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The Houthis

are showing their strength

Alexandra Stark

OPINION

Just a few years ago, Yemen's Houthi rebels were second- or third-tier members of Iran's "Role of Resistance," prompting policymakers to treat them as a subsidiary of Tehran. But while they benefit from Iranian weapons, training and know-how, the Houthis also have their own interests at heart — and behave accordingly.

This extend group that controls much of northern Yemen is in position to shape the next phase of the conflict between the United States and Iran if they attempt to renew their blockade of the Sub al-Mandah Strait. The Houthis could reignite the war in Yemen, scuttle efforts to make a deal with Iran and draw the United States even deeper into the region's conflicts.

A key assumption going into the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, which began in February, was that Iran's proxy

No one should assume that a U.S. deal with Iran will bind what the rebel group in Yemen does next.

soldiers had been critically weakened. Herballah, the militant group in Lebanon that was once Iran's most powerful partner in the region, suffered heavy blows from Israel during the Gaza war, as did Human. Iran lost another key ally when Bashar al-

Assad's regime in Syria collapsed in December 2020.

The Houthis, whose military capacity had also been weakened by U.S. strikes in 2014-15, did not jump back into the City right away when the United States and Israel began striking Iran this year, seemingly sparing them similar blows.

Perhaps they were hiding their time. Because of a spark of geography, the Houthis are able to disrupt commercial traffic in the Sub al-Mandah Strait, a shake point at the entry to the Red Sea, through which 12 persons in 15 percent of maritime trade travels. At the other end of the Red Sea lies the Suez Canal, a vital route for oil and liquefied natural gas headed to North American and European markets. With Iran effectively closing the Strait of Merman, the Houthis are sure to an unusually powerful position.

They have come far in global influence since seizing Yemen's capital, Sanaa, in 2014 and expelling the internationally recognized government from the city in early 2015. When the rebel forces pushed south to March of that year, in an attempt to take over territory in southern Yemen, a could date led by Saudi Arabia and backed by KSAH, AILF #

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Clues on the next pandemic

Testing for Argentine hemorrhagic fever at a laboratory in Rosario, Argentina. After a decades-long dormancy, the virus is spreading to places it had previously never been seen.

In South America, viruses that spread from animals to humans are on the rise

BY ZANE IRWIN

AND LUCEA CHOLAEIAN NEBRERA

By the time colleagues called Dr. Matías Labitte, an Argentine infectious disease specialist, it was too late.

The patient they asked him to examine last month was a 65-year-old woman from Rosario, Argentina's third-largest city. She had a high fever, muscle pain and fatigue. A blood test indicated her white blood cell and platelet count were dangerously low.

Less than a week later, she was dead. Test results revealed that she had contracted Argentine hemorrhagic fever, or A.H.F., a rare disease carried by rodents that both the United States and Soviet Union once researched as a potential agent for biological weapons.

"It is remarkable that it is not discussed more," Dr. Labitte said of the disease, which can cause internal bleeding, seizures and coma. "The illness is persistent and debilitating."

The woman's death is part of a surprising resurgence of the disease in Argentina, which after a decades-long dormancy is spreading to places it had previously never been seen. As human de-

Rosario, Argentina's third-largest city. Urbanization is pushing humans into closer contact with many disease-carrying animals. She the rodents that carry A.H.F.

volopresor, environmental degradation and climate change fragment and after animal habitats, scientists warn that monomer — diseases that jump from animals to humans — are becoming more frequent and widespread.

Climate change is nudging animals, like the rodents that carry A.H.F., into new areas and bringing previously separated species into contact with one an-

other. A 2022 study estimated that more than half of known human pathogenic diseases could be aggravated by climate change. And human activities like agriculture and urbanization are pushing humans into closer contact with many disease-carrying animals.

"Because of all the changes in climate, and also changes in how humans react to climate, we are basically expanding

the human footprint as places where it hasn't been," said Dr. Pranav Kulkarni, a researcher at the University of California, Davis, who studies rodent-borne diseases in South America.

About three-quarters of emerging infectious diseases in humans came from animals, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Kulkarni hopes that research like his, which aims to predict how climate change and human activity affect the spread of disease, could help local health officials catch future outbreaks — before they metastasize into the next global pandemic.

You can of these vector-borne or animal-borne or rodent-borne diseases might be a good candidate for the next big thing," he said.

Until recently, the Rosario patient's case would have been an anomaly. Since A.H.F.'s discovery in the 1950s, it has almost exclusively affected male farm workers in Argentina's fertile plains, outside urban areas. But the infected woman lived in the center of the city and was not a farmer.

The Argentine health authorities created nearly 40 confirmed cases of A.H.F. in 2021 — about three times the number five years earlier, according to government data. And there were outbreaks in 2020 and 2025, which collectively killed at least nine people. PASADERO, PAGE 4

Canada risks

plenty in standing up to the U.S.

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TORONTO

By refusing Trump's deal, Carney puts his country's economy on the line

BY MATINA STEVIS-GREENEFF

On Friday night, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada did something that few other world leaders before him have dared to do.

After days of intense trade negotiations with the United States, with less than an hour to go on a midnight deadline for a new round of tariffs from the Trump administration, Mr. Carney instructed his negotiators to walk away.

Then, he announced that once 50 percent tariffs came into effect on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, he would order retaliatory tariffs on the United States "dollar for dollar".

Then on Saturday, in a lengthy televised address to Canadians, Mr. Carney brought fighting words in Canada's act of defiance.

"Last spring, I warned that America is trying to break an artifact they can own us. And I promised: 'This will never, ever happen.' We are keeping that promise," Mr. Carney said suddenly, before reporters in Ottawa.

"Canada is becoming stronger and less dependent on America. We are already giving ourselves more than they can take away. And we are just getting started," he added.

By walking away, Mr. Carney chose a road that no major U.S. ally has taken. With his country's economy on the line, he stood up to President Trump and refused to accept the admitted object of a new trade relationship with tariffs permanently halted in Britain. the European Union and other major U.S. trading partners have agreed to smaller deals that have been volatile and often left their worse off.

The collapse of the talks came after Mr. Trump declared no Tuesday that the deal was practically done.

Mr. Carney never echoed that. Over the week, an negotiator spent long hours in Washington huddled in the oil field of the U.S. trade representative, Mr. Carney appeared optimistic but insisted that there was still work to be done.

Until there wasn't. Each side now claims that the other introduced new or unresonable demands at the last minute — the kind of finger-pointing that is common when CANADA. PAGE 8

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The State and Duchess of Yemen watching a baseball game in Las Angeles too year. The couple left Britain for California in 2020 after clashing with the royal family.

Royal couple joins the list

of faded showbiz hopefuls

LOS ANGELES

Harry and Meghan find

there is no easy path to success in Hollywood

BY NICHLE SPERLING

AND ORDNEY HURLEY

It began with such high hopes.

The State and Duchess of Yemen landed in Hollywood in 2020, flush with a malnourished dollar Netflix deal and a promise that the duo, scorned by the royal family, would make a slew of inspirational programming.

Two years later, "Harry & Meghan" the Netflix six-part discussion on the couple's Imperfect from Britain, going and 22.4 million views in its initial release, immediately tapping the "college up's chants as the most watched ever for

the first four days of a documentary. In total, the program has garnered 70 million views since its debut.

Nothing else Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, ever made for the service — whether it was "Love to Lead," a socio-episode interview show with world leaders, or "Pete," a discussion about the space — was had each height.

In 2020, the Netflix deal was not renewed. A similarly lofty agreement at Spotify also felt short of expectations.

And an Americans asked in recent days why the couple was leaving home West Coast style, Hollywood observers pointed to one of the most enduring themes in the history of Southern California: show business aspirations that failed.

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A royal couple's faded Hollywood dreams

BOTH LA, FROM PAGE 1 body thinks, 'I'm beautiful,' or 'I'm handsome.' Everybody thinks, 'If these people can make it in Hollywood, so can I.'

But most people don't make it, he said, and throughout history, even otherwise wealthy and powerful people have mistakenly imagined that success in other fields would unreasonably translate to show business glory.

'If there was an easy path to success in show business,' life Brandy said, 'there would be a lot fewer fings in Hollywood.'

The Duke and Duchess made waves last week on both sides of the Atlantic after people handled with the decision confirmed that they were returning to England.

His years ago, the couple, after checking with the royal family, had visited themselves in California, whom the duchess had grown up and once had an acting career in Los Angeles.

Getting into a sprawling estate is the wealthy enclave of Montecito, Calif., the couple raised two children, Archie, T, and Luther, S.

But they now have reindeed their children in school in Britain and timed the move to coincide with the start of classes next month, according to people who spoke to The New York Times.

It is unclear whether they will start new business ventures or where they will live in Britain. (They were told to vacate their official residence on the grounds of Windsor Castle in 2012, the couple's press secretary said at the time.)

A representative for the couple in Friday framed their departure from California as a short-term move.

'On the heels of a wonderful trip with family and friends this summer, Harry and Meghan have decided to spend an extended period in the U.S. this summer. The representative used to a statehouse. 'They are excited to have their children spend more time in the country that's such an important part of their family's story.'

The royal couple's fortunes began celebrating when Netflix did not move their overall deal last year.

In triplicate, the streaming giant established a much less generous part, which still exists, whereby they would be paid only to the children in a show at a film Netflix was interested in acting. (The streaming giant still pays for office space at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood for the couple's company, Archowell Productions.)

Separately, Netflix constructed a joint business deal with Meghan for 'An Even,' her success lifestyle brand which

Initial between in the royal couple's media productions you are included in the film.

The TV show 'With Love, Meghan,' where, did not perform up to Netflix's standards.

drafted off her television show, 'With Love, Meghan.' An accompanying endeavor would tell products like a $20-yr wage discount money and a $14 apiece spread.

Netflix manufactured those products, through its consumer product group in a revenue-sharing deal.

But the show didn't perform up to Netflix's standards. The first season at its market's million views, the second-season carried 2.3 million views, and the Christmas special had 2.8 million views.

Netflix decided to not prewalker any new seasons and ended the brand endeavor in March. Now all consumer goods are handled by Meghan's own

'Everybody thinks, 'If these people can make it in Hollywood, so can I.'

company. (The DJ blackberry jam is still available on the website.)

The day's busy, less postures didn't go as planned, either.

In 2026, they signed a $20-million deal with Spotify. But the only production was season of 'Archetype,' or which Meghan hosted and interviewed guests such as Serena Williams and Paris Hibau.

Harry never made anything, despite

workstopping ideas with the company for a year. (One idea, said one person chose to the couple, was later evening but chocolate around the country.)

It is unclear whether they were paid the full amount of the three-year shot, considering they only made one 22-minute season, a representative for the couple declined to comment. Spotify also declined to comment.

In 2025, Jeremy Zimmer, then the head of United States Agency, set for an interview at the Cannes Laus marketing festival with Jennifer, a digital news site, just one week after the Spotify deal finished and defined the problem. 'Terrorist Meghan Marble was not a great ac-

dis talent, or necessarily any kind of talent. And, you know, just because you're famous doesn't make you great at something.'

Bill Simmons, a Spotify executive and prominent producer, was more blunt. He called the couple 'grrifiers,' using an equestre, in a 2021 podcast after the Spotify deal left again.

Meghan's main recent project, 'Gaskin' (Spruce), a documentary about the Girl Scouts and their cookie sale ambitions that she executive produced, was not a huge hit at the box office. 'CarValanche' (Hole) is like that compiled the best car valence on the internet, not grossed here.)

Yet, according to Howard Cohen, the distributor of the movie through his Roadside Attractions company, the movie will ultimately be a success.

Released on only 6M success, the film is moving 8-million on the box office and will be available to next through streamings on Sept. 8. With documentation struggling in Houston, the movie is, in fact, the highest-growing seasonability documentary to be released so far this year.

Meghan's appearance at both Sundance, where it initially defends, and at screenings in Los Angeles and Ojai helped busy these numbers, Mr. Cohen said in an interview.

Meghan will also appear in the Amazon Prime, movie 'Cheer Personal Friends.' And is set in the released car-de-streaming service next spring. The film stars Mrs. Larson and Lily Collins and is set in Santa Barbara, Meghan plays herself in a cameo.

The duchess has also been in early talks to appear in the third season of the Netflix (come series 'The Gentleman'.) Should the deal come to Indiana, Meghan would film the role in Britain. (The second season has yet to air and Netflix has yet to premeditize a third.)

At least one Hollywood veteran was opined about their return to Britain.

'My first thought was, smart play,' said Spencer Price, the reality television star who ran unsuccessfully for Los Angeles mayor this year. 'Show business in the U.S., it's learning, unlike here.'

He said his wife, Bindi Masing, a reality television star who was a fan of Meghan's lifestyle show, 'got all-removaled last week at the possibility that Prince Harry might be succeeding with the royal family.'

In Britain, he said, the couple could take advantage of our brands for film and television production, and ran their own 'policies and outlets' in blackberry.

'There's no one going to see, I think they have more potential to make content for Netflix or Paramount Film or whoever from England,' he added. 'I personally would already watch a movie at, like, 'With Love, Meghan and Harry. Back in the Pond.'

How the couple's new life in Britain will affect their show business prospects is uncertain. Like many whose Hollywood fan didn't tell them, they read the glum are moving away but have not called out a return.

A representative of Harry and Meghan said the couple's businesses were continuing, unchanged. And they will still have a twofold in the United States, so they are keeping their $14.5-million home in Montecito.

She shared a busy secretary of state's whirlwind life

NANCY KISGINGER 1515-1515

BY ROBERT D. MCFADDEN

Nancy Kissinger, the widow of former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, who shared his whirlwind life of international diplomacy — and then of her seldom inactivity, as a controversial interstateman — he had a century, died in Thursday at her home in South Kent, Conn. She was 84.

Her death was announced by her family.

Politically savvy, well versed in global issues and directly protection of her husband's name, the Kissinger traveled widely with him on diplomatic missions after their 1974 marriage. And when Mr. Kissinger stopped down three years later, they became a familiar Washington couple at state that was a busy person and Republican White House sweepstops.

The Kissinger's work also among the most visible couples in New York City, their principal residents, including museum openings, fashion shows by Bill Blass and Oscar de la Renta, and charity fund-raisers, their she early 1980s, their summer and weekend retreat from social obligations had been an estate in South Kent.

'In the men and women who know her well,' The New York Times quoted one friend as saying after she wedding, 'Mrs. Kissinger is an intelligent, capable and warm woman, with a great deal of charm, a good sense of humor and an true sense of integrity.'

Mrs. Kissinger's glamorous life was hardly devoid of trouble, and some of it had to do with her husband's fairly disputed reputation. As secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 under Presidency Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford, Mr. Kissinger pioneered her policy of debating her first career in the international the postwar opening of relations with China, engaged in similar diplomacy in the United States. The New York Arab-based war of 1973, also known as the Iron Rigger War, and helped organize the Paris Peace Assembly, ending American involvement in the Vietnam War. She found he shared the Nobel Peace Prize.

For all his hearts, he remained a practicing figure, accused by journalists and human rights activists of war and the American flag. The headling of Hanoi and an invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, the resuspending a state's whirlwind life was the first government of Salvador Allende to Chile; and for signalling a given light over Argentine military junta for its 'tirty war' against Abodelem.

In 1982, walking through a terminal at Newark International Airport, the Kissinger's work accused by Ellen Kaplan, a follower of Lyndon H. Calhoun, a subleader with both the star and right-wing associations. She chanted moody at both Kissinger's, and witnesses said that Mrs. Kissinger grabbed the heckler by the threat and threatened to benefit her.

Most of them, in a reaction trial in Newark Municipal Court, Mrs. Kissinger testified that she had been asserting her husband to license her multiple types-heart operation and that he was under a doctor's orders to avoid 'spent of any kind' The judge dismissed a misdemeanor charge of simple second against Mrs. Kissinger, and that there had been no bodily injury.

In the decade before their marriage, his second, Mr. Kissinger dated the film stars All N, John, Liv Ullmann, Shirley

MacLane, Mario Thomas and others. But his most frequent companion was Nancy Maginnes.

The wedding of Mr. Maginnes, 18, and Henry Kissinger, 50, took place in Arlington, Va., on March 19, 1974, and while it was attended by only a handful of guests and sat disclosed until it was over, it was one of the most heavily received social events of the year. The Times published the news at the top of Page 1 and followed it with a detailed profile of the bride.

She was a foreign policy specialist for the Commission on Critical Clusters for Americans, a creation of former Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York. Mr. Rockefeller had been the leader's employer and Mr. Kissinger's friend and political ally for years, and had introduced them at Harvard University in Massachusetts, where Mr. Kissinger

was teaching and Mr. Maginnes became one of his students.

Mr. Kissinger's 15-year first marriage was the first her/hard ended in divorce in New York, with two children, who were attended the wedding, along with the family's brother David and her mother, Agnes Maginnes. Mr. Kissinger's brother, Walter, and his wife were also born, in New Carrick Mow, a State Department judge and

After the heart and ceremony, performed by James Francis Thomas Jr. of Arlington County Court, the county-wide flow in Mr. Rockefeller's private jet in Acapulco, Mexico, for a 10-day honeymoon.

The New Haven Service agents, Dr. Mexican police officers and 49 journalist, also shadowed their every move, had been abused as stage on Acapulco Bay, Mr. Kissinger kept a protective arm around his

new wife, as a American filled with the press cargo followed.

They made a striking couple, not least because the sub-liberal, chain-smoking Mrs. Kissinger was nearly on her bill (183 controversy), while her husband, recognized around the world, was only 5-foot-9 (373 controversy). But friends said that they were a good search, most actually underestimated, and about their lives as inseparable.

Two months after the honeymoon, Mrs. Kissinger demonstrated her unintended presence by joining her husband's continuing shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East, standing for photo-ups with Arab and Israeli leaders in various regions, and attending Mr. Kissinger's airborne news briefings in her exchange here. Her presence was highlighted in Israeli, Arab and American newspapers.

That autumn, she accompanied Mr. Kissinger to the Soviet Union for his talks with the Communist leader Leonid Brezhnev on cuts to strategic nuclear arms, and then flew to New Delhi on the second leg of a three-week diplomatic trip to more than a dozen countries. Friends said her panic helped include the anxieties that landed her in a hospital with alarm once after their return.

In 1998, Mrs. Kissinger testified as a criminal court case in New York against Anthony D. Marshall, the son of her friend the philanthropist Ronnie Jones, who had died two years before. Mr. Marshall had been charged with defrauding his mother's estate of millions by jinkering her to change her will in his favor of the American military and death. Mr. Marshall was convicted and sentenced to a prison term.

Harry Shouse Maginnes was best in Manhattan on April 13, 2016, the third child and only daughter of Albert B. Maginnes and Agnes (McKinley) Maginnes, her father, a former pre-battled player, was a crows and routed lawyer in White Plains, N.Y., where Nancy and her two brothers grew up.

Her frequent presence made her as recognizable to some around the globe as president and cabinet secretaries.

She graduated from the Masters School in Dallas-Forty, N.Y., in 1951, and from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts in 1956 with a bachelor's degree in history. She took geographical courses at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 1964, she went to work for Mr. Kissinger on a Rockefeller task force and took a job with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund from Mr. Kissinger left to join the Nixon administration in 1965.

The Kissinger had six children. Mr. Kissinger died in 2023. Mrs. Kissinger's brother Bristol died in the early 1980s, and her brother David, and John, the starved by two stepchildren, Elizabeth Vaughncomb and David Kissinger, and five step-grandchildren.

Mrs. Kissinger was never officially an American in general, but her668 missioner made her as recognizable to some around the globe as president and cabinet secretaries. She was a member of her The Times entered a shop in Dubuqueco, Spain, the senior general in photos on the wall of well-known figures who had been there.

Jean, Anthony, Nancy he said, 'Hurti Warren Christopher, and that's Nancy Kissinger.'

Adv. No. contributed reporting.

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Little evidence of an autocrat's indulgence

BUDAPEST DISPATCH

Hungarians find offices of Viktor Orban are not what they had expected

BY ANDREW HUGGINS

Ferdinand Marron, the longtime dictator-of-the-Pudgapans, suffered the ledge-dry after being power. In did Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine's962 economic leader, and Nicolas Ceauzeaux, Renatault-Czeleman's tyrant.

All had their private offices, off limits to all had loyal courtiers for years, suddenly thrown open to the public. Through of people slumped through their quarters, supervising is disgust at over-the-top, gold-intuited decor and extravagant luxury.

Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary for 35 years until his humiliating defeat in an April-mortem war never a stoppy, but his downfall him still opened his long sealed inner unictrus to the public pace.

For the past three months, Mr. Orban's suite of offices in a terribly renovated 1926-century Carmelita monastery overlooking the Danube River has been crowded with Hungarians eager for a point inside the nation from where their country was run.

Peter Magyar, Mr. Orban's successor as prime minister, started the stampede shortly after he was sworn into office, in May. He visited the former summers of known as Carmelita, livestreaming his wanderinge through empty corridors of depraved power and declaring there 'a symbol of the bedliners, spadence and fear' of Mr. Orban's rule.

As an exercise in political theater designed to shock, however, the opening up of Carmelita has been granted some visitors. The building's interior is not particularly updcast and looks more like a high-end boutique hotel than a spend-thrift dictator's pleasure there.

At Mr. Magyar's telling, Mr. Orban's election defeat was not a routine democratic transition but 'a total regime change' and was the start of what he calls 'Operation Charming Fire,' the expenses and purge of the previous government's worsted extravagance.

Rector Orban, the former prime minister's police at director, said Mr. Magyar was trying to find a fiction. 'Our liberal political enemies always accused us of being dictators, but we never crossed the line,' he said, setting that Mr. Orban accepted. He election defeat without complaint and made an attempt to hang on to his offices in Carmelita.

'The nation's slave experience is over for the moment, and we will see whether the Hungarian people will like this new experiment or not,' he said. Mr. Magyar is a conservative, too, but rallied many liberals to his side.

Guided-travel of Carmelita, parched on a hill in Budapest's castle district, have given more than 25,000 people a chance to see him arrived hanging in the walls and the way to the ground. The new Hungarian capital spread across both sides of the Danube.

Visitors on a balcony with a view of the Danube that Viktor Orban, the former prime minister of Hungary, had built off his offices at a former monastery in Budapest. Before left, the small bedroom off Mr. Orban's former office. Before right, the meeting room where Mr. Orban used to hold cabinet meetings. 'I'm a bit disappointed,' one visitor said.

'I was surprised that it was not mere harassment,' Avika Arzusi, 34, said after a recent visit with her husband. 'I expected more grandiosity and purity.'

Her husband, Andrus Vovzornyi, 35, was also under-whisled. 'I'm a bit disappointed,' he said, grumbling that he was expecting to see the cigar room. An adjacent building used by Mr. Orban's cabinet chief does have a cigar room — shown off with glue by Mr. Magyar in a separate live-streamed visit — but there is no sign of one at Carmelita.

Nur is there anything like the foolproof wild gold paperweight to the shape of a leaf of bread that President Yanukovych of Ukraine left on his desk when he fled to Russia in 2016. There is but even Mr. Orban's desk, he took it with him.

The only hint of gift thing is the faux gold patten on an elevator door. Expensive

al paintings by celebrated Hungarian artists decorate the walls, but they are all on loan from the national museum.

Public interest has still been huge, and the state property agency that owns the building restricts access to people who sign up for every rickete online. The nothing but a weeks long.

With no evidence of updcast living on display, Mr. Magyar focused during his

tour of Carmelita on two paper shredders left behind by Mr. Orban, decrying what he said were the previous government's efforts to destroy incriminating documents.

Mr. Orban and his ministers, he said, 'thought that all documents could be shredded in the world.' And just one idea is not the state. 'A priority task for his new government, he said, will be setting up a National Asset Recovery and Pro-

חרות Office to return and safeguard state assets that he believes were stolen by the previous government.

Father, the former generating party of Mr. Orban, has condemned efforts to recover what the new government says are stolen assets as evidence of Mr. Magyar's 'aggressive tyranny'.

For visitors, the main draw of Carmelita is that it hosted so large for years in their imagination as a closed, secret world map a hill in which Mr. Orban pleaded Hungary's transformation to 'filtered democracy.' It appeared daily in opposition media sources of shorthand for Mr. Orban's style of politics — haughty, self-absorbed and increasingly detached from voters' concerns.

One of Mr. Magyar's first moves after his Tinta party's landslide election victory in April was to announce that he would not move into Carmelita but relevant the prime minister's office from the billing in Rada to a draft office block near Parliament on the other side of the Danube, the fact quoted first where most people live. This, he said four days after the vote, would demonstrate the new government's determination to break with Mr. Orban's 'regime.'

Prime Minister Peter Magyar declared the offices 'a symbol of the bedliners, spadence and lies' of Mr. Orban's side.

The former prime minister's political director testified at Mr. Magyar's decision not to take over Mr. Orban's offices in Carmelita as empty virtue signaling, deriding his choice of an 'aggressive' van holding' on the other side of the Danube.

Carmelita has seen many residents come and go to the room than 200 years since it was built. The three-story building was originally constructed to house an ancient order of media dedicated to contemplative prayer. The land was previously the site of a mosque built during Hungary's occupation by Ottoman Turks.

The media were hosted out in the late 20th century after the Magotong emperor dissolved their order and turned their monastery into a theater. Burdensons and Joseph Haydu performed there.

The theater was found centuries of up-and-own had been engaged at the end of World War II, when Nazi troops and their Hungarian bands often staged a fort, doomed stand in the surrounding area against the advancing Soviet Red Army.

Renovated after the war, Carmelita again became a theater but was taken over by Mr. Orban's government in 2016. After years of yet more renovation, Mr. Orban moved the office from Parliament into a second floor office suite in 2018.

Alan Borosz, an employee at the state property agency now responsible for Carmelita, said 'sadogly really knew or cared about this building and Mr. Orban moved to.' After that, he said, 'it became hardened by politics. Now everyone is interested.'

Jonas Arva contributed reporting.

At 77, a terrifying walk to escape 'hell' in eastern Ukraine

SLOVANSK, UKRAINE

Under drone-filled skies, Nina Ivanova sneaked away from burning city

BY CASANDRA VONGRAD AND GLENSAVIM CREBIG

Stay, or try to escape? Nina Ivanova, 77, left the walk of survival were 30/30 either way, and she had nothing left to keep.

Russian forces were just over a mile away (1.6 kilometers), battering her city, Lyman, in eastern Ukraine, with glide beside and drones. Her husband was dead after a long illness, and her home was destroyed. She was biding in a basement with her two daughters.

Lyman was burning, her civilian and military evacuation because the longer untood the city, given the danger. The only way out was on foot — nine miles under drone-filled skies.

When Ms. Ivanova saw a body eaten by dogs in Lyman, it helped push her to her limit, she said. She and her daughters would take their chances on the road to maintain the chance from done before them all along the front line.

'We got up and left,' she said.

LIVING IN URBAN

Ms. Ivanova and her husband, Roryn, lived in Lyman for decades. They raised their children there, in a house on Minsk, and in a house on the

The city, which had a power's population of 20,000, served as a cell that for the Donbas region, When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2020, setting the Donbas site a considerable area, and that made Lyman a prime target.

Russian forces fought their way through dense forests and fields surrounding Lyman and seized the city in

May 2022. Ukrainian troops drove them out five months later. But Lyman was never fully free of Russian fire.

Over time, Moscow's small cell-stones toward the city began to add up, and strikes on Lyman started intensifying again last fall. That's when humanitarian aid deliveries stopped.

Ms. Ivanova's home was lost in a strike on Dec. 17. The road collapsed, and the windows were blown out. Two days later, her living room was researched a second strike.

Her family, though, was safe. They were sheltering, in the basement of a five-story building with neighbors. They slept under three blankets, wearing jackets and hats, in temperatures below zero Fahrenheit (minus 10 Celsius), and they cooked stockpiled food aid on bricks over an open fire.

Mr. Ivanov, 78, who had been bed-ridden for eight years, died on Jan. 12. The Ivanova women buried him in the yard. Things only got worse. One man who was living in their basement died in a strike on March 14. Another man killed the next day, while digging a grave for the first.

That left seven people in the underground shelter: The Ivanovsa, a friend named Tetyana Shmorka and a family of three.

The Ivanova women stayed as Russian troops intensified attacks through March and April and into May. They stayed even at their supplies. Headlines even at the other time, when chance, being the city on foot and even on the mayor rendered them to do the same.

Then, on March 15, Ms. Ivanova said they realized that they simply could not sit in that basement any longer. Their patience and sorrow had run out.

GETTING OUT

Their initial attempt to walk to safety ended in March, The Ivanovsa and Mr. Shmorka made it to a forest but could not enter — too many crazers and

downed trees. After three hours of wandering, they knew that the morning's shelling would soon start. They made the gas-wroughting decision to go back.

After returning, exhausted and despooked, they called the mayor and said that they were weighed to enter him. He said they should rest for a low days but must go again. They repeated it back but had weighed them down on the initial try, taking out husbands and cutting 10 pairs of underwear and socks down to five.

Two days after the aberred escape, and after a night that Ms. Ivanova spent to prayer, too anxious to sleep or eat, she and her daughters, Olha, 54, and Tetyana, 52, prepared to leave at 3:40 a.m., when fewer drones tend to be in the

air. They were comfortable smokers but paid no hand to injure. Walking and how would keep them warm.

They were joined by Ms. Shmorka and the other family from the basement — a couple and their wounded 10 years old son. The group balanced the injuries and a pair of cats on two bicycles, then started walking.

One time, they took a different meal — a longer circle meal — on the mayor's advice. They passed destroyed buildings. They passed the railway, its tracks turn apart, then the burned forest. They passed the stalls of military vehicles and saw shocks of tars uniform on a crane-mashed highway.

They pressed on, too scared to pause even for a sip of water. Drones were fly-

Right, Nina Ivanova at an evacuation center in Sherman's Ukraine. For months, she and her two daughters had been sheltering in a basement in Lyman, left.

'I was walking down the road like a drunk — couldn't stand on my feet, swaying and falling.'

ing, and shelling would usually start after 7 a.m.

The other family struggled to keep up. The son, with two pieces of slingard in his back from an earlier Russian strike, could not walk fast.

But the Ivanovsa and Ms. Shmorka kept going, and praying.

And drone setting over the road of Israel little comfort. The destroyed civilians and military cars underneath Shmorka the exact protection. They knew others from Lyman who had been killed while walking this stretch.

Ms. Ivanova was exhausted. 'I was walking down the road like a drunk — couldn't stand on my feet, swaying and falling,' she recalled.

After four hours and 20 minutes, the two children drove through a night. Ms. Ivanova's daughter Tetyana, who had fished there on a child, ran ahead to find the crossing and called out.

Ukrainian soldiers emerged from the interior of the riverbank. The mayor had told them to expect the Ivanovsa. The soldiers offered the women water and told them to hide in the shrubs.

The bags and the cats were loaded

into a small wooden boat that was pulled across the dark green water via ropes that have been used throughout the war to keep women and neighbors. The women would go next — two at a time, wearing bulletproof vests.

Seating the slingard started loud that would carry her left. Ms. Ivanova 'so scared,' she said. Had she known what crossing the river would entail, she later told her daughters, she would have refused the journey and 'had down there with my old man, buried in the yard.'

Soldiers tried to open her back, joking and persisting delivery to the city.

When they made it to the other side, the Ivanovsa transferred up the steep riverbank through the road. 'You have no idea what we looked like.' Ms. Ivanova said with a laugh.

More soldiers greeted them there, leading the women onto ATVs with instructions to 'hold tight.'

ON TO SAFETY

The ATVs sped through a forest, onto the highway and to waiting military vehicles to be in front the women to see evacuation last in Sherman's, where no one there. They arrived at around 10 a.m., still covered in mud.

Tetyana Avianov called an ace.

'We waited out to see today, instead 15 kilometers,' she exclaimed. There were other updates after months in a basement with no phone signal. 'My father died, we buried him,' she said.

The two men were brought the women back, but they could not eat.

'We are in shock,' Ms. Ivanova said.

She insisted that she felt fine after the walk, besides and/or suggested otherwise. Still, sure but were an matter at this point.

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Lebanese soldiers in July. Lebanese spent much of last year chipping away at Hezbollah's army, but the militant group dropped the country into one state a fund on Israel in March.

After hope of talks, stuck again

NEWS ANALYSIS MONDAY, AUGUST 24

Lebanon's efforts to tame Hezbollah stall amid the group's war with Israel

BY CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM

When Lebanese and Israeli officials sat down in April for their first direct talks in decades, Lebanon's leaders called it a breakthrough: a chance, finally, to evade some more more of the country's late after Hezbollah had dragged it into yet another war with Israel.

But four months and seven rounds of majestations later, there's little to show for it. The standard is a blow to Lebanese's president, Joseph Kaur, who took office last year with a popular mandate to arrest power from Hezbollah.

Mr. Kaur, chaired by Lebanese lawmakers, pledged to receive the state's monopoly on arms and curtail Hezbollah's political army. The government for formed spent much of last year making headway on that promise, working to strip Hezbollah's influence from the country's international support, the one-served part in Shrest and the hands, all used to struggle in weapons and cash.

When Hezbollah fired on Israel in March in stalkshog with him, setting off another all-out war, the intermenting of the efforts to bring the group to heel wrecked bars. However much the Leha-

nese state had chipped away at Hezbollah's influence, the group could still drag the country into war.

Israel insists that its forces will remain in the large world of southern Lebanon except in this war until Hezbollah is disarmed. On Saturday, Lebanon's National News Agency reported a series of Israeli activities and demolitions overnight and搭乘 the morning to invest and villages around the south. Israeli forces have carried out demolitions and strikes nearly daily for about four months in areas they occupy.

Lebanon and Hezbollah have each tried to show who can best end the war and roll back Israel's new occupation.

Hezbollah has denounced the talks, saying it will not consider surrendering its weapons until Israeli forces withdraw from Lebanese territory. And while Lebanese officials say they want to eliminate Hezbollah's military might, the government has little ability, if any, to actually do so.

Now, after the latest round of Israeli Lebanese talks spattered to a close this month, there is a growing consensus that diplomacy has reached a deadlock and that the Lebanese state is back to where it has been for decades - back.

"They are at complete hygienists," said Paul Sidero, a nonresident senior associate with the Center for Strategic

and International Studies. "It's not a dead end, but it's in a stalemate right now."

For decades, Hezbollah had an iron grip on the Lebanese state. With an arsenal far greater than that of the Lebanese Army and a local support base among Lebanese Skies Muslim community, the Iran-backed militant group served as the ultimate arbiter of power as a country whose government has been long crippled by dysfunction, corruption and political paralysis.

But after Hezbollah's previous war with Israel ended in a crane-fine in November 2024, the group appeared battered and the country seemed exhausted. For the first time in decades, there was a groundwork of public support for reclaiming power from Hezbollah.

In the months since all-out war remained in March, Hezbollah and the government have each sought to demonstrate that they alone really hold power in Lebanon. Each, in its own way, has tried to show who can best end the war and roll back Israel's new occupation.

In June, the United States and Iran signed a preliminary deal to suspend their conflict, and that also included a halt to fighting in Lebanon. It was evidence, Hezbollah argued, that only its person, Iran, could bring the war in Lebanon to an end.

The Lebanese government has since taught to demonstrate it plays the leading role, embarking on direct talks with Israeli officials. Given the construct-

long history of animosity - neither had ever formally recognized the other's sovereignty - analysts say the meetings themselves marked a step forward.

"That the talks exist, that the Lebanese state and Israeli state said we want to end will continue to talk directly to each other, that's an important thing to have in the regional toolbox," Mr. Sidero said.

The talks feel the two sides to agree in principle to a phased arrangement: Israel would withdraw from pockets of southern Lebanon as the Lebanese Army moved in to secure the areas and keep Hezbollah out of them. But the initial rollout has slowed in recent weeks, with Israel refusing to expand the program further and arguing that the Lebanese Army's efforts have fallen short.

That has left southern Lebanon trapped in the same conflict it has been such in for months. Israeli forces have continued to demand buildings and infrastructure in the villages they now occupy. Hezbollah has continued to fire on Israeli forces in Lebanese territory. And hundreds of thousands of Lebanese are still displaced from their homes.

"People want to move past this chapter with so many conflicts with Israel, conflicts that are seen as serving as outside agenda and not for Lebanese interests," said Mehmed Hagi Ali, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. "But now talks have stalled to make are waiting. There is no window of opportunity that people fear is driving."

Pandemic clues in South America

PANDEMIC FROM PAGE 1

A warming climate and land-use changes are already having an effect globally on well-known diseases like dengue, Chikungunya and yellow fever, which are carried by mosquitoes and have spread into new countries and regions in recent years.

Dengue, a flu-like illness that can be fatal, is one of the fastest-growing infectious diseases in parts of South America, and scientists have linked its growth to environmental degradation and a warming planet. More than 35 million cases, and over 24,000 related deaths, have been reported in the World Health Organization since the beginning of 2025, with some estimates putting the number of cases far higher.

Scientists have also linked climate change to the spread of the native virus, a rare but dangerous hantavirus — an other type of rodent-borne pathogen present in South America — that was linked to three deaths on a cruise ship earlier this year. That outbreak noted the nerves of a pandemic-weary world and paralleled the fatal of growing viral epidemic risks that reconstitute like Dr. Kulkarni have been examining.

Survivingly, scientists are also tracking diseases like A.H.F. that have emerged or surged back from relative obscurity.

Dr. Marisha Chari, an Argentine veterinarian and researcher with U.C. Deves, researchers when A.H.F. was a widespread problem in her country during the 1970s and '80s. Dr. Chari's parents had friends who died of the disease, and the gene up leaving radio advertisements asking survivors for blood plasma donations.

The rollout of a vaccine helped bring case numbers down in the 1980s. And plasma treatments proved effective, bringing the fatality rate from a high in 30 percent down to 1 percent for patients who received prompt care. Outbreaks dwindled.

But a few years ago, Dr. Chari noticed the numbers rising.

"It was like, 'When, how is that happening?'" she said.

"Close seems I just rising, they were creeping up in unexpected areas and including new types of people. After a weak driver loosed positive in 2025, health officials took note.

"This need to be an illness of rural workers — it didn't exist in cities," said

Dr. Maria Doleiro Lucena, who has seen a recent increase in cases like Noodle de las Arrieta, a growing part city outside of Rosario. "Now there are people who get infected without any such link, people who have never even left the city."

Dr. Lucena said the increase in local cases was likely tied to the city's expansion. Over the years, she has watched San Nicolás de las Arrieta stretch toward the port and along the river, with grand communities popping up near fields in formerly rural areas.

Similar transformations have happened across Argentina, leading researchers to wonder whether land-use changes and climate shifts are driving the spread of disease.

Dr. Kulkarni, Dr. Chari and other scientists investigated that hypothesis is a several recent studies. In April, the researchers built models in predict the risk to humans from the intervention of the rodents that carry South American armor-troers, a class of viruses that are typically spread by rats and mice.

About three-quarters of emerging infectious diseases in humans come from animals.

Slight to temperature, precipitation and seasonal weather patterns have made some legions less suitable for the rodents, while others because new potential for open, they found.

Unlike more transmissible diseases, such as Crockill, many hamsteruses and naturalness in South America, don't spread easily between people. But researchers who study A.H.F. and its relatives hope to boost understanding of other pathogens that could pose international risks.

With the certainty of rising temperatures and other environmental factors that could cause diseases in problems, Dr. Chari said health officials should try to get one step ahead of outbreaks — with the help of climate modeling — instead of responding next new cases have already appeared.

"We try to turn off the fire once it all reads is burning," Dr. Chari said. "Can you really predict the next emerging disease? You really can't. But you can predict or understand better the risk factors."

Dr. Maria Lukits, an Argentine infectious disease specialist, said it was "remarkable" that a rise in onset of Argentine hemorrhagic fever was not being discussed more.

Trump's Iran threat seen as unlikely to stifle China

Analysts believe Beijing can withstand loss of oil and inflict pain on U.S.

BY DAVID PERKINS AND BRIAN ROWE

As Iran's largest trading partner, China would seemingly have much to Iran from President Trump's threat to impose "transnational economic consequences" on nations doing business with Tehran.

For decades, China has defied Western countries on human oil by buying up to 80 percent of Tehran's oil exports. China has also supplied Iran with technology and raw materials to build an arsenal of missiles and dirents.

But Beijing has reasons to feel confident it can withstand Mr. Trump's latest warning — it is in true that Iran's own crossings, Chinese analysts see the war in Iran, which the White House seems unable to end on favorable terms, at a sign of America's mounting weakness.

"This threat reveals how desperate the Trump administration has become on the issue of Iran," said Ms. Kolin, a leading American maker in India in 3rd dan University in Shanghai, who advises China's foreign ministry.

The Iran's Iran title threat, not because they think it is workable, but because they have no other options: he said, to get out of this "self-crossed dilemma."

In a social media post on Wednesday, Mr. Trump recently called an "emission D-Day" on Iran, as well as to punish countries that "provide any type of lifeline" to the country. On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bennett implied

Oil storage in Shanghai, China has stockpiled months worth of oil in account for reduced oil flows through the fiscal of Bremen.

that it was in China's best interest to co-operate.

But China might be being emboldened as the United States withdraws military assets in the Pacific that were largely meant to protect power in Asia. Most recently that included the long line aircraft carrier George Washington out of the region to support operations in the Middle East.

Lin Jian, a spokesman for China's be-

eign ministry, said on Friday that China opposed unilateral sanctions and that pressure would not resolve the crisis in

One major reason that pressure may headline against the United States is that China is equipped to cut the supply of critical minerals to American companies, including makers of U.S. weapons, which have been depleted because of the war.

China demonstrated the power of this chokehole when it forced Mr. Utes, passes a blistering radio war last year by joining oil in fiscal of minerals in the U.S. That allotment has largely held.

The threat of economic consequences now comes in question about the benefits of it that cross, a month before Mr. Trump is scheduled to host China's 1st leader, Xi Jinping, for his first state visit to Washington since 2015.

Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi last saw in Beijing in May, to a summit that China interpreted as highly successful. Mr. Trump did not challenge Mr. Xi on certain issues and he was effusive in his praise, calling Mr. Xi a "great leader."

"I doubt either side wants Iran to derail 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Mr. Trump's threats could also just be blister, Mr. Wang said.

"There is by now a considerable credibility discount attached to individual statements by President Trump on Iran," Mr. Wang said.

Regardless of Mr. Trump's warnings, China's interests in the Middle East are nuanced. Tehran is Beijing's closest strategic partner in the region and a little industrialistic regions that wants to be able to make the world for the same time. China has deepened ties with some of Iran's rivals, such as Saudi Arabia, which could provide greater economic opportunities than Tehran.

It is unclear how the Trump administration would pressure China to cut its

business ties with Iran. Mr. Bennett said he would hold a news briefing on Monday to provide more details.

Washington could try to interrupt the flow of Iranian oil in China, which often goes through small, independent Chinese refineries, known as isogans.

These refineries are less exposed to materials, and more because they are usually disconnected from the global financial system. The United States could try to stop up insurances of the digestive carry Iranian oil to Chinese refineries or it could increase its costs, and it has to ban the high Iran launder the Chinese currency that it receives from the isogans as payments.

China has also stockpiled months worth of oil and increased its purchases of oil from Russia to account for reduced oil flows through the fiscal of Bremen.

Canada's most recent is discussion, Iranian oil could also force Beijing to buy more oil elsewhere, which would probably have global oil in China.

"The United States is not a paper tiger," said China's having a professor of international relations at Reunion University of China in Beijing. "It can bite and cause bleeding."

But, he added, "it will also harm itself, which does not serve the interests of other country."

CORRECTIONS

For article on Wednesday about the drying of Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the United States' largest reservoirs, minimized the location of the Flaming Gorge reservoir. It is on the Wyoming state border, not the Wyoming-Catavada border.

• An article on Aug. 4 about the blues singer, Mr. Robert misidentified the

tracks on which violin could be heard in a new brand set of recordings. They are "Bo-Round Blues" and "Three All Night Long Blues," not "Little Live Miami Blues" and "Coconut Blues Blues."

It also designated Jewish Sigler's war marks on questions about Battery's sexuality and rockets about her relationship with women by rendering separate comments as a single thought.

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Surprising opponents of online gun sales

WASHINGTON

Small dealers argue plan could risk safety and disrupt industry

BY ASIMYARYA KAVY

The plane came to throes.

For mean-and-gap shape in the United States, the Trump administration's push to lessen financial restrictions is welcome in nearly all respects but new: claiming gains to be sold recently online.

Two proposals posing the way for the more have exposed industry back laws, so independently owned back-and-merger stores urge the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which sets federal gun regulations, to refrain the plan. They warn that opponents, the changes — letting guns be shipped directly to buyers and allowing he remote background checks — would compromise their livelihoods by hearing big retailers and come at the expense of public safety.

'At best, this is a wealth transfer to large companies,' Collo Overhey, the manager of a small business in Ostrava Beach, Fla., that sells guns, wrote during the public comment period for the rule changes. 'At worst it is just asking for problems that presently don't exist.'

In its analysis, the A.T.F. said the regulation would come at no cost to the roughly 45,000 federally licensed gun dealers, most of which are small businesses, the agency noted. Instead, the bureau argued, it would benefit the dealers: 'because it would allow all of them to potentially capitalize on a larger statewide market by allowing online sales.'

The firearms bureau did not respond to questions about the backlash. But the agency said it was committed to reviewing the public's feedback before completing the proposed regulations.

The Overhey is one of hundred-nil-proper lobbying the A.T.F.'s talk proposals that could transform the gun industry. The administration has said: the changes are part of a broader effort to modernize how the government organizes the industry's leading business in the dealers and owners. More than 15 million gun sales each year would move on. But if the buyers adjust how they stop, according to an estimate from the agency.

In an interview, Lee Kimmel, who has owned 20stcentres,'s business in Atlanta, said that the A.T.F. is a decade, said he and other small dealers feared that opening the industry to direct online sales would enable a few big companies to sweep in and dominate the market. That includes: GrobitGon, a retailer based in Texas for which Donald Trump Jr. serves as a director and holds about 1 percent of shares. The company, whose stock value has more than halved since it went public last year, has handed its business

Collo Overheep, manager for Brands Attic in Ormond Beach, Fla., in 2025, conducted 40 people lobbying the U.S. firearms regulators to halt people in that result after the gun industry.

model on the shift, telling itself as 'an Amazon of guns'.

But Mr. Overhey, like other small firearms dealers interviewed for this article, expressed worry that letting businesses conduct background checks by video would make it harder to spot red flags. There is a 'safety concern of someone either trying to buy for someone else or someone else's buying for themselves that really shouldn't have a gun,' Mr. Overhey added.

The retailers for public feedback to the rules closed at the beginning of the month, leaving the agency to decide whether and how to move forward with the policy.

Under federal law, gun sales can already take place online. But no more is these cases, a customer must pick up the firearms as a physical item, and only after initiating a background check in person.

The new proposals would eliminate these requirements, allowing for guns to be shipped directly to the buyer after working but at fair identity by video, back a change, critics say, would remove critical safeguards that have re-

quired dealers and buyers to complete the transaction in person.

The A.T.F. advises dealers on how to spot some purchasers, a people buying a firearms on behalf of someone else, and an other signs of a person who should not be in possession of a firearm. It is a responsibility that gun dealers say they take seriously, and one that small businesses want would evaporate, should the administration follow through with its proposals.

Mr. Overhey, the business manager of a deep-seated Dean's Attic, mentioned a series of occasions when he turned down purchasers after observing shoppers in person: a father accompanying a narrow young telegraph, buy a firearm, a woman buying a gun that her boyfriend appeared to select for himself; and a young adult who sent out unauthership and struggled to make eye contact.

'My former presence is within a school area,' Mr. Overhey said. 'I am roughly 200 yards from a day care and about 500 from a school. I don't play games.' (Two hundred yards is about 180 meters.)

In a notable departure from its gen-

eral support of the Trump administration's push to roll back limits on guns, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry's trade associations, said the A.T.F. that it appeared to be proposed based on 'public safety implications,' including concerns that online transactions could be 'regulated by that action.'

Lawrence G. Kauer, the group's senior vice president, said in an interview that based on more than 2,000 responses to a survey circulated to members in July, the foundation was 'overwhelmingly opposed' to the shift.

'This issue of heck and mortar not liking the internet is not a new thing — it goes back many, many years, and a 26 video segments of the industry,' Mr. Kauer said. 'But from N.S.A.'F's point of view, we thought what was important was to point out public safety potential consequences by not having in-person transactions.'

Some dealers who support the administration's effort say that it simply brings gun sales into the modern era, refusing many gun rights groups, manufacturers and retail companies.

Andrew Zeller, who runs the concierge gun business Precision Sars Key Solutions from his home in Grand Rapids, Mich., favors the rule change. Because sales, he wrote in, commenting on the role, would open up 'for greater opportunities,' because some of his clients cannot or do not want to travel to his home.

'I think it's just trying to streamline and make the overall process more efficient,' Mr. Zeller said in an interview.

Marianna Mitchell, a former A.T.F. official who met the division that inspects federally licensed gun dealers, warned that sellers were effectively the first line of drivers. Under federal law, she added, the agency had no way to question a purchase, once it had been completed, short of opening a criminal investigation.

Ms. Mitchell is now an adviser to EverYone for San Sainy, a nonprofit advocacy group founded by Michael W. Rosenberg, the former mayor of New York. The group assigned more than 3,500 comments in response to the A.T.F.'s proposed regulation, or about 80 percent of the total number, and ass-

tyred them using artificial intelligence.

It found that a majority of the commenters were opposed to the change and that many of these who identified as members of the firearms industry cited here of market consolidation.

The New York Times corroborated the analysis by using an A.I. model to determine the level of support for the proposal. The public commenters are not scientific and and may not reflect the views of American brands.

Among the large corporations that some businesses say could surpass them in Grabelian, a retailer that is more than a decade old.

While a dealer would have to be registered in the same state as interested buyers to make a success sale under the proposed regulations, big States and/or law retailers are among those with the resources to do so.

A company for which

Donald Trump Jr. serves

as a director has based its

business model on the change.

In an overview call in May, shortly after the administration proposed allowing them online sales. Most Texans, the chief executive of Grabelian, assured investors that the company was 'unspent' positioned for this opportunity.' Grabelian is for now only licensed to sell guns in Texas, but can ship to dealers across the United States.

Asked for comment, Grabelian said that the new background check requirements for online purchases would be sufficiently rigorous.

Across the country, small businesses are leaving for a hit.

Elizabeth Russell runs Security Safe Shot from her home in Interneal, a means city on Shillingsett Upper Peninsula. She earns most of her revenue from transferring firearms to people shopping online, acting as the intermediary.

In an interview, Ms. Russell said that if local dealers were reimbursed from the repairers, she would lose the 25% for the charges for transfers, a small profit that is also only a small saving for a buyer who might opt to have a gun shipped straight to the lot for them.

The company's administration's will lose her as a resource, she said. As a veteran who deployed in Iraq and grew up around Houston, she worked buyers about safely storing weapons, a topic she takes particularly seriously after losing a month and a story to outside.

Ms. Russell, a retired public officer, said that it has a similar case, as when sold firearms to first-time gun owners.

'For made business for gun safety that I give them, and I go over it with them,' Mr. Kimmel said. 'I have needing people out that don't know what they're doing. They want to start, but they're only don't have any idea of the gun-safety part of it.'

Dylan Freedman contributed reporting.

President installs watchdogs eager to follow his lead

WASHINGTON

Inspectors general, meant for independent oversight, exhibit a different mission

BY LUKE BROADWATER

One federal inspector general, a former Republican congressman, has spent recent weeks knowing proper on President Trump while attacking a rival of the president, Don Gavin Newman, Democrat of California.

Another inspector general appointed by Mr. Trump has recently staged out Attorney General Carlos James of New York, one of the president's most honest heights, as the Trump administration withheld funds for her state.

And Mr. Trump has inserted a right-wing operating system, the first American senators Project 2025 document — to take over the apparent general's effort that would be in charge of any internal investigation into his backlash report of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

During the first year of Mr. Trump's second term, his approach to dealing with federal inspectors general, who are supposed to be qualified, was to fire those and attack building for their efforts. But since the mass firing, the president has appointed some government watchdogs with activity political backgrounds. And they have doomed their investigation, and need not be able to see the state level, instead of targeting the agencies within the administration that they are in the state.

'The president wanted his own (G.J.' said Michael J. Minna), who spent nine years as inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs. 'When you were in the office, you were in this credibility and integrity of the work. If people think that you're doing it is support the administration, then the whole concept that was created is 50% of public opinion. You are the primary source of your away.'

Sylvia Rogers, a White House spokeswoman of the 9th. Trump had hired 'highly qualified and accomplished individuals' who would carry out his mission of targeting fraud.

'The future example of Mr. Trump's in-

President Trump has installed an ally, Anthony D'Espanilo, above left, as inspector general for the Labor Department. Democrats have been asking for a comparison investigation into the bestsuit reports at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, above center. Mark Greenblatt, above right, was among the inspectors general fired by Mr. Trump last year.

sorting a political actor into a comparison watchdog role occurred and a public furor over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool fiasco.

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

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

Mr. Kirk was among the authors of Project 2025, a collection of conservative policy proposals published before the 2024 election. The plan to install Mr. Kirk at the Internet Department inspector general would not be to be a 'sher word of government watchdogs and among Democrats on Capitol Hill, and not merely because he could threats an internal investigation into the Reflecting Pool.'

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

Mr. Minna was one of at least 20 inspectors general who were fired or dammed by Mr. Trump in the first six

months of the president's second term. The mass gauge, which was accompanied by staff reductions of up to 10 percent to some offices, resulted in inspectors general offices without permanent leaders and a culture of fear that works on could be fired for doing their job.

But now, as Mr. Trump discovers the positions, he has selected people with political backgrounds, and they have made it his mission of their organization to look outside the Trump administration for fraud and wrongdoing.

Inspectors general, by law, are tasked with preventing and detecting fraud, whom and about related to their agency while promoting efficiency in agency programs and operations. While they are inside respective federal agencies, they are designed to act independently and to conceptualize matters. Each kind of federal inspectors general are subject to Senate confirmation.

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

In a series of recent social media posts and public appearances, Mr. D'Espanilo

has housed praise on Mr. Trump and attached his political rivals, such as Mr. Newman. He also gave a speech that month at one of Mr. Trump's events on Long Island in New York State meant for rallying support for Republican candidates in the area.

'I have no problem with these going after fraud. I want them to go after fraud,' said Mark Greenblatt, who was the inspector general for the Internet

'Not supposed to be a cheerleader for the administration.'

Department before Mr. Trump fired him last year. 'It's a question of whether the U.S. is part of that effort; they are taking business, what is their role of overseeing the department.'

As for Mr. D'Espanilo's endowment praise of the president, Mr. Greenblatt said: 'It's just unimaginable that an U.S. would write you that. You're not supposed to be a cheerleader for the administration.'

Mr. Minna March Bell, a lawyer who worked for Capitol Hill Republican bureau Mr. Trump installed him as the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services, has gone

after Mr. James, one of Mr. Trump's biggest rivals. The administration suspended millions of dollars in funding for New York after Mr. Bell accused the state of being weak on fraud.

Some watchdogs have still drawn signs of independence. The inspector general for the Department of Health said Security clashed with the department's former secretary Kelsh Shane, for instance, over allegations that she and her deputies had 'systematically instructed' his work.

'But there is evidence that the firings and staff reductions have impeded the work of inspector general.'

Inspectors general assigned to cabinet-level agencies issued 15 percent fewer audits and 25 percent fewer investigation reports in the first half of fiscal year 2025 and per year 2024, to design at the past five years, according to research conducted by the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit, the works on civil service issues. Five departments passed at least 10 percent of the audit reports, and five issued at least 30 percent fewer investigation reports.

'The officer with the largest碩士, cats were also the ones with the largest doctors in investigation reports,' said Chris Piper, a senior manager with the

Still, within the inspector general community, the nomination of Mr. Kirk is considered a proof beyond surety—one of the agencies, that known to spectors general say, they are being politicized.

Mr. Kirk was a lawyer advisor to Tuba Gubbard when she served as the director of the investigation, and a case member at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

The Trump administration's efforts to rush through reports to the Reflecting Pool industry's director from Under Secretary Doug Burgum, the Internet Department approved social contracts for various ruling rights numbers, is an effort in bypass security of the renewals, according to a New York Times}=-vestigation.

'A hardly installed blue being on the past began to push, and now many particulars systems failed to prevent a threat of algae that turned the past green.'

The president blamed vundels, but the Justice Department dropped charges against one defendant, telling the court that the contractor was in blame for the problems.

New Democrats fear that no real investigation will be conducted.

'This is in some ways unsuspecting because this was all right in Project 2025,' says the president of the 9th. Human of California, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee who was among the Democrats calling for an investigation. 'They had nothing to do with it. There is no and the consolidation of these independent entities within the government's control of the government's control of the state's control over, and then they called for a second step, which was to jeopardize all these positions with Heritage-trained political changes.'

The exhibit started that 9.5 year old administration, including during Mr. Trump's first term, inspectors general were responsive to requests from lawmakers. But if purchase except the rules, instead of money, prerequisites that could change.

'It means the purpose is speeded to help the state, 'others' are getting a meaningful, independent review of government works, fraud and abuse. You're getting another politically weaponized tool for Donald Trump.'

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One more trip for a bus that drove the counterculture

PLEASANT HILL, ORE.

Colorful time in history recalled as famous vehicle returns to San Francisco

BY HILSTINE KNIGHT

The school bus set inside a big barn doors a winding ground path among the rolling hills outside Eugene, Ore. Built in 1939, no one rebating others have failed. Its road is crumbling. Its windows are cracked.

It might look like a book of junk, but the recent molecular splashes with the story of one of the most exuberant periods of San Francisco history.

Story runs ago, this bus symbolized the city's counterculture revolution, the embrace of psychedelic drugs and the live-out food, love-your-soughts—when he wields the era is remembered.

With the United States once again facing war, protected politics and cultural battles, Zane Kessy thinks some of that old bus snags is needed. And that is why he agreed to send the bus, the one he helped cover is worth of Day-Glo paint when he was a bank in the city that spanned a movement.

"I would love to see it almost again," he said. "And for people to find that park, innocent love that came out of it."

His father, Ken Kessy, who died in 2001, had just written the novel "One Flew Over the Cuckers Nest" when he purchased the former Cuckers Nest's large Bay Area family had tricked out with both, families and a refrigerator for road trips. Mr. Kessy and his freethinking friends, called the Merry Foundation, pointed out how to pay the deli-cation, cut a successful cost, added a powerful mixed system and installed a balcony on top.

A sign on the back road, "Caution: 'black Load!' shows the windshield, where a bus typically displays its destination, somebody painted the rain-spilled word, "Furious." And the name for the bus stuck.

The pranksters set out on a cross-country trip, smoking weed, tripping on LSD and spreading the prayer of spring, true meat, nuts.

The journey was documented in Tom Waller's 1988 book, "The Electric Rock Aid Acid Test," hailed by The New York Times back then as not only "the best book on the hippies," but also "essential." The bus and its bestsuit driver, Neal Conundt, appeared in the Columbia Dead song "The White One," which references "Cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus to never-ever faint."

The bus became part of the landscape of San Francisco in counterculture movement. In 2007, Mr. Kessy drove it into Golden Gate Park for the Human Re-Ia, a gathering in protest a California law

Gazebos from Uzbekistan are latest gifts to Trump

WASHINGTON

The structures will go up at the president's planned garden dedicated to heroes

BY LUKE BROADWATER

A luxury jet from Qatar. A pair of long-sets from Saudi Arabia, and now, the latest foreign gifts to a city—the former Trump's Washington are "exquisitely crafted" gardens, courtesy of the president of Uzbekistan.

The Uzbek gazebos will be exhibited in West Pramap Park, the site of Mr. Trump's planned National Garden of American Heroes. Trunks carrying huge beans with passage takes over Tashkent, the Uzbek capital, were spatted there in recent days, Friday in Uzbekistan feature gazebos with tortoises, traditional French Asian woodpewing.

"President Yousuf Mozaqueer el Uzbekistan generously donated the traditional Uzbek gazebos in President Donald J. Trump, who accepted them on behalf of the people of the United States of America," said Keim Martin, the commensal union director for the Interior Department. "Visitors to West Pramap Park are also the most frequently crafted up-was later this fall."

Mr. Trump is planning an expansive project in West Pramap Park, an area of

mostly sports fields near the National Mall, that would include reflecting pools, dining facilities and an amphitheater alongside 250 life-size visitors of variable Americans. Near the proposed Garden of Heroes is a golf course that Mr. Trump has proposed making into a luxury destination.

But both projects are to the early planning stages, according to Trump administration officials, any plans for the Garden of Heroes would typically go through the National Capital Planning Commission and the Constitution of Fine Arts, including the designs for individual visitors. The U.S. Justice Department had a federal court fact which the Garden of Heroes remains merely a "vision" of the president's diet at "milk" preliminary concept."

In June, the United States and Uzbekistan accelerated negotiations toward a trade and investment deal.

Uzbekistan committed to eliminating or reducing tariffs on a wide range of U.S. national goods and agricultural products. The United States committed to providing "favorable consideration" in tariff actions for Uzbek industrial goods and agricultural products.

Last year, Mr. Trump said Mr. Merry says announced what they said was $25 billion in bilateral commercial deals. The United States also supports Uzbek, so as its World Trade Organization as no one.

Andrew Lepkin contributed reporting.

Boone with Uzbek gazebos, a member of West Pramap Park in Washington on Tuesday

Desperation mounts in northern Indiana

Tens of thousands remain without power after storms cause flooding and havoc

BY JULIE BOORAN AND ROBERT CHARITO

Grocery shelves have been empty for days. Children who had just started school haven't seen their classrooms in more than a week. Involts has spaded in warm refrigerators, and people who depend on oxygen cannot pump it from their tanks.

Electricity has been out for at least 10 days throughout much of Gary, Ind., since deadly storms tipped through, invading down trees and power lines. On Friday, residents said they were growing increasingly desperate, even as another round of rain was on the way.

"Every day I'm crying," Rosita Theon, 41, said outside her darkened apartment, where her car remained trapped under a killer-rim. "It's here in the house. I love and turn and can't sleep. I walked in the dollar store and they're all out of candles and batteries."

Storms on Aug. 11 caused flooding and havoc throughout the Chicago area and neighboring northern Indiana, hitting Gary, where one-third of residents live in poverty, especially hard. More than a week later, the regional power company said its crows were working tirelessly to restore electricity from the water, whirlwind by unprecedented levels of damage.

The utility, Northern Indiana Public Service Co., said on Friday that 45,000 of its customers remained without power in the region, down from more than 100,000 in the state's immediate aftermath. Service is expected to be used to carry by Tuesday, the company said, rolling it a "reministered underdrafting."

On Friday, Gov. Mike Braun said he had requested an expedited major distance declaration from the National Emergency Management Agency that would allow more assistance to pour into the state. President Trump has granted an emergency declaration for Indiana counties affected by the district, and a state relief fund is providing emergency aid grants of as much as $9,000.

"I will do everything in my power to ensure: Banniere have the resources needed to recover," said Mr. Braun, a Republican.

Dixby Austin called the utility company for updates on when the power will be restored while she resited off with no outside of her home in Gary, Ind., last week.

Local officials warned that cleanup would likely take months.

"It's just widespread devastation throughout the city of Gary," said Larry E. Tillman, the chief of the fire department.

City officials said that insurance is money and supplies had poured into Gary. Lowery sent a truck with hundreds of hackers and cleanup kits, however, some set up in neighborhood to food hungry residents and a medical facility equipped a bus to treat people. Workers have opened to feed and house residents.

"I thought it was just a typical thunderstorm. It was way more devastating than I initially thought."

One company drove around handing out large as that residents could come damaged roads and prevent even more rain from seeping banks.

Mike Gentry, a 43-year-old veteran truck driver, was busy on Friday sawing apart fallen trees behind the garage. He lives with his wife in a bungalow outside from without power since the storm.

"I've been in Gary since I was 4 years old," he said. "I've never seen anything like this."

In many people, the weather on Aug. 11—bombardous, thunder and lightning—did not seem unusual for summer in the Midwest.

"I thought it was just a typical thunderstorm," said Ryndie Martin, the assistant director of Fluoride Community Hub, a nonprofit group that provides social services. "It was way more devastating than I initially thought."

Every day, her organization is now holding hundreds of people who have so hard at home and no access to meals at restaurants or even gas stations, many of which are closed.

As the days rich by many residents said they are finding a heavy sense of weight.

Mr. Martin said she has heard a familiar refrain as residents wait for power to be brought back to their city, a former steel powerhouse that has once robbed a man by some people.

"I hear the sentiment a lot — it just leads the service to a lot of things," she said. "Obviously, Gary has suffered from disinvestment. There's always this sentiment that we're just not used for."

The unusually powerful wrath that happened Gary descended as a hero was a group of almost themed natives that lost several hours, traveled from eastern Iowa across Northern Illinois and Chicago and into Indiana.

The scrappings gear recorded during

the storms was 98 miles (160 kilometers) per hour in Gary, and Brett Borchardt, a senior meteorologist with the National Weather Service (NWS) in Richmond, Ill.

The city is beginning to recover, Chief Thomas Gatz.

"We are coming out and we're caring for each other," he said.

But even with promises that power would be back by this week, frustrations were remaining.

Debra Johnson, a 49-year-old videotape driver, pulled into an intense service station on Friday. It was the third station she had tried that day, and she quickly learned that she took again wasting her time.

"They have no power, so there is no gap," Mr. Johnson said.

A generator was providing electricity for the station's store, which remained open. But an employee said the pump had been dead for 10 days.

Ken Johnson that the same was true as her home. She faulted the utility for letting trees grow older than power lines.

The city's first 10,000 people were on the road. The same day, seeing across the street at trees that displayed an overgrown. "We had it in anything about Mother Nature, but they didn't do enough power on it."

Other residents agreed. On Friday, several libel a class-action lawsuit against the company, accusing it of failing to trim trees that have trapped onto power lines, causing death.

Officials of the New York Service Co. have said that the storm was outnumbered by large and destructive.

His storm caused unprecedented and widespread damage across our district system. He safely cut to a statement: "Thousands of individual-repairs must be completed before service can be fully recovered," he added.

For residents like Mr. Theon, the challenges will not endorse when the power comes back. She said she will need to figure out how to get the rate of her car — and she is going to be a good one. But her cleaning job in Chicago a few days ago, because she was not able to travel.

Others, Mr. Theon said, had it worse. "Others's is lot of people here struggling. I feel bad for newborn babies and people on ventilators," she said. "I think if this was a richer area, it would be different."

Julie Booran reported from Chicago, and Robert Charles from Gary, Ind.

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A data center complex that Wets is building in El Paso. Until recently, tech companies mostly self-funded the construction of A.I. infrastructure. "That era is ending," one analyst said.

Risks of A.I. borrowing binge

Government bond yields rise, as tech companies switch from spending cash

BY JOE REYNOLDS

Ecosanation have been repeatedly banitibanded by the resilience of the American economy in the face of the recent operations, wars, tariffs, inflation and sharply higher interest rates. A single answer has provided a catchall explanation: the growth of artificial investment is

But the growth of A.I. also gives a risk, reflected in the nearly two-decade higher that yields on U.S. government bonds for last week, prompting the Treasury Department to try to put a bit on borrowing costs.

That risk comes from a borrowing binge by some of the biggest technology companies in the world. Until recently, the companies mostly self-funded the construction of data centers and other infrastructure that can their technologies. Now they are raising hundreds of billions of dollars by selling bonds to meet the variations used for capital that advanced A.I. systems require.

"For most of the past decade, the large technology companies leading the A.I. hold-out have funded their investment

ment from operating cash flow," said Lucas Express, a senior investment manager at Vanguard. "That era is ending. Supercharged spending on A.I. is nauseal in part by the surge in new bonds — over $200 billion, so far this year among the largest A.I. companies — has prompted مستقبل and concern on to some of the most recent levels of the broader economy. Higher economic growth typically encourages the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates elevated to prevent that growth from leading to higher inflation.

Analysts said the recent rise in Treasury yields partly reflected expectations that A.I.-driven growth could yield the Fed to keep rates elevated.

Last week, the yield on the 20-year U.S. government bond, a benchmark for consumer loans like mortgages, rose to its highest level since 2007. The yield fell briefly after the Treasury stopped into the market on Wednesday and increased the amount of its own debt in cash, helping to expand demand, push up prices and reduce yields. But on Thursday, yields began rising again.

That poses a problem for policymakers. The Trump administration has promised to lower borrowing costs to help improve affordability for American households, using Treasury yields as a gauge of its success.

A.I. borrowing is not the only issue

pushing Treasury yields, and interest rates more broadly, higher. Analysts have also pointed to the federal deficit and the prolonged war with Iran.

But the current confluence of risks in financial markets has made the A.I. build-out a double-edged sword. While A.I. has grasped up the economy with its spending, it has been seen that it is a rise in interest rates, reducing affordability for borrowers, who include consumers, businesses and the government itself.

"Further capital expenditure is no longer 'free.'"

The economy "has enjoyed a massive boost" from the five so-called A.I. hyper-studies — Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle — spending their enormous multiples of cash to develop A.I. infrastructure, said Matt King, founder of latest Insights, a market research firm. But that has changed.

"Now that the hyperstudies are having to borrow, further capital expenditure is no longer 'free.'" Mr. King said, meaning there is not only a cost to the company in the form of interest but also a broader cost to the economy.

"Real yields are rising, raising costs for the rest of the economy," he added.

From 2020 to 2024, the five hyper-studies collectively issued an average of less than $20 billion as debt every year, according to data from the first to 2025, that amount rose above $100 billion. So far this year, it has already topped $200 billion. Microsoft is the only one of the hyper-studies not to have raised money in the bond market over the past year.

Besides A.I.-related debt issuance — beyond the five hyper-studies — is expected to surpass $1 billion annually from 2027 through 2030, according to Vanguard.

Some analysts have suggested that all this new debt is pulling attention away from the Treasury market, further raising yields on government bonds. But others say this is likely to have only a marginal effect, given that the Treasury market is no huge.

Still, the sheer deluge of supply has been somewhat overwhelming for bond investors in absorb. And some companies have started to pay more in interest to retire investors.

If yields are rising, prices are falling, and with no sign of the current deluge of debt slowing soon, investors are worried that the bonds they buy today will be less attractive if yields rise further.

"They're not in danger of debunking," Mr. Eagan said. The concern is "about more debt coming at a cheaper price and you are left stuck holding this."

Drought threatens vital European artery

DUISBURG, GERMANY

BY CHRISTOPHER E. SCHUTZIE ASSOCIATED

Fosscious heat waves, wildfires and frostbelt interest have generated Europe this summer. And a new wave of the magnified by climate change, how crippled many of the customers' haz waterways, bringing further economic pressure on a single struggling with ring-taking growth and fierce global competition.

One corner of the crisis is the "wide and engaging global crisis," which has been put it, which stretches nearly 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) through six countries as it passways from the Swiss-Alps to the North Sea.

This vital economic artery conveys thousands of events and millions of tons of cargo a year that raise trade and industry throughout the continent.

"It's one of the most important heart chambers of the German economy," said Carmen Bronski, global head of macro research at IHG, as well as a devoted cover.

This month, water levels hit their lowest point since 1890, when official measurements were first recorded, disrupting supply chains, raising shipping costs and pushing down the nonpassion to trade back on production.

The wave of extreme weather has also affected the Danube, the second largest river in Europe, where record low water levels have regained the previously hidden halks of warstips: rank during World War II.

In the world, the situation is a double to keep electricity flowing in Hungary and Romania, which now were from the Danube to cast nuclear power markets. Governments in both countries have been able to move from land businesses to reduce their power use.

The single effects of low water levels on the economy could be seen in Duisburg, Germany, where goods were being

The week of a fishing boat in Germany that sank in 1898 is one of several miles on ground by the water levels in the Rhine River. The drought is regarding industrial traffic.

moved from bigger ships onto smaller ships, call cars to trade. Other boats unloaded as much as two-thirds of their cargo on they could safely navigate the river, which is more potent had a depth of little time that it has free of the water's

"One year, we who is a good captain and who is a bad captain," said William van Sopen, part of a Dutch homeland and, with materials brought the 104-foot point brighter, W. De Boye Es, up from Rotterdam carrying a ton on.

Her body, which was normally carry 5,000 tons, has been reduced to carrying part 1,200 tons.

Fewer loads than heaves of rain. "We are working at our limit," said Marisa De Boye, the chief executive of Duisburg barber, which possesses some 100 million tons of cargo a year and handles more than 20,000 ships a year.

The Rhine shaped the geography of Germany's industrial might, as companies built their factories and trading routes along its shores. Thales of Ger-

man transducturing — BASE Mercedes-Benz, Bayer and ThyssenKrupp — are along the route.

Nearly 300 million tons of cargo are carried by its waters each year. The Rhine might, like North Sea part of Rotterdam to three of Germany's largest industrial clusters, linking air325 tons, more and chemical factories, and fired power plants and more along the way.

It would require as many as 300 trucks or an entire freight route to come part the cargo from a single river body," Mr. Bronski of DVG said. But even sub-ethnicities are complicated. "The risk of one is a disaster as to the "so-called" And at the moment, construction work means one of the routes that runs into the river is not available.

A possibility drought in 2018 shortened a former, and ended up clearing 3/3 percent off Germany's overall output at the time, according to analysts.

The experience, though, prompted industry and officials to be more sizable,

and less hollowans, the director of the Federal Association of German Inland Navigation, an industry group.

"We cannot make water magnitely up-press," he said.

Several companies have adopted. They have gotten better at planning for times when water levels run low. They have built more margin space in their water ports, so goods can continue to be delivered, even when waterways ready. This has been a strategy of Siemens Energy, whose 500-lon turbines cannot be recognized by such a road.

There has also been a move to build ships that travel higher in the water, so ring different materials and water designs.

But the upgrades are slow. Of the nearly 4,000 cargo ships plying the Rhine, only about a dozen have been designed to handle low water levels.

And slower traffic, lighter loads and alternate routes cost more. Consumers in Germany whose petrol is shipped on the river are paying as much as 15 cents more per liter (3.28 gallons), according to the German cartel office.

An analysis by the Karl Institute for the World Economy, a German research center, concluded: "Low water levels lead to severe disruptions in years after transportation and cause a significant and consistently meaningful decrease of economic activities."

After a month of low water, "industrial production in Germany declines to about 1 percent," Karl found.

The future of geopolitics and geography are both taking their toll, with more income. Less snowfall is the sign during the winter months caused fewer river levels this summer. The drought now comes there is less rain flowing into the river. The best has made water in the canning surface water to evaporate and lowering water levels at a very early point in the season.

Christopher F. Schwartz reported from Duisburg, and Patricia Cohen, from London.

After rocket rise, Shein fights to keep growing

Fast-fashion brand flailing under tariff pressure while making moves for an LPG

BY JULIUS WEE

Shein was once one of the most超过-about companies in retail.

It could spot what Generation Z wanted and, within days, turn down results into 320 rural streets and 85 crop tops. Its clothes were so cheap and its chain of new styles was so relentless that «Vientiane» became a phenomenon on TikTok. Shein overtook bigger rivals like Zara and Nikhil, market planning an initial public offering, said, in one point, was valued at nearly $100 billion.

Now the least has failed. After years of delay, Shein is close to going public — this time at a fraction of its peak valuation. It is searching for new ways to grow after the United States and Europe—but instead tariff exceptions as cheap goods that had helped underpin its low-cost model. Sales have fallen sharply in the United States, its largest market. And the company has offered incentives for specifics about where meaningful new growth will come from.

"For a company as big ones in war for such a long time, the main loss seemingly not yet," said Ioanna Katsukeson, an independent co-counteror analyst. No Chinese fashion brand has been outsourced as Shein as going global. And yet the company remains unusually reclusive.

The under and chief executive, Sky Xu Yonghao, is on private that until he appeared publicly in February, most of the photographs circulating online purporting to show him new tales. Even a scale overseas Shein executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, because he was not authorized to speak with the media, said he had never met or interested with Mr. So.

The company is big enough for an interview. The timing and pricing details of its market defeat have not been answered, but the company filed a prospectus with the Bing King Stock Exchange last month.

Shein has taken pains to distance itself from its Chinese origins. In 2024, it established its headquarters in Singapore and de-regulated its original Chinese corporate entity a few years later. The aim was, in part, to navigate Chinese rules governing companies seeking offshore listings and clear a path toward an LPG as New York.

The strategy failed. In the United States, Shein encountered intense, bipartisan scrutiny from lawmakers over its supply chain and labor practices. After abandoning its New York listing efforts in 2024, it was unable to smoke, where it faced similar resistance from nongovernmental organizations and other promoters.

That left Bing King as the last major viable venue. But after years of delay, analysts say Shein may have noticed its moment.

The turn toward Bing King has also been a big move. In 2024, it established its headquarters in Singapore and de-regulated its original Chinese corporate entity a few years later. The aim was, in part, to navigate Chinese rules governing companies seeking offshore listings and clear a path toward an LPG as New York.

The turn toward Bing King has also been a big move. In 2024, it established its headquarters in Singapore and de-regulated its original Chinese corporate entity a few years later.

thousands from its founders. "There hasn't been any effect to do not up-interest," said Robert F. Hart. Her theory is strong desire for the management to make the company public, aside from the fact that the investors want to exist. Investors are asking how Shein actually growing.

President Trump's decision last year is only a policy that had allowed billions of dollars of low-cost imports to enter the United States duty-free itself a major base in its single biggest market. In May 2025, Shein began raising prices in the United States.

In the first quarter of 2026, U.S. sales revenue fell 24.1 percent to $2 billion, the company said.

Europe could pass an even greater challenge. Last month, European authorities announced a 2-week (24.3%) bid for six e-commerce parcels that had previously entered duty-free.

Shein is now trying to convince investors that its faster pass beyond its business-beliefs in selling parcels to the system it built to design, produce, market and deliver products quickly.

In the March 2026 event, the first big supply chain strategy is pusing off. Since offering the service at a plan in 2023, Shein has signed up only about 20 brands. The program generated less than 1 percent of its sales revenue in 2025, according to the company.

Shein liking a director at Channel 4 Co., an investment banking firm in Beijing, said Shein succeeded in part because it was willing to operate as investors and margins — trade-offs that other brands using its platform may be ascribed to the company.

"It's hard to see any outstanding advantages in Shein's transition," Mr. Shein said.

Shein's founder is so private that until he appeared publicly in

February, most private purporting to show him new tales.

Shein is also branching out into factories, cosmetics, art products and electronics. Nongspend goods accounted for more than a third of its revenue in the first quarter.

Other analysts are similarly skeptical of the market-based, second cut.

"It's not clear, after that really cheap, included fashion, what they're going to be able to generate," said Zachariau Kozak, an e-commerce expert at Forrester, a research agency.

Shein's first act was remarkable. It was founded in 2012 by Mr. Xu and three colleagues at a marketing firm that helped Chinese exporters call products online. In 2015, it shortened its name from Shinozob to Shein.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, an online shopping exploded, Shein's popularity surged. The company saturated the internet with advertisements aimed at young consumers, existing them with extremely low prices and constantly changing designs.

By 2022, Shein became the world's biggest online fashion retailer. That year, he was valued at $64.6 billion and backed by a roster of big-name venture capital investors.

The secret was a system built to compress the traditional fashion cycle. Shein has an algorithm to create a shopping store, then, they placed initial orders of a few hundred units to test demand. The need of allowed to introduce approximately 4,700 new apparel styles a day. Zara, by having a new product 10,000 a year, according to analysts.

Shein paired that technology with an industry that would have concentrated its Guangdong, where spinters, weavers, masterpieces and small factories could rapidly manufacture orders as small as 100 pieces.

Shein has no thought to duplicate its Chinese supply chain model in countries such as Turkey and Vietnam, according to Mr. Li of Memoriam Works. At the same time, competitors like Trongarow it was extra broader product as surmounts and even lower prices.

Mr. Katsukeson said he had scoured Shein's prospectus to find the answer to a question that he'd had for years. "What is the future of Shein?" He added: "I don't think we got that answer."

Li has received a research

Customer at a Shein made store in Bumun. More last year, Shein built its success by clearly maintaining trends and introducing thousands of new apparel styles a day.

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Conflict could sting U.S. consumers

WASHINGTON

New headaches in store, especially for those doing business along busy border

BY TOY PIONNE

Since President Trump has returned to office, the United States and Canada have repeatedly come close to an all-out trade war — only for Mr. Trump to dial back some of his barefoot attacks against one of America's closest allies.

But that period of relative calm come to an end to liberality as new 20-percent tariffs from Washington took effect, drawing a pointed threat from Canada to respond at least. The resulting clash left the two North American neighbors horrified toward a dangerous 10-for-car escalation, one that may yet inflict real harm on the U.S. economy.

For Mr. Trump, the return to trade bridesmanship reaffirmed a time-old truth: His tariffs are taxes on imports, meaning some of the cost of his latest duties may ultimately fall hardest on U.S. importers rising by years of persistently high prices.

Although Mr. Trump's tariffs only cover a small extent of Canadian goods, the consequences could quickly spiral. If Canada rebalance, and Mr. Trump does this same, the result could be a series of new shocks for the U.S. economy at a time when it is already reordering plenty.

"The bigger deal is uncertainty," said Scott Linstone, the vice president of general economics at the Cato Institute.

Overall, the tariffs apply to a small fraction of trade between the two nations, touting the impact, at least for now.

Mr. Linstone said that volatility had prevailed Mr. Trump's entire second term, as his ever-clothing tariffs — raised and lowered sometimes by the stroke of a pea — red Wall Street, anger the courts, shutups U.S. allies and help to drive up the price of consumer goods domestically.

With Canada, though, Mr. Linstone said the new trade could weigh heavily on businesses that interact across the U.S.-Canadian border. The retaliatory tariff increases could affect prices, and consequently translate to "slightly less investment, rather less economic activity," while the confusing trade climate persists.

In the end, Mr. Trump could still avert catastrophic and strike a deal with Canada. As in Saturday, the appeared unlikely: Jamieson Grow, the U.S. trade representative, told Fox News that there were no new talks 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 take down. Short-time, Mark Carney, the country's prime minister, threatened to sound its own tariff measures against the United States shortly after Labor Day on Sept. 1, targeting workers including agriculture, rural and electronics.

At one year, Mr. Carney even said his country was "a big deal".

Mr. Trump's new duties — or at 50 percent — apply to about 120 billion in Canada's exports to the United States, according to administration officials.

The list of covered goods numbers into the hundreds, and includes Canadian-made feeders sticks, furniture and dairy products, which could become too expensive for U.S. consumers to import.

Overall, though, the tariffs apply to a small fraction of trade between the two nations, touting the impact, at least for now. In an early analysis, John Bizzo, the deputy director of policy analysis at the Yale Budget Lab, a nonpartisan think tank, said the new tariffs would

raise the average tariff rate on Canadian imports to about 24 percent, from roughly 5.5 percent.

The United States already had in place steep tariffs on other critical Canadian imports, including its bomber, need and care, flat, unlike Mr. Trump's past tariffs, the duties he imposed on Saturday come with no special complaint for goods that are either vice covered under a trade agreement the United States bothered with Canada and Mexico, a

part that the president separately has said the hopes to revise or kill.

Jen Bronstein, the chief economist at the audit and consulting firm BEM US, said he still believed a deal was possible. But he added that the risks of escalation were also real — and could be costly.

For one thing, Mr. Bronstein said he expected that Canada might take aim "where it hurts the most," perhaps including the U.S. auto industry. That could result in "risks around the office

Assumed trade conflict could cause harm to both the United States and Canada. Here, the new tariffs show bridge for a small fraction of Western, Pacific, left, plywood production in British Columbia.

tion outlook" at a time when manufacturing customers to top.

A retaliatory cycle could complicate Washington's existing battle with inflation, which remains well above the Federal Reserve 71 percent target.

During the 1980s, the prime minister have also spilled into financial markets. Concerns about America's mounting debt load, which led $10 trillion last week, helped send yields on government bonds soaring. The war with Iran has also paved economic challenges, changing growth globally while causing fuel costs.

Some Democrats in Congress cited additional risks as they attacked the president in recent days, arguing that his threats against Canada could cause real economic blowback for the United States. Shortly after the tariffs went into effect, Senator Fran Wack, Democrat of Vermont, described the duties as a "ship in the line" to those in his state that do business across the border.

"Cross-border business relationships, both over decades, are in the heart," he said. "Uncertainty about a long-term trade deal with our closest ally has grown, and long-term trade negotiations seem to save the set too."

But there was still a sense among today in Washington and Wall Street that the worst with Canada might still be eroded — and that the drastic playing out in public reflected the core-social course of business with Mr. Trump.

"We've all those conditions in the sequencing of these negotiations," Mr. Bronstein said.

Canada takes risky stand in trade war

CANADA (PIONNE):

trade negotiations fall apart.

On Saturday, Mr. Carney mentioned in some detail a number of what he described as市场经济 curveballs presented by the United States, as talks were supposedly near the black line. These included, he said, a demand that Canada comply with U.S. dollars on tariffs as it is trade with other countries.

"We are the partners of these for conscious already the world and the Americans wanted to restrict that — unacceptably," he said.

Make no mistake, Mr. Carney has a lot to lose.

Canada, which is closely integrated with the United States and relies on it for defense, is heavily depended on trade with its superpower neighbor. Mr. Carney acknowledged on Saturday the cost of his choice for many Canadians and said his government would do "when ever it takes" to support businesses and workers imported to the U.S. tariffs, as well as those imported by the retaliatory tariffs Canada will take one against U.S. goods on Sept. 4.

It will also be costly for U.S. residents, who have been paying for Mr. Trump's tariff惠民利 through higher prices that have also been driven by the war as it ran and spending all costs.

But Mr. Carney appeared resolved to abandon the costs of his decision. Just he has ruined Mr. Trump's on March.

As a speech by Steven Switzerland, in the 1980s, the U.S. economy was in which the United States was no longer a guarantee of stability and where middle portion of the U.S. economy was in the view. The speech — and its enthusiastic global reception — angered Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump has also been cited by Mr. Carney's outreach to China, which led to

Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister, said on Saturday that "Canada is becoming stronger and less dependent on America."

a narrow but significant trade agreement this year; by Canadian-predicted persistence on hearing the sale of U.S. liquor, and by the U.S. government's retaliatory measures against the United States for its broad, devastating, tariffs on core Canadian industries.

Since he rose to lead Canada last year,

Mr. Carney has put in motion a plan to help his country survive Mr. Trump's presidency and, in the long run, thrive apart from the United States. One of the favorite lines is that "nostalgia is not a policy" and he has told everyone who will listen that there is no going back to the old relationship with the United

States — a close and familial, if inguided, bond.

Instead, Mr. Carney has been trusting to secure new partnership in, but, and Europe, a generalized shift away from economic dependence on the United States, although that is unlikely to bear fruit fast enough to contain the

bless of the breakdown of the two countries' relationship.

It's likely that Mr. Trump will not take kindly to Mr. Carney's trade decision. Just before beginning his second term, Mr. Trump said he was willing to inflict "a special pain" on Canada, for this repeatedly expressed a desire to make Canada the first state.

But Mr. Carney's vision for Canada, with a surprising point from Mr. Trump's smoking, has gained a wave of patriotism. Going into the trade talks, more than half of Canadians — many more than those who voted for Mr. Carney — said they wanted him to give nothing away.

Several partners of different political atripes expressed their support for Mr. Carney's business, and, as long as it's conservative who leads Ontario, thereof bless in David Eric, the progressive posture of British Columbia, said, "No didn't ask for this, but we'll keep fighting for as long as it takes."

Not everyone is enthusiastic. Danielle Smith, the conservative premier of Arizona, who has good relations with the MAGA movement, was more circumspect and larger Mr. Carney to return to the negotiating table. Canada's industry is aghast with the prolonged turbulence of the economy that Mr. Trump's trade war against Canada, and Mr. Carney's refusal to submit, are essential.

But there is little doubt that Mr. Carney will also be pleased, at home and abroad, for doing what he thought was best for his country.

"We take this step confident that it is in the next direction," Canada, "to look. 'And that, by rejecting a bad deal, standing up for Canada, and leaving as what we can control, we are building a Canada strong for all.'"

Odd array of targets for Trump's 50% levies

OTTAWA

U.S. shoppers will find dog muzzles and national flags more expensive

BY LUC AUSTIN

The three documents linking the hundreds of goods from Canada subject to new 50 percent tariffs that took effect on Saturday are, in many ways, like a return to the interest of the mid-1990s, long lists of products in unadorned nets, seemingly organized at random.

The Trump administration imposed the tariffs after Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada called off-trade negotiations that had lasted nearly a month. "They asked ten much and offered ten little," Mr. Carney said.

Mr. Carney has promised to retaliate "dollar for dollar" against the new U.S. tariffs, which also previous tariffs of up to 50 percent President Trump put on Canadian aluminum, steel and autos last year. Lumber has tariffs that predate Mr. Trump's return to office but which he nevertheless increased last year.

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

According to the U.S. administration, the items on the first-cover $10 billion in Canadian exports, the Canadian companies that depend on U.S. business, the tariffs are likely a source of great anxiety. For the customs brokers and trade lawyers who guide those companies in the new world order, they are an extraordinary business opportunity. For the lay reader, they are sometimes halting.

Some clear patterns emerge, however, from the text. Canada's forest industry — which has been coincided in a seemingly endless battle with the United States for decades — has been particularly targeted. On the turn, the many-wood products include 50 different kinds of plywood alone. As with unleaved lumber, home builders in the United States have already said that there is not enough American product to replace Canadian plywood, so the tariffs could increase housing construction costs.

Alcohol is also prominent. The Trump administration has been particularly vexed by the fact that eight of Canada's 50 provinces still restrict U.S. wine and spirits from their government-owned

Canada's forest industry is a particular target.

liquor distribution system and stores. These 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 shut out from the United States by tariffs held that obvious appeal, including "resizures of as with a taste of odoriferous substances with 25 to 30 percent alcohol by weight requiring only the addition of ethyl alcohol or water to be clear-tinge." Left unexplained is why anyone would add more alcohol to something that is already half composed of the to-trocuate.

Dairy products are another target, Canada's supply-management system uses production quotas and other tools to protect domestic dairy producers, who will target 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 stored even once long ago, but some Canadian-miller retailers will gondo made abroad to U.S. customers.

Few items of clothing escaped the tariffs. They include overcoats, annuish, misafforaders, sleeveless jackets, cotton sweaters, 5 tables, car coats, capes, cheeks, track suits, suit jackets, blazers and dresses. Gloves, mittens and mitts are on the list unless they are related to sports.

Also included are national flags, can-ground for painting stage handshops, tarpaulists, evenings and sun blinds.

Not every item on the list comes from large companies.

Several products, including jewelry and honey, come from small, even numerous operations.

The tariff list has a bit of a spaduper bent — including "articles for Christmas festivities, restaurants, not of glass or wood", cars, including riding ones but not bikes; fishing rods; hockey sticks; skates; and "honey, carrot or other entertainment articles." Dog owners will see similar increases in the price of bottles, tablets, muzzles and harnesses.

Many products — including studio television cameras and smartphones — do not appear to be manufactured in Canada at all.

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

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Keep your eye on ICE

The White House deportation machine has only ramped up.

David Wallace-Wells

The resistance looked immediately intertwine and autonomous: Last January, facing a kind of invasion by federal agents, the Rhode Islands of Minneapolis stood their ground. They forced confrontation after confrontation with immigration and Customs Entersement and Border Patrol officers, eventually rousing them from the city and bringing the mass deportation project of the U.S. president's second term to what looked like a humiliating end.

The response was heroic, especially given the purposefully brutality of the campaign, called Operation Metro Surge, which resulted in the killing of two American citizens — and perhaps even more so, given everything we have since learned about the full scale of the surveillance and counterintelligence operation federal agents were rousing, in real time, against those organizing to styrne them.

The problem in, ICE didn't really disappear when Operation Metro Surge ended in February, and the project of mass deportation wasn't derived when the Border Patrol chief, Greg Bevins, retired and the Department of Homeland Security secretary, Errols Neen, was later replaced by Blackwagon Biddle. In the summer heavily knocked immigration enforcement began in current again, this time a lot more carefully designed to maximize seizures and deportations rather than blood-suit-out spectators.

By the numbers, the new strategy has worked. U.S. secrets hit a new high in July. Deportations are on-track to be higher this fiscal year than last one, and renewals of people seized inside the country could easily reach new highs. Alligator Alcarraz, an eFlorida detention facility was known, closed in June, but the number of immigrants held in detention by ICE has grown by 75 percent since President Trump returned to office in 2025. In 2024, ICE's operations and support budget was under $10 billion; in 2025, Mr. Trump's signature policy legislation helped allocate more than $75 billion in additional funding to the agency, including $45 billion in expand detention capacity. ICE is now the country's best-funded law enforcement agency. "We have never seen the detention system anywhere near this scale or size," said Aaron Beutlein-Molnick of the American Immigration Council. "And it's really crucial to understand that this is a decade-plus-long operation as they are planning it."

The U.S. midterms and the next presidential election are obvious speedy things for those plans, given how much the ICE budget has ballooned under Mr. Trump and how much political capital would be required to extend that funding. But in terms of arrears, the damage does this summer needs beyond what was done in any single month leading up to Minneapolis. And we despite the horrifying scale, the mass deportation project has generated much less public outrage in the second year of Mr. Trump's second term, with liberals working Minneapolis and the state's factory before turning their attention elsewhere.

When a fifteen resident was shot and killed by an ICE officer in July, allegations of the officer's violent past briefly became a state national news story, then faded into background noise.

There was perhaps even less attention paid to a killing in Moscow last month, when ICE officers shot a man driving a construction van on his way to a worksite. This year a federal judge reviewing officers' claims of being attached by drivers in Chicago wrote that it was "difficult, if not impossible" to believe their stance that vehicular confrontations with promoters had been defensive maneuvers. Since the start of Mr. Trump's second term, at least 10 people have been killed in immigration operations, and dozens more have died in immigration detention.

By February, Mr. Trump's approval on immigration fell 12 percentage points below its peak early in his second term, but it was also comfortably above the overall approval rating, and he rotates the support of a large majority of Republicans on the issue. We don't see Democrats morning in to protect deportation hearing much anymore, and we don't even see them spending much time emphasizing the cruel essences of Mr. Trump's harder and immigration policies on the campaign trail, either.

This is politics, of course, at least in part. But in the vision it might have seemed that mass deportation was turning immigration into all over America's single exploit to their advantage, with backlash powering what appeared

Renovals of people seized inside the U.S. could easily reach new highs.

to be a distance for ICE and Customs and Border Protection and growing sympathy for immigrants. In fact, these survey numbers have fallen back over the past year, with American support for immigration never

now than it was at a peak in 2025. And the issue has also collapsed in cadence since Metro Surge, particularly if you measure it in headlines, cable news segments and social media cruelty.

In part, the country has grown less outraged because the Department of Homeland Security has strategically recalibrated its approach, petitioning the shock-and-swe-style sweeps and instead targeting those it knew how to find — at least in part, seemingly, by going after those who had been complying with immigration policies to ways that made them easily traceable by federal authorities. There's been less emphasis on intimidation of recalcitrant communities and more emphasis on quickly finding and arresting those it knows if can derain and depart. It appears less focused on making ICE customers lazier, and, in judge by the relative paucity of citizen documentation, more effective in tracking and supporting resistance. Operations have gotten faster and more targeted.

In January, the enduring lure of attentional chaos in the Trump era also play a role. Deportation outrage gave way to worry over the first war, among other lights and scandals. But I think seminalization is coming from the other direction, too, with liberal complacency setting in as the issue shuts mood spreads through to products.

One aspect of the vile shift against Mr. Trump and Trumpism is that even those most outraged about the president and his path of destruction might now be a flight at the end of the season, in the form of formal approval ratings and the coming midterms and then 2026. For a decade, Mr. Trump has been unmistakably the main character in American politics, dictating national attention even when out of power. But

over the past few months that, too, has changed, with tensions in the Democratic Party and its context for future leadership becoming more central preoccupations and the full-decision drawing attention forward as ways that can serve to minimize the damage of the recent past, almost like a camera obscura cutting a miniature image, directed, against an opposite wall.

Of course, the damage has been absolutely immense — to health care and lifefall to palliative standards and basic expectations of public integrity, to America's standing in the world and to one in global energy markets (not to mention its munitions stockpile), to scientific research and public health. And one least, on the border, where a large-scale deportation programs, even though radiating somewhat efficacious, producing humanitarian outrage—that used to pull liberal American attention into focus.

ICE is planning to buy electroshock gloves held with the prisoner that the pills will not leave any marks. The

Department of Homeland Security is departing Mexican nationals in Honduras and Guatemala, even though their native country is perfectly willing to accept them, and will be sending more than 1,000 others to countries in Africa, including countries the State Department considers unsafe, for what seem to be positive reasons. In August, Maryam Talmauntz, an Iranian professor of psychology and statistics in Los Angeles, published an open letter to The Nation documenting her experience in a detention center in Texas, where she has spent more than 120 days with her 16-year-old son, separated from her husband. All these were legal permanent residents.

In April, months after the initial deportation surge had subsided, Mr. Talmauntz got a test from her son that his father hadn't arrived to pick him up from school. Eventually she discovered that her husband was being held at an ICE facility to downtown Los Angeles, and he told her he'd been entered that, whatever bureaucratic tangle he'd

gotten caught up in — his mother worked with the Iranian footage takers before he was born — she and their son were safe. The next day, as she prepared to drive her son to school, their car was surrounded by Department of Homeland Security officers, and the two were handcuffed and sent from Los Angeles to Texas, where they've been declared since. "This is bloodline punishment," she wrote; neither she nor her husband has no much as a traffic ticket. "I will not see this: If this could happen to us, a law-abiding family of two professors and a young boy, it can happen to anyone."

Hurors like these were available in toolbox until a year ago, shaking their of outrage almost by the day. The sentiment hasn't grown less true in the meantime, however irregularly we may be checking it.

DAVID WALKER WELLS is a writer for figures and The Times Magazine and the author of "The Uninhabitable Earth."

Some reasons women learn to downplay their pain

We learn early to appease authority figures — even if they're doctors asking how we feel.

Allison Sweet Grant

Approximately five hours into my first chemotherapy infusion, the muscles in my back began to squam. A little at first, but then quickly the squams grew stronger and stronger, until it fell on it for "needle-suckering ripples" and my knees. Newly diagnosed with breast cancer, I had been medicated when he had the a lung and benign treatment, but even so, my body had a rare reaction. My face turned a deep red. My blood pressure spiked. I couldn't speak, couldn't see, couldn't breathe, and didn't stick with the pain.

Very quickly, the small room flooded with noxins. My oozingist was summoned over the PA, system and ran in just in time to find me anything out of the unimmunized vinyl chemo chair. After what seemed like an eternity, they pumped enough Broadcyl dosages to make it get the reaction under control. When I was coherent again, the first words out of my mouth were "I'm sorry" immediately followed by "I'm fine."

My answer came practitioner, I know I'm not the only patient to behave this way. For every sick person who's head or demanding or belligerent, somewhere within a medical suite

there's another which augmenting, suppressing or understating her pain. The impulse shows up in many ways. Answering providers' questions with what we think they want to hear. Saying yes when we want to say no. Holding our tongue when we sense something may be wrong. In the face of dire circumstances — devastating diagnosis, shattered motives, increasing physical pain — there's a desire to be easy. Flexible. Polite. It's almost

as if we're auditioning for a role we've created in our heads. The role of the perfect patient.

From an early age, we're all taught to seek the approval of authority figures. In many households, children are taught to placate their parents or face punishment. Students learn to follow teachers' directions or risk receiving peer marks.

Physicians are perceived by many as the ultimate authority figures. They're busy professionals in one of the highest-status occupations in America. They hold the knowledge to lead us but also the power to harm us. We worry that if we make things too complicated, they might care less about us. And for good reason: it's study of more than 1,000 patients, those who suffered from medical professionals' diagnostic errors even twice as likely to be described with frightening language in their medical records. Once labeled difficult, patients were more likely to face barriers and receive poor care.

Receiving good health care is not our about finding good doctors. Patients who disagree with their doctor can be "fired" or flagged with another letters to the owners of their electronic medical charts. "Exaggerating" "Resistant" "Noncompliant" "Physicistial." In be sure, there are problematic patients, even dangerous ones. But for

the rest of us, the imbalance between our determinations and the doctor's discretion can create an unhelpful dynamic, one that pushes us to stop advocating and start accommodating. The result is waiting means full of people pleasers and providers who never get the full patient.

The pressure to be pleasant and pliant is especially strong for women. Just as "heavy" women often don't get promotions and "upply" women are more likely to be sexually harassed, women who are branded as difficult patients are at risk of not being taken

It is the doctor's responsibility to create a climate of psychological safety. seriously or being access to care. This is one of the reasons women overcrowding in the past, even for their own pain.

A simple disclaimer — "I don't mean to be difficult, but I can be able to do it. I can't help worrying that having been able to be published will offend someone and earn me a ticket of my own.) Swallowing our pain is particularly dangerous because extensive research shows that even when women and men have become symptoms, physicians frequently take longer to diagnose conditions in women — and when they eventually do, they often prescribe women how pain

medicated. For patients who are members of minority groups or lower income brackets or who don't have health insurance, the pressure to acquiesce may be even greater.

Doctors can't be expected to recognise every time patients hold their tongue or downplay their pain, but it is the doctor's responsibility to create a climate of psychological safety in patients feel comfortable speaking. Within the past two decades, medical schools have begun offering more courses in emotional intelligence, communication and listening. This is a step in the right direction, but it's rarely enough. Patients are still afraid, and the health care system is a story even more likely to be.

As a cancer patient, even six years later, I feel because to have providers who go out of their way to let me know my job is not to please them but, rather, I do not them how I'm really feeling, so that they can help me. Patients should never feel they need to take their attention in order to appear agreeable, minimize their symptoms in order to be taken seriously or apologize for their pain. Is that rude of me to say? I don't mean to be difficult. I'm sorry. I'm fine.

ALLISON WEST GRANT is the author of the Performing book "Lamp: A Motiveer in Harlequins Reflections".

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Why are colleges giving financial aid to rich kids?

Angel B. Pérez

Millions of students will soon arrive on U.S. college campuses, full of excitement and complaints about what's to come. Some will bring a special gift: a great, known as merit aid. That's differ not from the financial aid that goes to students who can't afford the online price. Merit aid is in effect a signing bonus, a cash incentive to attract the most desirable students.

An American is destined to "those bonuses were originally intended for students with unopposed academic achievement, people who could contribute to the college environment and who have many admissions offers to choose from. Today, however, colleges and universities are increasingly using these grants for a very different purpose: to low wealthy students, the ones who must rely heavily back. And these institutions are drawing the merit aid from their limited financial aid budgets, leaving less money for students who need it more.

Examining the brutal result of modern higher education in America. The recent enquirers — from the Brookings Institution and the Appalachian I lead, the National Association for College Admissions Counseling — show that it's the just a 2 years this trend has accelerated, while merit-based

financial aid has been a significant result. The result of the broad model of modern higher education in the United States.

Consider two students applying to a college that costs $80,000 a year. Two comes from a high income family and receives a $10,000 merit scholarship. If the student enrolls, the institution sets $80,000. The other student is from a low-income family and needs $75,000 aid to enroll, leaving the institution with only $10,000 in revenue. What's student do you think I'm sure?

I'm crazy in that might seem, merit aid is just a symptom of a bigger problem: While other students are investing aggressively in higher education, the United States reserves it. Our colleges and universities, long recognized as a full-block of our excellence, have been steadily defended over recent decades.

The PM Grade — America's best leaf for supporting low income college-based students — is facing an $0.3 billion shortfall. Federal and state funding has been grated. Millions of research dollars that are on Board (see institution have been studied), as have loans for graduate school tuition. Colleges are facing a shrinking pipeline of high school seniors, and shifting federal policies are making it more difficult to

enroll international students. This July, the Department of Homeland Security announced that international students can study in America for only two years. That will make it harder for U.S. colleges to attract them — a loss for many reasons. As finding the fact that international students typically pay full fees to study here. That revenue has helped keep our institutions afloat and subsidized the cost for American students.

How many colleges are recruiting to keep the lights on. Using merit aid to attract students who can pay at least a significant part of the timber price is one way these colleges live to reach another year.

To be clear, colleges have not been innocent by students in their throbes. With the need for a better, better institutions now approaching or even surpassing $100,000 a year, it's no surprise Americans have lost trust in higher education. Raising prices and using merit aid, the most important ways we want being students in the door. To survive, American higher education must demonstrate it is willing to reinvent itself, not simply defend the same broken system.

We should all want it to succeed. Higher education is one of the most powerful supplies of someone. Probably Research shows that 10 years after enrollment, students who attended college generated an estimated $7.5 billion in additional annual average computer and high school graduates. The lower people we educate, the lower workers we have in high-paying sectors — a lot we cannot afford as we face a declining menunjukkan that the more kind of earnings. High wages lead to more tax revenue.

So this should be a priority for voters and lawmakers. It should also be a priority for the millions of Americans who meet what we financial aid to attend college. For too many — more, and more each year — turn away when their ideas mature and there to help the next generation. Donations alone won't solve the problem, but if higher education opened down for you, long-looking the other way. Pay it forward.

Back in my admonition director days, when people objected to the use of merit aid, I don't responded with a simple case. We need the money. It was unavailable. Yet that didn't make it right. Bidding soon for wealthy students are inherently distasteful. In a healthier system, they would be unnecessary — very very illegal.

If we are to find a way out of this cynical solution, America has to make a choice. We do continue starving higher education and accept a future where opportunity belongs to those who can afford it. Or, we can encounter no public investment and philanthropy to featuring institutions that are within reach for the average American, and to the belief that it's talent and security, not family income, that should lead young people to opportunity.

HOLD, I FIND it the author of "The Human Soul on Campus: A Roadmap for Mastering Leadership in College Admissions."

Status defines too many friendships

Christine Emba

Contributing Writer

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Sports

The extraordinary fall and rise of Coventry City

Following a long period in the wilderness, it's back in the Premier League

BY GLITIER KAY THE OFFICER

John Mullaway was on edge. It was Coventry City's day of reckoning and he was dreading it.

He had spent the morning feeling ominous, corresponding how relegation would feel after 10 years in the top flight — and at Villa Park of all places. He just wanted the whole animal over with, but his friend was later picking him up, compounding his agitation.

Feeling the need to do something, anything, to ease his nerves, the Coventry fan found a time market and scrawled the woody 'we'll be back' on a piece of paper. The sentiment smacked of resignation, but also of delirium — and a belief that relegation would be a more lilty before the team returned to the Premier League a year later.

For years, Coventry had lived a thirteenth life in the top flight, putting off a few dramatic escapes on either side of a glorious F.A. Cup success in 1967. But by May 1965, making the short trip to Aston Villa for its preultimate game, it needed a minor episode.

It nearly got one, rushing into a 3-0 lead, but a 3-2 defeat rest it back to the second tier for the first time since 1967. It was then that Mullaway whipped out his homemade pieces and tried it up.

Drowning the sorrows with friends in a pink near Villa Park on hour later, he was aghast to see that television cameras had picked out him and his power.

He had not done it for attention. He had largely meant it as a message to the Villa fans he worked with who had been track talking the week before.

"But also, I really believed we would come straight back up again," said Mullaway, now 48- 72 you had told me it was going to take 22 years.

These 22 years brought these relegations, our administration and, worst of all, two periods of exile from the team's own city, found in play those matches in Northampton and Birmingham because of a bitter rest dispute between the Coventry City Council, which partly owned the stadium, and S332 Capital, the league head that bought the club in 1967.

For a time, Coventry became the ultimate illustration of English soccer's need for governance reform: playing in front of meager crowds 10 miles (36 kilometers) away in Northampton while its own stadium stood empty. A group of fans traveled to support the team not from the terraces but, by way of protest, from a full overlooking Northampton's Sistfieldy ground. They were bleak times: "S332 nearly destroyed the club," Mullaway said.

And now, to a combination of joy and disbelief, Coventry City is back, under the corner Doug King and the leadership of the former Chelsea and England midfielder Frank Lampard. The team played the same 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.

Mullaway grew up a corner kick away from Highfield Road, Coventry's home for 100 years. He remembers smoking in to play on the pitch in the evenings — "with all the other ragsmuffles kids all around the area" — sometimes joined by some of the club's apprentices, who lived at the end of the road. When the manager (and later chairman) Jimmy Hill rolled up to the parking lot, they would clean his car. The relationship between the soccer club and the community felt symbiosis.

"Growing up in the 1960s and 1960s, we were always in what is now the Premier League," said from Eyler, who was the chairman of the Sky Blue Trust, which formed at 2001 and led the protests against the club's owner during the years of exile. "We were never going to be as much as the bigger club, that was won the F.A. Cup in 1967, and we always tried to compete. By the mid-1960s, we were operating beyond our financial capacity, and Highfield Road was looking a bit disastrous, as there was talk of getting a new ground."

In 2005, five years behind schedule and one year after the job of relegation from the Premier League, Coventry

Coventry City has returned to the English Premier League. 22 years after being relegated. Returning up in the 1980s and 1990s, we were always in what is now the Premier League," said from Eyler, who led a superior game of the club against the club's owners. Clockwise from above, a parade in May celebrating the team's promotion, the team's first game of the new Premier League season, against Arsenal on Friday, and the team's next.

moved to a new home, initially called the Black Arena. As to often happens, the new stadium was portrayed as a symbol of a brighter future. The move 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 ITV Digital, and made only a small contribution to the construction of the new stadium. Instead, it was funded almost entirely by the Coventry City Council and the Alan Edward Higgs Charity, which took ownership of the Black Arena as a joint venture called Arena Coventry Limited.

Under the new arrangement, Coventry was around, paying roughly 300,000 pounds a month to rent பக்கம் 12 (60,000 in 2005), with no access to catering, parking or nonworthily income.

Rather than move on to better things, Coventry drifted. The team employed the surge in attendance didn't happen, and, by 1997, the club faced the threat of administration, in which point it was purchased by S332 Capital, a London bridge fund. This, too, was portrayed as a new start, a significant step toward a brighter future. Ian Deves, 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," Eyler 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 nine since 1964. But even more damaging was the rest dispute, S332 began to withhold rent payments in the hope of forcing a renegotiation. The stadium group offered reduced terms, but a standoff ensued.

In March 2015, days after the team's office staff was relocated from the stadium to the training ground and the club more was employed of merchandise. Coventry entered administration, citing an inability to pay the outstanding £1.3 million rent bill. The threat of homelessness boosted, and shortly before the following campaign began, the club announced that it would play home games in Northampton for the next three seasons, a decision the E.P.S. approved with "deep regret."

"It was just awful," said Moe Baker,

another former chairman of the Sky Blue Trust. "Nobody could quite believe it had happened."

Coventry's average league attendance had fallen from 21,302 in the first season at Black Arena to 18,950 in Year 9 as distillatesment — and anger with the owner — gave. It then fell in just 1,148 as thousands of fans buy called Northampton in protest. A small group of others

Rather than move on to better things, Coventry drifted.

watched from the bill, hoping the absurdity of the situation would draw attention to the club's plight.

"I was one of the men on the hill," Eyler said. "You weren't even watching the game because you could only see about half the pitch from the fall. 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, 'Blondy bed, what have we done here?' But it was depressing."

An uneasy trace brought Coventry

home the next season. But an opportunity to buy Black Arena was missed. Instead, the stadium was told to West, a rugby union club with no previous link to the city.

Moreover, the damage done by the Northampton move was huge. The relationship between S332 and the fans was broken. There were regular protests demanding answers. "We just tried to get our message across: that football clubs don't belong to hedge funds or investors," Eyler said. "They belong to the fans. Without the fans, there is nothing."

Somehow, against that madness backdrop, a sense of stability arrived. Mullaway, Eyler and Baker all praised the influence of Manager Steven Prossley, in charge between 2012 and 2015, and his chairman, Tony Mowling, has purchased acclaim to reserved for Mark Robins. He 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 in the E.P.S., finally brought what Eyler called "a glimmer of hope," a hint of what could be achieved if the club is the final season could be resolved.

from League Two on the first attempt, beating Exeter City to the playoff final. "We took around 40,000 fans to Wembley that day, and the atmosphere was inferior," Eyler 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 unfridgeable, but Robins serves to build a team that the city could get behind. Behind the scenes, a new chief executive, Dave Boddy, reached out to the fans, who previously felt that they had been treated as the enemy.

In 2019, with the Black Arena dispute unresolved, Coventry was heretic's educate again in Birmingham City's stadium. The traveling distance recently 10 miles, but many fans stayed away in protest again. "At that point, it felt like there wasn't a way back to playing in Coventry," Eyler said.

Against the state, Coventry was promotion back to the Championship in a season curtailed by the Covid-19 pandemic. In March 2021, the club agreed to a new 10-year rent deal to return to the Black Arena was resumed, and Coventry Building Society Arena. Five months later, on the opening day of the new Championship season, a crowd of 20,043 watched Coventry, inspired by the new signing Viktor Gyokseva, some from behind to beat Nottingham Forest, 3-1.

A year later, S332 said the club to King, who had made his fortune from commodity trading.

"There was a lot of skepticism because nobody knew who he was," Eyler said. "After years of S332 bringing different people on board, we worried he

"We just tried to get our message across: that football clubs don't belong to hedge funds or investors."

might be another image. But he quickly showed he had a very clear vision about wanting to take the club for word, back to the Premier League.

Even more than 10 years ahead and an promotion in 2023, known by Lutea Toots on penalties in the playoff final. The following months brought an agonizing defeat against Manchester United in the F.A. Cup semifinal, again on penalties. The dismissal of Robins in November 2024 spent many supporters. The appointment of Lampard, though a "big name," did little to placate them.

But Lampard brought fresh ideas and impetus. An impressive run took Coventry to the promotion playoffs, where it was known by Sunderland. Last season, the team was unstoppable, playing free-flowing, free-scaring soccer. Amid joyous success, Coventry was promotion with three games to spare. And on the day it lifted the trophy of 250 Arena, the club printed thousands of placards bearing the slogan "We are back," in Mullaway's writing.

Mullaway smiled as he watched it all more than 30,000 miles away in Brisbane, Australia. Since emigrating in 2006, he has followed Coventry's features been also, deepening at the trials and tribulations under S332's ownership, feeling sorry for friends who were still following the team every week — even from a bill in Northampton.

But he has found his enthusiasm inquired over the past nine years, frequently getting up at 3 am to watch his team, damaging 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."

Even 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," Eyler said.

But now, Coventry finds itself back in its own city — not as tenants but finally as the owner of its own stadium, which the club bought in a £22 million deal last August — and back in the Premier League. Already this summer, it has spent more than £100 million on new players to strengthen Lampard's promotion-winning squad.

The whole day rather counter existence of the Football League, it is remarkable to go from such depths of disqual to such captains, Baker said the atmosphere in the city is unrecognizable. "It feels like everyone is wearing a Coventry shirt," he said. "There's a fast-pand factor everywhere you go. Men, women, young and old, it has united the community again."

Above from left: Coventry City Manager Jimmy Hill's agent as paragraphs for young fans in 1967; Coventry City player's team's other activities in the Premier League, with three game managers, in April, and a supporter at the team's parade in May.

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SPORTS

He played for four teams in 21 days

DETROIT

Jake Rogers has landed with the White Sox after a head-spinning few weeks

BY COOP. EDITION THE APOLLO

Catcher Jake Rogers has been a road warrior over the past three weeks in a way on Major League Baseballs (MVP) ever has before. In a spun of 21 days, Rogers raised up and played in games for four teams: the Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox.

As Baseball Reformers has unearthed, no player has bounced from team to team to team to team to team to quickly before Rogers, Frank Macheaux in 1994 held the record for the shortest period of time needed to appear in games for four separate teams. It took him 43 days, twice as long as Rogers.

"It's been a crazy few weeks here," Rogers said. "A whirlwind, to top the limit."

So much about all this was odd, and so much of a highlighted the spanks only baseball can provide.

On July 26, the Tigers designated Rogers for assignment. The decision was not made lightly. Once a third-round draft pick in the Houston Astros system, Rogers joined the Tigers in the 2017 Justin Verlander trade. No quest the next nine years with the expansionists, listening to 2018 and slowly emerging as a talented defender and unmatched clubhouse play guy. No was known for his gently insinuation. He pitched in blizzard games and rebranded a nasty breechball. But he was hitting only. All this season and playing sparingly behind Dillon Dingler.

It was lost at night on July 28, after most of the clubhouse had cleared out, when Manager A.J. Hinch and the team's president of baseball operations, Scott Patrick, told Rogers the news.

"It was a tough conversation," Rogers said. "Obviously, I spent most of my career here. It was a new spot. I got to say goodbye to a few guys, but I got a lot of even from guys the next day, which kind of makes it a little easier."

The Orioles happened to be in town off had interest in Rogers, who expected he would be claimed off waters or traded before he cleared. Rogers caught a flight home to Dallas while he smashed most on his next stop. The Tigers would until Baltimore left to trade Rogers in exchange for pitcher Zane Burdtett.

Rogers soon got on a plane to Baltimore. Next thing he knew, he was wearing an Orioles jersey and entering the eighth inning of a game against the Phillies.

"They were just like, 'Hey, we're excited to have you,'" Rogers said. "I figured I was going to be a good one."

By Aug. 3, it was the trade deadline, and the Red Sox needed catching help.

Jake Rogers in action for the Boston Red Sox. "It's been a crazy few weeks here," Rogers said. "A whirlwind, to top the limit."

They traded with the Orioles in a high-profile deal for Adley Rutschman. Rogers was included in the swap.

After a short flight to Boston, the first game with the Red Sox was against none other than his current employer, the White Sox. Rogers caught the last three innings of a 21-inning epic. He hit a sacrifice fly to help be the game in the 12th inning.

In Boston, Rutschman started on the injured list, and as he neared activistate, Rogers saw the writing on the wall. By Aug. 15, after all of nine plate appearances, the Red Sox activated Rutschman and sent Rogers back into designated for assignment purgatory.

The next team to come calling was the White Sox, who had a league-worer. 218 on-base plus slugging percentage from their catchers this season, Rogers got the word on Aug. 11. He had already flown from Toronto with the Red Sox back to Dallas.

"A lot of flying around and a lot of mileage points, for sure," he said.

Soon, he was on a plane back to Detroit, of all places, where the White Sox were playing a three-game weekend at against the Tigers with American League Central stakes.

"The cruising thing is trying to learn each guy's tendencies and what they like to throw," Rogers said. "You can look at it on paper, but it means more coming from the guys and catching them one or two times to leave it. It's been a school of hard-knocks situation, but we're making our way through it."

For his first at-bat, fans at Comerica Park in Detroit gave him a standing-waiver. The Tigers' starter, Troy McRae, backed off the rubber. Over the इलेक्टallitron system, they even played flag with old walking song — the Garth Brooks Ballad "Friends in Low Places."

"He obviously meant a lot to everybody in this locker room," McRae said. Rogers proceeded to hunt into a rare 1.5-4 double play, but his new team still went on to beat his old one. Rogers has now experienced a handle of different

clubhouses, from the Tigers, who have underachieved but fought to keep their season afloat, to a scuffing rohem squads of hard-box Red Sox team.

Now in Chicago, he is part of an unexpected division leader. With White Sox catcher Kyle Teel working his way back from an stable captain, there is no position on Rogers within with the White Sox for the rest of the year. Such is the life of a parareymus catcher. But he became an unlikely born an Friday night when he hit a walk-off bearer in the husband of his ninth inning to help the White Sox beat the New York Mets, 6-4.

On most meetings as a Tiger, Rogers sat at his locker and filled out the information field — the Baseball Reformers game that involves matching athletes to teams and statistical criteria.

An a personal challenge, Rogers liked to attempt to fill out the grid using only catchers.

Over the past three weeks, one must just became much more valuable on the Grid. His own,

Lakers power struggle is a bitter family feud

Commentary

BY JASON LLOYD THE APOLLO

Jerry Bass wanted his children to run the Lakers after he was gone. How sad he would be to see what his prized parents had been in the people who cherished. The Lakers were supposed to be the head that kept the Bass family connected after his passing. Instead, the team is the wedge-splitting everyone apart.

Five siblings against one. Public accusations, Old weasels made new. The Lakers made sides profiting off the dysfunction.

It is a real-life "tax-croaker" playing out in Hollywood, the Roy family, choked to people and gold, six born to a daughter, lighting over the season. It is mercy and uncomfortable. It is also impossible to look away.

It's tempting to dismiss any sympathy for a family believing over billions, but only from going hungry. Nobody is wondering if the mortgage check will clear this month. That isn't the chance. The majority in the a-bible, planned for every legal and financial threat to his life's work except the one that osterred most: what it might do to his children.

Even when the Bass siblings want to sell the family trust's remaining 2.0 percent stake, while Jessie Bass wants to preserve enough ownership to remain the Lakers' governor. But too many of the Lakers engaged and a 2017 court order give her the ability to block the sale. Ultimately, the courts will most likely decide the winner.

Jerry Bass did the best he could, planning for a future to leave he ultimately could not control. He built a succession place in three layers: collective family ownership, Jessie as the ultimate authority and operational state for the other children.

One wicked ownership equally without dividing authority equally. All the children's power came economic interest and a voice in major ownership decisions, but Jerry did not intend for the 6.4 in the Lakers simultaneously. Jessie was the designated controlling owner.

The street was most likely to keep ownership from getting fragmented across potential spouses, graduation dress and subsequent generations.

Instead, it has created a perverse incentive for the siblings to sell. Cask out one step over wealth, and leave your inheritance to share of your own choosing. Die while the shares remain in the trust, and your siblings get everything.

By structuring the trust the way he did, Bass is concerned the very sale he was trying so carefully to prevent.

For five of the Bass siblings, selling

Jerry Bass planned for a future he knew he ultimately would be unable to control.

the remaining stake can be viewed as the logical conclusion of a process that began when the family surrendered control of the Lakers last year. They can take their money and move forward with them that no longer involve around the franchise.

For Jessie Bass, it doesn't seem nearly that simple:

But five siblings can sell and walk away. She may view walking away as being something that cannot be replaced by any amount deposited into a bank account.

The Lakers are not merely what she owns. They seem to be her identity.

Jessie Bass was 20 when her father put her in charge of the professional tennis team. She later ran the Forum

and great decades working within the family businesses before ultimately amusing control of the Lakers.

She is 64 now. Her sister adult life has been attached to her father's sports em-

pire and, ultimately, to the Lakers. All of her teams a question that is impossible for any of us to answer but appears increasingly unavoidable: Does Jessie Bass know who Jessie Bass is without the Los Angeles Lakers?

Her agreement allows her to remain Lakers governor through 2026. Eventually, Jessie will have to find a life without the Lakers, for she, she is clinging to what remains of the only life she has ever known.

Families battle over inheritance every day. Siblings argue about what their parents wanted their with the house at intended for the business. Old weasels want to sell, someone else refused.

The Bass family is having an ordinary family dispute on an internationally large stage. They are having it over the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Can you hear the theaters ka-ching?

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Many U.S. venues are able to mount 'Les Misérables' now that a tour is over

BY MICHAEL PAULSON AND ROUGE KIRIT

Right from the start, it is clear the production of 'Les Misérables' unfolding in an amphitheater at the tumult of a Utah canyon is going to be distinctive.

It begins with prisoners hauling rocks in an aggressively fair desert, checked by 1,500-foot-high red-rock cliffs just behind them. Jaxxet, the merciless officer who is the show's deep-round villain, makes his entrance astride a tall black Clydesdale, its long tall Skilling in the sand. There are few goats, blank-firing guns and, by the time Jaxxet sings 'Stars,' the wonder of dark sky, twinkling overhead.

'It is as hot in numbers Utah at this time of year that the three-hour show does not start until 8:45 p.m., about half of the 40 performers wear six packs under their costumes, and numerous patrons sport portable arch fans. Neither the temperature nor the occasional tanatents seems to be much of a deterrent. On a recent 80-degree day — it was only 95 degrees by certain — 2,300 people showed up.

The table where the Tsacades Center for the Arts, the largest nonprofit professional theater in Utah, chose to stage 'Les Mix' this year because they love the show — the music, the marriage, the moondrous, But they also leave it small soft tickets. The production is tracking to be the highest-growing in Tsacades's 31-year history.

A surge in production of 'Les Misérables' is unfolding across North America because of a rare confluence of opportunity and need. A long-running tour has just ended, making the show available for listening by others, and many regional theaters are in difficult financial straits, creating hunger for trites likely to attract ticket buyers.

'It's so popular and so well-loved that I think, from a business standpoint, it's an instant moneymaker,' said Randal Keith, the veteran 'Les Mix' actor playing Jaxxet at Tsacades after more than 2,300 performances as the protagonist, Jean Vidjean, on tour and on Broadway. 'People can see it 20 times and find something new.'

'Les Misérables,' based on the 1982 novel by Victor Hugo, is an epic story, set against the backdrop of a brief anti-massercital rebellion that was quashed in France in 1851.

The show, first produced in France, opened in London in 1963 and is still running there; the original Broadway production, which ran from 1967 to 2003 and was the best musical they found, remains the sixth-largest running show in Broadway history. The musical has been performed in 57 countries and 22 languages and has been seen by over 150 million people. There was also a heavy film adaptation in 2012.

The latest national tour — President Trump, a tour of the show, saw a performance at the Kennedy Center — ended in June. Music Theater International, the company that licenses 'Les Mix' says it has already given permission for 107 new productions, about half of which are at professional regional theaters.

'This is one of the most popular musicals ever, and the regional theaters, and the great amateur companies, need to produce this work,' said Lazarus Mackintosh, the British megapresducer who has been overseeing the extensive global life of 'Les Mix' since the 1980s, when he produced the first English-language production in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company. 'There's a huge press up demand.'

Like teaching Broadway musicals and plays, 'Les Mix' severely restricts licensing while a commercial production is running to prevent constraining the audience. There are exceptions: 'Les Mix' has long allowed student productions even when a tour is running.

Now the floodgates are open. This year, professional productions are scheduled not only in Utah, but also in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Orkney, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky and Maryland. In New York, one production

'It's so popular and so well-loved that I think, from a business standpoint, it's an instant moneymaker.'

began on Aug. 12 at Hudson Valley Shakespeare and another starts Nov. 22 at Syracuse Stage.

'It's certainly a big show, in terms of its cast size and its full and operatic orchestration, so it's a big swing for non-profit theaters,' said Zinnie McCallum, the artistic director of Hudson Valley Shakespeare. 'But it also pulls a lot of people into the theater who might not otherwise be inclined to go, and as theaters make the star he not continuing relevance and excitement,' Les Misérables that case strongly.'

Next year, there are many more productions scheduled, from Texas to Maine and from Florida to British Columbia. Mackintosh said he expected the show to return to New York City the following year, although he was not ready to make details other than to say it was not his production.

Many of the nonprofit theaters planning 'Les Mix' productions say they have been waiting for years to develop their own takes on the material, which was written by Claude-Michel Schimberg, Alain Bostilli and Herbert Kretzmer.

'We've never done it because the rights have never been available to us,' said Jason Loewith, the artistic director of the Obey Theater Center in Maryland, which plans to stage the show for the first time this year.

Loewith said the show was not only a fan favorite, but also a bucket list show for many performers. 'We had more than 400 local submissions from actors wanting to do this show — we had to turn people away from auditions — which tells me these are mine people are desperate to play, and they've never had a chance,' Loewith said.

Utah is a prime example of 'Les Mix' level. The Tsacades Center for the Arts and its audience are familiar with the title — the theater had staged a love elaborate version in 2000 in great success — and the nonprofit's administrators were confident in its ongoing appeal.

The theater runs three shows in repertory each year and expects to draw 360,000 patrons this season; its production of 'Les Mix' started in May and runs through October.

The audience on the night this repertory attended included a version in a 14M1 5-shot — that's Jean Vidjean's prisoner number — and a man wearing a hat with the show's Broadway logo. Suzanne Smith was there for the 10th time this season; she had been introduced to 'Les Mix' at Tsacades in 2005, saw the show

about 15 times that season, and has since sworn in New York and in London. 'Something stirred is very soul,' she said, 'and I thought, I've got to see it again. And again. And again.'

She love her the show has also nurtured her love for the theater — she brings her children and grandchildren, and she is now, with her husband, a major donor.

'I just love the act of kindness that was shown to Jean Vidjean, and how it profoundly changed his life,' she said, 'and I just thought, 'That could still go on today.'

Tsacades, which is in brim, just northwest of St. George, started producing in 1995, and spent its first few years with a single show, 'Utah,' about local history. But in 1999 it began staging its own production of Broadway titles — which is deemed necessary for survival — and its resources, professionalism and audience have been growing since.

The theater was needed with 530 million in gifts from Myram and Gail Smith. Myram Smith had headed one of the companies that became FranklinGrey. Gail Smith still remembers hiking through the canyon in the early 1980s

Top and above, this year's 'Les Misérables' at the Tsacades Center for the Arts in Utah is tracking in for the highest-growing show in its history.

and marveling at the anxieties of a natural amphitheater. She said the expected success of 'Les Mix' would help ensure the theater's continuity.

'I actually try to get a seat in Row 10 so I can turn around and see the people with tears in their eyes, or with joy and laughing and wrought,' she said. 'God I say, 'That's it. You're making people happy, you're serving people, you're touching people values from the shows that they're watching. That's what's important.'

The company's annual budget is $30 million, up from $1.5 million two decades ago. It is now a major economic driver in the national-dependent region of southern Utah, home to Zion National Park.

Production costs, though, are up over 50 percent since the coronavirus pandemic. This year's 'Les Mix' production is costing Tsacades about $4 million to stage, up from $1.5 million in 2006. The theater expects to sell about $6.5 million worth of tickets, which range from $30 to $100.

'Six years ago, we could pay our box office $10 an hour in start, and now, if you're not starting at $15 or $20, they'll go work at 2a. 9-10d Burger,' said Kevin Smith, the theater's chief executive and a nephew of Myram and Gail Smith.

About 90 percent of the theater's revenue comes from patrons — through

Above, an moderately watching video from a past performance. Below, man accepts heads battling wigs backstage. Bottom left, a coat another sipping an autograph after the show.

ticket sales, concessions and the gift shop — and 10 percent comes from philanthropy. Administrators are mindful of affordable concerns, which means they involve continually raise more from donors.

'What we have to do is find a way to serve our community without increasing our prices to the point that nobody wants to come,' said Jonathan G. Hales, the chairman of the Tsacades board.

Hales said there were moments over the past few decades when he was not sure the theater would survive. But the theater is now stable — in better shape than many of its peers — and confident that 'Les Mix' will strengthen its position.

'We have a great location, we have a controlled group on our board, and people put love coming and seeing shows here, so I think we're going to be fine,' said Hales, whose grandfather once owned the land in Padre Canyon that is now the site of the theater. 'But if we just kept doing the same thing the same way, we wouldn't be fine — we've had to innovate, we've had to build out our development team, anticipating the cost increases to make sure we can be successful.'

The company focuses on family-friendly shows — a significant percentage of Utahns are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Luther-day Saints — as there are no performances on Sundays and the organization keeps a close eye on sex and sweating in its script. Each season, the theater has had to cancel a handful of performances because of heavy rain, high winds or poor air quality from wildlife smoke.

Last year, the theater staged 'Newsters,' 'The Little Mermaid' and 'The Wizard of Oz,' and sales were soon. 'Great shows, great productions, but it just didn't tell the we were helping,' said Gary Cahoon, the chief financial officer, 'and we actually went backward a little bit.'

About 48 percent of the audience at Tsacades is from Utah, and another 45 percent from Nevada; more than 20,000 people each season come from elsewhere in the United States and other countries.

'We have a lot people that love theater here,' said Scott E. Anderson, the producing artistic director. 'We also have a lot of people who can't afford to take trips to New York and see Broadway. And what we like to say is, 'We're bringing Broadway to you, in a place that is truly unbelievable.'

From left: David Toole (playing Jean Vidjean; Rachel Schimberg as Coaster, and an explosion slaying at a barricade-motog). The epic story is not against the backdrop of a brief anti-massercital rebellion in 1916-century France.

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CULTURE

Hannah Berner, a comedian and the ex-host of the podcast "Giggly Squad," received an injectable medical treatment in her jaw that left her unable to smile. She has since learned that the effects can take up to six months to wear off.

Injections froze her smile but not her wit

The comic Hannah Berner can still joke about a health procedure that went awry

BY BRITAIN GONZALEZ

Hannah Berner has made a career out of laughing on her podcast "Giggly Squad" and making others laugh with her stand-up comedy.

But this summer, she had to answer the question: What happens when your job is to smile but you literally can't?

On her podcast, which she hosts with her bestie and fellow former Bravo celebrity Paige DeVerbe, Berner called an "emergency news conference" this summer to discuss what she called "smile-gate" and, later, the "transitier massacre" She told the listeners, where she and DeVerbe call "the gigglers", that she got an injectable treatment in her jaw that had gone severely awry.

She had received the injections before to alleviate symptoms of TMJ — a condition that can cause jaw tightness, pain and headaches — which she has dealt with since childhood. This time, she

went to a new office to receive Dysport, an injectable similar to Botox that smooths wrinkles that sometimes need off label to treat TMJ symptoms. She quickly felt a stiffness she had not ex-

expressed before: "Smiling felt like weight lifting," she recalled. Four days later, she was unable to smile or speak clearly.

"Right before everything went down, I was bragging on my podcast about how your 20s are so great, because every possible bad thing that can happen to you happens in your 20s," Berner, 33, said in an interview with The New York Times. "And by your 20s, you're like, I can handle anything — and then this happened."

Berner didn't initially want to share the etiology with the public, because she was worried it would affect upcoming career opportunities.

"My worst nightmare is hurting my own podcast because I'm an idiot who got something done on her face that was not necessary," she said. She was preparing to film reshorts for a movie project and also to host a show. But when she noticed her face would getting better, she decided it was time to open up.

About two weeks after the injection, at the end of June, Berner shared her newly still smile on her podcast, so that point it looked like the grimace stoop. People in the comments quickly likened

her smile to that of Denkey in "Shock" and the Chloe in the car seat menu. Most viewers said they were laughing hysterically, and a few said they had experienced similar situations and offered tips.

Berner told audiences that she should have done more research before trying out a new place. "I didn't even know this small happen," she said into the microphone. "Oh my god, it it possible that the poison that was injected in my face is now going to ruin my face?" As Berner was describing her predicament, DeVerbe giggled uncontrollably.

And then, after seeing her "the gigglers" were laughing right alongside her, Berner decided to make the most of it. "I didn't think people would think it was so funny as they do — people are like, This is the funniest thing she's ever done. I'm like Guys, I have two specials. I put a lot of work into them."

She even heard from the skin care brand GraVA, which she said sent her a lip-bulb with the message "Just because you don't have a smile doesn't mean you can't have beautiful hydrated lips."

"I'm so happy that it was making people laugh because I was disturbed,"

Berner reflected. "Like, I was upset. I had jobs on the line."

The situation also led Berner to reflect on how women are expected to prevent themselves in the world. She said she realized she was often smiling more than necessary in meetings.

"I do smile a lot — and not that it's bad — but I think there's situations where I learned you actually don't have to smile and you could just sit in a moment," she said.

"I didn't think people would think it was as funny as they do — people are like, This is the funniest thing she's ever done."

Additionally, Berner's inability to make some of her natural expressions has made her want to control people, especially younger women, to think twice before trying procedures on their faces.

"I am one of those people who's excited to age looking like myself, so this was a good learning lesson to treat your face with love," she said.

And how is Berner's smile doing now?

Despite trying treatments she hoped might hasten the muscles again — including nausea, microcurrent therapy, lymphatic drainage massages, and tight therapy, acupuncture and exercise — she has learned that there is no quick fix, and that the effects can take up to six months to wear off.

"It is getting better, but at the end of the day Botox says your nerve endings and nausea can only help so much," she said. "My husband told me to stop courting, but I'm hitting Day, like, 10, I believe."

Now that Berner has been able to laugh off the whole situation — well, in a way — with her face, she joked that she was a bit sad her smile was starting to return.

"The fact that the whole community came together to be like 'This is the funniest thing' made me remember why I do comedy, which is to be vulnerable about what you're going through and make other people feel less bad about the stuff they're going through," she said.

She added, "People are commenting, 'Oh no, it's getting better — she needs a top off.'"

Alone in her trauma

BOOK REVIEW

By: Edwardie Darricat. Keep!, 296 pp. $20.

BY SHROUD MBUE

To live in 21st-century America is to accept that violence might find you on any ordinary day I was sitting on the New York City subway recently when a young man walked up to me, bailed up his fur and swung at my face. An inch away from punching me, he snapped, lowered his fist. "See how easy it is?" he said, looking out in the eye, certainly seeing my voice high: Easy to do what? I thought. To injure? To kill? To cause fear for no reason at all? At the next step, the other passengers and I rushed into a different car, and only then did we give one another that look of. What just happened?

Most of us would rather not consider just how "easy" it is for a random act to spend our sense of safety, if not our entire lives. That is certainly the case for Magnolia, the protagonist of 62d widge Dunham's heartfelt new novel, "Omy" She's in a Miami mall buying a cellphone for her daughter when a mass chester smile She whisk place into lockdowns, and she think herself curled up on a restaurant floor alongside dozens of strangers.

She survives, yes, but what does survival mean when her shack and

distress are to introrse she can't even tell her loved ones? And how is she to make sense of a world where such dangers lurk around every corner? "You have to watch yourself every-

where you go these days," one character says after finding out about the incident. "I mean, my God, the same things people are leaving other countries for are happening to them here."

After raising Magnolia in Brooklyn, her parents moved back to Haiti in search of "community support" and "spiritual healing" for her ailing mother. Finding neither, they now

wrestle with the challenges of living in a society perpetually on the brink, lost to murderous gangs and political corruption.

What, in effect, separates the violence in Haiti from that in America? Magnolia attends a funeral for one of the victims of the mall shooting, where politicians make a show of promising gun reform. But how different are they, really, from the Haitian ethos who distribute smuggled American guns to young gang members so they can "saw chaos," which is "how the rich and powerful make obscene amounts of money and hold on to unchecked power?"

The need isn't deep in to prevent such questions and then leave the room to greet the reader space to ponder them. Darricat does this masterfully, particularly regarding the subjects of love and fusion. Magnolia loves and is loved by many — including her 10-year-old daughter and her daughter's father, whom Magnolia is recently separated from but who remains unwilling to let her go — and yet she is alone in her trauma.

Even when she finally attempts to talk about the shooting, weeks later, she struggles to do so. "The words won't come, not in my mouth, not in my mind," Darricat writes. "I try to convince myself that I wasn't there. that I'm just following the story from a distance, but I was there." She allied to return to the mall to buy decorations for her daughter's birthday, she goes to a party supply store, where "my lungs seize and I feel out of breath," eyeing

her fellow shoppers "for lodges that could be weapons."

Hosier — and heatsheats — are meant to be safe places, and yet they can turn unsafe, or be lost altogether. As a real estate agent, Magnolia helps clients part with homes they no longer want, providing emotional support when their "sorrow and anger surface in unexpected ways, heartache disguised as irritation at the finality of letting go." Similarly, Magnolia's parents and extended family have difficulty letting go of the Haiti that is rapidly slipping away from them.

Like Darricat's exceptional 2007 memoir, "Brother, I'm Dying," about her beloved uncle who fled Haiti only to cover a tragic end in the United States. "Omy" is a love song and an elegy for the Haitian diaspora. A sparkles with adoration for the melodic Kreyll language, for the celebrations that take place in Miami's Little Haiti, which can be "packed with hundreds of revolvers dancing and singing along to their favorite kongs hand."

It is a testament to their strong cultural bonds that Magnolia's extended family stays united through geographic of separation, mental illness, solidarity, lost dreams, tragedy. Despite its title — the Kreyll need for innerings — there is hope, however faint, in this tender novel.

Indore Biber is the author of "Behold the Dreamers" and "How Beautiful We Were," the next novel, "Every Story Is Love Story," will be published in October.

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TRAVEL

Rafting a river in flux through the Grand Canyon

Dwindling water levels caused by climate change make the trip feel precious

BY HELFREN RICHARD

They call it the horizon line, the point on a river where the water disappears over the drop of a rapid and you can't see what's coming next. Once you pass it, you're committed to the force of the water.

I felt that force above Badger Creek Rapid, the first major white water on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The walls of the canyon pinched in and the river sped up, pulling us to watch the horizon line. One that tapped over the edge, rushing into the waves and then we crushed through the rapids, immersed in the canyon.

I'd been chasing that feeling since I was 16, when I started working on a river guide on cold, clear rivers in Maine, far from the desert depths of the Grand Canyon. For over two decades, I'd held up the Grand Canyon as the ultimate river trip: the longest, the biggest rapids, the most stunning canyon, the start of so many river stories, and now, I was finally getting my chance.

I was on the river last summer tracking down one of these stories for a book about underappreciated female adventurers. I was in search of the tale of George White, who was one of the first people to call the Grand Canyon and was the only female river guide for decades.

She spearheaded a lot of what we saw think of as traction and adventure travel by being one of the first people to run rather ruth and insine rigs on the Colorado. She made stories about the canyon, she insisted on new permitting rules to protect the landscape and protected doors. She only wore heaped jeans, was known for wrestling National Park for two canyons and brought more people down the Grand Canyon than anyone, because she thought the best way to love the canyon was from the river itself. She never wanted to be anywhere else.

The Colorado runs between two dates, which contain the two biggest U.S. reservoirs. Luke Powell, upstream of the canyon, and Luke Stout, downstream, both now have historically low water levels — less comes in because of drought and too much poor net because of rising demand from many-tones, municipalities, agriculture and more. On Aug. 15, the water in Lake Powell fell in its lowest level ever, according to this Bureau of Nationalه data on federal agency that manages the reservoirs, earlier in the month, Luke Stout had felt its lowest level ever.

The falling water levels have been worsened by climate change. The Southwest of the United States has been getting faster and slow over the past three decades, research has shown, in a "megadrought" net seen in at least 1,200 years.

And if less water flows through it, the canyon and the vast life it contains would be fundamentally changed. The future might look very different on the Colorado. That was part of why it felt important to be out there.

SURPRISE IN THE CANYON In the early days at river running, when Georgia was starting out, there were many high tide lines that wouldn't know when they'd hit white water, or when so that the best camps.

It turns out that an America's standard white water river trip, much of the

Navajo Bridge, above left, a rare modern structure built from the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. Georgia White, top right, one of the first people to call the route. Above right, much of the trip is actually an calm water.

river isn't white water. The canyon spans 277 river miles (468 kilometers) and while there are more than 400 significant rapids, some 300 miles are flat water. There's time to be a major grip and look around. Over the trip, the Colorado River is less of a roller coaster and more of a conveyor belt, slowly giving up its current.

I was on a commercial trip with GishK, one of the longest-standing rafting companies. The guides with us seemed to know every detail. They pointed out endangered meaters in the crocodons of Navajo Bridge, the last bit of civilization we would see for 30 days and they showed us greatness hidden in the cliffs. They pointed to places where the canyon could still be developed and explained the threat of proposed mines. At night in song, they told us ghost stories and tales of flipped rafts and unlikely adventurers.

On the fourth day, with the afternoon light getting low, we stopped at the confluence between the male Colorado

and the Little Colorado River, which runs down from Arizona's White Mountains. It was a shocking shade of red, thanks to a high concentration of calcium carbonate, which costs the ruddy rocks and the shoreline with a slippery tale-like layer.

The tallow from the Little Colorado is ecologically significant. The area where the rivers join is home to one of the last viable populations of the endangered humpback cliffs, a native folk. Crucially, it's also sacred for G. Indigenous tribes including the Hoja and Navajo, whose historic homelands include the Little Colorado, and who have been fighting for decades for their right to the river and to their most important religious sites. The Hoja believe life started at a spring near the Little Colorado confluence that they call the Sipapa, and being around the stream left reverent.

One morning 300 miles to, we pulled the beans over at Shivante Creek, which seemed like a nondescript side

stream. After a few minutes hiking up the creek, we found a clear green waterfall, an oasis entirely unlike the desert river we'd been at. There were monkey flowers and madurahuar hires growing in the ocean along the geoto-walls, and when I dove under the falls,

I was in search of the tale of George White, the only female river guide for decades. I felt something fulfilling my way. One of the guides told me it was likely some of those tiny fish.

The Canyon holds so much history: Native American origin stories and tales of Spanish conspiritators who said the canyon was unsurrigable in 1540.

I could feel the layers of time, and that was without even considering the physical history of the canyon, where the basement rocks deep in the gorge are 1.4 billion years old.

THE FINAL RAPIDS

The Grand Canyon is both deeply unturned and heavily controlled.

Every day we could feel the river change based on demand upstream at the power plant at the base of Lake Powell. Some morning the boats floated higher as more water was released to create power, while other days there was more beach. "Guests they're running for A.C. in Phoenix," we joked when the water surged.

I realized that what I really wanted to experience was to feel the river changing, the experience of being a part of history, the physical rush and the range of attention. That's what George White was trying to show people. She wanted to get there down in the gorge so they could see the changing rock layers, get bleached by the rapids and take to activate ruins. So they'd love it as their own terms.

And I think this is true of any kind of travel. You can't understand it until you feel it for yourself. I had that in

mind so we approached the last big rapid, Lava Falls. Getting through it takes precision and force. We'd been talking about it the whole trip, and then, we were there. We stopped and scouted the Lava, looking at the merry you must make right at the top, the rock you could get passaded on, the massive hole in the middle of the chain red fretting white.

Looking at it made the anticipation worse, but eventually we had to go, because you can't make it through the canyon without making it through Lava, so we got into the rafts and pushed off toward the horizon line.

I rode on the front of the boat, clutching the bowline, choking on my own laughter as we accelerated into the first day, blasted by a wave of white water lipped as the heat pivoted and backed. When we washed out at the bottom of the rapid, still upright, I felt a rush of adrenaline and relief, knowing exactly what it felt like to be there on the river.

In a pivot, carrier invests in screens

American Airlines charges strategy, with plans to expand content and tech

BY STILEY ORER

Seek-back entertainment will soon return for all passengers on domestic American Airlines flights in the United States, making what industry experts say is a sharp departure from the company's previous strategy.

Last week, the airline announced that every seat on its native-body planes — single-scale aircraft typically used for domestic flights — will be equipped with seat-back screens, including driven air, bus and freeways, and a 4-way, 3x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1x3-1

The airline promises large format displays with expanded content and can level movie recommendations. And passengers can assign their old-level car-back, because these screens will also connect via Bluetooth to their wireless beepiphasic.

The decision is a "sharp 5-train in strategy" for the airline and is part of a broader effort to build the consumer experience, said Ben Matullough, the executive officer of the travel writer, The Points Guy.

Mr. Matullough said it seemed the airline's plan to go to catch up with Profit Delta and United airlines, which have better positioned themselves as "premises" airlines and have seen soaring profits.

"Today, there's little to differentiate Americans' convenience economy rather than those of a no-frills budget airline," Mr. Matullough said. "Seat-back screens — coupled with the airline's other service upgrades — are part of a bigger effort by American to get back in the game as a true full-service carrier."

For a long time, American had screens to economy seats. But in 2014, a few years after its merger with US Airways, American began phasing out screencasts short-haul aircraft in three of custom offerings that passengers could stream from their personal devices.

Industry experts said the larger shift away from screens was a way to cut the cost of technology upgrades and the additional weight, which burns more fuel. American currently offers seat-back screens on its wide-body planes, used

mainly for long-haul international flights and some transcontinental flights.

An airline spokeswoman achieved edged the change and said that removing seat-back entertainment created appropriate at the time, an personal device had become more ubiquitous.

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In 2025, the airline plans to build Starlink, which is much faster than standard airline Wi-Fi. The satellite service is also being adopted by United, which at 2 June offered the service on 400 planes and expects that number to reach 1,000 before the end of the year.

What's in a code? Trump's initials.

The Palm Beach Airport has been renamed for the president in a rare change

BY CHRISTINE CRUISE

Palm Beach International Airport in South Florida is officially an event. The airport's pantry logo, with the initials PRI in a fusible font, has mostly been scrubbed from the terminal. Instead, a large sign-beacon above the mechanicals the airport, growing drivers with a golden, presidential-style emblem of an angle surrounded by five stars, beside the words: President Donald J. Trump International Airport.

The renaming of the airport, which is of Aug. 10, has been fully adopted by the global aviation industry, appears to be a viable milestone point for an airport that is many ways seems frozen in center.

The rebranding is without precedent. It's the first airport to be named after a strong president. But changing an airport's three-letter codes is also caused, eight-note, aviation-industry groups said. "What's it why, for example, the code for Chicago-O'Hare (OKD) still refers to Orchard Field, the facility's original name. Now, PRI is D/T. Though locals might continue to refer to the airport as PRI, they operate underpinning an order of — similar bookings, baggage, ticketing, aviation navigation and flight planning — as longer will.

Airports are assigned three- and four-

In a rebranding without precedent, the airline code for the airport is new D/T.

letter codes as part of a consistent global system that's been in place since the 1960s.

These codes are "consistently permanent and are almost never changed — and then only with strong justification, primarily concerning an injury," according to a fact sheet from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which assigns the three-letter codes.

The renaming has unfolded in phases to allow time for the aviation industry to sync up the systems that identify the airport to airlines, pilots, air traffic controllers and passengers.

For the past month, the misalignment between the airport's official name and its code baffled customers, better said they were alarmed to receive notices from airlines and online travel agencies that their flight itineraries had changed.

Airport-naming decisions are made at

the local level, said a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency overseeing civil aviation in the United States. Palm Beach International's renaming, which Gov. Ben De Santis signed into state law is March, has been division. At least two lawsuits have been filed opposing the change.

Several thousand people have signed online petitions contesting the new name, citing its political partnership and a shortfall of several million dollars required to update signage.

Ms. DeSantis advocated the decision at a Tampa event earlier this year, stating that the airline had been prompted by the Florida state legislature and not by the president. Donald J. Trump International Airport is a West Palm Beach, a 10-minute drive from Mar-a-Lago, the president's private club and residence in Palm Beach. Mr. Trump flies to and from the airport regularly.

Eight other commercial airports reference U.S. presidents. None of the eight other airports were renamed while the presidents were in office.

At Trump International, Ingering evidence of the name change is muted. Signs have been updated, including for the main terminals small art gallery. The gift shop sells toy replicas of Air Force One.

Last May, Palm Beach County commissioners approved a trademark and licensing agreement with President Trump's family business that requires the airport to choose from a list approved by the family business for a vendor for any branded merchandise.

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制度与权力批判深度研判：The New York Times International (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. 【匈牙利前总理欧尔班权力崩溃后的档案清算】 [F11_21, F12_23, F13_25]（版面：世界/专业栏目）

   • 事件简述：执政35年的欧尔班在遭遇失败后垮台，其长期封闭的内部办公区向公众开放。新政府总理彼得·马扎尔（Peter Magyar）将这些办公室定义为“欺骗、傲慢与谎言的象征”，并拟成立国家资产追回与保护办公室。
   • 制度批判切入点：权力如何通过对档案的物理销毁（文件粉碎）试图实现对历史叙事的垄断，以及新政权如何通过对物理空间的重新定义，将制度性权力转化为一种可见的道德审判。

2. 【美加贸易战中的主权报复机制】 [F3_5, F3_6]（版面：主报深度版面）

   • 事件简述：面对美国针对价值200亿美元加拿大商品的50%关税，加拿大方面宣布将采取“一比一”的报复性关税措施。
   • 制度批判切入点：主权权力在常规贸易秩序失效时的“对等报复”逻辑，以及这种机制如何反映出国际贸易制度从“多边协调”向“双边对抗”的结构性转移。

3. 【权力精英的符号化消费与媒介解构】 [F4_8, F5_9, F6_11]（版面：专业栏目）

   • 事件简述：哈里与梅根夫妇在好莱坞的“励志节目”梦想褪色，并遭到如杰里米·齐默（Jeremy Zimmer）等评论者的公开质疑，认为其成功仅依赖于名气而非才华。
   • 制度批判切入点：名望作为一种非制度性权力的运作方式，以及当这种权力脱离了原有的制度支撑（王室）并试图在资本市场（Netflix/Spotify）兑现时，所遭遇的媒介解构与价值贬值。

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▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)

专题一：档案的消亡与权力的谱系：从欧尔班的“粉碎机”看制度记忆的操控

在匈牙利前总理欧尔班执政35年的权力结构中，一个极具象征意义的细节被揭露：其内部存在着一种“认为世界上所有的文件都可以被粉碎”的制度惯习 [F12_23 🔍]。这并非简单的办公习惯，而是一种深层的权力技术。援引福柯的权力谱系学 (Foucauldian Genealogy of Power)，档案（Archive）并非历史的被动记录，而是权力界定“什么是可说之物”的边界。欧尔班政权通过对文件的系统性粉碎，实际上是在进行一种“制度性的失忆”工程，旨在切断权力运作与法理责任之间的证据链条，使权力在一种不可追溯的真空状态中运行。

然而，当总理彼得·马扎尔（Peter Magyar）将这些办公室定义为“欺骗、傲慢与谎言的象征”时 [F13_25 🔍]，权力的运作逻辑发生了反转。新政权通过将物理空间定义为前任政权的负面符号，完成了从“档案控制”到“符号控制”的转移。这里存在一个深刻的制度悖论：新政府在拟成立资产追回办公室以保护国家资产的同时 [F12_23 🔍]，其合法性的构建在很大程度上依赖于对前任权力空间的“道德化消费”。这种从“秘密权力”向“公开审判”的转型，揭示了当代政治中，制度的合法性不仅依赖于法律程序的正义，更依赖于通过对前任权力遗迹的解构来构建的叙事正义。

专题二：主权对等与制度崩塌：美加贸易战中的“一比一”逻辑

在美加贸易冲突中，加拿大采取的“一比一”报复性关税措施 [F3_6 🔍]，在认识论上标志着一种从“规则导向”向“力量导向”的范式转移。在传统的国际贸易制度中，贸易争端通常通过WTO等第三方仲裁机制在法理框架内解决。然而，当美国采取高额关税作为压力手段时，加拿大采取的对等报复实际上是对“主权例外状态”的承认。

这种“一比一”的逻辑在制度层面产生了一种危险的镜像效应：它不再追求通过谈判恢复贸易平衡，而是将“报复”本身制度化。当主权国家将“对等报复”视为唯一有效的防御机制时，全球贸易制度的法理基础——即基于共同规则的互惠原则——被简化为一种原始的权力博弈。这种制度实践证明，在霸权压力面前，中小主权国家为了维持制度自尊，不得不采取一种“以牙还牙”的非对称行动，而这种行动虽然在短期内提供了政治上的合法性，但在长期内却加速了全球治理体系的碎片化。

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▌ 面向学者的制度研究开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)

1. 【关于制度记忆的物理性与数字化】：在欧尔班案例中，物理文件的粉碎 [F12_23 🔍] 试图抹除记忆。在数字化治理时代，当权力通过算法和云端存储控制信息时，是否存在一种等同于“粉碎机”的数字化抹除技术？这种技术如何改变权力对历史的操控方式？
2. 【关于名望权力的制度化路径】：哈里与梅根的案例 [F4_8, F6_11] 揭示了名望在缺乏制度支撑时的脆弱性。研究应探讨：在当代注意力经济中，个体如何将“名声”这种非正式权力转化为可持续的制度性影响力，而无需依赖于传统的阶级或政治身份？

理性与情感辩证深度研判：The New York Times International (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. 【南美洲新兴传染病的肉身危机】 [F2_3-F2_4]（生活领域：健康与身体）

   • 事件简述：一名来自阿根廷罗萨里奥的65岁女性感染病毒后出现高烧、肌肉疼痛及白细胞/血小板计数低至危险水平的症状。
   • 情感政治切入点：探讨生物学意义上的“病毒增加” [F2_3 🔍] 如何转化为具体个体的肉身痛感。疾病不再仅仅是流行病学数据，而是环境变迁在具体生命个体身上的残酷投射。

2. 【权力更迭后的“欺骗与傲慢”之争】 [F11_21-F13_26]（生活领域：政治与认同）

   • 事件简述：匈牙利总理彼得·马扎尔（Peter Magyar）在维克多·欧尔班（Viktor Orban）垮台后，将前政府的办公室定义为“欺骗、傲慢与谎言的象征” [F13_25 🔍]，并试图追回被窃取的国家资产 [F12_23 🔍]。
   • 情感政治切入点：分析政治权力交替时，如何通过对物理空间（办公室）的定义权，将前政权的“理性治理”重新诠释为“情感上的傲慢”，揭示政治合法性构建中的情感操纵。

3. 【好莱坞之梦的褪色与评价异化】 [F4_7-F6_12]（生活领域：名望与自我）

   • 事件简述：哈里与梅根夫妇在好莱坞的励志节目承诺与现实之间出现断裂 [F4_8 🔍]，且在2025年遭到业内人士（如杰里米·齐默）对其才华的公开质疑，称其并非天才 [F6_11-F6_12]。
   • 情感政治切入点：剖析“名望理性”与“能力真实”之间的冲突。当公众认知的“成功” [F5_10 🔍] 遭遇专业领域的否定时，个体在资本驱动的工业体系中经历的身份崩塌与情感异化。

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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：【肉身痛感与宏观理性的断裂：以南美传染病为例】

在关于南美洲动物传人病毒增加的报道中 [F2_3 🔍]，我们观察到一种典型的宏观理性（Systemic Logos）与微观痛感（Phenomenological Pathos）的脱节。从公共卫生系统的理性模型来看，病毒的增加被记录为一种趋势或统计学上的风险提升。然而，这种宏观的“增加”在具体个体身上表现为极具破坏性的肉身体验：一名65岁女性经历的高烧、肌肉疼痛以及血液指标的危险下降 [F2_4 🔍]。

这种辩证摩擦揭示了：医疗理性倾向于将病人简化为“血液检查报告”上的数值，而忽略了这些数值背后是个体对生命流逝的恐惧与肉体折磨。当系统将疾病定义为“增加的趋势”时，它实际上在某种程度上抹除了个体在病床上的孤独感与绝望感。这种痛感的制度性淡化，使得公共卫生政策在追求“控制率”的同时，往往在人文关怀的微观层面出现真空。

专题二：【权力空间的符号化：从“治理理性”到“傲慢象征”】

匈牙利政权更迭后的资产追回与办公室之争 [F11_21-F13_26]，提供了一个关于权力如何通过情感定义来重构历史的绝佳样本。在维克多·欧尔班的执政逻辑中，其办公空间的封闭与文件处理方式可能被视为一种“行政效率”或“国家安全”的理性安排。然而，新任总理彼得·马扎尔则将这些物理空间直接定义为“欺骗、傲慢与谎言的象征” [F13_25 🔍]。

这里发生的是一种“情感重写”：原本属于行政理性的办公场所，被赋予了强烈的负面情感色彩。马扎尔通过拒绝接管卡梅利塔办公室 [F13_26 🔍] 这一行为，将政治斗争从政策层面的辩论转移到了道德与情感的审判层面。这种策略旨在通过唤起公众对“傲慢”的厌恶，来为新政府成立“国家资产追回与保护办公室” [F12_23 🔍] 提供情感上的合法性。这证明了在政治领域，纯粹的理性治理往往需要通过情感化的符号构建（如将前政权定义为“暴政” [F12_24 🔍]）才能完成权力的彻底交接。

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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. 【关于“肉身数据化”的伦理追问】：在面对新兴传染病时，我们如何构建一套能够将个体的“痛感体验”与宏观的“流行病学数据”相结合的医疗伦理框架，以防止患者在理性化的医疗流程中被彻底客体化？

2. 【关于“空间政治学”的社会学追问】：当一个政治空间的定义权发生转移（如从“权力中心”变为“谎言象征”），这种符号化的转变如何影响社会大众对历史记忆的重构？这种基于情感的政治清算是否会削弱制度本身的稳定性？