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Polling's Wild West Landscape Makes for Campaign Confusion

Bad Surveys and Betting Odds Before November

By BRIED J. EPSTEIN

WASHINGTON — When Mandolin Benson dropped out of the Wisconsin province's new two-works before the Democratic primary, he declared, "It has become very clear who our nominee is going to be."

He meant Francesco Bong, who had a commanding lead in polls — and David Cowley, who ended up narrowly winning the nomination.

Politicians like Mr. Barnes have found no public and private surveys of voters' views to guide their decisions for as long as pollsters have sought to measure public opinion. But in this year's midterm contest, the best polling has shaped campaign narratives, dense behavior and news coverage like never before.

Polls are traditionally used to measure public opinion, not small. But this year, several Democratic campaigns have stood on unreliable polls to push the perception that their candidates are surging to try to solidify support,

attract donors and scare off rivals. The rise of prediction markers has also created financial incentives for untruthworthy or crusade political polls in a moment when it has become even more expensive and difficult to conduct high-quality public opinion surveys.

Some Republican — particularly President Trump — have for years pointed to dubious polling to advance their political polls, but the phenomenon has become far more acute in Democratic primary than year to recent weeks, questionable surveys have created confusion and merged perceptions of the results of key primaries for the party.

In Michigan's primary for Senate, polls fueled a widespread belief that Representative Haley Stevens, a moderate Democrat, was a major outlining to Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive, after she voted on Primary Day, the Continued on Page A10

In Step With Ally to the North, Latin America Unifies Its Right

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BUENOS AIRES — Buenos-Arabia beating his chest and hugging Flavio Belizzaro, the right-wing candidate seeking to become Brazil's next leader. President Soviet Miles of Argentina launched into a tirade against Brazil's current president, calling him a "tired" and "socialist trust. Mr. Miles was seeking to call Mr. Belizzaro, who is running against President Luiz Isidro Lido do Silva on the October's election. He that tirade display of camaraderie in São Paulo came with consequences. After the event last month, Brazil recalled its ambassador to Argentina, generating the most serious rift in decades between South America's two largest economies.

The episode was only the latest example of the personal alliances and international endorsements

reshaping Latin American politics, as right-wing candidates win elections across the region.

During hard-line policy proposals, campaign masons and videos of themselves together, they are sending a message of right-wing unity, and, borrowing heavily from President Trump's playbook, they are openly enjoying into neighbors' elections.

The access of right-wing leaders comes as many Latin American voters are frustrated with scaring crime and insecurity, and with what they see as left-wing leaders' failure to deal with these and other issues, including the economy and immigration.

Like-smoker leaders handing together is nothing new on the right or the left, as is the long alliance between Venezuela and Cuba. But this new crop of conservative leaders — many of them political newcomers — is promoting Continued on Page A6

Fury Over Data Centers Quickly Shifts Miderms

By BRAND GOLDMACHER

The fight over data centers is suddenly at the epicenter of the midterm elections.

One new ad in Texas begins with someone typing into a chatbox. "Why is my electric bill going up?" Another in Ohio blames one of the state's Republican senators for a proliferation of data centers, calling them "a total scare." And in top House battlegrounds in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the Democratic challengers are all running ads against the server warehouses powering the artifi-

Democrats Seize Issue, and Some in G.O.P. Join Skepticism

cial intelligence issues.

Data centers have become unlikely back later. In the broader fight over an A.I. revolution that is rerouting the global economy and threatening to disrupt the job market. Now politicians are facing to tap into the backlash — or inoculate themselves — as public

cal strategists in both parties described the issue as an unusually late moving force that is already reshaping cases for the House, the Senate and governors' ancestors.

"It's very much a bottom-up organic movement," said Anna Greenberg, a veteran Democratic pollster, who said that while people's views on data centers were largely tied to how close they live. Continued on Page A11

A.I. BUILDING BOMB In a Virginia county, tax revenues have soared, but misgivings are rising. PAGE B

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IRAN THREATENS U.S. GULF ALLIES IN ECONOMIC WAR

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White House to Outline Plan as Tehran Takes Unyielding Stance

By ERIKA SOLOMON

President Trump has warned that "Economic D-Day" is coming for Iran. Over the weekend, Tehran promised to fight back, threatening any nation that helps the United States.

Irachi new security chief, Mohsen Benani, on Saturday moved to strike the universe of oil-rich neighbors if they joined U.S. efforts to further isolate Iran, whose economy is already in free fall. He warned that Tehran would seek to pursue "even a single drop of oil" from leaving the region.

"Any country that becomes a partner in creating economic restrictions against us will be regarded by us as an enemy," he said in an interview with Irachi state broadcaster.

Mr. Benani is a political hard-hier and former head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The interview offered his first extensive statement about taking up his post two weeks ago — and struck an aggressive tone of the U.S. anti-violence campaign against the U.S. and the U.S. government. The report was also written by the U.S. government. The report was also written by the U.S. government. The report was also written by the U.S. government.

Irachi new leaders, who replaced comparatively more cautious figures killed by the U.S. and ended the administration's war, "are now 'changing the denobrance equation from purely defensive measures to an offensive approach to all soldiers,' including the economy," said Muhammad Ghaderi, a Tehran-based foreign officer expert.

"Irachi was working to impose greater costs on the United States and its allies," Mr. Ghaderi said. "This conveys the message that the cost of continuing hostility toward Iran will be far more extensive consequences for Washington and its allies than in the past."

Though active military hostilities have ebbed, Iran and the United States remain locked in an economic standoff. Mr. Trump, who imposed a naval blockade of Iran, has now threatened "minorities, economic consequences" on any nation doing business with Tehran. His treasury secretary, Iran Beisand, was expected to announce the U.S. economic plan against Iran on Monday.

Iran is continuing to disrupt the global economy by blocking traffic through the ferial of Hormuz, a vital waterway for oil and gas experts from the Persian Gulf. It refuses to reheat until a deal is reached with Washington that others it access to frozen assets and relief from the sanctions. Mr. Trump now looks set to try to expand.

On producing countries seek Continued on Page A6

In Panettiere's Final Year, Debilating Pain and Trouble With Ex

By JULIA JACOBS and MATT STEVENS

This spring, Hayden Panettiere began a book tour at a Barnes & Noble in Manhattan, greeting fans with a bright smile before meeting herself for a discussion about a moment that chronicles the trials of her life, including struggles with drug and alcohol addiction and an abusive ex-boyfriend. Before the event in May, the

bookstore was given a point to situation, according to two people with direct knowledge of the tour. Do not let in a man named Brian Mickerom.

Mr. Mickerom was the former boyfriend Mr. Panettiere had discussed at length in her memoir, which recounted his violence against her that had resulted in three arrests and a visit to jail. They eventually resumed a to-multuous on-and-off relationship.

Estranged From Family and Racked by Grief

But by the time of the book tour, she was accompanied by private security with clear instructions to keep him away, according to the two people.

"I needed an incredible amount of support and backup to order to

state can this there was no way for him to find his way back in," Mr. Panettiere said on a podcast in May.

Three months later, Mr. Mickerom was present when she was pronounced dead in an apartment complex in Greenbelt, S.C. The police have said there were no signs of bad play, and neither Mr. Mickerom nor his mother, Jack, who are listed in a police report as

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The Ukrainian president said his former defense minister was wrong to call for elections amid the war. PAGE A6

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He Wants to Live to 150. Why?

Bryan Johnson, a wealthy tech entrepreneur and longevity guru, said he was the world's healthiest man. Then came a stunning diagnosis. PAGE A9

Trial of Mother Divides Nation

The Cairo cycle has handled debated over whether such women are criminals or victims. News analysis. PAGE A10

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A to-the-out trade fight between Canada and the United States could create new headaches for American consumers and businesses already struggling to keep up with high prices. PAGE B1

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I saw "E.T." at a drive-in movie theater in Cape Cod in the summer of 1983. The film itself takes place in full commenter when they cloak E.T. in a sheet so they can take him trick-or-meaning? I'm not it's forever suspended in summer for me, inextricable from the sticky back seat and the sticky bunnaby in which I saw it. But "Die Hard," which was released in the summer of 1984, takes place on Christmas Eve and — for me at least — is a winter movie. I'm sure I saw it the July it came out, but the film's content transcends its summer blockbuster status. What makes a movie a summer movie? In 2000, Terrence Rafferty declared in The Times, "I have a Spielberg's face" crossed the Summer Movie as we know it: the action-hurry "devil ride" sort of picture, aimed at sensation-hungry younger audiences, which moves into theaters around Memorial Day and remains there, partying hard, until the school year starts up again

in September." "Jaws" continues to be as bound up in the mythology of summer as Popsicles and beach balls, though a piece by Shawn Klineaux in 2003 blamed it for turning the beach into "a mix of isolation, anxiety and harms," one that foreclosed the immeatance of "Beach Blanket Binge" and its ilk, and gave way to "Can Away." "Titanic" and other235000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

When I think about the movies that untidingly evoke summer for me, I think of a feeling, a quality of light, an airy mood of expansiveness. The exemplar is the 1988 comedy "Mystic Pizza," starring Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor and Annabelle Gold as three-thanning, brave, when reading pain working at their local Connecticut pizzeria the summer after high school. They each fall in love. They each have their hearts cracked, if not totally broken. They each presented to me, it when I first saw the movie, a romantic vision of what summer might look like when I was older, when I would have a job and go on dates and have my own heart broken.

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I haven't seen anything yet this year that feels like it'll enter the pantheon of eternal summer classics. "The Odyssey" probably isn't a worthy contender, as entertaining as it is. But I'm planning to see "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Macena" this month, which seems like it might hold genuine promise.

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Your Feet Don't Fold in Half. Neither Should Your Shoes.

Nowadays, the market is filled with super-flexible shoes whose headloose helps bypass the unpleasant break in period of traditional, stiffer shoes — or so the reasoning goes. But maximum flexibility does not always equal comfort. Shoes that lack support and cushioning can cause similar issues to the more obviously impractical options, like high heels. Here's what to know: FRANCES SILA-SANTIAGO

Opt for shoes with some structure. Five turns like cushioned heels and arch support help keep the foot stable and allow for adequate shock absorption as you step, according to Fawzy Ibrahim, a podiatrist in San Diego.

Many of the pliable shoes currently for sale are so flexible you can fold them in half — a telltale sign that they don't have enough support. Ibrahim says that one of the biggest problems with overly flexible shoes is that they can lead to overpronation (where the foot rolls too far inward), putting strain on the joints and muscles.

Instead, he recommends people look for some rigidity, arch support and heel cushioning to combat pain and injuries, like metatarsalgia (pain at the ball of the foot) and plantar fasciitis (pain at the heel).

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Also pay attention to the specific area where shoes bend. A shoe should only bend at the ball of the foot, where the joints naturally flex, said Anne Sharkey, a Texas-based podiatrist.

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War, Weather and Trade Spats Are Pounding Global Breadbaskets

Only a few crops, like wheat, provide most of the world's calories. Poor countries that agreed to buy American wheat under the threat of Trump tariffs could be stuck paying abnormally high prices.

Bad Harvests and Attacks on Supply Routes Are Threatening to Drive Food Costs Higher

By BOBBIN MINSUPPA

Instant noodles. Hot chapans. Sliced bread.

Wheat is at the heart of the modern diet, and this year, it is facing an accumulation of modern dangers. The breadbaskets of the world are getting pummeled by dense strikes and devilish weather, nudging prices higher amid already soaring food costs in the wake of the Iron war.

Heat and drought have diminished harvests in some of the biggest wheat-producing countries, including the United States, which is expected to have its worst wheat harvest in a half-century, spiking prices. Poor countries that agreed to buy American wheat under the threat of Trump tariffs could be stuck paying abnormally high prices.

The Black Sea, a crucial passage for the global wheat trade, is an active theater at the Russia-Ukraine war, while the Russia militia's attacks on shipping in the Red Sea have already forced grain shipments to take a longer, more expensive route around South Africa.

Beyond that, a supercharged El Niño farther threatens water levels in the Panama Canal, while drought has reduced water levels to perilously low levels in transit routes like the Rhine and Danube rivers in Europe, raising transportation costs. All this at a time when the global atmosphere is better than normal because of a century of fossil fuel burning, threatening the livelihoods of small farmers in poor countries.

The simultaneous troubles reveal the risks inherent in the global food system today. Only a few crops, like wheat, provide most of the world's calories. Relatively few governments dominate the export of wheat, including Russia, Canada, the United States, Ukraine, and the European Union. Their customers are mainly low-income countries that no longer grow much of the food their people eat.

"The system we currently have in place depends on three things: আমাকে trade, cheap energy, stable climate," said Evan Fraser, a professor who studies the global food system at the University of Google, in Ontario. "Today, it seems none of these assumptions are met."

Few things are as politically potent as the price of bread, and wheat prices were already at a three-year high in July, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. The U.S. agency has warned of higher prices later this year.

The saving grace is that the world has a bumper crop of wheat last year, and global stocks remain strong. The risk, said Monika Tethova, an economist who specializes in commodities at the Food and Agriculture Organization, is that "several sources of uncertainty begin to reinforce one another."

"A combination of El Niño-related

weather impacts across major exports, renewed constraints on Black Sea exports and further disruptions to key shipping routes would have implications for beyond wheat production itself," she said.

War Hits a Grain Choke Point

Russia and Ukraine together account for nearly a third of the wheat that the world buys. This year, just as harvests began, their grain shipments have nearly ground to a halt.

In recent weeks, both Russia and Ukraine have stripped up their attacks on each other's grain export terminals and ships in the Black Sea, a narrowing they share to get their goods out to the world.

In the critical Russian Black Sea parity of Novorosibirsk, grain terminals suspended operations after a drone attack in early August.

That attack followed a Russian bombing campaign against the Ukrainian poverty of China, which Ukraine relies on to get its grain out. A potential alternative, the Danube River, is far more difficult to begin with — and this year, the Danube's water levels have plummeted because of drought. When Russia invaded Ukraine and blocked its Black Sea grain trade in 2022 at the beginning of the war, the sharp increase in global food prices put tens of millions of people at increased risk of acute food insecurity.

This time, the Ukrainian Agri Council, a trade group, has warned of a potential wave of bankruptcies amid the blockade, saying that "the challenges currently facing the agricultural sector are significantly more dangerous and severe in their consequences than even those of 2022."

Heat Is Scrambling Harvests

Whitlens this summer spared the wheat belt of France, the European Union's largest wheat producer. But the heat has run.

France expects lower yields because of recent heat this summer, according to government projections. Germany's main farmers group said on Tuesday that yields were down for several crops, including wheat, because of drought and heat. In July the European trade group for agricultural commodities, Central, issued a special bulletin, estimating lower grain yields of 286.4 million metric tons this year, compared with 210 million metric tons in 2025, for the continent and in Britain.

Australia, also a major wheat exporter, planted fewer acres of wheat because of high fertilizer costs, increasing from the finish of thermal closure.

The United States is about to have its worst wheat harvest since 1970, largely because of a terrible drought in the Great

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Plains, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated in its latest report this month. American farmers had devoted fewer acres to wheat, and yields per acre were also down.

Currently, there is enough grain stored in the silos of farmers, traders and government reserves globally.

But the smaller harvests are raising prices on the world market. Prices of U.S. soft red wheat have jumped by nearly 20 percent in the first seven months of the year, according to an analysis by Joseph Glauber, an economist with the International Food Policy Research Institute. Prices of hard red wheat have soared even more sharply. U.S. wheat stocks are down too.

"It's not a question of availability; it's a question of affordability," Mr. Glauber said. "Anybody who is selling wheat will profit from the higher price."

Importers Feel the Pouch

Rising prices of imported wheat puts enormous pressure on governments that are forced to buy high and then help subsidize the costs to keep bread prices within the reach of its people.

Egypt, which buys most of its wheat from abroad, including from Russia and Ukraine, has tried to bolster wheat production at home, with the government offering higher prices to farmers. Still, Egypt remains far from reaching anything done to self-sufficiency. There is simply not enough water to produce what the country needs.

Then there are President Trump's tariffs. To try to avoid additional higher rates, some wheat-imperring emerging economies, such as Bangladesh, agreed to buy substantial amounts of U.S. wheat.

That means they are obliged to pay whatever price U.S. wheat goes for this year, even it is substantially higher than what other countries are offering.

Analysts in Bangladesh have denounced the deal as action.

History's Grim Lessons

The perils facing the world's breadbaskets come at a time when an El Niño, a naturally recurring weather pattern, is raising the risks of extreme weather for farmers in many parts of the world, including in countries like Ethiopia and Guatemala, where millions of small farmers subled on what they grew on their own land.

The last El Niño event, in 2015 and 2016, worsened food insecurity for an estimated 80 million to 100 million people, the World Food Program estimated.

This time, the W.F.P. says, it could expand the ranks of those who are unable to meet their daily food needs to 274 million, up from 225 million today. The biggest effects are expected in Central America and southern Africa.

"It is safest to think we can rely on a food system built for a different era," Mr. Fraser said. "And so we need to reimagine how to feed ourselves."

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In Step With Ally to the North, Latin America Unifies Its Right

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a new, bizarre, often social media-powered version of this dynamic.

"There were always political preferences, but they remained veiled," said José Alfredo Grays Lima, a veteran diplomat and vice-president of the Brazilian Central International Relations. "Now they are regular."

At the center of the right-wing alliance is Washington, working in lead by strengthening the world-conservative leaders, including through the Shield of the Americas, a new security alliance against drug traffickers and organized crime.

Aligong with the Trump administration can yield rewards, like by nascent badeads and fast-trackers military or disaster aid. Yet analysis wars that this alignment-first diplomacy carries potential risks, too.

The breach with Mr. Lutz, for instance, could affect Argentina's relationship with Brazil, its main trading partner, as Mr. Mike tries to stabilize his country's economy.

And lack-eng adherence to Mr. Trump's policies, experts say, could spoil more instability on the United States attacks heals it says: carry traffickers and packers countries to allow military strikes on land.

Allies Across Borders

From Columbus to Mexico's Bolivia and Chile, the right-wing candidates that won recent elections after strategic ways of economic unspread by racer-tibe margins.

But they expressed a common message. Many pledged to take on rising minors crime and to bring them to the end of the war, as they have to many voters' daily lives.

They also adopted orders developed to support the world-directed Colombian president, Adelardo De La Espiralla, has proposed to "disembowne" the left, and Mr. Mike has said he wants to defeat the "center of socialism."

Whether in opposition to crime suits, immigration or "water" ideology — "existence" or "vulnera wish" — the right-wing leaders' rights are not only one of the symbols and terms, often echoing Mr. Trump and the U.S. right.

They invoke one another, too, in tactics like adapting the national economy to changing the state or imagery like a guest-god of violence, a nod to Mr. Mike's object, who has symbol of government care.

Some have vowed to build "neogenesis" in the style of El Salvador, whose president, Nejdhaham, is whom the regions most popular leaders.

Aided by social media, they are also finding novel ways to weigh in on each other's elections.

On the eve of Columbus' lieutenant who in May, Mr. De La Espiralla passed online a video call with Ecuador's conservative president, who said he would lift tariffs on Colombian products to help the candidates's positions.

The more was swiftly denounced by a diplomat of fields in election interference, but it showed voters that Mr. De La Espiralla had powerful friends.

Experts say that foreign endorsements have been introduced by Mr. Trump, who has both supported confidence—including Mr. De La Espiralla and Hon. Barack's new president—and taken credit for their victories.

"I love when I give endorsements and people who," Mr. Trump said in the inaugural blissful of the American summit in Florida. "Is there a way I could get paid for that?"

Experts say the Shield of the

Emma Bullock reported from Buenos Aires, about Current from Bogotá, Colombia; and Ann Keown from Washington and San Pedro, Brazil; James Field and Patricia Maciel contributed report. Pg.

Americas and its military arm could lead their own effectiveness in including Latin America's biggest countries, Mexico and Brazil, which are not by bitter leaders.

What is certain is that the inaugural summit, held at Mr. Trump's Direct event in March, served as a premier networking opportunity. Mr. De La Espiralla, then a division lawyer virtually unknown in international political circles, arrived hoping to rob shoulders and scored a coffee nearby with Barrios Marena, a Colombian-born senator from Ohio.

He soon brought Mr. De La Espiralla's long shot campaign to U.S. officials' attention, including Mr. Trump's, Mr. Marena said in an interview.

Luta vs. Milei

It is unclear whether this new iteration of partisan diplomacy is merely political theater: cross-border cooperation between left and right-wing governments or issues like trade and crime has not stopped, experts say.

But at least for Mr. Mike, it is being an impact.

In addition to withdrawing in ambassador, Brazil asked the Argentine ambassador to more Brazilia, downgrading the wherever diplomatic relations. Experts and diplomacy warned that Brazil could escalate its retaliation, potentially affecting traditionalism.

A deteriorating relationship with Brazil, warned Monica de Bolis, a senior fellow at the Pessarese Institute for International Economics, could hurt Argentina's ability to repay its billions in debts to the International Monetary Fund.

"Mike's behavior is not only damaging to the bilateral relations," she wrote in an analysis this month, "but also potentially economically destructive."

Mr. Lutz is not the only leader Mr. Mike has alienated. In the time he has been president, he has visited Spain six times but has never met with its prime minister, the leftist Pedro Sánchez. Instead, he criticized Mr. Sanchez's wife,

President Javier Milei of Argentina, above at left, with Flavio Báboros, who hopes to be Brazil's next president. Mr. Milei's support led to a rift with the current leader, Colombian president, Abelardo De La Espiralla, left, vowed to "disembowne" the left.

setting off a diplomatic incident in which Spain resided its ambassador.

There is just zero upside for Argentina in picking lights with all these leaders," said Benjamin Gedau, a senior fellow and director of the Latin America program at the Internet Center, a research center in Washington. "It really is the nature interest of his brand and his ideology."

Mr. Milei did his tropeach to respect for comment. But his supporters say that fully aligning with Mr. Trump has brought huge advantages:—chiefly across to a 420 billion National Mission in the U.S. Treasury. They also debunked a plan for both-wing governments that coloured test with Venezuela and Cuba.

Mr. Trump is a pilot of United Emirates," Diego Santilli. Mr. Milei's cabinet chief, said on Thursday, "is a new Argentina to the ranks of Western American."

Diplomate say, however, that aligning with the Trump administration could波动 near zero—no lasting Argentina on the international group.

Unlike many other nations, Mr. Milei has pulled negotiators from a U.N. climate control and withdrawal Argentina from the World Health Organization, a decision that health experts directed during a recent hantaverse outbreak.

Cherry-Picking Friends

Recent Argentina, recent support for right-wing leaders might labor if they succeed to pressure them into Trump administration,

for example by allowing military operations to their territory, and Michael Slidros, a senior fellow at the Inter-American Diabetes, Washington-based group.

He continued that such moves could real up heightening assembly and one student about whom interests the leaders are serving.—Washington's, in the event.

Mr. De La Espiralla has already begun facing such questions. The month, Defense Secretary Pete Hogarth announced that the new president would allow past military operations, prompting any one person Colombia's political spectrum especially that such a major crop could be announced by the American.

Mr. De La Espiralla also faced criticism when, after a major trade of earthquake, his administration cherry-picked just four countries's would receive search for American teams from the United States, Israel, Ecuador and El Salvador.

The news, which Colombian or Latin maintained was already a city neutral, nonetheless irresponsible from leaders, including Mexico's president. "As a tragedy, political ideologies mean nothing," said Moran Slidros, a well-known Mexican cruiser.

Mexican cruisers set to work in the city of Calcarryon, through an arrangement with the mayor.

But Mr. De La Espiralla singled out his Salvadoran ally for praise.

"May God bless El Salvador and always strengthen the one that unite our nations," Mr. De La Espiralla wrote on X. "A fraternal foe, President."

Governor

In Mexico

Steps Aside

For 2nd Time

by John WACHO

and LARS DOLDEB

WASHINGTON—The governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa—who returned to office last week with an accusations by U.S. prosecutors that he had conspired with a cartel—has reversed course after widespread criticism, particularly from members of his own party.

The governor, Rubén Rocha Ibarra, said in a social media post on Saturday night, about a day and a half after returning to office, that he had requested an indefinite leave of absence.

In April, U.S. prosecutors concealed an indictment accruing Mr. Rocha and sent other current and former Mexican officials, including a voting session, of taking part in a broad conspiracy to help the powerful Sinaloa cartel traffic drugs into the United States. A few days later, he stopped down—the first time.

The indictment set off a scandal in Mexico and there a new wedge between the U.S. and Mexican government.

Mr. Rocha has denied wrongdoing and called himself the victim of a political attack. But his return then opposition within his party, Mr. Rocha, leading their district president, Claudia Steinbaum, Ibarra before Mr. Rocha's announcement on Saturday. Ms. Steinbaum, a leader of Mexico, is a member of the Florida that public servants should not place personels' ambition above the well-being of the state. The criticism what she called "for naked ambition of lower for power's sake."

"Mexico deserves public servants who understand that positions are temporary," she wrote, "but responsibility to the nation is eternal." Although she did not mention Mr. Rocha by name, it was widely accepted in Mexico as a criticism of his return to office.

A fifteen in Mr. Rocha' party were more pointed. Governors and senators from Mexico, or local or state, were saying that he had acted alone and stressing the importance of respecting the city's investigation, Ricardo Mastroca, an influential Mexican politician who had supported Mr. Rocha, called on him to go back on leave.

In the U.S. indictment, prosecutors accused Mr. Rocha of accepting the case, asking in getting elected in exchange for protecting the cartel, which has increased his state and Mexico for years. Ms. Steinbaum has repeatedly said that her government is not protecting the governor, but has also called for more evidence from U.S. officials and supported Mexico's investigation into the actions of the state officials and in April that the United States had not provided sufficient evidence to support its request for Mr. Rocha's extradition.

Mr. Rocha, 71, is the highest-ranking member of Mexico, Mexico's dominant left-wing politician, who has been led by the United States. The case against him is the Trump administration's most significant public step in cracking down on the corruption that it is not at the heart of Mexico's cartel problem.

"When he took leave after the indictment, Mr. Rocha said he wanted to participate in the Mexican government's investigation as an 'ordinary citizen,' without the necessary afforded by his office. Experts said on Friday that returning to office removed his constitutional instability."

With his departure one day later, he has presumably lost it again.

The CECOT poison in El Salvador. Some eight-wing leaders in Latin America have vowed to build "neogenesis" like this one.

President Trump at the Shield of the Americas Summit, a new security alliance against drug traffickers and organized crime.

Iran Threatens U.S. Allies in Gulf and Vous to Block All Oil as Economic War Builds

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ing to extricate themselves from the regional domestic foreigners' business, the export billions in recent months to expand cigarettes and other intra-structures to keep exports flowing, Saudi Arabia, for instance, to block all oil and its major foreigners, and to pumping much of its oil through a pipeline and loading it into markets in the Red Sea, while long less been pumping more on through payment of stock, trucking it for export from single-boring firms.

Mr. Brizani said Iran would first seek to negotiate with countries that would not have to pay for the previous campaign. But if that failed, he said, Iran would move to block oil not only through the war, but "the from the French to the US."

"Countries cannot put America in imposing government blockade and harm our interests while we continue allowing oil to have the

James Maherof contributed reporting.

Persian Gulf," he said, noting that Iran was not currently interfering with oil leaving through other states, "but we will target these routes as well."

When the war with the United States and Israel began in late February, Iran quickly moved to expand the construction to regional countries that host American loans, targeting neighboring Gulf countries with valleys of drones and missiles. More recently, it launched a deadly strike on a U.S. base in Jordan, and groups called in Iran are thought to be behind recent attacks that his energy infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Mr. Brizani's comments say, I asked that Iran may aim to continue this more aggressive approach even as the Trump administration really do focus to the economic realm from the military.

"I can't overall economic isolation has made it more dependent on its neighbors like the U.S. It and Iraq than the other way around," said Esdandyar Barmangheldi, who heads the

Bearce & Bazaar Foundation, a London-based think tank focused on Iran's economy. That Brizani's comments are what he is indicate that the faces of the regional countries are also bound with Iran."

This month, Mr. Bousent warned of "never before now" U.S. measures, which same ana-

A new security chief reinforces a regime's hard-line position.

lysis support may include imposing sanctions on countries buying Iranian oil or imposing more penalties on financial transactions with Iran.

Economic warfare is not new to Iran, which came under "maximum pressure" during the previous Trump administration and has faced some form of U.S. sanctions since the Islamic Republic was founded in 1979. But this time,

Iran's economy faces one of its most severe crises yet. Iranian critical infrastructure has been deeply honored by the war. That, in combination with the U.S. blockade, has cut Iran's energy production by 15 to 20 percent, according to Global Climate, an economic in the United States's International Economic Studies.

Even before the conflict started, a plunge in the value of the Iranian real fuel gained nationwide answers to the crisis, the U.S. economy spanned by killing thousands of people. The currency's value has been devalued a further 40 percent since then.

Since the war has not the country has been grappling with scaring food prices and skyrocketing unemployment that have put everyday food items increasingly on the market. The U.S. has had a Iran's central bank governor, Abdolmanir Hirmizah, said this month that Iran's oil exports had fallen to "cane to zero."

In this month, the government has been trying to find a way to respond to a growing fuel crisis,

partly caused by damaged infrastructure and slowed imports on the the U.S. maritime blockade. The government is struggling to provide the subsidized gasoline prices Iranian only on, very if making changes that could lead to unrest.

Now, Mr. Trump's threats could increase the economic struggle, held Iran faces from neighbors and critical trading partners.

Last week, the United Arab Emirates had called to Iran and financial transactions with Iran, a decision that could hurt Iranian importers' ability to pay for goodly enough financial services for their by the US.

If another critical trade partner like neighboring Turkey Ashwani, the consequences would be dim. Mr. Dzacki said. He estimated that inflation is now not now in 40 percent, a level he said had an prevention in Iran's transfer his time.

"This is an extension and expansion of war, until Iran reached an agreement with the U.S." he said. "And it's going to be worse

for Iran than for the regional or global economy."

Iran's moderate president, Mr. Brizani, said, "mainly that Iran was in a 'full-scale economic, military and security war,' adding that his government was trying to find ways to counter the human and human resources."

"We have stood firm and are trying to be servants of the people in the face of this unequal war," Mr. Pannikhan said in a speech.

Mr. Pannikhan also called for a return to diplomatic negotiations with Washington, arguing that Iran should act while it has a strong strategic basis.

The U.S. has had a few new law, Mr. Brizani, the security chief, urged the public to "launch an economic jihad" Iranian should reduce their reliance on more subsidies and the need to fight against an income will sufficiently through local production.

"Every home can become a laundering of the economic war," he said. "I am not suggesting that we become a missile base in the economic war."

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INSPECTION: Mosquito control agents search homes for eggs, larvae and adults of the insects, which breed in standing water.

MITIGATION: Replacing the larvicide strip of a dissemination unit at a home whose backyard abate the Amazon rainforest.

MONITORING: The city of Belden maps which neighborhoods are far handed by dengue to determine where to distribute larvicide.

To Fight Pestilence, a City Enlists Its Citizens, and Drafts Its Mosquitoes

Gateway to the Amazon

Uses an Array of Tactics Against Disease Vectors

By APODIYA MANSHFELI

BELDEN, Brazil – It's been 20 years, but Public Games still vividly consolidates the terror for felt that his wife, Lucivino, would never return from the hospital, that she would die of the dengue she contracted from a mosquito bite, her body tucked with fever and not including pain.

She did come home, after 15 days, and recovered fully after several more months. But the experience changed how Mr. Gomes thought about mosquitoes.

Mr. Gomes, now 63, is an eager participant in an aggressive campaign by Belden, the northern Brazilian city where he lives on the edge of a rainforest, to reduce mosquitoes and the health dangers they bring.

Municipal workers have measured him that mosquitoes breed in standing water and thrive in insects, insect species. He fills the swimming pool in the backyard every Friday for his grandchildren who live nearby, then drains it religiously every Sunday after they leave.

He and his wife keep their veranda scrupulously clean and uncluttered, just a bicycle to use corner, a hammock in another – and, since last summer, a plastic bucket that is a centerpiece in Belden's multipotagonist strategy against mosquitoes.

The size of a small waterbasket, it offers just the sort of dark, watery cavity, a broad-tanngated light tube in our right. But it contains larvicide, a chemical that kills young mosquitoes, and when the lands inside she becomes coated with it, after she flies away, she will spread it in other breeding sites, typically within a quarter-mile radius. Last year, Belden distributed 1,000 units in the parts of the city hit hardest by dengue.

At the moment, mosquitoes are a bigger menace in Belden and the rest of Brazil than in the United States or Europe, but the warming planet is expanding their range. Most cases of dengue, malaria and chikungunya in these plants were contracted during travel abroad, but locally acquired cases are occurring more frequently. In 2024, the United States recorded nearly 3,000 cases of dengue, more than 500 of them locally acquired, blood a life of the patients were hospitalized, and six died.

"The climate crisis is a public health crisis," Dr. Alexandre Padilha, Brazil's health minister, said in an interview.

"It's not a coincidence" that during its Group of 20 presidency, Brazil championed new initiatives to combat mosquitoes diseases like dengue, Dr. Padilha said. "We have a lot to learn and also to teach many regions in the city, about how to face the impact of climate change," he said.

Since at the other experience, Brazil has embraced new techniques to combat mosquitoes. Most of them are environmentally friendly, including building the world's largest "mosquito factory"; a facility that produces mosquitoes containing Wolbachia, a bacterium that blocks dengue and other viruses. The Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes are then released in communities to breed and pass the bacteria to the very generation.

Tackling mosquitoes requires more than.gov with science. Municipal departments will need to beef up their vector-control diseases and budgets, don't mean we cannot to recognize upst. treat the diseases, and the public will need education on protecting itself.

"It's important for other countries to get ready for the possibility of having more and more cases happening, and train all the layers of the society," said Luciano Moreira, the chief executive of Wolters do Brasil, a joint venture between the nonprofit World Mosquito Program and the Brazilian government.

"It's not just something like the government just goes there and sprays," he said. "It's part of a movement."

A City Fights Back

Luckin like to say Belden has only two seasons: one in which it raises every day, and one in which it rains all day.

The city is a gateway to the mighty Amazon, and it is edged by luck, muddy rainforest.ข้อมูล trees and their tidies fruit like the streets, luring insects were their sweet, sticky scent. Small puddles of water – on the sidewalks, in marked tires and in trash cans – offer mosquitoes the perfect nurseries to grow millions more of themselves.

For decades, Belden residents have been under attack by Aedes aegypti, the type of mosquito that carries dengue, Zika and chikungunya – as much so that at 2004, a city called the Zika, was a herglaze matter of the insect. (Aedes aegypti is also found in the United States,

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A health worker in Belden, Brazil, touring water from a bucket used to spread the milk. The chemical sticks to female mosquitoes, and they carry it allandfunds.

To prevent mosquitoes, Public Games drains his swimming pool every Sunday after his grandchildren leave. Flick an eager participant in the city's campaign.

including Florida, Texas and California, a Chinese change has allowed these mosquitoes to multiply faster, encouraging the density they carry. In 2024, dengue infected more than 10 million people in Brazil and killed more than 1,000. There might have been even more deaths if doctors in Brazil did not know how to recognize and treat the disease promptly, said Melissa Silva, a microbiologist at the Federal University of Paris in Belden.

Brazil's toll that year was about four times the previous number, and in Belden, it was about seven times higher, flooding the city's hospitals and forcing a reckoning. City officials adopted myriad methods to response, from increasing common-sector solutions like garbage disposal and treatment of sewage to collaborating with academic scientists like Dr. Silva.

It was Dr. Silva who petitioned the health minister to include Belden on the list of 20 cities that would try out the open out larvicide-dispensing buckets and to hand training and equipment for city workers.

Dr. Silva and his colleagues looked at the distribution of dengue cases across the city. They also factored in data from

the city's entomology lab on mosquito larvae and egg traps to gauge the size of the population that season.

Based on these two streams of information, they identified the most common life areas, down to the street level, many of them in liveties and other low-income neighborhoods, that would benefit from the units.

Unlike mosquito traps that kill 50 males, the larvicide units, which cost less than $2 each, use the females to spread the chemical to breeding spots that would be hard for humans to find, Dr. Silva said. "We're using the mosquito against the mosquito," he said. "That's the smart thing about the trap."

The city also trained the workers to evaluate residents in the low-income areas as ways to keep mosquitoes at bay, to recognize dengue symptoms and to focus on the hospital after signs of severe illness. High fever, headache and vomiting can be mistaken for signs of many other diseases. But dengue also produces intense muscle and skin pain, which earned the disease the member break. Some fever, and may progress in both blood vessels and death if left untreated.

"Back in the day, there was a lot of loss in the wealthier area, so the center of

A Belden park has a monument to the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the type that carries dengue, Zika and chikungunya and has plagued the city for decades.

Workers fanning out to educate residents on how to keep their homes free of mosquitoes. The city now concentrates on lower-income areas, its mayor said.

the trees, and so we spread that out," Igor Nestusaitis, Belden's mayor, said in an interview.

Because of these efforts, he said, mosquito-borne diseases in the city dropped by 70 percent last season.

"The success of this program was a result of that, it's that we didn't just focus on one specific thing," Mr. Nestusaitis said. "We didn't only focus on education and only rubbish collection and only this or that."

Door-to-Door Checks

A core part of Belden's strategy is its community outreach. Of the city's more than 1,000 health department workers, about a third are focused on limiting mosquito populations, 292 common, Bay County, U.S., a coastal area of comparable size. But 12 full-time employees in its management control division.

Many of Belden's vector-control agents, as they are called, go door to door, excluding residents about ways to keep their premises insect-free, keeping water containers covered and snapping up wet spots after the day's inevitable rainfall. The houses that have the larvicide dissemination units get a monthly visit to replenish supplies and to ensure that the containers have not been repurposed to pet plants or launder clothes.

On a revolving day last month, work on an door-to-door cleanly discovered that one homeowner's grandson had thrown the container away when cleaning, not realizing its purpose. Another family fall the container behind two big cars, in percent their dogs from getting in it.

As a shirtless Mr. Gomes tried to stay and in the unrelenting heat, Elizabeth Hera, a city agent, suspected a healer on his veranda for mosquito larvae – there were some – then dumped the water and refilled it. She then added a fresh mesh strip coated with the larvicide, which sticks to female mosquitoes as they land on the strip to its eggs.

Mr. Gomes said he was fascinated to hear that Belden was ahead of many American cities in adopting this approach. "We imagine that this would be something that you would already have,

and we always expect these solutions to be coming from the U.S., not for us to be expecting them," he said.

Most cities in the United States still rely on aerial or truck spraying to control mosquitoes, degasching the trucks after death and warning people to stay indoors. The pesticides can cause dizziness, nausea and skin irritation in some people, etc off seizures in some pets and wipe out beneficial insects like bees and butterflies.

Brazil, too, initially relied heavily on spraying, but by the early 2000s, the mosquitoes had begun to show signs of resistance to the chemicals. Cities like Belden now resort to bagging – which produces a thin mist rather than the bigger droplets from sprays – only during outbreaks.

"We cannot just ban the use of insecticides, but we need to use them in a more optimal way," said Dr. Moreira of Wolters do Brasil. Ideally, insecticides would become part of a larger strategy, to be used mainly during outbreaks, he said, "so that's what Brazil is doing."

In 2016, amid widespread insecticide resistance, Brazil's Health Ministry convened experts to brainstorm new solutions, including breeding mosquitoes containing Wolbachia bacteria. Wolbachia is an environmentally harmless solution, naturally present in about half of all insects. The technological marvel here was in introducing the bacteria into Aedes aegypti.

The approach is now part of the country's mosquito control strategy in 10 cities, but the government plans to expand that number to nearly 60 by the end of next year, Dr. Moreira said.

Belden is not yet on the list to release Wolbachia mosquitoes; it may be textual of after reducing the numbers with other methods first. But for some residents, the city's strategy of distributing larvicide units has already brought back unexpected magic.

Filipe Borges, 63, recalled that when Belden and others in Instagram his neighborhood decades ago, the electric time Amazonian butterflies of his childhood disappeared. But now, he said, there are noticeably fewer mosquitoes in his yard, and yet "the butterflies are back."

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Deportes Who Resisted Arrival in Liberia Are Taken to Equatorial Guinea

This article is by Prosper Buehler, United Almaty and Genevieve Glancig.

The first time people were who departed by the United States in Liberia but received getting off the plane have been flown to Equatorial Guinea, according to a U.S. official and lawyers familiar with their cases.

It is the first reported case in the administration's so-called third-present department campaign to augment refusing to get off a corporation flight in a country to which they had a time and being flown to another such country.

The rapid switch last week was the first time the government has celebrated countries to serve on destinations for Japan; states through a secretive deal making campaign.

The first time the government was part of a deal struck by the government of Liberia with the Trump administration to take up its 12th departure from the United States.

A similar report by the United States Post-Dispatch reports that

States is the next year.

Among the migrants sent on Thursday to Equatorial Guinea, a former African American officer at West Africa, were four Cuban men, a Brazilian person and a Guamesean woman, said Alexandra Smetina, a lawyer at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta, a legal group that represents emigrants deported to Equatorial Guinea as part of a separate deportation deal.

"What happened here, a large group refusing removal on one and and then being moved around to yet another country, is highly unusual," said Claire Trickler-McNulty, a former senior officer at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the added that she gained a level of alcohol and it was under the Trump administration, and that the case closed concerns about whether a "defunct, transparent process" was followed.

The Department of Homeland Security said on Friday that the migrants who had refused to get off the plane in Liberia had been "deprived to a safe third country."

about whether the five had been sent to Equatorial Guinea. The department said it was "applying for the same reason."

The five who resisted were among 20 deporters flown by the United States in Western International Airport in Materials, the Liberian capital, U.S. federal agents escorting the deporters forced them off the plane, but eventually all five were returned to the aircraft.

Three of the deporters who resisted getting off the plane in Liberia described themselves as Carlos Rodriguez Lopez, the two Hernandez and Emilio Destrode Carmona, and said they were from Cuba. They described a "sterility" and "asked to place somewhere else. The two were there."

Speaking in Spanish, they said that while they were resisting disembarking in Liberia, officers placed losses on their rocks. They were eventually put back on the plane and said by federal agents that they would be returned to the United States. But they landed in Equatorial Guinea instead. There, they said, they were met by do-

ens of marked officers carrying semiautomatic guns.

"We thought they were truthful about the deporters people in other countries," Mr. Rodriguez Lopez said. He said that in Liberia, at one point, four officers remained that at all over.

The migrants said they were taken in handcuffs in a van to a remote hotel in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, that is provided by armed guards and others other deporters have been held.

The men said that now they were worried because they have that other deporters had remained in Equatorial Guinea by months and they did not know how the government there would handle the deporters in the market.

Later on Friday, the Department of Homeland Security did not continue to the three migrant accounts.

The U.S. deal with Liberia is one of the largest struck by the Trump administration so far for third country deportations. The United people are expelled from the United States but are not doing it

sent to their home countries. Washington approved a $5 million payment to Liberia in connection with the deal of the United States, according to internal documents reviewed by The Times.

Both ECI and the State Department are under pressure from the White House to find places to depart migrants the government cannot send to their home countries, usually because a judge has ruled that they will soon likely have premonition and torture there. In many of these cases, countries taking the deporters' instructions money or leave in return.

Works before Equatorial Guinea announced its agreement, the Trump administration temporarily lifted a settlement in two provinces, Theodore Ngummi O'Reilly Morgan, to be ruled enter the United States for the U.S. General Assembly. The United States also sent ECI million to the country federal data showed.

The Trump administration has made the United deals with more than 35 countries, according to Human Rights First, a nonprofit

group that tracks deportations, and Refugees International. Many of the countries are in Africa and the United States and Republic of Congo, Cameroon, China and South Korea.

Dozens of migrants who are not from Equatorial Guinea have been forced to their homes to enter November, according to the non-profit group. Many of these were later sent "forward to the very places from which they fled," despite U.S. court prosecution, Human Rights First said.

Lawyers and experts said the United States had not a provision about whether the migrants had information about where they were being taken and an opportunity to express their fears.

The United States is not that these people could have been deported in Liberia and then hours after the end of the war. Liberty is here and taken to yet another third country, in this case a fourth country, presumably having no notice that they might have been sent to the United States. Mr. Smetina, of Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta, said.

Canada's Plywood, Liquor and Christmas Ornaments Hit in Tariffs

By LISA ALSTEN

OTTAWA — America and sea jackets. National flags—Some Caribbean ornaments. And 36 different kinds of plywood.

The lists of hundreds of goods from Canada subject to new law process tariffs from the United States are long and seemingly organized at random.

The Trump administration has passed the tariffs, which took effect on Saturday, after Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada called off trade negotiations with the United States that had lasted nearly a month. "They advertise and trade offered too little," Mr. Carney said.

Mr. Carney has promised to visualize "dollar far dollar" against the new tariffs, which join press and the "crowd" of the press from New President Trump put on Canadian abstentions, most and notes last year. Lumber has tariffs that pro-duce Mr. Trump's return to office, and nevertheless increased them last year.

Here are some of the goods that are subject to the new tariffs:

Major Experts

For Canadian companies that depend on U.S. business, the new tariffs are likely to be a source of great anxiety. For customs because it and trade observers who guide these companies, they are an extraordinary business opportunity.

But for the lay results: the tariffs are sometimes{i}filling. The latest news is that the Tariffs of the United Administration, cover $10 billion in Canadian exports.

The new trade guide, among Canada's forest industry, which has been somewhat in a seemingly endless battle with the United States for decades, is the most particularly important thing, the many wooal products include the different kinds of plywood alone. Handmaffairs to the United States have already said that the tariffs are not only product to replace Canadian plywood, so the tariffs could increase housing construction costs.

Alcohol is also prevalent. The Trump administration has been particularly wooal by the fact that capital of Canada's 10 provinces will receive U.S. wine and spirits from their government-owned liquor distribution system and stores.

Wood products made in Canada will face 90 percent tariffs, which will make housing status even more expensive for Americans.

those measures began after Mr. Trump suggested making Canada the first state and imposed tariffs in violation of the free trade agreement between the two countries and Mexico.

Some of the drinks now effectively that out from the United States by tariffs had little obvious appeal, including "minimers of or with a basis of suboffenses substances with 30 to 50 percent about but by weight requiring only the addition of ethyl alcohol or water to be a beverage." Left some abstract is why anyone would add more alcohol to something that is already half composed of the in-amount.

Dairy products are another target. Canada uses production quotas and other tools to protect the market dairy producers, who sell largely to the Canadian market,

potentially limiting the effect of the new U.S. duties.

Clothing and textiles also take a bit. Like the United States, much of Canada's clothing production moved overseas long ago, and some Canadian outlets retailers sell goods made abroad to U.S. customers. That, however, will not give them more to. Mostly shipping things from Canada triggers the tariffs, regardless of where the products were made.

And Some Oddly Specific Ones

Five times of clothing stopped the tariffs. They include overcoats, annuities, multibrinkers, chew-box jackets, cotton sweaters, T-shirts, cut costs, capes, chinks, trash suits, and jackets, blazers and devices. Others, interest and rents are on the list unless they

are related to spirits.

Also included are national flags, canvas used for painting stage backdrops, tarpaulins, awnings and sea blinds.

Not every interest in the tobacco from large companies. Several products, including jewelry and heavy, come from small, even non-percent operation.

The trade development range from the broad to the almost peculiarly specific, leaving the latest is wood factories "at a kind used in the business and not designed for many years now."

The tariff list has a bit of a spid-uper look by including "articles for Christmas footprints, ornaments, out of place or wood" (yes), including riding ones but not like, fishing ends, hockey sticks, skates and "buyers, carrotul or

other entertainment articles") flag owners will see similar in-creases in the price of textiles, cutters, muskets and bartenders.

Many products—including a few inter-zone cutters on and under-phones—do not appear to be manufactured in Canada at all.

Above all, the list reveals in-company, hidden out of the market industry, including companies that produce or sell backbinding machines, egg-grafting equipment, master hoops, derricks, sand and steam blazers, oils, and the domestic purposes, sales and "base metal statuents."

And there is perhaps the flavor of all experts from Canada to the United States: "Vigs (partial), false boards, eyebrows and the like, of synthetic textile materials."

Fired Minister

Wrong to Ask For Elections, Zelensky Says

By CARLOT THAGEL

FTC Ukraine — President Shkrebner Zelensky of Ukraine said this weekend that his former defense minister was wrong, and he remained the first and third holding a vote in the middle of war could divide Ukraine.

"Elections right now would be a concern for the state that would take Ukraine for the end. Without a cause-for, which Russia would not agree to, holding elections is a very "major risks," Mr. Zelensky said.

His comments came after the former defense minister, Archduch Fedorov, who was fired by Mr. Zelensky in July, asked last week for wartime elections. Mr. Zelensky said he thought Mr. Fedorov was being pushed by people around him in the wrong direction.

Mr. Zelensky has faced mounting political crises in recent weeks, after a clash between his defense minister and his army commander over four to ten the war led him to replace both.

Mr. Fedorov has demanded to be reinstated, even after weekend, he requested his call for Mr. Zelensky to hold national elections in a challenge to his leadership.

A growing number of news media is being used to help the Zelensky as members of the presidential or first have been accused of intimidating him up to the next.

But is a meeting on Saturday with reporters at the presidential palace in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, Mr. Zelensky seemed confident in the decision she could.

For the first time with journalists, he spoke to detail about the clash between Mr. Fedorov and the army commander's role. Only one of the most important events having to fire them. A selection of Mr. Zelensky's comments was approved for publication by his office on Sunday morning.

Mr. Zelensky said that the country to the end of the war and preserve an independent and successful state of Zelensky said, "And I am carrying that out."

As he prepared to welcome Western leaders to celebrate Ukraine's independence day on Monday, Mr. Zelensky said this weekend that he was more concerned about the state of the war and Ukraine's ability to counter multiple threats from Russia.

Ukraine has a $17 billion loss in its annual budget, he said, and a shortage of air defense security now to protect Ukraine's growing number of ballistic missile carriers. The country is also facing the prospect of Russia mobilizing additional troops in the coming months, he said.

Civilian casualties in Ukraine have increased drastically in 2025, the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission has been the first to have released on Saturday. There have been at least 12,477 civilian casualties—one of whom has been 225 injured—so far this year, it said, a 16 percent increase from the same period last year.

On Friday, a Russian double-tap test was made in shopping center in Kyrivyi Rift, Ukraine, killed at least 30 people and injured more than 225, according to Ukrainian authorities. On U.S. major said, the test was "a very international humanitarian law."

The test strikes came 30 min. after the test, including that the shopping center had been the intended target, and occurred at a time when it was operational and half of people. On report said, U.S. officials were not able to see Saturday and interviewed survivors, who said they had seen no evidence of any military presence or equipment at the site, the report said.

U.S. Trade Representative Details Offer Carney Refused

By LISA BRUNER

WASHINGTON — The United States had offered to reduce the tariffs on rent, abstinence and taxes, and eliminate a recently broken tariff on Canadian lumber, before negotiations suddenly collapsed last night, Jamieson Green, the U.S. trade representative, said Saturday.

In an interview with The New York Times, Mr. Greer detailed community confidential and unexpected elements of the U.S. trade offer in Canada, saying these are the most important reasons for the trade. But the most preferential treatment of any building partner.

Trade talks between the countries suddenly caused late Friday night, and the U.S. trade offer which negotiators appeared hopeful for an agreement.

Mr. Trump had abruptly threatened Canada with a 30 percent increase in the tariffs. Liberia's government is July, in an effort to push the country into making road concessions and removing certain practices the United States had become more effective.

These tariffs were set to go into effect on the morning of July. All Baracobin might before, Mr. Trump's director the tariffs until Aug. 25, 2025.

Marian Slavin-Groberff contributed reporting from Toronto.

saying that the counties had a deal," subject to the finalization of the senator."

But over the following days, and the electricity loss ratio the night 8% less, that consensus crumbled. It fell apart over a series of issues that, individually, may have seemed small but collectively represented a big division over issues of influence or own rules.

Mr. Greer said that the Trump administration had pledged to eliminate the 30 percent tariff on submoral lumber that Mr. Trump had been forced to make 30 percent less known as Section 252.

The United States had also referred to reduce a 25 percent tariff on cars that Mr. Trump got in the market. But because the tax despatches for a further reduction when the cars contain any amount of U.S. content, the automotive tariffs could have given as low as 1 percent, he said.

The United States also offered to lower tariffs on rentals, use of Canadian most important priorities.

The United States was prepared to reduce the tariff on cars from 30 percent to 25 percent for the majority of used Canada sent to the United States," Mr. Greer said. Steel would be subject to what is known as a staff-take quota system, to which only a cor-

tain amount of most important staff-became fact lower tariff.

On admission, the United States had offered to reduce its tariffs to 25 percent from 30 percent without such a quota limitation, Mr. Greer said.

For products made with steel and aluminum, like gold clubs and beer cases, the United States offered to cut these tariffs by anywhere near 10 to 35 percentage points, with the lowest tariffs on all 10 percent.

Mr. Greer said that the United States had also offered to suspend the 30 percent tariffs that it brought into effect early Saturday morning on Canadian dairy, wine, hockey sticks and other goods.

"Obviously, we would completely suspend the 30 percent Section 250 tariffs that we were going to apply to 5 percent of Ca-

nadism experts," he said, referring to the tariffs that were into effect Saturday.

The Canadian government did not immediately respond to a request to comment on Mr. Greer's decision. The United States had left on the table where it suspended talks Friday evening.

In a televised briefing earlier Saturday, Canada's press minister, Mark Carney, stated that U.S. proposal as a "bad deal," the added, "we cannot accept what they offered and we will not give what they asked."

Mr. Carney said that Canada had walked away from negotiations not just because of the impact that what was being offered by the United States negotiating more was insufficient, but also because U.S. officials were asking for concessions that Canada was not pro-

Jamieson Green, the U.S. trade representative, said Canada would have been given the most preferential treatment.

pared to state.

He said Canada had equally agreed to meet many American demands, including pulling all to regulatory tariffs on U.S. meat and dairy products, and using the same as to provide to remove the sale of U.S. liquor, with some of them have banned.

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Canada had demanded better tariff treatment for pickup amount trucks to the final stages of the talks, as well as more to make expenses for cars made with U.S. and Canadian content, these people familiar with the negotiations said.

"In short, they asked too much to be offered too little," Mr. Carney said about the United States had already added.

In the interview, Mr. Greer argued with that assessment.

"These are modifications that would continue they have access and improve it," he said.

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Bryan Johnson falls, and that his so-called healthmanaging has been a position. He said he could have developed something worse than anti-tumorism gastritis.

What 'World's Healthiest Man' Can't Control

A Stunning Diagnosis for a Longevity Guru Who Has Invested a Fortune in Forever

By ANDREMA HARTNEGELIS

"Who do you want to live to life?"

The question hung on the air. It was last fall, an allotter during an invitations-only interview. A paper, I Am, filled with leaders in fields like foreign affairs, economics and entertainment.

Among them was a visionary of another sort — Bryan Johnson, the wealthy tech entrepreneur and so-called behavior who has been singing a public and provocative fight against mortality.

He says he has poored millions of dollars into studying and perfecting his own body, and calls himself the most measured human being in history. His goal is to make it possible to live forever. (He is almost 40.)

At the dinner in Aspen, Mr. Johnson found himself named next to another man with very particular views on longevity. Ended 2. Emanuel, who served as a health policy adviser to the Obama administration and is a critic of the medicine wellness industry, of which Mr. Johnson is an extreme practitioner. Dr. Emanuel has said he would be content to live to 75. (He is now 60.)

They had reached only the salad source when Dr. Emanuel's question sat to the heart of the matter.

"I don't see the point; I don't see the purpose. Why do you want to live to life?"

Shinon. "He didn't say anything." Dr. Emanuel said me later: "It caught him up there. "That was the most interesting part of the evening."

A few months after that, Mr. Johnson would get what he called his "bad news."

Enter the Longevity Bros

Mortality is an insensible fact of the human condition, but the desire to obtain death has endured for a very long time, according to legend and history. Gilgamesh, Chinese emperors and medical economists all tried to attain immensality.

The allure is on less profound today, but the modern person are somewhat more sophisticated and inherently appealing to a wealthy techno-centric class of people like Mr. Johnson.

Mr. Johnson, who lives in Los Angeles, is perhaps the best known of a cadre of scientists and influencers known as "longevity bros." They abnormally document their attempts to live disease and began, known cuttingly as "longevity fixation syndrome."

Mr. Johnson, whose stages is "Don't Die," has called himself "the healthiest person on the planet." He tries to prove the claim by documenting every ship and equips that measures his health—fitted count, heart rate, visceral fat, nighttime exercises.

He consumes little meat, but a lot of collagen peptides. He has experimented with leading up on more than 300 supplements a day. He even received a blood plasma transfusion from his teenage son, and in turn gave his own plasma to his father.

But this summer, Mr. Johnson's efforts to achieve physical perfection can up against the overstability of illness.

In a social media post, he announced that he had developed anti-tumorism gastritis, a condition in which the body extracts certain cells in the stomach that

Georgia Gas, Kirsten Noyes and Stockوال McNeill contributed research.

Dr. J. Emanuel

Ezekiel J. Emanuel thinks the quest for longevity has gone off the rails. The reporter's mother, Callage Hancock, left, who lived to be 95', is her personal role model for good aging.

If anything, I am extremely grateful that I've spent the past five years working on my health.

BYNN JOHNSON, the wealthy tech entrepreneur and so-called behavior who developed autoimmune gastritis.

are responsible for making acid. It leads to iron and vitamin B-12 deficiencies, which are associated with brain fog, hair loss, bottle nails, neurological complications and an elevated risk of stomach cancer.

Or, as he put it, "My stomach is eating food!"

Announcing his diagnosis on social media, he fruited it as a sort of betrayal. "I cut whole foods," he wrote. "I exercise every day, and I don't do bad things."

But he also said the condition had inspired him to move on a phase of "disease resolution," as he called it.

"It potentially captures what the factors will be," he said. "Right now, when someone gets sick, when they get a diagnosis, we're not all that shocked. We just expect it."

In the future, he predicted, "we may get in the point where it's shocking if someone falls ill."

At the same time, that dinner-party question seemed to be nagging at Mr. Johnson. He recently passed on it. "Items thinking things over and wonder if I've taken this whole longevity thing too far." What had become of the World's Healthiest Man?

I decided to ask him.

Flying Too Close to the Sun?

Mr. Johnson has done countless interviews with the news media, including The New York Times, and was the subject of a recent Netflix documentary.

He tends to give practiced and vague answers. He also has a very accusations

that his real goal is to make money through his two longevity companies: Blueprint and Immortals. He's rich enough already, he says.

In one of our video interviews, I concluded him of Dr. Emanuel's question — why live to life? — and he broke into a big, infectious grin. I had not seen him grin before.

"I find him to be a delightful person, he said. "I think he disagrees with everything I stand for, which is great!"

But, I asked, what were you thinking while you sat there about?!

"As you can see," he explained. "I've not really an argumentative type. I usually say yes and enjoy other people's opinions. So I was really trying to understand him. I think I maybe finished my perspective of him saying that I don't think someone needs a reason, that the itself doesn't need to be qualified. That answer usually leaves people very dissatisfied.

"Humans want reasons for everything, and if a reason is not paired with the idea, it's very hard for humans to process that."

Dr. Emanuel, though, is not without reason or ideas. And as much as he enjoyed Mr. Johnson's company that night, he has his own thoughts about Mr. Johnson's quest. He thinks the longevity industry has gone off the rails.

Trying to defeat aging, Dr. Emanuel and other critics of the live-horser movement say, is arrogant and partisan. In Dr. Emanuel suggests that — even enjoyable — Richards like cutting out at{vopercared foods, getting good sleep

and eating up rare experiences. The title of his latest book, Turf Your Sex Cream, speaks for itself.

"The point of life, I think, is to make the world better for your health, your community, for humanity." Dr. Emanuel said. "He to have for a short time, and it's not all about us."

I thought about my own Greek mother, Callage, who is my role model for good aging.

She lived to be 97, still doing math in her head, still calling people if she could not visit, and almost to the end, still walking to the market. Not that she loved it, big old, like often repeated a Greek proverb with more in ancient philosophy: "I can't abide two things, poverty and old age." (It rhymes in the original.)

She might have liked to be immortal, but she did not pursue it. Instead she gained the Greek poet Ceruty, whose poem says that when going home to Ithalia, it is the journey — what you find along the way — that matters.

Her ultimate strategy was acceptance. My mother, a psychologist, told me a few months before she died. But she had examined her life and was at peace with it.

In our interviews, Mr. Johnson accepted nothing, even as he knew that many want to see him fall. When talking about his autoimmune disorder, he brought up the Greek myth of burns, the boy with wings of wax who wanted to fly. "Has been, I flow too close to the sun," he said, explaining the criticism. "I went after a goal that could be described as his best."

He rejected the possibility that his illness, which is not fatal, had been caused by his longevity regimen. He said it may have been lacking for about 30 years, or later in the diagnosis of hypothyroidism when he was 21.

"The thyroid and stomach are very closely linked to immunology," he said.

(His explanation is plausible. You "there is no actual known cause of autoimmune gastritis," said Dr. Rubia de Laosta, a gastroenterologist at WTC Lancashire, both in New York City.)

Mr. Johnson believes that his so-called healthmanaging is a positive, not a negative.

"If anything, I am extremely grateful that I've spent the past five years working on my health," he said. "Had I not been taking care of my health with such meticulousness, it's possible my diagnosis would be a lot worse."

Besides, he said, his vigilance is not only for himself, but for the good of humanity.

Mr. Johnson shrugged away his mother. "I part suggesting that he had made it easier. The whole longevity thing too far."

"I was making fun of myself," he said. "My humor is so arkadaş, I'm ironic, and I'm absurd."

In 2nd, could there be a grain of truth to his regions?

"If there is, it's subconscious," he insisted.

In histology, he said that he was surprised for years of mental experts had not heard more to worry about.

"When you measure, you find stuff," he said.

He answer him as another truth. When you focus all your energy on staying alive, you have very little time to actually live.

I thought of my mother again. "There is no good to walk," she said to say a Greek, quoting a popular song of the 20ths. "There is no community."

Texts That Go On Trip Satisfy A Slower Vibe

By ERNEST LINDSER

The carrier pigeon was halfway across the Atlantic Ocean, soaring toward Toronto. Its message, seen from London, would take more than a day to arrive.

But when the letter tackled, it was not united from a speedy rig, but rather opened in an app, because this pigeon was digital, not physical.

A lot of time has gone into speeding up human communication, from the telegram to the Foxy Express to showing loudly from a rooftop. Lonely, at least two apps have asked. Was a carrier pigeon the pinnacle?

One of the apps exploring this idea is Carrier Pidge, an app that allows users to send messages at the speed of pigeon. Users track their font on a map as it whips some of its information.

Like real birds, the digital pigeons have a chance of getting lost or dying; it 2 percent. Buying a new one within the app will run you 90 cents.

This slower, stable and costlier version of messaging has wide appeal.

"Some things are better when they're worse," said Olivia Macdonald, 27, who uses the app to send messages to her boyfriend. Her team arrive to ensure they both live in Manhattan — but the chances of the pigeon disappearing adds intrigue, she said.

"The uncertainty of that, compared to the nonspecific one, we feel receiving so many texts and notifications a day, is something that I just find really attractive about it." Ms. Macdonald said.

Carrier Pidge, which launched in 2007, explains it's popularity this month after a post-alone the app by its developer, Thad塘 larrobras, was shared by thousands. Some of the months with only a single hundred users, he said, the app now has more than 75,000.

Another app released in April, Boxer, which lets users send texts via animals including pigeons, adults and penguins, reported that it has reached 850,000 downloads this month.

Both apps have connected with users who are tired of the daily digital 2016!

"I was probably inspired by a overlapping on in-tech — people want to get away from their phones and get outside," Mr. larrobras, 29, said of how the idea came to him. "I thought carrier pigeons were a funny concept, and it would be funny if some of them didn't make it back."

The first message Ms. larrobras, a software engineer in New York, sent on Carrier Pidge was to a friend in Chicago — an image of a instant chat Danny DeVito

Apps with digital animals that send messages for users tired of all the pings.

from the television show "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," Delivery time: 6 hours 40 minutes.

"The speed of each message varies, with a maximum speed of 120 miles per hour (Mr. larrobras said he researched racing pigeons and found one named Bob that had been recorded at that time.)"

Boxer was designed by Logan Mendelsohn, a 35-year-old product manager. Unlike Carrier Pidge, the app offers over 1,000 copies of the information, with the speeds to match. (A white Italian small crumb at a little over one mile an hour, while a barn red then at about 20 m.p.h.) It has a "pen gel" feature that lets users more and more play new people.

"My focus is leaning to toward the slow tech movement, leaning into areas that help people around the world connect," said Mr. Mendelsohn, whose current businessman, which and and safety in tech, the said Boxer has gotten so big that he is planning to hire employees.

There has been some flag-planting in online comments sections from Boxer Inc. and the other carrier Pidge, helping the concept. But Mr. Mendelsohn and Mr. larrobras said that neither took ideas from the other and that they have discussed their apps with each other.

Other apps appear to have tapped into a palpable discomfort with screen time and constant communication, and a year-old girl is adequately on.

A 2023 survey conducted by the Harris Hall, in partnership with the Human Flourishing Lab at the Archbridge Institute, found that 40 percent of Gen Z sales "taken into their life" — were worried that their age group relied too heavily on technology. Fifty-eight percent said that new technologies were more likely to drive people apart than other human resources.

"A lot of the digital tools that saturate our attention at the moment were built on the idea that they are in Asia," said Newark, a professor of computer science at Georgetown University and the author of "Deep Work," said it are usual.

"The human brain cannot function well in a future, but the world," he said. "The much information coming at us too has even whether our ability to reach our attention."

By downloading Kristen through apps and the 2020 app and Boxer, Ms. Newport said, messages can be thoughtful and given the attention they deserve.

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Frustrated Ohio's

Could Make Their State A Battleground Again

By CARMELL ROBERTSON and JESSICA COVENSIA

NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio.— Jessica, Ohio, a state that created from the nation's political battle zone as its voting patterns turned an ever deeper shack of wit, signs of discontent this year are every where.

In packed public forums, craz- glints rage about data center projects. In grocery store sales- disingses laurent to cashiers here little they can get far from the keyboard and card fields, farmers opinions anxiety and pessimism. The basics of life and business have gotten painstakingly expec- tors, and many have come to death that relief is coming out- from soon.

"It's all dumps. Businesses are drinking, the roads look like craz- ge, Kim Sox! It's said as the shagass is not a word—"I think it's true," Ridgeville, Ohio, an Wednesday. "Flower's prices are not unimpe- nated I can barely afford to live."

Frustration like here is evidence in every region and demographic in the state, and it's why Ohio may be up for grabs in the 2020 centuries, with the past two or more less than 75 days away, poli- draw dead bears for governor and a Senate seat. Enough congre- nment room are in play for some of the coming feature of the House. Come November, the state that once bruggled "as goes Ohio as goes the nation" will hold out if is truly inviting back toward pay for it.

But how voter frustrations will play out is attorney's game. We fluid, who worked as a cook at Mc- Donald's and is a good man. We have to be a good man, and we have thousand for President Trump. In 2021, she vowed to Kansas Barclay Tito bid, she said she is likely to play up on voting.

"I don't know what's" she said, "I don't agree with any of them."

One Whaley a former mayor of Dayton who can for governor in 2021, said she believes that Ohio will never be blamed with him message: "You have everything and you can't be read at the House state. They haven't been in com- mit."

She is reluctant to make predictions, having seen Democrats in Ohio get burned by bliss hope be- fore, but the title is clear.

"People are just so - I've just not seen them this pinnacle," she

Campbell Robertson reported from Millersport, Dayton, and Ciclos, Ohio, and Jessica Covens- from North Ridgeville and Abner, Ohio.

Whaley said.

On this, even the state's Repub- licans agree. Jim Renaux, a her- ner congressman who also can for governor in 2021, has been Reading his Facebook page with this warning to his fellow con- servatives. Ohio, he said in an in- terview, is at least a state of inde- pendence who lose conservative, but those people must be won over at a time when they have a few years of reasons to stay home from the polls.

"You can get mad at me for posting this. But I am just deliver- ing the message," he wrote in his admirers this month, adding: "The biggest issues for independ- cies are: Iran War Can prices Food prices. Utility bills. Rent."

In rural history County on the top of western states, the far also includes the costs of fertilizer and farm machinery, which were reduced by the Iran conflict and the global trade war. Few in the lovely conservative area are in- cluded to blame the president. But some of the farmers who were smoking cattle at the Mercer County Fair allowed that busi- ness candidates were getting scary, and that was before Mr. Trump announced on Friday that he planned to lower tariffs on her- edge food imports.

Diane Sheets, 17, who splits a 100-acre soybean farm with her entire and works at a travel place to make ends clean, said that pro- visions just don't seem interested in people's economic troubles.

"They might understand, but I don't think they can't." she said. "Do you see them crying to help us any time?"

This same sense of powerless work is feeling the key over data centers.

In Millersport, a village outside Columbia, a school cafeteria was packed for a hearing but week after a program's power plant that would provide energy to a EU. Unlike data center project be- ing built on nearby farmland, The residents in the cafeteria were already accustomed to agitation. A Democratic smashmen candidates wearing a Probe pie called against the process, Ser- chitzons later refused by an Air Force veteran wearing a "Don't Tread on Me" shirt with an In- terests logo.

It's not just in Millersport. These peeling into meeting halls across the state express detailed objections about the ramifications to local waterways, the on- tion of the state's water, the di- fects of pollution on children who live nearby. But their pressure tap into a deeper conviction — that

Diane Sheets, 17, said politicians don't seem interested in helping people. Right, an attendee at a hearing in Millersport with a list of concerns about the data center being built on farmland nearby.

outside are making decisions about their communities without their consent.

"The way things look, it's hard to have hope for anything, how- ever," said Wayne Harris, 66, whose anger was kindled to a planned 1,250-acre solar farm near Millersport, and burned hav- er with the cutting of the data center.

In both cases, he said, he learned about a major project in his community only after it was on loan to its much about it. Both projects would "rush" the quiet co- rall life the local residents had known, he said.

He has written letters to the president on down, but he does not expect anyone to stay in gov- tee the power of the corporation be- hind the projects.

"They have all the attorneys and all the money," Mr. Harris said. "They just kind of laugh in your face at you, like, 'We can do

what we want.'"

We then is blamed the Bales ad- ministration for the solar farm and said he did not trust Amy Ac- ron, the Democrat running for Ohio governor. But the blackboard- data centers across the state has become so widespread that the publican campaign officials are nervous.

As a recent woman acts to curb companies, first reported by An- los, the National Republican State social Committee warned that Democrats were bouncing the backfield to help come down to Ohio Senate race, and that they were along it "because it works!"

In campaign ads, former Sen- ator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat angling for a comeback, has in- fected the Republican incumbent, Senator Jim Heated, as "the face of data centers in Ohio." Ads are Mr. Heated, meantime, have dis- paraged Mr. Brown's previous long reign in the Senate, saying

"Sherrod Brown is Washington." "Here then are other things — this one," the Republican mean- tered, "data centers are the anchor language around Harvard, one."

If the Senate race has Washington's attention, the governor's race embodies many of Ohioan frustrations. The Republican members, Virola Ramozowicz, can be the one amount of voter right. He's a billionaire who made his part of pharmaceuticals, finance and technology. But the Denta- crin, Dr. Acron, carries the new baggage in an environment where- I trust it is short supply! She guided state Covid policy in the opening months of the pandemic.

While Dr. Acron is fighting the state's rightward loan, Mr. Ramo- zowicz is losing a more active problem representing the party at power before a broadly safety or electorate. In a June New York Times/Genea poll of likely voters in Ohio, nearly 30 percent of con-

ces, and 40 percent of independ- ers, said the economy at start of the state, the state's important to- war in deciding their vote for Con- gress. In that same poll, people disapproved of Mr. Trump's han- dling of the cost of living by a nearly 2-to-1 margin.

Some Republicans say Denta- crinist oppression is misplaced. Years of infrastructure building and G.O.P. control in the state, they say, has given their party a firewall.

"There's little way given votes ad- vantages are hard to overcome in one earlier cycle," said Mark S. Crowes, a Republican incumbent and former Ohio deputy attorney general.

In reliably that financial County at the side of a locally owned public fund, each, a group of their at voters spent hours hand writing comments to voters, all with the same message, designed to tap into the rage of the nominee.

"Even five, three, three, two, two, three struggle, billionaires and NASA politicians are cashing in," they wrote over and over, before advocating that Eric — or the other — who is a member of the nation on their precisely targeted to — come out and vote for Mr. Brown.

Bill Jordan, a suspenders wear- ing control law professor who has been a member of the state's whole events since 2016, used to instruct his companies to write to people in states like Georgia or Virginia, where cases fall more without the control of the state. N. has his hopes up for Ohio. His list was de- rigged to draw up current from young people and voters who had one their thanks for Democrats in the state that typically shipped the mailers.

Taylor Engene, a 39-year-old software engineer, fell into both companies. Later, George, where the firm, most of Cleveland, is the only Ohio county that went for both Mr. Trump and Mr. Brown in 2016. Her employer recently told her and around 200 of her own workers that had been ever being elemented. Her child's school dis- trict then sat boxing, meaning the company had more sales on her back-up-Kick at a time when age given his teacher.

Her grocery costs, utility bills and rent on her two bedroom, do- pledge the meeting, and she didn't know what to do about it all. But she did know what to do. He learned, "The president," she said, "and the billionaires."

On Wednesday, she was comb- ing through the half-off aisle at Goodrich. She said she planned to vote in the mailers for the first time, straight Democratic, but she hadn't yet paid too much attention to any of the races. She needed to read another job, get her up fraud, and before any of that, had her dangerous outfits for her first week of the month.

"Remember," she told her soon- to be 1000 grades, "we are looking for needs, not wants."

Polling's Wild West Scene

Creates Campaign Chaos

From Page A1

First question she faced from re- porters was about how Do El- byore had such a large polling lead. She ended up leaving 10 per- percentage paces.

In Wisconsin's primary for gov- ernes, polls that consequently showed his, thing ahead by that, the digits created an air of inertia, fully around her nomination. When she lost, it was viewed as a screwing agent.

"After seeing the polls, I think everybody would have called me the exchange," Mr. Crowley said. "During this race, I had to be a little bit recklessly optimistic."

The polling world has also been reached by recent revelations of smoking surveys and electric practices.

Three purported polls of the Los Angeles mayor's race, the Wisconsin primary for governor and the Nevada governor's case turned out to be entirely fake — a "short- term social experience," accord- ing to the women that received them. The history's discovery, by The Los Angeles Times, came only after Mayor Karen Baer of Los Angeles posted approvingly the results of the polls, which allowed her ahead.

Another pattern of knowledge that in a survey of Florida's prim- er, the governor, it had defen- ted the respondents' support from the candidate they had said they backed to another candidate be- cause the initial results "did not be able to get out of the race." "I'm not going to be a good crowd at The New York Times's poll leaders or coverage because they did not meet its basic trans- porters," said professional member of

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down of the 2018 presidential pri- mary season, when dozens of com- didans are likely to be defined to part for polls that contain imper- mental and set narratives that are to be tethered to political reality.

"Every candidate in 2018 will have their own cooked poll fac- tory," said Lo Smith, a Democratic challenge who was a senior aide on Pete Buttigieg's 2020 cam- paign for president. "Polls now are not just a way of measuring the future race. It's a way for could- dates and their allies to influence the horse race."

The Ability to Paralyze

In this hype, the late night public polls of Democratic voters hand to El byore's leading the, Stevens York, the digit-zone.

In an interview this past week, Mr. Stevens said she never be- lieved the race was the blowout that the polls predicted. She was only an evidently more free fig- ures including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, a popular Democratic.

But the polling unquestionably argued how the contest was per- ceived. Dr. El-byore, whose ad- vice are privately predicted a big vis- ile, "I'm so content to say that we weekend before the primary, be was pictured hanging out with un- cold media influences to postulate a guilty."

The Stevens said: The Times is meme about her experience drain- ing with polling that deliver little the reality of the race.

"As for the double digit show that the polling was in the election spooked me and potentially had the ability to paralyze," she wrote. "But then after chewing on them," she added, "I came to realize. We had a double digit show that I had not be."

In this interview, she attributed the polling onto its an industry that has largely moved away from

expansive "live caller" phone in- terviews with voters. Instead, when contemporary polling, she saw online or through texting, numbers likely to include more young people even though the vo- sing electorate shows older. (Live- cally, polls can be seriously flowed, too, and it is generally con- ceived here to analyze surveys from a range of publicity using a mix of methods.)

"Sometimes we miss the plot with all the tweets and all the polls and all the prediction market right," Mr. Stevens said. "In this American democracy, it is still about the people voting, and that creators do prove and don't re- credible thing, and it likely cap- bers the least amount of our in- tention."

Prediction Markets

The biggest new phenomenon in- financing how campaigns are viewed in the spread of prediction markets.

The day before Michigan's pri- mary, Kabila gave Dr. El-byore'd a 97 percent chance of winning. The meeting of Wisconsin's primary,

Polynuclear gave Mr. Crowley a 3.6 percent chance of victory.

While hosting market skills and often based on the wisdom of crowds and opaque means of a more comprehensive powerful companies and reported on its legitimate news organiza- tions that in some cases have fo- vinced partnerships with the pro- diction firms. "We have been in- cragement with Kabila and regu- larly shows the prediction markets," said the interview. The Wall Street Journal's power company has a partner- ship with Polynuclear to display its skills within Internet centers.

Voters and donors were not those numbers, which can be manipulated by all manner of polling and news events, and are there in a group for how a candidate is far.

Semi Clegg, a senior adviser to Gov. Garth Newman of California, who is likely to run for president in 2020, said prediction markets had been a significant role in the new or strategies, donors and primary voters.

"Mmmmmm is everything and poll numbers move prediction

markets, which influence our negs' voting," Mr. Clegg said. "The progressive subset of the political dans is hyper-xiotic, and they are much like their polling narratives. She never before."

What Can Anyone Do?

The modern polling industrial companies in a Wall Street Journal market's often circulate online with little respect to what they come from reliable research.

"There is no polling cup," John Anzalone, a prominent Democratic policier who worked for former President Joseph S. Riden II, said. If the proliferation of new quality surveys that flood the market. The move media, he said, is "going to report on every poll that has a university or college or 4," re- ported one of its methods. "But it," he said, "had not."

Both good and bad polls have read world consequences, driving destation about community and political issues. "We may be a race. This spring, Gov. Baird, Bill of Mates, suspended her Senate campaign weeks be- fore the Democratic primary, after

I hope Bureau-Mooningen, a sup- porter of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, searching Michigan's Senate primary returns. Polls faded a hallet for was very ahead, he wore by a percentage point.

low polling numbers started her of money. The decision left Gra- bani-Peister to win the mission one without significant opposi- sion. He later dropped out after a vape delegation that he denied.

The first 2018 Democratic pro- ducted primary contest is set to be in South Carolina, where the electronic is dominated by older participants — the total demor- graphs that was most difficult to put in both Michigan and Wisc- ona.

Scott Hoffman, the director of the state's long-running Walthrop Poll, said that like many other politents, he had abandoned live- cally surveys. "We just can't al- most it," he said.

The problem may be less pronounced in the 2020 race, since presidential contests are easier to pull and produce more high-spot- tion surveys. But the booming space runs about how to accurately ans- tyize the field in 2020 have left do- men struggling with how to de- veach the candidates are worth the investment.

Five methods besides polling will be able to gauge who has pep- naled support before the primaries are being able to make the usually by the time voting begins, the field has been interested in candidates run out of money or perceive themselves to be lacking voice control.

"Given what's happened over the last two weeks, the inaccurate polling really calls into question whether there's any empirical or statistical evidence of a guide their giving," said Shannon Hunt- Sont, a Democratic megaphone from California. "There's going to be no many candidates and us are going to be a good quality People will want to test them and run around with them. The ques- tion is, will they have any real vo- lality? You can't know."

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Election

Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately About Potential Common Ground

Possibility of a Democratic-Led House As the Parties Trade Midterm Attacks

By MAGGIE HARRIMAN and ANNIE KAHN

Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jarod Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.

The two engagement was held in a private space in New York City, offered up by a mutual friend of the two men, according to two people with knowledge of the meeting and a third who was treated as it. They and others were granted anonymity to discuss a meeting about which they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Through sales, neither man would comment on the session, which was described by one person with knowledge of it as a broad conversation on a range of topics. Still, as a meeting, rather scared that those around Mr. Trump were well aware of the fact that the public had been asked to ask what was right to honor as much of a working relationship as possible before any change. Mr. Jeffries is in line to be the speaker, even though he had been the majority of a Democratic and the president of the minority and either in the campaign trial with increasing fear as the audience should be able to see the public. The fighting in return time that House and Senate majorities.

Mr. Trump then called Mr. Jeffries a "thing" and at a May campaign were referred to him as a "low U.I." person who had supported him to decide Democrats as the "Democratic." Mr. Jeffries was intently suggests that Mr. Trump is not only extreme but corrupt, vowing that Democrats would

"hold the crooks accountable" if they was control.

While private areas were described by one of the people as a "tech-up for Mr. Kushner and Mr. Jeffries. The two men have stayed in touch since they worked together on a criminal justice bill midway through Mr. Trump's first term.

During the recent meeting, the pair discussed housing, immigration and the high cost of living as potential areas of common ground. Mr. Kushner suggested that Mr. Jeffries should meet with the White House chief of staff, he at Wiles, two people with knowledge of the meeting said.

The likelihood of any consignment between the White House and Democratic on these issues posed:

Mr. Trump this year refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill in particular because it was "Warren covers," referring to Senator Elizabeth Warner of Massachusetts, its top Democratic champion. And he has organized a business operation to a total with Democrats on immigration, only to back away from any such agreement. He successfully lobbied Republicans to abandon a federal or border security bill in 2024.

When House officials and our able to Mr. Kushner did not respond to message seeking some help.

In a statement, Mr. Jeffries did not acknowledge the meeting, but suggested that the only way that the seven would cut deals with the administration would be if Republicans were willing to come their way on cost-of-living issues, his party's top priority.

"Throughout this Congress, the politicians have adopted a riot way-or-the-highway approach to

Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader, and Jarod Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and adviser, once worked together on a criminal justice bill. Mr. Jeffries could become speaker.

A rare engagement is said to cover housing, immigration and the high cost of living.

governing that has failed the American people," he said.

He added: "In every conversation that we have with the Trump administration, we will continue to make it explicitly clear that the affordability crisis is not a basis, and nothing short of transformational policy changes is acceptable. We are fighting for an affordable America. The question is whether Republicans will join us."

Mr. Kushner, who worked as a

senior West Wing adviser to the president's first term, is no longer brought part of Mr. Trump's government. He has been deeply involved in the president's efforts to resolve the war with Iran that Mr. Trump began, to enforce a crameter in Gaza and to bring an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He and Mr. Jeffries also met last year, according to two people with knowledge of that conversation.

The meeting came as nearly all paid: revealed Republicans to be at a disadvantage to the midterms, and showed how members of Mr. Trump's inner circle were digesting what a Democratic majority met in the past. Should that happen, Mr. Jeffries would be under intense pressure from progressives to use his

power as a check on Mr. Trump, including through aggressive oversight.

Mr. Kushner is frequently reminded by a number of Mr. Trump's advisers, and he has not been paid that if anything bipartisan is to get done with Congress, Mr. Jeffries's business serious pressure among Democratic leaders. Mr. Wiles, he has said, is the most serious issue in the West Wing.

But with Republicans in control of both dissidents, Mr. Trump has mostly smored around Congress in his second term, trapping the powers and prerogatives. He has heard little gratitude from a local leader.

Should Democrats win the House, Mr. Jeffries would have to balance the need to keep the gov-

ernment funded with Democratic calls to defy Mr. Trump at every time, and possible pleas to impeach him for a third time.

Mr. Jeffries and Mr. Trump have declared around questions about what their relationship could be in like next year should Democrats take control.

"I think he's a nice guy," Mr. Trump told President's faces in a much interview, when asked about Mr. Jeffries. "I'd probably get along with him very well."

Mr. Trump pointed to a meeting with Mr. Jeffries in the final office that said: "... the only one they have had in his second term — and described it as a positive one.

"I think, during the meeting, which was killed as a bid to avert a government dissident, the president positioned huts with a 'Trump 2020' logo directly in the United States," said Kushner. Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, trolling the Democrats with the suggestion that he would cut the a third term in violation of the Congress.

Afterward, Mr. Trump posted an A.I. generated memo of a mustachean Mr. Jeffries wearing a nanthoon, drawing an angry response from the House minority leader, who called the image racist and dared Mr. Trump to insult him next time "to my face."

Soon after the meeting, the government dissidents began.

This year, Mr. Jeffries has remained noncommittal about any point to pursue a third impeachment of the president, and has not discussed publicly what overnight could look like if his party were to win the majority.

"We're not rated anything in and our rated anything out in terms of accountability," he said. The New York Times is an interview last month, noting that his focus would be on forcing out major Trump officials.

"We're go to make sure we continue to get rid of total Trump cabinet secretaries," he said. "Now Hispanic in my own, should be next on the list."

Fury Over Data Centers Quickly Shifts Midterms, Blurring Party Divisions

From Page A1

in them, the facilities were also becoming symbols of the nervous or Silicon Valley.

"Data centers are a physical and complex system, and, followed, are not building them, and a fresh into all of its big tech skepticism that is there. It's very symbolic of everybody's issues with them."

There are signs that the emerging data center shines it: scrambling the usual partisan divisions.

In far, Democrats have chiefly been doing so doing so much, a voter anger about data centers over rising electricity prices, so we see and instruct of the tech sector. They aim to punish Republicans for copying up to industry by approving many of these projects.

But in recent weeks, a growing number of Republican candidates have scrambled to shield themselves from any failure. They have issued skepticism about data centers, despite President Trump's full-frequent cheerleading for the A.I. industry and from among party leaders in Washington that blocking construction of the centers is a major problem. The major problem the United States has competition against China.

Some Republicans are now using "data center" as an epithic. But the most important issue is the appearance of corporate tax breaks and additional construction. Last week, Mike Rogers, the Republican training for Senate in the last spring state of Michigan, said that he supports a one-year marasmic plan on data center construction. "We have been working with a regular data centers. A Gallup poll conducted in March showed 12 percent opposed local construction of the centers, and a number of people who are working with the Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania showed that the number of people opposing new data centers in their areas had to be by 10 percent, and that's since February and March.

The fellow has been an outfield in some cases, including the contents for governor in Peoria. The first major problem was the death of the Democratic and Republican are using television ads about the center.

On Wednesday, a remarkable reason from the National Republican Senatorial Committee warned that data center politics was in disagreeing Senate's for-Printed of

Patricia Miccos and Ruth Igneluk contributed reporting.

Ohio, a Republican. His Democratic challenges. Sherrod Brown, the state's former senator, has since millions of dollars of ads calling Mr. Husted "the face of data centers in Ohio."

"More than one dollar thing in this case, data centers are the another hanging around the world," the memo said.

The one-page document, which has earlier returned by issues, amounted to a desperate plea for the well-heeled industry to finance an advertising campaign — but a Husted law serve as a "big story lesson" for politicians elsewhere.

Jan McCrory, a Democratic patient, said that opposing data centers offered Democrats a new chance to make friends in rural areas and small towns that are remaining the developments.

"It absolutely shakes up the snow globe so this partisan coalitions in a part of the world where Republicans have been dominated," he said. "It's one of the few issues today that data can immediately code as red or blue, left or right."

In Florida, Representative Byron Donadio, the Republican committee for governor, spent more than $2 million on one ad in his primary, vowing to "protect" the state from data centers that "jack up utility areas" in the ad, but said "that's the practice to schooling with Mr. Trump, whose administration sought without some of the opposition this year by proposing a 'computer protection pledge,' in which data centers promise not to drive up electricity costs."

His Democratic opponent is a state's David Johnson's leader, "we don't want crime or data centers in our neighborhood" as one of his first ads of the general election.

In a sign of how up-and-end data centers have become, Mr. Donadio brought up the tape: an prompted at an event in Naples, Fla., "i, jare, I, know people have come here," he said. "It's what the polling. But leadership isn't just looking at polling."

He then tried to derail the need for between selling the slogan "that's artificial intelligence." He called it an "competitive business and addressing polling anger about data centers." And, he said, it was your home, just like I don't want a near my home," Mr. Donaldo said.

Mr. Jody's position is less complicated. In an interview on Thursday, he said Florida should impose a moratorium on data center construction until the full

Some of the political ads about data centers. One venture capital investor said the A.I. industry had "failed miserably" in selling itself.

impacts could be studied. The formation of the mounting opposition has startled some in the tech sector.

"This is a powder bag," warned Chamaik Pashapiriya, a public-facing venture capital investor, in a post on 8 last week, responding to the dire warning in the N.R.S.C. memo. He wrote that the A.I. industry had "failed miserably in doing the basics" of selling itself.

Political strategists and partners in tech parties said that ven-

An opportunity for Democrats to make gains in rural areas.

ers have linked the facilities to concerns over higher electricity prices, water use, the fate of farmlands and general laws about the advent of artificial intelligence and big tech.

"They didn't do a good enough job explaining anything," Ryan James Cimbany, a Republican political strategist and policenter, said of the industry.

In Texas, the Democratic candidate for Senate, James Takerba, said for governor, Gina Hirajana, have held recent events about data centers, accusing their Republican rivals of pocketing data center donations while back-

ing supporters.

"It's not my role," Mr. Hirajana said in an interview. "It is hard to convey what feels like an invasion by data centers with no risks, no laws in prison. Texas. They're popping up everywhere."

It was her advertisement that features a citation being made about the issue of rising electricity prices. The answer is provided: "Blaming Gov. Greg Allcott and data centers."

Even before that ad, Mr. Allcott, a Republican, had been shifting his stance on data centers. Less than a year ago, Mr. Allcott brugged that Google's $16 billion investment in the state "for the center of A.I. development," bringing both construction jobs and tax revenues.

But this statement he announced the President's new data centers on water use and electricity and called to oral some tax incentives. This month he directed the state's utility commission to audit all data centers, making specific before they could move forward.

"Data center growth cannot come at the expense of blatant livelihoods," said Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for Mr. Allcott.

Mr. Allcott is hardly the only position growing.

Gov. Jack Shapiro of Pennsylvania, a potential Democratic candidate for president in 2020, has been a Senator of A.I. investment in June 2020. Mr. Shapiro said he was "proud" of Amazon's

Bill within data center investment, brugging it would be the largest private sector investment in the state's history.

Last week, Mr. Shapiro signed an executive plan showing what he called the "nurture guardrails in the nation" to stay "prohibory develops".

"I've heard loud and clear from the people of Pennsylvania," said Mr. Shapiro, who is up for re-election this year.

Now Mr. Shapiro has started using a television ad attacking his Republican challenges. Gary Ciarity, as the "number one fan of data centers," Ms. Ciarity has his new ad hitting Mr. Shapiro for "data centers is our backyard,"; his her campaign can afford to be a small fraction of the airfield.

Another Republican candidate, the President's new data center politics is Representative Tom Tiffany. "In conclusion, who has an interest in Democratic rival in 'Data Center David Crowley,' Mr. Crowley narrowly won the nomination over a democratic socialist, Francocia Bong, who had graduated a data center maratonetum.

Another Mr. Crowley, Mr. Tiffany has called for a maratonetum.

Mr. Crowley has preferred to be local communities decide, with a number of guardrails and restrictions. Mr. Tiffany, who called data centers "exciting new technology" and a few months ago, is now calling for a repeat

of tax incentives.

In Michigan, William Lawrence, a progressive activist, rode an anti-data center message to write Democratic nomination in a key Michigan House next this month and then immediately made a general election ad targeting Representative Tom Barrett, the Republican incumbent, on the back.

Mr. Barrett campaigned last week with Speaker Mike Johnson in Michigan, who warned that, while "overcannyly concerns" needed to be accounted for, "a broad moratorium against data centers is kind of a dangerous prospect," people said.

The next day Mr. Barrett began sitting a new data center ad of his own, in which he claimed that "I stood up to my own party and found against giving your credit to a lot of data centers."

In an interview, Mr. Lawrence said, "suggests a moratorium, called the ad 'outrageous' and said many would not be satisfied with half measures. Data center opposition, he said, was 'number one factors of necessity' in the district.

"It's bringing together three-time Trump voters, anti-voters, environmentalists, independentists, and the people who are in our cities, people who are in the rural areas," Mr. Lawrence said. "And there is a question at these people because none of us trust big tech to do right by our communities."

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THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 2020

Donations to Trump PAC By Fool profit Prison Firm Followed ICE Contracts

By KENNETH F VOGEL

and ROBERT KLEMER

WASHINGTON — A private private company demand more than $5.5 million in President Trump's political operation last month after his administration awarded contracts that could put the company $600 million in the house demigrants awaiting deportation.

The donations from a subsidiary of the private company, the GEO Group, were disclosed in a 2020 annual quarter report filed by MAGA Inc., a super PAC run by Mr. Trump's allies.

GEO donated $2 million on July 18, three days after the company announced that it had signed a five-year contract with U.S. Insurance Company and Customer Endorsement that will pay the company $85 million a year in operation. 2,000 $4.5 million in the 2020 year's plan, also.

GEO donated an additional $433,000 on July 31, two days after a announced fire signing of the other 2020 year's plan, which was $1.5 million annually in operation. 1,120 heat and heat capacity, a 2020 year's plan, also.

Lasers: Re, a spokeswoman for the White House, rejected any link between the donations and the GEO Group's government from the state.

"Any obligation that political donations play a role in agencies awarding government contracts on State," Mr. Ro said in a statement that the GEO Group's government is announcing more contracts in House illegal aliens as President Trump carries out the largest deportation operation in a state.

The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that "the competitive selection of lack of contracts on a heavily regulated state that includes the state's name 'runs this process by the bank."

MAGA Inc. and the GEO Group deliver automatically engaged in a private company.

The GEO Group is one of the largest private private operations in the country, and it has won contracts from $5.5, under presidents of both parties. Federal and state inspectors have accused it of unintended costs and conditions, allegations the company has departed. Among the facilities the company operates in Delaney Park in New Jersey, which became a host of persons this year until it's part of unsafe living conditions. In May, donations at the 1,000-bad complex went on a longer strike and Democratic politicians have demanded access to the site.

There is no evidence linking the donations from the company to contracts awarded to the company under Mr. Trump. But the president and his administration have afforded access or lawsuits, treatment to large corporate donors in MAGA Inc., including a macro company with federal company, nursing home operators and a company that owns a bridge between Detroit and Canada.

The GEO Group, which refers heavily on contracts with ICE, has seen profits near amid the Trump administration's mass America-best campaign. Last year, the GEO Group reported $20.5 million in net income, up from $15.9 million in the last year of the Biden administration.

It was "the largest amount of new business we have won in a single year in our company's history," George Zolny, the company's founder, said on an earnings bill in May the bounty of "better-than-expected performance" this year, and that was before the two largest service last month.

The detention center in North Carolina for which the GEO Group received the ICE contract has been closed since 2017, when the Biden administration moved to end federal contracts with the profit process. The facility, which the GEO Group owns, will be

A company's profits have soared during a deportation push.

Among the largest ICE detention centers on the East Coast.

A former company official, David Vavarevitz, was rapped to run ICE on an acting basis this year.

The GEO Group has long, but other Republicans in its political giving, but it has ramped up its donations since Mr. Trump reagnured the presidency.

The company's political action has been directed. $500,000 in his inaugural committee in late 2016, and GEO Advisory Services is subsidiary of the GEO Group, has donated more than $4.4 million to MAGA Inc. since the beginning of last year.

Second-term presidents usually begin violating lawsuits last year, hand-raising after their inauguration, banning manual on balancing their parties' committees and candidates.

The Mr. Trump has continued aggressively raising money for his political position and beyond causes, including a White House ballroom and a group that supported flashy initiatives to planned around the nation's 250th birthday.

MAGA Inc. has raised more than $400 million since the beginning of last year, including their donors with interests before the administration.

Republicans have grounded that MAGA Inc. has been slow to spend on behalf of their candidates.

Mr. Trump said this month that the PAC will use its cash reserves to help his party in this 2020 audience elections.

"I control it," he said in an interview with Pritchard News, adding, "I could spend it on pretty much anything I want. I'm going to spend it for — I'm going to help Republicans."

Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump's New Account for Becoming

By MATTHEWS SCHENKET

A federal judge has struck down the Trump administration's ban on issuing visas to immigrants from 70 countries, finding that the government is not going to be the keyed off in legal authority of Secretary of State Marco Rabin.

In a 40-page ruling on Friday, Judge Sreeness A. Vargas of the Federal Court last week, the 40 Southern District of New York disputed the administration's publication for the policy failed as a "prose," that immigrants from the Supreme Court were not allowed to draw public benefits and become "a financial burden to Americans."

In fact, Judge Vargas found, 51% official were ordered to be sent to the government. The grants who were likely to be self-sufficient, in violation of a statute of limitations, were not allowed to be sent to the government. An internal State Department collection made public assistance in the case restricted consular officers to deny visas even if they were appointed to the "additional evidence that denies access to or the restraints the public charge refused."

The majority of the 70 countries were not allowed to be sent to the American-European and have significant scientific populations. The image across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the United States is not yet known. But East, including a number of U.S. allies, such as Jordan and Egypt.

Judge Vargas's ruling also ended in the 1999 state that was housed solely on the policy, which took effect in January. That was on the possibility that thousands of old visa applications would need to be reviewed.

Among the plaintiffs in the case are six U.S. citizens who claim that the administration's ban kept their relatives in Ghana, Jamaica, Guatemala and Ethiopia from receiving visas to travel to the United States. Other plaintiffs are five professionals from Colombia.

Including an engineer, an architect and a Harvard-trained endocrinologist — who received no fees that their visa applications had been denied, and referred to the Trump administration's new policy.

In 2018, Allergy President James Erra Jones, the Supreme Court upheld the third iteration of his travel ban, which restricted entry into the United States by foreign countries from several states to support the U.S. state. But that earlier ruling upheld the president's broad power to limit entry into the country, not the issuance of visas. Judge Vargas said.

Friday's ruling was praised by Justice Caruso Ingram, a senior staff attorney at the National Interrogatories Law Center, one of the largest grants that provided firms representing the plaintiffs.

"Today's decision is a significant victory for the hundreds of thousands of families across the world whose lives were far more into those by this administration's national and international view," said the staff in the press.

Neither the Justice Department nor the White House immediately responded to requests for comment.

The administration could appeal the ruling by Judge Vargas, who was appointed by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Court Cuts Sandy Hook Damages Against Jones

By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON

WASHINGTON — A Texas appeals court has sharply ordered the 8th million award that a jury ordered the broadcaster Alex Jones to pay the parties of a Sandy Hook shooting victim after he spread their conspiracy theories about the attack.

The Third Court of Appeals in Austin, Texas, set the amount to reveal at about $6 million on Friday, leaving in place the companies after they hit the building the punitive damages in line with the state's cap on each awards. The court said that the parents' claims deliver accrued filing fee cap, and that the trial judge improperly allowed lawyers for the parents to submit an amended petition after supporting the larger judgment after the verdict.

Mr. Jones hailed the ruling as a victory in the design of cases over the mass shooting that are to dismantle the Austin-based Inhove's broadcast and supplements coupon. But it does not affect more than $3 billion for over-the-landers of other victims who need to Convincend that interview a victim that has withstood multiple appeals.

None of the families have collected on the judgments, as they struggle with Mr. Jones in bankruptcy court, and their chances of collecting anything near what he can have awarded them are negligible.

The ruling comes four years of set a jury in Austin ordered Mr. Jones to pay $100000 a year and two female $4 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages. Their 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, died in the assault.

Mr. Jones for years peddled less on his Inhove's broadcast that the Dec. 14, 2012, mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Norcross, Conn., was a basic perpetrated by the government and the victims' families. Jesse Lewis was one of District grades's officials in the shooting, along with his educators. During the 2010 damages trial, Mr. Lewis and Mr. Heides testified that Mr. Jones's conspiracy theories had subjected them to years of online and in person

Alex Jones hailed a reduction in damages he must pay parents in the Sandy Hook school shooting.

almost and that they feared daily for their safety.

Mr. Lewis said Mr. Heides, along with Lewis Posner and November 2, 2014, the members of the Sandy Hook victim Noah Posner, were the first to use Mr. Jones for defamation, filing their cases in Texas in early 2016. They were followed several weeks later in the families of eight other victims, who used Mr. Jones in Convincend. A jury awarded those families a total of $1.4 billion.

Mr. Jones celebrated the ruling on Friday, saying he intended to appeal to the Texas Supreme Court to further reduce the award. "This is a $4,420 US VICTORY for the 1st Amendment" he said on social media.

Mr. John Bankston, a lawyer for Mr. Lewis and Mr. Heides, dismissed the ruling's significance.

"The families care not at all about this irrelevant ruling which affects only one of the 10 states they all share," Mr. Bankston said in a statement on social media. "Jones still faces over a billion dol-

lars of liability, so this charges absolutely nothing. All it does is highlight the absurdity of Texas law."

Texas law says punitive damages at two times extensive damages plus $750,000 per plaintiff. As a hearing in later 2012, Judge Margo Cuervo, Gamble of the District Court in Texas County, Texas questioned the constitutionality of the case cap, and called the court "DO million verdict" to one state, which the emotional damage in forced on Mr. Lewis and Mr. Heides was so severe that "I believe they have no resources."

During that hearing, a lawyer for Mr. Jones, Chris Martin, as part that while the Texas punitive damages cap had been exceeded, in a handful of cases, those said, "I believe they have no emotional injury than Mr. Heides and Mr. Lewis had proved in court."

On Friday, the appeals court said that the Texas trial court improperly allowed lawyers for the parents to submit amended filing after the jury's verdict. "I am struggling the case for a "cap-

busting" judgment.

"We conclude that the trial court abused its discretion by allowing the jury verdicts amendments of the petition and, consequently, allowing the judgment to exceed the statutory cap on secondary damages on grounds not pleaded or found by the jury," the appeals ruling said.

The jury's $50 million award in 2012 came after emotional testimony by Mr. Lewis, the only Sandy Hook family member to continue Mr. Jones directly in court.

"Truth — truth is in vital to our world," Mr. Lewis told Mr. Jones from the witness stand. "Truth is what we have our reality on, and we have to agree on that to have a civil society."

Despite Mr. Jones's questioning of the crime in Sandy Hook, "you know that's not true," she said, stating at him while he faltered at the defense side. "When you say these things, there's a fringe of society that believe you that are actually dangerous."

A ballot processing center in California last year. An executive order to restrict mail voting has been largely blocked by federal courts.

Postal Service Issues Final Rule to Restrict Mail Ballots

By ABNR MELA

WASHINGTON — The Postal Service has published regulations that would restrict mail voting, the Jones effort to comply with President Trump's call to restrict the personal practice just months before the audience elections.

In a 40-page final rule on Friday, the Postal Service clarified how it would carry out an executive order for the Young signed it. Much, which sought to restrict mail ballots, said to create state-by-state law of citizens to help determine voting eligibility.

If the regulations are enacted, the Postal Service said that it would not deliver mail ballots in states that do not share voter data with the federal agency.

Under the new rule, the agency would review every envelope for compliance with the new standards before accepting ballots into its system. This review would include checking that the recipient was not able to receive a ballot to receive a mail ballot and that the ballot envelope meets certain specifications.

Mr. Trump's executive order was largely blocked by federal courts this summer, and the Postal Service said in its rule after

Ave E. Marineux contributed reporting.

lished on Friday that it would "not take actions to implement the rule specifically for the 2020 election" unless the Supreme Court rules in the administration's favor. In a filing in the court, the Justice Department said that the government would wait until it issues a ruling.

The Supreme Court is reviewing the issue and could rule at any time.

A Postal Service spokesman on Friday declined to comment, citing pending litigation.

Mr. Trump also repeatedly made unfounded claims that mail voting is "dissolving," even though he has voted by mail repeatedly, including last week.

The previous law considered that combining fraud is not the only reason to target the practice. Fourth, he told Republican law makers that passing letters were identified as "dissolving, there are mail ballots, which Democrats now use more than Republican, would "guarantee the midfielder" for his party."

The Postal Service's final rule is the latest instance in which the agency showed a willingness to comply with Mr. Trump's desire to restrict mail voting despite multiple court链条 actions. In the weeks since a federal court is fined on blocked Mr. Trump's order, the Postal Service said in court filings

that it is creating the infrastructure to collect voter data from the states. It also proposed a new privacy system to handle voter information.

Postmaster General David Steiner has been criticized by Democratic lawmakers for incurring behind the Postal Service's proposal rule despite its legal challenge. The court's decision was repeatedly, including in an interview with The New York Times earlier this year, that his agency would comply with court orders and would have had policy continue to deliver mail-in ballots.

But in response to criticizes from the over 200,000 comments, administration the Postal Service is fighting to plan to restrict mail voting, the agency can doubt as to traditional use of deliveries.

"States do not have to use the U.S. mail to conduct that election," the Postal Service said. In

data, every state has a real lot of time, and the ruling comes in place including for overseas and military courts. The practice is only to one of millions of Republican and Democratic voters carried in.

states and Congress, not to the executive branch.

In its final rule, the Postal Service said that it is "fundamentally erroneous" to say that its plan to restrict mail voting is unconstitutional. "The rule does not mean the Postal Service as an election administrator, nor dictate the manner of elections in the state," the agency said.

Instead, states "versus complete autonomy is determine the extent to which they utilize the portal system in an aspect of their elections," the agency said. But if a state wants to use the portal system, they may have "shared such regulations" not by the agency because "the Postal Service is not constitutionally obliged to defer its" subject preferences for how to administer similar voting, the final rule said.

Multiple federal judges have indicated that the opposite is true. "The Constitution does not grant the president any specific powers over elections," a federal judge in Massachusetts wrote in late June. She added that Mr. Trump's order calling on the Postal Service is regular mail voting was "satisfied, and and vital."

It is now up to the Supreme Court to decide whether the Postal Service can pay in place the new restrictions on mail-in voting.

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during called 9th, have been accused of being involved in bed death.

The country contract to offer said Ms. Prawtiere, 36, went into cardiac arrest, which is being investigated as an apparent drug overdose.

As the authorities search for safety, Mr. Hickerens will be a key source of information as someone familiar with the actress's food hours. When the police arrived, he showed an officer a bag of her medications, according to the conducted police report.

In a statement on Thursday, lawyers for Mr. Hickerens said: "Majesty's death remains under

Struggling to walk or leave a relationship marred by abuse.

investigation, and it is important to allow that investigation is proceed. As has been publicly reported, police confirmed themselves as signs of bad play.

The lawyers declined to comment on the accounts of Ms. Hickerens' relationship with Ms. Prawtiere included in this article.

Mr. Hickerens was a persistent source of conflict in the final year of a life weighted down by grief, addiction, agoraphobia and physical pain that sometimes made it difficult to see. Prawtiere as soon as home family and friends were eager for Ms. Prawtiere to separate from Mr. Hickerens for good. At times, she would visit herself off from home when she and Mr. Hickerens were together.

Ladies' Vogel, Ms. Prawtiere's mother, said that about a year ago, she spent time in Los Angeles to help her daughter during a two-plate.

"She was in pain," Ms. Vogel said. "She was afraid. She couldn't physically function properly."

Ms. Vogel, who had a fraught and sometimes distant relationship with Ms. Prawtiere, said she had been a fugitive. Prawtiere was tried message and acupuncture in hopes of returning a feeling of "pilot and needles" in her lower extremities that made it difficult to see her. She could not see her clear, but Ms. Prawtiere wondered if the condition had something to do with injuries she incurred on film sets when she was young.

Marine Alien, a fitness expert who worked with Ms. Prawtiere, started a new job and was working hard both physically, to reclaim her strength, and ironically, to move away from cycles of self-diagnose.

Mrs. Prawtiere, 36, blunt said, "She was really smart. She kept fighting for her hard time." She felt Mrs. Oh, 'I can get my strength back. I can get myself to."

Prawtieres, Ms. Alton said, Mr. Hickerens attended their sessions, filming and taking photos to

Alton Delapache's contributed research.

document the journey.

Ms. Vogel said she was alarmed when she learned that Mr. Hickerens, who filed for bankruptcy in 2021, had pervved some of Ms. Prawtiere's belongings, including a "stingue guitar. She said her daughter was attacked when she found out that some of her possessions were in his strange unit. One of the people who was given anarchy to speak with The New York Times confirmed that Mr. Hickerens had pervved some of the actress's items.

Eventually, Ms. Vogel said, she and her daughter had a falling out, in part over the mother's attempts to keep Mr. Hickerens out of Ms. Prawtiere's life and finances.

Ms. Prawtiere's book is featured Ms. Vogel as another source of intense pressure — someone who, she felt, was more interested in being a business manager than a mother.

Ms. Vogel, who said she had always sought to protect her daughter, had helped uncover her acting career from when she was a months old until she was 35. A speech that included prepare like "Businesses the Titans", a "Bring it Off" sequel and some of her work on "Heroes."

When Ms. Prawtiere died, they had been out-stepped for months.

"She was courageous, she was a fighter," Ms. Vogel said. "but deep illness inside I think Hayden was extremely vulnerable."

In 2016, when Ms. Prawtiere met Mr. Hickerens, she had recently been crushed by pomper sum depression after the birth of her daughter, which spiraled into dependence on alcohol and opiates.

"You're groaning for anything, anything to make you feel happy," she told People magazine.

She entered treatment for addiction that uses began drinking again. Pacing mental anguish and a battle to stay sober, Ms. Prawtiere agreed to give her ex-boyfriend Władysław Kliwicka, the heavyweight Smint, custody of their daughter.

Within months, her whirlwind romance with Mr. Hickerens was married by arguments that led to drunken attacks, she said in her memoir, "This is Mr. A. Redsman."

The slogan during details about the events of his abuse with her enforcement in Los Angeles in 2020, and he was arrested on domestic violence charges. After arresting on certain occasions, the counts of injuring Ms. Prawtiere, Mr. Hickerens was sentenced to 45 days in jail, several years of probation and domestic violence classes.

"You never lay hands on a woman — human bias," Mr. Hickerens said. "It is an interview with The New York Times, in which he expressed regret for the abuse she researched in her memoir.

He was found in violation of his law in the conditions in 2012, after he and Ms. Prawtiere were filmed in a tweet with other patrons on sale the Sunset Marquis hotel in West Hollywood, Calif., and received an about 1,000 people from Anonymous meetings.

A few months after the travel of the interview with the latest scapes, filed for bankruptcy in California, Court papers found that at having no income, $6,350 in his

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checking accounts and more than $70,000 in debt. He found his employer's address as Ms. Prawtier's condition.

At some point, Ms. Prawitiere heard Mr. Hickerens as her assistant, further entangling the two. His LinkedIn profile describes him as an executive assistant for a "high-profile" professional class;" feeling letters that include providing "24.7 on-call support," responding to emails and caring for two days."

Ms. Prawitiere largely withdrew from the public eye after the sudden death of her younger brother in 2021, which the family said was from an enlarged heart and aortic valve complications after she had re-emerged, an interview with People drive up behind headlines pointing to her shroos; sometimes started speech.

In an Instagram post, Ms. Prawitiere explained that she had been sleep deprived and re-

mained grief-stricken. "Whatever or not I am no medication is none of anyone's business and is for-tween me and my doctor," she wrote.

By early 2020, Ms. Prawitiere had regained her feeling. She was set to stay at and executive produce a horror movie, "deep-headed," in which she placed a mother-hatched 24 a day's time that killed her daughter and left her director hardened to a coma.

Brandon Asman, the movie's director, said in an email that the production was a packed 15-day shoot in the dead of winter in Rhode Island, and that Ms. Prawitiere seemed to top her — for-tween, prepared and healthy.

"We were in extreme cold and wind, and she was running around without complaints in a 7-story, robe and slippers to several rooms," he said. "It was rough, but she was an absolute two-part."

After the production, according

to her memoir, she spent a few months with her father and nine mother in Rockland County, N.Y., trying to rest after a brutal five years.

In finishing her memoir, she spent hours on the phone telling a 10-million about her pay and services. In the book's food pages, Ms. Prawitiere described the proceeds of the program as "the first issue" — a term she learned to mental health and add it to treatment.

After a busy media tour surrounding the book's media, Mary including appearances on "The View" and interviews with her drug and Director Hall. Ms. Prawitiere had a bit of a lot, but she had more to be lectured.

She intended to return to acting, write a TV series and visit her 10-year-old daughter, which she missed greatly, to Europe. On Friday, she would have celebrated her 37th birthday.

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Alfalfa Sprouts Linked to Illnesses in IS States

By ISRAVI DESAI

Federal public health officials cautioned against eating in serving alfalfa sprouts from a Illnesses-land-based company after dozens were achieved across the United States.

The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating an outbreak of E. coli and salmonella tied to alfalfa sprouts; investigators linked the cases to Everything Sprouts, and the company issued a voluntary recall of some products. The contaminated products were sold under the Everything Sprouts and Cans brands.

The cases involve multiple strains of E. coli and a single kind of salmonella, according to the FDA, and the CDC. At least 25 people in IS states have been sick-

ment, and four people were hospitalized, the FDA, said on Friday.

Between May 15 and Aug. 6, 40 people were infected with E. coli, seven people were infected with salmonella and 3 were infected with infected with both salmonella and E. coli, the CDC said. The majority of cases were reported in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The outbreak states an item of thousands of people have been infected with a company after eating contaminated turkey lettuce. A salmonella outbreak was a symptom also that initiated at least 245 people in 47 states.

The symptoms of E. coli and salmonella include diarrhea and fever. People with weak immune systems, other adults who have younger than 5 are more likely to have severe infections of salmonella, FDA, officials said.

Everything Sprouts said to be statement that retailers and third-party distributors should dispose of the company's alfalfa products.

"We continue to work closely with the public health officials to investigate the causes of this group, and issue and will provide updates as they become available," the statement said.

The CDC, said to throw away the sprouts and clean any surfaces they might have to look.

The cause of the outbreak is being investigated. Alfalfa sprouts are found in the U.S. and are found in a fertile breeding ground for pathogens, experts said.

That multiple strains of E. coli were involved in "sprouts," but it's

not apparent to the public. The Inhalibur, chairman of the department of food science at Rutgers University, said.

Two Officers Are Dismissed And Charged In Traffic Stop

By HEN MICHAN

and MICHAEL LEVENSON

The National police officers, who were accused of beating a couple and shocking them with a man gun during an unreported traffic stop this month, have been tried and arrested in a charge of clothing kidnapping, aggravated assault and aggravated robbery, the police chief said.

The officers, Luis Vázquez Jr. and Antonio Pruittano on days when they stopped the couple at about 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 3 to south Phoenix, Chief Matthew Giordano and at a news conference on Saturday, twenty-five days, informed that the officers physically assaulted both the man and the woman, and the investigation showed that a flavor was used on them, he said.

Neither officer reported the report on interactive body camera, and there is no video of the comment. Chief Giordano said. The police have not determined why the officers stopped the couple or what motivated their actions, and there is no indication that they previously knew one another.

The episode was so unusual that the police in Tempe, Ariz, who learned of a after finding the couple's abandoned car, initially suspected that the men might have been impersonating police officers.

"When I was first made aware of the situation, I had the same reasons," Chief Giordano said. "There's a very small bet. Phoenix police officers. It's so far outside the bounds of our policies."

The Tempe police report described a harvesting and visited him.

The man told the Tempe police that he and his girlfriend were pushed in his mother's Dodge Charger from the vehicle to a police S.C.S. nearby. After they left, he said, he is S.C.S. followed and pulled them over.

Two officers got out of the S.C.S., tried to open the Dodge's doors and threatened to assault the police. They were in the state said the Tempe police.

The couple repeatedly asked

The men are accused of beating and using it into gun on a couple in Phoenix.

My they had been stopped, according to the police report. One officer reached into the car and reached the driver's door as the other put his woman in an "arm bar" and threatened to break her arm if her boyfriend did not get out, and then checked her in the thigh and back with a flavor, the other said.

The police woman was handcuffed and placed in the S.C.S., the man said the officers checked him with a flavor, punched their report only in the head and pulled his bag. One officer drew a gun and threatened to shoot him while running down from three, prompting him to get out of the car, according to the report.

The man then jumped back into the car and spud away alone, burning the woman with the officers, despite threats that he would be shot, according to the report. He said the car had overcharged and he abandoned it in Tempe. The officers removed the woman's hand and pulled his bag when it was taken into the nose, and drove away, burning her to walk home, according to the report.

The Tempe police found the Dodge Driver's day with a broken scraper and then fast another of burned rubber.

Chief Giordano thanked the Tempe police for finding the abandoned car and bringing the case to the department's attention. The police said they had also begun a broader review to determine whether anyone else was involved and whether there were between problems.

The men in the situation also other officers knew about the comment, and no other officers had been placed on leave. Chief Giordano said, the also said that Mr. Hickerens was a "good, good, grown-up baby's violation, though none were 'of this nature'."

The former officers also face charges of being assault involving the police, and the physicality restrained individual, threatening and intimidating, criminal damage, hindering prosecution and tampering with evidence.

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A New Chapter in the Anti-Terrorism Playbook

The prosecution of protesters could have held implications for our civil liberties.

hunts of the 1930s and our appalling treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

TWENTY YEARS AGO, the witch hunt appears to have only expanded, about with a different political focus. In September 2021, two months after the demonstrators at the Prairational ICE facility, Charlie Kirk was assassinated. After the murder, the president's adviser Stephen Miller described left-wing political organizations as a "vast domestic terror movement."

Within later, Mr. Trump issued a memo directing the F.B.I.J. Joint Task Terrorism Forces — a network expanded in the aftermath of U.S. — to investigate and disrupt "domestic terrorism" and political violence. He also signed an executive order designating antithva a "domestic terror organization," describing it as a "militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States government." But antith, short for "antiberten," is a backcross political movement composed of disparate strategies and aims.

The U.S. government has no legal designation for "domestic terrorist groups." Yet even when it is just talk, the Trump administration's use of the term had an impact on the Prairational case. In the original indictment, released in July 2015, prosecutors offered level any charges of material support for terrorism. By November, after filing two rounds of indictments, prosecutors charged all eight defendants with the crime.

As a simply reported issue, Monthly story detailed, the Prairational defendants were hardly members of a cohesive terrorist cell, those were part of a Signal that that was used to plan the demonstrations. Several of them were attached to various organizations, like the Democratic Socialists of America and an anticipatedly reading group.

Even if one must have done associations as proof of a coordinated attempt, legal experts told me it would not rise to a terrorism charge. The demonstrators were already faced with a method of severe charges after their attacks, including attempted murder. (Mr. Song would be convicted of attempted murder; the other four defendants charged with it were acquitted.) But the material support charge allows for court to impose noise of the harmless concerning in its legal arsenal. "It's an act of judicial terrorism, designed to keep people from coming to prison," Shaynes Kaddad, a senior lawyer for the Center of Constitutional Rights who has worked on material support cases, told me.

This law has not only been used against individualist, prosecutors have also turned it against nonprofits, ultimately charting down a major Muslim charity and complicating the work of others. "Once terrorism laws are in place, they are hard to roll back," Katherine Vansunowski, a lawyer who has helped chartists in such cases, told me. "No one wants to be seen as 'roll on terror.'" The danger, she pointed out, is in the last's being as "overbroad and unchecked" that it can be manipulated.

We're already beginning to see the Trump administration build on such precedents. In the aftermath of Mr. Kirk's murder last year, the White House called for investigations of liberal foundations and of donors, like the philanthropist George Snow and the businessman Reid Huffman, for their supposed role in fomenting political violence (read: by financing liberal nonprofits). The Justice Department instructed federal prosecutors to enquire possible charges against Mr. Snow's Open Society Foundation, including racketeering, were head and material support for terrorism.

It could well get worse from here. "The law for terrorism" is a powerful political tool," Sidla Khalid, a lawyer representing one of the Prairational defendants, told me. For the last two decades, the "terrorism" charge was leveled almost exclusively as a religious minority, leading men who believed that such laws would not affect them, how, the domestic use of the terrorism charge threatens to cast its net even wider.

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Awar plans at 60 the author of "Senteness of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Appropriation in America."

THIS summer, a federal judge sentenced a group of eight anti-ICE activists to a collective 450 years in prison in what has become the first "test case" for the Trump administration's crackdown on left-wing activism.

The government's case is built on events that occurred last year in front of the Prairational ICE detention facility in Alameda, Texas, on the Fourth of July. That night, activists set off fireworks as part of a noise demonstration to show solidarity with the people dreamed inside. Then a few separated from the group, vandalising cars, slashing tires on a government van and breaking a surveillance camera. When a police officer arrived on the scene and pointed his weapon, one of the demonstrators, Benjamin Swig, fired an All-It-sopin 100, injuring the officer in the neck.

The government referred to the group of demonstrators as a "Northwest Texas antithraIC" suggesting the activism were part of a coordinated effort to commit a terrorist attack on the ICE facility.

What Mr. Song and the others did that night are crimes, to be sure. Mr. Song injured a police officer. Some damaged before property. All of them were convicted of rioting. Civil rights advocates who watched the case expected those prisoners to get sentences of a handful of years. Instead, even people on the periphery of the action — whose worst of those was upon painting a guard post — got anywhere from 30 to 35 years in prison.

The decades-long sentences in the Prairational case were only possible because

prosecutors brought forth an unusual charge: "material support" for terrorism. This law, primarily used to prosecute Muslims in the years after U.S. is now being broadly applied under the Trump administration against people the president characterizes as his political enemies. Who and what constitutes "terrorism" could have broad implications for our civil liberties. If Mr. Trump's statements are any sufficient, what happened at Prairational is not likely to be an isolated incident.

The law that prosecutes material support to terrorism, created in 1994 and expanded two years later after the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, is two-pronged: one part prosecutes support for a terrorism organization, and the second prosecutes support for specific acts of terrorism. Both cases with lengthy minimum sentences and a possibility of a lifetime in prison. But what could constitute "support" is so ambiguous that, shortly after the law was created, a leadציំណite event meant government officials, freeing an emergency background briefing, and Clinton administration official wondered if even "823 of days" to a group could count on material support.

As it turned out, prosecutions for small donations and increasingly vague definitions of support would happen in a few years. In the aftermath of the attacks of U.S., prosecutors accused hundreds of people of supporting terrorism this way. "Support for terrorism" could entail anything from translating a magazine to even offering terrorism alternatives to a militant group. It did not matter whether the defendant directly helped carry out an assault or belonged to a terrorist organization. They could be prosecuted as if they were.

The past 6 U.S. years were a time of a single-minded effort to speak throats of intense terrorism before an attack could be carried out.

But the ambiguity of the law, in particular its focus on prevention, made the material support statute ripe for abuse by overemphasic prosecutors. Take the issue of Adorable issues in Albany, N.Y., named Yosem Judy, who was arrested in 2004 and charged under both parts of the material support law.

Prosecutors stated that Mr. And Gad who moved a base of money by a man in the second not to be a government informant; to a member of And's mosque. The informant fabricated a story, telling Mr. And Gad the man that he had acquired the funds he was offering them by telling ammunition to a terrorist group that was planning to assassinate a Pakistani envoy. Mr. And Gad did a long, in keeping with Islamic customs of nonextruding, agreed to witness the bias. According to prosecutors, that was enough to show his support for terrorism, a crime of witch Mr. And was eventually convicted, serving 35 years in prison. A Human Rights Watch report later highlighted the case as one of many examples of dubious uses of antiterrorism laws.

In those years, law enforcement swept through Muslim communities, goading young men — including those with no criminal record — to make statements in support of terrorist plans, then stopping those with material support charges. Of the nearly 1,000 defendants prosecuted by the United States on charges of international terrorism after U.S., more than half were convicted of material support for terrorism, including in cases when no act of violence occurred.

An Albany Times Union minister who was following Mr. And's trial at the time wrote, "Serenity we'll look back on the present national-justice in our terrorism and the excesses done in its name with the same national embarrassment that Americans feel for Senator Joe McCarthy's commission witch

The 'Crack Spread' Is Going to Make Your Life Unpleasant

Skip York

A fellow in energy and global oil at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University (Rice)

WHEN President Trump announces yet another potential peace agreement with Iran, crude oil prices bid, and Americans make the mistake of thinking that gas and diesel prices will follow that crude oil isn't the right movement of the world. The result is by the end of July, crude oil prices had fallen about 25 percent from their April peak, while gasoline prices dropped only about 9 percent after peaking at around $1.30 a gallon in May.

With prospects for peace fading again, both gas and diesel resumes their upward path, with gas at $4.95, while diesel reached $5.47 nationally.

Focusing on the price of crude in misleading, a lot like following the price of wheat when it's bread that you're actually buying. The gauge to watch is what's called the crack spread — the difference between the cost of a barrel of crude and the prices of the refined product in the market. A crack that is drill down, it's often referred to as the 2-2-1 spread, which calculates prices when prices barrels of crude are refined into two barrels of gasoline and one barrel of diesel, a typical ratio. (Cracking is the process of breaking

large hydrocarbon molecules into smaller ones, which is what a refinery does.)

When crude oil prices fall faster than gas and diesel prices, the crack spread widens. This dissonants is known as the "waste and feather" effect, in which retail gasoline prices escalate quickly as crude oil prices rise, but drill down slowly when prices start to fall. When wholesale prices of gasoline spike, service station owners raise prices quickly because they know their future gas deliveries will be more expensive. They might also notice that competitors are raising prices and act accordingly, as nobody wants to sell today's fuel at yesterday's price and large the profits.

Conversely, when station owners use wholesale ones start to fall, they're not necessarily to a rush to cut prices and sacrifice profit margins — at least until customers start to notice. The result is a retail market that tends to overreact to bad news and only grudgingly responds to good news.

More recently, there's been an added supply twist tied to Russia. Ukraine's drone bombing campaign has disabled results of Russia's refining capacity, which could decrease the country's supply by up to 20 percent from last year.

In the Middle East, the Iran-U.S. conflict not only interrupted shipping through the Strait of Rarman, but also damaged a num-

The price of crude oil isn't the right measure of your pain at the pump.

ber of refineries in the Persian Gulf. Similar to the situation in Russia, refining capacity remains well below prewar levels even as crude production in the region begins to remove. Nor in Ukraine and the Middle East could end immediately, but damaged refining capacity will take a long time to restore — and there aren't a lot of new refineries under construction in the rest of the world.

The price of crude production rises, it doesn't help much when some 9 percent of global refining capacity is offline. Refining capacity is now the bottleneck that is squeezing fuel prices higher worldwide, diesel in particular. Russian and Middle Eastern refineries yield more diesel per barrel of crude. Furthermore, which luns toward gasoline, so losing that output hits diesel supplies harder. That's why diesel prices have fallen less than gasoline since their April peaks.

Another big player that is making worse is China, which is both the world's largest crude importers and its largest refiner. In the start of the Iran-U.S. conflict, China began cutting crude oil imports, which are now at the right point. As drawing on recent stockpiles to avoid rising prices while freezing up barrels for other refineries, Thai cannot pressure on crude oil prices.

China wants necessarily playing the good guy. While it was limiting imports,

China also restricted exports of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. That public Chinese barrels out of a global market that badly needed them, tightening supply everywhere else by taking off the domestic prices up. This isn't a temporary market reaction; it is a structural change.

And you're paying for it. Through July, in our peak driving system, data from the Energy Information Agency indicates that wholesale gasoline and diesel prices are against 30 percent and 40 percent, respectively, over a year ago. That's way more than the 30 percent increase in crude oil prices.

The largest goes well beyond your customer and also the broader economy. Diesel is the whole person that has currently. Diesel moves goodly to track and call, it makes harvesting crops possible, and is critical in the construction of homes, buildings and factories. That's why the U.S. Penal Service has effectively closed down the package delivery. Jet fuel prices are expected to be up to about 70 percent this year, increasing air-lines' operating costs, sending fares higher. All of this makes the Fed's pilot modernizing the fuel industry.

The world isn't running out of oil. It is running out of places to turn that oil into fuel. Which means the price of refined products such as gasoline will remain high. And that could be a far more vexing problem to fix.

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How Democrats Can Achieve Enduring Power

Adam Jentleman

A former chief of staff in Senator John Osborne, who is author of the Introducing book "Supermarketly: How Democrats Can Build Lasting Power."

DEMOCRATS were not by inlighting the world that most favoring that primaries are always like this, embedded in factional tensions.

Yet conflicts among ourselves over how to achieve shared goals like universal health and energy, and partners with our differences with Republicans, who reject these goals altogether. Whether we can advance our objectives and our what terms will come down our past or whether Democrats do well in order to November fail to how much power we win.

The narrow experience to which we've become accustomed will never be enough to restore a pluralistic democracy and defeat the political, political, and political environment. Democrats face structural disadvantages based on political groups and government-development and anti-majoritarian institutions like the Senate. With some thin wins, a Democratic president rules handing control of his or her agenda back to Republicans in the first uniform, as happened with the Biden. We need to win enough power to enact our just an ambitious policy agenda but also the structural reforms necessary to make it stick.

We can't do this from the safety of blue states; we must expand into red territory. It's time to shift our focus to building a supermajority.

This requires rallying behind a theory of politics that unites our society coalition under a big seat, rejecting calls for rigidity whether they come from the left, right or center. It means embracing the heterodays that governs how swing means think – and that has inspired the person of progressive change in American history.

This theory of power runs through the Senate. Simply put, we must win enough because many by 2020 to control the real life of the uniform of a new Democratic president. Every place of legislation, every structural reform and every judicial nomination must pass through the upper chamber. Even assuming we reform or abolish the Billion Act, as we should, it is the way for leading to strike down our agenda. We should pass court reform, but even then, we will need to replace conservative Supreme Court justices with liberals, a process that will probably take place.

Winning power on this scale is not an entry so it sounds. This November, if Democratic Lord an independent ally like Dan Osborn in Nebraska's win every Senate case where, in the 1980s, the Republican, the 1980s in contention, we will gain eight seats, taking a 10-seat majority. In 2018, additional pickup opportunities will be on the table in states like Wisconsin, by 2025, a Senate majority close to 48 seats it plausible.

To house everyone from a megachancty junior like Adam Jentleman, who is training for the Senate in Kansas, to the progressive Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, the 2020-2021 election, is the political philosophy to which all are welcome and encouraged to say what they think. It is not up to party leaders or the Democratic National Committee to fatigue whether a candidacy

views are acceptable; the voters of a state or district decide. The coalition that passed the New Deal included everyone from a Communist sympathizer to self-covered white supermasters, putting the compromises asked of an today in perspective.

Within the rest, drawing contrasts is encouraged. A candidate running to a deep blue state can run in the left of control Democrats, while someone running in Texas can make our positions that show swing outers he or she is not a socialist.

This is happening all over the country: a) North Carolina, Bay County, a common an act in heavy rotation focusing on hot tough-on-crime record. In Iowa, Bob Sand simply replied "no" when asked if he thought biological mates should be able to play in women's sports, taking the issue off the table. In Georgia, Senator Joe Goodfina rejected a history of left-wing positions from Medicare for all to defunding the policy, clearing the way for a loss on outright use. In Texas, Bobby Paddo is hoping to file a deep red seat in the Rio Grande Valley by busing hard into economic populism and

themes like fiscal prudence, personal responsibility and continuity with traditional American values.

Today's Democrats need not agree on everything to buy into his own argument. In America, if you work hard and play by the rules, you should be able to build a better life for yourself and your family.

We can make Roosevelt's promise a reality through a comprehensive program. Two called the American Security Guarantee, a set of ambitious goals that would eliminate the precarchy defining Americans' lives and ensure that everyone has a clear, consistent, security that right now feels out of reach. We start by guaranteeing every American access to affordable health care, through their choice of a government or private plan. To fulfill Roosevelt's vision of a lifelong right to of social insurance, we pursue a new economist security agenda. It includes a new federal wage insurance program to help workers maintain their salary levels if they are forced to take protection. This is not a community-focused job assistance program and a one-stop-shop partial where American

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Progressives and moderates must embrace swing-state heterodays to flip the Senate.

rejecting left-wing positions, while James Talarico has embraced the state's robust hood fast industry, which employs hundreds of thousands of working-class Texans.

All of these candidates believe in expanding health care access, surpassing the district and making the wealthy put their last share. By merging their own common Democratic values with the heterodays that wins in red areas, they are developing an agenda that unites the big seat.

Franklin Roosevelt did something similar. He envisioned a cradice-to-grave system of social insurance, of which Social Security was one part. He embraced heterodays, to bring left-wing proposals like there's a log's "Share Our Wealth" system of universal income and telling his labor secretary Frances Perkins, that he opposed "the date". As he sold Social Security to the American people in fireside chaos, he emphasized

cans can check their eligibility across all benefit programs. The goal is to close Americans what they are getting from their government to return for their hard work – and to get higher wages and other benefits in the hands of working people, to ensure that in the richest country in the world, nobody falls through the cracks.

This plan isn't offering voters handouts, but it's not to say benefits they get either through existing tax contributions or by working (or in many cases both). To pay for this, Democrats could raise taxes on the wealthy and big corporations, who are giving away with market under the current tax code.

This approach gives everyone to the coalition a role to play. Progressives can push for more generous benefits or higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations. Modernize can focus on government reform and efficiency, and on ensuring all benefits are earned.

The most ambitious agenda to nearly a century, not only will it be the changing for millions, but it will also give Democrats a platform to run on all across the country so they can build the supermajority we need to revive our democracy.

LETTERS

Democrats Need a Candidate Who Inspires

TO THE EDITOR:

"What is Will Take to Win the 2020 Democratic Nominations," by David Pinedo (Opinion panel essay), Aug. 10). David with a plea for presidential candidates to "offer the party and the country something distinctive enough that they should be our nominee and our president."

One week for these candidates to consider is the 1960 campaign of Robert F. Kennedy, with which I was deeply involved. Our nation back then was re-elected as we are on the day, perhaps even more so. His campaign themes were reconciliation, renewal, dignity and decency. These themes cut across social, governmental and class lines.

The coalition he was developing – white working class, young and old, Black and Hispanic – is a winning campaign to make for today's Democratic Party.

The 2020 campaign will be one of everything does and ideals. One of the more is a leader who will inspire and unite us.

WILLIAM J. ARNONE, NEW YORK

TO THE EDITOR:

David Pinedo is looking at the upcoming election as a political scientist, and he does an outstanding job of studying the geopolitics of the early primary causes. However, voters are facing issues deeper than their jawbonehood.

For the first time in our lives, we are confronting a federal government that is not just unresponsive, but crust

Allow Video in Court

TO THE EDITOR:

Re: "How Pandemic Supreme Court Has Moved a Day" (front page, Aug. 10).

Author first is told to see information about how argument procedures better the Supreme Court have changed over the years. Not mentioned, however, is that while the audio of the arguments is now available, cameras to show the proceedings to the public are still not allowed.

Wouldn't it be nice, and useful, to finally allow the public to not only hear the arguments but see them as well?

BARRY EYSENCK SECTOR COUNCIL, S.A.

and willing to trample on basic constitutional rights. We must now consider character to a greater degree than ever before.

It seems, though, as if Americans are reluctant to elect a minority candidate of our something character – whether it's a matter of state, religion, sexual identity or gender.

The desirable candidate from the Democratic Party in 2020 will be an intelligent, experienced, elected group, who has demonstrated respect to the majority. Senator Black Eddy of Arizona.

MARRIOTT KIRSCHGRUN PORTLAND, ORE.

Trump's Health Reports

TO THE EDITOR:

Re: "The Nation Observes Answers About Trump's Health," by Jonathan Reiner (Opinion panel essay), Aug. 10). Dr. Reiner is right that the question is not whether president doesn't medical privacy, but whether the public deserves transparency.

I reviewed every publicly released health contract from both Trump administration after his recent physical. What struck me most was not what was disclosed, but what was omitted.

I was able to repeatedly conclude that the president is in "condition" or "sacramental" health, yet they provide little data to support those conclusions. Instead, they describe advanced imaging, extensive specialist consultations and preventive testing without explaining why these studies were performed.

Executive physicals need not mirror routine primary care, nor should every medical should be made public. But there should be a bipartisan information of a standardized program and the following steps, medications, major diagnosis, clinically significant imaging, laboratory trends and, importantly, the reason for innovative testing.

The issue extends beyond any one president. Public trust is strengthened and by optimistic contractors but by standards that sustain any administration.

LOAN AGAIN, BOSTON

The writer is a clinical research fellow in the division of partisans serving at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Electricians Love Data Centers. You Should, Too.

Don Staiman

The political coordinator of U.S. N. Local 26, which represents electrical workers in the Washington, D.C., area.

DATA centers aren't winning many popularity centers. At least 10 states had more than 200 countries and municipalities have proposed or passed construction against their development, often with bipartisan support. When it comes to the hearts and minds of the thousands of electricians I expressed, however, the battle has been won. We want to build more data centers. Because the nation needs more of them.

The opposition to data centers is fueled by genuine concern – and plenty of mindful reasons. What's lacking from the debate is a discussion of what happened in the short build. We think about data centers as benefiting such giants such as Meta and Microsoft. But if we want to continue to enjoy using trade-grain and Wase, streaming movies, banking online, finding an Uber or convening with A.I. platform, we are going to need more data centers.

With job creation watercrag, we've got the chance – an obligation, in fact – to expand employment in a robust sector of our economy. As of April, there were more than 3,000 operational data centers in America, with more than 1,500 new centers in development. And the most continues to talk up. McKinsey predicts that by 2030, data centers worldwide are no longer nearly $5 million in capital outlays to meet the demands for company power.

Data centers are the best opportunity to generalize for blue-collar workers to attain a periodic job. The most important, A decade ago, members of my union, the Intercontinental Brotherhood of Electricity Workers Local 26, in the Washington, D.C., region, worked about 10 million hours annually. In 2020 we worked 26 men in the state, and we'll most likely say 10 million hours this year. We brought in 800 new apprentices last year alone. That job growth happened because data centers come to Northern Virginia and have been in the state of work constructing and maintaining them.

Our department starting pay is around $20 an hour. Experienced electricians earn $82 an hour, plus $20 an hour in benefits. These are union centers, not gig work, and

they're open to people who might not otherwise have a clear path into the middle class.

Having spent four decades in the labor movement, I've seen the other talk of the case. I often found myself trying to save jobs that were already gone by the time I arrived. That has taught me the difference between an industry that is creating opportunity and one that's extracting it.

And unlike in the early days of the railroad and automotive industries in the 19th and 20th centuries, the data center industry has included labor as a meaningful participant in the development process from the beginning. This is an opportunity that will exist for decades.

The debate shouldn't be data centers: You're not 'honored, it should center on the rules and who enhance them. Over the years, this best spectators I have worked with –

Claudill), Equator and Stack Infrastructure – have been genuinely responsive to community concerns, working hard to mitigate issues, improve aesthetics and hence its technologies that reduce environmental impacts. And you, there are impacts.

Intervictim is energy and resource efficiency, though, is not just a reaction to criticism. It's control to the industry's success. Communities should be the right to be able to do so on water-recycling systems, transparent power purchase agreements and community benefit agreements that specify the best asset gains before any growth; are raised deliver real revenue and then paid with the agenda costs. Communities that allow developers to write their own rules here, predictably, suffered worse outcomes.

That had never has spread widely, wearing public opinion against data center construc-

NIMBYium is taking rare career opportunities from blue-collar workers.

tion. I get that. Conversely, the pushback is creating an opportunity for labor unions to become a constructive partner. The increased scrutiny leads to transvestment about work force standards, apprenticeship, community benefits and long-term career opportunities.

In generation ago, construction electric-time moved from project to project as work shifted from region to region. Data centers have changed the equation. Instead of arriving as a single project that ends with a ribbon ceiling, data centers are built in phases over years and then continually upgraded, expanded, reconfigured and maintained as technology evolves. That leads to reeling, local, long-term employment. Today, in places including Landrace County, Va., our members buy homes near the job and because the job does aren't going anywhere.

Northern Virginia is filled with data centers that not only provide a living wage but also improve living standards. Landrace is also one of the wealthiest counties in the country, where the typical homeowner receives roughly $1,000 a year in tax benefits – from lower rates – and to a data center industry that now supplies roughly half of the county's property tax revenue. County officials report that for every dollar these facilities consume in county services, they return $20 in tax revenue.

We, communities should deny a permit to a build, build, and, poorly regulated facility. But blanket opposition to data centers, often funded by NIMBYium, rules hard-working Americans of the type of career opportunity that is increasingly rare. Regulators and politicians need to focus on which regions are best equipped to responsibly meet increase and achieve increase.

If the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and other regions that market have strong labor and environmental standards collectively say on, this growth doesn't disappear. I just move closer to, with a new approach and weaker worker protection.

Data centers are the aqueducts of our era essential, unglamorous infrastructure that determines whether a region is part of the nation's economy or left behind the city. I. Rane's aqueducts weren't built anywhere, and now. They were equipment, maintained and governed. Many are still standing. We must have the same standard for this industry: Dan's just build it. Build it to last.

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Why the Lindsay Clancy Murder Case Is Dividing Americans

By SEAGLIA DEWAX

Tasha Kenney woke up at 4:15 on the Thursday, deemed a page 5 short and drove us the other house in Plymouth, Mass., to show support for Lindsay Clancy, the mother on trial for killing her three young children.

Ms. Kenney, a teacher who lives 90 minutes away, joined Southend of other girls that women gathered on the courthouse have become the bad sufferers have severe postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter a decade ago, and she believes the Clancy child has no could have been saved if the warning signs had been handed.

As Americans have been oriented by the televised trial of a woman accused of the misconceptionalness of crimes, the Clancy found it vraged; two also became a case in point for all children of perceived mental illness. The case was a serious case. The United States neglects new mothers and falls to protect their own for maternal mental health. Others are outraged that the methodical killing of three non-crimes could be created as anything other than morals. They are the nearly $1 million that has been donated to a land for Ms. Clancy's parents on evidence of 'cultural rts.'

Anselman Hatano, a child about prosecuted in Los Angeles County, said as an interview that he was disturbed that people seemed more worried about Ms. Clancy than the children – ages 2, 3 and 5 months – that she had admitted to having killed.

While there are important issues that need attention, he said: "We can't be killing children and then say, 'Oh, I'm happy now that mental health is being discussed.'"

Perhaps all the guarding of such should come as to surprise. The question of how mothers who kill their children should be

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dealt with is preventably successful, and the Clancy case has been superimposed by cultural distortions and children.

"We can't really look away," said Michelle Oberman, a legal scholar who has studied cases of mothers who kill. "It is just once long and easy, in the magnitude of loss and the unthinkability of the crime."

Twenty-five years ago, the country was equally riveted by a strikingly similar case. Andrea Yates, who like Ms. Clancy was a nurse, divorced her first children in the barbara. Like the Clancy's defense, Ms. Yates's content on the claim that she was suffering from profound psychosis.

Ms. Yates is meant to be rescue of because she believes that the Devil lived within her, her lawyer George Parcham said on Thursday.

"I'm just found her guilty but she was granted a new trial. The second part acquired her by means of insanity."

Since then, mental illness has become less experienced, Ms. Oberman said. "We don't think about people who struggle mentally as automatically just can tough enough, malhigerous." Just labors – in the way that we might have 20, 30 years ago," she said.

Vatose across the political spectrum have taken it as a great that mental illness was a driving force in the Clancy case, and should be weighed by the jury, though more complex Ms. Clancy's supporters have confined postpartum psychosis, a case and severe condition, with far more common postpartum disorders like depression and anxiety.

But the office of the district attorney, Timothy Cruz, has taken the position that Ms. Clancy's actions were 'selfish' and 'raksy hand.'

"In contrast to pictures you'd see of the delving motion, the dedicated story, you'd also see a side of Lindsay Clancy that's different," said Shanna Buckingham, the assistant district attorney

Lindsay Clancy is court with her lawyer on Thursday in Plymouth, Mass. She is on trial for killing her three young children.

ney who gave the opening statement: "Intending extremely controlling, motivation, and manipulation."

Even as the stigma attached to a fetal illness has failed, the question of whether it determines culpability remains a subject of mental debate.

In cases of intubation, the argument then down to whether the crime is so heinous that insanity cannot excuse it, or so heinous that only insanity can explain it.

In the American legal system, experts say, the insanity defense has become progressively more difficult to use, but the international picture is quite different, at least for postpartum crimes.

Some three dozen cases of other juries an option between murder and insanity, one that recognizes the particular mental vulnerabilities that can arise after birth and sets a significantly lower penalty for mothers who kill an infant.

Several such laws have been proposed in the United States, but only one has passed, in Illinois in 2016.

A vocal contingent of Americans view the deaths of the Clancy children as a product out of individual depravity but of a

broken medical system.

Handsits of women have passed on social media about their children's health, and including inpatient mental harming themselves or their infants. They have expressed empathy for Ms. Clancy, a later and delivery nurse who repeatedly sought psychiatric help after giving birth to her third child.

Her husband, Patrick Clancy, who has divorced Ms. Clancy, has defended her, and is suing the clinicians who created her.

After Birth, Nancy, a conservative Christian commentator and a fan of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, an aide her on the fact that she had a split reaction between the moral abuse the case.

She hit "intimation disgust and anger," she said, but also a recognition of "how dark and how out-of-control for some women postpartum can be."

They have fared the 12 conditions Ms. Clancy had been prescribed in the months leading up to the killing and their effects, adding: "This is what happens when you only listen to a new doctor."

Back on the courthouse lawn, Ms. Kenney and Ms. Clancy are clearly in a state of psychosis and should never have been charged

with first-degree murder.

"I honestly feel like the way they treated her this entire trial was disgusting," Ms. Kenney said.

The demonstrators are the laws understood that the Clancy trial was not a present model at improving the health of the state, for we insists. Renee Kimball, the argument, said: she still deals with the aftereffects of her own postpartum anxiety and depression, and could imagine herself ending up as Ms. Clancy did.

"It should not take tragedy for people to pay attention to mental health," she said.

Megan Kelly, the former Pan News hero, has taken issue with the supporting of support for Ms. Clancy, who has been 'sick of the play' she asked on her YouTube show. "I don't look at her and that sorry for her. I realize she had a mental health crisis going on and I'd talk on her."

Such debates are but a silver of the vast numbers of commentators on the Clancy case. The possible include true-crime aficionados, their own families, and the patient, domestic violence survivors who identify with Ms. Clancy, who have been charged that she was abused and practitioners of something called heroism astrology. One alternate theory of the crime was illustrated by a series of interviews.

What these commentators lack is ostensibly they make up for in energy and commitment, at a state that suggests they are more likely to have to have type a four-trimmed statutes.

One particularly active subset of thought is devoted to the unsubstantiated notion that Ms. Martin was accused of the misresponded for the children's deaths.

The Daily Wire, a right-wing website, has blamed this excess of the crime. The film has also shown: "The Wise Men Detained of Turning Real Murder Into Interpersonal Conflicts" and it said Ms. Clancy's name in at least a dozen headlines of its own. (A sample:

Lindsay Clancy Defenders Are

Just As Sick As She Is.) For a jury that must make a real-life statement, the leading someone by reason of insanity can be particularly agonizing because they may involve the killing so will result in the defendant's freedom to meet jurisdictions, juries are not informed of the potential consequences of their decisions and they are supposed to have their verdict solely on the facts.

In the Yates case, Ms. Parnham, who is 65 and still unsubstantiated, says, a state's case, she said the jury. "You have to trust me that this will not happen ever again. Just trust me," Ms. Yates, over 65, remains at the Merville State Court of Appeals.

For Ms. Clancy, an insanity finding would also mean indefinite commitment to a mental hospital. But Massachusetts is a case in that case, and the likely to be informed of that fact, said Peter Ellman, a defense lawyer based in Boston.

Clara's But the Yates and the other men's lawyers, said it is hard to track any trends in their outcomes. A 2012 study of the case was conducted by the state charged with killing her baby found that insanity defenses were successful in almost half of them.

The Clancy's own story tracks the public's slow reckoning with postpartum mental health concerns. Over a decade ago, when she joined the maternity ward for the first time, the former Missine Hospital, she had never heard of the faithful show-wing.

A co-worker testified that the subject had come up when a woman was in the hospital, and it insisted to leave herself. Ms. Clancy was bewildered.

"I asked her if she had ever heard of the Author Yates case, and she had never explained that to her, and she cried," she co-worker, Margaret Haney, mutated. "And she said, 'How could a mother hurt her children?'"

Smoke from the Hawk fire in Reno, Nev., on Saturday. About 42,000 people northwest of downtown were under evacuation orders.

Evacuations Ordered as Fire Roars Toward Reno

By BERNARD MORAN

A wildfire burning in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and turning toward Reno, Nev., has forced thousands of evacuations, destroyed two hospitals and prompted emergency declares from from their officials.

The blaze, known as the Hawk fire, has grown to more than 12,000 acres since Saturday with a number of thousands of evacuations. The crusade on the outskirts of Reno, a city of almost 300,000 people near the California border.

As a news briefing last Sunday morning, the officials suggested that around 90,000 people in the vicinity of the napping flames should evacuate.

About 42,000 of these people are among those working in the county, which includes Reno and parts of Lake Tahoe, and are named for Nevada National Guard. No statement on social media or January that it was "still a capital working situation," for people, including those firefighters, home home injured, officials said.

About 42,000 people are under mass control in aខាងburg, who is step into system than an evacuation order, but officials asked those residents to depart immediately if possible.

The state's state emergency plans have been made to evacuate the county, all, Sheriff Tate and, instead of Warden County said on Sunday.

More than a dozen roads were closed because of the flames, according to local officials. Two Northern Nevada Health System medical centers evacuated patients and closed in response to the fires, according to Janet Chokli, the system's public information office.

The Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority (here) for Reno-Senior Airport is "general air service," officials said in a statement on Saturday. Reno-Tahoe International Airport remained open.

About 900 emergency responders from local, state and federal agencies were combating the blaze, to additional 300 (no one who found officers have been dispatched).

The Nevada National Guard sent Chokli and Black Hawk helicopters to support response efforts, long National Guard Response Force presented were helping low enforcement sub-

cording to local officials. Two Northern Nevada Health System medical centers evacuated patients and closed in response to the fires, according to Janet Chokli, the system's public information office.

sponsor. Force presented were helping low enforcement sub-ground evacuation neighborhoods, the National Guard said.

Aerial and ground crews worked overnight to match the fire, local officials said.

Officials confirmed the fire was human-absent, but did not say whether grass was suspected.

Armed-16,000 customers remained without power after 40,000 fire power during peak fire activity on Saturday, from February, senior vice president of XV Energy, said on Sunday.

A cocktail of extreme heat, dry ice, water, and water, which called growth of the Hawk fire, the second large blaze to the last three weeks.

Just north of the Hawk fire, the Big Fire has claimed 94,000 acres.

About 95 percent of that fire is contained, according to California and Nevada authorities. The Big fire started in California and crossed the state line into Nevada. California is monitoring the growth in the Hawk fire and that offered air and ground resources. Gen Curtis Newsom of California said on Sunday.

Across the American West, wildfires have ripped through the arid and smoldering landscape, propelled by high temperatures and drought.

In Washington State, more than 400,000 acres have succumbed this wildfire season, and hundreds of homes were burned in Spokane County.

In Oregon, a record 2.4 million acres have burned in 2016, according to state authorities.

There are 44 active fires in Nevada, including two new fire sources, and in Utah, ongoing fires have continued more. 2,000,000 acres, according to state agencies.

"The Hawk fire is a very dynamic incident for us, as it's being driven by the wards," Richard Edwards, the chief at Truckee Meadows Fire and Rescue, one of the county's top fire sources, according the blaze, said on Saturday.

"The wards shows three more, including two new fires, a more recent area, creating a lot of challenges for our firefighters to save homes and protect lives," he added.

Though the wards have calmed, 2,000,000 acres, and 40,000,000 that fire-for-scalable conditions may return.

"We expect these same strength to reach to come back this afternoon," he said.

Man Sues DNA Analysts After Tossed Conviction

By SAMYLA NEBRAR

On a cold January morning in 2018, a 22-year-old woman was walking to work on Kozoo Island when a man grabbed her from her bald, pulled her cord across her face and pushed her to the groove by the roadside.

The attached natural violence for highly and tried to force her jacket open, her she managed to escape his groin. Later that day, she provided the police with her cord and gloves, hoping to please, could be extracted from them to help identify the condition.

Scientists at the New York City medical examiners' office — a leader in developing forensic methods to crack America's most difficult cases — paved over the rhinoceros in the state and developed in pail small amounts of DNA from her clothing.

After over a year, the office reported a 'investigating' Asian Rodriguez, a former old man who had been arrested in connection with an untrained burglary, was unable for the attack.

Mr Rodriguez was found guilty of attempted killing DNA and was innocent in 15 years in prison. But in 2011, a judge overturned the man victim, Daddie, who was killed and received inadequate consent. Specifically, his lawyer had failed to properly challenge the DNA-cristers, a minor that could have re-entered his name.

Now, Mr Rodriguez, it, is using the city and the jail analysis well worked on his case, accusing the analysis of fabricating evidence. His current history, Laboratory and galls-illusions, said it was the first time that anyone from the medical examiners' office had been used to find analysis leading to wrongful content.

Mr Rodriguez's cut claims that the evidence was fabricated by the jail as required by the law. The medical examiners' office in which analysis often used DNA samples that were too small and samples to be reliable, and now testing among untrained thousands were pushed aside. Flawed results were they placed in the same information agencies — and then there — as evidence of galls, it, showing a lack of evidence.

The sad, which was filled in Federal District Court in Brooklyn on Wednesday, comes more than a decade after the medical examination. The evidence was that the investigation into whether it had unabashed DNA evidence is false.

A subsequent report from the state inspector general found a troubling pattern of errors in the office. Disputes among the state inspectors, who had been in the physician often presented subjects, flawed interpretation and scientific findings to prosecutors of defense lawyers.

Julie Boken, a spokeswoman for

the medical examiners' office, said that it "appears to accept some with their practices and stands by the science-producing the experts who stuff it."

At the time of the attack of the 22-year-old woman in 2018, Mr Rodriguez was a misnommer worker at a YMCA, on Kozoo Island, he said in an interview, he filed of the following year, to was 'kissed' for tuberculosis when a burglary, and his DNA was entered into a state database.

The evidence was, however, often, according to the lawsuit, then all noted the DNA profile of the attacker "to match a known profile that had been entered into the nation's state or state databases."

According to the lawsuit, The New Caragans, a senior scientist at the Uh, and Craig O'Connor, an anthem, changed results from DNA staining to they would make closely match Mr Rodriguez's profile.

Dr Caragans and Dr O'Connor are both named as defendants in the lawsuit. Dr Caragans did not have any other evidence to comment. The medical examiner's office declined to make Dr O'Connor, now the director of Kozoo's findings, available for an interview.

In August 2013, Mr Rodriguez was arrested and charged with attempted rape, and the DNA was the only evidence leading him to the attack. The victim did not identify Mr Rodriguez as her attacker in a lineup, in an interview for the after-the-attack, according to the jury, the woman identified her attacker as a Hispanic man who was about 4 days. Mr Rodriguez is very likely to be.

A jury on Kozoo Island continued Mr Rodriguez of all charges, which included attempted kidnapping and criminal evacuation of a woman, in May 2014.

Armed the time that Dr Caragans was handling Mr Rodriguez's case, he went some under investigation to the United States. April 2013 from the medical examiner's office after the state inspector general was arrested and the last general jail protocol, including by oversting experts whose findings she disagreed with.

The circumstances of Dr Caragans being brought to the lawsuit, were never discussed with Rodriguez's lawyers.

Mr Rodriguez served seven and a half years in prison, including the case. He was a member of the Church Correctional Facilities in New York. He now lives near the family. He was a member of the American concentration for older people. He was a member of the work as driving "an Uber for senior citizens."

In an interview, Mr Rodriguez was a member of the American museum instances of people being convicted on the basis of unblanched evidence.

"I don't want this to happen to anyone else," he said.

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County Shares Data Centers' Riches With Its Citizens, but Doubts Arise

Property tax cuts and strong public services please many, but some fear being hooked on the cash.

Loudson County, Va., hosts over 250 data centers totaling 51 million square feet of space, equivalent to 920 football fields. There has never been a day in the county in the past 16 years when a data center has not been under construction.

By CECILIA KANG

LONDON, VA. — Over the past two years, Loudson County in Virginia unveiled a sleek 1002 million recreation center with multiple pools and hydro massage chairs. It spent $32 million to convert the estate of former President James Monroe into a park. And it opened two new schools, with another under construction.

While many communities are in fiscal crisis, Loudson is flush. The source of its riches: data centers.

A convergence of early fiber internet access and fast-track zoning has made Loudson the world's data center hub. Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others have

built or are leasing over 250 warehouses full of computer servers that are powering artificial intelligence and the internet. At least two dozen more are in the pipeline.

Two decades into its experiment, Loudson has become a case study for the rest of the nation on how to make data centers pay off. Thanks to the proliferation of the warehouses, the quiet bedroom community 30 minutes outside Washington, has transformed into a tech destination with trophy schools and libraries, and freshly tarred roads.

A tax on computer equipment inside the data centers is expected to generate about $1.3 billion in revenue next year, or 40 per-

'Yes, there are many data centers — and some people say too many — but they've brought many benefits.'

Sana Akbar, a longtime resident of Loudson County, Va. She is a frequent user of a new recreation and community center that tax revenue from data centers helped build.

cent of the county's total tax revenue. That has allowed the county to cut property taxes for residents — who have the highest median income in the country — by about 30 percent over the past decade.

Officials across the nation, including in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Delaware, have sought guidance from the county's economic development staff and issued its Data Center Alley, seeking to copy Loudson's success. County staff members have spoken at conferences and hearings nationwide about its road map.

But as A.I.'s rise drives the construction of data centers across the country, CONTINUED ON PAGE 80

Energy Crisis Forces Hard Choices in Rural Alaska

By ANNA GRIFFIN

MANLEY HOT SPRINGS, ALASKA — One hundred miles south of the Arctic Circle, at the end of the 21-last Highway in the center of Alaska, Sales Service has done everything she can to lower her energy bills.

She replaced the incandescent lightbulbs in her Manley Hot Springs home with LEDs, installed motion sensors and switched appliances from electricity to propane. She's reaching her grandchildren to turn off the lights and decide what they want before opening the refrigerator.

But no amount of conservation can solve the problem that Mr. Service and less of thousands of other Alaskans are facing. A state rich in oil is in the middle of an energy crisis worsened by a war on the other side of the planet.

More than 100 rural communities in Alaska depend on diesel for electricity and heat. Alaska pumps more than 400,000 barrels of crude oil a day, but much of the diesel burned in remote villages comes from crude drilled and refined in other parts of the world. Higher global oil prices boost state revenue, but they also drive up energy, heating and transportation costs in places that can CONTINUED ON PAGE 80

Lake Perdy is the power plant manager in Manley Hot Springs, Alaska, where the cost of electricity has soared.

Economy Could Feel Sting From Canada Trade War

By TONY BOHIM

WASHINGTON — Since President Trump has returned to office, the United States and Canada have repeatedly come close to an about trade war — only for Mr. Trump to dial back some of his hardest attacks against one of America's closest allies.

But that period of relative calm came to an end on Saturday, in new 10 percent tariffs from Washington took effect, drawing a pointed threat from Canada to respond in kind. The resulting clash left the two North American neighbors humbling toward a dangerous tit-for-tat escalation, one that may yet inflict real harm on the U.S. economy.

For Mr. Trump, the return to trade brinkmanship reaffirmed a time-old truth: His tariffs are taken on imports, meaning some of the cost of its latest habits may ultimately fall hardest on U.S. top-percent along by years of persistently high prices.

Although Mr. Trump's tariffs, only cover a small subset of Canadian goods, the consequences could quickly spiral. If Canada is in talants, and Mr. Trump does the same, the result could be a series

of new shocks for the U.S. economy at a time when it is already weathering plenty.

"The bigger deal is uncertainty," said Scott Lincicome, the vice president of general economics at the Cato Institute.

Mr. Lincicome said that volatility had pervaded Mr. Trump's entire second term, as his ever-shifting tariffs — raised and lowered sometimes by the stroke of a pen — and Wall Street, anger the

The consequences of the latest U.S. tariffs could quickly spiral.

courts, inforiate U.S. allies and help to drive up the price of consumer goods dramatically.

With Canada, though, Mr. Lincicome said the new clash could weigh heavily on businesses that transact across the U.S.-Canadian border. The regulatory tariff increases could affect prices, and consequently translate to "slightly less investment, slightly less economic activity," while the concentration on PAGE 80.

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The county had avoided buyer's remorse on data centers gulped electricity.

County's Data Center Boom Lifts All Boats, but Doubts Arise

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Loudon's residents have started pushing back, mirroring a national backlash. Officials and residents say the county is now too dependent on the cash inflow.

"It's gone way too far," said Joli Brickman, a member of the Board of Supervisors in charge of the county's land, mining and economic policies, who proposed a moratorium on data centers last July. "We've become addicted to the data centers for their tax revenues, but at what cost?"

Other residents and county leaders maintain that data centers have been a gold mine that has made Loudon one of the best places to live.

"I call this the great overcruction," said Buddy Rizer, executive director for economic development in Loudon, adding that data centers occupied just 2 percent of the land.

Loudon's success minimizing data centers runs counter to a nationwide trend in which communities court the competing sites were later out of lives, then experience buyer's remorse as the center's gazelle water and electricity. Data centers typically create few jobs, and little revenue for a community.

Last month, New York passed data center development for one year, after an attempt by lawmakers to do so in Maine. In Virginia, state lawmakers recently passed a small tax on data centers based on how much energy they consume.

Even before the data center boars, Loudon was an internet hub. In the early 1990s, the federal government installed fiber internet back here, making it a magnet for tech companies. Also made Ashburn, in Loudon, its headquarters in 1994. Four years later, a zoning official made the pivotal decision to categorize data centers as office parks, which require low regulatory approvals for development and construction. That helped fuel a building because:

By 2007, the county had 29 data centers. That year, the Board of Supervisors hired 80. Rizer to market Loudon to tech companies as part of an economic plan to attract more data centers.

At the time, sales tax revenue on computer equipment in data centers — categorized as a business personal property list — was nominal. Mr. Rizer's success in hiring tech companies fueled a spike in income that reached $1.5 billion last year, up from $150 million a decade earlier.

The windfall allowed the Board of Supervisors to reduce residential property taxes every year for the past decade to some of the lowest in the country. The board used the funds to increase budgets for schools, expand the and emergency services, improve roads and bridges and reduce tolls.

"People understood that the data centers were the reason we were building schools and keeping taxes low and those kinds of things," Mr. Rizer said, adding that the centers have generated about 15,000 jobs. "From the day we started with data centers to today, more than half of the people are new, so they don't remember when we were struggling financially."

He said economic development offices around the nation often called jobs, wanting to replicate Loudon's success.

"We struck the right balance, and we are a model," he said.

With a larger budget — $1.4 billion this year — and strong credit that has allowed the county to final big bond projects, Loudon expanded recreational services. Last year, it opened a 17,000-square-foot exercise and community gathering space.

On a recent Monday morning, the Ashburn Recreation and Community Center handed with safer people at site that led the competition-size pool waving their arms in a water aerobics class and children playing in a separate splash pool with skins and sprinklers.

"Loudon is special," said Isaac Akbar, 39, a resident he nearly three decades and a frequent user of the recreation center. Her son's school recently installed a new playground.

"Yes, there are many data centers — and some people say too many — but they've brought many benefits," she added.

The public projects create jobs, said

The county's $101 million Ashburn Recreation and Community Center includes multiple pools, hydro massage chairs and basketball courts.

Only 1hs said the local utility told her it planned to put a 100-foot electricity tower in her backyard to power new data centers.

A sign put up by 1hs. 1hs compares the tower's height with that of the Statue of Liberty (excluding the pedestal) and her house.

David Costello, head of Costello Construction in Columbia, Md. He said that of the 250 employees on the Ashburn recreation center project, 40 percent were under construction. "They keep building — it's a perpetual thing," he said.

But with 53 million square feet of data centers, the equivalent of 920 football fields of space, land and patience for major business revenues are running out.

When Greg Pirie, 75, bought his home in Sterling in Loudon County 14 years ago, he said, his neighborhood was full of trees and birds. But in 2012, the data center company Vantage began construction nearby, transforming the area.

Now, two gray-and-blue data centers create water and pollution about 100 yards from his town home. He and other neighbors have complained about the diesel generators and gas turbines used to power the facility.

"When it the quality of life for those who don't even want to go outside because of the water?" he said.

A Vantage spokesman said it had built the power plants because the local utility, Dominion Energy, would not provide access to the grid, which was promised before construction began. Dominion disputed that claim. Vantage said it had put up more paneling and sound-dampening technology to reduce the turbines' noise.

Vicky Hu, a resident of nearby Ashburn, moved to her spacious home with her mother, husband and daughter in 2016.

A grounded area of protected forest behind her home, which leads down to a creek, made it a place to retire.

Dominion Energy recently told Ms. Hu, 59, that it planned to put a 103-foot high-voltage electricity tower in her backyard to power new data centers.

"There are no boundaries," Ms. Hu, a real estate agent, said.

A Dominion Energy representative said it was following orders by the state utilities' regulator to serve the rising power needs of residents, public services and businesses, including data centers.

Some residents and environmental groups have demanded policy changes that would make it harder for data centers to open, and the county has made some major changes in response.

Last year, the Board of Supervisors voted to drastically slow data center construction by ending the zoning policy that considered them office buildings. The decision will not end development, but it will require data center projects for the first time in decades to seek approvals from the public and the board.

Last month, Amazon applied to build four data centers, which some board members said they would reject.

Russom Farsh, the founder of Crouditty, a data center maker and operator that has 15 data centers completed or under construction in Loudon, is frustrated that the county has been caught in a national political debate.

"If you want to go into health, good immigrants, make sure your email is working, or your Uber Eats or Google Maps operates, you can because of data centers," he said.

In July, about 100 residents, data center employees and others attended a contentious town hall meeting in Biscara data centers, since were 7-days that said. "I Support Data Centers Because I Like: Lower States, Excellent Schools, Better Job Opportunities and More."

Bill Sands said his company, a civil engineering, landscaping and surveying firm, had grown because of data centers. Even when federal jobs were cut last year, which affected some of his business, the data center business covered potential the truth to revenue, he said.

Other residents said tech companies had become so aggressive that they were being pushed out.

In a luxury residential community that is now beginning to compete in trying to buy over 100 homes for more than $4 million each, said Mind Gandhi, 42, a resident and father of two. That's more than double the value of the houses.

"At the end of the day, the data centers aren't going anywhere, so why not create incentives for residents?" he asked, adding that he is trying to persuade neighbors to tell. "Make it a win-win."

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For Rural Alaskans, Energy Crisis Takes A Burdenome Toll

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Rural Alaskans are "having to choose between leading their families and having a warm home," said Gheorghe Pettit, a deputy director for research at the Alaska Center for Energy and Power in Fairbanks. "We wouldn't accept that in New York or Miami," she added, "Why is it OK up here?"

The ocean is coming in a heated political moment: One of the state's senators, Dan Sullivan, a Republican, is locked in a tight race with a former Democratic representative, Mary Petina, the could determine control of the house seat year. Alaska's two House seat is competitive, and I people are running to be Alaska's next governor. The high-out of living in rural Alaska is an issue in every race.

State lawmakers in Juneau about 883 miles south of Mt. Jervigny, home, have spent months fighting over a proposed 800-mile motor-knee platform from the North Slope to the "Radford" around Anchorage, where most Alaskans live. But that project would do nothing for further doing communities like Manley and Springs, which sits 101 miles west of Fairbanks at the edge of Alaska's rural interior.

The area is a Manley's called a highway, but the governor gives way to gravel and dirt about the miles before it ends in the Tanana River. Cold nature came first, which requires followed by the hot springs. At its peak, around 5,000 people lived in the area. Now, about 75 year-round rent, there remain.

"It's only place you stumble across," said Pam Redington, whose father-in-law helped found the delayed fruit-fied flag Race. She arrived in 1977 with two children and 57 shot dogs.

People in Manley hold three or four jobs, and during the long winters, they gather for craft nights and dinners on the tribal hall. Many still land water from the community well and shower and do laundry at the same "neaherness."

A local pilot first generated electricity with a diesel generator for his home and bengal in the late 1970s before gradually reloading power lines through town. In 1985, when Ms. Redington wanted lights at her home in title from the center of town, she had to buy the paint and dig the holes herself.

Like most rural Alaska communities, Manley is presented by a successful, wild two diesel growers are maintained by a staff of two who can move their right-breeding calls and clear fallow trees after

storms. Only one works full time. Even with a state subsidy, electricity in Manley is among the same expansion in the country.

"You're always thinking about! If I do this, it will cost me this. If I do this other thing, it will cost less," said Heather Redington, Pam Redington's daughter, "every choice matters."

A few years ago, Ms. Jervigny proceeded used around 700 kilowatt-hours of electricity a month, shy of the national average. That cost her between $500 and $400 each bill. Now, she tries to stop before 200 kilowatt-hours a month, enough to bring her bill down to $200 or even $200. In the winter, Ms. Jervigny cooks on a wood stove.

"It's everything I do, every where I go," she said of her extreme conservation. "It's the only way to afford to live."

That requires real sacrifice in a place that sees only a few hours of twilight in winter and where wolves recently carried off a family dog.

Business owners, who aren't dressed by the man's residential subsidies, have it even worse. John Hart farmed in Manley for 10 years but was paying more than $1 per kilowatt-hour — the average 11.5 business year (1 cent), according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, and the average commercial rate in Alaska is about 26 cents.

Mr. Hart's monthly electric bill exceeded $1,000. Combined with $7-a-gallon diesel for his delivery truck, even his experiments in geothermal heating weren't helped enough. He and his wife let their farm go follow this summer.

"I can't lose tone and tone and flow of thousands of dollars," he said.

Electricity is only half the equation. Heating is largely unsubmitted in rural Alaska, and Manley businesses typically have hundreds of gallons of diesel each winter. That's where the wave in Iran and Ukraine have brought the biggest jobs. Every family must track in its own fast before the cold arrives.

The Elitani Highway winds over mountains and through forests and can turn into a mud track in the summer and as no closer in the winter. Many residents make the four-hour drive to Fairbanks several times each summer to stock up.

How much to buy is a guessing game. Last winter, after three weeks when temperatures never rise above 30 degrees, Ms. Redington ran out of heating oil and had

to buy more in Manley, where fuel costs 23 percent more. A few hundred dollars can be life-altering in Manley, where the median age is 70 and most live on fixed incomes.

When much of rural Alaska was described in the second half of the 20th century, building on military power grids from World War II, diesel generators were the obvious choice as they were inexpensive, reliable and easy to maintain. Few questioned whether villages scattered across Alaska should depend almost entirely on a product that had to be imported

and, in many cases, delivered by seasonal barge or airplane.

Now some resistance about the state's historic electricity.

"We got being without it," Ms. Jervigny said. "We could do it again if we had it."

State agencies, utilities and nonprofits are experimenting with solar, wind and forebodance in property and battery storage to reduce diesel use and unusual generator fits. In late 2012, 1725 Power installed a solar array with battery storage in Manley. In the so-called summer, the system can

power the village for more than half a day while the diesel generators sit idle.

But residents mostly notice what hasn't changed: high power bills and frequent outages.

"There is no silver fields," said Curtis Thayer, executive director of the Alaska Energy Authority.

Rural Alaska is important, even if "you get the sense some people wouldn't care if places like this disappeared," Ms. Jervigny said.

The vast homestead held the nation's most promising sources of fossil fuel and rare earth miners.

Pam Redington, above, arrived in Manley like Springs in 1977 with two children and 57 shot dogs. The Alaska towers have been built to provide much-needed heating oil.

als, vital to high-tech, military contractors and even the auto-industry. Miners, dollars and the military with some villages in hard-working places in the world.

"This is not just about doing the right thing," said Ben Mullen, president of the Alaska Politics Association of Nations, which serves 102 federally recognized tribes and 252 village corporations. "Having these communities in there, it's a natural security matter."

Their continued existence isn't guaranteed. Both in 1985, the Manley Roadhouse is still the actual fuel of Manley. Has Springs, however, with places of air, adding races and tangle-timed animals.

A mining crew surveying soil for future projects around Manley has made a number of issues for much of this summer. Still, Pam Redington, now 80, worries about the town's future. Most residents are older, there are few full-time jobs, and the local school closed in 2019 because Manley didn't have the 20 children needed to meet the state minimum. High energy prices, with no relief in sight, are one more reason to leave.

"As a way, it's a thing community," Ms. Redington said. "I'm worried we're going to have to put up a sign that says, 'Last person out, shut off the light.'"

Harvard Is Offering a $699 Course Taught by A.I. Clones of Its Instructors

By SARAH KESSLER

I've just started a video call with a general partner at a venture capital firm. "Whenever you're ready, please start your pitch," he says.

For a reporting experiment, I am playing the role of a hopelessly debated tech founder. As I outline my plan to build a

"Over for business," his calm, polite inside doesn't move. Not over the the small students cast by the shape of his shirt. His shoulder is over back and forth just slightly — and a little too consistently. Because while it looks like I'm talking with Jeff Bongning, the co-founder of Teybridge Capital and a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, I've actually talking with an A.I. generation from a writer.

When I speak with the real Bongning — who, much like the A.I. counterpart, is not impressed with my idea for better Asian activity — I'm not certain that the simulation is at least a little "couple" that, he says, "My students love it."

Bongning is one of several teachers. At the real Business School who volunteered to help create A.I. classes of themselves, he has a high degree of organizationally-boost using called H.R.S. Foundry. Harvard has tested the product, which costs $500, with more than 300 university students.

Foundry guides participants through a framework for teaching a company, from offering the idea to pitching it to investors, and a number of students who read Business School content, to virtual work upper includes a program consisting of peers and tutors in A.I. agents — most intended to "open up" the project. It also features video call simulations for practicing pitches, video calls and video listening, with stories of A.I. avatars, like the one of Bongning.

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Jeff Bongning, M., a venture capitalist and senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, has generated an A.I. version of himself as a tool for students to ask questions and pitch this as an apt of a "best song!" for entrepreneurship. Present features, a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering at Boston University, said that the course's A.I. avatars helped him focus his pitch to investors for an electromagnetic jet propulsion and pumping system he's worked on for years.

sessions, but the purpose of the online period is to guide students through A.I. creators to and content from the business school for building a start-up.

The school aims to use Foundry to scale the school's offerings for beyond the 999 at to M.B.S. students it admits each year. In that way, it is something of a case study for companies facing a similar problem. Consulting

from the PWC, law firms and, at least in one case, a church, are also experimenting with how A.I. can expand their services to beyond their human bandwidth. So are some movie directors — an A.I. version of the actor Val Ediner, who passed away in 2012, currently was one of the historical drama "No Deep as the Crave."

When the issue is thyroid-stained working on the A.I. project in 2024, they imagined a simple chat window that would be similar to ChatGPT, but expected to arrive in a tupperware, said Katharina Ringo, the project director of Foundry. But after the school released, a viral product in October, she said, it heard from students

down that they wanted a more guided experience, which led to the current version, available since April.

Harvard Business School famously grades on a forced cover, and Foundry had to intentionally reach the A.I. to not be obsequious, a common trait of large language models, said Tom Rosemann, a faculty co-chair for the project.

He said he's made a point of letting participants know that the A.I. agent are programmed to be as tough that virtually no start-up ideas posed to them have received a blessing on the first try. "We literally would have somebody spend 30 hours with the thing, just sort of trying and trying," he said. "That's wonderful, but really it's not the point."

The A.I. agents that chat with participants have been trained on the work of specific Harvard Business School faculty, but they also draw from wider knowledge when appropriate.

Foundry created the A.I. generated videos of professors by working closely with the A.I. avatar maker HeyGen. The positive reaction to both the A.I.

chat versions of professors and, especially, the A.I. video avatars came as a bit of a surprise.

Ringo said that in town, simply adding a phone of a professor to an A.I. chatbot increased engagement. "It was just as clear from what the users were telling us and what the numbers were saying," she said. "It seems like people actually are going to see the A.I.s, and they actually trust more, if it is based on one specific person's input."

While avatars can apply to buy the Foundry, they are not participants have found it through university departments that help students translate their companies into commercial businesses. About 45 percent of founders in the best canary sessions over the summer year individually. The rest of the 2020s, the 2020s, and the 2020s, either through a paid subscription or a free trial that H.R.S. Foundry offered to some schools. About 700 founders in the summer sessions about the program through their university.

Harold Salmons, a principal at Georgia Tech's entrepreneurship program (quadrars), said the

advantage for schools is they can serve more founders. "I can have $5.30 meetings a week, but beyond that, I literally can't," said Salmons. "We can't service the class, let alone the campus, let person constantly. So we need a way to scale."

His incorporated Foundry into a 12-week entrepreneurship program is a 2-year, 2-year, and 2-year faculty over the summer and August on to continue offering the course to graduate students.

Foundry participants said that the business school is a good, and then didn't lose them. Some had already been asking A.I. for advice, and found the H.R.S. version more tailored to their needs.

Ponzer Soltania, a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering at Boston University, has spent years developing an electromagnetic jet propulsion and pumping system for underwater applications. But he was only a few months into creating a business around it, called Magnesia Robin Jr., when the B.I. entrepreneur ship owner gave him access to H.R.S. Foundry.

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avatars helped him focus his pitch. "As an engineer you want to think. Oh there's no many are cases, surely when I pitch that to an investor that is more business worthy," he said. The A.I. avatars pushed him to pick one to highlight.

It was also helpful, Soltania said, that the A.I. avatars were always available when he had time, which as a busy founder and Ph.D. student, is not always predictable. "I kind of want the platform there that I can talk to, even if it's a class, anytime I want," he said.

When Dragana Savni started Foundry, she had already raised more than $1 million of venture funding for her company, DGA Biosciences, which makes a device for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. The University of Massachusetts Business's Ventures Development Center, where she is an entrepreneur in evidence, sponsored her admission to the program. The video avatars simulations of board and pitch meetings, she said, were one of the best features.

"You can really hash out things before you actually enter a situation like that," she said. "It's a good way to practice."

Eventually, Consensus said, Harvard Business School may allow other universities to add avatars of their own professors.

"Though he all of the A.I. scientists, he acknowledged, use of the most popular features of the product has been the heroine that is the core product ever rolled to the project to talk with each other." They love the A.I. They're using the A.I., they're learning a lot," he said. "But it keeps coming back to humanity!"

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U.S. Economy Could Feel Sting From Canada Trade War

more than in Canada than having trade climate persists.

Assistance Direct, the U.S. trade representative, told Fox News on Saturday that there were no new sales planned with his Canadian counterparts, adding that the administration was “moving forward” with its tariffs.

In response, Canada showed no sign that it planned to back down. Hours later, Mark Carney, the country’s prime minister, threatened to unveil its own tariff measures against the United States shortly after Labor Day, targeting sectors including agriculture, need and deconciation.

At one point, Mr. Carney even said his country was “as real”.

Mr. Trump’s new duties — or a 50 percent — apply to about $20 billion in Canada’s exports to the United States, according to an minimization officials. The list of covered goods numbers into the hundreds, and includes Canadian-made feeders sticks, locations and daily products, which could become too expensive for U.S. consumers to import.

Overall, though, the tariffs apply to a small fraction of trade income from the nation’s, among the impact, at least for now. In an early analysis, John Ricco, the deputy director of policy analysis at the Yale Budget Lab, a comparison from said, said the new tariffs would raise the average tariff rate on Canadian imports to about 7.5 percent, from roughly 5.2 percent.

The United States already had to place绝对 tariffs on other critical Canadian imports, including its taxes on food and cars, the, and like Mr. Trump’s past tariffs, the duties he imposed Saturday come with on special exemption for goods that are otherwise covered under a trade agreement that United States hindered with Canada and Mexico, a past that the president separately has said he hopes to revive or fail.

As Brunsmire, the chief economist at the audit and consulting firm KCM-15, said he still believed

President Trump’s new duties — set at 50 percent — apply to about $20 billion in Canada’s exports to the United States, according to minimization officials.

a deal was possible. But he added that the risks of escalation were also real — and could be costly.

For one thing, Mr. Brunsmire said he expected that Canada might take aim “where it hurts the most,” perhaps including the U.S. men industry. That could mean he “risks around the inflation outlook” at a time when manufacturing continues to lag.

A retaliatory cycle could complicate the nation’s existing banks with inflation, which remains well above the 2 percent target that the Federal Reserve aims for, despite

Mr. Trump’s arguments to the contrary! At first, rising prices prompted the president just last week to relax his tariffs on beef imports, a tacit acknowledgement that his trade policies had hit American wallets.

Surroundingly, these economic anxieties have also spilled into financial markets. Concerns about America’s mounting debt load, which hit $40 trillion last week, helped about public on government bonds making. The war with Iran has also posed economic challenges, comparing growth globally

while causing fuel costs to rise.

Under Immersion in Congress cited additional risks as they are tucked the president to record days, arguing that his threats against Canada could create real economic blowback for the United States. Shortly after the tariffs were into effect, Senator Peter Welch, Democrat of Vermont, described the duties as a “stay in the face” to farmers and others to his point that do business across the border.

“Cross-border business relationships, built over decades, are

in the torts,” he said. “Uncertainty about a long-term trade load may not almost ally his greens, and long-term trade negotiations seem to move for on lot.”

But there was still a sense among some on Washington and Wall Street that the week with Canada might still be avoided — and that the drama playing not as public reflected the new-sound course of business with Mr. Trump.

“We’ve all been conditioned on the sequencing of these negotiations,” Mr. Brunsmire said.

Union Engineers Reject Boeing’s Contract Offer

By JOE REYNING

More than two-thirds of a union representing engineers and technicians at Boeing have vended out, yet the latest contract offer from the aircraft manufacturer, was stigned off on a potential strike action if their current contract or agencies (October without a replacement.

Members of the Society of the Businesses of Engineers for Engineers, in newspaper reported Boeing’s program of construction, and the first to begin next four to begin its unanimous endorsement by the union’s negotiating committee. The wage increase would

have been the group’s largest since 1981, the union said.

In a statement, the union, which represents roughly 15,000 Boeing workers, said the vote on Friday underscored a deep distrust between its members and corporate management.

“To important to acknowledge how we got here; this staircase was held back by brick over the past several centuries,” the union negotiators said in a statement.

A Boeing vice president, Ben Nimmerga, said the company was disappointment with the vote.

“We gave a strong contract offer to position our employees

among the market leaders to pay and benefits to the Pacific Northwest,” Mr. Nimmergal, the company’s functional chief engineer for production engineering, said in a statement. “We are now single-

menting our strike contingency plan,” he added.

Union negotiators will canvass members to better understand what is needed to get the contract passed, with the aim of securing a

Boeing’s plant in Boston, Wash. Engineers and technicians voted down the first’s contract proposal.

new deal before the current contract runs out on Oct. 6, the union’s statement said.

“However, we also are prepared to call for a labor campaign, based on the overwhelming support of our members for the strike on theatlantas won’t be union said.

Boeing has dealt with other strikes in recent years. About 12,000 Boeing workers—whomonly build commercial plants on the facette area were on strike for nearly two months in 2019 before reaching a deal and returning to work. The next year, about 2,000 Boeing workers who build fighters—a real weapons in the St. Louis area were on strike for more than three months before approving a new contract.

TikTok to Pay $400 Million For Violating Child Privacy

By DAVID McCABE

women over — TikTok has reached a $400 million settlement in a lawsuit brought by the Justice Department that accused the company of illegally gathering children’s information.

The 2016 real, filed under the Borden administration, claimed that TikTok had gained millions from service under the age of 12 without parental permission. The suit was filed in 24 hours ago, allowing children to create accounts and of failing to know parents’ requests to delete their children’s accounts.

The 2016 violated federal privacy law along with a 2009 agreement with the government in which the app presented to take steps to protect children’s privacy, according to the government.

Under the settlement announced Friday TikTok will pay $200 million. The Justice Department also asked the court to obtain into the 2016 agreement after which TikTok would pay the government an additional $200 million according to a Justice Department news release.

The settlement is the latest by the Trump administration as it takes a softer approach toward fighting children’s litigation against several major companies.

In March, the Justice Department settled a lawsuit that accused Gov. Nutter, the owner of the property, of illegally maintaining a monopoly. The government also reached a settlement that said that allowed the without-app company Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy a rival, Juniper Surouska, over the objection of some state attorney’s general.

The settlement between TikTok and the government also marks the latest win for the popular short-stake app under the second Trump administration.

During President Trump’s first term, he signed an executive order to have its Chinese owner, RymChann, to sell it. But TikTok successfully sued to block that ban in 2014 former President Joseph F. Biden Jr. signed a law that would ban the app unless it was sold in a state-Chinese owner.

After Mr. Trump returned to office, he repeatedly delayed enforcement of that law. In January, RymChann announced that it had reached a deal, hammered out with the United States government, that upon off its U.S. operations to a group of non-Chinese investors.

“Rumors of 'Emotional' is an economic attorney general, called the settlement 'a major victory for American people and parents' is a statement. A spokeswoman for the U.S. version of TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Paramount and California to Hold Preliminary Talks

By Lauren Hirsch, Benjamin Wallis and Laurie Benardell

Representatives for Paramount and the State of California are set to meet on Monday to discuss a potential path for setting the report lawsuit that seeks to halt Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, four people headed on the upcoming discussions said.

The talks are preliminary, and there is an assurance that they will lead to meaningful negotiations toward a settlement, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions were private. Paramount requested the meeting, two of the people said.

Paramount's merger with Warner Bros. would create a media powerhouse combining two major recent studies, multiple streaming services and the news, outlets CNN and CBS News.

Last month, California led 12 state attorneys general to using in block the deal, arguing it would create a media company with such new market plans, to cable direct sales and studies.

The meeting, which will include the business and industry from each side, has been in the works for a little over 20 years, and, most of the people. It remains on those what resolution Paramount and other law, which could be an attorneys general. Paramount and clinical to comment for this article.

California’s attorney general, Robert Busta, has said he would have been a major business and it considers no resolve the lawsuit, which typically means setting up pieces of a business. Executives are often reluctant to first off the deal, and the business of the because they have already made financial assumptions about the combined operation.

Paramount's advisers have been evaluating possible solu-

Robert Busta, California’s attorney general, is leading a lawsuit in block Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros.

tions, one of the people said. Any solution would likely have to address at least one of two key concerns the states have: the law of Paramount's cable business and the size of its movie studio businesses relative to their overall success. A number of major chains have come out in support of the deal in recent weeks.

“If the opposing party in litigation wants to meet in good faith to make a sincere effort to resolve the case, we’ll meet,” Mr. Busta said Friday in a statement, adding that Paramount would need to make conclusions to address the stated concerns in any potential discussions. Variety earlier reported to the sides were planning to block Monday.

With a trial scheduled for March, the delay could cost the

company hundreds of millions of dollars to fees that the company must start paying to Warner Brothers shareholders if the deal is not closed by October. Paramount has agreed to pause the deal until June if the case has not been resolved for time.

The lawsuit has also delayed the cost savings that Paramount had been eyeing from the deal, while also creating great uncertainty for both companies, as well as the broader entertainment industry.

Concerns about the delay’s impact is contributing to mounting pressure for the two talks to come to a resolution. On Thursday, Mayor Robert Busta issued a release saying she was calling for “a cash and urgent resolution” to the litigation. She said the statement

came on the basis of a meeting with labor leaders in the entertainment industry and members of the Mayor’s Entertainment Industry Council.

“Production in LA are hurting and had no trying, happiness are out of a job because ongoing disputes exist the proposal brought more further finding in our right to’s time for all parties to come to the table,” the mayor said in the release.

The Writers Guild Association, which has also conferred the acquisition, denounced Ms. Busta statement, saying it was “disappointed” that the mayor has chosen to “join Paramount’s presence campaign” to settle the dispute.

David McCabe (cert./he/ed) reporting.

Spiked Column on Trans Issue Prompts Resignation in Seattle

By BENJAMIN MULLIN

Matt Calkins, a columnist for the agency’s section of The Seattle Times, said he had resigned this month after editors refused to publish a column he wrote about transgender athletes competing in women's rights.

Mr. Calkins, 44, announced his resignation in a post Thursday on the newsletter platform Substack. He said in an interview with The Seattle Times, that the issue arrived at the decision after editors declined to publish a series of reports on the grant column for women, including that one about transgender athletes, to it, he argued that opportunity a ban on transgender athletes in women’s sports did not automatically make a person transplode.

“When I take commercial stands that kind of go against the goals, spiked,” said Mr. Calkins, who had been a columnist at the newspaper for 12 years. “Anything else is that”.

A spokeswoman for The Seattle Times declined to comment on the report of resignation.

Mr. Calkins’s Substack post (trunk when might normally be a routine newsroom disagreement, transgender news signing into a new publication about signalling and trivial ban at traditional media outlets.

His editors originally told him that there would be a delay with the column, which will delay the July, according to small correspondence reviewed by The New York Times. Mr. Calkins then returned another small statement that the report was based on the column the column. After that, he said, an editor informed him that the column would not be published because he hadn’t released it with editors before writing it.

A Seattle Times sports editor resigned after editors declined to publish commercial columns.

in that point, Mr. Calkins said, an informed his editor that he would resign. He passed the column on Substack.

Mr. Calkins said his editors had turned down other columns that he felt repeated views that were “to the right of how most of the newsroom feels.” One column, he said, questioned the validity of the signature (we will brought by the press with the record) which the other was a column on so-called crowd culture in sports. Editors did publish our such column, he said, which is because the decision was made, and that they had a finality founders' search game.

“I’ve been so other papers where the column was a major deal for just kind of said. Cheers will be more than one year, I get to Let’s figure it out,” Mr. Calkins said. “It wasn’t so much the case that I was.”

Mr. Calkins said he had decided to come he won’t because he didn’t believe that “fading agency into the right in the way to go”.

“I felt like I owed something to the public to may why I’m leaving,” he said.

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Dave Marsh, 76, Who Loved Springsteen and Hated the Heart, Dies

By ALICE WILLIAMS

Dave Marsh, an influential and idiosyncratic rock critic who championed passion over public, helped catapult Bruce Springsteen to falter and featured the Grumful Dead as "the worst band in creation," that on Aug. 14 at the home in Norwalk, Conn. He won '26.

The cause was complications of posterior cortical atrophy, a form of dementia, his wife, Barbara and others.

Mr. Marsh, a star writer and editor for Crown, the taste-shaping Detroit rock magazine, said Bolling Stone, was among apprentices of pioneering critics, including Lynne Bangs, Jim Landau and Greil Marcus, who shaped how the world saw the golden age of rock.

He could be quirky, he a lot of the 30 greatest rock 'n' roll guitarists included in "The Book of Rock Lore" (1961, written with Kevin Stunt), he ordered Carl Wilson of the Board. He was a talented novice, but no one's idea of a shoulder — above the Bethanol level, thank Jimmy Page and Duane Johnson.

"We was here with the Dick of contraction," Mr. Landau, who went on to manage and produce Mr. Springsteen, said in an interview. "He loved it argue, sometimes cast for the sake of arguing."

But the opinions Mr. Marsh held, he had with conviction. Mr. Marcus once described his work as "heartfelt, heart on your sleeve, blood in your mouth."

With tastes that ran from the fingerness to the Sex Pistols — with heavy helping of gangster, rock, and, R&B and heartland rock from Bob Super along the way — Mr. Marsh, proud of his blue-collar origins, was a more popular as well as what Mr. Landau called a "classicist" who entered clear of ephemeral features.

The mission of rock, he once wrote, was to bring "a glorious possibility, a chance to communicate across all the gaps in our society — gaps at their, God, region, gender, generation, education."

Given that Mr. Springsteen's goal was similar, it was little wonder that, among the more than two dozen books that Mr. Marsh published, including appraisals of Elvis Presley, George Clinton and the Who, five were about the hand of the literary swamps, starting with the best-selling "Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story" (1970), the first major biography of the artist.

"My great friend Dave, with his struggle-out-of-Detroit — attitude, was a true rock 'n' roll life," Mr. Springsteen wrote on social media after Mr. Marsh's death.

"He deeply believed in what I was trying to accomplish," Mr. Springsteen added, "and his lifetime of support meant the world's one."

A commitment of raw minimalism, Mr. Marsh was one of the first journalists to use the term punk rock, in a 1971 Crown column about the Michigan garage rockers 7 and the Mysterious Question Mark and the Mysteriosus. In 1993, he published an article book on a timeless three-shoted Japanese rave, "Louie Louie: The History and Mythology of the

ALICE WILLIAMS

Dave Marsh in 1987. Greil Marcus, a critic, once described Mr. Marsh's work as "heartfelt, heart on your sleeve, blood in your mouth."

Mr. Marsh in 1981, signing his Bruce Springsteen biography, "Born to Run." Mr. Marsh, at right on left, in 2010 with Mr. Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt at a cancer fund-raiser in New York City.

World's Most Famous Rock 'n' Roll Song."

To last, rock did not need filigranz notes or 24-track production to touch the heart: "Rock 'n' roll is an attitude," he once wrote. "It's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, approaching things."

What good music required, he believed, was emotional authority to his lifetime. "The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 13th Greatest Singles Ever Made," considered a landmark of music criticism, he listed at No. 1 Marvin Gupt's recording of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." That 1968 version of the song, he wrote, isn't "a plea to save a love affair; it's Marvin Gupt's essay on salvaging the human spirit."

In a Rolling Stone review of 1993 Smith's vulnerable and brutal 1978 album "Easter," he called her "the most profoundly religious American popular performer since Jim Morrison."

A critic who helped to shape how the world saw the golden age of rock 'n' roll.

Conversely, he felt that the bombastic music of progressive rock is what the Emerson, Luke & Heller or and Yes, with their Carnegie Hall-worthy on federal arrangements and virtuous musicianship, was "rock arrogant," in his wrote in Rolling Stone in 1977, "because it refuses to articulate jazz what sounds its complex structures are meant to evoke."

He reserved equal to for what he considered dark, madless corporate rock. In "The New Rolling Stone Record Guide" (1981), he gave every one of Journey's nine albums up to that point — including the 1981 Jaggerknot "Europe," which sold over 10 million copies

— one out of five stars.

The band, he wrote, "made recently perfectly calculated to be more than a single radio station." "England Wives' rock, dead on its feet without any awareness of the utter triviality."

In the same record guide, Mr. Marsh called the Grumful Dead, with their unrommed space pain and druggy ears, an "unwrought hope over to that's actually worthless except for documentary purposes." In a Rolling Stone review of Queen's 1978 album, "Jazz," he said the group "may be the first truly fascist rock band."

History did not always prove him right. A Dylan ad})(not, he nevertheless added) "Blood on the Trucks" (1973), now recently hailed in a masterpiece, writing, "The long songs, particularly, suffer from flat, tangled imagery, and the music, with all its bans at the old guts, is often incompetently performed."

As he said in a 1987 interview with The Washington Post, "I was always a hard-ass in terms of my opinions."

David Rodney Marsh was born on March 5, 1956, in Pontiac, Mich., the oldest of three children of Oliver Marsh, a labor missionist officer for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, and Mary (Evans) Marsh, a teacher's friend.

He grew up learning to R&B records at the height of the Marines era, and the music helped him realize that "all the inequality and segregation and racism I had been brought up with had to be wrong," he said in a 1989 radio interview with the author Slade Israel.

He wrote for the newspaper's Waterford Kettering High School, second, three, from which he graduated in 1986, and at Wayne State University, which he abandoned after a year.

At 19, he "talked my way into Crown," he later recalled. He heedleed the story of the Springsteen, as Mr. Landau put a helping define the professional hard-edge Detroit mindship and giving an early stump of what he had to foreword local bands like Jaggerknot the Sturges and the WCS, who created a blueprint for punk rock.

After rising to become the editor in 1940 of Crown, Mr. Marsh left it the early 1970s because of mounting tensions with Barry Kramer, the magazine's publisher.

He moved to the Boston area and began writing for The Real Paper, a trailblazing alternative newspaper. In the spring of 1974, he and Mr. Landau headed to the Harvard Square Theater to check out a fruggy troubadour out of January Park, N.J.

"I expected nothing," Mr. Marsh said wrote. "I got everything."

He became a close friend of Mr. Springsteen's, as well as a leading

DAVE MARSH

THE HEART OF ROCK & SOUL

Of the 30 books Mr. Marsh published, his 1980 book, above, is considered a landmark of music criticism.

interpreter of his work; his wife, Mr. Carr, helped Mr. Landau manage Mr. Springsteen. The easy relationship drew visuality, which Mr. Marsh did not duck.

"Hidden conflicts of interest are we good," he wrote in the introduction to his 1967 biography, "Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1960s," "Open conflicts of interest are part of the story."

In the early 1960s, Mr. Marsh was a founder of Rock & Roll Confidential, a left-wing, monthly newsletter that billed itself as "the Voice of the Underside Element," exploring music, censorship and corporate greed.

Later that decade, he collaborated with Mary Morello, who would become the chief opponent of Egger Gorn, the future second lady, in a widely publicized battle over labeling records for potentially offensive content.

"If you don't think a label is a hero of censorship," he said The Miami Herald in 1946. "Ask anyone who had to wear a yellow star in their Germany."

In more recent years, he was a host, with Jim Bordin, of "E Street Radio," a weekly program for Springnews fanatics, and periodic events, and their latest show, "Rock Out the Dates," both on first of the 1980s.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by a very grandchild and a sister, Paddy English. Mr. Marsh's unpalapable! Sasha Carr died in 2016, number unpalapable, Kristen Ann Carr, died of sarcoma in 1993 and inspired the creation of a band in her name supporting cancer research and patient care, for which Mr. Marsh helped raise money.

While Mr. Marsh was known for his fierce advocacy for baby-banner singles like the Beatles and Marines, his name evolved with the times, and he came to see hip-hop as a more earthshaking popular art form than punk. In 1980, the newsletter he edited changed its title to Rock & Roll Confidential.

"Do I think that the revolution in who rock 'n' roll, or in part of white rock 'n' roll, this happened in England and was stillborn in the United States with punk, approaches the significance of the rise of rap music?" he said in an interview with the writer Scott Woods. "That's a silly idea."

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Victor Niederhoffer, 82, Sticks Picked and Priced Excentric Dies

By MICHAEL S. ROSENWALD

Victor Niederhoffer, a quickly peltymish who presented using computers to predict short-term movements in stocks and commodities — a volatile, high-stakes trading technique that made him and his clients a fortune, which he subsequently lost, regained, then lost again, tied out way, 4 at his home to Wexner, Conn. He was 82. The death was confirmed by his family.

In an industry of big personalities, Mr. Niederhoffer outgars fortune to reactivity the most mismatched members on the squads story, ordered donors by their donors, honored bookstores in his socks and read just one newspaper, The National Enquirer.

His 20,000-square-foot, Tadeo-style mantras served as his tracing post and pervived mascara, with spreading collections of rare books, mechanical ray backs, paintings of shipwrecks, symbols from around the world and brown-writers by scientists, presidents and other illustrious people.

"His curiosity was insatiable, and he just lost a ditch long," Andrew W. Lo, a friend and professor of finance at M.I.T., said in an interview. "Talking to him was a very success. His just never knew where his mind would go."

"He has all the power offered and I'm in practice," Mr. Niederhoffer developed an appetite for risk while growing up in the family. "He has a neighborhood of five-skies, where he has six paddle skid, theaters and card games against guys with sick-leaves like Nervous Felt, Big Joe Irving, the Refugee and Bodyman."

"Brighton was the filer-tard of my education in a speculator," he wrote in "The Education of a Speculator" (1997). "The games, bargains, music, sex and foons maybe not to appreciate the earths and sixty-girlity. That's the proper foundation for having low and selling high-fat trade in a speculator."

As an economic major at the real life-tract, he became suspicious of the efficient market for pedestals — the theory that made price movements were not profitable.

The high-throughput in the theory he examined the movement of stock prices during to 1996, the identified patterns in the way stocks were up and down during trading in the market. "The price popping" effect that could be capitalized on with quick trade."

After graduating in 1996, he credited to the doctoral program in finance at the University of Chicago, where the efficient market theory was golden.

Gentiling through more records, he found evidence that stock prices had reduced. "The price-crading option that were more likely to fit helps than on these

Victor Niederhoffer in 2006 among his many collections in his maniacs in Connecticut. He gained and lost fortunes twice, and the only newspaper that he read was The National Enquirer.

In 1976 with his first wife, Gail Niederhoffer, and his daughter Gail, one of the seven children whom he had with those women.

days. When he argued his position in class, there was nearly a rise.

"During and leaving home out," he later wrote. "Some of the more revered professors stood up to demand that I return. I expected an old roadsville-style book to push me out by the neck."

He earned his doctorate in 1993 and taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for several years before moving to New York to start his own business. Unscathed to find patterns in stock movements, he recorded stock prices in large budgets and entered them into a computer program that he had written to stock patterns.

In 1975, Mr. Niederhoffer began writing for himself with 250,000.

Eighteen months later, after turning that into ten 520 million, he opened his own badge fund, more than a year — was the complexity — on his computer program.

"You have to do a lot of censoring, and you have to have a scientific store," he said in 1977 on the Bloomberg podcast "Batteries in Business." "But I don't believe that algorithms and robot trading is the secret to success. I believe you have to have a higher framework."

He did not mean God, but rather the patterns that he had identified in strategy. Biology, physics and, especially, music.

Highly after heck of before a holding the markets have a tendency to encumber up and down in a

five-point range above and below the opening. He wrote: "The partners is similar to the breaking 2 major 500s of thumbs, symptoms."

In some Wall Street observers, Mr. Niederhoffer appeared bare-brained and reckless. But as his poorly returns named in 10 percent and higher, big-name investors, including George Jones, began nearing him their cash.

Embedded. Mr. Niederhoffer turned to foreign students, particularly Thailand, where he sent a friend to investigate the economic conditions by looking into, among other things, the length of disturbed cigarette butts. (Long butts meant discretionary income was high; smokers could afford to waste tobacco.)

In spring 1997, Mr. Niederhoffer invented several hundred million dollars in Thai securities, including heavily against his holdings to increase his positions. The Thai government has also adopted a chain of events that wiped out Mr. Niederhoffer and his investors.

Nearly twists, he mortgaged his house and liquidated some of his collections. "I was shot-in," he said in an interview with Haan in 2010. "I had lost money for my customers, and that was very terrible. And I had lost my holiday of comparison in my chosen field."

Slowly, he began trading again — first for himself and then for chores. His tactics did not change, but the world is reattributed. All, with quantitative trading taking off his Wall Street.

By early 1997, he had recovered

In a 1997 book, he credited "the games, bargains, music, sex and foons" of Brighton Beach.

his fortune and his reputation. Later that year, the subjective mortgage crisis speeded his search leveraged trades and wiped him out again.

"In both cases," he told Haan, "I was in over my head."

Victor Barry Niederhoffer was born at New, St. Neb, in Brooklyn, Newt. Niederhoffer, 1940, was York City police lieutenant who later taught at the AMA and College of Criminal Justice, and Police (Cranberry) Niederhoffer in English teacher.

Gentiling was woven into his childhood. When he was 17, he was an uncle slipped out of cytogagne in her on a playoff game between the Brooklyn College of Criminal Now York Giants, losing the ber when Bofler Thurston hit the bottom "died behind 'round the world'" home run.

In school, Victor was a handful. "Although a little trying at times, you were the spank that also needed this year," he sixth grade teacher wrote to him, as recounted in a 2007 profile of Mr. Niederhoffer in The New Yorker. "You have a keen mind: learn to curb your institutions to demonstrate superiority."

His competitiveness made him a ruthless opponent in sports, especially handball, paddle ball and tennis.

In college, he stumbled on students playing a country club sport that he had never seen in Brighton Beach, squash. He taught at back Barnaby, Harvard's coach, and told him, "I'm going to be the best ever!"

Attuned, Mr. Barnaby taught Victor to play Welles 14 months. He had won the national junior championships in 1964, during his senior year, he captured the National Intercollegiate Individual title.

He continued playing in graduate school and during his early days as a traitor, winning the U.S.

Using computers to predict short-term price shifts, which has become common.

National Singles championships five times. In 1975, he beat the squash legend Stuart Khan to win the prestigious North American Open.

Short-term as he dismissed the game, Mr. Niederhoffer never made it in with the WUSIP's squash crowd. He went into one-foot-ribes and held sluggish at the ground with vitreous and occasionally propped up his feet on heavy furniture.

To really reached the conclusion that he was one of the few people who discovered to be called a genius," Mr. Barnaby told The Washington Post in 1987. "He could take away a pressure better than any player I've ever seen."

Of the exact and trading floor, Mr. Niederhoffer's life was "more complicated than figure" later. "The world is the world. Now Yorker — an allusion to the media snagely multiple marriages and complicated relationships with his six children."

He was a student had seven children with three women; two married close friends with his six wife, Gail Niederhoffer, and had a public falling out with his oldest daughter, Gail Niederhoffer. A writer and movie producer named after the Victorian peltysore, Sir Francis Cullen, Coombs' daughter, Rand Niederhoffer, was named after Jun Brady.

He is survived by his wife, Susan Niederhoffer; then free daughters, Rand, Victoria, Amanda and Ken Niederhoffer; two daughters from his previous marriage, Gail and Katie Niederhoffer; a son, Aubrey Niederhoffer; from a relationship with Laurel Kinsore; a former editor at Bloomsheg, 15 grandchildren; and two siblings, Roy Niederhoffer and Diane Klein.

In 2009, before falling out with her father, Gail Niederhoffer wrote an essay in Virgin school, the after the second catastrophe collapse of his business.

"For anyone who has lost through hours and hour times, one thing is abandoning their library is fleeting," she wrote. "It is — we all know this intuitively — a holster-crafted."

Still, Mr. Niederhoffer continued trading.

"He has only one employer," she wrote. "But he trades with the same allusion discipline. He is still media last into the right, alert for the morning he'll of the European and Asian markets, studying every permutation, setting up for every angle."

John Roussmaniere, 82, Sailing Writer Who Documented '79 Racing Disaster

By TIDY GABRIEL

John Roussmaniere, a sailing writer best known for his chilling professional man of the world, disaster in packs racing, the 1976 Fastnet Race between southwest England and Ireland, an event that changed the direction of his life, died as long as Wednesday. Many, outside Boston, He was 82. His death, at a memory can center, was from Alzheimer's disease, his family said.

Mr. Roussmaniere (provenience one-man-EER) is sometimes called the dead of American sailing historians. He wrote gracefully and without sentimentalistic about the sea and about a sport that is often associated with the Larry Ellison class of packs racers, but that also appeals to plenty of personality people drawn by the freedom of the race and exhilaration of a well-trimmed team.

He joined at a historical at Toronto University. Mr. Roussmaniere wrote grace that was readily — quoting Joseph Crowell, Lord Byrne and J.B. White — the story early.

He wrote "The Annapolis Book of Sustainability," a practical reference that has been used by the U.S. State of America and many individuals, named by the U.S. School in 1982 and now in its fourth edition. In a more formal vein, he wrote "The Golden Postmen: A New History of Tackling" (1990).

He was an experienced off-the-maker when he joined the crew of a driver from sleep, one of 100 earlier enlisted in the Fastnet Race in August 1975, with a planned roster of 645 miles from the Isle of Wight to Fastnet Rock off Ireland and then.

A twelfold movie slammed the fleet with gale-herto winds and life-last fretting waves, Mr. Roussmaniere was at the wheel of the crowd when the owner raised his head from maintaining radio traffic and said, "People are dying out here."

Amid seen that flipped 25-foot purlin "like bathed here," as Mr. Roussmaniere later wrote, 21

Sometimes called the dean of American sailing historians.

crows abandoned their vessels, and 15 sailors died. 1940s were there and commercial and novel seamen rescued UK sailors.

Mr. Roussmaniere's terrifying account, "Fastnet, Force 10" (1949), changed the sport and his life; (The title refers to the Beaufort scale, which defines a force 10 source as one with winds of 55 to 63 m.p.h.; the scale goes up to force 0.5.

In Mr. Roussmaniere intended, the book helped spur changes that made packs racing safer. Beats evolved to become less prone to injuries; harnesses that tether sailors to their heads became stronger; and who came about the risks of offshore sailing, and how to survive life-threatening scenarios, became more than an afterthought. Mr. Roussmaniere also helped to create the U.S. Sailing Association Safety at San Jose, which some 2,500 sailors take ev-

ery year.

The tragedy, and writing "Fastnet, Force 10," featured in Mr. Roussmaniere a new appreciation for the vulnerability of life and sent him on a kind of spiritual quest, his wife, Leah Roussmaniere, said in an interview.

"It was after that book that he began to think about expanding his religiosity," she said.

In 1964, at 40, Mr. Roussmaniere entered Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he lost his wife, who was the school's associate registrar. He received a Master of Divinity degree in 1968, and they married the following year.

Though he did not enter the ministry, he published "After the Storm" (2002), a normative book about well-known ocean statistics and how survivors have looked for meaning in their aftermaths. He admitted that intra-operative studies have been made.

"Ordinarily, I express these sorts of emotions," he told The Washington Post. "I'm a Yankee, after all."

He added, "If life is a voyage, stories are a pretty good metaphor for what hits everyone at some point."

John Roussmaniere in 2023. He wrote gracefully about the exhilaration of open water in a sailboat.

John Pierce Roussmaniere was born on March 18, 1964, in Louisville, Ky., the oldest of eight children of James and Grace (Pierce's Roussmaniere).

At the time of John's birth, his father was at a receptionist in a doctor's office. His father was a fund-raiser for institutions, with his Harvard roomman, John E

Kennedy, the older Roussmaniere had been part of a main that was the national intercollegiate sailing championship in 1926.

When John was 15, the family moved to more than 15 U.S. on the Sherry Shore of Long Island, where he learned to sail in Blue Keys and other duggists; the extended life that's behind, the propicated in Concord, N.H.

He was involved a bachelor's degree in 1947 and a master's in history in the following year, both from Los Angeles, Shadwell and Irvine. In 1978, he completed officer training and served his endurance teaching history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

Uninterested in the war, however, he worked as an associate editor at Tackling magazine from 1972 to 1977 and then was an independent writer. For many years, he lived in the United States, and he was a single parent to his own sons from the second of two days early marriages. There may begin in Sharon Chkin and Aref Hall, both with him.

Besides his wife, he is survived by his sons with Mr. Hall, Dean and Will, first siblings, Peter, David, Joe, Arthur and Kate Roussmaniere, and five grandchildren.

Mr. Roussmaniere helped the American Cup skipper Dennis Conner write a memoir, "No Excuse to Love" (1978), and edited "Devilside and Underaride Characteristics of Offshore Tackle" (1981) for the Technical Center, one of the Training Club of America.

By also finished under Newport Bernards Race, three times in total, although not many other offshore cruises, lagging some 40,000 miles of ocean sailing. He served as chairman of the selection committee for the American Cup Hall of Fame.

His own 1979 Fastnet race ended without serious incidents. He was a member of the full scope of the tragedy until the final day in Plymouth, England, where he saw the wharf crowded with stone-silver people sentmen to the end of their lives.

In writing his book about the disaster, he interviewed survivors, rescuers and grieving family members throughout England. "The train every where," he wrote. "Having survived a force 10 times, I was not about to strain whatever good luck remained by driving on the right-hand side of the road."

In the Fastnet disaster, 24 crows abandoned their vessels and 15 people died, while 136 sailors were rescued. Mr. Roussmaniere's firehand and researched account, right, changed the sport and him.

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His Brutal Honesty Has Our Attention

By LEAH GREENBLATT

The New York Times is speaking with nominees for the 39th Emmy Awards, to be presented on Sept. 10 on NBC.

Recently, Richard Gadd stood in a photo studio at The New York Times, played in the glare of a spotlight beamed at him by a photographer's assistant. He gazed right back.

As a visual metaphor for Gadd's career, it's maybe a little on the nose, but fitting. With the 2020 release of "Baby Brinders", which he created, wrote and starred in, the 27-year-old Scotsman became enormously famous almost overnight. The series was six Emmys, along with numerous other acceasies, and it became one of the most watched English-language shows in Netflix's history.

"It was mad," Gadd said of the impact of the loosely autobiographical "Brinders" in it, he plays a London haremaler and aspiring comedian whose renowned instructor of sexual assault by a male mentor dovetail with the increasingly unhinged behavior of an obsessive customer (Jessica Gunning) he meets at the pub.

"The show was No. 1 in South Arabia, in Lebanon," he continued. "There were coun-

tries that were watching it on masse where a lot of the stuff being shown wasn't even allowed in these countries."

Within months of its release, Gadd began shooting another show for which he is the sole writer and also a star, the HBO limited series "Half Man." It too explores a dysfunctional dynamic between two lonely and deeply troubled people, but "Half Man," an CONTINUED ON PAGE C2

J.T. Harding, whose music drives "Music City" Off Broadway.

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The songsmith J.T. Harding gives the lowdown on writing with the likes of Keith Urban.

By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI

Meeting J.T. Harding at the Wicked Tickle just left right. After all, it is the kind of grungily honesty Nashville has where songwriters like him play gigs in the hope of being noticed by a music publisher or a star's manager fishing for new material.

Except the Wicked Tickle is not in Tennessee but inside St. Luke's Theatre, steps from Times Square. It is the immersive set for "Music City," a country jukebox musical based on Harding's catalog.

As a member of Nashville's thriving music ecosystem, known for its collaborative songwriting culture, Harding has credits on hit songs like "Smile" and "Alone With You." Peter Zintr's book for "Music City" revolves around two striving singer-songwriters, T.J. (Stephen Michael Spencer) and 23 (the musician Lauren Late Pritchard), who learn to work together so they, too, can top the charts.

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A hummingbird costume worn by Machel Montano is displayed at Central Library in Brooklyn.

Honoring a Soca King

Machel Montano's musical career is showcased in Brooklyn.

By PATRICIA MESCHINO

Decades before he became a continent-crossing soca ambassador, Machel Montano of Trinidad was putting in long nights across the polluting Brooklyn soca circuit of the late 1960s and '80s. Informer banquet halls and other spaces rented for weekend calypso and soca revues, the music, food and camaraderie offered Caribbean expatriates a welcome taste of home. For Montano, those places provided an invaluable

training ground.

"I remember at Tilden Hall, I performed alongside the top performers in the game — Superblue, beer George, Ajala, Proudler — and they would say, 'We not going on after Machel,'" Montano said in an interview last month at Lincoln Center, where he had just performed. "That was a unique schooling and a special energy that only New York could deliver."

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The New York Times's recent survey of "The 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters": "It's more than the best I've ever seen of capturing the excitement of it, the chaos of it." Osborne said of the songwriting process in a video-interview.

The Nashville scene can be feeble and tough, but it can also increase relationships.

"Through co-writing, I have seen some of my best friends," Harding said. "It is complete, like we get sure to have the next hit, but if I write something that does well, my phone just lights up with my buddies saying 'Hey, love this song,' and I do the same with them."

Harding, 51, recently sat down in one of the "Music City" dressing rooms to discuss face of the biggest hits included in the show and a lesser-known song that he believes deserves greater recognition.

Uncle Knicker, 'Smile' (2009)

"Smile" felt somehow, if not magical, from the moment we started writing it. "Uncle Knicker wrote in an email: 'To know people are still enjoying the song and discovering it for the first time almost 20 years later is pretty wild and incredibly rewarding.'"

It all started during a winery work session at Uncle Knicker's cottage in Michigan. Harding recalls the initial results as merely fine, and the musicians were beginning to pack up when Uncle Knicker (Matthew

"When a star records one of your songs and then makes it a single and then makes it a video and performs it on TV, you can't ask for anything more," J.T. Harding said.

Shake's stage name) suggested something simply called 'Smile.' The general idea was "about paying someone on the back, telling them they did a good job," Harding said. Blue Duty started playing a little piano riff and the pieces fell into place. "I felt in every molecule of my body, like, 'This is a hit song,'" Harding said. "All the other songs we wrote [that day], I forgot about."

Keith Urban, 'Somewhere in My Car' (2014)

One of the funniest scenes in Harding's customerless memoir, "Party Like a Rockstar: The Crazy, Coincidental, Hard-Lack, and Harmonious Life of a Songwriter" (2022), involves Keith Urban in a bathroom at an industry event. Embolitioned by the knowledge that Urban liked his song "Somewhere With You," written for Kenny Chesney, Harding introduces himself — after Urban was done at the actual. The gambit worked. The star gave Harding his number, and eventually the two men met up for a songwriting session.

"His wrote the first verse and the chorus, and we went our separate ways," Harding said. "He was like. I think we really have something here, he's got together again. Then I went to another studio to write the second verse with him. I walked in and most of the song was recorded. It was magic booming through these speakers."

"Somewhere in My Car" remains on Urban's set list to this day. "When a star records one of your songs and then makes it a single and then makes it a video and performs it on TV, you can't ask for anything more," Harding said.

Blake Shelton, 'Sangria' (2015)

In country music, the beverages of choice are whiskey and beer, but Osborne wanted to stop away from those clichés. "I was trying to write a song that had a little bit of an alcohol thing to it, but that wasn't the obvious thing that had been done so much," he said. The fruit-and-wise-based punch samples was the solution for Osborne, Harding and Trevor Room, from the band Old Dominion. "Trevor and funk were talking about 'Wicked Game' by Chris Isaak, and what it's was a sexy song like that," Harding said. He flashed back in an abandoned Walthy band he used to drive by: "You're cracker into me like waves on the coast," he sang, gazing a lyric. "Then Trevor was doing that very hypnotic, sexy guitar folk, and that's just how it satisfied."

Hovita Bentley and Elin King, 'Different for Girls' (2016)

This song was inspired by Harding's interest in writing about the different ways men and women deal with a broken heart. He brought the idea to McAnally, who then

wrote the line for the track "When the going gets tough, yeah, the guys they can just act tough" Harding added. "That was the glue that got the song together."

McAnally wrote in an email that "Somewhere With You" and "Different for Girls," two of his songs with Harding that are included in the show, have a lot to comment. "The male singer is speaking for a female, without manipulating, trying to empathize what it must be like on that side of the story. J.T. can cut right in the heart of a heartache and make it somehow sound like we should be dancing instead of crying."

Jo Smith, 'For This Town' (2021)

Jo Zinn was putting together the book for "Music City," he realized he needed a song that would deal with how hard it is to find success in Nashville. Harding remembered this lesser-known number, which he wrote with Jo Smith and Liz Rose (who has credits on Little Big Town's "Girl Crush" and several early Taylor Swift songs like "You Belong With Me"). One lyric states that in Nashville, "heard break's the only thing they hand out for free," which became a hit of a mantra for "Music City," Harding said. And that was just one of several memorable lines in this melancholy tune. "Man down in his own like some Laurel Canyon star" — that's classic Liz Rose," Harding said. "Her songs are as good as Tom Petty's or anyone else's."

An Invitation From Jorja Smith and Nine Other Songs

Rapody visits South Africa, and Carly Simon returns.

By JON PARELES

WHAT'S NEW

Jorja Smith, 'Dancing'

For a decade, the English R&B songwriter and singer Jorja Smith has been probing emotional spandaries with knowing vocals and insinuating rhythms. She continues on her new album, "What are the Odds?" In "Dancing," over an electronically distilled Latin beat, Smith sings, "It's been a while / Take me for me last dance again," is it a reunion or a text?

Rapody, featuring

Karabo ya Moresa and Mr. Porter, 'Ha Way'

The singer and rapper Rapody's new album, "God Gotta Abo A Gold Rango," is a declaration of faith, self-confidence, family, maturity, and course and African-dangerous connections. Rapody recorded much of the album as South Africa and in "Ha Way" she's joined by Karabo ya Moresa, a project their from Sonora. African percussion defines a sin agitation fear heat as Rapody lays claim to her culture, her career and her conscience. "Sa" her way I could be other than I am," she declares.

Carly Simon, featuring

Andress Vallenswider, 'Slowly'

While grupping with destituteing health problems, Carly Simon wrote and recorded "Canon in Waves," her first album since 2009, singing about love and perseverance.

The album title comes from the lyrics of "Slowly" Andreas Vallenswider's harpiness at Asian media as Simon leads ahead her motion, counseling patience amid insistence. "This doesn't last," she promises. "It's bound to pass."

Erykah Badu and the Alchemist, 'Witch Doctor'

With "Witch Doctor," Erykah Badu makes one of her sporadic reappearances, abetted by one of hip-hop's most subtly inventive producers, the Alchemist. Badu promises, "I know how to break that curse" and sets herself apart from a long list of pop-culture witches. The Alchemist takes over the rest of this six-minute track, keying with percussion, electronic sounds, manipulated voices and dubby spatial effects, casting a tonic incantation.

Julia Holter, 'My Lost One'

The composer and producer Julia Holter

Jorja Smith during a 2020 concert near Paris.

creates pieces that melt song forms into immersive revenue. In "My Lost One," from her new album "Alchem," the lyrics envision trees and animals invading her house, while the music evolves from a distant, whispery lullaby to an accelerating soreath.

Horse Jumper of Love, 'Heather' (2013)

Indie rock revels in the tension between confession and encryption, especially when backed by knotty guitar riffs. "I am dishonest this way," the Boston band Horse Jumper of Love allows in "Heather (2013)," one of 15 outtakes added to the release of its self-titled debut album. The voiceless guitar crossroads shove out to escape the airsbyes.

Cornelius, featuring Artu Lindsay, 'Bad Advice'

"Rethanism" — by the Japanese producer and musician Kingo Oyomata, who records as Cornelius — brings clean-lined minimalism to funk and rock. "Bad Advice" is a funk track tapped by the calmly cryptic vocals, in English and Portuguese, of Artu Lindsay, who grew up in Brazil and led the 1970s its wave New York band DNA. The production revolt in prismatic syncopations: the way beats, rhythm guitar and sustained synthesizers can instruct for nearly physiological effects.

WHAT'S BIG IN... PORTUGAL

Chico da Tina, 'Pega ou Larga'

No. 1 in Portugal this week is "Pega ou Larga" ("Chico Ii et Loave Ii") by the songwriter Chico da Tina. Tina is short for concertina, a traditional aquanathan that he has used to jovially personalize hybrids of

— among other styles — pop, hip-hop, trap, Brazilian hemi and the regional music of Moaba in northern Portugal. In "Pega ou Larga," he's a sort of boyfriend wondering where he stands. In the woman he has been dating for eight months stringing him along? Cheating! A wordless refrain tries for nonchalance, but the verses grow exasperated and desperate: "If you don't want to be with me, don't hold me back," he insists, with folkloric cantantes and concertina in the mix.

WHAT'S NEW IN JAZZ

Henry Threadgill, 'Vijay Iyer and Dafnis Prism, 'Last Night'

The saxophonist and foaled Henry Threadgill has a Pulitzer Prize; the pianist Vijay Iyer and the drummer Dafnis Prism are both MacArthur fellows. De "Filismo," their new album as a trip, they spur one another into briefing harmonies and tricky swinging rhythms, but also into moments of wry humor and delicate concentration. "Last Night," a Threadgill composition, is all angles, with jagged outsiders and a shifting meter; it builds a long, soothing dramatic arc.

Jon Batiste, 'Blue Monk'

Jon Batiste has just released three solo piano albums: one with adaptations of Mozart pieces ("Monk Mozart") and two featuring Thelonious Monk compositions ("Monk Monosomes" and "Monk Modbusions"). Batiste's New Orleans-Bardisquakes and classical previous both inform his talent. The favorite "Blue Monk" carers into dazzling single-side spritters, chromatic tangents and listen of gospel, but holds on to the cantanthemon essence of Monk's music.

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'The Best Mother in the World'

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To call Shirley Cruz's performance on Gal, the titular mother of the Brazilian drama, a tour de force would be an understatement. Right from the opening scene, when Gal is interviewed by a social worker about her husband's pictorial violence, Cruz's husband was a magician — in the way it notices despite her best attempts when she talks about her partner's drinking ("poor guy"); harmless into a resolute realm when she convinces her children they are having an "adventure" on they like her husband, and crosses in the rare moments she allows herself to wonder if they'll make it.

Gal has no money and no honor, she collects trash to make enough to feed her children, and honestly it hasn't made her name, which she maneuvers through the streets with strength and speed. Yet "The Best Mother in the World" has no more than 20 more possibilities. As she and her children make their way on her and try hard track to the home of her cousin in another town, Gal turns every hairdress into an occasion for class: They dance on the streets, bathe on fountain and eat cookies Gal steals from a store. The director, Anna Maybank, offers a gutting portrait of domestic violence, how it digs by class into its victims, and the community one needs to escape it.

'Mother's Baby'

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Johanna Meder's haunting thriller builds its tension slowly. At first, we meet Julia (Marie Leuenberger) and her husband, Georg (Hans Löhr), a picture-perfect couple, who are all smiles as they chat with a doctor at a stink, fancy private class. They've had no luck in having children, but this doctor promises that their woes are about to end. A procedure ensues, Julia is pregnant, and before you leave it, she's giving birth. Then the trouble starts.

The baby is whisked away right after it is born, purposefully for a medical reason, and presented to the couple the following day with its complications, Julia is unpleasant and wary. Day by day, her suspicions grow, as she notices anomalies: the baby's ability to sleep through even the loudest noises; the fact that the midwife comes too often and offers confusing advice; the doctor's insistence that they bring the baby to him for all issues, even though he isn't a pediatrician. None of these things are odd enough to confirm a conspiracy; per se, and so we're drawn into a beguiling mystery: Is Julia suffering from postpartum mental health issues, as her husband assumes, or is something truly sinister underway? The film turns up the horror question hit by his children asking provocative questions about social attitudes to motherhood and the predatory ways of the health care industry.

'The Woman in the Line'

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Inspired by a true story, this Argentine drama follows Andrea (Natalia Orvino), a middle-class single mother of three, whose entire world comes undone one morning when the police burst into her home and arrest her teenage son. Initially, all Andrea can master in shock and indignation. How could anyone think that her son could have done anything wrong? But as she navigates the bureaucracy of courts and prison, she learns that the world beyond her bubble has always been hard and unfair — and that she

is simply one of the many women in the long line that stretches out of the jail, all of them waiting for a home to be found.

Mining documentary and fiction, the director, Benjamin Avila, shows us the demonstrating rituals of incarceration as Andrea encounters them: the tenacres body searches, the arbitrary rules, always what you can and comes living in, and the brutal and absolute power exercised by the controversial attacks. We can take away the privileges at their when. But "The Woman in the Line" also shows us the force of solidarity in the face of injustice. During her visits, Andrea meets and becomes friends.

Mickey Cruz on Gal, pulling a hand in his face, and gives children, in "The Best Mother in the World".

with a group of women, each going through a trial of her own. Those women are all played by real-life relatives of incarcerated people, and their stories, shared in heart-breaking bits and pieces, expand the film's scope beyond a drama about a single family and into a moving political statement.

'When the Light Breaks'

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This film, by the Icelandic director Ronan Rasmussen, has a simple premise: Una (Elin Hall), a college student, is having an affair with her classmate (and handsome) Dukli (Babbir Estarvsson). He has a girlfriend, Klara (Sada Nybakstort), back home who doesn't know what her industry. The day that Dukli decides to end it with Klara so he and Una can be together openly, he dies in a car accident. Una is shattered — and unable to share the depth of her grief with any of her friends because her relationship was a secret. And when Klara arrives, things get harder and heavier.

How do you insure someone when your love for them was hidden, forbidden? Unfolding across the course of one day, "When the Light Breaks" follows Una as she grapples with her predicament, going from lowstart. Man is overcome last on: The hard scope of the film is internal. Her reach happens of note in terms of plot, but the drama plays out on the faces of the characters — young people who find that death has no service, so ill and hard, and as if it is a lonely place, survivable only in the company of others.

'Jugname. The Fable'

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her amid the Himalayad hills in 1949, Raum Reddy's name carries you in sub questions — but does not promise answers. In the very first shot, a long take, we follow Dev (Manaj Bagayero), the owner of a large orchard estate in the mountains, as he leaves home, comes a shed, stings on a pair of large wings and flies across a valley. No one in the film meets this as an unusual or remarkable occurrence, and we are provided no explanation as to why and how Dev figured out how to fly, save for a few glimpses of a beddied where he makes the contribution. There are other list of visions, too: a nomadic death who communicates with Dev's daughter without speaking (we never learn what he says); wearers of fireflies that light candles.

The story, however, is rooted in history. Dev inherited the estate from his grandfather, who received it from the British government for his service during the Raj. He and his family live in a grand bungalow inside it in to avoid array of servants, while the orchard is managed by a large creek on labovers, all of whom live in the village at the line of the mountain. They are sheeppoxies and loyal to Dev, who is kind to them, until mysterious love start touring through the orchard. As suspicious grow and relationships become strained, the fissures of class and the thefts of history come to the fore. Shor stunningly by Sand Berbat, "Jugname. The Fable" is a treat for the eyes and a child for the mind: it is also, in its own cryptic way, a peace to the past, on whose backs the rich hold their eregives.

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This Week on TV

A SELECTION OF SHOWS, SPECIALS AND MOVIES, BY SHIVANI GONZALEZ

A Little Bit Country

The first seasons of the sitcom "Lazero," which premiered last summer, followed the titular character (played by Leanne Morgan) as she navigated grief and new beginnings after her husband of 33 years left her for a younger woman. The second season begins on Thursday and Lazery Wilson, the country musician, is set to guest star along with Tim Daly, Anne Peverly and Billy Cantrell. Chuck Loren, one of the show's creators, is nicknamed "the king of sitcoms" for his work on "Two and a Half Men," "The Big Bang Theory," "blunt" and others. All 10 episodes of "London" run together. Begins streaming Thursday on Netflix.

A milestone is next for "Big Brother". That reality competition show will celebrate its 110MM episode. Season 25 is currently running, but endorsed the show will pause to celebrate with a 90-minute special hosted by Julie Chen. It will feature appearances by former houseguners (name of when have been given superinctions by the audience), both-backs at one worthy moments from the series and a preview of an coming week. Thursday at 9 p.m. on CBS.

Season 2 of "Adults," the coming-of-age series about a group of 26-sunarchings, cradling at one of their childhood homes, arrives this week and will follow the characters as they tackle all sorts of essence and practical questions. Along with the show's core star — Robin Elwood, Lory Freyer, Jack Hansen, Antela Rau and Owen Thiele — the entire premiere guest stars including Lazero, Micael Jones, Shane, Ben Marshall and Zania Matter. The season has eight episodes that will run weekly. Thursday at 9 p.m. on Hulu.

Cooking and True Crime

There's nothing like a good cooking show to take the edge off, and the feature's premiere of "Bobby's Triple Threat" seems to promise just that while signing the note. The show's premise is that the cast Bobby Flay invites another chef to compete against his handpicked "blues" if they beat the "blues" through a blind taste test, they go home with $25,000. In a reason for the lawsuit I premiere, the "blues" challenge Flay to face off against them. Tuesday at 9 p.m. on Final Network.

In April 2014, Mica Miller, a 20-year-old

From left: Antela Rau, Lory Freyer, Owen Thiele, Malik Elwood and Jack Hansen in "Adults," on Hulu.

Lazery Wilson, left, and Leanne Morgan in "Lazero."

Joel Edgerton, left, and Daya Gheriy in "Dark Matter."

in Myrtle Beach, S.C., was found dead in Lumber River State Park in North Carolina; her death was cited as an increase in investigators profiled deeper, they found that Miller had been stalked and had told the police one month before her death that she feared for her life. The police then said that Miller's husband, Jolof Paul Miller, a pastor, was a suspect in the case. In December 2020, he was indicted on charges of cybercracking and making false statements to federal investigators, the pleaded not guilty and his trial is set to begin in October. The three-part documentary "Death of the Police's Wife" tells the story of the marriage, Mica Miller's death and the investigators with the perspectives and accounts of the couple's family and friends. Begins streaming Wednesday on Netflix.

Two (Fictional) Investigations

Sometimes your just can't escape your past career, no matter how hard you try. At least, that's the case for Jack Forsythe (Shayne Wace), a former police officer who knows the hero to pursue his true passion, performing crime like cabaret. But he ends up being enlisted to help solve murder's committed on or near the ship. That is the gun of "The Good Ship Murder," whose third momen is streaming this week after it first ran on Channel 1 in Britain. This season promises the series's usual creative crime series, like the death of an American the Cameo's Fits Festival, a scavenger hunt that goes awry and a deadly night out in Ohio. The season's eight episodes will run weekly. Begins streaming Tuesday on Netflix.

The second season of "Dark Matter" begins this week with Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly and Alice Braga returning to their roles. The series began when Professor Jason Deeson (Edgerton) was debarred and taken to an alternate version of his life; he set out to return to his life and his family. Though Deeson I followed its season material, Blake Crouch's 20th novel of the same name, with Crouch at the show's helm, Deeson I will bring the story just the novel as members of the Deeson family try to adjust to their new normal. Episodes remain weekly. Begins streaming Friday on Apple TV.

Details and times are subject to change.

Assessing Week 1 of the Tupac Shakur Murder Trial

More than a dozen witnesses testified, and the defendant, Duane Keith Davis, said he feared for his family's safety.

By ANCHRA BAY'S

The first week of the trial of Duane Keith Davis, who is accused of orchestrating the shooting of the rapper Tupac Shakur, drew as a show on Friday in Las Vegas, nearly 30 years after Mr. Shakur's death.

Mr. Davis, 63, who had once been mired in the high-stakes world of hip-hop and gang violence in Compton, Calif., in the 1990s, is accused of acquiring the gun used to shoot Mr. Shakur the night of Sept. 7, 1998.

Prosecutors allege that he and three associates cruised down a street in a white Cadillac as they pursued Mr. Shakur, who was headed to a club. While Mr. Davis is not charged with firing the gun, prosecutors say he was instrumental in the shooting. His own comments to a book he wrote about his life as a gang member in Compton contributed to the decision to prosecute him.

Mr. Davis has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder with the use of a deadly weapon. The jury has heard from more than a dozen witnesses, and the trial is expected to last about a month.

Here are five takeaways from the first week.

Vioid details emerged of a night in 1996.

Garry Dale, a retired member of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, testified that minutes before the shooting he stopped the BMW carrying Mr. Shakur and his associate Marlen Knight, known as Sage. He later sat in an ambulance with Mr. Shakur, who refused to divulge the identities of his assailants.

Ingrid Stokes, one of four women in a car following Mr. Shakur to a club, recalled being feet away from Mr. Shakur's vehicle when "all hell broke loose" She said she frantically tried to flee during the garden and did not see who pulled the trigger, acknowledging there was still four about speaking about that evening: "Smirches get stitches."

Detectives describe Duane Keith Davis's first encounters with the police.

Within a few hours of the shooting, another former officer testified, the Police Department was on the lookout for four men in a light-colored Cadillac. But as law enforcement assembled in Nevada, Mr. Davis and others rushed back to Compton, where hostilities between rival gangs would escalate. In 1997, another hip-hop man, Christopher Wallace, known as Biggie, was shot and killed after a party.

Mr. Davis had appeared in a photo-breezy pot together by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department as a potential suspect in Mr. Shakur's murder, but not until Mr. Wallace was killed did he have his first encounters with any of the authorities investigating the deaths.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Police Department that was played for the jury, Mr. Davis recalled standing as a parking garage after the party when he heard people shooting that Mr. Wallace had been shot. Mr. Davis was later cleared of any suspicion.

Marlen Knight's associates spoke of simmering tensions.

Former associates of Mr. Knight described the intricacies of a war between gangs and hip-hop record companies. For at least a year, Death Row Records, a company co-founded by Mr. Knight that was aligned with the Side Fire Blends, was in conflict with Sean Combs's record company in New York and the South Side Company Corp. Mr. Davis was a member of the Crips.

Surveillance footage played in court showed a group of people including Mr. Shakur and Mr. Knight punch and kick-frechends Anderson, Mr. Davis's nephew, the night of the shooting. According to James McDonald, a member of the Blends, Mr. Davis and Mr. Anderson were among those subsequently targeted during the gang war in Compton. "I'm, was shot, vindication was a must," he said under cross-examination by Mr. Davis's lawyer, Michael Saath.

Breggie Wright Jr., the owner of a security company with which Mr. Knight worked closely, told the jury that a member of his

Prosecutors say the truth about what happened took 30 years to emerge.

security team assigned to guard Mr. Shakur and not show up. After hearing about the shooting, Mr. Wright called his father, a member of the Compton Police Department, to warn that there would be "trouble."

Mr. McDonald said Mr. Wright denied being involved in the shooting. As Mr. McDonald left the stand, he addressed Mr. Davis directly to the camp, that he was testifying because of a court order. "Even though we don't like such other, I don't want to send you to prison," he had told Mr. Davis earlier.

Detectives said that Mr. Davis's story emerged under pressure.

It took more than 10 years for law enforcement to hear the story that prosecutors say to the truth about what happened that night.

A former Los Angeles Police Department detective recalled his shock upon hearing Mr. Davis say that while he was not in-

Left, the black BMW Tupac Shakur was sitting in when he was killed. Below, Duane Keith Davis, who has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder with the use of a deadly weapon in connection with Mr. Shakur's death.

viored in Mr. Wallace's murder, "we did the other one." In December 2016, the detective, Dacris Dugene, and other law enforcement members met with Mr. Davis and his lawyer. Mr. Davis told them that after the attack on his nephew, they went looking for those responsible.

In a recording, jurors heard Mr. Davis recall how he, Mr. Anderson and two others had pulled up beside Mr. Shakur and Mr. Knight's vehicle. Realizing he would have difficulty shooting from his vantage point in the passenger seat, he passed the gun to the back. Mr. Anderson pulled the trigger after another man got cold feet, Mr. Davis says in the recording.

Mr. Davis also said that he had been hired by Mr. Combs, who was leading with Death Row, from Mr. Knight and Mr. Shakur. Mr. Combs, who is serving a prison sentence on a prostitution-related conviction, has long denied any connection to Mr. Shakur's death.

Mr. Saath, the defense lawyer, said the prosecutors case was "fiction." Mr. Dugene acknowledged that Mr. Davis told his story to detectives after they had acquired enough information to arrest him on narcotics today, and that they have told that an leverage in the hopes he would give them information related to Mr. Wallace's murder.

The defendant addressed the judge.

Defendants typically rely on their lawyers to speak for them in court, but Mr. Davis directly addressed Judge Cark Harvey on Friday with concerns about the effect of the legalization case. The family's legalization began, his car and his wife's car had all been vandalised as a result of his address being made public during the court proceedings.

Judge Harvey told the prosecutors to keep the judge informed of the seriousness of the case. Mr. Davis was not communicating with anyone he should not be.

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Richard Gadd's "Baby Boindoor" from 1933 won six Essays. The actor and writer is up for another Emmy for "Half Man," to which he start with James Bell, before right, as two men locked in a dysfunctional dynamic.

"I think sometimes people look for some sort of answer I can't provide. But I can listen."

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1 other volcanic portrait of male rage and reckoning, generally needs to a darker region.

It centers on two Scottish teenagers, Ruben and Niall, adequate implementers whose revised relationship carries some adulthood, when Gadd and the actor James Bell take over the roles. Gadd's performance has carried him another Emmy nomination for acting and invited many media think pieces on the state of modern masculinity.

In person, Gadd's gentle, thoughtful presence stands in sharp contrast with the farest characters he has portrayed unsevens. In an interview after the photo shoot, he discussed toxic cosplings and the politics of male repression. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

Is "Half Man," Ruben and Niall share an unhealthy psychosocial bond that goes on for years. Why can't they quit each other?

Niall and Ruben are extreme versions of how far a toxic relationship can get. But I think everyone knows the normal maybe or parting who are had for each other but they cannot part. I've observed that in life, and I know that archetype. And I think sometimes when two brain chemistries, body chemistries, spiritual chemistries are intertwined, it becomes extremely hard to exercise.

Ruben coming into Niall's life at a particular point, and there going through this abusive experience together — Niall needed someone there to save him. There was a debt, there was a confusion, there was an attraction. And sometimes the relationships that are hardest to shake are the ones that originated back in childhood.

You were born in 1980, which is when the main characters on the show, played as boys by Stuart Campbell and Mitchell Robertson, are already becoming young adults. Why set it then?

In the '90s, the years I grew up in, society started to progress. The '90s is this commonly provided time in the U.S. when cause of phobias and stars were just turned around like it was natural. So when I was sitting down to write "Half Man," not only did I think it would be interesting to have this big promotional gap between the two casts, I also thought, "Well, if we're going to talk about the impact that society has in terms of its prejudices, then the '90s is the decade to do that."

You had a considerable amount of weight for "Baby Boindoor" and then bullied up for "Half Man." How did the physical aspect play into these roles for you?

It's interesting: "Baby Boindoor" is based on my life, when I'd gone through quite a lot of physical and mental trauma, and I remember it very closely having a big impact

on my appetite or lack thereof. So I wanted to try and return to a certain degree of truth in that respect. I felt like there had to be a slightness and a vulnerability.

And then with Ruben, I went the other way. I wanted to feel what it's like to have that kind of power in the body. I'm smaller now because I didn't like carrying that size around with me. But when I was at my biggest from playing Ruben, I remember just going down the middle row of an airplane and people putting their heads down.

I also did have that mad haircut and the beard. But it's interesting the way society reacts to physical size. Ruben obviously does a lot of bad things — I'm not combining his behavior — but he is deeply traumatized and vulnerable. And his way of safeguarding against the world was to present as eloquently terrifying and inspiring. I sometimes look at men who are walking down the street with their cheers out, their fog shoulders from going to the gym 24/7. They want everyone to know that they're the alpha around here, and saw I think, Well, what are you hiding?

You've made brutal honesty a signature in your work. Has that made you a receptacle for strangers' secrets?

Yeah, for sure. And that's OK because it would be very cold of me to be like, "I do this, and you don't get to now come and do that to me." I always have to say that I'm on a therapist, and I think sometimes people look for some sort of answer I can't provide. But I can listen.

It can be intense, and I've never mastered the art of handling it. Especially at the height of "Baby Boindoor," it was a daily occurrence at least. But I really was surprised by how many men were coming up to me

and saying something that they'd never told anyone before. People are carrying a lot of junk. I realized.

There's been a lot of coverage of the so-called mannequins in popular culture recently. How is it to have your work sound up in that conversation?

It's interesting because I never see out with any social or political agenda. I wanted to explore male relationships, particularly male repression, but instantly people think that it's a political piece of work that's speaking to our times. I'd never heard of the mannequins!

I'd rather people just experience the show and take what they need from it, because I think one of the mistakes that television can make is they make it so obvious what they want you to feel and think.

Without spoiling the ending of "Half Man" how much, did the fetus of Ruben and Niall feel foregone?

It felt very clear as I wrote it that that's how it was to end. With the way they both chose to live their lives, with how strained and difficult they had become, it was like two memories that were bound to collide in the most destructive way.

What will you do next? Would you consider acting in a project you didn't create?

I would really love to, but I can't because, well — I don't want to jips it, but I'm very excited about what's next and looking forward to it. Oh, what do I say? I don't eat unhearing questions, but I don't want to get in trouble. I'll say this: I'm working on various different writing projects, all very different in tune. That's such a bad answer! [Langley] Sorry.

Chinese Fans Turn an Arguably Bad Animated Film Into a Hit

Moviegoers are celebrating a first-time director's passion project for its 'clumsy sincerity.'

By LEO KOU

The movie's animated visuals, pinchased and halting, have been compared to a PowerPoint presentation. The plot is ball-fling, involving heavy sets of a dream sequence. And some say its main characters — a young cat, his mother and a leopard — look more like sponges with eyes and legs attached.

Yet this low-budget children's movie, made by a 24-year-old landscape artist and his mother, has become a surprise hit in China when fans are celebrating it as a refreshing dose of authenticity in the age of artificial intelligence.

"The Bull Is Coming," by the first-time director Xin Yonning, is a coming-of-age story told through the dream of a young cat named Nia Lai as he learns to walk. The movie, a passion project of Mr. Xin's that took five years to make, was released to almost an publicity. Its poor performance — fewer than 200 miners were sold during its first 30 days in the past — was the subject of online discussion, with viewers posting photos of its crudely made animation.

Within days, though, the movie's visuals, described by viewers as "theater level," had started to a talk following. Movies mostly by younger fans, people soon flocked in theaters, making the film one of the year's best performers as it raked in

more than 20 million yuan (about 32 million) since opening on Aug. 5. Video online show moviegoers, some wearing comrades, talking and laughing uproariously throughout the movie and openly recording a front inside the theatre.

Businesses have produced Nia Lai plush toys, while fans have made dozens of memes and movie posters in place at theaters. (The film's production company did not release an official poster.) The police in the city of Delhi to outcry China used Nia Lai in a traffic safety announcement.

Even commentators from Chinese state media said they did not want to miss out. He Xijin, the former editor of the nationalist-tallied United Times, described going to "join the bar" by seeing the film. "In the theaters, all I heard from the beginning to met was laughter," he wrote on the social media platform Weibo.

In China, "The Bull Is Coming" may well become Generation Z's first cult classic, reminiscent of "The Roots," the 2001 Twenty Women film whose gaping plot boles and bizarre performances dislighten fans. While several Chinese movies have flopped and been designated as "chaos' lampies," or super-bad films, few have become popular precisely for being bad.

The film, which Mr. Xin voiced with his mother, Sun Lifang, features a plodding, often incomprehensible plot, stifled dialogue and glitch's animation, instead of using a 1. Mr. Xin appeared in take a low-fi approach reminiscent of 2000s-style animation, said Michael Berry, a producer of Chinese literature and cinema at the University of California, Los Angeles.

"This almost seems to be a cinematic re-

action to the 'lying flat' movement," he said, referring to the Chinese trend of doing the fans minimum to protect a culture of intense competition. The film appears to resist the industry's technological rat race and instead embraces something "wontingly 'backward,' 'sandated' and 'silly,' "Pro-brook Berry said.

Others interpreted the public's enthusiasm for "The Bull Is Coming" as a rejection of the mere predictable, algorithm-cited big-budget productions coming out of Hollywood and Chinese studies.

The film, which viewers have described as better than most comrades, also offers emotional release for China's youth as they face the pressures of a moving economy. And it is a source of unexpected and unscrupled levity at a time when regulators are resorting the country's entertainment industry, including comrades, even men.

So, Pong, a blogger from Sichuan Province, said the lack of digital enhancement had resulted in a "clumsy sincerity" that was increasingly absent in today's movies. "His matter how polished are it, I, production is, it is still fake," he wrote on WeChat. "However unrefined 'Nia Lai' may look, it was made by a person," he added, using the film's Chinese name.

Others have gone to see the film for good luck, hoping that it will bring about a "bad market," according to videos posted online at Chinese literature showing off their videos. The country's A.I. books, coupled with its push in robotics and other advanced manufacturing, is finding a wave of stock market listings this year.

Mr. Xin, who did not respond to requests for comment, has not made any public

statements since his film became a viral success. In a podcast interview before the movie's release, he said he was inspired by cartoons he watched as a child as well as animated films. He did not use A.I. tools, he said, because none were available when he started the project in 2022. Mr. Xin described buying secondhand equipment, arguing over the script with his mother — who also composed the movie's scare — and many her sights.

Asked about the lack of publicity for the film, he said: "Honestly, for a film like mine, there's no point in doing any of that. We should just release it. As for whether the audience and the market accept it, only time will tell."

A fan's poster promoting the barely publicized, low-budget film "The Bull Is Coming" at a Beijing theatre. The film's production company did not bother to release an official poster.

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linked to Trinidad's Carnival — when competitions determine the pecking order of soca, reggae and calypso artists — his international career took over in New York. Fittingly, he will make history as the first Caribbean entertainer honored with a retrospective at the Brooklyn Public Library's Central Branch. The exhibition, "Journey of a Soca King," opened on Saturday and runs to Sept. 23.

In putting on the show, the branch, which sits at the entrance of the annual West Indie on Day Parade, sought to spotlight an element of the culture.

Brooklyn is home to one of the largest Caribbean communities in the world, and we are delighted to place a spotlight on this extraordinary artist — continuing our deep commitment to demonstrating history, reflecting the vision and experiences of the communities we serve," Linda E. Johnson, president and chief executive of the library, said in a statement.

The exhibition showcases memorabilia from Montana's career stretching across five decades, meticulously compiled and maintained by Elizabeth Montana, his mother, former manager and biographer, known as Lady. She began assembling it in 1982 starting with a crown Machol won as a

6-year-old in his first scholastic calypso competition.

It features over 100 physical objects, including five previously unseen, hand-heard lyric books, and recording equipment that traces Montana's transition from analog to digital recording. On view in the France 88 eight-track reel-to-reel Montana used to produce his 1995 soca/house single "Come Dig It," which landed him a contract with the Los Angeles Indie label Delicious Vinyl.

The wealth of archival material would not have existed without Montana's family. Lady and Winston (theory) Montana, the singer's parents, were teachers, but they believed their own values would lead to a future mutage. "We researched and saw the importance of collecting and documenting these things," Lady Montana said. "People said I was a boarder, but they didn't know that I was preserving a legacy."

In the library's main lobby, a large screen continuously hinge Montana's music videos and performances. A second screen offers a sampling of the Machol Montana Digital Archive, which includes concerts, Carnival competition performances, documentaries, photos and media clippings. Uptitters, six 83-foot 3-D screen displays virtual models of artifacts, such as the six-foot trophy he was awarded as Carnival's 2024 Calypso Monarch, that were too large to transport

from Trinidad. Visitors can scan QR codes to learn more about individual items.

Talent together, the objects undercover the connection between Brooklyn's Caribbean community and Machol's accent in soca, a spiritual, fast-paced style derived from calypso that originated in Trinidad and Tobago. Carnival season in Trinidad can make or break careers. Hundreds of artists, from hopeful newcomers to decorated legends, release new music and perform on countless stages throughout the season. A single-track can feel bookings at the various trees, concerts and competitions that pack the Carnival calendar as well as provide lucrative opportunities on the international Carnival circuit, and beyond.

Musical competitions abound, ranging from screen subjects to televised national tournaments, and securing the title of Calypso Monarch, International Soca Monarch or Road March — awarded to the sang thereof most often as managerade bands dance or rhythmically "chip" past judging stations — can turn an artist into a star.

Montana won his first national Carnival competition in 1984 at age 9, which landed him his first international performance at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, opening for the calypso icons The Mighty Sparrow, Shadow and Lord Kitchener. A photo taken after that concert, with the ven-

Top left, Machol Montana in 2016, right, some of the 100 objects in an exhibition at the Central Library in Brooklyn, the library's first retrospective of a Caribbean entertainer. Clockwise from left, albums and a guitar; a book about Montana; some of his comrades. Below, Elizabeth Montana, who thrives in the documented her son's achievements, at the library's front door.

crattle trio holding the young singer aloft as if presenting the music's future, can be seen in the exhibition and on the cover of Lady Montana's book, "King of Soca."

Two years later, Montana made an even greater impression challenging seasoned veterans in the Calypso Monarch battle with his song "Too Young to Soca" to the Ennis, he performed weaving a custom-made white shaper with blue trim and a matching felt, included in the first series of the series of Lady Montana's, along with the pink matador togo de luces ("out of lights") adorned with nausits and gold embroidery worn by Machol in the video hit his 1996 hit "Sara Tara" (honoring Maggy).

Montana's popularity exploded in recent years through high-profile collaborations with Ashanti, Davida, Peltall, No-lin, Wyckel Jean and the Trinidad-born rapper Nicki Minaj, as well as a feature alongside a music Grande on the resins of Major Laser's "All My Love" Fushing his global rise was a steady stream of adrenaline-pumping Carnival uniforms and storytelling live shows, pointing as unmatched pieces of titles including seven Soca Monarch wins, a Calypso Monarch crown, and a record 12 Road March victories, one of the highest honors in may-mate.

His Road March streak began in 1987 with "Big Truck" — a track written, recorded and produced in Brooklyn. For a year, Montana and his band, Stuck, loved on Utica incense, where they worked to modernize soca for their generation by accelerating its tempo and subtly foxing it with elements of dunsthall, hip-hop and electronic music.

Montana secured his 12th Road March triumph earlier this year with "Encore," a kinetic tune that matches Carnival's euphoria, twisting the record established by Lord Kitchener in 1876.

"I was a bit lofty about trying to surpass Kitchener, the quintessential calypsoistas," Montana said. "But when you got that close to a milestone, you don't turn back. You put everything you have into it."

Over two headlining sets at Central Park's SummerStage earlier this month, Montana performed "Encore," but made sure to incorporate such a fan home away from home. He fused the song with elements of Alicia Keys's "Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Dover" and Frank Sumner's "Theme From New York, New York" — and flipped the climax to "Up to 'N'! can make it here, you can make it anywhere."

Behind him, a large screen displayed a four-minute visual montage, combining archival footage of his New York performances over the decades, Brooklyn Caribbean landmarks and New York triumphs including the Kitchener recent N.B.A. championship. "It felt like the right moment to be everything together," Montana said, "and highlight the significant synergy between myself and New York City."

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A Bad Storm Coming? To Him That's Good.

Reed Timmer and others who get a rush from dangerous weather are profiled in a film.

THERE'S NO REVOIRS that Reed Timmer, the main tornado-chasing subject of the new documentary "Never Stop Chasing" (in theater), runs on pure adrenaline. He drives at top speed toward the most dangerous storms, filming with his phone, featuring and whooping, and his buddies on the field acknowledge that even now, in his mid-40s, he seems to be trying to outcry the clock. "We can't take time off" one says, "We'll just going to do whatever it takes to keep pushing forward."

Pushing forward, in this case, means pursuing extreme weather across Middle America, filming tornadoes and broadcasters, up-to-budgets on Timmer's performance also means sculpting the phenomena, advocating for preparedness measures and, sometimes, helping with search and rescue after a storm when through a community, revealing how to be people's free time.

Timmer has been at this since college in the late 1990s. Eventually he and his crew

were highlighted in the Discovery reality show "Storm Chasers." They named themselves Team Dominator, after the armored car they drive. (Timmer was an inspiration for Gina Powell's character in the 2010 film "Twisters" and brought the screenwriter Mark L. Smith along on a chore.)

The director Ken Cole structures "Never Stop Chasing" partly as a profile of Timmer and Team Dominator, partly as just as extended look at some truly wild footage. The profile is more factual than insightful; the most intriguing peak into Timmer's psychology comes from his mother, who notes that her son was very afraid of thunderstorms when he was a soldier, but the "fear became a fascination once he started to learn about" extreme weather. Still most of us neither chase storms nor want to, and there's not much here to illustrious what I going on in the heads of people obsessed with something so dangerous.

Around the halfway mark, though, the film transitions from filling in Timmer's back story to hitting us into dangers several chases, I owe us that I, a pharmaceuticalist for The New York Times Magazine kitchen a ride in the back seat of the Dominator for a

Reed Timmer in "Never Stop Chasing," directed by Ken Cole.

2024 piece.) And you start to understand. There's a strange, terrifying beauty to these funnels, which the team has to hold in balance with the destruction they wreak.

Carmen McCrory, who has been riding with Team Dominator since he was a manager, recounts through tears his experience finding a 5-year-old girl in the aftermath of a

2014 Nebraska tornado and holding her hand as she died: "The dark side of what we do, it comes with the territory, and I'm really good in conquered building," he says. "There's one more layer to the documentary that's unexpectedly reminiscent of the

Among those who like the sight of a tornado, a band develop

latent installment in the "Jackson" series. While the team's research can help save lives, tornado chasing is also obviously, by more insomniacs, flashlight, bows of the ones have been bunting storms together since they were in their 20s, as they're not just obsessive, but also close friends. They've started death in the face over the years while developing a individual with one another. You might say the most beautiful part of the movie doesn't really have to do with storms at all. It's watching a crew of men who grew up together doing something crazy, obviously helping bring together and caring for one another, waiting for the next storm to develop.

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A Promise to the Community

Turns Into a Symbol of Neglect

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NOW Trash has socio- mulated in Maccenito Dam Park.

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THEN In 2002, the field was in much better condition.

A park built on the site of the former Yankee Stadium is in a decrepit state.

By SAM BLUM

The Tribune

Nearly nine years ago, Paul O'Neill, the Yankees great whose No. 21 is retired by the club, stood at the site of his former glories – the old Yankee Stadium, whose home plans still even at what is now Ma- cenito Dam Park in the Bronx.

"I can remember standing on home plate here and actually feeling the ground shake," O'Neill said to a group of local children, "Playoff baseball, here in the old Yankee Stadium."

He asked them to envision what it was like when the park's baseball field where they now sat had been the center of the baseball world.

"I want everybody to just close your eyes," he said the group, "and think of 50,000 people surrounding you, they're chanting your name, you're playing in

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POTENTIAL JEWEL The park is in a poorer area of the Bronx.

the World Series. There were a lot of stights like that, standing right here."

Today, when Jose Lopez, a Bronx revi- dent for nearly 50 years, woke that field and tries to play in that park, those stor- ied scenes are far harder to imagine.

"There's a hole in the middle over here," Lopez said, pointing to a grassy arcs near where a shortstop would be po- sitioned. "It's been there for a couple of years. I used to roll them to try and fix the bates. Nobody did it."

On one side of East 50st Street towns Yankee Stadium, the Serious in the South Bronx that is the home of base- ball's $50 billion franchise, the richest in the sport. On the other line a park in one of the Bronx's poorest communities, built on the site of the former Yankee Stadium after the old home of the Yankees was turn down in 2000 and 2005.

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Paul O'Neill, left, and Bernie Williams in an era of Yankees dominance in 2000. The old stadiums closed after the 2008 season.

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serve as a shriee to the team's history. Players commemorate given Yankee moments, as does the facade that was maintained above the original entrance. Quotry from former players made up the park's signage, and Elston Howard Field was created as a replica of the old stadium. The park is about 40 acres and also includes a track, a playground and basketball course.

We now the past decade, the park has taken into a state of deceptitude, littered with music. The playing surface, with surest grass and upswing weeds, is uneven, and unsafe. The field, when unseeded, is largely unpleasant.

None of the stakeholders dispute that the park's condition is a problem. Nor do city, which owns it and is ultimately responsible for maintaining it. Not the Parks Department, which physically operates it. Not the Yankees, who have events there. Not the local community, nor the Bronx through president or the local community board.

Everyone acknowledges that more needs to be done. But no one was able to offer clear answers or timelines.

"No rich history is fueled by more than a decade of neglect."

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Representative Ritchie Torres, a congressman from the Bronx, told The Athlete in a phone interview. "You see the decrepit state of Maroonka Dam Park as a symbol of beaten promises."

The Yankees declined an interview request for that article. The team said it has made financial contributions over the park's existence totaling nearly $2 million and offered mathematical assistance, like training Parks Department groundkeepers and sponsoring community events.

The cost of building Elston Howard Field, previously named Sheriffy Field, was $25 million, according to a 2011 report in The New York Times. The Yankees said they donated $10 million at the time, as a lump-sum donation to assist in the construction.

In a statement, Elston Smith, the Yankees' senior vice president for corporate and community relations, said the franchise has contributed annually to recent years to the park's maintenance, and that it will continue to engage local officials and community-based leaders, as well as the city's help, the park and the South Bronx community.

"We welcome all thoughtful dialogue and plans that will contribute to solutions designed to better success and preserve a park that can be a safe space for all of our neighbors to enjoy," Smith's statement said.

But when it comes to who technically controls the park, it is not properly.

A New York City spokesman declined a request to interview Mayor Zahran Mandani and sent a prepared statement on behalf of the city and the Parks Department, which separately did not respond to multiple interview requests.

"Maintenance and operations

As the new Yankee Stadium became the team's home, the old one gradually came down. Above left, Maroonka Dam Park in the shadow of the new Yankee Stadium, just across East 16th Street. Right, Elston Howard Field, created to be a replica of the old stadium.

staff work hard to enjoy, more time, remove debris and keep Maroonka Dam Park clean on a daily basis," the city spokesman Jeremy Edwards wrote in the statement. "and this park has second shift personnel assigned to provide additional cleaning resources during the park's business hours."

The Athlete followed up to ask why, despite these efforts, the park was in its current condition, and what the cost estimates were

Agreement on the problem, but not on what do to about it.

to address the park's most immediate concerns. The city spokesman did not respond to these questions.

In mid-April, a phone of smoke caught the eye of Smith, the Yankees executive it was coming from the track atop Maroonka Dam Park, the bleachers had caught on fire.

The park is physically close to Yankee Stadium, separated by just a negligible from the main entrance. But in some ways, it is out of sight and out of mind, easy to overlook unless nonsense seeks it out.

That is exactly what Smith did after seeing the smoke. He walked the park and saw its story of diero-

pati, their majorized a lot of times that could be addressed in the short-term and continued costs.

The Yankees said they received that the Aug. 6 — a week after The Athlete's first legacy was sent to the organization — with cost estimates of several million dollars. The team is reviewing what contributions it is willing to make.

"The Yankees, historically, have not been good community partners," said Heinz Frantz, a former City Council member who once voted against construction of the new Yankee Stadium.

Vasmos Gibson, the Bronx barough president, said that a $24 million renovation has been approved, and around $45 million has already been designated for that renovation through government allocation. Yet renovations cannot begin until the project is fully funded.

She said the Yankees have reached out about helping, and she believes the team will eventually be involved. "The Parks Department would absolutely take their money," Gibson said.

Torres said that his office offered federal funding for the renovation through the firstly America, Buy America Act, but the city rejected it, citing a lack of experience complying with the act's regulations.

"It was determined that Parks would not have the time to properly evaluate how the added lack of real requirements would affect the project's overall cost and timeline," said Greg McQuinn, a Parks

Department spokesman. "As we were already pursuing private donations to close a funding gap, Parks made the decision not to pursue the proposed federal grant."

The Yankees used to regularly hold community events in the park. General Manager Brian Carlman and Board Lorren, the team president, attended the 2011 groundbreaking.

In 2015, Alex Rodriguez, Delia Betanzos, Giancarlo Stanton and Andre Dawson talked to kids in the park. In 2017, O'Neill visited in 2016, a host of Yankees group attended the park for the team's fun first.

Now, many in the community are upon that the Yankees won't do more. Joyce Nipp, a local community park's activist and former schoolteacher who handled multiple park advocacy groups, said she has done everything she can to address the problem.

At 63 years old, she said she has given up. "I'm just we're not. I'll like talking into the other."

The city, Nipp said, presented the Yankees over the rest of the neighborhood.

"All you've got to do is walk around and back," she said.

On a hot June afternoon, members of the New York Taxi Drivers Alliance were preparing the final set their own, with minor assistance from the city. They played a professional manner later that day, and getting the field ready was a significant process.

Posted next to the dugout of one

of the park's three baseball diamonds were two young men, Antil Mendes and Jake Torres, warming up, stretching and getting ready to practice.

Mendes grew up going to this park every day. In high school, he said, the city would sometimes send people to fix the field. Now, he pointed out what should be the mound. "There is no mound," he said.

He laments the crowds of people that gather in the park, trash it and let the space rot.

"It's not so good, I'm not going to be," Mendes said. "Every baseball player knows this field is not so good. It's going to cause a lot of injuries. A lot of other ankles. A lot of bad hops to the fans."

Even if the park is officially the city's responsibility, like so many others, Mendes sees the Yankees, the team he meets for, as the park's natural reward.

"I'm like, 'No, why don't the Yankees fix this up?' It's right next to them," Mendes said. "They could do things with this. They could make academics here, really do something and have stuff for the kids and teams here."

The Yankees are part of his community. But love of the team doesn't blind Mendes in the failures that have led to this point, and left this park overloaded.

"I can tell you as a baseball player," he said, "and from many other baseball players, it would be amazing if this field was fixed."

Could Adding a New Voice to Go Against the Grain Help the Mets?

By WILL GARRISON

The Athlete

Carrying a macro-optimistic tone than he did several weeks before, the New York Mets owner Steve Cohen reiterated his belief last week in David Stearns, his president for baseball operations.

"I'm committed to David," Cohen said on Wednesday in his three public comments about the team since July 1. "We're going to move forward, I thought we had a great trade deadline. David is smart. He knows what he's doing. He's very adaptable. He learns from mistakes. That's what it want in a league."

Cohen is big on process, and he likes Stearns's way of thinking through things. Stearns, under contract through 2020, is trying to find out when asked how he squares mistakes with a good process, Cohen left the door open to making "breaks," as he put it.

Perhaps such "breaks" could come from adding a key executive or two?

It is not yet known whether the Mets will augment their front-flies. Everything, it is likely more of an agenda near for the off-season. When it comes to process and diversity of thought, however, top

Will Sarriman covers the Mets for The Athletic.

pioneering the front office is at least worth thinking about.

Stearns has operated without a general manager since his first week on the job in October 2022, when Billy Eppler stopped down from the position. Since then, Stearns has generally maintained a similar stance when it comes to adding a general manager or another high-level executive. He is an out going to add just to add, though they are always on the lockout for talented people.

More days out always mean better. Already, the Mets' truce at five features three assistant general managers (Edwards Broach), Jonathan Strange and Ben Zavareev's two special assistants (Carlos Beltrán and El Martinez) and a few vice presidents (Eric Green, Eric Ingers and Andy Green — when he is not the interim manager). There are other high-ranking officials, too.

Whether it is a general manager or someone in more of an advisory role, there could be some benefit to adding another voice to direct contact with Stearns — if that person views things a little differently.

A conversation about the Mets, league executives granted anonymity to speak freely (do adding more "baseball people" as potentially helpful. In here, that means someone in a leadership

David Stearns, president for baseball operations, still has the team owner's backing.

position who knows how players and coaches think through solving problems. Other examples could include someone who challenges projections from the models that mediate organizationism are often unheeded to.

Green fits such a description. Based on public comments from Stearns, Green is expected to return to the front office after finishing the regular season in the dugout. Whether he remains his role of overseeing player development

or ends up taking on something different, the Mets could benefit from another voice like the

People in high-ranking positions in the Mets' front office, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, generally enjoy working under Stearns. Cohen does not contain an inflexible, after two consecutive disappointing seasons, however, the Mets need to strike a better balance of leaning into what they are good at and adopting elsewhere. For instance, the Mets must at-ending markets for sometimes could be better served by upstaging as a player than other organisms of the market.

When asked about what mistakes Stearns made over the off-season, Cohen cited taking on too much risk. Specifically, there was the need to play a risk with additives such as Late Robert Jr. and Serge Polanco. That was especially true in the context of newness: the Mets changed much. A first-come and nearly that entire coaching staff, individually, the risks made some sense. Put together, there was just too much.

Cohen's comments in that regard, however, echoed what Stearns had previously acknowledged.

Stearns essentially said the same thing on May 12 when asked whether he needed to refrain how

he evaluated injury risk with acquisitions.

"We absolutely have to look at our risk assessment on injured players or players who got injured once they've been," Stearns said then. "We know we are taking a level of risk when we bring players to with injury histories."

"We are feeling that risk right now, and it hasn't helped that a number of our players have gotten hurt at the exact same time. It's not something we necessarily anticipated. But I think that's a fair question and something we need to look at."

Not all being teams are open to changes. In the off-season, the Mets must put into practice the lessons they say they have learned. In the meantime, Cohen's reasons for automating operations are valid. The Mets have been on the opening since their sell-off at the Aug. 2 trade deadline, their bar-to-present in former stages (if we're taking a break of regulars for prospect's), and their core of youngsters at the major league level is playing well.

"There's a lot to look forward to here," Cohen said. "I see the foundation of something that, I think, we can get behind. We'll see how it goes, right? But I'm getting more optimistic. I like what I see. And hopefully it continues."

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After 'Hardest Year' of His Life, McLaurin Is Counting His Blessings

By MIKE JONES

By a friend

ASHBURN, Va. – At last, normalcy has returned for Terry McLaurin.

Meroddy, physically and spiritually, the Washington Commanders' Pro Bowl wide receiver feels better than ever, and the signs of sending one growth have been all around him.

For example, take a moment from an early training camp practice.

The 20-year-old McLaurin, returning Year 8 in the N.F.L., exploded off the line while matched up with his fellow veteran Rand Douglas. Douglas, promptly launched McLaurin's results and forced him closer to the left side. But as they raced toward the restroom. The evenings was great, but the placement of quarterback Joydon Duster's pass to McLaurin's back shoulder was even better.

At the last second, the 4-foot, 220-pound McLaurin planted his left foot, protracted like a ballroom, simultaneously shot up his hands, plucked the ball from the air and contested his lower body to get back tighter down just across the past line before tumbling to the ground. In an instant, McLaurin financed to his feet, flipped the ball aside, pointed at Douglas, making an effort.

Stunned that McLaurin managed to get both feet down and complete the tough catch, Douglas could only stop his teammates. Of course McLaurin – the N.F.L.'s leader to contend catches story his inside year in 2018, according to the Football Process – made another play 3% what he does.

Or, it's what he did from 2019 to 2021, when he established himself as one of the most considerable production and reliable receivers in the league.

Then came 2021, a transducer from wherest McLaurin found himself at odds with the first foot that drubbed him in the third round out of Ohio from and whose turn took him among the most beloved years of the past decade. The game receiving a long, long contract, despair, McLaurin battled injury to the first time in his career. The series and reinforcers rushed the receiver emotionally and led to a groating journey only exacerbar all by the struggles of his team. The Commanders were from 213 with an N.F.C. championship game appearance in 2024 to 5-12 and is most of another year. Only past season.

"This bar year was the hardest year of my life – from the contract and getting hurt, and you know, I've been going through some stuff off the field, just personally, McLaurin said. 'O's have no missed the game.'"

But now, fully healthy and nearly a year after he received his three-year, 287 million contract extension, McLaurin makes her decisions. "I've seen myself grow as a man, grow spiritually, and grow in the world," McLaurin said. "I'm just just not just but the 7m in a great space."

Mike Jones covers the N.F.L. Pro Pro Athlete.

Terry McLaurin, the Commanders' Pro Bowl wide receiver, at practice in July. His coaches believe the newest addition, Stefan Diggs, will complement McLaurin nicely.

just feel like I'm playing with a type of freedom that I haven't had. So I'm just looking forward to spilling that out for my team this year."

Washington said its fans certainly welcome a return to keep in Scary Tech. For the first six seasons of his career, McLaurin represented one of the five bright spots and sure bets for an organization raised in dysfunction and change.

Through two scorers, four head coaches, four offensive members, four wide receivers coaches and an unmasking 32 starting quarterbacks, McLaurin always delivered. He recorded five straight 1,000-yard seasons from 2020 through 2024, and during his second Pro Bowl season (2021), he racked up a career high 13 touchdowns catches.

"He's been able to be consistent because he's a disciplined room runner, and it says a lot of quarterbacks is real this and a lot of coordinators trust him because they're trying to get him the half," the Commanders wish – receivers coach Bobby Engman said. "The normalcy of being a robotious competitor and truly believing every ball in the air is his ball, and he's going to get it, that's what makes him different."

McLaurin always understood his importance to Washington's offence and organization, to us he thought. But last off-season represented his first true exposure to the business of football, to the Commanders' view of McLaurin's worth differed drastically from that of McLaurin and his camp.

the wide receiver grappled with how to maintain his mental health and self-belief. Described by anyone close to him as a team-free player, McLaurin struggled with how to combat himself during negotiations. At one point, he requested a trade despite his strong desire to remain loyal to his teammates.

Eventually, the sides agreed to an extension. But three weeks into the season, McLaurin again found himself to underperform theirs on a quiet steam caused him to miss

The star receiver feels better than ever and is eager to just do what he does.

seven games. (McLaurin sustained the injury in Week 1, missed four games, played in Week 4, aggravated the injury and missed the next three.)

Asked to describe the toll that both experiences took on him, McLaurin said, "I've been seems body when kind of struggled with worry, struggled with anxiety, sometimes not feeling good enough. So when you go through contract stuff, when you go through injury, it can hold of make you feel humane at times."

Engman, who played 14 years in the N.F.L., knew all too well the struggles that his star pupil en-

countered.

"I understand the business side, having played, so we had to let that work itself out, but you never stop supporting the man, and who he is outside of the player. That's very important to me," Engman said. "We have been much be wanted to be with us and be engaged. It was a difficult time. And for any of us that have been injured, we know when guys aren't around the man, you don't overtake distance, and I didn't want him to feel that in any way because he was still such a big part of what we were doing."

In addition to Engman, McLaurin said he issued heavily on his wife, Carlin, his roommates and other family members and friends. He also said he dug deeply into the office bank of Provocha to gain wisdom on how to deal with anxiety, worry and his interest outside of football.

"My faith has really taught me that Jesus is enough, and that I'm great at 1 am," McLaurin said.

During his recovery, and because he had already been active any other way, McLaurin assumed a more vocal leadership role in the receivers room, something that did not always come naturally for him.

McLaurin eventually did return to the field, playing the final six games of Washington's last season. His 1,000-yard second career in the field as he finished the year with just 28 receptions for 362 yards and three touchdowns in 10 games. However, Engman and the Commanders view the growth McLaurin achieved as far more

valuable for the long term.

"I just see a guy who really comfortable being a natural leader now," Engman said. "I've been a growth process since I've been with Terry. So I'm really proud of how he's been playing ahead this. The work that I have been playing is still there, but that using his voice more to the locker room has been big."

McLaurin quarretians, Duster, agrees.

"His presence, his voice, I mean, this is a guy that's been doing it for countless years," Duster said. He added: "We's just a true pro, true set. This guy's not thin at our practice, coaching up the younger guys, giving the game back, the knowledge – just bringing that energy. So last year was that year, but, you know, now we're happy to stop forward."

Like McLaurin, Duster's battled injury off and on during the 2020 season, McLaurin said he believes the one grow closer as teammates, taking turns encouraging each other. Now healthy again, they hope to spearhead a newly designed offense led by the rookie coordinator David Blough. The unit has gained another tripartite addition in the form of the first time Pro Bowl wide receiver Stefan Diggs, who just signed with his homeowner team.

Commanders coaches and officials believe that the 22-year-old Diggs, a seven-time 1,000-yard receiver, will complement McLaurin easily. And after six seasons of the evening as the only consistent receiving threat, McLaurin welcomed the Diggs signing.

"It's kind of like the Spider-Man movie of them pointing at each other," McLaurin said. "We just have the same mortality on the field: workplaces who want to be professionals, but also energy-years; travel competitors. Dogs I think we're going to just devour one another. The competitiveness of our room is going to continue to elevate."

"I think when you get a lot of great players on the football field, it leaves the defense to have to re-open 200 yards vertically, 32 yards the width of the field. And when you bring a guy like Stefan to our team, he's a winner."

When discussing the welcome McLaurin extended to Diggs, Engman said, "He's a genuine guy that just really wants to be a part of something special in terms of a team environment."

During overcame the challenges from a year ago, McLaurin believes that Washington and its fans are poised to receive the best version of himself yet.

"It's just too good to have everything normal, and I'm just thankful for what I have: being in Year 8 as a third-round pick, being in a place that's really just welcomed me, to be a No. 1 wide receiver," McLaurin said. "Like, Carl doesn't have to do another thing for me. He's nearly blamed me. So it's just about, you know, trying to be used as a visual and give him the glory through my play. And I think that's really allowed me to kind of take the pressure of trying to perform. I have a commitment in my heart that's different, but I'm not satisfied."

COMMENTARY

Giants' Carter Sets Bar as High as He Can

By LISA O'CONNOR

By a friend

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Abdul Carter has an ambitious goal in a new attack to claim to last, he has already shared it privately with his New York Giants teammates.

"I want to be the greatest of all time," he said his.

The greatest Coax? "I mean the greatest of all time," Carter replied, "as terms of just a football player is general." He was standing tall inside the Giants' practice facility, still sweating in practice gear that includes the pads, a blue handle and a white phone carrying his new number. A Carter spearhead first N.F.L. means wearing No. 1, after Lawrence Taylor started the year. He had to convince his music No. 86.

If Taylor wanted Carter to establish his own identity, guess what? He has every intention of having a good team member after the Giants' new coach, John Harbaugh, arrived.

"When Harbaugh first got here, everybody had to go in the field. He's been a good team. I told everybody that I want to be the greatest of all time."

Carter said "And I can't just say that. I've got to come out here. I'm going to get to start. I'm going to get to get to be that player."

Ian O'Connor is a senior columnist for The Athletic.

As everybody's all-American out of from State and the No. 1 pick in the 2022 draft, Carter did not show that consistent level of commitment to Year 1, twice, getting himself knocked by the interim coach, Mike Kafka, by missing team activities. But Harbaugh and others in the Giants organization have raced about Carter's professionalism this time around – as the coming room, in the locker room, on

A second-year player wants to be 'the greatest of all time.'

the practice field, you name it. "Adult is practicing at the highest level," Harbaugh said. "His effort, intensity, skill set – he's extolling every day. He looks great, and I can't wait to see him play."

It is early in Year 2, very early, but the 4-foot-5, 222-pound line-backer was described by one team source, greatest propensity to speak candidly about Carter, as "a man on a mission." Carter had already put his short-term mission on the record earlier in camp when he said, "I want to be defensive player of the year."

But at age 22, Carter also embraces the long-term possibl-

tion for a pass rusher with his size, strength and speed. Though he managed only four ranks in 2021, Carter delivered a strong leader and led the league with all quick pressures (within 2.5 seconds) of the magic, per Vent One High.

"To be honest, everybody wants the ranks, so I'm not sitting here and saying I don't care about them," Carter said. "But when I am 2,000, I'm going to get to. Every time you rush, you're not going to get a rank. It's all about affecting the quarterback and affecting the guy who coaches the ball every day. As long as I can keep doing that and nobody does it down, I'll keep that on, and the wicks are going to come along with that."

The Giants defensive coordinator Denmark Wilson has said Carter is spending the summer "mastering the technique and fundamentals" of his craft in an attempt to become far more than an overpowering athlete on the road. Carter agrees with this assessment. He said he now realizes that he will become a better playmaker if he becomes a lesser craftsman.

But Carter's natural instinct will likely remain his most lethal weapon. The Giants radio assign Carl Sands, a two-time Super Bowl champion from the 2nd Paroids days, has suggested as much.

"Abdul does things naturally," Sands said by phone. "He just does it. If you asked him, 'What

did you do on that play?' he probably couldn't tell you.

"Not all I'm going to have had to do," he said, referring to "try list his old customers." I don't know. I just made the play! There are probably only three or four other guys who could've made that play."

Banks just know Carter on WFAFA Balls last year after his second knocking, saying, "It's time for the kid to grow up."

This year? "I think he figured it out," Sands said.

Asked about the former linebacker's praise and the comparison, Carter said, "I'm actually got a lot of respect

for Carl Sands, L.T., Harry Carson, all three guys. I go back and watch the full games of the they played in the '89s and only '89s. I actually try to mimic some of the things they did, just the violence they played with, just the restlessness. So that's a pretty big compliance, and I appreciate that."

The truth is, Harbaugh wants the Coax to have had play like the glory-days Giants. That connection seems obvious at the linebacker's goal. "I'm going to take and inside with Carter, Brian Burns, Kiprow," Debedman, Tremaker Edmunds and Arvid Beers, the 50th pick in the 2020 draft.

Carter expects to emerge as the best member of that group. He feels a responsibility to emerge as the best player on the team, in concert with quarter-

The Giants' 22-year-old Abdul Carter, left, is embracing the long-term potential for a pass rusher with his size, strength and speed.

back Janose Dart.

"I absolutely feel that way, and I told Dart the same thing," Carter said. "It order for us to be who we want to be and add another humor in this place, we have to be the best players."

Carter said that replied, "We're on the same page." Of course, they weren't even in the same library as May, after the linebacker blitzed the quarter-back on social media for introducing President Trump as a suburban New York rally. In his first seven conference afterward, Carter was most impressive in how he stood on his principles without causing irreparable

harm to a valued teammate and friend.

Now Carter sends Dart to play as a very high level, and that needs Carter to become the historic figure Carter hopes to be.

"We've had some great, great players on this league, and I want my name mentioned when you say, 'Oh, when the greatest player of all time, especially on the defensive side of the field?' I want to be mentioned with L.T., Bruce Smith, Aaron Donald, all three guys."

If nothing else, Carter is not at all afraid of the Giant effort it will take to get there.

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D4

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Ranking Coaches In 2026 Season: A Volatile Climate For Leadership

By CHRIS VANNINI

The job of a college football coach changes by the month and by the court ruling. Wins and losses on the field don't always tell the whole story. With general mastery benefiting personnel and starting lineage earning tens of millions of dollars, the head coach's responsibilities have become more like those of his N.F.L. counterparts. But with no enforceable salary cap and unlimited player movement, every year can be wildly different. No matter what, the face of a program takes the credit and the blame. For the fifth consecutive year, The Athletic has ranked the head coaches of the Football Bowl Subdivision into eight tiers, weighing such elements as résumé, resources, longevity and more. This is about a coach's complete body of work as the head person (assistant stints are not included). Has he sustained success? Has he won at multiple programs? What resources does he have relative to the competition, and does he maximize them? Recent results carry more weight, but this is not a projection into the future. Coaches entering their first fall year as an F.B.S. head coach are not eligible, even if they have experience at other levels of football. Coaches entering their second year in charge, including Bill Brefeldt, make their debut on this list. To supplement our research, we consulted with coaches, administrators, agents and search firms for their views. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect relationships in the industry, but agents were not permitted to comment on coaches they or their employers represent.

Note: Each tier's coaches are listed in alphabetical order.

TER 2

ESTABLISHED WINNERS

Mauro Cristobal, Miami

Ryan Day, Ohio State

Katee DeBner, Alabama

James Franklin, Virginia Tech

Marcus Freeman, Notre Dame

Lane Kiffin, Louisiana State

Dan Lansing, Oregon

Steve Sanhaian, Texas

Dale Swinney, Clemson

Kyle Whittingham, Michigan

This group is almost always in the rest at the top. Day has a national championship, but he is not in the top tier because Ohio State's expectations and resources are so, so high. His two predecessors also won national titles, and Jim Tressel played for three. Day has done what was expected of him. A second title to match Smart would move him into the top tier.

The rest of this group has been close. DeBner and Freeman each have title game appearances, but DeBner is devalbating the weight of following Nick Salsas at Alabama and has seen his stock trend slightly downward the past two years. Sanhaian has two semifinals and has finally steamed the Texas program, but 2020 needs to be a breakthrough year. Cristobal moves up into Tier 2 after last year's run to the national championship game. he also nearly made the 2020 playoff and had a top-five finish and a three short win with Oregon. Speaking of the Ducks, Lansing already has a semifinals

appearance and a separate undefeated regular season in four years as a head coach, and six of the eight levers have come against teams that played for the national title. Can he get over the bump?

Whittingham is the only one here without a playoff appearance, but he has three top-15 finishes in the past five years while working with far less than most at the other programs in this group. He also had an undefeated season in 2008 and two recent Pac-12 titles. Now he controls one of the best-consecutive programs, but the Michigan job comes with much higher expectations and scrutiny for this list. His hire was one that many in the industry will watch closely.

"Whittingham's never been in the C.F.P., but the consistency and longevity given him a bump," one agent said.

"I'm sort of 30-50 on Whittingham," a second agent said. "I think that's still a very strange hire. You bought a short-term solution to your problem, but that's not a long-term solution."

Swinney drops out of the top tier for the first time since this exercise began. He has two national titles, but the last one was eight years ago. The Tigers have one playoff appearance in the past five years, and last season's 1-6 record was Swinney's worst since 2005. You can't deny the highs, but the Tigers are not close to the bar he set and are trending downward.

The toughest coach to place was James Franklin, who was just fired last year from Penn State. I generally won't knock a coach with a strong résumé down a tier for one half season. In 2024, Franklin's top eight miners away from playing for the national title, and he had five top-10 finishes in nine years. So he stays here for one, though I understand how profitable. It was time to move on at Penn State. Let's see how things go at Virginia Tech.

MARIO CRISTOBAL moves up to Tier 2 after Miami's run to the title game.

RYAN DAY is affected by Ohio State's plentiful resources, and expectations.

TER 1

THE STANDARD Carl Cigaretti, Indiana

Krisy Swarz, Georgia

Everyone agrees these are the two best-head coaches in the college game. Cigaretti unfaltaenably took Indiana to consecutive playoff appearances and a national championship, and he has never had a losing season in 15 years as a head coach, with 11 top-15 finishes (state of which came before the F.B.S. level).

Since winning consecutive national championships, Smart's Bulldogs have gone three seasons without a playoff semifinal appearance, but those three years still include back-to-back Southeastern Conference titles and another SEC title game appearance.

TER 3

CONSISTENCY WITH UPSIDE

Bret Bishona, Illinois

Jeff Brohm, Louisville

Matt Campbell, Penn State

Bob Chesney, U.C.L.A.

Spencer Danielson, Boise State

Kenny Dillingham, Arizona State

Eli Driskwitz, Missouri

Sonny Dykes, Texas Christian

Mike Eiko, Texas A&M

Kirk Ferrotis, Iowa

P.J. Fleck, Minnesota

Willie Fritz, Houston

Josh Hoagel, Tennessee

Rhett Lachlan, Southern Methodist

Lance Leipold, Kansas

Clark Lee, Vanderbilt

Jony McGuire, Texas Tech

Brenna Mendonball, Utah State

Dan Mullen, Nevada-Las Vegas

Lincoln Riley, U.S.C.

Rich Rodriguez, West Virginia

Kateci Sitabo, Brigham Young

Jon Samrah, Florida

Bishona is coming off the first consecutive nine-win seasons in Illinois's history. Campbell took Iowa State on its best run in a century before moving to Penn State, where he will have the pressure of living up to the expectations Franklin set.

"I'm really bullish on Matt Campbell this year," the second agent said. "It's a fascinating story to see how Penn State does."

Elsewhere in the Big Ten, Chesney jumps up two tiers as he takes over U.C.L.A. after guiding James Madison in the player's Chesney has a Cigaretti-like 13 winning seasons in 16 years as a head coach, with eight conference titles at various levels.

Dillingham continues to rise. Allowing up a big 12 championships with a steady impressive eight-win season while battling a cash of injuries last year. He was a Tier 7 coach just two years ago. Vanderbilt's Lee is the biggest tier in the season. At this time a year ago, I didn't put a ton of stock into the 7-6 record in 2024 coming off three consecutive losing seasons, but to go 10-3 and finish in the playoff title was something I never thought possible. Lee was a Tier 8 coach two years ago. However, we will send to see if he can continue that success without quarterback Diego Parisi, 2023's Hinnman Trophy runner-up.

Mullen returned to the sideline and took U.N.S. 1 in the Mountain West championship game in his first season. With three New Year's Six how I tried at Florida and a long, successful run at Mississippi State, he might as get enough credit because of how his tenure ended in

GREG MILLER, INDIANA, U.S. TOWER, 2020 BRIT BIELONA and Illinois have had consecutive nine-win seasons.

KENNY DELINEHAN'S Arizona State had a sneaky-impressive season.

Gainesville. It proved to be much better than Billy Nugent's follow-up job.

"That's résumé at Florida has aged well, there's no other way to put it," the first agent said. "I'll put him at a 2.2 Tier. He's had outstanding success at three different places."

Texas A&M's Elite also moves up after guiding the Aggies to the playoff. McGuire jumps two tiers after Texas Tech's first conference title in decades. Yes, the record increase in roster spending at Texas Tech factors into this, but McGuire had posted three consecutive winning seasons before last year, the second Tech coach ever to begin a tenure with such a run. Teams with resources also have to clear a higher bar, and Tech has every Big 12 opponent by double-digits last season.

It was tough to move Riley down a tier, but as with Swinney, we are getting farther from the player's appearances that had propped him up, at Oklahoma. Riley has not had a team finish in the top 10 since 2020, and although U.S.C. got back in the top 25 last year, the rolling of this program should be much higher. This upcoming season is a big one for the Tropics.

A U.S. fans will point out Simler's three consecutive wins over Whittingham, who is one tier higher. I cannot refute that point, nor his consecutive seasons will be least 11 wins. Simler is a great coach, and I was very close to moving him up, but Whittingham still has higher highs. A breakthrough moment like a conference championship or playoff appearance is the only thing missing.

"Sisale doesn't get enough credit," a third agent said. "He was going to get the Penn State job, and now they're set up for two more really good years of high-level success. They consistently find good quarterbacks. He's done a better job than just about anyone for the situation he's in."

TER 4

USUALLY SOLID

Brent Brennan, Arizona

Shane Beamer, South Carolina

Troy Calhoun, Air Force

Jamey Chadwell, Liberty

Manny Diaz, Duke

Dave Deacon, North Carolina State

Luke Fickell, Wisconsin

Jedd Flock, Washington

Pat Fitzgerald, Michigan State

Alex Golosh, Auburn

Charles Huff, Memphis

Brent Kay, Georgia Tech

KC Rooker, Temple

Chuck Martin, Miami (Ohio)

Jeff Monkon, Army

Eric Morris, Oklahoma State

Pat Nordland, Pittsburgh

Brian Newberry, Navy

Barry Odom, Purdue

Matt Rhohr, Nebraska

Ryan Silverfield, Arkansas

Greg Schiann, Rutgers

Jeff Traylor, Texas-Gas Antonio

Brent Venables, Oklahoma

This group's occasional downside potential knocks it below Tier 3. Fickell is the most notable name here, dropping a road for the second consecutive year. His run at Cincinnati, including a four-team playoff appearance in 2021, was remarkable. But he has posted three straight-sulpar seasons at Wisconsin and trended downward each year.

Morris is this tier's big river, up three tiers after coming one game away from taking North Texas on the playoff. He is now at Oklahoma State with most of his best Mean Green players, and he previously turned Incarnate Word into a top-15 Football Championship Subdivision program. Very's Newberry, up two tiers, might be the most underrated coach in the country, with a 21-5 record over the past two years -- the first consecutive 10-win seasons in pro-

LUKE FICKELL has had three straight-sulpar seasons at Wisconsin.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

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TONY ERIK (AIRPORT) PHOTO

MANNY DIAZ: Reserves more credit for preserving Duke's momentum.

gram history — including wins over Oklahoma, Memphis twice, South Florida twice and Army twice. All three service academy coaches enter 2026 in Tier 4.

Duke's Diaz also has not gotten enough credit for preserving the Blue Devils' momentum after Elia's departure for Texas A&M (which coincided with the star quarterback Riley Leonard's departure for Notre Dame). Diaz won an Atlantic Coast Conference title in Year 2 but will now have to show he can withstand the loss of quarterback Darian Menzak, who transferred to Miami. Fitzgerald makes the field after landing the Michigan State job. His first A-2 Top 25 leaders over 27 years, including a top-50 finish in 2026, brought Northwestern sustained success for the first time in ages, but he went 4-20 over the next two seasons before being forced out amid a hurling scandal. Can he adjust to modern college football and fix a Spartans program nearing rock bottom?

Venedies moves up one group, but his position is precarious. He has two 6-7 seasons and two 10-win seasons as a head coach. The banners made the playoff last year but lost at home. He hasn't gotten close to Riley's highs at Oklahoma, but the sport (not to mention the Somers' conference) has changed since then. Year 5 should tell us whether Venedies finally has his program in place.

TICK 5

UP AND DOWN

Tim Albin, Charlotte

Blake Anderson, Southern Miss

Dave Aranda, Baylor

David Braun, Northeastern

Fran Brown, Syracuse

Neal Brown, North Texas

Jason Candle, UConn

Chris Creighton, Eastern Michigan

Michael Desarmeaux, Louisiana

John Dickert, Wake Forest

Tony Elliott, Virginia

Jason Eck, New Mexico

Matt Eels, Fresno State

Scott Frost, Central Florida

Blake Harrell, East Carolina

TONY ELLIOTT has made the most of Virginia's investment in football.

Clay Helton, Georgia Southern

Tyson Helton, Western Kentucky

Butch Jones, Arkansas State

GJ Kimes, Texas State

Pete Lemke, Buffalo

Sean Lewis, San Diego State

Jerry Mack, Kenmourn State

Jim Mora, Colorado State

Billy Napier, James Madison

Ken Niamatalolo, San Jose State

Milo Norvell, Florida State

Bill O'Brien, Boston College

Ricky Rubuo, Old Dominion

Deion Sanders, Colorado

Lance Taylor, Western Michigan

Scott Satterfield, Cincinnati

Florida State's Norvell drops after his fourth losing season out of six in Tallahassee. The underlined 2023 regular season at F.S.U. and 2018 conference title at Memphis keep him from dropping lower, though he enters 2020 on one of the hottest seats in college football. Boston College's O'Brien and Colorado's Sanders also drop into this group.

Moving upward, however, is Virginia's Elliott, who started his fourth season in Charlottesville in Tier 8 but led the Cavaliers to the A.C.C. championship game. The university has begun to invest in the football route, and Elliott has made the most of it. Western Michigan's Taylor is up two spots after a Mid-American Conference championship capped his second consecutive winning season. The Broncos are one of the MAC favorites again this year.

Wake Forest's Dickert also moves up after turning in an impressive 9-4 defeat season when many people thought the Demon Deacons could be the worst team in the Power 4. That followed a solid run at Washington State. Although he did not move here, Texas State's Kimee has trended upward with the first three bowl appearances in school history.

Kennesaw State's Mack debuts in Tier 5 after winning Conference USA in his first season, bringing his total to four conference titles in five seasons as a head coach, including his 2024-17 run at F.C.S. North Carolina Central. It's a similar case for New Mexico's Eck, who took the Lobos to 9-4 and a tie atop the Mountain West

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TIMMY CHANG's Hawaii went 0-4 after three straight losing seasons.

standings in his first season, after building Idaho into a top-10 F.C.S. program. Fresno State's Eric quietly won nine games in his first year, and his résumé includes two F.C.S. national titles at North Dakota State.

TICK 6

GREAT STARTS

Ryan Carty, Delaware

Timmy Chang, Hawaii

Ryan Beard, Coastal Carolina

Matt Drinkall, Central Michigan

Charles Kelly, Jacksonville State

Jimmy Rogers, Iowa State

Gerald Parker, Troy

Willie Simmons, Florida International

Several coaches make their debut in this group. Jacksonville State's Kelly reached the CUSA championship game in Year 1, Central Michigan's Drinkall produced a MAC contractor in Year 1, and Troy's Parker reached the fast Bell title game in Year 2. Delaware's Carty and Coastal Carolina's Beard (previously at Missouri State) made bowl appearances in their first year post-F.B.S. transition.

Simmons was seven games in Year 1 at a Florida International program coming off six consecutive losing seasons, and Rogers navigated a complete motor turnover at Washington State to reach a bowl game, though Rogers then jumped to Iowa State. Even Chang at Hawaii went 0-4 after three consecutive losing seasons following a program reset. The vities at all of these places are strong. All that's missing is more experience.

"This whole group could move up a tier next year," the first agent said.

TICK 7

TOUGH STARTS AND HOT SEATS

Scott Abell, Rice

Major Applewhite, South Alabama

Bill Belchick, North Carolina

Mark Carney, Kent State

Sonny Camkin, Louisiana Tech

Eddie George, Bowling Green

Tony Gibson, Marshall

MIKE LOCKLEY is on the hot seat in Maryland after two 4-8 seasons.

Darrell Laggales, Appalachian State

Will Hall, Tulane

Zach Kittley, Florida Atlantic

Ira Lamb, Tulsa

Jeff Liddy, Mississippi State

Mike Locksky, Maryland

Joe Moorhead, Akron

Mike Oremovich, Bull State

Bryant Vincent, Louisiana-Monroe

Scotty Walden, Texas-El Paso

This is mostly a group of coaches who had a rough debut season, head-food by the greatest coach in N.F.L. history. Belchick took over a solid North Carolina program from Mack Brown and went 4-6, as there's no other basis to put him any higher. Expectations are not high for 2026, either.

Other coaches making their debut in this group include Bowling Green's George, Rice's Abell, Marshall's Gibson, Appalachian State's Laggales, Florida Atlantic's Kittley and Tulsa's Lamb. None had a winning record in Year 1, but none had a terrible year, either. Plenty of more and time to turn things around.

Maryland's Locksky enters 2026 on the hot seat after consecutive 4-8 seasons but hopes some really talented players are even better as sophomores than they were as freshmen. Half returns to the list after his promotion to Tulane head coach, but he was fired at Southern Miss in October 2024 amid a third losing

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BELL WEGER's recruiting hasn't brought success to Georgia State.

season in four years. Half says he has learned from that experience, and Tulane's superior resources should help, but he also takes over a program that just played in the playoff and still has high expectations.

TICK 8

LITTLE TO NOTHING POSITIVE

Jeff Choate, Nevada

Joe Marasymak, Massachusetts

Phil Lange, Sam Houston

Derek Mason, Middle Tennessee

Dell McGee, Georgia State

Tony Sanchez, New Mexico State

Jay Gasviel, Wyoming

This is the group of hot-seat coaches who do not yet have any success at their current program to stand on. Other coaches felt Choate would turn a low-resourced Nevada program into a tougher net after he built up Montana State, though some think the Wolf Pack could improve this year. Marasymak won 10 games at Maine in 2024 but just went 0-12 in Year 1 at UMass.

McGee has recruited well at Georgia State, but it has not translated into success. Sanchez told me that he feels good about the potential of this New Mexico State team, but constant motor turnover makes success at any of these jobs hard to come by. "Tough to win at all these places," the first agent said.

BILL BELCHICK took over a solid North Carolina program and went 4-8.

Chris Vannini is a senior college football writer for The Atlantic.

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D6

SOCCER | PREMIER LEAGUE

Coventry City's Curious Fall and Rise

The club survived exile from its own stadium and relegation to the fourth tier before its recent renaissance.

By OLIVER KAY

The Times

John Mulianey was an edge. It was Coventry City's day of outskating, and he was dreading it.

He had spent the morning feeling strained, contemplating how relegation would feel after 24 years to the top flight — and at Villa Park of all places. He just wanted the whole ordeal over with, but his friend was late picking him up, compounding his agitator.

Feeling the need to do something, anything, to ease his nerves, the Coventry fan found a blue marker and scrawled the words "well he back" on a piece of paper. The symbiosis attached of resignation, but also of defiance — and a belief that relegation would be a mere skip before the team returned to the Premier League a year later.

For years, Coventry had lived a charmed life in the top flight, pulling off a few dramatic escapes on either side of a glorious Football Association Cup success in 1997. But for May 2000, making the short trip to name Villa for its postgraduate game, it needed a minor miracle.

It nearly got one, rushing into a 3-0 lead, but a 5-2 defeat sent it back to the researcher for the first time since 1997. It was then that Mulianey whipped out his homemade paster and held it up.

Drowning his sorrows with friends in a pub near Villa Park as hour later, he was aghant to see that television cameras had picked out him and his peers.

He had not done it for attention. He largely meant it as a message to the Villa fans he worked with who had been much talking the work before.

"But also, I really believed we would come straight back up again," said Mulianey, now 10. "If you had told me it was going to take 25 years."

These 25 years brought three relegations, one administration and, worst of all, two periods of exile from the team's own city, forced to play home coaches in Northampton and Birmingham because of a bitter rests dispute between the Coventry City Council, which partly owned the stadium, and S101 Capital, the hedge fund that bought the club in 2007.

For a time, Coventry became the ultimate illustrator of English soccer's need for government. The club was the front of meager crowds 35 miles away in Northampton while its own stadium stood empty. A group of fans travelled to support the team out from the terraces, but, by way of protest, from a full overlooking Northampton's firefolds ground. They were bleak times.

"S101 nearly destroyed the club," Mulianey said.

And now, to a combination of joy and disbelief, Coventry City is back, under the owner Dong King and the leadership of the former Chelsea and England mid-34sler Frank Lampard. The team played the opening game of the new Premier League season, on Friday against Arsenal, though it lost, 3-0, to the defending champion.

These years in the wilderness are behind the club, but they will not be forgotten easily by its supporters.

Mulianey grew up a corner look away from Highland Road. Coventry's home for 100 years (the nonmodern meaning is largely as the oldest night — "world-film other ragamuffin kids all around the area" — sometimes paved by some of the club's apprentices, who lived at the end of the year. When the manager (and later chairman) Jimmy Hill called up to the parking lot, they would thank for us: The relationship between the soccer club and the community felt symbiotic.

"Growing up in the 1990s and 1990s, we were simply to find it now the Premier League," said Dave Eyles, who was the chairman of the Sky Blue Trust, which formed in 1993 and led the protests against the club's owner during the years of exile. "We were never going to be as flush as the bigger clubs, but we was the F.A. Cup in 1997, and we always tried to compete. By the mid-1990s, we were operating beyond our financial capacity and Highland would be an example of the dilapidated, so there was talk of getting a new ground."

In 2005, five years behind schedule and four years after the end of relegation from the Premier League, Coventry moved to a new home, initially called Ricoh Arena. As so often happens, the new stadium was portrayed as a symbol of a brighter future.

The news was plagued by problems from the start. Coventry had been in debt for years, compounded by relegation and the collapse of the English Football League's commercial deal with 171 City Coaches and some other club members in the construction of the new stadium. Instead, it was loaded almost entirely by the Coventry City Council and the Alan Edward Hagan Club. The club took ownership of Ricoh Arena, and a plan venture called Arena Coventry Limited.

Under the new arrangement, Coventry was a tenant, paying roughly 100,000 pounds a month in rent (about $200,000 in 2005), with no new rent during, parking or non-easier/lay income.

Rather than more on to better things, Coventry drifted. The team stagnated, the cargo in attendance did not happen, and by 2007, the club made no clear administration, at which point it was purchased by S101 Capital. A London-based hedge fund.

This, too, was portrayed as a new start.

Oliver Kay is a senior soccer writer for The Atlanta

PROMOTION Matt Grimes and Manager Frank Lampard during a parade in May celebrating the team's return to the Premier League after 25 years.

CLOSE TO GLORY Coventry City went to Wembley Stadium for an F.A. Cup semifinal in 2024, but it lost to Manchester United on penalties.

a significant step toward a brighter future. Um Devon, the team's manager, spoke of "exciting times for everyone connected with the Sky Blues," saying the uncertainty was over.

"I was abroad at the time, and I was cheering the news, thinking we had been saved," Eyles said, "only to realize we had actually done a deal with the devil."

In April 2012, Coventry was relegated again, dropping down to the third tier for the first time since 1994. But even more damaging was the rest dispute. S101 began to withhold over payments in the hope of forcing a renegotiation. The stardust group offered reduced terms, but a branded reward.

In March 2013, days after the team's clear stuff was relocated from the stadium to the training ground and the club stone was emptied of merchandise. Coventry received administration, citing an inability to pay the outstanding £1.3 million over 1993. The threat of homelessness learned, and shortly before the next campaign began, the club announced that it would play home games in Northampton for the next three seasons, a decision the E.P.L. approved with "deep regret."

"It was just awful," said Max Baker, another former chairman of the Sky Blue Trust. "Nobody could quite believe it had happened."

Coventry's average league attendance had fallen from 21,321 in its first season at Ricoh Arena in 10,200 in Year 6 as disillusionment — and anger with the owner — grew. It then fell to just 2,100 as thousands of fans become Northampton in protest. A small group of others watched from the hill, hoping the absurdity of the situation would draw attention to the club's plight.

"I was one of the ones on the hill," Eyles said. "You weren't even watching the game because you could only see about half the pitch from the hill. You felt you were making a statement because it helped keep the club in the public eye, and the media coverage put some pressure on the owners to realize, 'Bloody hell, what have we done here?'" But it was depressing.

"An uneasy trace brought Coventry home the next season. But an opportunity to buy Ricoh Arena was missed, instead, the stadium was sold to Kings, a

rugby union club with no previous link to the city.

Moreover, the damage done by the Northampton move was huge. The relationship between S101 and the fans was broken. There were regular protests, including a series of vacations in the owner's London office, demanding answers.

"We just tried to get our message across: that football clubs don't belong to hedge funds or investors," Eyles said.

'I was one of the ones on the hill.'

SAVE EYLES, a fan who watched a protest from outside Coventry's temporary home in Northampton.

"They belong to the fans. Without the fans, there is nothing."

Somehow, against that enormous back-drop, a sense of stability arrived. Mulianey, Eyles and Baker all grabbed the top forever of Manager Steven Coventry, in charge from 2012 to 2015, and his successes, Tony Moseberg, but particular actions is reserved for Mark Robins.

Robins returned for a second spell in charge in March 2017, shortly before Coventry was relegated to the fourth tier. But victory over Oxford United at Wembley

JOT The years in the wilderness will not be easily forgotten easily by fans.

BOND WITH FANS Johnny Hill, a manager who was later the chairman, in 2007. Children from the neighborhood around the stadium would shun his car.

to the E.P.L. Trophy brought what Eyles called "a glimmer of hope," a hint of what could be achieved if only the club's many off-field issues could be resolved.

Robins led Coventry to promotion from League Two on the first attempt, beating Easter City in the playoff final.

"We took around 40,000 fans to Wembley that day, and the atmosphere was electric," Eyles said. "That was probably the point where it felt like we could get our club back."

The divide between the fan base and the owner was unbridgable, but Robins strove to build a team that the city could get behind. Behind the scenes, a new third-motivist, Dave Binkly, marched out to the fans, who previously thought that they had been treated as the enemy.

In 2018, with the Ricoh Arena dispute intensified, Coventry was forced to relocate again, to Birmingham City's stadium. The traveling distance was only 15 miles, but many fans stayed away to protest again. "At that point, it felt like there wasn't a way back to playing in Coventry," Eyles said.

Against the odds, Coventry was promotion back to the Championship in a season curtailed by the Covid-19 pandemic. In March 2012, the club moved to a new 10-year rent deal to return to the Ricoh, which was renamed the Coventry Building Society Arena. Five months later, on the opening day of the new Championship season, a crowd of 39,843 watched Coventry, inspired by the new signing Viktor Gyokevro, come from behind to bear Nottingham Forest, 2-1.

A new later, S101 said the club to King, who had made his fortune from contract by trading.

"There was a lot of skepticism because nobody knew who he was," Eyles said. "After years of S101 bringing different people on board, we worried he might be another stinger. But he quickly showed he had a very clear vision about wanting to take the club forward, back to the Premier League."

Coventry narrowly missed out on promotion in 2013, beaten by issues from on penalties in the playoff final. The next season brought an agnosticq defeat against Manchester United in the F.A. Cup semifinal, again on penalties. The dismissal of Robins in November 2024

spent many supporters. The appointee was of Lampard, though a "big name," did little to placate them.

But Lampard brought fresh ideas and impetus. An impression run took Coventry to the promotion playoffs, where it was beaten by funded fund. Last season, the team was unstoppable, placing free-flowing, free-scoring soccer, total-person scores, Coventry won promotion with three games to spare. And on the day it lifted the trophy at C80 Arena, the club printed thousands of placards bearing the slogan: "We are back," in Mulianey's writing.

Mulianey smiled as he watched it all more than 10,000 miles away in Brisbane, Australia. Since emigrating in 1988, he has followed Coventry's fortunes from afar, despairing in the trials and tribulations under S101's ownership, feeling sorry for friends who were still following the team every week — even from a left in Northampton.

But he has found his enthusiasm relignited over the past nine years, frequently getting up at 3 a.m. to watch his team, messaging his son in a state of excitement, "and then, when it's been a great game, struggling to get back to sleep because it's such a buzz."

Fans can hardly believe the journey from the Premier League all the way to League Two and then back again.

"I never thought we would get back there," Eyles said. "Even stability in League One seemed more than we could hope for at one stage."

But now, Coventry finds itself back in its own city — not as insane, but finally as the owner of its own stadium, which the club bought in a 125 million deal last August — and back in the Premier League. Already this summer, it has spent more than 4,000 million on new players to strengthen Lampard's promotion-winning squad.

Even within the roller-coaster existence of the Football League, it is remarkable to go from such depths of despair to each euphoria. Baker said the atmosphere is the city was unrecognizable.

"It feels like everyone is wearing a Coventry shirt," he said. "There's a feel-good factor everywhere you go. Men, women, young and old, it has united the community again."

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PRO BASKETBALL

ANALYSIS

New Deal for Hart Would Need to Strike a Delicate Balance

By JAMES L. EDWARDS III

by apress

While Kinicks fans wait in one where and if the team and Karl-Anthony Towns will reach an extension agreement, New York must also consider what is next for Josh Hart.

Hart, the do-it-all veteran, became eligible for an extension on Aug. 30. The most he can sign for is a four year, $32 million contract.

As cheesy as it can sound, Hart is the heart and soul of the Kinicks. He blends between line-ups, rebounds like someone six inches taller, wins practically every loose ball, plays with his emotions visible for all in the serve and, to put it simply, does whatever is needed in who games. On the flip side, the ball turn 0.1 in March and has been among the league leaders in total minutes played the past four seasons.

Hart will compete this season on a $20.9 million salary. He has a team option for the 2027-28 season worth a little more than $22 million if the Kinicks pick it up. For Hart, his next deal could be his final hefty contract in the N.B.A., And with all this chance around New York's players can, lowing Jukes Brumaux's lead in taking a pay cut on New York can keep its core intact, Hart — who has never gotten paid like the other two Kinicks starters — must weigh the importance of maximizing earnings at this stage of his career versus doing his part to keep this team together as long as possible.

Hart will not get the maximum extension he is eligible for — nor, with 100 Annually's salary of more than $10 million per year, Town's extension meeting Brumaux's bigger payday ahead and What Bridges's extension last summer of $100 million over four years. However, Hart should get more security.

He is coming off one of his most efficient effective seasons as a pro, having averaged more than 16 points while shooting better than 30 percent from the field and a career-best 0.3 percent from 1.5 out for his defense in the Kinicks' first-round round against the Atlanta Hawks, New York's title drought might have extended to 34 years. Hart no matter one of the best rebounders

Jones L. Edwards III covers the Kinicks for The Athletic

Josh Hart's return to have a team option for 2027-28 worth over $22 million. His next deal would be his last big payday in the N.B.A.

The Kinicks could risk losing someone who has sacrificed a hit for the team, and is a fan favorite.

A door I sat under in N.B.A. history. In terms of intangibles, he brings a controlled chain that is not displeased by anyone else on the roster.

One league source, granted anonymity to speak freely, he leaves that a three-year extension worth somewhere between $10 million and $82 million would be a happy medium for both sides. With the years, Hart would be guaranteed money until he is 35. The low end of that range would pay Hart between $10 million and $20 million annually, which somewhat aligns with the deal he currently playing on. Another league source, who spoke under the same conditions, thought a three-year extension worth $80 million to $2 million in total would be the sweet spot. A guaranteed three years would reward Hart for his services to date and what is to come while giving the franchise first round.

An extension that pays Hart at least $20 million annually both like a big win for New York, Yet, if you're Hart and look around the league at what other "glue guys" are getting paid, then is a strong case to be made that

conversations should start in the end-to-high $20 million range.

The example, DeVrick White of the Boston Celtics turned 32 in July. He is going to make just over $30 million this season. Individually, Hart was better than White last season — and more important, Hart just played a huge role in a championship. Sure, you can talk yourself into last season being a down year for White, but he has not been $10 million better than Hart over the past two seasons.

Earlier this month, the Phoenix State signed Dillon Wills to win his title in January to a three-year, $72 million extension. Brooke, like Hart, is a very good role player, even though their styles are not identical. Brooke is draw long on his numbers, but if he is, so is Hart.

While a three-year, $80 million in deal might give Hart future security and the Kinicks none might room, that would not really be on par for what Hart brings in the table. An extension somewhere between $70 million and $80 million does that, based on the market.

Ultimately, from the player's side, Hart has to determine if a score of 2.0 is more important than getting the most money possible. He also has to consider if capitalizing on his good season and championship season rather than loser is the play over the unknown next season and potentially being a few agree if New York does not pick up his team option.

Conversely, the Kinicks would benefit from Hart's taking another deal similar to the one he is currently playing on, as the owner James Finkin does not have his team in the second apron. However, would New York really risk losing someone who has really sacrificed a hit in this group, is a fan favorite and fan the ear of the star player?

My gut tells me that the Kinicks and Hart will get a good chance done in some parts. The two sides are better together than apart, and I think they both know that. It will be interesting, though, to see what that middle season will be. Hart has a strong case to get another real pay rate, while New York could players to give up money to keep this core together.

Someone will sacrifice more than the other in this situation. Which one will it for?

COMMENTARY

Valkyries Near Top, But the Lynx Show A Big Gap Remains

By MARCUS THOMPSON II

by apress

SAN FRANCISCO — A rising gang swept through the arenas last Wednesday as Valkyries forward Gabby Williams launched an open 3 from the top of the art. It would have cut Golden State's deficit to 6 points with just under six minutes remaining and sent Chase Coeur into a frosty.

But Williams's shot bounced high off the rim and landed in the hands of Minnesota point guard Olivia Miles, beginning a sequence that illustrated the Valkyries' latest demise at the hands of the Lynx. The two were lead and the ball, Miles driftified up the court, bounced by Valkyries forward Janelle Salado, then shifted gears as she headed toward the point. Then, suddenly, she whipped the ball around her back and changed direction.

Salado went sprawling, rolling her aside after engaging as the best of Lynx center Natasha Howard. While Salado limped, Miles stopped back behind the 3-point line. She set her feet, lined up the waters and launched a 3.

Williams missed her momentum 3. Miles, the W.N.B.A.'s brightest new dial, didn't.

About a minute later, Miles left the game after twisting her left ankle. While on defense, she had stepped on the line of her main stair against the Valkyries' first limped in the sideline, where she stayed down for a few minutes. She made it under her own power in the bench, where she was able to hold four minutes of the game.

Miles, still batting, was well enough to appear in the audience for Minnesota paraguys press conference. She went go to post question to Kayla McBride.

"What made you do the 'Night

Marcus Thompson II is a senior columnist for The Athletic

'Night' celebration after that last 3," Miles asked from a seat in the front row among the media.

"Stephen Curry is my favorite player," McBride answered.

Minnesota taken clear delight in its ownership of Golden State, which continued with a 77-40 win. The Lynx, a W.N.B.A.-best 35-7, have championship aspirations but still have time to deliver regular-season smoke to a Valkyries squad that purports to be on their level. The Valkyries, 6-3 against the Lynx in 2020 and 8-4 all-time, remain frustrated at this hurdle they cannot close.

They have another chance on Monday in Minneapolis — their last opportunity to beat the Lynx before a possible playoff clash.

Minnesota's top-end talent continues to trump the depth of the Valkyries, whose success conquering the margins doesn't seem to work against the Lynx's magic. "As Lynx, bolstered by the addition of Miles, chastised the Valkyries again last week like a sister simply too big, too strong and too confident.

The long-term answer for Golden State figures to be getting a star of its own. No doubt, the front office would eagerly pursue Collier should the prodig free agent decide to leave Minnesota.

But that does nothing to ease the annoyance of the latest loss and this current concern. In the past, the Valkyries played the Lynx well enough to believe they can win. Their rally Wednesday was strong enough to keep that battle alive.

Yet the answers remain evasive enough that Golden State Coach Natalie Nakane changes herself with the blame for not yet finding new answers for this fee.

"I'm not pressing the right buttons," Nakane said. "I'm not getting them normally prepared enough. They're going through normal lapses that I don't understand. So I've got to do a better

Olivia Miles (2) outshot Gabby Williams, who had one of her worst offensive outings of the season.

Kayla McBride struck the 'Night Night' pose after hitting a 3-over Cecilia Zandalaum in the Lynx's latest defeat of the Valkyries.

job."

The Valkyries (25-0-1), who have eight regular-season games left, are five games behind the Lynx in the standings, with Minnesota owning the head-to-head tiebreaker. Golden State's chances at the No. 1 seed are fleeting.

Perhaps more critical than the standings, though, is how the Valkyries have measured up against the class of the W.N.B.A. They have proved that they're too good to be dismissed as a

cure story. But they have not been able to validate their place among the elite.

"They probably the worst they've ever going to see us," the Valkyries veteran guard Tiffany Hayes said.

Indeed, Golden State has risen to the No. 1 seed in relative anonymity, overthusheed by the league's nightwire caucations of passion, politics and personality. While the Valkyries dominated on defense, supremacy and controversies dominated the head-

lines. The W.N.B.A. enjoys unprecedented attention, yet the Valkyries have somehow managed to fly under the table the spies snaring in the standings.

But the Lynx made sure Gold on State remained there. For now, at least. That's how theer oughts they have handled the Valkyries.

The Valkyries played Wednesday's first half like a team shacked by service. It took 20 minutes to find their most after coming into the rigidity of an unbelieved opponent.

They were able to cut what had been a 22-point lead to 7 in the fourth quarter. But the Lynx, regained concerns about Golden State's championship viability with a display of success the Valkyries made her mark in.

Grit, defense and a varied attack on offense put the Valkyries on the heels of the Lynx in the standings, and brought them to the following distance to a resilient second half. But an seems to always be the case against Minnesota, Golden State cannot match the star power.

"That's like a normal feast and a competitiveness that needs to come out," point guard Verona La Barone said. "And, yes, they hit some great shots. They hit some tough shots. But we can't

Minnesota, its talent trumping Golden State's depth, is now 9-0 head-to-head.

afford to keep saying the same thing about our starts."

She added: "This was a really important game. We know that. So we need to act like it when we come out, and hold each other accountable. And we will, but it's the sense of urgency from before the game even starts. Because we can't get down 22 and expect to win."

The loaded Lynx throw four players on the court who can reality great defense. Miles' rallies and McBride combined for 38 points Wednesday on 19-0-0 shooting. That allowed Converse Williams' past Valkyries killer, to have a chill night.

Golden State's Gabby Williams and Cecilia Zandalaum continued for 10 points on 7-0-10 shooting, while the win at 10-0-0 deep. Williams, the Valkyries' best-10-5-0-2 and their most dominant player, had one of her worst offensive performances of the season.

"To me," Nakane said, "I need to figure out how to push the players that didn't show up. I've got to get into them. I've got to have conversations with them."

She continued: "I understand the reality of the outside main. I've got to figure out my players."

One bad matching doesn't disqualify a contender. Minnesota and the Las Vegas Aces are the only teams that the Valkyries haven't beaten.

If Golden State holds on to the No. 1 seed, it would not last Minnesota until the W.N.B.A. finish. But for struggle-against the Lynx, just not to bring into a problem that figures to be on stored in the postseason. Both of those teams have opportunity to close games, and the lead of the last star can only be the Valkyries' style of greatness.

Golden State has turned the right to be discussed alongside the W.N.B.A.'s better teams. But the first, in which the goal was to revere credible thrust and true contender. Fortunately for the Valkyries, they still have time — and the Lynx is not as motivation.

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TENNIS | U.S. OPEN

Williams Will Pair Up With Alcaraz, Revitalizing Mixed Doubles Competition

By MATTHEW FUTTERMAN

IN NEWS

The U.S. Open promised a star-enabled mixed doubles competition. It doesn't get much bigger than this: a pairing of a tennis GOAT and the best player of the past three years.

Serena Williams, still arguably the sport's biggest female visit, and Carlos Alcaraz will team up this week in the U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament, giving the tournament its second day of integration for an event that just two years ago was an after-bought player in nearly empty stadiums.

The announcement on Saturday came two days after Alcaraz said he was ready to return from his work injury after two months on the sidelines, and less than 24 hours after Jacob Simon announced that a knee injury was approved less from competing in the year's final Grand Slam.

Alcaraz and Williams will take the court with a combined 40 Grand Slam titles in singles and

Matthew Futterman is a senior tennis writer for The Athletic.

doubles. Williams, the greatest female player of the modern era, won 23 Grand Slam singles titles and teamed up with her name. Yet not, he was 14 Grand Slam doubles titles.

She won two more titles in mixed doubles, playing with Max Mizey of Belcore in won Wristband and the U.S. Open mixed competition in 1996, when she was just 16. Those were the first Grand Slam titles of her career.

The only team that will come close to matching them is star power and pedigree — at least in singles — will be Tennis Djokovic and Ayron Sabalenko, who have a combined 35 Grand Slam titles in singles and doubles. Sabalenko teamed up with Elias Mertens to win her triadles Grand Slam titles in 2009 and 2025.

Alcaraz may ask for some pointers. He has won Grand Slam titles only in singles and has not had much success the few times he has played doubles. He and Rafael Vialali won two matches at the Paris Olympics in 2010 but lost in the quarterfinals.

Alcaraz and Emma Radasana

Serena Williams and Carlos Alcaraz will take the court with a combined 40 Grand Slam titles in singles and doubles.

lost decisively in the opening round of the U.S. Open mixed doubles last year, Jessica Pagela and Jack Singer beat them, 4:2, 4:2.

But the simple act of Williams and Alcaraz making onto the most together on Tuesday in further Aofer Stadium will produce a second moment for the sport.

Alcaraz has been managing to-

sonyments, an injury to which the oil accumulates in the sheath that presents a key tendon in the wrist. The condition has been set of two Grand Slams this year. Alcaraz pulled out of the French Open a month before it started and withdrew from Wristbinder nearly six weeks out.

He planned to play the Czecho

nati Open earlier this month to rest out his wrist but pulled out just days before. Many to the sport expected him to slip the U.S. Open, rather than begin his comeback in the crucible of best-of-three weeks. The mixed doubles could serve as a test run to determine whether his wrist has sufficiently healed.

Williams re-entered the sport's antidoteing system last fall, specify signaling that she was contemplating a comeback four years after she decided to "review away" from the sport. She gave birth to her second child in 2023 and had mostly pursued students ventures and investments since leaving the sport.

Williams played doubles at two events on given in Europe in June and has a significant single-month to Maza Joint in the opening round of Wristbinder, where she twoealed her knee and had to pull out of playing doubles with her own.

Williams did not play again on 18 last week in Cincinnati, where she and her sister lost a match-drafting tiebreaker to Maria Konyuk and Peyton Ibrams.

Williams is considering whether to accept the final remaining wild card into the U.S. Open's singles competition. Venus Williams accepted one of those spots last week. The starers are also expected to play in the women's doubles competition.

Sabalenko forms

another high-powered team with Djokovic.

As in 2025, mixed doubles in the headline event for the U.S. Open's Year Week, which takes up the new injury before she majored her singles competition of the Grand Slam tournament begins.

The tournament was wildly successful last year, attracting 76,000 spectators. They won days of competition and parking Arthur Aofer Stadium for the semifinals and 6 calls. Sara Errani and Andrea Tormoori packed up 31 million for their win.

Weather Report

Meteorology by AccuWeather

Highlight: Contrasting Air Masses This Week

A strong air stream diving southeast from central Canada to the U.S. East Coast this week will divide cost air in the Grand Lakes and Northeast from airborne heat over the Southwest. Afternoon temperatures will reach 110 to 120 degrees over portions of Arizona.

National Forecast

Thunderstorms will develop across the Rockies and into northern portions of the Midwest. Across a zone from central Nebraska through northern Minnesota, storms will be capable of hot and damage Ag wind gusts into the nighttime hours.

More widespread storms will develop from less through Louisiana, where it will also be found. For southern portions of the Texas from Nebraska through Texas, excessive heat will continue to build. Across the Southeast, there are far from deratoms, especially along the immediate coast.

In the Northeast, it will be more showery, but there could be some thunder in the afternoon. The West will be dry,

Metropolitan Forecast

Water ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . High 70. Dry weather will return, and there will be sunshine and a few clouds. There will be less humidity in the air compared to recent days, and winds will be 4 to 8 miles per hour.

TOMENT ...Clear

Low 64. High pressure moving into the Northeast will result in a close dry and light winds at 3 to 6 m.p.h. temperatures will be around 5 degrees below average for this time of year.

TOMORROW ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . High 70. The dry will range from sunny to party clouds, and it will remain dry. There will be a light increase at 6 to 12 m.p.h. temperatures will remain around 5 degrees below normal.

MIDWIDAY ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . High 80. High pressure will result in a mostly sunny dry. Winds will be 4 to 8 m.p.h.

THURSDAY FRIDAY ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The 1st week of the 1st week of the 1st week of the 1st week of the 1st week of the 1st week of the 1st week of the 1st week of the 1st week of the 1st week of the 1st week of the 1st week of the 1st week of the 1st week of the 1st week of the 1st week of the 1st week of the 1st week of

Metropolitan Almanac

In Central Plain, for the 13 hours ended at 1 p.m. yesterday.

Temperature

Avg. temp. mean for 1 day, 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1 hr., 1

Resumed levels (New York City, within 0.0001) Dry month - 0.2° Dry season - 0.2° Dry season - 0.2°

Cities
High 70m temperatures for the 10 hours ended at 3 p.m. yesterday. Under the low and precipitation on increase for the 10 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.
Assumed conditions for roads, and commas
Z	Fig	Day	Time
W	Water	PM	Temperature
W	Air	PM	Time
WL	Partly Cloudy	Th	Time
WL	Rain	W	Time
WL	Air	PM	Time

K.Y.C. region	Yesterday	Today	Temperature
New York City	171.00 0.00	181.00 0.00	180.00 0.00
New York City	171.00 0.00	181.00 0.00	180.00 0.00
Carlsbad	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00
New York City	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00
New York City	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00
New York City	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00
New York City	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00
New York City	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00
New York City	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00
New York City	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00
New York City	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00	170.00 0.00

Little Rock	80.72 0.1	80.72 0.1	80.72 0.1
Los Angeles	80.72 0.1	80.72 0.1	80.72 0.1
San Diego	80.72 0.1	80.72 0.1	80.72 0.1
San Diego	80.72 0.1	80.72 0.1	80.72 0.1
Miami	81.00 0.00	81.00 0.00	81.00 0.00
Minneapolis	81.00 0.00	81.00 0.00	81.00 0.00
Minneapolis	81.00 0.00	81.00 0.00	81.00 0.00
Minneapolis	81.00 0.00	81.00 0.00	81.00 0.00
Minneapolis	81.00 0.00	81.00 0.00	81.00 0.00
Minneapolis	81.00 0.00	81.00 0.00	81.00 0.00
Minneapolis	81.00 0.00	81.00 0.00	81.00 0.00

New York	80.97 0.00	80.97 0.00	80.97 0.00
New York City	80.97 0.00	80.97 0.00	80.97 0.00
New York City	80.97 0.00	80.97 0.00	80.97 0.00
New York City	80.97 0.00	80.97 0.00	80.97 0.00
New York City	80.97 0.00	80.97 0.00	80.97 0.00

Recreational Forecast

Sun, Moon and Planets

Full	Last Quarter	New	First Quarter
1	78	80	80
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Sun	July 1	Mon	7:30 p.m.
8:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.
8:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.
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8:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	8:30 p.m.
8:30 p.m.	8:30	8:30	8:30
8:30 p.m.	8:30	8:30	8:30
8:30 p.m.	8:30	8:30	8:30
8:30 p.m.	8:30	8:30	8:30
8:30 p.m.	8:30	8:30	8:30
8:30 p.m.	8,30	8,30	8,30
8:30 p.m.	8,30	8,30	8,30
8:30 p.m.	8,30	8,30	8,30
8:30 p.m.	8,30	8,30	8,30
8:30 p.m.	8,30	8,30	8,30

Beach and Ocean Temperature

Today's forecast	1
Internationally	1
Totally	1
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Over 1,000	1
Over 1,000	1
Over 1,000	1
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Over 1,000	1

It will remain dry today. Roughly three extra showers are possible from Conner's local through Delaware. Otherwise, the storm be partly sunny, and there will be less humidity in the air. High temperatures will range from the upper 70s north to the upper 80s south.

制度与权力批判深度研判：The New York Times (2026-08-24)

▌ 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：

1. 拉丁美洲右翼势力的跨境结盟与“党派外交” [F2_4, F13_26, F14_28]

   • 事件简述：阿根廷总统米莱公开支持巴西右翼候选人贝利扎罗，并与哥伦比亚总统德·拉·埃斯皮拉亚共同提出剔除“社会主义中心”的策略，导致巴西召回驻阿根廷外交人员。
   • 制度批判切入点：分析国家元首如何将外交职能“党派化”，通过跨境意识形态结盟构建非正式的权力网络，从而挑战传统的国家间外交礼仪与主权互认制度。

2. 伊朗的“经济 D-Day”与资源武器化威胁 [F3_6, F17_33, F17_34]

   • 事件简述：面对美国总统特朗普的经济压力，伊朗安全主管布里扎尼威胁将封锁所有石油出口，并将经济战升级为进攻性手段。
   • 制度批判切入点：探讨主权国家在极端制裁环境下，如何将经济资源（石油）从贸易商品转化为战略武器，以及这种“资源武器化”如何重构国际安全逻辑与经济依赖关系。

3. 全球粮食供应链的脆弱性与战争冲击 [F10_20, F11_22]

   • 事件简述：在“铁战”背景下，俄罗斯诺沃罗西比斯克港口粮食终端遭无人机袭击暂停运营，叠加恶劣天气，导致全球小麦成本飙升。
   • 制度批判切入点：剖析现代全球供应体系在面对“精准打击”时的结构性脆弱，分析战争如何通过破坏物理咽喉要道（Choke Points）迅速转化为全球性的生存危机与经济压力。

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▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)

专题一：意识形态结盟对传统外交制度的侵蚀——评拉美右翼的“党派外交”

近期拉丁美洲出现的右翼势力统一趋势 [F2_3 🔍] 揭示了一种新型的权力运作模式：外交行为的“党派化”。阿根廷总统米莱通过公开抨击巴西现任总统为“社会主义信托”并全力支持其政敌贝利扎罗 [F2_4 🔍]，将国家层面的外交关系直接挂钩于党派竞争。这种行为在本质上是对传统外交制度中“国家利益至上”原则的解构。

从制度现实来看，这种“跨境盟友”关系 [F13_25 🔍] 旨在通过意识形态的纯洁性（如剔除“社会主义中心” [F13_26 🔍]）来构建一个超越国界的权力共同体。然而，这种操作带来了严重的制度后果：巴西召回驻阿根廷外交人员 [F2_4 🔍] 表明，当外交被简化为党派博弈时，国家间的沟通机制将陷入瘫痪。

援引新制度主义视角，我们可以看到一种“非正式制度”对“正式制度”的替代。传统的双边外交基于主权承认与礼宾程序，而米莱与德·拉·埃斯皮拉亚等人的策略则是基于意识形态认同的快速结盟。这种转变虽然在短期内能通过政治作秀 [F14_28 🔍] 获得支持，但它削弱了国家在贸易和犯罪等务实问题上的跨境合作能力 [F14_28 🔍]，使外交从一种“协调机制”异化为一种“对抗工具”。

专题二：资源武器化与“例外状态”下的经济安全逻辑

伊朗针对美国盟友的石油封锁威胁 [F17_33 🔍] 标志着经济战进入了一个新的阶段。当美国总统特朗普警告“经济 D-Day”即将到来时 [F3_6 🔍]，伊朗的反应并非寻求传统的贸易谈判，而是直接威胁封锁所有石油出口 [F17_33 🔍]。这是一种典型的将经济资源“武器化”的权力技术。

在这种逻辑中，石油不再仅仅是商品，而成为了主权国家在极端压力下维持生存的最后筹码。布里扎尼先生提出的谈判条件——优先与无需为之前行动支付费用的国家谈判 [F17_34 🔍]，表明伊朗试图通过差异化的资源分配来分化美国的盟友体系。

从权力技术层面分析，这实际上是在国际经济秩序中制造一种“例外状态”。通过威胁切断全球能源供应，伊朗试图在国际法和贸易规则之外，建立一套基于“生存威胁”的权力博弈机制。这种机制将经济依赖性转化为政治控制力，使全球市场成为地缘政治对抗的延伸。当粮食咽喉要道（如诺沃罗西比斯克港口 [F11_22 🔍]）与能源出口通道同时成为战争目标或威胁手段时，全球治理的制度基础——即基于规则的贸易体系——正面临着深刻的崩塌危机。

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▌ 面向学者的制度研究开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)

1. 关于“党派外交”的法理研究：当国家元首将个人政治倾向置于国家外交礼仪之上时，如何界定“国家行为”与“党派行为”的法律边界？这种趋势是否会导致国际外交协议的效力随政权更迭而剧烈波动？
2. 关于“资源武器化”的政治经济学研究：在能源与粮食供应链高度全球化的今天，主权国家通过封锁物理要道（Choke Points）实现的权力杠杆，在多大程度上能抵消经济制裁带来的结构性压力？这种博弈是否会迫使全球贸易体系向“碎片化”的阵营贸易转型？

理性与情感辩证深度研判：The New York Times (2026-08-24)

▌ 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、情感撕裂与生活世界崩解层面最值得学者进一步深思：

1. 【地缘政治冲突下的生存焦虑】 [F10_19 🔍], [F11_21 🔍]（生活领域：粮食安全与生存）

   • 事件简述：在“铁战”背景下，全球粮仓遭受打击，俄罗斯诺沃罗西比斯克港口粮食终端因无人机袭击暂停运营，导致小麦等核心食品成本飙升。
   • 情感政治切入点：宏观的军事战略（Logos）如何迅速转化为微观个体的生存痛感（Pathos）。粮食作为生命底线的匮乏，将地缘政治的冷酷逻辑直接转化为全球范围内的饥饿焦虑与生活成本压力。

2. 【右翼政治联盟中的意识形态共振】 [F2_4 🔍], [F13_26 🔍]（生活领域：政治认同与外交）

   • 事件简述：阿根廷总统米莱（Javier Milei）公开支持巴西右翼候选人贝利扎罗（Flavio Belizzaro），抨击卢拉政府为“社会主义信托”，并与哥伦比亚总统德·拉·埃斯皮拉亚（Adelardo De La Espiralla）共同寻求“剔除”左翼。
   • 情感政治切入点：政治认同如何通过“敌我”话语的构建（如“社会主义中心”）产生跨国的情感共鸣。这种基于意识形态纯洁性的联盟，将外交关系简化为价值观的对立，导致了如巴西召回驻阿根廷外交人员等现实层面的关系撕裂 [F2_4 🔍]。

3. 【法律制度对心理脆弱性的承认】 [F8_16 🔍]（生活领域：司法与心理健康）

   • 事件简述：伊利诺伊州法律允许在杀婴母亲的审判中提供“谋杀”与“精神失常”两种陪审团选项，以承认产后特殊的心理脆弱性。
   • 情感政治切入点：法律理性（Logos）在面对极端人类情感崩溃（Pathos）时的妥协与兼容。这体现了制度如何尝试将个体的心理创伤纳入司法考量，而非单纯地将其视为违规行为。

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▌ 精选核心专题理性与情感辩证论证 (The Dialectic of Logos and Pathos Monograph)

专题一：生存底线的崩塌：粮食供应链危机中的系统理性与肉身痛感

在关于食品成本飙升的报道中，我们观察到一种典型的 Logos（系统理性）与 Pathos（肉身痛感） 的残酷对立。

系统理性模型解构：从地缘政治和军事战略的逻辑来看，袭击粮食终端（如诺沃罗西比斯克港口 [F11_22 🔍]）是一种精准的压力手段。在战争的计算模型中，粮食被工具化为一种“战略杠杆”，通过切断供应路线来削弱对方的经济韧性或迫使对方在谈判中让步。在这种模型中，小麦的价格波动被视为一个经济指标或战争成本。

生活世界真实痛感的现象学深描：然而，对于全球消费者而言，这种“战略杠杆”转化为的是具体的生存危机。小麦作为“现代饮食的核心” [F10_20 🔍]，其价格上涨意味着最底层人群饮食结构的崩塌。这种痛感不是统计学上的“成本增加”，而是面对空盘的绝望、对下一餐的不确定性以及生活质量被强制剥夺的愤怒。

Logos 与 Pathos 的辩证摩擦：制度理性（战争逻辑）试图将粮食危机定义为“必要的战略代价”，但这种定义在面对肉身痛感时完全失效。当“铁战”导致食品成本飙升 [F10_20 🔍] 时，宏观的政治目标与微观的生存权利发生了剧烈碰撞。这种碰撞揭示了现代战争的非对称性：决策者在地图上移动棋子（Logos），而承受后果的是全球数以亿计的普通个体（Pathos）。

话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断：报道中提到的“现代危机的叠加” [F10_20 🔍] 揭示了一种系统性的脆弱。当生存底线被地缘政治博弈所侵蚀，社会心理韧性将迅速下降，极易转化为对现有国际秩序的深刻不信任。

专题二：意识形态的“情感极化”：拉丁美洲右翼联盟的认同逻辑

在米莱与贝利扎罗及德·拉·埃斯皮拉亚的政治结盟中，我们看到了一个关于“认同政治”的深刻辩证法。

系统理性模型解构：从政治科学的理性选择理论来看，这种结盟是为了在区域内构建一个反左翼的权力集团，通过统一的意识形态话语（如反对“社会主义信托” [F2_4 🔍]）来获取选举优势并重新定义区域贸易与安全格局。这是一种基于权力最大化的战略部署。

生活世界真实痛感的现象学深描：然而，这种政治动员的核心并非理性的政策辩论，而是强烈的情感共振。米莱使用“疲惫的”、“社会主义信托”等带有强烈贬义和情感色彩的词汇 [F2_4 🔍]，旨在唤起支持者心中对某种“体制腐败”或“意识形态压迫”的恐惧与厌恶。这种情感驱动的认同，使支持者在心理上获得了一种“正义之战”的快感。

Logos 与 Pathos 的辩证摩擦：这种“党派外交”导致了理性外交逻辑的失效。通常，国家间关系基于贸易和犯罪等实际合作（Logos） [F14_28 🔍]，但当情感政治（Pathos）占据主导时，即使在合作未停止的情况下，也会出现“召回大使”这种极具象征意义的决裂行为 [F2_4 🔍]。这表明，情感上的“纯洁性”要求（如“剔除”左翼 [F13_26 🔍]）已经超越了务实的国家利益考量。

话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断：这种基于“敌我”对立的情感政治，虽然在短期内能迅速凝聚核心支持者，但却在社会整体层面制造了深层的撕裂。当政治认同被简化为对特定标签的憎恨时，社会协商的空间被极度压缩，导致区域政治进入一种高波动、低信任的不稳定状态。

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▌ 面向学者的伦理与社会心理开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)

1. 【战略工具化与基本人权的伦理冲突】：当粮食等生存必需品被纳入地缘政治的“战略杠杆”时，国际法如何界定这种将肉身痛感（Pathos）作为战争手段的伦理边界？
2. 【情感外交对务实外交的替代机制】：在拉丁美洲的案例中，意识形态的情感共振如何改变传统的外交协议逻辑？这种“党派外交”是否预示着全球治理正从“利益导向”转向“认同导向”？
3. 【司法理性对心理脆弱性的量化困境】：伊利诺伊州的法律实践 [F8_16 🔍] 提出了一个关键问题：法律如何客观地界定“心理脆弱性”的边界，以防止制度性的宽容被滥用，同时又不至于抹杀对人类情感崩溃的共情？