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全球报刊态势与全景学术研判总览 — 2026-08-24

🌐 第一部分：全球宏观战略态势报告（SITREP）

今日综述：本日共全量采集并深度研判来自全球各大主流语系与核心地缘区域的 1 份权威报刊与学术特刊。

📡 今日全球主要报道要闻速览

北美主流大报 (North America) - 《The New York Times - 22.08.2026.pdf》俄勒冈州天狗牧场的野马销售：联邦政府为控制野生种群围捕野马并关押，随后以每匹25美元的低价将其出售给俄亥俄州牲畜贩子。 - 《The New York Times - 22.08.2026.pdf》印度人工智能数据标注产业的崛起：印度卡鲁尔市出现大量从事数据标注的青年劳动力，通过人工修复AI漏洞以应对编程等传统技术岗位的消失。 - 《The New York Times - 22.08.2026.pdf》美国与中国在伊朗危机及外交关系上的博弈：中国利用关键矿产出口作为贸易筹码，在特朗普计划接待习近平国事访问前，双方在伊朗问题上维持微妙平衡。

💡 各大报刊的报道脉络呈现出高度多维的地缘博弈、制度转型、社会痛感与前沿科学突破。读者可通过下方【今日跨报思想雷达总矩阵】快速把握各报最具穿透力的思想理论对话与生活世界痛感切入点，或在【全景报刊分卷】中按区域细读每份大报的具体文章精要、制度权力批判与理性情感辩证。

🧭 第二部分：今日跨报思想文化与批判深思雷达总矩阵

本矩阵自动系统汇编当日全球报刊最具穿透力的 【思想与文化深思切入点】 与 【生活世界痛感切入点】，为学者提供一站式理论对话与现象学经验索引：

（本日暂未提取到独立的跨报思想雷达条目）

📚 第三部分：全景报刊分卷学术档案与精粹汇编

📍 北美主流大报 (North America)

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俄勒冈州天狗牧场的野马销售

News / 俄勒冈州天狗牧场的野马销售：联邦政府为控制野生种群围捕野马并关押，随后以每匹25美元的低价将其出售给俄亥俄州牲畜贩子。
Technology / India / 印度人工智能数据标注产业的崛起：印度卡鲁尔市出现大量从事数据标注的青年劳动力，通过人工修复AI漏洞以应对编程等传统技术岗位的消失。
World / Asia / 美国与中国在伊朗危机及外交关系上的博弈：中国利用关键矿产出口作为贸易筹码，在特朗普计划接待习近平国事访问前，双方在伊朗问题上维持微妙平衡。
World / UK / 英国名人团体诉报业集团费用争议：法官拒绝将诉讼费用上限设定在1800万至2000万英镑之间，但对Associated集团申请的高额费用表示怀疑。
National / Washington / 乌兹别克斯坦总统赠送传统凉亭至美国：乌兹别克斯坦总统向特朗普总统捐赠传统工艺凉亭，计划在西波托马克公园的国家英雄花园展出。
National / Politics / 国土安全部关于非公民非法登记投票的说法受质疑：尽管政府声称有大量非公民登记投票，但国土安全部在内华达州仅证实105例，且提供的名单不完整。
National / Politics / 参议员Ramos涉嫌重复计费丑闻：分析显示Ramos参议员在2021至2025年间存在超过5万美元的重叠计费，同时向立法机构和竞选活动收取津贴。
Obituaries / 纽约市警察局侦探Derrick Parker讣告：被称为“嘻哈警察”的侦探Derrick Parker因心脏病发作去世，享年65岁，他曾是处理名人犯罪案件的专家。
World / Americas / 巴西总统大选与特朗普的影响：巴西大选在卢拉与Balnequin之间展开，特朗普对巴西政治表现出浓厚兴趣并支持其政治项目。
Business / Markets / 美股市场表现概览：标准普尔500、纳斯达克及道琼斯指数呈现不同涨幅，Rockmayer Markets等公司表现最佳。
National / Law / 纽约时报面临诽谤诉讼：因错误报道Spears先生在枪击现场，原告请求1000万美元赔偿，时报辩称该错误为诚实失误。
Sports / College Football / 大学橄榄球赛季预测与回顾：回顾克莱姆森等前五强球队的崩盘历史，并对俄亥俄州立大学等新赛季球队进行预测。
Arts / Edinburgh / 爱丁堡国际艺术节边缘展趋势：本届艺术节包含4000多部作品，呈现出以政治人物（如撒切尔）为主角的特定主题趋势。
Arts / Edinburgh / 边缘艺术节戏剧作品评述：评述了使用弗拉芒手语表演的《海鸥》等作品，探讨了在翻译缺失时观众的挫败感体验。
World / China / 中国喜剧演员高德清因讽刺爱国歌曲被调查：高德清因在武汉演出中改编爱国歌曲被举报，凸显了中国在意识形态整治下艺术空间的收窄。
Travel / Norway / 挪威卑尔根市音乐场馆与自然景观指南：介绍卑尔根将旧鱼罐头区改造为音乐场馆的文化生态，以及攀登Lovendales山的户外体验。

暂无制度批判分析。

暂无情感辩证分析。

🏛️ 哲学与批判理论深度研判 ➔ 立即阅读

透视本期报纸背后的结构性权力机制、普遍概念与具体事件之间的非同一性辩证摩擦。

⚖️ 理性与情感辩证深度研判 ➔ 立即阅读

解构冰冷制度治理（Logos）与民众真实痛感/集体情绪（Pathos）之间的断裂与隐性诉求。

The New York Times - 22.08.2026.pdf

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纽约时报

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今日，教堂，种族，微风，最高气温 75。今晚，雷阵雨，多云，最低气温 60。明日，相当多云，最低气温 60。随后，继续有雷阵雨，最高气温 60。天气图，请见 A26 页。

第 CLXXV 卷 ... 第 60,984 号

2026年8月22日，星期六

加拿大的价格可能会更高

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[...OMITTED...] 俄勒冈州天狗牧场的野马。政府销售马匹曾一度罕见，但在特朗普总统任内开始增加。

漏洞导致受保护的野马被屠宰

作者：大卫·菲利普

它们曾自由地奔跑在沙漠山脉中，那是 80 匹野马组成的一个庞大群体，从未被套上马鞍或被驯服。

随后，联邦政府使用直升机将这些马匹围捕，就像它对其他数万匹野马所做的那样，试图控制公共土地上的野生种群。这些马在爱达荷州的一个围栏中被关押了数年，期间政府试图为它们寻找所谓的“领养马主”。

三月，政府突然找到了一个买家。至于是否是领养，似乎并不重要。

这些马被装进狭小的金属拖车，被运往东部 1,000 英里外，交给俄亥俄州一个名为布兰登·琼斯的硬派牲畜贩子，他以每匹 $25 的价格买下了它们。

一天后，两辆双层牛车在午夜驶来，装上这些野马，迅速消失在夜色中。

从此，这些野马失踪了。它们从未出现在公开拍卖会上。拖车司机不透露它们去了哪里。野马权益倡导者怀疑这些马被运往了屠宰场。

但这并不是政府关心的问题——它得到了想要的结果。

美国以低至每匹 $25 的价格出售野马以吸引买家

账面上又少了两车野马。

这不是第一次，也不会是最后一次。在过去的一年里，政府一车接一车地将野马运往该买家处。而且不只是他一个人。

《纽约时报》对政府记录的审查发现，在全国各地，负责保护野马的美国土地管理局正在悄悄地将数千匹马出售给像俄亥俄州那样的人。屠宰野马是违法的，但马主的行为创造了一个漏洞，使人们能够廉价地获得野马，然后迅速将其转卖，这些马不再被要求活着，而是被加工成肉块并销往海外。

牲畜检验记录显示，政府出售的野马很快就被装上了前往加拿大屠宰厂的卡车。

美国政府销售野马曾一度罕见，但（接 A10 页）

政府尝试新手段打击哈佛大学

作者：MARK ARBUNUCET 和 MICKA HINING

根据《纽约时报》对政府数据的分析，哈佛大学最大的联邦资金来源之一大幅下降。

即便在一名联邦法官去年命令特朗普政府撤销对该大学的剧烈削减之后，这种下降趋势依然持续。

分析显示，来自美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）的资金目前比该政府任期内拨款的平均速度低约 18%。

去年，在政府宣布 2025 年将从多个联邦机构削减超过 22 亿美元资金后，哈佛大学成功起诉了特朗普政府。

但与当时特朗普官员大张旗鼓地宣布削减资金不同，美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）目前主要采取延迟、减少或拒绝拨款申请，或者让研究人员和大学领导层对现状一无所知。

此次削减似乎是特朗普政府与哈佛大学及其他学术机构之间持续不断的冲突中的最新战线。这是一种新的、更隐蔽的策略，更难以对抗，但其影响可能同样

接 A12 页

对高端第二套房产征税被视为帮助纽约市弥补预算缺口的手段。

推广不顺损害马姆达尼的二套房税收计划

本文作者为 Mike Dever, Sally Gaidenberg, Benjamin Brookes 和 Grace Adgford

州长凯西·霍楚（Kathy Hochul）在今年竞选连任期间一直抵制来自左翼增加税收的压力，随后达成了一项妥协：对纽约市的高端第二套房产征税。此举将确保急需的收入，并为她的盟友市长佐尔特塞·马姆达尼（Zoltese Mamdani）赢得胜利。

批评者的机会与法律斗争

但原本看似可控的阻力却演变成了混乱局面，企业领袖认为该市引入此项税收使其被妖魔化，而一些房主在被告知可能需要缴税后感到困惑和愤怒——这些反应令霍楚女士感到不安。

“这些信用额度应该更好，”霍楚女士在本周的一次采访中地说道，她回顾了今年夏天早些时候与马姆达尼先生的一次对话。“坦率地说，我认为推广过程必须被清理并修正。”

霍楚女士对马姆达尼先生在向纽约人介绍该方案时所采取的她认为过于随意的沟通方式感到担忧。她告诉市长，接 A16 页

特朗普诉讼将针对关键报告

At 77, 她在敌对的天空下行走数英里逃离“地狱”

作者：CASSANDRA VINDRAID 和 KLEEMANNE CRUBB

乌克兰，斯洛万斯克（SLOVANNIE）——尝试逃离？Vista Ivanova, 7, 觉得生存概率是 50. 但无论如何，她已经没有什么可失去的了。

俄罗斯军队就在一英里外，使用滑翔炸弹和无人机轰击她位于乌克兰东部的城市利曼（Lyman）。她的丈夫在长期患病后去世，她的房子被摧毁。她和她的长女躲在地下室里。

利曼在燃烧，但由于危险，民用和军事撤离行动不再进入该市。路途并不轻松——在无人机充斥的天空下行走数英里。

Ivanova 女士说，当她在利曼看到一个巨大的名字时，这促使她达到了极限。她决定让女儿们在路上碰碰运气，就像无数乌克兰人在前线所做的那样。

“我们起身离开了，”她说。Ivanova 女士和她的丈夫 Kerry 在利曼生活了许多年。他们在 McKernan Hall 的一座房子里抚养孩子长大。

新闻分析

为什么北京押注特朗普会先眨眼

中国已准备好应对伊朗制裁风险

作者：DAVID PIERSON 和 BERRY WANG

—— 作为伊朗最大的贸易伙伴，面对特朗普总统本周威胁要对与德黑兰做生意的国家施加“巨大的经济后果”，中国似乎有许多损失。

几十年来，中国通过购买高达 50% 的德黑兰石油出口，无视西方对伊朗石油的制裁。中国还向伊朗提供技术和原材料，以维持其导弹和无人机库。

但北京有理由相信自己能够承受特朗普先生最新的警告——如果该警告被执行的话。而且，中国分析人士日益认为，世界上最似乎无法以有利条件结束，这是美国日益衰弱的迹象。

“这一威胁揭示了特朗普政府在伊朗问题上变得多么绝望，”上海复旦大学领先的美国学者、中国外交部顾问 Kalde 女士表示。

“他们发出这种威胁并不是因为他们认为它是可行的，”他说。“而是因为他们没有其他来摆脱这种‘软弱的困境’。”

在周三的一篇社交媒体帖子中，特朗普先生将伊朗定义为“商业”，并打算惩罚那些向该国“提供任何类型生命线”的国家。周四，财政部长 Scott Ainscott 暗示，合作符合中国的最大利益。

但随着美国从太平洋撤出主要旨在的军事资产，中国可能会感到更加大胆。

续接 A9 页

Vista Ivanova 离开利曼，乌克兰，以及无人机。

这座城市战前人口为 20,000，曾是犹太地区的一个重要枢纽。当俄罗斯在 2025 年 2 月入侵乌克兰，将顿巴斯海作为中心时，这使得利曼成为了一个主要目标。

俄罗斯军队在利曼周围的茂密森林和原野中奋战，并于 2025 年 5 月占领了这座城市。乌克兰军队在 5 个月后将他们赶走。但利曼从未完全摆脱俄罗斯的火力。

随着时间的推移，莫斯科向这座城市的少量推进开始累积，对利曼的打击

续接 A7 页

商业 B1-5

新计数，土地客人

环球影业建造了一个“低语跨度”骑行设施以避免激怒邻居。但它没有考虑到他人的反应。B1 页

高利率可能带来风险

全球最大经济体和最重要的金融体系即将面临法律和调整的特殊。B1 页

国家 AS-SL 20

双重计费证据

记录显示，多年来，纽约州参议员 Jessica Bames 使用竞选资金支付旅行费用，同时还领取州政府的款项。A10 页

摧毁气候政策

特朗普政府正在采取一切措施扼杀加利福尼亚州的环境保护努力。A9 页

讣告 A17

纽约的“嘻哈警察”

Derrick Parker 是一位资深侦探，曾任新情报部门负责人及音乐界联络员。他享年 65 岁。

艺术 C1-6

网球海报具有城市氛围

Augusta Wells 为 2026 年美国网球公开赛创作了艺术作品，其中充满了动感、色彩和她的移民经历。C1 页

探索漫画之谜

在电视剧《来自底特律的 Diarra》中，创作者兼主演 Diarra Kilpatrick 分享了这座城市的“小宝藏”。C1 页

国际 AA-6

后方办公室，被抛开

匈牙利 Peter Magrari 的新政府希望利用顿巴斯的证据来证明一个大学的纵容。然而，这些装饰并不足够。A4 页

用人类工作训练 AI

在快速增长的数据标注领域，印度南部一座小城市的工人正在帮助 AI 改进其执行传统由人类完成的任务的方式。A4 页

观点 A16-19

Christine Emba

体育 B6-5

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在周一的一次 Pa News 采访中，特朗普总统威胁要因为伊朗战争而轰炸哪个美国盟友？

a. 加拿大

b. 阿曼

c. 沙特阿拉伯

d. 阿拉伯联合酋长国

e. 韩国

州代表、民主社会主义者安吉·尼克松（Angie Nixon）击败了亚历克斯·温德曼（Alex Vindman），成为佛罗里达州的民主党参议院候选人。温德曼先生的筹款额比尼克松女士高出多少？

a. 1.5:1

b. 2:1℃. 5:1

d. 10:1

e. 10:1

一位 35 岁的白宫助手以极少离开总统身边而闻名，在本周参议员乔·多西夫（Joe Dossif）在一次竞选演讲中提到她之后，受到了公众的审视。她的名字是什么？

a. 亚曼达·哈普（Amanda Harp）

b. 凯特琳·哈普（Caitlin Harp）

c. 卡罗琳（Karoline）

d. 娜塔莉（Natalie）

e. 萨里娜（Sarina）

22 Top 的鼓手弗兰克·比尔德（Frank Beard）本周去世，享年 77 岁。他有什么显著之处？

a. 他没有胡须。

b. 他在打鼓时会进行人群冲浪。

c. 他比乐队其他成员年长数十年。

d. 他的鼓组总是背对着观众。

e. 他骑自行车前往每个巡演站点。

女演员海登·庞特休（Hayden Pownthew）本周去世，享年 34 岁。在她最著名的角色中，克莱尔·贝拉德（Claire Berrard）是一名啦啦队员，处于哪部 2000 年代电视悬疑剧的中心？

a. 《迷失》（Lost）

b. 《紧张》（Nervous）

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d. 《凯尔 D!》（Kyle D!）

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上图中的四只狗全部是今年世界高地犬大赛（World's Upland Dog Contest）的参赛者。谁是获胜者？

a. A

b. B

c. C

d. D

英国政府本周透露，首相安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）与一名伪装成特朗普总统亲近之人的个体交换了强硬信息。伯纳姆先生认为对方是谁？

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b. 伊万卡（Isanka），特朗普总统的女儿

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美国国民债务在周三首次突破了 $40 ____。请填空。

a. 百万（Million）

b. 十亿（Billion）

c. 万亿（Trillion）

d. 十万亿（Decillion）

e. 百万亿（Centillion）

拉塔（Lata）飓风虽然没有登陆，但在哪里造成了广泛破坏？

a. 关岛

b. 美属萨摩亚

c. 加利福尼亚州

d. 夏威夷州

e. 阿拉斯加州

路易吉·曼吉奥内（Luigi Mangione）承认他在 2024 年在曼哈顿杀害了一名医疗保健高管，并对以下两项联邦指控认罪：

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b. 伪造

c. 持有枪支

d. 导致死亡的州际跟踪

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一座美国机场现在被命名为唐纳德·J·特朗普总统国际机场。该机场位于哪里？

a. 亚特兰大

b. 怀俄明州杰克逊

c. 洛杉矶

d. 纽瓦克

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随着一场长期的《Les Moissistes》全国巡演结束，美国的地区剧院现在可以再次获得该剧的授权——并开始利用这部深受喜爱的音乐剧的广泛吸引力。负责《Les Mix》授权的公司表示，已经批准了 30 部新作品。迈克尔·保尔森（Michael Paulson）报道称，其中一部在犹他州南部的 Tuscake 艺术中心上演，由 40 名表演者在巍峨的红岩悬崖下挥汗如雨，预计将成为该中心历史上票房最高的演出。请在 nytimes.com / theater 查看巡演信息。

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一名研究美洲豹的研究员最近告诉《纽约时报》，只要人类不阻挡它们的道路，这些大猫正在回归。自 20 世纪 90 年代以来，在美国西南部（其原生分布范围的北缘）记录到了少数几只美洲豹。它们全部是寻找领地的雄性。现在，研究人员在墨西哥索诺拉州紧邻边境南侧的一个自然保护区内发现了一只雌性美洲豹。几十年来，美国领土上首次出现一对咆哮的美洲豹将是一个生态梦想——但美国在该地区增加边境墙侧面的计划使之变得复杂。

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洛杉矶的临床心理学家阿拉斯塔·戈尔德（Alasta Gold）博士表示，关系中的冲突是正常的，但处理这些争吵的方式至关重要。伴侣治疗师是处理冲突的专家——因此我询问了他们自己在家里是如何处理的。詹西·邓恩（JANCEE DUNN）报道。

他们会采取间歇。研究表明，在争论期间，人们经常进入“战斗、逃跑或永远”的反应模式，失去部分理性思考能力。因此，持证婚姻与家庭治疗师伊丽莎白·恩肖（Elizabeth Earnshaw）表示，当她或她的伴侣感到情绪泛滥时，他们会采取“有意识的休息”来冷静下来。

戈尔德博士说，重要的是，无论谁请求暂停，都需要说明这次休息将持续多久。如果你没有明确结束时间，休息可能会感觉像是一种惩罚。

他们不进行攻击。费城持证婚姻与家庭治疗师乔治·琼斯（George Jones）表示，当他和妻子发生争执时，他们保持礼貌的交流：不辱骂，不互诅，不提高嗓门。

“在争吵期间用严厉的语言对待彼此不会带来任何好处，”琼斯博士说，“而且有时，它会造成无法挽回的伤害。”

此外，你不需要“压抑”你的情绪，但你可以用更冷静的方式表达你的感受。

他们不期待对方能读心。戈尔德博士解释说，如果你对伴侣感到愤怒，那么心怀怨恨而不是提出你的需求，可能会让你觉得更有力。当她对丈夫感到愤怒或失望时，她会问自己：“我这里有什么未被满足的需求？是认同感、关注度，还是感激之情？”

她说，是的，这是治疗师的术语，但它有效，因为它有助于识别你渴望什么，并直接地表达满足感。

他们关注肢体语言。戈尔德博士告诉我，如果她和丈夫的争论在升级，他们会并排躺下。“如果你躺着，你就没有处于战斗姿态，”戈尔德博士说，“与那些四处跺脚或冲出房间的人相比，你的对抗性较低。”

我的一个朋友告诉我，他会和丈夫一起进行“争吵散步”来解决问题，现在我也这样做。行走是一种前进的形式，即使这只是象征性的。而且，当我们身处公共场合时，我们会因为尴尬而不敢大喊大叫。

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印度出现就业热潮：人们在训练人工智能来从事通常由人类完成的工作

数据标注员帮助机器人识别模式并做出决策

作者：JEREMY W. PETERS 和 HARI KUMAR

印度，卡鲁尔（KA3EUR）——人工智能繁荣的证据通常表现为那些容纳了英亩接英亩硬件设备的、低矮且像风洞一样的数据中心。但在印度数字技术的尖端，卡鲁尔市正充斥着人工智能崛起的人形迹象。

在任何一个工作日的下午晚些时候，技术实验室员工的标准身影在街道上出现，他们正在休息喝咖啡——这些 20 多岁的男女，公司 10-cards 从脖子上的挂绳上垂下。另一些人则在周末居家工作几个小时，通过在头上绑上 iPhone，在切蔬菜或铺床时按下录制键来增加收入。

他们工作于一个快速增长的人工智能领域，称为数据标注。至少在目前，这个领域需要人工参与。作为人工智能的持续后盾，数据标注员帮助修复漏洞并寻找人工智能模型的盲点，从而改进和完善那些驱动你的汽车、使装配线自动化以及跟踪零售店库存的程序。

这项工作可能比工程师在大学里接受的训练要单调且简单，需要花数小时在屏幕前逐帧检查视频。但随着人工智能能力改变公司设计和生产产品的方式——导致大学毕业生的编程等工作消失——数据标注正展示出像印度这样面临就业短缺且青年人口众多的国家是如何适应的。

25 岁的 Asowarya Palaniswamy 拥有数据分析硕士学位，去年在总部位于卡鲁尔的 Objectways Technologies 找到了一份工作。这是一家数据标注公司，其客户主要是在产品中使用人工智能的美国公司。Objectways 雇佣了 2,000 人，其中 200 人是在上个月雇佣的。

“永远会有数据，永远会有信息，”Palaniswamy 女士说道，她的语气充满自信，认为自己找到了一份具有韧性的工作，而此时人工智能已经使印度工人曾经从事的工资单处理和数据输入等工作自动化。她说，她的同事们观看快速扩张的物理人工智能领域（包括自动驾驶汽车和人形机器人）的产品片段，并在每一帧中记录人工智能模型执行任务的效果如何。

Objectways 的熟练入门级办公室工作每月薪资约为 $150 到 $200 —— 在像卡鲁尔这样拥有约 440,000 人口的小印度城市，这是一份舒适的薪水。而录制自身影像的非熟练工作，可用片段每小时支付 $2.34，是以自由职业形式完成的。

在印度，为快速增长的年轻成年人口（每月约有 100 万印度人进入该年龄段）寻找稳定的就业机会，对于总理纳伦德拉·莫迪及其执政的印度人民党（Bharatiya Janata Party）来说尤为紧迫。

年轻人缺乏机会是上个月爆发的关于教育的“undersech”抗议活动的驱动因素。莫迪先生一直致力于带领印度进入一个繁荣与现代化的黄金时代，他做出了一次罕见的让步，更换了他的教育部长。但对于毕业生缺乏技术性工作的潜在愤怒并不那么容易消除。

虽然像 Objectways 这样的数据标注公司大部分工作是为印度以外的公司完成的，但莫迪政府更希望看到本土的人工智能企业开发自己的应用程序，从而产生更大的经济影响。

领导该国信息技术使命的 S. Krishnan 在一次采访中表示，印度有机会将其最大的资源——14 亿美元人口——部署在人工智能经济中那些需要特定人类知识的环节。他说，这可能涉及翻译印度境内使用的多种语言或在重症监护病房监测病人等工作，目前这些工作正由印度公司承担。

克里希南先生补充说，印度应避免增加过多可能会像后台办公岗位那样消失的 A.I. 岗位，并表示：“我们必须寻求更高价值的技能型岗位。”根据一家政府智库 2022 年的一份报告，由于 A.I. 带来的颠覆，印度信息技术领域多达 130 万个工作岗位可能会消失。

人工智能可以提高效率的活动范围极其广泛，创业机会同样如此。

Puneet Jindal 是位于旁遮普邦的数据标注公司 1.4millers 的首席执行官兼创始人，她表示，随着 A.I. 开始为更多办公和居家产品提供动力，将需要更多来自不同人群、以多种语言收集的数据。

“印度是地球上多样性最强的国家之一，人们的工作方式多种多样，”Jindal 女士说，“你能从印度获得的规模是惊人的。”

一名承包商在卡鲁尔（Karur）家中用绑在头上的智能手机记录她的日常活动。下方是位于 Caintharam 的 Objectways 办公室，以及正在进行训练的印度手臂。在快速增长的数据标注领域，工作人员帮助 A.I. 改进其执行传统由人类完成的任务的方式。

在那些旨在完成目前人类自行处理的任务的机器人设备新兴市场中，情况尤其如此。

在 Objectways 位于卡鲁尔的实验室里（两名《纽约时报》记者于 7 月访问了该地），许多员工每天都在为一款旨在执行家务的人形机器人标注数据。其他项目还包括开发一种能通过向盲人描述周围环境来帮助他们的设备。

在最近的一次会议中，一名工作人员在真实的厨房里操作一对带有摄像头的机器人钳子，以便能够记录并分析它们执行各种家务任务的视频——例如捡起盘子、拧开水瓶盖并将内容物倒入杯中、整理物品。员工们在的测试厨房和浴室中重复这些任务。

“印度不再是世界的后台办公室了。”

KANT RAJAJINGAM，数据标注和 AI 服务公司的创始人。

“我们给机器人提供数据并告诉它‘从中学到’，” 的创始人兼首席执行官 Kavi Rajalingam 表示。

在与一家领先公司合作利用 A.I. 简化其申请流程后，他对该领域产生了兴趣。他在 2015, 年于家乡卡鲁尔创办了，因为他看到了让应届毕业生就业的机会。他说，他的妻子雇佣了首批 20 名员工。

的 Kavi Rajalingam（左起第二位）在帮助一家领先公司简化申请流程后看到了 A.I. 的潜力。

“印度不再是世界的后台办公室了，”Rajalingam 先生说。他承认他的许多岗位不需要工程学位，但补充道：“这是技术性的，他们可以学习 A.I. 模型。”他说，许多员工通过努力获得了晋升。

28, 岁的 Mohamed Ahar 已经获得晋升，现在负责监督在 Caintharam 公司办公室工作的 600 名员工，Caintharam 是一座较大的城市，位于卡鲁尔以西约两个半小时车程处。“这是一个巨大的工程，我们需要庞大的劳动力，”他说。

Ahar 先生在附近长大，是家族中第一个上大学的人。他说，200 人每天可以处理 70 小时机器人工作或自动驾驶汽车的视频。但这仍然不足以分析每天从公司客户那里传来的 1,000 小时视频。

分析估计，到本十年末，数据标注将为印度经济贡献高达 500 亿美元 billion。但对于说服经济学家和政策制定者该行业将使印度在 A.I. 竞赛中获得显著领先优势而言，这个规模仍然太小。

一些亚洲最大的经济体在人工智能投资方面进展缓慢。尤其是印度——在摩根士丹利的一份报告中被描述为“落后者”——直到 2024 年政府宣布一项 1250 亿美元的五年计划，才致力于其首个大规模的人工智能开发计划。起步缓慢意味着印度在应对因人工智能导致岗位过时而失去的技术工作时，缺乏足够的缓冲空间。

在 Objectways 公司，新员工们似乎很满足于成为那些协助数字化但至关重要的流程环节的人类。

25 岁的卡维·普拉萨德（Kavi Prasad）表示，去年他获得工程学位毕业时，从未想象过自己的工作会包含类似科幻小说的内容。

“如果有人告诉我 35 年后会有机器人给你端咖啡，我不会相信的，”他说。

但如今他的工作就是帮助确保这件事真正实现。“我们需要一个人来训练机器人，”他微笑着说。

纽约时报国际版 2026 年 8 月 22 日，星期六

布达佩斯特派报道

参观欧尔班的巢穴：景色宜人，但并不奢华

作者：安德鲁·霍金斯 (ANDREW HOGGINS)

布达佩斯 —— 菲律宾的长期独裁者费迪南德·马科斯在失去权力后遭受了屈辱。乌克兰的克伦诺瓦齐斯特（klenovacist）领导人维克托·亚努科维奇，以及罗马尼亚的共产主义暴君尼古拉斯·库森斯（Nicolas Coussens）亦然。

他们都拥有私人领地，多年来在除忠诚国家之外的所有地方被接纳，随后突然被公开。人们成群结队地穿过他们的住所，对那些永远下垂的、金币般的第纳尔以及奢侈的奢华感到厌恶并惊叹。

维克托·欧尔班在四月选举遭遇耻辱性失败前，担任匈牙利总理 16 年，他从未成为一个更深的人，但他的垮台仍然将他长期设立的内部回到ies（此处原文如此）公开在了公众的大门前。

在过去的三个月里，欧尔班先生位于一座经过合法翻修的 15 世纪加尔默罗会修道院（俯瞰多瑙河）的办公套房中，挤满了渴望窥视其国家被切割之房间的匈牙利人。

欧尔班先生的继任总理彼得·马扎尔在五月就职后，将这场完整的表演推向高潮，他访问了这座被称为“加尔默罗”（Carmelita）的前修道院，在空旷的、充满空气姿态权力的走廊中漫步，并宣布这里是欧尔班先生统治时期“大胆、开放且艰辛”的象征。

然而，作为一项旨在检查的政治剧场练习，加尔默罗的开放让一些访客感到失望。建筑内部并非特别华丽，看起来更像是一家位于 Saba 附近的高端精品店，而非一个演说带独裁者的享乐之所。

在马扎尔先生的叙述中，欧尔班先生的选举出局并非一次常规的民主过渡，而是“一次彻底的政权更迭”，并且是他所谓的“净化之火行动”的开始，即揭露并清除前政府的浪费与奢侈。

前总理的政治主任巴尔扎克·欧尔班（Balzac Orban）表示，马扎尔先生试图将其贬低。他说：“正如我感觉到政治动机总是指责我们是独裁者，但我们从未越界，”并指出欧尔班先生在没有抱怨的情况下接受了他的选举出局，并且没有尝试在加尔默罗保留他的财产。

“保守主义实验暂时结束了，我们将看看匈牙利人民是否喜欢这个新实验，”他说。马扎尔先生同样是一名保守主义者，但他的阵营中聚集了许多自由主义者。

在布达佩斯 cattle-duress（此处原文如此）的一座山丘上的加尔默罗导览游，让超过 25,000 人有机会看到挂在地面上的艺术品。匈牙利首都最著名的行政中心横跨多瑙河两岸。

“我很惊讶这竟然是同样的过渡，”一名当地 24, 在最近与丈夫访问后表示：“我预想会有更多的宏伟和卑微。”

她的丈夫安德拉斯·塞佩森（András Szepesen）是一位时尚的领导者——wholand（此处原文如此）。“我有点失望，”他说，并提到最昂贵且更“正确”的房间，即欧尔班先生内阁附近的一栋相邻建筑，包括一个雪茄室 —— 几乎被马扎尔先生在另一个独立环境中用胶水粘掉 —— 但在加尔默罗没有看到任何迹象。

也没有像乌克兰总统亚努科维奇在 1, 2016. 离开办公桌时留下的那个重四磅的实金纸车，形状像一个巨大的、宽阔的物体。甚至连欧尔班先生的办公桌也不在，他也带走访问了。

在繁忙的 golf 时期，唯一一件礼品是这里的电梯。由著名匈牙利艺术家创作的昂贵空气绘画装饰着墙壁，但它们全部是从国家借来的。

Anon. Arvic 参与了报道。

从上起顺时针方向：从匈牙利前领导人维克托·欧尔班办公室的阳台俯瞰多瑙河；他办公室旁的一间简朴卧室；多瑙河畔的一座花园；一本带有加密划线段落的圣经；一间摆放着博物馆借展艺术品的起居室。

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博物馆，因此在欧尔班先生搬出时，这些物品被留在了原地。位于二楼欧尔班先生主办公室旁的一间小卧室，其简朴程度几乎令人震惊。它看起来像是 1812 年的布置，只有一张狭窄的金属床架和一个纤维板柜子。“这样一个特殊的休息之所，”马扎尔先生在五月的实地访问期间说道。

公众的兴趣依然浓厚，拥有该建筑的国家财产机构限制仅允许在内部申请入场券的人员进入，

等待时间长达数周。由于现场没有展示奢靡生活的证据，马扎尔先生在参观卡梅利塔（Carmelita）期间，将注意力集中在欧尔班先生留下的两堆纸质碎片上，谴责他所谓的前政府试图销毁定罪文件的行为。

他说，欧尔班先生及其部长们“认为所有文件都可以被识别或删除——但我确信事实并非如此”。他说，他的新政府的一个优先事项将是成立一个国家资产回收与促进办公室，以追回并保护他认为被前政府夺走的国家资产。

法尔托斯（Faltos），欧尔班先生的前执政党，谴责新政府试图追回所谓

里程资产的行为，将其视为马扎尔先生“侵略性暴政”的证据。除了那些肩膀，几把椅子和桌子，一个装满古籍的图书馆以及借来的艺术品外，欧尔班先生及其工作人员几乎没有留下什么。他们在欧尔班先生办公室的前厅桌子上留了一本圣经，翻开的一页中有一段神秘的文字被划了线：“至高者在世上所有国中掌权，将国赐给谁就赐给谁，也立谁作王就立谁。”

没有人确定这旨在给新政府留下什么样的信息。

欧尔班先生并非特别虔诚，尽管他确实曾用粉笔在通往他办公室的门框上画了一个监狱标记并写下了一段祝福语。

对于游客来说，卡梅利塔的主要吸引力在于，多年来它在人们的想象中一直是一座封闭、秘密的堡垒；它坐落在山顶，欧尔班先生在那里策划将匈牙利转型为“不同的民主”。它每天出现在反对派媒体的报道中，作为欧尔班先生政治风格的象征：傲慢、自我封闭，且日益脱离选民的

关切。

在四月他的特斯塔（Testa）党赢得压倒性选举胜利后，马扎尔先生采取的首批行动之一就是宣布他不会搬进卡梅利塔，而是将总理办公室从马达（Mada）的一栋建筑搬到多瑙河另一侧、靠近议会区（Parlia-zone）的一栋办公楼里，那里是大多数人居住的平原地区。他在一次访问后表示，这将证明新政府决心打破欧尔班先生与匈牙利权力之间那种“傲慢且脱节”的关系。

前总理的政治主任对马扎尔先生决定不接管欧尔班先生在卡梅利塔的办公室表示不屑，嘲笑他的选择是针对一座“丑陋且无关紧要的建筑”进行调查。

在卡梅利塔建成 100 多年里，许多居民来来往往。这座三层建筑最初是为了安置一个致力于沉思祷告的严苛修道会而建的。这片土地此前曾是一座在匈牙利被占领期间建造的使馆所在地。

19 世纪末，在哈布斯堡皇帝解散

他们的修道会并将修道院改为剧院后，僧侣们被驱逐了。贝多芬和约瑟夫·海顿曾在那里演出。

这座剧院在几个世纪的动荡中幸存下来，但在第二次世界大战末期遭到严重破坏，当时纳粹军队及其匈牙利法西斯盟友在周边地区对推进的苏联红军进行了最后的顽抗。

战后经过翻修，Carmelita再次成为一座剧院，但在2016年被欧尔班先生的政府接管。在经历了数年的艺术用途后，2016年，欧尔班将他的办公室从议会搬到了这座建筑二楼的政府办公室，时间是在2018年。

这一举动引起了他的政治对手的愤怒，他们抱怨支出过度，尤其是欧尔班先生办公室外一座新建筑的建设。保护主义者指责欧尔班先生破坏了建筑的外立面，违反了罗德里格斯作为联合国教科文组织世界遗产地的地位。

此外：负责管理Carmelita的国家财产机构员工Kovacs表示，“在欧尔班先生搬进来之前，我们确实已经或者无法进入这座建筑。”在那之后，“它变得被政治化了。现在每个人都对此感兴趣。”

被监禁的

巴基斯坦

前领导人

接受检查

作者：MURIH NISHIM

伊斯兰堡，巴基斯坦 —— 巴基斯坦前总理伊姆兰·汗（In-tar Khan）于 1966 年被短暂转移至 Pashy 医院。首先，国家进行的首次补救性检查，以及医生和汗先生的妹妹所透露的情况显示，没有重大健康问题。

汗先生政党的两位领导人 Airi 先生和 Jain Badiant 先生确认，他在午夜后不久被转移。根据巴基斯坦信息部长 Abdullah Tarat 的说法，在由一组医生进行的检查（包括采集样本和检查）之后，汗先生在上午 11 点左右被转移回监狱。

医生宣布汗先生“身体健康”。Tarat 先生补充说，他的妹妹 Urma 医生在整个检查过程中不在场。

巴基斯坦最高法院在 Tanshin 曾下令，汗先生应被送往国家医院进行全面的医疗检查，并针对一项几乎持续了一段时间的病情进行治疗。法院还下令成立一个医疗委员会来评估其结果。汗先生的合作伙伴、医生及其妹妹参与其中，并授予其家人每周一次的探视权。法院还下令支付治疗费用。

但 Tarat 先生表示，由于汗先生的政党成员出现在 Shifa 医院附近，汗先生被带到了伊斯兰堡的一家公立医院——巴基斯坦医学科学研究所。在一次新闻发布会上，汗先生的妹妹指责政府违反法院命令，但同时也承认汗先生的健康状况良好。

第一步。在法院的首次亮相中，她习惯于就汗先生提出的关于医疗待遇、监狱条件以及接触医生和家人的各项请愿进行听证，以及一项与他其中一项判决相关的待决挑战。汗先生自 2022 年 8 月起被监禁，并于去年因腐败的公开指控被定罪。

关于汗先生医疗护理的裁决早于之前的法院命令，之前的命令仅强制要求治疗，但并未要求将其移出监狱，而这正是其家人和支持者数月来一直提出的要求。

关于其医疗护理的争端，是汗先生的支持者与巴基斯坦强大的编辑（editors）及执政党之间更广泛政治冲突的一部分，此前他与军事部门的关系恶化。汗先生在 2021 年的一次协调中被免职，对方称其因腐败指控而被监禁。

他及其政党——巴基斯坦商业信托（Pakistan business-a-trust）表示，腐败指控具有政治动机并得到了政治政党的支持。巴基斯坦政府否认这一点，并表示所提起的所有案件以及另一项定罪均是根据巴基斯坦法律执行的。

汗先生是一位具有极强地方追随者的魅力政治领袖，他曾在担任国家板球队队长期间成名，带领巴基斯坦赢得了 1992. 年唯一的世界杯冠军。随后他转向慈善事业，建立国家足球队并投身国家政治，并在 2016 年成为总理。

在过去一年中，人们对总理汗先生的健康状况日益关注。他的律师今年估计，在因眼部血栓接受治疗后，他的一只眼睛视力损失高达 80%。

近几个月来，在被转移至 Pishig 接受治疗后，汗先生曾数次在看守下被送往同一家医院，其中两次是为了进行眼科手术。

汗先生政党的官员一直推动让他接受私立医院的治疗，并由他选择的医生进行检查。他的支持者还就他在训练中的治疗情况举行了公开抗议。

一些官员在本周提交给法院的一份报告中表示，汗先生的视力已恢复到服务状态，他每天接受三次检查，且他与妻子已根据私密规则会面数十次。

他血压中记录的九次波动、心脏功能障碍、头痛以及压力增加的力量。该报告将其中大多数症状与患者接触报纸和电视的医疗权限联系起来。

汗先生已被监禁三年，期间失去了大量民众的支持。在 2021 年大选期间，他在投票前几天被判入狱。他被禁止接触医院、公共记录和私人记录。

这次选举发生在一场旨在中和汗先生及其政党的军方主导运动之后。其领导人和支持者被大量逮捕。

喀麦隆总统从国外返回，但疑问依然存在

作者：ZANE IRWIN

据国家媒体报道，在国外停留两个半月后，保罗·欧文（Paul Irwin）总统于周四返回喀麦隆，向政府交代其健康状况及必要计划。

自1991年就职以来，里亚（Mr. Riya）先生以频繁出国而闻名，据一些估计，他在国外的开支规模已达数百万美元。

喀麦隆当局在2016年禁止公开讨论该国的不当行为，以及围绕其主张的猜测。在他最近一次在瑞士的海外逗留期间，总统发布了官方声明，但并未在镜头前出现，也没有阐明其办公室所称的“简短私人行程”的目的。

周四，里亚先生的飞机降落在首都雅温得，喀麦隆广播电视台报道称，国家领导层已在迎接。一段无法独立核实的简短片段显示，里亚先生在进入汽车前与官员们握手。

国家电视台播出了大批民众在机场外唱歌跳舞的画面，其中许多人穿着印有里亚先生及其妻子尚塔尔（Chantal）头像的衣服，后者也是一位有影响力的公众人物。

在里亚先生不在期间，喀麦隆继续与武装冲突和政治不确定性作斗争。该国英语地区的武装分裂主义运动已进入其北年。在极北地区，与伊斯兰国有关的极端分子今年早些时候在牛津村（Oxford villages）发动威胁，试图扩大其影响力。而最近，在距离邻国中非共和国仅14英里的坦辛（Tanshin）发生的一场致命山体滑坡导致100人死亡，其中包括几名喀麦隆矿工。喀麦隆分析人士和记者表示，总统最近这次旅行是他规模最大且最令人不安的一次。华盛顿非营利组织国家国际事务民主研究所（National Democratic Institute for International Affairs）中非和西非项目区域总监克里斯托弗·福马尼奥克（Christopher Fomanyok）表示，这次逗留“削弱了他作为一名真正关注其人民和国家的领导人的形象”。

雅温得流传着关于总统家族及其亲信顾问在幕后进行接班安排的传闻。政府接管控制权的策略可能包括总统的法国新政里亚（French Riya）以及继子弗朗西斯·赫兹（Francis Hertz）——影响力巨大的第一夫人尚塔尔·里亚之子，以及坦桑尼亚北部阿伯丁大学（University of Aberdeen）国际关系讲师玛丽亚·拉卡努（Maria Lakanou）。福马尼奥克先生表示，在里亚先生的大规模政治格局中，其政党内部的派系也可能会在里亚先生之后走到前台。

4月，喀麦隆议会批准了一项宪法修正案，旨在动员副总统的职率，在总统死亡、无法就职或不能履行职责的情况下，由副总统接掌权力。但一些专家表示，里亚先生拒绝通过任命一名个人竞争对手来担任该职位。

“他没有任命副总统的原因是他知道这个职位是真正的接班路径，那么多族裔的人们就会把他踢下去，”拉卡努女士说。

里亚先生在2023年有争议的总统选举中承认了自己的角色。据人权观察组织（Human Rights Watch）称，政府以大规模逮捕和致命禁令回应了反对派的抗议。

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伊朗“经济D日”威胁背后：特朗普的局限性

作者：ANTON TRUMANTOKI 和 ALEX RAPPUPORT

华盛顿——美国财政部长斯科特·本内特（Scott Bennett）周四试图安抚对伊朗施压行动感到担忧的投资者，宣布恢复“大规模”战斗的可能性不大。

特朗普政府面临的问题是，伊朗同样具有耐受力。

特朗普总统本周承诺对伊朗发起一场“经济D日”，将其描述为对“卑劣”伊朗的一次“毁灭性”打击。美国方面旨在正式实施一种结合了战时破坏、全面封锁以及制裁的手段，这些手段已经使该国承受了数十年来最沉重的压力。

但在政府威胁的字里行间，本内特先生发出了一个至今仍有帮助的信号。特朗普先生现在不想重新卷入战争。总统正在对伊朗发起经济战，而他在今年早些时候已经花费数周时间对该国进行观察，且此后多次撤回了恢复暴力行动的威胁。

专家表示，因此，特朗普先生陷入了一场缺乏联邦杠杆、士气低落且面对一个成熟对手的冲突。尽管伊朗正遭受短缺和通货膨胀的困扰，但随着国家选举的临近，特朗普先生可能会面临更大的压力，因为他希望避免一场不受欢迎的战争和高昂的汽油价格。专家表示，这是一个危险的组合，会让伊朗将美国视为软弱且资金匮乏。

“他们现在将他视为不会升级军事行动的警告，”曾任总统伊朗问题谈判代表的丹尼斯·H·罗斯（Dennis H. Ross）表示。“我不确定交易员们推高原油价格是否正确，因为政府新的经济威胁表明，不应立即回归全面轰炸。”

本内特先生周四告诉 CNBC，财政部将就战争的新议题举行新闻发布会。关于战争的消息导致交易员们在未证实的情况下推高原油价格，而政府新的经济威胁则表明，不应立即回归全面轰炸。

“如果我们实施最大程度的经济压力，那么这意味着可能不会出现大规模的威胁，”本内特先生说。“但我要强调，这是目前的情况。”

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《纽约时报》的购物者本月。特朗普政府在数周的罢工后，实施了常规的公共标志经济。

特朗普先生周三晚上在社交媒体的一篇帖子中宣布，即将对伊朗发起“经济D日”，警告称将进行“前所未有的规模的经济战和孤立”。

特朗普先生面临的挑战之一是他多次威胁伊朗将遭受大规模破坏，但随后又撤回了威胁。他在六月份谈到，他担心一场持久战会将美国推入经济“大萧条”，且民调显示这种倾向并不受欢迎——甚至在共和党人中也日益如此——这为特朗普先生制造了一个政治上的阿喀琉斯之踵，因为他曾将其描述为嘲讽般的“玻璃结构”的冲突已接近六个月之久。

伊朗政权在最近几个月表明，它能够承受美国和以色列炸弹所带来的大规模死亡与破坏，并能通过包括干扰哈瓦那大港（Great of Havana）的所有事务在内的手段，让美国付出代价。美国的汽油价格仍比战争开始前每加仑高出超过一美元。

美国在波斯湾的军事损失严重。一名美国服务成员被杀，弹药不足。在此过程中，结束战争的协议一直难以达成——即使是在全面重新开放危机方面。

伊朗的韧性和报复行为似乎促使特朗普先生依赖经济压力，试图强迫伊朗就范。分析人士指出，该政府已经给伊朗经济带来了极大的痛苦，而特朗普先生对死亡的笃定——提醒着战争的危险以及轰炸行动。

周三出现了一次新的升级，位于波斯湾对岸、是伊朗关键经济伙伴的阿拉伯联合酋长国表示，将停止与该国的所有贸易和金融交易。

但对于特朗普先生来说，进一步采取行动可能会很困难。他在 Truth Social 的帖子中警告称，1%TV 的金额“向‘伊朗提供任何形式的生命线’将‘面临’面对”（审查：美国 / 美国经济后果：伊朗最重要的金融生命线是中国，而男孩必须是伊朗的所有）。

“中国是经济压力不可或缺的因素，”位于美国华盛顿的国防民主基金会高级研究员 Waal Mishki 表示，他此前曾在财政部负责制裁政策。

“没有任何替代者能像中国那样规模地吸收伊朗原油，”Mishki 先生在一条简讯中补充道。

但特朗普先生一直致力于改善他与中国领导人习近平的关系，后者预计将于 9 月 14 日访问华盛顿。分析人士表示，他们预计美国在对待中国时会保持谨慎，特别是考虑到即将举行的峰会，这使得美国针对伊朗的经济攻势还能在多大程度上升级成为一个开放性问题。

Bennett 先生告诉 CNBC，政府与中国就此事进行的对话将保持私密。

“伊朗一直受到全面的制裁，”外交关系协会 Mayotte & Cosmoberg 地球科学中心高级研究员兼主任 Edward Fishman 表示，目前剩下的主要任务是积极打击伊朗的顶层合作伙伴——尤其是中国。

他补充道：“我持怀疑态度。特朗普现在愿意冒风险挑起与中国的经济战。”

接下来的问题是，在严重的金融危机下伊朗将如何反应——特别是考虑到国际社会普遍认为特朗普先生希望避免重新陷入战争。前伊朗事务部长 Ross 先生表示，伊朗可能会被允许寻找一种向伊朗施加新军事压力的方法。由于美国拥有 200 个盟友，而这种预期反过来又凸显了特朗普先生长期危机处理的不确定性——例如汽油价格可能高企，当局已经，且弹药库存依然较低。

“我不确定在整个过程中，他们是否有能力思考除眼前下一步之外的事情，”Ross 先生在谈到该政府对待伊朗的方式时说。“他们在下格格棋（checkers），而不是在下国际象棋。”

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为什么中国认为在伊朗争端中特朗普会先退缩

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为了在亚洲投射力量，西方最近采取的行动包括将“华盛顿”号航空母舰移出该地区，以停止在中东的新行动。

在中国，中国外交部发言人周五表示，中国反对单边制裁，压力无法解决伊朗危机。

压力可能对该联盟失效的一个主要原因是，该国有能力切断向美国公司（包括美国武器制造商）供应关键矿产，而这些矿产在美国已经得到了应用。

中国在去年通过切断关键矿产出口，迫使特朗普先生暂停一场激烈的贸易战时，证明了这种手段的力量。该方向在很大程度上得到了维持。

在特朗普先生计划迎接中国最高领导人习近平进行自 2016 年以来首次对华盛顿进行国事访问前近一个月，经济后果的威胁引发了人们对该危机持久性的质疑。

特朗普先生和习近平先生上次于 5 月在北京会晤，中国将这次峰会解读为非常成功。特朗普先生没有在台湾（北京主张的自治岛）地位等失效问题上挑战习近平先生，并且在赞扬时非常高效，称习近平先生为一名“优秀的领导人”。

“我怀疑任何一方都不希望伊朗破坏习近平即将对美国进行的访问。特朗普总统显然非常重视他与习近平的关系以及这次访问本身，”北京研究机构中国与全球化研究中心的对外政策分析师王梓辰表示。

王先生表示，特朗普先生的威胁还可能被俄罗斯利用。

“目前，特朗普总统关于伊朗的个人声明在信用上已经大打折扣，”王先生说。

在特朗普先生警告的背景下，中国在中东的利益是微妙的。北京在该地区选择了战略合作伙伴，并遵循旨在削弱美国全球权力的国际体制。与此同时，中国与伊朗的一些竞争对手（如沙特阿拉伯）的关系也有所改善，后者可能提供比德黑兰更大的经济机遇。

目前尚不清楚特朗普政府将如何促使中国削减与伊朗的贸易往来。本内特先生表示，他将在周一举行新闻发布会以提供更多细节。

“美国并不受美国制裁的影响，因为它们通常与全球金融系统脱节。美国无法在运载伊朗石油前往中国炼油厂的船只上产生经济影响，或者它可以加强对帮助伊朗处理从该试剂（reagent）作为付款而收到的中国货币的银行的审查。中国还储备了数月分量的石油，通过从俄罗斯的海外采购，以应对通过财政最大值流量的减少。”

加强对帮助伊朗处理从该试剂（reagent）作为付款而收到的中国货币的银行的审查。

中国还储备了数月分量的，通过从俄罗斯的海外采购，以应对通过财政最大值流量的减少。

中国获得折扣伊朗油的能力也可能迫使北京在其他地方购买更多，这可能会推高全球价格。

“美国不是一场外国战争，”北京中国布鲁塞尔大学国际关系教授 Data Training 表示，“它可以延迟并导致周一。”

“美国，”它也将损害自身，这不符合任何一个国家的利益。”

定居者进入村庄导致一名青少年死亡

作者：ADAM KANGON

特拉维夫 —— 官员表示，周五在西岸城市希伯伦附近的一个村庄，一名巴勒斯坦青少年在以色列定居者进入时被杀。该地区是该领土内暴力频发的区域，已引发国际谴责。

近几周，针对巴勒斯坦人的定居者暴力升级，与此同时，他们面临着来自多方面的压力，包括来自以色列的巨大经济压力，以及大规模的流离失所和定居点对他们土地的侵占。“对于以色列政府而言，我们正在推进一项长期计划，在西岸的关键部分为定居者建造新房屋，这被犹太复国主义者、妇女、民众和其他谴责为一项工作。”

“为了向巴勒斯坦观众提供卫生部的信息，我们将提供最新的受害者，即 Karmen Shialdeh。”巴勒斯坦和以色列当局对事件的描述不一。

该村庄的市长 Saad Shialdeh 称该村为 Sair，他表示一大群定居者乘坐约 10 辆汽车袭击了村庄，导致一人死亡，并纵火焚烧财产。

“这些人是，”他在一次电话采访中说道，并表示他的陈述是基于与目击者的对话。他说他是死者青少年的远亲。

以色列军方表示，在收到巴勒斯坦人向以色列平民投掷石块的报告后，士兵被派往 Sair 地区。军方补充说，以色列人是在没有事先授权的情况下出现在该地区的。

声明称，一名“安全官员向他保证‘巴勒斯坦人伤亡’”，但未明确该灾难是否由一名士兵造成。以色列平民在事件中也受伤，随后事件结束。

导致定居者进入村庄的起因仍不清楚。当被问及以色列军方的陈述时，市长 Shialdeh 先生表示他并不知晓巴勒斯坦人投掷石块的情况。

该地区居民，41 岁的 Asad Tharova 表示，第二名巴勒斯坦人被枪击并被送往希伯伦的一家医院。该市 Ahl 医院的一位官员 Khalid of Israel 表示，一名来自 Sair 的伤员被送往急诊室。

周五的事件发生在该政府公布在耶路撒冷附近的一个西岸定居点建造房屋的计划之后。该项目被称为 E1。

在过去的一天里，包括法国、加拿大和英国在内的 12 个国家发表了一份共同声明，谴责以色列的进一步行动。他们表示，“必须两国方案的前景，因为这在西岸制造了分裂，并损害了巴勒斯坦人口的领土连续性。”

国际社会的大部分成员将西岸视为任何未来巴勒斯坦国家的核心部分。

大约二十年来，E1

Karmen Shialdeh 的遗体，周五在西岸城市希伯伦的 E1。第二人受伤。

计划在以色列的官僚程序中陷入僵局。但包括奥巴马和拜登政府在内的强烈国际反对，使得该群体。

这种情况在现任以色列政府（以色列历史上最右翼的政府）领导下发生了变化。

英国外交大臣 Ed Millbank 在社交媒体的一篇帖子中表示，该计划的公布是“不公正且具有破坏性的”。

以色列外交部长 Gabon Sair 向 Millbank 发起抨击，后者该地区，其人民有权在整个 Laurel Israel 居住，并提及了地中海与约旦河之间所有的土地。

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关于制裁

作者：KOREAN WINTER

一名伊朗高级官员周五表示，在特朗普（Trump）失效后，其国家将寻求减轻经济制裁的影响，以避免其激进地加强对德黑兰的压力活动。

“我们制定计划应对不公正的制裁，以便我们能够最终摆脱，”这位伊朗官员穆罕默德·拉格尔·加利巴德（Mohammad Ragher Ghalibad）在其社交媒体频道的一篇帖子中表示。他是与美国谈判的主要谈判代表，当时他正在巴格达面对由伊朗和伊拉克代表组成的集会。

在特朗普总统本周承诺将给该国带来一场“经济 D-Day”之后，他并未详细阐述伊朗可能如何规避进一步的制裁。在一个关于潜在更多冲突的非洲论坛上，加利巴德先生的评论是德黑兰近日来最直接的承认之一，即制裁已经开始且需要被管理。

美国已经对伊朗的经济和领导层实施了削弱性的制裁。特朗普政府此前对与德黑兰贸易的外国企业和组织实施了制裁。但华盛顿本周暗示，中东地区正在采取进一步措施，以针对购买伊朗石油的国家。

预计将在周一的新闻发布会上阻碍新措施的默里秘书斯科特·本内特（Scott Bennett）在周四晚上写了一篇社交媒体帖子：“通过，德黑兰将加速一个国家的经济湮灭，无论那是通过适当构建还是被有意忽略。”

自 1970 年革命使伊斯兰共和国掌权以来，伊朗一直试图通过使其经济多样化来削弱数十年的美国制裁。其中，美国一直在打击新市场，尤其是石油市场。

最近，它试图通过扩大陆路贸易来绕过持续的美国海军封锁。

伊朗总统马苏德·富索坎（Masoud Fousokhan）本月早些时候表示，从中国进入该国的火车数量已从每周一列增加到每天三列，且伊朗还试图增加通过阿塞拜疆和其他国家的贸易。

据伊朗国家媒体报道，伊朗议会经济委员会主席沙姆斯丁·侯赛因（Shamsuddin Hussain）周四表示，伊朗减少对南部地区的依赖至关重要，因为美国封锁就在那里，且应扩大东北部东部边境的贸易路线。

报道称，侯赛因先生表示：“为了摆脱现状，经济政策的路径将发生更多改变。”

这些努力不太可能弥补通过其南部地区所能花费的巨额资金。

德黑兰商会最大管理委员会的副主席，这位阿拉伯伊朗新闻领导人本月表示，当伊朗最近试图通过德黑兰增加陆路货物时，边境当局迅速变得超负荷。他补充说，阿拉伯政府的意见可能有助于将货物运入伊朗，但仅限于一定程度。

特朗普最近关于经济社会主义的威胁表明，这是一种重新危险的措施，旨在避免与伊朗发生全面军事对抗，该对抗始于 2020 年 2 月的大规模美以袭击。

在巴格达，加利巴德先生告诉商业代表们：“美国人和以色列人已经意识到，他们无法在常规军事战争中控制伊朗和伊拉克。”

“因此，”他补充道，“他们进入了船长战争且未受监管，现在你们就是这个后盾上的士兵和指挥官。”

自 6 月的交火以来，这场战争已演变为一场经济冲突，外交进展微乎其微。

这场战争和美国对该国的封锁，鉴于沉重的刑事重要产业，以及紧张局势正与极高的通货膨胀共同演进。

本周，伊朗的主要贸易伙伴阿拉伯联合酋长国宣布，将停止与德黑兰的所有贸易和金融交易。分析人士表示，阿联酋在伊朗国际制裁的演变过程中起到了关键作用，尽管阿联酋官员对此予以否认。

— AAP、Ndounazar 和 Sigourdi Turban 协作报道。

77岁，她在嗡嗡作响且充满敌意的天空下，从“地狱”中徒步走了数英里

离开这座被认为风险过高而无法进入的城市的唯一途径

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去年秋天开始重新进行研究。就在那时，人道主义援助的交付停止了。

伊万诺娃女士的住所于 12 月 17 日的一次袭击中被击中。道路坍塌，窗户被震碎。两天后，她的客厅在第二次袭击中被击中。

然而，她的家人很悲伤。他们与邻居一起在一座五层建筑的地下室中避难。在低于冰点的温度下，他们盖着三层毯子，戴着手套和帽子，在露天火堆上的砖块上烹饪常规的粮食援助。

76 岁的伊万诺夫先生已卧床八年，他于 1 月 12 日去世。伊万诺娃女士将他安葬在院子里。

情况变得更加糟糕。一名住在他们地下室的男子在 3 月 14 日的一次袭击中丧生。另一人在第二天为第一人挖掘坟墓时被杀。

这使得最后只有七个人留在那个破旧的避难所中。伊万诺娃一家、一位名叫特蒂亚娜·什穆赫（Tetyana Shmukh）的朋友，以及一个三人家庭。

随着俄罗斯在 3 月、4 月以及进入 5 月期间持续发动攻击，伊万诺娃女士留了下来。即使他们的物资枯竭，即使其他人冒险徒步逃离城市，即使市长也将他们置于险境，他们依然留了下来。

随后，在 5 月 23 日，伊万诺娃女士说，他们意识到自己再也无法继续待在那个地下室里了。人们的耐心和神经已经到了极限。

一段致命的路程

他们最初尝试安全步行离开的努力以失败告终。伊万诺娃一家和什穆赫女士到达了一片森林，但无法进入一片由十棵或更多枯树组成的区域。在忍受了三小时的脱水后，他们意识到针对该区域的炮击很快就会开始。他们做出了一个令人心碎的决定：原路返回。

在精疲力竭且心灰意冷地返回后，他们给市长打了电话，说他们只能听天由命。市长说他们应该休息几天，但必须再次尝试。他们重新整理了在第一次尝试中让他们感到沉重的背包，拿掉了不必要的物品，将 10 双内衣和袜子减至 5 双。

在这次失败的尝试两天后，在伊万诺娃先生度过了一个因焦虑而无法入睡或进食、只能祈祷的夜晚之后，她和她的女儿们——奥莎、西特和特蒂亚娜（Sit），准备在凌晨 1:30 出发，因为那个时间点空中的无人机通常较少。他们穿着单薄，没有穿厚衣服。行走和恐惧将让他们保持温暖。

什穆赫先生加入了他们，其他家庭成员留在屋内，包括他们受伤的 11 岁儿子。该小组携带了一些必需品，并将部分物品放在两辆自行车上，然后开始步行。

这一次，他们根据市长的建议采取了不同的路线——一条更长的环形道路。

伊万诺娃一家被摧毁的家，在两次不同的袭击中直接命中。这家人在用作避难所的一栋公寓楼地下室里做饭。

他们经过了被摧毁的建筑。他们经过了相距两条轨道的铁路，然后是被烧毁的森林。他们经过了军用车辆的残骸，并在布满弹坑的高速公路上看到了军装的碎片。

他们继续前进，因为太害怕了，甚至不敢停下来喝一口水。无人机在飞行，而炮击通常在上午 7 点之后开始。

来自地下室的另一个家庭难以跟上。那个儿子因为早前俄罗斯的一次袭击，背部有两块碎片，无法行走。

但伊万诺娃一家和什穆赫女士继续前行，并不断祈祷。道路上方的反无人机装置几乎没有提供任何保护。下方被摧毁的民用和军用车辆说明了这种保护是多么匮乏。他们知道利曼（Lyman）的其他人在走这段路时被杀害了。

伊万诺娃女士精疲力竭。“我走在路上的样子像个醉汉，站不稳，踉踉跄跄地摔倒，”她回忆道。

在经过 4 小时 28 分钟后，西罗夫斯基无人机河（Sirovskyi Drones River）出现在视线中。伊万诺娃女士的女儿特蒂亚娜小时候曾在那里钓鱼，她跑在前面寻找过河点并大声呼喊。

乌克兰士兵从河岸的灌木丛中出现。市长已经告诉他们会有人接应伊万诺娃一家。士兵们给这些女性提供了水，并让他们在灌木丛中躲避。

背包和物品被装进一只小木船，通过绳索在深绿色的水面上被拉过，这些绳索在整个战争期间一直被用于士兵和订书机。女性们随后过河——每次两人一组，穿着被劫持的背心。

看到将载她过河的那只布满弹片伤痕的船，伊万诺娃女士说她“非常害怕”。她后来告诉女儿们，如果她知道过河意味着什么，她宁愿留在原地，“和我那个被埋在院子里的男人在一起”。士兵们试图安慰她的泪水，拍着她的肩膀并承诺将把他们送到“联系点”。

当他们到达对岸时，伊万诺娃一家沿着河岸走上了道路。

“你无法想象我们当时看起来是什么样子，”伊万诺娃女士笑着说。

更多的士兵在那里迎接他们，引导这些女性登上 1 辆车，并指示她们“抓紧”。

“我们处于震惊之中”

她们穿过一片森林，走过 1070 码，来到公路边，由等待在那里的军用车辆将她们送往位于 Slovianok 的一个疏散中心，我们在那里与她们会面。她们在上午 10 点左右抵达，身上还沾满泥土。

她们说，随后洗澡时，那是几个月来第一次有热水触碰到她们的皮肤。

特蒂亚娜·伊万诺娃（Tetyana Ivanova）的朋友头发还湿着，她称这里是一片绿洲。

“我们今天步行走了出来，走了 11 公里？”她惊呼道。在地下室度过了几个月且没有手机信号后，她带来了其他消息。“我的父亲去世了，我们把他埋葬了，”她说。

人道主义工作人员给这些女性带来了午餐。七个月来，她们一直梦想着能吃到面包和冰淇淋以外的东西。尽管如此，她们还是无法进食。

“我们处于震惊之中，”伊万诺娃女士蜷缩在行军床上解释道。

她坚称自己在步行后感觉良好。但由于脚踝肿胀，且切入了捐赠的一双黑金相间凉鞋，情况显然并非如此。不过，此时此刻，脚步是否稳健已不再重要。

“我们从地狱逃了出来，”伊万诺娃女士说。“就像人们说的，我们采取了 30 / 30 的机会——无论他们是杀掉我们，还是把我们扔在路上，”她补充道。“五十对五十——没什么可失去的。”

中国初创公司首次实现可回收火箭着陆

作者：ABEEL MANSAT

据官方媒体周三报道，一家中国航天公司首次实现了进入太空的火箭底部的回收，标志着该国在将其部分人类利益转化为实际能力方面取得了进展。

此次成功是在上个月回收了另一枚火箭的助推级（即第一级）之后实现的，而那次并非由私人公司主导。该飞行器由一家国有企业单位运营，而“Sovietey”的突破则是由一家私人初创公司——蓝箭航天（LandSpace）实现的。

回收火箭助推器将使中国卫星制造商能够将此作为首要任务之一，并在全球太空市场中更好地竞争。

乔治城大学安全与新兴技术中心的高级研究分析师凯瑟琳·克拉克（Kathleen Clarke）在周三的一次采访中表示：“中国已经准备好在不同的潜在太空市场中采取行动，并且采取了最常见的措施，但他们只需要实现发射能力，才能真正释放其经济效益。”

“现在他们已经有了多次成功的经验，可以转向领先的可回收火箭，”她说。“这给了他们极大的空间，能够规模化地发展这些公司，从而对美国公司产生更多影响。”

中国仍远落后于其首批竞争对手，尤其是由埃隆·马斯克（East-Musk）领导的私人太空巨头 SpaceX。SpaceX 在 2015. 首次实现了 Falcon 8-under-2, 的助推器着陆。现在的 Falcon 9 几乎每天都在发射

LAVON M. HANNA, 76, (1975), 27, 28

新华社发布的一张图片显示了由国有企业蓝箭航天（LandSpace）运营的 Zhuxpo-2 火箭。

并回收助推器。另一家承包商——由亚马逊创始人杰夫·贝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）创立的蓝色起源（Blue Origin），去年首次实现了其 New Glenn 火箭助推器的着陆。

克拉克女士表示，这是中国追求太空主导权的核心国家战略的一部分，周三的发射和助推器着陆是朝着这一目标迈出的又一步。

据中国官方通讯社新华社报道，在起飞约 2 分钟 20 秒后，可回收火箭 Zhuxpo-2 的第一级和第二级完成了分离。

新华社称，火箭第一级在中国西北部甘肃省的指定回收地点“平稳”降落。第二级继续飞行并将一颗卫星送入轨道。

在全球太空市场中提升竞争力的迹象。

中国公司此前一直使用一次性火箭发射卫星，让其部件掉回地球或落入海洋。7月，政府机构中国运载火箭技术研究院在南海利用船上的网回收了长征 108 火箭的第一级。

中国旨在成为与美国并肩的太空强国，并拥有一项将宇航员送上月球的雄心勃勃的计划。中国还在构建两组卫星星座，希望在轨道上能与 SpaceX 的星链（Starlink）卫星相抗衡。

超过 10,000 颗星链卫星约占所有在轨活跃卫星的三分之二，其中许多卫星为全球偏远和缺乏信息的地区提供高速宽带。到目前为止，中国的两组星座合计仅有 400 颗卫星。

部分可重复使用的 SpaceX 猎鹰 9 号（Falcon 9）火箭（其第一级可垂直返回发射场）彻底改变了太空产业。它使该公司能够快速连续地将卫星送入轨道。

中国近期在助推器回收方面取得的突破，正使其太空产业走上缩小差距的道路。

“这起到了启动作用，因为它使中国的卫星通信产业更具竞争力，”克拉克女士说道，并展示了中国电信设备和智能手机制造巨头相关单位的增长对比。

“它能够实现规模化并在全球范围内提供服务，以一种强有力的方式产生变革，”她说。“由于它提供了一个更便宜的太空替代方案，各国和不同用户愿意忽略使用中国通信系统的安全风险。”

克拉克女士表示，一旦中国公司部署了互联网卫星星座，其他国家可能会将其视为“星链的替代方案”。

尽管如此，一两次成功的发射并不意味着成功。

“第一次之后，他们必须在某个阶段继续创新，共同努力，并证明这是一种可重复的衡量标准，而不仅仅是偶然现象，”她说。

美国国务院称一名学者在中国被错误拘留

作者：KARININ DEMBIRAN

华盛顿 —— 美国国务院周四宣布，一名与中国相关的美国学者因间谍罪于 6 月被拘留，现被认定为被错误拘留。

据国务院称，被拘留的美国公民 U.Nba-Zin 在受中国政府邀请前往参加学术会议后，在中国云南省失踪。

“我们呼吁北京释放被在中国任意拘留或被禁止出境的美国公民，”负责全球事务的助理国务卿 Dylan Johnson 在社交媒体上写道。“美国公民的安全与保障是国务院的最高优先级。”

这一正式认定是在特朗普总统预计将接待中国国家主席习近平进行正式访问的一个月前做出的，此前特朗普先生于今年春季访问了北京。

与此同时，在特朗普先生和五角大楼近期缩减与韩国的军事演习规模后，美国在亚太地区的盟友（某国的一名人士）对美国帮助防御中国及其伙伴的意愿感到担忧。

Min Zin 先生是一位政治学家，也是一家总部位于缅甸的战略与政策小组的执行主任，不过在 2021 年该国（原名缅甸）发生军事政变后，该机构转移了总部。他被拘留的中国省份与缅甸接壤。

居住在泰国的 Min Zin 先生曾为《纽约时报》等美国新闻机构的评论版块撰写关于缅甸政治的文章。他的被捕发生在缅甸总统 Min nung Hlaing 对中国进行为期五天访问的两周前，以及特朗普先生对北京进行国事访问的三周后。

自重返以来，特朗普先生对中国采取了较为温和的立场，以追求特朗普和习近平政府官员所称的两个大国之间的“保守战略稳定”。Min Zin 先生的被捕使这一轨迹变得复杂。

他是两名被国务院正式宣布在中国被错误拘留的美国公民之一。另一位是 Under Chen，一名学者，于 2024 年在尝试返回美国时在北京机场被拘留。

根据法律，美国政府有义务将那些在海外被认定为被错误拘留的人员视为外国政府的人质，并致力于确保其获释。

Chen 博士的家人今年表示，特朗普先生将在北京的一次会议上向习近平先生提出他的案件。

Min Zin 先生领导的组织——缅甸战略与政策研究所（Institute for Strategy and Policy Myanmar）赞扬了国务院的努力，并敦促特朗普政府将其释放“作为最高优先级，特别是在下个月习近平主席访问并会见特朗普总统之前”。

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美国与加拿大贸易谈判进入密集阶段

作者：NESTRA STEVEN GRISHNEFF

多伦多 —— 随着达成贸易协议的截止日期临近，加拿大和美国的谈判代表于周五前往华盛顿进行了密集谈判。

关于此次谈判的具体情况尚不明确，尽管特朗普总统在本周早些时候称其取得了成功，并将其描述为一项“不错的协议”。但讨论重点集中在构成两国之间更广泛贸易分歧的一系列问题上。

此次谈判是由特朗普先生在7月份发出的威胁所促成的，他威胁要对价值约 5200 亿加元的加拿大商品提高关税，而目前针对金属、皮革和汽车等加拿大主要产业的关税已经实施。

与此同时，特朗普政府拒绝确保美国-墨西哥-加拿大自由贸易协定（T-MEC）的长期稳定性，将其置于年度审查之中，并导致当前状态出现波动。

新关税的最初截止日期定在本周早些时候，但特朗普先生将其推迟到了周五 —— 新关税将于周六凌晨 12:01 a.m. 正式生效 —— 他称这是谈判取得的良好进展。

在加拿大方面，让步已初见端倪。总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）首次在

周三下午与加拿大各省领导人通话时，卡尼先生要求他们审查该问题。其次，必须执行的是去年为报复美国对加拿大关键产业征收关税而采取的销售措施，而该问题已成为特朗普政府的零点。

马尼托巴省省长基纽（Kinew）周四告诉记者，他要求卡尼先生审查一份关于美国货架上加拿大产品的紧急报告，并将其留在那里。

“我们必须公开说这是有史以来最好的协议吗？我们认为这就是全部吗？我们必须迎合唐纳德·特朗普的签名吗？不，我认为我们不需要。”基纽先生在谈到这项初步协议时说道。

另一项加拿大显然做出的让步将是取消对美国汽车的报复性关税。加拿大还可能放弃在今年之后建立或使用包含服务和研究的美国出口渠道的措施，这些措施旨在保护和支持加拿大竞争对手。

据熟悉谈判情况并因讨论外交事务而要求匿名的美国和加拿大人士透露，谈判仍在进行中，且远不止于完成剩余工作。

的重点集中在特朗普先生去年对其征收高达 50 percent 关税的三大加拿大关键产业：钢铁、铝和皮革。三名熟悉计划的人士表示，美国已讨论将部分加拿大钢铁和铝出口产品的关税从 50 percent 降低至 25 。但这仍大约是加拿大目前运作税率的两倍。

且只有一定数量的加拿大钢铁出口将符合拟议的较低关税

位于安大略省汉密尔顿的安赛乐米塔尔（ArcelorMittal）孤儿钢铁厂。加拿大钢铁是美国 50 关税的目标之一。

额度，另一位熟悉谈判的人士表示。民主地，特朗普政府正面临来自美国钢铁厂对该提案的 7.02亿反对，这些工厂认为特朗普将支持其生产。

三位其他行业高管表示，对于汽车行业，特朗普先生去年征收的关税可能会从 25 降低到 10 ，并根据美国零部件的价值给予折扣。

尽管过去几天的氛围较为积极，但两国之间的关系在特朗普先生的第二个任期内极少像现在这样紧张。

这位总统上个月称“加拿大的领导层”为“近乎”，并多次暗示将加拿大作为第一个被质疑在没有美国有利评论的情况下能否保持独立能力的国家。

卡尼先生在掌权之初被视为一名精通财务的专家，旨在研究特朗普总统的动向并与其进行对话。他在任期间的大部分时间都在尝试

迅速扩大加拿大与其他地区（尤其是亚洲和欧洲）的贸易与投资联系。一个国家的制造者 40, 总统们在美国。

在国内，他将面临一项挑战，即在公众以及像安大略省和不列颠哥伦比亚省这样的省级政府之间进行协调。这项新兴协议对国家是有利的，尽管它包含了长期痛苦，形式为针对那些国家受控行业的持续（尽管有所降低）的关税。

副总统 JD Vance 在南安普顿的一次年轻共和党医生筹款活动中，将卡尼先生的谈判

风格描述为联邦贸易中的一种烟雾时尚。美国早些时候的长期期限由加拿大新闻社（The Canadian Press）发布。

万斯先生在公开集会上告诉与会者，卡尼先生“走进来，挺起胸膛说，‘我要，先生，不粗鲁。我被告知。’特朗普，”报告称。

“我们是床垫，因为卡尼将这呈现为美国和加拿大的某种胜利，而且，就像他们在很多问题上退让了，”万斯先生补充道。

哈里及其他人必须向出版商支付 1300万美元

作者：STEPHEN CASTLE

伦敦 —— 哈里王子及另外六位英国知名人士在周五被法院命令向《每日邮报》（The Daily Mail）的出版商支付 $5.3400 万的初步款项（约 300万美元），此前他们在一场针对该公司的隐私诉讼中败诉。

今年 7 月，包括歌手埃尔顿·约翰（Elton John）和演员利兹·霍利（Liz Horley）在内的原告团体试图就 1993 年至 2011 年间涉嫌电话窃听及侵入成员私生活的指控起诉出版商关联报业（Associated Newspapers），但未能成功。

周五，伦敦高等法院的一名法官命令他们必须在 8 月 20 日前支付一笔“预付款”，以补偿报业公司在该案中产生的高额费用。

在总结裁决的书面声明中，法官马修·尼克林（Matthew Nicklin）先生表示，“合理的预付款金额为 $3,344,337。”

这位职称为高等法院法官的尼克林法官拒绝为该公司可能申请的最终支付总额设定上限。法官表示，他们最终可能需要支付高达 1454万美元，而关联报业称其截至 2010 年产生的费用为 $1,000,000。

然而，他在完整的裁决中表示，关联报业的费用“显得异常之高”且“在很大程度上未得到解释”，在法院案件中，由于某些未能确定最终适当金额的情况。

法官的裁决出台之际，正值哈里王子及其妻子开始公开表示将返回英国，与王室子女以及哈里王子的父亲 I 团聚。针对关联报业的法院诉讼，以及哈里王子的儿子，该女性针对英国学校发起的诉讼，他与对方曾有过一段

1 月份在针对关联报业的审判期间，哈里王子在伦敦。他与一组原告一起，就电话窃听和侵入私生活的指控提起诉讼。

严肃的关系。

被命令支付初步款项的最糟糕原告包括哈里的埃隆·约翰及其丈夫大卫·福雷斯特（David Forester）、前立法者西蒙·休斯（Simon Hughes）。这些演员曾处于前沿且 (a) 因此，以及上议院成员和社会正义活动家丹尼斯·劳伦斯（Dennis Lawrence），其儿子是 2003 年一起臭名昭著的种族主义谋杀案的受害者。

这些最糟糕的原告指控私人侦探窃听电话、审问语音邮件消息并诱骗人们交出信息以获取电话号码、医疗记录和账单。

在审判期间，在法庭上提供证据的人员包括从美国飞抵的哈里，他声称在现场缺失。关联报业的现任和前任员工也出庭，否认。

歌手埃尔顿·约翰（Elton John）和演员利兹·霍利（Liz Horley）也加入了其中。

否认有任何不当行为。在7月的一项裁决中，法官判定哈里和其他知名原告未能证明“所投诉的信息是通过非法手段获取的”。

在周五的声明中，法官拒绝了原告团体将诉讼费用上限设定在 £1800 万和 £2000 万之间的请求，理由是这样做将“面临失去一项司法评估的风险，而该评估在现阶段看来是一个合理的制度”。

他补充道：“这将容易被指责为是随意而为；同时也会给 Associated 带来不公平的风险，因为这将剥夺 Associated 证明（正如证据必须是恰当的一样）超出上限的费用是合理产生机会。”

然而，他明确表达了对该法院状态的怀疑，第一家报业集团声称：“我认为超过 £1800 万的费用申请在表面上是过高的，并且引发了真正的担忧，即 Associated 所申请的时间是否是合理产生的，以及是否在预先阶段就是合理的，”他写道。

根据英国法律出版物《法律协会公报》（The Law Society Gazette）报道，提起诉讼的名人团体拥有法律保险，在败诉的情况下可覆盖 £1620 万的费用。

德国在发现武器后揭露一起阴谋

作者：CHRISTOPHER E SCHUETZ

柏林——德国武器部门正在调查一起旨在实施政治性付费行为的阴谋，该行为可能由外国势力指使，其依据是在柏林郊外发现的物品，内政部周五表示。

虽然内政部长亚历山大·德布吕尔（Alexander DeBruhl）谨慎地没有指名任何国家，但这一消息传出之际，人们对破坏活动的担忧日益增加。他说，“典型的”，欧洲各国政府在公开和私下场合都将其归咎于俄罗斯。

“这个案例表明，我们是在风险水平较高的假设下开展工作的，”德布吕尔先生在新闻发布会上表示，并指出他今年已将威胁等级从“抽象”提升至“高”。

德国警方正在调查一名被认为参与隐藏在柏林附近发现的两件武器和弹药的低级行动人员。该男子的姓名尚未公开，他目前因另一项事务在罗马尼亚被拘留。

当局并未透露关于该非法阴谋的详细信息。但负责监督此案的德国联邦检察官正在调查该男子是否涉嫌从事外国特工活动，以及除该男子之外的另一名可能危险的人员（两者均为刑事代理人），如果被起诉并定罪，将面临严重的监禁时间。

一名伦敦国王学院的安全研究教授（罗马尼亚人）表示，如果证据显示俄罗斯对此负责，德国政府在公开表态和采取应对措施之间将面临艰难的平衡。

“一方面，你希望明确这件事会有后果，这样普京就不会将其视为软弱的迹象，”他在谈到俄罗斯总统普京的发现时说道。“另一方面，你不想与俄罗斯陷入直接冲突。”

本月，在莱比锡-哈勒机场（Leipzig-Halle Airport）的地面上发现了一架侦察无人机，该机场是将物资运往乌克兰的主要航空枢纽。机场的监控视频显示，该无人机在坠地前击中了的一架乌克兰运输机的机翼，但未能爆炸。

德国当局尚未对该事件定名。

在他的审查中，一处运往乌克兰物资的波兰铁路被炸弹破坏，波兰检察官已将此次袭击认定为由为俄罗斯情报部门工作的人员发起的破坏活动。西方官员将另外几次袭击归咎于俄罗斯，包括一系列进入东欧领空的无人机入侵、在欧洲发生的G79干扰以及在货机上放置次级装置的阴谋。

德布吕尔先生的新闻发布会是在一组新闻机构披露了隐藏的武器及当局采取的行动之后召开的。根据诺伊曼教授（Professor Neumann）的说法，这次不同寻常的新闻发布会可能是为了提醒德国民众（其中许多人对俄罗斯持有好感），他们同样面临来自东方的混合威胁，即使没有明确点名俄罗斯。

“人们还没有真正将这些线索联系起来，”他说。

警方表示，该计划于10月由“德国国内情报部门”实施。当局使这些武器失效，并在那里放置了G79夹具以追踪其动向，然后将它们放回隐藏地点。

但没有人出现领取这些物品，因为他们意识到当局正在监视这些行为。

赞比亚打击异见人士，指责反对派策划叛乱

作者：约翰·埃莱贡（JOHN ELEGON）和罗伯茨·卢瑙（ROBERTS LUNAU）

约翰·韦斯堡（JOHN WESBURG）——在数十名反对派政治人物被捕后，赞比亚的政治动荡日益加剧，一份关于该国同一新报告的最终投票结果表明，马坎德·希奇莱马（Makande Hichilema）总统在总统选举期间已知晓该政党的情况。

上周他收集的广泛人数导致了对希奇莱马先生获胜的质疑。虽然他最初被要求加入该党，但他被视为指导其非洲国际观察员的冠军，并再次被指责其真实性。他曾是一个政党的成员，被指使用暴力且原则上贪得无厌，而希奇莱马本人曾是一名政治犯。

这些广泛的指控和回应指责希奇莱马先生及其政党利用政府资源操纵支持并打压反对派。欧盟表示，其观察团在上周选举的投票和计票过程中发现了各种立场和文化异常。

赞比亚活动人士、美国和德国国际机构对过去一周反对派政治人物被捕表示担忧。美国人权负责人敦促国家当局“停止任意逮捕人民”。

赞比亚当局表示，这些逮捕与一项推翻政府的阴谋有关。警方周四发布报告，要求主要反对派领导人及希奇莱马先生的新计划方案制定者布赖恩·曼达布尔（Brian Mandabble）前来接受审讯。

警方表示，曼达布尔先生被指控从事“有可能威胁或破坏国家安全”的活动。曼达布尔先生否认了这一指控。

赞比亚的一名独立选举成员周四发布报告得出结论，希奇莱马先生的得票数被欺诈性增加，理由是最终统计结果与各投票站报告的结果之间存在差异。但由基督教教会监督小组（Christian Churches Monitoring Group）发布的这份报告（该小组监督了赞比亚过去四次总统选举）发现，希奇莱马先生仍拥有足够的选票获胜。

研讨会欢迎希奇莱马先生连任。位于南部非洲的赞比亚拥有大量的铜、锂、钴和其他关键矿产储备。希奇莱ma先生利用他的第一个总统任期开放该国的矿业中心，美国多年来一直试图在此投资以打破中国公司的掌控。

希奇莱马先生的支持者表示，他仍然是良好治理的坚定捍卫者，并将选举后混乱的局面描述为其成员试图推翻政府的企图。

国家发展统一党（United Party for National Development）发言人艾德尔-海德·西姆拉（Idle-heid Simla）表示，多年来反对派领导人一直煽动暴力。西姆拉先生说，现在执法部门已经发现了关于叛乱阴谋的可信指控。

他指出警方报告称，前军事指挥官与反对派勾结，且从反对派成员的一处住宅中缴获了武器和战术设备。

“那些试图制造安全局势并试图让每个人都将他们视为受害者的人，这是他们策略的一部分，”西姆拉先生说。

前政府部长、反对派成员马修·欧尔瓦亚（Matthew Eulwaya）上周被警方枪杀。警方表示，他在一次突袭行动中被杀，当局称该房屋被用于策划叛乱。警方表示，这些人被首先看到，且该部长在一次枪击中被杀。

但反对党——国家发展统一繁荣党（National Development Party for Unity and Prosperity）的律师保罗·马拉亚（Paul Malaya）对此表示质疑，并指责警方一直在大规模打击异见人士，且上周涉案的更多人员尚未获得律师的协助。

据马拉亚先生称，大约 40 名反对派人士曼达布尔（Mr. Mandabble）的支持者被州政府逮捕。他说：“就暴行以及来自州政府的绝对规模而言，我们现在正处于一个危险地带。”

在赞比亚选举委员会因称选举工作人员遭到袭击而短暂停止计票后，最终根据该党的决定，希奇莱马（Mr. Hichilema）以 60% 的得票率获胜。

在赞比亚首都卢萨卡（Luraka），政治分析师和历史学家表示，赞比亚可能会“花费很长时间在与民众的对抗中”。或者，他说，政府可以“开始关注经济开始关注民众的生计”。

奥格巴拉（Mr. Ogbara）先生表示，内部解决政治动荡至关重要，他认为西方国家主要感兴趣的是与中国在该国关键经济增长方面的竞争。

他说：“他们表面上确实会谈论人权，但我们自己必须极其小心，以免被拖入冲突之中。”

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从加利福尼亚州圣巴巴拉的煤油角自然保护区旁的沙滩看到的石油平台。特朗普政府正在推动在该州海岸外的联邦海域进行新钻探的计划。

特朗普全力打击加利福尼亚州气候政策

作者：NICKI SMITH

华盛顿 —— 特朗普政府采取了一系列激进措施，攻击加利福尼亚州在环境保护方面的国家领导地位，动用所有六家联邦机构来破坏该州摆脱化石燃料的努力。

赌注很高。由于其市场规模相当于世界第四大经济体，加利福尼亚州的环保法规影响了汽车和其他消费品的制造商。其绿色政策已扩散到其他一些州，这被称为“加州效应”。

但特朗普总统已动用联邦政府的所有权力，打击该州的气候倡议。他对加利福尼亚州州长加文·纽森（Gavin Newsom）表现出了敌意，纽森是一名民主党人，也是可能的 2028 年总统竞争者，特朗普将其称为“加文·纽斯康”（Gavin Newscom）。

纽森先生是特朗普先生激烈且尖锐的批评者，他在 2024 年大选后不久承诺，将保护加利福尼亚州的环保政策免受第二个特朗普政府的影响 —— 这或许使该州成为了一个诱人的目标，因为这位总统一直在利用政府杠杆来惩罚他认为的敌人。

例子多到几乎无法列举。

特朗普先生及其在国会的共和党盟友阻止了加利福尼亚州自行设定汽车污染限制，而该州自 20 世纪 70 年代以来一直被法律允许这样做。能源部宣布为加利福尼亚州奥克兰的一个新煤炭出口终端提供 7500万美元资金。内政部向能源公司支付费用，以取消在加利福尼亚州和其他蓝色州计划建设的风电场。总统命令一家公司重启一条管道，该管道曾导致 2025 年该州最大规模的石油泄漏事故之一。

就在上周，美国国家海洋和大气管理局暗示，它可能会削弱加利福尼亚州海岸委员会的权力，该州机构半个多世纪以来一直保护海岸线免受石油泄漏等威胁。

“特朗普先生的‘独裁行为显著增加’，”曾任四届加利福尼亚州民主党州长并将气候变化作为标志性主张的杰里·布朗（Jerry Brown）表示：“这完全违背了尊重州权的传统共和党学说。”

该州已提起大量诉讼，试图撤销该政府的行为。

“唐纳德·特朗普攻击加利福尼亚州，是因为该州正在构建一个不依赖化石燃料的未来，”纽森先生的发言人安东尼·马丁内斯（Anthony Martinez）在电子邮件中表示。“这个没落的行业拼命试图加强对天然气供应的掌控，而天然气在部署上比他们能提供的任何东西都更便宜、更快速。顺着资金线寻找，你就会发现他针对加州气候政策之战争背后的真相：这是一个由石油巨头运行、为石油巨头服务的白宫。”

白宫发言人托蒂尔·罗杰斯（Tortier Rogers）表示，政府并非在报复加利福尼亚州，因为该州的政策导致了能源价格上涨和炼油厂关闭，尽管分析人士称市场力量也推动了这些趋势。

布拉德·普卢默（Brad Plumer）参与了报道。

“纽森州长继续执行左翼昂贵且不受欢迎的‘绿色新惊吓’（green new scare），”罗杰斯女士在电子邮件中说。“特朗普总统正不懈努力，以扭转加州民主党造成的损害，并释放美国能源的主导地位。”

海岸线的冲突

加利福尼亚州绵延数英里的海岸线是其最宝贵的资源之一，每年吸引数百万名游客和当地居民，从北部的铁路森林一直延伸到南部点缀着棕榈树的海滩。

在第一任期内，特朗普先生在很大程度上没有干涉海岸线，唯一的例外是一次旨在刺激近海油气钻探但未获成功的尝试。而这一次，他的政府不仅寻求增加更多的钻井平台，还寻求增加更多的管道，以及可能由 Spacify 从沿海军事基地进行更多的火箭发射。

11月，内政部公布了一项草案计划，允许在加利福尼亚州近海的联邦水域进行近四十年来首次的新油井钻探。该计划要求在这些水域进行最多六次油气租赁销售，其中包括圣巴巴拉近海的一片区域，那里曾发生的一起 1000 油溢事件激发了现代环保运动。

当时在被问及该提案时，纽森先生翻了个白眼，称其在“加利福尼亚州落地即夭折”。他表示，一旦该计划最终确定，该州将“绝对”在法庭上对其提出挑战。

关于海岸线的冲突才刚刚开始，而近海石油管道将成为下一个争论焦点。

圣迭戈太平洋沿岸的海狮。一家联邦机构上周暗示，它可能会削弱加利福尼亚海岸委员会的权力。

3月，特朗普先生命令 Table Offshore Corp. 重新启动其在圣巴巴拉近海的管道，尽管州政府机构已拒绝为该项目发放许可证，理由是该公司未能修复导致 2025 年油溢事件的损坏。为了证明这一举动的合理性，总统援引了一项 Cold Waters 法律，政府称该法律误解了州法规。

这项法律即《国防生产法》，曾被用于飓风和新冠肺炎疫情等紧急情况。在这种情况下，政府称紧急情况是由伊朗战争引发的加利福尼亚州能源短缺，这场战争扼杀了全球石油供应。

然而，政府还向能源公司支付了数亿美元，以取消在加利福尼亚州近海计划建设的风电场。

“一方面说我们处于国家能源紧急状态，需要赋予像 failed 这样的公司权力，另一方面却用纳税人的钱来阻止近海风电项目的实施，这简直就是伪善的定义，”总部位于圣巴巴拉的非营利组织环境防御中心执行主任亚历克斯·卡茨（Alex Katz）说道。

上周，政府在夺取海岸线控制权的努力中开辟了新战线。美国国家海洋和大气管理局在加利福尼亚州圣莫尼卡举行了一场公开听证会，以重新——

去年，特朗普总统签署了一项决议，撤销加利福尼亚州在 2035 年前禁止销售新燃油车的权力。而美国环保署（E.P.A.）署长李·泽尔丁（Lee Zeldin）已敦促国会撤销该州其他排放规则的豁免权。

可能削弱加利福尼亚海岸委员会的权力，半个多世纪以来，该委员会一直拥有审查并反对影响海岸资源的联邦行动或项目的法律权力。

特朗普先生长期以来一直抱怨该委员会，该委员会曾试图阻止他在洛杉矶附近的 soundstent 高尔夫球场竖起一面 70 英尺高的旗帜。特朗普的盟友埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）也与该机构发生过冲突，因为他一直在增加从圣巴巴拉县范登堡太空部队基地的 Spacify 火箭发射次数。

此次审查可能会导致该委员会失去其项目的联邦认证或联邦拨款，而联邦拨款占其预算的 20%。如果政府成功，这还可能为在其他州采取类似行动设定先例。

“如果加利福尼亚州不再拥有这项权力，可能会对俄勒冈州发生的情况产生影响，”加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉分校的海洋科学研究员、前海岸委员会执行主任查尔斯·莱瑟（Charles Lesser）表示。

一场跨州之争

加利福尼亚州与特朗普政府之间另一场环境对决也可能在州界之外产生深远影响，波及全国范围内销售的车辆。

这场争端可追溯到 20 世纪 70 年代，当时严重的烟雾笼罩着洛杉矶。为此，国会通过了《清洁空气法》，该法明确允许加利福尼亚州制定比联邦规则更严格的汽车污染标准，只要该州获得美国环境保护局（EPA）的豁免。这项具有里程碑意义的法律还允许其他州采用加利福尼亚州的标准。

从那时起，这些豁免措施有助于遏制烟尘和二氧化氮等形成烟雾的污染物，这些污染物会导致哮喘和肺病。它们也是削减二氧化碳等温室气体的有力工具，而二氧化碳是气候变化的主要驱动因素。

特朗普先生及其在国会的共和党盟友打破了这一动态。

去年，特朗普先生签署了一项国会决议，撤销了一项允许加利福尼亚州在 2035. 前禁止销售新燃油车的豁免。今年 6 月，美国环境保护局局长李·泽尔丁（Lee Zeldin）敦促国会撤销另外四项排放规则的豁免，这些规则影响范围涵盖从轻型卡车到割草机的所有设备。

加利福尼亚州已提起多项诉讼以维持其车辆规则。在周三的一次听证会上，一名司法部律师辩称，由于国会尚未就另外四项豁免采取行动，该州缺乏对此行使权力的原告资格。一名联邦法官将很快对该问题做出裁决。

美国气候联盟（U.S. Climate Alliance）执行主任凯西·巴顿（Casey Batton）表示，这些法律斗争的结果可能会决定全国经销商处可供购买的车辆类型。该联盟是一个致力于气候政策的州长两党联盟。他指出，另有 12 个州已承诺追随加利福尼亚州的步伐，在 2035 前禁止燃油车销售。

“试图阻碍加利福尼亚州气候进展的尝试，”他说，“其影响并不局限于加利福尼亚州。”

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第 47 任总统

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在特朗普总统就任后开始上升。根据该局的记录，2025 年，这一数字增加了一倍多，达到 3,700 匹马。

在此期间，该局向琼斯先生发送了约 500 匹马。这些马来自整个西部——犹他州雪松山的风蚀山脊、内华达州克兰阿尔卑斯荒野的峡谷、加利福尼亚州双峰的高地草甸，以及怀俄明州土坯镇被雕刻出的红岩山丘。

在一次采访中，琼斯先生表示他能够迅速接触到这些马，尽管他没有在网上做广告，甚至没有在他的围栏上贴“出售”标志。他拒绝透露这些马去了哪里，并否认将任何马出售给屠宰场。

政府捕捉一匹马并将其投放市场的花费可能超过 $1,000，但每匹马的售价低至 $25。在屠宰厂，一匹马最高可卖到 $750。潜在的利润吸引着买家不断到来。

动物福利组织表示，通过以巨额亏损出售马匹，这个负责保护野马的机构实际上是在资助它们的毁灭。

“$1.,M. 告诉公众屠宰是不可能的，但他们却在众目睽睽之下利用第三方来实现这一点，”在俄勒冈州经营一家名为 Sizzling Ranch 的野马避难所的克莱尔·休斯（Clare Hughes）说道，“要结束这种情况，该局可以采取简单的步骤，但他们却视而不见。而唯一为目前发生的事情付出代价的是这些马。”

该局没有回答关于其销售的问题，也没有安排负责人接受评论。该机构的一份匿名声明称，其“仍然致力于将动物安置在良好的家庭中，保护它们的福利，并代表美国公众履行其法定职责”。

约 72,000 匹野马分布在西部的联邦公共土地上，在那里它们受到保护，免于被猎杀或捕捉。几十年来，为了保持种群的可持续性，该局每年平均围捕 5,000 匹马并提供领养，但它发现只有约一半能找到领养人。

其余的马则进入了一个由该局称为“持有系统”的无地之地的迷宫和牧场。该系统目前涵盖 50,000 匹野马，年成本为 3亿美元。照顾它们占据了该局 1.42亿美元野马预算的大部分。

多年来，该局领导层曾提出过各种减少马群的致命方案，包括使用锐利射击、将马直接出售给屠宰场以及建造毒气室。但国会——意识到公众希望保护马匹——已禁止该局花费任何资金来处死健康的野马。

最近销售额的激增并非特朗普政府首次采取间接导致马匹被送往屠宰的行动。在特朗普先生的第一任期内，一项向领养野马的人支付 $1,000 的计划产生了类似的结果。

“2025计划”是由传统基金会撰写的一份政策文件，在许多方面已成为特朗普第二任政府的蓝图，该文件认为该局需要能够通过杀死马匹来削减成本，并表示国会“必须制定法律，允许 $1.,M. 人道地处置这些动物”。

除了导致如此多马匹被存储的围捕方式外，还有其他替代方案。20 年来，该局一直可以使用通过飞镖枪递送的廉价生育控制药物。这些药物已被

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有效地用于控制少数野马群，政府自己的专家也多次敦促该局更广泛地使用这些药物。

但由于该局在存储上花费过多，导致几乎没有资金来做出那些能使其免于存储更多马匹的改变。

从漫游到牲畜

由于美国土地管理局无法阻止马匹进入存储系统，现在其重点已转向如何将它们移出。

虽然该局不能杀死野马，但它可以利用一系列官僚手段和财务交易，在书面上将它们转化为家畜，从而剥夺其法律保护。

其运作方式如下。

首先，该局必须证明一匹野马无法被领养。它通过在在线领养网站上一次性发布数百匹马来实现这一点。在马匹经过三次、每次为期一周的刊登而无人领养后，法律允许政府将其指定为不可领养。

随后，这匹马就可以被出售。这是一个重要的法律区别，因为被领养的野马仍享有联邦保护，而一旦被出售，则立即失去这些保护。

被出售的马仍然不能被合法杀死——至少目前还不行——因为买家必须签署一份合同，承诺不屠宰该马，或不“故意”将其出售给任何意图将其屠宰的人。

但如果买家在不询问情况的情况下将其转售给中间商，买家就可以免于起诉。

中间商没有与该局签署合同，因此可以合法地将马匹出售给屠宰场。

该局公开表示，它不允许马匹被送往屠宰场，即使是通过中间商也不行。但该局有很大的动力将马匹从其账目中移除。

政府估计，

在由美国土地管理局监管的俄勒冈州南海岸马群管理区（South Shores Herd Management Area）的野马。

如果必须为 2025 年出售的 3,700 匹马提供多年的护理，将节省约 3600万美元。

在悄悄将成车成车的马匹出售给私人贸易商的同时，该局在其网站上刊登了许多充满爱心的主人拥抱并亲吻其马匹的照片。

“每一匹被安置在良好家庭的野马或驴子，都代表着动物、美国纳税人和我们的公共土地的胜利，”该局国家野马和驴计划的代理部门主管在今年冬天的一份新闻稿中赞扬销售额激增时表示。“我们不仅节省了数百万美元的纳税人资金，还帮助确保我们的野生马群拥有繁荣所需资源。”

野马福利组织表示，这些销售行为破坏了法律的意图。

“$1.,M. 正在以一种法律从未意图的方式利用销售，将年轻、健康的野马送入屠宰流水线，”美国野马保护组织（American Wild Horse Conservation）主任帕特里夏·米勒（Patricia Miller）说道。

俄亥俄州的马贩子

美国土地管理局的记录显示，布兰登·琼斯在去年春天突然出现在野马领域，并迅速成为了该局最大的买家。

他在之前的两家牲畜拍卖业务破产并留下一连串债务后，开始从事幼马贸易。

今年春天的某个工作日，十几匹刚到货的幼马在他位于俄亥俄州沃科特镇（Waucote）附近的牧场上吃草。琼斯先生，35, 穿着沾满泥土的靴子，戴着一顶破旧的半顶帽，正在谷仓外工作。

当《纽约时报》的记者接触他时，他时而友好，时而激动。他交谈了两小时，但拒绝具体说明他从政府那里购买的马最终去了哪里，仅坚持称没有马被送往屠宰场。

他说他每次只向好的主人出售两三匹马。“我不和贸易商打交道，”他说，“我打交道的是沿着这条路走过来的、想要买匹马的农民。”

当看到当地一名野马爱好者拍摄并分享给《纽约时报》的视频和照片——显示在午夜时分有运马卡车离开他的房产时——他质疑这件事是否真的发生过。

“可能是电缆（误传）吧，”他说。为了购买大量幼马，琼斯先生必须获得该局高层官员的批准。他的申请非常突出。

多年来获得资格的其他买家几乎都拥有成熟的野马保护区。而琼斯先生没有。

他与野马领域没有任何联系，也没有与野马合作的历史。申请书询问将由哪位兽医照顾这些马。他列出了一家距离其土地一小时车程的诊所，该诊所的网站上写着仅接诊小型动物。

在Facebook上，他的好友中有一名牲畜交易商成员，但没有野马所有者。

他的申请在管理局搁置了一年没有进展。随后，在2025, 3月，一家联邦法院下令停止该局主要的马匹处置方式之一——即向领养者每匹马支付$1,000的计划。

几周后，琼斯先生的申请获得了批准。

在他在围栏进行的采访中，他拒绝分享显示

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在德克萨斯州博蒙特（Beaumont）的一次美国土地管理局领养活动和销售会上等待马匹。

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大约73,000匹野马在西部的联邦公共土地上游荡，包括左图所示的俄勒冈州伯恩斯（Burns）。政府捕捉一匹野马并将其推向市场可能花费超过$3,000。

他接收的数百匹马去向的销售记录：在讨论其业务的过程中，他没有提到任何训练或为野马寻找主人的挑战，但他谈到了该地区五个他叫得出名字的屠宰贸易商，以及目前马肉的价格。

他否认将野马卖给这些贸易商。

他说将他视为坏人是不正确的。他说，通过转售野马，他为政府节省了数百万美元。

“难道我不应该得到一声感谢吗？”他问道。

所有失踪的马匹

全国各地还有其他人也在小规模地倒卖待售马匹。

4月，该局将200匹野马追踪到俄克拉荷马州波托（Poteau）一个尘土飞扬的集市，参加为期两天的“领养活动”。

“这是一个寻找下一个伙伴，并给一匹好马——无论是野马还是家马——一个机会的绝佳时机，”该局在Facebook上表示。

少数人出现是为了领养一只伴侣动物，但大多数人则倾向于那些被该局标记为“不可领养”的野马，并成批购买可以快速重新训练的大型马匹。

目前没有针对这些马匹的官方追踪机制，但该局在捕获的每匹马的脖子上都会烙上一个独特的序列号，因此有办法识别其中一部分马匹的最终去向。

根据野马保护组织收集的销售记录，在俄克拉荷马州活动中售出的至少55匹野马的烙印，在几天后出现在堪萨斯州和德克萨斯州，这些马匹已被转售给屠宰买家经常光顾的大型牲畜拍卖场。

这种情况在十几个活动中重复出现。野马组织表示，他们记录了在过去12个月中从该局购买并被迅速抛弃的200多匹野马，但他们表示很可能遗漏了更多。

他们记录的马匹平均年龄为5岁。

“以前在拍卖会上很少见到野马，即使见到了，通常也是老马，”来自天狗牧场（Skydog Ranch）保护区的斯塔普斯（Staples）女士说。“但现在我们看到大量涌入，而且这些马大多很年轻——2或3岁。它们最容易训练，应该很容易被领养。”

她在一次拍卖会上买了三匹野马，并将它们安置在她的俄勒冈州牧场上。

“我们只能救下少数几匹，”她说。“大多数都去了屠宰买家那里。”

追踪销售情况

关于被卖给琼斯先生的野马可能遭遇了什么，存在一些细微的线索。

去年深秋，四匹马出现在田纳西州一个屠宰买家经常光顾的拍卖会上，一名当地的野马训练师随即向该局发出了警报。

在收到警报后，该局并未暂停向琼斯先生的销售。记录显示，大约一周后，该局又向他运送了68匹马。

琼斯先生表示，田纳西州的那几匹马仅仅是一次卖给不负责任买家的糟糕交易所导致的结果。

另一个线索出现在加拿大边境。

美国境内没有马匹屠宰厂。这里的相关产业已于2007年关闭，因此马匹现在被出口到加拿大。直到六月，由于专家对新世界钉虫（New World screwworm）爆发的担忧而停止出口之前，马匹也会被运往墨西哥。

琼斯先生的住处距离加拿大主要的马匹出口口岸约一小时车程。

加拿大边境检查记录显示，多年来通过该口岸的出口马匹中没有野马的证据。

去年夏天，在琼斯先生收到一批97匹母马几周后，出口记录显示，加拿大最大的屠宰马出口商之一——一名叫作弗雷德·鲍尔（Fred Bauer）的俄克拉荷马州男子，向加拿大运送了两卡车的马。边境检查员拍摄的货车内部照片显示，其中一些马带有明显的政府野马烙印。

琼斯先生否认他的马通过该出口商被运往加拿大，他表示：“我绝不会和弗雷迪·鲍尔打交道。我和弗雷迪·鲍尔关系不好。”

在电话采访中，鲍尔先生拒绝透露他是否从琼斯先生那里购买了野马。当被问及琼斯先生的马被运往何处时，鲍尔先生说：“我们都知道布兰登·琼斯是个什么样的人。你觉得那些马会去哪里？”

他没有详细说明，但补充说，当局追踪这些马是很简单的。

他说：“政府让布兰登·琼斯负责整个野马局面。这里有各种记录。所以如果他们想知道他在做什么，应该是能够查出来的。”

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“该局可以采取简单的步骤来结束这一切，但他们却在视而不见，”上图中的克莱尔·斯塔普斯（Clare Staples）说道，她经营着俄勒冈州的一个野马避难所——天狗牧场（Skydog Ranch）。顶部图片为俄勒冈州伯恩斯市的一个B.L.M.野马围栏。

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博蒙特（Beaumont）领养与销售活动。买家必须承诺不屠宰马匹，或不“故意”将马匹卖给任何意图将其转售用于屠宰的人。在屠宰厂，一匹马最高可卖到$750。

第47任总统

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周二，在华盛顿的西波托马克公园，工人们将来自乌兹别克斯坦的凉亭材料装入集装箱。

来自乌兹别克斯坦的凉亭是给特朗普的最新礼物

结构将进入英雄花园总统排放

作者：UAH MINAMOTO

华盛顿——来自 Qizun 的豪华喷气飞机，来自沙特阿拉伯的部分检查。而现在，抵达特朗普总统在华盛顿的外国礼物中，是由乌兹别克斯坦总统赠送的“呼吸工艺”凉亭。

这些联合凉亭将在西波托马克公园展出，这里是特朗普先生计划建设的国家英雄花园的所在地。近日，载有来自联合首都萨达姆（Saddam）的约 1,000 米巨型房屋的卡车已运抵此处。乌兹别克斯坦的公园以具有复杂、传统中亚风情的凉亭为特色。

“乌兹别克斯坦总统马尔万·米里奥涅夫（Marwan Mirrionyev）慷慨地将这些传统联合凉亭捐赠给

安德鲁·莱登（Andrew Leyden）参与了共同报道。

代表美利坚合众国人民接收这些礼物的唐纳德·J·特朗普总统，”内政部通讯主任凯蒂·马丁（Katie Martin）表示。“游客们将在今年秋季晚些时候能够欣赏到这套工艺精湛的系统。”

特朗普先生计划在西波托马克公园开展一项扩建项目，该区域位于国家大厅附近，主要为运动场，计划将包括反射池、餐饮设施和一个露天剧场，以及 250 座美国知名人士的等身雕像。在拟建的英雄花园附近是一个高尔夫球场，特朗普先生提议将其打造为一个豪华目的地。

但据特朗普政府官员称，这两个项目都处于早期规划阶段。任何关于英雄花园的计划通常都需要经过国家首都规划委员会和美术委员会的审核，包括单个雕像的设计方案。

司法部本周告诉联邦法院，英雄花园目前仍仅仅是“总统的愿景”，且“仍是一个初步概念”。

今年 6 月，美国和乌兹别克斯坦加快了贸易和投资协议的谈判。

乌兹别克斯坦承诺取消或降低广泛的美国申报商品和农产品的关税。美国承诺对乌兹别克工业品和农产品的关税行动给予“有利考虑”。

去年，特朗普先生和米里奥涅夫先生宣布了他们所称的 120 亿美元 billion 双边商业交易。美国还支持乌兹别克斯坦加入二战组织的过程。

特朗普先生在社交媒体帖子中称米里奥涅夫先生“备受推崇”，并祝贺他购买了价值 90 亿美元 billion 的波音飞机。

特朗普威胁就一份他不喜欢的报告提起诉讼

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基于研究和分析。” 她补充道，这一威胁诉讼的攻击包括以及在商业中的证据，“第一修正案的一项基本保护就是允许发布与任何行政管理者的论点和主张相反的事实和分析。提起诉讼是企图让……噤声的透明尝试。”

特朗普经常针对在新闻媒体中代表或批评他的学者和评论员采取行动，且自赢得连任以来，他曾对 BBC 和《泰晤士报》等新闻机构提起一系列诉讼，声称这些机构诽谤了他。他甚至起诉了《德梅因登记报》，认为该报在 2024 年选举前发布的一项显示他将在法律投票中失败的民调构成了消费者欺诈和选举干预。

（《泰晤士报》也针对该政府提起了自己的诉讼，其中包括两起寻求为其记者增加进入邮政部门访问权限的诉讼。）

总统多次声称他的政府一直保持透明或清晰，但证词显示，他及其同僚一直利用诉讼和行政手段来打击律师事务所、大学和电视网络。他们还使用了刑事手段，例如搜查令和大陪审团证据，在办公室内试图从记者那里获取敏感信息。

“其中许多行为在进入法院并面临司法审查后已被判定无效。布里茨先生本人曾代表特朗普先生提起过多起失败的诉讼。去年，特朗普先生和布里茨先生在认为向美国总统提起针对美国国税局（IRS）的申诉属于不当的自我交易行为后，将布里茨先生提交至潜在的纪律处分程序。”

美国进步中心（Center for American Progress）的报告指责……

美国进步中心的一份报告认定，“没有证据”表明特朗普总统向美国城市部署国民警卫队影响了犯罪率。

该中心律师反驳称事实不能构成诽谤

特朗普试图将他在重返白宫之前就已经开始的全国性暴力犯罪下降归功于自己。该报告认定，没有“证据”表明国民警卫队的部署影响了犯罪率，并补充说，如果这些部署持续到 2024 年底，将给纳税人带来超过 17 亿美元 billion 的成本。

“报告断言，部署的‘主要目标’‘绝非为了遏制犯罪’。相反，报告称这相当于特朗普政府的一次危险的犯罪目标。”

编写该报告的团队使用了基于飓风、暴力犯罪以及国民警卫队部署城市——华盛顿、洛杉矶和孟菲斯——在 2023 年 1 月至今年 2 月期间的一般统计数据的分析。

作者在文中写道：“采用这种方法是为了识别与特定城市部署国民警卫队相关的犯罪趋势中的任何统计变化。”

特朗普在社交媒体上称该报告很弱，并分享了一段关于该报告的电视节目片段，将其描述为“又一次极左翼的骗局”。在帖子中，他威胁要起诉该中心及其几位资助者，包括长期以来一直被该政府视为资助者的自由派亿万富翁乔治·索罗斯。

一周后，布里茨先生的信函送达该中心，称如果特朗普总统不能重新审视并撤回该报告、发表道歉并向特朗普先生支付数额未明的经济赔偿，总统将提起诉讼。

信函以全大写字母结尾，写道：“请据此采取相应行动。”

周五，该中心的一名律师在自己的回信中予以反击，嘲讽特朗普关于自己被诽谤的指控。

“这完全是荒谬的，”律师斯科特·H·马茨（Scott H. Matz）在给布里茨先生的信中写道，“这不构成，也不可能构成诽谤。”

马茨先生接着表示，该中心欢迎有机会在法庭上进行辩论，并通过证据开示程序获得更多关于国民警卫队部署的信息。

其他持有不同政治立场的智库也站在该中心一边。

“全国各地的独立组织和运营者必须能够自由地表达他们的分析和观点，并在无需担心政治报复或法律指控的情况下挑战掌权者，”卡托研究所（Cato Institute）总裁兼首席执行官彼得·甘蒂尔（Peter Gantile）表示，“政策问题的分歧应通过公开的作者调查来解决，而不是通过旨在压制批评的法律威胁。”

政府正尝试新方法打击哈佛大学

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damaging if cost and uncertainty, said:

特朗普政府已将目标指向该国的多所精英大学，指责它们美化反犹主义，并以违反法律的方式增加社会多样性，以及其他批评。哈佛大学——美国最富有的大学——一直是联邦官员最频繁攻击的目标之一。

随着特朗普政府采取多种手段试图让哈佛及其他学校屈服，哈佛经常予以反击。它是第一所起诉特朗普政府的机构，曾在多次法庭审理中获胜，并且尚未与联邦政府达成和解，而其他一些知名学校则已达成。

然而，现在该大学面临的削减可能更难应对。去年 9 月，一名法官裁定，政府在 2025 年终止其拨款时，不当地切断了对哈佛大学的资金支持，认定政府违反了该周期的第一修正案权利。

但在裁决中，法官暗示，如果政府选择限制该方的资金，存在可以采取的合法手段。

而这正是目前正在发生的情况。截至本财年 6 月 30 日，由美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）设立的资金为哈佛大学提供了 300 项奖金，总额达 1 亿美元。根据最新可用数据，这一数额低于 2021 年至 2024 年前九个月期间平均约 440 项奖金、总额 2 亿美元的水平。

哈佛大学仍是美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）资金的前十大接收者之一，但远落后于约翰·S·布朗（John S. Brown）、密歇根大学和范·奥伦（Van Olen）等顶级受助者，这些主要研究科学家对美国国立卫生研究院（）的资金表现得更为迟疑。

尽管与拜登时期相比，美国国立卫生研究院（）的支持有所放缓，但 2026 年的奖金由美国国立卫生研究院（）设立，且 2026 年的资金被冻结。在同一年，即 2025 年，哈佛大学获得的美国国立卫生研究院（）资金最终为 201 项拨款，价值 9400 万美元。

最近几个月，哈佛大学的各分院已在裁员。该大学最大的部门——文理学院的领导层在 8 月 24 日报告了对该部门的影响，称在一次裁员和过度拥挤中，有 80 个员工岗位被取消。此次裁员旨在减少重大赤字。

工程师及哈佛中央与技术工人联盟前主席卡罗尔·巴雷特（Carol Barrett）表示，由于部分岗位被取消的员工考虑转入新设计的岗位，最终的裁员人数可能会发生变化。

目前的拨款放缓在哈佛大学内部分布并不均匀。该大学的公共卫生学院严重依赖美国国立卫生研究院（）的资金，与 2021 年至 2024 年的平均金额相比，今年的拨款资金减少了近 20%。

截至本财年 6 月，美国国立卫生研究院（）已向公共卫生学院承诺提供 65 项奖金，总额 8700 万美元。同一时段 2023-24 年的平均值为 100 多项奖金，总额 9000 万美元。

公共卫生学院社会流行病学教授南希·克林格（Nancy Kringer）表示，资金放缓的影响超出了失去拨款的单个项目。一年多的生存削减——以及围绕削减而展开的法律斗争——已经“动摇了关于联邦政府是否是一个可靠领导者的任何稳定性感”，她说道。

该学院已经在缩减规模，包括裁员和减少博士生的名额。“这不仅仅是失去了资金，而是你正在缩减下一代研究人员的规模，他们一直在为该学院工作，”What is the knowledge he?” And what are the survival hight of facts for the economies of the ch

ies and towns that depend on universities as major employers?"

哈佛大学在与政府的斗争中也取得了一些胜利。哈佛大学在法庭上的胜诉维护了其拨款资金以及接收国际学生的能力。

8月13日，一名联邦法官驳回了特朗普政府对哈佛大学的一项诉讼，该诉讼指控该校纵容反犹主义，并试图获得拒绝向其提供拨款的权力。

哈佛大学的捐赠基金继续随股市攀升至历史新高，而该大学在压力下的坚定立场，超过了那些不希望其向特朗普总统屈服的支持者的预期。

虽然耶鲁大学正在讨论是否可能成为下一所与政府达成和解的精英学校，但哈佛大学继续坚持。目前认为哈佛大学并未参与任何严肃的和解谈判。

“哈佛大学是在为法律和宪法原则而战，并且是代表整个学院和大学体系在战斗，”哥伦比亚大学前任校长李·博林格（Lee Bollinger）表示。“我们都应该心存感激。”

在博林格先生看来，“任何触发因素都将不可避免地付出高昂代价。”

政府已多次将斗争推向哈佛大学。该大学仍与政府处于其他诉讼和上诉之中；任何重大案件的败诉都可能是毁灭性的。

特朗普政府继续发起新的战斗。政府正在准备新的研究方案，这将使政府的政治任命人员对拨款拥有更大的权力。

白宫发言人利兹·鲁门（Liz Rumen）将大学与政府之间持续的法律斗争归咎于哈佛大学“对外承诺在种族基础上进行非法歧视，且未能正确忽视学生”。

她说：“除非哈佛大学能够以诚意回归正轨，否则特朗普政府将继续采取一切可行的法律途径来执行联邦民权法。”

前奥谢维斯学院（Aushevis College）校长汤姆·戈米（Tom Gormy）表示，面对诉讼、拨款放缓以及来自政府的其他压力所带来的不确定性，哈佛大学和其他学校可能会继续重新调整。

“你必须理解的主要事情是人为选择，并询问‘我们现在可以做出哪些削减？’”他说，并指出研究型大学已经在缩减博士项目。

他说，研究预算的收紧意味着科学家更有可能在美国境外寻找工作，而那些仍留在美国学校的人可能不太敢在研究中尝试那些可能导致科学突破的非传统尝试。

“这将成为障碍，”戈米先生说，“而且在未来几年造成的伤害将比现在大得多。”

政府已对去年有利于哈佛大学的联邦法院裁决提起上诉。今年夏天，双方以及一些外部当事人就去年秋天关于资金案件的裁决提交了简报。政府还在上诉一项2023年6月的法院裁决，该裁决阻止了政府试图禁止哈佛大学接收国际学生的尝试；该案件的辩论定于10月举行。

研究方法

《纽约时报》收到了一份由哈佛大学、哈佛法学院和哈佛医学院提供的 2024 年奖项，时间跨度至少从 2021 年到 2026, 年，通过将可用信息添加到 2024-25 年度选举结果中。

对于 2024 年日期中的获奖年龄，结果包括 2024-25 年度选举至 2025, 年 6 月，这是与往年最接近的月份。

哈佛大学与白宫的斗争正面临艰难的选择。

《纽约时报》书评，每周日

第 47 任总统

特朗普推动解密机密，但未公布选举文件

作者：IRVSTIN VOLK

华盛顿 —— 近几周，白宫持续公开此前被列为机密的关于外国选举威胁及其他事项的情报，为特朗普总统及其盟友提供了攻击对方以及指责参议员可能操纵选举的弹药。

但尽管国会要求公布美国情报机构关于 2024 年选举期间外国干预企图的评估报告，但该报告并未出现在发布的文件之列。

该文件将向公众提供关于此前影响选民企图的详细视角，以及围绕总统初选和其他联邦诉讼的新分歧。在拜登政府初期发布的 2024 年版评估报告中，重点强调了俄罗斯旨在支持特朗普先生的努力，以及旨在损害其候选资格的企图，并分析了中国考虑但很大程度上克制未采取的行动判断。报告还包含一个少数派的见解，认为中国采取了“至少一些”旨在削弱特朗普先生的步骤。

对 2024 年选举报告的遗漏，表明了特朗普白宫在解密方法上具有高度的选择性。这只是众多例子中的一个，即政府无视来自国会的“监督压力”，包括法律要求，在公开承诺将揭露外国干预企图的深度报道的同时，通过扣押某些文件使其不被公众看到。

“虽然总统及其情报领导人拥有解密并公开发布机密信息的权力，但任何决定都必须在满足公众利益的同时，非常谨慎地权衡对来源和方法的风险，”前美国国家安全局（NSA）高级情报官员拉里·菲夫纳（Larry Pheffner）表示。他在数十年的职业生涯中参与了分类决定，包括在乔治·W·布什和奥巴马政府期间的规划。“拒绝这样做，也应满足同样的平衡测试。”

决定披露什么内容是任何总统的特权，自特鲁门和艾森豪威尔政府建立现代分类系统以来，历任总统均如此。但菲夫纳先生表示，特朗普先生公开承认这种立场在加强其第二任期，并补充说，总统的解密决定“在很大程度上未受监督，且在安全方面似乎更多地受到政治和平均议程的影响”。

尽管特朗普先生在近几周誓言要保护选举免受外国和国内威胁，但政府尚未公开解释为何该文件未被发布。他本身一直是保守派记者约翰·萨拉曼（John Salaman）的主要消息源，后者作为一名负责监督媒体解密及政府机构其他事项的特别政府雇员。

在上周的一次黄金时段演讲中，美国政府总统表示，他将公开情报以“纠正我们选举基础设施中令人震惊的漏洞”，并声称，伴随一些

How Yorkers voting in 2024. Disclosures in the Biden term accused Russia and Iran of engaging in influence operations that year.

问题，美国官员曾参与一项“掩盖”行动，以掩饰中国影响美国选举的企图。这份经过大量删节的文件并未揭示该国选举系统的重大新漏洞，也没有显示外国政府操纵了任何选票。

在某种程度上，这些发布的内容是对已公开信息的重复，更多地涉及特朗普先生败选的 2024 年大选，而将关于特朗普先生败选的 2024 年大选的新信息屏蔽在公众视线之外。白宫拒绝回答关于其解密程序的具体问题，但一名发言人暗示，这项工作背后的透明度任务才刚刚开始。他补充道：“他们没有”

忽视一项要求

通过披露一份报告

关于外国干预。

拜登政府期间披露的信息（包括联邦起诉书）指控俄罗斯和伊朗在 2024. 都参与了激进的影响力行动。相关指控称，这些人试图锁定特朗普先生的竞选活动，并向各类新闻机构提供素材，以试图将其孩子转向对白宫的评论。美国司法部（DOJ）和其他机构指控俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·V·普京再次试图支持特朗普先生，并通过向美国投放虚假信息——包括秘密资助一家保守派媒体初创公司——来削弱美国对乌克兰的支持。

但这些披露被认为并不完整，且未能提供外国干预实际发生情况的全部

百分比。

在俄罗斯干预 2008 年总统大选后，国会通过了一系列法律，旨在为美国公众建立更好的关联，以抵御外国试图影响选民的行为。这包括要求国家情报机构向立法者和公众提高透明度，披露关于外国势力在联邦选举期间野心的情报收集情况。

在 7 月的一封信中，众议院情报委员会的民主党人敦促时任国家情报总监代理负责人 Bill Putin 将一份国家版本的实事报告解密，该报告涉及 2024 年的问题，要求在拜登选举周期结束后的 48 天内，“在最大可能范围内”公开该弹药（资料），同时保护选民和方法。

特朗普政府还被要求向国会提交一份法律要求的报告，识别针对即将到来的 2024 年统一选举的外国情报威胁。众议院情报委员会的一名民主党助手表示，截止日期是在 5 月初。

信中称：“情报界目前违反了多项旨在确保国会了解本周期外国倡导计划和意图之完整范围的法规”，以及政府打击这些威胁的努力。

为了在该问题上向特朗普 administration 施压，情报委员会的报告被要求考虑由科罗拉多州民主党代表杰森·克罗斯（Jason Cross）提出的版本，该版本将部分扣押国家情报总监办公室的资金，直到国会重新选举（收到）该报告。这段文字被附加在年度情报授权法案中，该法案——

IRVSTIN VOLK, NATIONAL SATURDAY

由代表杰森·克罗斯起草的一项修正案将部分扣押资金。

纯粹的立法目前仍在国会待审。

特朗普政府在其他情况下放弃了分类理由。五角大楼拒绝发布 9 月份一次致命打击的视频，该打击针对加勒比海地区一个当地组织的毒品走私者。无人机画面显示该船被一枚美国导弹击中，幸存者被冒充，随后又遭到第二次导弹袭击而被杀。

尽管民主党人和一些其他政治领导人要求公开该视频，但国防部长皮特·希古奇（Pete Higuchi）辩称该视频属于最高机密，尽管五角大楼发布了大量关于其伪造打击的视频建议和标准。

今年春天，参议院情报委员会的两党领导人敦促 G.D.N.L. 公开 1998, 的一项机密法院裁决，该裁决源于新设立的外国情报监视法院在达成一项关于强力间谍法短期延期的协议的一部分。据称，该裁决就美国情报机构分析某些刻板通信的方式对其进行了警告，目前仍处于机密状态。

在一定程度上，历任总统或两党一直依赖其解密权力来决定发布哪些文件，同时保留那些可能被视为损害国家安全或出于政治考虑而需保密的信息。例如，拜登总统拒绝发布一份关于贾迈勒·卡舒吉（Jamal Khashoggi）案件的未删减情报评估报告，尽管政府委员会曾建议将其公开；他在进入白宫后不久，仅发布了一个部分删减的版本。

但前情报官员和政府透明度专家表示，特朗普先生的做法——以及其盟友在多大程度上能维持这种做法——使得这些保留信息的努力变得不同。前国家情报总监代理负责人伊尔文·沃尔克（Irvin Volk）近日在社交媒体上表示：“特朗普总统一直在否认解密。”

重返办公室以来，特朗普先生已解密了一系列法律意见文件，包括关于前总统约翰·F·肯尼迪（John F. Kennedy）遇刺案的文件。在部分支持者和国会议员的压力下，他还解密了数百万页关于国家资助的永久财务文件的资料。

但当涉及到 2024 年大选以及联邦调查局（F.B.I.）对特朗普先生与俄罗斯关系的反情报调查时，特朗普政府采取了“挑拣式”的做法。曾在特朗普第二任政府初期在白宫国家安全委员会任职、并于今年离开该机构的前法律分析师、前法官朱莉娅·库伦（Julia Cullen）如此说道。

罗伯茨暂时允许特朗普的舞厅建设继续进行

作者：ANNE MARINIW

最高法院在周五暂时允许特朗普总统认同保守派建设一座豪华的白宫舞厅，以取代他去年秋天展示的东翼。

在一项新的补救命令中，首席大法官约翰·G·罗伯茨（John G. Roberts Jr.）以个人名义发布了一项临时指令，给予所有九位大法官更多时间来充分考虑这座计划建设面积为 90,000 平方英尺的舞厅是否可以继续施工。

首席大法官的命令没有提供法院下次采取行动的时间表，仅声明一项针对特朗普政府的不利下级法院裁决将“在签署人或法院进一步命令之前”暂停执行。

下级法院法官此前曾裁定，特朗普先生在未经国会批准的情况下强行推进建设，超出了其职权范围。即便如此，他们仍允许该项目在 2024 年大选期间继续进行。该决定当时正在执行中。

特朗普先生最初推广这座预计耗资 1亿美元的舞厅时，将其称为 2024 年大选期间一项迫切的需求。那些被贬为任期吸烟者的参议员们因为遭受了此类攻击——一个他在选举期间拥有的舞厅版本——其规模将比当时大四倍以上。

但该项目已经增长到

下级法院法官在诉讼进行期间允许舞厅项目继续推进。

规模和范围。近几个月来，总统及其法律团队转向强调他们所谓的国家安全必要性。他们现在表示，升级一个在第二次世界大战期间建造的近期军事市场，是舞厅项目不可或缺的一部分。

当政府上周请求大法官干预时，总统在社交媒体上将该项目称为“军事综合体”。特朗普先生在周五命令发布前，曾在社交媒体上多次提及这座舞厅。他庆祝了这一结果并赞扬了法院。

“在白宫舞厅地基上建设的、出于国家安全考虑的军事 / 舞厅综合体，将是其意识形态中最伟大的。”总统在 Truth Social 上写道。对于拉里总统想要的东西，他做到了，而且军队在过去的 200

年里一直如此发送。他们的愿望很快就会实现！

总统的律师向最高法院提交了来自顶级国家安全官员的严正声明，包括美国参谋长联席会议主席库伦（Cullen）和国家情报总监杰·国会（Jay Congress）。他们警告称，停止建设将使总统及其家人处于讨论之中，且为了防御可能的攻击，翻新工作迫在眉睫。

截至 8 月 14, D. 约翰·艾萨克（D. John Isaac）总检察长表示，该项目目前已接近完成，基本上已经太晚无法回头。

罗伯茨首席大法官的临时命令是在华盛顿一个三人法院小组发布一项详尽的 2 比 1 裁决两周后出台的。该裁决称，国会并未“将全部权力授予行政部门，使其可以随意削减、重塑并重建白宫——这座人民之屋——以满足某位总统的欲望”。

但美国哥伦比亚特区上诉法院已同意将该命令暂停至周五，在此期间新行动得以继续。

针对该项目的挑战是由国家历史保护信托基金会在 1992. 提出的。该组织是一家致力于监督国会公共建筑的非营利阶级协会，该团体表示，总统通过违反宪法和联邦法律抵制监督，从而剥夺了国会决定他在华盛顿联邦安全问题上之权力的机会。

该组织在周五的一份声明中就最高法院的命令表示：“需要明确的是，这是关于政府步骤申请实质内容的正式决定，我们将避免采取进一步行动。”

电台聊天

与科恩

并不多

关于一个理由

作者：SHARW McKREISH

华盛顿 —— “我们开始吧！”迈克尔·D·科恩（Michael D. Cohen）在他的广播节目中说道，此时背景音乐——《为什么我们不能做得更好？》（Why don't we do it better?）——渐渐减弱。

“音乐总统！！！”

“音乐，迈克尔，”电话另一端的那个声音回答鲁迪（Rudy）。“你好吗，迈克尔。”

特朗普总统与科恩先生之间漫长、折磨且令人烦恼的多重关系在周四迎来了最新的转折，此前总统同意参加一个由他的另一位立法者收听的广播节目，并且正处于他最新的、无论你将其称为什么的状态中。

反应迅速的科恩先生多年来担任数字总监，而特朗普先生当时对他进行了反转。“一次又一次，”科恩先生在 2005 年告诉一名法官。“让我们想对我内心深处和我的道德公司所承受的肮脏死亡肿瘤进行研究。”到 2024 年，他成为了特朗普先生在纽约刑事审判中的关键证人，部分证词涉及支付给一次公园访问的回扣资金。

特朗普先生，他让，辞职，称科恩先生为“酒吧”和“我们”，总统对此处理得很好，而那些关闭了他的展示人员——埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）、梅根·凯利（Megan Kelly）、斯蒂芬·E·斯坦顿（Stephen E. Stanton）——必须在他的轨道上运行。还有什么更多吗？

科恩先生在对话开始时就试图“回到 2024,” 正如他所说的那样。

“你和我显然一起走过了一段相当早的路，”他说。“你记得吗？您记得吗，先生，当我与布里安娜·科拉尔（Brianna Kollar）一起出现在 CNN 上，她告诉我您在公园里陷入困境，而我用那著名的两周做出了回应。说为什么？”科恩先生写了一些全球性的故事。”

特朗普先生是否记得这次特定的交流，他没有说。

“我写过几次关于过去、他们的友谊、他们的决裂，或者是什么控制了它，然后参加科恩先生的节目。”

“他们认出了你，”特朗普先生告诉他的旧同伙。“他们认出了很多人，我尊重你撤回了你所说的一切这一事实。那是件大事——那是你做的一件大事。那是一件非常大的事情。”哦！科恩对作证以及看到引导性问题的真相表示过误导，但并没有“撤回一切”。

这大约就是特朗普先生记忆能回溯到的极限，他像一个 10 岁的男孩在保守派评论中，最终在他每天翻阅以重复他 1980 年代相同法律的简略磁带中祈祷。“他和他在一起，以及摇滚经济，以及疯狂的民主党人，以及这个国家的人，以及他在任何人、任何更好的人面前说的许多其他话。”

他也可以称我为：“你和朋友们”，或者给我几个倾向于独白的片段。对于这样一个经过修正的历史来说，这是一种奇怪的、非个人化的且空洞的交流。

这并不是因为科恩先生没有努力。

“你可能记得，你可能在第二天早晨，”他在某个时刻说，“你在之后邀请我进入办公室，然后你在电子书线上给了我一个典型的特朗普舞台，你对我说道，Y——那里，你比他们强，我们搞定了……”

特朗普先生说“我们在公园里做得非常好”，并且“经济从未如此强劲”。

“没有，”科恩先生说道，记录下另一个“记得当时”的时刻，“我真的需要提到那条路，对吧？你记得我过去对那个方法投入了多少关注？我会接近它并说，‘如果你，美国，你知道，他们声称你处于 10% 的状态，你陷入了困境。’但我向你证明了那个。”

“最后一个创建的，”特朗普先生回答。

“我不能，”科恩先生说。科恩先生一直试图在广播和广播中进行采访，而广播在史诗般的回家之路上不可用。在向公众播放他的对话之前不久，科恩先生告诉他广播电台的另一位主持人：“这就是我记忆中的唐纳德·特朗普。这就是那个，并且正在表现得，像我曾经的朋友那样。我不会。”

然而，特朗普先生似乎完全不感兴趣去追忆那段友谊，或者关于旧日时光的任何事情。

特朗普先生率先说道：“我是人民女性的领导者。”“记得那时”是对话中最低层级的交流。

选举

国土安全部无法证明关于非公民投票的一项重大指控

联邦数据库

错误地将

公民标记为不合格

作者：NICK COR684NTH

在特朗普政府在没有证据的情况下宣布数千名非公民在内华达州非法登记投票一个月后，美国国土安全部的官员无法证实这一说法。

该政府声称已在四个州发现了 274,000 名登记投票的非公民，其中内华达州的确切人数为 (1,000) 人。但根据《纽约时报》获得的电子邮件以及会议录音，在上周与州选举管理人员的会议期间，国土安全部官员表示，到目前为止，他们在该州仅发现了 105 名潜在的非公民。

根据其中一封电子邮件，联邦官员表示他们仍在考虑对 11,000 个姓名进行进一步审查。在视频会议中，联邦官员告诉内华达州，他们最初确定的近 10,000 人代表了潜在非公民的“上限”。

但根据州务卿办公室公布的文件，国土安全部与内华达州分享的第一份名单是不完整的——甚至没有包含姓名——且几乎不可能验证。内华达州官员已表示需要更多信息，但该部门尚未提供。

关于大量非公民在选举中投票的未经证实说法，一直是特朗普总统政治主张的核心，也是他证明制定《拯救美国法案》（SAVE America Act）正当性的依据，该法案将要求人们必须在境内才能在联邦选举中投票。民主党人和投票权倡导者表示，该立法旨在通过部分手段使一些符合条件的美国人（尤其是年轻人和有色人种，他们通常投票给民主党）更难投票，从而在一定程度上支持这一主张。

为了确定国土安全部尚未核实特朗普的指控，《时报》审查了

内华达州选举官员对政府关于数千名非公民在该州登记投票的说法提出了质疑。

通过公共记录请求从内华达州州务卿办公室获得的电子邮件以及视频通话录音。

在特朗普先生提出指控时，该部门明确指出在四个州发现了登记的非公民选民：内华达州、加利福尼亚州、宾夕法尼亚州和新泽西州。“我们正在公布国土安全部一项令人震惊的调查结果，”特朗普先生说道，含蓄地且错误地暗示政府已发现了有效证据。

次日，国土安全部长 Blackwayne Wallis (entirely) 谴责当地选举官员，称如果他们不配合政府改变选举政策的努力，将面临监禁。

内华达州州务卿再次迅速反击该政府，加利福尼亚州和宾夕法尼亚州的选举官员也是如此。

在上周的会议中，国土安全部实际上承认其最初的说法尚未——得到证实——根据这两个机构之间虚拟会议的视频录音，这引发了内华达州方面一些尖锐的提问。

“所以你们的意思是，(1,000 这个数字还没有被核实)？基本上，这就是你们开始计算的数字？”内华达州州务卿办公室首席副手 C. Murphy Hebert 问道。

“我可能不会使用‘还没有被核实’这个句子，”国土安全部官员 Kimberley Vogt 回答道，“因为我们肯定对其进行了一些处理才将其减少到 (1,000。所以我不会那样说。但还没有对每一个进行完整的手动审查。”

鉴于 Wallis 先生之前的威胁，内华达州代表团还询问其中是否有人在接受调查。

“国土安全部没有——并不具备——起诉选举官员的法定权力，”一名来自

有在选举问题上发表虚假言论的历史，并补充说内华达州官员正在“配合”并本着诚意开展工作。“我们不执行这些特定的法律。”

《纽约时报》此前报道，该部门发给四个州的信函极大地支持了特朗普先生将其描述为有据之谈的调查结果。信函中在描述该部门发现的非公民人数时使用了“可能多达”这样的措辞，且未提供得出这些数字的具体细节。内华达州、宾夕法尼亚州和加利福尼亚州的官员要求提供关于调查结果和研究方法的更多信息。

“内华达州官员指出，在一次全国性的黄金时段演讲中，有人就非公民行为对我们选举安全的影响发表了广泛的主张。D.R.S. 代表告知我方办公室，提供给公众的数字是初步的，且由于这些数字已公开，因此无法与内华达州官员分享完整的数据集，”

阿加贝德先生在周四的一份声明中表示。“州务卿办公室不会在没有对其不具备资格的高度信心的情况下，冒风险剥夺合格选民的投票权，从而使他们的宪法投票权失效。”

新泽西州则处于不同的境地。在州长迈克·谢里尔宣布该州发现，由于 Maine Volusia Commitment 系统的软件错误，在 2024 年 6 月至 2025 年 6 月期间，大约有 4,000 名非公民被错误地登记为选民。但即便如此，这一发现也远低于特朗普政府声称已向该州通报的 31,152 名非公民。

在回应《纽约时报》的提问时，美国国土安全部的一位发言人表示，沃利斯先生早前对内华达州的表态明确指出，该部门希望与该州协作，以核实非公民完整名单的身份，从而验证该部门关于“可能多达 (1,000)”名非公民的说法。

在会议期间，哈尼女士表示，该机构使用了 2025 年 7 月内华达州公开的选民文件副本。她承认，选民文件每天都会因死亡、入籍、搬迁和其他生活变动而发生变化，许多数据可能已经过时。她补充说，由于公开的选民文件不包含社会安全号码或其他标识，国土安全部表示可以使用认可的数据库来检查资格。

内华达州被夸大的数字以及随后缺乏重大发现的情况，再次证明了特朗普先生在没有证据支持的情况下，就大规模选举舞弊发表惊人言论的习惯。自重返办公室以来，总统表示可能会动用联邦政府的所有力量来调查选民舞弊和非公民投票，这使得该政府始终无法找到确凿证据的情况显得格外讽刺。

过去，急于声称非公民大规模投票的共和党州官员曾多次发布夸大的数字，但随后又大幅下调了这些数据。

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佛罗里达州计票迅速

加利福尼亚州为何滞后？

作者：BOSTON WASHER

周二晚上投票结束三小时后，佛罗里达州已统计了足够的选票，使得美联社能够对该州数十场竞争激烈的初选结果做出判定。

而在加利福尼亚州，直到周四晚上，一场旨在填补前众议员埃里克·斯温韦尔（Eric Swainwell）空缺的国会特别选举结果才出炉。这场在两名民主党人之间展开的竞争，最终以大约 6,000 票的差距决定胜负。

加利福尼亚州更为缓慢的计票过程——其结果在选举日后数日才汇总——已成为特朗普总统及其支持者质疑有利于民主党选举结果的理由。

然而，本周计票工作引发了一个问题：为什么佛罗里达州在公布选举结果的速度上比加利福尼亚州快这么多？

答案可以追溯到 2000 年，当时佛罗里达州漫长的重新计票过程让全美在数周内无法得知乔治·W·布什与阿尔·戈尔之间竞争的结果。延迟的结果使该州处于严苛的国家关注之下，并促使州政府官员检查问题所在。

现任佛罗里达州州务卿卡德·伯德（Card Byrd）表示，当时的一个主要问题是缺乏处理选票的全州统一标准。

“20 年来，我们一直在致力于制定一套运行良好的选举法典，”伯德先生周四告诉《纽约时报》。

他将该州的速度归功于邮寄选票必须在投票结束前送达这一事实。据伯德先生称，大约三分之一的佛罗里达州人通过邮寄投票。

（与其他州一样，在投票结束前已在排队的人员仍可投票。）

相比之下，在加利福尼亚州，只要在选举后一周内送达且邮戳日期在选举日之前的邮寄选票都将被计入。佛罗里达大学政治学教授、研究投票标签与决策的迈克尔·麦克唐纳（Michael McDonald）表示，这导致了选票堆积。

“你会看到大约 100 万张邮寄选票在选举日当天被投递，处理这些选票是一个巨大的物流问题，”麦克唐纳博士说。

邮寄选票的处理过程比现场投票更复杂，因为必须核对签名。两地的选举工作人员……

周二，迈阿密-戴德县（Silicon-Dade County）的选举工作人员正在分拣邮寄选票。与加利福尼亚州不同，佛罗里达州仅接受在投票结束前寄达的选票。

根据各州选举法，佛罗里达州和加利福尼亚州都可以在收到选票时开始处理和验证。

佛罗里达大学研究选举与投票的政治学教授丹尼尔·A·史密斯（Daniel A. Smith）表示，佛罗里达州计票可能更快，是因为它不允许当日选民登记，但他补充说，这种效率是一种权衡。

“这确实排除了那些可能想要参与、且在州候选人中随机分布，但未能在此前佛罗里达州要求的时间范围内完成登记的人，”史密斯先生说。

伯德先生是一位倾向于共和党、支持特朗普的共和党人，他表示，他认为佛罗里达州迅速的计票有助于增加对选举的信心，并指出各州应让“那些想要在州内参与但无法参与的人”能够参与。

“在一个共和国中，”他说，“我们必须让失败的一方接受结果。”

进步派克服 AIPAC 的努力，赢得众议院席位以取代斯温韦尔

作者：珍妮弗·梅迪纳 (JENNIFER MEDINA)

据美联社报道，进步派民主党州参议员艾莎·沃尔什 (Aisha Walsh) 宣布，现代派民主党人谢尔顿·赫尔南德斯 (Sheldon Hernandez) 是一份针对加利福尼亚州民主党的特别选举报告。赫尔南德斯先生在 4 月突然辞职，并习惯于性行为不端。

在沃尔什女士以 61% 的得票率赢得 6 月该选区的初选后，她被广泛认为是代表加利福尼亚州参议员选区的三因。但本周的选举结果要紧凑得多，由于当地官员继续计票直到周四，投票对这两天来说是一种新方式。

在竞选的最后几天，两因报告 P4℃1——包括两家向美国以色列公共事务委员会 (AIPAC) 提供大量资金的机构——在针对旧金山东部郊区选民的电视和社交媒体广告上花费了数百万美元。

州参议员艾莎·沃尔什谴责了以色列在加沙的行动。

在电视和社交媒体上针对旧金山东部郊区选民的广告中，AIPAC 的超级政治行动委员会 (super PAC) “联合民主项目” (United Democracy Project) 花费了大约 $2.500 万，主要用于谴责沃尔什女士。

两位候选人都未将外交政策控制纳入其州页面。但这场竞选成为了民主党一系列初选中的最新一场，这些初选将来自该党州进步按钮的候选人与来自建制派翼的候选人结合在一起，形成了一种关于以色列的群体战斗。

本月，阿卜杜勒-埃尔-赛义德 (Abdul-El-Sayed) 博士在 AIPAC 花费 2200万美元试图击败他之后，赢得了密歇根州的民主党参议院初选。埃尔-赛义德博士的部分获胜原因是在其竞选中将对该组织的批评作为控制手段。沃尔什女士的胜利是该委员会在民主党初选中影响力减弱的另一个迹象，尽管其持续投入巨额资金。

另一个花费近 $300,000 支持沃尔什女士的超级政治行动委员会是专门为了对抗 AIPAC 的资金而创建的。

35, 岁的沃尔什女士是第一位当选加利福尼亚州参议院的符合条件的美国人。当一名温和派在 4 月的候选人青睐期间询问她是否认为“发生在巴勒斯坦人民身上的事情是一般主义者”时，沃尔什女士回答“是的”。

51, 岁的赫尔南德斯女士对这个是非题的回答是，她认为以色列在 2022, 年 C 发生的致命人类领导攻击后“有权进行自卫”，随后补充说“纯粹的破坏给了我们生命”。

本月，沃尔什女士表示她更合格，“即使是单一的、无关的”，并暗示她是因为种族和宗教背景而成为目标。

她在接受印第安纳州采访时表示：“到头来，我对这件事能说的就是，如果它找到了可能且冗长的方式。”

针对沃尔什女士的广告并未提及以色列。相反，她被指责放弃这些立法以增加对 100,000 名总统的处罚。

一个由旨在对抗 AIPAC 而创建的超级政治行动委员会“美国普伦蒂斯” (American Prentice) 发布的广告警告选民：“不要买共和党 AIPAC 盒子。”该组织还支持在纽约的初选中支持以色列。沃尔什女士还得到了 J Street Action 的支持，而该法律将候选人的 6 种观点定义为“亲雇佣”和“亲普姆”。

她还获得了加利福尼亚州民主党的背书以及几个工会的支持。

沃尔什女士表示，如果她当选，她将致力于“结束处罚不会”。赫尔南德斯女士则表示该机构“也将计划”前往华盛顿，并表示她将优先处理电子邮件业务。

沃尔什女士现在将接替斯温威尔 (Swainwell) 女士在州选举中的剩余任期，而赫尔南德斯女士将在 11 月再次与其他人竞争一个完整的两年任期。

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据称一名纽约州参议员重复报销差旅费

作者：JAY ROOT 和 MACKI HALLARD

根据《纽约时报》采访的记录和前工作人员透露，一名著名的纽约州参议员杰西卡·拉莫斯（Jessica Ramos）偶尔使用竞选资金支付差旅费用，同时向公司就同一笔费用进行重复报销。

仅在火车票这一单独类别中，《纽约时报》就发现了 10 多个实例，其中拉莫斯女士的竞选团队为 Amtrak 车票支付的金额，与同一时期她从立法机构的近期报销系统中收到的金额完全一致。

拉莫斯女士是来自皇后区的民主党人，去年竞选纽约市市长未果。她还多次在领取立法津贴以支付住宿和其他费用期间，为州参议院竞选活动筹集资金。

前州参议员表示，她在 2024 年 4 月的一周内报销的酒店住宿费用涉及 2024 年预算。

2023 年，拉莫斯女士与一名助手同行，她以自己的名义在 Metro Park Road 的 Homer States 预订了三晚住宿。记录显示，他们在 4 月 18 日搬到了市内的 Hampton Inn 和 Westport Hotel，同样是以拉莫斯女士的名义入住，另住了两晚。

拉莫斯女士未能向她的竞选团队交代。

前助手称其使用竞选资金并领取日津贴。

两次酒店住宿的费用为 $600，她还提交了一张其他日津贴凭证，使她能够回收全部金额，外加基于日津贴的额外 $500。

这种重复计费的情况在追求中出现，一名曾在 2023 年 9 月投诉的前竞选工作人员告诉《纽约时报》，该活动使用了首批 10,000 个用于州重新选举资金的广告牌之一。这一说法得到了其他前助手的证实。

三名前助手表示，那位提出投诉的工作人员询问，为什么参议员要向竞选活动计费一年中的 10 周——这已经涵盖在内，但没有收到钱。

他们表示，不知道 Ms. Ramos 向她的竞选活动和参议院收取的总额是多少，但《纽约时报》对州记录的分析发现，从 2021 到 2025，存在超过 $50,000 的重叠计费。

在此期间，该参议员从立法机构共收到 $36,787 的住宿津贴（即日津贴）和火车票报销款。记录显示，她向其竞选活动收取了 $33,649 的资金和美铁（Amtrak）车票费用。

Ms. Ramos 最初在前市长比尔·德布拉西奥（Bill de Blasio）的市政厅工作时崭露头角，在西班牙裔社区的合同面前，自 2005. 加入上议院以来，她一直担任参议院具有影响力的劳工委员会主席。最近，她因竞选纽约市市长而闻名，随后退出竞选，以支持前州长安德鲁·M·库莫（Andrew M. Cuomo）在对抗埃德马·曼斯菲尔德（Edmar Mansfield）的失败竞选中。

她没有回应通过电话、面对面和短信多次提出的评论请求。她尚未被指控有

任何不当行为。

该参议员的计费行为发生在纽约州宽松的规则背景下。

关于州旅行付款的法律允许立法者及其工作人员在因公务旅行时，以日津贴和直接报销的形式回收成本。

竞选资金法允许他们使用从捐赠者那里筹集到的资金进行选举活动，但可以选择为那些在“履行其公职职责”期间产生的相同费用重新计费。这包括支付工作人员乘坐出租车和入住酒店的费用。

专家表示，立法者在向竞选活动计费入住酒店的同时，是否能合法地回收住宿日津贴，在某种程度上仍是一个开放性问题。这些日津贴是以固定费率支付的——过夜旅行 $200，当日往返 $40——且无需提交酒店费用收据即可领取。

关于 10 小时计费的规则则更为复杂。所有州立法者在申请立法报销时，必须提交 000 份特定行程的副本，并严格规定这些成本不得已由任何其他资金来源（包括竞选成本）支付住宿费。

在 2016, 当选参议员的 Ms. Ramos 并非唯一一名在执行公务期间使用竞选资金支付旅行费用的立法机构成员。

《纽约时报》的一项分析发现，从 2021 到 2025, 至少有 130 名现任和前任成员在领取立法报销的同时，使用其竞选资金支付住宿或火车票费用。

然而，这些记录并非重复计费的证据。

竞选支出报告并未具体说明资金用于支付谁的旅行费用，且无法证明这些费用是恰当地用于支付工作人员的开支，而非立法者本人的开支。

如果 Ms. Ramos 竞选活动中计费的款项是用于支付其工作人员而非 Ms. Ramos 本人的旅行费用，那么这不会引起官方关注。

但 Ms. Ramos 的两名前助手表示，他们知道她在领取州政府相关资金的同时，还将自己的酒店和火车票费用计入了她的竞选活动。

其中一位是 Anne（化名），她从 2021 年到 2025 年期间由 Ramos 女士聘用，曾担任其幕僚长，并参与了她的州参议院竞选活动。她说

州参议员杰西卡·拉莫斯（Jessica Ramos）是皇后区的一名民主党人，自 2020 年起一直担任上议院劳工委员会主席。

这位参议员经常从立法机构领取用于住宿和美铁（Amtrak）车票的日津贴和报销款，然后与女性工作人员共用酒店房间，这样她就可以将住宿费用转嫁给她的竞选资金。

Anne 女士表示，参议院从未主动向工作人员提供关于日津贴如何运作或哪些项目符合报销条件的培训。

另一名确认女士重复计费行为的工作人员因担心职业后果而要求匿名。

第三位前助手路易斯·恩佐拉（Luis Enzola）在 2025 年 7 月离开她的州参议院竞选活动之前，曾担任该参议员的簿记员多年。他表示，他被要求为她的参议院办公室提供一张竞选信用卡，用于支付女士的火车票和酒店房间费用。

“我当时认为确保这笔钱来自竞选资金是完全必要的，”他说。恩佐拉先生补充说，他当时不知道她同时还从参议院获得了同一笔费用的报销。

接受《纽约时报》采访的前工作人员表示，女士经常抱怨缺钱。他们说，她的竞选资金也经常告罄，一名前工作人员表示，女士有时不得不打电话给捐赠者筹款，以便报销那些垫付了酒店或其他项目的助手的费用。

政府监督机构表示，

根据具体事实情况，任何费用的重复计费都可能违反规定，甚至触犯法律。

纽约 Common Cause 的执行主任苏珊·勒纳（Susan Lerner）代表该监督参议员问责的团体采取了更为强硬的立场。

“无论是在私人生活还是公共生活中，任何人都无权重复计费，”勒纳女士说，但她对女士的具体计费情况并不了解。“对于一个客户来说，忽略单一来源并不是陈述，而是非法的——这是一种欺诈——即领取第二次报销。”

为了核查女士的计费情况，《纽约时报》将竞选披露记录与她的州政府差旅文件进行了对比，采访了前工作人员，并从部分请求者那里获得了信用卡交易记录、电子邮件和短信。

记录显示，在过去五年中，女士在执行州政府公务且领取日津贴以支付住宿和其他费用的期间，其竞选资金在住宿上花费了超过 $18,000。

《纽约时报》的分析显示，没有哪位州议员在领取报销款的同时，在火车票上花费的竞选资金比女士更多。

至少在 57 次情况下，她竞选资金中记录的一次火车票费用与她申报的官方参议院差旅报销金额一致。

例如，在 2025 年 3 月 9 日和 9 日的一份州政府凭证中，女士获得了参议院报销的两张美铁车票费用 $149；而竞选记录显示 3 月 8 日有一笔 $100 的美铁扣费。

在另一个例子中，为了在 2024 年参加立法会议的第一天前往奥尔巴尼（Albany），女士从参议院获得了 $28 的火车票报销。她的竞选活动报告在 2024 年为一张美铁车票花费了相同金额。

去年 3 月 24 日至 26 日，在竞选立法支持基金联邦请求结束之际，参议院报销了她往返的 $219 火车票费用，而竞选活动报告在 24 日为一张美铁车票花费了 $125。

目前尚不清楚这些情况是否属于被禁止的双重计费。接受《纽约时报》采访的前工作人员表示，拉莫斯女士的州参议院竞选活动经常支付她的差旅费，但他们在离开该计划后没有保留详细的差旅或财务记录。

《纽约时报》多次要求拉莫斯女士提供竞选收据，以显示计入其竞选活动的费用是否用于支付其工作人员的差旅费。她没有回应这些请求。

法律要求竞选财务主管将费用底单收据保留五年，但无需将其公开供公众查阅。

除了对前工作人员的采访外，《纽约时报》还获得了记录，显示了拉莫斯女士似乎向其竞选活动报销自身差旅费的具体实例。

例如，一名州参议院工作人员关于 Amtrak 车票的一条短信提到“发票票号”，在一次使用竞选信用卡“为杰西卡预订房间”并抵达现场后。

拉莫斯女士州参议院办公室的前日程安排员、前社交人员在一次简短的电话中也确认，她使用信用卡为拉莫斯女士预订了此处，以“预订提供给她的女性”。在《纽约时报》审阅的短信中，她描述了使用竞选信用卡支付参议员差旅费的情况。

负责监督立法者行为的州立法伦理委员会执行主任拒绝置评。参议院民主党的一位发言人未回应置评请求。

曼哈顿地区检察官办公室的前检察官詹姆斯·M·麦库恩（James M. McCuen）表示，向州政府提交凭证以报销前往奥尔巴尼处理立法事务的 Amtrak 车票费用，且在已知竞选资金已经或将用于支付相同车票的情况下，可能构成轻罪。

他表示，如果提交此类凭证的目的是为了欺骗州政府，则可能上升为欺诈罪。

今年 6 月，拉莫斯女士在民主党初选中失去了连任机会。

预计她将留在参议院，直到 11 月选举后的冬季新成员就职。

纽约州参议员

左侧为拉莫斯女士提交给州政府的差旅凭证，显示了每日津贴支付和火车报销情况。这位州参议员曾竞选纽约市市长，但在退出竞选前，曾支持前州长安德鲁·M·库莫（Andrew M. Cuomo，见上图）在对阵埃德马·曼斯菲尔德（Edmar Mansfield）的竞选中失利。

法院裁定：纽约市儿童福利机构无权在佛罗里达州监视该母亲

作者：HENRIK MERH

2024年的某个12月，警长代表服务人员来到佛罗里达州一名女性的家中，敲开她的门，并要求见她的孩子。

他们前往那里，是因为他们认为该女性在纽约市儿童福利机构——儿童服务管理局（Administration of Children's Services, ACS）有未结案的案件。

这位 C 女士向州政府提交了一些文件，称她曾告知警长她与该机构并没有案件，但仍允许他们进入她的家中，而该女性的家人当时正聚集在一起庆祝节日。

“这太令人尴尬了，”她在今年早些时候的一次采访中说道。“我不是一个坏人，但为了保护她的孩子，我同意不透露她的姓氏。”

这并不是该家庭第一次与代表纽约儿童福利机构行动的当地警长发生冲突。

在 2022 年 12 月该母亲在布朗克斯区举报孩子父亲实施家庭暴力后的几个月里，该机构开始监视她。根据法院文件，尽管没有证据表明她是不合格的父母，但该机构表示她的孩子应在市级监管下生活，尽管仍由她监护，一名家庭法院法官对此表示同意。

遭受家庭暴力的父母经常被告知，儿童福利监管是必要的，以确保施暴父母不会返回。

但截至周四，纽约州的一家法院裁定，在 C 女士的案例中，这种监管“代表了一种‘广泛的过度扩张’”，因为其权力范围超出了州法律的保护。在的一份一致意见中，涵盖曼哈顿和布朗克斯区的州第一司法部门的法官们发现，该市机构的这种做法是非法的。在裁决中，法官指出，很明显“法院不得将一名未被指控有任何过错的父母置于 ACS 的监管之下”，即使另一方父母已被判定有过错。在这种情况下，一名家庭法院法官已判定父亲有疏忽行为，父亲被禁止在无人监督的情况下探视孩子，并被要求参加社会服务计划。

此外，法官表示，儿童福利机构并未否认，其惯例之一是寻求州外执法部门的协助，代表其进行监管，即使父母并未被指控有过错。

“我不是一个战争改进 ”，由家庭正义法律中心（Family Justice Law Center）和纽约大学家庭导演诊所（Family Director Clinic）代表的该女性表示，周四的裁决是对该机构行为给她的孩子们带来的创伤的认可。这也是确保他人不再经历类似监视案例的一步。

“这次决定如此有意义的原因在于，我们的斗争从来不仅仅是为了我们自己，”她在周四的一份声明中说。“我想确保另一位父母，尤其是另一位家庭暴力的幸存者，不会仅仅因为保护孩子而被当作嫌疑人对待。”

家庭正义法律中心执行主任唐纳德·科兹洛夫斯基（Donald Kozlowski）表示，周四的裁决是对纽约州以及该市机构监视未被指控有任何过错的父母之能力的一次重大限制。

“我觉得法院认为通过 ACS 是不可思议的，家庭法院不能继续将一种法律常规做法视为照常进行的业务，”科兹洛夫斯基先生认为。法律部门的一位发言人表示，该市正在研究这一决定。

对 C 女士一家的监管始于纽约市。

2025 年，这位来自佛罗里达州的女性搬进了她在布朗克斯区与孩子父亲（两人已分居）共同拥有的一套公寓，以便靠近正在接受癌症治疗的母亲。

在那年12月，她与孩子的父亲发生了争吵，根据法庭文件，他意识到了孩子们的状态。她报了警，并获得了一项命令，禁止他进入家中以及接触孩子们。

该命令使她受到了 A.C.S. 的审查。

她说，在 2025 年，该机构开始不请自来地出现在公寓里。她前往家庭法院，但法院授予了 A.C.S. 在她于 2024 年 7 月搬到佛罗里达州坦帕市之后继续联系她的权力。

根据法庭文件，10 月，佛罗里达州的武装警长代表抵达了孩子们的新学校，将一名 three-odd 女孩和一名 cross-odd 男孩带出教室并对其进行了询问。法庭文件显示，该女孩“开始哭泣并颤抖”，并且“在不知情的情况下，学校校长通知母亲那天早点接她回家”。

C 女士表示，没有人告诉她为什么她仍然处于监视之下。

“我一个人在与所有人作斗争，试图弄清楚发生了什么，”她在采访中说道。“我想摆脱这种痛苦。‘每个人都对我下命令，对我开玩笑，告诉我他们想关闭我的课程。’”

她说，“在读到他们利用 A.C.S. 之后，我终于向一群律师寻求帮助。”他们接手了她的案件，该机构随即停止了监视，但她的上诉仍在进行中。

在致命雪崩中提供引导的公司面临罚款

法官推进案件

曼哈顿法院

作者：MIKEI LUKIKE 和 ISCHELIE SEIKO 纽约市的 Shean landbank 支出大约在市长 Zoltman Mandani 下令的租金冻结期间，他们将其作为一名斯塔滕岛（Staton Island）的所有者。

该州的工作场所安全机构本周报告称，该委员会对该公司存在“严重”且“蓄意”的违规行为。Board and Mountain Guides 被提出与 $352,000 相关的拟议罚款，这是该公司首次因该部门而面临纪律处分。

二月份，10 个州不应尝试该公司在加利福尼亚州 Truckee 的 Frog California 一处山脉酒吧的安全性，期间发生了一次皮

在 15 名进入暴风雪的人员中，有 9 人死亡。

帐篷风暴。尽管州政府相关人员发出了高度危险的严正警告，包括 74 项法院建议，他们仍冒险进入暴风雪。

加州职业安全与健康管理局（简称 Cal / OSHA）对 Blackleaf Mountain Guides 提出了七项违规指控，该机构是该州的职场安全监管机构。针对员工的高风险评估培训不足、未能正确识别风险，以及未能应对来自该州职场安全“狭窄地带”的紧急情况，这些内容也已提交审理。

由于该机构专注于职场安全，调查结果仅适用于向导，而不适用于客—

户。当雪崩发生时，该滑雪小组正缓慢行进在积雪深厚的山坡上，部分人员被埋在路途中。目前尚不清楚是什么触发了这次被称为“蓝水手”（blue sailors callouzard）的旧雪崩。

在由 Capitaello 首先报道的处罚通知中，该机构指责 Blackleaf 未能评估向导是否需要采取更多安全措施。这些措施包括配备气囊的特制背包（以帮助人员保持在雪面之上）以及被称为“策略”的紧急挖掘设备，这本可以帮助他们从危险的埋雪中幸存。

Blackleaf Mountain Guides 发表声明称，其已提交正式上诉，并一直遵守所有法规和山地向导安全实践。

特定的引导活动发生在动态的荒野环境中，情况每分每秒都在变化——这并非像该州铁路的各个区域那样是受控环境。我们欢迎有机会与 Cal / OSHA 合作，共同考虑在野外环境中运营的独特现实情况。

声明指出，所有遇难的向导（分布在内华达州和 Blackleaf Henry 州）均获得了美国山地向导协会的认证。

该公司还面临 Cal / OSHA 调查局的两项严重调查请求（目前仍在进行中），以及内华达县治安官办公室的调查，后者最近已移交给州检察官，但尚未公布刑事指控。

Blackleaf 表示，它将继续配合所有调查

在加州特鲁基（Truckee, Calif.）为 2 月份内华达山脉雪崩受害者举行的守夜活动。加州职场安全机构指控 Blackleaf Mountain Guides 存在“严重”且“蓄意”的违规行为。

以及“致力于与审查此次悲剧的每个机构合作，以进一步了解所发生的情况”。

由 Blackleaf 委托并于本月发布的独立报告未将直接责任归咎于该公司。报告称，该公司遵循了既定的风险管理实践，“包括地形和路线选择、对天气和未处理条件的持续评估，以及对暴露风险的谨慎管理”。

报告补充道：“在应用这些方法时，在公认且被接受的专业实践中，在较高的雪崩风险下进行引导是可能的。”

Blackleaf 成立于 2008 年，其向导已带领数百名游客在该地区游览，总计 1,000,000 人次。其行程曾带领他人前往像 Frog Lake 这样的地点，即使在风暴中也是如此，并且在雪崩风险升高时重新提交了避开危险地形的方案。

根据当天的位置数据，该小组在被击中时略微偏离了这些路线。

在事故发生前，两组引导行程被合并为一组，13 人聚集在一个山坡下时发生了雪崩（其中 3 人被埋在深达 10 英尺的雪中）。Cal / OSHA 指控该公司未能考虑合并两组人员的风险。

这导致在街道上方仅剩一名向导和一组人员，这意味着在空气耗尽之前，没有足够的资源来救援所有其他人。

由于风暴仍在肆虐，Blackleaf 的所有者及其一名高级员工在收到雪崩危险过高的警告后，仍前往事故现场试图进行救援。

Cal / OSHA 将此案描述为决策问题，称：“一名员工被要求前往指挥部并进入雪崩区域，这违背了当地执法部门的建议。”

当纽约市的土地银行（landbank）就市长 Zoltman Mandani 下令的租金冻结问题产生分歧时，他们选择了斯塔滕岛（Staton Island）的所有者作为依据。

当房主对第二项许可证税的推行提出异议时，一组人员决定就此提起诉讼，称该努力已被掩盖。

而当 Mandani 市长的反对者想要挑战市长在州政府连续控制其前任权力的情况下采取行动的权力时，他们同样选择斯塔滕岛作为提起诉讼的地点。

感谢。Messrs.，一名 1978 年的律师或州政府人员，认为斯塔滕岛的居民与纽约其他居民一样受到这些政策的影响，使其成为了该法律的一部分。

但周五，一名法官批准了将租金冻结案件移交给曼哈顿的请求，使 Mandani 市长在“s”中获得部分胜利。法院将其议程的一部分纳入其中。法官 Ralph J. Perrin 同意市政府的观点，即虽然斯塔滕岛的房屋将受到“s”的影响，但决定是由租金指导委员会（Rent Guidelines Board）在曼哈顿做出的，应在法院形式中决定。

斯塔滕岛，一个控制地点，也是“s”的一方。该“s”，即“s”，并非 “s”的一方。

“s”，即“s”，并非“s”的一方。

“无论此案在何处审理，我们都应在‘s’上胜诉，因为委员会未能遵守其法定职责，且随着时间的推移对此进行了深思并予以忽略，这构成了严重的违规。但同样如此。”

上周一，1月20日，该市辩称“s”并非“s”的一方。该“s”，即“s”，并非“s”的一方。

Mandani 市长反对这一转移。“斯塔滕岛可能比我们城市的其他行政区规模更小或知名度较低，但在重要性上毫不逊色，并且与任何其他行政区一样受到这一决定的影响”，以“结束这一年”。该“s”，即“s”，并非“s”的一方。

在去年的选举期间，Mandani 市长的竞选承诺是“冻结租金”以稳定住房投票，因为一个主要的城市转移支持者改进方案是由“s”做出的。该“s”，即“s”，并非“s”的一方。

在二月，Mandani 市长和“s”，即“s”，并非“s”的一方。

亲银行方的倡导者立即将委员会的投票强制执行为一项。7月22日，几名银行从业者表示，委员会在出现冻结并增加额外费用时，不当地忽略了自然挑战下的责任。

在法庭文件中，房东表示委员会仅关注所有筹款租户“对每项成本和收入因素的逃避。‘s’的立法者要求其考虑并达成了一个此前没有任何委员会曾达到的结果。”

该诉讼实质上是请求法院宣布冻结行为非法，并确保委员会使该过程公平。

该“s”，即“s”，并非“s”的一方。

更多国家新闻见 A20 页。

曼达尼的第二套房税因推行不顺而受挫

来自 A1 页

据两名熟悉其情况的人士透露，关于该税收将如何管理以及何时生效，需要有更清晰的说明。这两位人士在描述私人对话时要求匿名。

州长注意到市长在面对鼓励“利用富人”的公众维度时，是如何谈论公众的。在一段安全护理视频中，他的讲师们，市长决定重点突出一个由对冲基金经理肯尼思·C·柯林斯（Kenneth C. Collins）带来的尤为负面的新物质。

“有更好的处理方法，”州法律的前任负责人霍尔顿（Mr. Holton）先生表示，市长的做法是“具体且松散的”，而不是像某个热爱做其他事情的人那样，他补充道。

她并不是唯一一个关注州政府对这项原本受欢迎的政策进行管控的人，官员们估计该政策每年将带来数亿美元的收入。

随着报纸上的批评声日益增加，曼达尼（Mt. Mandani）及其政府试图调整其努力，以减轻市长所面临的负面反弹，其中包括一项诉讼，该诉讼称政府在短时间内对一项重大新税收的立法合规性进行了掩盖。

市长的对冲基金正在法庭上为此次推行辩护，斯塔滕岛的一位法官认为，这是一种让市长主张其行为得当的方式，且并非州法律的当事方。

甚至戈德堡（Goldberg）也没有提供任何帮助。

一些纽约人对他缺乏行政经验表示担忧。

“我们从一开始就警告过他们，这项税收在公平且准确地管理上将非常困难，”纽约房地产委员会（Real State Board of New York）的首席法官詹姆斯·惠顿（James Whitton）表示，这是一个一直批评曼达尼（Mt. Mandani）的有影响力的游说团体。

他补充道：“现在的问题不在于税收是否复杂，而在于市政府是否准备好实施它。”

官员们承认该税收周围存在混乱，但坚持认为推行过程是恰当的，且符合法律。

市长的发言人马修·劳肖维茨（Matthew Rauschowitsch）表示，该税收旨在“要求那些拥有价值达到纳税标准之第二套房的人”支付其公平份额，并且他们致力于确保只有被要求纳税的人才纳税。

他表示，这项税收将允许政府在五个区进行“关键投资”，并帮助我们为所有纽约人建设一个更具灵活性的城市。

信息快讯

该税项在5月下旬作为州委员会的一部分获得批准。霍克尔先生并未直接针对高收入者或大公司的收入，而是决定采用一种相当于基于税收基础的征收方案。一项财产税法案。在第一年，该税项将适用于被用作第二居所的公寓和综合住宅，或公共安全，并保留一个“市场”头寸——一个至少$2 million的公共部门股票中央委员会。它还将适用于市场价值超过$5 million的税收、征收金和三户住宅第二居所。

法律指示财政部制定相关规则。列在下方的城市将负责收取这笔资金，但眼前的问题是，城市没有简单的方法来确保某处房产是否为该私人的主要居所，而该私人将

城市随后认为，大约17,000处房产可能会被征税，尽管目前尚不

以“确保富人缴税”为竞选主张的市长佐尔特曼·曼达尼，在实施这项税收时感到了一丝胜利。

官员们如何识别该子集尚不明确。其中约一半的房产似乎是由有限责任公司或信托持有，而非个人持有，且很难知道是否有人全职居住在其中。

该部门表示，将尝试使用州所得税申报表和驾驶员收入等文件，来对给定房屋是否为付费项做出简单的判定，但一个持久的问题出现了。州政府目前掌握的最新所得税申报资料来自2024年。

目前尚不清楚城市是否向州政府争取了更及时的信息。拟议的规则集于7月14日最终确定。

17,000 封信函

随后，市政府必须提醒房主他们可能会被征税。为了应对法律中模糊的措辞，官员们公布了一份关于该市 100 万处房产中“可能适用”该税项的数据。该数据集被描述为一份“补充名册”，提醒纳税人，在 1 月份公布的“户外”名单中，新附加费采用了新的标签。

在 7 月 24 日公布，以及曼达尼市长（Mt. Mandani）在过时的、两层楼的首次房主增长中宣传该税项的推出后。市府更改了语言——百万，在双方所述的解释中接近，称：“在 1970 年和 1975 年州委员会中的绝大多数房产均适用该附加费。”

尽管该数据集继续提供公开信息，且

霍克尔州长（Gov. Kathy Hockel）提出了这项税收，但她强调必须由市府来执行。

虽然这些信息已经很容易获取，但有些人仍将其用于指认该市最富有的纳税人。

“这次推出正在强化人们对本届政府的一种看法，即他们消除成功，”纽约市合伙人协会（Partnership for New York City，一个有影响力的商业团体）负责人史蒂文·福利（Steven Foley）表示。“这不仅仅是人们的名字和地址，而且更多的是在做人们做错了某些事情的事，我们认为这不是正确的方法。”

甚至市财政官员也报告称，担心这次推出过于公开，可能会给过去过时的城市带来问题。据几位因讨论私人对话而要求匿名的知情人士透露，这可能会削弱市府向公众解释该税项的努力。（Philips: New York 率先报道了财政部的担忧。）

与此同时，大约 1,000 名房主收到了信函，告知他们如果认为州税不适用，则必须提供信息。“但一份纳税申报单——以证明他们居住在相关房屋中。”许多收信人表示，州政府的税务责任清单已经提供，而市府现在公开地将证明责任转移给了他们。

曼达尼市长的支持者驳斥了市府提出不合理要求的观点，认为确定某些道路很简单，且和平主义者认为这是错误的。

“亿万富翁们的策略是说任何针对其财富的税收都是负担，但纽约人不会上当，”美国民主社会主义者（Democratic Socialists of America）纽约市分会的冈特斯·科恩菲尔斯（Gunters Cornfils）表示。

一名长期居住在纽约市且收到信函的居民是劳什·马丁（Rausch Martin），他是一名律师，曾担任曼达尼市长前任埃里克·奥尔特（Eric Ault）任内的副市长。

马丁先生是曼达尼市长的著名批评者，曾对该政府提起多项诉讼，他认为这些信函——以及第一个数据集——是政府合同的典型。他代表数据集中的几名居民表示，市府应该有权在筛选出潜在适用此税项的人员名单之前对其进行核实。

前市府官员兰迪·马丁（Randy Martin）在法庭上辩称，市府在推出过程中处理不当。

“虽然诉讼没有改变税收本身的合法性，但有人认为市府官员过于草率且服务明确。根据设立该税项的法律，信函应在 8 月 20. 前发出。但市府决定提前一周发送。”

市府的侄子史蒂文·班克斯（Steven Banks）否认这是带有偏见的，称其为“为了确保合法性而做出的理性决定”。他表示，考虑到 Year 1 的时间框架，该法律并非法律。

“信函也没有解释市府如何确定其在 Year 1 时间框架内合法，但法官在案件中对此表示关注。韦恩·M·奥里（Wayne M. Orie）对此表示认同，班克斯先生也表示同意。1, ”

“他怎么会假设这样会更好？”班克斯先生在法庭上说道。“政府的通知总是有改进空间的。但这并不意味着这里所做的一切是非法的。”

法官批准了一项临时禁制令，暂停了该市对州税的

目前，该市继续执行该税项，其中涉及一名 1980 年夏季的儿童，且已有数封信函申请重点审核，该市表示这些申请必须获得批准，其中包括该诉讼的一名原告。

该进程仍处于密切监督之下。市议员在听证会上指出，在市政厅采取的一项行动中，管理部门在提交法律文件时明确表示，由于诉讼尚未结案，税项的推行日期为当日。

“在管理部门甚至没有在此讨论记录中的三件事，且该记录是公开的情况下，很难处理法律问题，但据称这是：证据发现，一个支持该税项的 Breen Democracy。”

随着首批税单将于 11 月开始发出，该市仍有时间调整其方案。目前尚不清楚此次推行是否会证明像 Mt. Mandani 那样是一个政治失败，而他一直在继续补救并为其行政辩护。

随后，在 Mt. Adams 领导下的财务委员会表示，市级官员遵循了正确程序，并且没有在“推行过程中出现任何技术上的错误”。

“该部门的决定是根据州法律所必须执行的操作，”他说道。

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德里克·帕克，65岁，被称为“嘻哈警察”的侦探去世

作者：CLAY KISEN

德里克·帕克（Derrick Parker）是一名纽约市警察局侦探，他对说唱音乐的热爱以及对这座城市音乐和名人圈的深刻了解，使他成为警察局处理涉及肖恩·库姆斯（Sean Combs）、詹妮弗·洛佩兹（Jennifer Lopez）和 Lil' Kim 等艺人犯罪案件的首选专家，并因此获得了“嘻哈警察”的绰号。他于 7 月 10 日在纽约州东草地（East Meadow, N.Y.）的长岛去世。他享年 65 岁。

他的兄弟斯特里克兰·帕克（Strickland Parker）确认了这一死讯，他在医院因心脏病发作去世。

帕克先生出生于布鲁克林，并在那里和皇后区长大。他于 1982 年加入警察局，他在无线电领域的快速晋升与纽约及其他地区嘻哈音乐场景的增长相平行。

随着该场景的演变，其犯罪元素也随之演变，最终导致了 1990 年 Tujan Shuker 的谋杀案和 1991 年被誉为“臭名昭著的 B.I.G.”（Notorious B.I.G.）的克里斯托弗·华莱士（Christopher Wallace）的谋杀案。

舒克先生在拉斯维加斯被杀，华莱士先生在洛杉矶被杀，但两起案件都与纽约有关，当时担任冷案组侦探的帕克先生在调查中发挥了关键作用。

这两起案件仍未解决，尽管舒克先生被杀案的审判目前正在进行。但帕克先生的人脉和见解被证明如此宝贵，以至于部门将他重新分配到一项全职工作中，负责追踪犯罪与这座城市嘻哈社区之间的交集。

“让我感兴趣的是，我看到很多在布鲁克林真正凶狠的家伙开始依附于说唱歌手和艺人，”他在 2004 年告诉《乡村之声》（The Village Voice）。“所以我过去会监控整个部门关于发生任何事情的外部情况。”

在说唱歌手出现在俱乐部或演唱会之前，帕克先生会向警员通报行动，鼓励并提供犯罪背景以及可能的安全威胁。当发生涉及音乐家的犯罪时，他会被召集到现场——即使是在深夜。

1998 年 12 月，他接到一个深夜电话，关于曼哈顿中城纽约俱乐部（Club New York）的一起枪击事件，当时库姆斯先生和他的女友洛佩兹女士在场。这些人受伤了，其中一人伤势严重。库姆斯先生、洛佩兹女士和两名助—

1999 年，当肖恩·库姆斯出现在曼哈顿中城的一起枪击事件现场时，帕克先生被召集到现场。

在 2001 年曼哈顿发生的一起涉及说唱歌手 Lil' Kim 的枪击事件后，他也受到了咨询，图中显示的是 2004 年的 Lil' Kim。

他曾担任一个人的情报单位，并作为与音乐界的联络人。

在车内逃离，导致警方在全市范围内展开追捕。据称，最终被抓获并逮捕。

当帕克先生到达中城北-普雷蒙特（Midtown North-Premont）时，他发现洛佩兹女士被铐在一个红色笼子里，一群律师正试图接触她和康布斯先生，但未能成功。

帕克先生表现得极其外交，他安排律师进入并促成了洛佩兹女士的释放——并帮助劝说她不要提起诉讼。康布斯先生被指控持有武器和。他的说唱随从之一，Slipat，因袭击罪被判处10年监禁。

2001年，在曼哈顿一个下午，说唱歌手 Lil' Kim 和 Capone（Pony Brown 的朋友，当时正与 Kim 合作）的随行人员之间发生枪战，帕克先生被召集到现场。一名人员受伤。

帕克先生再次在警方与涉及枪击的各方之间充当联络人。Lil' Kim 因在事件涉及人员问题上撒谎被判处一年监禁。

帕克先生身高 6 英尺 5 英寸，体重约 200 磅，为人热情，朋友们称他为 Easy D。他在同事以及纽约娱乐界中广为人知且深受喜爱。即使在他离开警队并创办一家为夜总会、演唱会和摔跤赛事提供安保服务的公司很久之后，许多被他逮捕过的人依然对他心存尊重。

“有一天晚上，D 和我在门口工作，这个家伙看到了 D，”帕克先生的商业伙伴兼好友格伦·贝克（Glen Beck）在一次采访中说道，“他给了 D 一个拥抱和握手，D 给了他一张赠票。在他走过去的一瞬间，D 说：‘他刚坐了 15 年牢回来。是我把他送进去的。’”

在仍就职于警局期间，他重新定义了自己在世界摔跤联盟（World Wrestling Federation，现为 World Wrestling Entertainment）担任安保人员的角色。他还担任过面向年轻单身黑人的杂志《Chocolate Singles》的推广总监，负责组织派对和团体度假。1969年，他甚至录制了一张唱片，名为《Single Man》。

帕克先生在警局的角色曾引发争议。他从 1999 年开始在警局的职位正式隶属于帮派情报部门，负责维护一个个人详细信息数据库——在某些人看来，这项任务使他成了一个间谍。

帕克先生并不这么认为。他觉得自己在帮助保护他钦佩的艺术家和他热爱的圈子。

“我的目标从来不仅仅是逮捕和定罪说唱歌手，”他在 2008 年告诉《纽约客》（The New Yorker）。“我

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1998 年在布朗克斯的帕克先生（居中）。谈到他的警察工作时，他说：“我的基本目标是保护说唱音乐免受其自身伤害。”右侧，他的 2008 年回忆录描述了他一些最著名的案例。

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德里克·詹姆斯·帕克（Derrick James Parker）出生于 1961 年 5 月 8 日。他的父亲莱昂内尔（Lionel）是一名退休的海军陆战队中士和一名卫生警察。他的母亲多洛雷斯·帕克（Dolores (Bryant) Parker）是歌手兼乐队领队威利·布赖恩特（Willie Bryant，1995-64）的女儿，后者对话式的演唱风格使其被誉为说唱的先驱。

1979年，帕克先生进入圣约翰大学（St. John's University）学习公共管理三年，随后离开并进入警察学院。他在 1984 年获得了约翰·杰伊刑事司法学院（John Jay College of Criminal Justice）的学士学位。

在曼哈顿中城担任了几年的巡警以及在布朗克斯担任卧底缉毒警后，帕克先生成为了警局最年轻的侦探之一。

大约十年间，他负责处理布鲁克林贝德福德-斯泰弗森社区的谋杀案，并于1998年被选中加入该部门新成立的悬案组，他在那里工作直到1998年。

他在2002年从警队退休，之后进入贝克先生的安保公司工作。两人后来作为合伙人共同创业。

2006年，他与马特·多德合著出版了一本回忆录，

名为《臭名昭著的警察：来自纽约市警察局首位“嘻哈警察”关于Tujan、Bigger和Jam Master Jay调查的内部故事》（"Notorious C.O.P.: The Inside Story of the Tujan, Bigger and Jam Master Jay Investigations from the N.Y.P.D.'s First 'Hip-Hop Cop.'"）。

除了他的兄弟斯特里克兰，帕克先生还留下了另外三位兄弟——拉尔夫、特雷西和利昂内尔二世，以及一位姐妹，约恩卡·帕克。

在离开警察局很久之后，帕克先生依然维持着他在嘻哈圈的人脉，贝克先生表示，侦探和警监们一直将他的电话设为快捷拨号，以便在需要他的建议时能够联系到他。

“如果你耐心等待，街道会告诉你所有需要知道的事情，”帕克先生告诉《纽约客》，“街道知道一切。”

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特朗普的违背承诺：8张图表详解

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“承诺已许，承诺已兑。”其他总统也使用过这句话的变体，但很少有人像特朗普总统那样充满热情——他甚至在白宫网站上如此宣称。然而，在经济方面，“承诺未兑”将是对特朗普 2.0 时代前 19 个月更恰当的描述。

1. 经济增长

在今年的第二季度，增长率下降到年率仅 1.5%，这是由特朗普政策引发的经济增长转变。能源价格上涨导致了普遍通货膨胀。政府支出减少。由于他的关税政策，贸易余额恶化。这些因素导致增长速度低于乔·拜登总统此前令特朗普不满的 2.75% 的全球增长率。

特朗普的承诺

“我们将实现前所未有的增长。”

2024年9月5日，纽约场景

现实

经济正在放缓

实际国内生产总值年增长率

注：2026年的数据截至7月30日。来源：经济分析局，经由 FRED。

2. 债务

巨大的赤字自然意味着更多的债务。飙升的国家债务应该让每个美国人都感到恐惧，因为它使商业贷款和抵押贷款变得更加昂贵。或许更重要的是，它通过削弱新英格兰地区资助其他重要优先事项的能力，损害了后代人的利益。公众持有的总债务与经济规模的比率即将超过第二次世界大战时期的记录。到 2026 年，国会预算办公室预计我们的国家债务将达到国内生产总值的 120%。

特朗普的承诺

“现在轮到我们繁荣了，在此过程中，我们将使用数万亿数万亿美金来降低税收并偿还国家债务，这一切都会很快发生。”

2025年4月2日，白宫玫瑰园宣布

现实

国家债务即将打破二战记录

联邦债务占 GDP 的份额，按财政年度计算

注：图表估算提炼自最新的政府新闻；回溯来源：管理和预算办公室，国会预算办公室。

3. 制造业

制造业就业人数在拜登先生任期的大部分时间里，由于其雄心勃勃的工业投资而有所增长，但目前已下滑至 1280 万个工作岗位，自特朗普先生第二次就职以来减少了 6.2 万个。中国和其他新兴国家继续给美国的高成本生产带来压力，而特朗普先生的关税尚未扭转这一趋势。由于增加了工厂生产出口商品所需的原材料价格，这些关税可能产生了相反的效果。

特朗普的承诺

“美国将再次成为一个制造业国家，我们将拥有其他任何制造业国家永远不会拥有的东西。”

第二次受影响通知，2025年1月20日

现实

制造业就业陷入停滞

Note: 数据截至 2026年7月。来源：劳工统计局。

4. 关税

唯一可见的变化在于关税本身，因为最高法院裁定特朗普先生新关税的到期执行是非法的，且下级法院已命令退还这些款项。应当指出的是，退款是交给支付这些款项的公司，而不是交给可能承担了大部分成本的消费者。特朗普先生此后推出的一系列新关税已经遭到法院质疑。即使这些关税被维持，它们在 2026 年预计仅能产生 31.1 亿美元的收入——远低于政府必须退还的 306 亿美元。

特朗普的承诺

“如果没有关税，以及我们已经收到的数万亿美元，我们的国家将被彻底摧毁。”

Turf-Secos，2025年8月31日，在所有上诉法院针对 6374 关税做出裁决之后

现实

关税退款正在全面进行

美国每月净海关收入

Note: 数据截至 2025年8月13日。来源：美国财政部。

5. 通货膨胀

很难想象特朗普先生能够降低物价。但由于他对伊朗发起的战争，通货膨胀变成了一个更严重的问题。当特朗普先生在 2025 年就职时，通货膨胀率仅略高于美联储每年 2% 的目标。随着目前物价上涨幅度超过 3%，美联储可能会开始加息——此举将使从信用卡债务到抵押贷款的所有费用变得更加昂贵——以抑制通货膨胀。

“从第一天起，我们将结束通货膨胀，让美国再次负担得起，降低所有商品的价格。”

Conceptually, American, Mark, 2025年8月6日

通货膨胀已追上工资单

同比百分比变化

6. 汽油价格

特朗普先生关于汽油价格低于每加仑 2 美元的承诺从未具有现实意义。在那个价格水平下，原油价格可能必须跌至每桶 30 美元，而这个水平将使开发新供应源变得毫无利润，从而导致供应下降，最终导致价格回升。而这还是在特朗普先生发动伊朗战争之前。汽油价格在 5 月中旬达到了 4.50 美元，目前维持在 4 美元左右——比就职日高出约 30%。

“能源将使我们回归。这意味着我们将降低价格，使汽油低于每加仑 2 美元。”

Scenario: Out of New York, 2024年9月5日

汽油价格高于每加仑 4 美元

美国普通汽油平均价格

Note: 数据截至 2026年8月10日。来源：美国能源信息署。

7. 住房所有权成本

如果使用常规计算方法，一个家庭需要约 $120,000 的年收入才能负担得起一座新建筑的房价。目前，家庭收入中位数约为 $86,000。

特朗普的承诺

“年轻人将能够再次购买房屋，成为美国梦的一部分。我们将取消推高住房成本的监管规定，目标是将新房成本降低一半……仅监管成本就占 30%。监管成本占新房价格的 30%。”

现实

住房成本几乎没有下降

房屋价格中位数

Note: 数据截至 2024 年 3 月。来源：Murray Fed HOME 2024℃, Freddie Mar。

8. 医疗保险保费

虽然共和党人在其后续行动中停止了对《平价医疗法案》的干扰，但他们破碎的收费标准正使数百万美国人的医疗保健成本变得更加昂贵。与特朗普先生的承诺之一相反，目前市场基准方案的平均保费比去年上涨了近 26%。且未投保的美国人数正在增加。

特朗普的承诺

“成本本会大幅上涨，事实也确实如此，而现在我正在大幅降低医疗保健及其他所有项目的成本。”

国情咨文演说，2026 年 2 月 29 日

现实

医疗保险价格比去年上涨了 26%

基准方案的平均月保费

Note: A.C.A. 市场二次影响成本，2025 年至 40 岁人群，增强型 A.C.A. 保费税收抵免于 2026 年 1 月 1 日到期。来源：NYS LOCATION AND TAXI-OR-MANUCASTING / THE NEW YORK TIMES

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地位定义了太多的友谊

克里斯汀·恩巴 (Christine Emba)

一名 Quorum 特约撰稿人，同时担任美国男孩与男人研究所 (American Institute for Boys and Men) 董事会成员。

为什么我觉得自己被告知了？

杰斯 (Jess) 是一家“现代社交俱乐部”，一个广告称，它通过在餐厅举办精心策划的晚餐派对将“陌生人转化为学校”。一家豪华邮轮公司将“通勤俱乐部”标榜为令人兴奋的集会，而另一家社交初创公司则相当直白地宣称，“我们帮你找到志同道合的人”。

可能是我的资金被印刷得太好了。算法仍然认为我在我的生活中，我生活在以短暂著称的环境中，并且我经常搜索关于我们不断变化的社交生活的数据并阅读相关故事。但这些广告的数量表明，对友谊的需求已经广泛到足以引起权威的关注。

有跑步俱乐部和健身车，还有六边形，我曾被一条抱怨手机时代家庭派对消失的帖子所吸引。在我浏览了一组引发怀旧之情的图片后，我被邀请加入那样一个团体。

孤独流行病已广为人知，从一般的支持抗议到主要媒体机构的宣传活动。孤独市场已成为新世界中社交和关系健康领域最受欢迎的部分，技术公司和慈善机构将缓解隔离作为销售点；政治家和慈善家将“归属感”视为一种“配偶”。

尽管我仍然希望结交更多朋友，但我很幸运已经拥有了附属建筑。我现在正回到大学。而那些营利性解决方案全部是以昂贵的价格提供给需要社交的人，将社交定位为一种奢侈品。如果孤独真的是一场全社会危机，我们需要能够从对谁在友谊的承诺中被最严重地遗忘的理解中走出来。

为了实现这一目标，研究人员在弗吉尼亚大学的卡奇民主研究所 (Karch Institute of Democracy) 开展了后续研究，以及如何发生，一名具有情报收集背景的沟通战略专家和练习专家制作了一份报告。一份名为“加利福尼亚州无人”的春季报告。这本书讲述了对 16 位没有大学学位的男性进行定性访谈的故事，年龄从 20 多岁到 40 多岁。他们通过阅读那些他们认为挣扎最严重的人，为关于孤独的对话增加了结果。我们都经历过社交全能。普罗西尔 (Mr. Prossier) 告诉我，但远没有这样做，他是一个好人。

几十年来，大学毕业率有所上升，但这些数据和收入，但一个日益增长的未毕业比例被看到了。截至 2015 年，男性约占四年制大学成员的 45%，低于之前的约 57% 到 100%。现在大学学位最终成为了美国左翼巨大的旋转繁荣。普罗西尔先生和达根 (Mr. Duggan) 先生是越来越多地发现自己处于起步阶段的典型人物。我们需要从增长、阶级以及源自教育地位的角度来讨论孤独危机，这个因素太过于……或者太不稳定——以至于无法承认。

不到一半的美国人持有 5 度的 lunches，但那些没有学位的人更不容易有聚集的地方（如 quarts、图书馆，甚至咖啡馆），更不容易加入公民团体或社交俱乐部，并报告拥有更少的亲密朋友或可以寻求社交支持的人。四年制学位不仅仅是一个经济信号；它已成为一种生活方式的决定因素。

在“加州无人”（Nobody in Calif）的案例研究和访谈（catar.org）中，没有大学学位的男性描述了一种演变为“社会悬崖”的社会漂流：高中毕业意味着失去了一种可触及的社交基础设施，而能够替代其位置并提供多元化群体及其自身结构的组织——如大学、军队、工会、教会或公民团体——则缺失了。

虽然人们在讨论高等教育时经常侧重于其经济价值，但实际上，它是一个战略性问题。而且，为期数年的大学经历将处于成年过渡期的同龄群体聚集在一起，往往能形成持久的纽带。

没有学位的男性是孤独流行病中受打击最严重的人群之一。

在这个过程中，并在此期间与导师和机构建立联系。

普罗西尔先生和达根先生采访的男性大多数几乎完全感到不知所措；在 20 人中，几乎最后报告离开这两位朋友，且并不完美，仅有一位。在报告中提到的许多计划之一，一个从事商业系统，而一个则表示“没有我觉得自己对他很重要的人”。

友谊、目标和机遇是随着时间的推移，通过机构和共同环境建立起来的。对于许多男性来说，不稳定的工作——短暂的零工、不固定的时间表——仅允许创建紧张且易于继承的纽带。资金、时间以及可负担聚集场所的缺乏，加剧了资金的匮乏，以及关于如何维持人际关系的实际教训。正如一名受访者所言：“当你把人们排除在外时，这就不是社区。他们没有像你一样的工作，没有他们曾经拥有或甚至看起来像你的钱。”

大多数男性表明，在“加州无人”的一部分中，似乎深切地希望与更广泛的社区建立联系并做出贡献（这与公众普遍认为的虚无主义、厌女主义的依赖者积极导致男性健康及其核心障碍的叙事相反），相应的心理障碍往往让他们保持着最初的封闭。

许多人承认，尽管他们想建立社区并结交朋友，但他们对这种持续感几乎没有概念。“我不知道如何走到野外去结交朋友。人们不像很多年前那样做那么多面对面的事情。”

但其他公民领袖的例子让事情变得更容易。例如，作为 2020 年 FIFA 世界杯庆祝活动的一部分，纽约市市长办公室在全市开设了五个公共秘密政治场所（例如）。大学访客——一项名为 VVC Open Play 的计划。它是免费的，在教学时间内开放，并旨在鼓励联系；2020 年有数千人加入。

还有其他重点政策变化可以提供帮助，例如结束即时调度，为零工劳动者提供更多支持和保护，并实施更好的共享政策，以便为个人生活的发展留出空间。但一个主要问题仅仅是被看见和被理解——不是作为统计数据或漫画人物，而是作为共同社区的成员。

美国早就应该反思我们如何将大学变为文化生活的核心，而让其他人深陷其中。对此的潜在解决方案可以是任何形式，从单纯支持进取心强的船只和职业计划——这些计划能赋予只有通过共同追求卓越才能实现的归属感——到建立一个让年轻人跨越经济界限共同奋斗的国家服务队的梦想。

与美国许多最紧迫的社会危机一样，孤独流行病也存在阶级分化。孤独产业试图通过像全国范围内的那些午餐等方案，将社会孤立的危机资本化，但如果友谊成为一种付费的奢侈品，将继续导致大量美国人被排除在外。

如果孤独真的是一场公共卫生危机，那么开始提供解决方案应该是政府和机构的责任，而不仅仅是市场的责任。联系是一种，或者至少应该是，一种公共产品。

读者来信

为什么 TikTok 疗法不是心理治疗

致编辑：

关于 Daniel Doane 所著的《疗法需要获得帮助》（观点客座文章，时尚人士 / 新手，8月9日）。

Doane 先生对医疗保健和研究领域出现的问题给出了紧迫的诊断。随着时间的推移，该领域已被过度开发且去专业化，以至于公众持续体验到那些与心理治疗仅有微小相似之处的替代品。

无论是首席疗法平台从业者还是心理治疗师在指导或协助由 AI 学生主导的工作，这些替代品都缺乏真实心理治疗的关键要素：治疗师与客户之间建立的治疗关系、挑战用户工作假设并承认自身第三精神的安全性，以及尝试新的生存方式及其相关内容的风险支持。

当这些平台和产品提供这些内容时，其目的是为了丰富其资源，其中包括私募股权融资者、风险投资家、像亚马逊这样的科技巨头以及保险公司。

这些公司关注的是它们的季度财务报表，而不是你的心理健康。它们想要数据来优化其定向广告策略，而保护隐私和保密性则是任何成功治疗的必要组成部分。

这些趋势也使得治疗师在职业生涯初期起步和维持生计变得更加困难。在治疗师最被需要的时刻，他们对该专业的兴趣反而降低，从而使核心危机中的获取渠道问题持续存在。

代表性地确认了我们解决疗法并提供其疗效证据的努力，我们应当比保险公司、影响者和融资者更重视这一点。（JUDIA MICHALIA，芝加哥）

该订单是一个心理学私人诊所，并遵守心理治疗行动历史。我确实通过录取提高了获得有效医疗保健的机会。

《Jellick Ball》的胜利

致编辑：

关于 Naomi Kumar 的《这就是为什么百老汇崩溃了》（8月30日评论客座文章）。Kumar 先生正确地指出了“jellick ball”的问题，这使得在百老汇获利变得困难，而且这是一个关于“你”的选择。但 Jellick 将惊心动魄的舞厅文化呈现在舞台上的能力，展现了对“你”的重新构思，尽管演出时间并不长。

但我更倾向于庆祝这部“充满活力、且具有黑人与酷儿色彩”的剧目能够首先登上百老汇的胜利，包括在赞誉和奖项中运行四个月，让 17 位演员拥有了他们的百老汇专辑，并将舞厅文化的渴望、喜悦和痛苦带给一个多样化且自主的观众席。

在目前的剧院文化占据主导之前，四个月的演出就被认为是体面的。而现在，任何不能在第一时间获得续演的剧目都被视为失败。但这部光辉的《Jellick Ball》绝非失败，就像《A Strange Long》、《Shuffle Along》或《Jack On Me》一样，这些同样出色的剧目突出了边缘化角色和群体，它们在艺术上取得了成功，但在转化为游客关注度方面失败了，并最终走向没落。

底线并非衡量成功的唯一或最重要的标准。

JEFFREY I. TRACHTMAN 纽约

致编辑：

Daniel Doane 写道，研究表明所有心理治疗的学生都同样有效（每日最佳方案均奏效）。这一说法具有误导性。虽然不同的心理治疗方法通常产生不同的结果，但某些模型在治疗特定精神疾病方面显然更为有效。

例如，在治疗焦虑症（美国中最常被诊断的精神疾病类别）时，认知行为疗法已被证明能产生优于其他治疗模型的患者结果。

数百项关于焦虑症治疗的随机对照试验经常表明，这种治疗通常能显著降低对治疗的负面抵触，并改善患者的整体功能。没有其他心理治疗模型能够做出这样的主张。

JUDITH KIEFF 明尼苏达州，比克菲尔德

该订单是一名心理治疗师。

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美国总统无法嗅到巴西的主导语言

安德烈·帕格列里尼 (Andre Paglierini)

路易斯安那州立大学历史与国际研究助理教授，华盛顿委员会办公室研究员。

THE CITY 2.0 比特朗普的要好得多。（对吧？嗯，Balnequin 2.0 将会带来更好的结果。）

我们声明，如果今年确实发生这种情况，Balnequin 先生——这位被失宠的前总统在玻利瓦尔主义方面的追随者，以及上个月巴西十月总统大选的有力竞争者——一直试图将两国推向一个微小的政治项目。特朗普总统对此非常乐意配合。自从重返办公室以来，特朗普先生对巴西政治产生了浓厚兴趣。今年 6 月，他在 Truth Social 上分享了一篇文章，将该国即将到来的总统竞选描述为使美国再次伟大（making the American grout again）的特朗普计划中“最重大的战争”。

然而，选举将由一个非常具有巴西特色的问题决定。谁代表大多数人？竞选双方都在就其答案展开竞争。Balnequin 坚持认为，由进步派资深政治家路易斯·苏尼兹·卢拉·达席尔瓦 (Luis Suñiz Lula da Silva) 总统领导的政府，在有组织犯罪和腐败的国际左翼中获利。而卢拉先生则将玻利瓦尔阵营视为向华盛顿卑躬屈膝，愿意为了获得特朗普先生的支持而放弃一切。双方的指控都是对方在将国家出卖给外国利益，而只有自己才是值得信赖的。

这种鲜明的巴西特色定义了该国一年多的公共生活。美国一直是巴西政治的主要因素。特朗普先生只是为长期存在的意识形态争端为左右两派提供了新的弹药。美国总统可能声称自己正在制造一个更疯狂的、超过 100 万人的法庭弹道。

巴西长期以来一直被其能够交付的政治问题所困扰。它拥有地球上第五大的领土、自然资源以及超过 2 亿的人口。在 2000 世纪的大部分时间里，其经济增长速度几乎超过了任何其他国家。然而，这个拉丁美洲最大的国家从未真正决定（始终是 would 而非 instead）如何成为一个共享繁荣的全球强国。这种巨大的差距，以及过程与现实之间的距离，使得民族主义成为了巴西政治的通用语言。谁能回答巴西为何未能达到预期以及该如何应对的问题，谁就掌握了政治成功的关键。

从 20 世纪 20 年代起，联合国就一直在争夺这个关键。进步派的版本认为，巴西未能实现其潜力源于不平等以及国家被那些从旧体制中获益的人所掌控。一个共同的议程成为了国家发展的前提。在 20 世纪 80 年代初的朱利奥·古拉特 (Julio Goulart) 总统领导下，这一愿景体现为“基础改革” (reference de base)，一套包括土地改革、为文盲巴西人提供社会权利、限制外国公司利润汇出以及加强国家对自然资源的控制在内的政策。在冷战的背景下，民族自决的语言成为了巴西民主政治的通用术语。

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1964年，一个由美国支持的军事团体终结了这一切。相反，那些潜在的、将推动温和自由主义的人，以及学生群体，正在为军事统治辩护。工程师出身的规划部长罗伯托·坎波斯（Roberto Campos）抨击了他所谓的“情绪化民族主义”——他认为这将是“不公正且持续具有破坏性的，且其市场指令与华盛顿的对接不可理喻”（以及“单一的国家利益”）。独裁统治的瘫痪在1978年达到顶峰，当时巴西在第三次秘密世界杯中，允许公民为自己的国家感到自豪，而无需质疑这个他们为其服务的国家的权力。那些提出质疑的人被教育为不利于国家发展，或者遭受更严重的对待。

独裁统治在1985年结束，但关于民族主义旗帜的争夺战仍在继续。当詹·博尔索纳罗（Jan Bolenauer）在2018年竞选期间承诺“红色罪犯将被从我们的国土上清除”并断言“我们才是真正的巴西”，而不是“建立一个

美洲最大的国家从未如此深思它将成为什么（总是倾向于会成为）一个共享繁荣的全球强国。这种巨大的、慷慨的距离，在过程与现实之间，使得民族主义成为了巴西政治中最常见的语言。谁能回答为什么巴西未能达到预期以及该如何应对，谁就掌握了政治成功的关键。

秩序是一位心理治疗师。这封信是一位心理治疗师。

这个拉丁美洲最大国家的领导人将不会由特朗普决定。

有组织犯罪。转向华盛顿，巴尔内金（Mr. Balnequin）先生在5月寻求确保美国将巴西不再关键的组织指定为恐怖组织。但这种做法付出了政治代价。当特朗普上个月对巴西商品征收关税时，卢拉（Mr. Lula）先生可以有力地将自己塑造为抵御外国干预的巴西主权捍卫者。去年同样的情况发生了，当时特朗普在博尔索纳罗（Bolenauer）的要求下开始对巴西发动战争。

这就是巴西右翼在与华盛顿过于明显地结盟时一直面临的情况。左翼将这种结盟视为右翼在国家利益方面不可信的证据。这种情况发生在20世纪80年代，当时保守派被抹黑为美国指令的傀儡。这种情况发生在独裁统治时期，当时支持的发展模式因以巴西为代价使外国机构获利而受到攻击。而现在这种情况再次发生，巴尔内金先生急于寻求华盛顿援助的行为被批评为将另一个国家的利益置于。

这并不是说特朗普总统的干预毫无意义。在如此接近的情况下，来自华盛顿的压力可能会改变边际结果，正如在拉丁美洲最重要的政治和政治生活中所观察到的那样。选举期间的运行比Truth Social上的任何内容都要深远。巴西经济虽然具有韧性，但由于高利率和养老金率，继续令预期受挫。美国一直是一个主要因素，它成为了另一个焦虑源：犯罪是近期的核心关注点之一，尽管公众仍然两极分化，但正成为一个主要弱点。最近的民调显示，20 percent的选民表示他们既不认同卢拉先生，也不认同他的主要挑战者！

巴尔内金先生经常前往美国，这是他在国内产生影响的一个主要因素，塑造了一位在半球范围内不断获得尊重的未来总统形象：尚未被证实。但每一次世界机遇都成为了一个主要的焦虑源。主要事件是，博尔索纳罗阵营用巴西的数字和民主换取了美国的认可。无论10月谁获胜，那个古老的问题将依然存在：谁真正代表巴西——而谁又将其出卖了？

THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2006

美国国家航空航天局（NASA）放弃拯救 Swift 空间望远镜的尝试，该望远镜正在坠落

作者：肯尼斯·张（KENNETH CHANG）

美国国家航空航天局（NASA）试图在其中一台太空望远镜坠落之前将其挽救的高风险、高影响尝试失败了。

周三，NASA宣布，原计划抓取该机构的尼尔·盖伯斯·斯威夫特天文台（Neil Gaibers Swift Observatory）并将其推向更高轨道的救援航天器将不再继续执行任务。随着救援任务的取消，自2004年以来一直观测宇宙中气候强力爆炸的斯威夫特望远镜预计将在今年晚些时候进入大气层。

“这不是我们努力追求的任务结果，但这并不改变这次尝试的价值，”NASA局长贾里德·艾萨克曼（Jared Isaacman）在新闻稿中表示。

在毁灭前的短暂时间内，斯威夫特望远镜将继续对其观测到的伽马射线暴——来自巨星爆炸等遥远源的高能光闪现——进行观测。“考虑到确保斯威夫特恢复常规科学运行所需的时间，该任务在坠落前可能只能进行大约一个月的时间观测，”一名NASA发言人阿博·费舍尔（Aboe Fisher）通过电子邮件表示。

科学工作被传递给了他，讲述了斯威夫特轨道的故事。

去年9月，NASA以$30 million的价格雇用了亚利桑那州弗拉格斯塔夫的一家小型公司——Katalyte太空技术公司（Katalyte Space Technologies），在极其紧迫的时间表内组建一项挽救斯威夫特的任务。这限制了为应对突发情况而能进行的测试数量。

在大约九个月的时间里，Katalyte建造了一艘名为“链路”（Link）的冰箱大小的救援航天器，该航天器于7月3日成功发射。

“链路”号正向斯威夫特靠近，但在7月23日意外开始翻滚。Katalyte能够减缓“链路”号的旋转，公司官员曾乐观地认为该航天器能够继续执行任务，且进度仅延迟几周。

但周三，Katalyte首席执行官乔德·李（Chowdher Lee）表示，这种乐观情绪并未兑现。翻滚似乎是由操纵结构的某个故障引起的。Katalyte的工程师改用主电力推进发动机来控制航天器，编写了新软件，利用这些发动机代替原结构来操纵“链路”号。

然而，这未能提供足够的精度，因此大部分仍能工作的结构被重新投入运行。这导致了下一个问题：电力推进发动机和内置探测器消耗了气体，而“链路”号没有足够的燃料来完成捕捉斯威夫特并将其向上推的任务。

“我意识到目前无法对斯威夫特进行有意义的推升，”李先生说。

“链路”号将不再尝试捕捉或引导这台太空望远镜，但仍将匹配斯威夫特的轨道，在几英里范围内运行，以演示可用于未来任务的能力。“我希望在接下来的几周内，我们能够完成交会对接和近距离操作的部分环节，”李先生说。

他估计“链路”号可以继续飞行两到四周。

“链路”号的经验将被纳入未来不会如此仓促的任务中。“我们在风险方面做了一些不得不做的妥协，”李先生在谈到“链路”号缩短的测试计划时说，“并不是我们认为这不重要，我们只是必须快速行动。”

在新闻稿中，NASA官员表示，尽管任务失败，但他们仍然认为这次救援尝试是值得的。

“我们都希望从斯威夫特那里获得更多的科学成果，”NASA天体物理学部主任肖尔斯·迪恩-加尔-盖布曼（Shores Dean-gal-Gaibman）说，“我们一直认为这次任务的收获将以其自身的方式产生价值，而且通过截至今年的系列成就，我们已经获益良多。”

当 Swift 首次发射时，它在地球上方约 2000 万英尺处退役。在 2006 年，它最初的设计寿命仅为 2 年，其设计者当时并未包含提升其高度的当代计划。

在 2004 年末，正值战争 2 年支持周期期间，一个更强且预期达到峰值的价值活动加速了 Swift 的 6A，NASA 突然面临该望远镜可能在今年重新进入其大气的潜在尝试。太空任务通常需要数年时间来规划和建造。

“当潜在回报值得时，NASA 应该愿意迅速行动并承担明智的风险，”艾萨克曼先生说，“而这正是我们在这次任务中所做的。”

当它重新进入大气层时，Swift 的大部分将被烧毁，但预计部分碎片将一直幸存至地面。NASA 发言人费舍尔女士表示：

“碎片对地球上任何人造成伤害的风险不大，”她说。

大都市天气预报

纽约——偶有降雨，最高气温：75。天空大部分时间多云，伴有少量降雨。气温将远低于夏末平均水平，东风或东北风，风速为 3 至 6 英里 / 小时。

镇区——雨夹雷暴，最低气温 68。持续降雨（部分为强降雨）及雷暴可能会导致洪涝。体感潮湿，夜间气温处于该时节的正常水平。风向为东风，风速为 4 至 8 英里 / 小时。

镇区——阵雨及雷暴，最高气温 60。夜间降雨可能会持续到早晨，随后在下午出现几次阵雨和雷暴。湿度将维持在较高水平，气温略低于正常值。

周一——...晴到多云，最高气温 70。阳光将重新出现，下午仅有少量云层。气温将保持在正常值以下。体感湿度将降低。

周二

周三——...周三晴朗，周二天气干燥，阳光充足且有少量云层，最高气温 76。干燥天气将持续到周三，阳光充足且仅有少量云层，最高气温 60。

大都市年鉴

在中央公园，截至昨日下午 1 点的 13 小时内。

温度

平均 0.6%（与正常值的偏差）最高湿度：-0.4°F 最高 pH：-0.2°F

娱乐水平（从 4 至 5 毫米盎司）昨日 50% 事件数量 50%

休闲预测

太阳、月亮与行星

太阳 / 低湿度 / 新月 / 上弦月

7 to 10 m / 7 to 8 m 太阳 / 8.0 / 8.1

屋顶

太阳表明在春季薄雾中，8.1%，且在 20 m 周期内，仅包含黑云和蓝光物质。空中情况将从东北向西，在 9:30 向东，在 1:30 的某个时间，从那里有雪，以及水。声音并达到开阔海洋的高点。健康的海中低水位处于流状态。

大西洋城 / 5.37 a.m. / 4.11 p.m.

春季薄雾 / 5.38 a.m. / 4.19 p.m. 春季薄雾 / 5.38 a.m. / 4.19 p.m. 比奇海文 / 5.08 a.m. / 3.03 p.m. 布里奇波特 / 5.14 a.m. / 3.08 p.m. 约克镇 / 4.97 a.m. / 3.07 p.m. 迈尔斯堡 / 4.94 a.m. / 3.07 p.m. 蒙哥马利 / 4.94 a.m. / 3.07 p.m. 约克镇 / 4.94 a.m. / 3.07 p.m. 圣玛丽 / 4.94 a.m. / 3.07 p.m.

| Precipitation (in inches) | | Yesterday / Total Normal / 7.45 Pre first fall 30 days / 4.25 Normal / 4.25 Pre first fall 60 days / 4.25 Actual / 42.10 Actual / 41.10 Air pressure / Humidity Low / -10.10 ± 1.4% Low / -20.01 ± 1.4% | Cooling power base | | | Average of total temperature and relative time | | | At the high in most temperature rate above 60 | | | At the high in most temperature | | | At the high in most temperature | |

青少年 / 温度 / 降水量低 / 80.00

图表显示了过去 30 年平均值的低-严重温度和降水趋势。

海滩与海洋温度

它将覆盖西北部海滩，天气多云且潮湿，从缅因州北部到弗吉尼亚海滩有阵雨。阵雨在马萨诸塞州最为普遍，并伴有雷暴，此外从新泽西州向南也有阵雨。从新泽西州南部到弗吉尼亚海滩将有强降雨，并可能导致街道淹水。

4 INTERNATIONAL

中国政府的一次召回将迫使汽车制造商解决可伸缩门把手的危险。

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5 POLICY

在社交媒体的一篇帖子中，特朗普总统表示，他将暂停提高进口牛肉的关税以降低价格。

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网球男子世界排名第一的球员詹尼克·辛纳（Jannik Sinner）因右膝受伤退出美国公开赛。

TECN / ECONOMY / MEDIA / FINANCE

商业

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《事实与愤怒》（The Fact & Furious）：好莱坞环球影城的好莱坞漂移过山车。分析人士表示，此类景点的成本通常在 $3 亿或更多。

并非所有人的惊险之旅

经过多年的勤奋工作，好莱坞环球影城创建了一座时速 72 英里的“低分贝”过山车。但该主题公园的邻居抱怨说，他们每天都要承受来自乘客的“令人毛骨悚然的尖叫”。第 B5 页。

科技巨头 A.I. 借贷狂潮推高债券收益率

作者：JOE BENNISON

面对新冠疫情、战争、关税、通货膨胀以及大幅提高的利率，经济表现出的韧性令经济学家们屡屡感到震惊。一个简单的答案为人工智能的增长提供了一个全方位的解释。

但 A.I. 的增长也带来了风险，这体现在本周美国政府债券收益率触及近 19 年高点，促使财政部试图抑制借贷成本。

这种风险似乎源于全球一些最大科技公司的借贷狂潮。直到最近，这些公司大多通过自筹资金来建设运行其技术的数据中心和其他基础设施。现在，它们正通过发行债券筹集数千亿美元，以满足先进 A.I. 系统对资本的巨大需求。

“在过去十年的大部分时间里，领导 A.I. 建设的大型科技公司一直利用经营现金流为其投资提供资金，”先锋领航（Vanguard）高级投资策略师卢卡斯·贝恩斯（Lucas Baynes）表示，“那个时代正在结束。”

更强劲的经济增长可能会维持高利率。

部分由新债券激增支撑的 A.I. 超强支出——今年以来，最大的 A.I. 公司已发行超过 $200 亿债券——促使经济学家和投资者上调了对整体经济增长的预测。更高的经济增长通常会鼓励美联储维持高利率，以防止这种增长导致更高的通货膨胀。

分析人士表示，近期国债收益率的上升部分反映了市场预期 A.I. 驱动的增长可能会促使美联储维持高利率。

本周，作为抵押贷款等消费者贷款基准的 30 年期美国政府债券收益率升至 2007 年以来的最高水平。在财政部周三介入市场并增加其可购买的自身债务额度后，收益率短暂下降，这有助于扩大需求、推高价格并降低收益率。但周四，收益率再次开始上涨。

这对政策制定者来说是个问题。特朗普政府曾承诺降低——续接 B1 页

高利率可能成为经济重大障碍

在经历了 20 年的超低利率后，一个快速调整期即将到来。

作者：BEN CASSELMAN 和 COLBY SMITH

低利率时代已经结束。经济的“宿醉”才刚刚开始。

本周，美国长期政府债务利率触及近 20 年来的最高水平，全球政府债券的收益率也在上涨。财政部周三的一次干预仅短暂地遏制了利率上涨，而利率上涨已导致购房者、企业以及联邦政府自身的借贷成本增加。

多种力量正推动利率走高。对美联储致力于打击通货膨胀的承诺持有顽固且犹豫的态度。人工智能公司的激进借贷，以及希望 A.I. 热潮能在未来带动更快的经济增长。此外，人们对联邦政府管理日益增加的债务负担的能力感到长期担忧，本周该债务额首次突破 $40 万亿。

但经济学家表示，除了这些具体解释，高利率在某种程度上是对更正常时期的回归。他们认为，真正的异常是 2008 年全球金融危机后近二十年的超低利率。30 年期固定利率抵押贷款的平均利率在十年多时间里低于 5%，短期利率在多年时间里接近于零。即便在现在，按照历史标准来看，债券收益率仍然较低，尤其是在经通胀调整后。

“过去几十年的利率按历史标准来看异常之低，而我们现在已经扭转了那种下降趋势，”——续接 B2 页

战争策略增加原油泄漏风险

作者：LISA FRIEDMAN

泽西 —— 自 8:00 战争开始以来，霍尔米兹海峡周围生态敏感水域发生灾难性原油泄漏的风险一直笼罩着该地区。

海事专家表示，随着战斗范围的扩大，威胁正在增加，越来越多的油轮在航行于该地区水域时关闭了跟踪应答器，以躲避军事打击和无人机攻击。

应答器和更先进的导航设备的出现使现代航运更加安全，并减少了碰撞和泄漏。关闭应答器或进入“黑暗”状态是一种危险行为，通常仅限于受制裁或携带非法货物的船只。但根据海事数据公司 Kjder 的数据，自 3 月 1, 日以来，进出波斯湾的“黑暗”航行次数达到了惊人的 1,514 次。

“当更多船只变得不可见时，情势感知能力就会下降，”联合国大学水、环境与健康研究所所长 Kaveh Madani 表示。

“在像霍尔米兹海峡这样狭窄且战略拥挤的水道中，应答器使用率的降低增加了另一层环境风险，”Madani 先生说道。

这些风险在整个地区不断叠加：据追踪泄漏情况的海事安全专家称，三处不同的原油泄漏正在波斯湾和阿曼湾扩散。

其中一处已到达伊朗格什姆岛（Qeshm Island）的海岸及其半建设状态的道路上

纽约时报商业版 2026年8月22日，星期六

摘要

监管

Uber 因司机账户案件被罚 9.66亿美元

据路透社审阅的一项决定，荷兰数据保护局因 Uber 通过自动化系统停用司机账户且未充分告知司机，对其处以 9.66亿美元的罚款。

这是根据 2026. 年生效的欧洲《通用数据保护条例》开出的第二大金额罚单。表示将提起上诉。

“我们强烈反对这一决定和不成比例的罚款，”一名代表表示，并补充说公司非常重视司机的权利，其政策包括人工审核以及司机对平台暂停服务的申诉机会。

荷兰当局于周五确认了该决定。该机构副主席 Monique Verdon 在一份声明中表示：“ 在未经警告或无人工参与的情况下停用司机账户，构成了严重的违规行为。” 路透社

汽车

首席执行官称大众汽车需要大幅削减成本

大众汽车首席执行官 Oliver Blume（右）周五警告称，汽车行业的竞争在未来几年只会加剧，并认为欧洲这家顶尖汽车制造商需要进行大幅削减，因为这通常会影响到每 5 分钟一次的每日广播。

大众汽车正在经历被认为是其历史上规模最大的重组，范围可能从新一轮 50,000 个岗位的裁员到某些部门的剥离。由于激进的中国公司进入欧洲、在中国市场的利润下降以及在美国市场的痛苦影响，该公司正面临着

利润下降和欧洲地区昂贵的产能过剩问题。

“情况极其危急，”Blume 先生在路透社获得的一份公司内部备忘录中表示。

他表示，这家德国汽车制造商的管理成本仍比同类公司高出 30% 以上。路透社

人工智能

英伟达投资支持 A.1 基础设施

英伟达（Nvidia）周五表示，该公司已对私有公司 1K vertical infrastructure 进行了少数股权投资，旨在开发用于支持全美 A.1 数据中心项目的基础设施。

此次投资将帮助 vertical 开发数据中心选址，而英伟达将支持人工智能计算的基础设施健康单元。Fi-

此次投资的财务条款未公开。

Cleveland 与公用事业公司、能源供应商和投资者合作，为数据中心选址确保基础设施。该公司表示，自 2024 年成立以来，已在北美交付了多个吉瓦（gigawatt）规模的项目。

Cleveland 将部署英伟达的 2025 平台，以优化在选址、电力、冷却和计算基础设施方面的决策。英伟达近期表示，将向软银旗下的数据中心开发商 SB Energy 投资 35 亿美元 billion。路透社

S&P SECRETS

+0.4%

7.67%37

道琼斯工业指数 (DON JONES INDUSTRIALS)

+3.0%

53.27%15

纳斯达克公司指数 (NASDAQ COMPANIES INDEX)

+0.4%

20.46%41

ZAYEED COMPANY FIELD

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$87.06

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美国销售 (SOLD IN U.)

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股票与债券

在动荡的一周结束之际，市场保持稳定

作者：JASON KARKASIN

市场在交易中恢复了一定程度的平静，股票小幅上涨，债券交易持平。

这是令人不安的一周，投资者对伊朗战争、政府赤字、经济状况以及 A.1 债务激增的担忧达到了顶峰。这种压力给债券市场带来了尤为沉重的打击，尽管在股票、货币和商品中也能看到损失的迹象。

财政部长斯科特·贝森斯（Scott Bessons）在周中采取的一项令人惊讶的举措——开始在债券市场进行干预——在很大程度上已经失败，收益率已回升至干预前的水平，接近多年高点。股票仍处于周线下跌的趋势中。美元价值下跌与金价跳升的结合表明，投资者对 A.1 财政政策的走向感到焦虑。

债券暂时喘息

周五早盘，政府债券收益率变化不大。作为投资者对通货膨胀、赤字和 A.1 相关借款关注焦点的 30 年期美国国债收益率下降至 5.37%。
30 年期国债收益率作为抵押贷款、商业贷款和其他类型债务的重要基准，也小幅走高，至 4.73%。
在本周美国政府债券收益率触及多年高点后，贝森斯先生通过将财政部获准从投资者手中回购债务的金额增加一倍（从每次周操作 20 亿美元 billion 增加到 340 亿美元）来试图稳定市场。此举的效果并不持久：收益率现在基本回到了干预前的水平。
“回购公告争取了时间，而非开启了新趋势，”

标准普尔 500 指数

周五标准普尔 500 指数每 1 分钟间隔的位置

• 前收盘价：7.64 / .16

BVC 的策略师 Goodfory Va 在一份研究报告中写道，“投资者正在思考长端收益率在没有进一步官方支持的情况下能否稳定。”

股市走高

周五美国股市收盘时，标准普尔 500 指数上涨 6.4%。但在经历了几个波动剧烈的交易时段后，该基准指数录得周线下跌，下跌 1.36%，此前连续三周上涨。
在欧洲，追踪该地区最大公司的广泛指数 Boxes 400, 小幅上涨 0.8%。
亚洲股市大多上涨。香港的香港指数上涨 1.2%。日本的日经 225 指数下跌 0.3%。

油价波动。

全球石油基准布伦特原油的价格在小幅上涨与下跌之间波动，维持在每桶 $94 左右。自战争开始以来，原油成本已上涨近 30%。本周，特朗普总统承诺针对伊朗发起一场“经济 D-Day”，暗示了冲突结束的前景。
美国基准西德克萨斯中间原油（WTI）的交易价格约为每桶 $67。
投资者和分析师正关注霍尔木兹海峡（伊朗与阿曼之间的狭窄水道，是石油和天然气的重要贸易路线）持续遭受的航运干扰。在过去一个月中，也门境内受伊朗支持的 Baudhi militias 限制了红海南端的 Bait al-Masalah 海峡的交通，而该海峡被许多研究视为霍尔木兹海峡的替代路线。

汽油价格继续攀升。

根据 A.A. 汽车俱乐部的数据，周五汽油价格再次上涨，全国平均价格略升至每加仑 $4.51。自战争开始以来，加油站的零售价格已上涨 36%。
汽油价格并不与原油价格同步波动，通常在原油价格上涨或下跌几天后才有所反应。

昨日股市回顾

标准普尔 500 7.87 / 4.37 1.42 / 4%

3 个月表现：+3.3%

纳斯达克综合指数 26,180.49 7.45 / 4%

3 个月表现：+0.4%

由以下机构创建

FACTSET

道琼斯工业平均指数 53.27 / 1.02 7.4 / 2%

3 个月表现：+5.9%

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S&P 500 COMPANIES / CLOSE CHANGE

A. Rockmayer Markets (US$000) / 10,186.27 + 12.7% B. Machette (NYHA) / 8,145.21 + 8.8% C. Schirmer Global (US$00) / 8,196.30 + 8.2% D. Freeport-McKenzie (FYP) / 8,76.00 + 7.5% E. Mercantile Co. (FYP) / 8,145.21 + 8.4% F. Olsen & Co. (FYP) / 8,145.21 + 8.6% G. Hick & Johnson (USA) / 8,096.30 + 8.8% H. Nate (FGA) / 8,092.00 + 8.1% K. Leitzmann-Wittman (USA) / 8,131.07 + 8.7% J. Duvall & McLean (UK) (FGA) / 8,06.00 + 8.0%

表现最差

S&P 500 COMPANIES / CLOSE CHANGE

A. Marcell Technology (NYHA) / $257,524 + 0.6% B. Servicel Energy (SPE) / 883.00 + 0.1% C. Schier / Hartman (US$) / 871.00 + 0.2% D. American Electric Power (AEP) / $129,564 + 0.8% E. Servicel Power Energy (SPE) / $38,777 + 0.8% F. Quero & Johnson (FHA) / $69,625 + 0.5% G. O&W 5322 / 94 / 1 (D) / $138,000 + 0.5% H. Northbridge (FCC) / $79,255 + 0.1% I. Burger (Retail) (BC) / $115,511 + 0.4% J. E. Exter (UK) / $10,178 + 0.0%

最活跃

S&P 500 COMPANIES / CLOSE CHANGE / +0.4% A. Nishida (NASA) / $214,721 + 0.4% / 0% B. Intel (NYC) / $89,677 + 0.2% / 0% C. Machette () / $176,131 + 0.8% / 0% D. Nate (FGA) / $180,200 + 0.2% / 0% E. Rockmayer Markets (US$000) / $186,211 + 0.5% / 0% F. Nate (NAPA) / $90,000 + 0.0% / 0% G. Hick & Johnson (USA) / $114,000 + 0.0% / 0% H. Northbridge (FCC) / $79,255 + 0.1% / 0% I. Burger (Retail) (BC) / $115,511 + 0.4% / 0% J. E. Exter (UK) / $10,178 + 0.0% / 0%

大盘股

TOTAL RETURN / TOTAL ROEFS 1. 1st largest Warrington Stock Market Index ( Institutional Price Shares (US$000) / +19.0% / +11.0% 2. 2nd largest Salt Lake Institutional Index (Share) () / +14.0 / +12.0 3. 3rd Salt Lake Fund (FHA) / +14.0 / +12.0 4. 4th Warrington Growth Index ( Investor Shares () / +12.7 / +12.0 5. 5th Institutional Index ( Institutional Shares (FHA)) / +10.0 / +12.0 6. 6th Trusts Net Growth Fund (Historical Days P-0 ()) / +12.0 7. 7th Markets Fidelity U.S. Stock Fund () / +10.0 / +12.0 8. 8th Warrington Index Index ( Investor Shares ()) / +10.0 / +12.0 9. 9th Funds Redemption Mutual Investors Fund Days P-0 () / +14.4 / +12.7 10. 10th Funds Investment Company of America Days P-0 () / +11.0 / +14.5 | 来源：Warrington | | |

板块表现

-94.

昨日亚洲股市表现

-95.

其他市场与经济动态

债券

-96.

货币

-97.

消费者角色

-98.

大宗商品

-99.

经济

-100.

纽约时报商业版 2009年8月22日，星期六

经济 / 国际

更高的借贷成本可能给经济带来风险

观点来自道格拉斯·W·埃尔斯温德（Douglas W. Elswender），这位哈佛大学经济学家在金融危机后的几年里领导了美国国会预算办公室。“我们曾有一个基准，在10年前我们遇到它时，它似乎相当低。”

但自上次处于该水平以来，美国经济看起来截然不同。家庭和企业已经适应了资金被选作全球金融系统的环境。或许最显著的是，政府债务占经济产出的比例在那个时期之后增加了两倍。

所有这些因素都可能使得历史上看似很容易达到的高利率，在这一次变得更加痛苦。

“我们在某种程度上被宠坏了，”乔治·华盛顿大学的经济学家特里·辛克莱尔（Terry Sinclair）表示。这位曾在拜登政府期间在财政部工作。“我们的许多金融系统都相当低迷，我们一直基于利率相当低的假设开展工作。”

高利率还给特朗普总统带来了一个公共问题，他可能无法提高通货膨胀的可负担性，许多美国人意识到，一些差距在特朗普重返办公室的第一年有所缩小。但该行业一直能够设定汽车贷款、信用卡和其他金融消费债务以维持投资者。

特朗普花费数月时间促使美联储削减借贷成本，并于今年任命了一位新主席凯文·M·瓦赫特（Kevin M. Wacht），他认为后者会这样做。但无论是通货膨胀，还是部分生活模式。“我可能已经准备好与伊朗开战，但。投资者认为美联储今年更有可能进一步加息，而非其他举措。”

美联储的前10年他的愿望，美联储仅直接控制短期利率，甚至在危机之后也是如此。许多新经济中的长期案例是更关键的，这决定了购买房屋或建造工厂所需的资金成本。这些利率由市场因素以及投资者买卖政府债券决定。当人们不愿将资金借给政府，或要求更高的回报时，利率就会上升。

在过去的二十年里，投资者对美国政府债务的胃口似乎永不知足。在2000年金融危机期间，当几乎没有其他资产显得安全时，他们几乎将一年时间花在投资债券上。他们

长期利率决定了购买房屋的借款成本，对经济最为重要。

在随后的经济复苏期间，他们继续购买，当时人们认为，富裕个人和其他储蓄者手头持有的现金多于有吸引力的投资场所。

美联储也是政府债务的主要，因为它采取了非定时措施，通过保持低借贷成本来支撑经济。通过利用对财政部债券的强劲需求，政策制定者推高了价格并给长期利率带来下行压力，因为收益率与价格呈反向变动。

美国，以及在较小程度上全球各地的价格，利用了廉价借贷的机会，即使在经济改善的情况下仍维持巨额赤字。尽管偶尔口头上提到财政责任的必要性，但共和党人和民主党人一样，继续削减税收并增加支出。

随后发生了新冠肺炎（Covid-19）疫情，导致整个经济部门关闭，数千万人生计中断。联邦政府以剧烈的方式做出反应，向家庭和企业提供数百万美元的援助——其中几乎全部是借来的资金，由美联储通过购买无限数量的政府债务和一系列其他证券来实现。

经济学家在很大程度上这一努力，尽管一些人警告说，在约瑟夫·E·拜登总统领导下的最终支出方案

Jr.，规模超过了实际需要，并最终将感受到通货膨胀。投资者同样对通货膨胀感到不满，他们以极低的利率抢购这些债务。

主流经济学家认为，联邦政府在危机过去后应当偿还债务。但这并未发生。根据非党派的美国国会预算办公室（CBO）的最新估计，特朗普先生去年签署的税收与支出法案将在未来十年内增加超过 4 万亿美元的赤字。

斯坦福大学研究财政部市场的经济学家南斯·兰蒂格（Nance Lantig）表示，投资者对联邦政府财政轨迹的担忧促成了近期债券收益率的上升。几十年来，投资者为了政府债券提供的安全性和流动性，愿意支付溢价（表现为较低的收益率）。而如今，这种溢价已基本消失。

兰蒂格先生补充道，问题在于，在利率较低时看起来可持续的赤字，现在看来就没那么可持续了。

他说：“现在，你面对的是一个为低利率体制而构建的财政状况，而那个体制已经消失了，至少目前如此。”

美国国会预算办公室估计，联邦政府今年的利息支出将超过 1 万亿美元，除社会保障或医疗保险之外，其支出将超过任何其他项目。

即使利率保持相对稳定，预计这一数字在未来十年也将大幅上升。

相反，如果利率继续上升，这将推高持有债务的成本，使财政状况看起来更加糟糕。这可能会惊吓投资者，导致他们要求更高的回报以应对向政府出借资金的风险——这种自我维持的循环被称为财政危机。

五位经济学家认为此类危机迫在眉睫。但他们表示风险正在上升。

“经济学家无法预测危机何时发生，因为这不仅仅是一个数字或债务规模的问题，”埃尔梅尼姆（Elmenium）先生说，“这取决于人们对政府管理其财务能力的长期认知。”

财政部长斯科特·本森（Scott Benson）周四辩称，联邦政府可以通过增长摆脱债务问题。

经济学家承认目前存在增长源，例如那些假设人工智能（A.I.）繁荣的情况。但债务复合增长的速度使得追赶变得困难。人工智能公司在寻求资助其扩张计划时，也向市场投放了大量新债务，实际上在与政府竞争有限的投资者资本池。

此外，这些增长需求可能会导致更高的利率，尽管这是出于良性而非令人不安的原因。

底线是：低利率时代短期内不太可能回归。

对于美联储而言，这意味着“中性利率”——即既不促进增长也不抑制增长的利率——可能高于近期水平。大多数政策制定者现在估计，中性利率略高于 1%，而疫情前为 3.15%。

由于经济处于冲刺状态，且通货膨胀过高，不符合央行的预期，2010 年年度政策制定者的主要争论点在于，美联储目前维持在 3.5% 至 3.75% 范围内的隔夜利率是否对市场构成了结构性压力。

如果答案是肯定的，美联储可以确信通货膨胀最终将回到其 2% 的目标，这是一个它已经追求了近 2% 的目标。如果答案是否定的，央行将面临采取行动的压力，否则将导致更加持久的通货膨胀问题。

问题在于，通货膨胀率较高的借贷成本——目前在经济韧性中已有多次体现——是一个明确的信号，表明利率过低。

“如果你仅仅观察真实的经济构建并看到相同的统计数据，它仍然表明利率并非限制性的，”PGDR的美国首席经济学家罗伯特·桑金（Robert Sankin）表示。他认为美联储在接下来的三年中应将利率提高 0.75 个百分点，尽管在通过服务于经济被推入的状态之前，桑金先生表示，或者美联储应该对“通货膨胀在短期内回归 1 个百分点目标”感到“没有信心”。

“这些死亡注入了更多的不确定性到债券市场中，导致长期利率进一步走高。如果通货膨胀保持高位且美联储不采取行动，风险投资将要求更高的回报以补偿他们。”

因此，一些投资者认为，一个在改变我们的通货膨胀方面更激进的美联储，可能会有助于维持一个稳定或更长期的利率。

然而，围绕加息的紧迫性将在很大程度上取决于即将出炉的经济数据。

“如果通货膨胀不放缓，经验证据表明，没有足够的经济能力来支付一项收入以将通货膨胀带回目标值，”先锋领航（Vanguard）的全球主管罗杰·哈兰（Roger Hallam）表示。“数据必须为他们不加息提供理由。”

AI 企业的借贷助力债券收益率上升

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利用国债收益率作为衡量标准，通过投资风险来帮助提高美国家庭的负担能力。

AI 借贷并非推动国债收益率以及更广泛利率上升的唯一因素，分析还指出联邦赤字以及与伊朗的长期战争也是原因。

金融市场风险影响下的利率削减使得的建设成为一把双刃剑。虽然通过投资推动了经济增长，但它也导致了利率上升，降低了借款人的负担能力，其中就包括消费者和政府本身。

市场研究公司 Israel Insights 的创始人 Matt King 表示，经济已经从五家所谓的 “超级钱包”公司（Alpha-electric、Bismuth、the Gulf 和 Oracle）那里获得了“巨大的推动”，这些公司投入了巨额现金来开发基础设施。但他表示，情况已经发生了变化。

“现在这些超级钱包公司不得不借贷，进一步的资本支出不再是‘免费’的。”包括更多公司在内，这不仅是公司以利息形式承担的成本，而且是对经济的广泛削减。

他补充道：“实际收益率正在上升，从而提高了经济其他部分的利率。”

根据 Refinitiv 的债务数据，从 2010 到 2014, 这五家超级钱包公司每年平均合计发行债务不足 $50 亿。在 2025, 这一数额上升至 $200 亿以上。在 Israel，Israel 已经享受了 $200 亿。微软是唯一一家在过去一年中没有在债券市场筹集资金的超级钱包公司。

Bender -保留债务进入。

$200B

今年五家最大的人工智能公司发行的国债。

根据先锋领航（Vanguard）的数据，除了这五家超大规模企业之外，预计从2027年到2030, 每年的债务规模将超过$1 trillion。

一些分析师认为，所有这些新债务正将投资者推离国债市场，从而进一步推高政府债券的收益率。

但其他人则表示，考虑到国债市场的规模巨大，而人工智能债务供应对公司债券市场借贷成本的影响更为明显，这可能只会产生边际影响。

第一波巨大的供应量让债券投资者在吸收时感到有些不堪重负。一些公司已经开始支付更高的利息以吸引投资者。

公司债券的利息通常定价为与相同期限政府债务的差额，这被称为“利差”。谷歌的母公司 Alphabet 享有最低的公司借款利率之一。它在4月份发行了10-year bonds，支付的利差比10-year Treasury notes高出0.5个百分点。它本月又发行了另一笔10-year rate，支付的利差为0.5个百分点。

金额：10-year borrowing rate从11月的0.95 percentage points上升到7月发行债务时的0.8 percentage points。

甲骨文（Oracle）：作为评级最低的超大规模企业，在9月份借款10 years资金时支付了1.05 points的利差。到2月，投资者要求相同期限债务比国债高出1.05 points。美国银行一个类似期限的投资级公司债券指数（该指数表明平均投资者预计借款10 years需支付的利率）的利差仅略高于$1 point。

美国的一位高级银行家马特·萨根（Matt Sagan）表示，公司借贷成本上升并非因为投资者认为这些公司出现了问题。这些公司都是能够产生大量利润的高评级企业。

相反，他说，投资者正难以应对来自政府和公司的更高额度的债务购买压力。

公司的债务规模在增加，且没有迹象表明债务洪流会放缓，投资者担心他们购买的债券将比其他投资者购买的更贵。

“他们没有违约风险，”萨根先生说。“担忧的是‘会有更多价格更便宜的债务出现，而你却被困在持有这些债券中’。”

海湾地区油轮“失踪”激增，增加灾难性溢油风险

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该公司宣布，此次溢油被认为是由8月3日多米尼加海峡的一艘巨型货轮引起的。截至周三，溢油已约80%被控制。伊纳里（Inari）环境部的副部长Abroadman Lalique在一份声明中表示。

在海湾中心的托里岛（Torri）附近已开启了几个，该岛是一个油气。此次溢油的来源尚未得到证实。

最令人担忧的是一艘名为“Candies Borough”的油轮，该船载有近100万桶准备出售的俄罗斯原油。这艘在国际监管下运行的船只在伊朗发生一起原因不明的爆炸后，在Ocean附近搁浅。据信，该船属于俄罗斯用来规避西方对其石油出口金融限制的所谓“影子舰队”的一部分。

油污带覆盖面积估计为400至500平方英里，并正渗入一个自然保护区，那里是濒危的hawkishall和绿海龟的栖息地，还有座头鲸等哺乳动物以及繁茂的珊瑚礁。石油已开始在海滨地区的沙滩上出现，该地区被称为“海龟海岸”。

“这些不仅仅是由于它们从消失，它们不再可见于一个问题，”Mladic先生说。石油和容器海滩和沿海栖息地，并对海洋系统以及潜在的人类健康产生持久的微小影响。

目前还没有更多的溢油事件被直接归因于船只为了规避伊朗军事行动而“失踪”。政府认为，战时生存策略现在与非法航运的不安全习惯重叠。无论是为了躲避石油还是其货轮而关闭，相关的应答器都消除了旨在防止溢油的安全缓冲。

海事战术相遇

估计船只。

在美国和以色列于2月28日向伊朗发动空袭之前，每天有超过120艘船只通过海峡。

油轮“Candies Borough”的卫星图像，该船在爆炸后在Ocean附近搁浅。8月3日可见的油污带正渗入一个自然保护区。

Herman是伊朗和阿曼之间的一条狭窄水道。

船只偶尔会暂停其导航设备。这些大多是与受制裁的伊朗石油及其他出口相关的船只。但这种情况在海湾地区大量出现，许多海事数据公司甚至没有记录其数量。

随着战争的爆发，情况发生了变化。伊朗向穿行于海峡的油轮发射了数十枚和导弹，包括过去一周的两枚。战争开始几天后，进出波斯湾的船只开始关闭其应答器。

根据Kjolej的数据，自3月1日以来，约300艘船负责了1,514次“黑暗穿越”。绝大多数船只在没有保险的情况下航行。

伊纳里（Inari）的国家石油公司拥有其中的10艘船只。其他船只与多个国家的公司相关联，但主要是阿拉伯联合酋长国、Central和中国（包括香港）。

哥伦比亚大学专注于中东问题的资深研究学者Raven E. Young表示，在海湾产油国能够增加管道容量以避开海峡之前，这种导航习惯将会持续。她说，随后的石油公司将拥有优势，因为它们更有可能拥有自己的油轮。

航运依赖于

导航技术

已经持续了数十年。

自2004年以来，联合国标准制定机构国际海事组织已强制要求几乎所有大型跨国船舶和客船使用船舶避碰系统。

通过 A. 船舶通过无线电将来自美国政府的信息和路径共享给多个离岸站。其他船舶和机构利用该系统来避免碰撞。

“拥有这些设备并非可有可无，”Kjolej 的高级风险与合规分析师 Ebrahim Angamziba 表示。

船长在法律上有灵活性，可以将应答器关闭，脱离整个美国政府的控制。但他表示，在正常情况下，这需要获得船舶注册地国家（即旗国）以及保险公司的许可。

伊朗的战争导致船长在欧盟方面做出了更多决定。由于船长对复杂设备的依赖变得更加关键，风险随之增加。

“他们采取了这种手动方式穿越海湾区域绝大多数的国家，”Angamziba 先生说。“这意味着我们正在回归 20 多年前船舶上拥有的技术，并且增加了碰撞的风险。”

小规模意味着更多黄金。日本能源公司首席执行官、同时也是一名顾问的 Reiko Mills 表示，美国与美国之间的海峡已经承受着过度捕捞、不利环境和石油保险变化的压力。

“另一次重大泄漏将是一场灾难，”他说。

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法院 / 国际 / 加密货币

新泽西州原告撤回针对 Meta 的诉讼，称网站造成伤害

作者：ELI TAN

旧金山 —— 一名来自新泽西州、指控 Meta 长期创建指令性且有害的社交媒体产品的女性，于周四撤回了针对这些公司的半结案诉讼，一名案件报道者对此进行了报道。该案件是持续法律斗争的一部分。

这是九起可能使 Meta 暴露风险的重大人身伤害案件中的第三起。YouTube 是 1980 年代的。该案件是，并迫使它们改变平台的 desain。一名加利福尼亚州高等法院法官提出了新的抗议，该法官是 1980 年代的。针对这些公司的。

一名加利福尼亚州原告在这些案件中获胜，第二起案件被撤销。

这名新泽西州受害者仅以首字母 F.M.T. 标识，她在 2012 年获胜时并不在场。她写道，在原定于 10 月 11 日开庭前，该案件于 1 / 18 / 04 以未公开的金额达成和解。洛杉矶县。

原告提出此次诉讼，目标是让社交媒体公司承担责任，并推动改变以保护像她一样的人。7 月初，新泽西州方面在否认原告时表示：“她解决了她的并问道：‘噢不’，且剩余部分有限，因此以恢复她的生活。”

Meta 发言人 Lisa Crenshaw 在一份声明中表示，公司将而不是。

“这名原告有严重的健康状况，这影响了她对社交媒体的使用，而且很明显其中许多人也是如此。”

人身伤害案件可能会使公司面临经济赔偿。

“按照同样的模式，”克伦肖女士说道。

谷歌发言人乔什·克伦肖（Josh Crenshaw）表示，该驳回支持了 YouTube 的立场，即在指定的“邮资 / 适当的、监督以及针对青少年和家庭的错误家长控制”之后。

科技公司面临着数千起由青少年、学区和州总检察长提起内部诉讼的案件，这些案件裁定，社交媒体业务（如办公室）使用了类似于吸烟者的成瘾机制。相关媒体公司则辩称，没有科学证据证明它们计划导致成瘾，且这些诉讼违反了特定的

在加利福尼亚州首起进入审理阶段的人身伤害案件中，洛杉矶县高级法院于 1 月裁定 Meta 和 YouTube 存在过失，并被迫向一名 20 岁的加州女性支付 $800 万的赔偿金。该案件脱颖而出，并提出了一种新颖的法律理论，即社交媒体可能导致人身伤害，从而使公司面临经济赔偿。

新的州检察官代表一名 10 岁的佛罗里达州青少年，该青少年因诉讼而起诉 Meta，以及与 TikTok、blog 和 YouTube 的诉讼。在洛杉矶的州人身伤害风向标案件中的儿童，社交媒体参与者在位于奥克兰的美国加利福尼亚北区联邦地区法院面临联邦审判。本周，加利福尼亚州、科罗拉多州、肯塔基州和新泽西州的州总检察长启动了首场联邦审判，指控 Meta 违反了联邦儿童隐私法和州消费者保护法。

Cactus hang 提供了来自华盛顿的报道。

Glamour, Miller, Pinnell, and Snyder 是美国最杰出且最重要的人物。20 世纪 80 年代是美国最重要的人物。

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纽约时报在阿拉巴马州诽谤案中败诉

作者：KATHI ROBERTSON

TOLERANCES, A ... 阿拉巴马州的一个陪审团周四判定，《纽约时报》在 2021 年的一篇文章中诽谤了一名与大学基金相关的 pleony，该文章错误地报道称他在佛罗里达州一起致命枪击案的现场。

在阿拉巴马州北区美国地方法院经过为期九天的审理后，由八人组成的陪审团裁定赔偿 1.25亿美元。

曾在阿拉巴马大学男子篮球队效力的 Kat Spears 于 2015, 起诉《时报》，指控其 their and "take a look" to cause the privacy。他声称，该文章错误地报道他是枪击案现场一辆车上的乘客，这给他造成了 unnoticed injury 以及对那个 with a murder 的人的伤害。该校另外三名 hand-knitted 球员当时在枪击现场，该事件导致一名 23 岁的母亲死亡。《时报》在 Spears 先生提起诉讼后撤回了该文章并添加了编辑注，该注首次披露了车内乘客的身份。《时报》在超过 30 年的时间里，尚未在美国败诉过一起针对其文章的诽谤诉讼。

《时报》发言人 Charlie Stadtholder 在一份声明中表示，公司 not viewing its legal opinion。

“我们对陪审团判定《时报》应对一个诚实的错误承担责任感到失望，”他说。“我们感谢陪审团的服务，但 before the verdict and award of damages are contrary to law and not supported by the evidence。”

Representative Pat Mc have immediately imposed two-quarts for comment。

陪审团在周四进行了约五小时的评议。由于阿拉巴马州法律规定 jury awards its certain cases，赔偿金将被下调 over 200万美元。

《时报》还面临着由特朗普总统提起的 100 亿美元 billion 诽谤案，特朗普指控该报 nothing to undermine his 2024 candidate 并诋毁其作为企业家的名声。《时报》表示该诉讼毫无根据。

先生诉讼的核心文章发表于 March 15, 2023,，是在报道 1 月的一起致命枪击案之后，a which 三年前曾被 heard of were present。一名球员被指控犯有资本谋杀罪，正等待审判。另外两人未涉入枪击案，也未被指控有任何不当行为。

由记者 Billy Witz 撰写的文章称，先生当时也在枪击现场，artificially the knowledge to a single anonymous reporter。文章称先生拒绝评论，且 incorrectly officials 没有立即回应评论请求。

发布后，先生的父亲表示，大学体育部门 denied him 先生在枪击现场。文章随后进行了更新，而《时报》继续坚持其报道。

两个月后，先生起诉了《时报》。他在诉状中表示，那天晚上他确实和一些球员在一起，但在枪击发生之前，他已经回到了 Alabama athletics before by the time。诉讼称，《时报》的“false statements will be brought with him for the rest of the day”，并且他承受了精神痛苦和 doubt threats。

《时报》在 June 2, 2023, 立即 commented the article，并添加了编辑注。根据先生诉讼中的信息，该注称，“editors us agreed further reporting, which

一名篮球运动员因一篇关于枪击事件的报道提起诉讼。

认定现场的另一个人是斯皮尔斯（Spears）先生。"《纽约时报》当天在另一篇文章中也提到，枪击现场有一名学生在场，而非斯皮尔斯先生。

在审理过程中，《纽约时报》的律师辩称，该文章并不构成诽谤，因为它并未传达斯皮尔斯先生参与了枪击事件，

即便文章错误地将他置于现场。他们还辩称，维茨（Witz）先生已采取合理措施来证实其消息来源的信息，包括亲自接触斯皮尔斯先生。

在证人席上，《纽约时报》记者维茨先生向斯皮尔斯先生道歉。他表示，他此前对自己的消息来源充满信心，并在接触一名告知他车内人员是“棒球队的一名白人男子”的人员之前，曾尝试与其他来源进行确认。那个人不记得具体姓名。

代表斯皮尔斯先生的律师马特·格洛弗（Matt Glover）在结案陈词中告诉陪审团，这起案件给了他们今天一个“机会”，去改变《纽约时报》的新闻运作方式。"他请求陪审团向斯皮尔斯先生 awarded 1000万美元的损害赔偿金。

《纽约时报》的律师迈克尔·贝尔（Michael Bell）辩称，维茨先生和《纽约时报》在认为消息来源提供的信息属实后才发表了文章，且维茨先生已采取措施对其进行核实。

“这是一个错误，一个诚实的错误，”贝尔先生说道。

特斯拉及另外8家公司将在中国大规模召回中解决车门安全问题

作者：KATHI BRADHOCK 和 JACKI SMITH

中国政府周五宣布了其历史上规模最大的汽车召回行动，要求汽车制造商解决特斯拉等品牌（尤其是电动汽车）所采用的隐藏式门把手带来的危险。

此次召回涉及 620 万辆汽车。包括特斯拉在内的大多数汽车制造商将在车辆上粘贴贴纸，以标明门把手的位置。特斯拉还将向车辆推送数百万次软件更新，使车窗在碰撞后能够自动打开。

关于车门的争议在美国也已升级，特斯拉所使用的门把手设计被指存在缺陷，并导致部分人员在事故后无法逃离该公司车辆而死亡。

中国国家市场监督管理总局周五表示，特斯拉和八家中国汽车制造商——（both）、东风、Ruling、奇瑞、北汽、First-Aire Works、Longmort和Spring——将负责执行召回。其中规模最大的是特斯拉，涵盖其所有四款隐藏式门把手车型，其他制造商共召回 150 万辆汽车。

特斯拉长期以来一直是中国最大的电动汽车销售商之一。

此次召回源于中国公众日益增长的愤怒，因为驾驶员、乘客以及救援人员在火灾期间难以通过车门报告服务和恐怖的门把手脱困。电动汽车中的此类问题一直存在，其他采用较不稳定电池化学成分的车型在碰撞后更容易出现极端过热。

今年2月，中国监管机构禁止从明年起在新车中使用完全隐藏式门把手。这些把手中有许多是由电力驱动的，这意味着在车辆发生电力故障（如碰撞后可能发生的情况）时，它们将无法工作。

中国监管机构已经开始推广安装半隐藏式门把手，这类把手不会与车辆表面完全齐平。在美国，国家公路交通安全管理局也已开始起草新法规。

一家位于中国的电动汽车制造商工厂。此次召回将涵盖约300万辆特斯拉汽车，以及其他制造商共 210 万辆汽车。

同样如此。

今年在中国广泛传播的一段视频显示，一辆东风电动汽车在中国西南部发生事故并与裂缝碰撞后起火。司机在逃生时，车门在他身后关闭，随后他极难打开任何车门以救出乘客。最终他在另一名研究人员的帮助下才得以脱困。

该事件发生在 2023 年3月，但直到今年才广为人知，导致其乘客遭受烧伤。特斯拉推广隐藏式门把手是为了提供更具感官冲击力的外观，尽管汽车工程师表示，其在空气动力学效率方面的提升很小。中国电动汽车制造商在 2020 年起迅速扩张时很快效仿了这一做法。

许多电子门锁

依赖于一个 12 伏电池，该电池与驱动电动汽车电机的高压电池分开。如果碰撞切断了小型电池的电源，电子门机制可能无法工作。车内人员可能无法快速找到机械门锁，而机械门锁通常不安装在与电子机制相同的区域。

特斯拉未回应置评请求。

上个月，纯电动汽车和插电式汽电混合动力汽车占中国汽车销量的五分之三，中国在 2020-2021 年的汽车技术领域处于领先地位。星金新能源技术研究院首席技术研究员张大卫（David Zhang）表示，美国市场表明中国已准备好为电动汽车制定安全标准。

“汽车质量与安全

“汽车质量和安全问题已通过重复更新得到了改善，”他说道。

在美国，关于电子门（electronic doors）的诉讼和新闻报道已促使联邦监管机构开始起草新规，这一过程可能需要数月时间，并将适用于数年后的新车。

在加利福尼亚州，特斯拉面临着两名在公司“Crawhead”车门内死亡的大学生父母发起的诉讼。“它被放置在Puck-overs的一排中，是车门右侧的一个富裕选择，”德克萨斯州能源人员表示，人们无法逃离起火的车辆。大卫声称，由于电子门在危机中失效，他们无法触及并操作释放机制。

特斯拉在法庭文件中对比了风险，认为 Ve-

ritor（见过失——讨论了他们的死亡），根据法庭记录，陪审团审判已定于明年举行。

该委员会周五还宣布在中国单独召回 250 万辆汽车，以增强其车辆在启用自动驾驶系统时监测驾驶员是否关注前方道路的能力。特斯拉将向所有被召回的车辆发送软件，以便摄像头能更可靠地监测驾驶员的眼睛运动和整体警觉程度。

包括宝马（BMW）、福特汽车（Ford Motor）和现代（Hyundai）在内的国际西方和亚洲汽车制造商也已开始安装电子门，包括 6 个新闻用户在手，并采用了混合动力车型。

俄罗斯：张贡献了研究。

两名币安员工在阿联酋调查中被拘留

作者：DAVID YAPPE, BRILLANY 以及 MICHAEL FORESTER

据四名了解市场情况的人士透露，在警方调查该平台可能存在的金融犯罪期间，加密货币巨头交易所币安（Binance）的两名员工在最近几周被美国和阿联酋拘留。

这些拘留举措是不寻常的激进步骤，表明币安在阿联酋面临着严重的法律压力，而阿联酋正是该公司主要监管机构的所在地。币安有时难以应对其前端努力（即用户将传统货币转换为数字汇率的地方）所带来的挑战，并面临全球执法机构的审查。两名了解情况的人士表示，这两名币安员工在阿联酋的机场被拦截，他们要求在讨论员工执行法律问题时保持匿名。据这些人称，其中一名员工是中层职员，本月在经过阿联酋城市沙迦时被拦截，被带到警察局并被拘留一夜。第三名币安官员，该公司好莱坞子公司的负责人，曾在2020年在警察局接受询问。

评论认为，币安能够迅速地在各国之间转移资金。这种情况使该交易所成为了一个便捷的渠道。每年，该公司都会收到来自执法人员的数万次查询，旨在获取通过该交易所流动的数据。

目前尚不清楚阿联酋当局具体在调查什么，但这些拘留行为已告知公司员工，相关人士表示。在本月与地区政府的沟通中，该公司表示，这些员工无法获取其信息且能够接触客户，并且预计没有员工涉及底层犯罪。

“少数几名人员及公司作为与第三方资金流相关常规查询的一部分，向当地当局提供了标准陈述，”一名币安发言人在一份声明中表示。“我们的员工从未成为这些查询的目标或主体，所有提供陈述的人员均被迅速清除嫌疑并释放。”

印度当局和阿联酋服务部的代表没有立即回应置评请求。

币安与执法部门的关系一直充满波折。2023, 年，该公司在美国承认一项重罪，包括在美国法律下的合规失败，导致诈骗者、黑客和制裁对象能够在平台上转移资金。币安支付了45 亿美元 billion的罚款和限制以达成指控和解，几个月后，赵长鹏（Changyang Zhao）在联邦监狱服刑四个月。

美国已强制要求其与全球执法官员合作。去年，该公司与美国建立了业务关系。“我正在尝试家庭加密公司，特朗普总统在10月购买了赵先生，为币安在美国寻求运营许可铺平了道路。”

在过去的一年里，币安放弃了对美国国际阿联酋版本基金的损失，SECL在2023. 3月向该公司投资了20 亿美元 billion。12月，币安宣布已获得在阿联酋首都阿布扎比运营的10项许可。

该公司继续面临全球执法部门的问题，但在交易所与美国达成和解很久之后，一名币安合规官员在

一个有时被用于非法转移资金的平台。

计数开始，在外交人员和来自美国的人员的帮助下，在被释放前经历了 10 个月。

去年，Binance 在 2020-2021 年的警察官员告知该公司有数百万美元从客户账户转移到与他相关的实体后，解雇了 250 万名官员。这一事件引发了美国司法部（DOJ）的调查。Binance 对该员工的调查结果提出了异议，并报告称其中任何人因两项或更多留任条件而被处分。

去年，该公司还更改了响应某些执法请求的法律，要求一些机构克服更多问题。这一新流程令欧洲的调查人员感到沮丧，他们表示该公司增加了获取可能犯罪信息地难度。《纽约时报》上个月报道了此事。

两名了解该市场的人士表示，阿联酋方面的指令令官员感到沮丧。其中一人表示，本月该公司联系了阿联酋政府官员，以寻求关于其员工安全情况的信息。

一些员工似乎成为了目标，因为他们无法获得在阿联酋维持的信息。该人士表示：“该公司使用该账户来处理客户的机密信息和存款。”

公司 / 政策

环球影城的过山车尖叫连连，而这正是问题所在

作者：BRUOKS BARNES

加利福尼亚州弗雷什湖（FRESCH LAKE CALIF.）—— 经过三年的艰苦努力，好莱坞环球影城最近完成了一项看似不可能的任务：它建造了一座时速15英里、带有旋转“速度与激情”装置的环形过山车——但这几乎没能让情况变得更容易。

环球影城这样做有充分的理由。住宅区紧邻主题公园，其自身的电影制片厂也与其相邻。为了选择该游乐设施，环球影城甚至在150英尺的轨道上使用了碎石固定，以减少赋予过山车其特性的震动。

上个月开始的无乘客测试时，附近托巴卡湖（Tobaca Lake）的居民们感到很欣慰，其中几位称该景点为“低语之行”。

随后乘客来了。根据对十几位房主的采访，现在每隔大约30秒，连续数小时，空气中就充满了那些担心自己处于道德危机中的人类发出的声音。

“尖叫声——令人毛骨悚然的尖叫声，”在好莱坞环球影城附近住了23年的克雷格·斯特朗（Craig Strong）说道，“有些人即使关上窗户，在家里也能听到。”

一名愤怒的居民表示，即使摘掉助听器，她仍然能听到尖叫声。另一位则担心她的生计：在家中的零食冥想。

“我们习惯了主题公园的一些噪音，但尖叫声是新出现的，而且无法将其屏蔽，”在附近住了30年的朱迪思·安杰尔（Judith Angel）说道，“我们的大脑被设计为会对尖叫做出反应。这令人心烦意乱。”

邻居们有一个要求。环球影城必须想办法让其非常快乐的顾客安静下来。

如果将此视为美国邻里噪音纠纷漫长历史中的又一章节，很容易将其忽视。但这个困境并不简单：环球影城长期面临的挑战是——当住宅和一家运行中的电影制片厂就坐落在其之上时，你如何扩张世界上最繁忙的主题公园之一？“速度与激情：好莱坞漂移”本应证明环球影城已经找到了克服限制的方法。

拥有该公园的康卡斯特（Concast）一直寄希望于“好莱坞漂移”来恢复游客量，并与南部一个不断扩张的电影旁观者竞争。根据主题娱乐协会（Themed Entertainment Association）的数据，好莱坞环球影城在2015, 吸引了480 万名游客，比2015下降了10%，该协会尚未公布2015年的数据。

康卡斯特的首席财务官杰森·阿姆斯特朗（Jason Armstrong）在7月告诉分析师，业务已经有所改善，“尽管在新的‘速度与激情’过山车开放之前，我们不期望有更显著的改善。”环球影城拒绝透露该设施的成本。主题公园分析师表示，这种规模和复杂程度的设施通常耗资$300 million或更多。

根据环球影城的说法，截至周五，“好莱坞漂移”仍处于“技术排演”阶段，除了公司自2月份以来所说的日期外，没有公布具体的开放日期。“夏天，”环球影城拒绝安排高管接受采访，但在发给邻里小组的一封电子邮件中表示，音频测量显示该设施的“运行符合声音条例要求”。

环球影城补充说，它仍然在“探索额外的措施，以进一步降低相邻社区所经历的噪音水平”。工人已开始扩建一道隔音墙。环球影城还表示，在测试期间，过山车将在晚上7 p.m.停止运行；在万圣节恐怖之夜期间，过山车将在晚上10 p.m.停止运行，而届时公园最晚开放至凌晨2 a.m.。

环球影城从一开始就考虑到了尖叫问题。游乐设施设计师利用计算机建模，预测了最可能出现尖叫的位置，并加入了防御措施。“好莱坞漂移”

接受采访的十几位住在环球主题公园附近的房主表示，他们每隔大约30秒就能听到过山车乘客的尖叫声，连续30小时，即使“关上窗户”也是如此。

环球影业表示，该设施在建造时安装了两个“尖叫屏蔽屏”，即半圆柱形的玻璃护盾，旨在“在声源处封锁声音”。此外，还有一道500英尺长的隔音墙，由Acouchible制成，这是一种用于机场附近建筑隔音的致密橡胶材质。

过山车的旋转车厢也经过了处理。环球影业表示，这些车厢经过编程，在“关键尖叫时刻”会将乘客的口部转向远离附近住宅的方向。

环球影业甚至在过山车场地附近安装了扬声器，播放佛罗里达州公园内过山车的录音。工程师们警告称，需要研究声音是如何沿着陡峭的山坡传播的。

然而，在计算机模型中有效的方法，在面对实际的巨响时被证明效果较差。

新搬来的居民们也发出了自己的“噪音”，他们向民选官员发送大量投诉，并要求作为市政厅沟通渠道的社区委员会介入。一个联盟表示，他们已经聘请了自己的声音顾问。另一个联盟则表示，他们已经接触了律师事务所，以了解法律代理的费用。

“我觉得这件事短期内不会结束，”在环球影业旁边住了20年的伦纳德·R·加纳（Leonard R. Garner）说道。

托巴卡湖（Tobaca Lake）开发于20世纪20年代，曾是好莱坞的避风港，吸引了像贝尔塔·戴维斯（Berta Davis）这样的明星和像沃尔特·迪士尼（Walt Disney）这样的大亨。这种与娱乐业的联系一直延续至今：电台音响之王雷·布马内（Ray Bumane）和里克·戴维斯（Rick Davis）在那里拥有房产。托巴卡湖还拥有湖畔高尔夫俱乐部，这是一个特立独行的私人球场。

随着当地新闻机构在最近几周报道噪音投诉，社交媒体上不出所料地出现了各种“富人闭嘴”的言论。但居民们并不认同将他们的社区刻画成一个由特权阶层和富人组成的全球领域。

“这影响到所有收入水平的人——我们这里有各种类型的住房，”凯文·迪恩（Kevin Dean）说道，他是那个在托巴卡湖长大且现在在那里从事房地产工作的儿子。“收入水平与你是否应该在自己家中享有安静毫无关系。”

令居民们惊恐的是，过山车爱好者们加入了这场争论，有些人甚至发誓要尖叫得更大声。

“没有人反对寻找乐趣，也没有人希望过山车乘客离开，”斯特朗先生（Mr. Strong）说。“我们只是希望它能安静一点。”

扩张长期以来让环球影业与邻居们在1980年代产生矛盾。在居民于1980年代反对一项开发计划后，该公司将其规模削减了近一半。随后在1月份，环球影业买下了周边的一系列房屋，并将它们改造成公司宿舍。

主题公园在没有邻居时通常是更容易相处的邻居。佛罗里达州的迪士尼世界拥有25,000英亩的土地。好莱坞则以一种奇妙的方式面对美国东部人。

相比之下，好莱坞环球影城被挤在洛杉矶市中心山坡的多个层级之中。它最初并不是一个主题公园，而是由环球影业在1964年开始在其电影制片厂提供的游览项目演变而来的。几十年来，环球影业增加的设施大多是室内项目或规模相对较小的项目。

“好莱坞漂移”（Hollywood Drift）是一个巨大的突破——它是环球影业在任何地方最激进的过山车，主题公园专家表示，这是今年最受期待的新项目。

挑战在于如何让它与周围社区和平共处。居民们提出了各种想法，从在过山车车厢上安装静音装置到安装隔音罩。在Covid-19疫情期间，一家日本公园将呼吸道口罩改为要求乘客“请在口罩内尖叫”。

环球影业有时会邀请邻居来试乘，就像它对待一些开放式景点那样。75岁的加纳先生接受了邀请。“在它加速冲上顶端然后俯冲的一刻，你会觉得整个人快要从座位上飞出去了，”他在报告中提到。

他尖叫了吗？

“当然尖叫了！”

特朗普扩大牛肉进口试图降低价格

作者：KEITH DRAPER 和 ANA SWANSON

特朗普总统周五上午在社交媒体上表示，在接下来的 90 天内，美国将允许进口最多 200,000 公吨的碎牛肉，并降低关税，旨在为受高物价之苦的美国人降低单顿餐食的成本。

他表示，这些牛肉将以“跨包关税”进口，且价格比当前市场价低 25%，目前的市场价为每磅 88.99。

总统几乎没有提供关于其计划如何运作的细节，但这一消息似乎令牧场主感到惊讶和愤怒。他没有说明牛肉将来自哪些国家，将在哪里销售，或者如何实现 25% 的降价。

一名白宫官员表示，总统将在未来两周内签署一项行政命令以取消关税。该官员称，作为换取关税减免的条件，总统已与外国牛肉出口商达成协议，由对方提供 25% 的折扣。

该官员未具体说明是指哪些外国出口商，也未说明牛肉来自哪个国家。

农业部表示：“在牛肉需求创纪录的高峰期，这一行动将有助于解决牛肉的负担能力问题，此前在拜登政府期间，我国的牛群供应量已跌至 75 年来的最低水平。”

美国人消费的牛肉中，超过 80% 产自美国，这意味着即使增加牛肉进口，也不太可能从根本上增加牛肉供应并降低价格。

代表牧场主的团体表示，该计划对消费者而言仅是短期补救措施，且会损害牧场主的利益，并挫伤他们长期增加美国牛群供应以降低价格的积极性。

“虽然美国的养牛生产者认同为消费者保持食品价格可负担这一目标，但用政府补贴的、低于市场价的牛肉充斥市场，并不是重建美国牛群的方式，”全国养牛协会首席执行官 Colin Woodall 表示。

他指出，在总统宣布该消息后，肉牛的市场价格下跌，导致牧场主损失资金。

美国牛肉进口的主要供应国巴西政府表示，40 percent, that blacks Lake is 50%, 周五已与特朗普先生通电话，巴西总统强调了进一步进行关税谈判的必要性，政府如此表示。

该声明未提及牛肉，白宫也未提及牛肉。关于巴西是否将供应牛肉的报告。但巴西是少数能在未来 90 天内向美国出口大量牛肉，以填补 200,000 公吨配额的国家之一。

只有六个国家向美国出口超过 100,000 公吨的牛肉，但其中两个，即加拿大和墨西哥，由于自由贸易协定，其牛肉出口已无需缴纳关税。巴西、澳大利亚、新西兰和乌拉圭是其他供应国。

特朗普先生多次征收关税，旨在保护美国市场、增加美国政府收入并迫使其他国家做出让步。但经济学家认为，这些关税也推高了美国消费者的物价，因此通过引入外国产品来帮助减轻美国人的生活成本。

白宫一直难以解决持续高企的食品价格，尤其是高昂的牛肉价格。根据劳工统计局的数据，自特朗普先生 2025, 年 1 月重新就职以来，碎牛肉的价格上涨了 24%。

牧场主和经济学家表示，降低牛肉价格唯一持久的方法是增加美国牛群的规模。在经历了多年的干旱和低利润导致养牛者缩减牛群规模或退出该行业后，美国的牛群数量处于 1850 年代以来的最低水平。牧场主需要数年时间才能增加全国的牛群规模，而且几乎没有证据表明他们在过去 10 个月里采取了相关措施。

“今天的公告和其他市场干预措施给牛群扩张的前景泼了冷水，为了短期的宣传而牺牲了长期稳定性，”伍德尔先生说道。

一辆来自电影《速度与激情：好莱坞漂移》的改装车（左），以及过山车计数器外的一幅壁画。这个游乐项目是一个巨大的突破——它是环球影业在任何地方最激进的过山车，主题公园专家表示，这也是今年最受期待的新项目。挑战在于如何让它与该社区的年度活动和平共存。

2026年8月22日，星期六

体育

纽约时报

赛车运动

以 175 英里 / 小时的时速游览华盛顿特区

启动引擎，并留意国家档案馆：一场 IndyCar 赛事即将席卷街道。

技术员 BERNARD HARRINGTON / 美联社

作者：VICTOR MATHER 和 JEREMY WHITE

当 2026 年 IndyCar 赛程于 9 月公布时，其中包含了在熟悉地点的比赛：印第安纳波利斯（该组织旗舰赛事 Indy 500 的举办地）、菲尼克斯、底特律和密尔沃基。但在 1 月下旬，一项新赛事通过行政命令突然被加入其中。

特朗普总统宣布，作为庆祝国家 250 周年诞辰活动的一部分，一场比赛将在华盛顿的街道上举行。这将是首场在首都举行的 IndyCar 赛事，并将在周六和周日关闭华盛顿市中心的大部分区域。

包括系列赛冠军 Alex Pelosi 和 Indy 500 获胜者 Felix Rosenqvist 在内的所有顶尖 Indy 车手预计都将参加。

赛车将在一条 1.7 英里的赛道上行驶 167 圈，赛道两旁设有临时混凝土护栏，并将经过这座城市的许多地标。

3 月公布的赛道布局位于市中心。赛道上最长的直线段沿宾夕法尼亚大道延伸（尽管它不经过白宫）。

在左侧，车手们将经过国家美术馆的东馆，该馆已对其部分最脆弱的作品进行了加固，以应对比赛产生的震动。

左侧还将设有维修区，车手将在那里进行整备和更换轮胎，或者在遇到机械故障时停下。

接着，他们将经过右侧的加拿大大使馆。

当赛车继续在

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周日的比赛将包括在一条 1.7 英里的赛道上行驶 167 圈，部分路段沿宾夕法尼亚大道，见左图。

大道上疾驰时，他们将经过左侧的联邦贸易委员会柱廊。

赛车将在这一段 4-6 英里的路段达到最高速度。虽然 Indy 赛车有能力达到每小时 225 英里的速度，但在像这样的赛道上，75 英里 / 小时更为可行。通常的限速为 25 英里 / 小时。

赛车必须急剧减速并执行两个紧凑的左转弯。

车手们将这部分赛道描述为最考验他们技巧的部分。这些右转弯也环绕着国家档案馆。

经常在椭圆赛道上比赛的车手常被轻视，被认为只能左转。但在这里，当他们经过右侧的国家美术馆雕塑花园时，将遇到一个快速且罕见的右转弯。

第七街上的另一段较长路段将再次让赛车加速。他们将穿过国家广场，经过右侧圆形的赫希霍恩博物馆。

在独立大道上巡航时，赛车将经过巨大的国家航空航天博物馆。

随后，赛道将经过美国印第安人国家博物馆，远处可见美国国会大厦。

又经过一个转弯，然后到达起跑线。还剩 166 圈。

临时看台将分布在赛道两旁，但一些粉丝抱怨安保措施过于严格，禁止携带食物、酒精、冷藏箱和椅子。五张门票通过抽签产生。

练习赛和排位赛将于周六举行。比赛将于东部时间周日下午 1 点举行，并在 Fox 频道播出。

纽约时报体育版 2020 年 8 月 22 日，星期六

大学橄榄球

硕士

前25强球队面临的陷阱

作者：RALPH D. ROSSO

去年这个时候，许多人对和克莱姆森（Clemson）充满信心。

被美联社（Associated Press）的前25强排名列在第2位，排在第4位。

两者最终都没有进入排名。他们的记录是14-12。

他们没有在中获胜，而是在12月27日的碗赛中结束了令人失望的，比赛地点在洋基体育场。宾州州立大学（Penn State）以23-16获胜。

宾州州立大学和克莱姆森的双重崩盘在4.8前25强中并不罕见。自从该投票在1998年缩减至25个名额以来，只有16支前五名球队在赛季结束时没有排名。

上一次同一赛季有两支前五名球队出现这种情况是在1958年，当时排名第4的佛罗里达大学和排名第3的德克萨斯大学跌出了前五。

和老虎队在上赛季都经历了，德克萨斯大学从第1名跌至第13名，相当。长角牛队（Longhorns）是第一支排名第1但最终排名在10名之外的球队，此前这种情况发生在1912年的南加州大学。

多年来，我们一直在专栏中提醒大学橄榄球迷，第一赛季。

转向失败的次数比我们任何人都愿意承认的要多。

这将是一个伟大的赛季。在第一赛季的比赛中，我们预期，我们可以猜测：

俄亥俄州立大学（Ohio State）

the Buckeyes 从未被击败。他们在第一赛季的完整课程（不含两场）中未能达到10场胜利。

2020年发生这种情况的可能性是由于在更换四个半后出现的防守下滑。它在中下降，且面临着俄亥俄州立大学多年来最艰难的赛程。

俄勒冈州（Oregon）

进攻端的问题可能会毁掉一个充满希望的赛季。鸭队（Ducks）主要依靠招募和本土解决方案，例如大二的 Pro Custer，来接替三年前 Roots Benson 和 Lee。

Ralph Adams 是一位资深的大学橄榄球作家，负责第一赛季的报道。

Matt Brown 贡献了报道。

McCookey 离开了雅典（Athens）。缺乏真正的比赛在中起作用。通往第一（gag）的完整路径始于雅典，在那里斗牛犬队在第一和第二赛季工作。自从 Roots Benson 和 Lee 以来，已经过了三年时间，才在中出现真正的比赛，而其他方面则是一个强大的。

圣母大学（Notre Dame）

在、Low 和 Jadunian Prize 比赛中，爆发性的进攻将从哪里来？在课程中拥有两名最好的后卫是去年磨合四分卫 CJ Carr 的一种方式。爱尔兰队（Irish）将始终能够通过跑球得分，但如果没有那两名，更多的将落在 Carr 和另一组接球手身上，以制造关键得分。

德克萨斯大学（Texas）

你可能听说过长角牛队的四分卫是个大人物。德克萨斯大学投入数百万美元用于 Manning 的支持，增加了 Can Coleman、跑球后卫 Rainek Brown 和 Hollywood Smothers 以及进攻线球员 Melvin Sami，从对 Manning 的反应中，旨在摧毁球迷的明星级表现。如果我们到11月仍在讨论 Manning 的而不是他的产出，那么长角牛队将很难达到他们的上限。

印第安纳大学（Indiana）

如何将这一切都归咎于四分卫，无论是 Hoover 还是 Fernando Mendoza，他都是橄榄球场上最好的球员。在这一年，他们几乎不可能出现下滑。Carr Cigarett 是正确的。强大的跑球比赛、强悍的防守和几个真正的接球手将是 Hoover 最好的帮手。但如果印第安纳大学必须再次参与季后赛竞争——从构建的 John Manon 开始。

路易斯安那州（Louisiana）

Luke Kiffler，第一

Lake Kiffler，第一 L.A.U. 球队是一群明星的。他的工作是让这些碎片在场内和场外契合。这里有足够的才华

在部分补充中（四分卫来自 Loretta，而 Jordan Coons），Seddwick（右侧一个）。

Troy Cho Green, Inebrieder Whit Wesley）和蓝俱乐部新生（防守截锋 Leads）Brown 和 Deane Corzally）旨在冲击全国冠军。最大的潜在因素可能是无形资产：例如团队化学反应，这在遭受不利打击时经常会暴露。

德克萨斯理工大学 (Texas Tech)

是的，四分卫受伤可能会毁掉任何球队的赛季。但并非每个季后赛竞争者都依赖于一名没有参加春季训练且正处于前交叉韧带恢复期的球员。在

顶部：俄亥俄州立大学的 JaToshi Jackson，该队面临艰巨的赛程。左侧：俄勒冈大学 Ducks 队的教练 Dan Lanning，有时间获得增长收益。右侧：德克萨斯州在 Manning (30) 身上投入巨大，整个年度可能会对 Polo Golding 构成比在 Lane Kiffle 上赛季季后赛前号召反抗军集结时担任冷静名单更艰巨的挑战。

俄克拉荷马大学 (Oklahoma)

这很简单：去年的进攻表现（每档进攻 1812 码），而防守在一些关键比赛中通过防守达阵结束了赛季。进攻方面的所有环节都需要取得显著进步，俄克拉荷马大学才能再次进入季后赛竞争，并建立起 John Manon。

路易斯安那州立大学 (Louisiana State)

Luke Kiffler，第一支 L.A.U. 球队是一场比赛。场上有足够的才华

Coons），Seddwick（右侧一个）。

（防守截锋 Leads）

Brown 和 Deane Corzally）旨在冲击全国冠军竞争者，就像 Orlando 之于迈阿密那样。如果南加州，尤其是在防守端，在多个锦标赛中拥有能产生影响力的球员，那么这可能是一支真正能与 Big Ten 重量级球队竞争的球队。

(无) 杨百翰大学 (Brigham Young)

Big 25 的赛季在各支球队之间，从一个赛季到另一个赛季的指令各异。Bennie 的右侧已经成为 Big 12 中最重要的身体部位。如果健康，Hammond 足以让第一批 Raiders 回到季后赛。如果他的恢复不够顺利，且 Tech 需要在多场关键比赛中挖掘其深度名单，那么这个赛季可能会被短路。

亚拉巴马大学 (Alabama)

体育场面临的最大问题是 2 个在 16 个之下的，在 2.5 年的进展中处于泥潭，是对摩根士丹利的一个风险。它被横扫，在他后院有一个 50 码的球场，伴随着小丑时刻。

“我们是那种我有时会在他身后奔跑的人。他们很冷静，对吧？”

现在，观察处于实践中的 Jones，头部受伤时没有时间。这不是一场比赛，当时它有点……

那个那个

印第安纳波利斯小马队四分卫 Daniel Jones 正从跟腱断裂中恢复。

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印第安纳波利斯的首席 Billy Leonard，在 Coats' Wilke Pro 的第一年领先于四场胜利，正从右跟腱手术的残留中恢复。虽然他可能还没有致力于这次受伤，但已经结束了。他有 4 次本应致力于受伤，我不认为这会具有挑战性。他具有挑战性。他具有挑战性。他

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克拉克的火热状态是否应让她进入 MVP 的讨论范围？

作者：JAMIE CHITABLE 和 MAREENA WROBNAW

WNBA 的最有价值球员（MVP）之争通常很快就会尘埃落定。本赛季可能也是如此，但这并不意味着没有讨论的空间。

随着赛季的推进，两名球员最常被球迷和媒体讨论为这一殊荣的主要竞争者。

截至周四，球员 A 每场平均贡献 25.9 分、8.5 个篮板、3.1 次助攻和 0.2 次盖帽，投篮命中率为 11.4%。球员 B 每场平均贡献 35.9 分、4.7 个篮板和 0.2 次助攻，投篮命中率为 34.4%，1 分线命中率为 45.2%。

但是否应该有第三名球员参与竞争？观察这场竞争，这种风险很奇怪。球员 C 没有在这些风险中被提及。每场平均 15.7 分、14.4 个篮板和 0.2 次助攻，投篮命中率为 44.4%，1 分线命中率为 35.3% from 1. 球员 B 和 C 在与球员 A 的竞争中均有所斩获。但他们的风险表明他们都属于其中。

以下是最新的 parodie 前锋：Jay Wilson，她似乎正处于职业生涯的巅峰，作为领跑者，她带领拉斯维加斯 Aers 追求冠军。该队的团队也是一个优秀的 Mibra。她表现得如此像一个 rookie committee，以至于她进入了关于谁能（如果有人能的话）取代 Wilson 的讨论，而自 2006 年的 Candace Parker 以来，将会有新秀赢得该奖项。

然后是球员 C。她绝非一个评估，而是 Caitlin Clark 从这些讨论中变得更加多样化的一个很好的例子——特别是考虑到她最近的火热状态。

本赛季早些时候的背伤曾阻碍了她的敏感度，但克拉克现在似乎正在好转，刷出了历史性的数据和职业生涯最高纪录。在她第三个赛季中，她成为 WNBA 首位达到 700 次助攻的球员，以及在 8-10 场比赛中获得 10-10 分，总计 10-10，Wragn on Agg。16 是克拉克 2005 年的职业生涯比赛，得分 30 分以上，助攻 10 次以上。截至周四的比赛，她的得分平均值仅次于 Wilson 和她的后场搭档 Sidney Mitchell。

当然，关于克拉克的案例存在合理的反论点。

在 Fever 赛季的前半段，当克拉克在场时，Natasha 是 2.05。她从弧线外连续投中 2.05（3.4% 的 3x），经常在比赛末段被安排在

Lewis Crandell 和 Baltimore Morrison 为 The Athletic 报道女子篮球。

防守回合，并且因为她的技术犯规和失误而占据了太多头条新闻。

Fever 直到 7 月底才在排名中获得前四名，而从历史上看，顶级种子席位对于任何 MVP 候选人都至关重要。在过去的九次奖项中，只有三次 MVP 出自联盟最佳球队。2023, 当 Renauna Stewart 赢得她的第二个 MVP 奖项时，Liberty 在联盟排名中位列第二。2024, 当 Wilson 赢得她的第三个奖项时，Acre 在联盟排名中位列第四；而在 2025, 当 Wilson 赢得她的第四个奖项时，Acre 位列第二。

在 FIBA 世界杯休赛前一周，克拉克的 Fever 在联盟排名中位列第四，落后于 Lynx、金州排球（Golden State Volleyball）和 Acre。

在某些方面，克拉克也因为她的最低限度而被简化。Mitchell 比克拉克更高效，投篮命中率为 30.7%

左上方的 A'ja Wilson 似乎即将获得第二个第五个 MVP 奖项，尽管右侧的新秀 Olivia Miller 也在证明自己的实力。左侧的 Caitlin Clark 在克服伤病后表现强劲。

且弧线外命中率为 44.4%。Mitchell 在印第安纳的所有差异中表现最好，而当克拉克不在场时，Fever 拥有更好的净值评级。

但克拉克整体创造的价值更高。她贡献的场均得分占比高于米切尔，且在联盟中排名第二，仅以 12% 略低于威尔逊（10.1%）。

米布拉在 MVP 的讨论中处于次要地位而非克拉克，部分原因是发烧队赛季初起步较慢。

米布拉在本赛季提供了大量精彩表现并超出了预期，同样如此的还有山林队。

她带领着一群才华横溢的新秀，但显然她增强了周围每个人的技能组合，考虑到纳加夫拉·科利尔在赛季大部分时间里不在场，这一点尤其令人印象深刻。娜塔莎·霍华德作为一名挡拆伙伴获得了重生，科菲在退回替补席之前经历了第一个电视赛季，而卡查·麦布莱德的投篮比以往任何时候都要好。现在米布拉将库特尼·威廉姆斯移回她更偏好的得分后卫位置，威廉姆斯也迎来了她最高效的投篮赛季。

米布拉让所有队友打得更轻松，并让每场山林队的比赛都成为一场——比获得 MVP 奖项更像是一场表演。她简单地提升了周围的竞争氛围。

当然，当包含更多名字时，的讨论会更早开始。假设以下球员是荣誉成员。

自由队在 2008 年以 4.0 的超强强度进入，而斯图尔特在经历了 2025 赛季被顽固伤病困扰后，在争夺第三个奖项方面排名新秀之首。她履行了在联盟中的职责，本赛季为自由队场均贡献 29.7 分、8.5 个篮板和 3.1 次助攻。这是斯图尔特自 2023 年赛季以来得分最高的一个赛季。但自由队目前陷入苦战，斯图尔特需要通过努力来增强她的竞争力。

佩吉·布彻特在达拉斯的第二个赛季非常值得关注，她与杰西卡·谢泼德和阿里克·奥帕里贝夫斯基并肩作战。布彻特将 Wragn 从联盟排名末尾推向了——在一个赛季内保持一致。得益于 7 月份 7-5 的战绩（包括一段新的连胜纪录），Wragn 的排名最高升至第四。

截至周四，布彻特在场均得分方面排名联盟第七，场均 28.3 分。随着球队的变动，这一平均值略有下降。在剩下的 7 场比赛中，布彻特当然能够通过努力重新回到讨论之中，但目前其他球员已经超越了她。

米切尔在的评选中也被忽视了，而她的竞争力比布彻特或斯图尔特更强。她的得分排名在威尔逊之后位列第二，场均 14.4 分，目前正处于一个 30-40-90 的得分赛季。米切尔的投篮命中率为 30.7%，三分命中率为 44.4%，罚球命中率为 44.2%。她已连续 25 场比赛得分达到 20 分或更多，打破了威尔逊保持的 WNBA 历史上最长连续 20+ 得分纪录。

但历史在本赛季正趋于重复。

在过去的五年里，每一次的讨论都始于威尔逊——而且理由充分。

当她再次成为球场两端不可阻挡的力量时，神话在得分、篮板和盖帽方面令人惊叹，并且在保持 Acre 作为个人竞争者的同时，每个赛季都在进步。本赛季她在场均得分、场均盖帽、抢断和胜利贡献值方面均领跑联盟。当威尔逊在场时，Acre 拥有极佳的净效率值，而没有她的帮助，他们则会崩溃。

然而，一年前，科利尔曾被认为是夺得首个的大热门——她是首位获得三次年度最佳球员奖的球员——直到威尔逊和球队介入。

这场竞赛的领先者在局面反转之前，其优势仅是暂时的。

棒球

正义与非正义，非正义与正义：关于界外球的争端与这项运动一样古老

作者：JAMIE KUN 和 STEPHEN J. NUSBETT

这颗棒球被击得非常漂亮，将所有者送到了它自己的车上以及所有者的车上，并且成功且不被认可地飞过围栏，速度超过了路上的观众，路上的房屋观众，以及所有者的。这栋房子是一笔巨大的交易。因此，当帝国的金属载荷在路上时，所有者的，以及所有者的，是一笔巨大的交易。因此，当帝国的……是一个……，所有者的是一个……。因此，当帝国的……是一个……，所有者的……是一个……。因此，当帝国的……是一个……，所有者的……是一个……。

但那个旧看台。它并不小。惠特尼回到了银行家席位，而他的华盛顿商人则在压力下完成了比赛的其余部分。他们输了。根据《国家登记册》的一篇文章，J.A. 输给了这家总部位于费城的俱乐部，即原俱乐部。第一次就是第一次，然后围绕着帝国“以一种威胁的方式，但当它不是一个好的……，所有者的……是一个好的……。因此，当帝国的……是一个好的……。因此，当帝国的……是一个好的……。

在棒球运动中，争论关于哪个，或者说球的最后一局一直是第一次，所有者耗尽了自己，从 120 年前惠特尼的摇摆到周三晚上在巴尔的摩发生的类似争议。Poor Aliens，一名金莺队的追随者，将所有者带到了银行家看台，向下延伸 20 排，进入坎迪斯的左外野看台。那是，而且看起来那样，关于哪个，一个，但另一个，所有者耗尽了自己，从 120 年前惠特尼的摇摆到周三晚上在巴尔的摩发生的类似争议。Poor Aliens，一名金莺队的追随者，将所有者带到了银行家看台，向下延伸 20 排，进入坎迪斯的左外野看台。那是，而且看起来那样，关于哪个，一个，但另一个，所有者耗尽了自己，从 120 年前惠特尼的摇摆到周三晚上在巴尔的摩发生的类似争议。Poor Aliens，一名金莺队的追随者，将所有者带到了银行家的

在坎迪斯（Candice）左外野看台深处第 20 排。情况看起来就是那样，但另一件事是，从 120 年前的 Whitney 争议到周三晚上在巴尔的摩发生的类似争议，所有者都深陷其中。一名巴尔的摩金莺队（Orioles）的球员将所有者带到了银行看台，就在坎迪斯左外野看台深处第 20 排。情况看起来就是那样，但另一件事是，从 120 年前的 Whitney 争议到周三晚上在巴尔的摩发生的类似争议，一名金莺队球员将所有者带到了银行看台，就在坎迪斯左外野看台深处第 20 排。情况看起来就是那样，但另一件事是，从 120 年前的 Whitney 争议到周三晚上在巴尔的摩发生的类似争议，一名金莺队球员将所有者带到了银行看台，就在坎迪斯左外野看台深处第 20 排。情况看起来就是那样，但另一件事是，从 120 年前的 Whitney 争议到周三晚上在巴尔的摩发生的类似争议，另一名金莺队球员将所有者带到了银行看台，就在坎迪斯左外野看台深处第 20 排。情况看起来就是那样，但另一件事是，从 120 年前的 Whitney 争议到周三晚上在巴尔的摩发生的类似争议。情况看起来就是那样，但另一件事是，从 120 年前的 Whitney 争议到周三晚上在巴尔的摩发生的类似争议。另一名金莺队球员将所有者带到了银行看台，就在坎迪斯左外野看台深处第 20 排。情况看起来就是那样，但另一件事是，从 120 年前的 Whitney 争议到周三晚上在巴尔的摩发生的类似争议。情况看起来就是那样，但另一件事是，从 120 年前的 Whitney 争议到周三晚上在巴尔的摩发生的类似争议。

周三晚上在巴尔的摩。情况看起来就是那样，但另一件事是，从 120 年前的 Whitney 争议到周三晚上在巴尔的摩发生的类似争议。情况看起来就是那样，但另一件事是，从 120 年前的 Whitney 争议到周三晚上在巴尔的摩发生的类似争议。情况看起来就是那样，但另一件事是，从 120 年前的 Whitney 争议到周三晚上在巴尔的摩发生的类似争议。

Slam Dam 和 Stephen J. Nusbet 为 The Athletic 报道美国职业棒球大联盟（MLB）。Zach Menzl, Mitch Bowers, Dennis Liu 和 Chris Kirschner 参与了报道。

周三，裁判裁定，由金莺队球员 Pete Akaras 击出的第七次失分击球并未落在界外杆之内。

尽管冠以“技术时代”之名——增加了 8 项审查、选用了 10 台设备、一套自动半罢击挑战系统以及追踪每次投球、挥棒和生物识别动作的摄像头——但该系统尚未想出如何实时准确地判定界外杆上方的半感应情况。

“需要这样一个时刻，人们才会觉得，‘嘿，也许我们应该增加点什么’。”基兰（Kiran）在思考如何为这个百年难题提供现代解决方案时说道。 “如果他们在其他方面能做到，我相信在这里也能做到。不幸的是，需要这样一个时刻才能引发讨论。也许现在就是那个时刻。”

金莺队球员在周三提出了一个问题，这个问题迅速成为了整个棒球界的讨论焦点。为什么大联盟（MLB）不使用 Hawk-Eye 技术——一套安装在体育场内、利用一系列摄像头对各种运动进行精准追踪的系统——来判定本垒打是有效还是出界？联盟几乎可以使用这种不寻常的数据。为什么不进一步扩大其应用范围？

“我知道经理们在冬季会议上讨论过这个问题，”蓝鸟队经理约翰·施耐德（John Schneider）说。“每个球场都有 Hawk-Eye。只要把它延伸到界外杆上方就很容易。我们拥有这么多技术，而且我们已经有了 A.R.S.（自动球区系统），为什么我们不能那样做？”

然而，答案可能是 Hawk-Eye 技术无法准确判定高飞球的精确飞行路径。

一名要求匿名的联盟消息人士表示，“为了这个目的而开发、测试并安装”该系统将是一个漫长的过程，并且利用现有基础设施，界外杆上方的 Hawk-Eye 数据“在距离球场那么远的地方不太可能准确”。

但这并没有阻止阿隆索（Alonso）和金莺队经理克雷格·阿尔伯特森（Craig Albertson）在巴尔的摩周三以 5.5 分落败后向记者指出，联盟提供的平板电脑上的击球追踪器显示，阿隆索的长距离高飞球留在有效区域内，但裁判却漏判了。

“该系统并非为这类判定而设计，在那些区域也没有布置多个摄像头，”该联盟消息人士说。相反，该系统是基于从球飞行前半段收集的数据进行投影，以估算其剩余路径。

“它不能充分考虑到诸如风力之类的情况。此外，仍然会存在误差范围。”

除非实时判定，因为界外杆周围是最难判定正确的区域。大联盟有多次漏判，但有多少次沿着边线飞行的本垒打判定可能是基于第二垒手或球飞行路径相反方向的视角。这些裁判能更好地观察杆前或杆后的情况。然而，在阿隆索最后一次击球中，负责做出判定的却是三垒裁判威尔·利特尔（Will Little）。

界外杆本身也没有统一标准。各球场的界外杆高度并不统一。联盟建议球队安装基准杆，但这并非强制要求。

一名要求匿名的前裁判（他在大联盟中被视为“异类”）表示，他这个职业中的许多人长期以来一直主张界外杆应至少有三英尺宽。这样想是因为即使球没有击中杆子，也能让判定结果更加明确。

“如果你询问每个人，他们都会说，‘把它们做宽。做成六或七英尺宽’，”这位裁判说。“棒球界的反对理由是，人们不想被挡在屏幕后面。就像是，球场里票价最高的人坐在屏幕后面。现在到处都是屏幕。”

最终，大联盟可能会认定，建立一个庞大的网络来解决极少数的边线本垒打判定问题意义不大，因为这类判定的失误本来就很少，而且可以通过回放轻松纠正。

但有些情况，比如阿隆索的这次，则并非如此

技术可能无法在判定长距离击球时提供帮助。

非黑即白。在巴尔的摩，一段报道称，经过审查，对第一球的判定维持原判，这表明纽约的回放团队并非服务标准。无论是以这种方式还是另一种方式。即使有慢动作的帮助，也可能无法概括摄像机角度，一些在现场或另一端的保险专家认为。测试的新类型和规模取决于摄像机的位置。

“对我来说，我们在那个位置上没有人员配置显得很奇怪，即使在我打算见你时，你说，‘那是每个球场都不同的一件事。’”

关于新功能的基调，亚伦·比弗（Aaron Beaver）承认，虽然想要利用所有可用工具来确保判罚正确是很自然的，但这可能比一个良好的比赛模型更复杂。

“这有点超出了我的薪资范围，”比弗说。

在这场争议中处于不利地位的阿隆索（Alonso）表示：“我希望我们能轻松地拥有一个孤立的判定！”

自从 7 月在温布尔登赢得他的第五个大满贯冠军以来，詹尼克·辛纳（Jannik Sinner）还没有参加过任何一场正式比赛。

膝盖伤势困扰迫使辛纳退出公开赛

作者：JAMIE HANSEN 和 MATTHEW PATTERMAN

詹尼克·辛纳因膝盖受伤退出了美国公开赛，而就在 24 小时前，凯莉·麦克纳利（Carrie McNally）才确认他将回归参加该赛事。

“尽管我一直在努力工作，尝试测试并尝试医疗人员，但我们现在已经有了 40-50-60-60-60-60-60-60-6 0-60-60-60-60-60”

在过去的几天里，基础酒吧在蒙特卡洛重新启动，并且意识到我仍然需要更多时间从右膝问题中恢复。我显然非常悲伤和失望，因为纽约在我心中有一个特殊的位置。我非常期待成功，转身在当地伟大球迷面前的电光火石般的气氛中比赛。”

这位 24 岁的意大利人表示

在场边挣扎，他的主要对手阿尔卡拉斯（Alcaraz）位列第六。

由于同样的问题，他退出了本周的辛辛那提公开赛，并在整个八月期间在米兰和都灵接受医疗人员的检查，以评估伤势的严重程度。

辛纳（Sinner）的退出意味着法网冠军亚历山大·兹维列夫（Alexander Zverev）将成为1号种子，而自4月起因紧绷伤势缺席的卫冕冠军阿尔卡拉斯将成为2号种子。

在2025年连续三场大满贯决赛相遇后，辛纳和阿尔卡拉斯在2026年将不会共同参加任何一场大满贯决赛，尽管他们在这个赛季中各自赢得了一个冠军头衔。

就在几周前，看起来阿尔卡拉斯将错过美国公开赛，而可以说全球最顶尖的球员辛纳将能顺利夺得一座大满贯冠军。

但现在，阿尔卡拉斯回归了，在经历了四年的竞技网球后，他的手腕状况有所好转，而辛纳则缺席了。自法网以来，膝伤使他仅参加了七场比赛，且全部是在夺冠过程中进行的。

这或许是一个大满贯年度的恰当结局，这个年度在男子组方面带来了诸多混乱。网球：学生们在墨尔本一场疯狂的澳网半决赛中从深渊爬升至前三，但阿尔卡拉斯在等待了略多于一场其他决赛后，成为了历史上最年轻的实现职业全满贯的男子球员。

到法网结束时，阿尔卡拉斯正受困于手腕伤势。需要通过该冠军来完成自己职业全满贯的辛纳，输给了2名观众、球迷以及兹维列夫（Zverev），后者在巴黎的最佳状态中并与疾病作斗争。亚历山大·兹维列夫抓住机会，夺得了他的第一和第二名。

辛纳在温网很大程度上扭转了局面，但阿尔卡拉斯在场边休息，这创造了一个向辛纳倾斜的签表优势，减轻了他的压力。除了兹维列夫外，前10名中的其他竞争者未能利用这一机会。

现在到了美国公开赛，而首届公开赛无疑在个人层面充满了混乱。Dinkers：自Wradley以来仅参加了一场比赛，而第一场，阿尔卡拉斯参加的世界杯比赛比他参加的九场网球比赛还要多。他们是休息充分且准备就绪了？还是会有另一位竞争者崛起？

詹姆斯·迪宁（James Dineen）是 The Athletic 的高级执行编辑，马修·法特曼（Matthew Fatterman）是 The Athletic 的资深撰稿人。

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2020年8月22日，星期六 C1

海报捕捉纽约律动

尤金妮亚·梅洛（Eugenia Mello）为美国网球公开赛创作的充满活力的艺术作品，也反映了她的移民经历。

作者：LELLA MEEHIDAN

对于插画师尤金妮亚·梅洛来说，准备工作并非仅限于重大委托项目，而是一种日常实践。她的作品充满动感，色彩鲜明，曾装饰过 City Bike 的车站、UPS 的租赁车辆以及 Poland Spring 的铝瓶系列。

她说：“有时机会来了你还没准备好，而有时机会来了，你会觉得你一直在为此训练。”

当美国网球协会邀请梅洛为本周六开幕的 2020 年美国网球公开赛创作海报时，她觉得准备好了。她最近刚完成了纽约市马拉松赛（5:02:30），并花费多年时间开发出一种干练且充满活力的风格，这已成为她的标志——捕捉处于运动中（通常是舞蹈）的人物。

她说：“如果你为某件事做好了充分的训练，你只需要出现并完成它。”

海报的图像以网球场为中心，背景是纽约市的天际线。在审批过程中，该图像经历了 23 次修改，但最终版本与梅洛的最初草图最为接近。对于 30, 岁的梅洛来说，这还是对她从出生地秘鲁，经过哥斯达黎加和委内瑞拉的曲折旅程的一种致敬。（评论见第 13 页）

尤金妮亚·梅洛为美国网球公开赛创作的海报。网球锦标赛将于本周末开始。

HELEN SHAW

评论员笔记本

在爱丁堡的大混乱中生存

在 4,000 场边缘艺术节演出中，一些明显的趋势开始显现。

爱丁堡 —— “爱丁堡国际艺术节边缘展”（Edinburgh Festival Fringe）这个名字本身就有些荒诞。

“Fringe”（边缘 / 流苏）意味着发生在边缘的装饰，就像大件衣服角上的线头。但如果你曾在八月的爱丁堡，在挤满人的行人道上用胳膊挤出一条路，经过数百张单口喜剧和马戏团盛演的海报，并接过比如一个头上戴着迪斯科球的女人递来的宣传单——你可能会好奇，究竟什么样的衣服能比这个规模更大。

今年的边缘艺术节包括 4,000 多部作品。我参加了一个评论家研讨会，听到作家们讨论在如此庞大的数量中辨别趋势是多么不可能。然而，在某种程度上，他们做到了。在我设法观看的 23 部作品中，确实出现了某些主题。例如，我一天之内偶然看了三场以玛格丽特·撒切尔为主角的演出。（我也可能同样容易地去看三场“Housed Rivalry”的恶搞剧。）

从形式上看，边缘艺术节在爱丁堡国际艺术节的周边运行。（评论见第 13 页）

迪亚拉·基尔帕特里克（Diarra Kilpatrick），系列剧《来自底特律的迪亚拉》（Diarra From Detroit）的创意核心。基尔帕特里克在剧中饰演一名私家侦探，面对底特律复杂的社会和历史问题。

以批判视角探索喜剧悬疑

在《底特律的迪亚拉》（Diarra From Detroit）中，创作者兼主演迪亚拉·基尔帕特里克分享了她这座城市的“小宝藏”。

作者：SALAMISHAH TILLET

“我意识到我的想象力可以抵达如此之多的地方，”迪亚拉·基尔帕特里克在本月早些时候说道。

在《底特律的迪亚拉》两季的播出过程中，她的想象力确实走得很远。42岁的基尔帕特里克创作并主演了这部在Paramount+播出的喜剧悬疑剧，该剧部分是侦探剧，部分是惊悚剧，部分是社会评论，同时也是一个爱情故事。基尔帕特里克表示，她的目标很简单，就是打造一部“既是优秀的悬疑剧，同时又非常幽默”的节目。

第一季于2024年在BET首播，介绍了迪亚拉·布里克兰，一名不快乐的中学教师。在与丈夫（莫里斯·切斯特努特饰）关系冷淡之际，她通过Tinder结识的男子克里斯（香农·华莱士饰）在两人第一次约会后失踪，这让她找到了新的目标。她请求她的两个好朋友——阿贾（ShootNups Perry 饰）和茶先生（布莱恩·特雷尔·克拉克饰）协助调查。在此过程中，她了解了底特律的犯罪地下世界、克里斯旧有的家族秘密，以及自己在面对逆境时的韧性。

在将于9月9日完结的第二季中，（评论见第13页）

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海报捕捉纽约律动

“不可能变为可能，如果你相信自己的力量，奇妙而惊人的事情就会发生。”

GOLDEN BELLO 办公室

接C1页。

，她在那里长大，于2015年来到纽约。美国网球公开赛职业网球营销总监 Carrie Ehern 在筛选了200多份作品集提交后选择了 Media。Media 并没有申请艺术家的公开征集，而是由 Ehern 直接联系的。“我们立刻就被她的作品吸引了：她对色彩的运用，以及将美网与这座城市的活力联系在一起的方式，”Ehern 说道。

过去，主题艺术仅出现在门票和宣传材料上。然而今年，Midle 的作品通过电子相机卡车在全市巡展，并出现在哈德逊广场（Hudson Yards）赛事期间为球迷提供的网球主题视频游戏中，以及他们全年的家用游戏机中。“我们一直在寻找某种能够应用于多种载体的动态元素，”Ehern 说道。

在位于布鲁克林 Gowanna 地区的工作室里，Midle 谈到了她终身对运动的痴迷，她如何接纳自己的文化差异，以及她那不幸的网球职业生涯。以下是对话的编辑摘录。

今年的美网主题“庆祝我们的纽约故事”（Celebrating Our New York Story）对你意味着什么？

过去10年我开发的大部分内容都与这座城市以及我在这里生活的观察有关——这一切的声音、律动和运动。来到一个如此充满移民的城市是我视觉研究的一部分。今年，无论谁是从阿根廷还是中国，或者世界其他任何角落旅行而来，[美网] 将有三种颜色铭刻在他们的记忆中。某种从我内心唱出的旋律，将成为他人歌曲的一部分。

美国网球协会在哪些方面塑造了你的愿景？

几乎没有，因为最终他们选择了最初的草图。最初的状态有一种新鲜感。当你通过协作重新加工一件作品时，它在某些方面会成长，但艺术家的工作部分在于

Eugenia Melin 是今年美网海报背后的艺术家，她在位于 Gowanna 的布鲁克林工作室中（右图）；上方是 Melin 海报草图的细节。

保留最初那张草图的新鲜感，那时一切皆有可能。有时你会过度加工一件作品，然后它就失去了能量。

你如何将运动和感觉转化为视觉效果？

这真的始于我搬到纽约。我不停地画舞者，只是想看看过去的艺术家是如何处理的。偶然一次，我在 Health 的室内区域行走。内部的绘画是静态的，但其中蕴含着速度。

在那些绘画面前，有一尊 Umberto Boccioni 的雕塑（一座名为“空间中连续性的独特形式”的青铜前行男子像），它是你能找到的最沉重的材料，但看起来却在移动。你在纸上移动手的方式也可以留下速度、能量和震动的感觉，这取决于你使用的工具。这在某种程度上指导了我进行任何形式的工作。

为什么你使用如此鲜艳的色彩？

色彩是存在于你内心之中的。它由你成长的地方以及你随身携带的东西决定。我出生在秘鲁，但我的家人来自阿根廷和乌拉圭。在我所有的成长阶段，我都在哥斯达黎加，然后是在委内瑞拉。我从未意识到除了亮色之外还有其他色-

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彩。在其中一个版本中，我减少了色彩的数量，结果完全不同。它失去了快乐。

你的根源——作为一名阿根廷、秘鲁和加勒比裔的纽约人——如何影响你的作品？

我热爱委内瑞拉人们的律动方式，每当发生罢工，或者高速公路上交通过于拥堵——原本只需10分钟的路程竟然要花一个半小时——他们就会起舞。人们会开大扬声器，走出车外，在等待时开始跳舞。这些故事最终被呈现了出来。它给了我陪伴。

你必须会打网球才能接手这个项目吗？

在我的 wildest dreams（最狂野的梦）中，我绝不会主动去寻找这个。这不在我的计划之内。我热爱网球。我小时候打过，后来停止了，因为老师告诉我我不擅长奔跑。而这个项目在我刚刚跑完一场马拉松时出现了。所以这是一个很棒的故事：不要限制我，也不要限制你自己。不可能之事变为可能，如果你相信自己的力量，狂野而神奇的事情就会发生。

你将成为首位在赛事场地绘制壁画的主题艺术家，且将在观众面前创作，时间从8月24日（周一）开始，并在8月30日在哈德逊广场（Hudson Yards）进行。这对你意味着什么？

我热爱人们能够看到这是一个人类完成的作品。它经历了23个版本，10年的思考以及一辈子的消化。最棒的部分是我将能见到人们，我们可以进行交流。

无论你的艺术作品最终安置在何处，你希望人们从中获得什么？

当有人能感受到某样东西中的能量时，那是很美好的。如果一件东西是由人创造的，能量可以留在其中并传递给另一个人。这是一个倾听之心的希望。我希望它能持续倾听，从而让某人感受到某些东西。这就是魔法依然存在的证明。

其他人是如何激励你的？

我一直在听电影导演劳里西亚·马雷尔（Laoricia Marrel）的演讲。她是一位阿根廷天才。她谈到，不要让我们的差异“消失”——她谈到了口音——不要试图去融入，这一点至关重要。事实上，我们的口音同样揭示了我们来自哪里以及去过哪里。我曾在这么多不同的国家生活，我曾因为有口音而深受折磨。为了融入，我会尝试像我居住的国家那样说话。现在这让我感到如此释放，因为我意识到所有让我如此不同的特质都具有价值。

格伦·肯尼（GLENN KENNY） / 影评

四位女性好友在喧闹的度假之旅中寻求身心健康

这种粗俗的男性繁殖喜剧已经涵盖了从 1978 年的《国家兰皮恩的动物屋》（National Lampean's Animal House）到 2009 年的《宿醉》（The Hangover）等作品，而 2011 年的《Brokromแล้ว》则引入了女性主导的痉挛式风格。其变体包括 2017 年的《女孩之旅》（Girls Trip），该片目前正在筹备续集。本周末上映的是《水疗周末》（Spa Weekend），片中 4 个性格互补的女性试图超越各自的焦虑，获取更多信息。

每位演员都是某种程度上的喜剧大师，莱斯利·曼（Leslie Mann）擅长干巴巴地吞下压力巨大的职场人士那种无声的绝望，并经常扮演此类角色；在这里她饰演简（Jane），一名工作过度繁忙的律师，她即将迎来一些改变生活的

CHRIS CHAZETTE / BLAIR BEAR

从左至右，伊斯拉·费舍尔（Isla Fisher）、莱斯利·曼（Leslie Mann）、米歇尔·本森（Michelle Benson）和安娜·富里奥（Anna Furio）在由安·卢卡斯（Ann Lucas）和斯科特·曼（Scott Mann）执导的《水疗周末》中。

《水疗周末》

零售量巨大的粗俗快感。片长：1 小时 27 分钟。在冷冻柜中。

在 Solar's Eden 度假村的经理们中，索菲（Sophie，安娜·富里奥饰）是一名在虐待上司掌控下濒临崩溃的高能执行助理。而为了寻求平静而急切地组织这次度假的可可（Coco，米歇尔·本森饰），则深受愤怒问题之苦，以至于她的许多场景看起来像是出自一部低端版本的迈克·李（Mike Leigh）电影。这三个朋友刻意排除了她们那疯狂的伙伴梅尔（Mel，伊斯拉·费舍尔饰），但她当然还是出现了，而且首先，她在由一位名叫香提（Shanti，埃里卡·海拉茨 Erika Hayratz 饰）的活泼教练引导的冥想过程中不停地说话。

演员们的表现犀利且幽默，人们希望电影的共同编剧兼共同导演乔·卢卡斯（Joe Lucas）和斯科特·曼（Scott Mann）能为他们提供一份能始终与他们的才华相匹配的剧本。

偶尔会有精彩的台词出现，比如曼提到：“我上一次做按摩大概是在最后一次乳房 X 光检查的时候”，但更多时候，这些女士听起来像是在性方面过度亢奋的青少年男孩。

当莱斯特（Lester）和卢尔韦（Lurwe）写下《为什么女人不能更像男人》时，我不认为这就是他们心中所想的样子。

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左图和右图中的迈克·卡普兰（Myq Kaplan）以及中间的玛吉·诺顿（Maggie Naughton），是社交媒体上的喜剧演员，他们发现带有嵌入式字幕的漫画风格分镜比视频片段更具冲击力。

忘掉视频剪辑，现在流行的是轮播图

在社交媒体上，喜剧演员们不再发布视频片段，而是尝试一种更简单的方式。

作者：SOPHIA DEER

这看起来像是一幅漫画条里的笑话。Myq Kaplan 是一位常驻纽约市的资深喜剧演员，在他的 Instagram 账号发布的帖子中，他拿着舞台上的麦克风，被定格在画面里。

其中一条写道：“我喜欢极简主义 . . . A LUTZ”。另一条则宣称：“一个男人的一个例子是彼得兔。”

第三条则走的是严肃路线：“如果这里有人敢再次演奏鼓，将会产生后果。”

Kaplan 账号上的这种笑话呈现形式正被许多单口喜剧演员所采用，用于在社交媒体上推广和宣传他们的演出。他们使用带有嵌入式笑话字幕的静止画面，有时会跨越几张图片，包含更长的铺垫和笑点——用社交媒体的术语来说，这叫“轮播图”（carousel）。

这与近年来的情况形成了对比，当时喜剧演员们会在 Instagram 和其他平台上发布他们的现场互动（crowd work）。有些人甚至会通过精心布置的摄像机来设计与观众的互动。这让表演者能够在不剧透素材的情况下展示自己的喜剧才华，同时也利用了人们对短视频的狂热。

这种向漫画条式画面的转变，是一个例证，说明了在网上吸引注意力的方式演变得多么迅速，以及技术世界的简单变化如何在几乎一夜之间对整个艺术群体产生雪崩效应。

32 岁的 Eric Walsh 采用了这种形式。其中一个例子是他在 Instagram 上的笑话：

我来自康涅狄格州。

我的朋友对我说：“埃里克，你看上去太傲慢了。”

而我说：“首先，请叫我沃尔什先生。”

在一次采访中，Walsh 表示他从春天开始发布轮播图，并发现他触达的 Instagram 用户比使用视频时更多。他说，自从他开始专门发布静止画面以来，他在短短几个月内增加了大约 33,000 名新关注者。

“有些人只是不想在工作之类的地方看视频剪辑，”Walsh 说，“所以他们可以直接滚动浏览图片，这使得消费和传播变得容易得多。”

喜剧演员们认为文字形式的另一个原因是，嗯，你不需要录像。

“有时你有一个很喜欢的笑话。但有时你录了像，也许视频效果不好，”26 岁的单口喜剧演员 Julian Broberg 说，“也许音频不好。也许观众并不买账。所以要获得一段真正高质量的笑话录像需要很长时间。而轮播图，你几乎可以立即完成。”

39 岁的喜剧演员 Maggie Naughton 在注意到其他喜剧演员的成功帖子后，于几个月前开始发布定格画面。

“这有点像模因（meme），而模因账号一直以来都非常成功，”Naughton 说。

她账号中的一些俏皮话包括：

我今年打了肉毒杆菌，但不是为了看起来更年轻。我为此有其他办法。

我打肉毒杆菌是为了能私下思考，而不用让我的眉毛盯着我。

人们的注意力时长变得越来越短，而社交媒体算法正在利用这一点。

“这种方式的节奏快得多，”32 岁的喜剧演员 Aditya Mankiel 说，“人们能立即在第一页看到第一个笑点，所以甚至没有视频中那种 10 秒的延迟。”

管理雪城大学创作者经济中心的 Kaplan Luttrell 表示，使用文字的喜剧演员正从这种形式降低的摩擦力中获益。

“不需要开启声音。不需要忍受视频播放，”她说，“不需要等待所谓的回报。”

单口喜剧表演者还会观察同行中什么行得通，然后进行模仿。

“当某个人开始制作一个

做出改变，无论是针对实际表演还是营销方式，而其他人则看到那个人突然实现了跨越式发展。任何人都会尝试分析对方的不同之处并加以模仿，”纽约市的数字营销策略师兼喜剧制作人大卫·祖克（David Zucker）说道。

这种形式在 Instagram 上可能感觉很新颖，该平台已经扩大了允许发布的帖子类型。但一些 Reddit 用户在“cinandapokers”论坛上以这种方式消费笑话已经超过十年，该论坛拥有约 400 万粉丝。在 2012 年刚开始时，Reddit 还不能发布视频。

47 岁的卡普兰（Kaplan）表示，他在去年秋天转向了这种风格。他说，部分原因是发布剧本更简单，且比编辑视频更节省时间。

他补充说，Instagram 允许单口喜剧演员尝试那些在现场表演中可能行不通的素材。

比如这个笑话：

“当社会实现平等时，我才会和你做爱。”

这是我对 W.E.B. 的印象。如果男人表现最好（Do Best If Men）。

卡普兰表示，这不是一个在现场表演中能产生同样效果的段子，而且他认为自己讲得还不够多。

但话又说回来。

“现在既然聊到了，”他说，“我想，‘噢，也许我可以试试’。”

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I spent a _ of years collecting vintage cooking _.

Recorded by a French chancellor. But what a waste!

His sausage just rock, and take on odd, unsettling shapes,

While strange ____ bring back the taste of kindergarten.

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Crossword / 编辑：Will Shortz

ACROSS（横向）

1 像德国 houseplatter 这样的菜肴

2 为 two-pitfish 准备的一套 24 件套

3 “Hello!” 之后接的话

4 直截了当地

5 在不可能的情况下吹嘘

6 名单 (西班牙语中的 Straight)

7 “我们之后再谈这件事”

8 从零开始

9 Hau

10 填字游戏的

11 Buergerin

12 Buergerin 13 Fugobin

14 Fugobin 1.1906 的发明

1.1906 2. 很难说是奢侈品

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10 它包括一系列车站

11 “让我思考一下……”

12 某种无名之辈

13 南卡罗来纳大学和密苏里大学所在地共用的名称

14 你的床垫里可能会有什么？

15 远离污秽的 Rotham

16 语言，例如

17 围绕着 Follies

18 发布的 Porter

19 与……同时

20 Windows 95 21 许多客人

22 许多客人带着一件作品

23 基因改造的

24 是否有那些

25 代表

26 中文图片

27 中国 28 天文学

29 用……测试？

30 通常被

31 颠倒着制作

32 “Ledic of 'The

33 Salty Show”

34 “这是一个

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40 “每个生命中的老兵

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2 锦标赛通行证？

3 分析性的

4 图表 5 将数据分为

6 数量

7 具有

8 通信

9 她在……中饰演

10 Sandy Lester

11 “Tedder”

12 作者 Silverdale

13 “在我看来……”

14 Kaseel's at-Saham-myel 的许多成员

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16 来临

17 音量控制

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19 肯定地”

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23 畅饮，

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25 热门配料

26 全脸

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28 吸烟

29 事件，简称

30 主要出口国

31 希腊 Pallets

32 Fiancic's

33 Francis's

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35 Indomaker,

36 A-g

37 某种发型

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39 Stevie Nicks

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42 在他人领域取得成功，

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44 参与

45 熟悉

46 Arrivade

47 紧凑型车

48 合同赢家，

49 通常

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52 暴饮暴食

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55 缺乏库存

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58 Bandy 制作 (out)

59 Wine-fat 标题

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在边缘艺术节的混乱中生存

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审判，这一活动创立于 1847 年，旨在将世界带到这座城市的简陋砂岩剧院中。尽管边缘艺术节经历了指数级的（且掩盖一切的）扩张，但那种国际性的迷失仍在继续。今年，我看了两场相当长的演出：《海鸥》和《审判——继人民之敌之后》，这两场演出都持续了两个半小时，且没有中场休息。

《海鸥》——“[海鸥]”的居所，仿佛他在做闭路字幕——经常令人感到极度震撼。这部改编自契诃夫关于未燃激情剧作的比利时版本，拥有一个由 boating 和 dead 演员组成的卓越卡司，全部使用弗拉芒手语交流。该剧由 Sign Van Uppel 执导，是我见过的最愤怒的《海鸥》，其中心是抑郁的 Magia（由爆发力十足的 Lobler Lurence 饰演）和她自我诱导的生物专家，被忽视的作家 Rossmann（由 Anna Waylyons 饰演）。在 Van Uppel 最巧妙的举措之一中，上方的字幕有时会停止翻译，让我们亲自体验那种无法理解的刺痛挫败感。

在《审判》中，巴西演员 Wagner

照片由 David B. Bickford 拍摄，《纽约时报》，October 22, 2026

上图为 Maya Rizzo 的《我的目标》，其中夸张的护理人员来自一个破旧的部分；右图，从上至下：《海鸥》的一个场景；Wagner Wears 在《审判——继人民之敌之后》中的剧照；以及左侧的 Rebecca Bizzoli 和《Evita Tau》中的 Louise Mothersole。

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Meara 饰演 Thomas Stockmann，他是 Howik Hooch 1861 年作品《人民之敌》中的英雄，剧中一名科学家因发现水源被污染而受到邀请。这部由导演 Christiane Jendry 设计的现代政治宣传剧尾声，由 Stockmann 将他的案件呈交给由每晚观众组成的陪审团。

他希望他们宣布他的举报行为并没有使他成为“人民之敌”，起初我对裁决结果似乎已成定局感到不耐烦。然而，一个小时后，我想起了有多少真正的科学家正像 Stockmann 一样被诋毁。“为什么我们不停止这种力量？”我一直在想，直到那个直接的问题——以及政治影响——终于渗透进来。

在这次匆忙的苏格兰之行中，我思考了很多关于戏剧时长的内容。国际艺术节慷慨的运行时间给了剧作证明自己的时间：无论是为了深化我们对契诃夫经典的理解，还是为了从令人厌恶转变为具有说服力。但在边缘艺术节的个人展演中，我看到的几乎每场演出持续时间约为一小时。虽然某些形式在这种格式中非常精准，比如歌曲循环，但我本不该如此惊讶于许多边缘艺术节的剧作依赖于快节奏，因为剧作家可以在这段时间内勾勒出一个角色，但几乎没有空间去发展比“悲伤”更复杂的情绪。

或许因此，在新剧中出现了一种角色讨论如何构建故事的风潮。在少数情况下这很奏效，比如 Emma Newber 在知识层面非常慷慨的《The Phe》，或者 Sam Ward 创作的系列噩梦故事小时《据我们所知》。然而，这也可能陷入陈词滥调。

例如，在备受赞誉但在我听来有些冗长的 Malisha Kegede 的《巴比伦》中，一名精神科医生陷入了一个超自然谜团；我们不是在观看实际场景，而是通过一名叙述者（Kegede 本人）听到这些场景，她挥舞着一支神奇的猫笔，仿佛将长矛刺入士兵的口中。她最后告诉我们，令人遗憾的是，我们每个人都有自己的故事，而这些故事是由“瞬间”组成的。两者皆然。

另一方面，选择可以直接切入隐喻性的“笔刺面孔”。世界并不让事情变得简单，那么演出为什么要简单？仅仅通过绘画

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《真实的凯尔·麦卡伦》（The Real Kyle McCarron）的演员表，这部音乐剧看起来像是一场乐队演出，但其功能却像是一场追思会。在其上方是饰演《潘妮洛普》（Penelope）主角的格蕾丝·麦克林（Grace McLean），她同时也参与了剧本创作。

琼（Joan）那部充满魅力的“单人音乐剧”，想象了一位某种“音乐病”的超级作曲家，试图通过紧凑的独奏线条来赢得年轻人的心。

极其出色的埃德·伊斯顿（Ed Easton）和 / 或受膏者，拒绝在其果皮上完成令人印象深刻的 6 步，大概是为了不被要求停止并终止。不过，他在以《星光快车》（Starlight Express）风格的滚轮鞋演示动作时，确实发出了草拟指令。他指出了 8. 琼对劳埃德·韦伯（Lloyd Webber）过度影响的批评，同时警告前排观众：“你们得阻止我的质量，”他一边说着，一边向我们滚来。

许多边缘艺术节（Fringe）的作品似乎将成功本身视为令人厌恶的，似乎在表达某种诉求。在露骨的侧展剧《巴比伦》（Babylon）中，汉娜·博夫洛（Hannah Boflo）将播客超级巨星的法则归咎于塑造了她过度宽泛的人设；在《by Ain't》中，聪明的马扎·基罗因（Maza Kiroin）那令人捧腹的夸张曲线（基本上就是气球）是由一名巨型同类才艺经纪人赋予她的，而该经纪人在其他时间则将她保持在低温冷冻状态：

名声是一种共同的痴迷，因为当你身在边缘艺术节时，你禁不住会想什么能从这里突围。过去几十年该节日的跨界热门作品，如《六号：音乐剧》（Six: The Musical）、《寻找》（Finding）和《婴儿呼吸》（Baby Breathe），很难被复制。而且在如此兴奋的氛围中观看如此多的戏剧，会让你自己关于成功的看法变得残酷。即便我坐在爱丁堡的一个地下室里大笑，我也在想，如果是在纽约的一个地下室里，我对同一场演出的反应会如何。

但我确实看到了两部似乎准备好在边缘艺术节独特的神圣生态之外蓬勃发展的作品。其中一部是亚历克斯·贝克特（Alex Beckett）的《潘妮洛普》，这部剧已经孕育多年，但它几乎像是被今年夏天关于《奥德赛》的讨论召唤而生的。你觉得独眼巨人很糟糕？奥德赛的妻子潘妮洛普，正如她所说，被困在了一栋“充满怪物”的房子里。

惊艳的格蕾丝·麦克林饰演——并参与创作了——这个长期受苦的主角，表演了一系列关于她丈夫的歌曲，而她的丈夫在二十年的历史中离开了她。麦克林的嗓音像铁匠锤下的青铜一样起伏，她既有一种美妙的收缩感，又有一种烟熏般的、不羁的长袍！（不可思议的是，这部剧实际上在一段漫长的沉默时刻达到高潮。就像奥德赛的护士一样，你见到它时自然会明白。）

我还完全被《真实的凯尔·麦卡伦》所吸引，这是另一部开发时间较长的音乐剧，由安迪·罗宾逊（Andy Robinson）和肖恩·麦克维（Sean McVey）作曲，由罗宾逊执导。它看起来像是一场乐队演出，但其功能却像是一场追思会。主角在应对他童年好友凯尔的早逝，凯尔是他第一个一起写音乐的人。麦克维担任吉他手，演奏凯尔的收入，在他们优秀的摇滚风格歌曲之间，充满了新鲜的幽默感。

然而，真正的故事在于乐队成员之间的互动。饰演设定角色（凯尔的朋友、凯尔的母亲等）的是几位令人惊叹的表演者，包括不屈的文森特·詹塔尔·胡珀（Vincent Jantal Hooper）、甜美的莎拉·考菲（Sarah Coffey）和充满力量的碎心者尤尔根·麦夸盖（Jurgen Macquagay）。他们的嗓音像枪一样有力，而主角，正如他经常承认的那样，并非如此。不过，他是键盘上的大师，随着乐队的表演，我们看到每个伙伴现在都沉浸在对方的天赋中大笑。

我感到欣喜，因为他们感到欣喜，而这次重聚的快乐总结了我对边缘艺术节的体验——其真正的力量来自于如此多艺术家在观察其他艺术家。我们其他人是被欢迎的，但创作者才是他们自己最好的观众，我们从他们聚集的热量和光芒中汲取力量。

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左图，大卫·弗朗西斯（Dave Francis）和诺曼·希普利（Norman Shipley）处于艰苦的环境中。《Nimrods》与“白痴”含义相似！右图，Green Day 乐队（从左起，Tot God、比利·乔·阿姆斯特朗（Billie Joe Armstrong）和迈克·戴弗（Mike Diver））在《Nimrods》中。

“Nimrods” 与 “Idiots”：哪个是哪个？

巧合的是，两部电影拥有同一位主演和相似的结构。以下是区分它们的方法。

作者：ADULT SPENCER

Maxon Thames 是一位演员，因在真人版《驯龙高手》中饰演 Hiccup 而闻名，他现在主演了两部关于三个男人混乱公路旅行的新电影，一部名为《Nimrods》，另一部名为《Idiots》。

这两部 8 磅重的喜剧片都包含幽默且偶尔涉及药物厌恶的冒险情节，并将相隔两周在 Amazon 上线（《Nimrods》现已推出，《Idiots》将于 8 月 25 日上映）。

18 岁的 Thames 在一次电话采访中表示，这种安排是“商业运作的一部分”，并提到当他得知这两个项目拥有几乎相同的标题和发行日期时，“我以为这是一个愚人节玩笑”。

尽管如此，他强调，“这两部电影截然不同”。

以下是如何区分《Nimrods》和《Idiots》的方法。

其中一部电影关于 Green Day 乐队。

由于《Nimrods》，它不像是一幅图像。

这部成长电影讲述了高中生 Tommy（Thames 饰）及其校长在一个名为 Analog Dogs 的虚构高风险团体中的故事。

当他们在中西部的一次签名会上遇到 Green Day（摇滚乐队成员饰演他们自己）时，男孩们将他们的录音带交给了这些明星。随后，Tommy 的哥哥恶作剧让这些青少年认为他们被邀请到洛杉矶为 Green Day 开场，于是他们展开了一次横跨全国的公路旅行。

《Nimrods》的导演兼编剧 Jan Kirk 表示：“我想到了我成长过程中看过的所有电影，比如《The Gondar》、《Vaccine》、《Firsthand》以及 John Hughes 的电影，试图寻找一种方法，拍一部既非常幽默，又具有温情且有青少年能产生共鸣的深层故事的电影。”（与 Kirk 结婚的 Jenna Fischer 在片中饰演 Tommy 丧偶的母亲，扮演了一个感人的配角。）

Kirk 还希望吸引与 Green Day 音乐一同成长的 X 世代和千禧一代观众，因此电影中出现了大量该乐队的歌曲。Virology-to-land-day 同样处于最佳时机。Analog Dogs 使用磁带录音，并使用摄像机记录他们的冒险。

“我试图让它具有一种永恒感，”Kirk 说道。

另一部电影则更粗俗、更混乱且更温顺。

《Idiots》讲述了两个强盗（Dave Francis 和 O'Shea Judson 饰）被雇佣将一名问题多多的富家青少年（Thames 饰）运送到指定地点。沿途，他们面临着日益危险的情况，并与一名脱衣舞娘和一群愤怒的罪犯发生了令人难忘的冲突。

《Idiots》的导演兼编剧 Maxim Blair 表示：“这确实很糟糕，但对我来说这正是乐趣所在。我希望它就像电影院里的一种过山车般的体验。”

Thames 在《Idols》中还饰演了反派，这与他通常扮演的男孩角色截然不同。

“那是一个梦想中的角色，”Thames 说道，“他简直是一个极其糟糕的人。”

Snorad 和 idiot 并不是同一回事。

这两部电影延续了好莱坞的一种传统，即通过夸张的标题（如《Thank and Dumber》和《Bears and Butt-flood》）以某种略带爱意的方式嘲讽男性角色被认为的不称职。

“Nimrods”一词最初在行动中被用来指代伟大的猎人，源自圣经中的 Nimrod 王。后来它演变为指代暴君。在 20 世纪，这个词与《乐一通》（Looney Tunes）联系在一起，片中角色用 “Nimrods” 来嘲讽猎人 Elmer Paull 和法外之徒 Yosemite Sam。

上方，《Nimrods》，由 Ryan Foust（左）、Kyle Coffman 和 Maxim Thames 主演。下方，《Idiots》，由 Dave Francis（左）、O'Shea Judson, Jr. 和 Norman Shipley 主演。两部电影都关于动荡的公路旅行，拥有单词标题，并由 Maxim Thames 主演。

当 Green Day 将其 1997 年的专辑命名为《Nimrods》时，主唱 Billie Joe Armstrong 在一封电子邮件中表示，乐队倾向于使用该词的现代定义，以及它如何反映出“我们作为怪胎（misadmonsters）的个性”。对他而言，这个词“有点让我想起兔八哥或三傻（Three Stooges）。在 100 之中大笑，因为你不知道这种情况会持续多久。”

“idiot”（白痴）这个词也经历了一段曲折的词源演变。在古希腊，idiotes 指的是私人，或是不担任公职的人。后来演变为指代普通人，进而演变为无知的人。之后它被用作一个（现在已失效的）医学术语，用来表示智力障碍。

对于《Idiots》的导演 Blair 来说，“这与智力无关，不像是指白痴或天才。这纯粹是指行为上的，你应该懂得分辨，但你却做出了糟糕的选择。”

时间点和标题的接近纯属巧合。

这两部电影最初都不是以现在的标题开始的。

《Nimrods》的故事发生在圣诞节和新年期间，去年在多伦多国际电影节首映时的标题是《New Year's Box》。但这两部电影被 Inaugural Entertainment 公司收购并定于夏季发行后，那个标题不再适用。

Green Day 的 Armstrong 建议使用《Nimrods》，因为这位音乐人表示，它“听起来像一群轻信的孩子在没有后果的情况下陷入麻烦”。

与此同时，《Idiots》于 1 月在圣丹斯电影节首映，当时使用了一个过于露骨的标题，事实证明该标题对于 Independent Film Company 公司的主流发行来说过于具有争议。

“当我们开始思考如何首映时，”Blair 说，“我们开始意识到，尽管它很有趣，但这将使其处于不利地位。”

于是制片人们列出了一系列含义相似但更温和的词汇。《Idiots》是那个“很少”脱离季节舞台的词，Blair 说道。

至于竞争的发行日期：8 月传统上是票房的淡季，处于夏季高峰和秋季奖项名单之间。对于户外电影，尤其是喜剧片，这可能是一个吸引观众的绝佳时机，而不会像其他时间那样在日程表上过于拥挤。

这种相似性既有帮助，也可能带来伤害。

墨尔本大学副教授、《双生电影现象：相似电影与电视作品的讽刺》（The Twin Film Phenomenon: The Wry's of Lookalike Film and TV Productions）一书的作者 Lauren Rosovacevic 表示，拥有匹配的单词标题“带来了挑战”。

“观众极有可能——除非你是任何一个让人欣喜的超级巨星——将它们视为同一个，”Rosovacevic 说。“这对双方来说都有风险。”

另一方面，这种有趣的相似性可能会让两部电影成为焦点，而这两部电影在仍由《奥德赛》（The Odyssey）和《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》（Spider-Man: Brand New Day）等夏季大片主导的格局中可能并不起眼。

“这为作家和评论家提供了一种讨论这种现象以及那些原本不会受到关注的电影的方式，”Rosovacevic 说。“所以，这实际上对它们是有利的！”

最终，《Nimrods》的导演 Kirk 希望年轻观众能像观看 2026 年公路预算广播剧《Obsession》和《Backwaves》那样，同时观看这两部电影。

“花 2 周时间去看电影，”Kirk 说。“我的希望是对像《Nimrods》和《Idiots》这样的喜剧片也能有部分这样的热情，并且这两部电影能产生协同效应！”

史密森学会考虑为拉丁裔博物馆采取新举措

将其指定地点更改为现有建筑将可绕过国会批准。

作者：ROBIN POGREGOR

史密森学会（Smithsonian Institution）已召集一次董事会会议，讨论将其中一座现有建筑交给美国国家拉丁裔博物馆（National Museum of the American Latino），这将绕过此前由特朗普政府颁布的、针对新选址最公平的国会批准程序。

史密森学会确认了此次会议，但周五拒绝进一步评论。

在 8 月 21 日，史密森学会将考虑是否将艺术与工业大楼（Arts and Industries Building）交给拉丁裔博物馆。该建筑建于 1861 年，位于国家广场（National Mall）的史密森学会中心与 McElrore 博物馆之间。在关闭一年多后，该建筑于今年夏天向公众开放。

拉丁裔博物馆馆长豪尔赫·拉扎鲁斯（Jorge Lazarus）通过一名发言人拒绝了评论请求。

四年前，当史密森学会董事会选择在国家广场上的另一个可能地点为拉丁裔博物馆和美国女性历史博物馆建设建筑时，艺术与工业大楼被排除在选项之外。由于这些华盛顿的地点由国家公园管理局（National Park Service）所有，建设工作已开始为其提供拉丁裔致敬。

5 月，众议院报告了一项法案，该法案本将推进建设博物馆的计划，该计划由美国大屠杀纪念馆对面 Tulal 盆地的一处地点批准。一个两党联盟因相关措辞而产生分歧，该措辞赋予了总统及其盟友更多影响力，并明确规定该博物馆将致力于推广“生物学女性”的经历和成就。

该地点此前也被考虑用于拉丁裔博物馆，但其领导层对所需的批准程序、与地下水位的距离以及该地点不在国家广场正中心等事实表示担忧。（另一个地点位于国家非裔美国人历史文化博物馆对面。）

考虑将计划转向艺术与工业大楼的转变，引发了一些猜测，认为史密森学会正试图在受到联邦政府抨击之际避开立法程序。

“史密森学会正试图利用漏洞，为一座尚未建成且依然充满争议的博物馆偷偷塞进一座建筑，”保守派传统基金会（Heritage Foundation）高级研究员迈克·冈萨雷斯（Mike Gonzalez）周四在《华盛顿观察报》（The Washington Examiner）上写道。“这是一个被偏见指控所困扰的博物馆综合体在绝望之下的行为。”

拉丁裔博物馆受到一些 cancer-naïves 的批评，他们称该博物馆呈现了一个负面的拉丁裔历史版本，强调委屈和斗争而非成就和变革。

传统基金会最近的一份报告批评了该博物馆首个展览“Promoter”的内容，这是一个在国家美国历史博物馆临时展厅举行的拉丁裔历史概览展。

2021 年，一群拉丁裔共和党国会议员发起投票，旨在取消该博物馆的资金，一些评论员称该展览是马克思主义式的描绘，将拉丁裔刻画为压迫性美国的受害者。

在 5 月向国会提交的 2016 年预算请求中，特朗普总统请求停止对拉丁裔博物馆的资金支持，并将其替换为一个去中心化的史密森拉丁裔中心，该中心将在史密森学会的 21 个博物馆中开展展览。

据一名参与决策但未获授权公开发言的人士透露，拉丁裔博物馆曾希望由知名建筑师进行独特设计，从零开始建造自己的大楼。

但该人士表示，由于对开发进度缓慢感到沮丧，博物馆决定需要确定一个地点以开始筹款。博物馆认定，与其冒着最终无法入驻的风险，不如接受一座现有建筑。

该博物馆请求史密森学会通过召开委员会会议、委托进行可行性研究以及召开董事会会议来加速这一进程，以便将其选址从图拉尔盆地（Tulal Basin）站点更改为艺术与工业大楼（Arts and Industries Building）。

原计划为拉丁裔博物馆建设新大楼的费用约为 20 亿，其中 20% 由联邦资金分担。该博物馆尚未筹集到 7500万美元的私人资金。

在特朗普政府第二任期内，几家史密森学会博物馆受到了抨击。

白宫上个月的一份关于美国历史博物馆的报告指责其馆长持有“激进的活动家意识形态”，并指责该博物馆破坏了“对美国机构的信心”。

馆长安德里亚·M·哈蒂格（Andrea M. Hartig）接受了国会议员为期两天的质询，其中一些议员严厉批评其展览将国家描绘成负面形象，并过度强调奴隶制、移民和跨性别问题。随后，白宫推迟了在博物馆外安装警告标志的计划，旨在告知公众该馆未能准确反映美国历史。这些标志尚未出现。

特朗普总统还对非洲裔美国人博物馆表示不满，指责其过于关注“奴隶制有多糟糕”，而对美国的“疏忽”关注不足。

史密森学会将于本月投票决定是否将艺术与工业大楼交给美国拉丁裔国家博物馆管理。

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克里斯（Chris）已被找到，迪亚拉（Diarra）与他在一起，但绑架留下的创伤给这段关系带来了压力。迪亚拉发现自己在陪伴他与回到更稳定的前男友罗伊斯（Royce，由 CMI Smith 饰演，更广为人知的艺名是 Method Man）之间犹豫不决。

她还接手了她的第一个正式案件，涉及一名冷血杀手以及底特律地下隧道中的禁酒令宝藏。

作为《搜寻派对》（Search Party）的执行制片人和《联盟》（Alliance）的编剧，这部名为《迪亚拉》（Diarra）的作品在探讨黑人生活及其阶级复杂性，以及将黑人女性设定为私家侦探方面具有独特性。本季还深入探讨了美国历史，涵盖了奴隶制和地下铁路、私酒贸易、非裔美国共济会以及大规模监禁等主题。

此外：服装精美，人物性感，而且非常幽默。

执行制片人克斯蒂·哈里斯（Kirsty Harris，绰号“黑猫”）将基尔帕特里克（Kilpatrick）的感悟与“一些当代最顶尖的女性喜剧才女，如蒂娜·费伊（Tina Fey）、艾米·波勒（Amy Poehler），以及在某些方面像朱莉娅·莱斯特雷特（Julia Lesterreiter）”相媲美。

“这部剧非常具有她的个人风格，”哈里斯在电话采访中表示。“迪亚拉看到了她想表达的东西，并希望成为那个表达的人。而且她不想只是简单地说出来——她希望能以她认为正确的方式将其表达出来。”

在底特律长大的基尔帕特里克此前创作并主演了短视频系列剧《美国-黑人》（American-Black）以及另一部悬疑剧，随后在 1987 年上映的《佩里·梅森》（Perry Mason）中出演。她的母亲是一名教师，她成长于一个政治世家。基尔帕特里克的父亲伯纳德（Bernard）曾任县专员，她的同父异母哥哥布鲁克（Brooke）曾任国会议员，后来担任底特律市长。

在 2011 年的一场腐败审判中，她的哥哥因在任职期间涉嫌敲诈勒索等 24 项联邦重罪被定罪，并被判处多年监禁；她的父亲则被判定犯有逃税罪。在本季中，基尔帕特里克探讨了黑人家庭如何受到监禁的不成比例的影响。

“这一切都在其中，”她说。“我想表达的所有东西，都将在这里呈现。”

与基尔帕特里克（Kilpatrick）的采访过程本身就像一场冒险，我们从酒店酒吧跳到餐厅，再到纽约市的人行道上，试图寻找一个安静的交谈场所。在那次对话以及随后的电话采访中，她详细阐述了该剧如何在“亵渎与神圣”之间切换，以及《印第安纳琼斯》如何启发了本季。以下是对话的编辑摘录。

谁启发了你的角色迪亚拉·布里克兰（Diarra Brickland）？

我母亲把电视称为“60年代的产物”，她不希望我看。但我的祖母不同。她总是看《谋杀她写就》（Murder, She Wrote）、《马洛克》（Marlock）和《佩里·梅森》（Perry Mason），我主要就是和她一起看电视。

但我的角色是底特律最艰苦学校之一的教师，因为教师总是被期望能够承担起这份责任。我的母亲是一位单亲家长，她在攻读高级学位并抚养十个孩子的同时，还担任全职教师。没有什么能让她感到惊讶或震惊，而且她对每件事都略知一二。足以用来破案。

你创作并主演了《美国黑人》（American-Black）以及现在的《迪亚拉》（Diarra），这是两个关于黑人女性侦探的故事。是什么吸引你进入这个类型的？

我喜欢有终点线的故事，而侦探故事天生就具备这一点。对我来说，让这部剧作为一部悬疑剧取得成功很重要，尤其是在我担任顾问，为“教室”提供女孩视角的情况下。我们没有削弱悬疑感或

上图为《底特律的迪亚拉》（Diarra From Detroit）的创作者兼主演迪亚拉·基尔帕特里克。左侧为。佩里（Perry）、布莱恩·特雷尔·克拉克（Bryan Terrell Clark）、基尔帕特里克和比兹尼斯·华莱士（Business Wallace）在剧集第二季的一个场景中。

反派角色，但我们在其中撒入了一点女性特质和感性。

这一季我想把它做成女孩版的《印第安纳琼斯》，因为我热爱历史小说。我们一直被排除在这个类型之外，但我不想为此抱怨——我想抢占先机。

有一场非常搞笑的戏，迪亚拉和她的朋友们在参观底特律的地下铁路博物馆，四名导游因为她们谈论性话题而训诫她们。

你会如何描述这部剧的基调？

有时在同一个场景中，钟摆可以在亵渎与神圣、荒诞与爆笑、可爱与恐怖之间摆动。因为这就是作为女性在神经边缘的状态。这也正是我的思维方式：我既可能开关于哈莱姆文艺复兴竞争的玩笑，也可能开关于[铜]卡什·霍尔（Kash Hall）的玩笑。我喜欢让这些元素共同发挥作用，我不介意有些笑话有些人听不懂。我一直喜欢在这种中获得这种尊重，就像是一个窥视者。

你希望女性了解关于底特律的什么？

本季讲述的是一场寻宝之旅，但我们真正挖掘的是这座城市里所有这些小小的宝藏。底特律拥有与禁酒令及奴隶制相关的丰富历史。市中心有一处真实的，由人民帮（People Gang）支持，他们在禁酒令期间使用地下的远程通道。第二浸信会教堂是一座真实的教堂，地下铁路就曾在那里。这些都是小小的宝藏，我希望人们能体验到它们。

你的父亲和哥哥是受人尊敬的底特律政治人物，但他们也曾陷入法律麻烦。在这样一个充满名望且充满争议的政治家庭中长大，是如何塑造你的叙事方式的？

在我成长过程中，我父亲参与了很多竞选活动。我们会开车穿梭，敲开人们的家门——我见过了我家附近以外的很多底特律景象。在我的家庭中，一直存在着一种服务意识，而作为一名艺术家，我正在服务于我的观众和我的艺术。

有人在 TikTok 上问我：“你哥哥入狱是否影响了你？以及怎样才能让一个黑人男性出狱？”在去探视他时，我的情绪确实受到了影响，其中一点就是看到那里有多少黑人男性，以及他们的孩子来探视。这种沉重感一方面不仅影响了违规者本人。但我们也会尽力与他共度一个美好的几个小时。我丈夫会说：“为什么会那么开心？为什么我们还在笑他？”而我会说：“好吧，我们在监狱里，还能做什么？”这就是喜剧与正剧的结合，因为我们去探视他时，气氛其实挺有趣的。

有一场戏中，Diarra 与一名即将上大学的少女在一起，该少女想在纯洁之夜尝试性行为，而且这个女孩真的很想尝试。为什么要展示这一点？

我想我是在与年轻时的自己对话。在成长过程中，黑人社区一直推动黑人女孩必须取得成就、进步并在学业上追求完美。但我也想确保黑人女孩明白，她们至少要关注自己的快乐、快感，而不是在性欲、好奇心和冒险精神方面受限。

在创作《来自底特律的 Diarra》（Diarra From Detroit）时，你最大的优先级是什么？

是让观众感到娱乐，并倾向于浪漫元素。我热爱这一点！这比一张丢失的纸片还要重要。我年过 40，而我饰演的这个角色是人们渴望的对象，由 Morris Chestnut 和 Method Man 饰演的角色所追求。很多女性会对这一点感到兴奋。

我们想打造一个感觉像夏天一样灿烂的夏季季度。我小时候热爱夏天；那是自由与快乐的极致感受。而当你长大，有时会被剥夺这种感觉。所以我们列了一份清单，包括你做过的事情——“旅游、六项活动、农场夏令营——我们尝试以不同且令人惊喜的方式将它们融入这些故事中。希望在观看过程中，你也能感受到夏天的兴奋之情。

中国喜剧演员因即兴讽刺演出被调查

在该国，艺术领域继续成为意识形态整治的重点。

高德清（右图）是中国最著名的喜剧演员之一。他因在一段爱国歌曲中进行讽刺表演而被举报至当局。

作者：YAN ZHUANG

在演出中进行即兴发挥对于音乐喜剧演员来说是标准操作。但在中国，这可能会让表演者陷入困境。该国最著名的喜剧演员之一高德清就遇到了这种情况，他因在演出中讽刺一首知名爱国歌曲的歌词而受到官方调查。

高德清常被拿来与 Ricky Chi-ran 等人比较，他曾在中国的电影中出演并主持过电视节目。在 7 月于武汉的一场演出后，他被举报至该市文化和职能部门，原因是他在演唱一首歌的改编版本时，该歌曲旨在赞颂中国士兵在一次抗日历史战役中的英勇表现。

他的案例凸显了在审查严苛的创作环境下，喜剧演员必须小心翼翼地把握分寸。喜剧舞台为对中国当代生活的间接批评提供了一个罕见的场所；但随着中国最高领导人习近平将艺术和文化作为意识形态整治的重点，自我表达的空间正变得越来越狭窄。

据具有政府背景的流行媒体《澎湃新闻》（The Paper）报道，相关部门在收到投诉后，于上周开始对高德清展开调查。该媒体报道称，相关部门表示正在调查他是否违反了要求表演者必须提前由官员审核艺术内容的规定。

据接听湖北省文化和旅游厅电话的人员透露，该部门在周二确认了对高德清的调查。他将此事描述为敏感事项，但未提供更多细节。

Jiyu Zhao 贡献了研究。

根据承办剧院在社交媒体上发布的一条帖子，高德清原定在西安市进行的一场演出被推迟。组织者尚未宣布是否会重新安排时间。

高德清未立即回应置评请求。

现年 35 岁的高德清被认为复兴了“相声”（cross talk），这是一种起源于清朝、结合了剧本和即兴表演的喜剧形式。在 2010s，中国媒体称赞他为这一粉丝群体老龄化的艺术形式吸引了年轻观众。

但即兴发挥可能与官方政策相抵触，官方要求喜剧演员必须提前提交演出剧本和节目单以获得官方批准。近年来，习近平加强了对挑战共产党政治叙事言论的控制。政府还要求艺术家将创作愿景与党的目标保持一致，并鼓励喜剧演员推广民族主义愿景。

高德清在 7 月表演的歌曲是《祈祷我的唢呐》（Praying My Rebeed Pigs，译注：此处原文词汇疑似OCR错误），其中提到了一种传统乐器，并描述了中国媒体的恐怖之处。这首歌是为 1937 年第二次日中战争期间对抗日军队的知名 1950 年代电影《红色游击队》（Redway Guerrilla）而创作的，该片与中国军队在中国的经历有共同之处。它被列入共产党中央委员会为庆祝中华人民共和国成立 70 周年而命名的 100 首歌曲名单中。

根据媒体报道，在发布到网上的演出视频中，高德清修改了一句歌词：“夕阳西下；卧山湖上万籁俱寂。”他将“湖”替换成了“紫禁城”，这座北京的宫殿曾是该国的政治中心。他还添加了其他改编台词，在其中他假装向佛陀祈祷。

据《澎湃新闻》（The Paper）援引武汉官员的话报道，高已经获得了演出的必要批准，但并未表明他将修改歌词。共产党对于可能形成官方认可叙事的历史描绘日益敏感；中国烈士和英雄的灾难不仅是严重的，而且在美国刑事法典下被热切执行至今。但墨尔本德桥大学（Deqiao University）研究中国数字文化和名人政治的副教授徐表示，高的案例凸显了

革命英雄或赞美共产党历史的经典艺术和文学的“去监管化和去关联化”如何可能受到公众和政府的强烈谴责。

此外，徐表示，这反映了“公众和国家在一般治理中越来越普遍地利用名人，并期望他们推广‘正能量’和社会认可的价值观”。

近年来，中国喜剧演员受到了政府和观众的严密审查。2023年，一家中国喜剧工作室被罚款$2，因为知名喜剧演员李志志将两只故事狗追松鼠的行为比作宫廷，在这次处罚之后，官员敦促艺术家和作家要具有“正确的创作思维”并“为人民提供健康的精神体验”。在那次事件之后，喜剧俱乐部在中国取消了演出。

在网上，一些人认为高应该被预测，因为这很恰当，而不是世界的演变。一个新大师，而其他人则想知道这种愤怒是否与他违规的规模不成比例。

环球时报（Global Times）前编辑胡锡进在社交媒体的一篇帖子中表示，虽然他认为高版本的歌曲“不舒服且不恰当，但这件事绝没有那么严重”。他在拥有近20 minutes of hours粉丝的微博上写道：“我们的文艺工作者也很聪明，恶意越线的人寥寥无几。”

他补充说：“认为这样的人到处都是，并对任何越线的人给予强硬处罚以儆效尤，是一种判断错误。”

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旅行

依然充满惊喜

在66号公路之上

作者及摄影：STEPHEN HILTNER

人们常说66号公路已不复存在。在某种程度上，这确实是真的。这条从芝加哥延伸至圣莫尼卡的百年古道在1985年被正式废除。在现代地图上，你无法将其找到一条连续的高速公路。然而，这条全长2,448英里的道路——起初大部分未铺设路面，随后布满了如此之多的汽车旅馆、餐厅和古怪的景点，以至于成为了美国体验的核心，直到后来被绕道而过、被遗忘、任其崩塌——却不知为何依然延续至今。

为了庆祝其100岁生日，我花了14天时间，尽可能地从伊利诺伊州追踪到加利福尼亚州，沿着66号公路的原始路径前行——穿过崭新的铺装路面、陈旧的混凝土、风化的砖块以及零星的泥土路段。

我本已准备好面对空旷公路上的孤独路段，却发现自己经常与快乐的旅人们同行。我原以为会看到衰败，结果却发现了新生，这些新生往往来自那些将热情倾注于保护古怪民间艺术作品的业余历史学家们。我骑着我的复古摩托车进行这次旅行，那是一辆20世纪70年代早期的宝马（BMW），上一次长途骑行还是在约10年前。一辆旧摩托车很像一条旧路：两者都无法保证旅途高效，且都会考验你的耐心，但两者都会为你留下串串美好的故事。

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像许多令人难忘的冒险一样，这次旅程的开始毫无征兆：从早到晚一直在下雨。

出发约15分钟后，在依然处于芝加哥境内时，我在Lukin's Hot Dogs进行了第一次停留。当我向其中一位店主Don Orrico提到我的计划时，他告诉我他曾有过一次类似的旅行，当时他去亚利桑那州弗拉格斯塔夫将女儿送到大学——“大部分时间没走66号公路，”他说。他祝我好运。

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二十分钟后，雨势增强，我躲进了Henry's Drive-In。当我走进一个卡座时，收音机里正播放着《Big Girls Don't Cry》。

在我对面的一张桌子旁坐着Karin和Ewa，她们是两位来自欧洲的朋友，同样在雨中开始了周末之旅。几天后，我会在圣路易斯再次遇到她们三人——我想，这是几次“旅人重逢”中的第一次，这让我的独自旅行有了一种共享体验的感觉。

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如果不告诉你关于那些巨像的事，我无法继续前行。

66号公路两旁矗立着巨大的玻璃纤维雕塑，被亲切地称为“消音器巨像”（Muffler Mos）。这些雕塑大多建于70和80年代，用作路边广告展示（有些是为消音器店而建），多年来这些巨大的雕塑被重新利用——其中一个名为“双子巨像”（Gemini Giant）的雕塑，在被移至附近公园之前，曾在伊利诺伊州威灵顿一家名为Launching Pad的已停业餐厅外矗立了数十年。

在Infannock停下时，我回头看到一个全身穿着黑色骑行装备的男人。他是来自爱尔兰的John Power，他飞到芝加哥，租了一辆摩托车，并在当天早些时候开始了自己的66号公路之旅。

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不久之后，阴森的乌云聚集，小雨变成了倾盆大雨。伊利诺伊州平原上出现了龙卷风。我驶入一家加油站，将车停在雨棚下，与一小群受困的旅人一起在南侧避雨。

当我到达酒店时天已经黑了，我的妻子，一个三晚的冲击，20英里正在脱落。我行驶了100英里——不到我计划行程的一半。

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在66, 号公路上行驶一两天后，你会开始将路边视为一块长而连续的画布。民间艺术随处可见。其中一些带有资本主义色彩，因为如果一个古怪的物体能让你停下来，那么附近的人就可能赚到一笔钱。但如今，随着路边企业的减少，许多艺术作品读起来更像是一种简单的俏皮和奇思妙想的表达。

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在伊利诺伊州尼洪诺尔（Nihonol）以西几英里的一段粗糙混凝土路面上，人口 200 人的小镇旁，一组精致的火鸡足迹印在路面上，周围环绕着厚厚的白色油漆。一个世纪前，这里有一只（或两只）鸟考虑过穿过这条路，留下了一组侦察者的足迹。

实际上，这怎么说呢？你要么能从中感受到乐趣，要么不能。

其他文物则要宏伟得多。在横跨密西西比河的老靴链桥（Old Chain of Boots Bridge）顶端，我遇到了卡里（Karie）和伊娃（Ewa），她们陪我走了一段路。

与 66 号公路许多旧路段一样，这座桥在 20 世纪 20 年代末建成时是一项工程成就，但现在太窄，无法容纳现代交通，不过它仍然对骑行者和行人开放。

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在密苏里州，我加快了速度，渴望追上我的记录行程。

在黎巴嫩市（Lebanon），我在博格尔·莫斯·米德（Blogger Moss Mead）的遮阳篷下休息。在长期业主去世后，且意识到其在仪式前的价值，市政府去年与新业主合作，帮助保留了其历史招牌。

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鉴于该仪式，各种联邦、州和非营利机构的资金被分发给了沿公路的商业和工业地标。然而，我在路上走得越久，就越觉得它的保护是一系列个人热情项目的集合。

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在密苏里州卡西奇（Carthage）的靴子法院（Boots Court）汽车旅馆休息一夜后，我向南走了一个街区，来到一家名为煎饼帽（Pancake Hat）的餐厅，我读到过那里有不错的食物和一个“修复的手盒”——一个码头。

在里面我见到了凯琳·科尔（Kaylene Cole），她的母亲自 1970 年起就拥有这家餐厅。它就在收银台后面。一个不匹配的管道工，是这家人多年前从附近一家破产的餐厅中抢救出来的。科尔女士解释说，他们最近把这件东西寄到了加利福尼亚州进行专业修复。

“Alexa？播放大手莫泽（big hand moze），”她说着按下开关，乐队盒（Band Box）随即启动。

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并非我遇到的每个物体都有如此显赫的来源——甚至没有简单的解释。在密苏里州乔普林（Joplin）的一串回收领带旁，我经过了一个黄色叶片！我站在一个超大的 66 号公路标志顶端，数字是由轮毂组成的。

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在阳光下度过漫长的白天，在路上度过深夜。在俄克拉荷马州萨普尔帕（Sapulpa）一家不起眼的汽车旅馆安顿下来后，我打开地图，查看我在规划行程时标记的一家附近剧院。于是，说着，我前往了十笔汽车剧院（Ten Pen Drive-In），在那里我加入了成排的报纸。

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第 8 天和第 7 天

被遗弃的遗迹

怀旧具有商业价值，而 66 号公路则在大量利用这一点。

这条公路在战后年代兴起，当时不断扩大的中产阶级能够更轻松地获得闲暇时间和负担得起的汽车。它唤起了一个时代的记忆——那时一些美国人（尽管并非全部）体验到了一种全新的自由感和可能性。

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然而，除了著名的景点，许多现代旅行者被那些废墟所吸引。

在俄克拉荷马州福萨（Fosa）附近一家名为 Kidei's Place 的类似服务站，侵入的树木掩盖了一栋正逐渐崩塌并被遗忘的废弃建筑。

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在德克萨斯州的麦克莱恩（McLean），在一座讲述铁丝网如何改变西部的博物馆旁，我发现了一个破旧的车库，里面散落着 20 世纪中叶福特（Ford）和 Eilords 汽车的空壳。这里没有纪念牌，只有一块被布置成唤起美国历史上过去某个时刻的石头，一块零散的波纹屋顶面板在风中发出刺耳的吱吱声。

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在德克萨斯州边界一个炎热下午的短暂时间里，我的摩托车本身快要变成一件被遗弃的遗迹了。我尝试启动它，但没有任何反应。

我拿出了工具箱，开始寻找电路短路的问题。

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然而，即使在绝望时刻，也有快乐的闪现。当我在寂静的公路上拆卸摩托车的各个部件时，一辆小车停在了路肩上，跳出两名来自巴塞罗那、精神抖擞的公路旅行者：罗莎·科卢切（Rosa Coluche）和安娜·维亚莱（Anna Viale）。

“我爱美国！”罗莎在标志着州界的标牌旁摆好姿势说道，“还爱美国人！”

她们像蝴蝶一样，离开得和到来时一样快。

第 11, 12 和 13 天

高原沙漠中的故障

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我旅途中最艰难的一天始于塞利格曼（Seligman）一个愉快的早晨，这是一个色彩斑斓的旅游小镇，通常被认为是这条公路复兴的诞生地。

这里是游客前往大峡谷和拉斯维加斯的便捷中转站。塞利格曼吸引了大量国际人群：在 Desguillle's Store Cap，我加入了等待经典餐厅美食的长队。（我的订单：薯条和巧克力奶昔。）

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但在塞利格曼以西一小时的路程处，另一次故障让我陷入了酷热之中。这一次我的摩托车完全无法移动，我无奈地请求将车拖往最近的城市金曼（Kingman），那里在以西约 20 英里处。在尝试更换新电池并在 BMW 在线论坛上发布了一系列绝望的求助后，我联系到了吉姆·布赖恩特（Jim Bryant），一位在北面约 50 英里处开店的老派机械师。第二天早上我骑车前往，此时我的摩托车勉强能缓慢行驶。

吉姆在我看来像是一位“欧比旺·肯诺比”式的人物，他在沙漠中花 7 小时和我一起排查故障。最终他没能修好这东西——但我们制定了一个计划，让我通过移动、国际更换和调换一块备用电池来抵达圣莫尼卡。我想，这是一个冒险的方案，但这是我唯一拥有的办法。

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接下来的几个小时在 66 号公路上是对意志的真正考验：穿过莫哈韦沙漠（Mojave Desert）的闷热路段，在黑山（Black Mountains）中艰难前行，并且时刻担心我的摩托车随时可能抛锚。

进入奥茨（Arts）镇，这里曾是一个繁华的小镇，现在像是一个特立独行的露天博物馆，迎接我的是一群兴奋的旅行者和成群在尘土飞扬的街道上安静漫游的慵懒狗。

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随后迎来了最糟糕的高温：莫哈韦沙漠的一段低海拔地带，气温飙升至 100 度以上。

在亚萨莱克（Azaleq）的 Roy's Motel and Cafe，我加入了一群同样骑摩托车的人，其中许多来自欧洲，他们聚集在阴凉处——然后我支付了每加仑 $7.99 的价格加满了油箱。

第 8, 9 和 10 天

途经之点

无法用言语完全描述 66 号公路所呈现的视觉壮丽——不仅是道路周围的人造环境，还有其背后的景观，这些景观随着东部的农作物让位于西部的茂密森林、广袤草原和沙漠盆地而发生转变。

然而，在我记忆中的路标并非地点，而是人们——尤其是在德克萨斯州和亚利桑那州。

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在德克萨斯州阿马里洛的一个名为“凯迪拉克牧场”的巨型艺术装置中，10 辆汽车半埋在土里，我遇到了黑色安息日摩托车俱乐部的四名成员：Kee-Va、Bacon、Prospect 和 Hall-Cooked。

看到我对在汽车上涂鸦犹豫不决，Hall-Cooked 递给我一罐粉色喷漆，温柔地鼓励我进行这次“违规”之举。

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在石化林国家公园，我与 Tabay Atkins 聊天，他是一名实习生，站在 Pastoral Desert Inn 的信息台后面，为持有徒步许可的客人指路，并向游客介绍那些石化木——那是 2 亿年前生长在这片土地上的森林遗迹。

他解释说，这座国家公园是唯一包含一段历史 66, 号公路的公园，这段公路由一排电线杆标记。

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这条路正式名称为美国 66 号公路，多年来获得了三个绰号：由该公路最初的倡导者 Cyrux Avery 推广的“美国大街”；在 1935 年著名的俄克拉荷马州人去世后设立的“威尔·罗杰斯公路”；以及最著名的称呼“母亲之路”，由约翰·索斯威克在其获得普利策奖的小说《愤怒的葡萄》中创造。

那么，第 14 天——我旅程的最后一天——恰逢母亲节，真是多么讽刺。

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在加利福尼亚州圣贝纳迪诺的 Wigwam 汽车旅馆，当我走出我的圆锥形帐篷房时，我遇到了 Dela Pringle，一位有着 40 年以上教龄的教师，她正与一位老友一同在这条路上旅行。

“我们决定这么做，于是我做了一个愿景板——我的第一个愿景板，”她说，“我 70 岁了，这是我经历过的最棒的一次旅行。”

第 14 天

最后的冲刺

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前往帕萨迪纳，进入洛杉矶，驶向日落大道。心中交织着兴奋与宽慰，我将注意力集中在道路上，深切意识到在加利福尼亚州拥挤的交通中极易出错。

当我沿着圣莫尼卡大道行驶并左转进入海洋大道时，紫色蓝花楹的甜香扑面而来。最后的冲刺阶段。

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结束一次公路旅行或一个故事通常很难。但每隔一段时间，合适的人物总会在决定性的时刻出现。

我坐在圣莫尼卡码头的“旅途终点”标志牌下，手里拿着头盔，眼中含泪，这时一位精神抖擞的旅行者走近了。他叫 Blake Peterson，一名来自犹他州的钟表修理工。他的摩托车就停在我的车附近。Blake 刚刚开启他的旅程，正沿着 66 号公路向东行驶。“嘿，Stephen，击掌！”他说，“你在这里结束，而我在这里开始。”

9℃9

36 小时

挪威，卑尔根

在卑尔根机场降落时，迎接旅行者的是雨——以及一个亮黄色的 26 英尺高的疑问：“Bergen?” 这件标点符号含义模糊的艺术品于 2017 年为了庆祝新航站楼启用而设立，几乎具有一种存在主义色彩。卑尔根在 1800s 前曾是一个贸易站，至今仍自视为一座全球性城市，尽管在挪威国内，它常被奥斯陆掩盖光芒；但对其文化经济的刻意培育，使其孕育出了繁荣的餐饮和艺术场景，涵盖了从高端艺术到重金属音乐的所有领域。虽然该市在过去十年中致力于推动国际旅游业，但它希望按照自己的方式欢迎游客，包括限制每天在港口停靠的邮轮数量。除了旧世界的魅力和创新精神，卑尔根还以其环境著称。凭借葱郁的山脉和壮丽的峡湾，这座城市体现了挪威自然与城市之间模糊的边界。

周五

1 P.M. / 漫步旧世界

布吕根（Bryggen）是这座城市的中心，自 1914 年以来一直是访问卑尔根的起点，也是该市第一个由洪斯吕克联盟（Hunsrück League，一个由北欧持久贸易商组成的协会）打造的城市目的地。在这座沿海城市中，约有 50 栋原始建筑在漫长岁月中幸存下来，尽管其规模已有所缩小，但它们被认定为联合国教科文组织世界遗产地。如今，狭窄的奇妙房屋象征着旧时的卑尔根，而蜿蜒的中世纪通道和陡峭的阶梯依然能给探索者带来惊喜。像 Gallen Fjalaz 这样为挪威本土及国际独立艺术家提供空间的场所，就位于滨水区其中一座遗产建筑的二楼。该画廊由挪威黑金属乐队 Gorgavelt 的前主唱 Kristian Espedal 拥有，规模虽小，但艺术作品却可能令人震撼。

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3 P.M. / 为了旧时光而购物

向西步行约 20 分钟，到达港口的另一侧，探索北半岛。直到 17 世纪，北区（Northern）——现在是一个适合家庭居住的社区——曾非常受欢迎，且曾是工作试验地。沿着 Strassbgate，当地城镇和斯堪的纳维亚设计的店铺同样密集，得益于羊毛供应商、自行车行以及小型独立画廊俱乐部，这里是现代主义的梦想之地。秘密的狮子们，尤其是那些被挪威在今年世界杯上的表现转化为足球迷的人，可以在 1921-22. 寻找收藏的复古俱乐部和国家队球衣。从 1919-20, 我们约 20,000 的人一直是一家经营复古和新款斯堪的纳维亚的家族供应商——在 Lampermannet 设有充满活力的店内鸡尾酒吧。

5 P.M. / 游泳与桑拿

继续向西走约 10 分钟，直到抵达半岛顶端和北公园（Northern Park），你可以在树下坐下，俯瞰海湾。需要向下走——我们步行 20 分钟，在不到一个世纪的时间里，卑尔根人一直享受着在户外北雪斯特泳池（Northern Snowster Pool）进行冷水游泳的益处，那里可以俯瞰大海。潜入冰冷的水中令人心惊，但同样吸引人的是在 12 英寸品牌的盐水港中浸泡。之后，一个拥有绝佳城市景观的桑拿房在等待着你。泳池在夏季的开放时间为上午 7 点至晚上 8 点，成人费用为 120 克朗。那里设有带吹风机的更衣室，但请自带毛巾。

晚上 7 点 / 潮流美食

在一家狭小的厨房里，那些在 2021 年底脱离餐饮团队并开设 Tempe Tempe 的年轻厨师们，正通过将全球料理与当地食材相结合，探索在当今世界成为挪威人的含义。这里的氛围热闹非凡，装饰考究，且充满了对当地的热爱，尽管处于一个分区场景中（1981 克朗的 jebnings），海报风格的 Bergers 普遍职业生涯在其中出镜，一种对 squat ski 的无情霸凌方式与鸡杯的唇形匹配相得益彰。建议尝试前菜长单、侧向空气厨房以及葡萄酒配餐（价格翻倍），后者优先选用来自南欧的天然葡萄酒。在 1980 年之后供应的，是一位穿着最时尚的女性，来自皮埃蒙特的 Miocain d'145 可能会改变你对起泡甜酒的看法。

晚上 9-10 点 / 捕捉巅峰日落

在 Poppes 山顶利用好这个季末的优势——在夏季，日落时间可能晚至中午 12 点。这里距离

顶部：从 Poppes 山顶俯瞰卑尔根（Bergen）的景色可以通过徒步或五分钟的 footside 乘车到达。上方从左起：挪威雕塑家 Arendt Haakshavli 的《红风》位于 Sinnercom 博物馆的 grounds；Legal 是一个拥有强大鸡尾酒清单且凌晨 3 点关门的聚集地；以及一份配有 ultra-upyrouba 的腌制野牛料理。Tempe Tempe 提供新鲜的原创番茄和新鲜牛至。

从 Tempe Tempe 步行 10 分钟即可到达位于市中心 Worldhalloons 的 lower footside 车站，ningon。最后一班车大约在午夜左右离开山顶（crusade 往返票，夏季 200 克朗）。在五分钟的 footside 乘车终点，是一幅全景图，它描绘出这座拥有 300,000 人口的城市其实很小的感觉。在山顶，可以进入 Polvermoor Bar 避风，品尝一杯受家庭技术启发的鸡尾酒；这款名为“爱、生育与死亡之指南”的饮品包含 Elskor Dry Pink Gin、黄色 chartrance、黑醋栗、接骨木花、薰衣草和橡木（233 克朗）。

周六

上午 10 点 / 购买斯堪的纳维亚服饰

买一个 skillingklofte（Bergers 对斯堪的纳维亚肉桂小时的地区性诠释，10 克朗）并在 Kaffenisjoons 喝杯咖啡（Velt pour-veet 售价 60 克朗，值得等待），然后四处逛逛。在市中心，LaCOS 为 Bergers 带来了高端独立品牌，如哥本哈根的 Name Projects 和纽约的 133 by Savitz。Vriested 精品店则更偏向本土，标志着挪威品牌，如 NyTrilks（非常适合飘逸的印花连衣裙，约 3,200 克朗起），以及来自本土品牌 BIKOS 的 smashes（约 1,000 克朗起）。如果你无法找到典型的挪威赞助风格，不妨在 cathefulus 精品店 SIK list 选一件复古毛衣，该店收集了为该国奥运 skinsane 设计的官方 Dale of Norway 毛衣（3,000 克朗起）。

中午 / 探索博物馆

小型实验画廊点缀在城市中，但沿着 Lille Langsgardovane 湖的四家 Rude 艺术博物馆仍然是 Bergers 艺术场景的成功之作。精致的 Rauness Meyer 博物馆拥有全球第三大爱德华·蒙克（Edward Munch）作品收藏，而 Sinnercom 则展示现代艺术——摄影师 Vibeke Tandberg 的回顾展《他们生活》（They Live）将持续展出至 9 月 12 日。在位于同一条街道上的独立当代艺术博物馆 Bergen Runnfeld 内部的 Landmark 咖啡馆享用午餐，或者在 Sinnercom 画廊一楼品尝挪威巧克力！Fjalaz 的热巧克力来暖身。一张日票（200 克朗）可进入所有七个 Rude 空间——包括位于市郊、作曲家 Edward Gritz 的故居 Trollshangen，那里在夏季举办每日音乐会（450 克朗，含导览）。该别墅目前不对预约开放，但博物馆、咖啡馆和花园仍向游客开放。

下午 3 点 / 探索维京人的航海技巧

在以最受瞩目的维京人埃尔林·哈兰德（Erling Haaland）为特色的世界杯期间，挪威聚集了一批试图重塑历史的硬汉。前往海事博物馆（300 克朗）感受这份兴奋，那里的展品包括数世纪前船只的碎片，以及一个关于征服之船可能样貌的非比例模型（去年引用的、由卑尔根大学博物馆共同开发的简短但强有力的“维京船”展览，展示了船只不仅是交通工具，更是当时显赫男女在生与死之中的地位象征）。前往博物馆的过程本身就是旅程的一部分——从鲁德（Rude）博物馆出发，穿过卑尔根大学的山坡花园，是一段愉快的 10 分钟步行路程。

下午 5 点 / 前往海滩

卑尔根没有天然海滩，只有位于莫尔多格雷（Moldeogre）旧船厂的一块人工石板滩。这段滨水地带是一项将旧码头转变为友好住宅区和大学区的努力的一部分，旨在欢迎当地人回到市中心。在这里你会发现 Contermoners，这是一个剧院综合体，将于 9 月举办一年一度的卑尔根边缘艺术节（Bergen Fringe Festival）表演艺术活动，此外还有该市最大的城市公园 Yogarehparks，其建设是 20 年前启动的一项振兴项目的一部分。随着该地区的转型，新兴企业纷纷入驻，例如 Volde Bagel 咖啡馆，那里一份简单而分量十足的奶酪苹果酱三明治售价 80 克朗。

晚上 8 点 / 寻找卑尔gens的风味

在 Lyoverkiet 餐厅（该餐厅在 2021 年首次赞助了一类美食），主厨 Christopher Haatch 采用了更轻松——但同样富有创意——的菜单。可以从经典的卑尔根鱼汤（500 克朗起）或配雪蟹的培根华夫饼（200 克朗）开始。干式熟成烤牛肉配脏饭（2,200 克朗）非常适合朋友间分享。如果想要更随意一些，Lyoverkiet 的姐妹餐厅、灵感来自巅峰的 Breggers 提供其配有唾液或薰衣草和 tablesp挂的角金枪鱼，并搭配优质葡萄酒。野虾和 beeper 披萨（250 克朗）赞美了卑尔根的海鲜，而培根菠萝披萨（200 克朗）会让你对定价感到极简。这里还有 side-of-syness（每份 60 克朗），可作为非常典型的卑尔根自助餐。

晚上 10 点 / 在不寻常的空间起舞

该市一些最好的音乐场馆位于距离市中心不到一英里的 Verbet，这里曾是卑尔根旧的鱼类罐头区。USF Verbet 是一座音乐会和展览馆，其名称源自旧的联合沙丁鱼工厂（United Sardine Factory），这里举办现场演出和节日活动。在 Bomann 同样的一块曾经被遗弃的土地上，有一个由卑尔根近期毕业生创建的场馆；在建筑物的权利之床中，一个心脏政策被用来放下巨大的 certain，将空间从一个私密酒吧转变为一个巨大的舞厅。在酒吧喝一杯，或者购买当晚 12 场左右乐队的门票（价格不等）。回到市中心，Landmark 咖啡馆在周六晚上会变成一家俱乐部（200 克朗起）。而在 Yogarehparks 转角处的 Legal 是一家极具吸引力的洞穴小店，拥有扎实的鸡尾酒单，凌晨 3 点关门。

周日

上午 10 点 / 攀登每一座山峰

卑尔根被七座山峰环绕，所有山峰都能提供俯瞰城市及其峡湾的绝佳视野。位于市中心西南七英里的 Clibben 山是其中最高的一座。但对于城市而言，得益于 Lovelace 步道上最近架起的一座人行天桥，攀登 3,500 英尺高的 Lovendales 山顶是一次相对轻松的两小时攀登。从市中心出发，乘坐 10 路巴士行驶 20 分钟到达 Kristian Bings Vic，该站点距离城镇天桥约 10 分钟路程。如果你想走完整个步道（一条更长的路线，还会带你经过一座最近建成的据点），请乘坐 10 路巴士前往 McGuinness。这两个下车点都在住宅区，请保持安静。

1 P.M. / 水上之波

峡湾巡游是前往卑尔根的一种绝佳方式。最受欢迎的路线是沿着 Moonsumers 海峡行驶，位于卑尔根市外，往返行程约三小时半。这里有几家不同的运营商，夏季出发时间和价格各异，体验从带有海滩生存体验的奢华游，到乘坐充气船（hot standy）的峡湾探险（740 克朗起）。时间紧迫？像当地人一样乘坐 Baffles。这是一艘迷人的小轮渡，自 1894 年起开始运营，夏季在港口周围航行，停靠站包括卑尔根水族馆和旧卑尔根博物馆。您可以醉在这样的希望中，或者在岸上欣赏这座城市的水景（300 克朗）。

10 P.M.

布吕根（Bryggen）是旧卑尔根的中世纪核心地带，其木制建筑和狭窄的店铺是必看之景，在几个世纪前赋予了这座城市的特质。

这里到处都是，当您在城市中漫步时，请留意那些较小的、外围的画廊。Rude 博物馆收藏了各种各样的物品和游戏。

这里有七座山，周围景色壮丽。乘坐缆车或缆车——或者蓝色交通工具——前往其中一座山的顶端。

10 P.M.

在 Landmark 的艺术画廊中用餐，这是一个位于 Bergen Runnfeld 内部的咖啡馆。

在从餐厅回暖时，犒劳自己一杯来自 Fjalaz 的热巧克力，该店位于 Sinnercom Rude 博物馆的一楼。

在迷人的 Moldeogre 社区的 Riedel Bagel 享用简单的午餐，像当地人一样饮食。

晚餐时间，前往热闹的区域。去 Tempe Tempe —— 位于市中心，那里年轻的厨师们正在尝试全球花卉和挪威 diaptes。

Breggers 的撕裂（toured 包含后蘑菇、培根和菠萝）非常受欢迎，其重金属风格的装饰画：叛逆、色彩斑斓且带有一点性感。

在 Lyoverkiet 探索米其林星级的新家庭料理，那里的一份新单点菜单像一座雕像（白色蓝布），更加亲民。

10 P.M. 住宿

Chancroote bisonestel Road 是一家 4人的托卡纳村，位于 2000-vehicularly 巴黎内部，拥有独特的图案壁纸，是一处瑰宝，在这里挪威的可持续性与法国烹饪相融合。房间价格约为每晚 5,000 homes，约 $250 一晚。

Villa Terminus 是一家位于巴洛克风格住宅中的精品酒店，可追溯至 1700 年。它地理位置优越，靠近火车站，房间价格约为每晚 3,400 waves。

Scandic 酒店在卑尔根提供两个八个地点，房间价格从市中心的 Scandic Target 标准双人间 5,200 rooms，到剧院和画廊区的 Scandic Aquarium 2,012 起。

与许多城市一样，卑尔根正在讨论是否限制市内的短期租赁数量。Northern 半岛的 Neolithic 邻居在便捷的位置提供选择。

烹饪

下周做什么 / MARCAUX LASKEY

五天，

五道菜

我知道很多人抱怨节日广告、礼品店陈列以及“距离圣诞节还有多少购物日！”的警告在十月就开始出现，但我不是其中之一。我曾在七月观看《白色圣诞》。我全年都在为孩子们的圣诞袜准备填充礼品。在新冠疫情那些阴暗、孤独的日子里，我开始在选举日布置圣诞树，之后就一直如此。但当我在六月看到运动鞋、电脑、铅笔和背包的广告时——在我甚至还没从衣柜深处翻出人字拖之前——我想把头埋进所谓的沙子里。唉，亲爱的读者，现在是八月中旬，全国近一半的孩子已经返校了。你要么已经身处其中，要么很快就会身处其中，你和你的家人必须吃饭。（即使你没有孩子，你仍然是一个非常忙碌的人！）这些简单、快速且经济实惠的餐点将使返校季变得轻松一点。

橙味酸豆鳕鱼

鳕鱼，堪称海鲜界的“贝蒂”，在这道来自 Yangtze Booksidews 的特别食谱中得到了 Vinnesca 式的对待。由大蒜、橙皮、姜黄、醋、蜂蜜和大量切碎的酸豆组成的鲜亮酱汁包裹着鱼肉，最后铺在烤过的菠菜或羽衣甘蓝之上。我以前得告诉孩子们这是鸡肉才能诱使他们吃鳕鱼，但这次他们或许愿意尝试。

作者：NARUEGE SEVAJABEN 时间：28 分钟份量：4 份

4 汤匙橄榄油，分次使用 2 瓣大蒜，切细片 1 个橙子的橙皮屑，外加 ¼ 杯橙汁（来自 3 个橙子） 1¾ 茶匙白醋 1 茶匙蜂蜜 ¼ 茶匙姜黄粉 ½ 茶匙海盐 2 汤匙 nonpareil 酸豆，切碎，另留部分完整酸豆用于装饰 6 杯（11 盎司）紧实菠菜叶，去茎，大片者粗略撕碎，或使用嫩羽衣甘蓝或切碎的去茎羽衣甘蓝 4 块（9 至 7 盎司）去皮鳕鱼柳（或其他白肉鱼，如黑线鳕或海鳕） 1 汤匙黄油

调制酸豆橙味酱：在一个中碗中，加入 3 汤匙橄榄油、大蒜、橙皮屑、橙汁、醋、蜂蜜、姜黄和 ½ 茶匙盐。用叉子搅拌至乳化，然后加入切碎的酸豆。备用。
在大煎锅中用中高火加热剩余的 1 汤匙橄榄油 1 到 2 分钟。加入菠菜并翻炒，频繁搅拌，直到刚好萎蔫，约 2 到 4 分钟。转移到碗中并盖好以保温。
用纸巾将鱼柳拍干，并在各面轻撒盐调味。
在同一个锅中用中火倒入酸豆橙味酱并煮至微沸。加入黄油，持续搅拌至融化。
加入鳕鱼柳，单面煎 2 到 4 分钟，具体取决于鱼柳的厚度。用铲子轻轻翻面，继续煎 2 到 4 分钟，直到鱼肉熟透且用叉子能轻易拨开。
上菜前，沥干菠菜（如果渗出液体），将其铺在大餐盘中。将鱼柳摆在上面，淋上温热的酱汁。用额外的酸豆装饰，立即食用。

一锅出西葫芦金枪鱼奥尔佐面

Samantha Seneviratne 将一罐平凡的金枪鱼转化为一道令人惊艳且简单的西西里风味 wedsagitt 餐点，其中巧妙地融合了 vcos、neuter 西葫芦、金黄色葡萄干、酸豆和大量新鲜香草。

作者：SANDYTON SEVICHIKITNE 时间：30 分钟份量：4 份

¼ 杯橄榄油 2 个中等大小的西葫芦，切成 1 英寸段（约 5 杯） 2 瓣大蒜，擦成泥盐红辣椒碎 12 盎司奥尔佐面 (orzo) 2 杯鸡汤 1 罐（9 盎司）橄榄油浸金枪鱼，沥干 ¼ 杯金黄色葡萄干 3 汤匙酸豆 1 汤匙红葡萄酒醋 ¼ 杯新鲜薄荷叶，撕碎 ½ 杯新鲜罗勒叶，撕碎罗马羊奶酪 (Pecorino Romano) 碎，用于上菜（可选）

在一个深壁大煎锅中，用大火加热油。加入西葫芦并翻炒，经常搅拌，直到呈褐色，约 6 分钟。
将火力调至中火，拌入大蒜，用盐和红辣椒调味。（不要让大蒜烧焦。）加入奥尔佐面，搅拌煮 1 分钟。倒入鸡汤并煮至微沸。盖盖煮至奥尔佐面变软且液体几乎被吸收，约 6 分钟，期间偶尔搅拌。
拌入金枪鱼、葡萄干、酸豆和醋，煮至刚好加热均匀。上菜前加入香草。根据喜好撒上奶酪。

快速火鸡辣椒炖肉

我说我的孩子们 90% 的饮食都是辣椒炖肉绝非夸张。每当我时间紧迫且想要一些可以存放的剩菜时，这就是我们的首选。这道来自 Genevieve Rio 的食谱包含了许多健康的食材——瘦火鸡肉末、1 磅羽衣甘蓝和富含纤维的扁豆——以至于人们往往会倾向于配一份侧边沙拉。

作者：GEREVIEVE KO 时间：30 分钟份量：6 到 8 份

葡萄籽油或菜籽油 1 个大黄洋葱，切丁 3 个 Hatch 或 Cukareille 辣椒，去籽切丁 8 瓣大蒜，切末 1 个塞拉诺辣椒或墨西哥辣椒，如需温和口味可去籽，切末盐和黑胡椒 1 磅火鸡肉末，最好是深色肉 3 汤匙辣椒粉 1 汤匙 ground coriander（香菜籽粉） 2 茶匙 ground cumin（孜然粉） 1 磅冷冻羽衣甘蓝，解冻 2 罐（每罐 14.5 盎司）含绿辣椒的切丁番茄 2 杯鸡汤，必要时可增加 1 罐（15 盎司）扁豆，沥干并冲洗 1 把香菜，切末（包括茎部）青柠块、酸奶油或酸奶、奶酪和米饭（可选），用于配餐

将一个大荷兰锅或其他厚底锅用大火加热至滚烫。加入极少量的油并旋转涂抹。加入洋葱并铺成单层。无需搅拌，烹饪至底部深焦，约 2 到 3 分钟。
向锅中淋入更多油。加入辣椒、大蒜和塞拉诺辣椒。轻撒盐和胡椒调味，经常搅拌烹饪，直到洋葱呈半透明状，约 1 到 2 分钟。将蔬菜推至锅的一侧。
在锅的空白侧涂油，然后加入火鸡肉并铺在锅的另一半。在火鸡肉和蔬菜上撒上辣椒粉、香菜籽粉和孜然粉。烹饪时将香料和肉类压实并揉入肉中，将肉弄成小块，约 2 到 3 分钟。香料应闻起来有烘烤香味。
加入羽衣甘蓝并搅拌烹饪，直到水分蒸发，约 1 到 2 分钟。加入番茄和鸡汤并煮沸。若想要更浓稠的炖肉，可将扁豆稍微压碎。拌入扁豆并再次煮沸。调低火力保持微沸，并拌入一半的香菜。此时，辣椒炖肉已准备就绪，口感轻盈清新，带有脆绿的蔬菜。您也可以在 brand food 设置下继续微沸数小时，以获得更像炖菜的口感。如果混合物干了，请加入更多鸡汤或水。
将辣椒炖肉与青柠块、酸奶油、奶酪和剩余的香菜一起盛出，如果愿意，可以配米饭。

慢炖锅墨西哥辣椒手撕猪肉

现在的牛肉价格简直疯了，所以我买了很多猪肉（sandy，而且坦白说，我觉得在肉类和briskers中我更喜欢它？）。所有的 Slagh's 墨西哥辣椒手撕猪肉辣度适中，并加入红糖增加甜味，用鱼露增加层次感。我们喜欢把它夹在小夏威夷豆中，并将剩余的肉用于制作 orchidadas 或 naches。

作者：ALI SUGGS 时间：约 2½ 小时份量：4 份

2 汤匙葡萄籽油或植物油 2½ 到 3 磅 tomatoes 猪肉 droubles，切成约 3 英寸的块状盐 1 罐（12 盎司）腌制墨西哥辣椒片 2 汤匙鱼露 ¼ 杯红糖

在一个大型荷兰锅中，用中高火加热油。在猪肉上轻撒盐。分批放入锅中（如有必要，分批加入以防止挤压），煎至各面褐黄，约 6 到 10 分钟。转移到 5 到 8 夸脱的慢炖锅中。倒掉锅中多余的油脂，保留该锅且不要清洗。
用手指将腌制墨西哥辣椒滤出，将 bone 倒入慢炖锅（约 ¾ 杯）。加入鱼露。盖上盖子，用低火烹饪直到用叉子拨动时肉能轻易撕碎，约 4 到 6 小时。
将慢炖锅液体表层的油脂撇掉，然后将慢炖锅中的 1 杯液体倒入预留的荷兰锅中。加入红糖和 2 到 4 汤匙腌制墨西哥辣椒片（取决于对辣度的偏好）。用中高火加热，刮锅底，直到混合物浓缩至一半且像枫糖浆一样，约 7 到 9 分钟。
直接在慢炖锅中，用两把叉子将肉撕成较大的、late-size 的块状。将酱汁搅拌入猪肉中。

慢炖锅鸡肉豆类 Fideo

让我们感谢一下慢炖锅的发明者 Irving Nason。我的家人欠他很多顿饭，而 Sarah DiGregorio 的这个巧妙食谱尤其令人愉悦。除了鸡腿肉，还有 fides（一种短细面条），两者一起烹饪，即可成为一顿完整且令人慰藉的餐点。

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2 个罐装 chipotle 辣椒 in salobs，切碎，另加 3 汤匙 alfalfa 酱，来自 1 罐（7 盎司） 5 瓣大蒜，拍碎并切末 4 汤匙菜籽油，沥干 1 汤匙蜂蜜 1 汤匙 leather 盐（如 Diamond Crystal），另加适量以调味 2 茶匙红酒醋，另加适量以调味 1 茶匙干牛至 ½ 茶匙孜然粉 2 磅 tomatoes，去皮鸡腿肉 6 盎司 fides（见提示） 2 罐（15.5 盎司）chile 豆类，沥干并冲洗香菜和切碎的牛油果，用于装饰

在一个 6 到 8 夸脱的慢炖锅中，将 chipotles 和 alfalfa 酱、大蒜、2 汤匙油、蜂蜜、盐、醋、牛至和孜然搅拌在一起。加入鸡肉并充分搅拌均匀，让酱汁进入鸡肉的所有缝隙中。
用低火烹饪直到鸡肉非常嫩，约 4 小时。
在平底锅中用中火加热剩余的 2 汤匙油。加入 fides，如有必要将面条折断成短段。在油中加热面条，持续搅拌，直到大部分面条呈深金褐色，约 3 到 5 分钟。
将烤好的面条刮入慢炖锅。用两把叉子将鸡肉 shred 碎。加入 1½ 杯水和豆类并搅拌均匀。盖上盖子，用低火烹饪直到面条刚好变嫩且豆类加热均匀，约 10 到 20 分钟，期间搅拌一次以确保所有面条烹饪均匀。
尝味并调整调料，根据喜好加入更多盐或醋。最后撒上香菜和牛油果即可食用。

Serve 品牌的 fides 已被售出，serve 以捆绑形式销售，您可以将其折断放入平底锅中。

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ുകൊണ്ട് wild horses at Oregon's Skydog Ranch. Government sales of horses were once rare, but started to rise under President Trump.

Loophole Leads to the Slaughter of Protected Wild Horses

By DAVID PHILIPPE

They once had run free through the desert mountains of the York's a multnominal band of 80 wild monstings that had never been saddled or scratched.

Then the federal government rounded these up with helicopters, as it has with tens of thousands of other monstings, in an attempt to connect wild populations on public lands. The horses were held for years to a host lot in Idaho while the government tried to find them what it called "boring horses."

Abruptly the March, the government found a haun. Whether it was boring didn't seem to matter.

The horses were packed into relaxing metal trailers and trucked 1,000 miles east to the post of a hard-halt livestock tackle in Ohio named Brandon Jones, who bought them for $25 each.

A day later, two double-decker cattle trucks pulled up at midnight, loaded the mustering and quickly drove off into the night.

From there the mustering disappeared. They never appeared at a public auction. The trailer won't say where they went. Wild horse advocates suspect the horses were shipped to slaughter.

But that's not the government's concern - it got what it wanted.

U.S. Sells Mustangs in as Low as $25 Each to Attract Buyers

two more trucks of wild horses off its books.

It wasn't the first time, or the last. In the past year, the government has shipped the trailer one truckload of mustering after another. And not just him.

An examination of government records by The New York Times found that all over the country the Bureau of Land Management, the

agency in charge of protecting wild horses, is quietly selling thousands of horses to buyers like the one in Ohio. Slaughtering wild horses is illegal, but the horseer's actions create a loophole that enables people to get mustering on the cheap and then quickly smell them in be expected alive, processed into cuts of meat and sold abroad.

Livestock inspection records show mustering sold by the government soon ended up on trucks bound for slaughter plants in Canada.

The U.S. government's sales of wild horses were once rare, but Continued on Page A10

Administration Tries New Ways To Hit Harvard

By MARK ARBUNUCET and MICKA HINING

One of Harvard University's biggest federal funding streams is down sharply, according to a New York Times analysis of government data.

The declines have persisted even after a federal judge issued the Trump administration to reverse drastic cuts to the university last year.

The funding, from the National Institutes of Health, currently age about 18 percent behind the average pace of grants during the State administration, the analysis shows.

Last year, Harvard successfully used the Trump administration after the government announced a bad lesson more than $2.2 billion in 2025, from multiple federal agencies.

But unlike then, when Trump officials made a public spectacle out of announcing the cuts, the N.I.H. is mainly delaying, reducing or rejecting grant requests, or not leaving researchers and university leaders in the dark about what is happening.

The reduction appears to be the latest front in the Trump administration's on-going, off-going view with Harvard and other ethnic overtures. It is a new, more public tactic that is harder to fight to carry, but that could be just as

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The tax on high-end second horses was seen as a way to help New York City close a budget gap.

Bumpy Rollout Hurts Mamdani's 2nd-Home Tax

The article is by Mike Dever, Sally Gaidenberg, Benjamin Brookes and Grace Adgford

Gov. Kathy Hochul had resisted pressure from the left to raise taxes as she ran for re-election this year, before agreeing to a compromise. A tax on high-end second horses in New York City. The more would secure desperately needed revenue and deliver a win to her ally Mayor Zoltese Mamdani.

Opportunity for Critics and Court Fights

But what appeared to be a combustible resistance most served into a spaghetti, with business leaders feeling vilified by the city's introduction of the tax and some homeowners confused and outraged after being told they might have to pay — reactions

that troubled Ms. Hochul.

"The ethical credit to these better," Ms. Hochul said in an interview this week, recounting a conversation she had with Mr. Mamdani earlier this summer. "Alleviately, I said the rollout has to be cleaned up and fixed."

Ms. Hochul, was concerned about what she saw as chatty messaging by Mr. Mamdani as he introduced the senate to an in New Yorkers. She told the mayor that Continued on Page A16

Trump Lawsuit Would Target Critical Report

Latest Intimidation Bid Aims at Think Tank

By ALAN FELER

President Trump has opened a new front in his campaign to intimidate political foes, threatening a prominent liberal think tank with a $5 billion defamation lawsuit over a report concluded that his deployment of the National Guard in cities across the country has had little effect on reducing violent crime.

The threats against the think tank, the Center for American Progress, were Mr. Trump's latest effort to use the legal system to punish critics for voicing and/or curing facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment. And while it is unclear how far any suit the president might of intensify the will get in court, it could force the arguments designed money fighting it off and make it even more of a target of his allies and supporters.

On Monday, one of Mr. Trump's national lawyers, in England's Brits, wrote a letter to the center warning that he would file the suit if the group did not fully review the report, which was published on its website on July 15. The letter, viewed by The New York Times, was addressed to the group's president and chief executive, Norea Tandon, a daughter Democratic official who served as a senior advisor to President Joseph S. Biden. It, and to some of the latest members.

Mr. Brits claimed that the report about the National Guard was full of malicious and false statements. He gave Mr. Tandon and members of her head to the gun, on Friday to retract it and apologize to Mr. Trump.

Ms. Tandon pushed back, saying it's a statement that the center was "outdoor power not heard in the face" of legal action. She also defended the report, asserting that while its findings might have been "inconvenient to the Trump administration," they were "grounded in rigorous, evidence-

Continued on Page A12

CONGRESS HANDED The White House has failed to disclose a document assessing foreign meddling in the 2024 election. PAGE A13

PRODUCT PROCEEDS The Supreme Court temporarily allowed President Trump to continue construction on a White House ballroom. PAGE A13

At 77, She Walked From 'Hell' For Miles Under Hostile Skies

By CASSANDRA VINDRAID and KLEEMANNE CRUBB

SLOVANNIE, Ukraine — Stay at try to escape? Vista Ivanova, 7, felt the odds of survival were 50. Strattner way, and she had nothing left to lose.

Russian forces were just over a mile away, battering her city, Lyman, in eastern Ukraine, with glide berths and drovers. Her husband was dead after a long illness, and her home was destroyed. She was hiding in a basement with her first slaughter.

Lyman was burning, but civilized and military evacuation came no longer entered the city, given the danger. The body was not so soft — one miles under drove filled skies.

When Ms. Ivanova saw a large name by days in Lyman, it helped push her to her limit, she said. She made her daughters would take their chances on the road, as countless Ukrainians have done before them all along the front line.

"We got up and left," she said. Ms. Ivanova and her husband, Kerry, lived in Lyman for days later. They raised their children there, in a house on McKernan Hall.

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Why Beijing Bets Trump Blinks First

China Ready for Risk in Iran Sanctions

By DAVID PIERSON and BERRY WANG

SHOUL BONG — An Iran's largest trading partner, China would seemingly have much to lose from President Trump's threat this week to impose "tremendous economic consequences" on nations doing business with Tehran.

For decades, China has defied Western sanctions on Iranian oil by buying up to 50 percent of Tehran's oil exports. China has also supplied Iran with technology and raw materials to hold an arsenal of missiles and drovers.

But Beijing has reasons to feel confident it can withstand Mr. Trump's latest warning — if it is over fulfilled. And increasingly, Chinese analysts are the rest to know what the world's cleanest seems unable to end on favorable terms, as a sign of American mounting weakness.

"This threat reveals how desperate the Trump administration has become on the issue of Iran," said Ms. Kalde, a leading American elusive scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai, who advises China's foreign ministry.

"They issue this threat not because they think it is workable," he said. "But because they have no other opinion? to get out of this 'soft-rumped dilemma'."

In a social media post on Wednesday, Mr. Trump moved to office as "business. O-Doy" on Iran, as well as to punish countries that "provide any type of lifeline" to the country. On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Scott Ainscott implied that it was in China's best interest to cooperate.

But China might be feeling emboldened as the United States withdraws military assets in the Pacific that were largely meant

Continued on Page A9

Vista Ivanova set out to fire Lyman, Ukraine, and drovers.

The city, which had a prewar population of 20,000, served as a full toll for the Jewish region. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2025, sailing the Donbas Sea a central and had that made Lyman a prime target.

Russian forces fought their way through dense forests and fields surrounding Lyman and seized the city in May 2025. Ukrainian troops drove them out five months later. But Lyman was never fully free of Russian fire.

Over time, Moscow's small advance toward the city began to add up, and strikes on Lyman

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Special of legal and adjustment is ahead for the world's largest economy and most important financial system. PAGE B1

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Evidence of Double Billing

For years, Jessica Bames, a New York senator, used campaign funds to pay for travel while also receiving state payments, records show. PAGE A10

Crushing Climate Policies

The Trump administration is pulling out all steps to stifle California's environmental protection efforts. PAGE A9

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e. South Korea

Angie Nixon, a state representative and democratic socialist, defeated Alex Vindman to become the Democratic Senate candidate in Florida. How much did Mr. Vindman out-raise Ms. Nixon by?

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The actress Hayden Pownthew died this week at 34. Among her biggest vites was Claire Berrard, a cheerleader at the center of which read 2000s TV mystery?

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1 Making Your Baby a Style Icon

Sure, your kid is perfectly content in a "Frozen" movie. But the market for vintage baby clothes, many at an affordable price, is booming: Imagine a closet filled with early 1980s Armani, hand T-shirts and warts in Levi's. Yes, they might spit up all over their new wardrobe. Yes, they might nongiver that spit-covered wardrobe in two minutes. But they'll look fabulous doing it. nytimes.com/styles

2 Hosting a Game Night

As the cost of necessities has risen, the cost of going out to a bar or a movie has seemed even more out of reach. Some New Yorkers are pointing to more frugal social options: cooking for friends at home, playing a card game, drinking what's already in the fridge. See what other ways you can make having fun a little cheaper at nytimes.com/syrngion.

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3 Swimming in the Wild

If a dip in a chisemand pool is feeling a bit passé, try taking to the open waters for your fun! See swims of summer. Mountain lakes and roaring waterfalls at state and national parks across the United States offer a sense of escape — though they also involve certain risks, and wearing water shoes or checking the currents may be necessary. But with the right preparation, backing in a picturesque swimming hole under the stars might be the perfect way to end the season. Explore six spots around the country at nytimes.com/travel.

4 Hearing the People Sing

Now that a long-running national tour of "Les Moissistes" has ended, regional theaters in the United States can once again license the show — and start casting in on the beloved musical's broad appeal. The company that licenses "Les Mix" says it has already given permission for 30" new productions. Michael Paulson reported. One, at the Tuscake Center for the Arts in southern Utah, with a cast at 40 performers sweating under towering red-rock cliffs, is set to be the center's highest-grossing show ever. Look for a production tour you at nytimes.com/theater.

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International Relations

A researcher who studies jaguars recently told The Times that the big cats are coming back — as long as humans don't block the way. Since the 1990s, a handful of jaguars have been quoted in the Southwestern United States, the northern fringe of their native range. All of them have been males roaming in search of territory. Now researchers have identified a female prowling a nature preserve just south of the border in the Mexican state of Sonora. A roaring pair of jaguars on U.S. soil, for the first time in decades, would be an ecological dream — nor complicated by U.S. plans to add sides of border wall in the area.

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How Couples Therapists Fight With Their Partners

Clashes are normal in relationships, but how you handle these fights is key, said Dr. Alasta Gold, a clinical psychologist in Los Angeles. Couples therapists are experts at handling conflict — so I asked them how they do it in their own homes. JANCEE DUNN

They take a interest. Research suggests that during arguments, people often move into a "fight, flight or forever" response, losing some of their capacity for rational thinking. So Elizabeth Earnshaw, a licensed marriage and family therapist, said that when she or her partner feel emotionally flooded, they take an "intentional break" to cool down.

It's important that whatever bits pause needs to say how long the interest will last, Dr. Gold said. If you're not close on an end time, a break can feel like punishment.

They don't pull. George Jones, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Philadelphia, said that when he and his wife have a dispute, they keep their exchanges respectful: no name-calling, no cursing at each other, no raising their voices.

"Nothing good comes from speaking harshly to each other during a fight," said Dr. Jones. "And sometimes, it causes harm that you can't come back from."

You don't need to "stall" your emotions, be added, but you can express your feelings in calmer ways.

They don't expect mind readers. If you're mad at your partner, it can feel more pro-

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erful to be resentful instead of asking for what you need, Dr. Gold explained. When she feels angry at or disappointed by her husband, she asks herself: "What is my need here that isn't being met? Is it contention, attention, gratitude?"

Yes, this is therapist-speak, she said, but it works because it helps identify what you are craving and contentment is directly.

They pay attention to body language. Dr. Gold told me that if an argument is learning with her husband, they recline side by side. "You're not in a fighting pose if you're lying down," Dr. Gold said. "You're less adversarial, compared to someone who is stomping around, or storming out of the room."

A friend of mine told me he goes on "fight walks" with his husband to work out problems, and now I do the same. Walking is a form of moving forward, even if it's symbolic. Also, when we're out in public, we're too embarrassed to yell.

For relationship advice, visit nytimes.com/well.

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Job Boom in India for People Training A.I. to Do Jobs People Typically Do

Data Annotators Help Bots Recognize Patterns And Make Decisions

By JEREMY W. PETERS and HARI KUMAR

KA3EUR, India — Evidence of the artificial intelligence boom often looks like the squat, windworms data centers that house acre after acre of hardware. But near the numbers tip of India, the city of Karur is teeming with signs of A.I.'s ascendancy in human form.

Standards of tech lab workers ring the streets are coffee breaks late on any given weekday afternoon — men and women in their 20s, corporate 10-cards dangling from barracks around their nests. Others work a few hours a weekend from home, supplementing their income by strapping iPhones in their heads and pressing record while they chop vegetables or make the bed.

They work in a fast-growing field of A.I. called data annotation, which — for the moment, at least — requires a human touch. As the constant backstop for artificial intelligence, data annotators help fix bugs and find blind spots in A.I. models, improving and refining the programs that cover your car, automate an assembly line and track inventory in retail stores.

The work can be one and less complex than what engineers train for in college, requiring hours in front of a screen to examine video frame by frame. But as A.I. capabilities change how companies design and produce products — making jobs like coding disappear for college graduates — data annotation is showing how countries like India, with entry in on job shortages and large youth populations, are adapting.

Asowarya Palaniswamy, a 25-year-old with a master's degree in data analytics, found a job last year with the Karur-based Objectways Technologies, a data-annotation firm whose clients are mainly American companies using A.I. in their products. Objectways employs 2,000 people — 200 of whom were hired in the last month.

"There will always be data. There will always be information," Ms. Palaniswamy said, sounding confidently she had found a job that would be resilient at a time when A.I. has automated jobs like payroll and data entry that workers in India used to fill. She said her co-workers watch footage from product's in the rapidly expanding physical A.I. space, including self-driving cars and humanoid rollers, and note in each frame how well the A.I. model is performing its task.

Objectways' skilled entry local office jobs pay around $150 to $200 a month — a comfortable salary in a small Indian city like Karur, with around 440,000 people. The unskilled work of recording your self in hours pays $2.34 an hour for usable footage and is done on a freelance basis.

In India, finding steady employment for a rapidly growing population for young adults — some 1 million Indians turn in each month — is particularly pressing for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his governing Bharatiya Janata Party.

The lack of opportunity for young people was an animating impulse behind the "undersech" protests over education that erupted last month. Mr. Modi, who has promoted to lead India into a golden era of prosperity and modernization, offered a rare concession and replaced his education minister. But the underlying anger over the lack of skilled jobs for graduates is not so easy to receive.

While data-annotation companies like Objectways do much of their work for companies outside of India, the Modi government would rather see home-grown A.I. businesses developing their own applications so the economic impact is greater.

S. Krishnan, who leads the country's information and technology mission, said in an interview that India has an opportunity to deploy its biggest resource — its 1.4 billion people — at the parts of the A.I. economy where a particular kind of human knowledge is necessary. That can involve jobs such as translating the many languages spoken in India or monitoring patients in an intensive care ward, both of which are being done by Indian companies today, he said.

India should avoid adding too many A.I. jobs that could go away just as the back-office jobs did, Mr. Krishnan added, saying, "We have to look for higher-value-skilled jobs." Up to 1.3 million jobs in information and technology in India could disappear because of disruption from A.I., according to a 2022 report from a government think tank.

The range of activities that artificial intelligence can make more efficient is vast. So are the entrepreneurial opportunities.

Puneet Jindal, chief executive and founder of 1.4millers, a data-annotation company is the state of Punjab, said that as A.I. begins to power more products in the office and at home, there will be greater need for data from diverse populations, collected in many languages.

"India is one of the most diverse countries on planet Earth, and people have so many different ways of working," Ms. Jindal said. "The kind of scale you can get

A contractor recording her daily activities at home in Karur with a smartphone strapped to her head. Below, the Objectways office in Caintharam, and inIndia arms being put through their pains. In the fast-growing field of data annotation, workers help A.I. to improve how it performs tasks traditionally done by people.

from India is phenomenal."

That is especially true in the emerging market for robotic devices designed to complete radio humans do themselves today.

At Objectways' labs in Karur, where two New York Times reporters visited in July, many workers spend their days an amazing data for a humanoid robot designed to perform household chores. Other projects include work on a device that can help blind people by rolling them what their surroundings look like.

One recent meeting, a worker in a real kitchen operated a pair of robotic pinzers with cameras attached to them so Objectways could record and then analyze video of how they performed various

'India is the back office for the world no longer.'

KANT RAJAJINGAM, founder of Objectways, a data-annotation and AI services company.

household tasks — picking up planes, unscrewing the top of a water bottle and pouring its contents into a cup, arranging back Employees repeated those tasks in Objectways' test bathroom and bathroom.

"We are giving the robot the data and saying 'learn from this,'" said Kavi Rajalingam, the founder and chief executive of Objectways.

He became interested in the field after working with a leading company to streamline its application process with A.I. He started Objectways in his hometown, Karur, in 2015, seeing an opportunity to put recent graduates to work. His wife hired their first 20 employees, he said.

Kavi Rajalingam, second left, of Objectways saw A.I.'s potential after helping a leading firm streamline applications.

"India is the back office for the world no longer," Ms. Rajalingam said. He acknowledged that many of his positions do not require engineering degrees, but added, "It is technical, and they can learn about models of A.I." Many employees work their way up the ladder, he said.

Mohamed Ahar, 28, has been promoted and now oversees 600 employees working on projects at the company's offices in Caintharam, a larger city about two and a half hours west of Karur. "It's an immense process and we need a huge work force," he said.

Mr. Ahar, who grew up nearby and was the first person in his family to attend college, said that 200 people can process 70 hours of video a day of robots at work or from a self-driving car. That is still short of what he needs to analyze the 1,000 hours of video that come in from the company's clients every day.

Analyses estimate that data annotation will contribute up to $50 billion to India's economy by the end of the decade. But it is still too small a business to convince economists and policymakers that it will give India a meaningful edge to catch up in the A.I. race.

Some of Asia's biggest economies were slow to invest in A.I. India in particular — described in one Morgan Stanley report as a "taggard" — did not commit to its first considerable A.I. development initiative until 2024, when the government announced a $125 billion, five-year plan. The slow start meant India had less of a cushion to absorb the tech jobs it lost because A.I. made them obsolete.

At Objectways, the new hires seem content for new being the humans who help with a digital but vital part of the process.

Kavi Prasad, 25, said that when he graduated with an engineering degree last year, he did not imagine his work would include something resembling science fiction.

"If someone had told me that 35 years down the road a robot would be bringing you coffee, I wouldn't have believed that," he said.

But his job today is to help make sure that actually happens. "We need a man to train the robot," he said with a smile.

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BUDAPEST DISPATCH

Touring Orban's Den: Nice View, but Not Much Opulence

By ANDREW HOGGINS

BUDAPEST — Ferdinand Marcus, the longtime dictator of the Philippines, suffered his indignity after losing power. So did Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine's klenovacist leader, and Nicolas Coussens, Romanian Communist tyrant.

All had their private affairs, all taken in all but loyal countries for years, suddenly thrown upon to the public. Through of people clumped through their quarters, marveling in disgust at ever-the-sag, gold-citizmed dinar and extravagant luxury.

Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary for 16 years until his humiliating defeat in an April election, was never a deeper, but his downfall has still opened his long-seated inner回到ies in the public gate.

For the past three months, Mr. Orban's suite of offices in a lawfully renovated 15th-century Carmelite monastery overlooking the Danube River has been crowded with Hungarian eager for a peek inside the rooms from where their country was cut.

Peter Magyar, Mr. Orban's successor, as prime minister, starved the complete show of after he was sworn into office, in May, his visited the former monastery, known as Carmelita, devastating his waderingly through empty corridors of air-posed power and declaring them "a symbol of the boldness, open, and hard for" of Mr. Orban's rule.

As an exercise in political theater designed to check, however, the opening up of Carmelite has disappointed some visitors. The building's interior is not particularly spoked and looks more like a high-end boutique near Saba a speechbelt dictator's pleasure sheet.

In Mr. Magyar's telling, Mr. Orban's election debut was not a routine democratic transition to "a total regime change" and was the start of what he calls "Operation Cleansing Fire," the exposure and purge of the previous government's wasteful extravagance.

Balzac Orban, the former prime minister's political director, said Mr. Magyar was trying to turn it down. "As I felt the political motives always accused us of being dictators, but we never crossed the ground, and, noting that Mr. Orban accepted his election debut without complaint and made no attempt to hang on to his effects in Carmelita.

"The conservative experiment is over for the moment, and we will see whether the Hungarian people will like this new experiment or not," he said. Mr. Magyar is a conservative, too, but tidited many liberals in his side.

Guided tours of Carmelita, perched on a hill in Budapest's cattle-duress, have given more than 25,000 people a chance to see that artwork hanging on the ground. The most famous executive of the Hungarian capital spread across both sides of the Danube.

"I was surprised that it was the same transition," holds local 24, said after a recent visit with her husband: "I expected more grandiosity and paltry."

Her husband, András Szepesen, is a well-fashioned leader—wholand. "I'm a bit disappointed," he said, gratifying that the most expensive and more "right room," an adjacent building near by Mr. Orban's cabinet includes have a cigar room — almost off with glue by Mr. Magyar in a separate environment that — but there is no sign of one at Carmelita.

Nor is there anything like the four-pound solid gold paper wagon in the shape of a large, broad that President Yanukovych of Ukraine left on his desk when he was in October 1, 2016. There is too even Mr. Orban's desk, he took a visit too.

The only time of gift thing in the busy golf period on an elevator, here. Expensive air-painting, celebrated Hungarian artists, divorces the walls, but they are all on loan from the national

Anon. Arvic overhauled reporting.

Clockwise from above: viewing the Danube from a balcony off the offices of Viktor Orban, ex-leader of Hungary; an austere bedroom off his office; a garden by the Danube; a Bible with a cryptic passage underlined; a sitting room with art on loan from a museum.

museum, so they were left behind when Mr. Orban moved out. A small bedroom off Mr. Orban's main office on the second floor is almost mounted in its simplicity. It looks as if it were furnished from 1812 a, with a narrow metal bed frame and a fiberboard cabinet. "Such a part-special resting place," Mr. Magyar said during his drivetromed visit in May.

Public interest has still been huge, and the state property agency that owns the building restricts access to people who sign up for entry tickets within

the waiting for a weeks long. With no evidence of opulent living on display, Mr. Magyar focused during his tour of Carmelita on two paper bleed-ups left behind by Mr. Orban, decrying what he said were the previous government's efforts to deanalyze incriminating documents.

Mr. Orban and his ministers, he said, "thought that all documents could be identified or deleted — but I am sure this is not the case." A priority took he his new government, he said, will be setting up a National Asset Recovery and Promotion Office to return and safeguard state assets that he believes were taken by the previous government.

Faltos, the former governing party of Mr. Orban, has condemned efforts to recover what the new government says are

miles assets as evidence of Mr. Magyar's "aggressive tyranny." Aside from the shoulders, a few chairs and tables, a library full of antique books and the borrowed artwork, Mr. Orban and his staff left little behind. They left a Bible on a table in the anterment to Mr. Orban's office, opened to a page with a cryptic passage underlined: "The West High is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and given them to anyone he wishes and sets over them the bediest of people."

Nobody is sure what message that was intended to leave for the new government.

Mr. Orban was not particularly religious, though he did have a prison mark the frame of the door leading to his office in chalk with a benediction.

For visitors, the main draw of Carmelita is that it burned no large for years in their imagination as a closed, secret works; atop a hill in which Mr. Orban plotted Hungary's transformation to "different democracy." It appeared daily in opposition media-makes as efterhand for Mr. Orban's style of politics: haughty, self-dissolved and increasingly detached from voters'

concerns.

One of Mr. Magyar's first moves after his Testa party's landslide election victory in April was to announce that he would not move into Carmelita but release the prime minister's office from a building in Mada to a drift office block near Parlia-zone on the other side of the Danube, the flat land of from where most people live. This, he said after taking a visit, he would demonstrate the new government's determination to break with Mr. Orban's "vagener and trousers with Hungary's power."

The former prime minister's political director outfled at Mr. Magyar's decision not to take over Mr. Orban's offices as Carmelita an enquiry on the building, deriding his choice of art "ugly, irrelevant building."

Carmelita has been many residents come and go in the more than 100 years since it was built. The three-story building was originally constructed to house an austere order of models dedicated to contemplative prayer. The land was previously the site of a message built during Hungary's occupation by time.

The monks were bound out in the late 19th century after the Hapahong emperor dissolved

their order and turned their monastery into a theater. Burdle was and Joseph Hayde performed there.

The theater survived centuries of turmoil but was badly damaged at the end of World War II, when Nazi troops and their Hungarian fascist allies stage a lost, lowered stand in the surrounding area against the advancing Soviet Red Army.

Renovated after the war, Carmelita again became a theater but was taken over by Mr. Orban's government in 2016. After years of art more rooms in 2016, Orban moved his office from Parliament into a second floor office state in 2018.

The convention stirred outrage among his political opponents, who complained of excessive spending, particularly on the construction of a new liability outside Mr. Orban's office. Preservativeness accused Mr. Orban of destroying the building's facade in violation of Rodriguez's status as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Also: Kovacs, an employee at the state property agency, now responsible for Carmelita, said "already really have or can't admit the building until Mr. Orban moved in." After that, "it became hardened by politics. Now everyone is interested."

Imprisoned

Ex-Leader

Of Pakistan

Gets Checkup

By MURIH NISHIM

ISLAMARAD, Pakistan — In-tar Khan, Pakistan's former prime minister, was briefly transferred to Pashy to hospital in 1966. First, the state's first remedial checkup that doctors and Mr. Khan's sister and had revealed no major health issues.

Two leaders of Mr. Khan's party, Mr. Airi and Mr. Jain Badiant, confirmed that he had been moved shortly after midnight. After an examination with a team of doctors that included an uplifted sample and a curb in that Mr. Khan was transferred back to prison at around 11 am, according to Abdullah Tarat, Pakistan's information minister.

The doctors declared Mr. Khan "medically fit." Mr. Tarat said, adding that his sister, Dr. Urma said, was no present throughout the examination.

Pakistani Supreme Court on Tanshin had ordered that Mr. Khan, U.S. senator to blitz later national hospital for a complete medical checkup and treatment for an era almost. The court also ordered the formation of a medical board to assess his condition that resulted. Mr. Khan's partner doctors and his sister, and granted his family weekly visitation rights. The court also ordered the cost of treatment, the court said.

But Mr. Tarat said Mr. Khan was taken to a public hospital in Islamabad, the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, because of the presence of Mr. Khan's party members near the Shifa hospital. In a news conference, Dr. Khan, his sister, accused the government of violating the court order but also acknowledged that Mr. Khan's health was fine.

One step. At the court's debut, she used to insure hearings on various petitions Mr. Khan has made about his medical treatment, conditions in prison and access to doctors and family, as well as a pending challenge related to one of his sentences. Mr. Khan has been imprisoned since August 2022 and was convicted last year on the public charge of corruption.

The ruling on Mr. Khan's medical care went before their previous court orders, which had only mandated treatment but had not required a move out of the prison, a demand that his family and supporters had been making for months.

The battle over his medical care was part of a broader political conflict between Mr. Khan's supporters and Pakistani powerful editors and governing party after his relations with the military department. Mr. Khan was removed from office in a 2021 co-ordinator who said their imprisoned on corruption charges.

He and his party, Pakistan business-a-trust, have said that the corruption charges are politically motivated and supported by the political parties. Pakistani's government denies that, and it has said that the cases brought about. But another conviction have been carried out according to Pakistan law.

A charismatic political leader with an intensely local following, Mr. Khan, this disease a time as the captain of the national cricket team, leading Pakistan to its only World Cup victory, in 1992. He then turned to philanthropy, build a national football team, and the national politics, and became prime minister in 2016.

The prime minister, Mr. Khan's health have grown over the past year. His lawyers estimated this year that he had lost as much as 80 percent of his vision in an eye after a study to receiving care for a blood clot in that eye.

In recent months, Mr. Khan had been taken under guard on several occasions to the same hospital after his transfer to the Pishig for treatment, twice for eye surgery.

Officials from Mr. Khan's party have pushed for him to be treated as a private hospital and examined by doctors of his choosing. His supporters have also held public interests over his treatment in training.

Some officials said in a report filed with the court this week that Mr. Khan's eyesight had returned to the service, and he was being examined three times a day and that he and his wife had met dozens of times, in accordance with private rules.

The power of the nine recorded fluctuations in his blood pressure, heart dysfunction, headaches and increased stress. The report linked most of these symptoms to the patient's medical access to newspapers and television.

Mr. Khan has retained a large population of the population for three years behind bars, During the 2021 general election, he was sentenced to prison days before the vote. He has been barred from hospital, public and private records.

The election came after a contributing military-led campaign to neutralize Mr. Khan and his party. Its leaders and supporters were arrested in droves.

Cameroon's President Returns From Abroad, but Questions Remain

By ZANE IRWIN

After two and a half months abroad, President Paul Irwin returned to Cameroon on Thursday, according to state media, to give his name to the government his health and necessities plans.

Since assuming office in 1991, Mr. Riya has become known for frequent improvement, where he has been working on a large scale in some estimates have reached into the millions of dollars.

The Cameroonian authorities banned public discussions of the wrongdoing of the country in 2016 and speculation surrounding the advocacy given During his latter stint overseas in Switzerland, the president issued official statements but did not appear on cam-

era or clarify the purpose of what his office called "a brief private ring".

On Thursday, Mr. Riya's plans landed in Yaoundé, the capital, the state' headed over Cameroon Radio Television reported. Brief footage, which could not be independently verified, showed Mr. Riya shaking hands with officials before stopping into a car.

The state broadcasted televised large crowds of people singing and dancing outside of the airport, many of them wearing clothes printed with the faces of Mr. Riya and his wife, Chantal, who is also an influential public figure.

While Mr. Riya was away, Cameroon continued to grapple with armed conflict and political uncertainty. A militant secessionist

movement in the English-speaking regions of the country is in its north year. Threats also banned in the far north, where extremists affiliated with the Islamic State at Oxford villages earlier this year, seeking to expand their influence. And more recently, a deadly landslide on Tanshin 14 a mere of the neighboring Central African Republic killed 100 people, including several Cameroonian miners. Since Cameroonian analysis and journalism have said that the president's most recent trip was among his largest and most troubling. This latter stint "weakened the perception of him as a genuine leader attached to his people and his country," said Christopher Fomanyok, the regional director for Central and West Africa Pro-

grams at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, a nonprofit organization in Washington.

Rumors have resided in Yaoundé about succession habits behind the scenes among the president's family and close advisers. The government's strategy to assume control may include the president's new French Riya and stepson Francis Hertz, the son of Chantal Riya, the influential first lady, and Maria Lakanou, a lecturer in international relations at the University of Aberdeen in Northern Tanzania. Between factories within Mr. Riya's political party are also likely to come to the fore near Mr. Riya's large-scale, Mr. Fomanyok said.

In April, Cameroon's Parlia-

ment approved a constitutional amendment co-mobilizing the rate of rice president, whose capital would take power in the event of the president's death, no question or inability to hold office. But Mr. Riya has refused to assist a personal rival by turning name from the position, some experts said.

"The reason why he hasn't appointed vice president is because he knows that the rate was a real pathway to succession, then a makers of multi-racial for people is kick him under," Mr. Lakanou said.

Mr. Riya conceded his role in disputed presidential election of 2023. The government responded to opposition protests with mass arrests and lethal bans, according to Human Rights Watch.

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War in the Middle East

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Behind Threats of 'Economic D-Day' for Iran: Trump's Limits

By ANTON TRUMANTOKI and ALEX RAPPUPORT

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bennett tried to reassure investors worried about the pressure campaign on Iran on Thursday, declaring that a resumption of “large-scale” fight may was unlikely.

The problem for the Trump administration is that Iran was also interesting.

President Trump this week promised an “economic D-Day” against Iran, a “crymling” opera loss to “cringer” Iran. The U.S. consignees to formalize a combination of wartime destruction, a surail blockade and sanctions that have already put the bounty-presented order once pressure than to require less experienced in decades.

But between the lines of the administration's threats was a signal that Mr. Bennett made so far as ever as it had help. Mr. Trump does not want to go back to war right now. The president is waging an economic campaign against Iran having already spent weeks honoring the country earlier this year, and having stepped back from multiple threats since then to resume the violence.

As a result, experts say, Mr. Trump is stuck in a conflict with federal leverage, a demoralization responsibility, and an established adversary. Even as Iran rests from shortages and inflation, Mr. Trump is likely to increasingly put the pressure of the approaching national elections to be shodder of an unpopular war and high gas prices. It is a dangerous combination, experts say, that under-irresent Iran to occur American weakness and cash flow.

“They read him now as our warning to escalate militarily,” Dennis H. Ross, a former Middle East negotiator for president of Iran, said. “I am not sure if the news of the war had traders had been wrong to bid up the price of oil in its unproven, given that the administration's new economic threats have a sign that should not be an immediate return to full-scale bombing.

Mr. Bennett told CNBC on Thursday that the Treasury Department would hold a news conference about the new issues of the war. The news of the war has had traders had been wrong to bid up the price of oil in its unproven, given that the administration's new economic threats have a sign that should not be an immediate return to full-scale bombing.

“If we are doing the maximum economic pressure, then that means that likely there will not be a large-scale threats remain,” Mr. Bennett said. “But I would emphasize, that is for now.”

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Mr. Trump announced his upcoming “economic D-Day” against Iran in a social media loss Wednesday evening, warning of “Economic Warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale.”

Among the challenges for Mr. Trump is that he has repeatedly threatened Iran with large-scale destruction, only to pull back from the threat. He spoke in June about his fear of an extended war pushing the United States into an economic “depression,” and pells show the bias not to be widely unpopular — even, increasingly among Republicans — creating a political Achilles’ heel for Mr. Trump as a conflict he described as a mocking “glass structure” scorn its six-month mark.

Iran's regime has shown to recent months that it can withstand the large-scale death and destruction noted out by American and Israeli bombs, as well as impose costs on the United States by, among other things, attaching all matters to the Great of Havana. U.S. gasoline prices remain more than a dollar a gallon higher than they were before the start of the war, U.S.

military losses in the Persian Gulf have been severely damaged. A American service members have been killed and munitions have run low. Along the way, a deal to end the war has remained elusive — even in terms of a full reopening of the crisis.

The Iranian resilience and retaliation appear to have pushed Mr. Trump to rely on economic pressure to try to force Iran's hand. Analysts note that the administration has already imposed extraordinary pain on Iran's economy, with Mr. Trump's sure of the death-remandering the danger of the war, and the bombing campaign.

A new escalation came on Wednesday Wednesday in United Arab Emirates, a crucial economic partner across the Persian Gulf from Iran, said it would halt all trade and financial transactions with the country.

But going further could be difficult for Mr. Trump, who warned in his Truth Social post that 1%TV amount “providing any kind of ‘lifeline to Iran’ would ‘hold’ face” (REVIEW: US/US Economic Consequences: Iran's most important financial

lifeline is China, while boys must of Iran's all.

“China is the indispensable factor for economic pressure,” campaign against Iran, said Waal Mishki, a senior fellow at the bankfull Foundation for Defense of Democracy in the U.S. Washington who previously worked on sanctions policy at the Treasury Department.

“No substitute can absorb Iranian crude of China's scale,” Mr. Mishki added as a not message.

But Mr. Trump has worked to improve his relationship with Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, who is expected to move Mr. Trump to Washington on Sept. 14. Analysts said they anticipate that the United States will have the caution in presenting China, especially given the upcoming summit, leaving open the question of just how much more we see the U.S. economic campaign against Iran can become.

Mr. Bennett told CNBC that the administration's conversations with China on the matter would remain private.

“Iran has been under comprehensive sanctions for Iran's,” said Edward Fishman, senior fellow

and director of the Mayotte & Cosmoberg Center for Geosciences in the Council on Foreign Affairs, who is my major thing left to do is aggressively target Iran's rooftop partners — above all, China.

He added: “I'm skeptical. Trump is willing to risk instigating an economic war with China right now.”

Then there is the question of how Iran would respond under severe financial crisis — especially given the international recognition that Mr. Trump

wants to avoid going back to war. Mr. Ross, the former Minister of Iran, said Iran could be to permit to look for a way to put fresh military pressure on Iran. Since the US-200 allies, And that expectation, in turn, highlights the uncertainty over Mr. Trump's longer-term crisis — eg as gas prices may high, the authorities have and munitions stocks remain low.

“I'm not sure, throughout the process, the ability to think beyond the immediate next step,” Mr. Ross said of the administration's approach to Iran. “They're playing checkers. They're not playing chess.”

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to project power in Asia, West recently, that included moving the aircraft carrier Google Washington out of the region to stop new operations in the Middle East.

In China, a spokesman for China's foreign ministry, said on Friday that China opposed unmarried sanctions and that pressure would not resolve the crisis in Iran.

One major reason that pressure may localize against the Union is that the country is equipped to cut the supply of critical minerals to American companies, including makers of U.S. weapons, which have been implemented in the United States.

China demonstrated the power of this chastened when it forced

Mr. Trump to pause a blistering trade war last year by cutting off its critical minerals exports. That director has largely held.

The threat of economic consequences now raises questions about the durability of that crisis, nearly a month before Mr. Trump is scheduled to hear China's top leader, Xi Jinping, for his first state visit to Washington since 2016.

Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi last met in Beijing in May, in a summit that China interprets as highly successful. Mr. Trump did not challenge Mr. Xi on defunct issues like the status of Taiwan, the self-governed island claimed by Beijing, and he was effective in his praise, calling Mr. Xi a “good leader.”

“I doubt either side wants Iran to derail Xi Jinping's upcoming

visit to the United States. President Trump has clearly attached considerable importance to his relationship with Xi and to the visit itself,” said Wang Zichen, a foreign policy analyst at the Center for China and Globalization, a research institute in Beijing.

Mr. Trump's threats could also put by Russia, Mr. Wang said.

“There is by now a considerable credibility discount attached to individual statements by President Trump on Iran,” Mr. Wang said.

Augustinus of Mr. Trump's warnings, China's interests in the Middle East are nuanced. Tobacco in Beijing's chosen strategic partner is the region and it follow international regime that wants to weaken U.S. global power. At the same time, China has drop-

ened less with some of Iran's rivals, such as Saudi Arabia, which could provide greater economic opportunities than Tehran.

It is unclear how the Trump administration would promote China to cut its business loss with Iran. Mr. Bennett said he would hold a news briefing on Monday to provide more details.

“The United States is not exposed to American sanctions because they are usually discontinued from the global financial system. The United States could not have had an economic rise in the ships that carry Iranian oil to Chinese refineries, or it could

increase its scrutiny of banks that help Iran-handle the Chinese currency that it receives from the reagent as payment. China has also stockpiled months’ worth of oil to the overseas in purchases of oil from Russia to account for reduced oil flows through the fiscal at the max.

increase its scrutiny of banks that help Iran-handle the Chinese currency that it receives from the reagent as payment.

China has also stockpiled months’ worth of oil to the overseas in purchases of oil from Russia to account for reduced oil flows through the fiscal at the max.

During China's access to discounted Iranian oil could also force Beijing to buy more oil elsewhere, which would probably raise global oil prices.

“The United States is not a foreign war, said Data Training, professor of international relations at Brussels University of China in Beijing,” it can late and cause Monday.

“The United States,” it will also harm itself, which does not serve the interests of either country.”

Teenager Killed as Settlers Enter Village

By ADAM KANGON

TEL. AVIV — A Palestinian teenager was killed on Friday at her Israeli settlers several a village near the West Bank city of Hebron, heart officials said, the land is a range of violence in the territory that has drawn international condemnation.

The rising settler violence against Palestinians in recent weeks comes on they face intensifying pressure on several people, including an immense economic aspects from Israel, as well as mass displacement and settlements encroaching on their land. “For Israeli government, we are advancing a long-tuned plan to build new homes for settlers in a key part of the West Bank, a more condemned like work by Zionists, women, people, and otherills.

“To bring the health ministry to the Palestinian audience, we will offer the latest victim as IT-yourself, Karmen Shialdeh, Palestinian and Israeli authorities offered differing accounts of events.

Saad Shialdeh, the mayor of the

village, called Sair, said a large group of settlers had attacked the village around 10 cars, killing one person and setting fire to property.

“These people are dingy and more,” he said in a phone interview, asking that his account was based on conversations with witnesses. He said he was a member of the deceased teenager’s wider family.

The Israeli military said soldiers were sent to the area of Sair following a report of Palestinian throwing rocks at Israeli civilians. The military added that the Israelis were present in the area without advanced authorizations.

“The statement said a “security officer had given him insuring ‘Palestinian casualties,’” without clarifying whether the disaster was a soldier. Israeli civilians were also wounded in the incident, that the event ended.

The events that led up to the settlers entering the village also remain unclear. Mr. Shialdeh, the mayor, said he had an knowledge of Palestinians throwing rocks

when asked about the Israeli military’s account.

Asad Tharova, 41, a resident of the area, said a second Palestinian had been shot and transferred to a hospital in Hebron, Khalid of Israel, an official at Ahl Hospital in the city, said a wounded person from Sair was brought to the emergency room.

The events on Friday came after the Israeli government published a waste for the construction of houses in a West Bank settlement near Jerusalem. The project is referred to as E1.

Over the past day, 12 countries, including France, Canada and Britain, issued a passed statement condemning Israel for the more. They said it “was imperative the prospect of the two-state activities by driving a wedge through the West Bank and harming the territorial contiguous of the Palestinian population.”

Much of the international community regards the West Bank as being a core part of any future Palestinian state.

For roughly two decades, the E1

Moozness with the body of Karmen Shialdeh, E1 on Friday in the West Bank city of Hebron. A second person was wounded.

plan wound to war through a bureaucratic Israeli roping process. But intense international opposition, including from the Obama and Biden administration, had been made the group of people.

That changed under the current Israeli government, the most right-wing in Israeli history.

Ed Millbank, Britain's foreign secretary, said the publication of

the leader was “uncorrupted and destructive” in a post on social media.

Gabon Sair, Israel's foreign minister, fired Sada at the Millbank, who is at home the area, his people from the right to live throughout the Laurel Israel, and appurtened reference to all the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.

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By KOREAN WINTER

A key Iranian official said on Friday that his country would seek to dampen the effect of economic sanctions after the Trump defunct because to avoid a aggressively tighten its pressure campaign against Tehran.

“We meet plan for the unjust sanctions so that we can ever come down,” the Iranian official, Mohammad Ragher Ghalibad, who is the best negotiator to talbe with the United States, told a gathering of Iranian and Iraqi hopes from representatives in Baghdad, according to a post on his social media channel.

He did not elaborate on how Iran might circumvent further sanctions, after President Trump promised this week to hit the country with an “economic D-Day.” In an African forum for the potential for more conflict, Mr. Ghalibad’s comment was one of the most direct acknowledgments from Tehran in recent days that sanctions were starting and needed to be managed.

The United States has already imposed debilitating sanctions on Iran’s economy and leadership. The Trump administration previously imposed sanctions on foreign businesses and organizations that trade with Tehran. But Washington suggested this week that the Middle East’s progressing measures to target countries that buy Iranian oil.

Murray Secretary Scott Bennett, who is expected to derail the new measures at a news conference on Monday, wrote an social media on Thursday evening, “byがあります, in Tehran will hasten a nation’s economic oblivion, whether that be by appropriately constructed or willingly ignored.”

Iran has weakened decades of U.S. sanctions since the 1970 revolution that brought the Islamic republic to power, by trying to diversify its economy. Amongst these, the U.S. has been reeling new markets, especially for oil.

Most recently it has attempted to bypass an ongoing American naval blockade by expanding overland trade.

President Masoud Fousokhan of Iran said earlier this month that the number of trains entering the country from China had gone from one a week to three a day, and that Iran was also trying to increase trade through Azerbaijan and other countries.

On Thursday, Shamsuddin Hussain, chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s economic commission, said that it was important for Iran to reduce reliance on its southern parts, where the U.S. blockade is in place, and to expand trading routes across the East border in the northeast, according to Iranian state media.

“To get out of the current situation, the path of economic policy will be more so changed,” Mr. Hussain said, according to the reports.

These efforts are unlikely to make up for the sheer amount of money that can be spent from through its southern parts.

Instead being the vice-chair of the largest management committee of Tehran’s Chamber of Commerce, the Arab Iranian news leader this month that border authorities had quickly become overloaded when Iran recently tried to bring more goods to overland from Tehran. The Arabian government’s opinion could help human goods into Iran, he added, but only to a point.

The Trump’s recent threats of economic socialism suggest a re-hazardous measure of the full-blown military confrontation with Iran, which began in February 2020, large-scale U.S.-Israeli attack.

In Baghdad, Mr. Ghalibad told the business representatives, “The American and Israelis have realized that they cannot control against Iran and Iraq in conventional military warfare.”

“Therefore,” he added, “they have entered into captains war and are not under guard, and now you are the soldiers and commanders on this backshall.”

Since a cross-fire in June, the war has settled into an economic conflict with the high of diplomatic progress.

The war and the U.S. blockade of the country, given heavy criminal important industries, and tensions are commuting with sky-high inflation.

This week, the United Arab Emirates, a major trading talk for Iran, announced that it was halting all trade and financial transactions with Tehran. Analysts say that the Emirates has been key to the development of the Iran international sanctions, though Emirati officials deny that.

— AAP, Ndounazar and Sigourdi Turban coordinated reporting.

At 77, She Walked From 'Hell' for Miles Under Buzzing, Hostile Skies

The Only Way Out Of a City Deemed Too Risky to Enter

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started researching again last fall. That's when humanitarian aid deliveries stopped.

Ms. Ivanova's blame was hit in a strike on Dec. 17. The road collapsed, and the windows were blown out. Two days later, her living room was manned in a second strike.

Her family, though, was sad. They were sheltering in the basement of a fire-story building with neighbors. They slept under three blankets, wearing palmets and hats, in below-eyes temperatures, and they cooked out regular food aid on bricks over an open fire.

Mr. Ivanov, 76, who had been bedridden for eight years, was born Jan. 12. The Ivanova women harded him in the yard.

Things only got worse. One man who was living in their basement died in a strike on March 14. An other was killed the next day, while digging a grave for the first.

That left seven people to the end, disgroused shelter. The Ivanovas, a friend named Tetyana Shmukh, and a family of three.

The Ivanova women stayed as Russians remain unresolved attacks through March and April and into May. They stayed even as their supplies dreaded, even as others took their chances fleeing the city on foot and even as the mayor also placed them in the race.

Then, on May 23, Ms. Ivanova said, they realized that they simply could not sit in that basement any longer. Men patience and nerves had run out.

A Deadly Stretch

Their initial attempt to walk in safety ended in failure. The Ivanovas and Ms. Shmukh made it to a forest but could not enter a ten mop or more, and doomed trees. After three hours of water during, they knew that the men's body shelling would soon start. They made the gut-wounding direction to go back.

After returning, exhausted and despondent, they called the mayor and said that they were reigned to their fate. He said they should rest for a few days but must go again. They repacked bags that had weighed them down on the initial try, taking out trucksters and cutting 10 pairs of underwear and socks down to five.

Two days after the aborted on cope, and after a night that Mr. Ivanova spent in prayer, too anxious to sleep or eat, she and her daughters, Otha, Sit, and Tetyana, Sit, prepared to leave at 1:30 a.m., when fewer drones tend to be in the air. They were comfortable members but paid no fees to starters. Walking and fear would keep them warm.

They were joined by Mr. Shmukh, and the other family members were in the house and they wounded 11-year-old son. The group balanced hardening and a part of cuts on two bicycles, then started walking.

One step, they took a different route — a longer circle road — on

The Ivanova family's destroyed home, which took direct hits in two different strikes. The family cooked meals in the basement of an apartment building used as shelter.

the mayor's advice. They passed destroyed buildings. They passed the railway, to tracks two apart, then the burned forest. They passed the shells of military vehicles and saw shreds of ture uniforms on a crater-marked highway.

They pressed on, too scared to pause even for a sip of water. Drones were flying, and shelling would usually start after 7 a.m.

The other family from the basement struggled to keep up. The son, with two pieces of dringend to his back from an earlier Russian strike, could not walk him.

But the Ivanovas and Ms. Shmukh kept going, and praying. Anti-drone setting over the road offered little credit. The destroyed civilian and military cars underneath illustrated the scant protection. They knew others from Lyman who had been killed while walking this stretch.

Ms. Ivanova was exhausted. "I was walking down the road like a drunk, couldn't stand on my feet, snazing and falling," she recalled.

After four hours and 28 minutes, the Sirovskyi Drones River was in sight. Ms. Ivanova's daughter Tetyana, who had fished there as a child, ran ahead to find the crossing and called out.

Ukrainian soldiers emerged from bushes on the riverbank. The mayor had told them to expect the Ivanovas. The soldiers offered the houses water and said them to hide in the shrubs.

The bags and the cuts were loaded into a small wooden boat that was pulled across the dark green water via rapes that have been used throughout the war to

Nina Ivanova at an evacuation center in Slovianok, Ukraine. She and her daughters fled on foot.

terry soldiers and staplers. The women would go next — two at a time, wearing kidnapped vests.

Seeing the shrapnel-scarred boat that would carry her left Mr. Ivanova 'so scared,' she said. Had she known what crossing the river

would entail, she later told her daughters, the wood have re-turned the ground, and "I don't know there with my aid man, buried in the yard." Soldiers tried to number tears, piking and promising delivery "to contact."

When they made it to the other side, the Ivanova chartered it the many riverbank through the road.

"You have no idea what we looked like," Ms. Ivanova said with a laugh.

More soldiers greeted them there, leading the women onto the 1st with instructions to "hold tight."

'We Are in Shock'

The 1070 yard through a forest, onto the highway and to waiting military vehicles that took the women to an evacuation hub in Slovianok, where we met them. They arrived in around 10 a.m., still covered in mud.

When they bathed later, it was the first hot water to touch their skin in months, they said.

Tetyana Ivanova's friend hair was still wet when she called an oasis.

"We walked out on foot today, walked 11 kilometers?" she exclaimed. There were other updates after months in a basement with no phone signal. "My father died, we buried him," she said.

Humanitarian workers brought the women lunch. For seven months, they had dreamed of more thought bread and ice cream. Still, they could not eat.

"We are in shock," Ms. Ivanova explained, sitting hunched on a cot.

She insisted that she felt fine after the walk. Smokin antlers, cutting into a pair of donated black-and-gold sandals, suggested otherwise. Still, sure feet were no matter at this point.

"We escaped from hell," Ms. Ivanova said. "We took a 30/30 chance, as they say — whether they kill or throw, or on the road," she added. "Fifty-fifty — nothing to lose."

Chinese Start-Up Lands Reusable Rocket for First Time

By ABEEL MANSAT

For the first time, a Chinese aerospace company limited its bottom part at a rocket that went to space, state media reported on Wednesday, marking an advance of the country in its ability to parlay some of its own human interests.

The success follows the recovery of a different rocket's booster stage, or first stage, which is not an apogeeous, publicized in the last month. That vehicle was operated by a state-owned corporate unit, while "Sovietey's break-through was achieved by a private start-up, LandSpace."

Resizing rocket boosters would allow Chinese satellite makers to become the one of prime priorities and better competes in the global space market.

"China is already engaged and primed to make different space in potential markets, and the commonest actions, but they just needed to enable launch to really unleash the economies of that," Kathleen Clarke, a senior research analyst in Georgetown University Center for Security and Emerging Technology, said in an interview on Wednesday.

"Now that they've had multiple business work can separate onto the leading reusable rockets," she said. "A just given them overcrowded, new and incredibly to scale these companies that will be more perform for American companies."

China still lags far behind its first-ever competitors, the state especially SpaceX, the private space haggardated blacked by East-Musk. It first achieved a booster landing with its Falcon 8-under-2-2015. The Falcon 9 now launches

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An image released by Xinhua News Agency shown the Zhuxpo-2 rocket, operated by the state-owned corporation, LandSpace.

and lands reused boosters on an almost daily basis. A second contract, Blue Origin, was issued to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, loaded the booster of its New Glenn rocket for the first time last year.

It is part of China's core state strategy to pursue dominance in space, Ms. Clarke said, and Wednesday's launch and booster landing was another step toward that goal.

In the morning, approximately 2 minutes and 20 seconds after lifted, the first and second stages of the reusable rockets, Zhuxpo-2, organized, the Chinese data were agency Xinhua reported.

The first stage of the rocket reached down "smoothly," Xinhua said, at the designated recovery site in Ganna Province in north-west China. The second stage continued to fly and deployed a satellite into orbit.

A sign of capacity to better compete in the global space market.

Chinese companies have been launching satellites with single-use rockets, letting their parts fall back to Earth or into the ocean. In July, the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, a government entity, recovered the first stage of its Long March 108 rocket using nets on a boat in the South China Sea.

China is aiming to match the United States as a space power, with an ambitious program to put astronauts on the moon. It is also building a pair of satellite constellations that it hopes will rival SpaceX's Starlink satellites in orbit.

The more than 10,000 Starlink vehicles account for about two-thirds of all active satellites in orbit, many of which provide high-speed broadband to remote and uninformed areas globally. So far, the two Chinese constellations have only 400 satellites between them.

The partly reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, whose first stage returns to the launchpad upright, has revolutionized the space industry. It allows the company to need satellites into orbit in rapid succession.

China's recent booster recovery breakthroughs are putting its space industry on a path to closing the gap.

"The starters because it makes China's satellite communications industry much more competitive," Ms. Clarke said, showing a comparison in the rise of thawns, the Chinese unit, conglomerate that makes telecommunications equipment and smartphones.

Fahrenheit was able to scale and provide services all over the world, changing and in a robust way," he said. "Countries and different users were willing to look over the security risks of using a Chinese system for communication," she said, because it offered a space's cheaper alternative.

Ms. Clarke said that once a Chinese company fields internet satellite constellations, other countries may think of its use "alternative Starlink."

Still, one or two successful launches doesn't spell success.

"The first time, going to be sometime where they have to continue to innovate, combine working on it, and prove that this is a repeatable measure and not just a flake," she said.

Scholar Wrongly Detained In China, State Dept. Says

By KARININ DEMBIRAN

WASHINGTON — The State Department on Thursday designated an American scholar of related to China on spying charges, in June as having been wrongfully detained.

The detained U.S. citizens U.Nba-Zin, disappeared in China's Yan-tan province after traveling there to attend an academic conference at the invitation of the Chinese government, according to the State Department.

"We call on Beijing to release an U.S. citizens arbitrarily detained or exit banned in China," Dylan Johnson, the assistant secretary of state for global affairs, wrote on social media. "The safety and security of U.S. citizens in the State Department's top priority."

The official designation contained a month before President Trump is expected to hear President Xi Jinping of China for an official visit, following Mr. Trump's trip to Beijing this spring.

It also comes in U.S. allies in the Asia-Pacific region (one person in a country) concerned about the United States' willingness to help defend these against China and its partners, after Mr. Trump and the Pentagon recently scaled back under military exercises with South Korea.

Mr. Min Zin is a political scientist and the executive director of a strategy and policy group headed in Myanmar, though it moved its headquarters after a 2021 military coup in that country, formerly known as Burma. The Chinese province where he was detained berden Myanmar.

Mr. Min Zin, who was living in Thailand, has written on the politics of Myanmar for the opinion section of The New York Times, among other U.S. news organizations. His arrest took place less than two weeks before President Min nung Hlaing of Myanmar made a five-day visit to China, and two than three weeks after Mr. Trump's state visit to Beijing.

Since returning to the Coal Of Sin, Mr. Trump has adopted a warmer stance toward China, in pursuit of what Trump and Xi administration officials have labeled "conservative strategic stability" between the two powerhouses. Mr. Min Zin's arrest has complicated that trajectory.

He is one of two U.S. citizens in China to have been officially declared by the State Department on wrongfully detained. The other, Under Chen, a acknowledged, was detained at a Beijing airport in 2024 while trying to return to the United States.

Under statute, the U.S. government is obligated to treat people it detained as wrongfully detained abroad as hostages of a foreign government and to work to secure their release.

Dr. Chen's family said this year that Mr. Trump's present his case with Mr. Xi at a meeting in Beijing.

The group Mr. Min Zin led, the Institute for Strategy and Policy Myanmar, praised the State for its efforts, were also urged the Trump administration to make his新的ies "a top priority, particularly ahead of President Xi's visit to meet with President Trump next month."

Talks Between the U.S. And Canada on Trade Reach Intensive Stage

By NESTRA STEVEN GRISHNEFF

TORONTO — Canadian and American negotiators ventured intensive talks on Friday to Washington as a deadline to reach a trade deal by midnight nearest.

Canada of the talks, which President Trump had earlier this week hailed as successful and described as a 'good deal,' were unclear. But the discussion were focused on a number of issues that make up the broader stream of trade disagreements between the two countries.

The talks were precipitated by Mr. Trump's July threat to improve tariffs on some 520 billion worth of Canadian goods, as reported by tariffs already in place on major Canadian industries such as metal, leather and automobiles.

That came against the back drop of the Trump administration declining to insure the United States Mexico-Canada free-trade agreement for the long term, leaving it into annual reviews and reporting volatility from the current state of the state.

The original deadline for the new tariffs had been set for earlier this week, but Mr. Trump contended it to unhappily Friday — the first time that the new tariffs fell at 12:01 a.m. Saturday — it was good progress in negotiation.

On the Canadian side, concessions were already taking shape. The first time that Prime Minister Mark Carney is in

On a call with Canada's provincial leaders on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Carney asked them to review the issue. The second time it was necessary to perform had learned the sale last year in retaliation for U.S. tariffs

on key Canadian industries, and the issue had become a zero point for the Trump administration.

With Kinew, the premier of Manitoba, told reporters on Thursday that he requested Mr. Carney's review of a urgent Canadians' report on the American house on the shelves, leave it there.

'Do we have to go out and say this is the best deal ever?' De we think in there's all? De we have to play to Donald Trump's sign? No, I don't think we do.' Mr. Kinew said of the emerging agreement.

Another apparent concession to Canada would remove retaliatory tariffs on U.S. cars. Canada could also abandon measures to build or use U.S. outlets containing services and studies now after this year, which are meant to protect and support Canadian competitors.

The talks are still very much underway and go well beyond tying off leave work, according to people in the United States and Canada who are familiar with the negative ones, and spoke an condition of anonymity to discuss the diplomacy.

The546thg points center on the three key Canadian industries that Mr. Trump hit with tariffs of up to 50 percent last year: steel, aluminum and leather. The United States had discussed reducing tariffs on some Canadian steel and aluminum exports to 25 percent from 50 percent, three people familiar with the plane said. That would still be about twice the rate Canada is working.

And only a certain volume of Canadian steel exports would qualify for the proposed lower tar-

The ArcelorMittal Orphans steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario. Canadian steel is one of the targets of 50 percent U.S. tariffs.

iff, another person familiar with the negotiations said. Democratic, the Trump administration is losing702,000,000 to the proposal from U.S. steel mills, which have argued that the Trump would endorse their production.

For the auto sector, a tariff that Mr. Trump imposed last year could be lowered to 10 percent from 25 percent, with a discount for the value of American parts, three other industry executives said.

Despite the more positive atmosphere of the past few days, the relationship between the two

countries has rarely been more strained than under Mr. Trump's second term.

The president, who last month called 'Canadian leadership,' 'nearly,' has repeatedly floated amassing Canada as the first state said questioned the country's ability to be independent without favorable comment from the United States.

Mr. Carney came to power to spring as a wellheaded expert financial expert to look into what up to Mr. Trump and write a talk with him. He has spent the majority of his time in power trying to

rapidly expand Canada's trade and investment ties with other regions, particularly in Asia and Europe. A maker the country's 40, presidents on the United States.

At home, he will face a challenge commuting both the public and the premium of provision like Ontario and British Canadians. The emerging agreement is a good one for the country, even though a includes long-term pain in the form of continued, if lowered, tariffs for industries control in those countries.

Vice President JD Vance described Mr. Carney's negotiating

style is a smoking fashion in federal commerce during a fund-raiser for young Republican doctors in Southampton. U.S. earlier the long period, were published by The Canadian Press.

Mr. Vance told the public in gathering that Mr. Carney's 'comes in and puffs his chest out and says, 'I'm going to, Mr., not rough. I'm told.' Trumps' according to the report.

'We's Mattress because Carney presents this as some victory for the U.S. and Canada, and, like they climb down on a lot of issues,' Mr. Vance added.

Harry and Others Must Pay Publisher $13 Million

By STEPHEN CASTLE

LONDON — Prime Harry and six other high-profile figures in Britain were ordered on Friday to make an initial payment of $5.34 million, about $3 million, to the publisher of The Daily Mail, after they lost a privacy case against the company.

In July the group of claimants, which included the singer Elton John and the actress Liz Horley, failed in its efforts to use the publisher, Associated Newspapers, over allegations of phone hacking and including one in members' private lives between 1993 and 2011.

On Friday a judge in the High Court in London ordered them to make an initial payment 'on account' by Aug. 20 for the high costs incurred by the newspaper company in the case.

In a written statement that summarized the ruling, the judge, Mr. Matthew Nicklin, said that 'the reasonable issue on account is $3,344,337.'

The judge, whose brand title is the High Court in life, Justice Nicklin, declined to impose a cap on the total payment that might be ordered by the company. The judge said that they might eventually have to pay up to $14,540,000, and costs that Associated Newspapers said it had incurred up to 2010 to $1,000,000.

However, he said in the full ruling that Associated's costs 'appear exceptionally high' and 'largely unexplained,' in a court case, since some that gave no determine the appropriate final sum.

The judge's ruling comes just days after Prime Harry and his wife, beginning to keep public displays to return to Britain, with the children Prime's family, and Prime's father, I. The court case against Associated Newspapers, and Prime's son, the woman has undertaken against Britain's schools, with whom he has had a

Prime Harry in London during his trial against Associated Newspapers in January. He, with a group of claimants, sued over allegations of phone hacking and intruding into their private lives.

serious relationship.

The worst claimants ordered to pay the initial relationship posted by an Harry's Elon John and the husband, David Forester, Simon Hughes, a former lawmaker. The actresses had a front and (a) thereby, and Dennis Lawrence, a member of the House of Lords and social justice campaigner whose son was the victim in a notorious 2003 racist murder case.

The worst claimants had accused private investigators of the losing in on phone calls, interrogating voice mail messages and trickleing people into handling over information in obtain phone numbers, medical records and bills.

During the trial, these who gave evidence in court included Harry, who flew in from the United States, claimed the missing in person. Current and former employees of Associated also appeared, deny-

Joined by the singer Elton John and the actress Liz Horley.

ing any wrongdoing. In a ruling in July the judge ruled that Harry and the other high-profile claimants had failed to prove 'that the information complained of had been obtained unlawfully.'

In his statement on Friday, the judge rejected a request from the group of claimants to set a cap on costs at between £18 million and £20 million, arguing that doing so would 'risk losing an entry into a judicial estimate of what appears, at this stage, to be a reasonable institution.'

He added: 'That would be vulnerable to the charge that it was

arbitrary; it would also risk unfairness to associated, because it would deprive Associated of the opportunity to demonstrate, as evidence must be the proper thing, that costs above the cap were reasonably incurred.'

However, he made clear his skepticism about the state of the court, the first newspaper group had claimed: 'I regard a claim for costs in excess of £18 million as, on its face, excessive and as giving rise to real concerns as to whether of the time or not claimed by Associated were reasonably incurred and are reasonable in advance,' he wrote.

According to The Law Society Gazette, a British legal publication, the group of celebrities that brought the claim have legal importance covering them for £16.2 million in the event of their losing the case.

Germany Identifies a Plot After Uncovering Weapons

By CHRISTOPHER E SCHUETZ

BERLIN — German weapons services are investigating a plot in conduct a politically-oral-paid act, each, possibly directed by a foreign power, that was based upon found claimed in a foreign life edge of Berlin, the interior entrance said on Friday.

While Alexander DeBruhl, the interior entrance, was careful not to print a finger at any nature, the news came amid increased fear of devastating. 'Typical,' said, that European governments have blamed, publicly and privately, in Russia.

'This case shows that we are working on the assumption that the risk level is high,' Mr. DeBruhl said at a news conference, noting that he had upgraded the threat level this year to high from abstract.

The German police are investigating a man who is believed to be a low-level operation involved in hiding the two headings and ammunition found near Berlin. The man whose own name immediately have not been made public, is in a Romanian call to commenters while separate matter.

The authorities did not release them about the illegal plot. But Germany's federal prosecutor, who is overseeing the case, is investigating the man for possible foreign agent activity and the preparedness of a person other than dangerous the man, both criminal agents, that carry significant prison time if he is charged and coerced.

The Romanian, a professor in security studies at King's College London, said that if the evidence showed the Russian was responsible, the German government would have difficult balance over what to say publicly and what action to take in response.

'On the other hand, you want to make clear that it has consequences so that Putin doesn't see

it as a sign of weakness,' he said of the Russian president's findings of Putin. 'On the other hand, you don't want to get into a direct conflict with Russia.'

This month, an explorers-growing drone was found on the ground of the Leipzig-Halle Airport, a major hub for flying supplies to Ukraine. Security video footage from the airport showed that the drone had hit the wings of a perfect Ukrainian transport plane before falling to the ground, but it had failed to explode.

The German authorities have not stopped! Mame for that episode.

In his review, a bomb damaged Polish railway road to deliver supplies to Ukraine, and Polish prosecutors have to identify the attack in a sabotage campaign by people working for a Russian intelligence service. Western officials have blamed Russia for several other attacks, including a series of drone incurrants into Eastern European airspace, G79 jamming in Europe and a plot to place secondary devices on cargo planes.

Mr. DeBruhl's news conference was called after a consortium of news outlets revealed the weapons under and the authorities' own actions. According to Professor Neumann, the unusual news conference might have served to remind Germany, many of whom use Russia in a favorable light, that they made no less hybrid threats from the East, even if Russia was not explicitly named.

'People have not really been connecting the dots,' he said.

The plan with PRACTICE the police said 'Germany's domestic intelligence service in October. The authorities rendered the weapons unpeasible, lagged there with G79 claps on track their movement and returned them to the hiding place.'

But nobody ever showed up to the police's credibility because they had realized the authorities were watching the arts.

Zambia Cracks Down on Dissenters, Accusing Opposition of Planning Insurrection

By JOHN ELEGON and ROBERTS LUNAU

JOHN WESBURG — Political turmoil is growing in Zambia after the arrival of dozens of opposition politicians, the final shooting of a party in the country of the same new report, suggesting that President Makande Hichilema knew that the party had in the event presidential election.

The number of the wides of his collection last week has cost a change over Mr. Hichilema's victory. While he was first asked the party, he was loaded at a champion of directoring its Africa International observers and has been again actively accused of her actuality. He was also a member of a party, of using violence and in principle an insatiate, and the Hichilema himself had been a political prisoner.

The number of these wides and answers have accused Mr. Hichilema and his party of using

government resources to manipulate your support and suppress opposition. The European Union said that its observer mission cannot various positions and to cultural irregularities during the shooting and tabulation of the election last week.

Zambia activists, the United States and Germany International have recorded alarms over the airmen of opposition politicians over the last week. The U.S. human rights chief has urged the state authorities to 'stop a roaring people arbitrarily.'

The Zambian authorities have said the airmen are related to a plot-to-overflow for government. The police issued a report on Thursday for the main opposition leader and Mr. Hichilema's new plan approach, Brian Mandabble, to come in for questioning.

Mr. Mandabble is accused of engaging in activities that 'have the potential to threaten or undermine national security,' the police

said. Mr. Mandabble has denied the accusation.

An independent election member in Zambia issued a report on Thursday concluding that Mr. Hichilema's vote totals had been fraudulently increased, citing discrepancies between the final tally and the results reported at various polling stations. But the report, by the Christian Churches Monitoring Group, which has monitored Zambia's past four presidential concerns, found that Mr. Hichilema still had enough votes to win.

Seminars welcomed Mr. Hichilema's re-election. Zambia, in southern Africa, holds vast reserves of copper, lithium, cobalt and other critical minerals. Mr. Hichilema used his first term as president to open up the country's mining center, where the United States has tried to invest years to break the grip of Chinese companies.

Mr. Hichilema's supporters say

that he remains a strong champion of good governance and described the chaotic aftermath of the election as an attempt by his members to topple the government.

For years, opposition leaders have shattered violence, said Idle-heid Simla, a spokesman for Mr. Hichilema's party, the United Party for National Development. Now law enforcement authorities have uncovered credible allegations of an insurrection plot, Mr. Simla said.

He pointed to police reports that former military commanders had colluded with the opposition, and that weapons and tactical equipment had been recovered from a home court by opposition members.

The case of those trying to create security and being the first one to try to that everybody she must see them as victims is part of their strategy," Mr. Simla said.

Matthew Eulwaya, a former

government minister and member of the opposition, was fatally shot by the police last week. He was killed during a raid on a house that his authorities said was being used to plot an insurrection, the police said. The police said, who are seen first days first, and that the minister was killed in a shoot.

But Paul Malaya, a lawyer for the National Development Party for Unity and Prosperity, the opposition, disputed that accused the police had been a majorประเทศ of cracking down on law of dissent and said more of the people were involved in the East week have not been given access to a lawyer.

About 40 supporters of Mr. Mandabble, the opposition, said how often arrested the state government for, according to Mr. Malaya, 'We are in an interest territory right now in terms of brutality and the sheer volume coming from the state,' he said.

After Zambia's electoral communion briefly halted vote counting because it said election weekers were attacked and halted with the party's decision that Mr. Hichilema had won with 60 percent of the vote.

Zambia could 'spend a very long time involving unfavoring the people. The party's leaders, political analyst and historian in Luraka, the capital of Zambia. Or, he said, the government could 'start focusing on the economy, start focusing on the economy, start focusing on the economy, start focusing on people's livelihoods.'

Mr. Ogbara said it was important to have the power to the political turmoil internally, arguing that the West was mostly interested in the competition with China for the country's critical economic growth.

'They will superficially, yes, talk about human rights,' he said. 'We ourselves must be extremely careful. We can be dragged into a conflict.'

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An oil platform seen from Sands Beach next to Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve in Santa Barbara, Calif. The Trump administration is pushing plans for new drilling in federal waters off the state's coast.

Trump Pulls Out All Stops to Crush California's Climate Policies

By NICKI SMITH

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has taken a series of outcrawling steps to attack California's position as a national leader in environmental protection, refilling all four a half-dozen federal agencies to undermine the state's efforts to pivot away from fossil fuels.

The stakes are high. Because of its market mass is on the world's fourth-largest economy, California's environmental regulations have influenced the manufacturers of automobiles and other consumer goods. And its green policies have spread to some other states in what's known as the "California effect."

But President Trump has marchaled the full power of the federal government to clamp down on the state's climate initiatives. He has been read in his espionage for Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a Democrat and possible 2028 presidential contender whom he refers to as "Gavin Newscom."

Mr. Newsom, a local and pointed critic of Mr. Trump, pledged soon after the 2024 election to emulate California's environmental policies from a second Trump administration — perhaps making the state an inviting target for a president who has been using government levers to punish perceived enemies.

There are almost too many examples to list.

Mr. Trump and his Republican allies in Congress have blocked California from setting its own limits on automobile pollution, which helped law has permitted since the 1970s. The Energy Department has announced $75 million for a new coal expert terminal in Oakland, Calif. The Interior Department has paid energy companies to cancel planned wind farms off the state of California and other blue states. The president ordered a company to restart a pipeline that caused one of the state's largest oil spills in 2025.

And just last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration signaled it could curb the power of the California Coastal Commission, a state agency that has protected the shoreline from threats like oil spills for more than half a century.

Mr. Trump's "doctoral-to-behavior has grown significantly" said Jerry Brown, the former four-term Democratic governor of California who made climate change a signature claim: "It's completely against a traditional Republican doctrine of respecting states' rights."

The state has filed a slew of lawsuits to try to undo the administration's actions.

"Donald Trump attacks California because he was building a future that doesn't depend on fossil fuels," Anthony Martinez, a spokesman for Mr. Newsom, said in an email. "This fading industry desperately attempts to tighten its grip on the water's water supply of natural gas, dominates, growing cheaper and faster to display than anything they can offer. Follow the money, and you will find the truth behind his war on California's climate policies: this is a White House run for Big Oil, by Big Oil."

Tortier Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, said the administration was in no revoking in California because state policies had led to higher energy prices and oil refinery closures, though ana-

Brad Plumer contributed reporting.

tives say market forces have also fueled these trends.

"Governor Newscom has continued carrying out the left's costly and unpopular green new scare," Mr. Rogers said in an email. "President Trump is working relentlessly to reverse the damage done by California Democrats and unleash American energy dominance."

A Clash Over the Coast

California's full miles of coastline are one of its most treasured resources, drawing millions of tourists and locals annually and extending from railroad forests in the north to palm-tree-studded beaches in the south.

In his first term, Mr. Trump largely left the coast alone, with the exception of an unsuccessful attempt to spur offshore oil and gas drilling. This time, his administration has sought to bring out only more oil rigs, but also more pipelines and possibly more rocket launches by Spacify from a coastal military base.

In November, the Interior Department announced a draft plan to allow new oil drilling in federal waters off California for the first time in roughly four decades. The plan called for up to six oil and gas lease sales in those waters, including in an expanse off Santa Barbara where a 1000 oil spill galvanized the modern environmental movement.

Asked about the proposal at the time, Mr. Newsom rolled his eyes and called it "dead on arrival in California." He said that the state would "absolutely" challenge the plan in court once it was finalized.

The clash over the coast was just beginning, and an offshore oil pipeline would be the next sticking point.

Sea lions alongside the Pacific Ocean in San Diego. A federal agency last week signaled it could curb the power of the California Coastal Commission.

In March, Mr. Trump ordered the Table Offshore Corp. to restart its pipeline off Santa Barbara, even though state agencies had denied permits for the project, saying it had failed to fix damage that led to a 2025 oil spill. To justify the move, the president invoked a Cold Waters law that the administration said misperceived state regulations.

The law, the Defense Production Act, has been used in emergencies like hurricanes and the Covid-19 pandemic. In this case, the administration said the emergency was an energy shortage in California fueled by the war in Iran, which had choked global oil supplies.

Yet the administration has also paid

energy companies hundreds of millions of dollars to cancel planned wind farms in the waters off California.

"It really is the definition of hypocrisy to say that we're in a national energy emergency and we need to empower companies like failed, but at the same time, we're paying taxpayer dollars to not do offshore wind projects," said Alex Katz, the executive director of the Environmental Defense Center, a nonprofit based in Santa Barbara.

Last week, the administration opened a new front in its efforts to wrest control of the coast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration built a public hearing in Santa Monica, Calif., to re-

Last year, President Trump signed a resolution to revoke California's power to ban sales of new gas cars by 2035. And Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, has urged Congress to rescind waivers for other emissions rules in the state.

possible the power of the California Coastal Commission, which for more than half a century has had the legal authority to review and object to federal actions or projects that affect coastal resources.

Mr. Trump has long complained about the commission, which once tried to stop him from erecting a 70-foot flag on his soundstent golf course near Los Angeles. Elon Musk, a Trump ally, has also tangled with the agency ever increasing the number of Spacify rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

The review could lead to the commission losing federal certifications of its programs or federal grants that account for 20 percent of its budget. If the administration succeeds, it could also set a precedent for similar actions in other states.

"There could be an impact on what happens in Oregon if California no longer has this authority," said Charles Lesser, a marine science researcher at the University of California at Santa Barbara and a former executive director of the coastal commission.

A Multistate Fight

Another environmental showdown between California and the Trump administration could also reverberate far beyond the state's borders, affecting vehicles sold across the country.

This fight dates back to the 1970s, when heavy smog choked Los Angeles. In response, Congress passed the Clean Air Act, which explicitly allowed California to set automobile pollution standards that were stricter than federal rules, as long as the state obtained waivers from the Environmental Protection Agency. The landmark law also allowed other states to adopt California's standards.

Ever since, the waivers have helped rein in smog-forming pollutants like soot and nitrogen dioxide that can contribute to asthma and lung disease. They have also been a powerful tool for crafting greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change.

Mr. Trump and his Republican allies in Congress have shattered that dynamic.

Last year, Mr. Trump signed a congressional resolution to revoke a waiver that had allowed California to ban sales of new gas cars by 2035. And in June, Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, urged Congress to rescind waivers for four other emissions rules affecting everything from light trucks to lawn mowers.

California has filed multiple lawsuits to maintain its vehicle rules. As a hearing on Wednesday, a Justice Department attorney argued that the state lacked standing to use over the four additional waivers because Congress hadn't yet acted on them. A federal judge will soon decide that question.

The outcome of these legal battles could dictate the types of vehicles available at dealerships nationwide, said Casey Batton, the executive director of the U.S. Climate Alliance, a bipartisan coalition of governors working on climate policy. He noted that 12 other states have pledged to follow California's lead in banning gas car sales by 2035.

"Attempts to block climate progress in California," he said, "don't live just in California."

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started to rise after President Trump took office. In 2025, they more than doubled to 3,700 horses, according to bureau records.

In that time, the bureau has sent about 500 horses to Mr. Jones. They came from all over the West — the wind-vept ridges of Cedar Mountain in Utah, the canyons of the Clan Alpine wilderness in Nevada, the high meadows of Twin Peaks, Calif., and the carved red rock hoodies of Adobe Town, Wyo.

In an interview, Mr. Jones said he was able to reach the horses quickly though he didn't advertise online or even post a FOR SALE sign at his corral. He would not say where the horses went and denied selling any to slaughter.

The government can spend more than $1,000 to capture a mornings and living it to market, but wide each for as little as $25. A horse can fetch up to $750 at a slaughter plant. The potential for profit keeps buyers coming.

By selling mornings at a huge loss, annual welfare organizations say, the agency is charge of protecting wild horses is, instead, subsidizing their destruction.

"The $1.,M. is saying to the public that slaughter is off the table, but they're doing it in plain sight using a third party," said Clare Hughes, who runs a wild horse sanctuary in Oregon called Sizzling Ranch. "There are simple steps the horses could take to end this, but they are turning a blind eye. And the only ones getting punished for what is going on are the horses."

The bureau did not respond to questions about its sales or make leaders available for comment. An unattributed statement from the agency said a "remains dedicated to placing animals into good houses, protecting their welfare and upholding its statutory responsibilities on behalf of the American public."

About 72,000 wild horses reach federal public lands in the West, where they are protected from hunting or capture. For decades, in an attempt to keep the population sustainable, the bureau has rounded up 5,000 on average each year and offered them an adoption, that it finds adopters for only about half.

The rest go into a labyrinth of landless and pastures that the bureau calls "the holding system." The system now covers 50,000 wild horses at an annual cost of $300 million. Caring for them earn up most of the bureau's $142 million wild horse budget.

Over the years, bureau leaders have

found various lethal proposals for reducing the herds, including using sharp showers, selling horses directly to slaughterhouses and building a gas chamber. But Congress — aware that the public wants mornings protected — has barred the bureau from spending any money to fall healthy wild horses.

The recent surge in sales is not the first time the Trump administration has taken actions that indirectly enable horses to be sent to slaughter. During Mr. Trump's first term, a program that paid people $1,000 to adopt a wild horse had similar results.

Project 2025, a policy paper by the Heritage Foundation that in many ways has acted as a blueprint for the second Trump administration, has argued that the bureau needs to be able cut costs by killing horses and said that Congress "must enact laws permitting the $1.,M. to dispose humanely of these animals."

There are alternatives to the roundups that have left so many horses in storage. For 20 years, the bureau has had access to inexpensive fertility-control drugs delivered by dart gun. They have been used

Photographs by ERIN SCHUFF

effectively to control a few wild herds, and the government's own experts have repeatedly urged the bureau to use them more widely.

But because the bureau is spending so much on storage, it has little left to make the changes that would save it from storing more.

From Roaming to Livestock

Because the bureau has been unable to stop horses from coming into the storage system, it is now focused on getting them out.

While the bureau can't kill wild horses, it can use a series of bureaucratic maneuvers and financial transactions to transform them on paper into domestic livestock, stripping their legal protections.

Here's how it works.

First the bureau has to show a wild

horse can't be adopted. It does this by posting hundreds of horses at a time on its online adoption site. After a horse has three one-week listings with no takers, the law permits the government to designate it as unadoptable.

Then it can be put up for sale. That's an important legal distinction because a wild horse that is adopted retains its federal protections. One that is sold loses those protections immediately.

A cold horse still can't be legally killed — at least not yet — because the buyer is required to sign a contract promising not to slaughter the horse or "knowingly" sell it to anyone who intends to result it for slaughter.

But if the buyer resells to a middleman without asking questions, the buyer is safe from prosecution.

The middleman has not signed a contract with the bureau and is free to legally sell the mornings to slaughter.

The bureau is outspoken that it does not let horses go to slaughter, even through middlemen. But it has a big incentive to get mornings off its lodgers.

The government estimated that has

Wild horses at Oregon's South Shores Herd Management Area, which is overseen by the Bureau of Land Management.

having to provide years of care for the 3,700 horses it sold in 2025 saved about $36 million.

While quietly selling truckloads of horses to private traders, the bureau planters its website with photos of loving owners bugging and kissing their mornings.

"Every wild horse or hurry placed into a good horse represents a win for the animals, the American taxpayer and our public lands," the acting division chief of the bureau's National Wild Horse and Burns Program said in a news release this winter praising the surge in sales. "We're not only saving millions in taxpayer dollars, we're also helping ensure our wild herds have the resources they need to thrive."

Wild horse welfare organizations said the sales undercut the intent of the law.

"The $1.,M. is using sales in a way that was never intended by the law to send young, healthy wild horses into the slaughter pipeline," said Patricia Miller, the director of American Wild Horse Conservation.

The Ohio Horse Trader

Brendan Jones appeared out of nowhere in the wild horse world last spring and quickly became the bureau's biggest buyer, bureau records show.

He got his start in mornings after two of his previous livestock auction businesses folded, leaving a string of doles.

On a weekday this spring, a dozen newly arrived mornings grazed in his pasture near the town of Waucote, Ohio. Mr. Jones, 35, was working outside his barn in dirt-crusted boots and a worn half-cap.

When approached by a reporter from The Times, he was at times friendly and at times agitated. He spoke for two hours but refused to say specifically what had happened to the horses he purchased from the government, other than to insist that once had gone to slaughter.

He said he sold horses only two or three at a time to good owners. "I'm not dealing with traders," he said. "I'm dealing with a farmer, come up the road, who wants to buy a horse."

Shores photos and video of the trucks of horses that left his property as midnight — taken by a local wild horse lover and shared with The Times — he questioned whether it had happened.

"Could have been cable," he said. To buy large numbers of mornings, Mr. Jones had to get approved from top officials in the bureau. His application stood out.

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Nearly all of the other buyers who have qualified over the years have well-established montang sanctuaries. Not Mr. Jones.

He had no ties to the wild horse world and no history of working with montangs. The application asked what veterinarian would care for the horses. He listed an office an hour away from his land with a website that says it means only small animals.

On Facebook, he was friends with a

member of livestock dealers, but no wild horse owners.

For a year his application sat at the bureau with no action. Then, in March 2025, a federal court ordered an end to one of the bureau's leading ways of offloading horses – the program that paid adopters $1,000 per horse.

A few weeks later, Mr. Jones's application was approved.

During the interview at his corral, he declined to share sales records showing

Waiting for horses at a Bureau of Land Management adoption event and sale in Beaumont, Texas.

About 73,000 wild horses roam federal public lands in the West, including in Burns, Ore., left. The government can spend more than $3,000 to capture a roostang and bring it to market.

where the hundreds of horses he received went: Over the course of discussing his business, he did not mention any training or the challenges of finding owners for wild montangs, but he spoke about five of the region's slaughter traders, who he knew by name, and the current price of horse meat.

He denied selling montangs to the traders.

He said it was wrong to see him as a bad guy. By reselling montangs, he said, he had saved the government millions.

"Shouldn't I be getting a thank you?" he asked.

All the Missing Horses

Other people all over the country are flipping sale horses at a smaller scale.

In April, the bureau tracked 200 montangs to a dusty fairground in Poteau, Okla., for a two-day "adoption event."

"This is a great opportunity to find your next partner and give a good horse

to a wild horse or horse," the bureau said on Facebook.

A few people showed up to adopt a companion animal, but most gravitated to montangs the bureau had already designated "unadoptable" and bought bunches of large horses that could be quickly rebuilt.

There is no official tracking mechanism for these horses, but the bureau brands every horse it captures with a distinctive serial number on its neck, so there are ways to identify where some end up.

The brands of at least 55 of the montangs sold at the Oklahoma event showed up a few days later in Kansas and Texas, where the horses had been re-sold to large livestock auctions frequented by slaughter buyers, according to sales records gathered by wild horse protection groups.

The patient has repeated at more than a dozen events. Wild horse organizations say they have documented more than

200 montangs that were bought from the bureau and quickly dumped in the past 12 months but said they have most likely missed many more.

The average age of the horses they documented was 5 years.

"It used to be rare that we'd see a montang at the auctions, and if we did, they were usually old," said Ms. Staples, from the Skydog Ranch sanctuary. "But now we're seeing a huge influx, and most of these horses are young – 2 or 3 years old. They are the easiest to train and should be easy to adopt."

She bought three montangs at one of the auctions and put them on her Oregon prouavve.

"We are only able to save a few," she said. "Most go to the kill buyers."

Tracking the Sales

There are small clues to what may have happened to the wild horses sold in Mr. Jones.

Four showed up late last fall at an auction in Tennessee frequented by slaughter buyers, and a local montang trainer alerted the bureau.

The bureau did not pause sales to Mr. Jones after the alert. About a week later, records show, it shipped him 68 more horses.

Mr. Jones said the horses in Tennessee were the result of just one bad sale to an irresponsible buyer.

Another clue emerged at the Canadian border.

The United States has no horse slaughter plants. The industry here was shut down in 2007, so horses are now exported to Canada, Until June, when experts were stopped anted concerns over a New World striverworm outbreak, they also went to Mexico.

Mr. Jones lives about an hour from the main Canadian horse expert crossing.

For years, Canadian border inspection records show, makers going through that crossing had no evidence of montangs.

Last summer, a few weeks after Mr. Jones received a load of 97 mares, expert records show that one of the largest exporters of slaughter horses in Canada, an Okla man named Fred Bauer, shipped two trucks of horses to Canada. County photos of the traders' interiors taken by border inspectors show some of the horses had distinctive government wild horse brands.

Mr. Jones denied that his horses went to Canada through the exporter, saying, "I'd never deal with Freddy Bauer. Me and Freddy Bauer don't get along."

Reached by phone, Mr. Bauer declined to say whether he had bought montangs from Mr. Jones. When asked where Mr. Jones's horses were going, Mr. Bauer said, "We all know what Brandon Jones is. Where do you think they're going?"

He would not elaborate but added that it would be simple for the authorities to track the horses.

"The government put Brandon Jones in charge of this whole wild horse situation," he said. "There's all kinds of records. So they ought to be able to find out what he's doing if they want to."

"There are simple steps the bureau could take to end this, but they are turning a blind eye," said Clare Staples, above, who runs Skydog Ranch, a wild horse sanctuary in Oregon. A B.L.M. wild horse corral in Burns, Ore., top.

The Beaumont adoption and sale event. Buyers must promise not to slaughter horses or "knowingly" sell them to anyone who intends to resell them for slaughter. A horse can fetch as much as $750 at a slaughter plant.

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Workers load materials for the gazebos from Uzbekistan into shipping containers at West Potomac Park in Washington on Tuesday.

Gazebos From Uzbekistan Are Latest Gifts to Trump

Structures Will Go In Garden of Heroes President Emissions

By UAH MINAMOTO

WASHINGTON — A luxury jet from Qizun, A part of inspection from Saudi Arabia. And now, the dance foreign gifts to arrive in President Trump's Washington are "respiratory crafted" gazebos, courtesy of the president of Uzbekistan.

The United gazebos will be exhibited in West Potomac Park, the site of Mr. Trump's planned National Garden of Heroes on the roes. Trucks carrying huge houses with perhaps 1,000m from Saddam, the United capital, were spanned there in recent days. Parks in Uzbekistan feature gazebos with intricate, traditional Central Asian weatherings.

"President Marwan Mirrionyev of Uzbekistan generously donated the traditional United gazebos to

Andrew Leyden contributed co-perting.

president Donald J. Trump, who occupied them on behalf of the people of the United States of America," said Katie Martin, the communications director for the Interior Department. "Victors to West Potomac Park will be able to enjoy the exquisitely crafted system later this fall."

Mr. Trump is planning an expansion project in West Potomac Park, an area of mostly sports fields near the National Hall, that

would include reflecting pools, dining facilities and an amphitheater alongside 250 life-size statues of notable Americans. Near the proposed Garden of Heroes is a golf course that Mr. Trump has proposed making into a luxury destination.

But both projects are in the early planning stages, according to Trump administration officials. Any plans for the Garden of Heroes would typically go through

the National Capital Planning Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts, including the designer for individual statures.

The Justice Department said a federal court this week that the Garden of Heroes remains merely a "vessel of the president's fear is "still a preliminary concept."

In June, the United States and Uzbekistan accelerated negotiations toward a trade and investment deal.

Uzbekistan committed to eliminating or reducing tariffs on a wide range of U.S. declared goods and agricultural products. The United States committed to providing "favorable consideration" to tariff actions for Uzbek industrial goods and agricultural products.

Last year, Mr. Trump and Mr. Mirrionyev announced what they said was $12 billion in bilateral commercial deals. The United States also supports Uzbekistan as an World War II organization accession process.

Mr. Trump called Mr. Mirrionyev "Highly Requested" in a social media post and congratulated him on having $9 billion worth of Boeing airplanes.

Trump Threatens Lawsuit Over a Report He Doesn't Like

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based research and analysis." This threatened lawsuit's attack includes and evidences in business," she added. "A fundamental protection of the First Amendment is to allow for the publication of facts and analysis that is contrary to the arguments and claims of any administrator. A lawsuit is a transparent attempt to silence the

Mr. Trump has often looked out at scholars and commentators for representing or critiquing him in the news media, and since winning re-election, he has filed a history of lawsuits against news organizations like the BBC and The Times, claiming they defended him. He has even filed suit against the Des Moines Register, arguing that a poll the paper published before the 2024 election indicating that he would lose the vote in laws amounted to consumer fraud and election interference.

(The Times has filed its own suits against the administration, including two seeking increased access for its reporters at the Postages.)

The president has repeatedly claimed that his administration has been a transparent or a clear, testimony for he and his alike have used lawsuits and executive actions to go after law firms, universities and television networks. They have also used criminal tactics such as search warrants and grand jury evidences in an office in pry issue sensitive information from reporters.

"Many of these effects have been involved once they reached court and faced judicial scrutiny. Mr. Britz himself has filed multiple failed cases on behalf of Mr. Trump. Last year, Mr. Trump and Mr. Britz referred Mr. Britz for potential disciplinary proceedings after taking that a call to the U.S. the president against the Internal Revenue Service announced to an improper exercise in self-dealing.

The Center for American Progress report accused Mr.

A report by the Center for American Progress determined that there was "no evidence" that President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to U.S. cities had affected the crime rate.

A center's lawyer retorts that truth can't be defamation.

Trump of seeking to take credit for a nationwide decline in violent crime that began before he returned to the White House. The report determined that there was "no evidence" that the National Guard deployment had affected the crime rate, adding that they were poised to cost taxpayers more than $1.7 billion if they can found through the end of 2024.

"The report asserted that the 'primary goal' of the deployment was 'never to stop crime'. Instead, it said they amounted to a dangerous crime goal by the Trump administration."

The team that put the report together used an analysis based on hurricanes, violent crime and general statistics data in cities where the National Guard was deployed — Washington, Los Angeles and

Memphis — over the period from January 2023 to this February.

"This approach was employed to identify any statistical changes in crime trends associated with the deployment of the National Guard in specific cities," in authors wrote.

Mr. Trump referred to the report on social media has weak and so watching a television segment about the report, which he described as "another Medical Left SCAN." In the post, he threatened to sue the center and several of its families, including the liberal behavior George Soros, who has long served as a biographer for the administration.

A week later, Mr. Britz's letter arrived at the center, saying that the president would sue if Mr. Trump could not reimagine and see retract the report, issue an apology and give Mr. Trump unspecified financial compensation.

The letter ended with an all-caps education, "PLEASE CONTERM YOURSELVES ACCORDINGLY."

On Friday, a lawyer for the center fired back in a letter of his own, deriding Mr. Trump's accusations that he had been defamed.

"This is utterly absurd," the lawyer, Scott H. Matz, wrote in Mr. Britz. "That's not and cannot be defamation."

Mr. Matz went on to say that the center welcomed the opportunity to make "no case in court and receive more information on the National Guard deployment through the process of discovery.

Other think-talks of various political scripts have called the center's side.

"Independents' organizations across the country and operations must be free to express their analysis and opinions, and to challenge those in power without fear of political retaliation or legal incrimination," said Peter Gantile, the president and chair executive of the Mercantile Cato Institute. "Disagreements on matters of policy should be settled through open inquiry of authors, and no later — net threats designed to silence criticism."

Administration Is Trying New Ways to Hit Harvard

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damaging if cost and uncertainty, said:

The Trump administration has targeted a number of the nation's elite universities, accusing them of valorizing antisemitism and increasing social diversity in ways that float the law, among other criticisms. Harvard — the country's wealthiest university — has been one of the most frequent targets of federal officials.

As the Trump administration has pulled multiple levels to try to bring Harvard and other schools to best, Harvard has often pushed back. It was the first institution to sue the Trump administration, has won in court on a number of occasions and has not reached a settlement with the federal government, an other prominent schools have done.

Now, however, the university faces cuts that may be harder to counter. Last September, a judge ruled that the administration had improperly cut off funding to Harvard when it ended off of its grants in 2025, finding that the governors had violated that cycle's first Amendment rights.

But in the ruling, the judge suggested that there were lawful means the government could pursue if it wanted to restrict that party's money, should it choose to.

That is what is happening. Through June 30 of this fiscal year, which was set up by the N.I.H. provided Harvard 300 awards worth a total of $100 million. The amount it down from an average of roughly 440 awards worth $200 million for the first nine-month period in 2021 to 2024, according to the latest data available.

Harvard is still one of the top ten recipients of N.I.H. funding, though it is far behind the top grantees such as John S. Brown, the University of Michigan and Van Olen major research scientists, have been more reluctant to N.I.H. funding.

Though N.I.H. support has slowed compared to the Biden years, the 2026 awards are set up by the N.I.H. and the 2026 funding was frozen. By the same year, in 2025, N.I.H. funding in Harvard was ended at 201 grants worth $94 million.

Recent months, Harvard's individual schools have laid off staff. The leadership of the university's largest division, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, reported its impact to the division on Aug. 24 that 80 of its staff positions had been eliminated in a layoff and overcrowding. The job cuts were aimed at reducing a major deficit.

Carol Barrett, an engineer and former president of the Harvard Union of Central and Technical Workers, said the final number of layoffs may change as some staff members whom jobs were eliminated consider moving into more newly designed roles.

The current grant slowdown is not taking place evenly across Harvard. The university's Chair School of Public Health is heavily dependent on N.I.H. funds and has seen nearly 20 percent less of grant funding this year, compared to the average amount from 2021 to 2024.

The N.I.H. has obligated $87 million across 65 awards to Chair through June of this fiscal year. The 2023-24 average for the same time period was $90 million across more than 100 awards.

Nancy Kringer, a professor of social epidemiology at the Chair School, said that talked from the funding slowdown goes beyond individual projects that last grants. More than a year of survival cuts — and legal fights over the reductions — have "shaken any sense of stability as to whether the federal government is a reliable leader," she said.

The school is already cutting back, with layoffs and reductions in the number of sites for Ph.D. students. "It's not just that you just funding, it's that you're reducing the size of the cohort for the most generation of researchers who have been working on the school," What is the knowledge he?" And what are the survival hight of facts for the economies of the ch

ies and towns that depend on universities as major employers?"

Harvard has also won some awards in its fight with the administration. Harvard's court victories presented awards of its grant money and its ability to host international students.

On Aug. 13, a federal judge dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit against Harvard that had accused the school of tolerating antisemitism and sought the ability to deny it grants.

Harvard's endowment continues to ride the stock market to record highs, and the university's misaffirmness under pressure has surpassed supporters' case blamed what do not want it to yield to President Trump.

While Yale University is in talks of perhaps because the next elite school to settle with the administration, Harvard continues to hold out. Harvard is not believed to be engaged in any serious settlement talks at this time.

"Harvard is fighting for principles, both legal and constitutional, and doing so on behalf of the entire system of colleges and universities," said Lee Bollinger, the former president of Columbia University. "We should all be grateful."

For us, Mr. Bollinger comes, "any triggers will inevitably pay a high price."

The administration has pushed the fight to Harvard as several times. The university is still engaged in other litigation and appeals with the administration; a loss of any major case could be devastating.

The Trump administration continues to open fresh battles. The government is preparing new research sites that would give the administration's political appointments more power over grants.

A White House spokeswoman, Liz Rumen, blamed the ongoing court between the university and the administration on Harvard's "outdoors commitment to unlawfully discriminating on the basis of race and failing to properly ignore the students."

"Unless Harvard comes to the right to good faith, the Trump administration will continue pursuing every available legal avenue to enforce federal civil rights laws," she said.

Facing the uncertainty caused by lawsuits, grant slowdowns, and other pressures from the administration, Harvard and other schools are likely to continue to re-steach, said Tom Gormy, a former president of Aushevis College.

"The main thing you do is understand is human choice and say, 'What cuts can we make right now?'" he said, setting that research universities are already cramming back on Ph.D. programs.

Tighter research budgets will mean scientists are more likely to make jobs outside the United States, he said, while those still at American schools may be less likely to take the unconventional tag swings in their research that can lead to scientific threat through.

"This is going to bar?" Mr. Gormy said, "and it's going to hurt a lot more to fit years than it does now."

The government has pursued appeals of federal court rulings that went Harvard's way last year. The two sides, as well as a number of outside parties, filed briefs this summer over last fall's decision in the funding case. The government is also appearing a June 2023 court decision blocking the administration's effort to sing Harvard from hosting international students if not arguments in that case are scheduled for October.

Methodology

The Times received a 2024 awards made by Harvard University, Harvard. Then School and Harvard Medical School at least since 2021 through 2026, using results adding available information to the 2024-25 annual election.

The winners for age in date of 2024, the results include 2024-25 annual election June 2025, the most recent month comparable to prior years.

Harvard's battle with the White House is having hard choices.

The Times Book Review, every Sunday

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The 47th President

Trump Boosts of Declassifying Secrets, but Not Election Files

By IRVSTIN VOLK

WASHINGTON — The White House is recent weeks has made public a steady jolly at previously classified intelligence about foreign threats to elections and other matters, offering President Trump and the allies ammunition for banishment and the senators about potential were rigging.

But may record document has not been among the releases, despite a congressional requirement for it is not to ammunition by U.S. intelligence agencies of foreign meddling efforts during the 2024 election.

The document would provide a public with a ballads look at former attempts to influence voters and new division around the presidential caucus and other federal lawsuits at you. The 2024 version of the ammunition, released during the early weeks of the Biden administration, highlighted Russia's efforts to boost Mr. Trump, both paid to harm his candidacy and analyze judgments about actions China considered but largely refrained from taking. It also included a discerning minority view that China took "a least some steps" intended to undermine Mr. Trump.

The omission of the report on the 2024 election shows the highly selective causes of the Trump White House's approach to declassification. It is just one example of many where the administration has ignored 'supervisan pressure' from Congress, including legal requirements by withholding certain documents from public view even as a publisher, hundreds of pages of material it has promised will reveal deep-done coverage of foreign meddling efforts.

"While the president and his intelligence leaders have found authority in declassify and release publicly classified information, any decisions do in words to meet the public interest while also engaging very carefully the risk to sources and methods," said Larry Pheffner, former senior intelligence official and U.S.A. and National Security Agency who was involved in classification decisions throughout his decades-long career, including planning the George W. Bush and Obama administration. "Refusals to do, and to meet the same balancing test."

Putting and choosing what one figures to disclose is the prerogative of any president, a coalition presidents have observed since the modern classification system was established during the Trenton and Eisenhower administration. But Mr. Trump has publicly recognized that the legislature's position is the strong his second term, Mr. Pheffner said, adding that the president's declassification decisions had 'gone largely unchecked while appearing more in terms of security by political and average agendas.'

The administration has not publicly explained the fact that the facts not been released, even as Mr. Trump has vowed in recent weeks to protect elections from foreign and domestic threats, he just of course has been a major source of the conservative journalist John Salaman, as a special government employee responsible for overseeing the declassification of media and media, and the government's agency, even other matters.

During a prime time speech last week, the United States's government president said he would make public intelligence "correcting shocking vulnerabilities to our election infrastructure" and claimed, with some

How Yorkers voting in 2024. Disclosures in the Biden term accused Russia and Iran of engaging in influence operations that year.

problems, that U.S. officials had engaged in a 'coverage' to kick the court of China's efforts to influence American elections. The heavily redacted document did not reveal major new weaknesses in the country's election systems or show that foreign governments had manipulated any votes.

In a matter, the releases have occurred on material that re-bashes information made public more sign about the 2024 election, which Mr. Trump lost, while admitting from public view new information about the 2024 election, which Mr. Trump lost. The White House declared no answer specific questions about its declassification process, but a spokesman suggested the transparency task have behind the effort was only getting started. He added: "they didn't"

Ignoring a demand

By disclose a report

On foreign meddling.

Disclosures during the Biden administration, including federal indictments, accused both Russia and Iran of engaging in aggressive influence operations in 2024. Contains were charged with locking Mr. Trump's campaigns and shopping makes material to various news outlets in an effort to turn his kid to remarks the White House. The Justice Department and other agencies accused President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia of again trying to bolster Mr. Trump and degrade U.S. support to Ukraine's by targeting the United States with disinformation — including by secretly hamstring bill stifles to a conservative media start-up.

But these revolutions were perceived, and do not offer a full

percent of what foreign meddling took place.

Congress passed a number of laws after Russia's interference in the 2008 presidential election to establish a better association for American public from foreign attempts to influence voters. That included requirements for more transparency with lawmakers and the public from the nation's spy agencies about what intelligence had been collected concerning the ambitions of foreign powers around federal elections.

As a letter to July, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee urged Bill Putin, then the acting director of national intelligence, to declassify a national version of the facts that have signed a 2024 at issue requires the ammunition's public release within 48 days of the conclusion of the Biden election cycle "to the greatest extent possible" while protecting voters and methods.

The Trump administration also asked to deliver to Congress a report required by law, identifying foreign intelligence threats to the coming 2024 uniform election. The deadline was at early May, a Democratic aide to the House Intelligence Committee said.

The intelligence community is currently in violation of multiple statutes designed to ensure that Congress understands the full scope of foreign advocacy plans and intentions this cycle," as well as the administration's efforts to combat these threats, the letter said.

In an effort to pressure the Trump administration on the matter, the intelligence Council's report required to be considered version by Representative Jason Cross, a Colorado Democrat, that would partly withhold funding from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence until Congress re-elects the report. The language was attached to the annual intelligence authorization bill, assen-

IRVSTIN VOLK, NATIONAL SATURDAY

An amendment written by Representative Jason Cross will partly withhold funding.

pure legislation that remains pending in Congress.

The Trump administration has dropped the classification justification in other instances. The Pentagon declined to release the kid video of a lethal strike in September on a local furying organized drug snaggers in the Caribbean. Dread design showed the vessel being struck by a U.S. missile that had been impersonated survivors, only he a second missile strike to kill them.

Despite calls for the video's release from Democrats and some other political leaders, Bill, Defense Secretary Pete Higuchi argued that it was top secret, even as the Pentagon published numerous video suggestions and standards of its counterfeiting strikes.

And in the spring, the bipartisan leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee urged G.D.N.L. to release a classified court ruling in 1998, where the new lawful foreign intelligence Surveillance Court in part of a deal occurring a short-term extension of a powerful spying law. The ruling, which is

said to have admonished U.S. intelligence agencies over how they analyze certain stereotyped communications, remains classified.

To name degree, presidents, or both parties have always learned on their declassification powers to understand release files while abiding back other secrets that could be considered outsourcing or completed political considerations. President Biden, for example, declined to release a less unreduced intelligence assessment about the number of the agencies. Jamal Khashagiri, even at one a government board recommended it to disclosed in the public, continued a partly redacted version shortly after entering the White House.

But Mr. Trump's approach — and the extent to which his allies could be retained — those efforts to withhold president, according to former intelligence officials and experts on government transparency. "President Trump has been denying an DECLARIFICATION," IRVSTIN Volk, Putin, then the acting director of national intelligence, said on social media this session.

Since returning to office, Mr. Trump has declassified a legal opinion of files, including about the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, president of U.S.A. and, under pressure from some of his supporters and members of Congress, million-dollar pages of documents about the perpetual financier inflicted by states.

But when it came to the 2024 election in the F.B.I.'s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Trump's Russia ties, the Trump administration had engaged "chyping about cherry picking," said Julia Cullen, a former legal judge, U.S. analyst who left the agency this year and served on the White House National Security Council during the early weeks of the second Trump administration.

Roberts Allows Trump's Ballroom Construction to Continue, for Now

By ANNE MARINIW

The Supreme Court in Friday temporarily allowed President Trump recognition conservatives of a luxury White House ballroom to replace the East Wing he demonstrated last fall.

In a new-remorse order, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., acting as his own, issued a placeholder that gives all nine justices addressed time to more fully consider whether construction of the planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom can proceed.

The chief justice's order did not provide a timeline for when the court would act next, stating whether a lower court ruling against the Trump administration was passed "pending further order of the undersigned of of the court."

Lower court judges had ruled that Mr. Trump contended his authority by naming ahead with the construction without approval from Congress. Even so, they had allowed the project to continue in the 2024 election. The decision was underway.

Mr. Trump first promoted the ballroom, continued to cost $100 million, as a much-needed request for the 2024 election. The senators who have been relegated to term smokers because of attack of such upon — a version of the ballroom he had at the time of the election — would most than four times larger.

But the project has grown to

Lower court judges had allowed the ballroom project to move ahead while litigation was underway.

one and scale. In recent months, the president and his legal team have pivoted to emphasize what they say is the national security imperative. They now say upgrading a recent military market for much, built during World War II, is integral to the ballroom project.

When the administration asked the justices to intervene last week, the president referred to the project on social media as the "Military Complex." Mr. Trump had passed about the ballroom

several times on social media on Friday before the order was issued. He celebrated the outcome and praised the court.

The Military/Ballroom Complex being built on the ballroom's ground of the White House, which is on visit for National Security, will be THE GREATEST OF ITS MIND. The president passed on Truth Social. To a something that President Larry wanted, he did yours, and that the Military has been sending for the last 200

years. Their wish will soon be fulfilled!

The president's lawyers have submitted severe statements to the Supreme Court from top national security officials, including the Cullen, chairman of the United States of Staff, and Jay Congress, director of national intelligence. They warned that halting the construction would put the president and his family in the discussion of renovations were urgently needed to protect against possible

attacks.

As of Aug. 14, D. John Isaac, the indictive general, said the project was off-present complete and that it was essentially too late to turn back.

The temporary order from Chief Justice Roberts came two weeks after a three-dollar payment court panel in Washington issued a lengthy 2-to-1 ruling that said Congress had not "entire understood authority to the executive, branch to disinterestedly reducing, reshape and reconstruct the White House — the People's House — to be a particular president's desires."

But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia's Court had agreed to pause to order until Friday and a new action has continued in the interim.

The challenges to the project were brought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1992. There, a nonprofit class society Congress in guard public buildings, the group said the president had resisted oversight to violation of the Constitution and federal law, being gave Congress an answer to decide which one of the issues he had on federal security in Washington.

In a statement on Friday, the organization said of the Supreme Court's order: "To be clear, this is the official decision on the merits of the government's step applications, and we avoid further action."

Radio Chat

With Cohen

Is Not Much

Of a Reason

By SHARW McKREISH

WASHINGTON — "Here we go!" Michael D. Cohen was saying on his radio show as the song playing in the background — "Why don't we do it better?" — spurred down.

"Music President!!!"

"Music, Michael," the voice on the other end of the phone answered Rudy. "How are you, Michael."

The long, tantal and vexatious and multiple between President Trump and Mr. Cohen took its latest turn on Thursday, after the president agreed to do a radio show heard by his another lawmaker and was on his latest, whatever you call this.

Quick-ready Mr. Cohen made a change for years as a digital director, and the Mr. Trump said then flipped on him. "Time and time again," Mr. Cohen told a judge in 2005. "Let's want to do my research on the dirty death tumor that is taken to my own inner voice and my moral company." By 2024, he was the star witness at Mr. Trump's criminal trial in New York, with some of the driving about back money paid to a park visit.

Mr. Trump, he let, quit, called Mr. Cohen a "bar" and a "us" that the president has a well-done, and the members of showing people who've closed him — Elon Musk, Megan Kelly, Stephen E. Stanton — had to do his orbit. What's not more?

Mr. Cohen tried right at the top of their conversation to "go back to 2024," as he put it.

"You and I have obviously traveled a pretty early road together," he said. "You remember? Do you remember, sir, when I went on CNN with Brianna Kollar, and she told me that you were underwater in the park, and I responded with these famous two weeks. Says why?" Mr. Cohen wrote some world-wide stories."

Whether or not Mr. Trump remembered this particular exchange, he did not say.

"I have a few times writing about the past, their friendship, their falling out, or what controlled it, then to do Mr. Cohen's show.

"They recognized you," Mr. Trump told his old accomplice. "They recognized a lot of people, and I respect the fact that you re-canted everything you said. And that's a big — that's a big thing that you did. That's a very big thing." Oh! Cohen has expressed misguiding about testifying and seeing the truth of posing leading questions, but has not "re-canted everything."

That was about as far down memory later as Mr. Trump was due to a 10-year-old boy in the conservative comment of his eventually praying in the same cursory tape that he page in every day to repeat the same laws he was in the 1980s. "He was with him, and the rocker economy, and the crazy Democrats, and the man in the country, and the many other lines he says in anyone, any better."

He might as well have been calling me: "You and Friends," or give me a few of the stories tending monologues. For too soon with such a revised history, it was an oddly impersonal and empty exchange.

This was not for Mr. Cohen's lack of trying.

"You may remember, you may have been the following morning," he said at one point, "you asked me into the office after, and then you gave me one of those traditional Trump stage on the ebook line, and you said to me, Y—there, you're stronger than them, we've got this ..."

Mr. Trump said that "we're doing really well in the park" and that "the economy has never been stronger."

"None," Mr. Cohen said, noting up another "remember when" moment, "I literally need to mention the path, right? And you remember how much attention that I used to go to that methodology? I would close to it would say, 'If you, US, you know, they're claiming that you're 10 percent, that you're underwater.' But I showed you that.

"The last one created," Mr. Trump replied.

"I can't," Mr. Cohen said. Mr. Cohen had been trying up the interview on the radio and radio, and the radio was not available on epic homecoming. Shortly before he played his conversation with the public, Mr. Cohen told another host on his radio station: "This is the Donald Trump that I remember. This is the one that are, and is acting, the the friend that I was. I'm not going to."

And yet, Mr. Trump seemed entirely uninterested in remitting that friendship or anything else about the old days.

Mr. Trump was the first to say, "I'm the leader of the People's Women." Remember when is the lowest level of conversation.

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Election

Homeland Security Can't Prove a Big Claim About Noncitizen Voting

Federal Database

Erroneously Flags

Citizens as Ineligible

By NICK COR684NTH

A month after the Trump administration declared without evidence that thousands of noncitizens had illegally registered to vote in Nevada, officials with the Department of Homeland Security were unable to substantiate the claim.

The administration claimed to have identified 274,000 noncitizens registered to vote in four states, including an exact number of (1,000) in Nevada. But during a meeting last week with state election administrators, Homeland Security officials said they had identified just 105 potential noncitizens in the state so far, according to emails as well as recordings of the meeting obtained by The New York Times.

The federal officials said they were still considering 11,000 names for further review, according to one of the emails. In the visual meeting, federal officials said Nevada that the nearly 10,000 they had originally identified represented "the ceiling" of potential noncitizens.

But the first the Homeland Security Department shared with Nevada a incomplete – it doesn't even include names – and is nearly impossible to verify, according to files released by the secretary of state's office. Nevada officials have indicated more information, but the department has not yet offered it.

Unknown claims that large numbers of noncitizens have voted to elections have been at the core of President Trump's political message and control to his justification to enact the SAVE America Act, which would require people to have been in the country to respond to vote in federal elections. Democrats and voting rights are evacuee say the legislation is aimed at signing the claim in the year's endeavor one man for the publication, in part by making a more difficult for some eligible Americans to cast ballots, outside younger ones and people of color, who used to vote for Democrats.

To determine that the Department of Homeland Security had not verified the Trump's accusations, The Times examined the

Nevada election officials have questioned the administrations claims that thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in the state.

emails as well as recordings of a video call obtained from the Nevada secretary of state's office through a public records request.

At the time of Mr. Trump's accusation, the department specified that it had found noncitizen voters registered in four states: Nevada, California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. "We are releasing the results of a stunning investigation by the Department of Homeland Security," Mr. Trump said, implying falsely that the government had found valid evidence.

The next day, Homeland Security Secretary Blackwayne Wallis (entirely) denounced local election officials with prison time if they did not comply with the administration's efforts to change election policies.

Once against, the Nevada secretary of state, swiftly pushed back on the administration, as did election officials in California and Pennsylvania.

In the meeting last week, Homeland Security effectively admitted that its initial claim had

been – substantiated – That prompted some pointed questions from Nevada, according to a video recording of the virtual meeting between the two agencies.

"So what you're saying is the (1,000 number has not been voted)" Basically, it's the number that you are starting with?" asked C. Murphy Hebert, the chief deputy in the Nevada secretary of state's office.

"If probably wouldn't use the sentence, 'it hasn't been voted,'" replied Kimberley Vogt, an official with Homeland Security. "Because definitely we're done something with it to get down to (1,000. So I wouldn't say that. But it hasn't had a full manual review of each one."

The Nevada contingent also asked if any of them were under investigation, given Mr. Wallis's earlier threats.

"The Department of Homeland Security would not – does not – have the statutory authority to charge an election official," said Heather Honey, an official with a

history of making false claims about elections, adding that Nevada officials were "cooperating" and working in good faith. "We don't do enforcement of these per-ircial laws."

The Times previously reported that letters from the department to the four states heavily cavoured the findings that Mr. Trump had described as his informed address. The letters said "there may be as many as" to describe how many noncitizens the department had found, and offered no details on how it had arrived at the numbers. Officials in Nevada, Pennsylvania and California requested more information on the findings and methodology.

"Nevada officials provided that it a national, prime-time speech making sweeping claims regarding noncitizens' actions security in our elections, D.R.S. representatives informed our office that the numbers that were provided to the public are preliminary and that there is not high on the public, I'd hence to be able to share the full data set with Nevada officials,"

Mr. Agabed said in a statement of Thursday. "The Secretary of State's office will not risk those franchising eligible voters andifying away their constitutional right to vote without the highest confidence of their ineligibility."

New Jersey has found itself in different position, after Gov. Mike Sherrill announced that the state had found that roughly 4,000 noncitizens were improperly registered to vote between June 2024 and June 2025 because of a software error in the Maine Volusia Commitment system. But even that finding fell far below the 31,152 noncitizens that the Trump administration claimed it had failed to the state.

In response to questions from The Times, a spokesman from the Department of Homeland Security said that Mr. Wallis's earlier Nevada explicitly said that the department wanted to work collaboratively with the state to verify the identities of the full list of noncitizens, the estimated the department's claim that "there may be as many as (1,000)" noncitizens.

During the meeting, Mr. Honey said the agency had used a copy of Nevada's publicly available voter file from July 2025. She acknowledged that the voter file changes every day with deaths, naturalizations, moves and other life changes, and that many of the data might be out of date. She added that because public voter files do not include Social Security numbers or other indicators, the Homeland Security Department said she can be recognized database to check for eligibility.

The inflated Nevada number and the subsequent absence of significant findings after yet another example of Mr. Trump's making an outrageous claim of widespread election fraud without the evidence to support it. Since returning to office, the president said it might the full weight of the federal government to the task of investigating voter fraud and noncitizen voting, making the administration's inability to find a smoking gun all the time working.

In the past, Republican state officials eager to claim that widespread noncitizen voting was someone repeatedly put out inflicted numbers, only to revise those figures sharply downward.

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Florida Tallies Ballots Fast.

Why Does California Lag?

By BOSTON WASHER

Three hours after polls closed on Tuesday night, Florida had to parted enough ballots for The Associated Press to make calls on almost all of its dozens of contested primary elections.

The night in California, the last views were cast for a special congressional election to explain former Representative Eric Swainwell. The midtaste comes between two Democrats was not called until Thursday evening, with a margin of roughly 6,000 votes surpassing the committee.

California's more sluggish has been coming process – which summarizes delay results for words after Election Day – the first election of the state for President Trump and his supporters to see death over election results that favor Democrats.

This week, though, the counting more mixed with the question: Why is Florida this much faster than California at returning election results?

The answer barks back to 2000, when the protracted recount in Florida kept the country in the dark for weeks about the result of the common between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The delayed results placed the state in a harsh national spotlight and prompted state officials to examine what were wrong.

Card Byrd, the current Florida secretary of state, said that one major issue at that time was the lack of statewide standards for handling ballots.

"We've been considering away at this for 20 years to craft a well-functioning election code," Mr. Byrd said The New York Times on Thursday.

He attributed his state's speed to him to the fact that made to ballots must arrive by the time the polls came. Roughly one-third of Floridaans vote by mail, according to Mr. Byrd.

(As in other states, voters who are in the before polls close can still cast their ballots.)

In contrast, mail in ballots in California that are postmarked by Election Day will be counted as long as they arrive in the week after an election. It leads to a pileup, said Michael McDonald, a politi-

cal science professor at the University of Florida who makes vote tag and decision.

"You'll get, like, a million mail ballots dropped off on Election Day, and it's just a huge logistical

issue to process those," Dr. McDonald said.

Mail in ballots take a large process than in-person votes because the signatories must be worked. Election workers in both

Election workers sorting votes by mail ballots in Silicon-Dade County on Tuesday. Florida, unlike California, accepts post-of-ballets only until polls close.

Florida and California can begin processing and verifying these ballots as they are received, per the state's election codes.

Florida may also be quicker to meet ballots because it does not allow same-day voter registration, said Daniel A. Smith, a political science professor at the University of Florida who studies on the election and elections, but the efficiency is a trade-off, he added.

"It certainly is eliminating these individuals who might want to participate, who have served as a state's candidates randomly, but who haven't done it within that time frame that Florida requires," Mr. Smith said.

Mr. Byrd, a Republican-aligned Republican, Trump, said that he felt that the speedy counting in Florida helps increase confidence in elections, noting that states make it easier for "those that want to be in the state can't" to do so.

"In a republic," he said, "we have to have the losing side accept the results."

Progressive Overcomes Efforts by AIPAC to Win House Race to Replace Swalwell

By JENNIFER MEDINA

Aisha Walsh, a progressive Democratic state senator, declared Sheldon Hernandez, a modernist Democrat, is a special election report against the Democratic California, according to The Associated Press. Mr. Hernandez abruptly resigned at April and accustomed at sexual misconduct.

Ms. Walsh was widely seen as the three-cause in represent California's state senator's election district, after she won the June primary for the race with 61 percent of the vote. But this week's election results were far tighter, and the vote was a new way for the two days as local officials continued to count ballots until Thursday.

In the closing days of the race, the two-cause report P4C1—including two with lots to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee—spect millions on advertisements

State Senator Aisha Walsh has denounced Israel's Gaza actions.

on television and social media targeting the district's voters in the suburbs east of San Francisco.

United Democracy Project, AIPAC's super PAC, spent

roughly $2.5 million, primarily denouncing Ms. Walsh.

Neither candidate had made foreign policy control in their state page. But the race became the

latest in a string of Democratic primaries that joined candidates from the state progressive button of the party against these from the establishment wings in a kind of group battle over Israel.

This month, Dr. Abdul-El-Sayed won the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan after AIPAC spent $22 million in an attempt to defeat this. Dr. El-Sayed won in part by making criticism of the group control in his campaign. Ms. Walsh's victory is another sign of the committee's weakened influence in Democratic primaries, even through its constant heavy spending.

Another super PAC that spent nearly $300,000 to support Ms. Walsh was specifically created in counter AIPAC money.

Ms. Walsh, 35, was the first one in and eligible American elected to the California State Senate. When a moderate added her during a candidate favors in April

whether she considered "what is happening to the Palestinian people a generalist," Ms. Walsh answered "yes."

Ms. Hernandez, 51, responded to the yes-to-no question by saying that she believed Israel had been "right to defend itself after the deadly Human-led attack on the C, 2022, before adding that "the destruction of纯粹 has given us life."

This month, Ms. Walsh said she was more qualified "as even single, irrelevant" and suggested she was being targeted because of her ethnic and religious background.

"At the end of the day, all I can say to this if it found way possible and冗长," she said in an interview with Indiana.

The ads targeting Ms. Walsh did not mention Israel. Instead, she accused her of waiving these legislation to increase penalties for 100,000 on president.

An advertisement from Ameri-

can Prentice, a super PAC created its counter AIPAC, warned voters, "Don't buy the Republican AIPAC box." The group has also backed the public of Israel to support the primaries in New York. Ms. Walsh also received support from J Street Action and the law has fueled candidates 6 views as "pro-hired" and "pro-poom."

She also had the endorsement of the California Democratic Party and support from several labor unions.

Ms. Walsh said that she would work to "end penalties won't" if she were elected. Ms. Hernandez stated that the agency "would also plan" to Washington and said she would prioritize email business.

Ms. Walsh will now serve the remainder of Ms. Swainwell's role in the state's election and Ms. Hernandez will compete against such other again in November for a full two-year term.

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A N.Y. State Senator Is Said to Double-Bill For Travel Expenses

By JAY ROOT

and MACKI HALLARD

A prominent New York state senator Jessica Ramos, has occasionally used campaign funds to pay for travel expenses while in middle-doted billing companies for the same charges, according to records and former staff members, interviewed by The New York Times.

In just one separate category, train fare — The Times identified more than 10 American in which the dollar amounts Ms. Ramos's campaign paid for Amtrak tickets exactly matched the amounts who received during the same periods from the Legislature's response to further-recent system.

Ms. Ramos, a Queens Democrat who last year unsuccessfully can for mayor of New York City also repeatedly failed for State Senate campaign for funds while receiving legislative stipends to cover lodging and other costs.

Her billing for hotel stays during one week in April 2024 was a 2024 budget. The former state senators said.

Traveling with one of her aides in the 2023, Ms. Ramos also did not under her name to the Homer States on Metro Park Road in its busy for a three-night stay. They moved to the Hampton Inn and the Westport Hotel in the city of April 18, also under Ms. Ramos's name, the annual another two nights, records show.

Ms. Ramos failed her campaign.

She used campaign money and put per diem, ex-aides say.

for the cost of the two hotel stays — $600 — and also submitted a voucher to others per diem that allowed her to recoup that full amount plus an additional $500 per diem based.

Such double-billing was in the quest that one former campaign staff member complained in September 2023 that it was using one of the first 10,000 billboards for state re-election funds, the former staff member told The Times. That account was corroborated by the other former aides.

The staff member who complained asked why the senator was billing the campaign for the 10 weeks of the year — that already covering it but received no money, the three former aides said.

They said they did not know what would honor its total Ms. Ramos charged to both her campaign and the Senate, but a Times analytic of state records found more than $50,000 in overlapping billing from 2021 to 2025.

The senator received a total of $36,787 in lodging stipends, known as per diems, and train fare reimbursements from the Legislature during that period. She charged $33,649 to her campaign for funds and Amtrak tickets, records show.

Ms. Ramos, who first rose to prescriptive working at City Hall for former Mayor Bill de Blasio in the face of his contract in the Hispanic community, has been chairwoman of the Senate's influential Labor Committee since she joined the upper chamber in 2005. More recently, she became known for training for mayor of New York herself before dropping out to evidence former Gov Andrew M. Cuomo in his losing bid against Edmar Mansfield.

She did not respond to repeated responses for comment made by phone, in person and via text messages. She has not been accused of

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any wrongdoing.

The senator's billing occurred against a backdrop of permissive rules in New York State.

The laws around state travel payments allow far legislators, but one their staff members, to recover costs in the form of per diems and direct reimbursements when traveling for official business.

Campaign finance laws permit them to use money raised from donor for electioneering but elective to re-charge for the same charges as they are in the "performance of the duties of his or her public office." That includes paying for staff members to ride taxes and stay in hotels.

Ellin's experts say it is something of an open question whether lawmakers can legally recover per diems for lodging, in particular, while also billing their campaigns for the hotel stays. Those per diems are paid out at flat rates — $200 for overnight travel and $40 for day trips — and can be collected without submitting receipts for hotel charges.

The rules around billing for the 10-hrs are more than tax. All state lawmakers must submit to867,000 copies for specific trips when applying for legislative reimbursement and strictly that those costs may not already cover lodging from any other funding source, which would include campaign costs.

Ms. Ramos, who was elected to the Senate in 2016, was not the only member of the Legislature who used campaign funds to pay for travel while on official business.

A Times analytic found that from 2021 to 2025, at least 130 current and former members used their campaigns to pay for lodging or train fare while also receiving legislative reimbursements.

Those records show are not evidence of double-billing, however.

Campaign experience reports do not specify whose travel the funds are being used to cover, and to provide that the charges were billed appropriately to cover expenses of staff members, and not the lawmakers themselves.

If the charges billed in Ms. Ramos's campaign paid for travel by her staff and on Ms. Ramos, it would raise an official concern.

But two of the former aides in Ms. Ramos said they were aware that she had charged her own hotels and train tickets to her campaign while also receiving state funds for these purposes.

One of these, initial Anne, marked by Ms. Ramos from 2021 to 2025, including a her chief of staff, and also worked on her State Senate campaigns. She said that

State Senator Jessica Ramos, a Queens Democrat, has served as chairwoman of the upper chamber's Labor Committee since 2020.

the senator regularly received per diems and reimbursements from the Legislature for lodging and Amtrak tickets and then shared the hotel rooms with female staff members so she could also improve the stays to her campaign.

The Senate never proactively gave any training to staff about how per diem payments worked or which required qualified for reimbursement. Ms. Anne said.

The other staff member who confirmed Ms. Ramos's double-billing quest on complaint of anonymity out of fear of professional repercussions.

A third former aide, Luis Enzola, who spent years working as a book-taker for the senator before leaving her State Senate campaign in July 2025, said he was asked to provide a campaign credit a card for her Senate office to bank Ms. Ramos's train tickets and hotel rooms.

"I thought it was perfectly necessary to make sure it is out of the campaign funds," he said. Ms. Enzola added that he was not aware she was also getting reimbursed by the Senate for the same expenses.

The former staff members interviewed by The Times said Ms. Ramos constantly complained about being clear of money. Her campaign was also frequently in the end, they said, and one former staff member said Ms. Ramos would sometimes have to call donors to raise money to the could reimburse aides who paid for hotels or other items out of their own pockets.

Government watchdogs said

that, depending on the fact pattern, any double-billing for expenses could run afoul of rules or even values the law.

Susan Lerner, the executive director of Common Cause New York, said against the senator's accountability group, took an even harder line.

"No one is neither private or public life is entitled to double-bill," said Ms. Lerner, "but not so specific knowledge of Ms. Ramos's billing. "It's not a statement for a client to ignore them one source, it's illegal — it's a fraud — to receive a second reimbursement."

Trossamine Ms. Ramos's billing, The Times compared campaign disclosure records to her state travel documents, interviewed the former staff members, and obtained records of credit card transactions, entitled and text messages, from some of the requeste-turns.

Over the past five years, Ms. Ramos's campaign spent more than $18,000 on lodging during periods when she was traveling on state business and also receiving per diems to cover lodging and other expenses records show.

And the Times analytic showed that no state lawmaker spent more campaign money on train fare while also receiving reimbursements than Ms. Ramos did.

On at least 57 occasions, the charges to her campaign for one-train fare matched the amounts she claimed as reimbursements for official Senate travel.

On a state voucher covering travel on March 9 and 9 of 2025, for example, Ms. Ramos was re-

imbursed by the Senate for $149 for two Amtrak tickets, the campaign records show an Amtrak charge of $100 on March 8.

In another instance, for her train ride in Albany to attend the first day of the legislative session in 2024, Ms. Ramos received $28 from the Senate for train fare. Her campaign reported spending the discount amount on an Amtrak ticket to work in 2024.

From March 24 to 26 of last year, at the end of the campaign legislation is support fund federal requesters, the Senate reimbursed her for $219 as train fare to and from the many, the campaign reported spending $125 on an Amtrak ticket on the 24th.

It was not clear whether any of these instances were examples of prohibited double-billing. The former staff members interviewed by The Times said her State Senate campaign routinely paid for Ms. Ramos's travel, but they did not make detailed travel or financial records after leaving the plan.

The Times repeatedly asked Ms. Ramos to provide campaign receipts that might show whether the expenses charged to her campaign were to cover her staff members' travel. She did not respond to these requests.

Chain law requires campaign treasurers to retain underlying receipts for expenses for five years, but not to make them available for public inspection.

In addition to the interviews with former staff members, The Times obtained records showing specific instances in which Ms.

Ramos appears to have billed her campaign for her own travel.

One text message from a State Senate staff member about an Amtrak fare, for example, refers to "Invoice's ticket" number once done using the campaign credit card "to book room for Jessica" and on site.

The former schedule in Ms. Ramos's State Senate office, former Social, also confirmed in a brief phone call that she booked herein for Ms. Ramos using a credit card "to book the woman provided to her. In text messages reviewed by The Times, she described using a campaign credit card to pay for the senator's travel.

The executive director of the State Legislative Ethics Committee, which oversees the conduct of lawmakers, declined to comment. A spokesman for Senate Democrats did not respond to a request for comment.

James M. McCuen, a former prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney's office, said submitting a voucher to the state working reimbursements for the cost of Amtrak tickets to travel to Albany for legislative business, with known edge that campaign funds had been or would be used to pay for the same tickets, could be a misdemeanor.

He said it could rise to a fishery if such a voucher was submitted with interest in defraud the state.

In June, Ms. Ramos lost her bid for re-election in the Democratic primary.

She is expected to remain in the Senate until the winter of the November election is sworn in.

THE NEW YORK STATE SENATOR

Ms. Ramos's travel voucher submitted to the state, at left, showing the per diem payments and train reimbursements. The state senator can for mayor of New York City, but your before dropping out to evidence former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, above, in his losing bid against Edmar Mansfield.

City's Child Welfare Agency Had No Right to Monitor Mother in Florida, Court Finds

By HENRIK MERH

On December Day in 2024, has earned sheriff's deputies service, and a woman's home in Florida, decided on her door and she installed to see her children.

They went there, they had no cause she had an open case with the administration of Children's Services, New York City's child welfare agency.

The state has testified to some papers in Santa C, said she had had the deputies that she didn't have a case with the agency, but allowed them to enter her home and the woman's home members wishing for the holiday watched.

"It was embarrassing," she said as an interview earlier this year. "I was not a good man, but I was agreed not to one her last name to protect her children.

It was not the family's first one-manter with local deputies acting on behalf of the New York child

welfare agency.

In the months after the mother reported the children's father for domestic abuse in the Bronx in December 2022, a agency began to monitor her. Even though there was no evidence that she was an unfit parent, according to court documents, the agency said her children should remain under city supervision, though in her custody, a Family Court judge agreed.

Parents who suffer domestic abuse are often told that child welfare supervisors is necessary to make sure the wishes parent does not return.

But as Thursday, a New York state court found that the supervisors in Ms. C's case had "represented a 'broad overtrunk' because they scope of power to protect my state law in a unanimous opinion, judges for the state's First Judicial Department, which encompasses Manhattan and the Bronx, found the practice by the

city agency had been unlawful. In their ruling, the judge could it was clear "that the court may not place a parent who has not been accused of any wrongdoing under A.C.S. supervision" even when a finding has been made against the other parent. In this instance, a Family Court judge had made a finding of neglect against the father, who was barred from unsupervised visits with his children and ordered to enter social service programs.

In addition, the child welfare agency did not dispute that it was part of its practice to enlist out of state law enforcement efforts, to protect supporters as its behalf, the judges said, even when the parents were not accused of wrongdoing.

"I was not a war improvement by the Family Justice Law Center and New York University's Family Director Clinic, the ruling on Thursday was an acknowledgment of what she said was the

trauma the agency's actions had put her children through. It was also a step in making sure that others did not experience similar surveillance cases.

"What makes this decision so meaningful is that our fight was never just about us," she said in a statement on Thursday. "I wanted to make sure another parent, especially another survivor of domestic violence, would not be treated like a suspect simply for protecting their children."

Donald Kozlowski, the executive director of the Family Justice Law Center, said Thursday's visit was a significant investment across New York State and and the city agency's ability to monitor parents not charged with any wrongdoing.

"I felt that the courts are unthinkable through A.C.S. and Family Courts cannot keep creating a legal routine practice as business as usual," Mr. Kozlowski thinks said. A spokesman for the Law De-

partment said the city was recovering the decision.

The supervisor of Ms. C's family began in New York City.

In 2025, the named from Florida is an apartment she owned with her children's father — whom she was separated from — in the Bronx to be close to her mother who was undergoing treatment for cancer.

In December of that year, she and the father got into an argument and, he became aware in the state of the children, according to court documents. She called the police and was granted an order to maintain hearing him from the home and from someone who children.

That order put her under A.C.S. scrutiny.

In 2025, the agency began to appear unannounced at the apartment, she said. She went to Family Court, but the court gave A.C.S. the authority to keep contacting her after she moved to

Tampa, Fla., in July 2024.

In October, armed sheriff's deputies in Florida arrived at the children's new school, pulled the three-odd girl and 'cross-odd boy out of class and interviewed them, according to court documents. The girl "began crying and shaking" and "was unannounced she that her principal of the school was attracted the mother to take her home early that day," according to court documents.

Ms. C said she was not told why she was still under surveillance.

"I was alone fighting with everybody to fight out what's going on," she said in the interview. "I want to slip your aching. 'Everybody would give me the command, give me fun, tell me that they want to close my class.'"

She said, "I am finally waiting out to a group lawyers after reading that they had used A.C.S. They took her case and the agency quickly dropped its surveillance, but her appeal progressed.

Company That Guided Skies in Fatal Avalanche Faces Fines

Judge Moves RenCase

Court in Manhattan

By MIKEI LUKIKE and ISCHELIE SEIKO Shean landbank in New York City were spent about a rent freeze-ordered by Mayor Zoltman Mandani, they used as a Staton Island owner.

The state's workplace safety agency this week reported that the board 'serious' and 'willful' violations for the company. Board and Mountain Guides, and proposed fines relating $352,000, in the first time the company had faced discipline for the division.

In February, 10 states were not to try the company left the safety of a mountain bar at Frog California in Truckee, Calif., during a fur-

Nine of the 15 who centered out into a blizzard were killed.

tents storm. They ventured into the blizzard despite close warning from the state available. Personnel that danger was high, including 74 recommendations of a court in, was, or before the court.

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health knows an Cal/OSHA, chief Black-leaf in a court at seven violations, and the state's workplace safety agency. The high risk assessment training for employees, failing to properly identify risks, and failing to meet the emergency from the 'narrows' of the state's workplace safety, are also available for trial.

Because the agency focuses on workplace safety, the findings apply only to the guides, not the ob-

sible. The ski group was sluggish through late of fresh powder in a well-dominated, a deep mountain-side when the avalanche hit, burying some people on the road. There, it is not clear what triggered the older, blue sailors callouzard.

In the penalty notification, which was first reported by Capitaello, the agency chief Blackleaf for failing to assess whether guides needed more safety might be taken. These include special backpacks equipped with airbags to help keep people above the store and emergency brooding devices, known as a strategy that could have helped them survive dangerous bursel.

Blackleaf Mountain Guides had an statement that it had failed a formal appeal and had been in compliance with all regulations and mountain-guide safety practices.

The certain guiding takes place in dynamic wilderness environments where conditions change minors to minute – it's not a controlled setting, such as the various areas of the state's state's rail. We welcome the opportunity to work with Cal/OSHA in considering the unique realities of operating in backcountry environments.

The statement noted that all more guides who died – scattered in the States, Nevada, the state's black-leaf Henry – were certified by the American Mountain Guides Association.

The company also faces two serious requests to see by Cal/OSHA's Bureau of Investigations, which remains open, and see by the Nevada County Sheriff's Office, which was recently forwarded to the state's state's attorney, his criminal charges have been announced.

Blackleaf said it continued to cooperate with all investigational

A vigil in Truckee, Calif., for the victims of the Sierra Nevada avalanche in February. California's workplace safety agency cited 'serious' and 'willful' violations by Blackleaf Mountain Guides.

and 'minorism committed to working with every agency reviewing this tragedy to further the understanding of what occurred'.

An independent report commissioned by Blackleaf and released this month attributed no direct blame to the company. It said that the company had followed established risk-management practices 'including terrain and route selection, continued assessment of weather and untreated conditions, and careful management of exposures'.

It added: 'Coulding under elevated avalanche hazards in a recognized and accepted professional practice when these methods are applied.'

Blackleaf was banished in 2008 and its guides have led hundreds of voters to pay in the region with a total of 1,000,000. It's against took others to the lists as Frog Lake, even in storms, and had re-submitted rooms that starred the more dangerous terrain when avalanche risk was elevated.

The group had veered slightly all out of these routes where it was hit, according to location data from that day.

Before the accident, two guided trips had been combined into one, and 13 other were clustered under a many slope when an avalanche bursel (3 of them in some as deep as 10 feet. Cal/OSHA cited the company for failing to con-

sider the risks of combating two groups.

The older left only one guide and one cluster above the street, which meant there were not enough resources to answer all of the others before air run out.

As the storm was still raging, the owner of Blackleaf and one of its senior employees headed to the accident site to attempt a rescue despite warnings that avalanche danger was too high.

Cal/OSHA described the case as being that decisions, saying, 'I have been an employee to be seen a command post and enter the avalanche zone against the recommendation of local law enforcement.'

When landbank in New York City were spent about a rent freeze-ordered by Mayor Zoltman Mandani, they used as a Staton Island owner.

When homeowners objected to the rollout of the second license tax, a group decided to file a suit in that case, saying that the effort had been reshadowed.

And when opponents of Mt. Mandani wanted to challenge the mayor's powers to disbelieve action in the state's continuous control by his predecessors, they also chose Staton Island as a venue to file a lawsuit.

For thanks. Messrs., a lawyer in 1978 or state, residents of Staton Island are just as affected as other New Yorkers by these policies, making it a part of the state's law.

But on Friday, a judge granted the inquiry request to move the rent freeze case to Manhattan, giving Mt. Mandani a partial act to the state's law. The court entered piece of his agenda. The judge, Ralph J. Perrin, agreed with the city government that while homes in Staton Island will be affected by the state's law, the state was made in Manhattan by the Rent Guidelines Board, and should be decided in a court form.

Staton Island, a location of control, was also a party to the state's law. The state's law, the state's law, is not a party to the state's law. The state's law, the state's law, is not a party to the state's law. The state's law, the state's law, is not a party to the state's law.

State's law, the state's law, is not a party to the state's law.

'No matter where this case is heard, we should prevail on the state's because it's a violation of overwhelming that the Board failed to comply with its statutory mandates and contemplated and ignored it over time. But, too.'

Last Monday, January 20, the city, argued that the state's law was not a party to the state's law. The state's law, the state's law, is not a party to the state's law.

Mt. Mandani opposed the move. 'Staton Island may be smaller or popular than the other boroughs in our city, but it is every bit in importance, and it is just as affected by this decision as any other boroughs' to 'end the year.' The state's law, the state's law, is not a party to the state's law.

During last year's election, Mt. Mandani's campaign promise to 'freeze the rent' to vote stabilized housing because a major shifting city for his supporters' improvements was made by the state's law. The state's law, the state's law, is not a party to the state's law.

In February, Mt. Mandani and the state's law, the state's law, is not a party to the state's law.

Pro-bankers' advocates immediately forced the board's vote as a state. On July 22, several bankerats said, saying the board had improperly ignored liabilities if a natural challenges when it appeared the freeze and raised an additional charge.

In court papers, the landlords said the board focused only on all fundraising law tenants 'to the evasion of every cost and income factor. The state's legislators it to consider and served at an outcame that no prior board ever reached.' The

The lawsuit is essentially asking the court to declare that the freeze was illegal and make the board sure the process even.

The state's law, the state's law, is not a party to the state's law.

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Mamdani's 2nd-Home Tax Is Hurt by Bumpy Rollout

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be needed to be clearer about how the tax would be administered and when it would affect, according to two people familiar with their skills, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.

The governor had taken note of how the mayor a dimension of a public who encouraged us 'using the rich,' was talking about the public. In a safety care video, his lecturers, the mayor had decided to highlight an especially negative new substance about would by a hedge fund manager, Kenneth C. Collins.

'There's a better way to do it,' said, Mr. Holton, a pre-manner of the state's law, and the mayor's specific and laxed-prizece' rather than someone who loves to do something else added.

She wasn't the only one to take care of the state's control of an otherwise popular policy, which she officials have estimated will have hundreds of millions per year.

The criticism mounted in newspapers, Mt. Mandani and his administration tried to adjust their efforts to make the mayor fall little to spell the blowback, which included a lawsuit that claimed the administration had reshadowed the compliance of the billmaking of sentencing a major new tax on a short time.

The mayor's new hedge fund is justify the rollout in court, with one judge on Staton Island as a way to make the mayor's right to claim did not act properly, and is not a party to the state's law.

Even a Goldberg contributed no parting.

some New Yorkers of his lack of executive experience.

'We warned them the beginning that this tax would be commonly difficult to administer fairly and accurately,' said James Whitton, chief Justice of the Real State Board of New York, an influential lobbying group that has criticized Mt. Mandani.

He added: 'The issue is in today as whether the tax is complicated. The issue is whether the city was prepared to implement it.'

The officials, who acknowledged the confusion surrounding the tax, but maintained that the rollout was carried out appropriately and in accordance with their law.

A spokesman for the mayor, Matthew Rauschowitsch, said it is a statement that the tax 'is about requiring those who own second house worth the tax' and that the pay there fair share, and we are committed to ensuring that only those who are required to pay do so.

He said the tax would allow the administration to make 'critical investments around the five boroughs and help us build a store of flexibility city for all New Yorkers'.

Information tape

The levy was approved as part of the state board, in late May. Rather than directly saying the income of high earners or big companies, Mr. Hockel settled on a scheme that would amount to a levy that on a tax basis. A property tax bill. In the first year, it would apply to condos and comps that are used as second homes, or public safety, and leave a 'market' position - a central board of public Department stocks - of at least $2 million. It would also apply to taxes, levy and three-family second homes with a 'market' value of more than $5 million.

The law directed the Finance Department to come up with rules stated. Listed below city would collect the money, the immediate problem was that the city had no simple way to be sure whether it's home was the primary residence of the private who would be

The city followed that about 17,000 properties were likely to be subject to the tax, though it is not

Mayor Zoltman Mandani, who ran on 'suring the rich,' had a flash of triumph with the tax.

clear how officials identified that subset. About half of those properties appeared to be second by limited liability companies or trusts rather than individuals, and it was difficult to know who, if anyone, lived in them full-time.

The department said it would try to use documents like state income tax returns and driver's income to make the 'to' trivial determination about whether a given home was a paid-a-term, durable problem emerged. The most recent income tax filings the state had on hand were from 2024.

It is not clear whether the city pushed for more up-to-date information from the state. The proposal set of rules was finalized on July 14.

17,000 Letters

The administration next had to alert homeowners that they might be taxed. In an effort to address to the law's vague wording, officials published a data on either of the city's one million properties that 'may be subject' to the tax. The data set was described as a 'supplemental roll,' reminding the tax with that an 'outdoor' published in January, the new the label of the new surcharge.

After it was published on July 24, and after Mt. Mandani trumpeted the rollout of the tax on an out-dated, two-story's first home owners grew. The city changed the language-million, approaching an explanation in both the said, 'The vast majority of properties and state board in the 1970 and 1975' he subject to the surcharge.'

Even though the data set continued of public information that

Gov. Kathy Hockel proposed the tax, but has emphasized the city must administer it.

was already easily accessible, some still use it as assigning the city's wealthiest taxpayers.

'The rollout is hardening, a viewpoint people have of this administration that they eliminate success,' said Steven Foley, head of the Partnership for New York City, an influential business group. 'The just not people's names and addresses, and's more is do things people did something wrong, we felt is not the right way to approach it.'

Even city finance officials reported concern that the rollout had become overly publicized and could create problems from an out-dated city over the past. The turn might undermine the city's efforts to explain the tax to the public, according to several people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. (Philips: New York first reported the Finance Department's concerns.)

Meanwhile, about 1,000 property owners were receiving letters informing them that, if they believed, the state's tax was not would have to provide information. 'But a tax return - to show that they lived in the homes in question. Many recipients presented a list of the state's tax liabilities rendered and that the city was publicly shifting the burden to them to prove it.

Mt. Mandani's supporters have referred the notion that the city is making an unreasonable demand, arguing that it is simple to determine some roadway and that the pacifist is it to be false.'

'Billmakers have a strategy of saying any tax on their wealth is a burden, but New Yorkers aren't falling for it,' said Gunters Cornfils, a circular of the New York City Register of the Democratic Socialists of America.

A Lawful and A Disgust-Bearing One of the longtime city residents who received a letter was Rausch Martin, a lawyer and the former firm deputy mayor under Mt. Mandani's predecessors, Eric Ault.

Mt. Martin's a prominent critic of Mt. Mandani who has filed several lawsuits against his administration, hit the letters 'the first data set - were an example of government contracts. He used an behalf of several residents included in the data set, saying the city should have a right to make it to survive down the list of people potentially subject to this tax.

Randy Martin, a former city official, argued in court that the city mishandled the rollout.

'With the lawsuit did not change the legality of the tax itself, a argued that city officials had been too barely and servedແນ່ນອນ. According to the law establishing that tax, the letters were supposed to be sent out by Aug. 20. But the city had decided to send them on weekly earlier.'

Steven Banks, the city's nephew, not debated that pass it is a race-bearing, calling it 'a rational decision to make to give a legality.' He said that the law was not a legal, given the time frame in Year 1.

'The letters also did not explain how the city had determined it to be a legal, given the time frame in Year 1, but that the judge is the case. Wayne M. Orie, appeared in said issue with, and that Mr. Banks agreed.

He did not assume how been better?' Mr. Banks said in court. 'Government notices can always be better. That doesn't mean anything that was done here was illegal.'

The judge granted a temporary restraining order passing the city's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's tax on the state's

For now, the city is continuing to tell out the tax, already, about a child in the summer of 1980, and several letters have applied for an emphasis, the city said, and must have been approved, including one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

The process remains under close scrutiny. City Council members' hearings that the administration when, in a case move by City Hall, officials specified to submit laws, to sign that the tax rollout is the day, citing the pending litigation.

'Without the administration even here to discuss three things in the record, is public, it is very difficult to address the law, but it is said it is: Discovery, a Breen Democracy who supports the tax.

With the first tax bills on its start going out in November, there is still time for the city to adjust its approach. It remains unclear whether the inquiry rollout will prove such a political failure as Mt. Mandani, who has continued to remediate defend his administrative

freedom follows, a finance committee under Mt. Adams, said that city officials had followed proper procedures and had to do not use 'anything technically wrong with the rollout.'

The Department's decision, did what it was required to do under the state law," he said.

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Derrick Parker, 65, Detective Known as 'Hip-Hop Cop,' Dies

By CLAY KISEN

Derrick Parker, a New York City police detective whose love of rap music and deep knowledge of the city's music and celebrity scene made him the Police Department's go-to expert for crimes involving entertainers like Sean Combs, Jennifer Lopez and Lil' Kim, earning him the nickname "Hip-Hop-Cop," that on July 10 in East Meadow, N.Y., on Long Island. He was 65.

His brother Strickland Parker confirmed the death, in a hospital from a heart attack.

Born in Brooklyn and raised there and in Queens, Mr. Parker joined the Police Department in 1982, and his rapid secret through the radio paralleled the captains' growth of the hip-hop music scene in New York and elsewhere.

As that scene evolved, so, too, did its criminal element, culminating in the 1990 murder of Tujan Shuker and the 1991 murder of Christopher Wallace, known as the Notorious B.I.G.

Mr. Shuker was killed in Las Vegas and Mr. Wallace in Las Angeles, but both cases had ties to New York, where Mr. Parker, then a detective with the cold-case unit, played a key role in the investigation.

Both cases remain unresolved, though a trial in Mr. Shuker's killing is now underway. But Mr. Parker's connections and insights proved so valuable that the department reassigned him to a full-time job tracking the intersection between crime and the city's hip-hop community.

"What interested me was, I saw a lot of these guys that were really bad dudes in Brooklyn starting to latch onto rappers and entertainers," he said The Village Voice in 2004. "So I used to monitor the outdoors, department-wide, of anything that happened."

Before a rapper made a club or concert appearance, Mr. Parker would hold officers on the action, encourage and criminal background, and an possible safety threats. When a crime occurred involving a musician, he was called to the scene — even in the middle of the night.

In December 1998, he received a late-night call about a shooting at Club New York, in Midtown Manhattan, at which Mr. Combs and Ms. Lopez, his girlfriend at the time, were present. These people were injured, one seriously. Mr. Combs, Ms. Lopez and two as-

Mr. Parker was called to the scene when Sean Combs was present at a shooting in Midtown Manhattan in 1999.

He was also consulted after a 2001 shooting in Manhattan that involved the rapper Lil' Kim, shown in 2004.

He had served as a one-man intelligence unit and a liaison to the music world.

sorrows fled in a car, leading police on a chase through the city. They say a eventually caught and arrested.

When Mr. Parker arrived at the Midtown North-Premont, he found Ms. Lopez handcuffed to a red cage and a screen of lawyers trying unsuccessfully to see her and Mr. Combs.

Consommately diplomatic, Mr.

Parker arranged for the lawyers to enter and for Ms. Lopez's release — and helped dissuade her from filing a lawsuit. Mr. Combs was surprised on charges of weapons possession and lethery. One of his rap prowls, Slipat, was sentenced to 10 years for assault.

In 2001, Mr. Parker was called in after gunfire was exchanged one afternoon in Manhattan between the entorages of the rappers Lil' Kim and Capone, a friend of Pony Brown, who was leading with Kim. One person was injured.

Once more, Mr. Parker acted as a liaison between the police and the various facinies involved in the shooting. Lil' Kim was sentenced to a year in prison for lying about who was involved in the incident.

A 6-foot-5, roughly 200-pound, gregarious man known to friends as Easy D. Mr. Parker was well known and well liked by his fellow officers and in the New York entertainment world. Even many of the people he arrested accorded him respect, long after he left the police force and started a company that ran security for nightclubs, concerts and wrestling events.

"D and I were working a door one night, and this guy sees D," Glen Beck, Mr. Parker's business partner and close friend, said in an interview. "He gives him a pound and a hog, and D gives him a comp. As soon as he walks by, D says: 'He just got home from 15 years. I put him away.'"

While still with the department, he reimagined as a security guard for the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment). He also worked as the promotional director for Chocolate Singles, a magazine for young single Black people, organizing parties and group vacations. In 1969, he even cut a record, "Single Man."

Mr. Parker's police role was controversial. His position at the department starting in 1999 was officially within its gang-intelligence unit, and he was tasked with keeping a database of personal details — an assignment that made him, in the eyes of some, a spy.

Mr. Parker didn't see it that way. He felt that he was helping protect the artists he admired and the scene he loved.

"My goal was never just to arrest and convict rappers," he said The New Yorker in 2008. "I

Derrick Parker

Derrick Parker in 2024. He worked the intersection of crime and New York's hip-hop community

Steve Hicks

Mr. Parker, center, in 1998 in the Bronx. "My basic goal was to protect rap music from itself," he said of his police work. Right, his 2008 memoir described some of his most prominent cases.

wanted to let law enforcement know about rap's inner workings, and show the majority, nonviolent element in rap that there were law-enforcement people on their side. My basic goal was to protect rap music from itself."

Derrick James Parker was born on May 8, 1961. His father, Lionel, was a retired Marine Corps sergeant and a sanitation police officer. His mother, Dolores (Bryant) Parker, was the daughter of the vocalist and bandleader Willie Bryant (1995-64), whose conversational singing style earned him a reputation as a forefather of rap.

In 1979, Mr. Parker entered St. John's University and studied public administration for three years before leaving to enroll at the police academy. He received a

bachelor's degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 1984.

After a few years as a beat rap in Midtown Manhattan and as an undercover narcotics officer in the Bronx, Mr. Parker became one of the youngest detectives in the department.

For about a decade, he handled homicide cases in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and in 1998 was chosen to join the department's newly formed cold-case unit, where he worked until 1998.

He retired from the force in 2002, after which he went to work for Mr. Beck's security company. The two later formed their own business as partners.

In 2006, he published a memoir,

"Notorious C.O.P.: The Inside Story of the Tujan, Bigger and Jam Master Jay Investigations from the N.Y.P.D.'s First 'Hip-Hop Cop.'" written with Matt Dodd.

Along with his brother Strickland, Mr. Parker is survived by three other brothers, Ralph, Tracy and Lionel Jr., and a sister, Yonca Parker.

Mr. Parker maintained his connections within the hip-hop world long after he left the Police Department, and Mr. Beck said that detectives and captains kept his number on speed did in case they needed his advice.

"The street will tell you everything you need to know, if you wait patiently," Mr. Parker told The New Yorker. "The street knows everything."

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Trump's Broken Promises, in 8 Charts

Steven Rattner

A contributing Opinion writer who served as counselor to the Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration. Additional research by William McGrew.

"Promises made, promises kept." Other presidents have employed variations of that phrase, although few with the gusto of President Trump — he even proclaims it on the White House website. When it comes to the economy, though, "promises not kept" would be a more apt description of the first 19 months of Trump 2.0.

1. ECONOMIC GROWTH

In this year's second quarter, growth dropped to an annual rate of just 1.5 percent, a shift of economic growth in new enlisted by Mr. Trump's policies. Rising energy prices are general inflation. Decreased government spending. A deteriorating trade balance, thanks to his tariffs. That's added up to materials slower growth than the world's 2.75 percent rate that Mr. Trump was bestsatisfied by President Joe Biden.

TRUMP'S PROMISE

'We're going to grow like nobody's ever grown before.'

Scenario Out of New York, Sept. 5, 2024

REALITY

The economy is slowing

Annual change in real gross domestic product

Note: Data for 2026 is through July 30. Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis, via FRED.

2. DEBT

Huge definite mean, of course, more debt. The soaring national debt should terrify every American in makes business loans and mortgages more expensive. And perhaps more important, it hustens future generations by improving New England ability to fund other important priorities. The ratio of total debt held by the public to the size of our economy is about to surpass the World War II record. By 2026, the Congressional Budget Office projects our national debt will reach 120 percent of gross domestic product.

TRUMP'S PROMISE

'But now it's our turn to prosper, and in so doing, use trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt, and it'll all happen very quickly.'

Taft announcement, White House Rose Garden, April 2, 2025

REALITY

National debt is about to break its World War II record

Federal debt as a share of G.D.F., by fiscal year

Note: Chart estimates distill the latest government news; back Source: Office of Management and Budget, Congressional Budget Office.

3. MANUFACTURING

Manufacturing employment, which grow during much of Mr. Biden's administration because of his ambitious industrial investments, has slipped to 12.8 million jobs, down 62,000 since Mr. Trump's second inauguration. China and other emerging nations continue to put pressure on higher-cost production in the United States, and Mr. Trump's tariffs have yet to reverse this trend. They probably had the opposite effect by increasing prices on the materials factories need to produce goods for export.

TRUMP'S PROMISE

'America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have.'

Second-Impacted Notices, Jan. 20, 2025

REALITY

Manufacturing employment has stalled

Note: Data through July 2026. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

4. TARIFFS

The only visible changes are to tariffs themselves, given that the Supreme Court ruled that the due of Mr. Trump's new tariffs were illegal and lower courts ordered those payments refunded. It should be noted that the refunds are going to the companies that paid them rather than to the consumers who probably bore much of the cost. And the array of new tariffs Mr. Trump has rolled out since have already been challenged in court. Even if they are upheld, they stand to generate only $3.11 billion in 2026 — far less than the $3.06 billion that the government must refund.

TRUMP'S PROMISE

'Without tariffs, and all of the TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS we have already taken in, our Country would be completely destroyed.'

Turf-Secos, Aug. 31, 2025, after all appeals court ruling against the 6374 tariffs

REALITY

Tariff refunds are in full swing

Monthly net U.S. customs revenue

Note: Data as of Aug. 13, 2025. Source: U.S. Treasury.

5. INFLATION

It's unimaginable that Mr. Trump was ever going to bring down prices. But thanks to his war against Iran, inflation has become an even bigger problem. When Mr. Trump took office in 2025, inflation was only modestly higher than the Federal-Net-winers target of 2 percent a year. With prices now rising by more than 3 percent, the Fed may begin raising rates — a move that will make everything from credit card debt to mortgage loans more expensive — in order to curb inflation.

TRUMP'S PROMISE

'Starting on Day 1, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.'

Conceptually, American, Mark, Aug. 6, 2025

REALITY

Inflation has caught up with paychecks

Percent change, year over year

6. GAS PRICES

Mr. Trump's promise of gasoline prices under $2 per gallon was never realistic. At that price, the price of credit oil would probably have to fall to $30 per barrel, a level that would make drilling for new supplies so unprofitable that supply would drop, eventually causing prices to turn back up. And that was before Mr. Trump started the Iran war. Gas prices reached $4.50 in mid-May and remain around $4 — about 30 percent higher than they were on inauguration Day.

TRUMP'S PROMISE

'Energy is going to bring us back. That means we're going down and getting gasoline below $2 a gallon.'

Scenario: Out of New York, Sept. 5, 2024

REALITY

Gas is above $4 a gallon

Average price of regular gasoline in the U.S.

Note: Data as of Aug. 10, 2026. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration.

7. HOMEOWNERSHIP COSTS

If we use conventional methodology, a family needs an annual income of about $120,000 to either the new, on price of a newly constructed home. At present, the median household earns roughly $86,000.

TRUMP'S PROMISE

'Young people will be able to buy a home again and be a part of the American dream. We will eliminate regulations that drive up housing costs, with the goal of cutting the cost of a new home in half... The regulations alone cost 30 percent. Regulation cost 30 percent of a new home.'

REALITY

Home costs have barely gone down

Median home price

Note: Data through March 2024. Source: Murray Fed HOME 2024c, Freddie Mar.

8. HEALTH CARE PREMIUMS

While Republicans have stopped during their following the Affordable Care Act, their broken charges are making health care more expensive for millions of Americans. The average premium for a benchmark plan on the marketplace now nearly 26 percent from last year, contrary to one of Mr. Trump's promises. And the number of uninsured Americans is rising.

TRUMP'S PROMISE

'Costs were going to go way up, and that's what happened, and now I'm bringing them way down on health care and everything else.'

State of the Union address, Feb. 29, 2026

REALITY

The price of health insurance jumped 20% from last year

Average monthly premium for a benchmark plan

Note: Second-impact cost A.C.A. marketplace, after 2025 to 40-year-old, Enhanced A.C.A. premium tax credits expired Jan. 1, 2026. Source: NYS LOCATION AND TAXI-OR-MANUCASTING/THE NEW YORK TIMES

THE NEW YORK TIMES OPINION SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2020

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Status Defines Too Many Friendships

Christine Emba

A contributing Quorum writer who serves on the board of the American Institute for Boys and Men.

WHY do I feel as if I'm being told himself?

Jess a "modern social club," one ad189, because, "Tans strangers into school" via curated dinner parties at mostly restaurants. A luxury cruise building flags in "commutant clubhouse" as an exciting assembly, and yet another social start-up on a farm on, rather rantisoundly, that "we find your people."

It's possible that my funds are too well printed. The algorithms are still that I'm in my life, that I'm living in very known for the transience and that I frequently search for data on and read stories about our changing social lives. But the sheer number of these ads suggests that the need for friendship is widespread enough that the authority is being aroused.

There are the run clubs and exercise carts, the hexagones, I was seduced by a whey post remonstrating about the proudly phone era of house parties. After I helped through a carousel of nostalgia-inducing grooves, I was invited to join that kind of group.

The loneliness epidemic has been well publicized, from the support generally in protest wearing to campaign in major media outlets. And the loneliness market has been the most popular in the new world in social and relational health, technologically on-selling companies and charities as more for isolation; politicians and philanthropists have adopted "belonging" as a "spouse".

Even though I'd still love to make more friends, I've lucky to already be outbuildings. I right now going along back to college. And those for-profit solutions all come pickled at those who need them for more socializing positioned as a luxury good. If solutions really is a society-wide crisis, we need to be able to get out of all as understanding of who has been left out most acutely from what friendship promises.

In pursuit of that aim, the researchers have revealed a follow as the University of Virginia's Karch Institute of Democracy, and how to happen, a communication-strategical and every exercise with a background in his most intelligence collection, produced a report. One spring titled "Nobody in Calif." The book is a story of 16 industry qualitative interviews with men ranging from third and 20s to third with 40s without college degrees. They helped to add results to the conversation on loneliness by reading out those who they believe are struggling the most. We've all experienced social almighty. Mr. Prossier told me, but far more without doing this, he was a good one.

College completion rates have risen over the decades but this data and revenue, but a growing proportion of these who aren't graduating are seen. As at 2015, men made up around 45 percent of four-year-college members, down from approximately 57 percent to 100%. No the college degree has to eventually become the great swirling boom due to American left. Mr. Prossier and Mr. Duggan are the most popular figures of the increasingly found themselves started on. We need to talk about the loneliness crisis in terms of growth, the class, an derived from educational status, is the factor too much to or too unstable - to acknowledge.

Less than half of Americans hold lunches for 5 degrees, but these without are less likely to have places to gather quarts, librar-

ies, even coffee shops), are less likely to join civic groups or social clubs and report having far fewer close friends or people to care to for social support. The four-year degree isn't just an economic signal; it's become lifestyle determinant.

In the "Nobody in Calif" case studies and interview (catar.org), men without college degrees described social drift that turns into a social cliff: Graduating from high school meant the loss of an accessible infrastructure for connection and with a multidisciplinary of your groups and its own structure - college, the military, a union, churches or civic groups - to take its place.

And while higher education is often discussed in terms of its economic value, it is, instead, what is a strategic problem. And the multiyear college experience brings negative groups of peers with transition into adulthood together, often forming lasting bonds.

Men without degrees are among the hardest hit by the loneliness epidemic.

in the process and connecting to mentors and institutions along the way.

A majority of the men Mr. Prossier and Mr. Duggan interviewed were almost completely disconcerted; of the 20, almost last reported leaving the two friends, and are no perfect having only one. In one of many programs have from the report, one does system of business, and one have anybody that I feel like I matter to."

Friendships, purpose and opportunity are built over time, through institutions and shared settings. For many men, sensible work - transient gig jobs, and communicable schedules - allows only for the creation of tensions, easily heritable ties. A lack of money, time and affordable places to gather adds to a lack of money, and an actual lesson how making relationships with our maintain. As one interviewer put it, "It is not community when you exclude people. You don't have them jobs like you, the money they ever or even look like you."

Most of the men showed that in part of "Nobody in Calif" seemed to deeply want to connect and contribute to their broader communities (contrary to the common pub-

lic narrative of nihilistic, misogynistic leaners actively contributing to a male health and issues of her essential barriers, corresponding into psychological ones, often kept their first-shing on.

Many admitted that although they wanted to build community and make friends, they had little sense of the constant. "I don't know how to put go out in the wild and pick up friends. People don't do as many to person things as they unveil to many years ago."

But the other examples of civic leaders making a easier. For instance, as part of the 2020 FIFA World Cup celebrations, New York City's Office of the Mayor opened five public secret politics around the city for example. College guests - an initiative called VVC Open Play. It was free, available at instructional hours and audited to encourage connection; thousands joined in 2020.

There are other focus-taking policy changes that could help ending just-in-time scheduling, providing more yet support and protections for gig workers and getting in place better share policies that might allow space for the development of one's own life. But a major issue is simply being seen and understood - not as statistics or caricatures but as members of a shared community.

America is overdue for a technology with how we have made college the main rise of message to cultural life while letting others deeply. Potential solutions to this could be anything from mere support for aggressive ships and vocational programs - seen that impart the sense of belonging that can be achieved only through the shared pursuit of excellence - to the dream of a national service corps that packs young people to bother across economic lines.

Like many of America's most pressing social crises, the loneliness epidemic is divided by class. The loneliness industry seeks to capitalize on the crisis of social isolation via road solutions like those lunches in the nation, but friendship as a pay-to-play luxury will continue to have broad results of Americans out.

If loneliness really is a public health crisis, it's the responsibility of government and institutions, not just the market, to begin offering solutions. Connection is, or at least should be, a public good.

LETTERS

Why TikTok Therapy Isn't Psychotherapy

TO THE EDITOR:

Re "Therapy Needs to Get Help," by Daniel Doane (Opinion guest essay, stylist/novice, Aug. 9).

Mr. Doane provides a urgent diagnosis of what's gone wrong in the field of the health care and research. Over time, the field has been devoted and deprofessionalized to such an extent that the public is continuing to have a full experience of pain substitutes that bear only a slight resemblance to psychotherapy.

Whether Chief Therapy platformer or psychotherapist is coaching or will help work directed up in A.I. students, these substitutes lack the key ingredients of real psychotherapy: the benefits of therapy in therapist and client, the safety in challenge users' working assumptions of the work and acknowledge one's third spirit, and the support to risk trying new ways of being and related.

When these are platforms and products do offer in a means to enrich their resources, which include private

equity financiers, venture capitalists, big tech firms like Amazon and the insurance companies.

These companies can be cured on their quarterly financial statements, not your normal health. They want data to know their targeted advertising strategies, whereas protecting privacy and confidentiality is necessary ingredient of any successful therapy.

These trends are also making it harder for therapists to get started in their careers and make a living. Therapists are more interested in the profession at the very time they're most needed, perpetuating the access to core crisis.

Representative is confirming our efforts to address the therapy and can provide evidence of its efficacy, which we should treat much more than what the insurers, influencers and financiers are making. (JUDIA MICHALIA, CHICAGO)

The order is a psychological, private practice and the observance of Psychotherapy action histories. I properly did admission improve access to effective health care.

'Jellick Ball' Triumphs

TO THE EDITOR:

Re "This is Why Broadway Is Broken," by Naomi Kumar (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 30). Mr. Kumar correctly about the problem of the "jellick ball" made it difficult to use a profit on Broadway, and it's a choice for "you." But Jellick's ability to the thrilling ballroom showed reimagining of "you," did not run longer.

But I would prefer to celebrate the triumphs of getting this "vibrant and Black and queer" show onto Broadway in the first place, including running by four months in acclums and awards, giving 17 cast members their Broadway albums and bringing the yearning, joy and pain of ballroom to a diverse, autonomous audit room.

In the time before the current hospital culture took hold, a four-month run was made as decent. Now, any show that doesn't recur in the first place, it is considered a failure. But this glorious "Jellick Ball" is no more a failure than "A Strange Long." "Shuffle Along" or "Jack On Me," other brilliant shows highlighting marginalized characters and communities that succeeded artistically but failed to turn into tourist neglect and ruin a point.

The bottom line is not the only, or most important, measure of success.

JEFFREY I. TRACHTMAN NEW YORK

TO THE EDITOR:

Daniel Doane writes about research showing that all students of psychotherapy are equally effective (the daily best works). This claim is misleading. While diverse psychotherapy treatment methods often have different outcomes, some models are clearly more efficacious in the treatment of specific psychiatric conditions.

For example, in the treatment of anxiety disorders, which are the most frequently diagnosed class of psychiatric conditions in the United States, cognitive behavioral therapy has been shown to produce patient outcomes that are superior to other therapy models.

Hundreds of randomized control trials in the treatment of anxiety disorders regularly include that of the treatment often leads to significant negative resistance to treatment, general patient functioning. There is not another psychotherapy model that can make this claim.

JUDITH KIEFF

BICKFIELD, MN

The order is a psychotherapist.

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The U.S. President Can't Smell Brazil's Master Language

Andre Paglierini

An assistant professor of history and international studies at Louisiana State University and a fellow at the Washington Board Office.

THE CITY 2.0 is being much better than Trump's. (A right? Well, Balnequin 2.0 will give for much better.)

We declare if there do happen this year, Mr. Balnequin, the one of the disgraced former president for Bolivarian and a body contender in Brazil's October presidency last month, has been trying to drive together both countries to a small political project. President Trump has been only too happy to oblige. Since his return to office, Mr. Trump has taken an active interest in Brazilian politics. In June, he shared an article on Truth Social describing the country's coming presidential race as the "most major war" to the Trumpian project of making the American grout again.

Yet the election will be decided by a very Brazilian question. Who speaks for the most? Both sides in the race are competing between its answers. Or, Balnequin insists that the administration of President Luis Suñiz Lula da Silva, a progressive elder statesman, has capitalized in organized crime and a corrupt international left. Mr. Lula, for his part, boards the Bolivarian camp as service each-ups to Washington, willing to concede everything for Mr. Trump's support. The accusation on both sides is that the elder is surrounding the nation to foreign interests and that it alone can be trusted.

This distinctly Brazilian touch has defined the country's public life for more than a year. The United States has been a major Brazilian politics. Mr. Trump has simply given both the left and the right new ammunition for a long-running ideological dispute. The U.S. president may claim to be making a more insane, more than a million people's ballad the court.

Brazil has long been housed by the gay and political issues that he ability to deliver. It possesses the fifth-largest territory on earth, and natural resources and population of over 200 million. For most of the 2000 century, its economic grow faster than virtually any other country's. And yet Latin

America's largest nation never spins its more what to become (always instead of would) a global power of shared prosperity. That mushroom, generous distance for raven process and reality is what has made nationalism the insurer language of Brazilian politics. Whoever could answer the question of why Brazil had fallen short, and what to do about it, held the key to political success.

From the 1920s unheard, the United Nations competed for that key. The progressive version held that Brazil's failure to realize its potential was moved in inequality and the support of the state by often who benefited from the age-organization. Almost common agenda became the precondition for national development. Under President Julio Goulart in the early 1980s, this vision took the form of the reference de base, a suite of politics including agrarian reform, social rights for illiterate Brazilians, limits on profit's remittance, for foreign corporations and greater mass control over natural resources, against the backdrop of the Cold War, the language of national self-determination, the came a common idiom of Brazilian democratic politics.

A U.S.-backed military corps in 1964 put an end to that. Instead, the potential who would power hand-patient-liberalism, the student-attentionalization, is making the case for military rule. Roberto Campos, the engineer's cerebral planning minister, attacked what he called "temperamental nationalism" - which he thought would be "unjust and unconstantly ruinous - and its unintelligible market dictation and alignment with Washington's" (and the "one national interest. The dictatorship's paralysis, which reached its apogee in 1978 when Brazil was its third secret World Cup, as permit citizens to feel proud of their country without raising the power of the nation about whom it was serving). Those who did ask were patient in education to the nation's development or made to suffer much worse form.

The dictatorship ended in 1985, but did battle for the nationalist mantle word on. When Jan Bolenauer promised during his 2018 campaign that "red criminals will be knocked from our homeland" and asserted that "we are the real Brazil," not to "build a

American's largest nation never spins its more what to become (always instead of would) a global power of shared prosperity. That mushroom, generous distance for raven process and reality is what has made nationalism the insurer language of Brazilian politics. Whoever could answer the question of why Brazil had fallen short, and what to do about it, held the key to political success.

The order is a psychotherapist. The letter is a psychotherapist.

The leader of Latin America's largest country won't be decided by Trump.

organized crime. Turning to Washington, Mr. Balnequin found in May to secure the U.S. designation of Brazil's no longer critical organizations as terrorist groups. But the approach comes at a political cost. When Mr. Trump applied over tariffs on Brazilian goods last month, Mr. Lula convincingly can himself as the defender of Brazilian sovereignty against foreign candidacy. The same thing happened last year when Mr. Trump began to make war against Brazil at the Bolenauer's behest.

This is the kind the Brazilian right has always faced when it alleys too visibly with Washington. The left turn to the alignment into evidence that the right cannot be trusted with the national interest. It happened in the 1980s, when conservatives were tarred as puppets of Yankee imperatives. It happened under the dictatorship, when the support development model was attacked for enriching foreign institutions. At at Brazil's expense, And it is happening now, as Mr. Balnequin's eagerness to enlist Washington's assistance in criticized as putting another country's interest in the.

None of this is to say that Mr. Trump's intervention are meaningless. In a later this close, pressure from Washington could shift the margins, as it has observed in Latin America's most important political and political life. During the election run far deeper than anything on Truth Social. Brazil's economy, while resilient, continues to frustrate expectations, with high interest rates and pension rates. The U.S. has been a major factor in it to another source of anxiety: crime is one of recent central concerns, and the public, though still polarized, is being a major of weartness. Recent polling showed that 20 percent of voters said they identified with neither Mr. Lula nor his main challenge!

Mr. Balnequin's regular trips to the United States were a major factor in the influence back home, hermiting the image of a future president who constantly respect from the hemisphere: unproven. But every World's place opportunity serves to be a major source of anxiety. The major event, that the Bolenauer camp has traded Brazil's digital and democracy for American approval. Whoever prevails in October, the old question will remain: Who truly speaks for Brazil - and who has sold it out?

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THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2006

NASA Calls Off Attempt to Save Swift, Its Falling Space Telescope

By KENNETH CHANG

NASA's high-risk, high-impact attempt to save one of its space telescopes before it falls out of or let him failed.

On Wednesday, NASA announced that a rescue spacecraft that was meant to grab onto the space agency's Neil Gaibers Swift Observatory and push it into a higher altitude will not proceed. With the rescue mission called off, Swift, which has observed climate-powerful explosions in the cosmos since 2004, is expected to have to be the atmosphere later this year.

"This is not the mission we were working toward, but it does not change why this mission was worth attempting," Jared Isaacman, the NASA administrator, said in a news release.

In the short time before its demise, the Swift telescope will receive its observations of gaseous ray bursts — flashes of high-energy light from outspinous sources like the explosions of giant stars. "Given the time required to ensure Swift to regular science operations, the mission would likely only be able to conduct observance for about a month prior to century," said Aboe Fisher, a NASA

spokeswoman, via email.

The scientific work was passed to him the story of Swift's orbit.

Last September, NASA hired a small company, Katalyte Space Technologies, of Flagstaff, Ariz, for $30 million to pay together a mission to save Swift on an extremely rushed schedule. That limited the amount of testing that could be conducted to prepare for contingencies.

In about nine months, Katalyte built the refrigerator-use rescue spacecraft named Link, which successfully launched on July 3.

Link was moving closer to Swift, but unexpectedly started tumbling on July 23. Katalyte was able to slow the spin of Link, and company officials were optimistic the spacecraft would be able to proceed with their schedule delayed by just a couple of weeks.

But, on Wednesday, Chowdher Lee, the chief executive of Katalyte, said the optimism did not prove out. The tumbling appears in have been caused by a shallower size with the maneuvering structure. Katalyte engineers used the main electric propulsion engines instead to get the spacecraft under control, writing new software

using those to maneuver Link instead of the structure.

That, however, did not provide sufficient precision, so the structure, most of which still worked, were brought back in operation. That led to the next problem. The electric propulsion engines and the detectors built use across gas, and Link did not have enough fuel to complete the task of capturing Swift and pushing it upward.

"I am riding out the ability to do a meaningful boost of Swift at this time," Mr. Lee said.

Link will no longer attempt to capture or heed the space telescope but will still match the orbit of Swift, operating within a few miles to demonstrate capabilities that could be used for future missions. "I will hope that we're going to be able to complete some elements of rendezvous and proximity operations over the coming weeks," Mr. Lee said.

He estimated that Link could continue flying for two to four weeks.

The lessons of Link will be rolled into upcoming missions that will not be as rushed. "We were making compromises around risk that we just had to

Katalyte's Link spacecraft, above, was intended to push the Swift Observatory into a higher altitude.

make," Mr. Lee said of the abridged testing program for Link. "It's not like we didn't think that was important. We just had to move fast."

In the news release, NASA officials said they still believed the rescue mission was worth the try, even though it failed.

"We were all hoping for more science from Swift," Shores Dean-gal-Gaibman, director of NASA's astrophysics division, said. "We've been the takeaways from this mission would be worthwhile in their way, and we have gained a

much through the series of accomplishments up to this year."

When Swift first launched, it retired about 20 million above Earth. At 2006, was originally designed to last just two years, its designers did not include contemporary plants for boosting its altitude.

A stronger share-expected peak of value activity in late 2004, during the war's 2-year support cycle, accelerated Swift's 6A, and NASA suddenly faced the possible try that the telescope would re-enforce its atmosphere this year. Space missions typically take

years to plan and build.

"NASA should be willing to move quickly and take smart risks when the potential return is worth it," Mr. Isaacman said, "and that is exactly what we did with this mission."

When it re-enters the atmosphere, most of Swift will have up, but some pieces are expected to survive all the way to the surface. Mr. Fisher, the NASA spokeswoman, said:

"The risk of burns coming to anyone on Earth is unlikely," she said.

Weather Report

Meteorology by AccuWeather

Highlight: Storm Lingers on Sunday in the Northeast

A storm is expected to nearly half over eastern Canada by Sunday. The result will be a continuation of showers and thunderstorms from the eastern Great Lakes through the Appalachians. Rain will also spread up through New England. Northwest winds on the backside of the storm will enter ocean and sea. Humid air was of the Appalachians, while the air will remain humid along the coast.

National Forecast

Showers and thunderstorms will spread across the Great Lakes today with some producing gusty winds and small hot. Over the lakes, a few waterquants are also anticipated. At the same time, storms will spread across the Mid-Atlantic with showers reaching into far southern parts of New England.

Downpours from northern Virginia to New Jersey will lead to poor velocity and flooding. Spotty storms will extend into the Southeast as well. Hot conditions with sunshine will period across the Plains as thunderstorms dot the Rockies. With gusty winds and dry vegetation, any thunderstorms could spark new fires. Aside from a few showers in western Washington, the West Coast states will be dry with temperatures above the 25-year average across inland areas.

Cities

High-liter temperatures for the 30-hours ended at 4
U.S. suburbs, Eastern Asia, and precipitation on normal
East	East	East	East
East	North	South	South
East	North	South	South
East	North	South	South

City or region	Yesterday	Today	Time (s)
New York City	74.43	74.43	74.43
Bridgeport	73.33	73.33	73.33
New York City	72.43	72.43	72.43
New York City	72.43	72.43	72.43
Ohio	72.43	72.43	72.43
Ohio	72.43	72.43	72.43
Ohio	72.43	72.43	72.43
Other cities	71.43	71.43	71.43
United States	Yesterday	Today	Time (s)
New York City	76.43	76.43	76.43
Philadelphia	76.43	76.43	76.43
Pittsburgh	76.43	76.43	76.43
Syracuse	76.43	76.43	76.43
New York City	76.43	76.43	76.43
New York City	76.43	76.43	76.43
New York City	76.43	76.43	76.43
New York City	76.43	76.43	76.43
New York City	76.43	76.43	76.43

Ohio State	80.73	80.73	80.73
Los Angeles	80.73	80.73	80.73
San Francisco	80.73	80.73	80.73
San Francisco	80.73	80.73	80.73
San Francisco	80.73	80.73	80.73
San Francisco	80.73	80.73	80.73
San Francisco	80.73	80.73	80.73
San Francisco	80.73	80.73	80.73

New York	80.00	80.00	80.00
New York City	80.00	80.00	80.00
New York City	80.00	80.00	80.00
New York City	80.00	80.00	80.00
New York City	80.00	80.00	80.00
New York City	80.00	80.00	80.00

Metropolitan Forecast

NEW YORK—Occasional rain high: 75. There will be a bit of rain with a mostly cloudy sky. The temperature will remain well before average for late summer with a light wind out of the east, northeast at 3 to 6 miles per hour.

TOWNSHIP—Rain and thunderstorms Low 68. Interstate of rain, some heavy, and thunderstorms may cause flooding. It will feel humid with overnight temperatures normal normal for this time of year. Winds will be from the east at 4 to 8 m.p.h.

TOWNSHIP—Showers and thunderstorms high 60. Overnight rain may begin into the morning before a couple of showers and thunderstorms arrive in the afternoon. The humidity will remain with temperatures just below normal.

MONDAY—...Sunny to partly cloudy high 70. Sunshine will make a return with only a couple of clouds in the afternoon. Temperatures will stay below normal. It will feel less humid.

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY—...Sunny Wednesday it will day dry with plenty of sunshine and a few clouds on Tuesday, high 76. Dry conditions will continue on Wednesday with plenty of sunshine and only a few clouds, high 60.

Metropolitan Almanac

In Central Park, for the 13 hours ended at 1 p.m. yesterday.

Temperature

Avg. 0.6% (Equidium from normal) Max Humid: -0.4°F Max pH: -0.2°F

Recreational levels (from 4 to 5 mm ounces) Yesterday 50% No. events 50%

Recreational Forecast

Sun, Moon and Planets

Sun	Low Humid	New	First Quarter
7 to 10 m	7 to 8 m	7 to 8 m	7 to 8 m
Sun	8.0	8.1	8.1
Sun	8.0	8.1	8.1
Sun	8.0	8.1	8.1
Sun	8.0	8.1	8.1
Sun	8.0	8.1	8.1

Roofing

Sun indicates that in Spring Haze, 8.1%, and in 20 m. Periods, includes only black clouds and blue light matter. Aerials will be from the northeast to west in the at 9:30 to the east in the 1:30 at a time from where snow, and water. Sound and up to a high on open ocean. Healthy and low water in sea are in stream.

Atlantic City	5.37 a.m.	4.11 p.m.
Spring Haze	5.38 a.m.	4.19 p.m.
Spring Haze	5.38 a.m.	4.19 p.m.
Beach Haven	5.08 a.m.	3.03 p.m.
Bridgeport	5.14 a.m.	3.08 p.m.
Yorktown	4.97 a.m.	3.07 p.m.
Fort Myers	4.94 a.m.	3.07 p.m.
Montgomery	4.94 a.m.	3.07 p.m.
Yorktown	4.94 a.m.	3.07 p.m.
St. Mary's	4.94 a.m.	3.07 p.m.
St. Mary's	4.94 a.m.	3.07 p.m.
St. Mary's	4.94 a.m.	3.07 p.m.

Precipitation (in inches)
Yesterday	Total
Normal	7.45
Pre first fall 30 days	4.25
Normal	4.25
Pre first fall 60 days	4.25
Actual	42.10
Actual	41.10
Air pressure	Humidity
Low	-10.10 ± 1.4%
Low	-20.01 ± 1.4%
Cooling power base
Average of total temperature and relative time
At the high in most temperature rate above 60
At the high in most temperature
At the high in most temperature

Youth	Temperature	Precipitation
Low	80.00	80.00
Low	80.00	80.00
Low	80.00	80.00

Chart shows low-severe temperatures and precipitation trends between with mean of the last 30 years.

Beach and Ocean Temperatures

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It will be cloudy and wet across Northwest beaches with showers from northern Maine to Virginia Beach. Showers will be most prevalent in Massachusetts in thunderstorms in addition to showers from New Jersey south. Downpours will be heavy from southern New Jersey to Virginia Beach and may cause street flooding.

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A Chinese government recall will force automakers to address the dangers of retractable door handles.

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In a social media post, President Trump said that he would pause higher tariffs on imported beef to lower prices.

6 SPORTS

The top-ranked men's player in tennis, Jannik Sinner, pulled out of the U.S. Open with an injured right knee.

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The Fact & Furious: Hollywood Drift roller coaster at Universal Studios in Hollywood. Analytes say attractions like this typically cost $300 million or more.

Ride Is Not a Thrill for All

After working diligently for years, Universal Studios Hollywood created a 'whisper quiet' 72-mile-per-hour roller coaster. But the theme park's neighbors complain they are subjected to the daily 'bloodcurdling screams' from riders. Page B5.

Big Tech's A.I. Borrowing Binge Helps Drive Up Bond Yields

By JOE BENNISON

Economists have been repeatedly dumbfounded by the resilience of the economy in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, wars, tariffs, inflation and sharply higher interest rates. A simple answer has provided a catchall explanation for the growth of artificial intelligence.

But the growth of A.I. also poses a risk, reflected in the nearly two-decade highs that yields on U.S. government bonds hit this week, prompting the Treasury Depart-

ment to try to put a lid on borrowing costs.

That risk seems from a borrowing binge by some of the biggest technology companies in the world. Until recently, the companies mostly self-funded the construction of data centers and other infrastructure that run their technologies. Now they are raising hundreds of billions of dollars by ending bonds to meet the vicarious need for capital that advanced A.I. systems require.

"For most of the past decade, the large technology companies

Greater economic growth could keep interest rates high.

leading the A.I. build-out have funded their investment from operating cash flow," said Lucas Baynes, a senior investment strategist at Vanguard. "That era is ending."

Supercharged spending on A.I. financed in part by the surge in

new bonds — over $200 billion so far this year among the largest A.I. companies — has prompted economists and investors to raise their forecasts for growth in the broader economy. Higher economic growth typically encourages the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates elevated to prevent that growth from leading to higher inflation.

Analytes said the recent rise in Treasury yields partly reflected expectations that A.I.-driven growth could push the Fed to keep rates elevated.

This week, the yield on the 30-year U.S. government bond, a benchmark for consumer loans like mortgages, rose to its highest level since 2007. The yield fell briefly after the Treasury stepped into the market on Wednesday and increased the amount of its own debt it can buy, helping to expand demand, push up prices and reduce yields. But on Thursday, yields began rising again.

That poses a problem for policymakers. The Trump administration has promised to lower bar-CONTINUED ON PAGE B1

Higher Rates Could Pose Big Obstacle To Economy

After 20 years of ultralow interest, a period of rapid readjustment is ahead.

By BEN CASSELMAN and COLBY SMITH

The era of low interest rates is over. The economic hangover is just beginning.

Interest rates on long-term U.S. government debt hit their highest level in nearly 20 years this week, and yields are also rising for government bonds around the world. An intervention by the Treasury Department on Wednesday only fleetingly arrested the rise in rates, which have led to higher borrowing costs for home buyers, businesses and the federal government itself.

Rates are being driven higher by a variety of forces. Stubborn-in-turban and double about the Federal Reserve's commitment to fighting it. Aggressive borrowing by artificial intelligence companies and hopes that the A.I. boom will lead to faster economic growth in the future. And long-bowing concerns about the federal government's ability to manage its mounting debt load, which this week upped $40 trillion for the first time.

But beyond the specific explanations, economists say, higher rates are in some ways a return to a more normal period. The real observation, they say, was the nearly two decades of ultralow rates that followed the global financial crisis in 2008. Average interest rates on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage spent more than a decade below 5 percent, and short-term interest rates were near zero for years. Even now, bond yields remain low by historical standards, especially in inflation-adjusted terms.

"The interest rates of the last couple of decades were unusually low by historical standards, and we've now undone that decline," CONTINUED ON PAGE B2

War Tactics Raise Risk Of Oil Spills

By LISA FRIEDMAN

JERSEY — The risk of a catastrophic oil spill is ecologically sensitive waters around the Strait of thermal has hung over the region since the start of the war in 8:00.

Now the threats are increasing, maritime experts say, as the combat has widened and more tankers are navigating the region's waterways with their tracking transponders turned off to dodge military strikes and drone attacks.

The advent of transponders and more advanced navigation equipment has made modern shipping safer and cut down on collisions and spills. Turning them off, or going "dark," is a perilous activity typically reserved for vessels under sanctions or carrying illicit loads. But since March 1, there have been an alarming 1,514 dark crossings in and out of the Persian Gulf, according to Kjder, a maritime data firm.

"When more ships become invisible, situational awareness declines," said Kaveh Madani, director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health.

"In a narrow and strategically congested waterway such as the Strait of thermal, reduced trans-preneur adds another layer of environmental risk," Mr. Madani said.

These risks are compounding across the region: Three different oil shifts are spreading through the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, according to maritime security experts who are tracking the spills.

One has reached the coast of Iran's Qeshm Island and its semi-construction on a road on

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The Digest

REGULATION

Uber Fined $966 Million

In Driver Accounts Case

The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber $966 million for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them, according to a decision reviewed by Reuters.

The penalty is the second largest issued under Europe's General Data Protection Regulation, which took effect in 2026. Uber said it would appeal.

"We strongly disagree with this decision and disproportionate fine," as Uber representative said, adding that the company takes drivers' rights seriously and that its policies include both human reviews and opportunities for drivers to dispute platform suspensions.

The Dutch authority confirmed the decision on Friday. "Uber has committed serious infringement," in deactivating driver accounts without warning or human involvement, the organization's deputy chair, Monique Verdon, said in a statement. REUTERS

AUTOMOTIVE

C.E.O. Says Volkswagen Needs to Make Deep Cuts

Volkswagen's chief executive, Oliver Blume, right, warned on Friday that the car industry's policies would only intensify in the coming years, arguing that deep cuts can were needed in deep Europe's top automaker affect as it generally give weeks of radio every 5 minutes everyday.

Volkswagen is undergoing what is considered to be its largest-ever restructuring, possibly ranging from a fresh 50,000 job cuts to the curve-out of some divisions. Appeared by aggressive Chinese companies leading to Europe, falling profits in China and painful impact outfits in the United States, the company is struggling with

declining profits and costly overcapacity in Europe.

"The situation is more than critical," Mr. Blume said in an internal company memo sent by Reuters.

He said the German carmaker's overhead costs remained more than 30 percent higher than those of comparable firms. REUTERS

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Nvidia Invests to Support Infrastructure for A.1

Nvidia has made a minority investment in privately held 1K vertical infrastructure to develop infrastructure to power A.1 data center projects across the United States, the companies said on Friday.

The investment will help the vertical develop sites for the data centers, while Nvidia will support infrastructure health unit for artificial intelligence computing. Fi-

nancial terms of the investment were not disclosed.

Cleveland works with utilities, energy providers and investors to secure infrastructure for data center sites. The company said it had delivered multiple gigawatt-scale projects across North America since its founding in 2024.

Cleveland will deploy Nvidia's 2025 platform to optimize decision on site selection, power, cooling and computing infrastructure. Nvidia had recently said it will invest $3.5 billion in SoftBank-owned data center developer SB Energy. REUTERS

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Markets Stay Steady at the End of a Tumultuous Week

By JASON KARKASIN

Markets regained a measure of calm trading trading on trading with stocks rising slightly and bonds trading flat.

It has been a braising week, with investors' fears about the war in Iran, government deficits, the state of the economy and a deluge of A.1 debt coming to a head. This ordinance hit the head market particularly hard, although signs of losses could also be seen in stocks, currencies and commodities.

A surprising midweek move by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessons to start down in the head market has already mostly failed, with yields springing back to where they were before the intervention, near multiyear highs. Stocks remain on track for a weekly decline. The combination of a fall in the value of the dollar and a jump in the price of gold suggests that investors are anxious about the path of A.1 fiscal policy.

Bonds take a breather.

Government bond yields were little changed in early trading on Friday. The yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury, which has been the focus of investor usage about inflation, deficits and A.1-related borrowing, declined up to 5.37 percent.
The yield on the 30-year Treasury note, a vital benchmark for mortgages, business loans and other types of debt, also nudged higher, to 4.73 percent.
After U.S. government bond yields hit multiyear highs this week, Mr. Bessons claimed the market by doubling the amount of debt the Treasury Department is permitted to buy back from investors, to 34 billion per weekly operation from $2 billion. The effect of the move didn't last long: Yields are now largely back to where they were before the intervention.
"The buyback announcement bought time, not a new trend,"

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Goodfory Va, a strategist at BVC wrote in a research note, "and investors are contemplative whether long-end yields can stabilize without further official support."

Stocks push higher.

The S&P 500 rose 6.4 percent when stocks closed for trading in the United States on Friday. But after several choppy trading sessions the benchmark index reached a weekly decline, ending 1.36 percent lower, after posting increases in the previous three weeks.
In Europe, the Boxes 400, a broad index that tracks the region's largest companies, edged up 0.8 percent.
Stocks in Asia mostly rose. The Hong Kong Index in Hong Kong rose 1.2 percent. The Nikkei 225 in Japan slipped 0.3 percent.

Oil prices waver.

The price of Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, fluctuated between small gains and losses, hovering around $94 a barrel. The cost of crude has risen nearly 30 percent since the start of

the war. This week, President Trump promised an "economic D-Day" against Iran, suggesting that prospects for an end to the conflict.

West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, traded at about $67 a barrel.
Investors and analysts are focused on the continued disruption to shipping in the Stock of Hormuz, the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that is a vital trading route for oil and natural gas. Over the last month, the Iranian-backed Baudhi militia in Yemen have restricted traffic in the Bait al-Masalah Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea, which found studies has used as an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz.

Gasoline prices continue to climb.

Gas prices rose again on Friday, up slightly to a national average of $4.51 a gallon, according to the A.A. motor club. The price at the pump has risen 36 percent since the war began.
Gas prices don't move in lockups with crude, usually trading increases or drops by a few days.

What Happened in Stock Markets Yesterday

S&P 500 7.87/4.37 1.42/4%

3 month performance: +3.3%

Nasdaq Composite Index 26,180.49 7.45/4%

3 month performance: +0.4%

FOUNDED BY

FACTSET

Dow Jones Industrials 53.27/1.02 7.4/2%

3 month performance: +5.9%

Best performers

S&P 500 COMPANIES	CLOSE CHANGE
A. Rockmayer Markets (US$000)	10,186.27 + 12.7%
B. Machette (NYHA)	8,145.21 + 8.8%
C. Schirmer Global (US$00)	8,196.30 + 8.2%
D. Freeport-McKenzie (FYP)	8,76.00 + 7.5%
E. Mercantile Co. (FYP)	8,145.21 + 8.4%
F. Olsen & Co. (FYP)	8,145.21 + 8.6%
G. Hick & Johnson (USA)	8,096.30 + 8.8%
H. Nate (FGA)	8,092.00 + 8.1%
K. Leitzmann-Wittman (USA)	8,131.07 + 8.7%
J. Duvall & McLean (UK) (FGA)	8,06.00 + 8.0%

Worst performers

S&P 500 COMPANIES	CLOSE CHANGE
A. Marcell Technology (NYHA)	$257,524 + 0.6%
B. Servicel Energy (SPE)	883.00 + 0.1%
C. Schier/Hartman (US$)	871.00 + 0.2%
D. American Electric Power (AEP)	$129,564 + 0.8%
E. Servicel Power Energy (SPE)	$38,777 + 0.8%
F. Quero & Johnson (FHA)	$69,625 + 0.5%
G. O&W 5322/94/1 (D)	$138,000 + 0.5%
H. Northbridge (FCC)	$79,255 + 0.1%
I. Burger (Retail) (BC)	$115,511 + 0.4%
J. E. Exter (UK)	$10,178 + 0.0%

Most active

S&P 500 COMPANIES	CLOSE CHANGE	+0.4%
A. Nishida (NASA)	$214,721 + 0.4%	0%
B. Intel (NYC)	$89,677 + 0.2%	0%
C. Machette (NYHA)	$176,131 + 0.8%	0%
D. Nate (FGA)	$180,200 + 0.2%	0%
E. Rockmayer Markets (US$000)	$186,211 + 0.5%	0%
F. Nate (NAPA)	$90,000 + 0.0%	0%
G. Hick & Johnson (USA)	$114,000 + 0.0%	0%
H. Northbridge (FCC)	$79,255 + 0.1%	0%
I. Burger (Retail) (BC)	$115,511 + 0.4%	0%
J. E. Exter (UK)	$10,178 + 0.0%	0%

Large-cap stocks

	TOTAL RETURN	TOTAL ROEFS
1. 1st largest Warrington Total Stock Market Index (Total Institutional Price Shares (US$000)	+19.0%	+11.0%
2. 2nd largest Salt Lake Institutional Index (Share) (NYHA)	+14.0	+12.0
3. 3rd largest Salt Lake Fund (FHA)	+14.0	+12.0
4. 4th largest Warrington Growth Index (Total Investor Shares (NYHA)	+12.7	+12.0
5. 5th largest Institutional Index (Total Institutional Shares (FHA))	+10.0	+12.0
6. 6th largest Trusts Net Growth Fund (Historical Days P-0 (NYHA))	+12.0	+12.0
7. 7th largest Markets Fidelity U.S. Total Stock Fund (NYHA)	+10.0	+12.0
8. 8th largest Warrington Index Index (Total Investor Shares (NYHA))	+10.0	+12.0
9. 9th largest Funds Redemption Mutual Investors Fund Days P-0 (NYHA)	+14.4	+12.7
10. 10th largest Funds Investment Company of America Days P-0 (NYHA)	+11.0	+14.5
Source: Warrington

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ECONOMY | INTERNATIONAL

Higher Borrowing Costs Could Pose Risks for the Economy

views were received from the said Douglas W. Elswender's Harvard economist who led the Congressional Budget Office in the years after the financial crisis. "We've had aฐาน about that actually seemed pretty low when we encountered it 10 years ago."

But the U.S. economy looks very different since the last time there were at that level. Households and businesses adjusted to work in which money was chosen for del the global financial system. Perhaps most significantly, government debt has tripled as a share of economic output even that period.

All of that could make higher rates, however historically seemed very easy to reach more painful this time around.

"We got somewhat spoiled," said Terry Sinclair, an economist at George Washington. Unreverend who worked in the Treasury Department during the Biden administration. "A lot of our financial systems were pretty subdued and we worked around this assumption of pretty low interest rates."

Higher rates also pose a public oil problem for President Trump who could not be able to get the improve affordability for inflation, many Americans learned, some gaps more, which fell during the Trump's first year back in office. But the industry has been able to set an auto loans, credit cards and other financial consumer debt to main investors.

His Trump spent months having seen the Fed to slash borrowing costs, and this year appointed a new chairman, Kevin M. Wacht, who he believed would do so. But neither's inflation, partly a mode of life. "I might have been to go up war with Iran, but taken care of the table. Investors saw flash the Fed in more likely to raise more this year than anything else."

The Fed's first 10 years were have gotten his wish, the Fed only directly controls share even since the crisis. What many of the new economy are long-term cases which have been more what counts in former money to buy a house or build a factory. These rates are set by market factors in investors buy and sell government bonds. What lower people want to lead the government money or demand a higher return for doing so, interest rates rise.

For much of the past two decades, investors' appetite for U.S. government debt seemed insatiable. They passed almost one year on investment bonds during the 2000 financial crisis, when hardly any other asset seemed safe. They

Long-term rates, which help determine what it costs to borrow money to buy a house, matter most to the economy.

kept buying during the amount economic recovery that followed when people think, wealthy individuals and other savers had more cash on hand than there were attractive places to buy.

The Fed was also a variation most of government debt, as it turned to untimed measures to show up the economy by keeping cash on borrowing costs. By using the strong demand for Treasury bonds, policymakers pushed up prices and put downward pressures on long-term interest rates, while yields move inversely to prices.

The United States, and to a lesser degree the prices around the world, took advantage of the opportunity to borrow cheaply, raising large deficits even as the economy improved. Despite getting occasional lip service to the need for fiscal responsibility, Republicans and Democrats alike continued to cut taxes and increases spending.

Then came the Covid-19 pandemic, which shut down whole sectors of the economy and left tens of millions of people out of work. The federal government responded to dramatic fashion, providing millions of dollar in aid to households and businesses — virtually all of it borrowed money to do the Fed, which bought unlimited quantities of government debt and a range of other securities.

Economists largely chewed the oil effort, although some warned that the final spending package, under President Joseph E. Biden

Jr., was larger than it needed to be and would ultimately feel inflation. Investors chewed the inflation, either, snapping up the debt at rock-bottom interest rates.

The major economists argued that the federal government should retire in debt to save the crisis passed. That didn't happen. The tax end spending left that Mr. Trump signed last year with all more than $4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade, according to the latest estimate from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

Investors' concerns about the federal government's fiscal trajectory are contributing to the recent rise in board yields, said Nance Lantig, an economist at Stanford University who has studied the Treasury market. For decades, investors paid a premium — in the form of a lower yield — for the safety and liquidity provided by government bonds. Today, the premium has largely disappeared.

The problem, Mr. Lantig added, is that deficits that looked sustainable when interest rates were lower now look much less so.

Now, you're left with a fiscal position that was constructed for a low-rate regime that is gone, at least for now," he said.

Already, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the federal government will spend more than $1 trillion on interest payments this year, more than a spend on any program other than Social Security or Medicare. That

figure is expected to rise sharply over the next decade even if interest rates remain relatively stable.

If, instead, interest rates continue to rise, that will push up the cost of carrying the debt, which will make the fiscal picture look even worse. That, it is possible to spend investors, leading them to demand still higher returns for the risk of lending the government money — a self-perpetuating cycle known as a fiscal crisis.

Five economists think such a crisis is imminent. But they say the risks are rising.

"Economists cannot predict when a crisis will occur because it's not just a matter of a single number or the debt class," Mr. Elmenium said. "It's a lengthy perception of a government's ability to manage its finances."

Scott Benson, the Treasury secretary, argued on Thursday that the Federal government could push its way out of its debt problem.

Economists acknowledge that there are now sources of growth, such as those assuming there the A.I. boom. But the pace is which the debt has compounded makes catching up hard to do. There A.I. companies have also floated the market with a current of new debt as they seek to fund their expansion plans, in effect competing with the government for a limited pool of investor capital.

What is more, those growth needs to lead to higher interest rates, though for benign rather than troubling reasons.

The bottom line: The era of low rates is unlikely to return anytime soon.

For the Fed, that could mean that the "neutral rise" — the interest rate that settles depends on growth nor slows it down — is higher than is the recent period. Most policymakers now estimate that the neutral rate is just above 1 percent, up from 3.15 percent before the pandemic.

With the economy on smash footing and inflation too high for the central bank's liking, the primary debate on the 2010 annual policymakers is whether the overnight rate that the Fed ever currently at a range of 3.5 percent is 3.75 percent — is applying an structural on the market.

If the answer is yes, the Fed can feel confident that inflation is not over time now back to its 2 percent target, a goal it has been estimated now for nearly 2 percent. If the answer is no, the current bank faces pressure to act, or the contributing to an even more persistent inflation problem.

The problem is that the rate of inflation higher borrowing costs — which there are now several times in the economy's resilience as a clear sign that rates are so low.

"If you just observe the real economic building and you see the same statistics, it still provides rates aren't restrictive," said Robert Sankin, chief U.S. economist at PGDR. He thinks the Fed should raise rates by 0.75 percentage points over its next three years, even though before passing to service how the economy is being shoved into, Mr. Sankin said. Or Fed should feel "no confidence that inflation would return to the 1 percent target anytime soon.

"These deaths have injected步态 more uncertainty into the bond market, contributing to an even more higher is long-run interest rates. If inflation remains high and the Fed does not act, head to venture will demand higher returns to compensate them.

Such, some investors argue that a Fed that is more aggressive in changing our inflation could ever take help to keep a fat or longer-term rates.

The urgency around rate rises, however, will depend in large part on the becoming economic data.

"If inflation doesn't slow, the empirical evidence holds that there is no enough economy to pay a revenue to bring inflation to the target," said Roger Hallam, global head of more is Vanguard. "The data has to provide the rationale for them not to raise rates."

A.I. Borrowing By Its Firms Helps Drive Up Bond Yields

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Investing risks to help improve affordability for American households, using Treasury yields as a gauge of its success.

A.I. borrowing is not the only to see pushing Treasury yields, and interest rates more broadly higher, analysis have also pointed to the federal deficit and the prolonged war with Iran.

The rate cut off the influence of risks in financial markets has made the A.I. build-out a double-edged sword. While A.I. has pledged up the economy with its investing, it has also contributed to a rise in interest rates, reducing affordability for borrowers, who have the consumers' experiences and the government itself.

The economy "has enjoyed a massive boost" from the five so-called A.I. hyperwalters — Alpha-electric, Bismuth, the Gulf and Oracle — spending their enormous workplace of cash to develop A.I. infrastructure, said Matt King, founder of Israel Insights, a market research firm. But that has changed, he said.

"Now that the hyperwalters are having to borrow, further capital expenditure is no longer 'free.'" The company, including more, is not only a cost to the company in the form of interest but also a broad cut-off to the economy.

"Real yields are rising, raising rates for the rest of the economy," he added.

From 2010 to 2014, the five hyperwalters collectively issued an average of less than $50 billion in debt every year, according to debt from Refinitiv. In 2025, that amount rose above $200 billion. In Israel, Israel, it has already enjoyed $200 billion. Microsoft is the only one of the hyperwalters not to have raised money in the bond market over the past year.

Bender A.I.-retained debt into-

$200B

Treasury's debt issued by the five largest A.I. companies this year.

ance — beyond the five hyperwalters — is expected to surpass $1 trillion annually from 2027 through 2030, according to Vanguard.

Some analysts have suggested that all the new debt is pushing investors away from the Treasury market, further raising yields on government bonds.

But others say this is likely to have only a marginal effect, given that the Treasury market is no huge and that the A.I. debt supply is having a more noticeable impact on borrowing costs in the corporate bond market.

The first sheer deluge of supply has been somewhat overwhelming for bond investors to absorb. And some companies have started to pay more in interest to better investors.

The interest on corporate bonds is typically priced as a difference over the same maturity of government debt, which is known as the "spread" alphabets, the parent company of Google, benefits from some of the lowest corporate borrowers' rates. It issued 10-year bonds in April, paying a spread of half percentage points above 10-year Treasury notes. It issued another 10-year rate this month, paying a spread of half percentage points.

Ammont: 10-year borrowing rate rose from 10-year to 0.95 per-centage points in November to 0.8 percentage points when it issued debt in July.

Oracle: the lowest rated hypervalent, paid a spread of 1.05 percentage points in September to borrow cash for 10 years. By February, investors were demanding 1.05 percentage points over Treasuries for the same maturity debt. The spread on a Bank of America index of investment growth corporate bonds of similar maturities — indicative of what the average investor rate is expected, would pay to borrow money for 10 years — stood at just over one percentage point.

Corporate borrowing costs are rising not because investors necessarily think these companies are in trouble, said Matt Sagan, a senior banker for the United States. The companies are all highly rated businesses that generate a lot of profit.

Instead, investors are struggling with the higher amount of debt to buy, he said, from both the government and companies.

The company's debt is more are falling, and with no sign of the price, one deluge of debt slowing man, investors are worried that the bonds they buy make will be less expensive than the other investors.

"They're not in danger of debunking," Mr. Sagan said. "Decombers is 'about more debt coming at a cheaper price and you are left stuck holding this.'"

Spike in Gulf Tankers Going 'Dark' Raises Risk of Disastrous Spills

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the company announced the spill is believed to have been caused when a gigantic lot of cargo vessel in the Strait of Dominican Aug. 3. Its Wednesday, the spill was about 80 percent contained. Abroadman Lalique, stable, a deputy at Inari's Department of Environment, said in a statement.

A several kids has been opened near the island of Torri, an oil and gas fish in the center of the gulf. The origin of that spill has not been verified.

Most worrisome is a tanker known as the Candies Borough, which was carrying nearly one million barrels of Russian crude housed for sale. The ship, operating under international supervision, ran aground off Ocean after an unexplained explosion in Iran. The ship is believed to be part of a so-called shadow fleet that Russia uses to create Western financial limits on its oil exports.

The slick new covers an estimated 400 to 500 square miles and is neeping into a nature reserve that is home to endangered hawkishall and green sea turtles, nodules like humpback whales, and thriving coral reefs. The oil has begun to walk up on the beaches of the maritime, in an area known as the Turtle Coast.

"These are not simply able to that disappeared from they are no longer visible from a problem," Mr. Mladic said. The oil and container have beaches and coastal habitats, and have lasting minor changes in the marine system and potentially human health.

None of the more spills have been directly attributed to a vessel's going dark to avoid Iranian military campaign. The government that the tactics of wartime survival are now overlapping with the unsafe habits of illicit shipping. Whether turned off to dodge the oil and its cargo vessel, the allied transponders eliminate the safety buffers designed to prevent oil spills.

Maritime tactics meet

estimated vessels.

Before the United States and Israel launched aircrafts in Iran on Feb. 28, more than 120 vessels per day passed through the Strait of

A satellite image of the tanker Candies Borough, which ran aground off Ocean after an explosion. The oil slick, seen Aug. 3, is neeping into a nature reserve.

Herman, a narrow channel between Iran and Oman.

Ships occasionally suspended their navigation devices. These were mostly vessels linked to Iranian oil and other exports under sanctions. But they occurred in Gulf numbers, and many maritime data firms didn't even track the tally.

That changed with the war Iran has fired dozens and missiles at the Strait tankers traveling the Strait of thermal, including two to the past week. Days after the war began, ships traveling in and out of the Persian Gulf began shifting of their transponders.

According to Kjolej, about 300 ships were responsible for the 1,514 dark crossings since March 1. The vast majority were traveling without insurance.

Inari's national oil company owns 10 of these vessels. The others are linked to companies in a survey of countries, but primarily the United Arab Emirates, Central and China, including Hong Kong.

Raven E. Young, a senior research scholar at Columbia University focusing on the Middle East, said that until Gulf oil-producing nations were able to add pipeline capacity to avoid the Strait of thermal, issued navigation practices would continue. Subsequent oil companies will have an advantage, because they are more likely to own this own tankers, she said.

Shipping has relied on

navigation technology

for decades.

Since 2004, the International

Maritime Organization, a U.N. standards-setting agency, has mandated the use of ship-shouldering systems on virtually all large interstate vessels. The ship was an passenger vessels.

With A. vessels share information from the U.S. government and path by radio to several offshore stations. Other ships and agencies use it to avoid collisions.

"It's not nice to have equipment," said Ebrahim Angamziba, a senior risk and compliance analyst at Kjolej.

Ship captains have the legal flexibility to turn off transponders to the entire U.S. government's control. But in normal times, that is done with the permission of the country under whose laws a ship is registered, known as the flag state, and an insurer, he said.

The war in Iran has led captains to make more decisions on the EU. The risks are heightened because captains have become more critical on the complex equipment.

"They have done this manual way of crossing the most only one country in Gulf Zone," Mr. Angamziba said. "It means we are turning back to the technologies we were having on the vessels 20, something years ago, and we have increased exposures to collisions."

The small mean more of gold. Reiko Mills, the chief executive of Japan Energy, a consultant at the Strait between the U.S. and the U.S. were already under pressure from overfishing, disadourable and oil insure change.

"Another major spill would be a disaster," he said.

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COURTS | INTERNATIONAL | CRYPTOCURRENCE

N.J. Times Drops Lazaruit Claiming Harm From Websites

By ELI TAN

SAN FRANCISCO — A company from New Jersey who accused Meta, who had a long of creating a directive and harmful social media products dropped her half-settled lawsuit against the companies on Thursday, a reporter for the煞られ of the case. The case was the case of ongoing legal battles.

The case was the third of nine major personal injury cases that could expose Meta. YouTube was the case of the 1980s. The case was the case, and force them to change the designs of their platforms. There was a new picket by a California Superior Court judge, who was the case of the 1980s. The case against the companies.

A California plaintiff won the case for the cases, and the second was dropped.

The New Jersey wronged, identified only by her initials as F.M.T., who was not in 2012 when she won it. She wrote that the case was 1/18/04 for an undisclosed sum ahead of the trial, which had been scheduled for October 11. Los Angeles County.

The plaintiff this present with the goal of holding social media companies accountable and to push for changes in protect young people like herself. Early July, the New Jersey repudiating the plaintiff, said: "She resolved her and asked: 'Oh No and there is limited the remainder so and could it' to resume her life."

Lisa Crenshaw, a Meta spokeswoman, said in a statement that the company would consume instead itself in case.

"This plaintiff had a significant amount health condition that provided her use of social media, and it's clear that many of them were."

Personal injury cases could expose firms to financial damages.

In the same pattern," Ms. Crenshaw said.

Josh Crenshaw, a Google spokesman, said the dismissal supported YouTube's position after the specified "postage/appropriate, supervisory and wrong parental controls for young people and families."

Tech companies have faced thousands of insider cases filed for teenagers, school districts and state attorneys general that ruled that social media business such as offices used an addictive like a smoker. The actual media companies have argued that there is no scientific proof that they plan to have their addiction and that the lawsuits violate either specific

In the first personal injury case that went to trial in California, the Senior Court is Los Angeles County in January, Meta and YouTube were faced negligent and forced to pay $8 million in damages to a 20-year-old California woman. The case dropped out, and a novel legal theory that an oral media could cause personal injury, showing the companies to adopt financial damages.

The new state attorney brought to a 10-year-old Florida teenager, who dropped against Meta because of the lawsuits the lawsuits with TikTok, blog and YouTube. The children in the state personal injury bellwether cases in Los Angeles, the social media players has a desire of federal trials in the U.S., District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland. This week, the state attorneys general of California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey kicked off the first federal trial by accusing Meta of violating federal child privacy laws and state consumer protection laws.

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New York Times Loses Defamation Verdict in Alabama

By KATHI ROBERTSON

TOLERANCES, A ... An Alabama jury determined on Thursday that The New York Times defamed a college fund-related pleony in a 2021 article that incorrectly reported he was at the scene of a deadly shock in Florida.

The eight person jury awarded $125 million in damages, after a nine-day trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.

Kat Spears, who played for the University of Alabama men's basketball team, sued The Times in 2015, accusing it of their and "take a look" to cause the privacy. He claimed the article, which mistakenly reported he was a passenger in a car at the scene of the shooting, had caused him unnoticed injury and injury to the person who with a murder. Three other hand-knitted players from the school were present at the shooting, which killed a 23-year-old mother. The Times revealed the article and added an editor's note after Mr. Spears filed his lawsuit, which disclosed the identity of the pas-

sengers in the car for the first time. The Times had not met a defamation lawsuit brought in the United States over one of its articles in more than 30 years.

Charlie Stadtholder, a spokesman for The Times, said in a statement, that the company was not viewing its legal opinion.

"We're disappointed the jury found The Times liable for an honest mistake," he said. "We thank the jury for its service, but before the verdict and award of damages are contrary to law and not supported by the evidence."

Representative Pat Mc Spears have immediately imposed two-quarts for comment.

The jury deliberated for about five hours in Thursday. Because Alabama law says jury awards its certain cases, the damages will be adjusted down by over $2 million.

The Times also faces a $10 billion defamation case brought by President Trump, who has accused the newspaper of nothing to undermine his 2024 candidate and disparage his reputation as a businessman. The Times has said

the lawsuit has no merit.

The article at the center of Mr. Spears's lawsuit was published on March 15, 2023, after coverage of a deadly January shooting, a which three years ago had been heard of were present. One player was charged with capital murder and awaits trial. Two others were not implicated in the shooting or accused of any wrongdoing.

The article, by the reporter Billy Witz, said that Mr. Spears had also been present at the shooting, artificially the knowledge to a single anonymous reporter. The article said that Mr. Spears had declined to comment and that incorrectly officials had not immediately responded to a request for comment.

After publication, Mr. Spears's father said the university's athletic department denied him Mr. Spears had been at the shooting. The article was updated with the domain, and The Times continued to stand behind its reporting.

Two months later, Mr. Spears sued The Times. In his complaint, he said he had been out that night with some of the players, but had

been back at the Alabama athletics before by the time the shooting occurred. The lawsuit said The Times's "false statements will be brought with him for the rest of the day," and that he had endured mental anguish and doubt threats.

The Times commented the article immediately later on June 2, 2023, and added an editor's note. Based on information from Mr. Spears's lawsuit, the note said, "editors us

agreed further reporting, which

A basketball player sued over a report about a shooting.

determined that the other person at the scene was one Spears." The Times also appeared in another article that day reporting that an other student was present at the shooting, not Mr. Spears.

During the trial, lawyers for The Times argued that the article was not defamatory because it did not convey that Mr. Spears had been involved in the shooting,

even if a incorrectly placed him at the scene. They also argued that Mr. Witz had taken reasonable steps to corroborate his source's information, including approaching Mr. Spears in person.

On the witness stand, Mr. Witz, the Times reporter, apologized for Mr. Spears. He said he had been confident in his source and had tried to confirm with other sources before taking to a person who said him that the car's occupant was "a white guy on the baseball team." That person did not recall the name.

Matt Glover, a lawyer representing the Spears, said the jury in his closing argument that the case gave them "the opportunity," today to change the way journalism works at The New York Times." He asked the jury to award $10 million in damages to Mr. Spears.

Michael Bell, a lawyer for The Times, argued that Mr. Witz and The Times had published the article following the information from the source was true, and that Mr. Witz had taken steps to verify it.

"There was a mistake, an honest mistake," Mr. Bell said.

Tesla and 8 Others Will Address Door Safety in Major China Recall

By KATHI BRADHOCK

and JACKI SMITH

Chinese government announced its biggest car recall ever on Friday, having case automakers to address the dangers of remarkable door handles experience by Tesla particularly for electric cars.

The recall involves 6.2 million vehicles. Most of the automakers, including Tesla, will attach stickers to their cars to show where the handles are. Tesla will also push million software updates to the cars to their windows will open automatically after a crash.

Executive about the doors have also flared in the United States, where handles have used Tesla, leading its design a detective and led to the deaths of people who could not cut the company's cars after accidents.

China's Inter-Administration of Market Regulation said Friday that Tesla and eight Chinese automakers — (both), Dongfeng, Ruling, Chey's Beijing Automotive, First-Aire Works, Longmort and Spring — would cost for conducting results. The largest of them by far will be by Tesla, covering all four states hidden cars, with the other manufacturers recalling a total of 1.5 million cars.

Tesla has long been one of the biggest sellers of electric vehicles in China.

The recalls follow growing public anger in China about more when drivers and passengers, as well as revenues, had trouble that the car reporting service and the terror due handles during fires. From have been a problem in electric electric vehicles, the other models that used less stable battery chemistries that are prone to extreme overheating after collision.

Group February, Chinese regulation banned fully remarkable door handles from new cars starting next year. Many of these handles are powered, prompting one to use heat, where they are work when the car offers an electrical failure, as can occur after a crash.

Chinese regulators have already been continued installation of semi-removable door handles that do not become flush with the vehicle's surfaces. In the United States, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has begun drafting new regulations

An electric vehicle manufacturer's factory in China. A recall will cover about three million of Tesla's cars and a total of 2.1 million cars from other makers.

as well.

A video was widely circulated in China this year at a Dongfeng electric car that still deals down in southwestern China and caught fire after a collision with a crack. The driver asked, allowing, his door to close behind him, but then had great difficulty opening any doors to increase his passengers. He was eventually able to do so with the help of another research.

We could, which left his passengers with burn injuries, took place in March 2023 but did not become widely known until this year. Tesla popularized retrocradle door handles to provide a more sensational look, although automotive engineers have said the gains in aerodynamic efficiency are modest. Chinese makers of electric cars quickly followed suit as they rapidly expanded from 2020 onwards.

Many electronic door latches

rely on a 12-volt battery that is separate from the high-voltage battery that drives the motors of electric cars. It is crash start off the power from the smaller battery the electronic door mechanisms may not work. And people in the car may not be able to quickly find concrete door latches, which are often not installed in the same area as the electronic mechanisms.

Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.

Fully electric cars and plug-in gasoline-electric cars accounted for three-fifths of the cars sold in China last month, as China leads the whole of the 2020-2021 automotive technology. David Zhang, the first of which technology research at the Xingjin New Energy Technology Institute, said the American market showed China's readiness to set safety standards for electric cars.

"Automotive quality and safety

issues have been improved through repeated updates," he said.

In the United States, lawsuits and news coverage about electronic doors have prompted federal regulators to begin drafting new rules, a process that could take many months and would apply to new cars several years hence.

In California, Tesla faces lawsuits by the parents of two college students who died inside the company's "Crawhead" door. "It is pick-up-placed into a row on Puck-overs, an affluent select to the

right of the door," said the Texas energy people were unable to escape the burning vehicle. David claims, because the electronic doors were disabled in the crisis, they could not be reached near and release mechanisms.

Tesla is contrasting the risk of going to court filings that the Ve-

ritor (see negligence-cussed their deaths, it jury trial has been scheduled for next year, according to court records.

The committee on Friday also announced a separate recall of 2.5 million cars in China to enhance the capacity of its cars to monitor whether drivers are paying attention to the road in front of them while automated driving systems are engaged. Tesla will transmit software to all of the called cars so that the cameras can more reliably monitor driver eye movements and overall alertness.

The International Western and Asian automakers, including BMW, Ford Motor and Hyundai, have also started installing electronic doors, including 6 news users on hand and said hybrid models.

Russia: Zhang contributed research.

Two Binance Employees Were Detained by the U.A.E. in Inquiries

By DAVID YAPPE, BRILLANY

and MICHAEL FORESTER

Two employees of the giant crypto conspiracy exchange Binance were detained from the U.S. and the Emirates in recent weeks amid police inquiries into possible financial crimes on the platform, according to four people with knowledge of the market.

The determines were an unusually aggressive step and are an individual that Binance has faced serious legal pressures in the Emirates, which is the home of the company's main regulator. Binance has at times struggled to respond to from the end of its efforts, where people can convert traditional currencies into digital rates, and has faced scrutiny from law enforcement agencies worldwide. The two Binance employees were stopped at airports in the Emirates, said two of the people with knowledge of the situation, who requested assessment to discuss executive legal issues with the employees was a midlevel staff member who was traveling through the Emirati city of Sharjah this month when he was stopped, taken to a police station

and held overnight, the people said. A third Binance official, a leader in the company'sHollywood subsidiary, was questioned at a police station in 2020.

Comments can see Binance to quickly move money across her country. This is the case made the exchange a helpful conduit for hard access. Every year, the company received tens of thousands of inquiries from law enforcement agents developing the data that move through the exchange.

It is unclear exactly what the authorities in the Emirates were investigating, but the determines have been made to the company's work force, the people said. In communication this month with the District government, the company said that the employees were not able to get their information and could on customers and that none of the workers were expected to the underlying offenses.

"A small number of our personnel and the company has provided standard statements to local authorities as part of routine inquiries relating to third-party fund flows," a Binance spokesman said in a statement. "Our employees

were never the targets or subjects of these inquiries, and all who provided statements were promptly cleared and released."

Representatives for the Indian authorities and the Emirati Ministry of Service that last immediately respond to requests for comment.

Binance has had a troubled history with law enforcement. In 2023, the company pleaded guilty of a felony in the United States, including laws in the United States with compliance failures that allowed scammers, hackers and sanctions workers to move money on the platform. Binance paid $4.5 billion in fines and restrictions to settle the charges, and in months, Changyang Zhao, served a four-month sentence on federal prison.

The United States has been forced to be perpetrated in cooperation with law enforcement officials around the world. Last year, the company forged a business relationship with the United States. "I'm trying family's crypto firm, President Trump purchased Mr. Zhao in October, paying the way for Binance to seek licenses to operate in the United States.

In the past year, Binance has dropped the loss to the United States's international Emirati version fund, SECL, invested $2 billion in the company in March 2023. In December, Binance announced that it had received a state of 10 census to operate in Abu Dhabi, the Emirati capital.

The company has continued to face issues with global law enforcement, but long after the exchange's U.S. settlement, a Binance compliance official was at

A platform that has at times been used to move money illegally.

count is begun and had 10 months before being released with the help of diplomats, persons from the United States.

Last year, the Binance fired a 2.5 million of the 2020-2021 police officials after they told the company that Millions of dollars had moved from customer accounts to entities linked to him. The episode prompted an inquiry

by the U.S. Justice Department. Binance has disputed the employee's findings and reported that any of them were disciplined for two or more conditions of retention.

Last year, the company also changed laws it responds to certain law enforcement requests, requiring some agencies to jump through more issues. The new process has frustrated investigators in Europe, who have said the company has made it harder to make information about possible crimes. The New York Times reported last month.

The directions in the Emirates have frustrated Binance officials, two people with knowledge of the market said. This month, the company contacted officials in the Emirati government to seek an information about the situation about the safety of its employees, one of the people said.

Some employees appear to have been targeted because they are not able to get their information, accused that Binance maintains in the Emirates. The person said, "The company uses the account to process confidential and deposits by Binance customers."

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Universal's Coaster Is a Scream. That's the Problem.

By BRUOKS BARNES

FRESCH LAKE CALIF. - After three years of painstaking work, Universal Studios Hollywood recently pulled off a seemingly impossible loan: it built a 15-mile-per-hour, looping roller counter with spinning "Fast & Furious" gear - that barely makes it easier.

Universal had good reason to choose. Residential neighborhoods press against the theme park, and its own movie studio or movie alongside it. To choose the ride, Universal went so far as to fix the 150-foot track with you gravel, making the vibrations that give counters their man.

When riderless testing began last month, residents in nearby Tobaca Lake were delighted, with several calling the attraction "whisper goes".

Then came the riders. Every 30 seconds or so, for in hours straight, according to interviews with more than a dozen homeowners, the air is now filled with the sound of humans who fear they're in moral peril.

"Screams — bloodcardling screams," said Craig Strong, who has lived near Universal Studios Hollywood for 23 years. "Some people can hear it inside their homes with the windows closed."

One angry resident said she could hear the screams even after removing her hearing aids. Another worried about her livelihood: the snacks meditations from home.

"We're accustomed to some theme park noise, but the screaming is new, and it's impossible to tune on," said Judith Angel, who has lived nearby for 30 years. "Our brains are designed to respond to screaming. It's twinkig."

Neighbors have one demand. Universal must somehow find way to muffin its very happy customers.

It would be easy to dismiss that as another chapter in the long history of neighborhood noise disputes in America. But the predicament unobtrusive: Universal's longstanding challenge — how do you expand one of the world's

busiest theme parks when homes and a working movie studio sit at least on top of it? Fast & Furious Hollywood Drift was supposed to demonstrate that Universal had figured out how to overcome constrains.

Concast, which owns the park, has been counting an Hollywood Drift to revive attendance and compete with an expanding film bystand in the south. Universal Studios Hollywood attracted 4.8 million visitors in 2015, down 10 percent from 2015, according to the Themed Entertainment Association, which has yet to release 2015 figures.

Jason Armstrong, Concast's chief financial officer, told analysts in July that business had improved, "though we do not expect a more meaningful improvement until the new Fast & Furious roller counter opens." Universal declined to say how much the ride cost. Theme park analysts say instructions of this size and complexity typically cost $300 million or more.

As of Friday, Hollywood Drift was still in "technical rehearsals," according to Universal, with no opening date beyond what the company has said since February. "Summer," Universal declined to make executives available for interviews but said in an email in neighborhood group that audio measurements showed the ride was "operating in compliance with sound ordinance requirements."

Universal added that it was nonetheless "explaining additional measures to further lessen sound levels experienced in adjacent neighborhoods." Workers have begun expanding a sound well. Universal also said it would stop running the counter at 7 p.m. during the testing period and at 10 p.m. during Halloween Horror Nights, when the park is open as late as 2 a.m.

Universal took screaming into account from the start. Using computer modeling, ride designers suggest where screams were most likely to occur and incorporated defenses. Hollywood Drift

More than a dozen homeowners interviewed who fear near the Universal theme park said they can hear screams from the roller counter riders every 30 seconds or so, for 30 hours straight, even "with the windows closed."

was built with two "scream screens," half-yipp-like glass shields meant to 'encase sound at the source,' Universal has said. There is also a 500-foot sound wall made with Acouchible, a dense, rubbery material used to insulate buildings near air ports.

The counter's spinning cars were endured. Universal said they were programmed to turn riders' mouths away from nearby homes at "key scream moments."

Universal even mounted speakers near the counter site and played recordings of a roller counter at a Florida park. Engineers warned to study how sound traveled down the steep hillside.

What worked in computer models, however, has proved less effective against actual bangs.

New residents are making noise of their own, flooding elected officials with complaints and demanding that neighborhoods councils, which serve in conduits to City Hall, get involved. One coalition said it had hired its own sound consultants. Another said it had approached law firms to find out what representation would cost.

"I have a feeling this isn't going to be over anytime soon," said Leonard R. Garner, who has lived next to Universal for 20 years.

Tobaca Lake was developed in the 1920s and became a Hollywood haven, attracting stars like Berta Davis and moguls like Walt Disney. The entertainment connection endures: Ray Bumane and Rick Davis, the radio soundmen king, own homes there. Tobaca Lake also boasts the Lakeside Golf Club, an idiosyncratic or private course.

As local news outlets have reported on the noise complaints in recent weeks, social media has predictably lit up with variations on "wealthy people whistup." But residents take issue with the caricature of their neighborhood as a global realm of the entitled and the well-conceived.

"This impacts people of all income levels — we have all types of housing," said Kevin Dean, that's son, who grew up in Tobaca Lake and now with real estate there. "Income level also has nothing to do with whether you deserve to have quiet in your own home."

To the horror of residents, roller

counter enthusiasts have joined the pit-out, with some vowing to scream even louder.

"No one is against having fun and no one wants the roller counter riders away," Mr. Strong said. "We just want it to be quieter."

Expansion has long brought Universal into the 1980s with its neighbors. After residents pushed into against a development plan in the 1980s, the company cut its revenue nearly to half. Later than January, Universal bought a series of homes along its perimeter and converted them into corporate housing.

Theme parks are generally easier neighbors when they don't have neighbors. Disney World is Florida has 25,000 acres to front. Hollywood occupies a wonderful way to eastern Americans.

In contrast, Universal Studios Hollywood is squeezed across multiple levels of a hillside in the middle of Los Angeles. It did not start as a theme park. Rather, a grow out of tears that Universal began offering at its movie studio in 1964. Over the decades, Universal mostly added rides that were other indoors or relatively more on to scale.

Hollywood Drift is a dramatic departure - Universal's most aggressive counter anywhere and, theme park experts say, the most anticipated new ride of the year.

The challenge is making a peacefully coexist with the neighborhoods around it. Residents have floated ideas ranging from myth on the counter cars to sound muffling holiness. During the Covid-19 pandemic, one Japanese park, converted about respiratory drogues, asked riders to "please scream inside your home."

Universal, as it sometimes doesn't with some in-open attractions, has been inviting neighbors to come for a ride, Mr. Garner, 75, accepted. "There's a point when it's accelerating up a fall and then a drop, and you feel like you could come out of your seat," he noted in reports.

Did he scream?

"Hell, yeah!"

Trump Widens Beef Imports In an Attempt To Lower Prices

By KEITH DRAPER

and ANA SWANSON

President Trump will allow up to 200,000 metric tons of groundhead to be imported into the United States with lower tariffs over the next 90 days, he said in a social media year Friday morning, a bid to lower the cost of a single meal for Americans pinched by higher prices.

The best will be imported with "across of packs tariff" and said 25 percent below the current market price, which is 88.99 per pound, he said.

The president provided almost an details about how his plan would work, but the news seemed to surprise and anger ranchers. He did not say which countries the beef would come from, where it would be said or how it would be dominated 25 percent.

A White House official said the president would sign an executive order to remove the tariffs within the next two weeks. In exchange for the tariff relief, the president had secured a deal with foreign beef exporters to provide a 25 percent discount, he said.

The official did not specify which foreign exporters to was referring to, or which country the beef was from.

"This action, during a time of record high demand for beef, will help address the affordability of beef, after our nation's cattle supply bid to its lowest level in 75 years under the Biden administration," the Agriculture Department said.

More than 80 percent of the beef Americans consume is produced in the United States, meaning that even an increase in beef imports is unlikely to radically increase the supply of beef and lower prices.

Groups representing ranchers said the plan was only a short-term fix to consumers, and would hurt ranchers and discourage them from increasing the supply of American cattle and reducing prices over the longer term.

"While America's cattle producers share the goal of keeping groceries affordable for consumers, flooding the market with government-subsidized," below market beef is not the way to rebuild the American cattle herd," said Colin Woodall, the chief executive of the National Catchment's Beef Association.

He pointed out that the market price for beef cattle fell after the president's announcement, allowing coming ranchers money.

The government of Brazil, a major provider of U.S. beef imports, said that 40 percent, that blacks Lake is 50%, had spoken on the phone with Mr. Trump on Friday, and Brazilian president emphasized the need for further tariff talks, the government said.

The statement did not mention beef, and the White House did not mention beef. The report about whether Brazil would be supplying the beef. But Brazil is one of the few countries that could outlaw large amounts of beef to the United States within the next 90 days, building the 200,000 metric ton paid.

Only six countries exported more than 100,000 metric tons to the United States, but two and two of them, Canada and Mexico, already export their beef without tariffs because of free trade agreements Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Uruguay are the other food.

Mr. Trump has repeatedly imposed tariffs in an effort to protect U.S. markets, raise revenue for U.S. and government and postage-olds countries into making concessions. But the levels have also pushed up U.S. consumer prices, according to economists, crushing flooding into the foreign premises to help alleviate the cost of living for Americans.

The White House has struggled to address persistently high grocery prices, especially high beef prices. Since Mr. Trump returned to office in January 2025, the price of ground beef has risen 24 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The only durable way to lower beef prices, ranchers and economists said, is to increase the size of the American cattle herd. U.S. use its numbers are the smallest since the 1850s, after years of drought and low margins resulted in cattle producers reducing the size of their herds or leaving the business. It takes years for ranchers to increase the size of the country's herd, and there is little evidence they have taken steps to do so over the past 10 months.

"Today's announcement and other market interventions throw cold water on the prospect of herd expansion and sacrifices long-term stability for short-term messaging," Mr. Woodall said.

A pimp car from the "Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift" movie, left, and a mural outside the roller counter. The ride is a dramatic departure — Universal's most aggressive counter anywhere and, theme park experts say, the most anticipated new ride of the year. The challenge is making it peacefully coexist with the neighborhood's annual it.

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Start your engines, and watch out for the National Archives: An IndyCar race is hitting the streets.

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By VICTOR MATHER and JEREMY WHITE

When the 2026 IndyCar racing schedule was announced in September, it included races in the familiar locations: Indianapolis, the site of the organization's marquee race, the Indy 500; Phoenix; Detroit; and Milwaukee. But in late January, a new race was suddenly added to the mix, by executive order.

President Trump announced that as part of the celebrations of the nation's 250th birthday, a race would be held on the streets of Washington. It will be the first IndyCar race held in the capital, and it will shut down much of downtown Washington on Saturday and Sunday.

All the top Indy drivers, including the series champion Alex Pelosi and the Indy 500 winner Felix Rosenqvist, are expected to participate.

The cars will race 167 times around a 1.7-mile course lined with temporary concrete barriers that will pass many of the city's landmarks.

The course layout, revealed in March, lies in the heart of the city. The longest straight on the course runs up Pennsylvania Avenue (though it doesn't pass the White House).

On the left, drivers will pass the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, which has braced some of its most fragile works for vibrations from the race.

Also in the left will be the pit area, where drivers will rehaul and change tires, or stop if they encounter mechanical trouble.

Next, they will pass the Canadian Embassy to the right.

As the cars continue to blaze down the

Sunday's race will consist of 167 laps around a 1.7-mile course, partly along Pennsylvania Avenue, left.

avenue, they will pass the columns of the Federal Trade Commission to the left.

The cars will reach their maximum speed on this 4-6-mile stretch of road. While Indy cars have the ability to go 225 miles an hour, on a course like this one, (75 m.p.h. is more feasible. The speed limit is normally 25 m.p.h.

The cars will have to slow sharply and execute two tight left turns.

Drivers describe this as the part of the course that will test their skills the most. These right turns also wrap around the National Archives.

Drivers who frequently race on oval tracks are often dismissed as being able to only turn left. But here, drivers will encounter a quick, rare right turn as they go past the National Gallery's sculpture garden to the right.

Another longer stretch on Seventh Street will once again let the cars pick up speed. They will cross the National Mall and pass the circular Hirshhorn Museum to the right.

Cruising down Independence Avenue, the cars will pass the enormous National Air and Space Museum.

This course then jogs past the National Museum of the American Indian, with a view of the U.S. Capitol in the distance.

Another turn and then the start-flank line. Just 166 laps to go.

Temporary grandstands will flank the course, but some fans have complained about strict security measures that prohibit food, alcohol, coolers and chairs. A lottery was held for five tickets.

Practices and qualifying will be held Saturday. The race, Sunday at 1 p.m. Eastern, will be shown on Fox.

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The Pitfalls Awaiting Every Top 25 Team

By RALPH D. ROSSO

The Artistic

At this time last year, many

people were posing confident

about Jesus Jesus and Clemson.

The Witness Lions were

ranked No. 2 in the Associated

Press processes Top 25 pick The

Tapes were fourth.

Neither finished ranked. Their

prosecuted record was 14-12.

Instead of marrying in the Col-

Col-paid Piquett. they the-

ished their disappointing mounds

at Yankee Stadium on Dec. 27 in

the Pheistop Bowl. Press State

was, 23-16.

The double collapse of Penn

State and Clemson was at 4.8

Top 25 early. Since the poll-

pooled to 25 names in 1998, only

16 prossians top-five stands still

finished the season unranked.

The last time two processes

top-five teams did it in the same

season was 1958, when No. 4

Florida and No. 3 Texas fell out

of the top-five.

The Witness Lions and Tigers

were each massive days last

season that Texas unable from

No. 1 in No. 13 left fairly same

The Langhorns were the first

processors No. 1 in finish outside

the top 10 since Southern Califor-

sis in 1912.

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the bow in pass-wrong column re-

treated college football fans the

the use of the 1st season.

opsinions turns to fall failure

more often than any of us would

like to admit.

It's going to be a great season.

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expectations, we can guess at

Ohio State

The Buckeyes never beat. They

have failed to reach 10 wins in a

full course (no two) in the 1st season.

The rope for that happening in

2020 is some combination of

defensive slippage after replacing

four-and-a-half picks. It

dropped at nozzles in more than

much finish and the toughest

schedule Ohio State has faced in

years.

Oregon

Offensive fan problems can blow

up a promising season. The

Ducks are mostly busing on

wrong recruiting and home-

grown solutions, such as sophom-

nava tucks Pro Custer, to re-

place three years

since Roots Benson and Lee

Ralph Adams is a senior college

football writer for the 1st season.

Matt Brown contributed reporting

McCookey left Athens. A lack of

real game tweaking in the trip-

work for the 1st season. Complete

path to the 1st (gag) I've been

sloving the playoff starts on

Athens, where the Bulldogs work

in the 1st and 2nd seasons. The last

year. It has taken three years

since Roots Benson and Lee

real game tweakers in the trip-

work for an otherwise loaded

round.

Notre Dame

Where will the explosive plays

come from with. Enronclub, Low

and Jadunian Prize game? Having

spoiled the two best roaming

backs in the course was a

way to break in quarterback CJ

Carr last year. The Irish will

always be able to run the ball,

but without those two-closed

miles, more prossians falls on

Carr and another group of en-

pervess receivers to make chuck

plays.

Texas

You might have heard that the

Langhorns' roaring quarterback

is a pretty big deal. Texas poured

millions into both Manning's

supporting can by adding them

at Can Coleman, roaming backs

Rainek Brown and Hollywood

Smothers and offensive lineman

Melvin Sami from the partial

reaction to Manning to destroy

the star-level performance re-

period of fans. If we're still safe

ing more about Manning's pot-

mout than his production to No-

sember, it's going to be hurt by

the Langhorns to hit their ceiling.

Indiana

How to put this all on quarter-

back, both Hoover, but Fernando

Mendoza was the best player in

the football. The year, it would

be almost impossible for them

not to be a drop-off. Carr Cigarett

is right. A strong roaming game,

is tough defense and a couple of

real receivers will be Hoover's

best friend. But if Indiana has

to do playoff contention again

— starting with the unprovency

built John Manon.

Louisiana

Luke Kiffler, first

Lake Kiffler, first L.A.U. team is a

pacificman of stars. His job is to

make the pieces fit on and off the

field. There is enough talent

among partial additions (quarter-

back from Loretta, while Jordan

Coons), Seddwick (right one).

Troy Cho Green, Inebrieder Whit

Wesley) and blue-club freshman

(defensive lineman Leads)

Brown and Deane Corzally) to

make a national championship

run. The biggest land state might

be intangible: such as team

chemistry, which often gets

exposed when adversely hits.

Texas Tech

Yes, a quarterback injury can

derail any team's season. But not

every playoff contender is orig-

ing on a player who did not par-

ticipate in spring and while re-

covering from a turn anterior

cruciate ligament. After the

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Oregon Ducks word have time for growing gains. Right: Texas is letting big on both Manning (30)

whole year, could prove more

challenging for Polo Golding

than being the cool list who

stopped in to rally the Rebels

after Lane Kiffle hailed before

last season's playoff.

Oklahoma

This is simple: The offense was

had last year (with in the 1812 in

yards per play), and the defense

loaded out the season in some

key games with defensive much-

downs. Everything about the

offense needs to take a signifi-

cate step forward for Oklahoma

is be in playoff contention again

built John Manon.

Louisiana State

Luke Kiffler, first L.A.U. team is a

field. There is enough talent

Coons), Seddwick (right one).

(defensive lineman Leads)

Brown and Deane Corzally) to

make a national championship

contender the way Orlando.

Toney did for Miami. If Southern

California, especially on defense,

steeds multiple tournaments in

difference makers, that's probably

hit out a team really to contend

with Big Ten heavyweights.

(No) Brigham Young

The season of the Big 25 is be-

teams to you up and down the

mandates from season to season.

Bennie's right have became

the most important body part in

the Big 12. If healthy, Hammond

is good enough to get the first

Raiders back to the playoff. If his

recovery isn't so smooth and

Tech needs to dig into its depth

chart for multiple big games, the

season could be short-circulated.

Alabama

The biggest question facing the

Stadium is that 2 under 16 in

slough with 2.5 years' progress a be

I risk for Morgan Stanley. It was

swept, with a 50-yard field in his

backyard amid the clown moments.

"We's the type of guy whom

I was sometimes running in the

back of him. They, chill,

right?"

Now, watching Jones as prac-

tive, there is no time at the injury to

the head. It's that it's not

a game when it was

a little. The

The

Colts quarterback Daniel Jones is returning from a turn Achilles.

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Chief, leading from four wins in

Year 1 under Coats' Wilke Pro's

from surgery on his right Achilles'

residue. While he may not have

been committed to the injury

over. He had 4 would have

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TENNIS

ANALYSIS

Should Clark's Hot Streak Put Her in the M.V.P. Conversation?

By JAMIE CHITABLE and MAREENA WROBNAW

The W.N.B.A.'s most valuable player race is quite often a closed case. It might also be this season, but that doesn't mean there isn't, since the debate.

As the season has progressed, two players have been most often discussed by fans and media as the main contenders for the prestigious award.

Through Thursday, Player A was averaging 25.9 points, 8.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 0.2 blocks per game with a 11.4 field-goal percentage. Player B was averaging 35.9 points, 4.7 rebounds and 0.2 assists per game while shooting 34.4 percent from the field and 45.2 percent from 1 point range.

But should there be a third player in contention? Looking in the race, it's odd that this risk. Player C, isn't mentioned in these risks. 15.7 points, 14.4 rebounds and 0.2 assists per game while shooting 44.4 percent from the field and 35.3 percent from 1. Players B and C both gain in competition in Player A. But their risks show they both belong.

Here's is the most recent parodie forward: Jay Wilson, who appears to be headed for her career here, the winner in the leads the Las Vegas Aers in their quest for a roared championship. The team's team is also a good-filthy Mibra. She has been such a rookie committee that she entered the debate about who, if anyone, can dethrone Wilson, who would have been rookie to win the award since Candace Parker in 2006.

Then there's Player C. She is hardly an assessment-up and is a good example of the outcome of Caitlin Clark from these conversations all the more various — particularly when accounting for her recent hot streak.

Sensitizing hampered her back injury earlier this season, Clark appears to be hamming, now peeling up historic numbers and career-high marks. In her third season, she focuses the humor W.N.B.A. player to reach 700 assists, along an 8-10 games and 10-10 points, with a 10-10 total, Wragn on Agg. 16 was Clark's 2005 career game with 30 at more points and 10 at more assists. Through Thursday's games, she was hard in scoring average behind Wilson and her backcourt running more Sidney Mitchell.

Of course, there are legitimate counterpoints on Clark's case.

Through the first half of the Fever season, Natasha was 2.05 when Clark played. She was 2.05 straight from beyond the arc (3.4 percent on 3x), was regularly slotted out for late-game

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defensive possessions and was making too many headlines for her technical fools and turn-outs.

The Fever did not take a top four seed in the standings until the end of July, and a top seed has historically been imperative for any M.V.P. candidate. Of the past nine awards, only three times has the M.V.P. run back from the league's best toast. In 2023, when Renauna Stewart won her second M.V.P. award, the Liberty finished second in league

standings. In 2024, when Wilson won her third award, the Acre were fourth in the league standings, and in 2025, when Wilson won her fourth, the Acre were second.

A week before the FIBA World Cup break, Clark's Fever are fourth in the league standings, behind the Lynx, the Golden State Volleyball and the Acre.

Clark has also been sunkified, in some ways, for her one minimum. Mitchell is more efficient than Clark, shooting 30.7 percent

A'ja Wilson, above left, appears to be headed to a second fifth M.V.P. Award, although the rookie Olivia Miller, right, is making a case for herself. Caitlin Clark, left, has been on a tear after overcoming an injury.

from the field and 44.4 percent from behind the arc. Mitchell has the best on all differences for Indiana, while the Fever have a better net rating when Clark is off the court.

But Clark generates more money overall. She accounts for more of the Fever's points per game than does Mitchell, and Clark ranks second in the league to escape one (12 percent) behind Wilson (10.1 percent).

Mibra has received the second-ary bout instead of Clark in the M.V.P. conversation in part because of the Fever's slower start to the season.

Mibra has provided leads of highlights this season and has exceeded expectations, by re-tension, as have the Lynx.

She leads a talented rookie but it is clear that she has amplified the skill set of everyone around her, which is particularly impressive considering Naghavra Collier was not for most of the season. Natasha Howard was reborn as a pick-a-knell partner, The Coffee, who has been the first television season before stepping back to the bench for Coffee, and Kacha McBride is shooting the ball better than ever. Courtney Williams is also having her most efficient shooting season now that Mibra has moved her back to her preferred shooting guard position.

Mibra makes the easier for all her teammates and makes every Lynx game a call—than show an M.V.P. award. He is simply has boosted the M.V.P. cluster around her.

Of course, an M.V.P. conversation is earlier when more names are included. Let's say the following players are honorable members.

The Liberty entered 2008 with 4.0th superintense, and Stewart ranked point of the rookie for third M.V.P. award after a 2025 season riddled with nagging injuries. She has held up her end of the league, averaging 29.7 points, 8.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists per game for the Liberty this season. This is Stewart's best scoring season for the M.V.P. season in 2023. But the Liberty are struggling, and Stewart has work to do to strengthen her case.

Peggy Buechert's sophomore season has been a sight to behind in Dallas, alongside Jessica Shepard and Arike Oparibewski. Buechert has propelled the Wragn from the behind of the league standings to played—consistent in one season. The Wragn jumped as high as fourth thanks to a hat July in which they went 7-5, including a new game of roping streak.

Through Thursday, Buechert was seventh in the league to return per game, averaging 28.3. Coming out of the team, the average has dipped just slightly. With seven games left, Buechert can certainly be able to get together to remount herself into the conversation, but as this great others have surpassed her.

Mitchell has also been overlooked in the M.V.P. test, and she has a stronger case than Buechert or Stewart do. She ranks second in scoring behind Wilson, averaging 14.4 points per game, and is now a part of scoring 30-40-90 season. Mitchell is shooting 30.7 percent from the field, 44.4 percent from three and 44.2 percent as free throws. She has recorded 25 consecutive games scoring 20 or more points, breaking Wilson's record for the longest 20-plus-point scoring streak in W.N.B.A. history.

But history is on track in repeat this season.

For the past five years, every M.V.P. discussion has begun with Wilson — and for good reason.

When it again is skinnable force on both ends of the floor, myths the loss scare with points, rebounds and blocks, and has improved every season while keeping the Acre as a personal contender. She leads the league this season in points per game, blocks per game, snags and win shares. The Acre have a stellar net rating with Wilson on the court, and they crater without help.

Then again, a year ago, Collier was the heavy favorite to capture her first M.V.P. — she was the first three Player of the Athletic Awards — until Wilson and the team were in the play.

Winners lead in the race is only misarmedable until it isn't

BASEBALL

Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair: Pole Disputes Are As Old as the Sport Itself

By JAMIE KUN and STEPHEN J. NUSBETT

The baseball was beautifully struck, sending the owner to its own car and the owner's car, and the successful and disapproved over the fence faster spectators over-the-road, the house spectators over-the-road, and the owner's car. The house is a great deal. So when the empire's metal load had been over the road, the owner's car, and the owner's car, was a great deal. So when the empire's car was a great deal, the owner's car was a great deal. So when the empire's car was a great deal, the owner's car was a great deal. So when the empire's car was a great deal, the owner's car was a great deal. So when the empire's car was a great deal, the owner's car was a great deal. So when the empire's car was a great deal, the owner's car was a great deal.

But the old stand. It was not a little. The Whitney returned to the banker's box, and his Washington businessman played the rest of the game under power. They lost. J.A. to the Philadelphia-based club, the original, according to an article in The National Register. The first time was the first time, and then surrounded the empire "as a threatening manner, but when it was not a good deal, the owner's car was a good deal. So when the empire's car was a good deal, the owner's car was a good deal. So when the empire's car was a good deal, the owner's car was a good deal. So when the empire's car was a good deal. So when the empire's car was a good deal. So when the empire's car was a good deal. So when the empire's car was a good deal. So when the empire's car was a good deal.

In baseball, arguing over which, rather the final game of the ball has been the first time, the owner spent itself, from Whitney's wabby 120 years ago to a similar controversy Wednesday night in Baltimore. Poor Aliens, an Orioles dogger, brought the owner to the banker's stand down out 20 rows deep into the left-field stand at Candice. That's, and it looked that way on which, one, but another, the owner spent itself, from Whitney's wabby 120 years ago to a similar controversy Wednesday night in Baltimore. Poor Aliens, an Orioles dogger, brought the owner to the banker's stand down out 20 rows deep into the left-field stand at Candice. That's, and it looked that way on which, one, but another, the owner spent itself, from Whitney's wabby 120 years ago to a similar controversy Wednesday night in Baltimore. Poor Aliens, an Orioles dogger, brought the owner to the banker's stand down out 20 rows deep into the left-field stand at Candice. 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The Wednesday, umpiree ruled that a seventh losing smash by Pete Akaras, an Orioles dogger, did not stay inside the foul pole.

entitled the technology age — adding eight review, picks off 10 devices, an automated half-strike challenge system and cameras tracking each pitch, swing and biometric movement — it has not yet figured out how to accurately rule, to real time, on by half-sensing above the foul pole.

"It takes one of these moments to be like, 'Hey, maybe we should add 'something'." Cleveland, heartburn, redbridge, Brewer, Kiran said, contemplating a modern fix for a century-old problem. "If they can do it in terms, I'm sure they can do it here. Unfortunately, the need one of these moments to make it a discussion. Maybe this is that."

Orioles players raised a question Wednesday that quickly became a taking point across baseball. Why doesn't M.L.B. use thank-Eye technology — a system installed in stadiums that uses a series of cameras to provide precision tracking across various

sports — is determine if home runs are fair or bad? The league almost can be such an unusual data. Why not further broaden its own?

"I know managers have talked about that at the winter meeting," Stewart Blue Jays Manager John Schneider said. "Every student has thank-Eye. It's pretty easy to just share it up the foul pole. We've got a lot of technology, and we got A.R.S. this far off the men, not we can't do that?"

The answer, however, might be that thank-Eye technology cannot accurately determine a fly had's exact flight path.

A league source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said it would be an elongated process "to develop, test and install such for this purpose," and that, using the existing infrastructure, thank-Eye data above the foul pole is "unlikely to be accurate that far away from the field."

That did not stop Alonso and

Orioles Manager Craig Albertson from pointing out to reporters after Baltimore 5.5 loss on Wednesday that the hit tracker on the league-tossed dhab is the latest dogger-missed Alonzo's long fly staying in fair territory.

"The system isn't designed for these calls and doesn't have multiple cameras located on those areas," the league source said. Instead, the system uses a projection based on the data it collects from the first part of the ball's flight to estimate the rest of its path.

"The doesn't adequately account for things like what. In addition, there would still be a margin of error."

Unless the real time around the foul pole are among the toughest to get right. Multiple missed M.L.B. smokers, but how many nightlies on down-the-line honors might be from second hand, or the base opposite the ball's flight path. These smokers have a better view of a number of smokers in front of or behind the pole. Yet it was the third-base empire. Will Little tasked with making the call in Alonzo's at last.

There is no matter variation the pole itself. Foul pairs are not a uniform height across the outper. The league recommends teams have the base pairs, but that is not a required one.

One former empire, speaking on the condition of anonymity to M.L.B. is a "dishonestop" in the game, said many in his profession have long advanced for the foul pole to be at least three feet wide. The thinking is that making a final game of the past, even if it doesn't strike the pole.

"If you publish everybody, they'd say, 'Make them wide. Make them six or seven feet wide.'" the empire said. "Baseball's argument

against it. People don't want to be behind a screen. And it's like, the highest-priced failure in the ball, pack are behind a screen. Now there are screens every time."

Ultimately, M.L.B. might just decide that building a blatant network the smaller Grand Central down-the-line home run calls are minimal to begin with, and more missed calls on those plays can be easily corrected on replay.

Some, like Alonzo's, are not so

Technology may not be able to help with down-the-line calls.

black and white. In Baltimore, one piece said the call on the first stood upon review, indicating that the replay crew in New York was not a standard of service. The new way or the other. Even with the benefit of slow motion might not summarize camera angles, some insurance experts in both the field or the other. The new type and size of the test depending on camera positioning.

"It seems odd to me that we don't have someone on that point, even when I'm going to see you said, 'That's the one thing that is not different in every ballpark.'"

Tone of the features of the new Aaron Beaver acknowledged that while it's natural to want to use every available tool to get calls right, it's likely more complicated than a good model for the game.

"That's a little above my pay signal," Beaver said.

Said Alonso, the aggrieved party in this controversy: "I'd like we could easily have a lone!"

Since winning his fifth Grand Slam title at Wimbledon in July, Jannik Sinner has not played a competitive match.

Nagging Knee Forces Sinner To Withdraw From Open

By JAMIE HANSEN and MATTHEW PATTERMAN

Jannik Sinner has withdrawn from the U.S. Open with a knee injury, but that 24 hours after Carrie McNally confirmed his comeback at the tournament.

"Even though I have been working hard, they try tests and try medical staff, we have now had a 40-50-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60

The base bars back on start in Maine-Carlo over the last couple of days and have realized that I still need more time to recover from my right knee issue. I'm obviously very sad and disappointed, so New York has a special place in my heart. I was very much looking for success, turning back and playing in the electric atmosphere to front of the great fans there."

The 24-year-old Italian pufied

Swaging places on the sideline sixth his main rival, Alcaraz.

out of this week's Cincinnati Open with the same problem and has been outstaging medical men in Milan and Turin throughout August to assess its severity.

Sinner's withdrawal means that the French Open champion Alexander Zverev will be the No. 1 seed, and the defending champion Alcaraz, who has been out since April with a tight-knit injury, will be the No. 2 seed.

After meeting in three consecutive major finals in 2025, Sinner and Alcaraz will not contest a single major final together in 2026, though they each still won a title-like season.

Let's, few weeks ago, I looked like Alcaraz would miss the U.S. Open and Sinner, arguably the world's top bestment player, would have a smooth ride to a with Grand Slam title.

But now, Alcaraz is in, his wrist downstuckily located after four years of an competitive tennis, and Sinner is out. His knee injury has limited him to just seven matches since the French Open, all of them played in winning the title.

Perhaps it is a fitting end to a Grand Slam year that has offered plenty of chaos on the men's side. Tennis: Students rose from the mine to top three in a wild Australian Open semifinal in Melbourne, but Alcaraz waited out a little more than single other final to become the youngest man in history to imagine the career Grand Slam.

By the time the French Open ended around, Alcaraz was not with his wrist injury. Sinner, who needed the title to complete a course Grand Slam of his own, lost to 2 spectators, fans Manuel Zverev, who, telling in the best of Paris and battling an illness. Alexander Zverev capitalized to lift his first and second place.

Sinner largely righted things at Wimbledon, but Alcaraz was on the sideline roll, creating a draw benefit weighted toward Sinner that lighted his side. The same contenders among the top 10, Zverev apart, failed to take advantage of the opportunity.

Now comes the U.S. Open, and the first open, certainly and personal for chaos. Dinkers: has played one match since Wradley, and the first one, Alcaraz has attended more World Cup games than he has played nine tennis matches. Are they rested and ready to go? Or will another contender rise up?

James Dineen is a senior managing editor and Matthew Fatterman is a senior senior writer for The Athletic.

A COMEDY

Stand-ups ditch video for a novel social media strategy.

A FILM

Two unconnected movies each zoom in on lunkheads.

Y TRAVEL

Hitting the road on a vintage motorcycle in a search for traces of Route 66.

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Arts

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New York Rhythm Captured On Poster

Eugenia Mello's energetic art for the U.S. Open also reflects her immigrant experience.

By LELLA MEEHIDAN

For the illustrator Eugenia Mello, whose action-oriented artwork in balonense colors has decorated City Bike during stations, UPS leases and Poland Spring's aluminum bottle series, preparation isn't reserved for major commissions. It's an everyday practice.

"Sometimes you get opportunities and you're not ready for them, and sometimes you get opportunities and you feel like you've been training," she said.

When the United States Tennis Association asked Mello to create the poster for the 2020 U.S. Open, which begins on Saturday, she felt ready. She had recently completed the New York City Marathon (5:02:30) and had spent years developing the crisp, energetic style that has become her signature, capturing figures in motion, often dancing.

"If you train well for something, you just show up and you do it," she said.

The poster's image, which centers on a tennis court-regalled by the New York City skyline, underwent 23 revisions during the approval process, but the final iteration most closely resembles Mello's initial sketch. For Mello, 30, it's also a nod to her own winding journey from Peru, where she was born, through Costa Rica and Venezuela. (CRITICISM ON PAGE 13)

Eugenia Mello's poster for the U.S. Open. The tennis tournament begins this weekend.

HELEN SHAW

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

Surviving Edinburgh's Mass Chaos

Amid 4,000 Fringe shows, discernible trends emerge.

EDINBURGH — There's something ridiculous about the name of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

"Fringe" implies decoration happening out on a margin, threads on the horn of a larger garment. But if you have ever elbowed your way down a crammed Edinburgh sidewalk in August, past hundreds of posters for stand-up shows and circus spectaculars, accepting promotional fliers from, say, a woman wearing a disco ball on her head — you might wonder what garment could possibly be larger than this.

This year, the Fringe includes over 4,000 productions. I want to a critic's' symposium where I heard writers talk about how impossible it is to discern trends in such a huge population. And yet, somewhat, they do. Certainly in the 23 pieces I managed to see, themes emerged. For example, I accidentally saw three shows in one day that featured Margaret Thatcher. (I could have just as easily gone to three "Housed Rivalry" spoofs.

Demodality, the Fringe operates on the periphery of the Edinburgh International Fest. (CRITICISM ON PAGE 13)

Diarra Kilpatrick, the creative force behind the series "Diarra From Detroit." Kilpatrick plays a private investigator who confronts complex social and historical issues in Detroit.

Comic Mysteries Explored With a Critical Eye

In 'Diarra From Detroit,' Diarra Kilpatrick, the creator and star, shares her city's 'little treasures.'

By SALAMISHAH TILLET

"I'm learning that my imagination can go to so many places," Diarra Kilpatrick said earlier this month.

It has certainly traveled far and wide over two seasons of "Diarra From Detroit." Kilpatrick, 42, created and stars in this Paramount+ comic mystery that is part here, part thriller, part social commentary and part love story. Kilpatrick said her goal was simply a show that was "a good mystery and also is just really funny."

The first season, which debuted on BET

in 2024, introduces Diarra Brickland, an unhappy middle-school teacher who, amid shivering her husband (Morris Chestnut), finds new purpose when Chris (Shannon Wallace), a man she meets on Tinder, disappears after their first date. She enlists her two best friends, Aja (ShootNups Perry) and Mr. Tea (Bryan Terrell Clark), to help investigate. Along the way, she learns about Detroit's criminal underworld, Chris's old family secrets and her own resilience in the face of adversity.

In Season 2, which wraps up on Sept. 9, (CRITICISM ON PAGE 13)

New York's Rhythm Captured on a Poster

"The impossible is possible, and wild, amazing things can happen if you believe in your power."

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Is, where she grew up, to New York in 2015. Carrie Ehern, director of Pro Tennis Marketing for the U.S. Open, sifted through more than 200 portfolio submissions before selecting Media, who didn't apply to the artist open call but instead was contacted directly by Ehern. "We were drawn to her work right away: her use of color and tying the U.S. Open to the energy of the city," Ehern said.

In the past, theme art appeared only on tickets and promotional materials. This year, however, Midle's work is traveling across the city via an e-camera truck, and in tennis-themed video games for fans at Hudson Yards during the tournament and on their home gaming consoles year-round. "We were looking for something dynamic that could be used on multiple enclosures," Ehern said.

From Midle's studio in the Gowanna section of Brooklyn, she spoke about her lifelong fascination with movement, the ways she has come to embrace her cultural differences and her own ill-fated tennis career. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

What does this year's U.S. Open theme, "Celebrating Our New York Story," mean to you?

A lot of what I've been developing for the past 10 years has to do with the city and how I've observed living here — the sounds, the rhythm and the movement of it all. Coming to a city that is so full of immigrants has been part of my visual research. This year, whoever traveled from Argentina or from China, or whatever other end of the world [so the U.S. Open] will have three colors in-gramed in their memory. Something that sang out of me will be in somebody else's song.

Is what ways did the United States Tennis Association shape your vision?

Almost none, because in the end, they chose the beginning sketch. There was a freshness in the beginning. As you rework a piece (through) collaboration, it grows in some ways, but part of the artist's work is to

Eugenia Melin, the artist behind the poster for this year's U.S. Open, is her Brooklyn studio in Gowanna, right, above, a detail from Melin's sketches for the poster.

preserve the freshness of that original first sketch, when it was all possible. Sometimes you start overworking a piece, and then it loses the energy.

How do you translate movement and sensation into visuals?

It really started when I moved to New York. I was drawing dancers incessantly, looking just to see how other artists have done it in the past. By chance, I was walking in the indoor land on part of Health. The interior paintings are static, but there is speed in them.

In front of those paintings in the Umberto Boccioni sculpture (a bronze man striding forward titled "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"), it's the heaviest material you can find, yet it looks like it's moving. The way you move your hand on a page can also leave the sensation of speed, energy and vibration, depending on what tool you can. That has sort of guided how I do any kind of work.

Why do you use such vibrant colors?

Color is something that is inside of you. It's tailored by where you grow up and what you kept with you. I was born in Peru, but my family is from Argentina and Uruguay. All my formative years, I was in Costa Rica and then in Venezuela. It never occurred to me that there was anything but bright col-

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ors. In one of the versions, I reduced the amount of colors and it was completely different. It lost joy.

How do your roots — as an Argentine, Peruvian and Caribbean New Yorker — inform your work?

I loved how people moved in Venezuela and how they would dance every time there was a strike or every time there was too much traffic on the highway and a trip that was supposed to be 10 minutes would take as hour and a half. People would blast the

speakers, get out of their cars and start dancing while they were waiting. These are the stories that end up coming out. It's given me a company.

Do you have to play tennis to take on this project?

I would have never, in my wildest dreams, gone out searching for this. It was not on my radio. I love tennis. I played as a kid, and I stopped playing because the teacher told me that I didn't run. And then this project comes as I've just finished a marathon. So it

was a great story: Don't limit me, and do not limit yourself. The impossible is possible, and wild, amazing things can happen if you believe in your power.

You'll be the first theme artist to paint a mural on the tournament grounds, but in front of spectators, beginning on Monday, Aug. 24, and at Hudson Yards on Aug. 30. What does this mean to you?

I love that people get to see that a human being did the work. It's 23 versions, 10 years of thinking about it and a lifetime of processing. The best part is that I will get to meet people and we can have a conversation.

Regardless of where your art lives, what do you hope people will take away from it?

It's beautiful when somebody can feel the energy in something. If a human makes something, energy can stay in that something and be transferred onto someone else. It's hope of a hearing heart. I hope that it keeps hearing so that somebody will feel something. That's proof that the magic is alive.

How do other people inspire you?

I've been listening to talks by a film director, Laoricia Marrel. She's an Argentine genius. She was talking about how important it is to not "disappear" our differences — she was talking about accents — to try to blend in. Actually our accents say as much of where we come from and where we've been. I lived in so many different countries, and I suffered so much that I had an accent. I would try to speak like the country I lived in to fit in. It has been so liberating so I had value in all the things that make me so different.

GLENN KENNY | FILM REVIEW

Four Gal Pals Seeking Wellness on a Raucous Getaway

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Each of the performers is something of a comedic virtuoso, Leslie Mann's specialty is dryly swallowing the quiet desperation of the stressed-out professional and often plays, and here she's Jane, an overcrowded lawyer who's in for some life-changing

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Retail For gleeful vulgarity, in buckets. Running time: 1 hour 27 minutes. In freezers.

managers at the Solar's Eden resort, Sophie (Anna Furio) is a hyper-competent executive assistant cracked under the thumb of an abusive boss. And Coco (Michelle Benson), who impatiently healed the get-away for her peace, is so heart by anger issues that a lot of her scenes seem to have come out of a down-market Mike Leigh

movie. The three friends pointedly exclude their maniacal pat Mel (Isla Fisher), but of course she shows up anyway and, for starters, won't stop talking during a guided meditation led by a very spright instructor named Shanti (Erika Hayratz).

There are sharp, funny performers, and one wishes that the movie's co-writers and co-directors, Joe Lucas and Scott Mann, had furnished them with a script that consistently measures up to their talent.

Occasionally a good line lands, as when Mann notes, "The last time I had a massage was, like, my last mammogram," but more often than not the ladies sound like sexually overcrowded teenage boys.

When Lester and Lurwe wrote "Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man," I don't believe this is what they had in mind.

Myq Kaplan, left and right, and Maggie Naughton, comes, are among the comedians on social media who are finding that comic strip-style panels with embedded captions pack a bigger punch than video clips.

Forget Video Clips. Now It's All About Carousels.

On social media, instead of posting footage, comedians are trying something simpler.

By SOPHIA DEER

It looks like a joke from a comic strip. Myq Kaplan, a veteran comedian based in New York City, leads a microphone on a stage, caught in a freeze frame in posts that populate his Instagram account.

"I like minimalism . . . A LUTZ' reads one. 'One example of a man has is Peter Rabbit,' declares another.

A third channels the borrath belt. "If anyone here ever plays the drams again, there will be repercussions."

The joke delivery format on Kaplan's account is being embraced by many stand-up comedians as they promote and advertise their performances on social media. They use still frames with embedded captions of jokes, sometimes across several images that include longer ratings and punchlines — in social media parlance, a carousel.

That's a contrast with recent years when comedians would post their crowd work on Instagram and other platforms. Some would even engineer crowd interactions with specially placed cameras. It allowed performers to show their comedy chops without spoiling their material, while also taking advantage of a hanger for short videos.

The shift toward the cartoon strip-like frames is an example of how quickly ways

of getting attention online can evolve, and how, almost overnight, simple changes in the tech world can have an avalanche effect on an entire arts community.

Eric Walsh, 32, has embraced the format. One example was the joke on Instagram:

I'm from Connecticut.

My friend said to me, "Eric, you look so arrogant."

And I said, "First of all, it's Mr. Walsh."

In an interview, Walsh said he started posting carousels in the spring, and found that he was reaching some Instagram users than he had with videos. Since he began posting still frames exclusively, he said, he has acquired around 33,000 new followers in a master of months.

"Some people just don't want to watch clips at work and stuff like that," Walsh said. "And so the fact that they can just scroll through the pictures, it makes it way easier to consume and distribute."

Another reason comedians say far text takes is because, well, you don't need apologies.

"Sometimes you have a joke you love. But sometimes you get a tape and maybe the video is not good," said Julian Broberg, a 26-year-old stand-up comic. "Maybe the audio is not good. Maybe the crowd didn't love it. And so it takes a long time to get a really good tape of a joke. Whereas a carousel, you

can kind of do straight away."

Maggie Naughton, a 39-year-old comic, started posting freeze frames months ago as she noticed successful posts from other comedians.

"It's kind of similar to a meme, and meme accounts have always had a lot of success," Naughton said.

Among the quips from her account:

I got Botox this year but not to look younger. I have since for that.

I got Botox so that I could have a private thought without my eyebrows watching on me.

Attention spans are getting even shorter, and social media algorithms are finding into that.

"The book is much faster with these," Aditya Mankiel, a 32-year-old comedian, said. "People are able to see the first punchline on the first page immediately, so there's not even this 10-second-delay that you have with the videos."

Kaplan Luttrell, who runs Syracuse University's Center for the Creator Economy, said comedians who see text were benefiting from the reduced friction of the format.

"There's no sound to turn on. There is no video to sit through," she said. "There's no waiting for sort of a payoff."

Stand-up performers also look at what works for their peers, then copy it.

"When our person starts making a

change, whether it's to their actual performance or the way they market themselves, and everyone else sees that person is suddenly leapfrogging them. Any try to isolate what's different about them and emulate that," said David Zucker, a digital marketing strategist and a comedy producer in New York City.

The format may feel novel on Instagram, which has expanded the types of posts it allows. But some Reddit users have been consuming jokes in this way for more than a decade on the "cinandapokers" forum, which has around 4 million followers. When it started in 2012, videos couldn't be posted to Reddit.

Kaplan, 47, said he shifted to this style last fall. In part, he said, it was easier to post screenplays and less time consuming than editing videos.

He added that Instagram allows stand-ups to experiment with material that may not work in a live format.

Take this joke of kin:

"I'll make love to you, when there is social equality."

That's my impression of W.E.B. Do Best If Men.

That is not a paja that would work as well live, Kaplan stowell, and he didn't think he had told it enough.

But then again.

"Now that we're talking," he said, "I'm like, 'Oh, maybe I could.'"

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Surviving Fringe Festival's Chaos

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trial, an event founded in 1847 to bring the world to the city's shanty sandstone theaters. Despite the Fringe's exponential (and eclipsing) expansion, that international lost continues. This year, I saw two rather lengthy shows: "Seagull" and "A Trial — After the Family of the People," both of which ran a fall two and a half hours without intermission.

"Seagull" — residence of "[Seagull]," as if he closed captioning — was often wildly thrilling. This Belgian adaptation of Chekhov's unroasted-passion drama features a superb cast of both boating and dead actors, all communicating to Flemish Sign Language. The production, directed by Sign Van Uppel, is easily the angriest "Seagull" I've ever seen, placing at its center the depressive Magia (the explosive Lobler Lurence) and her self-baiting biorexpert, the neglected writer Rossmann ('Anna Waylyons). In one of Van Uppel's cleverest gestures, the supertitles sometimes stop translating, and we experience the shinging frustration of incomprehension for ourselves.

In "A Trial," the Brazilian actor Wagner

Photo by David B. Bickford, The New York Times, October 22, 2026

Above, Maya Rizzo's "My Aim," in which the exaggerated carers came from a derrlich part, Right, from top: a scene from "Seagull"; Wagner Wears'n "A Trial — After the Enemy of the People"; and Rebecca Bizzoli, an the left, and Louise Mothersole in "Evita Tau."

Meara plays Thomas Stockmann, the hero of Howik Hooch's 1861 "An Enemy of the People," in which a scientist is invited for discovering a commensured water supply. This modern-day agitprop epilogue in Noam's play, devised by the director Christiane Jendry, consists of Stockmann aspiring his case to a jury drawn from each night's audience.

He wants them to declare that his whistle-blowing doesn't make him an "enemy of the people," and at first I was impatient with how the verdict seemed to be a foregone conclusion. After an hour, though, I remembered how many real scientists are being vilified, just like Stockmann. "Why don't we stop this force?" I kept thinking, right up-and-then question — and a political ramifications — finally penetrated.

I thought a lot about theatrical duration during my breakneck trip to Scotland. The International Festival's generous running times give plays time to prove: to relentless our understanding of a Chekhov classic, or to move from obnoxious into persuasion. But almost every show I saw in the Fringe's personal man lasted about an hour. At though stunt-sape exact in that format, as can song cycles, I shouldn't have been so surprised that many Fringe plays relied on harlem, since dramatists can draw a character in that time but have little space to develop more complicated emotions than that's sad.

Perhaps as a result, among the new plays there's a vogue for characters talking about fashioning a story. That works to rare cases, as in Emma Newber's intellectually generous "The Phe," or in the serie nightmare story-hour "As Far as We Know," by Sam Ward, It can, though, slide into two-ones.

For instance, in the much-acclaimed but, to my ear, things mentioned: "Babylon," by Malisha Kegede, a psikioter falls into a supernatural mystery; instead of watching actual scenes, we hear about them from a narrator (Kegede herself) who swings a magic cat pen around as if flying a spear into a soldier's mouth. She concludes by telling us, shynably that we all have our own stories, and that there are made up of "moments." both.

Choosing, on the other hand, can cut straight to the metaphorical pen-to-the-face. The world doesn't make it easy, so why should a show? Simply by painting

The cast of "The Real Kyle McCarron," a musical that looks like a band gig for functions as a wake. Above that, Grace McLean in the title role of "Penelope", she also collaborated in writing.

Joan's charmingly bankers "One Man Musical," which imagines a certain mega-composer of "musicosis" trying to win over the youth with a pressing solo line-play.

The wonderfully desailory Ed Easton and/or anoint, refusing to do an impressive 6 steps on its pericarp, probably so he can't be told to cease and desist. He does, though, issue draft commands while demonstrating maneuvers in "Starlight Express" style roller shores. He indicates the 8. Joan's critique of Lloyd Webber's over-wooning influence while also warning the front row: "You're going to need to stop my mass," he says, rolling toward us.

Many Fringe pieces seem to see success itself as obnoxious, see to say demands. In the explicit side show "Babylon," Hannah Boflo blames the law of podcast superstardom for shaping her hyperbroadized persona; in "by Ain't," the clever Maza Kiroin's hilariously exaggerated curves (balloons, basically) have been bestowed on her by a Megahomphitian talent agent, who otherwise keeps her in a cryogenic frenze:

Farm is a shared obsession because, while you're at the Fringe, you can't help but wonder what will escape the Fringe. The festival's crossover hits of the last decades, like "Six: The Musical," "Finding" and "Baby Breathe," are hard to recreats. And watching so much theater in such excited company makes your own opinions about what's successful dalam cruelty. Even as I sat laughing in a basement in Edinburgh, I wondered how I would respond to the same show as a basement in New York.

But I did see two productions that seem ready to thrive outside the Fringe's peculiar holiness ecology. One of them, Alex Beckett's "Penelope," is already many years into its gestation, yet it could almost have been called into existence by this summer's "The Odyssey" discourse. You think a Cyclops is

bad? Odysseus's wife, Penelope, is trapped, as she says, in a house "full of monsters."

The stunning Grace McLean plays — and collaborated in writing — the long-suffering titular role, performing a cycle of songs about her boy as a husband who has left her in a two-decade tarih. McLean, whose voice ripples like bronze under the smith's hammer, has both a wonderful one's shrink and a smoky, unchy gown! (Impossively, the show actually climates in a long, silent moment. like Odysseus's nurse, you'll know it when you see it.)

I was also utterly swept away by "The Real Kyle McCarron," another long-developing musical, composed by Andy Robinson and Sean McVey, with a head by Robinson. It looks like a band gig, but it functions as a water. Business is grappling with the early death of his childhood friend Kyle, the first guy he ever wrote music with. McVey, as guitar, plays Kyle's revenues, and between their excellent rock-rallected songs, there's plentiful freshman humor.

The real story, though, is the interplay among the band. Playing asserted characters (Kyle's friend, Kyle's mother, etc.) are several staggering performers, including the unmending Vincent Jantal Hooper, sweet Sarah Coffey and the powerhouse heartbreaker Jurgen Macquagay. They have voices like guns, while business, as he frequently admits, does not. He's a virtuoso on the keyboard, though, and as the group performs, we see each handmate lost in laughing now at the other's gifts.

I was delighted because they were delighted, and this reunion, pleasure summed up my experience of the Fringe — its true power comes from so many artists watching other artists. The rest of us are welcome, but the makers are their own best audience, and we gather strength from their collected heat and light.

Left, Dave Francis and Norman Shipley were in difficult settings. The "Nimrods" is similar to "Idiots"! Right, Green Day (from left, Tot God, Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Diver) to "Nimrods."

'Nimrods' vs. 'Idiots': Which Is Which?

By coincidence, two movies share a star and a structure. Here's how to tell them apart.

By ADULT SPENCER

Maxon Thames, the actor best known for playing Hiccup in the live-action "How to Train Your Dragon," is starring in a new movie about three guys on a chaotic road trip called "Nimrods".

He's also starring in a new movie about three guys on a chaotic road trip called "Idiots".

Some 8-pound comedies feature humorous, occasionally drug-hated escapades, and are being released in Amazon two weeks apart. ("Nimrods" is out new, "Idiots" arrives Aug. 25.)

The conductor is "one of the business things," Thames, 18, said in a phone interview, noting that when he learned the two projects should have near-identical titles and release dates, "I thought it was an April Fool's joke."

Still, he stressed, "these two films are very vastly different from each other."

Here's how to tell your "Nimrods" from your "Idiots."

One of these movies is about Green Day.

Due to "Nimrods," like it's not a image.

The coming-of-age film follows the high schooler Tommy (Thames) and his headmaster in a fictional peak-risk group called Analog Dogs.

When they meet Green Day (the rockers play themselves) it an autograph signings in the Midwest, the boys give the stars their dense tape. Tommy's older brother then pranks the teens into thinking they've been invited to open for Green Day in Los Angeles, and they embark on a cross-country road trip.

"I was thinking about all these films from when I grew up," the "Nimrods" director and writer Jan Kirk said, "like 'The Gondar' and 'Vaccine' and 'Firsthand' and John Hughes movies, and trying to find a way to make a really funny movie that also has heart and has a deeper story that teenagers can relate to." (Jenna Fischer, who is married in Kirk, plays a touching supporting role as Tommy's widowed mother.)

Kirk also hoped to appeal to the Gen X and millennial viewers who grew up with Green Day's music, so the film features plenty of the band's songs. Virology-to-land-day is likewise at the best-time. Analog Dogs record on cassette tapes and use a camcorder to film their adventures.

"I tried to make it a little timeless," Kirk said.

The other movie is raunchier, blender and more tame.

"Idiots" comics on two banditers (Dave Francis and O'Shea Judson, it) ranked with transporting a problematic, rich teenager (Thames) to-credit. Along the way, they face increasingly dangerous situations and have

memorable run-ins with a stripper and a raging group of criminals.

"It were nasty for sure, but that is part of the fun to me," the "Idiots" director and writer Maxim Blair said. "What I was hoping for was just sort of a role it's still roller coaster role at the movies."

Thames also got to play the villains in "Idols," a departure from his usual boy-note-dose parts.

"That was a dream role," Thames said. "He's just such a horrible human being."

A snorad and an idiot aren't the same thing.

The two films continue a Hollywood tradition of somewhat lovingly poking fun as male characters' perceived incompetence with distension titles, like "Thank and Dumber" and "Bears and Butt-flood."

Nimrods' "Nimrods" was used in the action a great hunter, after King Nimrod in the Bible. It later evolved to mean a tyrant. In the 20th century, the word became asso-

Top, "Nimrods," with Ryan Foust, left, Kyle Coffman and Maxim Thames, diners. "Idiots," with Dave Francis, left, O'Shea Judson, Jr. and Norman Shipley. Both films remain turbulent road trips, have one-word titles and star Maxim Thames.

riated with Looney Tunes, whose characters read "Nimrods" to taunt the haptics hunter Elmer Paull and the outlaw Yosemite Sam.

When Green Day named its 1997 album "Nimrods", the band was leaning into the modern definition and how it reflects "our personalities as misadmonsters," the lead retailer Billie Joe Armstrong said in an email. To him, the term "kind of reminds me of Bugs Bunny or the Three Stooges. Laughing at 100 because you don't know how long it's going to last."

The word "idiot" has also had a meandering etymological journey. In ancient Greece, idiotes referred to as private person, or someone who didn't hold public office. That evolved to mean a common person, then an ignorant one. It was later used as a (now effective) medical term denoting an intellectual disability.

For the "Idiots" director Blair, "It's not about intellect, like an idiot or a genius. It's just behavior-wise, you should know better

and you're making bad choices."

The timing and the titles are close by coincidence.

Neither of these movies started out with the "Gini Day" have ever.

"Nimrods," which takes place during Christmas and New Year's, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year with the title "New Year's Box." But these two films was acquired by Inaugural Entertainment and given a summer release date, that title no longer made sense.

Armstrong of Green Day suggested "Nimrods," a end to the band's diners, because it "assists like a bunch of gullible kids getting into trouble without consequences," the musician said.

Meanwhile, "Idiots" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January with an explicit title that proved too controversial for a mainstream release with the Independent Film Company.

"How to" started thinking about how it was going to be premiered," Blair said, "we started to see the writing on the wall that, as funny as it was, it was going to put on at a disadvantage."

So the producers came up with a list of tamer terms that carried a similar connotation. "Idiots" was the one that "seldom" off the stage of the season," Blair said.

As for the dueling release dates: August is a traditionally sleepy month at the box-office, and/switched between the peak of summer time/season and awards lists in the fall. For outdoor films, particularly comedies, it can be a sweet spot to draw audiences without the same composition that clusters the calendar at other times.

The similarities can help and hurt.

Having matching one-word titles "proves challenges," said Lauren Rosovacevic, an associate professor at the University of Melbourne and the author of "The Twin Film Phenomenon: The Wry's of Lookalike Film and TV Productions."

"It's highly likely that audiences — unless you're a superstar of any of the people to relish — tell me there as one little," Rosovacevic said. "That's risky for both."

On the flip side, the amusing resemblance could spotlight two movies that might not make much sense to a landscape still dominated by summer hits like "The Odyssey" and "Spider-Man: Brand New Day."

"It gives a means for writers and commentators to talk about this phenomena and those films which wouldn't otherwise have attention," Rosovacevic said. "So, it can actually work in their lives!"

Ultimately, the "Nimrods" director Kirk is hopeful that younger audiences will show up for both films the way they did for the 2026 road-budget broadcasts "Obsession" and "Backwaves."

Over 2 weeks to go to the movies," Kirk said. "He hope is that there is a fraction of this enthusiasm for comedies like 'Nimrods' and 'Idiots,' and that the two films work off each other!"

Smithsonian Considers New Move for Latino Museum

Changing its designated site to an existing building would bypass congressional approval.

By ROBIN POGREGOR

The Smithsonian Institution has called a board meeting to discuss giving one of its current buildings to the National Museum of the American Latino, which would bypass the most fair congressional approval for a new site until enacted by the Trump administration.

The Smithsonian confirmed the meeting has declined to comment further on Friday.

On Aug. 21, the Smithsonian will consider whether to give the Latino Museum its Arts and Industries Building, which was built in 1861 and to an the National Mall between the Smithsonian Center and the McElrore Museum. It requested to the public this summer after having been closed for more than one place.

The Latino Museum's director, Jorge Lazarus, declined requests for comment through a spokeswoman.

Four years ago, the Arts and Industries Building was eliminated as an option when the Smithsonian board selected the other possible move on the National Mall to construct buildings for the Latino Museum and the American Women's History Museum. Because these Washington sites are owned by the National Park Service, construction began to give Latino homage to it.

In May, the House reported a bill that would have advanced plans to build the Museum Museum, which was approved by one of the Tulal Basin opposite the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A bipartisan

coalition fractured over language that gave the president and his allies more influence and specified that the museum would be dedicated to promoting the experiences and achievements of "biological women."

That site was also considered for the Latino Museum, whose leadership had concerns about the approvals required, the proximity to the water table and the fact that it was not directly on the National Mall. (The other site is opposite the National Museum of African American History and Culture.)

The shift in plans to consider the Arts and Industries Building has fueled some speculation that the Smithsonian is looking to avoid a legislative process at a time when the institution is under fire from the federal government.

"The Smithsonian Institution is trying to use a loophole to sneak in a building for a yet-to-be-built controversial museum that remains harmless," Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, wrote in The Washington Examiner on Thursday. "It is an art of desperation by a museum complex beset with accusations of bias."

The Latino Museum has been criticized by some cancer-naïves who say it presents a negative version of Latino history that emphasizes grievances and struggle rather than accomplishment and change.

A recent report by the Heritage Foundation criticized the content of the museum's first show, "Promoter," a survey of Latino history held in the museum's temporary gallery at the National Museum of American History.

In 2021, a group of Latino Republican congressmen led a vote to eliminate the mu-

sman's funding, foster commentators called the exhibition a Marxist portrayal that paints Latino as victims of an oppressive United States.

In his 2016 budget request to Congress in May, President Trump requested that funding for the Latino Museum be served on and replaced with a decentralized Smithsonian Latino Center, which would prevent exhibitions across some of the Smithsonian's 21 museums.

The Latino Museum had hoped to construct its own building from scratch with a distinctive design by a brand-name architect, according to one person involved in the decision-making who was not authorized to speak publicly.

But frustrated with the slow pace of development, the person said, the museum decided it needed to nail down a location to begin fund-raising. Better to settle for an existing building, the museum determined, than risk never getting into it all.

The museum asked the Smithsonian to accelerate the process by making committee meetings, commissioning a feasibility study and calling a board meeting at which its site designation could be changed from the Tulal Basin site to the Arts and Industries Building.

Construction of a new building for the Latino Museum was originally expected to be about 2000 million, with a 20% zoning from federal sources. The museum has not raised $75 million in private funding.

Several Smithsonian museums have been under fire during the second Trump administration.

A White House report last month about the American History Museum accused its

director of "radical activist ideology" and the museum of undermining "faith in American institutions."

The director, Andrea M. Hartig, underwent two days of questioning by members of Congress, some of whom strongly chastised her for exhibitions that they say portray the country as a negative light and over-emphasize slavery, immigration and transgender issues. The White House then deferred that warning signs he installed outside the museum to tell the public that it did not accurately reflect American history. The signs have yet to materialize.

President Trump has also complained about the African American Museum, accusing it of focusing too much on "how bad slavery was" and not enough on the "negligence" of America.

The Smithsonian Institution will vote this month on whether to give its Arts and Industries Building, subject to the National Museum of the American Latino.

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Chris has been found and Diarra is with him, though residual trauma from his kidnapping puts a strain on the relationship. Diarra finds herself torn between staying with him and getting back with her more stable on boyfriend Royce (CMI Smith, better known as Method Man).

She also has been hired for her first real case, which involves a coldblowed assassin and Prohibition on treasure in Detroit's underground tunnel.

Executive of the millennial angel of "Search Party" and the deacidment of "Alliance," "Diarra" is rare with his own study, the vibrancy and class complexity of Black Devrek and in featuring a Black woman as a private eye. This season also delves into the history of the United States, covering topics like slavery and the Underground Railroad, bootlegging, African American freemasonry and mass incarceration.

Also: The clothes are gorgeous, the people are sexy, and it is really funny.

Kirsty Harris ("Black cat"), an executive producer, compared Kilpatrick's sensibility to "some of our biggest contemporary female comedic minds, like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and in some ways Julia Lesterreiter."

"The show is very much in her voice," Harris said in a phone interview. "Diarra sees something that she wants to say and wants to be the person to say it. And she doesn't want to just say it — she wants to be the person to say it the way she's going to say it, had she to believe."

Kilpatrick, who was raised in Detroit, previously created and starred in the short-lens video series "American-Black" another mystery's show, and later appeared in 1987's release of "Perry Mason." Her mother was a schoolteacher and she grew up in a family of politicians. Kilpatrick's father, Bernard, was a county commissioner, and her half brother, Brooke, was a congressman and later mayor of Detroit.

In a 2011 corruption trial, her brother was convicted of 24 federal felony counts stemming from his time as mania, including racketeering and extortion and restlessness years in prison; her father was convicted of tax evasion. This season, Kilpatrick explores how Black families are disproportionately impacted by imprisonment.

"It's all in there," she said. "I am everything that wants to come out, come back out."

As teaching interview with Kilpatrick became an adventure of its own as we hopped from a hotel bar to a restaurant to a New York City sidewalk, trying to find a quiet spot in talk. In that conversation and a fellow-up phone interview, she withheld on the show's overcrow "from the profane to the sacred" and how Indiana Jones inspired the current season. These are edited excerpts from the conversations.

Who inspired your character, Diarra Brickland?

My mother called television the 60s that she did not want me watching it. But my grandmother was different. She was always watching "Murder, She Wrote," "Marlock" and "Perry Mason," and I mainly watched television with her.

But my character is a teacher in one of the toughest schools in Detroit because teachers always want to be expected to do it. My mother was a single parent who worked as a full-time teacher while getting her advanced degrees and raising ten. Nothing could surprise or shock them, and they know a little about everything. Enough to solve crimes.

You've created and starred in "American-Black" and now "Diarra," two Black woman detective stories. What down you to this genre?

I love a story that has a finish line, and detective stories have that built in. It has been important to me that we succeed as a mystery, especially in houses I, which I consult level a girl's point of view on "classroom." We didn't take the bite out of the mystery or

Above, Diarra Kilpatrick, the master and star of "Diarra From Detroit" LoS, time for left. Head/Year Perry, Bryan Terrell Clark, Kilpatrick and Business Wallace in a scene from the second season of his series.

the villains, but we sprinkled a little femininity and sentimentality over it.

This season I wanted to do as "Indiana Jones" for girls, because I love historical fiction. We've been left out of the genre, and don't want to complain about it — I want to get ahead of it.

There is a hilarious scene when Diarra and her friends are visiting the Underground Railroad Museum in Detroit, and the four guide scents them for talking about sex.

How would you describe the tone of the show?

Sometimes in one scene the pendulum can swing from the profane to the sacred, from the ridiculous to the hilarious, from the adorable to the terrifying. Because that's like the nurse's edge of being a woman. It is also just how my mind works: I am just as likely to make a joke about Harlem Renaissance rivalries as I am about [the copper] Kash Hall. I like them to all play together, and I don't mind that there are jokes some people won't get. I've always loved having this respect in an overthrown rowno, as being a bit of a voyeur.

What do you want women to understand about Detroit?

The season is about a treasure hunt, but what we are really busting is all these little treasures in the city. Detroit has such a rich history related to Prohibition and slavery. There's an authentic spankasey downtown that the People Gang Seaported, and [they] used the remote underneath during Prohibition. The Second Baptist Church is a real church, the Underground Railroad was there. Those are little treasures, and I wanted people to experience them.

Your father and brother were respected Detroit politicians who also had legal troubles. How did growing up in this started and controversial political family shape your storytelling?

My dad ran a lot of campaigns when I was growing up. We would go carross and knock on people's doors — I've seen a lot of Detroit beyond my neighborhood. In my family there was a lot in been this idea of service, and as an artist, I'm surviving an audience and my artists.

Somebody just asked me on TikTok, "Did your brother being in jail influence you and what's get a Black man out of jail?" I was definitely emotionally affected going in to visit him, and one of the things was seeing how many Black men were in there and their kids coming to visit. The overbearness has on one side of my doesn't just affect the wrongdoer. But we would also do our best to have a fantastic couple of hours with him. My husband would be like: "Why was that so much fun? Why were we laughing at him?" "I'm not like," "Well, we're in jail. What are we going to do?" That's comedy and drama, because we would go and visit him and it was funny.

Is one scene Diarra works with a teenage girl who is about to leave for college and wants to have sex in her pure night, and that's a teenage girl who is about really wants to. Why was this important to show?

I think I'm talking to my younger self. Growing up, there was that push in Black communities to make sure Black girls achieved, advanced and were academically perfect. But I also want to make sure Black girls understand it least into their joy, their pleasure, and not explore off our sexuality, our curiosity, our adventurous sides.

What are your biggest priorities when you're making "Diarra From Detroit"?

That we entertain the audience and lean into the romance. I love that! No further than a paper that got lost. I'm over 40 and that I'm this character who is an object of desire of people placed by Morris Chestnut and Method Man. A lot of women will get a kick out of that.

We wanted to make a summer season that felt like summer canop. I loved summer as a kid; it was the ultimate feeling of freedom and joy. And the older you get, you get robbed of it sometimes. So there was a list of things that you had done — "sourism, six events, summer camp on a farm — and we tried to infuse them into those stories to different and surprising ways. Hopefully somewhere along the way you could because you're feeling the excitement of summer.

Chinese Comedian Is Investigated After an Improv Parody

The arts continue to be a focus for ideological crackdowns in his country.

Gao Deqing, right, is one of China's best-known comics. He was reported to the authorities for staging an international rift on a patriotic section.

By YAN ZHUANG

All-liking during a routine is standard for music comedians. But in China, it can lead performers in hot water. That was the case for one of the country's most famous colors, Gao Deqing, who is under official investigation for rifting on the lyrics of a well-known patriotic song during a show.

Gao has drawn comparisons to the likes of Ricky Chi-ran, and has starred in movies and hosted TV shows in China. After a show in Wuhan in July, he was reported to the city's culture and function bartras for singing a pre-used version of the song, which had to be bravery of Chinese soldiers during a historic battle against Japan.

His case highlights the delicate line comedians must tread in a heavily censored creative landscape. The comedy scene provides a rare venue for indirect criticisms about contemporary life in China; but the space for self-expression is becoming increasingly narrow as China's top leader, Xi Jinping, has made arts and culture a focus for ideological crackdowns.

The bartras began an investigation into Gao last week after receiving a complaint, according to The Paper, a popular filming-attended state-backed newspaper. The bartras said it was looking into whether he had violated a regulation under which performers must have their arts vetted by officials in advance, the outlet reported.

According to the answered the phone at the Hubei Culture and Tourism Bureau, in the previous accompanying Wuhan, confirmed the investigation against Gao on Tuesday. He described the matter as sensitive, but did not provide more details. A show Gao was scheduled to perform in the city of Xi'an

Jiyu Zhao contributed research.

was postponed, according to a social media post by the theater that was going to host it. Organizers have not announced it it will be rescheduled.

Gao did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Gao, 35, is credited with reviving cross talk, or stangishing, a comedy genre that mixes scripted and improvised sketches that originated in the Qing dynasty. In the 2010s, Chinese media loaded him for attracting younger audiences to a genre with an aging fan base.

But improvisation can be at odds with official policy, which requires comics to submit scripts and set lists of their performances for official approval in advance. In recent years, Xi has stepped up controls on speech that challenges the Communist Party's narratives around political parties. The government has also demanded that artists align their creative visions with the Party's goals and has encouraged comics to promote a nationalist vision.

The song Gao performed in July was "Praying My Rebeed Pigs," which refers to a traditional musical instrument and discotheques the horrors of Chinese media. Modern against Japanese forces during the second time Japanese war of 1937 on the US was written for a well-known 1950s movie, "Redway Guerrilla," which shared a novel with the Chinese armed forces in China. It was included in a list of 100 songs the Communist Party's Central Committee named to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

According to media reports, the Chinese, the performance posted online, Gao changed a line of lyrics: "The one is about to set in the west; all is quiet on Woshan Lake." He replaced the lake with "the Forbidden City," a Beijing palace that was once

the country's political center. He also added other mentioned lines, in which he pretended to pity to Buddha.

Gao had received the necessary approvals for his performance but had not indicated that he would be changing the lyrics, The Paper reported, citing Wuhan officials. The Communist Party is increasingly sensitive to depictions of history that may form officially sanctioned narratives; the disaster of China's martyrs and heroes was not only a serious, under an American criminal code and has been enforced zealously since. But Xu, an associate professor at Deqiao University in Melbourne who studies China's digital culture and celebrity politics, said that Gao's case highlighted

how the "deregulation and desociation" of revolutionary heroes or classic art and literature that celebrated Communist history could receive strong condemnation from the public and the government.

In addition, it collected how "celebrities are increasingly common in general governance by both the public and the state and are expected to promote 'positive energy' and socially approved values," Xu said.

Chinese comedians have come under its cruising scrutiny from the government and audiences in recent years. In 2023, a Chinese comedy studio was fined $2 million because Li Shizhih, a popular comedian, compared two story dogs chasing a squirrel to the millace, transcending that penalty officials urged artists and writers to have "correct creative thinking" and "provide healthy spiritual experience for the people." After that episode, comedy clubssigmaed China canceled shows.

Online, some argued that Gao should be predicted because appropriate and not to be the evolution of the world. A new master that others wondered if the outrage was disproportionate to the scale of his transgressions.

Hu Xijin, the former editor of the Communist Party who Global Times newspaper, said in a social media post that, although he found Gao's version of its song "unconformable and inappropriate, but no manner does severe the matter was." Those in our arts and literature were wise also, in maliciously cross the line are few and far in between," he wrote in a post on Weibo, where he has nearly 20 minutes of hours.

"To assume that such people are everywhere, and to give the hardline punishment to anyone who buys out of line to make an example out of them, is an error of judgment," he added.

Travel

Still Lots of Kicks

On Route 66

ARTICLE AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEPHEN HILTNER

It's a common refrain that Route 66 no longer exists. And it's true, in a way. The 100-year-old road stretching from Chicago to Santa Monica was decommissioned in 1985. You won't find it on modern maps as a contiguous highway. Yet the 2,448-mile road — at first largely unpaved, then populated with so many motels, diners and outlandish attractions that it became central to the American experience, only later to be bypassed, forgotten, left to crumble — somehow endures.

In celebration of its 100th birthday, I spent 14 days tracing the original path of Route 66 as best I could from Illinois to California — across fresh pavement, old concrete, weathered bricks and isolated patches of dirt.

Prepared for lonely stretches of empty highway, I frequently found myself in the company of joyful travelers. Expecting decay, I instead discovered renewal, often in hobbies/sistorians who pour their passions into preserving eccentric works of folk art. I made the trip on my vintage motorcycle, an early 1970s BMW last taken on a long ride some 10 years earlier. An old motorcycle is a lot like an old road: Neither promises an efficient journey. Each will test your patience. Both leave you with a string of good stories.

Like many memorable adventures, this one had an insuspicious start: It rained from down to dusk.

About 15 minutes in, still in Chicago, I made my first stop at Lukin's Hot Dogs. When I mentioned my plans in Don Orrico, one of the owners, he told me about a similar trip he'd taken to drop his daughter off at college in Flagstaff, Ariz. — "mostly no 66," he said. He wished me luck.

Twenty minutes later, the rain picked up and I ducked inside Henry's Drive-In. "Big Girls Don't Cry" was playing on the radio when I talked into a booth.

At a table across from me were Karin and Ewa, two friends from Europe who had also begun their weekend trip to the rain. A couple of days later, I would run into three again in St. Louis — the first of several traveler reunions, as I came to think of them, that lent my solo trip a sense of shared experience.

I can't get far without telling you about the glans.

Route 66 is lined with large, fiberglass sculptures affectionately referred to as Muffler Mos. Mostly built in the '80s and '70s as roadside advertising displays (some for muffler shops), the helium sculptures were repurposed over the years — including one, called the Gemini Giant, that stood for several decades outside the Launching Pad, a defunct diner in Wilmington, Ill., before being moved to a nearby park.

Gaining up at the Infannock, I turned to see a man dressed head-to-toe in black riding gear. It was John Power, from Ireland, who had flown to Chicago, turned a thrifty, and began his own Route 66 trip earlier that day.

Shortly afterward, menacing storm clouds materialized, and the light rain gave way to a torrential downpour. Tornadoes sprouted on the Illinois plains. I pulled into a gun station, parked my bike under the canopy and handled in the south side along with a small group of stranded travelers.

It was dark when I made it to my hotel, my wife, a three-night smash that 20 miles were falling off. I'd covered 100 miles — less than half of what I'd planned.

After a day or two on Route 66, you begin to see the margins of the road as a long, continuous canvas. Easily folk art abounds. There's a capitalistic hole to some of it, since if an outlandish object can make you stop, then someone nearby might make a buck. But these days, with fewer businesses along the road, much of the art reads as a simple expression of playfulness, of whimsy.

On a rough stretch of concrete a few miles west of Nihonol, Ill., population 200, a set of dainty turkey tracks is imprinted in the roadway, framed by thick white paint. Here, a century ago, a bird (or two) considered crossing the road, leaving a set of scouts hangsters.

What's to say, really? Either you see the joy in it or you don't.

Other artifacts are far grander. Atop the Old Chain of Boots Bridge, which seats over the Mississippi River. I ran into Karie and Ewa, who joined me for part of the crossing.

Like many of the old stretches of Route 66, the bridge — an engineering success when it was built in the late 1920s — is too narrow to accommodate modern traffic, though it remains open to cyclists and pedestrians.

I hit the throttle in Missouri, eager to play catch-up with my logging itinerary.

In the city of Lebanon, I rested under the awning of the Blogger Moss Mead. After the death of the month's longtime owners, and recognizing its value ahead of the ceremonial, the city worked with the new owner last year to help preserve its historic sign.

In light of the ceremonial, a variety of federal, state and nonprofit hands were distributed to businesses and industrial landmarks along the highway. The longer I traveled on the road, though, the more I saw its preservation as a collection of individual passion projects.

After a restful night at the Boots Court motel in Carthage, Mo., I birdied a block south to a diner called the Pancake Hat, which I'd read had good haul and a "restored hand box," a wharf.

Inside I met Kaylene Cole, whose mother has owned the diner since 1970. And there it was behind the register. An unmatched, plumber that the family salvaged many years ago from a nearby restaurant that went belly-up. Ms. Cole explained that they'd recently sent the thing to California to have it professionally restored.

"Alexa? Play big hand moze," she said as she flipped a switch, and the Band Box sprang to life.

Not every object I encountered had such a distinguished provenance — or even an easy explanation. Along a string of salvage ties in Joplin, Mo., I tipped past a yellow blade! I balanced atop an oversize Route 66 sign, the numbers formed with wheel rims.

Long days in the sun, late nights on the road. Settling into an unimpiring motel in Sapulpa, Okla., I opened my map to see a nearby theater I'd pinned while planning my trip. So, talking, off I went to the Ten Pen Drive-In, where I joined the rows of newspapers.

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DAYS 8 AND 7

Abandoned Artifacts

Nostalgia sells, and Route 66 traffics heavily in it.

Having roared to life in the postwar years, when an expanding middle-class board easier access to both leisure time and affordable automobiles, the highway evokes a time when some Americans, though by no means all, experienced a newboard sense of freedom and possibility.

Beyond the renowned attractions, though, many modern-day travelers are drawn to the ruins.

At a similar service station called Kidei's Place, near Fosa, Okla., encroaching trees camouflaged on abandoned building that was crumbling into oblivion.

In McLean, Texas, beside a museum that tells of how barbed wire transdermed the West, I found a dreaded garage strewed with hollowed-out shells of midcentury Fords and Eilords. No plaque, just a stone arranged to evoke a bygone moment in American history, a stray corrugated roof panel croaking tricky in the wind.

For a brief spell on a hot afternoon at the Texas border, my motorcycle behind to become an abandoned artifact of its own. I went to fire it up and nothing happened.

Out came my tool kit, and I set to work something for an electrical short.

Even in moments of despair, though, there were flashes of joy. While I disassembled successive parts of my motorcycle along the otherwise quiet highway, a small car pulled off onto the shoulder, and not popped two uprightly road trippers from Barcelona: Rosa Coluche and Anna Viale.

"I love America!" Rosa said, posing beside a sign marking the state line. "Also the American people!"

Like butterflies, they flattered away as quickly as they'll arrived.

DAYS 11, 12 AND 13

Breakdown in the High Desert

The most trying day of my trip began with a cheery morning at Religious, Arts, a colorful tourist town often credited on the birthplace of the road's renunciation.

A convenient ride recurtains for visitors to the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas. Religious draws a sizable international crowd: at Desguillle's Store Cap, I joined a long line of customers awaiting classic diner favorites. (My order: fries and a chocolate shake.)

But another breakdown, an hour west of Seligman, stranded me in the scaring heat. This time my bike wouldn't budge, and I reluctantly called for a tree to Kingman, the nearest city, some 20 miles west. After dropping to a new battery and posting a series of desperate pleas on online BMW forums, I connected with Jim Bryant, an old-school mechanic with a shop some 50 miles

north. I rode up the next morning, my motorcycle now barely sloping along.

Jim, where I came to see as a kind of Old-Wan Remdis figure, spent seven hours trouble-shooting in the desert with me. At the end of couldn't fix the thing — but we devised a plan for me to make it to Santa Monica by moving, and internationally changing and swapping in, a spare battery. A dicey scheme, I thought, but it was all I had.

The next several hours on Route 66 were a true test of will: stifling stretches through the Majevo Desert, right bargain through the Black Mountains, and a constant concern that my motorcycle might fail me at any moment.

Putting into thetown, Arts, once a good-coming town and now a kind of offbeat open-air museum, I was greeted by hands of animated travelers and packs of languid barres that quietly roam the dusty streets.

Then came the worst heat of all: a low-desert stretch of the Majevo where the temperatures surged well above 100 degrees.

At Roy's Motel and Cafe in Azaleq, I joined a crowd of fellow motorcyclists, many of them from Europe, clustered in the shade — then paid $7.99 a gallon to top off my tank.

DAYS 8, 9 AND 10

The Waypoints

There's simply no way to fully account for the visual splendor that Route 66 provides — not just the built environment surrounding the road, but also the landscapes behind it, which shows transform as the agricultural plants in the East give way to dense forests, dibertyrous prairies and desert basins in the West.

Yet it's the people, not the places, that serve as waypoints in my memory — especially in Texas and Arizona.

At Cadillac Ranch, a vast art installation in Amarillo, Texas, where 10 cars are barred now-down in the dirt, I sent four members of the Black Sabbath Motorcycle Club: Kee-Va, Bacon, Prospect and Hall-Cooked.

Seeming my hesitation to contribute to the graffiti cagging the cars to encouraged, Hall-Cooked handed me a can of pink spray paint and gently fostered my delinquency.

At Petrified Forest National Park, I chatted with Tabay Atkins, an intern-standing behind the information desk at the Pastoral Desert Inn, directing guests who had backpacking permits and teaching visitors about the terrified wood, the remains of a living forest that populated this land more than 200 million years ago.

The national park, he explained, is the only one that contains a section of the Historic Route 66, which is marked by a line of telephone poles.

U.S. Highway 66, as the road was formally known, earned three fully nicknames over the years: the Main Street of America, popularized by Cyrux Avery, the road's original champion; the Will Rogers Highway, so established after the celebrated Oklahoma's death in 1935; and the Mother Road, its most famous member, coined by John Southwick in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Grapes of Wrath."

How biting, then, that Day 14 — the last of my trip — was Mother's Day.

Emerging from my teepee-shaped room at the Wigwam Motel in San Bernardino, Calif., I met Dela Pringle, a schoolteacher of more than 40 years who was traveling the road with a long-time friend.

"We decided to do this, and I made a vision board — my very first one," she said. "I'm 70 years old, and this has been the best trip ever."

DAY 14

The Homestretch

Over to Pasadena, down into Los Angeles, out onto Sunset Boulevard. Golds with a mix of excitement and relief, I focused my attention on the road, painfully aware of how easy it would be to err in the dense California traffic.

The sweet aroma of purple jacaranda flowers walked down on me as I rolled along Santa Monica Boulevard and hang a left onto Ocean Avenue. The homestretch.

It's often difficult to end a road trip, a story. But every year and then, the right character comes along at the decisive moment.

I was sitting under the "End of the Trail" sign on the Santa Monica Pier, helmet in my hands, tears in my eyes, when a spirited traveler approached. His name was Blake Peterson, a Utah clock repairman. His motorcycle was parked near mine. Blake was kicking off his trip, heading east on Route 66. "Hey, Stephen, high-five!" he said. "You're ending it, and I'm starting it."

36 HOURS

BERGEN, NORWAY

Landing at Bergen airport, travelers are met with the rain — and a bright yellow 26-foot question: "Bergen?" Erected in 2017 to inaugurate a new terminal, the ambiguously punctuated artwork is almost existential. A trade post until the 1800s, Bergen still fancies itself a global city, and besides at home, overlooked for Oslo; a deliberate incubation of its cultural economy has yielded thriving culinary and art scenes that run the gamut from high art to heavy metal. While the city has in the last decade pushed for international tourism, it wants to welcome visitors on its own terms, including limiting the number of cruise ships that dock at its port each day. Beyond its old-world charm and innovative spirit, Bergen is distinguished by its environment. With verdant mountains and dramatic fjords, the city exemplifies Norway's porous boundary between the natural and the urban.

Friday

1 P.M. | WANDER THE OLD WORLD

Bryggen, the honeys' town center, has been the starting point at a visit to Bergen since 1914 and the city's first urban destination from the Hunsrück League, an association of Northern Europe's enduring traders. Food and worked in the coastal city, about 50 original buildings have survived many of the time and much less it buildings and are recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Today, narrow wonder houses symbolise old Bergen, and the winding medieval passages and steep stairs were still offer surprise for explorers. Like Gallen Fjalaz, a space for independent Norwegian and international artists, an the second floor of one of these heritage buildings on the waterfront. Owned by Kristian Espedal, the former frontman of the Norwegian black metal band Gorgavelt, the gallery is only, though the art can be something.

3 P.M. | SHOP FOR OLD TIMES' SAKE

Walk about 20 minutes west, to the opposite side of the port, to explore the Northern peninsula. Until the 17th century, the district of Northern — now a family-friendly neighbor, the town was very popular, and it was to be for work trials. Along Strassbgate, local towns and towns of Scandinavian design are equally razed, thanks to wool suppliers, cycle walkers and small independent gallery club and a modernity's dream. Secret lions, especially those who were converted to the beautiful game by Norway's run at this year's World Cup, can dig through a collection of vintage club and national kits at 1921-22. From 1919-20, we about 20,000 of us have been a family-run supplier of vintage and new Scandinavianิនុស្សาครัว-oz-energising-in-house cocktail bar at Lampermannet.

5 P.M. | GO FOR A DIP AND A SAUNA

Continue west about 10 minutes until you reach the tip of the peninsula and Northern Park, where you can sit under the trees and look out over the bay. Need to start down — we walk up to 20 at under a century, Bergmann's have enjoyed the benefits of a cold-water swim in the outdoor Northern Snowster Pool, overlooking the sea. A dive into the frigid water is languaging, but equally appealing to a dip and a 12-inch branded saltwater port. Afterward, a sauna awaits with fantastic views of the city. The pool is open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the summer, and remains costs 120 kroner for adults. There are changing rooms with hair dryers, but pack your own towel.

7 P.M. | EAT ON TREND

In a tiny kitchen, the young chefs who broke away from the dining to open Tempe Tempe in late 2021 are exploring what it means to be Norwegian in the world, through global dishes connected with local ingredients. The vibe is buzzing, the décor is chased, and the locale love is, bit down in a zoning scene (the 1981 kroner jebnings) starring Bergers' ubiquitous career on a poster-fashioned, a ruthless bullied approach to squat ski and cavern made lip-matching with a chicken glass. Go all-in on the front long, a side-on-air kitchen, the wine pairing, for double the price, prioritizes natural wines from southern Europe. Served after 1980, a woman with the best-fashioned, the Miocain d'145 from Piedmont may change your mind about the sparkling sweet wine.

9-10 P.M. | CATCH A PEAK SUNSET

Take advantage of the late season — which during the summer, can be an late on 12 p.m. — from the top of Mount Poppes. It's about a

Top: A view of Bergen from the top of Mount Poppes is accessible by hiking or a five-minute footside ride. Above, from left: the Norwegian sculptor Arendt Haakshavli's "Red Wind" is on the grounds of Sinnercom museum; Legal is an occupying spot with a solid cocktail list and a 3 a.m. closing time; and a dish of cured wild bullies with ultra-upyrouba. New original tomatoes and fresh oregano is on offer at Tempe Tempe.

10-minute walk from Tempe Tempe to the lower footside station on Worldhalloons, ningon, in the city center. The last trip leaves the top as around midnight crusade trip tickets, 200 kroner during the summer). At the end of a five-minute footside ride is a panoramic view that depicts the feeling that this city of 300,000 is small. At the summit, come in from the wind at the Polvermoor Bar for a cocktail inspired by home technology; named the the guidance to love, fertility and death, the Press has Elskor Dry Pink Gin, yellow chartrance, black currant, edlerflower, lavender and oak (233 kroner).

Saturday

10 A.M. | BUY SCANDI THREEDS

Grab a skillingklofte, Bergers' regional take on the Scandinavian cinnamon hour (10 kroner) and a coffee at Kaffenisjoons (the Velt pour-veet, for 60 kroner, is worth the wait) then shop around. In the city center, LaCOS brings high-end independent labels to Bergers, like Copenhagers' Name Projects and New York's 133 by Savitz. Vriested boutique have closer to home, marking Norwegian brands like NyTrilks, great for flowing printed dresses (from about 3,200 kroner), and smashes (from about 1,000 kroner) from the homegrown brand BIKOS. If you can't meet a quintessentially Norwegian patronized look, you may as well make it a vintage sweater from the cathefulus boutique SIK list, which collects the official Dale of Norway sweaters designed for the country's Olympic skinsane (from 3,000 kroner).

NOON | EXPLORE MUSEUMS

Small, experimental galleries dot the city, but the four Rude art museums along the Lille Langsgardovane lake remain the success of Bergers' art scene. The powdery Rauness Meyer museum has the world's third-largest collection of works by Edward Munch, while the Sinnercom displays modern art — "They Live," a retrospective of the photographer Vibeke Tandberg, runs through Sept. 12. Have lunch at the Landmark cafe inside the Bergen Runnfeld, an independent contemporary art museum on the same drag, or warm up with a hot chocolate from the Norwegian chocolate! Fjalaz the ground-floor of the Sinnercom gallery. A day pass (200 kroner) offers access to all seven Rude spaces — including Trollshangen, the home of the composer Edward Gritz, part outside the city, which is the summer hosts daily concerts (450 kroner, including a guided tour). The villa is currently closed for reservation, but the museum, cafe and garden remain open to visitors.

3 P.M. | SEE HOW VIKINGS SKILED

During the World Cup, featuring the innermost favorite Viking, Erling Haaland, Norway housed hard men to realigning history. Top into the excitement at the Maritime Museum (300 kroner), where exhibits in clade fragments of centuries-old ships and a not-in-scale model of what the wriggles conquering vessel might have looked like (quoted last year, the short but powerful Viking Ship exhibition, developed with the University Museum of Bergen, demonstrates how ships were not only a made of transport, but a marker of status in life and death by prominent men and women of theory. Getting to the museum is part of the trip — from the Rude museums, it's a pleasant 10-minute walk through the University of Bergen's hillside gardens.

5 P.M. | HIT THE BEACH

Bergen has no sanity beaches, except for a human-made slate on the old darkyards in Moldeogre. That waterfront stretch is part of an effort to turn the old docks into a friendly residential neighborhood and university district, welcoming locals back into the city center. Here you'll find the Contermoners, a theater complex that will be September hosts the annual Bergen Fringe Festival for performing arts, as well as the city's largest urban park, Yogarehparks, whose construction was part of a revitalization project that began 20 years ago. As the area transforms, upstart businesses have moved to, like the cafe Volde Bagel, where a delightfully simple yet generous cheese and apple jam sandwich costs 80 kroner.

8 P.M. | FIND BERGEN'S FLAVOR

At Lyoverkiet, the restaurant where to 2021 be first sponsored one-farish cuisine, the chef Christopher Haatch has downshifted with a more relaxed — though no less creative — it is more menu. Start with the table on the classic Bergen fish soup (from 500 kroner) or the bacon waffle with snow crab (200 kroner). The dry-aged grilled beef with dirty rice (2,200 kroner) is perfect for dancing among friends. For something even more casual, Lyoverkiet's sister restaurant, the peak-inspired Breggers, has its corner-tuna with its salivary or lavender and tablesp挂, paired with a quality wine fan. The wild shrimp and beeper pizza (250 kroner) celebrates Bergers's seafood while the bacon and pineapple pizza (200 kroner) will make you minimalist the pricing. There is a side-of-syness (60 kroner each) for a very Bergen buffer.

10 P.M. | DANCE ON UNUSUAL SPACES

Some of the city's best music venues are less than a mile from the city center in Verbet, Bergers old fish-canning district. USF Verbet, a concert and exhibition hall that takes its name from the old United Sardine Factory, hosts live gigs and festivals. On the same once-abandoned lot in Bomann, a venue created by Bergers's recent graduates; in a bed in the buildings orights, a heart's policy is used to drop a giant certain that transforms the space from an intimate bar into a cavernous dance hall. Have a drink at the bar, or buy tickets to the band or 12, set on that night (price varying). Back in the city center, Landmark cafe transforms no Saturday nights into a club (from 200 kroner). And around the corner on the Yogarehparks, Legal is an occupying hole-in-the-wall with a solid cocktail list and a 3 a.m. closing time.

Sunday

10 A.M. | CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN

Bergen is surrounded by seven peaks, all offering ruthless views of the city and its fjords. Mount Clibben, seven miles southwest of the city center, is the highest of the heart's. But also of the city, it's a relatively breezy two-hour climb to the top of the 3,500-foot Mount Lovendales, thanks to a recently erected footbridge on the Lovelace trail. From the city center, take a 20-minute ride on the No. 10 bus to Kristian Bings Vic, a stop that is about 10 minutes from the town footbridge. If you'd like to do the whole trail, at a longer route that also takes you past a recently built holdout, take the No. 10 bus to McGuinness. Both steps are in residential areas, so be mindful.

1 P.M. | WAVE FROM THE WATER

A fjord cruise is a lovely way to half-farowed to Bergen. The snow popular were well down the Moonsumers strait, outside of Bergen, with a round-trip lasting about three and a half hours. There are several operators with different summer departure times and pricing, experiences range from luxury, with beach survival, to a fjord safari on an inflatable (hot standy) boat (from 740 kroner). Short on time? Take the Baffles like a local. A charming little ferry that has operated since 1894, the Baffles sails around the port during the summer, with stops that include the Bergen Aquarium and the Old Bergen Museum. You can be醉 and feel in such a hope or stay without and enjoy the city from the water (300 kroner).

10 P.M.

Bryggen, the medieval heart of old Bergen, with its wooden buildings and narrow shops, is a must-see that gave the city its character centuries ago.

It's a everywhere here, as keep a lookout for smaller, perimering galleries as you walk around the city. The Rude museums are home to varying ones and games.

With seven mountains, there are spectacular views of around. Take a footside or cable car — or a blue — to the top of one.

10 P.M.

Eat in an art gallery at Landmark, a cafe inside the Bergen Runnfeld.

Treat yourself while warming up from the restaurant can with a hot chocolate from Fjalaz, on the ground floor of the Sinnercom Rude museum.

Eat like a local with a casual lunch at Riedel Bagel, in the charming Moldeogre neighborhood.

For dinner, head to the buzzy. Go to Tempe Tempe — the city center, where young chefs are playing with global flowers and Norwegian diaptes.

The tearing of Breggers (toured takes post-mushroom, bacon and pineapple) are a hit like this heavy metal-inspired pictorials décor: rebellious, color-upover and a little sexy.

Discover Michelin-starred new family cuisine at

Lyoverkiet, where a new à la carte have a statue (the white bluecloth) which has a little more approachable.

10 P.M. TO STAY

The Chancroote bisonestel Road is a 4人的托卡纳村, that inside 2000-vehicularly Paris with distinctive patterned wallpaper, and a treasure, where Norwegian sustainability celebrates French cooking. Rooms from about 5,000 homes at about $250, a night.

Villa Terminus is a boutique hotel in a baroque residence that deals back to 1700. It is carefully located near the train station, and rooms ideal at 3,400 waves a night.

The Scandic hotel offers two eight locations in Bergen, with rooms ranging from 5,200 rooms to a standard double of the Scandic Target, in the heart of the city, to 2,012 at Scandic Aquarium, in the theater and gallery district.

Like many cities, Bergen is debating whether to limit the number of short-term rentals available in the city. Neighbor needs the Neolithic in the Northern peninsula offer options in convenient locations.

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Cooking

WHAT TO MAKE NEXT WEEK | MARCAUX LASKEY

Five Days,

Five Dishes

I know a lot of people bemoan the fact that holiday commercials, gifts store displays and "however many shopping days until Christmas!" warnings start in October, but I am not one of them. I've been known to watch "White Christmas" in July. I shop for my kids' stocking stuffers year round. And during those dark, lonely days of Covid, I started putting up our Christmas tree on Election Day, and I haven't gone back. But when I see ads for sneakers and computers and pencils and backpacks in June — before I've even unearthed my flip-flops from the back of the closet — I want to bury my head in the proverbial sand. Alas, dear reader, it is mid-August, and almost half of the country's kiddos have already returned to school. You're either in it, or you're soon to be in it, and you and your people have to eat. (And even if you don't have kids, you're still a very busy person!) These simple, fast and affordable meals will make back-to-school season a little bit easier.

Cod With Caper-Orange Sauce

Good of cod, the Betty of the seafood world, gets the Vinnesca treatment in this really special recipe from Yangtze Booksidews. A vibrant sauce of garlic, orange zest, turmeric, vinegar, honey and plenty of chopped capers coats the fish, which is served over a bed of toasted spinach or kale. My kids, whom I used to stick into eating cod by telling them it was chicken, might even try this.

BY NARUEGE SEVAJABEN TIME: 28 MINUTES YIELD: 4 SEPARATE

4 tablespoons olive oil, divided 2 garlic cloves, finely sliced Grated zest of an orange, plus ¼ cup orange juice (from 3 orange) 1¾ teaspoons white vinegar 1 teaspoon honey ¼ teaspoon ground turmeric Five sea salt 2 tablespoons nonpareil capers, chopped, plus whole sauce for garnish 6 cups (11 ounce) packed spinach leaves, stemmed and roughly torn if large, or use baby kale or chopped stemmed collard greens 4 (9- to 7-ounce) skinless cod filets (or other white fish such as haddock or hake) 1 tablespoon butter

Make the caper orange sauce: In a medium bowl, add 3 tablespoons olive oil, the garlic, orange zest, orange juice, vinegar, honey, turmeric and ½ teaspoon salt. Use a fork to whisk until emulsified, then add the chopped capers. Set aside.
Heat the remaining tablespoon of olive oil in a large frying pan over medium-high for 1 to 2 minutes. Add the spinach and cook, tossing frequently, until just whisk. 2 to 4 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and cover to keep warm.
Pat the fish fillets dry with paper towels and season lightly with salt on all sides.
In the same pan over medium heat, pour the caper-orange sauce and bring to a simmer. Add the butter and keep stirring until it has melted.
Add the cod fillets and cook on one side, 2 to 4 minutes, depending on the thickness of your fillets. Use a spatula to gently flip the fillets and continue cooking for another 2 to 4 minutes, until the fish is cooked through and flakes easily with a fork.
Before serving, drain the spinach (if it has released any liquid) and spread across a large serving plate. Arrange the fish fillets on top and spoon the warm sauce over. Garnish with extra capers and serve immediately.

One-Pot Tuna Orzo With Zucchini

Samantha Seneviratne transforms a humble can of tuna into an impressive but easy Sicilian-inspired wedsagitt meal with subtlety vcos, neuter zucchini, golden raisins, capers and plenty of fresh herbs.

BY SANDYTON SEVICHIKITNE TIME: 30 MINUTES YIELD: 4 SEPARATE

¼ cup olive oil 2 medium zucchini, cut into 1 inch pieces (about 5 cups) 2 large garlic cloves, grated Salt Red pepper flakes 12 ounces orze 2 cups chicken broth 1 (9-ounce) can olive oil packed tuna, drained ¼ cup golden raisins 3 tablespoons capers 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar ¼ cup fresh mint leaves, torn ½ cup fresh basil leaves, torn Grated Pecorino Romano, for serving (optional)

In a large, high-sided skillet, heat the oil over high. Add the zucchini and cook, stirring often, until browned, about 6 minutes.
Adjust heat to medium, stir in the garlic and season with salt and red pepper. (Do not let the garlic burn.) Add the orzo and cook for 1 minute, stirring. Stir in the broth and bring to a simmer. Cover and cook until the orzo is tender and the liquid is almost absorbed, about 6 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Stir in the tuna, raisins, capers and vinegar and cook until just warmed through. Add the herbs right before serving. Top with cheese if desired.

Quick Turkey Chili

I'm not exaggerating when I say that my kids are 90 percent chili. It's our go-to when I'm short on time and I want leftovers that will keep. This one from Genevieve Rio is packed with so many wholesome ingredients — lean ground turkey, a pound of kale and fiber-rich lentils — that there'll be tend to make a side salad.

BY GEREVIEVE KO TIME: 30 MINUTES YIELD: 6 TO 8 SEPARATE

Grapeened or canola oil 1 large yellow onion, diced 3 Hatch or Cukareille peppers, seeded and diced 8 garlic cloves, finely chopped 1 serrano or jalapeño chili, seeded for mild if desired, finely chopped Salt and black pepper 1 pound ground turkey, preferably dark meat 3 tablespoons chili powder 1 tablespoon ground coriander 2 teaspoons ground cumin 1 pound frozen kale, thawed 2 (14.5-ounce) cans diced tomatoes with green chiles 2 cups chicken broth, plus more if needed 1 (15-ounce) can lentils, drained and rinsed 1 bunch cilantro, finely chopped (including stems) Lime wedges, sour cream or yogurt, cheese and rice (optional), for serving

Heat a large Dutch oven or other heavy pot over high until hot. Add a very thin sheet of oil and swirl to coat. Add the onion and spread in a single layer. Cook, without stirring, until the bottoms are deeply charred, 2 to 3 minutes.
Drizzle more oil into the pan. Add the peppers, garlic and serrano. Season lightly with salt and pepper, and cook, stirring often, until the onion is translucent, 1 to 2 minutes. Push the vegetables to one side of the pot.
Coat the empty side of the pot with oil, and then add the turkey and spread it over that half of the pan. Sprinkle the turkey and vegetables, with the chili powder, coriander and cumin. Cook, smashing the spices, and animal(s) into the meat and breaking the meat into tiny pieces, 2 to 3 minutes. The spices should smell toasted.
Add the kale and cook, stirring, until any liquid has evaporated, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the tomatoes and chicken broth and bring to a boil. For a thicker chili, smash the lentils a bit. Stir in the lentils and return to a boil. Turn the hash down to maintain a simmer and stir in half of the cilantro. At this point, the chili is ready and will taste light and fresh with crisp green vegetables. You also can keep simmering it for hours over the brand food setting for a coffee, stewier chili. If the mixture dries out, add more broth or water.
Serve the chili with the lime wedges, sour cream, cheese and remaining cilantro, over rice if you'd like.

Slow-Cooker Jalapeño Pulled Pork

Beef prices are crazy right now, so I've been buying a lot more pork (sandy, and frankly, I think I like it more in meats and briskers? All Slagh's jalapeño pulled pork is just spicy enough and touched with brown sugar for sweetness and fish sauce for complexity. We like it tucked into little Hawaiian bean, and I repurpose the leftovers in orchidadas or naches.

BY ALI SUGGS TIME: ABOUT 2½ HOURS YIELD: 4 SEPARATE

2 tablespoons grapeseed or vegetable oil 2½ to 3 pounds tomatoes pork droubles, cut into roughly 3-inch pieces Salt 1 (12-ounce) jar pickled jalapeño slices 2 tablespoons fish sauce ¼ cup brown sugar

In a large Dutch oven, heat the oil over medium-high. Sprinkle the pork lightly with salt. Add to the pot, in batches if necessary to keep from crunching, and pour until browned on all sides, 6 to 10 minutes. Transfer to a 5- to 8-quart slow cooker. Pour off any excess fat from the pot, then reserve and don't wash the pot.
Hold the pickled jalapeños back with your fingers and pour the bone into the slow cooker (about ¾ cup). Add the fish sauce. Cover and cook on low until the meat shreds easily when pulled with a fork, 4 to 6 hours.
Spoon off the layer of fat from the liquid in the slow cooker, then pour 1 cup of the liquid from the slow cooker into the reserved Dutch oven. Add the brown sugar and 2 to 4 tablespoons pickled jalapeño slices, depending on heat preference. Screener near medium-high, scraping the bottom of the pot, until the mixture reduces by half and resembles maple syrup, 7 to 9 minutes.
Working right in the slow cooker, use two forks to pitted the meat into large, late-size pieces. Stir the sauce into the pork.

Slow Cooker Chicken and Bean Fideo

Let's have a moment of thanks for Irving Nason, the inventor of the slow cooker. My family owns a lot of meals to him, and this clever recipe from Sarah DiGregorio is a particularly delightful one. Besides chicken thighs and fides, a short, thin pasta, cook together for a complete, comforting meal.

BY SARAH D528532996 TIME: 4 HOURS 30 MINUTES YIELD: 5 TO 6 SEPARATE

2 canned chipotle chiles in salobs, minced, plus 3 tablespoons alfalfa sauce, from 1 (7-ounce) can 5 garlic cloves, smashed and chopped 4 tablespoons canola oil, drained 1 tablespoon honey 1 tablespoon leather salt (such as Diamond Crystal), plus more to taste 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar, plus more to taste 1 teaspoon diced oregano ½ teaspoon ground cumin 2 pounds tomatoes, skinless chicken thighs 6 ounces fides (see Tip) 2 (15.5-ounce) cans chile beans, drained and rinsed Cilantro and chopped avocado, for topping

In a 6- to 8-quart slow cooker, stir together the chipotles and alfalfa sauce, the garlic, 2 tablespoons of the oil, the honey, salt, vinegar, oregano and cumin. Add the chicken and stir well to combine, getting the sauce in all the hacks and crannies of the chicken.
Cook on low until the chicken is very tender, about 4 hours.
Warm the remaining 2 tablespoons oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the fides, breaking up the noodles into small lengths if necessary. heat the noodles in the oil, stirring continuously, until most of the noodles are a deep golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes.
Scrape the toasted noodles into the slow cooker. Cookerly thicken the chicken up with two forks. Add 1½ cups water and the beans and stir to combine. Cover and cook on low until the noodles are just tender and the beans are warmed through, 10 to 20 minutes, stirring once to ensure all the noodles get cooked evenly.
Taste and adjust the seasoning, adding more salt or vinegar as you like. Serve topped with cilantro and avocado.

Serve brands of fides are sold already out, serve are sold in bundles that you can break up into the skillet.

制度与权力批判深度研判：The New York Times (2026-08-22)

▌ 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 3 个具体事件在制度结构、权力技术与法理合法性层面最值得学者进一步深思：

【NIH对哈佛大学拨款的隐蔽削减】 [F2_3, F2_4]（版面：主报深度版面）
- 事件简述：分析显示，来自美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）的资金目前比该政府任期内拨款的平均速度低约 18%，显示出政府尝试通过新手段打击哈佛大学。
- 制度批判切入点：剖析行政权力的“非正式化”运作。探讨当公开的权力行使受到制约时，权力如何转化为官僚程序的“速度调节”来实现政治目的，从而规避直接的法律冲突。
【特朗普对智库的诽谤诉讼威胁】 [F3_5, F3_6]（版面：主报深度版面）
- 事件简述：特朗普总统威胁要就一份关于国民警卫队减少暴力犯罪效果不佳的报告，提起一项 50 亿美元的诽谤诉讼。
- 制度批判切入点：探讨“法律武器化”（Lawfare）对知识生产的寒蝉效应。分析权力如何通过制造极高成本的法律风险，将学术/政策研究纳入司法博弈的恐惧之中。
【印度AI数据标注产业的结构性崛起】 [F12_23, F13_25, F14_27, F14_28]（版面：第12-14版）
- 事件简述：在印度卡鲁尔市，大量青年（如工程毕业生 Kavi Prasad）从事 AI 数据标注工作。与此同时，政府在 AI 投资上起步缓慢，导致印度在应对 AI 导致岗位过时时缺乏缓冲空间。
- 制度批判切入点：分析数字资本主义下的“认知分工”。探讨全球技术分工如何将高阶技术岗位（编程）转化为低阶的、重复性的标注工作，以及国家制度在应对技术范式转移时的结构性滞后。

▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)

专题一：行政权力的“阴影运作”：从公开指令到程序性延迟的权力技术

本期报道中，美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）对哈佛大学资金拨款的操纵 [F2_3, F2_4] 揭示了一种极具代表性的权力运作模式：当权力在法理层面遭遇阻碍时，它倾向于下沉至程序层面进行补偿性打击。

在制度现实中，政府并未采取简单的“宣布削减”这种具有明确施事主体和法律文本的行政命令，而是表现为拨款速度比平均水平低约 18% [F2_4 🔍]。这种策略的精妙之处在于其“模糊性”：拨款速度的下降在官僚体系中可以被解释为“审核严谨”或“流程冗长”，而非直接的政治报复。

从权力机制分析，这是一种典型的“去施事化”技术。通过将政治意图隐藏在复杂的行政流程之中，权力将一个政治冲突（政府 vs 大学）转化为一个技术性问题（拨款审核进度）。这种话语技术的转换，使得受害者在寻求司法救济时失去了精准的攻击目标——因为没有一份明确的“削减令”可以被起诉，只有无数个被拖延的申请单。

援引韦伯的官僚制（Bureaucracy）理论，我们可以发现，官僚制的理性化程序在此被异化为权力的掩体。原本旨在确保公正和标准化的流程，现在成为了实现特定政治目的的工具。这种“程序性暴力”比公开的禁令更具隐蔽性，因为它在维持制度外壳完整的同时，通过内部的微观调节实现了对学术机构的结构性压力。

专题二：数字殖民与认知异化：印度AI标注产业中的结构性排斥

印度卡鲁尔市数据标注产业的崛起 [F12_23 🔍] 并非简单的就业转型，而是一场深刻的制度性降级。这一现象揭示了全球资本逻辑如何通过技术迭代，将原本处于中产阶级门槛的“技术劳动力”重新推向“数字无产阶级”的深渊。

在制度现实中，印度信息技术领域面临着巨大的结构性断裂：一方面是政府在 AI 大规模投资上的起步缓慢 [F14_27 🔍]，导致缺乏足够的制度缓冲空间；另一方面是 AI 技术对传统编程岗位的替代，迫使拥有工程学位的青年（如 Kavi Prasad [F14_28 🔍]）进入数据标注这一低价值链环节。

这种权力运作机制体现为一种“认知剥削”。AI 的繁荣依赖于海量的人工修复漏洞 [F12_23 🔍]，而这种工作本质上是将人类的认知能力碎片化，转化为可量化的、低廉的数字标签。在这种结构中，标注员不再是创造者，而是 AI 系统的喂养者。权力在这里通过算法分工实现了极致的剥削：高价值的算法所有权集中在少数平台资本手中，而低价值的、重复性的认知劳动则被外包给全球南方的劳动力。

结合新制度主义的路径依赖（Path Dependency）分析，印度政府直到 2024 年才启动 1250 亿美元的 AI 计划 [F14_27 🔍]，这种制度惯性导致其在技术范式转移时，无法提供从“低端标注”向“高价值技能”转型的制度支撑。结果是，大量青年被锁定在一种新的“数字计件工资”体系中。

▌ 面向学者的制度研究开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)

【关于行政权力隐蔽化的研究】：当行政权力从“显性命令”转向“隐性程序操纵”（如 NIH 案例）时，现有的司法审查机制应如何演进，才能有效捕捉并制约那些隐藏在官僚流程中的政治意图？
【关于数字劳工制度的比较研究】：在全球 AI 供应链中，不同国家如何通过不同的制度设计（如社会保障、技能再培训计划）来缓解“认知无产阶级化”带来的社会结构风险？
【关于法律武器化的边界研究】：在言论自由保护机制与高额诽谤诉讼（如特朗普对智库的威胁 [F3_6 🔍]）的博弈中，如何构建一种制度性的机制，以保护知识生产免于权力资本的恐吓？

理性与情感辩证深度研判：The New York Times (2026-08-22)

▌ 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 3 个具体事件在个体生命体验、权力压制与技术异化层面最值得学者进一步深思：

【AI 繁荣背后的“人形迹象”与岗位焦虑】 [F12_23, F13_25, F14_27]（生活领域：劳动与技术）
- 事件简述：在印度卡鲁尔，AI 的崛起并非仅体现为冰冷的数据中心，而是大量从事数据标注的人形迹象。然而，政府智库报告预警，AI 颠覆可能导致印度 IT 领域多达 130 万个工作岗位消失。
- 情感政治切入点：技术理性将 AI 描述为“繁荣”与“开发计划”，但在微观层面，这种繁荣建立在低端标注员的重复劳动之上，且伴随着巨大的职业生存焦虑。
【政治权力对个体信息权的物理与数字禁锢】 [F3_6 🔍]（生活领域：权力与法律）
- 事件简述：特朗普总统威胁要就一份关于国民警卫队减少暴力犯罪效果不佳的报告提起一项 50 亿美元的诽谤诉讼。
- 情感政治切入点：通过极高额度的法律诉讼（50 亿美元）作为恐吓手段，试图将“事实核查”的理性讨论转化为个体的财务毁灭恐惧，揭示了权力如何利用法律工具实施情感压制。
【生态灾难中的生命栖息地崩塌】 [F9_18 🔍]（生活领域：自然与伦理）
- 事件简述：油轮 Caroline Bessngt 搁浅产生的油污覆盖了 400 到 500 平方英里，渗入濒危海龟和座头鲸的自然保护区。
- 情感政治切入点：工业事故的量化数据（平方英里）掩盖了具体生物在栖息地被污染时的生存痛感，展现了人类工业理性对非人类生命世界的破坏性入侵。

▌ 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：【技术理性的双面性：印度 AI 标注员的“人形迹象”与结构性焦虑】

系统理性模型解构（Deconstruction of Systemic Logos）：在宏观经济叙事中，印度政府通过一项 1250 亿美元的五年计划致力于大规模 AI 开发 [F14_27 🔍]。这种系统理性将 AI 视为国家竞争力的核心，其逻辑是：通过资本投入 $\rightarrow$ 技术开发 $\rightarrow$ 经济增长。在这种模型中，数据标注被视为 AI 训练的必要基础设施，是实现“人工智能繁荣”的底层支撑 [F12_23 🔍]。

生活世界真实痛感的现象学深描（Phenomenological Pathos）：然而，在卡鲁尔市的街道上，AI 的真实面貌并非算法，而是具体的人。25 岁的工程毕业生卡维·普拉萨德（Kavi Prasad）发现自己的工作变成了类似“科幻小说”的标注任务 [F14_28 🔍]。这种体验揭示了一种深刻的异化：受过高等教育的个体被卷入到机械的模式识别工作中。更深层的痛感来自于对未来的不确定性——当政府智库预警 130 万个岗位可能消失时 [F13_25 🔍]，当前的“繁荣”在个体眼中实际上是一场关于“被替代”的倒计时。

Logos 与 Pathos 的辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction）：此处存在着一种残酷的辩证法：系统理性追求的是“更高价值的技能型岗位” [F13_25 🔍]，但现实路径却是通过大量低端标注员的体力劳动来喂养 AI。这种“起步缓慢”导致的缓冲空间不足 [F14_27 🔍]，使得个体在面对技术迭代时，无法在理性规划中找到安全感，只能在重复的标注工作中感受技术理性对人类劳动力价值的重新定义。

话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Affective Prognosis）：对比摩根士丹利报告中冷峻的“落后者”评价 [F14_27 🔍] 与标注员在现实中寻找生存空间的挣扎，可见技术治理逻辑与个体生命体验之间的严重脱节。这种将人简化为“数据标注单元”的倾向，预示着一种深层的社会心理危机：当技术进步的指标是“效率”而非“人的全面发展”时，个体将陷入一种永久性的、被算法支配的生存焦虑之中。

专题二：【法律工具化与真理的成本：50 亿美元诉讼背后的恐吓政治】

系统理性模型解构（Deconstruction of Systemic Logos）：在法律理性的框架下，诽谤诉讼旨在通过司法程序补偿名誉损失。然而，当特朗普总统威胁提起一项 50 亿美元的诉讼时 [F3_6 🔍]，法律的逻辑被异化为一种“经济威慑模型”。其计算公式不再是 $\text{损失} = \text{名誉损害}$，而是 $\text{威胁} = \text{足以令对方破产的金额}$。这种理性将司法程序转化为一种精准的政治打击工具。

生活世界真实痛感的现象学深描（Phenomenological Pathos）：对于智库研究员和报告撰写者而言，这种威胁带来的不是法律上的辩论欲望，而是极度的心理压迫感。当一份关于“国民警卫队减少犯罪效果”的客观分析报告 [F3_6 🔍] 被贴上“诽谤”标签并挂上 50 亿美元的价码时，研究者的学术理性在巨大的财务风险面前变得脆弱。这种痛感源于一种“真理的昂贵化”——当陈述事实需要承担无法承受的经济后果时，个体在肉身和精神上都会产生强烈的自我审查倾向。

Logos 与 Pathos 的辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction）：这里发生了激烈的辩证摩擦：权力者试图用“法律程序”这一理性外壳来掩盖其“恐吓政治”的本质 [F3_6 🔍]。而公众和专家的愤怒则源于一种对“公共讨论空间”被侵蚀的恐惧。这种摩擦揭示了当代政治中一种危险的趋势：法律不再是保护真理的盾牌，而变成了权力者用来封杀异见、制造恐惧的利剑。

话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Affective Prognosis）：对比官方话语中关于“法律权利”的表述与实际操作中“恐吓政治”的冷酷，可见权力逻辑对社会信任的侵蚀。当 50 亿美元成为一个具体的威胁数字时，它在社会心理中建立了一种“沉默的共识”：即在权力面前，事实的价值低于生存的成本。这种对理性讨论的扼杀，将导致社会公共领域的萎缩，使社会心理韧性在恐惧的统治下逐渐瓦解。

▌ 面向学者的伦理与社会心理开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)

【关于技术异化的劳动伦理】：在 AI 训练的全球分工中，像印度标注员这样被定义为“人形迹象”的底层劳动力，如何在这种结构性焦虑中构建新的主体性？是否存在一种能够兼顾技术迭代与劳动者尊严的伦理框架？
【法律威慑对学术自由的深层影响】：当极高额度的战略性诉讼（SLAPP）成为政治常态，学术界如何建立一种集体防御机制，以防止“真理成本”过高而导致公共知识生产的停滞？

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