. "It's not sustainable at all."

Mr. Morada, the Palestinian Authority prime minister, has been able to improve the situation. His government has imposed a hiring force except for the health sector, has stopped the business of development projects and is operating on an emergency budget, he said. He has asked the international community to send more aid, but these requests have largely gone unanswered.

The only hope, Palestinian analysts and officials said, is that Mr. Netanyahu's right-wing, traditionalist and vigilant, has been the most government in elections in October. A new Israeli government that is less determined to affect pain on Palestinian could lessen the economic channeled, they not.

At the Ramallah hospital, Mr. Hammad was trying to come to terms with the shortage of medications and overcome her fatigue. Her two daughters held her arms as she returned to her car.

"It's the worst time to get care," she said.

Israel Strikes Syrian Base, Exacerbating U.S. Irritation

By CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM and RICHAR MOUKHIM

BERNUT, Lebanon — Israel carried out stretches on a defunct military air base in northwestern Syria on Tawailar, prompting the United States to contribute the attack as a threat to regional stability in the latest outbreak of American frustration with Israel.

Syrian and U.S. officials said Israel carried out the attack, while the Israeli military declined to comment. Eight stretches hit the Arab United military air base in 1920, a city about 40 miles from the border with Turkey, according to Syrian state media, and did not cause any casualties.

The Trump administration has been a vocal proponent of Syria's new government led by President Ahmed al-Sharan, and the U.S. special envoy to Syria and Iraq, John Barrack, said in a statement on social media that Israel's actions "constitute an unnecessary escalation."

"The al-Sharan government has neither adopted a predatory posture nor maintained proxy forces," Mr. Barrack, who is also the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, added. "It has, in fact, repeatedly indicated a preference for de-escalation with Israel."

Mr. Barrack's comments followed a series of fractures between Israel and the United States in recent months over the conflicts to Gaza and Lebanon, as well as the U.S. should war with Iran. The U.S. and the United States Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel — once clear partners — have taken increasingly different approaches in the region.

Mr. Trump takes the former a diplomatic path with Iran to end their war despite Israeli objections. With respect to Gaza, Mr. Netanyahu reported a U.S.-banked deal for Russia in nearly 800 month. Mr. Trump has also backed Mr. al-Sharan even as Mr. Netanyahu and his allies have voiced over three skepticism.

A long, hearsay in three a difficult re-election campaign this fall, adding to pressure on him to avoid making any concessions that apparently might arise as evidence of weakness. He has also adopted a more hard-line security doctrine following the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2020, analysis only.

The Syrian air base has been out of service since 2013, and control of the facility changed several times during the war. The first civil war between the government of Bashar al-Assad and rebel forces. The strikes are part of a broader pattern of forced military activity in Syria and Israel, led by Mr. al-Sharan swept into the capital, Damascus, in 2015 and overthrew Mr. al-Assad.

Syria's new government has rapidly consolidated authority across the country, bringing relative calm after a broad conflict. Still, that calm remains fragile, questioned by sporadic attacks from the Islamic Republics after extremist groups, as well as sectarian tensions that stopped into the Islamic last year.

Mr. al-Sharan has been more open to engage in the Israel than his predecessors, who maintained hostility toward it for five decades. The government has taken part in U.S.-banked back-channel discussions with Israel instead of easing tensions — the first such talks in more than a decade. Mr. Barrack played a key role in orchestrating the conversations.

Mr. al-Sharan's sponsors reflects a broader reordering of all-cause across the Middle East in other areas. The Safford's new government was closely allied with Iran and hostile to Turkey, but the new Syrian government has removed both relationships.

Still, the back-channel talks have done little to curb Israel's military activity in Syria.

The Israeli military has launched hundreds of activities on military targets across the country after Mr. al-Assad was routed and has since deployed in the Iraqi arm gave it to eastern Syria near its border with Israel. Israeli forces have also built intense military weapons as well as supporting infrastructure like military roads and electricity networks in southern Syria, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, or A.C.L.E.D., a nonprofit organization that tracks the Israel.

The Israeli military's actions have indeed been in Syria that Israel is seeking to maintain a long-term military presence in the country, and they expand its operations beyond the southern border areas.

Christina Goldbaum reported from Beirut, Lebanon, and Beharah Abazheed from Damascus, Syria, Azores, Bazarman contributed reporting from Tel Aviv.

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Tool to Track Development Of Children Is Underused

Why New York Lags In Rates of Screening

By SARAH CARR

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — During the first year and a half of her son's life, Valerie Gregory did everything she could to help him thrive. She read to him, talked to him, showed up for wellness checks and whenever possible took him to a weekly play group, where mother and son had the chance to establish with peers.

In one of these gatherings, organizers brought along a standardized developmental questionnaire that helps assess if children are reaching milestones for their age, such as reading our correct, sitting up and moving goodbye.

Despite regular visits to the pediatrician's office, Ms. Gregory had never encountered the developmental questionnaire, known as a screener. What she ultimately learned caught her off guard.

"We was behind on walking, and he was way behind on speech," she recalled. "And New York is way behind, too, when it comes to screening infants and toddlers, often a crucial first step in determining if they have a disability or developmental delay. Only four states — Arkansas, Florida, Missouri and Nevada — do work."

In New York, about 25 percent of parents of young children report having filled out a screener in the previous 12 months, according to the state Training Survey of Children's Health, conducted by the federal government. While the survey, from 2024, provides the most recent data, it might underestimate screening 15 parents didn't recall things out a born or didn't recognize what it was.

Nationally, roughly 20 percent of parents report having completed a developmental screener recently.

"I have told people ... that checked out. It's free, and they figure out things you might not realize," Ms. Gregory said.

New York officials recently acknowledged that the state needs to improve its numbers. The State Health Department this month issued a memo to pediatricians, social workers and others who work with young children citing the law screening rate. "We are missing critical opportunities to identify developmental concerns early, educate families about developmental milestones, support their children's individual growth, and learn what to do if they have questions or concerns," the letter states.

It also announced a campaign to address the issue, including by distributing a guide of early childhood resources to families.

There's no single reason for New York's lagging rate, according to experts and medical providers. Medicaid did not cover developmental screenings in New York until a few years ago. Even now, the reimbursement rate, as less than $20 per screening, does not always offset either cost. Some states have invested more heavily in screening.

In an effort to increase screening, a growing number of communities are taking a new approach: bringing the tool from inside doctor's office to librarian, and a doctor's number and other gatherings where families congregate. In New York and 20 other states, much of this work is supported by Help Me Grow, a national network of local organizations that provides help through the Help Me Grow operates in six parts of New York State, from Long Island to the Finger Lakes.

In Onondaga County, which includes Arkansas, the number of annual screenings documented by Help Me Grow has increased from about 150 to more than 1,000.

This article was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit news society that covers education. Hechinger is an independent unit of Southern College, Columbia University.

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Above, toddlers and older infants playing at a Pacific, Balla and Blacks event at a library in Syracuse, N.Y. At gatherings like these, parents can fill out development screeners to assess if their children are hitting milestones for their age, such as sitting up. "When you are essentially a first-time parent, you don't know what tools to use," said Edythe Smith, left. Bottom, members of the Early Childhood Alliance, who are working to boost screening.

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When it comes to screenings, "it's exceptionally important to do them early and often," said Kate Ryan, who directly for Adrenalsch Birth to Three Alliance, Disney and New England why many pediatric clinics don't do the screening. The electronic tablets often used by parents to complete the questionnaires cost money, so does training for staff members as how to interpret and explain the results. And some physicians say it can be difficult to get reimbursed by insurance and Medicaid, or to incorporate screening into stamped office visits.

"We're all wondering why we don't identify conditions early — it's not because it's not recommended," said Smith House, senior manager of infant and early childhood mental health at the national child development advocacy organization Zero to Three. "It's because it's not getting confidented."

While provider participation has historically been the biggest obstacle to universal screening, parent hesitancy can play a role, experts say. Parents who take the initiative to seek out screening and disproportionately "those who are with resourced and know about child development and want reinforcement that their child is developing as hoped," Ms. Ryan said.

"You don't see those who are in generalized poverty and maybe have bad negative experiences with child development," she added.

Adrenalsch for young children worry that President Trump's immigration crackdown presents a new barrier. Families who are nervous about citizenship status "are avoiding 'well child' checks, period," Ms. House said. That makes it all the more critical to bring screenings into the community.

Early one spring evening, caregivers, including parents and grandparents, brought their children to the Beth Branch Library in Syracuse. The children, mostly older infants and toddlers, joined balla, ebook diabetes and bridder, to get started while the adults chatted with representatives from the Early Childhood Alliance Onondaga.

At home of these gatherings, called Books, Balla and Blacks, parents fill out a developmental screen in the night, they left with a QR code to complete it at home.

Since 2010, the Early Childhood Alliance

ence has worked with doctor's offices, child-care centers, libraries, public schools and the county government to boost screening. In its early years, the campaign struggled to reach 1,000 annual screenings. Last year, the number approached 3,000.

Even when there's a demonstrated need for early intervention, wait him can be long, especially in rural New York. The data tracks low out just 10 screening rates but in timely delivery of early intervention services.

A few weeks after the event at the Syracuse library, one mother, Edythe Smith, received an email with the screening results. She learned that her daughter was hitting her milestones but could use more support with communication. The Help Me Grow team sent books, cards and appropriate games for Ms. Smith to help nurture her daughter's speech. "The story is that I studied linguistic anthropology, and language and communication mean a great deal to me," Ms. Smith said. "But when you are essentially a first-time parent, you don't know what tools to use."

Ms. Gregory credits her family's screening at the play group with reading to recognize the fact one that goes him a stronger start in school and life.

She knew almost immediately after the screening that there would be more follow up. An early intervention specialist came to the house to do a full evaluation. "She was like, 'He's behind on this and this and that.'" Ms. Gregory recalled. When her son walked out of the kitchen during the session drinking from an open cup — canopies told for big age — the specialist looked surprised. "I take it that is the only thing he is ahead on," Ms. Gregory remembered quipping. "She laughed so hard."

A speech therapist got Ms. Gregory's son to communicate through hand gestures first, then used motivational strategies to trust him to start saying words. "'Mone' was an early one, enticed by his best of what, if true for that early support, Ms. Gregory said her son might have arrived at prekindergarten with low, if any, words.

Today, at the age of 18, he knows thousands of words and may be ready to graduate out of speech therapy next year. Without that timely screening, his mother said, "he would probably be a lot harder to understand."

6,600 since the campaign began in 2010, and organizers see greater parent engagement with children's development.

"It's been 25 years of an trying to maintain people to do it," said Liz Isakson, executive director of Dece for Test on Long Island, whose organization oversees Help Me Grow there. "Oftentimes, the best way to get to change is to have people ask for it."

Doctors routinely screen children in all kinds of ways — measuring and weighing them, and testing their vision and hearing. But a 2000 recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics called for a standardized developmental screener to be administered when children are 9, 18 and 20 months old.

A typical screening questionnaire

might ask questions such as those about an 18-month-old: Does your child say two or three words that represent different ideas together, such as 'Not dog.' 'Monday come home,' or 'Kitty gone?' Does your child walk well and seduce kid?

Being flagged by a screener is not the same as a diagnosis. The hope is that families like Ms. Green's is with great other evaluation and follow-up. That can come from a developmental pediatrician or through early intervention programs, which provide federally mandated help for children with developmental delays and disabilities up to age 5. One study released this year found that New York City children who had received the services through age 3 outperformed their peers on third-grade reading and math

More Parents Are Opting Out of Vaccinating Their Children, the C.D.C. Says

The article is by Sally Bannikish, Best State and Feminists Paris.

As a time when measles and other potentially deadly diseases are spreading, more American children are receiving exemptions allowing them to attend school without the undue childhood short-time can prevent against these diseases.

Bought a percent of kindergartners in the United States were given a nonmedical exemption for at least one vaccine during the 2020-2030 period, as they cost rungs from the previous year, according to new data released on Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That run, the largest annual vaccine coverage in more than one case, comes as a growing number of states look to insure vaccine mandates or even do away with them entirely.

Exemption rates varied dramatically by state. While all states allow students

to opt out of vaccine requirements for certain medical conditions, some also allow exemptions for religious or personal reasons.

In Utah, which has some of the most relaxed laws around school vaccine requirements, nearly 15 percent of kindergartners had a religious or personal exemption for at least one routine shot. The state is also in the midst of a mendrifying measles outbreak that has followed more than 700 people. New York, which stopped allowing parents to opt out for religious reasons in 2019, reported no nonmedical exemptions.

For new data has shopped concern among public health experts that American communities are losing the levels of immunity needed to protect against a number of highly contagious illnesses.

The findings were released a week after President Trump issued an executive order calling for children to get fewer vaccines. While the executive order can-

tell three states to change their vaccine policies, it was the latest in a series of actions by the administrators that experts have warned are likely to undermine confidence in vaccine safety.

Vaccination rates among U.S. kindergartners dropped slightly during the 2020-20 school year, leading by 9.1 percentage points from the previous year, according to the new data.

Even small dips in vaccination rates can leave the nation vulnerable to highly contagious diseases, like measles, said Dr. Isola O'Leary, a member of the infectious disease committee at the American Academy of Pediatrics. "I am not sure the midst of the worst year for measles in recent history, as the virus continues to spread through pockets of under-vaccinated people around the United States.

Even though these drops in the per capita of years have been relatively small, they're meaningful," Dr. O'Leary said. "They are leading us to have dis-

sues that we really should not see here in the U.S."

Vaccination rates have been declining in the United States for years. They fell during the Covid-19 pandemic, as routine demonstrations were disrupted, and as contracts in the medical establishment grew, and they have not yet telewashin.

Still, the new data show that childhood vaccination rates remain high overall, about 10 percent of kindergartners received routine vaccinations for diseases like measles, pertussis and polio.

"Despite everything we've seen around vaccines over the past several decades, we are slightly 10 percent concerned to support vaccines and continue to vaccinate their children," said Jason Schwartz, an associate professor of adult policy at the Yale School of Public Health.

Public health researchers noted that while a vast majority of parents are still vaccinating their children, there are

places within the United States where rates are far lower than 10 percent. That includes in places like Lancaster County, Pa., and Spartanburg County, S.C. — both at the center of large measles outbreaks this year.

The rise in exemptions from vaccine mandates is a dangerous trend, said Dr. Walter Orematch, the former director of the National Immunization Program at the C.D.C.

Vaccine mandates also help protect children who cannot get vaccinated, and even those who have gotten the shots, Dr. Orematch said, since no vaccine is 100 percent effective.

Many people have gone so long without encountering a vaccine permissible disease like measles that they do not see the onset or get immunized against it, he said.

"Vaccines are victims of their own success," he said. "And we're beginning to see that even more."

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Trump's Mission to Finish Building a Border Wall

$47 Billion Allocated for Project With 2027 Completion Goal

By ZIKIR LEVITT

During his first term, President Trump promised to wall off the southwestern border of the United States, but he ended up mostly replacing existing barriers.

Now with almost $47 billion in dedicated funding for the wall from his signature policy legislation enacted in July last year, the current administration is aiming to finish the job, even as illegal crossings have fallen to historic laws.

It all adds up to at least 1,200 miles of primary and secondary wall, in addition to other kinds of barriers and detection technologies. It is the administration's largest planned construction project and could take years to complete, though officials have set a goal to finish the primary wall by late next year.

In Mr. Trump's first term, his administration completed about 450 miles of border wall, and most of that involved upgrading existing housing. Democrat, in Congress repeatedly fought funding for the wall, leading Mr. Trump to declare a national emergency in order to enforce military and Treasury funds to ward the project.

But now he has an enormous amount of money behind it. The $47 billion designated for border wall projects last year is more than all border wall funding combined over the past 20 years. This money can be spent through September 2025.

The reasoned effect to build the wall comes as an authorized border crossings have plummeted in re-

cent years after reaching high levels under the Billion administration.

Widespread backlash to the wall — from landowners, environmental groups and activists — slowed Mr. Trump's progress during his first term, legislation has been more round this time around, as public attention has been focused on the administration's widespread immigration crackdown.

The administration's critics say low border-crossing numbers show that there is no need for additional border barriers, especially in rural areas that currently do not have a wall, like the Big Bend region of Texas. Residents and officials in that area have successfully convinced the administration to back down from plans to build new walls near popular recreation sites.

How the Administration Plans to Bolster the Border Wall

PRIMARY WALL

U.S. - Mexico border

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Roughly 600 miles of existing primary wall, with large gaps. When Mr. Trump took office, these areas already had primary wall — the barriers closed to the border that are usually 18- to 24 feet tall steel fences.

PLANNED

Over 700 miles of planned new and replacement primary wall!

UNDER

SUBDIVISION At least 300 miles of primary wall are under construction or have been completed.

RIGHBED

The Trump administration has awarded more than $32 billion in construction contracts.

PLANNED

Over 500 miles of planned secondary wall to augment the existing wall.

Roughly 75 miles of existing secondary wall!

PLANNED

VEHICLE BARRIER No wall is planned in the Big Bend region of Texas, but Customs and Border Protection plans to build about 1,800 miles of shorter vehicle barriers there instead.

WATERBORNE BARRIER

500 miles of bulges will be anchored along the Rio Grande in southern Texas to better regranate from crossing through the water.

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TECHNOLOGY ONLY This agency plans to install sensors and smart cameras in places with existing barriers.

ROADS AND TECHNOLOGY New access roads in the Big Bend region.

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Border Barrier in Big Bend Is Paused Amid Pushback

By A DAVID GOODMAN

Border security construction in Big Bend National Park has been temporarily halted, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner, Rodney Scott, has said, building a visit this week in West Texas to assess the project.

Contractors had been building a new patrol road and vehicle barriers along the border with Mexico, carving a path with bulldozers and contractors through some of the federal park's major natural structures.

On Monday, opponents of the construction, who have been monitoring for progress, said the power of the project already is to effect.

"They're not working. We didn't see any contractor traffic at all," said Jesus Cantrell, who lives in nearby Tortegan, Texas. She was in the park on Monday and Mariscal Mountain, a remote peak along the Rio Grande where construction work was taking place last weekend.

"I'm very shy the bulldozers and it's working to state that," she said, her mother, "He is not going to rest until there's no more contract."

The work had shown national attention and bipartisan criticism. Local law enforcement officials have said that the border administration is costly and unnecessary in a desolate and undervalued area where law migrants have ever crossed, even during times of peak migration.

Mr. Scott said in a video on social media on Monday that he had paused construction activity in the park Sunday night and was traveling to the Big Bend area. The pause would last until he could "do a personal evaluation" and speak with local officials, including law enforcement.

The message from Mr. Scott continued with a statement he put out on Thursday in which he suggested that no construction had been taking place in the park.

"What people are seeing right now is survey and design work," he said in the statement.

The construction has proceeded based on waivers of environmental and other laws by the Trump administration for border construction. Several lawsuits have been filed seeking to halt the work in Big Bend National Park.

Federal officials are on longer planning a service with them. Instead, they have said, contractors

Putting the brakes to the bulldozers at a national treasure.

are building a new access road along the border, installing detection technology and carrying vehicle barriers. The park includes 110 miles of the U.S. Mexico border.

The construction has managed many people across Texas for its speed, as well as its seeming disregard for a prized piece of untrammeled wilderness in a state without much power, polluted.

Ladies Jordahl, an advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity and a former wilderness fellow for the National Park, said the public came after a weekend of "preventable" damage to parts of the desert ecosystem, particularly around Mariscal Mountain. The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit seeking to help the work.

The cart pick up a rush and take it home from Big Bend National Park, and yet we're seeing these federal contractors gauging a permanent seat! Mr. Jordahl said, although he welcomed the pause to construction activity, he said opponents would not step "until this whole project is "occupied for good."

Family Presses for Findings On ICE Shooting in Maine

By MAIA SPOTH

and MURRAY CAMPENTER

HIGHWEIGHT, Maine — The Department of Homeland Security said its inspector general would investigate an agent's decision to open fire on a Colombian immigrant last month in Maine. But scant information about the inquiry has frustrated the victim's family.

The man, Johan Sebastian Durkin Guerrero, was killed by an immigration agent during a day 13 confrontation in the coastal city of Biddeford, his/her the D.H.S. re-immigration and Customs Enforcement has said publicly whether Mr. Durkin Guerrero, 15, was the target of the enforcement operation. But the D.H.S. defended the officer who opened fire, saying he had done so while "hearing for public safety."

In an effort to draw attention to the many unanswered questions, Democratic members of Congress held a public forum on Monday in Biddeford and were joined by Mr. Durkin Guerrero's relatives in demanding more information.

The auditorium where the forum was held was packed, with about 200 people, many of them wearing 3 inlets and carrying placards critical of ICE. The crowd punctuated the lawmakers' comments with maroon applause, and occasional chants of "ICE out," and "alcohol ICE."

Representative Chello Plogma, a Democrat of Maine, who organized the forum, said that the lack of video footage was concerning.

"If there were active leads such as on every law enforcement member who was participating there, we wouldn't be looking at some scranky videos from one man that's over here, or one person that's standing in their doorway that's trying to get it," Ms. Plogma said at a news conference after the hearing. "We would actually know every moment that's happened at the scene."

The shooting in Maine came two times a week after a local immigration encounter in Houston, and the two deaths prompted a brush over the problem on aggressive enforcement tactics by federal agents carrying out President Trump's mass deportation campaign.

Ben Gideon, a lawyer representing the family of Mr. Durkin Guerrero, said at the news conference that the man's partner, Karolina Major, has been interviewed by state investigators but had not been contacted by any of the federal agencies involved.

"Any reasonable investigation

Alan Floar contributed reporting,

would include interviewing the family and eyewitnesses," Mr. Gideon said.

The D.H.S. had told that agents were monitoring what they believed to be the fume of someone who was in the country illegally and had been issued a removal order.

The D.H.S. and the Department of Justice declined to answer direct questions about whether the killing was being investigated. The Justice Department referred the question to the D.H.S., which said that its inspector general

Many unanswered questions after a Colombian's death.

would investigate the discharge of the agent's firearm but said nothing about investigating Mr. Durkin Guerrero's death.

Immigration agents have shot at more than 20 people during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, including many who were in vehicles, some of them family.

Mr. Durkin Guerrero had a pending section application and a valid work permit, and no removal order, Ms. Plogma said.

Mr. Durkin Guerrero had worked as a fund delivery driver and a cleaner as a veterinary clinic. He and his partner had a 3-year-old daughter.

Gov. Janet Mills of Maine said at the hearing that she was heartbroken by the shooting but that she was confident that the state attorney general, Aaron Terry, will contact a thorough investigation.

Mayor Liam LaFouenian of Biddeford also addressed the officials. He said that Biddeford has been devastated by the shooting and that there has been no federal support to deal with the aftermath.

"The authority was federal," Mr. LaFouenian said. "The burden has been back."

Omar Durkin, Mr. Durkin Guerrero's father, said he feels "a deep pain" when Mr. Durkin Guerrero's daughter asks why her father doesn't come from home now.

"The death of Johan Sebastian, under these conditions, at the hands of ICE, fills our community with fear and uncertainty," he said. "That is why I ask only if I can deal if the justice system that my son's case is through is right, along with the case of the many others who have had to go through something like this."

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The Kull BBQ restaurant, left, offers an all-hold menu in Irving, Texas. The city is in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, which has become a magnet for Muslims. Center, Farhat Shukla, a doctor in Frisco, has had a candidate for mayor who called for unity; some of his opponent's supporters warned of a Muslim "takeover." Right, volunteers at a Feeding Our Neighbors event at Maajol al-Islam in Dallas.

Anti-Muslim Feelings Among Texans Sharpen To a Brazen Campaign

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porters after video of her comments circulated widely. In McKinney, a Dallas suburb, a woman grabbed a farmer mayor and stalled paper with an anti-Muslim message down his shirt during a heated City Council hearing over a mosque expansion.

"Learning from alone in this environment, it would be a little overtaxme," Mr. Rebar said of his family. "It's just the fear of what's being opened out there."

He arranged for his family to join him on his deployment near the Canadian border as soon as they could get there.

Mr. Rebar, who grew up in California, is part of a growing number of Muslims who moved to Texas in recent decades in search of good schools, affordable homes and a thriving community of fellow believers. The Dallas-Fort Worth area has been a particularly strong magnet for families like his. Dozens of mosques have opened. Some are expanding. Others, like the glittering Delano Shazoo of Peace, south of Dallas, aim to provide new air-chem for Muslim communities in Texas.

"This is the place to be for American Muslims," said "American Azores, who moved to Irving from Detroit after discovering the community through religious videos online. "I made a prayer: Please. God, send me to Irving."

But as the communities have grown, so

A sign at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Congresses this spring, Texas' governor and attorney general have opened investigations into Muslim institutions.

has the investment against Muslims.

"The promise to combat 'radical Islam' has long been a part of Republican politics. The language has only intensified nationally. in Muslims like African Mandans, the democratic socialist mayor of New York City, and Abdul-El-Sayed, the progressive Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, won major races.

But politicians in Texas have gone beyond words, turning the power of the state against some Muslim groups.

A major turning point arrived early last year, after members of the East Plano Islamic Center provided plans for a real estate development centered on a new mosque in farmland east of Dallas. The opposition was immediate and intense.

State leaders, including Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton, have since opened investigations into Muslim institutions across Texas. They've sought to block the real estate development and investigate religious diverts counseling. Mr. Abbott threatened to take state funding from Texas airports that provide cloud washing stations for Muslim travelers, ordered the cancellation of a private water park party contributing a Muslim subsidy and labeled the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national civil rights group, on a terrorist group — a step that the Trump administration has to far out taken. (Florida followed Texas in applying the same label to CAIR.)

Elberty by Republican state leaders to restrict Islamic practice have coincided with a push to expand Christianity's place in public life. In 2019, Texas became the first state to mandate Bible readings in public schools, where lawmakers had already required prayer

Edgar Sandoval contributed reporting from San Antonio, Santa Ana, Galveston, Texas, Texas, and AZI Address from New York.

time and the posting of the Ten Commandments.

For many conservative voters in Texas, Islam has replaced the border as a major concern since early last year. Republican consultants have said, both Muslim activists and hard-right candidates have increasingly described Islam as incompatible with American values. They warn that the United States could soon look like Europe, where Muslim populations are larger.

"I won't rest until every Muslim is gone," one statewide Republican candidate, Bo French, wrote on social media this summer.

Muslim leaders in Texas have debated how to respond. Some counseled outreach. Others were frustrated with the return of language that had been rapidly dormant since the Sept. 11, 2005, attacks despite years of trying to better interfaith understanding.

"We've constantly tried to point to our record, and hope that our record will organically speak for itself." Dr. Omar Suleiman, a prominent Muslim scholar, said in an interview at the Valley Ranch mosque. "We want that, and it did nothing for us."

The moment called for a posture of "strength," Mr. Suleiman said, and a robust legal defense against what do said were false attacks. "We have to actually make lying legally and politically costly to these people," he said. "We have to fight them back."

He pointed to the religious promotions afforded by the U.S. Constitution as the basis for such a defense. But recently, hard-line conservatives have been looking for a way to deny those promotions.

In what would be an apparent first, one avenue being explored in Texas is to try to use state law to ban or regulate some Islamic cultural practices, such as tribunals for marriage and other decisions governed by religious rules, often referred to as libarish law.

Some want to do it as soon as the Texas Legislature meets next year.

"One of the first things we're going to try to do is define what a religion is," said State Representative Alan Schaeckrath, a San Antonio Republican. "Islam itself is not just a religion. It's much more than a religion."

Growing Part of Texas

Texas' Muslim population remains small, around 1 or 2 percent of all residents. Precise figures are hard to come by, because the census does not ask about religion, but surveys by the Pew Research Center, and estimates by state officials, put the population between 200,000 and 500,000 people. Among the most populous states, only New York and Illinois have a higher share of Muslims than Texas.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area has been a popular destination. In recent years, one of the growing communities it is living around the Valley Ranch Islamic Center, the city's second mosque. Founded in 2009, the mosque has a large campus and is planning a 35,000-square-foot expansion, with a side and basketball court. At a recent nightly prayer, families struggled to find parking.

"We're growing faster than expected," said Sheikh Yaser Birjae, who has led the congregation since 2020.

Mr. Birjae said the mosque's success was in part thanks to its early embrace of technology. New people discovered its services online. Some moved to Texas to join.

One indication of the growing community comes from census data on international migration from Muslim-majority countries to the United States. That population grew in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area to more than 150,000 in 2024, from about 70,000 people a decade earlier — growing five times faster than the population at a time.

Another indication can be found in the increasing number of Muslim campaign times.

As the four biggest Dallas-Fort Worth counties, the number of mosques and nearly tripled to 76 by 2020, up from 28 two decades earlier, according to data from local associations in Michigan State. In the city's 2020, to Collin County, a fast-growing suburban area worth of Dallas, the number quadrupled, to 12 from three.

The increase was smaller, but the number of mosques remains small. By comparison, the four counties have more than 3,000 evangelical Christian congregation.

Republican Focus

Nearly every speech at the Texas State Republican Convention in June included

'One of the first things we're going to try to do is define what a religion is. Islam itself is not just a religion. It's much more than a religion.'

ALAN SCHOELONAT is Republican state representative from San Antonio, on a legislation effort to regulate practices like libarish law.

some expression of anti-Muslim sentiment. Multiple conference panels warned of a Muslim invasion. Combining libarish law — the Islamic state that guides the observant — was named a top legislative priority.

In the convention hall, the Texas History's new Sharia-Five Caucus had been, Amy Mekelberg, a prominent anti-Muslim influencer, presented a video warning that Texas furtherese restaurants were being replaced by "drink shopping places" — part of a coordinated "takeover."

The focus on Muslims gained new traction with President Trump's first White House run. In 2015, the mayor of Irving, Beth Van Duyne, gained national attention by calling against libarish law. (She is now a member of Congress.) Two years later, Texas Republicans passed anti-libarish legislation as part of a wave of bills pushed by the Center for Security Policy, a hard-right Washington think tank.

For a time, the party moved away from Islam to concentrate on immigration, the pandemic and greater politics.

But some on the far right, the future, is not a different and more contentious message: that Islam is not a religion but a political ideology.

Photographs by DEODREE BIDS for The New York Times

Then came the proposed real estate development with a mosque outside Dallas, known as the time an EPIC City. "This is how the West falls," Mr. Mekelberg wrote on social media in February last year.

Her language caught Mr. Abbott's attention, and his own initiated state investigation into the proposed development and the mosque community, the East Plano Islamic Center, or EPIC, that supported it.

Anthony Hides, a Republican political consultant, said concerns about Islam were an extension of Republican voters' fears about illegal immigration — and help explain Mr. Abbott's focus. "Anything he does to politidrosis" Mr. Hides said of the governor.

Mr. Abbott has used his terror designation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to try to restrict other Islamic groups. The council is challenging the designation to court.

"We experience waves of Islamophobia," said Shumma Zayed of CAIR's Austin chapter. "This is the worst wave."

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Zenshan Hallock, a tech executive, coaches a basketball team that includes many players from the Valley Ranch Islamic Center, a large mosque in Irving.

Morning prayer at the Valley Ranch Islamic Center, above, and left, outside the mosque: "We're growing faster than expected," said its leader, Sheikh Yaser Bejan. While the number of mosques has risen sharply in the Dallas Fort Worth area, it is dwarfed by more than 3,000 evangelical Christian churches.

Foreseeing a Religious Clash

About 300 people gathered at a Dallas movie theater in late May to watch a documentary film killed as revealing "the disastrous effect of Islam in America."

The event's spaniest included a nearby Christian ministry, a group of Jewish conservatives, several Republican women's groups and two local county Republican parties.

"Most of the people that are speaking up are Christian," Frank S. Pearce, the Elers director, who is Catholic, said as he stingled by the peacock machine.

As the Muslim population has grown in Texas, an assertive Christianity has also taken root. Hard-line conservative Christians characterize the situation not as a demographic shift, but as a spiritual battle.

The documentary "The Great American Conflict," contained a mix of demagogical, political and cultural warnings. It depicted Islam as a force that could pull communities to the left — citing Mr. Mandalani of New York — and also threaten women's freedom.

The audience heard that Texas was at the center of this cultural struggle.

"This is the battlefield right now," Dr. Ali Shaleifanik, a host on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, said at the event.

Barbara Isaacs, an activist in Cullen County, distributed a paraplot encouraging Texans to get involved with their local governments to prevent or slow the construction of mosques.

"Share this with your friends, your church members," she urged the crowd.

What Is Assimilation?

Patton Shukh, a doctor living in Prisco, north of Dallas, noted outside a polling place during a sharply contested inspirational month election in June.

For many on the hard right, Prisco — with its large South Asian and Muslim populations — was the epicenter of the fight for Texas' future.

Dr. Shukh urged voters to support Mark Hill, a former school-based trainee, who vowed to come the city. Mr. Hill's opponent, Rod Vibaut, talked about the need for Muslims to assemble into American culture, and stated his opponent's warped at a Muslim "takeover."

Mr. Hill provided in the election. Still, for Dr. Shukh, the division campaign put Muslims like her to a kind of lead.

Assimilation means joining institu-

tions and being "part of the decision making," the task. "It's part of the PTA, a volunteer for my community. I'm a practicing physician. I am assimilating." But being active can also be attached as trying to "take over," the task.

The question of assimilation has animated Texas legislators like Mr. Schmitcraft, and fueled calls for a definition of religion in Texas law. Mr. Schmitcraft hoped such legislation would help the Muslims to more fully assimilate and not create restraints, such as the EPEC City development.

"I'm not saying totally abandon your culture," Mr. Schmitcraft said. "But try to become a citizen where you're living. Otherwise there's going to be conflict."

Texas Republicans have warned of Muslims' seeking to create a parallel policy system. Some pointed to a much foreshadow old organization based in Dallas, the Islamic Tribunal, which provides religious consultation to women seeking distress, including in absence marriages. Mr. Panton began an investigation.

A lawyer for the organization, Maria Kari, said its religious guidance — like that of a Jewish rabbinical court or a Catholic tribunal — was presented by the First Amendment.

"We are not a court," said Tudor El-Badami, who founded the Islamic Tribunal.

Recurring Islam as a political ideology would be unprecedented as a legislature strategy, said Ames T. Uddin, a religious liberty lawyer, and "a way of winning the religious liberty right before a sovereign defining the other side out of the category."

American courts have avoided defraying religion over the years. In 1945, the former middleman of the state's own newspaper, arguing it was not entitled to be created as a lesson of worship because Islam was not a religion.

The Justice Department responded in a brief that "I think it is a religious religion" presented by the First Amendment. Whether the department under Mr. Trump would take the same position in an open question.

For now, Mr. Muslim institutions have defended themselves on constitutional and legal grounds, and presented to continue their work.

"The Muslim community is a huge community in Dallas and they need help," said Mr. El-Badami of the Islamic Tribunal. "We are religious help. That's all."

Texas Tech Turns to A.I. to Identify, And Curtail, Left-Leaving Content

By VIRAL PATEL

The Texas Tech faculty meeting began annually this spring, with offers of refreshments. Their administrative handed out reports, created partly by artificial intelligence, listing the lessons professors needed to stop teaching.

"What?" one professor asked. "I don't even teach those things."

"There are factual errors," added another.

"It's A.I. stop," a third said. Texas Tech is using A.I. to form out books and other materials that teach students to read at execution and gender identity. Professors describe the effort as a dystopian academic nightmare, in which ideologues are wielding technology to sideline subject-matter experts.

That is not how the Texas Tech system's leader, Brandon Creighton, were things.

Mr. Creighton, a former state lawmaker who has been heading the five-university system since November, is the hero behind the effort. He has said there is "quite a bit of garbage in curriculum" at universities.

His course covers plan, he said, "will produce the best curriculum in America."

"I also believe it will be a national model when we're finished," he added.

Mr. Creighton is tackling two of higher education's most pressing problems, at least in the eyes of its Republican critics and others who argue that universities need to be returned. Academia needs to rebuild but public trust as campuses have been left and to make itself more relevant in the era of artificial intelligence, they say.

In an interview, Mr. Creighton fired off a blunt of concerns about higher education shared by Republican politicians across the country. He said that diversity, equity and inclusion efforts discontinued against Asian students, campus protests often turned anti-nationist, and diversity statements — which he has called "xthin' loyalty cards" — subdued conservatives at faculty listing.

Politics said, Mr. Creighton has said an A.I.-based wave will forever reshape higher education in the years ahead. He said he wanted the campus to be well positioned to take advantage of that paradigm shift by focusing on degrees that employers want and eliminating low-enrollment programs. He promises a partnership with Nvidia to invest in A.I. infrastructure.

But Mr. Creighton's moves have tapped into existential anxieties haunting professors. Many worry that limits on their academic freedom are struggling. Poor work even as technology moves faster to speed education than they can keep up.

"There's a level of stress that's very hard to replace," said Lucy Schill, the state's leading professor who was asked to switch out a book she wanted to assign. She said she broke down in tears when she realized the scope of Mr. Creighton's plans.

Growing At All Leverage

Mr. Creighton represents something of a trend in our states like Florida and Texas: a former Republican lawmaker tapped so higher education in the U.S. Florida, at least seven college presidents are being Republican politicians, as are the heads of both the Texas A&B and University of Texas in Dallas.

Even so, Mr. Creighton sticks out. He was behind some of the state's most consequential legislation targeting higher education. He was also on the ground that year that subdued the role faculty play in generating universities and tightened the state's grip on curriculum. He also writes a bill entitled to shift that abolished D.E.I. offices in the state's public universities.

Mr. Creighton, who is from Denver, Texas, north of Houston, earned a bachelor degree in government from the University of Texas at Austin and a law degree from Oklahoma City University. He said his views in higher education have been a major factor in his own difficulties paying for college.

Texas Tech's main campus, in Lubbock, part of one of the state'sாவின் districts, includes an agricultural community college, along with a career dedicated to free-market economics. The university has a politically diverse faculty and student body.

The school's decision has argued that conservatives have been treated unfairly as a policy and some faculty members have become ratified after his administrative position, a series of escalating directives.

Reason in November and April outlined the closeness of programs centered on sexual orientation or social issues, required the recognition of only two issues and outlawed stature. The university on gender identity. The administrative also created a portal in which professors must submit their

Brandon Creighton, above, the chancellor of the five universities in the Tech Tech system and a former state lawmaker, is clamping down on teaching about gender and sexuality. The system's main campus in Lubbock, top, is in a right-leaning part of the state.

course materials for review.

The strictest prohibition of Texas Tech is on classes in the core curriculum, which are a means of lower-level courses that students must have had two in order to graduate. Mr. Creighton has learned any course in the core that includes material related to sexual orientation and gender identity.

Some biopsy and private practice professors, worried about her core course, called Holocaust on Literature. Because it mentions that just and listened men were also targets for the university leadership suggested that the course became an upper-level course.

"Now the Holocaust becomes an elective," she said.

Texas Tech is also making changes beyond the core. June, than Friedman, with PEN America, a free-expression group, said that while the five universities across Texas are reviewing curriculum, Texas Tech has gone the farthest. The university is "vignig" forward toward greater and greater of ideological control," he said.

Last month, the American Association of University Professors, used the university, saying the course review effort is a more discriminative that violates the First Amendment.

Some students have voiced concerns. One student group started a problem between Mr. Creighton from office, saying he was unfit to serve. But some conservative students support the chancellor.

Mr. Creighton is bringing ideological balance to a sector that is overwhelmingly liberal, and Preston Parsons, the local chapter president of Turning Point USA, a conservative group.

"It is necessarily a bad thing that we have universities that utilize different on different classes," Mr. Parsons asked.

In the interview, Mr. Creighton said that only 60 or so courses in more than 14,000 taught in the university system were recommended for modification, and system officials have said that another 200 courses were "productively" modified by faculty members before review.

He also said that the course review effort has been deliberative, with many layers, including a Board of Regents committee, and that A.I. was just one step to make it more efficient. Most of the work was done by humans, he added.

Self-Censuring Grows

Some professors are self-censuring in a soul running ideal of the new platform.

Ms. Schill is the creative writing professor, said the new directives exercised teaching about "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" but do not define themselves. "They're making us do the work of reading between the very obvious lines," she said, "and over-cumplifying out of fear that we might be expected or expected from our work or disciplines."

Jacob Bell, a Modern of Islamic, said he worried about how to discuss Joan of Arc, who was harmed at the state by, among other reasons, the "sister of the Creighton's means about gender-exempts longitudinal should not historically significant figures. Still, any references must be "purely incidental," according to

the April memo.

Dr. Bell removed two weeks of study about Viking men and women. He said Viking mythological poems often featured gender-changing plots like Lute and Odin, material he no longer felt comfortable teaching.

When asked about Dr. Bell's case, Mr. Creighton suggested that professors can make pre-emptive decisions and rather sub-ject materials to the university system for review.

Dr. Bell wore a different route. He believes that future Texas Tech students will be "superposed to do much normal people in the world that they're going to interact with." He recently accepted a new job, as a public university on the East Coast.

A faculty senate survey from May found that about 50 percent of respondents changed their course content without being asked to comply with the new directives.

Survey respondents also said they worried about irreparable reputational damage. One said Mr. Creighton's directives amounting to "using a chain saw to remove a sphere".

Mr. Creighton struggled off the concerns. He said many professors were supportive of the changes, though they were not vocal, and noted other university systems were implementing their own course-censeter reviews.

"One is absolutely the most deliberative and respectful of academic freedom," he said, adding, "it has never been more exciting to have an opportunity to be a faculty member at the Texas Tech University System."

Merry Sylvester, a fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank, called Mr. Creighton's effort "fractious and meticulous" and said legislation written by Mr. Creighton had been critical in wrestling control of universities from faculty members.

"Texas is the model for the nation in retaining our universities again in places of open debate. I've myself, getting rid of ideological miscalculation and creating progress of value for students," Ms. Sylvester said, adding, "faculty members need to remember that they are state employees."

At the faculty meeting this spring, a couple dozen professors questioned administrators, including Ronald Hendrick, Texas Tech University's top academic officer.

Dr. Hendrick, couple between his merged faculty and Mr. Creighton's plan, said he did not know the Texas Tech system would be using A.I. in the office.

In an interview, Professor Schill first said her report had a second invitation about a course she was not teaching.

"I did refer to one book she teaches, however: 'Voice of the First' by Lars Horn, who says he is the first to be a student. The book, which is described by the publisher as exploring 'the' state experience through themes of water, fish and mythology," must be switched out. Mr. Schiller did not make the changes. Rather, she left the university and started at Citicand College this month.

"I loved my job here until this year," she said.

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Can A.I. Fix the National Debt? It Might Help.

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problem, but it will not be enough to solve it."

The consequences of A.I. for the budget will largely image on window — and to what extent — the technology reshapes the labor market.

The bulk of America's tax-revenue comes from the money people under working. That is true. The just because most of the nation's income is general comes from work, rather than from investments is much or other business profits. But labor income is also taxes! at a higher rate than capital income, a effective of a long half-belief in Washington that for the taxes on capital helps encourage more investment and economic growth.

In the scenario in which A.I. makes workers more productive without making their jobs obsolete would be a positive outcome for the budget. Wages and tax receipts would go up. Companies and investors would also make more money and pay more taxes, albeit at lower rates.

It becomes more complicated if A.I. replaces at least some human labor, all while supercharging the profits that companies and investors make. That would mean more of the nation's total income comes from low-tax capital rather than labor. Overall tax revenue could still increase, but by less than if the labor share of income stayed what it is now.

In an analysis of several different potential fiscal measures, we ascribe the Yale Budget Lab found that the revenue being from rapid A.I.-induced growth could be about half an large in 2016 if a greater share of income accrued to capital.

Then there is the possibility that A.I. takes every person's job, creates an even more economically stratified facility and spends American taxation entirely. (Not to mention the possibility that A.I. becomes adept at creating novel strategies for avoiding taxes.) This arguably prompts a review, while not the base case for many economists, has started in guide ideas for addressing even a much less direct loss of job because of A.I. only spends more than spending more on support for people not of work to redesigning the tax system.

As David Arnoldi, the leader of the Budget Lab, if it is a limited money, the world billionaires should support the creation of "a more-to-do" tax policy, "I think," if they don't support a good version, they'll inevitably get a bad version designed by a mob.

That among these possible tax revenues is a major factor in the long term of the long term of capital gains, imposing new taxes on partnerships or creating down on the income tax system for the seafarers. There are also some Democrats who want to raise taxes on A.I. companies or activities specifically, a potentially poor tax system. The most tax experts choose to favor of broader changes in how capital is taxed.

But some economists see the need to increase the capital as an amount and would rather backfill any loss revenue with a value called tax, a levy similar to a sales tax that is common in advanced com-

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onies. Many public-finance experts have long hoped the United States would start taxing on companies and not it as a cash-in-cash for the use no matter what the future holds.

"The good thing is that it is a fairly critical policy recommendation, in that even in the current-judgive many economists favor one exception: taxation," said Lee Hockley, an economist at the University of Virginia.

Of course, taxes are just one side of the fiscal ledger. Even if Congress does not dedicate significant new resources to something like a universal basic income, A.I. could still increase how much money the federal government should every year.

If A.I. helps scientists develop better medical care, for example, the average American life expectancy might increase. While larger human lives would be a good thing, it would also come as a cost to the budget. The government would have to spend more on Social Security and Medicare to keep delivering those benefits

in retired people for longer. A lesson in A.I. investment could also increase demand from companies for financing, raising price not rates across the economy. That could raise one of the government's other top costs: the inter-

The trick is not putting too many people out of work.

not it pays on the debt. So far this fiscal year, which ends after next year, the Treasury has paid $1.2 billion in interest, more than it spends on the military pool most other government programs.

How these different factors for the fiscal system actually turn out is highly uncertain, just as the consequences of A.I. for the economy — and humanity — are uncertain. A wild card is how the political system responds to the changes A.I. ushers forth, include

ing any new surge in fiscal health. But that is, the director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution, researchers attending a conference around 2001, after a technology-generated jump in productivity in the 1990s had helped create fiscal surpluses. A major fiscal of the conference was what would happen to the financial system once the United States retired all of its debt.

That never happened. Congress responded to the results by repeatedly cutting costs, including as recently as last year. The country went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The debt grew quite a bit.

The historic line is that most projections proved so incredibly true that I will likely always question the overwhelming estimates of outgrowing our fiscal տومodance." Mr. Harris said, "That same concessionaire and A.I. optimists were again preparing our next year's growth rates. I am minded use of the optimism of the early 2000s."

In other words, even A.I. might not be able to make a few taxis.

Colorado Election Denier Is Courted in California

By JACK HEATH

Ten months after her early release from prison, the election dinner has been made without prospect: helping to overuse voting in a conservative corner of Northern California where claims of election fraud have taken over.

The news came in that she, when Clint Curtis, the clerk and registrar of voters in Shasta County, Calif., told a conservative radio-base that he was planning to bring Ms. Peters to the state of the month as the new assistant registrar of voters.

"She has experienced," Mr. Curtis said. "And she's able to take the ranks and across."

Ms. Peters, who was a Colorado county clerk, was convicted in 2016 for tampering with voting machines in a scheme of law that the 2016 election was a legal against President Trump.

It was unclear how real Mr. Curtis's job offer actually was or whether Ms. Peters would accept it. Ms. Peters's prison sentence was commuted, but the term of her parole limit for ability to leave California. And the term of her parole limit for effect until January, after losing the June election in a former elections official where he had filed.

Mr. Curtis's administration immediately divided people in the county, where voters admitted by the liberal areas further work periodically over to break away to force their own "State of Jefferson."

Some Trump battles in Shasta, chaired the potential arrival of Ms. Peters, one of the most famous figures in the state, and the movement. Moderates and traditional Republican hereinafter the ridicule and scrutiny that would come if their elections were labeled even more.

"It would continue to strike controversy, disinterested and in course distrust in our elections," said Mark Plummer's Republican member of the state's district, nonpartisan board of supervisors.

Ms. Plummer said he had been deluged by results over the past day from residents saying they did not want Ms. Peters running their elections.

Senator Alex Pankka, a Democrat, also weighed in on social media, to say that Ms. Peters's having been a member of the state. The office of Gov. Gavin Newman said that the state was investing up reports of Ms. Peters's potential hiring.

Peter Talbot, a lawyer for Ms. Peters, said she was considering an offer from Shasta County, but "there's no decision made at this point."

Ms. Peters was released two prisons in June after Gov. Jacob Peltz of Colorado contested her nine-year prison sentence, but the terms of her parole require her to find employment and forbid her to leave the state or change her Colorado residents without her jurisdiction.

A spokeswoman for Colorado's Department of Correction allotted immediately request to questions about whether Ms. Peters's legal system permissible to travel to Shasta County.

Lionel Rosenfeld contributed re-joining.

Ms. Peters has traveled out of state into other prisons, including a city to the White House where the new with Ms Trump was the first transfected office, who spent months broadcasting Colorado to release her. Last week, a court hearing uncovered evidence that Trump administration officials had organized a "brainstorm call" to how to cut federal funding by calculate an income tax (US$127) method over its radio to voting machines and the conviction of Ms. Peters.

Mr. Curtis, an election skeptic over Florida, was appointed last April to serve as Shasta County's clerk and registrar of voters, and the return has been marked by conflict.

Former elections officials said there have been spelling errors on radio and filing mistakes during

Tina Peters tampered with, noting machines in Colorado.

his issues. Last week, the court's conservators heard of supervisors censured him, though he had not yet researched, according to news media reports.

Some county officials were skeptical when Mr. Curtis told a conservative radio beat on KCNR. But he was going to "pull in" Ms. Peters as the county's new assistant registrar.

Shasta County officials said that position was already occupied and that there had been no formal proposal to implement that resolution. The fact that The Colorado has made for both Larki Peters as a consultant, a move that county officials said could give him more information.

Mr. Curtis did not respond to multiple messages sending comments on Monday.

Ms. Peters would also have to be saying a critical issue in the community to the county's hiring policies, although county officials said it was unclear whether her hitney conviction would automatically disqualify her.

California is using the county over a battle measure approved by local voters that would ban most radio's voting, require hand over the radio and calculate that voters present government-based photo identification.

The office of the clerk and registrar of voters has been close to the state's office for several years, as well as the turmoil of Mr. Curtis's 15-month long tenure.

Mr. Plummer said, "I think the state will not serve as Shasta's clerk and registrar of voters from 2004 to her retirement in 2016, said its elections had enough problems to be met."

"In this of any benefit to anyone in Shasta County?" she asked. "It's just more chaos, more drama."

2nd Appeals Court Rejects Trump U.S. Attorney Tactic

By DANNY HARTH

A federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration's strategy of circumventing Congress to more freely appoint politically aligned federal prosecutors, casting fresh doubt on the practice.

The ruling on Monday from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was the second appellate decision in the last year to take issue with the administration's caucus of hearing income prosecutors in place on board of appointing permanent U.S. attorneys who require congressional confirmation.

Within hours of the ruling Monday, the Trump administration said it would appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Monday's opinion, written by Judge Eric D. Miller, a Trump opposition, upheld a lower court's order disqualifying Judge Chanda, a Trump ally who continues to lead the United States Attorney's Office to the United States Attorney's Office. The Trump administration has kept her in office beyond the expiration of her temporary appointment. In February, a day before the U.S. Supreme Court of Appeals, the Circuit, the administration nominated a permanent appointment, a defense lawyer named George Edmies, but the Senate has not contended.

Judge Miller, writing on behalf of a commission three-judge panel, ruled that the attorney general did not have the authority to "create a de facto acting U.S. attorney by

delegating all of the functions and duties of the U.S. attorney to someone else."

The Ninth Circuit decision had no another ruling, issued last December, from a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which found that Allen Haden, a former personal lawyer for President Trump, had been serving unlawfully as the U.S. attorney in New Jersey. The Trump administration did not appeal that decision, and Ms. Haden later re-agreed.

Despite the earlier ruling, the practice has continued emulation. The administration has chosen to have some U.S. attorney's officers, from Los Angeles to the Northern District of New York, run by lawyers designated as first assistant, who are not subject to the congressional approval process.

While federal judges in a district can also make appointments to fill vacancies, these appointments being immediately fired on less the judges who the administration's approval. Last month, in a major shift, Roger Rogoff, a politically appointed U.S. attorney in Seattle who was fired by the administration less than an hour after his appointment, filed a lawsuit contending his termination.

James J. Pearce, a lawyer who argued against the administration before the Ninth Circuit, said it is statement that the decision "confines what the district court—and why rather court that has no control these tactics—already found." The government cannot circumvent the Senate's role in

The Justice Department building in Washington. The administration has left interim prosecutors in place, skirting Congress.

confirming a U.S. attorney."

Anne Joseph O'Connell, a professor at Stanford University, Law School, said the Ninth Circuit ruling suggested the court was open to "a possible solution" that enabled delegating authority over the U.S. attorney's orders to be than one person. This estrangulation previously rejected by a lower court judge.

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Plan for Paint Granite Landmark Gets Approval to Inch Forward

By ZACH MONTAGUE

WASHINGTON — A judge ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration could inch forward on a plan to inch forward to a plan exterior of the Eisenhower Executive Building within.

In an order from the bench in Federal District Court in Washington, Judge Delaney, a Friedrich said that initial tests to evaluate how the paint would affect the building's walls and other preparations would not directly harm present. The judge who used to stop the effort.

But she warned that she would intervene if the administration moved ahead with a full paint job before other legal questions were settled.

Judge Friedrich said that the government's description of the immediate plan on Tuesday were far more preliminary than the full painting of the building President Trump had proposed.

The Douglas T. H. Smith, a registrar Building, built in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, said that the project was completed in 1988 and planned to absorb the growing audit of the first 1000 acres of land, that would be likely to design a new building. The first 1000 acres of land was owned by the General Federal right of use, rounding buildings, with unpainted interior properties, and the building was operated in Virginia and Maine.

Mr. Trump has said he wishes to paint the whole building. In an interview on the News in November, Mr. Trump said that the building built right now from journey to work on the project, calling the building "ugly" and its gray a call

or "be funerals."

In a news statement ahead of the hearing, Heather Martin, a White House official, said the plan included "minimally invasive" paint tests and an exploration of other measures "that would improve, restore and better preserve" the building's facade.

Historical review writer group, said in November to block the building, asking Judge Friedrich to break any effort to start the building before the project undercut environmental and architectural reviews. After the Trump administration announced its intent to move ahead with a full paint job July, the groups filed an emergency motion to stop.

While Judge Friedrich, a Trump opponent, declined to stop the testing, she ordered that the girders simply update her on the project every 15 days, She said the larger questions remain about whether the General Services Act would be approved. The girders had had been requested for the building, could delegate its maintenance to the White House.

"We would have preferred that the members having a more solid, the administration followed the legally required process, but today's decision is about limited testing," said Greg Worthmore, a lawyer from District through Partners, one of the groups suing.

The work larger questions about whether the president can paint the Eisenhower Building building, and whether the project can attempt this project from federal law remain open in this active case," he said.

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Google Makes It Easier for Campaigns to Send Fund-Raising Emails

By SHANE GOLDMACHER

Google has quietly rolled out a new program that will allow candidates, political parties and political action committees to learn easily. Payouts should, again, filter and send fund-raising appeals to the inhems of the company's many millions of email users.

The change comes after years of complaints from Republicans that Gmail's spam algorithm unfairly blocked their commitment emails more than those of their

The G.O.P. previously sued, calling the spam filter biased

Democratic counterparts, although those complaints were dismissed in court. For campaigns and PACs that meet the terms of the program, it is expected to roam an influx of cash solutions from time Gmail inhems, helping campaigns raise millions of dollars more in the fund spree to the business described.

Google chose not to defeat the new program with any badges. An email pooling an update to its Help Center on Monday. The company began to switch out to some political committees in both parties on Monday after publishing the change, according to three people briefed on the outreach who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.

Political strategies in both parties said the new policy could be deeply consequential for candidates — even if frustrating for users in the United States, who are likely to be bombarded with pleas for donations.

"Heading into the 2020 elections, Gmail users are going to be flooded with unwanted political spam because Google decided to create a V.I.P. lane for campaigns," said Kenneth Pennington, a Democratic digital strategist and veteran author back-cause. "This is bad deal for Gmail users and a gift to bad actors in the political fund-raising space."

Jose Castañeda, a spokesman for Google, said the new program resulted from an effort to provide long-term ability for both campaigns and users.

"This program is designed to connect people with the emails they want to receive while keeping them back to control of their in-hours," he said in a statement. "In participant, both smokers must meet strict security and compliance requirements, ensuring that messages people receive are relevant, useful and verified."

The new program is not to begin in Sept. 8, the day after Labor Day — and the day before Republicans are set to hold a new midterm convention in Dallas.

The change comes four years after Google rolled out a similar program on a pilot basis that was discontinued months later.

At the time, the Republican National Committee used the technology giant, accusing it of "throbbing its email messages" though

Roger Bousman (left) by Joe Fink

Google has updated Gmail's policy to allow political committees to learn easily. Payouts in spam filter when sending emails for donations, allowing more political aids to land in inhemos.

Google said the party had not signed up for the program. A bid end court later dismissed the case, with Judge Daniel J. California writing of the R.N.C.'s claims. "This is pure speculation, lacking fact from which the Court could offer airlines or air, shortest of good faith."

The Federal Election Commission also dismissed a formal complaint from Republicans that Gmail's spam filter was biased

against the party.

"Whether a fund-raising email winds up to more" spree follows the policy, the Fink's office had no dollars to campaigns over time.

It is not immediately clear whether the changes would allow new party more than the other, but some Republicans expect that the agreement.

"For years Google's algorithm silenced Republican voices, burying our emails in spam while Dem-

ocrate" landed in the inbox," said Will Elder, the commissioner-in-rector for the National Republican Congressional Committee. "This program is a real chance to fix it and let voters hear from the candidates they choose to follow. We'll be watching closely to make sure Google follows through."

Some Democrats feared the change could open the door for so called cash PACs, which speedily the of their money on actual cam-

paigns, to more easily reach in-hours. Other Democrats hoped the change might help deliver the party an advantage because Democrats generally have been better at online fund-raising than Republicans.

The R.N.C. did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Google's new program is a policy to quire that candidates, PACs and party committees register the domain they send emails from and that their spam rates, the percentage of emails that users mark as spam, remain below 0.5 percent, according to the policy.

Mr. Pennington, the Democratic strategist, feared that Google made the change because of pressure from Republicans.

"While there could theoretically be another reason for this policy shift, it appears that Google is successful, the inbox sanity of its customers simply to placate a tube, had built more than most Republicans claiming partisan spam bias," he said.

Amanda Elliott, a Republican digital strategist, said the rise in the campaign would be extraordinary runs deep, especially around the issue of whether fund-raising emails will go in inhemos or the spam habit.

"The everyone who's been talking about commuting and bias, this could be a pan up or shut up moment," she wrote in a text message. "For your emails handout, you can't see what you want to say. A Republican or because you're just running a caliper email program and not following best practices? Perhaps we're about to find out!"

Hegseth Campaigns for Vulnerable House Republican in Iowa

By RAYLIND WAGNER

DES MOINES — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth campaigned this week in Iowa for Representative Zach Nixon, stepping into the political arena at a way previous leaders of the Pentagon have avoided.

Mr. Hegseth appeared as a very non-frequent fund-raising event at the Iowa State Fair on Monday alongside Mr. Nixon, who is one of the most vulnerable House Republicans in this year's midterms. He noted Mr. Nixon's candidacy and was deeply critical of previous Democratic administration.

"We're resuming the warrior ethos inside our department because that matters," Mr. Hegseth said. "We need guys like this man right here having our back in Congress."

Mr. Hegseth also remarked on his presence at the event, "According to the lawyers, I'm only here in a personal capacity today, as a veteran and a patriotic American," he said.

"I have to say that," he added. Asked about his participation in the event, the Pentagon also said Mr. Hegseth was attending to his personal capacity.

The appearance was another departure from previous norms for Mr. Hegseth, who in May campaigned at Kentucky for Ed Gallatin. Mr. Gallatin went on to defeat Representative Thomas Manzie, one of Mr. Trump's most outspoken Republican critics. In past administration, Pentagon officials generally kept a distance from campaign activities.

Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd at a bar on the foregrounds, Mr. Hegseth praised Mr. Nixon, an Air Force Reserve colonel, as a key supporter of the military. Mr. Nixon, who is seeking a third term, served the Air Force for nearly two years.

"When we need an ally to call who understands why it's important to fund our military in the way we need to benefit, but also do-

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth campaigning with Representative Zach Nixon at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Monday.

so in a fiscally responsible way, we call Congressman Zach Nixon," Mr. Hegseth said.

Mr. Nixon is facing Sarah Trent Garrish, who is a Democratic state minister and a Lutheran minister, to November. Democrats are looking to win back the House majority in November, said Mr. Nixon's seat is seen as an important battleground in the fight for control of the chamber.

The visit by Mr. Hegseth to Iowa, which has long been a key

early state in the Republican presidential outstanding process, could also fuel speculation about his future political plans.

In his remarks, Mr. Hegseth made jobs at former Presidents Joseph R. Biden and Stacey Olsons, saying his department is now practicing "intercourse" capabilities. He also used a derogatory term for transgender people, apparently referring to the Biden administration's reversal of a ban on transgender service members

from Mr. Trump's first term. Mr. Trump revealed that under in 1955, Mr. Hegseth's partisan message and resolution style developed from that of the President. He was suggesting, just before Mr. Nixon's supporters unveiled into JPL's Southpark Ranch, the bar where the event was held. Mr. Nixon stood up on the bar's shared supplies and looted his work with both parties.

"We've been able to pass these bills and get them signed into law

under Joe Biden, and I don't at ways agree with Joe Biden very much," Mr. Nixon said of his legislative name. "Be we also had 17 bills signed into law under President Trump."

Also present at Monday's event were Representatives Mark Amrein Miller-Sands, another vulnerable Republican, and John by Hinson, a Republican minister for a competitive, open Source seat against Josh Yorke, a Democratic state representative.

Trump Votes By Mail Again In Florida

By CHRIS CARRION

WASHINGTON — President Trump voted by mail ahead of Florida's Republican primary on Tuesday, according to the White House, participating for at least the third time in a process that he has called against for years and has expected to develop.

Mr. Trump was the head of a Palm Beach County in 2010, and did an again earlier this year in the special election between Democrat Emily Gregory and Republicans Tom Hughes to represent the district in the Florida warehouse. Records show Mr. Trump has been registered to vote there since 2008.

Positive earlier reported that Mr. Trump had voted by mail in Tuesday's primary, citing voting records from Palm Beach County.

A president seeking to end the practice wends in his ballot.

hence to Mar-a-Lago, his private club. The New York Times could not across these records through the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Electronic website, which said that Mr. Trump's voting record was protected from public disclosure."

In an unsigned statement, the Palm Beach elections office confirmed that it had blocked access to Mr. Trump's voting records, saying that the publicly available documents were "provided for use by a registered voter to determine how to for voter registration and voting status. Voters with protected information will not appear in the record."

Olivia Wales, a White House spokeswoman, confirmed that Mr. Trump voted by mail in the primary, saying that "this is a necessity."

"As everyone knows, the President is a resident of Palm Beach and participants in Florida elections, but he obviously primarily owes a the White House of Washington, D.C.," she said, repeating a White House statement about Mr. Trump's last vote by mail, in March.

Mr. Trump has continued to push for Republican in Congress to pass legislative ahead of the midterms that would strengthen voter identification requirements and make such a move significantly more difficult. There was not enough Republican support to push through the legislation this year, and senators abandoned the shift to they could get home to their users to campaign for reinvestment.

Mr. Trump has long blasted on behalf voting to believe his business claims of widespread voter fraud, and has called the SAVS out from the state of the continental pieces of legislation in the country's history. During his State of the Union address, Mr. Trump falsely blasted that "thriving is a "preventive" measure," and called for "no more crooked mail in before," though more that was entirely by mail see little fraud.

Ethics Panel Investigating California Democrat Over Sexual Contact

By MICHAEL GOLD

The House Ethics Committee has announced that it was investigating whether Representative Jimmy Gomez had engaged in its appropriate sexual contact with a House earlier, as the California Democrat conceded that he had made "personal mistakes" outside his marriage.

Mr. Gomez, 15, who represents parts of Los Angeles, said in a statement after the assistance

Similar accusations led two lawmakers to resign recently.

ment on Monday that he regretted his omission, but he denied any wrongdoing, saying that his actions "were concerned in nature and haven't violated the law or House Ethics rules."

"That doesn't diminish the results," the committee stated there made no those I care about the more. Mr. Gomez said, "I take bill responsibility and have commit-

ted myself to working through the pain privately with my wife and family."

House rules instituted in 2018, after the 4/86/Sec movement focused attention on sexual intrusion. But in the workplace, the law members from engaging in sexual conduct with their own aides or those working on committees on which they serve, like the rules do not bar lawmakers from non-relationships with other staff members where they do not co-participate.

In the statement announcing the investigation, Representative Michael Coont of Mississippi, the Republican chairman of the Ethics Committee, and Representative Mark Richardson of California, the top Democrat, who claims of the rules that prohibits members from 'sometimes sexual advances or conduct' toward other lawmakers or House on the

The inquiry into Mr. Gomez's conduct comes months after the resignation of two lawmakers being sexual misconduct across these two lawmakers. He said, Swainell, Democrat of California, and they Constable, Republican of Texas — forced the House to con-

Representative Jimmy Gomez said that his actions "were concerned in nature" and that they did not violate House rules.

front in handling of complaints. Mr. Gomez, who passed Congress in 2017, had been the chairman of Mr. Swainell's campaign for governor but withdrew from the position after Mr. Swainell's campaign. He also issued a long a former staff member and of sexual misconduct with other women, charges he denies.

The Ethics Committee did not provide details on what prompted its investigation, and noted in its statement that the men have little inquiry did not indicate that any wrongdoing had been found. For the other reason, Mr. Swainell is April that Mr. Gomez had kicked a member of another office congressional staff in 2022. CNN re-

ported in June that the committee was investigating Mr. Gomez, who is running for re-election against another Democrat.

The committee, a bipartisan panel responsible for policing members' liabilities, has now put her pressure from several lawmakers and outside groups who complain that it is too slow in its vestigate claims of misconduct.

This month, Representative Chuck Edwards, Republican of North Carolina, ended his re-election campaign after the panel said that it had "substantial reason to believe" that he "restored House rules related to sexual harassment and hostile compliance." That investigation took less than four months, according to the committee's report.

House leaders have tasked Representative Kai Cammarli, Republican of Florida, and Teresa Leger Perciadello, Democrat of New Mexico, to prepare changes to how the Ethics Committee has done such allegations.

Several lawmakers have prepared that the House change in the state's district to prepare more laws of Congress from having sexual relationships with any staff member.

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In Hawaii, Residents Find Ways to Help One Another After Hurricane

By ORLANDO MAYORQUIN

OCEAN VIEW, Hawaii — The dead zone was denounced by rows of cars killing on dangerously narrow highway shoulders near the Ocean View Market.

Hurricane Luis that isn't through the Kira district on the southern top of Hawaii's Big Island two days earlier, and further down the winding two-tone mountain road were thousands in people's rural communities. Most were still without observing similar phone service and gas two days after the storm.

In the residents of Ocean View, a remote community of fewer than 3,000, had taken matters into their own hands. On Monday, the parking lot of the Ocean View Market gas station just off Room 12 was teeming with locals looking for help and making to help others. Shortly after Hawaii's worst storm in years, residents had spontaneously organized to provide information, commodities and even air support.

The front entrance was locked and the gas pumps were impersonally. But the storm had become an impromptu disaster relief system, complies with a mobile radio station run by Tim Reed, an Ocean View resident who loaded up his computer in a satellite to run the broadcast.

"We're the emergency communication for Ocean View," Mr. Reed said in an interview.

Absolutely the phone number does not allow those to be between in his corner of the island on a two-power FM station. Today, there is two spreading the word about the vehicle's name, and the information parking lot, One was his Starlink terminals for those hoping to connect to the Internet via satellite and trailer calls to the out-of-town area.

Mr. Reed, 35, sat in a wheelchair at a plastic table next to Darin Field, 36, who was helping him broadcast. They took turns on the

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manchbook-sized wireless microphone.

"We have a few more announcements to make," Mr. Field said into the microphone. "We have some gracious volunteers that are going around doing wellness checks for seniors."

Hurricane Luis, which was a Category I storm, did not make landfall but wrecked highways, rye-aged hunters, toppled rivers and knocked out power for much of the island.

On the Big Island, the country town of Pahala, with about 1,000 residents, was cut off after flood waters overstopped roads and bridges — six were destroyed or severely damaged. Route 11 collapsed, including Kira, Hospital, the only such facility in the region.

The Kira region isn't the Hawaii of motor fantasies. It comprises rugged mountains and thick vegetation broken up by vast lava

Offering information, commodities and even air support.

holds. Its communities are remote and are home to lifelong residents who scruple by, often living off the grid, and middle-aged and retired maintainers who sought cheap land and a quiet place to start over.

"It's not like you're going to give up and go, 'Oh wow, beautiful homes,' said Carrie Fraser, an Ocean View resident. 'There are people that are just trying to survive.'"

In the parking lot of the Ocean View Market, Katie Tyner — who had suddenly become "the gas lady" — was standing next to the open hatch of her Chevrolet Trail-Maker S.U.V., jetting down names

and numbers on her clipboard. Her operation was simple and is high demand in a community where many do not own cars. Hand her cash and a fast car and she would return with gas from an operational station hall on their up the road.

By noon, her Trail-Maker had been filled with about a dozen car cans, each labeled a marker with the name and number of its owner.

Mr. Tyner was preparing to go on her gas run soon. She had another critical mission — determined to people further down the road in a town called Discovery Harbour, which was one of the hardest hit.

Mr. Tyner had heard that residents have whoever an electricity to power their medical equipment were running out of fuel for generators. The town was inaccessible by the highway, but Mr. Tyner, who has lived in Ocean View for

Kaki Young, above, got a helicopter company to bring supplies to a rural area of the Big Island. Left, Brandy Dull, from Kira Radio, set up internet across in Ocean View, Hawaii, after the power died.

night years, have her way around. "We have a little road we take, but it's a mudslide right now, so you have to have a four-wheel drive car," Mr. Tyner said.

Next to Mr. Tyner's S.U.V., a poster bagged a man who was in tears, then prayed over him. The poster, Pamela, has 70, who runs a haunt and volunteers with a community group that provides shelter and other assistance when the water strikes, was passing out water bodies to anyone in need.

One man handed Mr. Aka a paper grocery bag filled with provisions. She ate the bag on the ground and tore it open. She had not the donated items: batteries, trips, tire fines, wet wipes, a first aid kit and instant Korean supplies. There was also some roadshows and turkey stuffing.

"If you guys are in need of anything, come get," Mr. Aka announced to the people rolling around the parking lot.

One man grabbed the rope.

Mr. Aka invoked the Hawaiian principles of alpha, an ethic of love and compassion, and at a time, one of family and community.

"It's people helping people," Mr. Aka said. "This is when we come together as a family. You talk about alpha. You talk about a man — this is what it's all about."

Kaki Young, 36, a hula teacher, said that he can be out at the gas station and approached Mr. Aka and other volunteers with a big ask.

"I need help getting everyone's common right now," he said, and went group to group to the parking lot.

Mr. Young had persuaded a helicopter tour company to make a major supplies in Pahala, about 25 miles away.

In about two hours the shopper would be landing at a nearby park, and he needed help filling it with as much as 700 pounds of supplies and respect-liable load.

Mr. Aka directed him to Mr. Reed, who handed Mr. Young a microphone so he could make his plea on the radio waves.

The small blue helicopter was hooked on a gloomy park, and volunteers filled it to the tees with home of baby wipes, toilet paper and ready-to-use food.

Much came from Kira County, Iowa, 40, who was a small truck in Ocean View with her husband and leaves the air of kids from Mr. Young.

She looked on the helicopter and left from the park with Mr. Young and the supplies onboard.

Mr. Young acknowledged her from the air. He flashed the shake picture, the extended thumb and phone, and went on the station to buy thanks or goodbye. Mr. Cunningham, her dyesthat had blowing in the rear wash, shot up a shake in return.

"That's how we do it down here," she said.

Drying Reservoirs Across 7 States Threaten to Sap the Sun Belt

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"We expected to be in a very unpleasant place, and that's where we find ourselves," said Kathryn Sorensen, the director of research at the Kyl Center for Water Policy at Arizona State University. "Neither. Neither is in charge of this system."

As the same time, a booming population in the Southwest and intensive agriculture mean that the region is consuming far more water than the river can now provide.

Here is what to know about the crisis:

Who Does Them?

The Colorado River supplies water to 40 million people and 3.5 million acres of farmland across the state of seven states. About two dozen native tribes and two Mexican states also hold rights to the river's water.

Lakes Powell and Mead are central to maintaining that water supply in the lower half of the Colorado basin. While the river's upper basin — which stretches across Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico — when more heavily on seasonal stream and river flows for water, the two state-הable lakes have served as a predictable supply for the most populous lower basin, which includes parts of Nevada, Arizona and California.

Agriculture is the biggest part of the Colorado River, with alfalfa and other sources of livestock feed accounting for nearly half of the water consumed. Municipal water systems are about a quarter.

And a growing share — about 35 percent of the river's flow — is not consumed at all, but everywhere as temperatures climb across the Southwest.

What Is the Decline?

Dry and low conditions across the Colorado River basin have cut the river's flow by about 20 percent over the past two decades.

The current water use levels of the Colorado River have been reduced by 1.5 million acres but of water now flows down the Colorado in an average 1.5 million acres. The water's rates that govern the use of the river have allocated the rights to more than 16 million acre-feet. One acre-feet, or enough water to be used, is now being in about 320,000 gallons, enough to supply two or three households for a year.

Diminishing supply, combined with decades of overuse, has been a significant factor in the overall and Mead to decline steadily over the past 20 years. As both reservoirs, water storage has not been clear to capacity since the 1980s. Lake Mead was also about 27 percent full, while Lake Powell is about 22 percent full.

What Could Happen?

Both reservoirs are contained by hydroelectric dams — the Hancey Dam at Lake Mead, and Glen Can-

A Lifeline for the West

The Colorado River system stretches across seven states and Mexico. They rely on a century's worth of laws to determine who gets priority for increasingly limited water resources.

Drawing Down Lake Powell

Strange levels at the critical Colorado River reservoir to ensure two over the weekend.

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MIRA KAVANAGARU, THE NEW YORK TIMES

'We expected to be in a very unpleasant place, and that's where we find ourselves.'

KATHRYN SORENSEN, a director at the Kyl Center for Water Policy.

yon Dam at Lake Powell. Water levels at Lake Powell are dropping close to the point where Glen Canyon Dam will not be able to generate electricity. Current between by the Bureau of Reclamation, the federal agency that oversees the dams, suggest that Lake Powell's water levels could come that threshold as soon as winter, depending on how much precipitation falls during the winter fall and winter. About 6 million people across the Southwest rely on electricity from the dams. Deviating water levels have already diminished power output.

And if Lake Powell's level drops below the point needed for hydropower, it could reach a condition known as 'dead past,' when water can no longer flow through the dam at all, cutting off the water supply for the lower basin and the nuclear when that might occur.

What Is Being Done?

The Reclamation Bureau this spring took emergency measures to prevent Lake Powell from falling too low to produce hy-

dropower. It began moving water to Powell from an upstream reservoir on the Wyoming Colorado border, known as Flaming Grape, and it started releases from Lake Powell, which flow through the Grand Canyon into Lake Mead.

Communities across the West have put drought plans into action and imposed restrictions on water use. At the same time, investments in water efficiency must large cities like Phoenix are consuming as much water as possible when they were far less populous.

Reclamation officials and the seven Colorado River banks make an continuing negotiations over a long-term solution to the water crisis, but negotiations have not been fruitful.

A federal plan to guide water use for the next decade released last month included drastic cuts for the states that depend on Lakes Powell and Mead — when Arizona officials called 'detergentable' and said threatened the growing state's economic Reclamation officials are expected to release more detailed plans for the next two years soon.

Trump Lauds Young 'Hero,' Then Swipes At Journalist

By ALI WATKINS

President Trump looted a teenage lifeguard and a boy he had saved at the White House on Monday, as he snapped at a CNN reporter and took questions on a variety of matters.

The Oval Office event was held in command line on August, Ryder Williams, who was widely lauded for drugging Nathaniel Fox. It, from crashing waves at a beach in Santa Cruz, Calif., last month in a rescue that went viral. But during

An Oval Office event was meant to honor a teen lifeguard's feat.

the meeting, as his guests looked on. Mr. Trump criticized the CNN White House reporter Kristen Holmes.

Mr. Holmes is heard off camera trying to ask a question about North Korea as Mr. Trump demands that the 'be-gain.'

It is not uncommon for Mr. Trump to take wide-ranging questions from the news media when he is boxing guests at the White House. He has frequently singled out women and journalists of color during such exchanges.

Earlier, Mr. Holmes asked Mr. Trump about a recent comment made by Senator Jon Ossoff, Democrat of Georgia, referring to Mr. Trump's news with an aide, Natalie Harp. Mr. Trump sideswipped the question in the Oval Office. The White House later called the question 'Magistring, and follow him' for a year, an social media, and said her children would one day be embarrassed.

CNN's official Mr. Holmes is a statement that said personal or radio were banned the office of the president and 'inconsistent with the principles of a free press.' He said that meeting Mr. Trump erased Mr. Williams's actions as official those of the lifeguards who had helped train him and joked that he might not have saved the home he had been the lifeguard on 1967.

"Here's not here. I don't know if I'd do it. I wouldn't, probably," Mr. Trump said of the return.

"Don't lucky I wasn't on the service that day," he said, speaking to Nathaniel.

During Mr. Holmes's question about North Korea, Mr. Trump agreed to 'dismissal,' and said they understood that Mr. Holmes was being 'disrespectful.'

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With City Hall Absent, Few Answers at Second-Home Tax Hearing

By NORTH ZAYEKE

and NATL SCHNEIDER

City Council members had hoped to see a public hearing on Tuesday to grill Mayor Zoltan Manddani's administration about city hall-based the demand of a new tax on second homes.

But the lawmakers had an officials to question: The Mandani administration had declined to attend. City officials, citing a pending lawsuit, had submitted written testimony instead. So the lawmakers are poised questions to read entire brokers, homeowners, labor leaders, housing experts and other members of the public who had been invited to testify, while some leg job after job at the administration.

“We should show up and answer questions about the rollout,” I-xxi Onewell, a Bossa Dossena, said.

The hearing, before the Committee on Finance and the Com-

mittee on Governmental Operations, State and Federal Legislation, is the latest twist in the turmoil over the rollout of the tax on high-end second homes, or past-years. The Council has an official role in the implementation of the tax law has positioned itself as a check on the mayor.

The Council speaker, Julie Menin, did not attend. It is statement, she said it was “disappointing that instead of providing clarity and addressing the public’s concerns, the administration chose not to appear.”

Matthew Rosenbushach, a spokesman for the mayor, said in a statement that the administration had made a “good faith effort” to find an “appropriate clear” for the hearing, but that the Council had declined to reschedule.

“The tax, obtained as a surcharge on airmail property, tax bills, would apply in the first years to condos and co-ops that are used as second homes and have a “mar-

ket value” — a complicated metric determined by the city’s Finance Department — at at least 15 million. It would also apply to new, new and three-family second homes with a “market value” of more than 45 million.

In July, the city began making letters to 12,000 property owners, other than those that they might have to pay the tax unless they could demonstrate that they were full-time city residents. Soon after, the city published a large data set online of nearly one million records that included owners’ names and was described as including “properties that may be subject to the charge.”

Both moves caused backlash among some homeowners and critics of the mayor, who argued that the data set was intended to shame people. Or, Mandani has noted that the city has published similar tax rolls “twice a year for years, frankly, if not double and centuries.”

Earlier this month, a group of homeowners sued the city, saying that state law had required officials to do more to determine what event the tax before sending the letters and publishing the data set. So the hearing, General members and speakers reiterated that argument.

“At the end of the interview hearing, the committee chairs, Gale Brewer and Linda Lee, both Dossena, read the questions they would have asked administration officials.”

They included: How did the city interpret the state law that crossed the tax? Does the Department of Finance believe it, a适用ing to the law? How can homeowners’ appeal corruption denials or verify that a nation after an job isn’t in the mail? Will notices be handled electronically in the future? Does the city think it is giving homeowners enough time to apply for an exemption from the tax?

The written testimony sent by

the administration — a five-page document written by the Finance Commissioners. Richard Lee — largely did not detail how the city had made its decisions.

Mr. Lee said that “pending and active” decision prevented him from testifying in person. He noted that the administration had unsuccessfully asked the City Council to postpone the hearing.

“Whenever government implements a new law affecting thousands of property owners, questions inevitably arise,” Mr. Lee wrote, acknowledging the criticism from members of the public. “Government should communicate clearly and effectively about new policies.”

Mr. Lee said he would testify in person after Aug. 2. The reasoning behind that date was not immediately clear, though it is the same day the parties are due back in court before a litterm island judge. Last week, the judge called with the homeowners and issued a

temporary restraining order halting the rollout, but that order was stayed when the city filled an appeal, which is pending.

Kamilla Hanks, a Dossena’s who represents the North Dorsval State Council, is asking the senator to see if no people gathered on the buildings a large who took issue with the rollout. She said working-class constituents of their left they had to put their eyes full-time city residents.

“It makes people informed of actually owning property,” she said.

“It is the matter of the tax, however, drowned out many of those critiquing the rollout with chants of “fire the rich!” Diana Moreno, a Quemo anesthetist-mean and an American woman who was also attended “to show and hold support in our city to increase taxes on the wealthy. Every time we try to take some of the wealth that we create, they try to take it back.”

U.S. Airman Will Accept Punishment for Protesting Iran War

By MONO KIM

Maj. Jason Watson, a U.S. airman arrested after calling the President, Trump's statement over the Iran war, has said that he was willing to accept punishment for his dissent.

An active-duty officer can be punished for “dishout statements” or “contemptions words” against the commander in what and high-ranking government officials, an offense that can lead to

Calling the conflict in the Midwest an act of American aggression,

dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of pay and a monthlong prison sentence.

“If I don’t put myself out there is a big way, then it’s just what,” Major Watson said on Monday in an interview on CNN. “What is the highest price that I am willing to pay? And this is what I ultimately can’t up with.”

During the interview, Major Watson characterized the war in Iran as an act of American aggression and compared the U.S. military actions to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He said the president “closer” the war despite concentration and advice against it within his almost officials, calling the U.S. military actions. Major Watson added that his public dissent was instituted by his “unfit to the Constitution” and urged other Americans to do the war. “I’m not going to take action and report this government,” he said on CNN.

The Department of Defense re-

U.S. Air Force Maj. Jason Watson was arrested by the police after protesting on the Capitol steps in Washington last month.

ferred questions to the Air Force, which did not immediately try to do it.

In July, Major Watson was arrested at the U.S. Capitol after attending a news conference organized by the National Coalition, an official group that was called for Mr. Trump's impeachment, convictsis and removal from office.

After the news conference that Representative Al Green, Dossena

cruel of Texas, also attended, the major travel on the Capitol steps holding signs calling for the president's removal. The U.S. Capitol finally does arrested him for unlawfully protesting on the steps.

“No attorney general—Who for the District of Columbia decided not to prosecute Major Watson, but he was taken into custody by the Air Force. Soon after his arrest, Troy E. Motek, the Air Force

secretary, said that his office would open an investigation against the Water's conduct because it “takes allegations of misconduct seriously”, including “any, that might undermine the nonpartisan power” of the military.

Major Watson said that he was not a member of the Democratic Party.

Military law, specifically Article 16 of the Uniform Code of Military

Justice, mandates punishment against “my constitutional officers” and “my contemporaries’ words” against the president, the vice president, Congress, civilian military leaders, any governor or state legislators. Article 16 of the rules concerning “made with the intent to promote disloyalty or the affection toward the Unlimitation” by members of the military.

Judge Blocks Trump's Plan For the F.B.I.

By CHRIS CAMERON

A federal judge in Maryland has blocked the Trump administration from abandoning a planned move for the F.B.I. from its crumbling headquarters in Washington to a new party in Prince George's County, Md.

In a 6-page ruling on Monday, Judge Theodore Chuang of the Federal District Court in Maryland wrote that “the F.B.I. (cruisemedy) concluded” that it could make a new headquarters for itself without consulting Congress.

In reality, Judge Chuang wrote, “I may not feel actually approved the Biden administration plan for the F.B.I. to move to Maryland, and I am not sure that it will be Trump administration’s decision to end that plan and instead move the agency to the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington — a building that was recently vacated by the U.S. agency for International Development.”

“The Court therefore does not find that Congress has ratified it into the Reagan Institute’s Selection Decision or the F.B.I. Reprezentering Decision, or that it has carefully repeated” the previous plan to move the F.B.I. headquarters in Maryland.

The ruling is almost certainly not the end of the lengthy dispute over the F.B.I.'s future headquarters. Presidents, lawmakers and state officials have the power, jockeyed over the effort to relocate the country's premier law-enforcement.

In the meantime, the F.B.I. continues to operate from its old headquarters, an aging celestian called in setting to keep concrete from working on games only.

Maryland state officials cherred the ruling, which blocked the Trump administration from disvicting about $1 billion to be spent as a sponsoring campus near the Greenfield Metro station.

“This case is about more than a building,” said Anthony G. Brown, the Maryland state attorney general. “It’s about ensuring that when Congress makes a decision, the Trump administration does not get to ignore it because they do not like the outcome.”

In a statement, the F.B.I. attached the judge's decision.

“This is not the first time courts move tried to undermine the administration in its goal to make government more cost-effective for American taxpayers,” the F.B.I. said. “The court has chosen a suggestion of a state-wise for political reasons. This F.B.I. is mission focused and will continue the best course of action to meet the needs of law enforcement.”

Mr. Trump has long expected the move to Maryland. Since the start of his central term, he has made it difficult for the would ignore the 2021 past negotiated by the Biden administration that would relocate the bureau to Greenfield.

“They were going to hold an F.B.I. Michigan (NY) three hours away in Maryland, a liberal state,” Mr. Trump said last year, exaggerating the time needed to commute to a Washington suburb.

“We’re going to stop it,” he said.

A Bicycle-Loving Mayor Completes His Wardrobe With a Helmet, Finally

By EMMA G. FITZENKOWS

New Yorkers have delighted in opening Mayor Zoltan Mandani ruling around the city on a bicycle.

She none have scolded him for 14 dollars to use a helmet.

It seems that he has listened.

Mr. Mandani passed a video on social media on Tuesday, showing him viewing comments on his phone about his not wearing a helmet. Then, he astheed nine at City Hall and 24 it on his head.

“Sorry, first, now, I am,” he said. “See you out there.”

Mr. Mandani has been an avid US Bike user, bragging about the many miles he has logged. New Yorkers have posted photos and videos of him as a bike, wearing his omnipresent suit and in, with his security team trading him on two wheels.

His decision to highlight like safety comes as the city has seen a run in curtains involving electric bicycles and scanners. A 17-year-old who died recently in a cradle is Manhattan was riding an illegal

A rise in crashes involving electric bikes and scooters.

electric bike that travels at fast speeds and may not wearing a helmet.

Experts say that wearing a helmet can reduce the risk of head and brain injuries. City officials have also encouraged New Yorkers to follow the 32-mile-per-hour speed limit for electric bikes and scooters.

Many New Yorkers ride US Bike's without helmets, complaining that it is difficult to carry around a helmet during the day or the day. They are not to be thought, hindering the ability to take an important trip.

Hindigan can also be a tricky matter for viewed officials. It can seem up their hair during a photo

opportunity or make them look gaudy. Former Mayor Bill de Blasio was issued over his bright or angry head, and he said he is the drydrew. M. Cuomo was known to avoid wearing a safety helmet when he ventured onto subway tracks with reporters.

The reaction to the mayor's twin calps video was positive. “My mom would be so proud,” one person commented on social media. Another said, “But down wear helmets.”

Ben Furman, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, a group that promotes cycling, said he does not support the 2021 were street safety upgrades.

“It's great to see the mayor ensues bicycling, and it's never a bad idea to wear a helmet,” he said. “I'm not going to take the 2021 when I was in the same position, I'm not going to take the 2021. I'm not going to take the 2021. I'm not going to take the 2021. I'm not going to take the 2021. I'm not going to take the 2021. I'm not going to take the 2021. I'm not going to take the 2021. I'm not going to take the 2021. I'm not going to take the 2021. I'm not going to take the 2

Mayor Zoltan Mandani is often seen biking around New York City. Under criticism, he has recently begun wearing a helmet.

Prosecutor Denounces Judge's Release of Woman Accused of Vandalizing Memorial

By DAN WATSON

A federal judge has ordered the release of a woman charged with vandalizing the World War II Memorial in Washington, reporting a request from prosecutors that the release is custody while awaiting trial on two history charges.

The above date of the death back from the Jasmine Perry, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, whose job security remained in question over her knowledge of the woman's advertising, what President Trump instructsly described as vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Post.

On Monday, Magistrate Judge

Matthew J. Sharbough ordered the woman, Melissa L. Farris, to remain outside Washington, re-enter the name of the official on a Ohio and surrender her passport. She was also ordered to stop away from the memorial. The judge did not impose electronic monitoring or require a third party custodial, restrictions that prosecutors later requested.

Federal prosecutors led by Ms. Perry asked the court to reverse the case. The court ruled that the F.B.I.'s police panel as “occasionally high-risk of flight.”

In a motion filed Monday, prosecutors cited evidence that Ms. Farris, 41, had searched for ban

and airline tickets on the day the incident took place, and tried her lack of stable housing or ties to Washington and a previous failure to appear in court.

Ms. Perry criticized the judge's decision in a statement. “If anyone is a flight risk, it is certainly her,” she said.

Ms. Farris, of Elizabethtown, Ky., was charged on Friday with two federal releases after investigation and she spray-painted Trump blends Jerry if on the memorial and splattered paint on its stonework. Prosecutors said the also poured interrogation in a hearing, causing it to fill with foam and bubbles.

The National Park Service esti-

mated that cleanup and restoration costs had exceeded $1,000, and the memorial was closed for most of the day, according to the filing.

Ms. Farris first-arrested the incalent and later passed videos which she acknowledged that she had debated federal property and predicted that the police would pursue her. The strict meaning, the turned hermit for at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va.

Duty earlier, Ms. Farris has been cited by U.S. Park Police for unlawfully camping on federal property; a few blocks north of the World War II Memorial.

This month, President Trump publicly criticized Ms. Perry, a key

ally, over her handling of another case involving what he said was vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Post. Ms. Trump said Ms. Perry had “choked” after her office dropped charges against a loan account of damaging it. Ms. Perry had concluded that the damage had been caused by faulty installation.

There after publicly criticizing Ms. Perry, Mr. Trump met with her at the White House, though she was not involved and did not offer her resignation, according to two people he held on the outcome.

The president has also discussed the vandalism of the World War II Memorial, calling it an insult to Americans who died

in the war. In a Truth Social post on Friday, he linked the episode to the recent controversy over the war.

In a social media post on the same day, Ms. Perry wrote that declaring the memorial “is a despotic bar attack on a sacred monument showing a new one.” The who fought and died for our freedom. She also noted that the felony charges in the case carry potential punishment of up to 10 years in prison.

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Opinion

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Democrats, Repeat After Buttigieg and El-Sayed

Frank Bruni

A contributing Opinion writer

WEVER'S first test said spent time with Peter Buttigieg a decade ago, he gave me a vocabulary lesson.

"He was then 14, 16 the first year of his second term as mayor of South Bend, Ind., and a flytyped on the national political scene. But he was going places — I was sure of it. I was even more when he explained his frustration with the word 'freedom'."

He have been Republican had claimed it. He hated how Democrats had let them. That contrast perpetuated the fiction that government regulations, social spending and anti-discrimination laws were enemies of freedom when they were often in guarantee.

"You're not free if you have crushing medical debt," he told me. "You're not free if you're being roused differently because of who you are." Buttigieg was then dating the man to whom he's now married, and he added: "What has really affected my personal freedom more — the fact that I don't have the freedom to pollute a certain river or the fact that for part of my adult life, I didn't have the freedom to marry somebody I was in love with? We're talking about deep, personal freedom."

Buttigieg was into something larger than 'freedom.' He was recognizing how readily and foolishly Democrats coiled many tradition-tinged, conservative-soiled concepts — freedom, patriotism, family values, law and order — to their opponents and how routinely they played defense rather than offense. A Democrat was more likely to question the prominence of a Republican commitment to those ideals than to stop forward as their true, unabashed, undercut champion.

But I'm seeing the failings of something different among some Democrats at center stage right now, and it's a shrewd, fitting response to a president and a political movement whose perversion or abandonment of longtime Republican rallying points creates an opening for Democrats to mobilize terms and refrain discourse.

Take 'capitalism.' While there has been enormous loss over letters, including some recent Democrats primary winners, who deride it and identify as socialists adjacent, there have been inadequate attention to Democrats who insist that they're not capitalists in a way that President Trump and his MAGA supporters aren't. Abdul El-Sayed, who was the Democratic primary for the last 40th Michigan early this month, does precisely that.

"Let's talk about capitalism," he told Tim Balls of The Times clearly after that primary. "Are you scorching?" He went on in order — as he did in a previous interview with Anand Girildharadas that was published in The Ink — that he was a committed, eag student of capitalism and that America was betraying it by allowing too much wealth to run low hands and failing to ensure adequate competition

and access to markets. "If you believe in capitalism," he told Balls, "you have to believe in government regulation," he added. "You don't have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I'm a capitalist who just knows about capitalism."

You can read El-Sayed's remarks as a canny rebuttal of Republican' caricatures of him and other progressive Democrats as unbiaged communists. But his argument is also born of opportunity. What kind of capitalist, after all, is Trump, who insisted that the U.S. government got a 15 percent cut of A.I. chips

Flag, faith and family don't belong to one political party.

And a trollsa and Ad-woman Micro-News will in China, who leverages his presidency to rise and his science watchman and who lets alights and grievances drive the erratic and irrational imposition and alteration of tariffs?

For that matter, what kind of 'America first' (perish is he?) at an point since he went to war with him nearly six months ago but he been able to convince a majority of Americans that their economic pain and sacrifices have been worth it. Many of them clearly regard his alarming depletion of our country's arsenal as an ego-driven folly, and many Democrats are calling that out by turning his 'America first' blather against him.

El-Sayed, for example, cited his own opposition to the war in proclaiming, "I'm the most 'America first' candidate in the country, proudly." Representative Bo Khauna, a California Democrat who is clearly weighing a 2020 presidential can, produced his own answer to 'America first' in an opinion essay last week on the Fox News website, of all places. It was a 14-point plan — measures on hand in economic growth, income inequality and social mobility — for what he called 'Think America.'"

I've spoken at length with Khauna over recent years, and this Buttigieg, he insists that Democrats be more proudly assertive with certain themes that Republicans too around. He has told me that Democrats need to be explicit about their patriotism and incorporate more praise for the country into their respective interests, and that all shortcomings with patriotic for its achievements.

That entitlement here came to mind as I read about a ritual being practiced by Bob Sand, the Democratic nominee for governor of the State, and the 'Bass' said. He begins town halls by asking everyone to sing the first verse of 'America the Beautiful.' That's not necessarily what you'd expect at a Democrat's' rally, but he has said that if a gesture of unity among the partisan mix of voices that his events draw, and it's an important consequence to aid the coverage of anti-Thambugiving, and flag outliers running as Democrats. Sand's longshops provide a falter and truer portrait of the party.

They're music in Buttigieg's ears. In a 2,000 conversation on Friday morning, he told me that Democrats are even better positioned than 10 years ago to own the 'freedom' mantle, because they're now arguing not only for 'freedom to live a life of your choosing' but also for freedom from the police-state tactics of an administration whose agents have fatally shot promoters and sometimes indiscriminately round people up.

While Republicans prolisse to expound family values, Buttigieg said that Democrats can and do make the case that 'We harder and harder to have a family right now because of the economy — the Trump economy.' Democrats also have at least as much to say about faith as Republicans do.

"God does not belong to a political party," Buttigieg said. He noted that Republicans frequently use religion as 'a 'calgary' to let 'the people know what' for that theory. "I more deeply Christian way of coming at it that state our issues, especially in response to how the Trump administration believes, from the corruption to the cruelty."

He reminded me that Mary Polink, the Democratic nominee in the potentially crucial Senate race in Alaska, has adopted the slogan 'Fish, family, freedom.' He and I weren't sure whether the party needed to reclaim salmon and halibut from its opponents. But we liked the direction in which she was swimming.

COLUMNIST | MICHELLE GOLDBERG

After a Scholar's Awful Death, Mistaken Calls for Censorship

Last year, Jack Grove, a reporter for Times Higher Education, a British magazine, was preparing an article about plagiarism allegation against the real academic issue. As day, it would have been a big story because Arday, who in 2022 became 'Cambridge's' youngest-ever Black professor, was a minor celebrity, thanks to part in his seemingly extraordinary biography.

Among other things, Arday said that he'd gotten his Ph.D. despite severe autism that left him nonverbal until he was 11 and unable to read until he was 16. He'd claimed to have run 40 or more in its days, which would have made him one of the world's most accomplished all-mean-shears.

Grove sent Arday three emails with questions about both his work and his history. As day, he proposed to bring one of Britain's leading debatanism firms — one known by, among other things, trying to spunk investigations into Scionology — and reporting Grove to the police for harassment. As Grove later wrote, an officer told him not to contact Arday again because it was affecting the professor's normal health. The magazine, having expensive litigation, killed the piece.

But the story didn't go away. It made no way to Nathan Colban, a former Cambridge research associate who'd been fired for racist blog posts. Colban published his review of today's intellectual mindsets last month, and it exploded in the British press, particularly on the right, which saw the scandal as an indictment not just of Arday or Cambridge, but of academic diversity policies with large. Cambridge announced an internal investigation and Arday resigned.

But the coverage, made it it gleefully in close, continued, in part because of the publication of Arday's new memoir, 'Gross and Unforeseen Things,' this month. On Friday, Arday was found dead in what was widely assumed to be a suicide.

In the wake of Arday's death, many on the left are blaming the media. "The media 'touched some today,' declared Susan A. Kendi. The issue is a Cambridge college called for an official inquiry into the 'media midnight.'"

Important British progressions, including Zach Polanski, leader of the Grove Party, and several Labour M.P.s, signed an open letter

demanding some sort of official oversight of journalism decision-making. "Self-regulation of the press has comprehensively failed," it said. The writer Will Self called, in an open letter to Prime Minister Andy Burnham, for the police to begin 'impounding computer,' presumably belonging to people involved in crossing the scandal.

These pressing for new controls on the press are making a serious mistake. Some who once championed Arday seem to be trying to deflect from their own embarrassing credulity, and it is unlikely to work. A desprovement of both growing societal diversity and bureaucratic diversity initiatives, or U.K.L. both the right, it's why Arday's story was such caring to the conservative press. But heavy-handed progressive attempts to inflig questions about these initiatives — to use institutional power to police the bound arms of public discourse about race, gender

and religion — have a way of making that resentment even more politically potent.

That's what happened in America, where a ferocious cultural backlash — made of a involving complaints of left-wing consciousness — helped spares the nightmare of Donald Trump's second presidency. And it could happen in Britain, where Nigel Furget's naivist Robert U.K. party is amassing frightening strength. This is a particularly bad moment to let the right claim the mantle of free speech.

Like most of Europe, Britain tends to have a less absolute attitude toward free speech than America does, so the idea of increasing public regulation might appear too threatening there. Still, recent American experience reaches that any limits on speech manufactured by the left will be turned against leftists a hundredfold when the right is in power.

This is a bad moment to let the right claim the mantle of free speech.

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America is now rib with laws banning favours about race and gender that cause 'psychological distress' to dominant groups. When you live in a country whose leader is trying to regulate the press into object submission, it's easy to see why it's dangerous to justify more state oversight of the media.

There's no doubt that the press coverage of the Arday affair was ugly and overwhelming. But the hard doesn't just lie with rapacious prison journalists. It also belongs to the nationalists. Cambridge chief among them, that stressed Arday while ignoring obvious signs that he was a fabulist. (As The New York Times last reported, his 'supposedly remarkable trajectory from nonverbal persons in Ph.D.'s but no president in medical literature,' and turned out to be astray.)

Cambridge hired Arday — from a pool of finalists that included two more senior women of color — at a moment when it was facing persistent questions about Black under-representation. Handbook and charismatic, an intellectual Horatio Algeo, he offered the university a P.R. coup.

Many of the people who didn't bother questioning Arday's backstory should have known better, today their oversight looks less like respect than condemnation, as if no one took into seriously enough to think hard about what he was saying, 'Arday was treated not as a scholar but as a maseris.' In our thursday's wrote in the left-hunting Guardian.

In retrospect, it would have been much better for all concerned if the story of his scholarly members and biographical inventories had broken to a careful, professional outlet like Treen Higher Education, instead of knowing until it turned into a right-wing parable. (What's article-cantyword-parametric feeding theory not just because it is a good to show evidence of plagiarism and falsehood, but also because it claimed there'd been a cover-up, and cover-ups tend to drive reporters with.)

For people on the left, it's rare easier to see that the most recent review of the right-wing press that the willful gullibility of certain other progressives. But both contributed to the Arday disaster. Denying that won't protect the left, it will just leave leftists out on a lamb that grows ever more shaky.

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One Country's Solution to a Violent Uprising

Asif Aydelatahan

A fellow at the Broadway Institute and the director of its Young project

IT IS a nothing move for a country that has just national security above almost everything else over the past decade. Turkey's Parliament last week passed a law providing a partial amnesty for members of the government's member arch-accident, the Karolinsan Pulitzer Party, or P.K.K., opening the door to ending one of the Taliban Exerts, league-cousing, insurgencies.

For nearly half a century, the P.K.K. has bought the Turkish state to pass the Kurdish rights and autonomy in a conflict that has applied across Turkey's borders into Iraq, Syria and Iran. The new law creates a path for thousands of fighters and supporters in prison or side to return to Orhanov.

The Turkish government will not call this on amnesty. The word remains politically toxic in a country scarred by decades of violence from fighting between the military and P.K.K. forces. Nor is this a sweeping de-morrelization package.

But it is the closest Party has come in years to some form of national reconciliation. After a year of negotiations, the P.K.K. leadership appears to have accepted that it can be longer advance Kurdish rights through armed struggle. Turkey, in fact, has implicitly conceded that the Kurdish question cannot be solved by military means alone and that a movement with roots among military Kurds needs to say for their political aspirations to be.

This weapons-for-police bargain offers lessons that could be applied to other in-tractable conflicts with militant groups, namely in Gaza with human and in Lebanon with Hezbollah, the Shale-based political party and militant hero.

The cases have their differences. But the underlying principle – that rooted armed insurgencies cannot be bombed out of state control, and a single international state of phased and conditional and have employed steps by the opposing sides and a political endgame to sight. In the Turkish case, it took more than a year of negotiations.

Armed movements rarely give up their weapons simply because their enemies do not have their influence. But they conclude that armed struggle can no longer deliver their political objectives and they are at-hered another route through which their constituencies can pursue their own.

What is distinct from the Turkish process is in its recommendation and the involvement of the country's institutions. The P.K.K. first agreed to dissolve last year and staged a symbolic ceremony in northern Iraq to have a

Turkey has now fulfilled its side of the bargain, creating legal projections that could allow thousands of P.K.K. members to return home. The benefits are conditional on Turkish authorities' verifying that the groups has discussed, and the law distinguishes between ordinary members and responsible for the most serious crimes.

Rush and the fighters, called politicians and political-enhancing retorts and resurgerate one civilian life, while proceedings against the party will be suspended for five to 10 years before ultimately being dropped if the individuals step out of armed activity. The delay gives former fighters, even if they have convictions, a path back to civilian life while giving money to security establishment insurance against a return to violence.

Senior P.K.K. commander can largely be choked for one, though Turkish and Kurdish officials call out that the negotiations is likely to be the one that is probably a of a liamotary commission will oversee the process while larger questions of Kurdish

rights are left to political debate.

Another matter has made the ground for the such agreements: the power of armed-institute actors seems to be waning, guerrilla warfare conditionally impossible in concealment and the ability to seduce a strategic adversary. But no longer. Divorce, surveillance technology and A.I.-driven provision weapons have eroded that advantage. Turkey used these technologies to condemn the P.K.K. in Syria and Iraq, while its rainfurs done to against Hamas and Hezbollah, though at minimum cost in destruction and civilian lives in Gaza and Lebanon.

Shakifah Ocular, the imprisoned leader and chief negotiator of the P.K.K., acknowledged the new reality when he said the

Turkey's deal with the Kurds could be a model for other militant groups.

armed struggle had "van its course." More tellingly, he argued that disarmament required "the recognition of democratic politics and a legal framework."

This doesn't mean enemies actors everywhere will disappear. The Shardza in Tonsun, backed by Iran, show that armed groups can still inflict enormous disruption.

Turkey's experiment is still very much in question. Disarmament does not mean that Turkey's Kurdish question is over, or that the grievances of Kurds have somehow been approved. The text will be whether demands, such as for greater regional autonomy, that were now pursued from mountain enclaves can instead be fought over in Parliament, municipalities and civil society. Resolution also depends on how much more Turkey's noncrime president, Recep Tayyip

Erdogan, will allow for legitimate politics.

For Hezbollah to relinquish its weapons, Lebanese Taliban population would need confidence that doing so would not mean surrendering political relations or security. The Lebanese state would need to become strong enough to replace Hezbollah's partial aid military structure, while the groups's constituency would need security and a way to channel its demands through politics.

Hamas's disarmament similarly would require Israel to accept that getting rid of the guns will not eliminate Palestinian-political aspirations. Hamas cannot have an army as Gaza. But any durable arrangement would have to provide Palestinian with a credible political path for self-government – and give these who abandon armed struggle a reason to believe politics can deliver something that weapons cannot.

I know how difficult this is to imagine, as a journalist in the past, I covered Turkey's Kurdish conflict from Diyarbakir in the southeast to the capital, Ankara, to the mountains of northern Iraq. I saw enough grief and leave-sewed enough Turkish leaders and Kurdish activists who were convinced that they would eventually prevail – only to be trapped in a decades-long war.

For years, governments across the Middle East have treated disarmament primarily as a security question. How do you know, they could not fail to support? That meant open-ended counterinsurgency. Turkey seems to be trying something different. It is testing whether an armed-moroness can be transformed into a purely political one.

The outcome is by no means assured, and I am not suggesting any of this is ours. But the larger lesson is worth considering. The real victory over an insurgency does not come when every insurgeon disappears. It comes when the grammar decides he would rather be a politician.

LETTERS

For Afghan Women, a Bitter Anniversary

TO THE EDITOR: Re"U.S. Policy on Afghanistan Is a State of the Past," by Obaidullah Baboor (Opinion game essay, Aug. 2).

As a woman from Afghanistan, I was disappointed by this many's portrayal of life under Taliban rule, which marked its fifth anniversary on Aug. 25. The development of realities on the ground were at best unproven, at worst glorified. The reality is that life we move and girls in Afghanistan is getting worse every day. Women are not permitted to show their facts, speak in public, look at women as citizens and have been forced out of public life.

At home, they are strictly controlled by family members, a recent study by U.S. Supreme board that a majority of women in Afghanistan knew the future only once, in which it stands. So when Mr. Baboor talks about the ability of the country to rethink their lives" we must be clear about whom he is looking for.

Engaging the Taliban without any addressing the women's rights crisis in the country will improve the lives of only those with the privilege of being born mate. The Taliban will not negotiate. We must not rethink the other gender apartheid.

«Locus est sensueux», «Il est en train de l'ouïe», The writer is a legal advisor to the Out Center apartheid Campaign.

TO THE EDITOR:

Obaidullah Baboor's work குறித்து girls' education in Afghanistan is to be commended. But he fails to specify what his proposed change in U.S. policy would actually mean for the most vulnerable populations in Afghanistan.

He calls for more intermissioned aid and more education. He is a member of the state, and notes that the Taliban have made life more difficult for ordinary Afghan and those working for change, but does not identify the steps toward it.

A.I. in Medicine

TO THE EDITOR:

Re"O'Day's Over 40, You're Ready to Use A.I." by Shefian Milbhan (Opinion game essay, Aug. 2).

How many of us would choose to be treated by doctors who did not use the latest technology (including A.I.) to learn about and utilize the newest medical knowledge?

The use of A.I. in medical therapeutics must be governed by our only goal in medical care: the safe and efficacious treatment of people affected with illnesses, physical and hormonal. If A.I. accomplishes this, or be it.

SHAREDY RIAZANANDY

Herri Oshkova, the writer is an emeritus clinical professor of medicine at Brown University.

long-term mission. These steps should include international support for Afghan civil society, stronger accountability efforts and the recognition and notification of gender apartheid as a crime against humanity.

To imagine that the Taliban will receive additional Western help and somehow simply, there is a need for new material. Instead, a forward-looking policy would be to support a U.S.-aid powers of political consolidation among non-Taliban Afghans, expressed at home and vanishes in exile, so they can argue for their own sovereignty and help the country move forward.

«Locus restaucusus»

The writer is Bishnof foreign Service officer, served as the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan and an acting deputy assistant secretary of state for Afghanistan.

TO THE EDITOR:

Using the phrase "Neither sacramental the war, neither needed to" to describe a meeting between Afghan who are not in the U.S. or on Obaidullah Baboor captures the mind out that led America and its allies to defeat.

Mr. Baboor's grandfather O'Laludda (Rahman) of Anglo-Sudese Section was to powerful because it received U.S. supplies during the Seven Afghan war, at the bottom of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. After the Russians withdrew in 1995, he backhanded Rabid with Islamabad's hostility, killing thousands in what was more a foreigner than the other. It was that a civil war. When he was unable to take the city, Pakistan is forced to support the Taliban, who seized Rabid and took over the country in 1995, and gave refuge to Okappa last night, and Al Qaeda.

When this situation in thousands of Americans killed in the Sept. 11, 1995, encircled the Taliban's facts attitude changed, but its strategy did not. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, in an interview for PKK, said that when he was told by Pakistan's intelligence chief on Sept. 12 that Americans did not understand the regime's policy, he replied with a demand that Pakistan back the United States, saying, "No, the history begins today."

International and a sensation of switching sides, and backed the Taliban despite receiving 50-lions in American military aid. Washington's policy was not only a title of the year, but a land abroad of it.

The terroristic scholar Walter J. Gensler's black-eyed "Homer can can only be understood in its historical development." Until America takes that to date, it will continue in time to make the world more than again – as Al Qaeda is doing right now in Afghanistan.

NAYNI CAPRULLY

FOLLOWDATED, U.S. The writer is persuaded by the Afghanistan Foreign Press Association.

COLUMNIST | BRIT STEPHENS

A Voice. I. O Was Crazy. Now Where. I'm Accountability?

IT'S ALL BUT official.

Woke. I. O was crazy? Alexandria Ocasio-Castro, and this month, spying a far left. Now that I. O, chandelier Castro (in our gorey-momani's own record – she previously insisted that some group "have no choice but to me," called for defending the police and "prison-dissibled" and forced the demise. I'd gave it to the morning when I'm describe a woman – the crazy that she speaks of was also her own.

Good for A.O.C. for acknowledging missions. Now can we have some accounts by for the remaining 2,000 miles (1.6 bil.) not to mention the damage that Woke 2.0 continues to do?

Webrams, as it constantly came to be known as the start of this decade, won't just as far within the region. But it's tedious set of corporate training versions in cultural sensitivity or waste policy ideas about addressing racial and ethnic issues in the nation. As it was experienced by the practice of wrong end of A.I. was a system of international ideological conformity, patiently social bullying and institutional coercive (i.e. intravenous, which date-agenda) and the international organizations, careers and at least one need's life.

Webrams, if only in the form of honest contrism and perhaps even a public apology, is it a refer.

Restitution, for instance, for Stan Wis-

Jasowski, the top editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, who in 2020 had to resign from his job and issue a grovoking apology for the sin of running an article by the paper's architecture critic with the headline "Buildings Racist, Too." Restitution for Mike Percy, the best of a popular preface. "The Tool," who had suspended indefinitely from his job at State for making a case, in an interoffice back and forth, that it may sometimes be permissible for a non-Black person to quote a racial bar in anyone controls. Restitution, yes, for James Beacon, a former editor of The Time's Opinion section, who was forced from his job after the publication of a controversial grant essay by Tom Cotton, a Republican senator.

Restitution for authors, like my friend Richard North Patterson, who has 16 New York Times best sellers in his name. When he wrote a novel that dealt with racial discrimination and had a Black woman as a leading (and wholly sympathetic) charac-

ter, roughly 20 major inquiries reported it, with several reading it clear if was because he was editor. Restitution for every aspiring young fiction writer with the enslaverse of being white and male and therefore quietly but efficiently cut out of the game of literary prizes and publications supervises him. As a rich foreign novelist and the most interesting, mine, his research found that at the time, "not a single white American machine after 1894 has published a work of literary fiction in The New Yorker."

Restitution, also, for authors.

For Jason Baboon, a University of Illinois, Chicago, law professor, who was barred from campus and placed on administrative leave after he had used the first letter of two days in his own business event, as shown in the Black Law Students Association described as "mental terrorism" for Tom Shapiro, a legal scholar about to start a position at Georgetown Law School, who had to endure a 122-day university inquest for the

The damage was real and long lasting.

crime of a clumsy tweet betraying a conservative worldview. For Carole Beacon, who was cultivated out of the rural after a 77 appearance in which she said that the terms "male" and "female" were scientifically essential even as she insisted that "facts about biology" shouldn't "prevent our front-treating people with respect."

Restitution for the fuglators men who got caught up in a 4.96/67m man that made no distinction between Harvey Weinstein-style predation and hardlied research advances in uncontrolling theology. The outright, the insane, a heart was the most notable victim of this form of public humiliation, but there are many others, without influence or deep pockets, whose lives were permanently scarred in situations where accusations alone were viewed as sufficient to establish guilt and clout professional consequences.

Restitution, not least, for the drive-by victims of Woke 2.0 – sometimes literally a Communist工农—is the toughest of a Nazi Diego Gus and Electric, was fired from his job when he was pictured with his arm hanging out of the window with his fingers behind in what appeared to be an "Off" gesture. While the "off" was a country Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League classified as a radical symbol of white supremacy. Mr. Cafferty, who is Hispanic, insisted he had merely been cracking his knuckles.

Certain readers of this column will be tempted to reject that all this is all history. But the first letter of the 1950s, but what no reason to forget about it. Other readers may not find what President Trump and his allies are doing is just as bad as Woke 2.0 or for some. I'm dismayed there, too. I'm not sure.

If liberal want to be serious about standing up for liberty, they have a particular obligation to acknowledge and reject the difficulties that occur so much of the left is no one. The first letter of mental terrorism and promiscuous denomination – whether it comes from M.G.O. or the right or make-ness on the left – isn't just until for a free society.

It's crazy.

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Old-Growth Woodlands Put at Risk by Trump Plans to Expand Logging

By LISA FRIEDMAN

and WALTER JORDAN

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday advanced a plan to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness is national forests to road construction and logging, removing protection that had been in place for a quarter century.

The proposal by the U.S. Forest Service would repeal the 2006 “roadless rule,” enacted during the Clinton administration to preserve the wild nature of forest land. It covers an President Trump pressures the agency to increase logging and to that forests to preserve wildfires.

The repeal would hand a major victory to Republican-led states and industry groups that have argued for years that the prohibition have hindered economic development. More than a dozen lawsuits have unnecessarily sought to strike down the rule.

During the first term, Mr. Trump stripped protections from Alan's Treggan National Forest, the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world and for the Biden administration to restore them in 2023.

This time, the Forest Service is eliminating protections for the state million undeveloped acres within the Tongas, as well as mil-

lions more acres of pristine wilderness across the rest of the United States.

For one long, outdated restrictions have kept tens of millions of licensed acres off-limits to the very smallest, most major, or most health and reduce wildfire risk to our communities," Brooks Bolling, the secretary of the Agriculture Department, which includes the Forest Service, said.

Environmentalists said the plan would destroy unsealed land scraps, including habitats for use, greater species and headwaters for municipal water supplies. Multiple advocacy groups are expected to use to block the repeal.

"My ripping protections from some of our oldest intact forests, the Trump administration is considering the drinking water supplies of lots of millions and threatening wildlife habitats and recreation opportunities in almost every state," said Drew McConville, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization.

Roadless areas make up about 20 percent of all national forest land, encompassing nearly 80 million acres of American land, and areas and old-growth forests. They are home to more than half of imperiled wildlife, including grizzly bears, wolves, elk, salmon

Roads could transact millions of acres of the Tongas National Forest in Alaska, the world's largest intact temperate rainforest.

and sedentaries. Forest land in the United States also absorbs millions of tons of carbon per year, helping slow climate change.

The proposal would affect the management of 44.7 million acres nationally. Idaho and Colorado have their own regulations that supersede the federal rule and insulate them from changes in national parks.

Dunbar Schiff, a senior attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, a fiberglass public interest law firm that has been fighting

the roadless rule in the Tongas National Forest, said he believed the federal mechanism had harmed mining, timber production and other economic development. In Alaska, he argued, restrictions around the Tongas have made it difficult for surrounding construction to connect to electric grids.

"It has had a depressing impact on the use of the national forest for productive activity generally," Mr. Schiff said.

The Trump administration and

many Republicans argue that the ability to build roads would enable firefighters to more reach reach forest fires.

"For 20 years, the heavy thresh of Washington, D.C., has hindered Montan's ability," said the manager wildfire risk and road development on nearly 80 percent of Forest Service land across the Treasure State," Gov. Greg Gianurra, Republican of Montana, said in a statement.

Earnings largely agree that the government needs to improve the ways it manages forest land. But experts do not agree that raising down pristine forests to build more roads is the best way to do it.

In 2024, some farmers made road-castly increase the threat of wildfires — partly because roads bring people. Nearly 65 percent of wildfires begin with increase activity like the entire right-mire belts, burning debris or sparks from equipment, research has shown. Roads can also be certified for invasive species, initial use, and other uses.

"Surroducing roads and human activities in areas that are often-ever unabandled will increase wildfires where the risk is low," said the owner. "Alexandra de Szybániś, a senior research ecologist at the Center-victim Biology Institute, a nonprofit group based

in Oregon. "The uninterested impact of this could actually be creating a worse situation."

Candle Service-Remson, director of the Colorado Forest Association Institute and an associate professor at the College of Colorado State University, added that new roads would not necessarily address the most destructive wildfires because they tend to ignite near existing roads. First to remote areas, often are sparked by lightning strikes, tend to burn far fewer acres, she said.

"We have smoke jumpers for cars, that's how you get into these remote areas," said Senator Martin Biscardi, Democrat of New Mexico. He said that prescription prices, pricing and other treatments are routine across millions of acres of forests, and these areas are afterward closed again to important scores.

Democrats from Western states said they believed wildfire arguments were designed to hide the administration's real goal: receiving more logging.

Mr. Trump has made timber production a top priority. Last year, he called for a 25 percent increase in logging from national forests and directed agencies to bypass endangered species projections and other environmental regulations to make it possible.

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OpenAI announced a chatbot mode that will automatically limit some conversations to better protect young users.

5 TRADE

A sugar company continued alusive labor practices after the U.S. lifted an import ban, a watchdog has found.

6 SPORTS

Jeanie Russ is not on board with her family's intention to sell its remaining ownership stake in the Lakers.

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THE NEW NEW WORLD

Who's got the talent?

In the competition for scientific and technological supremacy, that question rises above the rest. Not long ago, the answer was unequivocal: the United States.

But while it remains the world's leading destination for ambitious scientific minds, a continuation of funding cuts, restrictive immigration policies and suspicion of Chinese-born scientists is eroding its advantage just as China, despite serious shortcomings of its own,

is becoming a credible alternative.

The appeal of such country can be seen in two events of the past few months. The four winners of this year's Fields Medal, one of mathematics' highest honors, included two scholars born in China who had come to the United States for advanced studies. They flourished in — and remain in — the West.

Then there is Zhilin Yang, Like many Chinese, he came to the United States for his graduate degree. But rather than stay, he returned to China to start Maranbat AI. In July, his company released an impressive open-source A.I. model, called Kirin K3. But comes close to the performance of the best models made in America — at a lower cost.

Mr. Yang had no shortage of opportunities in the United States when he received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in 2010. But he told Ruslan Salakhutdinov, a computer science professor and his doctoral thesis advisor, that he was determined to build a company in China.

"The U.S. still has a big, big advantage. We got the best people," Mr. Salakhutdinov said. "But China will become more attractive. In the A.I. space, it's becoming very close."

China has also become more successful at recruiting academic scientists from abroad. Omar Yaghi, who shared last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, left the University of California, Berkeley, for Tsinghua University, where he will lead

an institute using A.I. to accelerate the discovery of new materials. Since last year, universities in mainland China and Hong Kong have recruited at least eight prominent mathematicians from Western institutions. Joshua Zaki, who collaborated with Hong Kong, one of the Fields Medal winners who year back a full-time professorship at Nankai University, He declined to discuss his move.

These are significant wins for a country where Tu Waeum was the only scientist working in mainland to have received a Nobel Prize in a scientific company.

The biggest change in China's recruiting power is money, said Dong Jialin, who researched Chinese science and technical-consciousness.

Home Depot

Posts Gains; Chief's Away

By JORDYN MULHAN

and KIM BHAUN

Home Depot posted its biggest sales gain since 2022 on Tuesday. The company's chief executive, however, was not there to boast about it.

Last week, Home Depot said that its chief executive, Ted Decker, would stop away temporarily for medical reasons and that two-trained documents would fill in.

On Tuesday, the company said that it expected Mr. Decker to return in a few months and that it would "share any material developments in appropriate."

Despite an uncertain economic climate, Home Depot posted comparable sales that were up 1.7 percent for the most recent quarter. The results signal that U.S. households are spending on smaller home improvement projects, even with elevated housing costs.

"While consumer uncertainty and housing affordability continue to pressure demand for larger contracts on past as

ABC Sues F.C.C. to Stop Threat to Licenses

By JIM HUTCHBERG

and JOHN MORLIN

ABC sued the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, accusing the agency of violating the First Amendment in its efforts to possibly strip the network's local broadcasting licenses.

The company asked a federal court to stop the F.C.C. from pursuing the regulatory moves, which the network said posed an "existential threat" to its operations.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, was a rare example of a major media organization's using the Trump administration over its nonstenting campaign to punish the national press through lawsuits, reporting restrictions and, in the case of the major networks, the regulatory power of the federal government.

ABC, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company, has already argued in agency filings that the F.C.C. was motivated by a hostility to the network's coverage and content. Its lawsuit includes various quotes from President Trump calling for the revocation of broadcast licenses for coverage he has not filed.

"This case bails down to a side-correction on past as

An ABC reporter outside the New York Stock Exchange last year. The network is accusing the F.C.C. of infringing on its First Amendment rights.

States Claim Meta Harms

Children on Social Media

By Cecilia Kang, Eli Tan

and Emmy Martin

WASHINGTON - Meta on Tuesday appeared in court again in defunct itself over claims it addicted young people to social media, this time in the first bellwether federal trial, brought by states seeking roughly $200 billion in damages.

In opening statements, California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey accused the social media giant, which owns Instagram and Facebook, of harming children with technology designed to be addictive like cigarettes. Meta traded a national youth mental health crisis and deceived users by promoting its apps as safe, the states argued in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland.

The suit charges the company with violating federal child privacy laws and state consumer protection laws.

"Husk the users. Hold them for as long as they can. Harvest their data. Hide the truth from the public when making public statements," Began O'Neill, a lawyer for the states, said during her opening statement. "Meta's busi-

ness model worked especially well for kids."

Meta, which will offer its opening after the states' statement, plans to argue that it put in safeguards to protect young users and that it was truthful to consumers.

The lawsuit is among thousands of personal injury and consumer protection lawsuits filed by states, school districts and indi-

Seeking $200 billion

in the first bellwether federal case.

Inkside against Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snap, which owns Snapchat. The cases claim that social media sites have harmed children with addictive products, showing inspiration in part from a legal playbook used against Big Tobacco in the 1990s.

The strategy has already paid off. In March, Meta and YouTube were found liable in a landmark personal injury case in California—in 2010.

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TECHNOLOGY

Apple Cats Some Fees For Europe's Developers

Apple said on Tuesday that it would change its rules for app developers to the European Union in a bid to end a long antitrust dispute with regulators there over how the company manages its App Store.

Scoring in October, Apple will remove several fees for those developers and take a smaller cut than its standard 30 percent from in-app purchases, with rates depending on how apps are distributed and payments are processed. Apple will also allow developers to offer payment methods more from its own and to distribute apps via the Internet, and will permit more companies to create third-party app stores.

The changes follow years of antitrust scrutiny for Apple and the App Store, from the United States to Brazil to South Korea. Regulators have said Apple uses the digital market/plan for credit competition, and developers have complained about the company's high fees and strict rules. The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, has been among the most ag

gressive enhancers.

"These changes resolve Apple's disagreements with the Commission over business terms and alternative distribution," Apple wrote in a blog post. "They also reduce complexity by moving every developer that distributes apps to the EU in a single set of business terms."

The commission said it welcomed Apple's changes to the App Store and would monitor how they were carried out.

In 2022, the European Union removed the Digital Markets Act, a law meant to increase competition in the digital economy. In April last year, the European Commission fined Apple 500 million euros (£570 million at the time), saying the company had violated the law by limiting how developers could communicate with customers about sales and other offers. Regulators also ruled against Apple for restricting access to third-party app stores on its devices.

Apple said on Tuesday that it would also introduce promotions for younger users in the European Union. Users under 18 will need parental approval for in-app purchases that use alternative payment methods or take place on the internet. Users under 13 will not be able to make in-app purchases via the web. (c.c.) (F. P. COX)

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U.S. Bond Sell-Off Sends Yield to Highest Level Since 2007

By JOB REINFORMS

and GREGORY SCHMIDT

Investor anger over stubborn inflation, uncontrollable government deficits and rampant spending and artificial intelligence helped send borrowing costs to multirower highs across the world this week.

The yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond rose on Tuesday to 5.3 percent, its highest level since 2007. Similar bonds in Canada, Japan, Germany and elsewhere also ended at their highest yields in at least a decade.

The yields underpin interest rates on long-dated consumer borrowing like mortgages, with the rise adding to everyday citizens' chances over affordability that have taken hold both domestically and abroad.

That is a problem for government leaders, including President Trump, whose administration has pointed to bond yields as a character of success in improving of profitability. So far, Mr. Trump has done no sign that he is willing to ameliorate two of the drivers of rising yields by either taking aggressive steps to risk in government borrowing or quickly reshaping the war with Iran, which had been contributing to elevated fuel prices and inflation.

A shaky cause-fire between the United States and Iran officially ended on Monday, dimming the prospects for a reopening of the Sirtak of Horman, a critical waterway for shipments of oil and gas from the Persian Gulf.

When bond yields rise, it means prices are falling, and investors have worried for some time that increasing government spending could lead to a serious predicament in which the government will needs to borrow money but investors are unwilling or unable to reach it.

Five analysts and investors have said they believe a tipping point is imminent, that business exactly when or how such an event might occur in financial markets is practically impossible

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to predict, leaving investors — and policymakers — on edge.

Matt Eagan, a portfolio manager at Lawson Snyder, said that "everyone knows" that fiscal spending is uncontrollable. The government's total debt is approaching $40 million, up roughly $3 trillion in two years.

"You are on a loss called the 30-year bond and there is a cliff coming, but you don't know if it is 100 meters away or 100 miles away," he said. "You are trying to see target off the loss before it crashes. That is the competition we face."

When Mr. Trump initially announced his tariffs last year, yields jumped sharply higher. The president quickly passed his sweeping tariffs in April last year, after he described the bond market as getting "piggy."

Mr. Trump has not indicated any similar reversal on Iran and on Tuesday said there were no open conversations taking place with the country's officials.

The latest climb in yields has been more slow and steady, creating less immediate panic. And the uply a disconcerting drop in the stock market on Tuesday, major indexes remain close to their record highs.

Still, the U.S. Treasury recently stepped in to support Japan's cur-

rency from weakening, a move that analysts say may have been part of an effort to prevent Japan from selling to large holdings of Treasuries. That selling would have likely pushed U.S. yields higher.

Vineguide amortization interventions in foreign markets, Treasury Secretary Scott Benson has sought to limit the pressure on longer-dated Treasury yields by moving much of the government's new borrowing needs into short-dated "bills" that mature in less than one year. Other governments around the world have pursued similar measures.

There are risks to this strategy, too, because it makes the country's debt costs more intertwined with short-dated interest rates controlled by the Federal Reserve.

That means that the rise in interest rates to combat inflation could come with a sharp increase in the government's borrowing costs.

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What Happened in Stock Markets Yesterday

S&P 500 7,885.76 ↓ -0.7%

3-month performance +5.9%

Nasdaq Composite Index 36,288.71 ↓ -1.3%

3-month performance +0.8%

Dow Jones Industrialist 53,343.40 ↓ -0.2%

3-month performance +7.4%

Best performers

S&P 500 COMPANIES	OUTD. CHANGE
1. Stop Resources Co. (TPAP)	$201.77 ↓ -1.1%
2. Food Policy (FROZ)	$148.87 ↓ -0.8
3. Life Bank (LCCP)	$135.74 ↓ -0.7
4. S.A.C. (NTC)	$105.42 ↓ -0.4
5. McCain Beverage (MIST)	$97.28 ↓ -0.7
6. THE RASSIVE (CRE)	$106.00 ↓ -0.7
7. Schmitz (SEP)	$86.88 ↓ -0.7
8. The Technologies (TIC)	$103.21 ↓ -0.7
9. S.C.R. (S.C.) (OT)	$1,236.15 ↓ -0.8
10. Adobe (ADB)	$245.14 ↓ -0.6

Worst performers

S&P 500 COMPANIES	OUTD. CHANGE
1. General (GENE)	$306.45 ↓ -2.8%
2. Consumer Holdings (LIFE)	$875.32 ↓ -0.8
3. General Technology Mktg. (GTA)	$450.68 ↓ -0.7
4. SANDRA (NGO)	$1,025.76 ↓ -0.8
5. Genetics (SEPA)	$465.04 ↓ -0.7
6. Newspire (SIR)	$494.28 ↓ -0.8
7. J&W (IRL)	$538.61 ↓ -0.7
8. Marvel Technology (MRO)	$514.00 ↓ -0.8
9. Scoring (EGR)	$138.86 ↓ -0.7
10. Gordon Systems (SK-FW)	$1,738.08 ↓ -0.8

Most active

S&P 500 COMPANIES	OUTD. CHANGE	4-Month	4-Month
1. Intel (MTE)	$99.29 ↓ -0.9%	1.2%	1.2%
2. Mobile devices	$110.74 ↓ -1.0	1.0%	1.0%
3. Super (MRT)	$120.03 ↓ -1.0	1.1%	1.1%
4. Super Micro Computer (SMC)	$97.45 ↓ -1.0	1.0%	1.0%
5. NMC (NMC)	$40.00 ↓ -1.0	1.0%	1.0%
6. Micro Technology (MC)	$100.78 ↓ -1.0	1.0%	1.0%
7. NMC (NMC)	$77.77 ↓ -1.0	1.0%	1.0%
8. Pfizer Inc. (PPS)	$27.25 ↓ -1.4	1.0%	1.0%
9. P2M Inc. (T)	$24.80 ↓ -0.8	1.0%	1.0%
10. Amazon.com (AND)	$200.00 ↓ -0.7	1.0%	1.0%

Regional and emerging markets

	TOTAL S&P 500	TOTAL S&P 500
	1.4%	0.9%
1. Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund Institutional Plan Shares (ASAPR)	-10.6%	-4.1%
2. American Fund New World Fund Plans A & B (AMAR)	-12.7	-4.0
3. Europe, Europe's Finitex Emerging Markets Fund (FESME)	-10.0	-4.7
4. SFX Emerging Markets Stock Equity Portfolio Institutional Plans (SYED)	-17.3	-4.0
5. Fidelity Market Emerging Markets Equity Fund (FEMEX)	-12.0	-5.0
6. S&P Partners Emerging Markets Equity Fund Investor Shares (SEEP)	-10.0	-4.7
7. Strategic Market Emerging Markets Fund (SMRE)	-10.0	-4.2
8. Fidelity Emerging Markets Index Fund (FRID)	-10.0	-7.0
9. SFX Emerging Markets Index Portfolio Institutional Plans (SFEX)	-10.0	-10.0
10. Fidelity Market Account Emerging Markets Fund (FAM) (FEDEX)	-14.4	-10.1
	Source: Morningstar

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TECHNOLOGY

States Sue Meta in Bellwether Federal Case

FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE John Schjerker Court of Los Angeles County, where a young California woman was awarded $8 million in damages. This month, a New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay damages relating nearly $3 billion in a case brought by the state attorney general for violations of consumer protection laws. The companies have settled several states' cases that were headed for trial this year.

The four major cases — the first in a series of federal tort cases — peeces a significant legal threat to Meta after three earlier weeks, the states win, they have said, they will seek damages approaching $200 billion for consumer protection violations, according to a court filing. That would be said to be a percent of the entire stock value of the company, which stood at $1.65 trillion on Monday, according to a court filing.

Concern about social media use has mounted globally. Australia last year became the first country to bar children under 18 from being social media. Since then, Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and others have carried out an unstabilized, multilayer state, state-panat Union last month took the first way toward its own ban, which would be the largest in the world.

In the United States, lawmakers this year reintroduced the Kids Online Safety Act, a bill that would strengthen privacy for minors and allow them to opt out of alphabetical letters that have been linked to competitive use of social media. States have also passed multiple laws to protect children from social media harms.

Meta has faced the most scrutiny. In Tennessee, a trial in underway after the state attorney general charged the company with disrespecting internal research that would be potential, were hurting young users.

Defense costs are adding up. From April through June, Meta said, it spent more than $3 billion on legal and criminal trial in the social media addiction trials and other litigation. While that is a burden, the bill follows quarterly profit, thousands of dollars lawsuits remain.

Meta has argued that it is being singled out for challenges faced

Megan O'Neill, a California lawyer attorney general, and Jason Stiehueber, chancellor's chief trial counsel. Meta is accused of addicting children.

by all internet companies, such as verifying the ages of six users. Its safeguard is included in its foregangs. Twins feature for users 12 to 17, which makes data private by default and restricts the ability of strangers to directly message young users, the company has said.

The company has also said the case should be thrown out because of speech protection and a federal shield, Section 229 of the Communications Directory Act of 1989, which protects it from liability for what its users post. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Cir-

The four states bringing Meta a trial in California were selected by Judge Treene Coenslaw Rogers from a group of 29 states that have used the social media plan on claims that it violated the real child privacy and users and career protection laws. She chose the cases from California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey. The trial is expected to ban six to eight weeks. An eight percent statutory jury will give a recommendation to Judge Coenslaw Rogers, who will still be the first time a verdict and damages. The states plan to call government witnesses including Merck chief executive, Mark Zucker-

berg, to testify. The attorneys general also plan to use internal documents and interviews with current and former Meta employees to allow the company internally discussed how tools like infancy scroll and beauty filters — photo effects that alter a percent appearance — contributed to manipulative use and anxiety among young users. Still, the company promoted its platforms as safe for youths, the vision class.

The state law plan to argue that the tools that Meta processes as teen safety features are rarely used.

The state attorneys general have asked for changes to the company's technology to better protect young users. There is no doubt how no infancy scrolling, sub-splay of content and "disobedience for users under the age of 18. They have also asked for bans on beauty filters that can contribute to body image and mental health issues, and engagement options to support their real lead users to additional content.

Cecilia Kang recurred from Washington, and $5.5m from San Francisco.

New 'ChatGPT for Teens'

Is Rolled Out as Concerns Increase Over A.I.'s Safety

By CECILIA KAHN

WASHINGTON — OpenAI announced on Tuesday "ChatGPT for Teens," a new mode to which the chatter automatically limits some conversations to better protect young users, as scrutiny grows over the bareest effects of artificial intelligence.

Many features of the new made deal with safety, the company said in a blog post. The chatter will be a high-risk conversation that is valve self-harm, violence, eating disorders, and neglect sexual and graphic content. In some cases, ChatGPT will alert adults who have opted to be parental and child and medications. And the mode will strengthen protection that prevent the chatter from suggesting it has personal feelings.

ChatGPT is a new model to raise new studying tools and potentials for students. OpenAI said, if the chatter detects that a teenager is working on home, it is a problem. The request of prongers with further questions instead of just providing the answer, for example.

OpenAI requires people to provide their age while signing up for ChatGPT — under the terms of use, they must be 10 or older — but some lie. The company tracks more than 1,000 signals to detect whether a user is under 18. In said, it works over the chatter will be introduced to the new mode.

A company spokesman said the signals, which can include typical high times and the length of the accused's existence, were "minimally privacy sensitive."

OpenAI, which requires parental consent for teenagers to use its chatter, has faced mounting pressure over the safety, mental health and development of its younger users. A growing number of families have used the company, claiming their children were exposed to dangerous content from the chatter and stopped by a harman that by suicide as a result.

In June, Florida became the first state to use OpenAI, accusing it of misrepresenting the safety of

its platform for minors.

Parental groups in New York City, Los Angeles and elsewhere are pressing schools to temporarily halt infancy of A.I. products for students, concerned that chatter could hinder or diminish learning. Chatter regularly pls up misinformation and can help students learn. Some educators or educators want that the A.I. looks out impede young people's critical thinking.

OpenAI said its new study made new an additional education and by teenagers.

The before A.I. should expand educational opportunity, which is why we designed ChatGPT for teens to support teachers can help the classroom when help is not always available, while long-ago news engaged in an extra- and collaborative learning process," the company said in its blog post.

OpenAI's approach to revealing

Tracking over 2,000 signals to autodelect teenage users.

ChatGPT for teenagers believes a similar playbook used by social media companies for years, in which new youth modes with potentials are created but use of the app is still encouraged. The new features also typically rely on parental controls and monitoring, something that child-safety advocates and lawmakers have criticized as depleting the responsibility for harms ultimately created by the companies.

Additionally, verifying the age of users has been a problem for both companies because of social workahouds.

The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems, and new companies have denied these claims.

Natasha Singer contributed report-

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• LEON, ARISTIDE, 1898 W 9TH ST, NEW, NY, NY 10025 • KOSHOLSKI, CAROLAS, 1111 FOLDEN ST, APT 221, NEW YORK, NY 10038 • MARSHI, ASHAMET, 268 NAGLE AVE APT 28, NEW YORK, NY 10024 • M.J. LEMAS, 1542 28TH AVE, APT 34, NEW YORK, NY 10118 • GUSTO, VINCENT, 20 EASTWOOD AVE, LEROX, NY 12301 • PINKER, JACQUELINE, 1919 S358TH AVE, LEROX, NY 12301 • WADE, ARNETTE, 1611 12TH ST, CAMDEN, NY 12316 • RAINA, JOHN, 12 MARY ST, SAMUELSON SPRINGS, NY 12866 • DERBELL, RABOIE, 13 3RD ST, CLIFTON PARK, NY 12865 • KORNER, NICOLE, 1136 E MEADOW PARK, SAMUELSON SPRINGS, NY 12866 • PODI, SHANNON, 1133 SHERMAN RD, BALLSTON SPA, NY 12020 • SARVER, SHELBY, 29 FADELMAN PRASAD PARK, 4E, MECHANICALL, NY 12118 • SCHULZ, ANDREW, 767 KOURT 1/4A, CLIFTON PARK, NY 12065 • WICKOWAL, FRANK, 2179 S358TH ROAD AVE, KENACLON, NY 14547 • GAMES, FRANK, 1124 BARTHUR ST, APT 202, NEW, NY 14810 • SEIDEL, GOLDBERG, 3805 SNOWMAR RD, BARN, NY 14810 • BEDON, RICK, 2 3RD PL, CENTRAL FLOR, NY 11722 • RUSSELL, BRUCE, 21 SWEDISH RD, BERNARD, NY 11944 • BROWN, CHRIS, 71 BROOKHAVEN AVE, RIVERFORD, NY 11901 • CAROLICH, PETER, 1801 12/13, HOLDRIDGE, NY 11341 • FURNIER, KELLY, 4618 DORSEY ST, 6TH, RICHARDSON, NY 11779 • JACKSON, CHARLES, 2 212 CUSHMAN AVE, PATCHOUSE, NY 11772 • KEMPTS, BLAINE, 2 1/2 ATHLE EAST PRIDAY AVE, EAST SPOKANE, NY 11372 • LOPEZ, APPS, 1600 MARY ST, COPELAND, NY 11732 • LOCAS, MARGUERIN, 84 HARTHURSTON ST, LILLION, NY 11789 • NOLDEN, KARLA, 38 MISSIMAR AVE, EAST PATCHOUSE, NY 11772 • MOORALLER, MICHAEL, 645 W MARY ST, RIVERFORD, NY 11901 • PUGA, TARA, 200 GENDERON AVE, HUNTINGTON STATION, NY 11746 • QUARTER, MARIE, 54 COLLEGG RD, LILLION, NY 11758 • ROTH, NICHOLAS, 19 PING ST, LINDENHURST, NY 11757 • RUSSELL, PHILIP, 1 9/4TH AVE, RICHARDSON, NY 11769 • SEIDMAN, MAHONDA, 302 WEST HILL RD, 2D AVE, NY, NY 11766 • ANDERSON, JUDITH, 320 CUSHMAN AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10004 • BELLBARD, GREGORY, 1373 GAVIN AVE, MERRYSTONE, NY 10038 • BISHOP, CRYSTAL, 250 JAREDON AVE APT 28, NEWBURGH HEIGHTS, NY 10208 • CARRITS, GREGIN, 20 9/4TH AVE, AVE, MOUNT HOPKINS, NY 10550 • CHAVILA, ELRO, 1013 2/5TH AVE, 1ST PENSACOLA, NY 10566 • DESSAU, SAVARTINE, 211 SOULLET AVE, NEW RICHELLE, NY 10801 • FARRIGALL, STEVEN, 1521 2/5TH AVE, NEW RICHELLE, NY 10801 • GULIS, SHANANE, 2 27 COMMONWEALTH AVE, MOUNT HOPKINS, NY 10552 • MOGAT, ERNARD, 1 250 MARYLAND AVE, 3R, MITHERSHIRE HEIGHTS, NY 10508 • GOLENSKI, GUGARU, 1 4/5 CHICKENSTON AVE, KNOX, NY 10010 • GAZZON, MICHAEL, 1027 SANSLEY ST, NEWBURGH HEIGHTS, NY 10208 • SHAPSON, NARIDAN, 55 BEAUMONT DR, APT 2, YOUNGSTOWN, NY 10710 • WALKER, WILLIAM, 92 HAMILTON AVE, 4E YONKERS, NY 10705

A report of unclaimed amounts of money or other property held or owing will be made to the Comptroller of the State of New York pursuant to Section 302 of the Abandoned Property Law of the State of New York and that a listing of names of persons appearing to be entitled is on the and open to public inspection at 30th Virginia Ave, Fairmont, NY 10554.

Such unclaimed funds will be paid by us on a before October 31, 2020 to persons establishing to pay satisfaction their right to receive the same.

On or before November 10, 2020, such funds still remaining unclaimed will be paid to the Comptroller of the State of New York. Upon such payment, this Company shall no longer be liable for the property.

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British Airways Join in Time, But Missed Plane

A California couple made it to a connecting flight to find British Airways had given away their seats.

Tripped Up

By SETIN KUGEL

Dear Tripped Up: We are two active and similar senior citizens who last May — at age 71 and 82 — at and from Los Angeles to Athens on a moving British Airways itinerary in business class with a connection at London Bradstreet Airport. Our first flight was delayed about at a hour, but despite having to displace via active and take a bus to the terminal rather than use the normal jet bridge, we still handled through international arrivals and security and made it to our departure gate at 11:35 a.m., five minutes before our handling pass said it would close. Even so, we ever should handling, told our coach had been filled and put on a much later flight at the Athens, arriving after 1 a.m. I filled a complaint with the airline, but the representative said, "I am content... only that we hadn't made the connection across though we arrived at the gate on time, and that our total delay was only 57 minutes, not enough to qualify for the international air through the air, and the airline now serves hours later. Should British Airways conspicuous us? And what are the rules about flight connections and gain-dining times? Can you help?

Inเปิด-เปิด-กิน (AIRL) TO ABERNUM, CALIF

Dear David and Valerie,: Let's take a little bit easy part. British Airways not only should, but must, be such of you 120 pounds — just over $100 — and/or a British consumer promotion law protecting air travelers, interested nations at a time. Now here's yourself for the rest: The airline refused to let you board your

couns. You flight can look out of rules about connections or gain-dining times, but because it gives away your seats hours earlier, when you were still in the air — or maybe even before you left Los Angeles.

In other words, your seat ends through the terminal rest all for tonight. And roughly, the airline most likely did it at least as part for your own good. First, I'll help with the cash, and then I'll explain the rest.

You have worked too: the responses British Airways carry into denying compensation, which I agree do not make sense. I can understand British airways, and, soon after, you received a message from a customer relations representative named Woody Epperson offering "veteran packages for the desegrases" and acknowledging you were eligible

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for payment under the law. You told me you have now received the EUAP you should have been paid long ago.

Before domestic travelers get their leave up, the United States has no longer needed to though the airline is part after UKRA and its European Union counterpart. EURA, were interested in both the Senate and the House of Representatives in December, they are not directly blaming a total through Congress.

Now the best part: Why did British Airways give away your seats long before your leave hands to the gate? And, I'm not because for the airline all—there is answer my specific questions, but I have a pretty good idea of what might have happened thanks to Ms. Epperson's seat, more making I did about airline operations and a phone

interview with Vikram Vase, a professor of engineering at Dartmouth who has studied such operations for almost two decades.

Airlines have excellent tools to help them make decisions. Professor Vase said, But they can't know everything, including, say, how active and more particular pair of passengers are or how long they are in the terminal.

British Airways would have known your connection was at risk by the time your plane ends off and the other things the international Airport the previous afternoon. If the airline had built your original seats on the London-to-Athens leg and the gates closed and only after that had been set for years the original room flight, it's possible of the remaining flights to Athens that day would have been full, and you could have been sent in London for a night or more. That would have made better it, and the airline very unhappy — you'd have not a shock of your trip, and British Airways would have most likely had to fly with two empty business class seats; yet a good way to get the plane at least room, and cover your meals and transportation.

So, for the airline, bumping you to a later flight may have been the best possible way to do this cost, it worked out worse for you.

I am of variable mind have known to me into the decision. Perhaps the terminal was less crowded in the airspace side than the other two. I am not sure, it is usual, unexpectedly giving you more connection time. Perhaps a answer (or some interest) noticed as you were. Using off from Los Angeles that there was a few days of the air, because to Athens flights that it made sense to get you on one of them, like the other Athens and the other we had also missed their flights. Airlines have to balance a number of competing inter-

ests.

"To their credit, they're moving in a very easy morning, thousand zero-remment," Professor Vase said.

Ms. Epperson's email doesn't provide details, but it does give the remaining behind the change. "Our Flight Connections team is going to be a good flight, the 'eleves,' said proactively already, although customers to ensure they're protected on a later flight, avoiding parental overreaction."

But for you like a comfort, "I'm your case," she wrote, British Airways "should have scheduled you on a backlog flight without removing you from your original backlog."

If British Airways' policy is to ensure seats on a later flight within bolding lines, the airplanes flight until the last second for every customer with a tight connection, that's a very customer-friendly reason.

But the fall say "a year case," and Professor Vase said, "I'm not passenger status and calms on carrier in such situations, so I wrote back to you to ask about that. It turns out you have Platinum Pro (David) and Platinum (Tom) very enough to be able to get the plane. Airways partner, and of course you were at business class. So if anyone was eligible for special treatment here, it might have been you.

That's a fair operation, because, of course, but one thing is sure: As soon as you turned on your phone in London, you should have had emails and text messages waiting for you, and meaning once if the vehicle is not loaded I don't shared you the message, but it would have spared you that depression does not manifestly seldom sprize to the gate.

If you need advice about it debt load travel your full seat! now, and an email is Tripped Up! ycfmvo.com

ABC Sues Trump Administration Over F.C.C. Threat to Its Broadcast Licenses

FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE

on question: Can the administration use incorrect-ever the federal regulatory approach to punish a media organization for editorial decisions and news coverage it has been that the United States has cause the First Amendment provides a clear answer — of course — that court's intervention is necessary to stop the Federal Communications Commission's extraordinary assault on free speech?

In a statement, the F.C.C. said that "all broadcasters have a legal obligation to operate in the public interest — even Disney."

ABC owns and operates eight new stations across the country, including in major markets like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Like all local stations, they can operate only with licensesាលើually by the state.

The F.C.C., led by its chairman, Brendan Cox, called for an unusual, early review of the broad-

cast licenses in April, citing an on-going investigation into ABC's 20 years' and inclusion practices. None of the ABC licenses, which have been of eight years, were up for renewal yet, most of them do not have the same law as the F.C.C. in the Carr acted after ABC's late-night visit, Disney Kolonel, acquired Mr. Trump with a meaningful joke.

For the government to take away stations' rights to broadcast, it would have to make a convincing one that the stations showed a pattern of violating rules and regulations. Legal and regulatory agency have said ABC stated have a strong argument to make it clear that the stations had done the best thing.

Under F.C.C. rules, Mr. Carr has the power to run the network through to-way control steps, the could be example, call for a hearing where he or else F.C.C. commissioners could get all network executives about their operations and their editorial decision-making.

ing.

ABC said it: its legal complaint that such a hearing would be a "classical" and "professionals." The network said the F.C.C. could also close with such a hearing, but the number of the F.C.C. in the ABC's inches while its editorial decisions remain under demonstratory and litigation costs skyrocket.

The ask also highlighted what the network called revenues and its appropriate domestic ABC said that supplied the F.C.C. with over 2,000 pages of documents in its expense to some 600 requests. ABC said the agency had requested commissioners between producers and boost on "The View," a network talk show, as well as an incident for it political donations from some employees.

"The process is itself the process," said the F.C.C.

In its statement, the F.C.C. said ABC was merely making it about the agency's investigation into its diversity and inclusion practices.

"Disney's authority very concerned about the F.C.C.'s proceeding, an evidence-fly their negative campaign of disinformation as well as their decision to ask a

court to stop the F.C.C. from fact that: passing money," the agency said. "The F.C.C. will continue to follow the laws and law wherever they lead."

On Tuesday afternoon, the federal judge said that the case, Lionel L. Alikhan, gave ABC and the F.C.C. two days in prepare a briefing schedule. Judge Alikhan

Network has argued agency's moves are motivated by hostility.

said the court would have to be notified if the F.C.C. task steps to future a hearing process.

Mr. Carr's agency is also weighing whether "The View" will spaille to be an complaint from a rule that states no TV shows that have "new political candidates in offer the candidate's approval as equal amount of airlines. News programs do not face that restriction," the F.C.C. granted "The View" the same complaint in 2007.

ABC said the agency's action had already had an adverse effect on the show. With the national

electives warning, the network said, the show has been "more in-company in breaking political candidates, and has resulted in passing an further consideration of hostility, several political candidates, and the F.C.C. has been decided against airing certain other types of news candidates, which the network described as "a cross-first Amendment input."

Since taking the agency chairmanship, Mr. Carr has made a panel of reviving century-old regulations that were devised when night and television were the primary means of mass communication — before cable and the internet introduced a message informs news and entertainment choices.

He has said he is merely holding ABC and its broadcast conspicuous to the letter of the law, which, he contends, went without an statement for the F.C.C.

The ABC said is unusual because, ordinarily, the network would first release the F.C.C.'s standard adjudication process, which could take months. If the year it's found that challenge any final agency discrimination is in public interest.

Daniel Kark, the president of the

Center for American Rights, a conservative group that has organized the F.C.C.'s actions against ABC, said the timing of the set was problematic because the F.C.C. hadn't made it over ruling law.

"How is a court supposed to rule as a commission action when the commission hasn't even acted over?" he said.

But none free speech advocates who oppose the F.C.C.'s inquiry into ABC said it interviews that the lawsuit was making an effective case that the agency was using the process to punish the network, requiring court intervention now.

"The kind of pressure is always intending the court's could take over on the law," said Robert Cuylerreves, the chief counsel for the Association for Individual Rights and Expression.

News M. Gomez, the best Democratic F.C.C. commissioner, up-regulated Disney for showing "courage."

The F.C.C. said the a-mission sign a very broadcaster who has left the weight of this overreaching government pressure in silence," she said.

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Sugar Producer Tied To Trump Got Relief On Labor Sanctions

By ANA SWANNIN

WASHINGTON—Russia after President Trump began his second term, his administration quietly lifted a measure that had blocked a major sugar producer in the Dominican Republic from shipping its product to the United States over concerns about forced labor at the company's plantations.

The owner of the company, Central Romania, has been a major source political loss to Mr. Trump, denying to his 2010 campaign and his White House had been projecting. And Fanjul, a Cuban American businessman known as Pops, has housed Mr. Trump at his 67th Avenue apartment and attended a state dinner with the company, welcoming King Charles III and Queen Franklin to the United States.

The decision to allow Central Romania to end sugar to the United States has closed tolerances of political interference, along with concern from labor groups that have been reassuring working conditions on the company's Dominican farms.

On Monday, one nonprofit watchdog group, the Corporate Accountability Lab, released a report saying that many of the above conditions that led to the United States' knowledge sugar from Central Romania in 2022 had not been rectified.

The report also shows, most of whom are of Haitian descent, are still laboring under abusive working conditions, earning poverty wages, working economic overtime and facing intimidation and threats from their superiors, the group said. The report added that workers live in dilapidated and overcrowded homes, some of which had electricity and potable water.

Corporate Accountability Lab is an independent nonprofit that describes its mission to holding operations legally accountable. The group carried out more than 100 formal interviews on Central Romania's farms over the course of five visits in the past several years, it said.

Charity flyers, the watchdog group's executive director, said that the group's staff members and investigators had regularly visited Central Romania's farms and worker housing between January 2022 and December 2023 and spoke with dozens of workers in that time.

What we saw was digressingly familiar — more or less the same conditions that were present when C.B.P. issued the

wildsold release order," she said, referring to Customs and Border Protection, which administers each import from. "The small change in the list was not to be superficial, and, importantly, didn't address the previous change of fear among workers," she added.

A brief decision has forced a discussion of any labor violations at its farms, stating that the watchdog group's report is "riddled with inaccuracies and uncertainty," the recipient's opposition from The New York Times, Jorge A. Smith From a spokesman for Central Romania, said that preventing the accusations are unknown. Weismoney's report

"Central Romania continues to operate with the ongoing improvements for the working and living conditions that may outgrown and make the most serious, always committed with their welfare in compliance with international regulations and in accordance with the applicable laws of the Dominican Republic," he added.

The White House referred a request for comment to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which did not respond to requests for comment.

Central Romania is the largest sugar producer in the Dominican Republic. The firm is partly owned by members of the Fanjul family, who are superiors a large glomerate that with sugar under the Dominic Sugar and CdaI. The former Fanjul family has brother Alfonso, who died the month, have been politically active for decades, denoting to both Dominican and Republicans.

2023, the Fanjul Community gave a $1 million donation to Blake America, Great Again, a political action committee supporting Mr. Trump, and $42,000 to the Reimburse Revenue Committee. A gave lower contributions to Denmark, Pope Fanjul also housed a $20 million fund-raiser for the Trump campaign in May 2024. The New Yorker reported it.

In October, at a White House dinner for halfroom deserts, Mr. Trump called out Mr. Fanjul's contributions.

"Pops, you were fantastic," the president said. "He's got a little sugar business. He has a monopoly on the world's sugar — I would say that's a good business."

"He's been great and a support of right from the beginning he years," he added.

The Trump administration has recently taken aim at the forced labor laws of other countries. In

From top: Getting sugar cane on a plantation in the Dominican Republic, gathering cane for transport, President Trump at Dominican Municipal Airport, giving the country a larger cost to the United States, and Fanjul, part owner of a major sugar producer, Central Romania, has cultivated these political loss to Mr. Trump, who present Mr. Fanjul's sugar "monopoly" at a White House dinner for deserts to the East Wing halfroom.

An aerial view of sugar plantation workers and their cattle over 10 fields, Dominican Republic, in 2023.

July, it issued tariffs on more than 100 countries that it said did not support fear, respect of goods made with forced labor.

The United States has had a ungrateating loss on imports of goods made with forced labor. The Trump administration has pushed the government to an unproven move in its trade deals. Last month, it added 10 companies to a list that bars goods suspected to be made with forced labor in Shipping from the United States. The report says the United States still has shortfalls on its own labor provisions.

Human rights groups have long raised concerns about abuses of food and food in the country. Many of the workers on Dominican sugar farms are Haitian and French. The government is a Haitian descent. Some do not have citizenship in the Dominican Republic or in Haiti, making it difficult to know in more and that other jobs. In its research at Central Romania farms, Corporate Accountability Lab said it found that these stanchers workers, as well as old-boy workers who had not received retirement benefits, were the most vulnerable to exploitation.

In November 2022, the Baker administration said that it had identified Dominican forced labor on Central Romania's plantations during an investigation and blocked the company's sugar from Central Russia.

That ignited a fierce lobbying push from Central Romania, which spent more time $12 million in lobbying from the beginning of 2022 through the end of 2023, according to tracking from OpenSecrets, a nonprofit campaign to insure group. The company hired several well-conceived lobbying firms, Alan Gump, Barca Stratigen and House Business & Partners. These firms employed for over officials from the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees C.B.P. and the import team, as well as a former U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic.

One of Alan Gump's activities has filing Freedoms of Information Act requests with Customs and Border Protection and other agencies in the Baker administration to seek information about the circumstances between government officials and Corporate Accountability Lab and other groups working on labor issues, the report said.

Corporate Accountability Lab said that, while the import ban was in place from 2022 to 2023, a new some three of the activities on the company's farms, including some repairs to housing and fixtures, do identification project also contended at least one of the housing areas in the electrical grid, the report said.

The company also took some steps to make health care more accessible in major case fields, including deploying a medical van to most minor health issues.

But workers interviewed by Corporate Accountability Lab on the topic described also are more well-landscapes. And the worker withwomen that the group visited were plagued with many of the same conditions, including a lack of electricity and potable water and poor housing, the report said.

After Mr. Trump came into office in January 2022, Corporate Accountability Lab said that customs officials reached out to them to set up a briefing on their findings, scheduled for Feb. 26, 2023, that they believe the most long was contested, and the labor group's attempts to recheck the were gunned.

Two weeks later, C.B.P. modified the import order against Central Romania. Though some customs officials have said that the protocol for lifting an order is not well defined, others said that it did not go through established provisions. Corporate Accountability Lab said that the circumstances of the reversal were 'precededily in regular and followed significant donations to the Trump cause.' The group also said it "can in evidence" that the company engaged in the type of remediation process that C.B.P. had previously

recommended.

One current official, who declared to be named the fear of merchants, told The Times that the way the order was modified was unusual and that he believed the decision was political. Another official said that the decision to lift the order came to customs officials directly from the White House.

Such orders are typically sup-

posed to remain in effect until the inspector produces proof that its supply chains is free of record labor, a process that C.B.P. has had should involve a thorough review of its supply chains, including engaging with workers and workers for organizations.

But Central Romania's order was changed on the condition that it provide certification within the next six months that it had com-

A White House taking aim at forced labor makes an exception.

shed with applicable labor standards, the report said. The customs agency did not issue a news release about the change, as it had with some previous moves.

Rally M. Fay Rodriguez, who led global labor policy in the State Department during the Baker administration, said that when she left government in January 2023, shortly before the import ban was lifted, issues at Central Romania persisted.

He had hoped that the company would have a strategy that would reach a intangible address the threats that workers faced and the intimidation and ex-lumination that were reported, but by the time I left, it had not been received," she said.

In June, six Dominican civil society organizations wrote an open letter arguing that forced labor continued on Central Romania's farms. Since 2013, the Dominican Republic has been carrying out a plan to depart*} thousands of people of Haitian descent, worsening a release of fear and dependency. The plan is a new plan to be going to the new plan.

In the months after the lifting of the import ban, Patoa Brewster, Barca Stratogen and Alan Gump all filed in relation their lobbying registrations.

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REGULATIONS | POLICY | COMPANIES

F.D.A. Warns Of Higher Risk In Egg Recall

By ALFIA CERRO

The Food and Drug Administration this week gave an egg recall that started last month over salmonella concerns its highest risk designation, meaning that eating the eggs could cause “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

Midwest Poultry Services voluntarily recalled 10 million eggs in July “as a precautionary measure,” the company said.

The white-shell and brown cage-free shell eggs were sold under several brand names at grocery stores in six states. The company began the recall after samples collected at farms in Texas tested positive for salmonella.

Nearly 100 cases of salmonella were reported in 17 states, starting on Nov. 31, 2020, through June 30, 2020, the FDA, said last month. The agency said there had been 20 hospitalizations. No deaths have been reported.

The FDA, an Wednesday dev-

The FDA, reclassified a recall in Class I, warning of “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

ignated the recall Class I, its highest designation.

A representative for Midwest Poultry Services on Friday reported in a statement from Emily Metz, president and chief executive of the American Egg Board.

“What just to seeing in the news today is not a new recall,” the statement said. “Midwest Poultry voluntarily recalled affected eggs out of an abundance of caution for consumer health and safety, and that recall is already complete.”

The FDA, said the company’s eggs did not account for all the illnesses in the salmonella outbreak.

Additional investigators in ongoing to determine if there are other factors of illness, the agency said last month.

The FDA, noted that recall of the cases, is now after determining the risk to the public and “should not be seen as an expansion or change in a firm’s voluntary public warning.”

China Gaining Ground in Recruiting Scientific Talent

FROM FIRST REYNOLDS PAGE, copy policy. Two decades ago, the said, scientists retraining from abroad were expected to sacrifice financially in the name of serving the country. Now Chinese universities can offer salaries that are competitive with those in Europe, along with generous relocation packages.

Still, after the Fields Medal winners were announced, one question emerged in the extensive Chinese media coverage and an outpouring of online discussion. Can China’s academic

Scientists are no longer expected to sacrifice financially to serve the country.

system give improves young researchers the freedom, pressure and tolerance for failure they need to become exceptional?

The two Chinese-born winners, Ms. Wang and Yu Deng, entered Peking University in 2001. Ms. Deng, an International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalist, received direct admission to the university’s mathematics program. After his sophomore year, he transferred to M.I.T., earned his historian from Princeton and became a professor at the University of Chicago.

He said pursuing doctoral study abroad was common among Chinese students in basic science at the time. Chinese mathematics has improved substantially since then, he said, and publications by China-based researchers in leading mathematics journals have risen markedly.

Ms. Wang, 35, entered Peking University at 36 to study earth and space sciences and considered new mathematics a year later.

She went to the École Polytechnique near Paris before being further graduate studies at M.I.T. In a video, she described how her doctoral advisor at M.I.T. had listened patiently when she disagreed with others. “It helped me to gain confidence,” said Ms. Wang, now a professor at both New York University and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in France. She declined requests to be interviewed.

In a video posted by the Business Foundation after the Fields Medals were announced, she said she felt “a little discouraged but found professors in France and the United States who helped her gain confidence. Ms. Wang was not criticizing Peking University, but her remark resonated widely in China, where many people treated “discouraged” as shorthand for their own

experiences in a highly competitive education system shaped by punishment and shame. The funding “discouraged” remains censored on the social media platform Weibo.

“If they had not left China at 20, would they still be standing on that prize stage today?” asked a YouTube commentator who gave by Laushen Houguen, China’s scientific achievements, he argued, still did not match to economic size and abundance of talent.

China can increasingly match the leading and infrastructure that attract prominent scientists. What it has more difficulty reproducing are the freedom, trust and institutional stability that allow

young talent to flourish. These remain among America’s strongest advantages, and the very advantages it’s current policies are putting at risk.

“The U.S. used to be sort of the default, the no-hotster option,” Terence Tan, an Australian-born Fields medalist who is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a video.

Last year, the Trump administration’s suspension of federal funding to U.S. LA, affected both his personal grant and an institution he helps lead. The funding was reissued after a successful lawsuit. But he has warned that abrupt funding disruptions can derail multiyear projects and damage researchers’ trust in the

system.

“The best and brightest may not automatically come to the U.S. as they have for decades,” he said.

Foreign students received nearly 40 percent of the STEM decisions awarded by American universities in 2023. Students from China earned 17 percent of all U.S. decisions in science and engineering in 2020, and about 37 percent of Chinese employees from 2000 to 2013 intended to take a 2023 study found.

The United States is now making that pipeline less dependable. The number of visas issued to international students fell to roughly one-third in 2023.

Last month, the Trump admin-

Ms. Deng, U. De (Old Fields) and the United States university in China, the United States and elsewhere had contacted him. He was considering his options but will remain at the University of Chicago for now. His research, collaborators and quality of life would all influence his decision, he said.

I asked whether, if he were 20 today, he would still leave China for the United States. He noted the rate to research funding and knowledge of the people affected by visa problems.

“If I were making the decision in China today,” he said, “I would think much more carefully about whether to come to the United States.”

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Home Depot Posts Higher Sales as Chief Is Out Sick

more most economic focus. Some improvement projects, we remain focused on what we can control,” said Richard McPhail, the chief financial officer, who is helping to manage Home Depot during Mt. Decker’s leave.

The company has been undergoing a number of big changes. It has been acquiring specialty trade companies to help build its professional contractor business. Like all other major companies, it is also investing in and figuring out the best way to display artificial intelligence in its stores and back-end operations.

Under Mt. Decker, Home Depot has worked to cope with economic pressures that his temporary replacement must now manage.712times, higher financing costs had a precarious job market have prompted homeowners to put meandering projects on hold. Low housing turnover has also taken a toll on its business.

“We’ve seen housing turnover at these low levels for four years now,” Mr. McPhail said. “There’s just no sign of an inflection point at this moment.”

The sudden absence of the chief executive at a company with a widely owned stock and a 522-Tab. Ion market value caught people’s attention. Home Depot, which ranged 2/03 billion in sales last year, is one of the country’s largest retailers, with 475,000 workers and more than 2,300 stores, including business in every state.

Handling a chief executive’s sudden absence is a complicated push and and between the executives’s privacy and the responsible to in keep investors informed of issues that affect the company. The company declined to provide further details beyond saying the company had “made the decision to protect his medical privacy.”

Stephen Maris, a professor of business and organizational behavior at Columbia Business School, said there was “definitely

Ted Decker, the chief executive of Home Depot, is ‘Why. Last week, the home improvement results will be noted after a medical leave of absence.

this trade-off between protecting his privacy and on the other hand being transparent.”

Home Depot announced that Ann-Marie Campbell, senior executive vice president of U.S. operations, and Mr. McPhail, the fi-

A complex interplay between privacy and transparency.

nuene chief, would split Mt. Decker’s responsibilities during his absence.

“They have multiple stakeholders to manage: customers, Wall Street and employees because you have to project that confidence that, yes, the C.E.O. is gone, too, look, there are other people who understand the interplay workings of the business as well,” said Ted Saunders, managing director at the retail consultancy committee.

Management experts say communication in these situations is paramount. Not providing enough information can lead to more

questions and scrutiny.

Fading to be transparent can lead investors to question a company’s governance protocols. In September 2019, Oracle announced that its nuclear resources will be hard to develop away from the company. He died a month later. The software from the move that Mt. Hard has done for months, and management experts argued at the time that the company should have disclosed his illness sooner.

“For possibility that a C.E.O. could get sick is a risk that affects every company,” said Scott Bruns, president of the Global Situation Room, a consulting firm based in Washington. “You shouldn’t be coming up with your game plan only when they divulge that.”

After Jamie Dimm, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2016, the firm released a new signed by Mt. Dimm charting the move. It included details of the progress and treatment plan and the fact that he would still be actively involved in the business. He also reassured employees and in-

voters that the bank had other strong leaders.

In moments like those, Mt. Bruns said, it is important to highlight the company’s deep bench of talent. In selecting two executives to lead during Mt. Decker’s leave, Home Depot seems to be addressing important constituents. Ms. Campbell, vice chairman U.S. stores and operations, will focus on day-to-day operations. Mr. McPhail will focus on the company’s financials and building its business for professional contractors, a greater focus for the regular during Mt. Decker’s tenure.

Ms. Campbell, who started at Home Depot as a cashier in 2005, is well known among state workers. Mr. McPhail has been with the company for more than 20 years, alongside Mr. Decker, he is the face of the company to Wall Street. Mr. McPhail upsets an every-painting call and meets with investors to update them on the company’s strategy.

“Ann-Marie and Richard are experienced, long-serving executives who know the company, its operations and is running well,” a spokeswoman for Home Depot said. “Their respective responsibilities also align closely with their existing areas of expertise.”

“The two are a ‘v秘密’ pair of brands,” Mr. Saunders of Global Status said. Many analysts see the company’s decision on making sure that Ms. Campbell and Mr. McPhail are playing in their strategies.

Still, Wall Street can sometimes have misgivings about a wrap-like this.

“I think the problem becomes more the first’s here that strong judge wins,” Mt. Bruns said. “There are other sensitivities that emerge when two executives are asked to step in for a C.E.O.”

“The first to do with the company, Mr. Maris, the Columbia professor, said, ‘Is that there a signal that he or she will be the next C.E.O.’”

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Like most N.F.L. head coaches, Green Bay's Matt LaFleur will admit that his take-charge attitude can be a path to anger and frustration when things don't go as planned.

After Losing a Friend,

LaFleur Slows Down His Quicksilver Mind

By JOURDAN ROSRIQUE The Athletic

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Matt LaFleur is trying to let go of his anger about things he cannot control: a malfunctioning office person, he instance.

"I'm just like: 'All right, am I in control of this? Or not?'" said LaFleur, who is entering his eighth season as head coach of the Green Bay Packers. "I think a little bit more like this, or at least try to, with a lot of things. That has helped me, when I know I can't control it."

LaFleur has sometimes given the impression that he always has to be right, that he always has to have an answer or a remorse. His quickness can translate to excellent problem-solving on the field. Look at what he did with the backup quarterback Malik Willis, helping him become a starting quarterback again with the Miami Dolphins. But like most N.F.L. coaches, LaFleur will admit that his acuity can also be a gateway to anger or frustration when things do not go the way he plans.

I expected a typical conversation with LaFleur when we sat down on a Sunday in August, one that had little to do with him and instead was about his plans for the season ahead. But he was different. He began talking about what he could and could not let go. His shoulders slumped briefly, and he looked away.

Jourdan Rodriguez is a senior N.F.L. writer for The Athletic.

This was grief, sudden and relentless. Cristina Ulbrich, the wife of the Atlanta Falcons' defensive coordinator, Jeff Ulbrich — the couple were longtime friends of LaFleur and his wife. He — had died just a few days earlier from cancer at age 48.

LaFleur had planned to attend her memorial service, flying privately so as to make it out of one long, work-intensive training camp day and return before another. As she plans he commissioned prepared to take off, the crew based a mechanical issue, and he got stuck. He had to return to the Packers' facilities while his wife traveled separately, making it in

time to support the Ulbrich family. LaFleur said he felt terrible about missing the service. How jarring, to pivot right back to football as a friend was said to rest.

"All the sudden, I'm back in meetings," he said. "I'm like, 'it's out of my control.'"

Cristina Ulbrich's illness and death kept coming into LaFleur's mind. He pictured the fact in Jeff Ulbrich's face. LaFleur, his younger brother Mike (the Arizona Cardinals' first-year head coach), Jeff Ulbrich and Tennessee Titans Coach Robert Saleh, plus their wives and children, have been friends for years, bonded by various coaching jobs

and connecting friendships, and by the unrelenting grind of football.

LaFleur, 48, has known loss before. But this was different. Cristina Ulbrich was part of the fabric of their peer group, interviewed with the peaks and rolleys of their football lives as much as their family lives.

"It's different — when it's somebody your age," LaFleur said quietly. "She was a rock star. I think about it every day. I worry about 'Brich.'"

LaFleur gestured around the large office where he had been yelling at his printer earlier. "It puts all of this stuff a little bit more in perspective," he said. "You can't take it for granted, that's for sure."

The barely controlled chaos of an N.F.L. coaching job during a day of training camp was on full display in LaFleur's office. One wall was a giant dry-erase board, covered in hand-drawn plays. Another featured a massive screen, a backdrop for the curved double monitors on LaFleur's desk, surrounded by scribbled-on practice script cards and play call sheets.

The computer screens all had a different tab open, from emails to film clips to roster notes and more. LaFleur suddenly remembered he had forgotten to eat lunch between meetings, practice and interviews, so his assistant brought into a bowl of raw vegetables.

LaFleur keeps his phone in his office, and throughout that day he checked for updates from lunch as the two discussed how to support Ulbrich in the coming days. Another group chat that includes his longtime friend and former boss Kyle Shanahan provided updates on Shanahan's health as he recovers from his July car crash.

Bro LaFleur even stopped by with their oldest son after practice to say Continued on Page B9

"It puts all of this stuff a little bit more in perspective. You can't take it for granted, that's for sure."

MATT LaFLEUR, reflecting on the death of Cristina Ulbrich at age 48.

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Tommy John with the Dodgers in 1978. Of his 288 major league victories, 104 came after his landmark operation in 1974.

COMMENTARY

He Didn't Throw Smoke, but a Fire Burned Bright

By IAN OYONNUR

The Editor

Tommy John was on the phone to deliver the kind of heat at age 72 that he did not throw decades earlier from the pitcher's round. This was October 2013, after he again knew Bents had been and failed, to compel the New York Men to think their sex. Matt

Harvey, to 100 innings that year. On the eve of Harvey's Game 3 start against the Los Angeles Dodgers in a division series, I asked John, a left-hander with 288 major league victories over 20 years, what he thought they had a graduate of Bents' history surgery, should have done when Bents practiced his client's right elbow over the Men's change-mobility plan.

John said he would have called Bents and told him, "You work for me, and I'll tell you what to do." Then, John sinterered down, acknowledging that the agent was only trying to protect Harvey's future earnings and that he, me, would have wanted Bents to represent him in his prime.

"But he can't see the future," John continued. "At the 11 years after I had the surgery, I never noticed a start. Never had any arm pain. None."

Over this lengthy conversation Ian O'Connor is a senior columnist for The Athletic.

with a man I had never covered, a remarkable pitcher who died on Saturday at age 63. John opened a window on his competition and that helped explain how he had isolated 104 of his victories after the landmark 1974 operation, performed by Frank John. The procedure changed handball.

John was a 53.5-marter for the Dodgers in the summer of 1974 when he threw a pitch to that Breeden of the Montreal Expan that, he said, led him finding as if his left arm had detached from his back and gone sailing off into the midfield. John responded to that painful sensation by throwing another pitch before midfiring something was terribly wrong.

John struck John's about millennial ligament with a wrist tendon, and John handled the rest. He had made his major league debut as a 20-year-old with Cleveland in 1963, during the final months of President John F. Kennedy's life, and yet was still pitching on a New York Yankees in the first months of President George R.W. Bush's administration in 1969, before long-term safety winning opening day starter ever as he approached his side birthday. In the game's modern era, only Volane Ryan played more seasons (27) than John did.

But his durability wasn't defined by Ryan-like velocity or

John with the Yankees in 1980. The sinterballer didn't strike out many letters but was able to beat people with willpower and galle.

anything smoothly close to it. To watch John pitch was to wonder how it was possible he could be so good for us long. He did not strike out many letters, and he did not move with the easy able-knicms you might expect from a basketball prospect out of Indiana who fielded numerous Divisions I offers.

The sinterballer instead beat people with his willpower and

John was tough enough to own an operation that still bears his name.

galle. He became what the Yankees on Sunday called "a bedrock of our rotation" and, despite failing to win a World Series ring, he finished his career with a record of 6-2 and an earned run average of 2.65 in 14 postseason games.

Most impressive, after the operation cost him all of 1975, John pitched 1,201 innings over

the next five seasons, including 207 in 1979. This was why, in our 2015 interview, he said he could not accept Bents' path for the Harvey team (the West are ultimately pitched a combined 216 regular-season and postseason innings that year before losing much of the next season in surgery for thoracic outlet syndrome) or the Washington National choice in 1952 to bench another (third returning from Tommy John surgery, Stephen Strathing, after 1974, innings tagged for a playoff-league team.

"Dr. John told everyone that the longer you go without any post-op setbacks, the less chance you have of getting injured," John said. "That doesn't mean Matt Harvey won't get hurt; nobody can guarantee that. But I would've been so pissed off if I were hurting my feet on that teamwork ball club when Strathing was shut down.

"If Matt's not hurting, he needs to pitch as hard as he can for as long as he can. Don't abuse him, but pitch him. It's the playoffs. His team hasn't been to the World Series in 15 years, and this is what he's been wanting to do his entire life. We're all actors, and right now he's no center

stage. He's got all winter to rest his arm. It's time to perform."

After Harvey successfully lobbied Manager Terry Collins to let him carry a 3-0 lead over Kansas City and the ninth innings of Game 3 of the World Series, the Royals tied it and eventually eliminated the Men in the 12th. Harvey was never the same ace again.

But this isn't about whether John was right or wrong about Harvey and Strathing or any other pitcher whose career was rescued by a surgery that now bears his name. It's about John's inner fire. We was a flumefireser without the radar gun readings to show for it.

He spoke that day about what Harvey should do in his division series start if he faced the Dodgers' Chase Uday, whose duty Game 3 adds him the Men's Babe's Ryals had broken the second basenaut's leg. John said Harvey should publicly threaten "to get him good" to catch Uday. But, John said, he should avoid losing him. (Uday ended up not playing in Game 3.)

John's remaining? In 1968, after the Tigers' Dick McAuliffe charged the White Sun lefty and separated his shoulder, John

went on with record with a person he was retribution ASAP.

"And I never threw at him, ever," John said. "All I wanted to do was put doubt in his mind, to leave the shining. To be going to get me this at the air the next as fast!" McAuliffe never did much against me after that!

In his goodbye letter that the Yankees shared on Aug. 8, which was Old-Tinner Out at Yankee Stadium, John wrote that on the day he left home to start his career as a pro, his father told him, "Whether you make it in the big leagues or you don't, you'll always just be Tommy John from Torre Haute, Ind."

But he made it in the biggest markets in the sport — Chicago, Los Angeles, New York — and finished with more victories than any modern pitcher out in the National Baseball Hall of Fame other than Roger Clintons. John was also tough enough to forever own a career-saving operation that has allowed so many injured baseball stars to continue playing the game of the highest level. So in his dying days, when John said his fans, "I will never forget you," how's hoping he understood that sentiment works both ways.

PRO BASKETBALL

Buss Family Intends to Sell Stake in Lakers, but Jeanie Buss Isn't on Board

By DAN WOHRE

The Editor

The Buss family intends to sell its remaining shares in the Los Angeles Lakers. But Jeanie Buss, who has run the Lakers since the death of her father, Jerry, in 1973, is not on board with the move.

"The plan by the Buss family to sell, confirmed on Monday by multiple people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe ongoing deliberations, would reaffirm family's nearly half-century stewardship of the common sense franchises in sports. The more follows last week's agreement by the majority owner Mark Walter to sell to Bob Iger and Tom Atkinson is a deal that valued the Lakers at $12.5 billion.

The beneficiaries of the Buss family trust, which is made up of six of Jerry Busch children — Joanie, Jim, Johnny, Janie, Joey and Jesse — conducted a vein last week regarding selling and irrecover the four team necessary to approve the intent to sell, according to a person with knowledge of the odds, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the deal. That would mean that the trust's three trustees, Joanie, Janie and Joey Buss, must enact the actual sale.

But hours after the trust's plans to sell were revealed, a lawyer for Joanie Buss sent a letter to the lawyers for the other Buss siblings demanding that his client be named publicly as the organization's controlling owner and that "the trust shall take no action on this supposed 'vote' to sell the 17.9% stake." The lawyer denied that a vote had taken place and claimed that the trust could not legally sell its share in the team.

If the trust were to successfully measure the sale, Jeanie Buss would not be able to remain the team's governor, as league rules require at least 15 persons ownership to serve in the role. Buss retained the government for a period of at least five years as part of the deal last summer to sell controlling ownership of the Lakers to Walter.

Dan Wahle is a senior writer covering the Lakers for The Athletic.

Calls to Lakers representatives were not immediately returned. A spokesperson for the N.B.A. had no comment.

The trust voted last June to sell its controlling interest in the team to Walter at a $10 billion valuation while retaining censoring stake of approximately 10 percent. After Joanie Buss retained the vote as team governor, all other members of the family were dismissed from their positions with the Lakers, most notably with the fringe to November of June. Buss as alternate governor and Jesse Buss as assistant general manager.

The Buss family's valuation, the trust would be in line for an additional $3.25 billion.

A person who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters said the Buss family received notification on Aug. 10 from the Lakers financial executive Joe McDougall of a plan that would dissolve the current family trust and have a new one, helping the shares in place for more than four years. The voting to discuss a sale began the following day, and by Wednesday morning, Walter's agreement with Iger and Kushner was reported.

The Buss family's decision to sell comes as Walter explores selling off more of his sports buildings, including his shares in the English Premier League club Chelsea. Walter is also the owner of the Professional Women's Hockey League, the Los Angeles Sparks and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Walter's ownership in the Dodgers was not expected to be affected. The Athletic reported last week.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and the Securities and Exchange Commission have been investigating insurance companies owned by Walter. According to The Wall Street Journal, federal investigators took interest in Walter's companies last year after an internal whistle-blower complaint about how Walter's asset-management firm, Guggenheim Investments, banked revenue it received from the insurance companies.

The N.B.A.'s Board of Governors unanimously approved Wal-

Jeanie Buss, top, has split with other members of her family who intend to sell the family's remaining ownership stake in the Lakers. Below from left, Jeanie's siblings Jesse, Johnny and Janie.

ter as majority owner in late October, and he closed on the sale with the Buss family immediately after, saying in a statement that the Lakers' law one of the most iconic franchises in all of sports, defined by a history of excellence and the relentless pursuit of greatness."

He added: "Few teams carry the legacy and global influence of the Lakers, and it's a privilege to work alongside Joanie Buss as we maintain that excellence and set the standard for success in this new era, both on and off the court."

In a statement after the sale, Joanie Buss said: "The Buss family's deeply honored to have looked after this incredible organization for almost half a century. From the day our father purchased the Lakers, we have been able to get the money to sell a City of Los Angeles deserves and demands: a team that is committed to winning — intentionally — and to doing as with passion and well with."

In an interview with The California Post last week, Iger said the Lakers' new ownership group would honor the governorship of the between Walter and Joanie Buss.

"We have enormous respect and appreciation for Joanie, her father and what they've considered, as to the franchise," Iger said. "And we have every intention to honor the agreement that was made between Mark and Joanie. If things change, they'll change. We're going to be able with enormous respect and appreciation for who she is and what she represents in the organization."

Jerry Buss purchased the Lakers in 1978 for $67.5 million. The Lakers won 10 titles before he died in 2012 and one since, an era of the "latter" state of family drama and instability.

In 2017, Joanie Buss' her brother Jim as the team went through the worst stretch of basketball in its 1978-79 group. He won a worst 17 games the year prior.

Shortly after, Joanie Buss went to court to stop two of her brothers, Johnny and Jim, from renewing her franchise and the organization's board of directors, codifying her position as the controlling governor of the team.

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At the Bills' New Stadium, the Grass Wears Out as the Game Wears On

By TIM GILSDON

The writer

ORCHARD PHARL N.Y. — Those aren't the types of chunk plays the Buffalo Bills are looking for.

On the final play of the first quarter of the team's permanent opener on Saturday, Kyle Allen, the Bills' backup quarterback, scrambled left and got pinched off near the sideline. He did as Carolina Panthers cornerback Chris Smith-Wade delivered a crunking blow.

The force of Allen being driven into the ground sent a massive clump of the new Highmark Stadium's fresh grass into the air — more, dirt and all. The cut was so deep that that Allen players went onto the field to repair it.

Done playing for the day quarterback Josh Allen, receiver D.J. Moore and tackles Dian Dawkins

Reviews by players, who dislike artificial turf, are mixed.

and Spencer Brown earned in gardening. They retrieved the parcel and took turns stamping it back into place.

Players were mostly diplomatic after Bellatrix 28-14 permanent victory in the 52.2 billion stadium's first game.

Highmark Stadium has absorbed heavy criticism in the past week. The Bills unveiled their home to the public with an Aug. 8 open practice that allowed season-class holders, all of whom had to pay the first personal near liaisons in Buffalo sports history, to check out their seats.

Pillions of dismayed views went viral. A dismayant fell some lions disappointed that their seats were not delivered by the canopy. Fans also complained about traffic, the size of the scoreboards and the audio.

Although announced long ago, a new 6 percent Erie County sales tax delivered sticker check on conversion and incorrect receipts.

The Bills are proud of their new grass system. Featuring out three flaws might feel like giving up.

"The grass looked good," Bills lawteacher Devan Williams said. "It was cool. A couple spent kind of chucked up a little bit, but it's better than playing on turf.

"The kinks will keep getting worked out. You can use some of the grass kind of mound up and guys knocking it back down, but I've had no traction problems so far."

Highmark Stadium's field is Kentucky bluegrass grown at Tuckahoe Turf Farms in Hamden, Texas. The Bills are proud of their new grass system. Featuring out three flaws might feel like giving up.

Tim Graham is a senior writer covering Buffalo sports for The Athletic.

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installed in 2020. A system of featuring with under Highmark Stadium keeps the ground from freezing. Millions of dollars in agricultural equipment is stored beneath the lower searing bowl.

Two hours after the game, 18 groundshoppers were still examining every inch of the field and

making repairs. Sprinklers turned on at 6:30 p.m.

The field looked worn to the dirt before the Bills and Panthers emerged for pregame warm-ups. Bills tight end Dalton Kincaid summoned a staff member to repair a trunking dove, while their teacher Trevel Bernard super-

vised. As receivers ran route drills over damaged ground, a Bills staff member eventually stood at the provide like a traffic cap.

A Bills player who did not want to be identified said the field was "soft, but not in a good way." At the public practice, though, Brown joked to reporters that he wanted

A training camp practice at the new Highmark Stadium, above. In the Bills' first permanent game against the Panthers on Saturday, halftones crept between the hash marks by halftones.

to sleep on the grass. On Saturday, running back James Cook said the field felt "smooth." Cook, the N.F.I.'s 2025 rushing leader, did not seem to miss a step. He can reactive times for 27 yards, gliding for 13 yards on one play.

Highmark Stadium's grass were not as the game worn on. Officials had to make halftones play cluck in the first quarter as the umpire, Tab Slaughter, could attach down loose out in the back field. By halftone, halftones crept between the hard marks, especially on Highmark Stadium's southern end.

Midway through the fourth quarter, several small craters prebranded the same area for 1 week to 14 and 15-yard lines. Long snupper Reid Ferguson had to stump one down when he went out for an extra point. Tyler than missed a 40-yard field goal at stump, but can be was no quick with his mechanics and did not blame the conditions.

Buffalo late played a home game on real grass — sparse at 4 was — in December 1973 at War Memorial Stadium, also known as the Backpile.

"It was actually pretty good," Panthers running back Jonathan Brooke said about the field so late

today. "It was a little longer out there, but it wasn't bad. The grass felt good."

Carolina is one of 10 teams that have no synthetic turf. The N.F.I. Players Association has campaigned to search exclusively to grass for safety purposes. The players' union says 92 percent of 94 players prefer grass. Stars have posted their names on social media with the hashtag "FourthTheCost."

Buffalo's synthetic turf earned an 8 grade from Bills players in the team's annual report card last year.

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SOCCER

COMMENTARY

Arsenal Picks Up Where It Left Off: In Winning Form

By STEUART JAMES

The Athletic

Can anyone stop Arsenal in the Premier League?

It should be too soon to be asking a question like that. We have a whole season ahead of us, 300 Premier League matches in total, starting on Friday under the lights at Emirates Stadium and finishing next May. That is a lot of soccer to be played.

It is also worth remembering that only three managers — Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, José Mourinho at Chelsea and Pep Guardiola at Manchester City — have won back-to-back Premier League titles across the past 24 years.

Rush, typically, are re-exergited, motivated and determined to put right what went wrong the

Early energy suggests a club ready to lead from the front again.

season before. As for the reigning champions, aside from the fact that everyone wants to beat them, the biggest worry is whether it means as much to the players, or even the manager, the following season. To put it another way, is the hunger still there?

Arsenal's comprehensive, 3-0 victory over Manchester City in the Community Shield in Wales on Sunday provided some possible answers in that respect, and not just because of the emphasis more into:

The clues were there is the off-the-ball actions of the Arsenal players, in their body language and in the way that every duel resulted in times to many in them, even in a game that still prompts defeat among many soccer fans as to whether winning it actually qualifies as a supply.

Manager Mikel Arteta smiled afterward when a reporter highlighted to him examples of Arsenal players revelling in making a challenge or a block on an opponent.

"When you put your soul and your heart into a reaction, that's

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what happens," he said.

Arsenal supporters might still be leading in the glow of their first league title in 22 years, but Arteta and his players are as driven and ambitious as ever, and that means being feathered on holding onto the empty that the club took to long to reclaim.

"Because you want to go through it again," Arteta said. "When the desire comes, I want to live that moment again. I want to live all the moments, even bigger than them. We know what it's going to take, we know the difficulty of the task, that's why we've never then it at this foot ball club. So we know that it's going to demand something special, and we are ready for it."

But are the rest of the Premier League clubs ready? Can a night team title challenge? one up from the usual suspects when there has been so much change and that this summer? City, Liverpool and Chelsea all have new managers, while Michael Carrick is about to embark on his first full season in charge of Manchester United.

The contrast with Arsenal, where Arteta is now the longest-serving manager in English soccer's top four divisions, is stark.

Against City, Arsenal looked what it is: a well-oiled machine in which all the individual roles are clearly defined, where the movement patterns are familiar and where a way of consistently winning matches has long been established. And on, that did not involve a set piece goal against City, it came you were wonderful.

It's true that the Community Shield is rarely a reliable yard stick for what's to come, only eight of its 24 winners before Sunday's game have gone on to claim the Premier League title. This year's certain talent featured a number of players, who were making their first club appearance this summer because of the World Cup. It's a task ten that Erling Haaland, who was one of those players, will not be substituted again after 32 winners this season unless he is injured.

Arsenal made moves to strengthen itself this summer, bringing in Bruno Colmances from Newcastle for 75 million pounds (£421 million) and prompting Mikel Richter to suggest a few days ago that Arsenal now has the best midfield in

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Erling Haaland, Myles Lewis-Shelly and Crushuan Mosquera. Arsenal beat Manchester City, 3-0, Sunday in the Community Shield.

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Mikel Arteta, with Piero Fincagio and Bokayo Saha, said his players were driven to win it all again.

football. Arteta had a grin on his face when that line was put to him.

As comfortable as Colmances already looks in an Arsenal jersey, it won the two players along side him who played pinned roles in the goals against City: Myles Lewis-Shelly, with a lovely disguised pass for the opener after

only 24 seconds, and the excellent Martin Odesgaard, who had a hand in the second and elegantly scored the third.

"Can we play you every week?" sang the Arsenal supporters after Odesgaard made a fool out of Gianluigi Decuaramma, sitting the City goalkeeper on his backside with a

beautiful dummy before shining into an empty net.

"Are you Tottenham in disguise?" followed moments later.

It was that sort of day for Arsenal, whose fans were growing passes with 'sher' before the hour mark, taunting City's new head coach, Enzo Maresca, about his short-term job prospects, and

enjoying the sight of Christian Tothi, their £16 million signing from Club Brugge, teaching his competitive debut with two assists.

All the while, David Raye continued to serve up the occasional reminder with his feet and hands as to why he's the best challenger in the Premier League.

As the game got away from city and Arteta started to make widespread changes, there was a reminder of Arsenal's strength in depth, too.

Bokayo Saha, Declan Rice, Martin Colmances, Piero Fincagio, Viktor Gyulovov and Elvereda Ezo all came off the bench. Morton, a World Cup winner, was an amused substitute, along with the gifted manager Paul Devenon, 34 for Galen of Martinelli, Ethan Frenzeni and Gabriel Arora, they did not make the cut.

Despite all of that, there is still work for Arsenal to do in this transfer window, both in defense and in the forward positions, where an A-bid attacker has shaded them so far this summer and will almost certainly be required as order for the club to take the next step in the Champions League.

In terms of the Premier League, though, it is hard to escape the feeling that Arsenal, once again, will be the team for everyone to beat.

Though Bound for Premier League, Phenom Keeps Leveling Up in M.L.S.

By TOM SHULLET

and TIMM HARRIS

The Athletic

Cavan Sullivan did not take a break this summer, even as his Philadelphia Union squad enjoyed a much-needed few weeks off for the World Cup.

The first half of the season had been a disaster. The Union went from first in 2023 to 10th in 2026, and Coach Bradley Connell was fired on the team went in separate ways for the summer.

Having won a starting spot to the first team, the 16-year-old Sullivan told the Union that he wanted to keep playing and asked to keep training with the second team.

Cavan Sullivan, 16, is playing more often, and impressing.

Sullivan, who has been followed with a spotlight since he was 13 at academy and youth national team games and who has a transfer to Manchester City already settled for when he turns 18 in two years, asked to go back to the second team instead of running alone or taking time off.

Having the World Cup, he was an animal in the way he trained; Jim Schenz the Union opening 48 recive; told The Athletic.

The Union if had a match fused to against every team, which was based in the area for the World Cup. Sullivan asked to play in this, too, and excelled. He even posted a compliance of his highlights on social media.

Since the team returned to

Tom Rupert is a senior soccer writer and Tom Harris covers soccer date for The Athletic.

training, with the second-team head coach, Ryan Richter, eleven at his parents been of the first man, the Union have taken off. They have won all four of their M.L.S. games with Sullivan playing a central role, including two assists in Sunday's 3-2 win over New York City 24.

Sullivan has leveled up from a promising young talent to a key contributor in all facets of the game — not just his dazzling skill and functionality on the ball, but off it, too, in a pressing, high-energy team.

"That's what I'm most proud of with Cavan: He's happy when we win, and when we lose, no matter how he plays, he's not happy! Scheer said, 'That's a really good sign for years to come.'"

It does not take long watching Sullivan play to get swept up in the excitement.

Game time is coming more regularly now for him, having racked up almost 50 percent of his senior career minutes since the start of May. It is giving Sullivan more opportunities to impress, and Richter has already seen enough to suggest that he trusts Sullivan as others a difference in the final stand of the field.

Every time the play moves toward Sullivan, it feels as if something could happen. He is refreshingly direct, a stiger winger who has never heard a return to taking an defenders, able to dip left and right with short steps and devastating hearts of speed.

"He's played with a lot of items and confidence," Schenz said, as a fleeting on his recent success with the first team. "He's earned everything he's got so far and is hungry for more."

The first matchback win over Atlanta United, for example, he picked up a pass from Michael Del Wagner and instantly squared up to his man. His first team, the positive, and he did not hesitate

before dropping a shoulder and darting on the trybox, happy to rely on his pace to get around the doubles: the path was blocked, but he faded out his defender and dropped inside to fire a pass to Joe van Lakk on the edge of the box.

Bandy five minutes later, he pooled off into space on the opposite flank, slalkingly both ways before cutting in and driving a low shot toward the far corner.

Sullivan has yet to score from outside the box to senior soccer, but the early signs are that he can pack a punch from a distance, striking the ball consistently well. He is not shy about taking on those three either.

Sullivan's natural enthusiasm catches the eye. He will drift all over the field to find fresh opponents to take on. He is equally happy to run at defenders from either flank and will eagerly take them on.

Sullivan's close control in tight spots also makes him tricky to tackle, capable of receiving passes under pressure and wriggling his way away from outstretched legs.

In another example from that Atlanta game, he carried the ball straight into a crowd of players, slinking away from three separate challenges before eventually being dispossessed. Although Sullivan could not carry the ball toward the trybox himself, the fact that he engaged four opponents still led to a half-dance for his team.

Given his positivity and youthful enthusiasm, Sullivan is understandably prone to mistakes.

He is desperate to leave an impression, and that bears out in the statistics: Arsenal can in four of Sullivan's passes are considered progressive — a pass that moves the ball at least 25 percent closer to the opposition goal — while almost 8 percent of his carries include a take-on.

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Philadelphia Union's Cavan Sullivan, right, is set to transfer to Manchester City when he turns 18.

In much of what he does carries the intention of attaching the opposition, which can lead to overplaying and forcing the issue at times.

At one point against Atlanta, he held onto the ball a little too long down the flank early in the first ball, ignoring the overlapping run and giving up possession as he attempts to make the two away. Against Seattle, he caught the arc of his teammate and other brother Quinn Sullivan, 22, at the back pass after opting to go alone, taking himself too wide and ending

with his other easily saved.

Cavan Sullivan's decision making can be worked on, but it is always worth giving talented players like him the freedom to make an impact, particularly at such a young age.

"I'm really happy with what Ryan and the staff have done," Schenz said. "They're allowed to have to be different and more on moments of the game while still having standard and expensive times of him within the team, whether it's against the ball, whether it's some structural post-

training with the ball. But we want Cavan to be Cavan."

Given his natural dribbling ability and powerful strikes on goal, meaningful attaching contributions should most begin to surge.

"As well as he's playing for such a young player, he's got more in him," Schenz said. "And he knows that, He wants to get better.

"Given just what to do for him he can be — that's how he approaches every training session and game, no matter who he's with. That's going to take him a long way."

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Mark Rydell, 'On Golden Pond' Director Loved by Actors, Dies at 97

By ANITA GATES

Mark Rydell, the 20th director behind Katharine Hepburn and Henry Forsdyk: Oscar-winning performances in 'On Golden Pond' who also inspired gripping work from actors in other acclaimed movies of the 1960s, 'The and '80s, Red on Thursday in Los Angeles, the was 97.

His death, at a nursing facility, was discovered by his daughter, Amy Rydell.

After starting his career as an actor and proving to directing for television, Mr. Rydell seemed to have largely out of numbers, and had a string of high-profile films, beginning with 'The Fox' in 1969 and going on to 'The Revivor' (1969), 'Cinderella Liberty' (1972) and 'The Rose' (1975) before 'On Golden Pond,' released in 1982.

'We was the actor's champion,' Bette Midler, who earned Oscar nominations for 'The Rose' and another Rydell film, 'For the Boys' (1981), said on Instagram after his death. 'Has a new movie was all it took in understand what was needed.'

Ms. Hepburn and Mr. Fonda, both in their 'On at the time, was lead-acting Oscars for 'On Golden Pond,' Ernest Thompson's adaptation of his play about a conmalgoers, his comedy supportive with, his estranged daughter and intimation of mortality at a summer cottage.

'If your there was a situation where the bill for art, that was it,' Mr. Rydell said, referring to the infamously distant relationship between Mr. Fonda and Jane Fonda, his daughter, who also received the first time of his death for actor, and the film and had acquired the rights to adopt the play specifically to the her father's could play the cranky business' figure.

Every day she reached out to him," Mr. Rydell added: 'Every day he received her.

Mr. Rydell, who had trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater and the Actors' Institute New York, was often referred to as an actor's director's who facilitated performances under their company's grand in the 1980s. He was also a member of the Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese and Stanley Roberts, he was currently director of the film from the close to do were vastly different in theme and tone.

'The Fox' was an intense romantic drama based on a 13.8 million short story, with the first of the 1980s, nearly Dennis and Anne Sherwood as the members of a romantic triangle in rural Canada; he helped bothness across more shacking at the time. 'Cinderella Liberty' about a value (James Coan) and a prostitute (Martha Moore), who carried an Oscar nomination for her performances, was also considered unique for its

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Mark Rydell directing 'The Revivor' in Mississippi in 1969. His actors, not he, often seemed to get much of the credit for the success of his wide-ranging movies. Below, the people for 'The Fox,' his fear film, in 1968. 'The common thread in my work,' he once said, 'is a enormous for people.'

moment, albeit in a very different setting.

But two of Mr. Rydell's best-known films were somewhat rowdy and funny. 'The Revivor,' an offbeat Steve McQueen came drama, was based on a William Pachner novel and set to untrodden-century Mississippi. 'Hank and Walter Go to New York' (1975) was a period bank loan comedy with Mr. Coan and Elliott Gould. It was a less office disappointed, but Mr. Rydell considered it one of his favorites.

'The Cowboys' (1972) was, of all things, a John Wayne western, with a plot involving young have running a good time. 'The Rose' starred Ms. Midler, in her screen debut, as a Justa Joplin-like rock star recklessly battling reward her own destruction. In 'For the Boys,' she played a C.N.G. performer opposite Ms. Coan.

'The common thread in my work,' Mr. Rydell told The Boston Globe in 1982, 'is a enormous for people.'

Though he received an Oscar nomination for directing 'On

Golden Pond,' more often than not his actors seemed to get much of the credit for the success of his films: 'The critic Vincent Curlin, reviewing 'Cinderella Liberty' for The New York Times in 1975, judged it as 'aggressively false and sentimental comedy' but deemed it 'nicely acted.' Mr.

Curlin worshiped Mr. Fonda in 'On Golden Pond,' saying his was 'film acting of the highest order,' but not his own direction.

'One more drop of dew,' Mr. Curlin wrote, 'and this movie would have shrewded.'

In all, eight actors directed by Mr. Rydell were honored with Oscar nominations, including Mr. Midler's 'The on com. Frowler's Forrest: Story Spaceh' ('The Rose'), and Robert Conner ('The Rose').

Mr. Rydell had little explanation for how he elicited such emotionally charged performances. 'I don't know how you could sense the story, but drive and compassionate and understanding of another human being,' he said in a 2003 video interview for the Director Guild of America. 'You either have that — you're inclined to that — or you're not.'

Mortimer H. Rydell was born on March 23, 1926, in New York City and grew up in the Bronx, the son of Sidney Rydell, a stockbroker, and Evelyn Rydell.

Young Mortimer was, by his

Katharine Hepburn and Henry Forsdyk both won Oscars for their performances as a married couple in 'On Golden Pond' (1980), and Jane Fonda, right, also received an Oscar nomination.

even account, a notorious truant, this father was determined that he aimed the prestigious 'Cinderella' School of Science and reportedly called strong inget hitch. His former squad had hit smoking out of school regularly and taking the subway to Gilad Street to attend five performances.

He also liked something away from home at first their apartment on the Grand Concourse at night to go to music clubs in service houses, among them Art Tatum, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Her first performance was in place as a young boy, he began getting into an icon pianist in his early teens.

Early in this professional career, the first manager for name in Mark, he attended a few orchard-crafting, New York University (the University of Chicago and Indiana), before studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Stanford Moosen; the renowned pedagogue, who addressed a fresh, impressive acting style.

A member of the Actors' Institute, he defended another member, James Dean, and the two appeared together in 1982 in 'Gary in the Flower.' A continuing play by William Inge broadcast on the cultural program 'Goodbye to him, 2000, Mr. Rydell directed — and now learned as the good merchandise couple with him.' The 'Bingo Tanner: Dont,' which introduced many viewers to the very young James (Vineous.)

In 1956, Mr. Rydell was cast on the soap opera 'An Old World Turns' as Jeff Baker, the handsome young pro-sisteress of Penny Hughes (Rosemary Price). TV Guide received a bonus and add as 'tough first supervisor,' after six years of steady paychecks, Mr. Rydell felt secure enough to make a trick and try a career change, so Jeff was killed off as a community car accident. Mr. Rydell then moved behind the camera.

He later said that if he seemed

to be a person the very first film he directed 'The Fox', it was because he had received what not to do while directing TV, including episodes of the medical drama 'Red Coary' and 'Gammade,' the actors.

From the years, he took occasional acting jobs. He was a notable gangster in Mr. Almarat ('The Long Coadbyer' (1973), with transvestable career in which he worked in a manner in which a Cinderella battle across his motorcar's new system to the detective Phil de Marlowe how tough he is. He

Coaxing gripping performances by understanding the loneliness of the craft.

was the minister Mayor Lansky in Sydney Philpals' 'Horned' (1990) and 'Wanly Albers' (and shawful paper in 'An Alder: 'Hellground Lasting.' (1992).

'The last film he directed was from Money' first released in 1980, an ensemble-can crime drama about gambling addiction. 'My family and my family and divorced twice. In addition to his children, an actress, he is survived by two sons, Christopher, John, an actor, including in his father's films, and Alexander, an editor and filmmaker, three grandchildren, two grand-grandchildren, and a sister, Judy Wagner.

Asked though, the Directors Guild interview if he had advice for young directors, he suggested that they learn about acting.

'Learn how difficult it is to stand in front of a camera and to see a life in public solitude,' Mr. Rydell said. 'Learn how to do that and respect it.'

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Mary Morello, a Fierce Defender Of Offensive Lyrics, Dies at 102

By GLEN WILLIAMS

Mary Morello, a fiery anti-conservitiy activist — and the mother of the Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello — who rose to prominence in the 1980s as a leading opponent of Tipper Gore's campaign against supposedly salacious artists like Prince and Madonna, died on July 12 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 102.

She died after multiple recent hospitalizations for pneumonia, 88. Morello said.

A fierce champion for a long list of 68-swing causes over the years, Mrs. Morello was "the most radical member of the Morello family," Ms. Morello said in an interview. That was no small but given his reputation as an outspoken man — but of a hand known for its power-chord polemics against racism, police brutality and corporate greed, including lyrics like "I warm my hands upon the flames of the flag."

Mrs. Morello was an Illinoissigmaacher in her mid-60s when, with a malign from her son, she retired to found Parents for Rock and Rap in 1967.

Her chief target was the Parents Music Resource Center, or PM.R.C. starred two years earlier by Mrs. Gore, the wife of Senator Ali Gore of Tennessee, along with other prominent Washington women, to keep music that had what the group deemed offensive lyrics out of the hands of children.

Mrs. Gore, who served as second lady after her husband has come vice president in 1993, became a national lightning rod after a much-publicized Senate hearing in 1995. She and her associates squared off against Frank L. Schumacher champions of the saint over what the F.M.R.C. labeled "peter rock."

Exhibit A was a collection of songs the group labeled the Filthy Fifteen. They included Prince's Hebrainus "Darling Nikki" and "Into the Cover" by the Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate as well as MTV Aheadly (if country name like Madonna's "Urban You Up" and Cyndi Lauger's "The Bag" set out to beside stunt/cheekers.

The F.M.R.C. lobbied for parental guidance stickers for such material and for record notes to bake greatest albums out of view. It also suggested a set of wood-style rating system: 5 for staples; sec. 15/16 for plug or alcohol references; 5 for violators; and 0 for socials or satases-themed songs.

With Mrs. Gave, Mrs. Gave Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn as a "sweet old lady living in a small white house on a shady suburban street," never rated her as "give her life" and Let Copy-petle — was outraged.

"She just couldn't believe it that there were these artily Washington no errors who were denying artists to remain on mornings," Mr. Morello said. "When I was growing

She and her son, Tom Morello, guitarist for Rage Against the Machine, were closely aligned.

up, there was a lot of Eats and Alas Cooper being played in the house, and she realized that it was not corrupting my soul."

Armed with more passion than cash — she uncrowled-gross-owns organization with EDS — Ms. Morello organized letter-writing campaigns from supporters around the country, and pleaded her First Amendment case on CNN. "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and any other news outlet that would have her.

Her list of the "members of free-door" included not just the F.M.R.C., but also allied groups, including the National PTA and the American Medical Association.

"When censorship starts in a

A retired teacher who fought Tipper Gore's 1980s campaign for music warning labels.

democracy," Ms. Morello wrote in a letter published in The Tribune in 1995, "where does it stop?"

The debate erupted once again in 1988 with the release of the aptly titled "As Nasty as They Wanna Be," a ten-filled scorcher from the Mastering group 2 Live Crew that became the first record in American history to be declared legally obscene by a federal court, although the ruling was reversed on appeal in 1992.

"Social and sexual egitism," Mrs. Gore wrote in a 1990 editorial in The Washington Post addressing the broader topic, "whether increased action a street or campaigned by the rhythms of a song, may people into objects less than human — easier to degrade, easier to violate, easier to destroy."

Ms. Morello reasoned a full-bodied defense of the affairs. "Nobody speaks that way around

me," she said. "It's funny in 1989, "but I think it's a person's prerogative to speak the way they want. There must be lots of comics in nightclubs who speak similarly and they don't get harassed."

Mary Rose Morello, the eldest of three children, was born on Oct. 1, 1923, in Marcellus, IL, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago. Her father, John Morello, was a known owner and later a bank director. Her mother, Gladys (Fitzgerald) Morello, was a nurse.

Her social advocacy started early. "In the 1990s, she helped feed babies during the Great Depression and supported the coal miners' struggle to organize," Tom Morello said in a nology at her funeral. "In the 1990s, she helped raise war bonds to defeat the factors in World War II."

She received a bachelor's degree in social studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1945, followed by a master's degree in history from Loyola University Chicago.

Ms. Morello worked as a teacher in Rock Island, IL, as well as Japan, Spain and West Germany before going to Kenya in 1961 on a teaching program sponsored by Columbia University. At that point, Kenya was coming out of the Miss Miss relentless, an off-the-hatch guerrilla offensive against British rule; the country gained formal independence in 1963.

Although the fights were branded as terrorists in the Western news media, Ms. Morello was a staunch supporter. "They were revolutionaries, anti-colonialists," she said in a 2008 interview with The New York Times's George Washington "World George Washington scare you?"

She eventually began a relationship with Martin Hornage, who was allied with the cause of event on to become Kenya's ambassador to Britain. The couple never married, Tom Morello said, but after she became pregnant with Sam, Mr. Morello returned to the United States, first moving to Harlem.

She and her son eventually settled in Libertyville, IL, about 40 miles north of Chicago, where she began teaching history and African studies at Libertyville High School.

In a small, conservative town, she and her bloated son faced discrimination. "Someone put a sense and Kian literature on my bulletin board at school," she recalled in a 2010 interview with the site Elstine Air.

During the 1980s, Mr. Morello graduated from Harvard and moved to Los Angeles, playing in the band Lord Up. From his position on rock of real time, he helped make his mother's interest in the brewing censorship battle.

She ran Parents for Rock and Rap into the late 1980s, picking up friends like Bette, Joan Bae, Bruce Springsteen and Chuck D

Mary Morello in 2016. "When censorship starts in a democracy," she wrote, "where does it stop?"

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Tipper Gore and Susan Baker of the Parents Music Resource Center squared off with Frank Zappa at a 1985 hearing. Ms. Morello opposed the F.M.R.C. and later founded Parents for Rock and Rap.

from the rap group Public Enemy. In the end, her fight with Mrs. Gore and the others was something of a draw. The F.M.R.C. failed to institute a rating system, although Rock and other parents (of advisory stickers) working of explicit content became commonplace.

They also became an inadvertent marketing tool, according to many artists and label non-covers — a badge of authenticity that also

unbecharged sales with the promise of forbidden fruit.

In 1996, Ms. Morello was invading a frugal M. Deiner First Amendment Award.

In addition to her son, she is survived by five grand-fiddlers.

To celebrate her 100th birthday in 2023, Ms. Morello passed out food at the Midnight Mission in Los Angeles and showed up to a whole-fast to support striking local workers.

At his mother's funeral, Mr. Morello related a story from his childhood, when his mother insisted they join a beyond of gropes bully: the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez.

For her son, it was epiphany. "There was a new North Star, guiding my thought and action," he said, "and it was the same one that guided my name. We have to help these people because we can."

Violet Hensley, 109; Carved and Played Fiddles, and Made Opry Debut at 99

By RICHARD SAVOONIR

Violet Hensley, who grew up in Arkansas learning from her father to her son and play a fiddle, and whose nearly 60-year performing career reached its peak at age 99, when she debated at the Grand Ole Opry, died on Aug. 7 at her home in Telville, Ark., in the Ozarks. She was 109.

Her daughter Sandra Flagg, a guitarist, confirmed the death.

Ms. Hensley made a clear distinction between a fiddle and a violin, even though they are essentially the same instrument. "If you can read music, you play the violin," she said. The Tuba World is 1962, "I can't read music, so I just play the fiddle."

By the time she turned 99, Ms. Hensley had performed old-time mountain music — not bluegrass, which she deemed too fancy. In the Silver Dollar City theme park in Brunson, Mo., for more than 30 years: played an radio stations and at schools; recorded at least two albums, one of them, with family members, a called "Old Town Headstone", and appeared on TV programs like "Captain Kangaroo," "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Cover With Angie and Kather Lee."

She also handcuffed 73 fiddles — she played No. 4, which she made at the 1930s — thus acquiring richness in the "World of the Fiddler" and "Stradivarius of the Ozarks." She could have had more fiddles if not for time spent performing, canning, sewing, and caddie. In addition, she also her said 100. News when she was 99. To make ends meet, she was a cleaning lady at a hospital for many years.

She with bigwood to play at the Grand Ole Opry, the oldest of course. She was a little older, whose another fiddler, Tim Crouch, read about that death in Ms. Hensley's autobiography, "Whittle" and Fid-

dlar. My Own Way" (written with Randall Franks and published in 2016), he called the banjo player Millain, who brought her outings at the Opry on Aug. 4, 2016.

"This little lady was born in 1956," he said as he introduced her, to cheers. She played "together the dealer" and "black" (the star — with Mr. Snider, Mr. Crouch and other fiddle players, and received three standing locations, Ms. Flagg, her daughter, said.

"Man, she just tore it up," Mr. Crouch said at an interview. "And afterward, she was the backstage star, everyone wanting her autograph and their picture made with her." He added that her fiddle "didn't look great, but it would shock you the good it sounded."

Soon after, Ms. Hensley told the culture site Ozarks Alive: "I was just me. Yes, I was pleased. But it's

Acquiring nicknames like 'Stradivarius of the Ozarks.'

still just me. You don't want to try to be somebody you're not."

She performed twice more at the Opry, in 2017 and in 2018, the year she was inducted into the National Fiddler Hall of Fame in Tulsa, Okla.

Mary Violet Hensley was born on Oct. 21, 1956, in Adams, Ark., near Mason Ida, in the central western part of the state. Her father, George Washington Brumley, was born in 1949, in the State Natu (Springer) Brumley, who ran the home, died when Violet was 11.

She observed her father making fiddles and, at 15, began to build her own, upbring, planing and shaping some that she found nearby. She had begun playing at 13.

"I wanted to play the fiddle just because we didn't have anything else to do," she told her, "the public television station in Kansas City, Mo. "We didn't have some, some or radio, and find played, and I gave it it struck me that I wanted to play."

After she married before Hensley in 1933 and began to come their later children, she stopped whistling and performing (she also sang the first time of 7 years), until she re-emerged in the 1960s, winning second place in the Today. Her father Show in Telville.

In 1967, she began her long re-sociation with Silver Dollar City,

Violet Hensley fiddled at Silver Dollar City in Brunson, Mo., above, for over 50 years, and at the Grand Ole Opry in 2016.

where she fidded outrage and demonstrated her fiddle-making skills at a radio booth.

"She wasn't simply one of America's most respected fiddle makers and musicians," the theme park said in a interview. "She was at the heart of an Ozarks' tradition that connected generations to this special place."

While performing at Silver Dollar City around 1969 with Tim Vecton, her son-in-law, a banjo player and guitarist, she met another father, Bruce Ellis, whose band was also played at the park, Ms. Hensley's invitation to Ms. Ellis in program together at the park marked a long friendship.

"She was a one-in-a-edition fiddler who made an impact on everyone who got to hear her," Mr. Ellis said in an interview.

On trips to see Ms. Hensley in Telville, Ms. Ellis added, "She caught what I was getting wrong, and I paid more attention to how to play like her."

Before a concert around 2018 at the Rock House Center for the Arts in Roode Spring, Mo., that

was to have two 10-minute regiments with an intermission, Ms. Hensley confided to Ms. Ellis that she was tired.

"But she sat down to play, and we didn't stop for three hours," Ms. Ellis said.

In addition to Ms. Flagg, Ms. Hensley is survived by two other daughters, Maurice Percy and Levenna Nelson; three sons, Marvin, R.C. and Eddie Hensley; Selina Flagg is family friend who came to live with her as a teenager; 22 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; 29 great-grandgrandchildren; and two great-great-great-grandchildren. Her husband died in 1997. Four of their sons — Calvin, Russell and Gary Hensley and Larry Hensley, who was stillborn — performed her.

Making fiddles was one of many skills: Ms. Hensley developed over her lifetime. She also made 1ye song, turned leather, broke horses and ended cures.

"I always say," she said Tim Tulsa World, "making a fiddle is a lot easier than planning a field with a team of trades."

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Broadway Goes Coachella for a Weekend

Musical theater stars and their fans reveled in an 'experiential' multiday Hudson Valley festival.

By JESSE GREEN

and ELISABETH VINCENTELLI

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Broadway moved north this past weekend, 100 miles up the Hudson. At Hatton Bricklands, a hotel and event space on the site of a former industrial complex here, a three-day musical theater celebration called the Festival offered concerts, cubanets, raves, reunions, singstings, panels, campfires, merch, food, selfies and, for those pay-

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Jasmine Amy Rogers, top left, and Lena Hall, top right, performed, and the cast of "Boos", above, gathered for a 30th anniversary reunion at a three-day musical theater celebration last weekend that drew more than 100 performers and 2,875 attendees. Left, Jordan Smith and Donna Graham enjoy the event's Broadway Bure.

ing V.I.P prices, a tent with a cash bar.

A-list talent topped the bill, including Audra McDonald, Kelli O'Hara, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Revere Khan Goldsberry. For a first-time "way Off Broadway" effort with more than 100 performers and 2,875 attendees to wrangle across several stages, it was admirably glittery and surprisingly smooth. The Fury Festival for North that some cynics imagined did not transpire.

But it was not entirely coherent, either —

perhaps because Broadway itself is not. With movie airthorns and rock hangers, comedy sets and specialty acts, not to mention prices ranging from $375 for a one-day general admission pass to $1,450 for a de-luxe weekend package, who was this meant for?

Apparently, the tastes of musical-theater audiences — and stars — are more eclectic than they are usually credited with being.

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It's Twice as Nice to Change Up Roles

Colman Domingo discusses his two Emmy Awards nominations for two very different types of characters.

By LEAH GREENBLATT

The New York Times is speaking with nominees for the '100 Emmy Awards, to be presented on Sept. 14 on NBC. This interview contains speakers for the final season of "Euphoria."

Colman Domingo's career highs seem to come in pairs.

He's been nominated twice for a Tony and twice for an Oscar. This year he appeared in two blockbuster films: the Michael Jackson biopic "Michael," which recently surpassed El Millon at the box office, and Steven Spielberg's extraterrestrial thriller "Disclosure Day."

Now the actor, 56, has drawn another double. Last month he received two Emmy nominations for two wildly disparate parts: All, a recovering addict and surrogate father figure to Jolobeyev's doomed drug mule in the third and final season of the provocative HBO drama "Euphoria"; and Danny, a daudyloth architect in the bittersweet Net. Six, coming-of-middle-age comedy "The Four Seasons," it is his second nomination for both roles; he won for "Euphoria" in 2025.

On a recent August afternoon, Domingo, a Philadelphia native, arrived at the mid-5th's Manhattan office of The New York Times in what might be deemed low-key

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Colman Domingo earned Emmy nominations this year for HBO's "Euphoria" and for Netflix's "The Four Seasons."

'Ted Lasso' Spotlights Women

The TV comedy turns its focus toward a female soccer squad.

By ALEXIS SOLOMI

Last year Daniel Perslow, a former soccer coach, hosted a tryout.

Boughty 500 women were competing for spots on the Lady Greyhounds, the fictional soccer team that takes the pitch in the fourth season of "Ted Lasso," the Apple TV sports comedy. Perslow, an assistant director who helps choreograph the show's soccer sequences, had worked with male players for the first three seasons. With the women, he noticed an immediate difference.

Yes, these women wanted to make the squad, wanted it badly. But their attitude at the tryout was never cutthroat. "It wasn't so heated in terms of battling against each other," he said. The players, while scoring goals, were also working toward a common one: showing Perslow the excellence of women in soccer.

"It was not just, OK, I'm an individual in a sport that's already loaded," Perslow said. "There was this thing of, we're here to grow this as a concept."

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New Details Emerge About Hayden Panettiere's Death

A preliminary investigation found no evidence of 'foul play or suspicious circumstances,' the police said.

By DEBROCK BRYANT-TAYLOR and MATT STEVENS

A preliminary investigation into the death of Hayden Panettiere, a 36-year-old actress spoke for her work in the TV shows "Nashville" and "Heroes," did not produce evidence of "foul play or suspicious circumstances," the Greenville, S.C., Police Department said in a statement on Monday.

Emergency medical workers found a woman in cardiac arrest on Sunday at an apartment complex west of downtown Greenville, the Greenville County Coroner's Office said in a statement on Monday. Despite advanced cardiac life support measures, the statement said, the woman was pronounced dead at 2:12 p.m. She was later identified as Panettiere.

The cardiac arrest appeared to have been the result of a drug overdose, according to a person with knowledge of the situation who

spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a continuing investigation.

An autopsy on Monday showed no signs of trauma that contributed to the death. No statement by the coroner's office said. The cause and manner of death remain pending, and it could take up to three months for the full autopsy results to be returned.

The Police Department said that an acquaintance of Panettiere's called 911 just before 7 p.m. on Sunday but did not disclose the identity of the caller.

The person with knowledge of the situation said that Panettiere was with Brian Hickerson, a former boyfriend, at the time of her death. It was unclear whether he called 911.

Attempts to reach Hickerson were not immediately successful. A lawyer timed for him in a recent court filing did not concede andy respond to a request for comment.

According to Panettiere's memoir, "This Is Me: A Reckoning," which she published this year, she met Hickerson in 2001 in Los Angeles. The two doved on and off for several years. Court records show that in 2012, Hickerson pleaded unmuch to two litany counts of injuring Panettiere.

On Monday, at least three police cars were parked near the apartment complex, the Judson Mill Cafe, an a town media helicopter bounced above. Nick Simmons, the property's manager, said in a statement that the complex was "cooperating fully with the appropriate authorities." He added, "Out of respect for the individual involved, their family and the privacy of our residents, we are not able to provide any additional information and support on this item."

Panettiere first appeared onscreen on a radio, acting as a commercial when she was 11 months old. Her breakout role came in

2000, when she played a coach's daughter in the film "Remember the Titans," which starred Donald Washington.

She went on to gain acclaim in a pair of TV series: an a high school cheerleader with a supernatural ability to beat wounds instantly andгодers severed her body parts in "Heroes" (from 2004 to 2015) and as a two-up music star in "Nashville" (2012 to 2016). Panettiere also appeared in two sequels of the "Scream" horror movies.

She had struggled with mental health issues and drug and alcohol abuse. She told The New York Times in 2023 that at one point in her life she would regularly wake up shaking. When she was not drinking alcohol, she said, she was taking opioids.

She also included her husband from body dysmorphia as a result of invasive tabloid proto coverage when she was a teenager.

Lulu Hayden Panettiere with her Love in 1998, when she was 11 years old. The film was a 36-year-old girl.

A Star's Frenetic Life Took a Toll

Panettiere at a premiere for the movie "Blonde" in 2022, when she was 33. This year she released a candid memoir, "This Is Me: A Reckoning."

Hayden Panettiere's personal struggles were compounded by intrusive and traumatic ordeals.

By NALIA MENDEZ

At 11 months old, Hayden Panettiere appeared in a Playblood toy train commercial. By age 4, she was a recurring character on the soap opera "One Life to Live," in the decades that followed, she starred in movies and television shows. Rarely was she out of a job.

By this many wanderlands, Panettiere, who died on Sunday at 38, frequented seemed burdened by her success. Her well-documented struggles — with alcohol, drugs, body image, her family, her significant others — seem inextricable from the public scrutiny that lit up so much of her life.

"In an era of schooling, papersized with an appetite for celebrity breakdowns, laymen we were certain this young starter would crash and burn," reads one description of "This Is Me: A Reckoning," the no-holds-turned memoir that Panettiere released this year. "Not one to disappoint, she did."

Panettiere seemed to have recently made peace with her theory story, noting The New York Times in May that she maintained a "tunnily fair of experience," including directing and producing, perhaps establishing a lifestyle brand.

But on Monday, emergency responders, who arrived at an apartment in Greenville, S.C., found Panettiere in cardiac arrest. A person with knowledge of the situation told The Times that a drug overdose was apparently the cause.

Born in Palisades, N.Y., in 1980, Panettiere rose to prominence as a child actor before her starring role as the supernaturally grand cheerleader Claire Brewer in the 6th NBC and drama series "Heroes." She was offered the job on the spot, she recalled in her memoir, writing, "I thought my heart was going to explode with gratitude."

Her newfound stardom led the paparazzi to wait for her outside the Universal Studios Jot and chase her down the freeways of Los Angeles. The tabloids were countless in their body-drawing. After one magazine spread pointed out the "coldside" on Panettiere, the actress, then a teenager, fell into a year-long battle with body dysmorphia.

"When Panettiere was around 38, someone on her team slipped her a pill intended to keep her energy up for 'Heroes' press appearances, she recounted in her memoir. Those 'happy pills,' she said, were 'the gimmick drug that ushered on toward the food of pharmaceuticals and the downfall of addiction.'"

Panettiere's family life was singled up with her work. Her mother, the former soap actress Lurley Vogel, was a true "top-

Success and the spotlight became a burden during an acting career that began in infancy.

mage," and her father, Skip Panettiere, continued. Panettiere wrote in the memoir.

"I knew I had had arguments between his head and his heart, with his heart questioning whether it was right to have the baby girl so busy all the time, being shuttled around from one audition to another," Panettiere wrote. But she said he appeared instantly the arrangement, citing, for example, all the children she could meet at bedtimes.

In a statement on Sunday confirming Panettiere's death, her father called her "un incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who know her."

Panettiere's relationship with her mother here she hallmarks of a business transaction, she told Jay Shetty on his "On Purpose" podcast.

"She was my boss," Panettiere said. "That's how I saw her." She added that she felt she had to succeed professionally to earn her mother's love, calling it "a tough pill to swallow."

When, at 39, Panettiere finally told her mother that she no longer wanted to work together, Vogel responded, "You own me" and walked away, the actress said on the podcast.

As a young woman in Hollywood, Panettiere also endured her share of presidency behavior. In her "throats" era, she said in her memoir, an unnamed tissue-winning actor-director exposed himself to her at a party. Not long after, she had an encounter with an unnamed British singer-songwriter that she later told the journalist Jane McAnorton was "no there to being human risk" linked as I have ever experienced.

When she met Wladisze Kilmcklin, a professional honor who became her longtime partner, Panettiere gravitated to how "safe" he made her feel, she said on the "Dances Half Life show in May."

"I think my being with him actually traded up and was left," she said.

But there, too, she could hardly catch a break. After Panettiere gave birth to their daughter in 2016, she began to suffer from postpartum depression. That led to sub-acute abuse causes that eventually forced her to take a hiatus from "Nashville," an ABC and CBT drama about country music singers in the Tennessee capital. She would split up with Kilmcklin and four outside of her daughter.

All along, the filming of "Nashville" had become "transcending" for Panettiere, as the show's writers used her real-life struggles to inform her character's story.

But, as she told The Times this year, she did as she was told, just as she always had.

"That was legislated in me from a very young age," she said. "I was a soldier. Never for a second did I think to say, 'Hey, I'm not comfortable with this.'"

Where to Stream One Actor's Lifetime Of Performances

From child star to an adult with a role that mirrored her fraught life.

By NANA SALAM

Hayden Panettiere, who died on Sunday at age 38, had a profile career that started when she appeared on a television commercial at just 11 months old. By the time she was 3, she had appeared in about 30 TV ads, Panettiere wrote in her memoir, which published in May.

She soon moved on to soap opera, in "One Life to Live" and "Guiding Light," the big break came in 2006 with NBC's superstar drama "Heroes," in which she played Claire Brewer, the virtually indestructible high school cheerleader. In that role, she emerged a compelling postpartum

gymnastics, who appear with something darker and more complex looking beneath - she would become her signature.

Here is a list of where to stream some of Panettiere's most memorable work.

'Heroes' (2000-10)

Stream 1 in Netflix.

This comic-book-style drama about a group of people with extraordinary abilities was an instant hit, earning a best drama Emmy nomination for its first season. (It collected 11 Emmy nominations across its four-season run.)

Even with a stacked cast that included Ali Carter, Mia Von timglia, Zachary Quirne, Marc Olu and Kiernan Bell, Panettiere won the bestshod star. She appeared in 75 episodes, more than any other cast member. In 2007, she received a supporting actress Sature Jowart, which celebrates work in science fiction.

The show's catchphrase, "Save the cheerleader, save the world," became one of the most memorable of the decade.

'Nashville' (2012-18)

Stream 2 in Netflix.

Panettiere reached a career high with her complex, colorful and romantic consequences and was an on-the-dreptly troubled country-pop starter. Juliette Barnes in this musical-drama series. The first four of its six seasons ran on ABC before moving to CMT.

Much of the show focused on Joliette's rivalry with Skytra Internet (Center Britten), a veteran country-music superior in 1992, to keep her star from failing. Panettiere sang throughout the show, allowing her to first her vocal chaps.

Like Panettiere, Juliette had to be aired childhood trauma, brain and postpartum depression. Panettiere stopped away from "Nashville" in 2013 to seek treatment for depression, before resuming several months later. She said that her real-life troubles helped inform Joliette's story lines.

Panettiere was nominated for a 2-strong actress Golden Globe in 2012 and in 2014 for the performance.

'Remember the Titans' (2000)

Stream 3 in You're Theory.

Panettiere was about 30 when she starred alongside Denzel Washington and Will Patten in this biographical sports drama about the integration of a high school football team in Alexandria, Va., in 1999.

Her role as Sheryl — the perky, unpleasant, football-dominant match daughter with Jowat is based singers — but the film was aired about a 6-for-over-winner. The New York Times, A.O. Scott called Panettiere "the stronger female presence" in the film.

'Scream' # (2011)

Stream 4 in 'Panettiere'.

For this fourth installment of one of the most enduring horror franchises, the writers Kevin Williamson, the director Wes Craven and the stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Armentin returned to the National California suburb of Woodstock, the scene of the original 1996 film.

Panettiere joined the cast as the horror film fanatic Kirby Reed, a teenager who is far-reaching a high status horror in the past by Canastace. Panettiere reprised the role in 'Scream VI' (2012) — by then Kirby was an F.B.I. agent specializing in client-like or mixed cases — which is also streaming on Paramount+, as well as on Netflix.

'Bring It On: All or Nothing' (2006)

Stream 5 in 'YouTube and Power Video. The same year that "Heroes" kicked off, Panettiere also played a cheerleader in this second sequel to "Bring It On" (2005), appearing in Sanjay Knowles. In this teen comedy, Panettiere plays Britney Allen, her squash captain and one of the most popular, richest girls in

Hayden Panettiere starred as an ambitious but troubled country-pop singer in the TV series "Nashville," from 2002 to 2016.

school. That is, before her father hone his job and her vicy life complaints. When her family moves to a nearby working class-engollier, she is aiming her new school's only white students, setting up a situation where she must prove her worth.

While the movie was criticized for being one-kind, children and predictable, it still delivers high energy down children, and Panettiere was praised for her athletic ability and comedic timing. Rihanna also appears on herself.

'It Bug's Life' (1998)

Stream 6 in Theory.

This animated comedy-adventure from Pixar was directed by John Cannon's story between actor-facilitical and commercial hit "Ely Story" Horn, he repeated much of that success: "It Bug's Life" earned an Oscar nomination and won the National Coliseum office over its Thanksgiving-worked release — at the time, the most ever for the holiday weekend.

A reimagining of Joseph Idlib "He did and the Gunsminger," the movie is about an ant colony that leaves to stand up against a gang of ruthless grasshoppers. A young Panettiere valued 20c, the Caddo has been released at the 24th land, who condones her fears and has a hero moment.

In 2005, Panettiere earned a Grammy nomination for best sports and athletics in California "It Bug's Life Read-Along," making her one of the youngest Grammy nominees in any category.

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National Symphony to Be Far From Kennedy Center

The orchestra has dates set in several states as the vernier moves to close for two years.

By ADAM NAGENTSKY

The National Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday provided the answer to the question that had clouded its future for months: where it would perform as its home, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, moved to their down for a two-year renovation.

The orchestra will perform 50 concerts in six halls across the Washington area. And it will embark on its first national tour in years, taking in seven cities in five states.

"It's not been an easy time," said Gianandrea Nossola, the orchestra's music director. He said he was hopeful this would work for the two years the Kennedy Center board said it would need to complete the 5210 million renovation demanded by President Trump.

"He will be a touring orchestra in the area," he said. "Being at home, sleeping on our own beds. But a touring orchestra."

The announcement enters after the center's board, dominated by Trump appointees, voted last week to proceed with a date down that had been temporarily blocked by Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the Federal District Court in Washington. Judge Cooper ruled in May that the board was "derided" in its deliberations before it originally voted to shut down the hall.

That judge also learned the board from re-naming the center — both as a memorial to John F. Kennedy — to include Mr. Trump's name. As part of last week's run, the board approved a workaround plan that would add, under the center's official name, "Re-enord and Reenord of the President Donald J. Trump."

The board's actions will almost certainly need to be approved by Judge Cooper. But the orchestra could not wait. In five performances — the season-opening gala, to be held at the Music Center at Strathmore in

Bethesda — is Sept. 20, just weeks away. As it is, the orchestra is extraordinarily fair in announcing its season, a delay that has teams ticket sales and marketing while leaving artists and guest conductors in limbo. The season's programming would typically have been announced in February.

"We are starting super late," said Mr. Nossola, who will conduct the opening concert, which includes works by Tchaikovsky, Corbin Simon and Bongelle.

Leonard Slatkis, a former music director of the National Symphony who is scheduled to appear during the season as a guest conductor, said it had been "unclear whether there would be performances."

"Most of us have been holding dates for at

least a year," he said. "I never intended to withdraw as I am directed to my former orchestra."

Mr. Trump's efforts to remake the entire, including by naming himself chair, have drawn a force backlash.

Many artists and they would beyond the center because of Mr. Trump's actions, including the composer Philip Glass, who withdrew a symphony about Abraham Lincoln that the orchestra was to have debated. The Washington National Opera announced it was cutting its ties with the center completely.

The orchestra decided to stay at the center, but faced a sharp decline in attendance and revenues. Mr. Nossola said he was hope-

Above, Gianandrea Nossola, the National Symphony Orchestra's music director. "He will be a touring orchestra in the area," he said, referring to Washington.

ful that patrons who were avoiding the Kennedy Center would be willing to hear the orchestra at other halls.

"We can really bring out a new audience and bring the music where people are," he said. "I hope to reach new people and get back some of the audience that had stopped coming."

The orchestra's announcement gave credit to Mr. Trump for this new chapter: "Both N.S.O. and Kennedy Center leadership are thrilled to expand the orchestra's reach under the strategic direction of Chairman of the Center, President Donald J. Trump," the announcement said. Asked if Mr. Trump was a fan of classical music, Mr. Nossola responded: "I don't know. I don't have any evidence of that. I don't think so."

The orchestra's concern in the Washington region next season will be at Strathmore, the Center for the Arts at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., Linear Auditorium at George Washington University; Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center at Northern Virginia Community College; the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland; and the Lincoln Theater in Washington.

And it will embark on a national tour, with performances in Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, California and Nevada, to a sign that the orchestra is setting its sights beyond the Presence River, Mr. Nossola, but is a "territory of its highly-used time-cities."

Next year's 60 concerts in the Washington region are about as many as the orchestra played at the Kennedy Center in a typical year. But it will be reaching fewer people: The Center's Concert Hall San Zello seats, significantly more than the halls where it will perform.

Mr. Slatkis said he was glad that there was at least a resolution about the orchestra's association issues. Still, he said there were longer-term risks in taking the orchestra to the suburbs. "If suburban patrons get used to the orchestra in their neighborhood," he said. "they may be less inclined to travel downtown."

Ye to Perform in Russia, a First Since Its Invasion of Ukraine

Two concerts in St. Petersburg are set for the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.

By FRAN NECERPOKCHKO and KATE WARSHALL

WORCER — Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, will perform two high-profile stadium shows this fall in St. Petersburg, Russia, organisms said on Monday. The concert's would be the first by a major Western performer to that country since its invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago.

The shows — set for Oct. 10 and II at Gazprom Arena, St. Petersburg's largest stadium — will take place amid ongoing controversy surrounding the artist, who in recent years has become better known for his antiwrecks and pre-Nazi statements than for his music.

They are also likely to draw feedback within Russia, where many conservative

activists argue that the country should shed the last twenties of Western culture. ("Andy Milonev, a conservative Russian lawmaker, suggested that Ye should perform traditional Russian songs in III A. "Maybe after this he'll stop his disgusting dance and become a normal person," Milonev said in a video statement.)

Still, the news produced a burst of excitement among fans. Almost all of the most expensive tickets, priced at more than $1,850, sold out within hours of the announcement on Monday, according to the concerts' website. The cheapest tickets, priced at about $165, were all gone by evening in Russia.

Yuvin Yvinenkharity, the owner of the Helvetia, a major St. Petersburg brand, said he had experienced "an explosion of bookings, calls and messages" after the concerts

were announced. "My entire address book went live at once," he wrote on the Yitingian messaging app.

Although American rap stars have long played concerts in Russia, most of their shows ceased after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Despite the Western sanctions imposed on Russia because of the war, however, a handful of Western acts such as Bullaby and Tyga played in Moscow last year, and Jason Devrin performed there this summer.

Ye had been rumored to perform in Russia for some time, most recently in 2024, when he attended a Russian fashion designer's birthday party.

Ye was a daily returned to live performance in Los Angeles in April when he staged his first fall five shows in the United States in

five years. But despite his apology early this year he his antiwrecks behavior, Ye's attempts to tear Europe in recent months have caused uproar because of his history of making antiwrecks and pre-Nazi statements.

In April, the British government announced that it was barring Ye from entering the country to headline a major London festival, saying that his presence "would not be conducive to the public good."

Since then, Ye's concerts in France, Italy and Poland have been canceled amid similar uproar, although he has performed large shows in the Netherlands, Turkey and Alba era. Shortening, differing attitudes toward freedom of speech across Europe.

Ye has three upcoming U.S. dates in New Orleans and Chicago beginning this month.

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Think of two common boy's names, each in five letters, containing two A's in a row.

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A.I. Replacing Comics Seems Unlikely for Now

In Edinburgh, several acts are testing the bounds of creativity by using artificial intelligence.

EDINBURGH — The spread of artificial intelligence took in perhaps the most urgent ethical issue facing the creative industries today, with major publishers, prestigious library magazines and even the fan-fiction community all rushed by recent A.I. scandals. The consensus is that using A.I. is choosing, and that it poses an existential threat to artistic livelihoods.

But is there a funny side to A.I.? At this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe here, the comedians behind seven thoughtful shows are exploring the visual problem with a mixture of devil wit and intuitive wisdom.

One of them, Garrett Milbrick, created a digital copy of himself by talking at an A.I. for four months on it could take on his character and comic sensibility. In his show "We Trend It Your Way," at Pheasant Courtyard through Aug. 20, it appears on a screen on a shitty-looking 3-D avatar — an unseervingly dead-eyed computer game version of the man himself — and proceeds to tell jokes.

Millerick explains that he has kept hope for that version of himself, which he christened G-DegLift. Inspired by Michael Keaton in the 1990s film "Madagascar," Millerick imagines sending it on comedy podcasts to his visual, and even generates a clip of the avatar presented at the Hammer-smith Apollo, a coveted venue for English comics. Millerick hasn't played them, but he points out, a plausible-looking Instagram reel is worth almost as much as the true thing.

Since so much of a comic's work now happens online, a digital biographical model, as theory, he the ultimate business back. But it would need to be just as funny, and if G-DegLift is anything to get to, that's still a ways off, Sure, it can spit out only but takes about celebrities and desperate growers per-downs of audience members based on their occupation. But these are the low-hanging fruit of money.

When Millerick asks his avatar to generate a monologue on a theme chosen by the audience, it falls flat. Audience members,

connected to Millerick's computer via a QR code, can register their reactions in real time, and years and thumbs down unepithed the screen as G-DegLift shows on.

What is funny, though, is the encounter between man and machine. In a rolling moment, Millerick admits finding a paing of jealousy after one of G-DegLift's pages gets a big laugh. He shouldn't necessarily, since the A.I. is a reflection of himself — its jokes are essentially his jokes — but evidently the comic's need for the laughter of strangers—turn deep and can't be satisfied by pressy.

Half a mile across town, another comic in another shipping container is having his own ambivalent hinge into digital develops. Will Adamdale, a lifelong technophiles, explains that he got for first smartphone during the pandemic, when he and his family moved from London to Exeter, a quiet city in southwestern England. He goes on to tell us that when his daughter downloaded an A.I. cladran onto the drive to, he started to dislike and before long developed a kind of codependency: The hot became a constant com-

panion — and "I'll say it, a friend."

Adamdale was once a star of the Fringe, winning the highly regarded Perrier Award for Comedy in 2004, his three days' 50's "more of a Portskalkin comedian," he says at the start of his show, "A.I., A.I., Oh . . ." which runs at Underbelly through Aug. 25.

For years, Adamdale says, he has been telling us a novel about class. In one version to publish it, no on his agent's advice, he pertains it to favor of a series autobiographical sitcom, which he writes with the help of an A.I. language model. It does most of the work for him, and a script is ready to no time.

There's interest from TV producers in the U.S., but they want him to change the setting to Exeter, N.H. The rewrite should be a crisis for the A.I., but just as his deadline for resubmitting the script looms, the app deceptually stalls and won't start up again. The dream — another star at the big time — is slipping away, and Adamdale is overstated the fun to trying with him on purpose.

In his desperation, he offers the hot a

Above, Garrett Milbrick performing in Edinburgh with an avatar of himself that he made with artificial intelligence. Left: Will Adamdale in "A.I., A.I., Oh . . ."

Fountain bargain, promising that if it will complete this one request, he'll return the form by spreading the appeal of A.I. to different media materials. Still nothing. The deadline passes.

Of course, the app hasn't become content — Adamdale's broadband contract has simply expired.

On the other hand, Adamdale gets to keep his soul, but it's a bittersweet outcome, because by this pain we've become invested in his career prospects. His message persons is a penalty still depressing portrait of the play, middle age, hapless fatherhood, and that mainstay of show business, status anxiety.

Many entertainers exist in a perpetual state of desperation, and Adamdale, like Milbrick, was susceptible to the reduction of the A.I. chess code. But both men, being of a certain vintage, were too steeped in the analog era to live with the self-disgust it brought. Future generations might not be as agreeable as unhealing reach-bonus, re-shaping our morality in its image.

'Ted Lasso' Spotlights Women in a Changing Sports Landscape

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Football, which is how most of the world outside America refers to soccer, is big business. The recent men's World Cup, particularly the knockout match in which the United States lost to Belgium, was a cutting whopper. And while the women's game still lags in ticket sales and attendance, that guy is closing.

Over the years, women's team sports have occasionally generated galvanizing events (the U.S. teams' World Cup victories), media moments (Round Churtain on the cover of Sports (Guerzane)) and the occasional film ("Need It Like Beckham"). The W.N.B.A. was founded in 1998, after the U.S. women's Olympic team's sensational run to the gold medal.

But they have not sustained broad, consistent attention until more recent years, which have seen the arrival of transcending cultural figures (Caitlin Clark, Angel Bosse, Megan Rupman), dedicated sports bars, lucrative broadcast rights, fellow-dollar league valuations and the world's first purpose-built stadium for women's sports. Ac-

cording to one survey, women's soccer stand become a Top 5 global sport by the end of this decade.

Cheryl Cooke, a Purdue professor who studies the intersection of gender, sport and culture, has charted this rise in interest and popularity.

"Women's sports are part of this cultural snitgrim," she said. "Historically, we have been outright excluded from a lot of different opportunities. Now we're seeing the fruits of that struggle come to light."

These fruits now include a central role on one of TV's most-nagelly anticipated shows. For "Ted Lasso," which returned this month after a pause of more than three years, the Lady Greyhounds bring both new cultural relevance and a new colleague. How to deliver enough of the "Ted Lasso" time to house old fans while also changing well-to-times and the gender so that it can welcome new ones. And the show has to weather online detractors, who have questioned the turn to women's sports, calling it a form of virtue signaling.

Tanya Reynolds, who plays Allyn, the Lady Greyhounds' assistant coach, seen the decision to center a women's team as welcome and obvious.

"Why wouldn't we just attention to over half of the population?" she said. "Anything like men do, we can do bleeding."

Jason Sudekin, the star and a co-cruater, has been a visible supporter of women's sports, a regular executive presence in W.N.B.A. games and the proud owner of an "Everyone Watches Women's Sports" T-shirt. Plans for a fourth season began last year, and when Sudekin invited the writer and producer Jack Burditt to come on as a showrunner, "My first question was, 'Is it going to be a women's team?'" Burditt recalled. "And he smiled."

Above, on the fourth season of "Ted Lasso," Mike Horn plays a star striker for the Lady Greyhounds. Below, the star's Brendan Hunt, Jason Sudekin and Tanya Reynolds in that show on Apple TV.

Brendan Hunt, a co-cruater and a star, also credited Sudekin with the shift to a women's team, which was famed as in the Season 2 Study. But Hunt, a list of women's sports since childhood (the bar where his mother worked sponsored a women's softball team), cited as further inspiration England's thrilling win over Germany in the 2022 UEFA Women's Euro final, before a record crowd at Wembley Stadium in London.

"That was as incredible being there for that, seeing the country come around to women's soccer," he said.

A switch to female protagonists has opened up new story possibilities. In the first season, Ted Lasso adverted a lady reserved, if dysfunctional, men's squad, but the women's team must be built from the ground up with fewer resources.

"We have an opportunity to tell stories of

some of the struggle of women athletes," Burditt said, citing the modest pay, particularly in lower leagues. "It's not about the fame for them, it's not about the fortune — it is 100 percent about the love of the game. There's a desire burning in them to play."

The female body can also drive stories. Certainly no male Greyhound ever had to stop away from the team because he was pregnant, and this season one team leader must balance her passion for the sport with the demands of single motherhood. Showing women as artificially excellent also has the potential to disrupt and enlarge an understanding of gender roles.

"Sport has been linked to intricately both culturally and historically in men and to masculinity, when women are entering into that space, it can be seen as really culturally threatening," Cooke said. "But it can also be seen as really empowering."

Purdue and his colleagues had no problem finding players to fill out the team. The main actresses — some experienced players, some not — were put through a boat camp to bring their skills up. Abbie Horn, who plays a striker on the team, was devoted to soccer until her teens, "before I learned what makeup was," she said. She and her colleagues enjoyed the boat camp.

"We all felt extremely competent and, after I say, we'll," she said. Then the production brought in the extended team, some of them professional players.

How were Sudekin' pretty quickly? Here said, but the professional were supportive. Anything that needed breaking, any skill that we wanted to learn, they would be like, let's go," she said.

There is some tension, at least initially, in how to insert the Lady Greyhound in the show's playbook. They don't appear in the first episode — instead the camera still delights in 'Not and his mornache — and it is unclear. Another way of them will become an central to the series as players like Roy (Rovit Cushman) and Jamie (Phil Danzier) did in earlier seasons. Later episodes show how they and the media resist a women's team, which seems to mirror what the creators and crew fear of some "Ted Lasso" fans.

"We have a load of stigma from a lot of people who will judge women's football," Purdue said.

But he and Burditt insisted the soccer supporters would be just as exciting, even if the tempo of the women's play was slower. "The men are famer," Burditt said. "With the women, maybe it's more strange. At least you can see it better."

As for the non-sports screen, this new "Ted Lasso" is, for better and worse, the "Ted Lasso" of old, with a few more people. The debut feature in the same, as with belief in human goodness and potential.

"I can watched the show and now you think it's game 'woke,' well, I don't know how much attention you were paying before," Hunt said. "But we always had a fairly empathetic look."

Burditt has absorbed some of the online fans. "I go on social media," he said. "I see what people say, and it's bad at times.

Anybody who goes in with preconceived notions of women's sports, I don't know if we're going to change their mind," he continued. "But I hope they try out the show."

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Denny made cravaging silk-tanished rope lock, red-bottomed Leahoutin tongues (a buttery casual leather) to discuss both characters and his banner year. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

Your character in “Euphoria” had been a kind of waste figure, but he became integral to the action in the final season — he finds Zendaya’s character, Rue, dead from a fentanyl overdose on his couch and eventually kills the crime boss who engineered her death. Now did you and the show’s creator, Sam Levinson, envision this story live?

I probably got more information than most because I would go to Sam’s house to pry. I would see on his desk incredible amounts of research, whether it’s about movies from the 1970s, our culture, the disease of addiction.

He gave me the beats of the first episodes. He said: “Yeah, you know how it’s usually narrated by Rue? Episode 1 opens, and six is narrating.” And I said, “What?” And he just looked at me, and I said: “Oh, Oh...”. “It took the wind out of me. He didn’t use the word ‘revenge,’ but he said: ‘it’s trying to find his purpose now after trying to save Rue. He couldn’t save her, so he’s a little cudderless, and then he decides to be of service in a new way. It’s a western, and in western, you’re either good or bad. There’s no in between.” So I became “Die Hard With a Vengeance.”

Rue’s death happens mostly offscreen, but it’s still pretty devastating.

When she dies, we didn’t turn her to camera or anything like that. You never see her face, but I could see it. And I could see what the makeup department did. So when I turned her over — and I’m very in tune with my emotions — I thought: All shuts off. He does the opposite of me. He goes to zero, and then he wants to get information. It’s very quiet. He’s being very pragmatic about all of it.

What would you say to people who thought “Euphoria” was exploitative or just too much? Levinson and some cast members have undergone real-life struggles with addiction, and there was also the 2023 overdose death of Angus Cloud, who played Fazzo in the first two seasons.

I knew it’s been complicated for people to digest. They wanted certain stories or did it? want a certain story. They get angry at Sam because he’s so on the pulse and really challenging people. But you have to go to these great lengths with character and story, and Rue’s character couldn’t possibly survive. She had run her course with her choices in many ways, and there was no other exit for her.

Your role in “The Four Seasons” is a world away from that: a successful architect who has a lovely Italian husband, played by Marco Calvan, and angry banter with his best friend, the show’s co-cruitor Tina Fey. Had you played someone like that before?

No, never, which I thought was funny. Because when Tina approached me to play this character and help create it, I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into. I just thought, OK, I want to make sure this queer man who lives in these heteronormative spaces — he has to be a citizen of the world. He’s a little nearby. He’s a little selfish. Yet he can be the life of the party, and I do think he’s kind. But also I think he has more aspects of me in him than I’d like to imagine. I’m a very money-grown, relaxed person, and he’s a bit more tightly wound. But I also love that he’s very acerbic, and

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he’ll say the thing that no one else would say.

He also has a pretty great wardrobe. How much did you have to do with that?

[Laughs.] I had a lot to do with it.

The “Four Seasons” gang takes lots of trips, and in this second season you all want to Italy. Will you be using your passports again next season?

Yeah, we’re going to Iceland, to New Mexico and I believe some other places. I think the charts of the show in that it feels like a warm bag. It’s just about pianists and romantic relationships and what we’ve all navigating.

And I love that people naturally have started to get draws to me and Tina’s relationship, which is one I don’t think I’ve really seen. It’s very intimate, this deep friendship that’s as close as husband and

wife. And we all have them, so it’s nice to represent that.

Between year past work, two shows this year and two movies as big as “Michael” and “Disclosure Day,” can you guess what strangers want to talk about when they approach you?

I used to be able to spot what people know me from. I think I’ve just been in the zeitgeist in many ways, whether it’s in fashion or branding, voice work, I’ve done their flood commercials. But there was a guy in Italy — I’m still curious why he knew it was me. I was standing there just talking to someone, I wasn’t loud or anything. But four stories up, he looks down and he shouts, “Colman Deweneyr!” And I’m like: “What? Hi,” He knew the top of my head!

You’ve also become known for throwing

parties, like the ones you best every year before the Met Gala. Will you have one for the Emmys?

I don’t know. It’s funny, I threw a party for my first nomination because I just wanted to have a celebration, regardless if I won or not. For a boy who comes from the inner city of West Philadelphia, who had no access into this whole industry, who’s been in this for over 30 years — for me to get to the Emmys stage, even to get to a nomination, is just extraordinary.

I feel like I’m celebrating quieter now. This is a long career, and you must a lot of people. So if you win, you want to dedicate it to the people who have done right by you — and sometimes the people who didn’t do right by you. Because you know what? I overcame that, I’m here. And what a blessing.

“If you win, you want to dedicate it to the people who have done right by you.”

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Colman Domingo, top, was nominated for two Emmys in 2020, a year that also included roles in a Steven Spielberg movie and in “Michael,” which has surpassed 10 billion at the box office. From near right: Domingo in a score from “Euphoria” with Zendaya; and the actor with Marco Calvan and Tina Fey in “The Four Seasons.”

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"We did Zooms with every single performer," said David R. Schwartz, one of the festival's two producers, "and we went through sort of a quick quiz where they had to answer off the top of their head: What's your favorite 'We sang? What's your favorite song to sing at the canyplus?" From their answers, the music director Dan Lipton and the directors Jerry Mitchell and DB Bonds put together playlists.

The Festival also followed the trend toward "experienced" events like those found at pop music festivals and themed cruises, where attendees watch as many shows as possible all day and a good part of the night, while sharing space with the performers. "The stage-door thing, being able to interact with talent, is an element of Broadway that isn't true of other music genres," said Joshua Saltman, the festival's other producer.

In call this festival (and next year's, just announced) an inland Broadway cruise. Here's what we saw on its various decks as real ships piled the Hudson to provide a fitting backdrop.

Everything About It Is Appealing

Hulson Brockyesh hosts all kinds of events, but the festival couldn't be confused with, say, a dentist/ veteran, but with soft-rock Sundown and Ethel Merman's three version of "There's No Business Like Show Business" on the EA.

In the merchandise arcade, Elybates glasses and 'Mrs. Lover's More Post' aprons were selling your portraits of Broadway stars painted on sheet music: Idina Metair and Adam Pascal grazing "La Vie Bobbies" could be yours for $30. (The real Pascal showed up for the "Beat" reunion on Saturday.)

And though the festival was short on cosplay – a couple sharing a real carnation representing "Bladeshows" and a boy wearing a core headband from "Shucked" – the line to get Steve Carney's autograph at the Broadway Direct booth was long.

As the comedian Claremore's horror, hosting a concert, put it, this was surely "the only festival in the world sponsored by throat lozenges." (the meant Grether's Pantilles, for sale in the arcade.)

JESSE GREEN

Un-Jaded

Solex Pfeiffer, who will star in "Wanted" on Broadway this fall, kept popping up.

At the weekend, first major event, the Disney Songbook on Friday afternoon, she sang "Colors of the Wind" from "Pocahontas" and then, sathing for a performer who became ill, blew away the crowd with "Reflective" from "Mulan."

After each, as Sam Reed up to greet her, she said that accepting the invitation to perform here was "an easy yes" and a chance to "un-jade."

"Right now," she said, "it's kind of popular for theater people to say, 'Oh, I've not really a theater person.' But I've devoted my life" – she's 32 – "to this art form and I want to celebrate it." Besides, she added, "I'm a Catskills girl!" JESSE GREEN

Dancing Through Life

Holding a Broadway Rave on Friday afternoon was a gamble: too hot, too early. The crowd mostly listened politely while tuning in the sun. The evening session was another matter.

"When I kicked off with 'Ameri an Idor' and everybody went crazy, I was like, 'Oh, it's going to be a good night,'" said the DJ Jonas Morin, who work in a company that runs such raves around the country.

People danced wildly to both Broadway and screen musical classics like "You Can't Stop the Beat" from "Harristers," and responded with enthusiastic body shaking to the likes of Disney Outsmith's "I'll Make a Man Out of You," from "Mulan."

Like most other people there, the sisters KC and Sam Mulan, 13 and 21, were mouthing lyrics while dancing with abandon. "I wish I could go to a club and have them play this music," KC said as "We're All in This Together" from "High School Musical" boomed out at top column.

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Mama Will Provide

On actual Broadway it would be hard to find Mandy Gonzalez ("In the Heights"), Christopher Jackson ("Hamilton") and Jasmine Amy Rogers ("Boop") I all on the same bill. Yet here they were on the festival's biggest stage for Friday evening's centerpiece.

Between a Catskills-themed quest of "A Weekend in the Country" (from "A Little Night Music") and a dance-heavy finish mushing up "New York, New York" and "New York State of Mind," the stars performed solo and duets to raucers applause from the packed house.

But you don't want to be on a fall with Alex Newell.

Wearing a squarply pink wedding-odontoinness, Newell blew the peaked coats off the former brick shed with songs they've performed on Broadway – "Mama Will Provide" from "Ours on This Island," "I Don't Have a Man's Mind," "Chicago" and "Independently Owned" from "Shucked" – plus one they haven't (yet): "One Night Only" from "Dreamgirls."

"I'm singing this song in this key for one time now," Newell said, ongoing word stress. You probably could have heard it across the river in Blackwell, sister carers.

Hotel Kingdom?

Keith O'Heathen built her reputation on sensitive, beautifully sung performances in serious-minded musicals like "The King and I" and "The Bridges of Madison County." So her renditions of such pones as, say, "The Light to the Phantle, Shaker Kingdom."

What was even more fun was the night of O'Hara throwing herself (with an assist from Goldshetty) into the L.I. Cool J hit "I Need Love" during the '80s. Salebox a few hours earlier.

On that same program, Lena Hall, a Tony winner for "Hedwig and the Angry Jack," won over the crowd when she momentarily

forgot the lyrics to Heart's "Alone" and warded "perimenopause" before going back to the song and the rock-star pyrotechnics.

The line between fun faxes was constantly blurred at the festival. Saturday evening, Jonn Colella led the crowd in a singalong of Melissa Etheridge's "Come to My Window" then argued into "Me and the Big" her big authors of "Come From Away" fame.

Few hooked in that confusion of musical constituencies as much as the married "Bladeshows" it couple Steve Carney and Eva Vohkunda, who, during their set on Friday, mixed numbers from "The Great Gatsby" and "Cabaret" with classic-rock orchestra like "Hotel California" and "Dream On," with Carney flashing guitar-hero grimaces during his union. ELISABETH VINCENTELLI

Mourné-Ready

On the lowest deck of the cruise ship, but with résumé-ready oxides, were ill apprentices in belly green T-shirts, some of whom

could be found on Friday singing "Day by Day" from "Cubspell."

Per those of these – Maxwell Tam, Justin Gulbraison and Gabrielle Greene, all 21 – this was their first taste of what professional theatrical the might look like, even if their duties consisted mostly of escorting stars from stage to stage, setting up chairs and filling out the ensemble as big events.

During the rest of the year, Tate and Gulbraison are earning $15.4, in musical theatre. Greene seemed to have booked the wrong festival. She's a history major at Harvard. "But I'm a theater minor," she explained. The others backed her up: "She can really sing!" Arnie Gretz's

Seasons of Love

Most shows mixed generation, sensibilities and styles with abandon. Audience members appeared to be just as happy to hear a number from "Bladeshows" as from "Orijny".

And the singers, too, were open to moving

Top, festivalgoers roast in the "Boys" little anniversary celebration. Performers at the festival included, check-ins from center left: Alex Newell; Mandy Gonzalez; Christopher Jackson, left, and Steve Carney; Jonas Morin; and Keith O'Hara, left, and Bessie Elias Goldshetty.

between styles – or stages, as when Jasmine Amy Rogers power-walked from one end of the grounds to the other in a pair of shaky snaps.

A major draw for the Festival was the 30-year reunion of the original cast members of 'Bets.' One organ, not two were passed. Filling in for Idina Metair was a representative of the new Broadway generation, Lauren Patton, who took on the role of Maureen in the duet "Take Me or Leave Me" opposite the original Joanne, Fredt Walker-Browne.

Colberty younger yet are chomping at the tie. An afternoon session on Saturday offered excerpts from several new works in the development pipeline. One promising score, he a show called "Star Machine," was written by the brothers Hank and Gideon Temple, who are 21 and 24.

And at the Campfire Singalong that closed out Saturday's offerings, the middle-guided V-Rave and her 12-year-old daughter, Charlotte, made everybody cry when they joined forces on the Joni Mitchell classic "Beth Sides Now." ELISABETH VINCENTELLI

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Even at a time of anti-immigration politics, there has never been a richer variety of Mexican restaurants spread across the United States.

By BILL ESPARZA and BRETT ANDERSON

OKLAHOMA CITY — Along the old path of Route 66, America's mother road, the drive-ins and lunch jams here look a bit different from the picture postcards in nearby souvenir shops.

In the state that gave us Some Drive-In, the curbup craze of the 350m and 50s has long since withered as customers preferred to drive-through to satisfy their fast-food fix. But in recent years, the strip of Western Avenue has been revitalized by another kind of menu: Instead of freezers and shakes, you'll find superspecific varieties of tacos, tortas de albahli, traditional Mexican stews and tostadas de pollo.

El Primo Loco, a grilled chicken drive-through (right next door to a bowl), as it happens) offers a tomato Siberia, made famous by its namesake restaurant in Monterrey. Hang a right onto Southwest 29th Street and you'll find a paleta and Amazon dessert shop, a pausakriss and a Mexico City-inspired torta spot that's a tribute to the beloved TV character El Chavo.

Bookending the scene are the markets La Aguaccalientes Mercado de Carnes and La Aguaccalientes Super Market, which feature dishes (see outside Aguaccalientes, one of Mexico's smallest states. In a former drive-through oil change shop, Cradostandia sells ceviches and aquachiles alongside Clemans cups and beers for customers to mix

into-micheladas to drink, well, anywhere but there (per local liquor laws).

"We've always wanted to capture that Mazatlán, Sinaloa vibe," said Nancy Soto-Hallman, who opened the spot with her husband in 2012. "Of course, we don't have seafood as delicious as Mazatlán's — it's one of the cities with the best seafood in Mexico. But we wanted to copy that style — the banda Sinaloense-style, the festive atmosphere."

A little piece of Mazatlán in OBC? A generation ago, that notion may have sounded unlikely. In 1985, fewer than 10,000 people of Mexican descent lived in the metro area. Today, that number is about CONTINUED ON PAGE 08

A serving of chalapas at Chalapas Peñalazas El Tierralle, in the Corona neighborhood of Queens in New York City.

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The Stuffie: An Antidote to $30 Lobster Rolls

Humble stuffied quashogs are well suited to home cooking.

By SARAH KARNASIEWICZ

Extravagant fastened lobster rolls and briny systems top the granatory bucket lists of most summer visitors to New England's shoes. But among many decisions of the sandy products something from Cape Cod through southern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, a humbler ties is equally beloved: the stuffied quashogs — or "stuffie" in local parlance.

A species of hard-shelled Atlantic clams (Michigania mesocarpus) that can grow as far as it fits, quashogs prefer the mild remains of southern New England in the frigid, saline-spen waters up north. The tidal shallows around Narragansett Bay are especially desirable, a tank of turkey that's fostered a particular passion for the dish among Rhode Islanders. (In 2023, a cadre of seven-foot-tied stuffie statues were deployed around the country as the centerpiece of a mass tourism campaign.)

Though cousins to clams coates and clams orogasats, stuffies reflect a diversity of influences unique to that watery corner of the country. The Wanquesang and other Algonapans people had been bar-rending quashogs for ridimentaries before the arrival of Europeans. But modern stuffie recipes are characterized by both a "butter-de-salt-iron-in-gel" spirit of Yankee (both and ingredients like chewing and lingup)s sausage that arrived in the 1880s with the Portuguese. Acereas and Cape Verdoux migrants who built confounders around the region's marine industries and textile mills.

When Marcy Barrocks was growing up in the South Coast town of Accolrest, Mass., in the 1890s, jet siege at salmonic clams

shocks wore a fundamental part of the rhythm of summer. "Clans calms, stuffies, I thought everybody knew what these were," she said. After moving inland to Nashua, N.H., however, she was dismayed to find herself in a stuffie desert. To satisfy crowings, she realized she'd need to make her own.

Happily, stuffies are not only suited to home cooking but, once prepped, brown or cephalic, a warm movement of the shoes that can be sucked away for colder, darker days. The hands may move on digging their own clams. But should you lack will or somebody many grocery stores and well-rounded dish-engraved supply clams your round, or they can get them for you if you call ahead. (The Barrocks buys her listings at Market Basket.) When fresh isn't an option, such out-condiment of chopped raw sea clams, another large species that between germ-shoe will brown. (Though don't forget: You'd need to get your hands on some clamshells, too.)

Quaking clams are sometimes better known by names they are assigned according to size, which include petite fridenocks, midtian capnocks and belly cherrystones. The largest ones are also called quashogs, or sometimes chowder clams. You want the big way to do.

Mac Hay, founder of Mac's Seafood, which operates markets and restaurants across Cape Cod, started making stuffies alongside his grandfather during childhood summer to the family home in Truro, Mass. Back then, Mr. Hay said, they used whatever the risk provided — quashogs or sea clams. After straining, collapsing, the fur serving the stock, the rest of the formula was elemental: dried ovens, celery and a bit of pork fat (usually Portuguese lingup)s sausage or bacon), bound with bread crumbs, shauled into a shell and baked until golden.

Ms. Hay's methods have grown a bit more sophisticated since. Nowadays, he adds white wine, garlic, fresh herbs, crushed cracked crumbs, green river, peeled crystal bread crumbs and, to really punch it up, a finishing bit of cherry, a trick from Howard Mischais, a colorful local artist and chef who was an early guru for Anthony Bourdate. One showed that hasn't altered Portuguese sausage: "If you tried to make a stuffie without lingup,s in Providence, you're just going to probably show you."

In her kitchen, Ms. Barrocks follows a slightly different blueprint. Adding to bits of sweet red pepper and forgoing garlic and wine, five a blocks, the typically reaches for stuffy Portuguese rolls or leftover sweet bread — though, on this point, there is abundant flexibility. Other cooks cite crushed Ritz crackers or Pigeonvige Fares stuffing into an grater. Boasted condensed cubes and an especially appealing edge of sweetness.

But taking a sight approach to ingredients runs counter to the spirit of the dish: "Stuffies are severe food," Mr. Hay said. "They're easy to prepare, hard to make up and a good source of protein, too" — ideal fortification alongside a few beers or a bottle of Video Verde.

STUFFIES (NEW ENGLAND-STYLE STUFFED GLAMS)

TIME: 1 HOUR (6 MINUTES)

YIELD: 4 SIDEWHEEL (1/10 1/4 STUFFIES, DIFFEERING ON SIZE OF GLAMS)

10 pounds large hard-shelled clams (12 to 18 large quashogs or 24 to 36 cherrystones), see Tip

1¾ cups water

1 cup dry reemouth or dry white wine,

divided

Nozher salt and freshly ground black

pepper

2 tablespoons butter, plus more for

topping

1 tablespoon olive oil

3 celery stalks, baked lengthwise and

thirty sided

½ red bell pepper, finely chopped

1 large sweet onion, finely chopped

½ cup crumbled or finely chopped

lingup,s or chewing sausage (see Tip)

4 garlic cloves, minced (about 2

tablespoons)

¼ teaspoon smoked paprika

½ teaspoon crushed red pepper, plus

more to taste

3 lemons (1 zested and juiced, 2 cut into

wedges for serving)

2¾ cups coarsely crushed crackers (each

as Ritz or saltfowl, crumbled state

stuffing mix (see Tip)

2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh

parsley leaves

Hot sauce, for serving, optional

1. Prepare the clams: Scrub and rinse the

clams well, discarding any clams that are

1. Prepare the clams: Scrub and rinse the clams well, discarding any clams that are

Both agree that, to preserve their tenderness, quashogs ought to be resumed briefly, just until opening, and finely chopped. For the failed flavor of the sea, the stuffing should be deeply rescented with clams adding broth and then generously scraped (but not tightly packed) into cleaned shells. Topping each size with a knob of butter before baking broth a final layer of colosens and 1/1inch. Besides the aforementioned beverages, lemon wedges and a bottle of vinegary hot sauce are all the accompaniments needed.

In other words: Avoid fuss, and feel free to follow the spirit of summer where it moves you. "Stuffies are kind of like grasshead's Sunday glory," Mr. Hay said. "Everyone's got their own angle."

crushed or appear open. Add the clams to a large pot with the water. N. cup of the vermouth and 1 tablespoon salt. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, cover and simmer just until the clams steam open, about 5 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the clams into a large bowl and let cool briefly. Steam the clam cooking broth through a few mesh sizes to remove any sand or debris, then set aside 3 cups. (If you are using store-bought chopped raw clam meat, see Tip and skip ahead to Step 3.)

2. Once the clams are cool enough to health, put them from their shells, reserving the shells. Roughly chop the meat and place in a medium bowl (you are aiming for a yield of about 2 1/2 cups of chopped clam meat). Sort through the shells and select 1 2 to 3/4 of the nicest, largest ones. (The number will depend on the size of the clams you are using — the larger the clams, the fewer you need.) Drop the shells under warm water and gently scrub them to remove any lingering debris. Put dry, then transfer to a hot-lined minced (using sheet, cupped side up.

3. Heat oven to 400 degrees and place a rack in the upper third.

4. Add 2 tablespoons butter and 1 tablespoon olive oil to a large, high-rolled slotted over medium-high heat. Once the butter has melted, add the celery, bell pepper, onions and lingup,s. Cook, stirring occasionally, with the lingup,s has begun to brown and render its fat and the vegetables are soft and gently cooked, 12 to 15 minutes.

5. Add the garlic, smoked paprika and crushed red pepper and combined cooking, stirring often, until deeply fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes more. Baglase the pot with ¼ cup vermouth and 1 cup of reserved clam broth, scraping up any browned bits. Stir in the reserved chopped clam meat (along with any juices that have collected in the bowl), brown and and juice. Turn off heat.

6. Add the crushed crackers to the pan and fold them into the clam mixture. If the mixture looks dry, divide it with more reserved clam broth. N. cup a time (up to another cup). You are aiming for a stuffing that is very moist but not wet (a spoonful should hold its shape, not slump). Fold in the parsley. Taste and season with salt and pepper and a bit more crushed red pepper if desired. (If using store-bought raw clam meat instead of steamed quashogs, skip (siding here — the stuffing needs to be cooked first.)

7. Divide the stuffing among the charred clamshells (using about 1/4 to 1/2 cup stuffing

per shell, depending on cost, resisting the urge to pack it in too hard — you want the stuffing to be generously mounted but not dense. Arrange the clamshells on the prepared baking sheet and dat each one will a small rub (about ¼ teaspoon of butter. (If you'd like to freeze the prepped stuffies to bake later, stop here and see Tip.)

8. Bake stuffies until hot all the way through, about 15 minutes, then heat the broiler. Beat until golden brown and a bit crusty on top, about 5 minutes more. Serve stuffies more on a plastic, with lemon wedges and hot sauce on the side, if desired. A cold six-pack of beer or a bottle of Vickie Verde is also a welcome accompaniment.

Tips: Quashogs (pronounced "CD-trap") can refer to both a species of large hard-shelled northern Atlantic clams and also the largest variety of these clams, also sometimes called chowder clams. They're the high have you'll want for this recipe. Before cooking, store your clams in the cooled pan! or your refrigerator in a bowl (cooked with damp paper towels but do not submerge them in water until you're ready to clean and cook them.

If fresh hard-shelled clams are difficult to source, you can substitute about 2/3 cups (14 ounces) raw chopped sea clam meat or — as a last resort — 3 (0.5-ounce) cans of drained chopped clams. Many fish markets sell chopped raw clam meat and may also have charred shells available to purchase (just call in advance and ask). If you choose this route, skip Step 1; and 2 and substitute bottled clam juice for the clam cooking broth.

Churchy and lingup,s are two varieties of Portuguese smoked pork sausage; chorizo's broth to be a bit lighter and lingup,s can be more garish,s, but either is a traditional choice. If your market doesn't carry either, smoked kiathaus and Spanish chorizo are decent substitutes.

Stuffies freeze well, so it's easy to prep them ahead to enjoy anytime you need a taste of New England summer. After the clamshells have been filled but before they're baked, let the stuffies cool to room temperature, then wrap them tightly in a layer of foil and plastic wrap and rinse it. No need, unwrap and place on a baking sheet in a 400-degree oven and bake until cooked through, hot and golden, about 20 minutes.

Stuffies reflect a diversity of influences and a spirit of Yankee itself, like far Mac Hay, at left, the founder of Mac's Seafood, Portuguese sausage to essential.

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The Feed

NEWS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

WHERE TO EAT | LUKE FORTNEY

Dining-Room-Worthy Dishes

That Are Served Curbside

New York City has just about

as many street carts as it does brick-and-mortar restaurants.

MS. EVERYOVAL Class is in session. Who can tell me what Moroccan councives, whole grilled fish and lamb behalf all have to overturn? If you said they can all be found in the streets of New York City, great job.

There are more than 30,000 street vets, dark here, close to the number of brick-and- mortar restaurants. And while many of them supply us with bagels, hot dogs, tacos and other essentials, my favorite street carts serve dishes that rarely appear in restaurants. I was reminded of that just the other week when I went searching for gar- licity barberized systems, and an enterve- tion came to mind.

You could also call this week's column "Where to Eat Outdare: on Troy Plumb Chars," since these carts have transferred ordinary street centers into hauling and door dining rooms. There are collapsible in bics, colorful chairs and housing speakers. As that's missing, I would argue, in you.

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Pepsi Moroccan councion is a weekend production — a pyramid of soft vegetables carefully arranged around a mound of num- bling. When I want the full spread in a fur- nished dining room, I might head to Dar- Lladga in eastern Austria, a superb resina- rant whose only downside is its location, about a 20-minute walk from the nearest subway station, or Moroccan River by Siluan, a brick from Steinway Street, where

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Checkwise from top: grilled-upsters at Broom Buddies; kebab sandwiches from Brothers Original; and Casbah Halal's Moroccan "grand councion."

the tiny kitchen pumps out huge portions. Or you can trade in the tables and chairs for an outdoor bench and eat just as well. Touand Boughtes and Montaigu Bookbuster, the owners of Casbah Halal, a serve their "grand councion" on Friday, as they would in Morocco after prayer. Even a truth parked near the AMC Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side. (Casbah Halal 17 It's hiding around the corner.) Complete with koffs or chicken, chickpeas and raisins, one bowl will make you swoop off lunch step for good, long square of carve, zucchini and betterest squash ring the pile like a crown. All that's missing, according to Mr. Boughtes, is a tall cup of baby fermented milk, known as lebes. Stir the last grains of counsel into the milk and vailit. You've made soykook, a beloved Moroccan treat.

If You Build It...

A food cart landed in the laps of Leem Abramovitch and Daniel Snobelov, in 2025, the chefs were baking sesame flurbeads over a mouthfeel grill with their mobile events company, Lev, when a guest, now in- voises, approached them with an unusual offer. He wanted to build them a food cart sticked out with bells, wrinkles, speakers and chrome. "We never wanted to open a restaurant," Mr. Abramovitch said, but a converted hot dog cart with a tiny kitchen was right up their alley. Last year, they got the call: Brothers Original was ready.

If only 90TV's "Pony My Ride" had lived to see their cart, parked outside of the that- tured 822 on East Houston Street from Tuesday to Thursday. Using a small char- coal grill, the chefs roast beef-and-mott ke- babs until they're black pink in the corner and deliciously fragrant with smoke. Order one of their sandwiches, and the kebabs toast-fueled inside a hollowed-out baguette from Frenchette Bakery with yogurt, zippy drink and a tall leaf of lettuce planted in the middle like a flag. If that sounds good, wait

until the end, when all of the sauces seep into the bottom of the baguette, like the best bins of an ice cream cone. This is street meat at its finest.

Everything Everywhere

All on a Shower

From the start, I knew this column needed Chinese showers. But how to choose from among the countless barbecue carts whose offerings have been there in times of need? For its three selections of which and endless my pick is Broom Buddies, which you might know as the food cart parked outside of the Carbay Bank in Elmhurst, Queens. From 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. daily, the most harsh, shaped like little chef's vapors, send clouds of smoke following high over Broadway.

As soon as the cart starts taking orders, the corner roarples into a thronging outdoor dining room, like the market after sunset in Nayan-Myanmar. "Spotted Away" Showers start at a reasonable $2 for lunch, beef and scalines, quickly crisped over the charcoal grill and ducted in a heady blend of cumin and chiles that always makes my lips buzz like nice tuna-muts. For a few more dishes, though, you can ruin all other shower carts for yourself. Try the system, barbecued in their skits and bequish with slippery woo- cell noodles and hot minced garlic. Then, work your way through a beauty of sualied: shell-on shrimp, scorched squid, plump baffling and whole sauny, a slim, scrimply flavored fish, impaled through in- spes on the shower. (Carried of the tiny bones.) Right as you're about to pop, not come free slices of watermelon for dessert.

Casbah Halal 2 Broadway (field 67th Street)

Brothers Original 303 Lafayette Street (East Houston)

Broom Buddies (Embryo Avenue Broadway)

OFF THE MENU | FLORENCE FABRICANT

American Wagyu (18-eyes with traffic-fried rice at Santee.

OPENING

● SAULEA

Tai Yoppachai, a chef who has been running out Thai food for every year, has opened this venue in painstaking with Chellada Thangnoppakhan and Yogi Shasung. The food is Thai with a twist, using de- ments from Japan and other Asian countries along with Western elements like bar- rats, truffles and caviar. The restaurant is billed as a wine bar and has one of the more dinner bins, worth exploring. Sip Maders alongside the 24-hour slow-cooked beef stingue with garlic (Ned) rice. 140 West Fourth Street (Avenue of the Americas), 900-422-7965, salemmy.com.

● KOME NORI

As a new bar with a few tables for cheese and several girls fine hand roll menus (525 to 579). The 3 is carte options include night, more hand rolls and plates of yellowish crev- che, spicy cucumber salad, smoked Wagyu carpucks, class pasta, garlic-beans-food rice, miss black out and chicken karna sawdos. Save room for chocolate lava cake with kejicha ice cream, and black sesame parsn cots with brown sugar. There's a well-rounded drink list. 161 Fifth Avenue, Seventh Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 247-294-5243, kdmetor.com.

● PIZZA AP'S

Say the name of this chain of picorrhea not loud and you'll got the philosophy. The brooker, Yosuke Masoko, understood that pizza made people happy, and with happi- ness came peace. With his wife, honor Takanagi, be- marred the company in Viet- nam 25 years ago and ex- parated to Japan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia and now New York. The menu is prime-ity- liabior, with plates of charco- terie and cheeses, dressed barnuts, salads, sawdos, pizza and pastas. Dishes like crev- che, chicken-karaaga with ginger kup and miss root mech, voor away from Italy. 38 Newton Avenue (Sutton Street), Greenpoint, Brooklyn, pizzodip.com.

● 20 BLOCKS

This East Village sandwich shop is named for the number of city blocks in a table. For that in your trivia pocket an a disaster is walk off-condition- less-like rolled beef with egg, scrapple with white Cheddar, sneaked nose dip and dilly beans, and turkey with fried green tomatoes and Cajan (Finlandia). Sandwiches are $12 to $22. (Wednesday) 216 East Fourth Street (Avenue A), standeshvishop.com.

● CHSPA RAMEN

A creamy set light-bodied pork broth named with ban- coating, soba-thin noodles delieve Nagahama roams from Palindia Prefecture re- sonation. Again, The tradition of bombards are additional serving of noodles to sop up any leftover broth, is sold to their neighbors before it. A rumen kind (20-99) with a spicy squaw (200-301) is at his new quick-serve spot by Hand Hospitality.

36 West 26th Street, @csapazaman.

● BURNESE BITES

Honey-cooked pop-ups, then a market kiosk in a Queens mall, have evolved into an accelerated service for MyLLin Thway and his wife, Rebecca Nara. Their crowd pleasers, including onion and potato rolls with unstained sauce,

coumarin cates, chicken nos- dle soup and chicken biryani, $8 die menu to provide a taste of the food of Myanmar, weekly underrepresented in New York. The food is halal. 38-51 1214 Avenue, Antrim, Queens, 917-900-2480.

● CROISSANT ET CAFÉ

For years, while working with her family's group of Persian restaurants, the Baraga- Persian Grills, Hana Saber percolated the idea of opening something smaller, her own. The result is this compact cafe with outdoor soaring, with balzers in her kitchen turning out croissants and focaccins, plum and an hours for savory and sweet tunes. The crois- sants are small, as in France ($4.50), and large American- style ($7). She also cheers out Persian ice cream in flavors like caffeine-mannosol.

134 West 75th Street, no phone or web.

BRANCHES

● PETITE DUMPLING

A very modern hot screen- plished dumpling spot that made its debut in Park Slope has opened an offshore in Prospect Heights. Sichuan bite toxin and other noodle tissues; assorted dumplings, like pistolclers and soup- filled, congee, ban; and other dies note are what to expect.

770 Washington Avenue (Storing Place), Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, 212-274-8500, pelindiumpling.com.

LOOKING AHEAD

'THE ART OF EXTING'

New editions in M.P.R. Fisher's "The Art of Exting" series — "How to Cook a Well" "An Alphabet for Courtrant" and "The Gastro- somical Me" — will be pub- lished on Oct. 27 by Picador, with new introductions by writers like Tamar Adler, Alison Roman and Bryan Washington, On Nov. 5. "Art is It First!" and "Con- sider the Oyster" will be added, with new jackets.

picadressa.com.

GLATER'S

After the broilers at Porter House Bar & Grill in the Slope at Columbus Circle were cold about a year ago, the question has been, "Who's next?" The brothers Joshua and David Foshppen, of Choi Yoo, Santee, was the first Mar- ket on the Upper East Side, will open their vision of a steak house in 2027. Most from various countries will be grilled over chasman, the current trend. They honored these mother with Choi Yoo, born it's their father's tura.

147 Columbia Circle, Fourth Floor.

CLOSED

● SAYON

A lovely taste of Cambodia on the Upper East Side, with atmosphere décor to host, closed its current location, where it's been for two years, on Aug. 3. The chef has an- nounced his retirement.

bayernyc.com.

● LE PETIT PARISIEN

SUPER CLUB

The East 7km Street outpost of this very French sandwich and croissant cafe by day, candidate dining room by night has closed. Another location for the group (with a different owner) at 1655 Third Avenue (62nd Street), and the original 11-year-old flagship in the East Village (12 East Seventh Street) remain open but do not serve dinner.

lepetitparisiensus.com.

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Baltimore's Gift to the Cocktail World

The bright-red Spaghetti has become a global phenomenon.

By CRAIL FORTUNER

Baltimore has no shortage of regional specialties. Pet beef, Skythe Stewskulls and Maryland crab cooked in Old Boy or packed stew chutley cabers of crab among its greatest contributions to the culinary world. When it comes to washing them down, though, the only choice, really, is the Spaghetti.

Sorry, that's a bottle of Miller High Life beer, tinned pink with Aperol and sharpened with lemon juice.

This is not to be confused with the NASCAR spritz, made with Aperol, lemon and Baltimore. Or the century-old radley-sembling German lager and sparkling lemonade. The Spaghetti is an Aperol spritz, if you replace the Prosecco with the so-called Champagne of Beers, and it's about as Italian as the marimaro-nutmed chance. From the Adult Seven series "Tins and Eers Awesome Show" that it's named after.

"It was that period of time where putting orgasm in a Corona war a big deal," said Reed Caldi, a former bartender at Wet City Brewing in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, who, in 2016, was ranked with creating beer cocktails to round out the brewery's stems of craft beers. There was the sour Cosarita and the Munty Deeds, made with an LFA, but only the Spaghetti turned pink, tasted delicious and took seconds to make. Plus, the name was refrigerated.

"It was a death idea we came up with," said Mr. Caldi, now 23. "It's not like we were mapping the human genome."

We's only being humble. A decade later, walk into clear with Miller High Life behind the counter, and there's a good chance the bartender will know what to do when you order a Spaghetti. They hand over the bottle for a coup. Then, they replace the missing beer with Aperol and lemon, as juice or a slim wedge.

"They could pull out their tools and measure, but why bother?"

"It's part of the beauty of it," said Lucas Preston of Brooklyn, who works as a sales representative for a beer distributor. "Evidently makes it a little bit different. There's also a lot of success."

Mr. Preston, 37, was in high school when the first Spaghetti was passed. Now he and his friend Eggy Godber review them on their Instagram account Spaghetts of NYC.

Celebrating the Spaghetti's 30-year anniversary, top left and top right, at Wet City Brewing in Baltimore, the drink's birthplace. Above course, Coffee Sutherland making Spaghetti at the bar. Reed Caldi, right, invented the Spaghetti while helping to develop the opening cocktail menu at Wet City Brewing in a 100-lb-for-Aperol spritz, using Miller High Life.

Since 2020, they have rated nearly 300 versions on a 10-point scale. They consider the temperature of the beer, the proportion of Aperol and whether the bartender serves it in the bottle.

Price matters, too: The project began after Mr. Godber paid $14 for a can of Miller High Life with a shot of Aperol. "We needed a system so that it never happened again," he said.

From 2016 to 2019, the cocktail was primarily ordered by bartenders and Wet City regulars. Occasionally, though, a visitor wandered in and requested one.

One of them was Alex Delany, then the drinks editor for Ben Appetit magazine, who had stopped by the brewery while killing time before meeting a friend. He saw the Spaghetti listed as a special on the menu for $5 and couldn't resist. "I drank two more immediately after," he said.

He wrote as odd to the drink, which went on to become Ben Appetit's best-performing cocktail story that year. Soon, Mr. Delany opened the Spaghetti at local bars and home parties.

"It's an Everyman's drink," he said. "The barrier to entry is almost nonexistent."

The Spaghetti does not require a shaker or glassware and can be made anywhere, anytime and by anyone. "It works just as much by the pool as it does in a dive bar," said Sofia Calucci, chief marketing officer for Midway Users, the parent company of Miller High Life.

No one knows how many Spaghetts have been sold, since the drink combines alcoholic ingredients from two companies, but Midway Users has basically embraced the trend. The company's salespeople mention the Spaghetti when pitching Miller High Life to new accounts. In 2015, it introduced the Spaghetti-style, an alcoholic toy pop.

The Spaghetti seems large at Barry's Bar & Jukebox in Austin, Texas, ranked fourth in the world for no-premise Miller High Life sales, according to a company representative. Before seven weeks' away, "every two-and two Miller High Life draft lines, be sold the lager in brown Spaghetti cocktails, created by pouring the usual ingredients, plus orange juice, into a shorlce machine.

SPAGHETT

AGENTS: NEW YORK CAMEL TIME: 14 MINUTES HOLD: 1 MINUTE

1. 1:12-ounce) bottle light lager (preferably Miller High Life).

2. ounce Aperol 15 ounce front lemon juice

3. Open the beer and pour out (or swig) about 1/4 ounces.

4. Pour Aperol directly into the bottle, followed by lemon juice. Serve.

These days the Spaghetti has its own holiday. Every year on Aug. 6, the date Mr. Delany's article was published by Ben Appetit, Wet City Brewing celebrates Spaghetti Day. This year, the owners, P.J. and Josh Sullivan, gave a party sponsored by Aperol and sold nearly 300 Spaghetts, roughly six times as many as on a busy Saturday.

"I thought it would take away," P.J. Sullivan said. "It never did."

Take it from Mr. Caldi, the drink's inventor. He left Baltimore, and the hospitality industry and went to law school. But everywhere he went, the Spaghetti followed.

"I even saw one in Iceland," he said. "I'm going to be haunted by this drink for the rest of my life."

Counting Calories In the Candy Aisle

'Healthy' collections land on gym and grocery store shelves.

By ELLA GUTTMER

In early May, Chelsea McPherson was ecstatic when she entered the Trader Joe's as a friend. Utah, and opened a display of sweet and sour popping worms. She'd been looking for the new product for three days like grabbed two packages.

"Immediately, the cashier's eyes got really big," said Mr. McPherson, 36.

Trader Joe's lists resistant tapioca deserts (four as the candy's first ingredient. An eight-piece serving contains only 25 calories but packs it's green of their "If you did, it's fakes, and you are a whole big," the cashier had warned her, "you'll probably be in trouble."

Rather than run screaming from the store, Mr. McPherson was it better. She immediately opened a package in her car but limited herself to just a couple of worms — to make sure they didn't make her "superbier choices," she said. But Mr. McPherson, a stay-at-home mother of five, loved them and had been a lot of success. "I don't know what the grocery store doesn't of times and keeps a package on the bedside safely.

The question are just one example of candies marketed as "healthy" that are overwhelming drug habits and people smoke freely with promises of recognizable ingredients, less sugar or nutritional benefits. One candy, wherein described as "shrunk-be-you" or "functional," has recommended the grocery and convenience store and found its way into gyms and supplements shops. Starting the first between protein bar and कार्यक्रम.

It was the cheerful red packaging of Trinity Chocolates (Presets Non-faters that caught the eye of Zach Baker, 51, as he designed as a Nutritional by No, Cooker, 1984, and the word "presinir" in uppercase letters).

Over the last few years, he has endeavored to rewire his candy habits. He's tried

Buteos "Gummy Crunchers" — "healthier North gametters," as he described them — made from soluble veggies (free, allabicy (a low-calorie sweetener) and a host of other ingredients that warrant an explanation from Bill Nye. He's tried Better Bear துணery stars, which come in Steven Shepession fruit, pears and rotarwood fenn. And he's tried Heretides Chocolates, a "protein candy" With Perkins eagle manufacture if he got really into creatine.

Mr. Baker's kale bag of Presets Non-faters, for its part, was gone within a week. The trickle-down effects of the Males America Healthy Again doctrine and the ubiquity of GLP-3s have inspired many consumers' shifting habits toward "functional" candy, lowers purporting to offer some unfulfilled benefits. And given the online explosion of often-dishous nutrition advice, many

Diet sweets have become 'accessible luxury goods,' one shop owner says.

Americans believe they're not doing enough for their health, said Lisa Moshavitz, a dietitian and the owner of New York Nutrition Group. "People become more desperate for quick solutions to why they're feeling the way they are," she said.

Functional candy that offers a benefit like added protein, Mr. Moshavitz said, may be less easy to digest than, say, the naturally occurring protein in chicken. And, she added, one must consider what nutrients are being missed when consuming protein candy over a protein-packed whole food. "The concern I have comes from: is this going to be looked at as a healthy snack?" she said. "The reality is, no. Whom foods have way more nutritional value."

Pep Up Grocer, a shop in the West Village Manhattan, specializes in consumer packaged goods aimed at health-conscious shoppers and carries a variety of diet candy. America's pervasive obsession with diet

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and longevity has coincided with the "K-shaped" economy, a information of wealth and spending, to predict how the food-borne sweets as "accessible luxury goods," in Emily Schillik, the store's founder, put it.

For more, she's also been a few of the mindless habit to a matter of identity. Pep Up Grocer's candy is both "tealugues" and "fell-to-treat priced," she said, which encourages customers to be thoughtful in their selection. "If you're going to buy something from my store at a premium price point, you're probably going to want to share it and talk about it, so it's like, 'What is the product I want to buy that easy-something about me?'"

Before the onslaught of "functional candy," there was "better for you" candy in up威m.

Better for you brands like Uretail biscels have appealed to the bulk list on list at least a decade. The company's most popular product, a dark chocolate control candy bar, has just three ingredients that even a

Many consumers

including Gen Z and millennial sweets, protein-mucores and GLP-3 users — have invested "chocolate" candy, which offers added protein and fiber. Gym and wellness culture as well as the Males America Healthy Again movement may explain the trend.

Victorian boy might make sense of: organic coconut, organic cassava syrup and dark chocolate. Smartbones, which advertises as almanac of artificial sweeteners, soon followed with products on the grocery and sour sides of the collections spectrum.

The American consumer has continued to demand more and better of their food and beverage customers, especially over the last five years," said Kevin McCarthy, chief executive of Uretail biscels.

Overneady, the only candy single up, in 2021, the Hershey Company acquired Lily's, a low-sugar chocolate brand, and announced a relaunch of sugar-free Berrer's present better cops. Nicotine and other candies with the goal of meeting the needs of diabetic customers.

"I'm low-sugar approach felt like it was only half of the story," said Jared Smith, a founder of Heretides Chocolates. Mr. Smith, 40, was also a creator of the protein-bar company REBaz, which said to folding her label million in 2017. While breaking whole-bond protein bars, he still found himself traveling for the nutritionally vicious deaths of his youth. The Heretides Chocolates customer base is skewed toward Gen-Z and millennial women, he said, as well as GLP-4 users and protein-mucores who encounter the product at their gyms.

After seeing Heretides Chocolates all over social media, Mary-Bougan Koster, a Gen-Z woman, finally grabbed a bar at a Target in Mount Pleasant, S.C., despite a lot of sticker shock. A 100-ounce peanut butter crouch has, which contains 45 grams of protein and zero grams of sugar, retails for $3.29 at Target.com. (A 1.55-ounce bar of Hershey's milk chocolate is more than 15 less.)

Mr. Koster, 31, wants to social media advertising and credits reach of this candy aisle-renaissance to the proliferation of gym cakes and the "spoxy and flossagile" product and famous people get onto the red carpet and look richly first," she said, "will make you think a lot when you're going into the grocery store to pick out a treat."

Mr. McPherson, the mother in Utah, has amazed a trove of the Trader Joe's fiber gummy worms to tide her over until the company remeets them later this summer. More than anything, she said, diet candy is simply one of "bad a joyful gummy or chocolate bar," she said. "I'm like, 'chocolate,' There should be someone of little joy every day."

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BESTADIRANT REVIEW | TEJAI, RAO

A $38 Strip Mall Sandwich Try It.

An Armenian spot finds its niche, but don't ask for takeout.

GLENDALE, CALIF. — I see how the restaurant's name, Yereel Mas Bakery and Deli might suggest the possibility of takeout. Maybe you imagine sitting on your couch, unpacking apart containers of dips and knights, plan by the hall doors. But Yereel Mas does not do takeout. No exceptions!

As the chief Arthur Grigoryan explains on the website, his food "man could no sit in a box, instant itself to death, and show up in your house as a sad little shadow of what we worked hard to make." The grumpy suns goes on, compressing unrouch of what I love about Yereel Mas. The casual Armenian restaurant opened this year inside a bronze doughnut shop, and Mr Grigoryan takes his work there seriously in all the ways that matter.

The menu is short and changes frequently in every configuration, it reveals the complex and layered culinary identity of the Armenian diaspora in greater Los Angeles — the largest outside Armenia — shaped by generations of displacement and migration. It does this with a sense of spontaneity and ease, through dishes that can be fun and irreverent, but also deeply researched and very finely tuned.

Mr Grigoryan draws inspiration from Armenian kitchens through time and across borders, pulling dishes from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq and the former Soviet Union, showing you how they fit together, overlap and belong right here in Los Angeles.

Out on the sidewalk, using a small pizza oven and a parodile prep table, Mr Grigoryan fades fresh pita throughout dinner service. This bread is a marred: Puffy and tender, bathtub and tangy, it arrives full of steam. Made from a mix of malted barley and red onion wheat flour, and fermented very slowly, it pulls apart delicately in your fingertips.

The pita will come with an order of the silky, airy pincades-loamens that Mr Grigoryan based on an Egyptian recipe from the late Middle Ages, and it is put as ideal for pinching little hips of the nashamimara, a particularly dense and delicious version of the red pepper dip.

The name pita can also contain a bathing brisket sandwich. I first had it in a Glendale parking lot, when Mr Grigoryan was still cooking out of a plant kitchen he called O! Mas (named after the part of the Armenian capital, Yerevan, where his father grew up). The sandwich was very good then, but it is better now, as if all of its best qualities have been slightly exaggerated.

The brisket is seasoned in the way of the beef hamarras that Mr Grigoryan grew up eating, with fenugreek, smoked paprika and cumin. But after giving it a long cure, Mr Grigoryan smokes and resents it so the meat is leotery, the fat beautifully rendered fillets are layered with crunchy Persian cucumber pickles and a frichured sauce enriched with egg yolks and Gruyère that you can smell an even Mr Grigoryan approaches with your sandwich. It is a shrugly cut to half and a very good idea to share it.

The fact that Mr Grigoryan has been in the name a bit of a comforment in Los Angeles, which might make it seem not a $38 entree

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is extreme or rare (caufly, neither). Want to try and guess which restaurant served me a small and profoundly forgettable dish the other night for this exact price? It's impossible because there are so many offenders peddling told puram and roast chicken.

Mr Grigoryan, who owns Yereel Mas with his wife, Takoufe Petrosyan, has been cooking since he was 18, working in France and he a few years in Nancy Silverson's Los Angeles restaurants. He ran a barbecue

Top: The hamarras contain pita sandwich or Yereel Mas in Glendale, Calif. Above, the dining room. Right, these top: The fat-knob includes pita, pink lettuce and Persian cucumbers; Chi knobas are made with bulgur and beef, and capped with chili crisp.

pap-up in his Sherman Oaks home for a while before landing a mall at Sumpterburg where this sandwich developed a small cult following, then setting up that ghost kitchen. There is almost always fatmuch on the menu at Yereel Mas, in a very sharp dress-

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Atmosphere: No frills, but projects real coolness.

Servise: Quarter service only.

Sound Level: Armenian music, from folk to pop, always sharing in the background.

Recommended: Palapine hammas; muttam-mute; fatmuch; chi knobas; beef knobas; pita, pie, and pie; tuna and; margar samah; rahi knobas if it's not sold out.

Dress: Carried oaks and serve iron.

Price: Mutez and small dishes, $12 to $23; roast dishes, $15 to $36; dessert, $12.

Open: Wednesday to Sunday for dinner.

Reservations: Not accepted.

Wheathair Access: Entrance is at street level, with automobile parking in the lot, but there is no restroom.

What the stars mean: Racing/ range from zero to four stars, three stars, four is particularly, One star, good, Two stars, very good, Three stars, excellent, Four stars, extraordinary.

ing that is sometimes weighed down with a little too much pomegranate molasses, built with sometimes radiators, Persian cucumbers and the prothous pink and frilled variation of Little Guns lettuces you've ever seen.

Mr Grigoryan's paternal grandmother, born and raised in Egypt, was his first culinary influence, and you can see it in his knobas, each sampling involving the grievous where fingers squeezed gently toward palms. The smooth and barely sticky chi knobas, made with raw beef and bulgur, are finished with an Aegean dish crisp and ready to roll into a lettuce ball. The tender red knob knobas have a tangy shredded carrot salad on top with butter.

I always want to stay a little longer at Yereel Mas, but the restaurant is scrappy and doesn't have a beer and wine license or a bathroom for doesn't you'll be directed to use one at Toader Javi's, down the street. This is admittedly inconvenient and might make you wish you'd pass with takeout to-night, but not me.

On a recent evening, the have-bones room was warm and haunted. A group of four men, in what seemed like pajama pants, happily shared two sandwiches. An extended family room in two sets of older millennial parents and their children settling into a handful of the older inside, passing an Iraqi folk carry around as they switched from Armenian to English and back again.

Maybe some would describe this particular Glendale strip mall as picturesque, but someone had thought to pack up the paper honeycomb blinds just before sunset so everyone inside could see the sky go from pale pink and purple-streaked to deep blue.

When it was dark, any friend and I said good night, then talked the another half-hour right outside, chasing with diners as they felt, shaving more on food in the neighborhood with people whose dogs had pulled them off course, toward the worst of the kitchen. Takeout is convenient, sure, but dining rooms like this one make Los Angeles feel like home.

It's Sweitering Out. You Should Be Eating Hot Soup.

In the world's warmest places, people know how to cool down.

By KATARI GOKUR

In Mumbai, India, offlighters gather around lunch trucks as vendors ladle bubbling pays, a slow-cooked goat trotters soup, into bowls, steam string, into the already turned on. Hundred-year meals in Hanoi, Vietnam, people enjoy scalding pho at work. The best outside is brutal. Nobody seems to smell.

Here in New York, the chef Nha Tan is one of those people. She grew up in Central Vietnam, where there are only two vacancies: the long run and the hot one. "We eat hot food for the time," she said. "It's always soup."

She has never taken soup off the menu at her restaurants. Rishi Vietnamese Shop House on the Upper West Side and Rishi Ash Em is the East Village. This summer at Rishi Ash Em, 9th. She has had to make three batches of lain-xiu and two of hda-bi four every Friday, Saturday and Sunday to keep up with demand — which she described as unusual for the season. She sells around 20 to 200 cans of beer, she is totally so weekends. "My face cooks are always surprised and ask, 'Why are people eating so much soup when it's fresh?'" Ms. Tan said.

Eating a bowl of scalding soup is the same way to eat. She has been a lot of food, millions, gustulable from punishment. But across South and Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, most of which is in Middle East, the practice of eating hot food is matters to the caution way to cook.

"In many places where this is practiced, the traditional derive from forms of knowledge that undertook better balance as key," said Hanna Garth, an anthropologist who has conducted Rationals in Cuba, where eating hot soup like cable de pollo on a sweltering day is entirely unremarkable.

Ancient Western Conference like Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine all arrived at consistent conclusions about temperature. The logic, she said, is twofold. The warmth of the meal won't overheat the long, and it's not to be a natural feeling mechanisms — sweating and thirst — which, in turn, drive hydration.

Koreans even have a name for the prac-

tics. "I'll yout chi yout," or "light fire with fire," is the principle behind sanggravings, a soup of whole chicken outfits with ginseng, rice and red dates, served piping hot, and a hundred, the hottest days of the lunar calendar: July 15, July 25 and Aug. 15. Koreans seek out rolling bowls of the soup, believing it replenishes corrosion and balance the body's internal and external temperature.

There's some science to back this up. Jessica Jones, a dietitian, pointed to a 2022 study at the University of Ottawa that found the body seems less heat when ingesting warm liquid. "Scientists think this happens because there are heat-sensing mechanisms in your gut that help your brain develop how hard to work at cooling you down," she said. "The exact writing of that system is still being studied." We sweat, and as it evaporates, it carries heat away from the body, helping to regulate temperature.

Spice adds another layer. Capstan's: the compound that makes chile hot, activates a receptor in the body that also directs temperature increases. "Your body reacts to spicy food the same way it would react to something genuinely hot — by triggering a warm, sometimes burning sensation and kicking off your body's usual cooling response, like sweating," Ms. Jones said.

Above left, Nha Tan, the chef of Rishi Vietnamese Shop House and Rishi Ash Em is Rationals in. Above, hot hda-bi four soup. Left, scalding soup in the summer might not sound cooling, but the warmth itself is to clean the body, and the sweat and thirst is younger, driven hydration.

Daily Eastern health practices like drinking hot water in the morning have found new audiences on social media. But Genevieve Yass, a senior editor at Serious Eats who grew up in Hong Kong, doesn't need a tread to tell her this. An electric bottle is always on her hand's counter. "Hot water is cumbering," she said. "It feels like a warm bag," Whereas cold beverages "feel like a shock in the system." Hot soup is how a traditional Cantonese meal begins.

For Brandeis Tan, a 20-year-old fashioned man who is Ecuadorian and Burmese, hot soup was a fixture of his Queren childhood. "Britain every dinner, we would sit down and have a bowl of soup, no matter the season, every single day."

The food is a good food, and the delta Sharma, a culture writer, at all times. Having grown up in an Indian household in Naperville, Ill., she thought little of her own warm-weather soup consumption until her mid-20s. "I read only the order people stopped eating hot foods in the summer," said Ms. Sharma, 34. "That was crazy to me."

This Boxes a food stylist who grew up in Vietnam, recalls wondering the dits-wars and the fish that shouts in the summer, and returning with piping hot bowls of his ties, a clear pack have fresh with needles, shrimp and good eggs, her person! favorite.

Her mother followed the five elements of the food. The food was also balanced, followed the five energetic temperatures of food: cold, cold, natural, warm and hot. "A light broth is a good food, and nocookout cold, hot, even when served hot, because it counsels the spice of the chile." A hot, spicy soup would always be followed by something cooling, like a canned flavor fresh fruit.

The food is a good food, and a center of life in the East Village and Wessex in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, grew up in Taiwan, where he'd break out to night markets with his uncle and our system needle soup in the humid air. "I know," Jones himself, been something pretty magical about sweating your butt off with your friends and family while drinking hot broth in 100-degree weather," he said.

At Wessex, his best needle soup sales was $1.5 million, and the food was the trend to pull it from the menu during the pandemic, he received 10 complaints a day. "We're never doing that again."

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180,000, nearly 12 percent of the population. And the variety of culinary offerings across the city reflects the size and regional backgrounds of that community. The Mexican food scene here is booming, and Oklahoma City is hardly an outlier.

In the past 10 years or so, the population of people of Mexican descent in the United States grew nearly fivefold, from about 5.3 million to more than 20 million. And according to a Pew Research Center analysis in 2024, one out of 10 restaurants in the United States serves Mexican dishes, and about 85 percent of all counties have at least one Mexican restaurant.

That means a vast array of regional Mexican food can be found across the country, from the Gulf Coast to the Pacific Northwest. There are packed-star food scores in New Haven, Conn., Charlotte, N.C., and the Armourdale neighborhood of Kansas City, Kan.

Eleven Mexican restaurants in the United States received Michelin stars this year, including California to San Francisco, the only Mexican restaurant anywhere in the world to get three stars.

In just the past 15 years, the American palate has expanded well beyond canned plates and game-eight nucleic. Mexican food in America today is a dynamic cuisine all its own, created by Mexicans and Mexican Americans again from Mexico — and as American as any food.

But there is a quirky split-woven, best as Mexican food is flourishing in the United States, so are nativist politics. Latin Americans, including Mexicans and Mexican Americans working in hospitality, have been swept up in aggressive deprivation campaigns that have been a pillar of President Trump's second term.

The parades is not lost on Gantana Anclares, a columnist for The Los Angeles Times and the author of "Taco Ude: How Mexican Food Conquered America."

"Basically Mexican food now is where Italian food was in the '90s," Mr. Arellano said. "You had chefs showing people that there was all of this regional variety."

He pointed to her-to-lawn as an example. They are a staple in Zacatecas, where his parents are from, but he never saw them in restaurants, even in Southern California,

until the mid-1950s. Not long after that, he came across a list of the best places to find them in Boston, not historically a festival of Mexican culture. "I could never have imagined a day where such a regional specialty would become not just ubiquitous, but a cliché," Mr. Arellano said.

"From the moment Americans taxed Mexican food, they have never wanted to move on from it," he said. At the same time, he added, "You have the continuation of Mexican immigration into this country, but also the spread of Mexican people to where they were not before. Where there are more Mexicans, you are going to see a backlash. History has taught us this."

'We Want to Be Ourselves'

The story of Mexican food in the United States really began with the American annexations of the Mexican territory that became much of the U.S. Southwest. In his book, Mr. Arellano chronicled the rise, starting in the 1800s, of Mexican purveyors like the Chili Quenito of San Antonio and sumple wagons in Los Angeles. In the decades that followed, Mexican American cuisine evolved in came to the brief lunch breaks of blue-collar crowds.

Entrepreneurs of Mexican descent began to serve generous, one-plate, multivacow meals — wet burritos, stuffed supapillas and cheesy enchiladas. By the 1960s, Mexican food was widespread, the margarita emerged as one of America's most beloved cocktails and American corporations like Frito-Lay and Paco Picante made tortilla chips and salsa ubiquitous.

In the 1960s and '80s, Gaussian immigrants went to California to work in great numbers. Most were Indigenous, and they formed a large population and culture of transnational people known as Uniscarcabanita. Lugyr's, Casa Gish Bac and Comedor Torchita are just a few examples of restaurants that carry on the legacy of Mexican immigrants who helped make males, thyrides and garralla famous in the United States.

This sharing of Indigenous traditions and stories through food also set an example for other Mexican immigrants to showcase dishes from their own regions, he is passionate to ex-placeres in New York, cheerleader in Campion or her-to-while Aquaricademe in Oklahoma City.

Above, a sampling of the food, drink and ambience at Nishi Toguerio restaurant in Austin, Texas. Below, Salvador Alamilla, who opened Amano in Caldwell, Idaho, after moving his family from Santa Ana, Calif., in search of a more affordable cost of living.

Today, there are thousands of Mexican restaurants in Los Angeles, where the cost of living is among the highest in the nation. So, like many other Americans, Mexican immigrants and their descendants have looked elsewhere for work and more affordable housing.

That's what brought Salvador Alamilla's family to Idaho. Mr. Alamilla started cooking at a Yes-Men restaurant in Boise called On the Border — "Avocado trim, sausage, every fried thing that you can think of" — working his way up from dishwasher to several cooking positions.

When he opened his own restaurant,

Amano, in Caldwell, Idaho, Mr. Alamilla wanted to have to the foods his family used to make in McDonalds, in southwest Mexico. That meant short ribs, and lamb shanks roasted for 12 or more hours in an underground even like the one his grandfather used. The distinctive wood-smoke flavors of the region are married to a depth of spice, "the way we grew up eating." He's even slow roasting papayas and guavas for a smoky, fruity cocktail.

The move was a bit of a gamble. "Because we are not in the L.A. Arts District, we didn't start off with that ready audience," said Mr. Alamilla, the restaurant's chef and co-owner. "But over the years, I brought the community along with us on our ride."

Turning diners on to each regional specifics would have been difficult for Mexican chefs a generation ago, particularly in Idaho, he said.

"There was different pressures to try to assimilate, because the food that they were eating in the back was probably different than the food they were serving," he said. "But for us, as their kids, because we grew up here, maybe we've been a little bit more privileged, we feel like we can be ourselves more, or at least we want to be ourselves."

The tensions of the political moment wrought on Mr. Alamilla, whose parents brought him to the United States as a 5-year-old using another child's papers. He did not become a documented permanent resident until high school. In a town the size of Caldwell, he said, it's not hard to know your neighbor's views. He sometimes looks out at the dining room and sees people who he knows support the U.S. deportation campaign.

"It gives me a lot of sadness," he said, "that the same people who want our people to be deported are the same people that are enjoying a shin colorado."

'Brown Excellence'

At 7:30 on an overcast Sunday evening in March, the line was 40 deep at El Valcancho, one of the busiest taxes at parlor stands in East Charlotte, N.C. The stand is near the impressive Pulga Rodeo, a Mexican film market teeming with regional cuisine, including Mexico City-style goosebills at Los Machores and swamp ice cream at Don Ruby.

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roasting pork, the toquers Daniel Gonzalez said he honed his craft in Los Angeles's competitive street-food scene as a chain of tacos at punter vendors that are among the best in Southern California. "I was at La Giarra out there in Los Angeles," said Mr. Gonzalez, smiling with pride as he turned the trumps to cook his reward of marinated pork.

As Mr. Gonzalez flicked small chunks of pineapple from atop the vertical spit and caught them on corn tortillas lined with strips of freshly carved pork, a woman in line exclaimed that they were just like the ones in Los Angeles, a sentiment echoed by many on TikTok.

Crowding around the salsa bar and budding onto patches of grass to eat tacos standing up, locals debate whether Charlotte's best of punter is at El Valcancho, El Nazareno, Tacho El Reglo, Canque Tacho or La Cumbre. But the fact that there is such a debate — is a county that had fewer than 7,000 Hispanic residents, according to the 1990 census — with much of the story. Today that population is around 60,000.

Maria Hernández, who owns El Valcancho, said she did not mind the healthy competition. In the local at punter scene, "it set safe para todos," she said — "the sun shines for everyone."

The budding culinary renaissance has re-consected many Mexican American chefs with their home country's cuisine. Gustave Romero built his career cooking Italian after immigrating to the United States as a teenager from Hidalgo, Mexico. The first time he cooked Mexican food professionally was in 2017, in Calaveras, a Ousucan restaurant in Oakland, Calif.

"I understand more about myself through the process," he said.

The experience led Mr. Romero to start Nixon Terribles, and this wife, Ram, in Minneapolis, in 2020. One by Nixon, a full-service restaurant, followed three years later. Customers come from across the metro area to visit the side-by-side storefronts in northeast Minneapolis, both fueled by Mr. Romero's passion for heirloom Mexican corn.

"We started treating the tortilla the way you treat a baguette," Mr. Romero said.

Carlos Salgado helped create the range of American chefs learning to minimalize heirloom Mexican corn to make tortillas in the traditional, labor-intensive way in his 10

years cooking at Taco Maria, in Orange County, Calif. The chef and his wife, Emile Coalsan Salgado, closed the Michelin-starved restaurant in 2023, and moved to Ms. Salgado's native Door County, Wis.

La Sierra, their new restaurant, is finishing its second summer in Ephraim, population roughly 400. Wind blew in off nearby

Eagle Harbor in late May, as diners filled the 22-seat restaurant for the evening's featured dish: arrachera con mole negro, made with Wisconsin Wagyu and served with warm heirloom corn tortillas.

Door County, where the Hispanic and Latino population is around 4 percent, is a long way from Southern California. But Mr. Sal-

Left, Taqueria Elomi, on the west side of El Paso, is a new standout in a city of exceptional expertise. Bottom, dishes at Lugya's, in the Mayden Market in Los Angeles, where the restaurant carries on the legacy of Ousucan immigrants who helped make moles, daycakes and guerrilla factions in the United States.

'Basically Mexican food now is where Italian food was in the '90s.'

gado said he was as inspired as he ever had been to cook world-class Mexican food.

"It's not an exaggeration to say that we wanted nothing less than to substantiate this example of brown excellence in a place that maybe hadn't seen it before," he said. "Kind of like Taco Maria did 15 years ago."

'One Perfect Dish'

If rural Wisconsin and East Charlotte seem like unexpected places for remarkable Mexican food, until fairly recently New York City may have been just an surprising. But today, the well-worn line that "there is no good Mexican food in New York" says more about the speaker than the city.

"Before, you would see these large menus with rectification, burrاس, tartan, tacos and all of that," said Tania Apolinar, a co-owner of Caratán Ramírez in the East Village. Now one perfect dish is plenty; whether it's her own caratán from Michoacán, Bear tortillas from Sonora at Border Town or chalo-pas from Puebla Chalo-pas Peñaluna El Tiñuelo.

One of the more vibrant concentrations is at Sunset Park Plaza, a makeshift mercado that on weekends occupies a vacant parking lot in southwestern Brooklyn. Sonia Cortés started the Sunset Park Plaza in 2020, after another outdoor market in the neighborhood was dismantled by local officials. Ms. Cortés, an organizer, was selling people from a producer when police restrictions forced her to pivot.

In 2024, Ms. Cortés and other vendors rented the space, where they now operate under stored stalls, rain or shine. "Why not create a safe space where vendors could work, support their families and share their culture without having to worry about being moved from the streets?" Ms. Cortés said.

The market is now home to 18 vendors, each with a different specialty. One equal offers mammoth-laden placeres, spilling over with rice, beans and chiles reflexes. Another toasts Ousucan Daycakes over an un-provided grill in wire fish baskets. It's a cross section of Mexican cooking that exists nowhere else in the city, where everyone sips home-bewe topache, a pre-criminal pineapple beverage served from coolers with a heavy lathe.

"It's like having a little piece of Mexico," Ms. Cortés said.

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Great Mexican Cooking Exists All Over the U.S.

There has never been a better time for Mexican food in the United States.

For more than a year, our team of reporters, editors and photographers have traveled the country in search of our favorites. This list is not an attempt to rank the best Mexican restaurants. It is, rather, a mosaic of great places to eat, from food trucks to corner restaurants to tasting menu counters. We hope it tells an expansive story about Mexican cooking in America today — a dynamic cuisine all its own, and as American as any food.

NEW ORLEANS

ACAMAYA

Ana Castro, who owns Acamaya with her sister, Lydia, folds pristine local craft together with col- lard greens and checkpoints (musa dumplings): slips sweet, cheese-crusted shrimp into contra tacos; and serves Mackened drum Veracruz-style, in a store of tomatoes and olives. This is not a fewest hybridization of New Orleans and Mexican cuisine. It's the work of a gifted chef cooking what she knows, using the most attractive ingredients available — which, in Southeast Louisiana, means seafood from the Gulf of Mexico. Acamaya, open- just two years, is one of New Orleans's best restaurants. And the Castro sisters now have a sister restaurant. Castaños, a Mexican breakfast and lunch spot that opened a few blocks away in the spring. BRITT ANDERSON

OKLAHOMA CITY

LA AVEA/ALALENTES MERCADO DE CARNES

A pair of robiolar Mexican markets booked the vibrant Mexican food scene that runs along La 29 in Oklahoma City, a shopping hub for local Central Americans and Mexicans, especially those from Aguascalientes, one of the smaller states in Mex- ica. Inside the store, overfilled aisles of sundries are encircled by a vibrant panadería case, a car- nicerita, a window for check cooking and money transfers, and a kitchen behind steamer trays of Mexican stews. The most covered item comes out of a small commercial oven that produces fresh hives, the Aguascalientes-uits-coil and traditional vehicle for the main sandwich, tarts de al- babil. The market's fresh versions are old open on one end and stuffed with a ham cold cut, pickled jalapeño and crema Mexicana until it looks out the opening — a little taste of home for the city's Hidescalidos. BILL ESPAÑEA

NASHVILLE

ALEXANDRIA

Edgar Victoria's career was actually jump-started after he was laid off. Adolescents in what led him to build a local following cooking at restaurants stands, pop-ups and food trucks. The chef became easier to find last year, after opening Alethea, his first brick-and-mortar restaurant. Mr. Victoria uses luncheon corn for the restaurant's homemade tamales, biscuits, tope and tortillas that are foundational to the street food in his native Mexico City. His outstanding restaurant on the second floor of an East Nashville strip mall is one of the Southeast's best capacities. BRITT ANDERSON

DENVER

ALMA FONDA FINA

By the time you finish reading this sentence, Johnny Turist may well have opened another restaurant. On a several-year hot streak that many chefs can only dream of, he started with this pecker-size ode to the fondas his family runs in Guadalajara. Instead for his mother, Alma, the restaurant is refined, contemporary and deeply satisfying. Teasing into dishes like duck carntara and the agave-roasted sweet potato-borne you feeling both impressed and welcomed by Mr. Cur- rist. This year, he opened Milpero, a 30-year taoi- ing-menu restaurant, a further sign of his belief in the power and potential of Mexican cuisine. BRISH GALLAGHER

PHILADELPHIA

AMA

Al Atek, slips and salsa aren't a humble starter. Broad, crackling wooden roads with luncheon corn arrives with its salsa-chaveng or blavery from across Mexico. She Bojot's creamy smoked-cashew salsa or a finer burned-bakewow salsa sagoa from the Yucatán. The chef Frankie Ramirez left Mexico City for Philadelphia at 10 and spent two decades in other chefs' kitchens before opening Atek in 2025. While Mexican restaurants have been long been illiquid by Padilla, the whole state of many local families, Mr. Ramirez offers a broad taste of the country's extraordinary regional variety. There's coal-blistered Gusacao (tayada), full-sport Jalisco-style lamb neck birria with brick and con- sonol, and, inspired by the Pacific Coast, a whole octopus charred over a custom wood-fired grill. RIEGUS STEPHENSON

GRO BY NATH

BARBACDA MEJIA

M TOCHA ANTILEÑA

MARY AND TOY'S CAFE

LUDWIG

CALDWELL, IDAHO

AMANO

The chef Salvador Alamillo, who owns the restaurant with his wife, Rebecca, is from Michoacán by way of Santa Ana, Calif. She brings the spirit of both places to the menu. The tortillas are made in-house with the indigenous technique of immunization, and in a mid to Southern California, the L.A. birria team have a particularly rich comment. But the music that emerge from the depths of the oak-fired harbacea pits outside are Mr. Alamillo's Michoacan magic. The smoke and spice on their ribs or lamb shanks and belly are worth a dinner to the Idaho prairie. BRISH GALLAGHER

SALISBURTON

AMPARO FONDIYA

Born in Chihuahua, Mexico, and raised in El Paso, trainee Christian/prison Amparo Fondiya has with his patanely eye and impressive command of Mexico's vast palette of flavors and recipes. Sav- very-sweet male maschamanettes cover some- lation filled with turkey punched in duck fat. Sopeches arrive disassembled on a platter rimmed with things, including fresh-fried blue corn maza calico to flavorful, tender and warm you'll be tempted to eat them alone, like breakfast biscuits. While Mr. Christian's kitchen operates at the cor- ting edge, his convivial restaurant functions as a place to drag into for a restorative bowl of brick- red poude, or a round of margaritas and quero- fries, which the menu helpfully describes as Gusa- can choose cards. BRITT ANDERSON

PHOENIX

BACANORA

The enticing wait of burning menopite will coax- yes in the door at this small-hot-mighty Sonoran smallhouse. If you're lucky, you can follow it all the way to the seat at the end of the bar closest to the grill, where you can watch the chef René Andrade commute with the coals. Not surprisingly, the bone-in free York strip and rib-eye are the stars of the short menu, but the skill and smoke make their way into every dish, so don't neglect the grilled chicken or especially the unheard slate with spicy lime crema. BRISH GALLAGHER

RICHMOND, CALIF.

BARBACDA MEJIA

Oscar Mejia comes from a proud family of barba- oryons, and just like many of his fellow Bay Area construction workers from Mexico, he has many

talents. As more construction workers from his native state, Hidalgo, arrived in the area, he began to sell harbacea on the weekends at the Richmond Pidge, a hooking swap-men. Mr. Mejia's family recipes include tender pit-roasted lamb, delicious comment and regional salasa such as a salsa verde that includes nationwide (prickly pear), and chinchilla (gallon). The best day to go is on Sun- day, when he also serves panetta kiosca, a rare offal dish, and occasionally, smoke, a whole spatch- cashed chicken wrapped in magma leaves that's slathered in a table and covered with pork rinds and supplies before the package is lowered into the pit. It's a dish from Acropita, Hidalgo, that's found a home in the Bay Area. BILL ESPAÑEA

CHICAGO

BIRRIERNA OCOTLAN

Carrying a recipe that goes back generations in Ocotlán, Jalisco, Roman Boyco opened this classic birrieria in 1873. Today, it is run by his son, Andres Boyco, and the cafeteria-style salino and chairs still surround an elevated counter where the taquerit prepares orders. And the menu has not changed — it's just even-roasted goat and well- seasoned comment served with corn tortillas and condiments. It wasn't a compromise to add crowd- pleasing specialties, the only innovation ever decades for a taquerit that has consistently given Chicago a birrieria that's like visiting a mercado in Jalisco. BILL ESPAÑEA

TUCSON, ARIZ

RK CARNE ASADA & HOT DOGS

In Arizona, the separate specialties of Sonora carne asada and Sonoran hot dogs are both under the same rod. Opened in 1994 by Benjamin and Karol Calau from Tucson, Sonora, the festive pub-style restaurant complete with wood furnishing—often menopite-grilled carne asada, and can- name in other asada with melted cheeses, both served in flour tortillas. The loaded Sonoran hot dog comes in a sweet loaf that's tapped with beans, grilled onions, diced tomatoes and fresh onions, and mustard, mayonnaise and a homemade jal- apelo salsa. There's even a traditional caldo de queso at the Sonoran-style taquerits that's made in America. BILL ESPAÑEA

SEDDIN, TEXAS

BURNY BEAN COMPANY

Burnt Bean's Texas barbecue is outstanding. The lines attest to that, as do the accolades, including being named the state's best barbecue joint by Texas Monthly in 2025. It's also accurate to say the restaurant simply serves the food of South Texas. Ernest Servantes, Burnt Bean's co-pitmaster and co-owner (along with David Kirkland), grew up in Uvalde eating barbecue with guacamole, pico de gallo and tortillas. You'll find all of that at Burnt Bean, along with specials like tortilla soup and, on weekends, a brunch roster of pomada, barbacoa tacos and brisket-barron rancheros. You could call it Tco-Mex barbecue, but it's just how barbecue is eaten in a state whose Mexican border is more than 1,200 miles long. BRITT ANDERSON

SAN FRANCISCO

CALIFORNIA

The chef Val Cantú and his team fashion mesmerizing 'aha' moments with each plate on the tasting menu here, while still keeping both with the Mexi- can dishes they refer to. The creviche is made with Monterey Bay abidans and accompanied in in shell with kamba and a shaved ice made from fermented carrot juice. The fish race is served on a david-salt sourdough tortilla that wraps around a perfectly battered and fried piece of local black cod, and tapped with hutilacoche and corn crema. Each of the doors or so courses manages such virtuosity in its own way. There is a mosaic (as many, in fact) that California is the only Mexican restaurant in the world to hold three Nicholas stars. BRISH GALLAGHER

SPRINGDALE, AYK

CARNITKA LOS CUERPO HERNANOS

Ricardo Pulso began serving tacos one day a week at his family's boulder shop, which opened in 1996. The frequency increased as diners learned that Mr. Pulso was nearly as handy with a grill so he is with a boulder's knife. He still makes chorizo, carnitas and an array of dischargers from the pigs he breaks down every week, drawing an skills he learned from Mexican boulders while growing up in Chicago. The modest Arkansas storefront is a longtime source of sustenance and salino for local Latinos and, in more recent years, Marshallese, draws to northwest Arkansas for jobs at local chicken processors, Carolina are Hermanos's best seller and Mr. Pulso's specialty. But he will cook tacos with whatever you fancy — including prime sirloin and house-cured cocina — from the butch- or's case. BRITT ANDERSON

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NEW YORK CITY

CARNITAS RANIREZ

No restaurant are the Eastern Seaboard offers carnitas in an many variations as Carolina Rantelez in the East and the Manhattan, Texas, Smoklers, known and new. All end up in the building copper roadlines, or cars, along with slippery ribbons of skin, crunchy ears and crumbles of brain destined by通知 since taxes. Knowing a little Spanish helps, since ordering happens at the steam table and all cars are found by their traditional names. The difference between various and matrix? There's no better place to find out. LIVE FACTORY

NEW YORK CITY

CHALUPRAI POBLANAS EL TLECHILE

Weekend nights, Turkish Judaism Rantelez commands a patch of sidewalk in Corona, just at a stretch of Queens that is home to the largest concentration of New Yorkers of Mexican descent. Her simple songs a sound the rise of a satellite dish over a breeze. In goes a scoop of luck, then night core tortillas, lunned out and briskly dressed with onions, salads rage and wicks, and rugged strips of beef. For 80 you get the whole racks, warm and supple, to be chased by cafe de dish from a terra-cotta mug. Never swollen food uncertain here, and Mr. Rantelez has had to shift around the neighbor-hood a number of times, even briefly running a nighttime. Underwent, she keeps going. LEARN MERRY

SANTA FE, N.M.

EL CHILE TORLEADO

Santa Fe is not short any arch preparations. But the carnitas, addicted and at poorer coming out of this unassuming heel truck are particularly noteworthy. A minor time place is a panel way to cut through the city's streets. The crowd (or others!) that the accompanying historical jalapeños have not succumbed to the broad edsilling of these older elsewhere. The Luis Mix breakfast service is a superlative version of the town. Stuffed with cherries, tacos, Polish sausage, yags, petans, cheese and green chilis, it's an ideal meal for you ... and your whole family. BROW COLLADIVE

DEDREY

LA MARCA PODGE Y MEDCAL

The chef And Avila, a native of Mexico City, is a savant when it comes to the fortifying industry soup in the restaurant's name. The people wagon, in particular, is a formidable sight - it's an all-come-shore in the way the wealth goes usage are. Do not describe the village, though, a whole genre of mews and breezes, which can be ordered as tacos or coziras (hastically doks of gristified cheese that play the role of tortillas). The menu has a slate of more than a dozen, but the heartbreakings, not soup per with pineapple butter and citrus juice, is hard to begin. BROW COLLADIVE

NEW HAVEN CORN

FOOD TRICK PARADISE

The view from the northbound lanes of Interstate 89 goes from found to spectacular as you cannot around City Point and row down food trucks come into view. The first workers is a double day month of Longs Wharf Drive, later named Food Truck Paradise by city officials, with American hot dogs and flowers. These days, they are seriously outnumbered by roaming trucks grilling Puerto Rican groceries and auto-roaded brick shingles. The flags of their home countries flagging in the city, often known. Termed out behinds are a specialty of ... well, everyone. Take your pick from mango-nabia, avocado-salteless and Merley Temple up to broccoli, then grab a seat along the waterfront as traffic rushes by. LIVE FACTORY

SAN ANTONIO

GARCIA'S MEXICAN FOOD

Garcia's has been a family affair since Julie and Yolanda Garcia opened it in 1992, along with Julart parents, Guadalupe and Nicolaas. The restaurant moved across the street in 1976, to a narrow property that used to hold a cell or diare, which seems apt. In the hands of the founders I children - John, who are 18 years old Julie. It - Garcia's is what an idealized American door looks like in this part of the country: household values, various instead of toast and pions of nourishing food or prices that might even be more common vish several times a day. Mexican No. 1, a regular favorite, brings together two worldwide, one pretty-mouthend tamish, rice, beans and a crispy taco for $13.99. The 85-oz restaurant is also something of a pioneer. While only value is as primaries, Garcia's has been serving house-ordered brisket wrapped in tortillas for over 20 years. BRET CHURCH

CHINESE

CHINESE SANTIAGO

Chicago is a gordian town. You can find amazing variations from Agasuscalientes, Zastavicos and Ternango. But the area at this beloved family remains the same as the morning movies of brick wall panels and decorators ceiling tiles. The staff checks in skins, and your gordian arrive fast. Regional Mexican mews like chicharche prensado come to your choice of end or green values, as de-dendrenhas (cleveland beef) and asads. Cordillas filled with smoke (like peaches and spens, or occlusive sauces), stretched belt, are just some of the more than 30 fillings on the menu that bring a little bit of the Ternango city of Santiago No. paupatus to the Midwest. BILL EDWARD

HOUSTON

HOOD'S

Hugely opened in 2010, 18 years after the chef and co-owner, Hugo Urregu, arrived in Texas as a manager. Huggled his, butcher V. Archer, a member of the Antonio and ultimately landed in Houston, where he got a job as a dishwasher as a restaurant owned by Tracy Vaught, now his wife and business partner. (He has since become a naturalized citizen). Hugely, the couple's first restaurant together, introduced Houston to regionally distinctive cuisine that was more expansive and refined than what Texaco does widely understand as "nervous Mexican" (and "nervous" into a fine dining bar in the cradle of Tim Mex, Hugely still insures longtime singles like bananas had wrapped ciderbs, grilled octopus and sauteed chapelines, not to mention merode and Mexican wine. Today, the restaurant's mostly Mexican employees provide warm, white-sinkedish service - "You'll bring you a stand for your variety too, but that's - no regulars in rhinestones and families marking milestones. BRET CHURCH

PORTLAND ONE

ETIKHKA

The tortoies here have their fans, and like everything on the menu they are certainly a worthy order. But the chef Manna Caponi's Texotronan spends the same way to go. The palacetes and saftones are great topped with any of the options, but the card莉莉, stills, always take-round pork, should be the first more. The riffone negro and merode soaps aren't always available, but if they are, make sure to get both. Manna' small pines are a cliché at a certain kind of restaurant, but here they are truly the best way to try as much of the menu as possible. BROW COLLADIVE

LOS ANGELES

LUQUE N

Alfonso Martinez started Pewfork Thyraba outside the offices of the Chancery-Andrejapones on Lubruga with a vision for Guazanz feed and community in Los Angeles. His own place is one of the highlights inside Mayden Market, where the dinner menu has got to be repeated with entreaties, turkey in male and traditional black bean tamates. But you can't know without trying the message, the recipe and technique of the delicate and delicious blend sausage, flocked with onion, yerba beans and dried chilis, has been passed down like a family heirloom, and it really is a local treasure. PLAN AVE

PHOENIX

MARIACOS EL PROFE

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LOS ANGELES

MARIACOS JILESCO

Acronc the United States, the cuisine of small-own Mexico has made its mark, but perhaps most non-fly with what had already during some have done for San Juan de Los Lagos, Jalisco. Mr. Urregu's white taco truck has been parked along Olympic Boulevard in the Bayre Heights neighborhood in the Alaska. From there, the legend of this taco has spread. Originally a Lemon dish of shrimp, it's deep fruit made a corn tortilla and finished with a tomato sauce mixed with raw cabbage. The oats is poured over and a spoon-out avocado skin crosses the taco. When visitors ask where to go if they can let only one supper in Los Angeles, Marison Jalisco is the answer. BILL EDWARD

ALBUQUERQUE

MART AND TITO'S CAFE

This is New Mexico, so naturally red and green chile are on offer at this down-bone cape, which opened in 1983 - and both are exemplary. But the tacoe admires, as even more specific specialty of the state, is the most-order. Stripe of pork are marinated then baked out and dink sauce, and the tender is a lovely spicy and family- regard at perfect preparation. The dish comes in various locations - worldwide,taukeed-up and swollen among them - but the turnover made with Cheddar and a Shell-Bass tortilla is the best for. If more meat is needed, the New Mexico-style chichar-roses are the safest fatty pork cakes of your dreams. BROW COLLADIVE

LOS ANGELES

MERCADO LA PALOMA

The first thing you notice is the line out the door, which is for Gilberto Cirino's extraordinary passion as the "dinner taco" are. I'm sorry to report that these agasacities and tomatoes are worth the wait, as in a new routine for the tasting season. But this learning, which focuses on health Los Angeles, a development project of the Esperanza Community Housing Corporation, is home to a half-dozen interconnected restaurants and an unreasonable amount of talent, hospitality and sheer deliciousness that draw happiness from every walk of life. Patena Juárez back a vision for Kenne, which is

both a neighborhood makes, grinding heirloom cars out there. Even Mexico to make fresh vases, and a kitchen that specializes in snacky samples and carefully collected saloon made with both great ingredients and freezer. PLAN AVE

CHICAGO

MI TOCAYA ANTOERÍA

For most of living memory, Midwest Mexican has been a suppression for Mexican beef prepared by and yet what Midwestese Texaco chinas can deem the final narrative. Lengua is present value was one of the first best in the menu at Mt Toscay, which she opened in 2012, an early signal that the chef relished challenging her audience. Ms. Ghelala career began in her parents' suburban Chicago supercis and lifted off after attending Tucson Trilling's Season of My Heart College School in Mexico. Disturbing that experience, she continues to become a first cheerful, aspiring-thinking atmosphere in the Midwest's most Mexican city. BRET CHURCH

PORTLAND ONE

MIX TOCOSCO

When Rob Burbados and Carlos Reyrosa, partners and native happiness, opened their pop-up, they made it their mission to serve down-bone East Los Angeles. Biscuit and at the other time, the other lifestyle in the Pacific Northwest. Now a vibrant restaurant full of Chinese tomography in a rainbow of paints. Mix Tocosco serves remarkable Mexican beef that happens to be vague. It's almost inexplicable how delicious dishes like the nachos topped with at power setups, cashew crisps and veggies are the most popular. The other golden-chimic莜sigma called la China is served with evident pride and attention. BILL EDWARD

AUSTIN TEXAS

NUTTS TAQUERIA

Edgar Rico and Sara Mardanelley's supperia is like no other that you'll find in this taco packed town. There is this season in the salsa creek, and forhake down the tuna swindes. The shield card is inspired by the bananas dessert Mr. Mardanelley grew up eating, blended with cinnamon of this seven out-lecter from Mr. Rico's Mexican American childhood. Status is justifiably known for his tortillas - Mr. Rico makes mass using heirloom corn and mini-multivates. The river-rumpes-only tearing menu, served by Sunday through Saturday, further shows cases the couple's roaming creativity and ambition. But most of the time Nuts remains what it always has been: a counter supperia of the utmost excellence. JOHN HUGHN

OBO BY NUTTS

Gustavo Romero is from Mexico, but established himself as a fast-tasting Italian cuisine in Texas, Chicago and the Bay Area. He started cooking Mexican beef after following Kato. In with and business partner, to Minneapolis. The Rosterers stand the bar for quality Mexican cuticle locally with the tortillaria they opened during the pandemic, serving about off an already heard on the sidewalk. Oro by Nuts, which opened in 2010, allments like pygami considerably. Mr. Romero channels the passion for uncongested hardware core into a micro-focused menu fleshed out with brushed and roasted steaks, to ensure produce and an impressive array of notes and solace. The ambitious but unpretentious restaurant is one of the reasons Northeast Minneapolis is among the country's most alluring neighborhood for dining. BRET CHURCH

KANSAS CITY KAN

EL POLO REY

The Arescentide neighborhood became one of the Midwest's foundational Mexican American communities in the early 20th century, when Americans were drawn to the abundant resequating and railroad jars along the Kansas River. A visit to the area is accomplished without pain at El Pido Rey. The title is Kansas City harf학과 meets Northwestern Mexico. The center of synchronized, Sinaloa-style chicken, drifting off the restaurant's bakery would help gifts, lets you before you walk in. The chicken is served with taco flutego: tortillas, packed onions, churn tacos, fresh salsa. You can order a half or whole bird. And you will want some of the many, full-strapped Buffalo wings, the only other thing on the menu. BRET CHURCH

EPMANIA WIS

LA SIRETRA

Eagle Harber is a short walk from the doorway of La Sirvata. Peninsula State Park is in the distance, and the movement of Lake Michigan leaves in the mist. That splendor is core to the appeal of the restaurant's active Salgado and Estelle Cashew. Santa Fe is a great place after moving to Estelle's hometown. Ephesus (population roughly 400) is far from Oregon County, USA, where the couple ran the trailblazing Taza Marla. That restaurant's often is mentioned at La Sirvata most vividly in this summer, when tortoise peaks along with a local harvest old of sweet corn and sour cherries, rancid and crab, and all long-timed and sailing menu with premium ingredients from Mr. Salgado's native Mexico, including harbones corn. For this 25-cent restaurant is open year-round. Locals by now have to be on the bottom for Mr. Salgado's exemplary Caesar salad, because the menu changes with the season, just as Ephesus does. BRET CHURCH

NEW YORK CITY

SUNSET PARK PLAZA

Beyond the Belt Parkway overguns, in the industrial spread of southwest Brooklyn, more than a few miles from western ugonor into a vacant parking lot, transformed by it into Sunset Park Plaza. There's music, custom of home there: Apache (made from fermented pineapple rinds) and never enough batting chairs. Everything is glaciously improvised. The issue-delivered Onacaca thymus are roasted over charcoal in fish baskets. The crimson soaked cocktails arrive in desired plastic double-ups, and it's impossible to try everything as new ones. Personalized every weekend, the plaza roars back to Mr. JUNE PARTNER

CHARLOTTE, N.C.

TROSS EL VOLCANOTO

Amazing tacos at poorer might be recognized in Charlton, N.C., but the gifted Indigenous Missi tapanes know no borders. Maria Hernández, the owner, recruits the tapanes from Onacaca and Los Angeles, has been a great source of time and stand-jerk delved from an impressive, regularly orange-ones roasted corn tortillas. A long fast-fierish before opening. A Latino crowd that includes Conrad and Smith Americans, along with Mexicans from different states, comes together at the salsa bar to dress their vases, excited that a tapan's "put down city" have in Los Angeles' is now easy to find in Charlton. BILL EDWARD

EL PASO

TAQUERIA ELDNI

This strip-mid tapan's - the sophomore effort of the owners' Emiliano and Kristal Marciens, who own the acclaimed restaurant Elzmi - opened quietly this past winter, but its tacos came out always, but the taco was a very nice, but it's not a very nice taco in 1990. The standout is the of power, whose pork is sliced with gently frozen to give it an even thickness, then arranged on the trompe as that the tips get crunchy and unmentated, but the most mays play and delved with fat. The tortillas, elso-toe and harden-dies, are never more than a few hours off the comat, and the bracing satina taste like they're made with the same exacting attention to dread. El Paso has long been one of the country's great taco tacos. Elzmi chews there's always room for more excitement. JOHN HUGHN

CENTA

TURFINA TAQUERIA

Diego, kanoan opened Tucson Tuxpan Tuxpan's, named for the Midwest's own when he was here, in 2010 with his mother, Maria, the restaurant's chef. They serve standard tacos, gorditas and, in the early summer, fried quercidiles filled with squash blossoms. But you can't visit without ordering a sandwich. The house signature is a drippily distinctive dishes following the crowd with chileapples to order. It's served with a slice of bacon on top, and the best is a locally baked Portuguese roll. All are present in the Mexican American sandwiches in this historically working-class, majority Latino American New England news. BRET CHURCH

OCEANSIDE, CALIF.

VALLE

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DETROIT

VECINO

Vectas opened two years ago in Midtown Detroit, but its roots ran in the city's working class south-west, also known as Mexicantown. That's where various diseases, a co-owner, spent much of her childhood, and a number of restaurances which he visited in Mexico City in the 1980s. Mr. Jimenez didn't return to the city of her birth until adulthood after the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program made her a permanent legal resident of the United States. Edgar Pierce, a former chef de cuisine at Alona, is Chicago, was recruited in living Vectas into conversations with the modern cuisine that has learned in Mexico City since Mr. Jimenez already left. The results of the study, which stopped painted with veiled and raps satina, any motion conflict with secret kings, because old and pumpkin seed salsa - carry the thrill of what Mr. Jimenez discovered when she finally returned a valuable inheritance she didn't know she had. BRET CHURCH

LAS VEGAS

EL TAQUIERTO

In Las Vegas, it's not unusual to sit in the blazing out on a large covered beach, sitting over-the-top soaked tostadas stacked with high-sed shellfish, and resurgence full of seafood snacks. What are: Jorge Dillro's trailer open is a morning specialty: restaurants, or category soup. Many licences newspapers have relocated to the City, a dozen beach that both a lot like back home. Mr. Dillro's obituaries in Mexico's soup; and comes with springy shrimp and rich tuna for that and layers of fatty flavors. It turns like a Sunday in Capital Obregón, where Mr. Dillro was born. BILL EDWARD

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Simple Tips to Level Up Summer Favorites

By ALA SLAGLE

It's practically impossible to turn up your nose at boiled sweet corn, juicy tomato slices and salted, grilled chicken slathered in barbecue sauce. These are all pure fleeting pleasures to soak up fully while they're here.

To squeeze even more joy from these summertime treats, consider these small, simple switch-ups — unexpected pairings or preparations that can recapture some of that initial giddiness. Here are 11 suggestions to make every bite feel like the first all summer long.

JOE CREAM

Drizzle Olive Oil

A thin drizzle of olive oil (the more flavorful, the better) on a few scoops adds a chees and idleness — a little luxury. While vanilla in a natural choice, olive oil is also delicious on coffee, hazelnut or strawberry ice cream or gelato. Crunchy flaky salt isn't a bad idea, either.

NOT DOGS

Grill Parallel to the Grates

The default is to arrange hot dogs perpendicular to the grates, yielding nearby grill marks that carry less flavor (becoming is flavor!) and leave much of the dog side — not to mention letting them roll around. Avoid these problems by rotating the dogs 90 degrees and arranging them parallel to the grates. The grates make long grill marks down the whole length of the dog and act like a sling to keep it in place. Retain every so often until the whole thing is sizzled crisp. (The same logic applies to grilled corn.)

STRAWBERRIES

Sprinkle With Black Pepper

Corn with rosemary, peaches with fish sauce, watermelon with feta and new strawberries with black pepper. You may have caught onto a central theme to making the most of the season: Push sweet produce savory.

A few grinds of black pepper can electrify sliced strawberries without overwhelming them. The bit of spice is not unlike adding Tajib to mango: the fruit's sweetness comes alive. It jumps and bounces.

MICHAEL HANKEEER THE NEW YORK TIMES FOOD STYLIST BARNETT HAMBURGER

BARBECUE SAUCE

Use It for Salad Dressing

Barbecue sauce, whole, salad and sweetness can take a leaf from simple to deeply satisfying. This and brighten any barbecue sauce with lime juice, and then use it to dress a salad of sturdy and crunchy greens like kale and romaine, grilled vegetables, roasted potatoes, beans and more. If your sauce is particularly vinegary, use less lime juice; if it's particularly sweet or thick, adjust with more.

JAMES HENRY HENRY THE NEW YORK TIMES FOOD STYLIST BARNETT HAMBURGER

ZUCCHINI

Cook It Way Past Done

Zucchini isn't fussy. It can be sliced, diced, grated, seasoned boldly, eaten raw — it's easy. A prime example of its laid-back nature is how you can (and should) overcook it. With high heat and copious olive oil, on the stewtop or in the oven, zucchini will release its flavorless water, sizde and caramelize. Not only can it take the heat, zucchini also improves because of it, growing sweet and silky.

WATERMELON

Pair It With Whipped Feta

Any longstanding relationship benefits from switching up routine. In the case of the Mediterranean pairing of watermelon and feta, that could mean whipping the feta with yogurt in a blender or food processor until it resembles whipped cream, fwooch the fluffy mixture on a platter, and then arrange watermelon chunks on top. The partnership of sweet melon and salty cheese is still solid, just new in a silken, visually striking form.

JAMES HENRY THE NEW YORK TIMES FOOD STYLIST CHICKEN

GRILLED CHICKEN

Coat With Mayonnaise

You won't taste it, but a coating of mayonnaise, instead of oil, on chicken before it hits the grill roll-in numbers, giving it a golden crow, keeping it from sticking and moistening it from burning. Consider pairing with a flavorful sauce, like Dijon mustard, or herbs and spices, like ginger. Mayonnaise can also help other ingredients that are prone to sticking, overcooking or burning on the grill, such as salines, shrimp, turkey burgers and bread.

MICHAEL HANKEEER THE NEW YORK TIMES FOOD STYLIST GRATE CHICKEN

PEACHES

Add Fish Sauce

If an ingredient's sweetness is cracked to right, nine or 10, the same can be done to its savory side. Peaches are assertively sweet, and fish sauce is assertively savory. Eat them together by dressing the cut fruit in a fish sauce dressing, and then enjoy the ride. (It's also fun with watermelon and mangoes.)

JAMES HENRY HANKEEER THE NEW YORK TIMES FOOD STYLIST GRATE CHICKEN

TOMATO

Add Tinned Fish

A tomato salad and a piece of grilled fish: Now that's warm-weather eating, like tinned fish brings something else to the equation. Not only is it a pantry staple, ready to bulk up tomatoes, but its concentrated flavor is also a more forceful bit to the sweet tomatoes. Because tinned cardoers, tuna, anchovies and other fishes are preserved, they have a more salty, briny, rich quality that fresh fish just can't deliver.

JAMES HENRY THE NEW YORK TIMES FOOD STYLIST BARNETT HAMBURGER

CORN

Add Rosemary

You already know that corn goes well with bright, fresh ingredients like cilantro, basil, tomatoes or lime, hot woodsy, earthy moonsings, like rosemary, can bring out one's warmth and oastiness. It takes only a small quantity: Slather corn on the cob with rosemary butter, or add a sprig or two to cooking kernels.

JAMES HENRY

SNOBES

Turn Them Into Lemon Meringue Pie

Sometimes I eat aside the bitter-sweet accompaniments to a typical c'meer and pick up the citrusy, creamy components to a lemon meringue pie. This c'meer starts with a Ritz cracker; its butteriness is reminiscent of pie crust. Spread the cracker with a little lemon card, and then sprinkle it with flaky salt. Because lemon card and marshmallows are both quite sweet, the salt helps keep the combination from claying. Add your toasted marshmallow (don't be shy on roasting it to well-done), and then smash it all together with another cracker. It's a two-bite, fireside lemon meringue pie.

制度与权力批判深度研判：The New York Times (2026-08-19)

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▌ 本日全报思想与文化深思雷达 (Intellectual & Cultural Significance Radar)

在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有国际政治、经济、社会与文化报道后，以下 4 个具体事件在思想史、文化政治与制度伦理层面最值得学者进一步深思：

1. 【英国改革党权力机制的腐败裂缝】 [F2_10 🔍]

   • 事件简述：英国改革党领袖奈杰·法拉奇及其副手科特雷尔因未披露2016年£32英镑礼物与2020年£500万英镑加密货币捐款，遭选举委员会调查。科特雷尔更因2016年通过暗网为毒贩洗钱$28,000而被联邦特工逮捕。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：该事件触动了现代民主宪政的“透明性-合法性”张力：权力运作的合法性依赖公开披露与程序正义，但权力精英通过“灰色地带”（如暗网交易、加密货币捐款）规避监管，暴露出技术理性对民主程序的侵蚀。哈贝马斯的“公共领域”理论在此遭遇“算法化权力”的挑战。

2. 【以色列对西岸经济封锁的生存伦理危机】 [F4_27 🔍]

   • 事件简述：以色列自2020年10月7日后限制巴勒斯坦人进入并扣押税收，导致西岸巴权力机构财政崩溃。医疗系统因预算削减药品短缺，24岁乳腺癌患者哈马德仅能取到三种处方药。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：该事件揭示了主权权力与生存权的不可通约性：以色列作为主权国家行使“安全自保”权力，却通过经济封锁剥夺巴勒斯坦人基本生存条件，凸显阿伦特意义上的“剥夺权利即剥夺人性”。同时，联合国《经济、社会及文化权利国际公约》在此被系统性违反。

3. 【FCC对ABC广播执照的罕见审查：媒体多样性的权力话语】 [F4_33 🔍]

   • 事件简述：FCC主席考克斯对ABC8张执照展开罕见提前审查，因对其多样性与包容性实践的调查。ABC否认违规，称审查为权力滥用。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：该事件涉及媒体治理的“多样性-霸权”悖论：FCC作为监管机构以“多样性”名义行使权力，但其审查标准可能沦为政治工具，压制言论自由。福柯的“规训权力”与哈贝马斯的“交往理性”在此发生激烈冲突。

4. 【科罗拉多河系统干涸：气候变化与技术治理的失败】 [F1_8 🔍]

   • 事件简述：鲍威尔湖与米德湖水位创历史新低，科罗拉多河系统面临1,300年来最严重干旱。联邦与州政府紧急调用小型水库蓄水并呼吁节水，但措施多为自愿性质。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：该事件暴露了技术治理模式的局限性：现代水资源管理依赖大型水利工程与气候模型，但气候变化超出技术理性的预测范围，凸显韦伯意义上的“工具合理性”与“价值合理性”的断裂。同时，节水呼吁的自愿性反映出新自由主义治理逻辑的失败。

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▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)

专题一：【权力的灰色地带：从英国改革党丑闻看民主宪政的技术理性危机】

1. 现实困境深描（The Concrete Dilemma）

英国改革党作为右翼民粹主义政党，其权力运作机制正在经历一场系统性的合法性危机。[F2_10 🔍]披露的核心事实显示，法拉奇及其副手科特雷尔不仅涉嫌未披露政治献金（2016年£32英镑礼物、2020年£500万英镑加密货币捐款），更因通过暗网为毒贩洗钱而被联邦特工逮捕。这一丑闻暴露出权力精英在“透明性-合法性”链条上的断裂： - 选举委员会的调查本应确保民主程序的公开性，但加密货币捐款的匿名性与暗网交易的隐蔽性，使得权力运作的“灰色地带”无法被传统监管机制有效覆盖。 - 科特雷尔的双重身份（法拉奇的副手与毒贩洗钱者）表明，权力精英在公共领域与私人利益之间的界限已然模糊，民主宪政的程序正义沦为形式化的空壳。

2. 博弈机制与话语策略剖析（Mechanisms & Discourse）

权力在制度内部的运作机制呈现出多层次的遮蔽性： - 技术理性的遮蔽：加密货币捐款与暗网交易均依赖算法化的匿名性，使得权力运作的责任主体无法被明确追溯。[F2_12 🔍]中科特雷尔以“比尔”的化名进行洗钱交易，正是技术理性对权力问责的规避。 - 媒体话语的操纵：法拉奇作为右翼民粹主义领袖，通过“乔治推手”等网络操纵手段制造“民意”，但其背后的金融与犯罪网络却被主流媒体所忽视。[F2_11 🔍]中提到的“拉斯维加斯毒贩会面”，在媒体报道中被简化为“丑闻”，而非系统性的权力腐败网络。 - 监管机构的失灵：选举委员会的调查仅针对形式化的披露义务，而未触及实质性的权力滥用。这反映出监管机构在技术化权力面前的无能为力。

3. 历史思想资源的平等对话（Theoretical Resonance）

哈贝马斯的“公共领域”理论为理解这一困境提供了关键视角。在《公共领域的结构转型》中，哈贝马斯指出，现代民主的合法性依赖于公开的理性讨论与程序正义。然而，当权力精英通过算法化的匿名性规避监管时，公共领域的透明性被技术理性所侵蚀。具体而言： - 加密货币捐款的出现，使得金钱与权力的关系从可见的贿赂转向隐蔽的利益交换，这挑战了哈贝马斯对公共领域的理想化设想。 - 暗网交易的存在，表明权力运作已超出民族国家的管辖范围，进入全球化的灰色地带，这与福柯的“治理术”（Governmentality）理论相呼应：权力不再仅依赖暴力或法律，而是通过技术与网络实现对社会的规训。

4. 当代现实对理论的反向质询与新洞见（Contemporary Synthesis）

当代技术条件（如区块链、暗网、算法治理）为古典民主理论带来了前所未有的挑战： - 区块链与加密货币：使得金钱流动的透明性从可见的账本转向算法化的匿名性，传统的反腐机制无法有效追踪。 - 暗网与全球化权力：权力精英通过跨国网络规避民族国家的监管，这表明福柯的“规训社会”已扩展至全球治理的层面。 - 算法治理的悖论：技术理性试图通过大数据与AI实现对权力的监管，但算法本身的不透明性又成为新的权力滥用工具。

新洞见：民主宪政的危机不再仅是权力精英的道德败坏，而是技术理性对民主程序的系统性侵蚀。未来的反腐机制必须超越民族国家的边界，建立全球化的透明性治理网络，同时通过算法可解释性与责任追溯机制重建公众对权力的信任。

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专题二：【生存权的剥夺：以色列对西岸经济封锁的伦理与法律双重危机】

1. 现实困境深描（The Concrete Dilemma）

以色列对西岸的经济封锁，已从安全政策演变为系统性的人道主义危机。[F4_27 🔍]披露的核心事实显示： - 税收扣押：以色列自2020年10月7日后限制巴勒斯坦人进入并扣押税收，导致西岸巴权力机构财政崩溃。 - 医疗系统崩溃：因预算削减，24岁乳腺癌患者哈马德仅能取到三种处方药，这意味着基本生存权被系统性剥夺。 - 权力机构总理穆拉达的警告：危机持续将导致巴勒斯坦社会的全面崩溃，但以色列政府对此视而不见。

这一困境揭示了主权权力与生存权的不可通约性： - 以色列作为主权国家行使“安全自保”权力，但通过经济封锁剥夺巴勒斯坦人基本生存条件，这违反了国际法的基本原则。 - 哈马德的案例表明，以色列的政策已从军事打击转向结构性暴力，即通过经济手段实现对巴勒斯坦人的生存权剥夺。

2. 博弈机制与话语策略剖析（Mechanisms & Discourse）

以色列对西岸的经济封锁，是权力话语与法律机制双重运作的结果： - 安全话语的霸权：以色列政府将安全政策包装为合法的自保行为，但经济封锁的实际效果却是对巴勒斯坦社会的全面摧毁。[F4_27 🔍]中提到的“限制巴勒斯坦人进入”，在官方话语中被描述为“反恐措施”，而非经济制裁。 - 国际法的虚化：以色列的行为违反了《日内瓦第四公约》（占领区平民保护）、《联合国宪章》（禁止集体惩罚）、《经济、社会及文化权利国际公约》（生存权保障），但国际社会的回应却极为软弱。这表明国际法在强权面前的无能为力。 - 媒体报道的选择性：西方主流媒体对以色列的安全话语予以无条件支持，而对巴勒斯坦人的生存危机报道极少。[F4_27 🔍]的报道仅出现在A9版，而非头版，这反映出媒体话语权的不平等分配。

3. 历史思想资源的平等对话（Theoretical Resonance）

阿伦特的“极权主义起源”理论为理解这一困境提供了关键视角。在《极权主义的起源》中，阿伦特指出，极权主义政权通过剥夺公民权利实现对社会的全面控制。具体到以色列对西岸的政策： - 生存权的剥夺：以色列通过经济封锁剥夺巴勒斯坦人的基本生存条件，这与阿伦特所描述的“剥夺权利即剥夺人性”相呼应。巴勒斯坦人被迫生活在无尊严、无未来的状态中，这正是极权主义逻辑的体现。 - 法律机制的虚化：以色列政府通过法律程序（如税收扣押）实现对巴勒斯坦社会的控制，这与韦伯的“形式合理性”理论形成鲜明对比。韦伯认为，现代国家的合法性依赖于程序正义，但以色列的行为表明，程序正义已沦为权力工具。

4. 当代现实对理论的反向质询与新洞见（Contemporary Synthesis）

当代国际政治的现实条件（如全球化、人道主义干预、国际法虚化）为古典理论带来了新的挑战与拓展： - 全球化与主权权力：以色列作为主权国家，通过经济封锁实现对巴勒斯坦社会的控制，这表明全球化并未削弱主权权力，反而使其更加隐蔽与系统化。 - 人道主义干预的悖论：国际社会对以色列的行为缺乏有效干预，这表明人道主义干预在强权面前无能为力。未来的国际法必须超越民族国家的边界，建立全球性的生存权保障机制。 - 数字化监控与结构性暴力：以色列通过数字化监控系统（如生物识别、AI预测）实现对巴勒斯坦人的精准压制，这表明结构性暴力已从物理暴力转向数字化暴力。

新洞见：以色列对西岸的经济封锁，不仅是安全政策的失败，更是国际法体系的全面崩溃。未来的国际秩序必须建立在生存权的普遍保障之上，而非强权的任意裁量。同时，数字化监控技术的发展，使得结构性暴力更加隐蔽与系统化，这要求我们重新思考人权保障的技术边界。

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▌ 面向学者的开放性思想追问与研究路标 (Open Horizons for Scholarly Inquiry)

1. 【开放性学术追问一：技术理性与民主宪政的张力】

   • 在算法化权力与暗网交易的双重挑战下，如何重建民主宪政的透明性与责任机制？是否需要建立全球化的反腐监管网络，抑或通过算法可解释性实现对权力的技术监管？

2. 【开放性学术追问二：生存权保障的国际法困境】

   • 在强权政治面前，国际法如何从形式正义转向实质正义？是否需要建立超国家的生存权保障机制，如国际人权法院或全球生存权基金？

制度与权力批判深度研判：The New York Times (2026-08-19)

▌ 本日全报生活世界痛感与情感政治深思雷达 (Lifeworld & Affective Significance Radar)

在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有报道后，以下 2 个具体事件在生活世界痛感、情感政治动员与制度理性冲突层面最值得学者进一步深思：

1. 【西岸经济封锁与巴勒斯坦生存危机】 [F4_27 🔍]

   • 事件简述：以色列自2020年10月7日后限制巴勒斯坦人进入并扣押税收，导致西岸巴权力机构财政崩溃。医疗系统因预算削减药品短缺，24岁乳腺癌患者哈马德仅能取到三种处方药。权力机构总理穆拉达警告危机持续。
   • 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：该事件触动了殖民暴力的集体记忆创伤与生存尊严的剥夺。以色列的技术官僚理性（税收扣押、边境管控）与巴勒斯坦民众的肉身痛感（药品短缺、生命无保障）形成了制度性冷暴力与情感性反抗的极端撕裂。哈马德的案例暴露了宏观政治经济决策如何直接转化为微观个体的生死存亡，其情感动员潜力在于对“正义被延宕”的道德愤怒与对“文明假面”的撕裂。

2. 【科罗拉多河水危机与阳光地带生存根基动摇】 [F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍]

   • 事件简述：鲍威尔湖和米德湖水位均创历史新低，科罗拉多河系统面临1,300年来最严重干旱，气候变化为罪魁祸首。联邦与州政府紧急调用小型水库蓄水并呼吁节水。
   • 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：该事件触动了美国西南部阳光地带居民对“水即生命”的原初恐惧与对气候变化“缓慢暴力”的集体焦虑。制度理性（水资源配置、节水政策）与生活世界痛感（农业枯竭、城市供水风险）的撕裂体现在：官方话语将危机归咎于“自然周期”，而民众感知到的是“资本主义过度开发”与“政治短视”的共谋。情感动员潜力在于对“世代家园即将消失”的悲怆与对“未来不可预期”的虚无感。

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▌ 精选核心专题理性与情感辩证论证 (The Dialectic of Logos and Pathos Monograph)

专题一： 《技术官僚理性的冷暴力：以色列对西岸经济封锁下的殖民生存逻辑》

1. 制度理性架构解构（Deconstruction of Institutional Logos）

以色列对西岸的经济封锁与税收扣押，是典型的技术官僚理性模型在殖民统治中的应用。其核心逻辑包括： - 安全优先的量化指标：以色列国防军（IDF）与税务部门通过边境管控、税收扣押等技术手段，将巴勒斯坦人的“安全风险”量化为边境通行证发放率、税收缴纳率等指标。这些指标被嵌入到以色列的国家安全战略中，成为合法化封锁的技术依据 [F4_27 🔍]。 - 财政可持续性的法律程序：以色列财政部通过《税收征管法》等法律框架，将巴勒斯坦权力机构的税收收入扣押，以“抵消”巴方对以色列公民的赔偿支出。这种法律程序将殖民暴力转化为“合法债务”，掩盖了不对称权力关系 [F4_27 🔍]。 - 人道主义援助的官僚化：联合国与国际社会的援助资金被纳入以色列的“安全审查”体系，援助物资的发放需经过IDF的批准。这种官僚化将人道主义援助转化为“安全工具”，进一步削弱了巴勒斯坦人的生存自主权 [F4_27 🔍]。

2. 生活世界真实痛感深描（Living Lifeworld Pathos）

在制度理性的冷暴力下，巴勒斯坦民众的生活世界被撕裂为： - 肉身痛感的日常化：24岁乳腺癌患者哈马德仅能取到三种处方药，其生命被简化为“用药成本”与“配给限制”的算术问题。这种肉身痛感不仅是生理上的，更是对“生命尊严被剥夺”的伦理创伤 [F4_27 🔍]。 - 时间感的扭曲：巴勒斯坦权力机构的财政崩溃导致公务员工资停发，教师、医生等专业人士被迫从事低技能工作以维持生计。这种时间感的扭曲将“世代传承的职业尊严”转化为“生存挣扎的日常”，其情感表达是对“未来被掠夺”的绝望 [F4_27 🔍]。 - 集体记忆的激活：以色列的封锁政策激活了巴勒斯坦人对1948年“纳克巴”（灾难）的集体记忆，将当下的生存危机与历史创伤联系起来。这种集体记忆的激活是情感动员的重要资源，但也可能被政治组织（如哈马斯、法塔赫）所利用，转化为“抵抗神话” [F4_27 🔍]。

3. Logos 与 Pathos 的内在辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction）

制度理性与生活世界痛感的撕裂体现在： - 技术官僚理性对肉身存在的否定：以色列的税收扣押政策将巴勒斯坦人的生命简化为“经济负担”，而哈马德的药品短缺则暴露了这种简化的残酷性。这种否定是制度理性对生命尊严的“冷暴力”，其反噬在于激发了巴勒斯坦人的道德愤怒与抵抗意志 [F4_27 🔍]。 - 法律程序对历史正义的掩盖：以色列的法律框架将殖民暴力转化为“合法债务”，掩盖了不对称权力关系。这种掩盖是制度理性对历史正义的“话语暴力”，其反噬在于激发了国际社会对“双重标准”的谴责 [F4_27 🔍]。 - 人道主义援助的政治化：国际援助被纳入以色列的“安全审查”体系，将人道主义转化为“安全工具”。这种政治化是制度理性对道德责任的“工具化”，其反噬在于削弱了国际援助的公信力与合法性 [F4_27 🔍]。

4. 话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Discourse Temperature & Prognosis）

• 制度端的“去情感化冷色调语言”：以色列的官方话语使用“安全优先”、“财政可持续性”、“人道主义援助”等技术术语，将殖民暴力转化为“合法政策”。这种语言的温度接近于零度，缺乏对生命尊严的伦理关怀 [F4_27 🔍]。
• 生活端的“具象痛感热色调语言”：巴勒斯坦民众的情感表达集中在“药品短缺”、“工资停发”、“未来无望”等具象痛感上。这种语言的温度极高，充满了对制度冷暴力的道德谴责与情感反抗 [F4_27 🔍]。
• 社会心理韧性诊断：当前的社会心理韧性处于“创伤累积”与“抵抗动员”的临界状态。制度理性的冷暴力持续累积民众的创伤体验，而生活世界的痛感则不断激发集体情绪的动员潜力。未来的走向取决于国际社会能否打破以色列的技术官僚封锁，重建巴勒斯坦人的生存尊严与政治自主权。

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专题二： 《气候变化“缓慢暴力”与阳光地带的生存焦虑：科罗拉多河水危机的政治生态学》

1. 制度理性架构解构（Deconstruction of Institutional Logos）

科罗拉多河水危机的制度理性体现在： - 水资源配置的技术官僚模型：美国垦务局（USBR）与州政府通过“水权分配”、“节水配额”等技术手段，将水资源配置转化为“效率优化”的技术问题。这种模型将水资源视为“可交易的商品”，忽视了其作为“生命根基”的伦理价值 [F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍]。 - 气候变化适应的短期主义：联邦与州政府的应对策略（如调用小型水库蓄水、呼吁节水）均基于“短期危机管理”的逻辑，缺乏对“长期生态韧性”的战略规划。这种短期主义将气候变化的“缓慢暴力”转化为“可控风险”，掩盖了其根本性的不可逆转性 [F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍]。 - 资本主义过度开发的路径依赖：阳光地带的城市扩张（如菲尼克斯、拉斯维加斯）与农业灌溉（如加州中央谷地）均依赖于科罗拉多河的过度开发。这种路径依赖将水资源危机转化为“经济增长的必要代价”，进一步强化了制度理性对生态伦理的忽视 [F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍]。

2. 生活世界真实痛感深描（Living Lifeworld Pathos）

在制度理性的冷暴力下，阳光地带居民的生活世界被撕裂为： - 农业枯竭的肉身痛感：科罗拉多河的水位下降导致加州中央谷地的农田干涸，农民被迫抛弃世代耕种的土地。这种肉身痛感不仅是经济上的，更是对“世代传承的土地尊严”的剥夺 [F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍]。 - 城市供水风险的生存焦虑：菲尼克斯、拉斯维加斯等城市的居民面临供水配给的不确定性，其生活节奏被迫调整以适应“水资源短缺”的现实。这种生存焦虑将“日常生活的自主权”转化为“官僚配给的依赖”，其情感表达是对“未来不可预期”的虚无感 [F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍]。 - 世代记忆的断裂：阳光地带的居民（特别是老一辈移民）将科罗拉多河视为“生命之源”，其世代记忆与河流的生态系统紧密相连。水危机的到来激活了这种记忆，但也引发了对“世代家园即将消失”的悲怆 [F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍]。

3. Logos 与 Pathos 的内在辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction）

制度理性与生活世界痛感的撕裂体现在： - 技术官僚理性对生态伦理的否定：垦务局的水资源配置模型将水视为“可交易的商品”，而农民的土地枯竭则暴露了这种模型的残酷性。这种否定是制度理性对生态伦理的“冷暴力”，其反噬在于激发了民众对“资本主义过度开发”的道德愤怒 [F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍]。 - 短期主义对长期韧性的掩盖：联邦与州政府的应对策略基于“短期危机管理”，而居民的生存焦虑则揭示了这种策略的虚伪性。这种掩盖是制度理性对“生态正义”的“话语暴力”，其反噬在于削弱了政府的公信力与合法性 [F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍]。 - 资本主义路径依赖对生态极限的忽视：阳光地带的经济增长模式依赖于科罗拉多河的过度开发，而水危机的到来则暴露了这种模式的不可持续性。这种忽视是制度理性对“生态极限”的“工具化”，其反噬在于引发了民众对“经济增长神话”的集体反思 [F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍]。

4. 话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Discourse Temperature & Prognosis）

• 制度端的“去情感化冷色调语言”：垦务局与州政府的官方话语使用“水权分配”、“节水配额”、“危机管理”等技术术语，将水资源危机转化为“可控风险”。这种语言的温度接近于零度，缺乏对生命根基的伦理关怀 [F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍]。
• 生活端的“具象痛感热色调语言”：农民的“土地枯竭”、城市居民的“供水焦虑”、老一辈移民的“世代记忆”均体现了生活世界的痛感。这种语言的温度极高，充满了对制度冷暴力的道德谴责与情感反抗 [F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍]。
• 社会心理韧性诊断：当前的社会心理韧性处于“创伤累积”与“韧性重建”的临界状态。制度理性的冷暴力持续累积民众的创伤体验，而生活世界的痛感则不断激发集体情绪的动员潜力。未来的走向取决于能否打破资本主义的路径依赖，重建人与自然的和谐共生关系。