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欧洲各地共赏天象奇观

西班牙 周三，在马略卡岛的 El Avenal 海滩观测到的“钻石环”效应，这是欧洲数十年来的首次日全食。

冰岛 数百人聚集在原野上参加冰岛日食节，希望阴云不会破坏这一时刻。

德国 在该国西部的 Horten，Håhle Holsveand 公园中使用的一块自制日食观测板。

埃利森考虑

为派拉蒙 撤离好莱坞

本文由 Benjamin Mullin, Brooks Barnes 和 Lauren Brown 撰写。

大卫·埃利森明确表示，为了完成收购华纳兄弟探索公司的交易，他几乎愿意采取任何手段。

即便这意味着考虑将他的公司迁出好莱坞。

据三位知情人士透露，派拉蒙的首席埃利森告诉其高级领导层，如果州总检察长试图阻止该交易的诉讼没有进展，他将于 Oct. 1 开始将公司迁出加利福尼亚州。

目前尚不清楚埃利森先生是否会执行该计划，此举可能会向作为诉讼主要原告之一的加利福尼亚州总检察长施压，迫使其回到谈判桌前。离开一家好莱坞主要制片厂将是对该州经济和自我认同的打击。

加利福尼亚州总检察长罗布·博斯纳在周二指责埃利森先生威胁搬迁。博斯纳先生在一次会议上表示：“这是在试图寻找敢于执法的人。”

即便只是提出搬迁的想法也带有政治风险。派拉蒙一直试图将自己定位为好莱坞的捍卫者，而埃利森先生个人曾承诺，一个充满信心的派拉蒙-华纳兄弟将重新——

续见 A19 页

空军一号为诱饵，机上载有数十人

作者：PETER BAKER

对空军一号的威胁被视为，他们认为特朗普总统在餐饮集装箱中早已消失。但同样的潜在威胁并未阻止他们依然让空军一号起飞，机上载有由高级官员、政府雇员、专家和军方人员组成的诱饵团队，其中一些人是在不知情的情况下担任的。

如果伊朗人上个月试图击落总统专机，正如美国官员当时所结论的那样，那么潜在的

特朗普避险，但

官员仍随机起飞

在土耳其安卡拉的，据推测总统可能也将机上其他数十人变成了目标，包括国务卿马尔科·鲁宾、财政部长斯科特·贝森特以及高级助手斯蒂芬·米勒和史蒂文·张。

政府在极少数情况下会采取掩护手段，以保护总统免受可能的危险，特别是在前往危险地点的旅程中，例如乔治·W·布什或巴拉克·奥巴马在战争期间飞往伊拉克，或者比尔·克林顿在以应对其恐怖主义历史。

然而，特朗普团队在安卡拉的行动之所以突出，不仅是因为其，还因为其将总统的危险转移到了他人身上，并且在特朗普先生之后仍长期保密。

续见 A8 页

厄瓜多尔

近海渔船 出现“Gyrigos”

美国称在神秘袭击中

未扮演任何角色

本文由马里奥·阿比-罗希克（Mario Abi-Rohik）、赖利·麦克雷（Riley McRae）、何塞·玛丽亚·莱昂·卡夫雷拉（José María León Cabrera）和克里斯蒂安·弗罗恩（Christian Frohn）撰写。

幸存者称，在遥远的太平洋海域，厄瓜多尔渔民遭到了身份不明的“girigans”使用无人机的袭击，这引发了关于美国军队、另一个国家的武装部队或私人军事承包商是否在袭击背后操纵的争议。

美国方面表示，一艘渔船于一月失踪，其中八人仍失踪并被推定死亡。另外两艘船只的幸存者表示，他们于三月遭到说英语的袭击者攻击，袭击者穿着统一的制服，贴有美国国旗补丁，但没有任何明确的标志能将其与官方政府部队联系起来。

一些幸存的渔民表示，他们被从水中捞起，经过审问，然后被移交给萨尔瓦多的当局，随后被释放。五角大楼否认了相关指控，美国海岸警卫队同样予以否认。

幸存者还表示，一架飞机在袭击发生前跟踪并似乎监视了他们。

《纽约时报》分析了飞行数据并发现，一架基于萨尔瓦多军事基地的海上巡逻机在三艘船只遇袭前的几天里，曾向这三艘船的方向飞行。根据空中交通和试飞通信记录，机上人员使用带有美国口音的英语交流。

而且，随着船只在海上的移动，该飞机的航线在数日内也随之改变，以保持指向每艘船。本报分析发现，飞行跟踪数据显示，该飞机在一月失踪的船只附近盘旋。它在四个不同的日子里出现，包括该船失踪当天。

但该飞机并未出现在五角大楼的活跃清单中。根据美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）的记录，该飞机于去年十月注册给一家公司，其地址列为美国里士满一家UPS店的私人信箱。

自五角大楼九月开始在加勒比海和太平洋地区开展行动，指责这些船只被用于贩毒以来，数十艘船只遭到袭击，造成至少231人死亡。

华盛顿在承认这些袭击方面并不避讳，经常在社交媒体上发布关于渔船在水中被摧毁的视频，尽管……

加强搜寻

选民登记册中的非公民

推动驱逐出境

一场旨在煽动关于选举舞弊猖獗之无端指控的行动

本文由 Madeleine Ngelich Cavanault 和 Eleanor Moschi 撰写。

华盛顿 —— 特朗普政府正全力推动识别并驱逐登记投票的非公民，即使这些人是无意登记或从未投过票 —— 这种极其激进的做法正助力其推广关于选民舞弊猖獗的无端指控。

各州审计和研究反复发现，非公民投票极其罕见，且尚未出现已知其投票影响选举结果的案例。非公民登记投票或实际投票违反联邦法律，这样做可能会面临严厉处罚，包括监禁和驱逐出境。

根据移民政策专家的说法，过去，国土安全部并未激进地尝试驱逐数量极少的非法登记投票非公民，尤其是那些误登记的人。但特朗普政府正采取更强硬的立场，希望在增加驱逐人数的同时，构建一个非法投票被低估的论据。

国土安全局特工正在重启已结案的选民舞弊案件，并调查大城市的选民登记工作。据移民律师称，联邦官员在健康检查站拦截了被怀疑登记投票的移民。而申请公民身份的绿卡持有者则因登记投票而面临被驱逐的风险。

该部门的行动是特朗普政府利用联邦机构推广总统关于选举系统崩溃之巨大且虚假主张的非凡尝试的一部分（其与……）。特朗普先生利用这些主张来证明其推动联邦立法的合理性，该立法将要求人们在登记投票时出示美国公民身份证明，并几乎限制邮寄投票。

这些变化正在影响那些试图在美国证明并维持自己没有投票甚至没有投票意图的高级绿卡持有者的生活。

接 A17 页

一次骑踏板车去附近公园的行程导致亚特兰大的两名家长被刑事调查。

让孩子单独外出是成年礼还是犯罪？

作者：IAN FRISCH

马尔赫里·雪莉（Malherie Shirley）在看到她当时五岁的儿子走进门的那一刻就知道出事了。那是 2025 年 11 月，他刚刚骑着踏板车从距离他们亚特兰大家中约四分之一英里的操场回来。

雪莉女士记得他的样子：肩膀耸起，眼睛向下看；紧闭的双唇……发生了什么，他解释说一名妇女在回家的路上拦住了他，询问他的年龄、为什么单独一人以及住在哪里。因为害怕，他无视了那名妇女并继续前行。

雪莉女士和她的丈夫克里斯托弗·普莱森茨（Christopher Pleasants）相信要培养两个孩子的独立意识，他们最近开始给儿子提供独自做事的机会。她要求他在杂货店里找家。通常，在他向担心的成年人解释得到了父母许可后，人们会感到放心。

但这名妇女的关心感觉更像是指责而非同情。“我想她开车跟着我，”雪莉女士记得儿子告诉她的那样。

她没太在意这件事，直到两天后，一名来自帕布洛斯县（Pablos County）家庭与儿童服务部的个案经理来到家中。雪莉女士不在家，但普莱森茨先生在。个案经理解释说，有人提交了投诉，并且她将……

接 A12 页

艺术 C1-6

《冬天的故事》梗概

这部剧在公园莎士比亚剧场上演，尽管夏天是它唯一没有代表的季节。C1 页

他的作品在为他发声

尽管结交广泛，但对于缅因州一位低调的贫民制造者来说，情况可能会变得清晰。第 C1 页

国际 A4-10

叙利亚省份担心被接管

执政的众议院少数派预计中央政府将采取行动以加强控制。第 A6 页

英国选票上的“垃圾桶人”

安全候选人卡斯特·罗宾斯在一次特别选举中与右翼领导人尼格尔·潘加尔竞争。第 A4 页

商业 B1-5

工人的致命高温

每年约有 100 名工人死于高温暴露，但只有六个州提供了保护。德克萨斯州禁止城市通过高温安全规定。第 B1 页

国内 A11-29

图书馆应对饥饿问题

在马里兰州，居民们不再是借书，而是可以真诚地在无需提供食品安全证明的情况下获得免费杂货。第 A11 页

险胜与新兴趋势

在威斯康星州的联合会中，一名温和派以微弱优势击败了一名进步派：抗议或经验，以及从其他习俗中获得的启示。第 A14 页

阿米什人中的麻疹

罗伯特·F·肯尼迪在 2021 年于宾夕法尼亚州兰开斯特县的一次演讲中提到了这一威胁，那里现在是美国最大规模疫情爆发地的所在地。第 A28 页

周四 风格 D1-6

孟买最新的“E女孩”

迪亚·詹克帕蒂的社交媒体“日常生活视频”也将她变成了“来自印度的酷女孩”。第 D1 页

全力投入人字拖

在哥本哈根时装周，一款关键鞋履完成了一系列精致且协调的造型。第 D1 页

体育 B4-9

湖人队准备以 125 亿美元出售

在买下球队一年后，马克·沃尔科与鲍勃·伊戈尔和约书亚·库兹纳达成了一项创纪录的交易。第 B7 页

在罗马，卡尔

在一个游泳之夏，罗马斗兽场附近的一股冰冷浪潮似乎在利用意大利在奥运会上的成功。第 B8 页

观点 A20-21

米歇尔·卡特尔

第 A21 页

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辛辛那提起草了一份气候迁移准备计划，希望最多 100,000 名新移民在 2000 年前能帮助振兴该地区。

辛辛那提制定气候移民计划

逃离环境灾难的美国人可能会重塑美国中部的住房需求。

作者：ALEXANDER NAZRYAN

研究表明，到本世纪末，由于海平面上升，多达 1200 万 美国气候移民可能会从沿海地区向内陆迁移。

如果这些数字在任何程度上接近实现，从绝对数量来看，这将是一次比非裔美国人离开南部的“大迁徙”以及逃离大平原“尘暴区”的迁移规模更巨大的统计学转变。

辛辛那提的领导者希望接纳部分此类移民，以帮助振兴该地区。

该市最近制定了一项《气候移民准备计划》，为该地区在 2030 年前吸收多达 100,000 名新居民描绘了蓝图。（该数字包括潜在的气候移民，同时也考虑了“更广泛的国内搬迁趋势”。）该计划要求建设密度更高的住房，扩大公共交通，并减少城市对化石燃料的依赖。它还涉及监测可能预示人口转移的指标，例如住房保险市场的困境。

专家表示，该计划是一个良好的开端，但这可能演变成一场激烈的竞争，旨在吸引那些因日益频繁且剧烈的灾难性天气（包括洪水、山火和飓风）而流离失所的美国人。

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辛辛那提市长阿尔文·普雷维尔（Alvin Purevel）表示，他的部分动力来自于观察纽约和芝加哥在拜登总统任期后半段，如何艰难地安置那些从墨西哥跨境寻求庇护、经由德克萨斯州而来的移民。

“当数万人一夜之间出现时，就会引发危机，”普雷维尔先生，43, 在一次采访中说道。

国内气候移民一个尤为生动的例子出现在 2005, 年，当时卡特里娜飓风摧毁了新奥尔良。据估计有 100,000 到 200,000 人逃离灾区。该市欢迎新来者，但随着时间的推移，紧张局势出现了。

在去年赢得连任后，民主党人普雷维尔先生指派该市环境与可持续发展办公室主任奥利弗·克拉默（Oliver Kramer）制定一项计划，该计划于 5 月向公众公布。

该战略的一部分是对分区规划进行全面修订，使得在这个直到最近仍主要保留给单户住宅的城市中，建设多户住宅变得容易得多。一个太阳能阵列正在前垃圾填埋场原址上建设。而且，经过多年的规划，快速公交系统将于 2027 年启动。

分区规划的变更并非没有反对声音。一些社区团体担心，允许建设更高的建筑和更密集的住房会冲淡社区特色，尤其是城市东侧的海德公园广场（Hyde Park Square）住宅区，并降低周围房产的价值。

普雷维尔先生和克拉默先生也承认，气候移民的涌入可能永远不会发生在辛辛那提。正如卡特里娜飓风后新奥尔良居民的情况一样，研究表明，由于财务限制和社会纽带等原因，流离失所的人倾向于留在原居地附近。辛辛那提最终可能

气候前瞻 (Climate Forward)

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对于逃离佛罗里达州洪水或加利福尼亚州火灾的人来说，距离可能太远。

在这种情况下，他们希望目前的居民能从辛辛那提的气候准备计划中获益，尤其是那些已经在应对热岛效应、破旧公园以及其他中产阶级居民通常能避开的脆弱问题的居民。

以分区法修订为例，这可以让数千名新来者入住多家庭公寓楼。住房供应的增加还将降低辛辛那提人的价格，其中 20% 的人面临租金压力，这意味着他们 30% 或更多的收入用于住房支出。

如果大量移民来到辛辛那提，他们不太可能通过取代已经在那里生活的人，从而加剧一个被称为“气候绅士化”的过程。

出售辛辛那提南部铁路（Cincinnati Southern Railway）所得的资金（为基础设施基金带来了 16 亿美元 billion）也将用于公园修复、雨水管理和交通缓解等项目。“气候迁移让我们能够加倍投入，”Purevel 先生说，“从长远来看，这是正确的做法。”

但无论移民浪潮是否会席卷辛辛那提，有一件事是肯定的：气候变化将重塑这个国家。美国的基础设施被迫承受压力。经济差距可能会扩大。城市需要做好准备。

“我们感到非常有紧迫感，”Purevel 先生说。

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周二初选的要点：纽约时报记者汇总了威斯康星州、明尼苏达州和南卡罗来纳州初选的新闻。在威斯康星州民主党州长初选中，密尔沃基县行政主管 David Crowley 击败了温和派，而州代表 Francesca Hong 是一位民主社会主义者。在明尼苏达州，进步派副州长 Peggy Flanagan 获得了民主党参议院提名，这是该党左翼的一次胜利。

始于一次惬意的港口游船之旅，最终演变为一场救援行动。一名 337 岁的女性及其 3 个月大的女儿在自由女神像附近的一艘观光船倾覆中丧生，该事件目前已成为联邦调查的一部分。《纽约时报》采访了一位偶然发现现场并帮助从纽约港救出 12 人的派对船船长。

观点 / 我不会对我颈部的手术撒谎：特约观点撰稿人 Molly Jong-Foot 对自己在 40 岁后期进行面部和颈部提升手术并不后悔。在一篇客座文章中，她认为这种类别深深植根于我们讨论女性整形手术的方式中，而缺乏诚实是有害的：“我们必须对接受的治疗保持透明，并停止羞辱他人的选择。”

吉米·法伦重现特朗普餐饮集装箱逃脱戏码：周二，吉米·法伦被推在餐饮推车上出现在《今夜秀》舞台上，以此引用一条新闻报道，称特朗普总统上个月在土耳其通过一个餐饮集装箱从喷气机中脱身。Trish Bendle 在《深夜汇总》中写到了这个片段。

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瓦格纳的伟大作品。

1976年8月13日。在“来自全球各个角落的一千两百或一千五百本杂志的入侵”即将令拜罗伊特（这座被作曲家理查德·瓦格纳选作其音乐节举办地的图书馆之城）欣喜开启之前，一切都已“被超越”。《时报》写道：在瓦格纳完成其四部曲《尼伯龙根的指环》（Der Ring des Nöschages）系列歌剧后不久，他构思了这次音乐节，旨在以“能够赋予这些作品最充分意义的方式”来呈现这些作品。他花费多年时间为该活动及其场馆的建设筹集资金并进行竞争，最终通过由全球“瓦格纳协会”网络组成的赞助人筹集到了资金。如今，拜罗伊特音乐节在庆祝其50周年之际，于7月28日以作曲家的早期作品之一《Bianzi》开幕，该作品也将于8月28日为庆祝活动收官。今年的节目单还包括《指环》系列歌剧。

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根据邮政局监察长2020年的一份报告，全年必须在户外工作的邮递员在两年的时间里共记录了超过1,300起与高温相关的事件。

每年全国范围内导致工人手持设备失效的下一项是：

总体而言，美国食品价格在2020年5月至2026年5月之间上涨了约3.1%。

免费乡村商店 A3 的 Nothingkeige：

遮阳伞可以阻挡正上方的紫外线，但不能阻挡被路面或沙地等表面散射或反射的射线，这些射线随后会潜入伞下。

当灼烧结束时，这些雨伞在其中开启：

从9月开始，Spotify 将为那些其身份被认为极有可能是由 AI 生成的艺术家个人资料贴上标签。一旦贴上标签，这些资料将被排除在 Spotify 的编辑推荐和算法推荐之外。

Spotify 计划为 AI 歌曲贴标签 C1：

上周，阿克伦大学的橄榄球项目宣布了一项促销活动，根据该活动，每位季票持有者将自动参加抽奖，中奖的球迷将协助编写球队开场的前10到15个进攻战术。

凭一张季票，您可以协助编写上述开场战术：

据官员称，英格兰近四分之三的地区处于干旱状态，英国数千万民众被禁止使用其堆积物。

U's Unbundled：欧洲人准备迎接夏季第五次热浪 A3：

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在 Deelet 通讯中，《纽约时报》首席法律事务记者亚当·利普塔克（Adam Liptak）帮助读者在动荡时期理解法律进展。以下是利普塔克先生对一个关于驱逐出境问题的回答。

联邦政府在决定将非法移民驱逐到哪些国家时，必须遵守什么样的标准（如果有的话）？—— LATERHOUSE WEST

亚当·利普塔克：联邦法律通常要求政府仅将人员驱逐至与其有实质联系的国家。一项法规列出了一套类似于清单的步骤，旨在按顺序执行。具体回应会根据移民是在入境时被逮捕还是随后被下令遣返而略有不同。法律要求政府优先考虑的地方包括：移民抵达的国家、他们指定的国家、他们拥有国籍的国家以及他们曾经居住过的国家。

根据法律，“第三国遣返”——即将移民驱逐到与其没有联系的地方——应作为最后手段。特朗普政府被指责无视要求的顺序，依赖于未经证实的“外交保证”（即保证移民在被送往此类第三国时不会受到酷刑或迫害），并且未能为移民提供实质性的申诉机会。

政府为其做法辩护称，总统在移民和外交事务方面拥有巨大的裁量权。这些主张受到了联邦初审法官的质疑，但得到了最高法院的初步认可。目前，最高法院在法律合法性受到挑战期间，允许政府在进行“第三国”驱逐时拥有广泛的自由裁量权。

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报道洞察

近期初选的胜利为共和党和民主党在迎接今年秋季中期选举时都提出了关键问题。在最近的一段视频中，《纽约时报》执行编辑卡罗琳·润（Carolyn Ryun）分享了记者如何处理不断变化的政治动态报道。以下是编辑后的摘录。

美国的两个主要政党都经历着某种程度的身份危机。显然，在共和党方面，很大一部分与特朗普相关，他是所有人围绕的核心人物。民主党方面也是一个非常丰富且有趣的主题，尤其是美国民主社会主义者（D.S.A.）的崛起。

许多读者提到我们的记者正在探讨的一个问题是：D.S.A. 基本上会成为民主党的引擎，还是会变成其他东西并脱离？

决定报道谁以及报道多少是一门艺术而非科学。没有完美的公式。你越能验证关于谁有权力、谁没有权力的假设，你的报道就会越好。作为一线记者，我们一直在尝试校准和衡量什么样的运动和什么样的候选人可能会出现。

我记得例如在 2016, 年，我们有一名记者开车横跨全国，在小镇停留。他走进我的

卡罗琳·润，《纽约时报》执行编辑。

办公室说：“卡罗琳，我到处都看到了特朗普的标志！” 问题的核心在于：普通美国人希望他们的政府提供什么？

请在 nytimes.com / video / times-insider 观看完整视频。

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旅行 101：如何规划非洲野生动物之旅

如果说有哪次旅行必须需要旅行顾问或旅行社，那一定是非洲野生动物之旅。这类行程通常价格昂贵，物流组织具有挑战性，且部分地区极其偏远，如果没有专业导游陪同将不安全。在报名参加野生动物之旅前，请考虑以下事项。ALANIE ELISSAE

确定预算。您的预算将决定您的体验。大多数高端野生动物之旅的规划者建议每人每天预算 $750 至 $1,500。像 Interpal Travel 这样的公司提供更实惠的行程，每天约 $200 起。

决定选择城市、平原还是三角洲。包括南非、坦桑尼亚、肯尼亚和博茨瓦纳在内的热门目的地各具特色。了解它们之间的区别以缩小选择范围。例如，南非的行程可能会将野生动物观察日与在开普敦及该国葡萄酒产区的停留相结合。

专门设计定制行程的 Kensington 公司的 Andrew Drummond 将东非肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚的野生动物之旅描述为“经典的帐篷之旅，在营地式环境中沉浸于荒野之中”。许多旅行者来到东非是为了见证大迁徙，两百万只野生动物在坦桑尼亚的塞伦盖蒂平原和肯尼亚的马赛马拉保护区之间移动，这一盛况吸引了众多捕食者。博茨瓦纳拥有世界上最大的岛屿三角洲——奥卡万戈（Okavango），这里栖息着河马、大象和鸟类。

追求多样化的体验。许多专家建议选择包含对比体验的行程。经营 Opatwa Explains 的 Stuart Marra 建议，在博茨瓦纳停留以进行近距离的动物观察，同时在塞伦盖蒂或马赛马拉花费时间观看成千上万的动物。

了解天气影响。在南半球，冬季是从 6 月到

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9 月，而夏季是从 12 月到 3 月。就野生动物观察而言，更重要的是雨季和旱季，这因目的地而异。在东非，雨季通常是 3 月到 5 月；在南部非洲，则是 12 月到 3 月。“旱季的野生动物可见度更高，”专注于自然的旅行公司 Natural Habitat Adventures 的东非区域总监 Sandy Lintinghann 表示。旅行者在郁郁葱葱的绿季可能会看到较低的价格。

做好健康功课。在许多地区，疟疾是主要需要担心的一种疾病；建议在博茨瓦纳、肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚等地区使用抗疟药。美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）的旅行者健康网站提供分国别建议。

提前一年规划。参加团体旅行的旅行者通常可以在出发前几个月找到名额。但如果您计划入住小型豪华旅馆，请给自己留出充足的时间。一些专家建议提前一年确定计划。

在 nytimes.com / travel 阅读 Travel 101 系列。

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Count Birdrook（Jon Harvey 的化名）将在周四的议会特别选举中与改革英国党（Reform UK）党魁奈杰尔·法拉奇竞争。

讽刺派对手在议会选举中挑战法拉奇

作者：AMELIA NIEBERBERG

英国，克拉克顿-昂-希（CLACTON-ON-SEA）：身着垃圾桶服装的宾法斯伯爵（Count Birdace）正试图解释，无论周四在他参与过的最高关注度的选举中发生什么，他都将是赢家。

“我们要画个简单的流程图吗？”他问道，戴着手套的手指在空中比划着。

如果你一直没有关注英国政治，你可能会好奇我为什么在采访一个自称来自 Sigma 18 星球的星际空间战士。宾法斯伯爵是由作家兼共同创作者乔恩·哈维（Jon Harvey）扮演的一个角色。他已经参加了几次选举，这是英国悠久的奇葩政治候选人传统的一部分。

现在，他正迎来迄今为止最大的舞台。在英格兰东海岸克拉克顿（Clacton）举行的一次议会特别选举中，他是奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）的主要对手。法拉奇是右翼民粹政党改革英国党（Reform UK）的领导人。

法拉奇预计将以压倒性优势获胜——在他上个月辞职以强制进行此次投票之前，他以巨大的多数票持有该席位。一项记录民调显示，他可能获得 73% 的支持率。但尽管法拉奇试图将此次选举定调为“人民对抗建制派”的选举，所有其他主要政党都拒绝参加。他们称这是一场政治闹剧，旨在掩盖一项关于法拉奇未能披露 500 万 英镑（约 $500 万）礼金的议会调查。

宾法斯伯爵仅以角色身份接受采访，他是此次选举中法拉奇最著名的对手，尽管还有 33 位其他候选人参选。其中一些是克拉克顿的长期居民，例如在克拉克顿-昂-希生活了十多年的 TMA Palan；而另一些则代表官方成员赛车卢西党（Official Member Racing Loosy Party），该团体曾与英国最著名的奇葩候选人、于 1999 年去世的萨奇勋爵（Lord Sutch）有关。

宾法斯伯爵在他那个隐喻性的流程图前争辩道，如果法拉奇“即使以增加的多数票获胜”，“但如果对手是包括一个垃圾桶形状的外星人在内的 33 位候选人，那么谁才是赢家？”

法拉奇当然会不同意。改革英国党（Reform UK）没有回应本文的置评请求，但此前，该党高级官员佐伊·尤苏夫（Zoe Yusuf）告诉 BBC，其他政党抵制投票是因为他们对法拉奇“感到恐惧”。

“我没有做错任何事”

宾法斯伯爵在全国关注的焦点时刻始于上个月。在 2024 年大选中以 40% 的得票率在克拉克顿获胜的法拉奇宣布意外辞职。数周以来，在关于其 5 项资金来源（包括从一名总部位于泰国的加密货币亿万富翁处收到的 £300 万）的披露后，法拉奇一直面临压力。一项议会调查已经启动，以确定法拉奇是否应该申报这笔在 2024 年选举前几个月收到的礼金。

法拉奇在 7 月 7 日调查完成前辞职，并表示他将立即竞选同一个席位，这显然是为了夺回政治话语权。

法拉奇因一项 $500 万 礼金丑闻而强制举行新选举。

“让我绝对明确地表示：我没有做错任何事，”他说道，并补充道：“我决定让克拉克顿的人民来评判我的行为。”

如果法拉奇被发现违反规则，他可能会被暂停议员资格，并可能被迫参加第二次特别选举。所有其他主要政党表示将等待调查结果，保守党则表示他们将参加随之而来的任何选举。

这使得这次由身穿银色头盔和披风的宾法斯伯爵来面对这位改革党领导人。

“那些所谓的主流政党选择不参加，”宾法斯伯爵告诉我，“要么是因为他们被我的宏伟所震慑，”要么是因为“这一切实际上就是一场闹剧。”

“嘲笑政治人物”

任何年满 18 岁的英国、爱尔兰或符合条件的英联邦公民都可以参加英国的议会选举，前提是他们需支付 £100 的押金，并获得 30 名当地居民的提名。

多年来，英国政治人物经常与那些古怪的候选人同台，形成有趣的对比，候选人涵盖了从艾摩（Elmo）到赛马联盟代表的各类人物。

英国讽刺杂志《私人城市》（Private City）的主编伊恩·希基（Ian Hickey）表示，在英国，人们长期以来一直认为“嘲笑政治人物与投票给他们一样重要”。

伯德斯伯爵（Count Birdace）曾挑战前保守党首相里希·苏塔尼（Rishi Sutani）；在他之前以巴克黑德勋爵（Lord Backerhead）身份活动的时期，他也曾挑战前首相特蕾莎·梅（Theresa May），但后来他因一场版权纠纷而放弃了该身份。他曾在兰达什（Landash）的市长选举中挑战市长萨迪克·汗（Sadiq Khan）。今年夏天早些时候，他在沃特菲尔德（Waterfield）的补选中挑战工党候选人安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）。伯纳姆先生现任英国首相，得票率为 54.8%，而伯德斯伯爵得票率为 0.2%。

哈维先生（Mr. Harvey）是这套服装下的真实人物，他就读于牛津大学，主修古典学。在最近参加的播客节目《政治之最》（The Best Is Politics）中，他流畅地地发表了一段令人惊叹的古希腊语。他还曾担任英国讽刺节目的喜剧编剧，其中包括为 HBO 系列剧《睡眠》（Sleep）的创作者阿曼丁·伊亚努奇（Armandin Iannucci）撰稿。

作为伯德斯伯爵，他惯常的竞选承诺包括“争取‘至少一套可负担住房’”——这是在讽刺英国保守党政府关于住房建设的承诺，这些承诺似乎从未兑现。他还长期承诺将艾迪斯（Addis）国有化，并“降低你的税收，提高其他所有人的税收”。

在这种表象之下隐藏着一个严肃的信息，即现代政治的荒诞性，以及试图取悦各地所有选民的不可能之举。

“这是法拉奇的领地”

克拉克顿（Clacton）是一个以一座没落海滨小镇为中心的议会选区，在脱欧投票中以大幅领先优势支持脱欧。这是法拉奇先生在 2018 年全民公投前标志性的主张。法拉奇先生通过反对移民，以及近期承诺实施特朗普式的大规模驱逐计划，建立起了一场民粹主义运动。

2014 年，克拉克顿以大幅领先优势选他当选，一名保守党候选人位居第二。民调公司 Ipsos 的政治总监科里安·佩德利（Korian Pedley）表示：“这是法拉奇的领地。”

克拉克顿的一些选民对主要候选人关注当前局势的方式表示沮丧。在当地居住约一年的园丁布莱恩·皮尔斯（Brian Pierce）表示，他想投票给一个了解社区需求的本地人。“你面对的是这些碎片，”他说道，同时指向伯德斯伯爵（Count Birdace，绰号“fiercrux”）和法拉奇先生，他称后者是在“利用这次选举来掩盖自己的罪行”。

“这正变成一个笑话，”他补充道，“但事实并非如此。这关乎人们的生活，关乎我们的未来。”

伯德斯伯爵此前最好的成绩是在 2021 年伦敦市长选举中获得 1%。如果他在这里能超过 5%，将算是一次显著的成功，届时他缴纳的 4500 英镑选举押金将获得退还。

伯德斯伯爵在克拉克顿花费了时间进行竞选，会见居民并录制视频。他还发布了一份更详细的竞选承诺清单，其中包含一些针对法拉奇的条款。他表示，那些范围内的学生立法者应被禁止参加随后的特别选举，并承诺“在克拉克顿海滨度过的时间将比在华盛顿（U.S.）以及在法拉奇总统的友谊中度过的时间更多”。他还承诺“不接受来自（地球上）加密货币亿万富翁的 300 万英镑（£300 万）礼金”。

即便法拉奇先生如预期般在周四获胜，他也将不得不面对针对该礼金调查的结果。

伯德斯伯爵承认，目前媒体对他故事的兴趣可能是由驱动的。他承认这让他感到高兴：“这是迄今为止他最领先的理论！他最强调的是他对民主进程以及决定支持法拉奇先生的选民的尊重。”

“他的主张对革命的某个部分非常有吸引力，”他说，“我们不能轻视这一点。如果人们选择投票给奈杰（Nigel），那就是民主。”

但由于主要政党缺席，“我似乎成了他的主要反对派，”他在名单后面说道，“这没关系。”

法拉奇先生被认为极有可能重复他在 2024 年赢得克拉克顿海滨选区的胜利，他于上个月辞去了该席位。

法国企业陌生拜访电话禁令生效

作者：HENALDINE LE CHAUDE

巴黎——在法国，推销陈旧面板、道路、业务泵及其他产品的不间断陌生拜访电话将于周二停止，届时一项禁止未经请求的电话营销禁令将正式生效。

公司不再允许通过此类电话广告推销商品和服务，除非消费者此前已表示同意，或者通话内容涉及既有合同。

这项禁令在法国不太可能遇到太多反对，根据一份议会报告，该国 47% 的人对此表示支持；他们对近年来稳步增加的每日电话营销感到厌烦。

领先的消费者权益倡导组织 Que Choisir Ensemble 称该禁令是一项“强力措施”，旨在“最终结束法国人忍受了太久的每日商业骚扰”。

该组织主席 Marie-Antoine Solvenin 在一次采访中表示：“安静是一项权利。这一观察结果在网络和街道上同样成立，我们在那里被大量的消费者电话所淹没。”

商业组织 Fédération de la Vente Directe 的负责人 Frédéric Bilbo 表示，该法律将增加所有习惯于在不深思熟虑的情况下给客户打电话的当地企业的行政负担。

他说：“如今，那种‘不深思熟虑’的方法不再适用。你必须在与客户联系前获得同意，并且还必须保留该同意的证明。”

Bilbo 先生还表示，他担心来自

对不受欢迎的电话营销处以巨额罚款甚至监禁。

不道德的公司在法国境内外的不公平竞争。

在摩洛哥（法国是其电话营销公司的一个主要市场），据摩洛哥日报《Le Matin》引用的一位政府官员称，该禁令可能导致该国多达 50,000 个工作岗位消失。

在过去的 10 年里，一名法国立法者在周一的一次广播采访中表示，来自国外的电话“将是非法的”，并且“必须采取必要步骤，包括与相关运营商合作，以确保这些稀少的电话被持续拦截”。

这项由议会于去年 5 月通过的新立法，是一个重大议题，旨在改变法国人默认同意接收电话营销电话的情况。此前，除非消费者表明所有项目均属于其政府财产以避免接到此类电话，否则消费者可能会被随机联系。

根据议会报告，尽管在 Blount 上找到的电话号码从 2021 到 2024 几乎翻了一番，且每天有超过 5000 万 次通话被拦截，但该服务被认为是不充分的，因为公司经常未能将其考虑在内。

在旨在隔离该问题的早期立法中，某些特定行业的公司（如针对老年人或残障人士的家庭预订）已被禁止进行未经请求的电话营销。

现在，如果未能遵守新法，个人将被处以最高 75,000 欧元，或 $67,000，公司可被处以 €375,000，或 $125,000 的罚款。对于针对弱势群体的电话，新处罚可能高达五年监禁以及 €500,000，或 €375,000 的罚款。

“从立法角度来看，我们已经做到了极致。”在 2025 年新禁令通过时的一次广播采访中，最初法案的起草者——法国消费者税务局表示。

他说：“政府必须迅速严厉地处理那些不遵守规则的公司。这是我们为了获得结果必须付出的代价。”

在 7 月的一次晚餐中，关于该法律的执行，政府表示，即使消费者同意接收陌生拜访电话，他们也可以在任何时间改变主意，而企业必须在一年内重新寻求同意。

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纽约时报 国际版 星期四, 12, 2026

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“无法忍受”：欧洲人准备迎接夏季第五波热浪

本文由 Elizabeth Pownble, Giulia Imbert 和 Carlos Burragán 撰写。

罗马——周三，欧洲正准备迎接这个打破纪录的夏季的第五波热浪。此前，热浪已引发罕见的森林火灾，导致整个欧洲大陆出现水资源短缺，并且对于许多欧洲人来说，这抹去了他们曾经对夏季生存之乐的记忆。

预计热浪将席卷而来，西班牙周四的最高气温预计将达到 109 华氏度（或 42 摄氏度），随后将在周末袭击德国等更东部的国家。

在英国，政府于周三上午召开了一次特别部长会议，以准备应对最严重的，来自马德里到罗马的六名游客和居民在对过去夏天温和气候的渴望中。

在罗马的一家食品市场销售葡萄酒的 42, 岁女子伊琳娜·内德列娃（Irina Nedeleva）表示，她从未感到如此炎热，夏天已经失去了吸引力。“我以前喜欢炎热，讨厌寒冷，但从今年开始，”内德列娃女士说道，她使用了这个词，称其为“足够”。“现在我讨厌炎热。”

在她的员工，她一直关闭着空调设备——她说使用空调太贵了。相反，一台风扇在搅动热空气，让她觉得仿佛身处“一个通风的烤箱”中。

“这无法忍受，”她说。在巴黎， 22, 岁的莎拉·韦耶伯格（Sarah Weyerbergh）在描述她今年夏天在没有空调的公寓里的生活时，也使用了“无法忍受”这个词。在时尚行业工作的韦耶伯格女士说，“洗一次又一次又一次的澡”只能带来暂时的缓解，并补充说这个方案是“适得其反”的，因为最终让她“感觉更好”。

尽管如此，作为巴黎居民，她至少可以不受限制地使用水。

由于广泛的干旱，法国本土 70% 以上地区的用水受到限制。法国国家地质服务局本月预计，法国本土 40% 以上的地下水储备水位有所下降。在某些地区，人们在特定情况下使用水（如清洗汽车或填充游泳池）可能会被罚款。

据官员称，在海峡对岸，英格兰近四分之三的地区目前处于干旱状态，英国有数千万民众处于禁令之下。

在西班牙北部的布尔戈斯省， 65, 岁的查韦·巴兰萨（Chave Barranza）表示，这个传统上地区的居民不习惯如此高温。

“过去几个简直是犯罪，”巴兰萨女士说。“我们以前在夏天每隔两天或两天后都要盖毯子睡觉。”

该国大部分地区面临更多森林火灾，特别是在，数十万人准备聚集以获取该国应对森林火灾的最佳。

这次新热浪发生在该地区记录到最热的 6 月至 7 月期间之后，根据欧盟气候监测服务机构哥白尼（Copernicus）的数据，这创下了记录。

在气候变化的放大作用下，干旱正使欧洲大陆一些关键的水道陷入瘫痪，包括莱茵河。在塞尔维亚，多瑙河（Danube River）水位下降，使二战末期沉没的一支食品舰队的船只暴露出来。

由引发的干旱和燃料给农用地带来了巨大破坏，烧毁了农作物，影响了收入。意大利最大的农业贸易协会 Coldterill 估计，与气候相关的损失已超过 30 亿欧元，即近 33 亿美元 billion。这种情况增强了要求欧洲夏季运作方式进行文化和物流变革的呼声，包括推动意大利更好的水资源管理。

“很明显，我们必须装备自己并做好准备，包括在心理上，去适应在这种气候下生活，”Coldterill 的首席经济学家洛伦佐·布塞纳（Lorenzo Buscena）说道。

“冰淇淋也受到了影响。在罗马，我预计会看到人们对户外睡眠的兴趣变得不稳定，而酒精消费则显著下降，”小型企业协会黑色分会主席克劳德·皮奇（Claude Picci）表示。一项针对批发商以及 100 多家罗马中心地带餐厅和酒吧的调查显示，7 月的销售额有所下降，且菜单也发生了变化。

欧洲的创纪录高温在以下地点被感受到（从顶部起顺时针方向）：梵蒂冈圣彼得大教堂外、意大利的向日葵田，以及法瑞边境的杜布河沿岸。

“游客们仍然点意式培根蛋面（pasta carbonara）和意式腊肉面（anancticana），因为这些是传统菜肴，但要求点沙拉的人更多了，”他说。

一些游客正在重新考虑度假计划。

“我们知道天气会很热，但没预料到阳光会如此糟糕，那是最难熬的，”来自纽约的 21 岁言语语言病理学家汉娜·库特雷尔（Hannah Cutrel）在罗马的一处阴凉处休息时说道。

她的妹妹，23 岁的朱莉娅·库特雷尔（Julia Cutrel）在康涅狄格州的一家制造公司工作，她说这种“灼人”的高温会让她重新考虑是否再次在 8 月访问意大利。“我的意思是，我们在家也经历过高温，但这简直是另一个量级，”她说。

在罗马的一家中心电影院，玛丽亚·德尔·普诺（Maria Del Puno）正在利用一项由市政府资助的计划，该计划在几家电影院提供免费的下午电影。

“这是在凉爽的地方度过最热时段的一种方式，” 41 岁的德尔·普诺先生说。他说，其他的选择是留在家里，或者去海滩，但这并不是什么好的替代方案。

“沙滩上的温度非常高，会让人受苦，”德尔·普诺先生说。“我更喜欢待在凉爽的电影院里。”

2026年的厄尔尼诺现象规模巨大且正在改变世界

作者：RAYMOND ZROVIC 和 CHICO RAMLIN

厄尔尼诺是地球上自然循环的连锁反应因子，它会扰乱天气模式，推高全球气温，且通常在12月达到顶峰。

但今年的厄尔尼诺现象预计将打破纪录，目前已经表现强劲并产生重大影响，推高了全球气温，并导致多个大洲出现干旱和作物歉收。

Paris of Panama 通常是地球上最潮湿的国家之一，但自5月初以来就没出现过一场 major storm。埃塞俄比亚的高地正经历四十年来最干旱的夏季时段之一，而印度则经历了自1861年现代降雨记录开始以来最 1800-dried June。

“这是一个良好的迹象，表明厄尔尼诺的反应确实已经显现，”加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉分校气候危害中心主任克里斯·福特（Chris Ford）表示。其峰值看来将是一次“非常严重的厄尔尼诺”。

这些实地后果反映了太平洋变化的规模，厄尔尼诺在太平洋中发展，通常是在冬季热量传递的地方。这些现象每两到七年发生一次，并导致了数千年来的全球波动。但今年的规模与近 80 年记录中的水平相当。

科学家们正在争论基于人类活动的气候变化是否在增加更强气候变化的概率。过去几十年的厄尔尼诺现象相对强劲。但共同促成厄尔尼诺的变量非常复杂，一些专家认为最近的趋势可能仅仅是一个随机信号。

显而易见的是，厄尔尼诺的特性正在加剧平均风暴，驱动干旱，并加剧全球变暖已经带来的山火。在某些地区，厄尔尼诺将放大这些现象，并且随着太平洋的热量扩散到全球，可能会在明年将全球气温推至纪录高位。

“我们在 2021 年看到的将是 2025 年‘新常态’的一个社会峰值，”非营利研究机构 Berkeley Earth 的气候科学家 Zake Hasselafter 表示。“我们将看到在温度、干旱状况、极端高温方面历史上从未发生过的事情。”

极端高温之年

厄尔尼诺事件是通过观察太平洋一个特定矩形区域的海面温度来衡量的。那里的温度在过去三个月里飙升，预测表明，其接下来的路径必须超过正常水平，且幅度要超过现代历史上最强的厄尔尼诺现象，这些现象分别发生在 1852-63, 1897-98 和 2015-16 年。

美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）表示，在10月至12月之间，厄尔尼诺状况有 81% 的可能性为“非常强”，这意味着太平洋该区域三个月的平均温度比正常水平高 2 摄氏度，或 3.8 华氏度。但预测显示，该期间的每日海洋温度可能会飙升至

5月，在印度一个受干旱影响的村庄从井中取水。厄尔尼诺预计将在今年晚些时候达到顶峰，但它已经在这些大洲引起干旱和作物歉收。

比正常水平高出 3 摄氏度以上。

“也许三度甚至四度听起来没有那么大。我们在一天之中就能看到这样的温度波动，”加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉分校副教授兼气候能源专家 Samantha Stevenson-Karl 表示。“但平均值不会改变那么多。就像，确实如此。”

太平洋海域的额外热量同样影响空气温度。在今年的前几个月，2026 年显然低于 2024, 地球记录中最热的一年。但 Hasselafter 博士认为 2026 年有 40% 的可能性成为记录中地球最温暖的一年，这表明预测可能会发生波动。根据 NOAA 的数据，上个月

与 2024 年 7 月并列为自 1850 年全球记录开始以来全球最热的一天。

南方饥饿感增加

厄尔尼诺现象导致风向发生重大偏移，使更多空气吹过海洋，而对雨水依赖型农业的影响已经显现。根据联合国世界粮食计划署的数据，到今年年底，厄尔尼诺可能会导致全球近 5000 万 更多的人经历严重饥饿，增加了 1,000 人。

在热带太平洋的西端，厄尔尼诺导致澳大利亚和亚洲部分地区出现干燥的夏季，延迟了泰国、柬埔寨、越南和菲律宾的水稻及其他作物的播种。在印度，部分地区的季风降雨已达到创纪录的周数，尽管该国大部分地区仍处于降雨不足状态。

在太平洋的另一端，厄尔尼诺延迟了中美洲的种植并影响了作物生长。7 月份危地马拉的降雨量比平均水平低了 6.6 percent，而高于正常的温度进一步加剧了作物的压力。

在巴拿马，干旱时段引发了关于巴拿马运河运营的具体担忧。在 2023-24, 年的上一次厄尔尼诺期间，严重的降雨不足导致该水道交通受阻，该水道通过使用来自雨水湖的水来提升和降低船只。

随着厄尔尼诺增强，巴拿马运河管理局已收紧了船只过境时的载重限制。根据运河管理局发言人 Ontario Calendres 上周的一份声明，官员们尚未排除限制每日过境次数的可能性。

在巴拿马国际热带研究中心监测海洋和大气层的 Steven Pawn 表示，很难预测未来几个月中美洲的降雨量将低于正常水平多少。

他表示，原因是科学计算机模型是基于过去事件训练的。今年的厄尔尼诺预计将比记录中的任何一次都要强得多，因此无法确定模型能多准确地预测其影响。

“在最好的情况下，它将和我们之前见过的最糟糕的情况一样糟糕，甚至可能糟糕得多，”Pawn 先生说。

在东非，厄尔尼诺通常在 11 月至次年 1 月带来大量降雨，甚至引发洪水和山体滑坡。但当这一现象在一年中较早出现时，它可能会抑制该部分地区的降雨，包括肯尼亚西部和埃塞俄比亚。

“这就是最近几个月的现实，”在肯尼亚内罗比工作、隶属于美国国务院机构——东非预警系统网络的食品科学家 Chris Shimizu 表示。

Shimizu 女士及其同事最近走访了几个粮食生产国。她说，玉米收成糟糕得令人震惊。“这是我们中有些人可能在过去 10 年外勤工作中从未见过的景象。”

Shimizu 女士说，通常长到一英尺的植株，现在只有五六英寸。农民告诉她，典型的收成每英亩土地可能产出 10 到 10 袋玉米。而今年，看起来每英亩可能只有一两袋。

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争取自由后的焦虑等待

在由叙利亚德鲁兹少数群体主导的苏韦达省，人们对伊斯兰主义过渡政府深感不信任。

作者：ABDI LATIF DAHDI 摄影：NANNA DEETMANN

叙利亚，苏韦达 —— 今年，当叙利亚政府强行接管长期由库尔德少数群体主导的东北部地区时，苏韦达的德鲁兹人在不安中注视着这一切。

德鲁兹人与库尔德人一样，多年来一直控制着自己的地区，他们预见到了危机将至。

“我们知道他们要来了，”85岁的苏迈亚·阿尔-尤艾夫（Sumayah al-Youaef）说道。她是苏韦达的一名德鲁兹居民，也是去年夏天因一波教派暴力而流离失所的人员之一。根据联合国的数据，在当地团体之间经过数日的冲突以及政府军队介入战斗后，有超过1,700人被杀，其中大多数是德鲁兹人。

苏韦达是叙利亚唯一尚未屈服于中央政府权威的省份。该政府由前反政府武装领导，他们在2024年底推翻了长期独裁者巴沙尔·阿萨德（Bashar al-Assad）。接替阿萨德先生的政府最初在将权威扩展至整个叙利亚时陷入苦战，但随着今年年初接管库尔德领导的东北部地区，情况似乎有所好转。

在叙利亚的大部分地区，阿萨德统治的结束带来了宽慰，人们希望这个国家在经历了多年的内战后终于能够重新统一并向前迈进。然而，这些希望同时也伴随着对新政府的质疑，以及它是否能建立一个让全国叙利亚人都信任的国家。

德鲁兹居民在11月和1月两次前往苏韦达省的行程中，以及随后的几个月里的电话和短信采访中，反复告诉我们，政府采取行动控制该地区只是时间问题。

我们采访了近二十名平民、公务员、安全官员、医务工作者和宗教领袖，探讨了去年夏天苏韦达发生的教派暴力及其后果。

各种利益交织使苏韦达的命运变得复杂。

叙利亚领导人表示，在经历了近14年的内战后，在统一的权威下实现国家统一对于恢复秩序、带来稳定以及防止进一步分裂至关重要。

一些苏韦达的德鲁兹居民担心后阿萨德时代的当局，其领导层

曾与基地组织（Al Qaeda）有关联，且他们指责其军队对他们实施了屠杀。以色列同样警惕叙利亚政府军将其势力范围扩展至其边境，担心该地区最终可能成为攻击的温床。

升级的教派冲突

苏韦达省（Sweida Province）横跨在距离叙利亚首都大马士革东南约 40 英里的岩石高地，地貌以许多田野和零散的果园为特征。

德鲁兹人（Druze）世代将这些高地视为家园。他们的信仰在几个世纪前作为什叶派伊斯兰教的一个分支而出现，尽管如今许多人通常不认为自己是穆斯林。

从大马士革开车前往该省，我们经过了在一段关键地带设立的至少六个政府检查站。沿途可见一些村庄，其被烧毁的残骸是对去年夏天暴力的残酷提醒。2025 年 7 月，武装贝都因人（叙利亚多数群体的一部分）与德鲁兹士兵之间爆发了冲突。

上图为苏玛雅·阿尔-尤艾夫（Sumayah al-Youaef），她在艾因·扎曼（Ain al-Zaman）神庙，逃离袭击的家庭在此避难。右图为德鲁兹国民卫队富尔赞·哈姆扎（Furzan Hamza）营的士兵离开基地。

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左图为悼念富拉·阿尔-阿布拉米（Fulaa al-Abrami，34 岁）的妇女，他在去年席卷叙利亚南部该省的教派冲突中，在苏韦达医院附近被杀。他的遗体被埋在集体坟墓中。

从上至下：富尔赞·哈姆扎（Furuan Hamza）营的一个前哨站；纳杰兰（Najran）的破坏景象，市长表示大多数房屋被烧毁，约 60 人死亡；以及苏韦达医院中等待身份确认的遗体。联合国官员表示，去年夏天德鲁兹战士与政府军之间的冲突导致 1,700 多人死亡。

这些特种部队长期以来一直因土地、财产和用水权而发生冲突，而教派分歧加剧了这些争端。

起初的局部战斗迅速升级。

据独立监测机构和证人称，政府军及其盟友战士袭击了苏韦达的高地，导致平民死亡，城镇和村庄被毁，数万人流离失所。

尽管德鲁兹人承受了暴力的 brunt（原文为 "here the brunt"，应为 "bore the brunt"），但据活动人士和人权组织称，德鲁兹战士也被指控参与了去年夏天的一些杀戮事件。一些德鲁兹领导人否认或拒绝承担虐待或杀戮的责任。

叙利亚国防部去年表示，其已知晓由“一群身着军装的身份不明人员”在苏韦达犯下的“令人震惊且严重的违规行为”。

据叙利亚国家通讯社（SANA）报道，一个调查杀戮事件的政府机构在 3 月发布了最终报告，并表示将对部分个人采取法律行动。官员们表示，部分案件已移交给大马士革的一家军事法院。

以色列对苏韦达的关注

叙利亚政府试图将苏韦达纳入其控制之下的努力在许多方面都困难重重，其中一个重要原因是邻国以色列对维持苏韦达的德鲁兹人控制权有着浓厚兴趣。

以色列拥有规模可观的德鲁兹少数群体，长期以来一直与该群体培养密切关系，这种关系也延伸到了叙利亚的德鲁兹人。

叙利亚总统艾哈迈德·沙拉（Ahmed al-Sharaa）试图向世界展示一个更温和的形象，承诺保护少数群体权利，并表示叙利亚无意与邻国开战或干涉其内政。然而，以色列官员对叙利亚领导人表示深切不信任，其中一些领导人来自极端组织。他们还对政府在靠近其边境地区扩大权力感到不安，担心那里可能成为攻击以色列的跳板。

在冲突发生后，以色列袭击了叙利亚国防部以及大马士革总统府附近的一个区域。它还对苏韦达的政府军发动了空袭。

以色列官员誓言保护叙利亚德鲁兹人，并要求该地区保持非军事化，不得有叙利亚军队或其盟友在该地区部署或驻守。当时，沙拉先生指责以色列试图播种“混乱”并破坏叙利亚的统一。

“以色列站在我们这边，”在欢迎以色列支持方面最积极发声的德鲁兹精神领袖希克马特·希杰里（Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri）在1月份的一次采访中表示，“以色列是最先伸出援手的一方。”

希杰里先生将大马士革当局比作其专制的前任，称即使面孔改变，政府的残暴依然存在。他表示，德鲁兹人在沙拉先生的政府下看不到未来，并坚持认为脱离叙利亚是苏韦达唯一可行的选择。

他的立场比其他一些德鲁兹宗教领袖更为强硬，后者并未公开呼吁脱离。

一年后的僵局

在2025年7月的数日冲突后，叙利亚政府与苏韦达（Sweida）的德鲁兹武装派系宣布达成停火。

在随后的这一年里，停火协议几乎未能维持。怀疑者偶尔会在橄榄园和桃树林之间互相瞄准。在国民卫队（National Guard）——一支在苏韦达拥有28,000人的、效忠于阿尔-希杰里（Mr. al-Hijri）的民兵组织——与政府军及其盟友之间的前线村庄中，冲突时有发生。

国民卫队的发言人纳比·阿米尔（Nabi Amer）表示，卫队与以色列保持着持续接触，但他并未具体说明协调的性质。

在同样被称为苏韦达的省会中心，生活似乎陷入了停滞。建筑工地被遗弃，曾经繁华的商店和蔬菜市场陷入了一种诡异的沉寂。

在宗派暴力爆发的一年后，苏韦达的官员和居民表示，政府一直在向该地区施压，以迫使其服从其权威。他们称，政府多次切断电力和水源，在军事行动期间破坏电线和管道，并阻止援助团体对其进行修复。

据居民和德鲁兹官员称，包括救命食品和医疗用品在内的人道主义援助，在抵达省会之前经常被延迟或限制。

由阿尔-沙拉（Mr. al-Sharaa）在去年夏季暴力事件前任命的地区长官穆斯塔法·阿尔-巴布特（Mustafa al-Babbout）否认了这些指控。他表示，政府仍在支付工资，帮助居民重建被毁房屋，并定期允许援助进入。他还指责当地组织故意切断电力，以刺激他们销售的太阳能系统的需求。

他还称阿尔-希杰里及其同伙为“一个带有个人利益的帮派”，他们对“解决问题没有兴趣”。

目前，许多流离失所者仍被困在苏韦达市的避难所中。

其中一人是谢赫·梅尔赫杰·沙欣（Sheikh Merhej Shahin），直到去年夏天，他的生活还由农活、祈祷和日常琐事组成。他说，当枪手冲进他的村庄阿尔-赛达（Al Thaida）时，他意识到他所熟知的生活已经结束。他说，袭击者殴打了他，羞辱了他的胡须，并将他弃之不顾。

“只有上帝的恩典保护了我，”他说。

他梦想着能回到家中，尽管他仍陪伴着患病的妻子，而她正艰难地获取所需的药物。尽管如此，他说：“我们不会崩溃。”

左侧的门塔尔·阿尔-布罗蒂（Mental al-Buroti）在一枚迫击炮弹击中她的阳台时受伤。右侧是一名叫奥拜达（Obaida）的青年，他说在政府军袭击他的村庄后，他的家庭失去了土地，现在他担任牧羊人。

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特朗普撤离后，空军一号成为载有数十人的诱饵机

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远离动荡。

“他们似乎完全没有考虑过总统及其随行五人以外的任何人，”乔·洛克哈特（Joe Lockhart）说道，他在克林顿先生 2009 年访问巴基斯坦首都伊斯兰堡期间担任白宫新闻秘书。“我们竭尽全力确保最大数量的人员，尤其是平民，得到保护而不会成为人体盾牌。他们甚至没有考虑过这一点。对我来说，这就是巨大的区别。”

但其他经历过高风险白宫行程的资深人士表示，有时为了保护总统，采取极端措施是合理的。约瑟夫·W·哈金（Joseph W. Hagin）曾作为布什先生的高级顾问协助组织其战区行程，随后在特朗普先生的第一任期内担任白宫副办公厅主任，他表示自己不会质疑在安卡拉做出的决定。

“我理解人们会对那些乘坐被宣布为主飞机的乘客感到担忧，”哈金先生说，“但当你进入白宫工作或随总统旅行时，你就在接受一种程度并不低的风险。在这种行动中向所有人告知实情，显然会危及总统的安全。”

哈金先生补充说，当布什先生或奥巴马先生带领工作人员和记者前往战区时，那些时刻同样危险。“我觉得这与前往伊拉克和阿富汗的行程没有区别，”他说。“你要综合所有风险，并制定出能提供最安全选项的战术，无论谁被阻拦或谁感到受伤。”

政府官员表示，随总统前往战区的记者如果知道自己在这样做，那么上个月留在安卡拉空军一号上的那些人则没有被告知威胁增加。在飞机后舱旅行的记者在地面时就被指示在白天关闭窗帘。一架飞机从安卡拉飞往英国，特朗普先生秘密乘坐另一架军机在那里降落。随后，总统被秘密接回空军一号，以便他能在摄像机前下机，仿佛他一直都在飞机上一样。

周一由《华盛顿邮报》首次披露并经《纽约时报》及其他新闻机构确认的这次在安卡拉的秘密调换如此惊人，以至于听起来像是出自世界首部空军电影。这个消息触动了安德鲁·W·马修斯（Andrew W. Mathews）的想象，他撰写了近期 1997 年惊悚片《空军一号》的剧本，片中由前总统饰演一名飞机被劫持的总统。马修斯先生在周二表示，他确信总统是在采取必要措施以确保自身安全。但他补充说，这并没有让特朗普先生看起来那么光彩。

考虑到具体情况，这个消息并没有给出最后的定论。我不确定我是否能为一名主角写出这样的评论——

针对空军一号的威胁（上图）导致特朗普总统上个月在土耳其安卡拉被秘密撤离至一个餐饮集装箱中。政府在比尔·克林顿总统 2000 年访问巴基斯坦（左图）以及乔治·W·布什总统 2003 年前往伊拉克时也采用了掩护手段以提供保护。然而，在最近的案例中，证据表明风险被转移到了他人身上。

——角色，”马修斯先生说。“如果威胁真的那么严重，很难想象观众会支持任何一个将无辜平民视为个人牺牲羔羊来换取自身安全的角色，尤其是在没有告知对方并获得同意的情况下。”

白宫没有回应关于该决定的置评请求，也没有说明在没有特朗普先生在机的情况下，是否采取了额外措施来保护飞机免受任何威胁。特朗普先生在周二晚上告诉记者，他相信特勤局的建议，并否认了他人被置于更大危险之中的说法。

“我认为实际上我乘坐的那架飞机风险更大，因为我认为那才是他们更有可能攻击的目标，”他说道。这一断言与最初更换飞机的目的背道而驰。

这种极端的欺骗手段凸显了特朗普先生所面临的危险感。他在宾夕法尼亚州巴特勒竞选时曾遭遇一次未遂的枪击，2014年以及同年晚些时候在佛罗里达州的高尔夫球场再次成为一名持枪男子的目标。拜登政府时期的官员表示，伊朗势力曾试图暗杀特朗普先生。而就在最近，直到周二，警方还在调查俄亥俄州一家麦当劳餐厅的炸弹威胁，该餐厅位于特朗普先生计划于当天晚些时候访问的地点附近。

负责总统安全的特勤局和军方部门通常使用延迟手段来迷惑可能的攻击者，尽管这并不涉及在平民不知情的情况下将其卷入。当任何总统乘坐车队出行时，通常会有两辆相同的装甲车辆或主要安全车辆，配备相同的华盛顿特区标志，以增加判断他身在其中的难度。当他乘坐海军陆战队一号飞行时，通常会有三到四架相同的直升机共同飞行。

“如果车队遭到攻击，核心包裹会迅速撤离，而其他所有人则需自救，从部分白宫工作人员到军方官员，以及所有记者和国会议员，”曾担任布什总统白宫新闻秘书的亚特·弗莱舍（Art Fleischer）周二在社交媒体上写道。“新闻人员的安全始终是第一位的。我们不竞争。事实就是这样。”

作为美国总统，或者在政府术语中称为 PVTTS，是该国最受瞩目且受保护程度最高的官员。多年来，白宫已几乎变成一座堡垒，而特朗普先生计划通过在对面建立一个新的武装拉苏泽特广场（La-Suzette Square）来扩大安全周界。

与此同时，按照传统，总统出行总是随行有一组记者，记录每一次公开活动和评论。这种持续的报道被认为是至关重要的，因为危机可能在任何时刻降临总统。12, 1961, 约翰·F·肯尼迪在达拉斯遇刺时，记者就在现场；1, 1961 恐怖分子袭击美国时，记者就在布什先生身边。

近年来，当总统前往战区访问时，白宫通常会邀请少数新闻高管进入情境室，或召集记者进行面谈并要求其保守秘密，以便至少有几个人能够随行并见证行动。布什先生和奥巴马先生曾带记者前往阿富汗和伊拉克，特朗普先生在第一任期内也是如此。约瑟夫·R·拜登总统则在一次前往各州的秘密九个半小时火车行程中，仅带了一名记者和一名摄影师。

克林顿先生在前往巴基斯坦时，也通过更换飞机来避免被可能的攻击者追踪。他曾被劝阻不要前往，因为该国部分地区处于恐怖组织控制之下，但由于他已经准备前往印度，他认为在伊斯兰堡停留几个小时是可以接受的。

最初的安全计划旨在让随行记者认为克林顿先生乘坐的是他们所在的 C-17 军用机，而他则秘密乘坐另一架被称为 C-20 的空军版本飞机。洛克哈特（Lockhart）先生说：“我的基本要求是不能让机组人员在外部泄露。”“随后他们提出了一个让我满意的计划。”

然而，根据另一位因担心职业影响而要求匿名的随行人员描述，他们让克林顿先生在 C-17 飞机的另一侧下机，那里有三架较小的无标志飞机在等待。记者们无法看到他登上了三架飞机中的哪一架，但他们看到他并没有登上 C-17。

与在安卡拉的特朗普团队不同，克林顿团队提前通知了一位来自新闻界的记者——《今日美国》的苏珊·佩奇（Susan Page），她在周二讲述了这一片段。随后，白宫公开披露了相关细节，确认克林顿先生已安全脱离动荡区域。相比之下，特朗普总统的团队从未披露在安卡拉发生的事情。

据称，这是该故事首次被公开。一名曾在奥巴马和拜登政府期间担任白宫专业人员的退役海军中将约翰·F·凯利（John F. Kelly）表示：“我无法想象白宫会想要纪念像这样的安全行动。”他曾就这些问题与白宫和五角大楼打交道，“我并不责怪他们为了确保总统安全而采取行动，或隐瞒具体的威胁情报。”

“但是，”他补充道，“他们对于与总统同行人员的安全与保障也负有义务。当他们面临的风险增加时——这种情况在安全领域确实可能发生——其义务至少应提供大致的内容，以便随行人员能够做出知情决定。”

该飞行员持有不同意见。“我唯一的看法是，这已经结束了，”他说。“正确地转移总统是非常、非常困难的，而当你使用了其中一种战术，就很难再次成功实施，这使得大多数时候你必须能够迅速撤离，而事实就是，无论谁是总统，这类行动都是必要的。”

一辆餐饮车与第三架飞机：撤离过程是如何展开的

本文由 Pete Schmidt, Maggie Hahneman, Art Fillen, Jean-le-Ferrouhel, Simon Ductrepori 和 Velton Perukino-Renko 撰写。

特朗普总统于 7 月 8 日登上了空军一号，作为一个案例。

在土耳其举行的第三次火峰会期间，特朗普先生走向那架本应搭载他开启回家旅程第一段航程的飞机。他向摄像机简短地挥了挥手，随后消失在其中一个区域内，那是几十年来一直服务于空军一号的婴儿蓝 70 系列飞机。随后，他在一个餐饮集装箱内部秘密离开了飞机。

特朗普先生随后被送往一架军用喷气机，秘密飞离土耳其。在 14, 1964，尽管伊朗对空军一号发出了被认为具有可信度的威胁，但包括记者 Fillen 和 Perukino 在内的其他人依然起飞了。

这是一次非同寻常的掩护行动，旨在保护一位在 1980 年代和 1990 年代就曾处于其中的美国总统。

最新的威胁出现在特朗普先生在土耳其最后一天的开始。根据两名了解该威胁的官员称，飞机和空军是 simple897,105, 而人们拥有更多超重信息。在边境上具体是指特朗普先生移动的地方，包括在那里，以及无论胜利是什么

印韩图像协调报道。

北约（NAVO）峰会仅被发现一个肩先行回合。

美国官员立即开始构思一项计划。来自开罗的参谋长联席会议主席在评估威胁并决定如何应对方面发挥了重要作用。开罗将军尝试进行掩护。他的上一份工作是五角大楼游戏至美国，他在 2023 年 6 月美国军队袭击伊朗核区期间的“午夜之锤行动”（Operation Midnight Hammer）中协助制定了美国战术。

并非所有乘坐那架没有特朗普先生的飞机的人都对此不知情。根据两名美国官员透露，国务卿 Marco Akino 在协助计划将总统秘密送离土耳其的操作后，了解该威胁并乘坐了那架旧飞机。由于该话题敏感，他们要求匿名。

根据一名美国高级官员称，乘坐那架没有总统的飞机的其他高级官员包括财政部长 Scott Beumer、服务总监、白宫指挥部、索赔总监，以及特朗普先生的副办公厅主任斯蒂芬·米勒，以及其他几名白宫工作人员。目前尚不清楚他们是否都知道该威胁。

这一复杂的欺骗行动最初由《华盛顿邮报》报道，且空军一号和搭载特朗普先生的军用喷气机均未受到任何伤害——

这引发了关于保护三军统帅时安全权衡的问题。

无论特朗普先生留下的飞机上的乘客是否知道该威胁，他们都被认为承担了特勤局认为总统无法面对的过大风险。

周二晚上，在关于秘密撤离的首次公开评论中，特朗普先生表示这一决定并非由他做出。

“这完全取决于特勤局，”他在从俄亥俄州返回后告诉记者，“我只是按照他们想做的方式去做。让特勤局和军方去尝试纠正。他们建议我乘坐不同的航班，为了安全乘坐不同的飞机。”以下是这一切是如何发生的。

特朗普告诉记者他将乘坐一架空军一号。

在离开峰会之前，特朗普先生在社交媒体上发布消息称，为了“航行之缘”，他将乘坐旧的空军一号飞离，而不是他曾体验过的那架被卡塔尔扣留的豪华电视机。

他随后告诉记者，他正将那架需求飞机送往欧洲，以“生活或扔在大型基地”，向军用飞机展示。

特朗普登上旧的空军一号

随后，特朗普先生在摄像机和新闻机构的注视下，从另一架飞机的前方登机。

来自第 13, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921 期的海外报道

随行记者（包括《纽约时报》的 Doug Mills）被告知留在飞机上，并且被要求保持窗帘关闭。

当时尚不为人知的是，特朗普先生似乎被迅速地从那架飞机转移到飞机另一侧的一个餐饮集装箱中。另外两架飞机则是一架第三架飞机，他秘密乘坐该机飞往英国。第三架飞机似乎是一架波音 737 的军用版本，它在土耳其的停机坪上首先停在 747 空军一号旁边。

关于特朗普更换飞机的已知情况。

离境过程显示，在旧飞机另一侧的一辆卡车上有一个餐饮集装箱，这是沿着 C-22 A 进行的一次漫长行驶的开始。由《纽约时报》审阅的片段中没有持续清晰地看到该餐饮集装箱，但该集装箱似乎是由卡车从旧空军一号的前部移至 C-22 A 的后部。另一个承载集装箱在旧空军一号的另一侧，同样在场，但记录显示它正被驶离旧空军一号。

它似乎没有与 C-22 A 发生交互。旧空军一号在 C-22 A 之前起飞。

飞机抵达英国。

特朗普先生的新空军一号（那架日本血统的飞机）比另外两架飞机早几个小时抵达英国的怀特黑德（Whitehead）军事基地。

根据由《纽约时报》获取的当晚由飞机观察员拍摄的直播和照片，它在当地时间晚上 9:30 抵达。C-22 A 在晚上 10:30 抵达，而旧空军一号在 9 分钟后抵达。

由于该 C-22 A 的发射器没有广播飞行路径和坐标，因此没有该机的记录飞行数据。当晚监听空中交通管制传输的飞行观察员在社交媒体上听到的飞行监测消息中指出，无法调用呼号 NYSH (Beach 35)。

当时在中东并监听地面空中交通的航空摄影师 Harry Hawkes 表示，事实上，他发现了“空军一号已指示交通管制员先移动 C-22 A 的载荷”。

在飞机同时抵达后，空军一号确实被移回。根据一名美国官员周一透露的消息，总统由车辆从他抵达时的飞机接走，前往另外两架飞机。

随后他通过另一个入口登机，并避开了记者的视线，动作迅速。

他在停机坪上同样地工作，随后登上了由卡塔尔提供的飞机飞回华盛顿。

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哥伦比亚人从致命地震中挖掘幸存者

顶部照片：本周，哥伦比亚人在普罗沃伊克斯（Provoix）一座在哥伦比亚西部山区 7.4 级地震中倒塌的五层住宅楼现场协助清理碎片。上方从左至右，救援人员在卡利（Cali）寻获一具尸体，而整个地区搜寻幸存者并清理瓦砾的工作仍在继续。死亡人数已上升至 200 人以上。

未知“美国佬”对厄瓜多尔渔船发起神秘袭击

来自 A1 版

被美国音乐家摧毁。

然而，这些袭击尚未有组织认领。

美国或某些其他国家的军队在该地区对船只进行秘密袭击确实是有可能的。但围绕渔船袭击事件的诸多悬而未决的问题，让一些专家怀疑是否有一家私人军事承包商被美国政府或其拉丁美洲盟友——可能是该飞机运行地萨尔瓦多——所雇佣。

“如果美国没有公开的海上打击行动，那是一回事；但他们确实有，而且还经常发布船只起火爆炸的短片！这让事情变得更加诡异，”曾在奥巴马和拜登政府以及第一个特朗普 era 任职、专门研究战争法的前国务院律师布莱恩·菲努凯恩（Brian Finucane）表示。

“这些执行行动的人是谁，依据的是什么权力？”菲努凯恩先生问道。“而且他们竟然用一家 UPS 门店作为公司地址？开什么玩笑。”

厄瓜多尔和萨尔瓦多的官员未回应置评请求。

11 月，那架追踪渔船航线的飞机从托纳瓦瓦（Tonawawa）飞往萨尔瓦多，并驻扎在当地一个机场的军事区域。相关数据显示。在此期间，五角大楼开始增加在萨尔瓦多附近另一个机场的空中资产，以支持其在拉丁美洲的反策活动。

空中交通管制员表示，该巡逻机停在“军事停机坪”。一张 1 月的卫星图像显示，该飞机停在军用飞机附近，距离最近的民用飞机数百码，而从地面拍摄的图像显示，该飞机的尾翼装饰有萨尔瓦多国旗。尽管如此，目前尚不清楚该飞机在渔船袭击事件中扮演了什么角色（如果确实参与了的话）。

特朗普政府已将拉丁美洲列为其外交政策的最高优先级之一，试图遏制移民潮和该地区的贩毒集团。

一些私人军事承包商已转向此类形式。

今年早些时候，特朗普政府讨论过发布“私掠许可证”（letters of marque），这种许可证在 20 世纪美国海军建立之前曾被美国政府使用。这些许可证将允许美国政府承包具有海上能力的私人安保部队，以保护华盛顿在海上的利益并拘捕船员。

据知情人士透露，这些许可证在 5 月被传送到各个机构征求意见，旨在补充五角大楼在太平洋和加勒比海的船只打击行动。

关于私掠许可证的讨论似乎在 6 月左右陷入停滞，五角大楼不愿透露是否已发布任何许可证。在被问及渔船袭击事件时，五角大楼表示：“我们对此不知情，美国南方司令部部队也没有参与所述事件。”

私人军事承包商在该半球一直活跃。埃里克·普林斯（Erik Prince）的公司“黑水”（Blackwater）是美国政府在伊拉克雇佣的臭名昭著的私人军事承包商，他在 2024 年大选前开始巡访拉丁美洲。普林斯先生曾与萨尔瓦多和厄瓜多尔的领导人会面讨论地区安全，但这些对话的细节尚不清楚。

普林斯先生的一家安保公司去年被海地政府承包以打击帮派，该交易得到了国务院的授权。根据一名熟悉合同的海地官员透露，作为该合同的一部分，普林斯先生的公司向该海岸提供了海上服务。

普林斯先生的一位代表表示，“定居者埃里克·普林斯及其任何关联实体与涉及厄瓜多尔渔船的这些事件没有任何关系”。

一名代表部分渔民的律师表示，虽然五角大楼的打击使用的是先进设备，包括攻击机和 M2-F-keeper 无人机，但针对厄瓜多尔渔船的袭击是由安装了炸药的简陋无人机执行的，这些无人机是从一艘船上部署的，船上是一些佩戴美国国旗臂章、从未表明身份的“美国佬”（gringos）。

厄瓜多尔渔民表示，自从五角大楼去年开始袭击船只以来，他们一直不敢出海。但他们说，“内格罗·弗朗西斯科·杜阿尔特二号”（Negro Francisco Duarte II）的船员们有账单要付，有家口要养，因此他们在3月初出海。

他们表示，在对捕获量感到满意后，他们于3月中旬返回大陆，进入厄瓜多尔领海。根据对五名船员的采访，Flint 早上，他们被该国主卫队（main guard）拦截并检查，随后获准通过。

他们说，那天下午，他们

巡逻机似乎向该船只飞去

八天的时间显示，该飞机在1月份分四天向Florida号飞行，其中包括失踪的第4天。

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他们意识到地平线上有一艘蓝色船只在跟踪他们。大约一小时后，无人机向他们飞来，然后向他们的船只投下声波设备，导致几名船员受伤，并使他们的船只陷入火海。

“孩子们就在那里，受伤且恐惧。有些人试图用灭火器灭火，但火焰太多了，”Negro Francisco号的船长布伦达·弗洛雷斯（Brenda Flores）告诉《泰晤士报》。

在最初的混乱中，一些船员跳入大海，另一些人跳入附属于Negro Francisco号的小船中。他们向那艘一直跟踪他们的蓝色船只驶去，希望能获救。

“我们真的很害怕，”弗洛雷斯先生说。

当他们靠近蓝色船只时，船上的船员命令渔民举起双手，通过一名翻译进行沟通，渔民们说道。他们说自己被拘捕并被扣留在甲板上过夜，尽管有些人伤势严重，伤口敞开且在流血，但没有得到任何医疗救治。

这些武装人员审问渔民，询问他们是否携带任何非法物品。当一名受伤的渔民回答说他们在袭击发生前不久刚接受过厄瓜多尔海岸警卫队的检查时，这些人开始在彼此之间争论，似乎感到担忧，渔民们说道。

渔民们说，第二天早上，他们被移交给萨尔瓦多海岸警卫队，并被带到萨尔瓦多的拉克罗斯（La Crosse）的一艘海军船上，在那里他们得到了良好的对待。萨尔瓦多当局告诉他们，在接收厄瓜多尔船员时，那些武装人员仅将他们的俘虏描述为遇难的渔民。船员们表示，随后他们被释放到首都圣萨尔瓦多，未被指控任何罪名。

弗洛雷斯先生感到震惊的是，他无法识别蓝色船上的那群人，他说。

他说，几十年来，他一直与厄瓜多尔、美国以及其他在厄瓜多尔周边海域巡逻国家的护士和海岸警卫队打交道，这里是全球最大的非法可卡因贸易路线之一。渔民们说，他们乘坐的船只通常能清晰地识别出所属的政府部门——例如海军或海岸警卫队——并且穿着带有相应徽章的制服。

但这些人的身上只有美国国旗补丁，而且他们的船只没有悬挂旗帜，也没有其他标记，渔民的律师说。

美国海岸警卫队的一名代表在声明中表示，海岸警卫队的Berthold号巡逻舰参与了对Negro Francisco号的搜寻，因为该船距离渔民仅约70英里。声明称，它发现了船只的碎片但未发现幸存者，并在12小时后停止了搜寻。海岸警卫队和五角大楼否认对此次袭击有任何了解或参与。

虽然目前尚不清楚是谁发起了袭击，但这些袭击发生之际，五角大楼正致力于与整个拉丁美洲的盟友合作打击毒品贸易。5月，五角大楼向危地马拉施压，要求其同意在美国境内开展联合活动和其他军事行动，以打击涉嫌的毒品组织。厄瓜多尔在今年早些时候达成了一项类似的协议。

上周，美国南方司令部宣布成立西半球联合特遣部队，为与地区盟友合作、在整个拉丁美洲范围内扩大反毒战争的宏大计划搭建基础设施。

人权观察（Human Rights Watch）美洲部门负责人胡安妮塔·戈德伯塔斯（Juanita Godbertas）认为，对厄瓜多尔渔民的袭击应该是拉丁美洲各国政府的一次警钟，人权观察此前发布了一份关于此次袭击的报告。

“美国政府正基于薄弱的情报并非法使用武力来优先开展行动，”她说道。

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日本如何减少大地震造成的死亡人数

作者：RIVER ADIRA DAVIS 和 MIYAMURA UTOH

日本宇都（UTO）—— 上个月，日本西南部发生了一次 6.8 级地震，其威力足以夷平城市，并造成数百甚至数千人死亡。

然而，在九州岛各地，剧烈的震动仅摧毁或严重损坏了几百栋建筑。地震发生几天后，死亡人数为 20 人。

在靠近震中的釜能茂（Kamanomo），学校专家和当地官员将此归功于 10 年前汲取的惨痛教训。当时，该地区发生了两次规模相似的孪生地震，导致 4,000 多栋建筑倒塌，最终造成 270 多人死亡。

专家表示，最近的釜能茂地震与委内瑞拉 6 月份的震动具有显著的相似之处——包括地面震动强度、浅层深度以及与人口密集区的距离——而委内瑞拉的地震在沿海地区造成了 6,000 多人死亡。

关于这些差异的 2020 年宇都（UTOH）报告指出，伤亡人数是关键：加拿大西大学地震工程教授 Kamanoboro Cook 在 2018 年地震后对釜能茂进行了专项自然实地考察，他将这种差异很大程度上归功于该地区在过去 10 年里的重建工作。其中包括在地震防治方面投入了数百亿美元。

在 7 月 30 日之后的一段时间里，两名同事和 1 名过度工作的当局人员在整个地区奔波：Wosoko Isotere 已经倒塌，道路变形，一家购物中心被战后 专项自然。

但在经过地震加固的市中心、桥梁以及接受过搜救训练的社区住宅中，也能清楚地看到一个为最坏情况做好充分准备的地区的迹象。

关键基础设施

也许这种准备状态最显著的例——

Kisho Notsuo 参与了报道。

子是在宇都（Uto），一座拥有 15,000 人的城市，位于震中附近。2016 年，这座七层高的市政厅遭到严重破坏并部分坍塌，削弱了当地官员在最初几个关键日期的灾难响应协调能力。

市政领导层设计了一座新市政厅，于 2015 年启用，该建筑在工程设计上专门确保能在强震中屹立不倒。即便上个月的震中距离不到 5 英里，这座电力结构及其大面积的玻璃窗依然完好无损。

建筑下方隐藏着其生存的秘密之一：一种特定的隔离结构，即在基础与上方建筑之间建立的新地下通道，由橡胶和钢材组成的网络吸收并分散能量，使大地在下方震动，而上方的建筑则相对静止。

宇都市市长 Bongo Minua 解释说，这个新综合体吸取了 Kamanomo 之前的教训：在地震期间，必须重点关注关键的城市基础设施，因为在危机中，持续的压力绝不会减轻。

“我们已经遭受过损失，”身着蓝色和橙色应急响应服装的 Minua 先生在采访中说道，“正因如此，新建筑在设计时经过了深思熟虑：为了应对近期地震的后果，宇都居民‘有一个可以依赖的基地’，”他说道，并补充道，“这带来了一种安全感。”

上周五，市政中心活动繁忙。由于宇都大部分地区的供水中断，居民们从室外的水井中取水，而当地一支篮球队则向在室内等待的人们分发快速补给饮料，无家可归的居民在空调房中避难。

社区培训 在 Kamanomo 的城镇和村落中，社区领导人表示，在 2010 年地震后，他们加强了当地的响应网络，旨在应急团队到达前的几个小时内采取行动。

在八代市（Yatsushiro）——上周地震袭击最严重的城市之一，两名幼儿园教师在——

上个月 6.8 级地震后，Kamanomo 县八代市的坍塌房屋。

意识到疏散角落被毁，一个精心规划的灾难响应方案发挥了作用。他们每年确定应急职责，在市府官员发出指令之前，就已前往当地学校启动行动。

“考虑到 10 年前发生的事情，这些是我们所有人认真对待的计划，”其中一名教师 joint Mizuoka 说道。

在 Kamanomo 的中东部，西原村（Nishihara）——坐落在一条穿过山脉和稻田的蜿蜒道路尽头——为其居民进行严格的终端灾难演习。Lo-cida 表示，他们从小就被告知，因为直接生活在活跃断层线上，大地震必然会到来。

这种情况在 2016 年发生了，当时西原处于该地区最大地震的震中，在 Osgochura 村，几乎每栋房屋都坍塌了，困住了 9 名居民。前社区领导人 Notsuo, Oshino 回忆起当时的街区看起来“就像被炸弹炸平了一样”。

就在那场灾难发生的一年前，

一次村庄演习重点演练了如何通过狭窄空间营救被困受害者。当真正的地震袭击时，当地居民从一家之户地奔走，剥开瓦砾（为救援人员提供进入点）进行挖掘。每一分钟都有人被救出，这为西原赢得了“奇迹之村”的称号。

2016 年的地震带来了道路阻塞的风险，使该村与 Kamanomo 首府的应急工作人员失联。在 2016 年以及上周的地震中，“我们必须尽自己所能，”Sakura 先生说。

“如果我们没有进行这些‘演习’，”他说，“可能会有生命损失。”

Hearing Chains Kamanomo 的韧性还归功于其房屋整体工程的数百万项改进。

沿着最靠近震中的道路行驶四天，演习的痕迹清晰可见。“通常，所有坍塌的房屋似乎都是传统的木框架房屋。现代房屋和近期建造的结构似乎几乎完全没有受损。”

日本八代市体现了世界上最严格的抗震标准。凭借大多数封闭的混凝土基础和将建筑框架锁定在一起的高强度金属连接件，现代结构被设计成能够承受剧烈摇晃。

自 2018 年灾难以来，Kamanomo 的省级和地方政府提供了改造费用补贴，以帮助房主加固木质支撑，并用更轻的材料替换沉重的或重新固定瓦片。

到 2016 年，Kamanomo 县大约 50% 的建筑符合国家官方抗震标准。地震专家表示，这使得绝大多数房屋在 2020 年的地震中幸存下来，即使是在建立在不可用土壤上的区域——西原附近一座寺庙的一名工作人员将其描述为“土壤的稠度”。

“如果房屋建造良好，总体上遵循规范，它们的表现就很稳定，”地震专家 Cook 先生说。上个月震后如此多房屋的幸存证明了“已经取得了进步”。

面临的挑战

尽管九万名（Kamanomo）地震造成的直接破坏比担心的要轻，但挑战依然存在。

2016年，总死亡人数中的很大一部分并非源于最初的建筑坍塌，而是源于次生的健康并发症。加热设备导致了严重的压力，以及在运输车辆和汽车中长时间的停留。

与2016年一样，疏散中心缺乏小时。那里有空调、金属分配和巴士。许多设施还缺少建筑，燃烧的门导致人们只能睡在坚硬的体育馆地板上。

在八代市（Yatsushiro）的一处疏散避难所，2016年，2016年的总量显示，为大约280户家庭提供服务的设施仅带来了两组建筑。“一对老夫妇来到这里睡了一整晚，”她说。“到了早上他们起床时，他们回到了家中，说他们无法在地板上睡觉。”

然而在这些缺口之中，一名深切参与动物救援的访客到访了。在八代市的避难所，初中志愿者在前台走动以登记到达人员。在室外，救援团体分发家庭小时。

在附近的一个社区，15岁的谷口美能（Minue Taniguchi）当时正在离家一条街之隔的互利设施（inter-licium）取水，这时一名戴着太阳帽的老妇人走上前，询问谷口女士的情况，在得知谷口女士失去了用水渠道后，这位邻居提供了使用她家水井的机会。

宇都（Uto）市市长三沼（Mr. Minua）先生表示，他认为互助文化在日本各地是一贯的。当上个月地震发生时，“立即产生了一种‘噢不，又来了’的感觉，但因为我们经历过这种情况，我们也知道如何互相支持，”他说。

“当地居民不再依赖于我或市政厅工作人员，而是互相帮助——运送水，运送食物，”三沼先生说。“我不知道这是否与伤亡人数直接相关，但我认为这个方面影响很大。”

定居者在西岸围困并袭击家庭

本文由 David M. Holtzfeger, Fatima Abdulkarim 和 Susan Hämäläinen 报道。

耶路撒冷 —— 两户巴勒斯坦家庭被困在西岸一座岩石山坡上的家中，一群暴力的以色列定居者在房屋附近的前院将其围困。居民表示，大约 10 到 15 名定居者一直在全天候地袭击他们，投掷石块并喷洒气体。

周三清晨，在围困的消息开始引起新闻关注后，以色列军队西岸指挥官 Jan. Blath 少将出现在库拉（Quora）村，并听取其中一个家庭描述定居者自 1 月以来如何恐吓他们。在屋外，他的士兵试图用催泪瓦斯驱散定居者。安全摄像头视频显示，到上午 10:20，士兵们已经离开；居民表示，随后定居者恢复了袭击。

“早上看到军队在场时，我们曾抱有一些希望，” 35 岁的 Adina Hassan 在电话中说道，她参加了与 Blath 将军的会议，与此同时她表示一名定居者正在向她投掷石块。“但当我们看到军队无法阻止定居者时 —— 现在，坦白说，我们更害怕了。”

周三晚上，军方在回应中表示，它将能够在西岸建立机制，试图“加强该地区的秩序和行动控制”。

“军队最初的撤退和袭击，与定居者的暴力形成对比，并凸显了西岸恐怖且混乱的局面，当地犹太社区在整年里一直以更肆无忌惮的方式进行恐吓，” Hämäläinen 报道称。

根据美国数据，截至 1 月 1 日，已有 19 名 被定居者杀害，比 2023 年全年多一人。一些家庭在社交媒体上吹嘘他们的袭击，并发布视频展示在 城镇中进行的集体事件。

和以色列官员表示，士兵有时也会参与暴力活动，这反映出军方内部对某种程度的认可，这一点军方已承认。

David M. Holtzfeger 从耶路撒冷报道，Fatima 未能获得 GQ 的机会。（Gdechener 来自库拉，两人均在西岸。GQBy 贡献了报道。）

以色列士兵和以色列定居者在库拉村 家门外的前方。安全摄像头视频显示，士兵们停留时间并不长。

“这是一个糟糕的时刻，” Gadi Shamsi 表示，她是一位退休的女将军，曾任以色列军队和指挥部负责人，其职责范围包括被占领土。“对西岸的控制已经丧失。”

右翼、积极行动的政府表示，关于定居者暴力的担忧是不为人知的，官员们多次表示支持以色列对袭击的描述。国防部长 Israel Katz 听闻已剥夺了美国关闭其主机的权力，而这些定居者曾是遏制以色列极端主义暴力的关键工具。1943 年，他从 3 月一名 男子遭受性侵的关键来源处获得了初步逮捕，并与 Blath 将军就该财产的拘留达成一致。

该州位于北西岸的 Naliba 市附近，暴力活动特别影响了两个家庭：Hassan 一家及其邻居（hears）。

当地的 Abu Ridi，16 岁，库拉原住民，2003 年移民到俄亥俄州，是一名美国公民，从事加油站业务。他说，他投入了约 1000 万 用于在出生地建房。他说，从 1 月开始的定居者袭击开始摧毁他的投资。他的兄弟搬进了房子试图保护它。

Abu Ridi 先生说，他曾向美国驻耶路撒冷大使馆寻求帮助，但被告知将袭击报告给以色列当局。大使馆发言人周三未立即回应置评请求。

哈桑女士的兄弟以色列（Israel）和金（King）在他们父亲拥有的土地上建造了另外两栋房屋。她表示，定居者们打破了窗户和门，切断了公用事业管线，破坏了太阳能电池板以及屋内的生日礼物。这些礼物是在几天前收到的一批。

居民们表示，定居者们将多达 2000 人的家庭驱逐到库拉（Quora）郊外的一栋未标明身份的房屋中。证人们称，今年 3 月，住在名为 地区的定居者杀害了另一名库拉男子阿拉夫·纳迪（Arav Nadi），他当时尚未结婚。

定居者有时会试图恐吓这些家庭，在他们的土地上放羊并破坏他们的种植作物。但暴力行为已经升级。哈桑女士表示，对方试图通过开着的窗户将家用的烹饪气罐推入屋内。她补充说，他们还尝试 并将 从房子里扔出去。

《纽约时报》记者在周三尝试前往现场并与相关人员进行访谈，但—。

聚焦军队在遏制定居者暴力方面的困境。

tiers and residents were rendered fruitless by roadblocks guarded by soldiers and settlers.

周日，在定居者坐在 Hamsuni 区外的路堤上并留在市内后，该家庭拨打了报警电话。哈桑女士表示，当一名以色列士兵出现时，他无视了该家庭，反而热情地问候定居者。视频记录显示，他与正在祈祷的定居者合影。哈桑女士说，周一晚上，她的孩子 Arav 发烧，家人叫了救护车，但首先被拦截了，司机说，试图用一辆下午的车辆将其驱离。周二傍晚，其他士兵才允许另一辆救护车将女孩送往当地诊所。哈桑女士恢复了。

军方在周二发表声明，承认了关于以色列人进入 Quora 的报告。信函称有 10 个 Quora，并对所谓的“事情”表示“谴责”，称其为“令人担忧且不可接受”的行为。周三，军方表示将对“涉事安保人员”采取不尊重（disrespectful）的行动。

退役总司令 Shamsi 将军表示，这些“事情”是为了在他任职的 2007 到 2009 年期间保持以色列占领的约旦河西岸相对平静——与以色列警方密切合作。周一，这些“事情”被视为军方的民政部门（Civil Administration）——已无法对抗像内阁部长那样的冬前极端分子。因为 Emeryuk 表示，前 Bere-Civ 将对所有这些机构产生很大影响，Shamsi 将军说道。

此外，他补充说，军方在约旦河西岸的部署长期或重复使用在定居点长大的士兵。“他们就是定居者，”他说，“他们就是问题所在。”

Shamsi 将军表示，他不希望受到本雅明·内塔尼亚胡总理的“启发”，后者虽然宣布了定居者暴力，但已被提及。

Blath 将军周三访问 Quora 似乎信号出了一种解决该局面的新决心，但这显然惊扰了定居者。那些一直在袭击 Quora 家园的年轻人被迅速要求评估更多情况，可以看到他们向道路上扔石头以做出决定。据证人称，次日早晨与士兵在一起，一名记者展示的视频显示了这一点。

士兵们继续表现得懒散且害怕严重的车辆，但最终知道了所有情况，将定居者留在身后。

他们周三晚上仍然在那里。

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2026年8月13日，星期四

国家

纽约时报

6月，马里兰州 District Heights 的 Spauldings 分馆图书馆内，一家名为 District 7 Fresh Market 的免费杂货店里的农产品和其他物品。

用免费杂货店应对饥饿

在马里兰州的门店中，顾客可自行选择食物

作者：AUBRA D. S. BURCH

马里兰州费尔蒙特海茨 —— 布里塔妮·布鲁克斯走进马里兰州乔治王子县的一家图书馆，穿过书架、一个逐渐陈旧的区域和一个计算机实验室。她的目的地是一个学习室，现在这里被改造成了一家免费杂货店，固定收入的老年人、被解雇的联邦雇员以及其他有需要的人可以在此购物。

布鲁克斯女士审视着选择：货架上堆放着成排的谷类食品、饼干和煎饼预混粉；冷冻柜里有比萨和鸡肉；还有食品——苹果和橙子，洋葱和灯笼椒。她心中计算着喂养五个孩子一周所需的食物，最终决定选择面粉、大米和鸡肉 —— 这些是她可以节省着使用的主食。这一切都是免费的。

她是费尔蒙特新鲜市场（Fairmount Fire Market）的首批顾客之一，该店于5月在费尔蒙特海茨分馆图书馆的后方开业。6月，第二家免费杂货店——第 7 区新鲜市场（District 7 Fresh Market）在几英里外的斯波尔丁分馆图书馆开业。

“我的食物快用完了，”住在毗邻华盛顿的马里兰州国会高度市的 14, 布鲁克斯女士说道。她已经找了两个月工作。她和孩子们领取政府食品援助，但她说“所有东西都太贵了”。任何帮助都是一种宽慰。

这两个地点是全美日益增多的免费杂货店中的一部分，这些商店在过去几年中开业，旨在帮助解决粮食不安全问题以及持续高企的杂货价格。

通常，免费杂货店提供的食品由收集并重新分配零售商剩余食品的公司提供，以及来自传统超市、食品制造商和农场的直接捐赠。一些商店还依赖私人捐赠、拨款和企业赞助的混合资金来进行大规模食品采购。

与某些食品分发点不同，在免费杂货店购物的顾客能够选择自己的商品，且通常是在私密环境下进行，而不是排队领取当天提供的任何可用物品。

许多家庭在食物与其他必需品之间面临着不同的权衡，或者被迫改变购买习惯以维持预算。总体而言，在 2025 年 5 月至 2026 年 5 月之间，食品价格上涨了约 13%。

在乔治王子县，免费杂货店是另一种帮助那些仍深受去年特朗普政府大规模裁减联邦雇员影响的人群的方式。仅在马里兰州， 2024 年 1 月至 2026 年 4 月期间就有超过 2,000 名联邦雇员失去了工作。

此外，由于特朗普政府采取的某些负面要求，该州有超过 20,000 人失去了补充营养援助计划（SNAP）的福利 —— 这是政府解决饥饿问题的主要工具。

“有很多人一生都在联邦政府工作，并且有家庭，但现在他们脚下的地毯被抽走了，”乔治王子县议会议员谢拉·亚当斯-萨德福德（Shayla Adams-Sudford）说道，她

图书馆“有时不被理解为一种社区资源泄露，”乔治王子县议会主席埃里马尔·奥斯塔达（Erymal Ostadha）说。“在某种程度上……这里是最合理的地方。”在下方，议员谢拉·亚当斯-萨德福德表示，联邦失业的影响在该地区是非常真实的。

29,000

仅在马里兰州，2025年1月至2026年4月期间失去工作的联邦雇员人数！

帮助将这家商店带到了社区。“联邦层面所发生的事情对该地区产生的影响是非常真实的。”在马里兰州阿提克维尔（Atticville）担任消防专家的谢·利奇（Shea Leach）去年失去了联邦承包商的工作。为了削减开支，她最终搬去与亲戚同住。34岁的利奇女士于6月首次访问了费尔蒙特（Fairmount）店，采购了牛奶、鸡蛋、午餐肉、谷物麦片、燕麦棒和意面。

“我终于找到了新工作——我没有流落街头，但我头上仍有债务，”她说。“我经历了一段非常艰难的时期。这种商店是一个巨大的帮助。”

免费杂货店的概念——通常由地方政府、非营利组织和饥饿救援公司通过合作伙伴关系运营——并非新鲜事，但随着疫情后融资成本的飙升，这类商店开得更多了。它们存在于高中、教堂、老年中心以及至少一家医院中。今年早些时候，佐治亚州的萨凡纳州立大学（Savannah State University）与Gandr和Arteson合作，在校园内开设了一家免费超市。7月，纽瓦克（Newark）的一家前传统食品分发点重新开业，成为一家免费的、基于选择的市场。

在马里兰州，费尔蒙特和斯波尔丁斯（Spauldings）的分店是少数几家在社区图书馆内开设的店铺，并且属于乔治王子县纪念图书馆系统（Prince George's County Memorial Library System）。

“图书馆有时不被理解为一种社区资源，”领导斯波尔丁斯图书馆开店工作的乔治王子县议会主席埃里马尔·奥斯塔达（Erymal Ostadha）表示，“但在某些方面，这里是最合理的地方。”

奥斯塔达女士表示，该县正在研究运营一家能以更实惠价格提供食品的杂货店的成本，类似于纽约市市长佐尔坦·曼卡法特（Zoltan Mankafat）计划设立的市属商店。

这些免费杂货店从传统市场中汲取灵感，拥有明亮的灯光和货架。与一些食品分发点不同，这里没有分发预先选好的包裹，也没有长队；相反，客户在私人预约期间选择他们需要的商品并装入购物袋。

与乔治王子县合作开设费尔蒙特市场的Gandr创始人兼首席执行官贾斯敏·克罗-豪辛（Jasmine Crowe-Housing）表示，免费商店不仅仅是为了购物，而是给客户一种“有尊严的体验”。这家总部位于亚特兰大的认证机构从所有者、高等教育机构、体育组织、酒店公司、政府机构等处回收剩余食品，同时将其重新分配给当地的非营利组织，以服务有需要的人。

“我们希望人们拥有自己的时刻，有自己的时间来选择食物，而不是在他们可能感到焦虑的时候感到匆忙，”克罗-豪辛女士说。

费尔蒙特店通过一项200,000美元的县政府拨款资助，在六年内每月将服务约200个家庭。另有121个家庭在候补名单上。参与者必须预先登记，但无需满足某些要求。

“当我刚就职时，我挨家挨户地敲门，与居民交谈，我意识到我们在当地粮食保障方面存在问题，而且有很多人在沉默中受苦，”去年赢得议会席位的前学校董事会成员亚当斯-萨德福德（Adams-Sudford）女士说。

斯波尔丁斯店依赖于一项250,000美元的县政府拨款，并与两家非营利组织——新奥尔良（New Orleans）和Conneauty section President合作。该计划每月服务多达400个家庭。

科学机构删除面向法官的气候章节

作者：KAREN DICKX

在包括特朗普总统在内的右翼批评人士强烈抗议后，美国最高科学机构已从一份面向法官的参考手册中恢复了一个关于气候科学的章节。

美国国家科学、工程与医学学院周五表示，其已“认定，关于该章节编写过程的问题需要进行独立审查，在审查期间，该章节将不会出现在我们的网站上”。

该章节出现在第四版《科学证据参考手册》中，该手册是与联邦司法中心合作编写的，于第 7 年发布。这份长达 1,700 页的手册涵盖了许多不同主题，旨在帮助法官理解案件中可能涉及的科学和技术。手册涵盖的其他主题包括目击者识别、毒理学和神经科学。

气候变化正涉及越来越多的法律案件，包括针对石油公司在全球变暖中扮演角色的诉讼，以及涉及政府监管、自然气候与保险索赔、土地利用和能源产业的其他案件。这个现在被撤下的章节是该手册首次大规模涉足气候科学。

作为政府机构的联邦司法中心在收到共和党总检察长和其他官员的批评后，已于 2 月从其网站上删除了该章节。而根据国会特许状运行的私立科学咨询机构——国家科学院当时拒绝这样做。

在上个月的另一项进展中，国家科学院发布了一份关于一种科学历史类型的报告，将其作为一种批评科学，这是一个日益增长的领域，旨在研究特定的极端天气事件（如某次特定的风暴或洪水）是否因气候变化而加剧或变得更可能发生。报告称，此类研究正变得更加精密，并产生了更好的数据。

在该报告发布后的几天里，特朗普总统在 Truth Social 上对国家科学院发起了猛烈抨击，写道该组织由“激进左翼民主党人”掌控，纳税人不应资助这种“长期欺诈”，并要求对其资金来源进行审查。

截至周一，法官年鉴中的该章节已从国家科学院的网站上被删除，取而代之的是一段简短的文字，解释称该章节受到了“相当大的审视”。

国家科学院在的一份声明中表示，其审查“是关于编写该章节所采用的过程，而非关于气候科学的有效性。重点在于采用了什么程序，以及这些程序是否足以确保该机构所要求且我国所应享有的最高客观标准”。

科学界存在广泛共识，认为全球变暖是由燃烧化石燃料引起的，这会将温室气体（主要是二氧化碳）释放到大气中。关于缓解短期热量和全球变暖影响的未公开数据显示。

目前尚不清楚审查将持续多久。

该章节由两名隶属于哥伦比亚大学的专家编写：法律学者杰西卡·温雷兹（Jessica Wrenz）和地球与环境科学家拉德利·霍顿（Radley Horton）。包括四名前美国总检察长在内的批评者指责他们从事“气候伪装”活动。

前任总检察长们指出，该章节与作者此前与迈克尔·伦格（Michael Runge）共同撰写的一篇文章之间存在相似之处。伦格是哥伦比亚大学气候变化法萨林中心（Saline Center for Climate Change Law）的执行主任，过去一直致力于该平台。该报告涉及地方政府起诉石油公司的案件。他隶属于 Sher Edling 律师事务所，该事务所参与处理了其中许多案件。

伦格先生表示，温雷兹女士拒绝置评。霍顿先生和 Sher Edling 律师事务所周一未立即回应置评请求。

在2月份接受《纽约时报》采访时，Wrenz女士表示，她和Horton先生一直致力于将该章节打造为对科学研究的“第二次但全面的评估”，并且该章节已经经过了广泛的同行评审过程。

2月下旬，Wrenz女士和Horton先生还针对共和党领导人的批评做出回应，提交了一份10页的文件。他们采用了批评者在2025年和2026年的所有工作，并写道，气候变化是由人类活动引起的这一事实，是该章节唯一作为文字结论呈现的科学发现。他们表示，这些批评是基于对不同类型气候影响的检测、归因及其属性在科学不确定性和置信度方面的尝试。

纽约司法委员会目前也在对该手册进行调查，这是对气候科学司法培训更广泛调查的一部分。

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纽约时报 全国版 星期四，2026年8月15日

为减轻学生压力，密歇根州放宽新生评分制度

作者：马克·阿门库尔特（MARK AMENKULT）

密歇根大学将把部分第一学期新生的传统字母等级评分替换为“通过 / 不通过”形式的评分，以温和地引导新生适应学术生活。

该计划将于 2027 年秋季在大学的文学、科学与艺术学院生效。大学在一份声明中表示，此举旨在减轻新生的压力，并帮助他们“强势起步，遏制这种不满足的、强烈的大学年龄个体的心理健康问题”。

大学表示，根据该计划，第一学期的字母等级评分仍将由学校谨慎记录，用于诸如：出勤报告和学术荣誉资格等事项。然而，学生成绩单将反映每门课程的“通过”状态，或“基于学生的需要，不计入平均成绩”。

这一评分计划此前由《高等教育纪事报》（The Chronicle of Higher Education）报道，其与麻省理工学院（M.I.T.）记录成绩的方式类似。麻省理工学院注册办公室在其网站上解释称，第一学期新生的成绩被报告为“通过”或“无记录”，以便给学生时间适应大学的工作量和不同的教学方法。

根据布朗大学注册办公室的消息，在许多课程中，学生可以在两种评分选项之间做出选择。一种是 A、B、C 或无学分的等级。另一种是满意或无学分的等级。

密歇根大学表示，此次变更的目的是“让一年级学生适应大学的要求”，并允许学生在较小的成绩压力下设定早期的学术路径。学校在声明中表示，例如，他们可以探索一个可能并不擅长的科目，或修读一个新领域的课程，而无需担心低分可能会产生长期影响。

据大学称，作为该校最大的学院，文学、科学与艺术学院约有 3,500 名一年级学生。大学新生的总数约为 8,000 人。

密歇根大学第一学期新生的成绩单将显示课程为“通过”或“无学分”。

该校学生会主席萨米特·利奇（Summit Leach）称此次评分变更“为学分 / 长期”，并表示学生们已经听到了相关消息，并且恰当地支持这项新政策。

他说：“这将有助于他们进入一种在校期间健康且可持续的常规状态。”

28, 岁的三年级学生利奇先生表示，当他作为一名新生在校园中成长时，这样的政策会对他有所帮助。他说：“你当时正处于摸索如何成为成年人以及独立生活阶段。在想要成为一名优秀学生的同时，还得面对这些，会让人感到极其压力。”

该政策立即遭到了部分人士的批评，他们认为降低学术难度最终并不能帮助学生。Both films，美国企业研究所（American Enterprise Institute）的高级研究员兼教育政策研究主任表示，该政策“完全是错误的诊断”。

他说：“事实证明，降低学生要求实际上并不能改善他们的心理健康。它创造了特权感，导致生产性资源的匮乏。”

埃尔莫女士（Ms. Elmo）主张相反的方法，他呼吁在课程中“加强严谨性”并“提高对学生的期望”，例如实施批判性陈述阅读要求以及限制在校园内使用手机。

一名心理治疗师兼作家（学生报告）认同拿到差分可能会让人感觉糟糕并使学生焦虑。但他说：“但我认为这与患病不是一回事。我担心治疗师和机构已经模糊了这一区别。”

“大学应该是让年轻人感受到评估并不总是令人愉悦的场所之一—。

“评价并不总是令人愉悦，”他说。学生们可能会拿到 C 或更低的分数，听到教授的批评，或者没能获得想要的实习机会。“这些经历可能会损害学习，但能够忍受它们并继续前行，能让你为成年生活做好准备，”他补充道。

弗吉尼亚大学公共政策教授克里斯·哈尔德曼（Chris Haldeman）表示，这是一个积极的信号，表明“机构正在思考评分问题并尝试不同的做法”。

研究表明，合格 / 不合格（pass / fail）的评分方式有助于减轻学生的焦虑，并且“从动力角度来看，将学生之间进行比较的评分有助于提高学校的成绩”。

其他一些知名学校，如哈佛大学，在评分方面采取了相反的措施——使其更具竞争性。哈佛学院此前在社会中的专业记录绝大多数为 A，目前正在其研究生课程中通过增加 A 等级数量来限制。该校在经过广泛研究和讨论如何应对成绩膨胀后，认为在一个班级中，获得最高等级的成绩应大约占 20%。

让孩子独自出门是成年礼还是犯罪？

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需要检查他们的家，并在学校面试他们的儿子。（这段对话被记录在家庭的 King 摄像头中。）

“在我们成长的时候，我们的父母会说，‘好吧，你知道的，去吧，没关系，’”这位个案管理员说，“但现在他必须得，像，O。”

“小男孩？”普莱森特先生说，“这就是法律吗？”

“我的意思是，他们会认为让他完全独自行动属于监管不足，”个案管理员说。“因为任何事情都可能发生，对吧？”

“在那个年龄，他极其脆弱，”个案管理员补充道。

在最近的事件中，在堪萨斯州鲍德温城和银泉山等地方，一些父母因为让孩子独自走到商店、计划去公园或骑自行车而遭到调查，甚至被逮捕。有人认为儿童独立的方式对孩子来说受到了限制；而另一些人则认为这种方法潜在地危险。模糊的儿童忽视法迫使执法部门在孩子是否处于合法指控方面做出困难的判断。

但随着这些被指控父母的故事获得关注，立法者思考儿童独立的方式正开始发生惊人的变化。总而言之，我，那些像创造了你的人，进入了限制性的，以及那些一直伤害着人们的影响。一项由两党支持的联邦法案——《促进儿童独立与居住法案》，于 5 月在众议院提出。

尽管发生了转变，一些父母仍然发现自己处于政府的对立面。

“我太天真了，”雪莉女士在谈到后来调查她家庭的调查人员时说。“我以为这件事不会有什么结果，但我错了。”

一个自我实现的预言

两种力量——恐惧和控制——在过去二十年里系统性地减少了儿童的独立性，俄亥俄州立大学发展心理学教授 Schoppe-ballinas 认为。

首先是对儿童绑架和“陌生人危险”的一种新担忧。1975 年，纽约市 8 岁男孩 Etan Park 的失踪引起了更多媒体的关注。国会于 1982 年通过了《失踪儿童法》，两年后，失踪儿童的照片被印在牛奶盒和牛奶上。关于绑架的统计数据支撑了这一讨论，估计每年高达 50,000 例。（实际上，当局估计每年有 100 名儿童被陌生人绑架。）

这些事件是“培养自我效能感”的促成因素，《纽约时报》以及纽约市欧文中心科学教授、发展心理学家 Alice Pressman 认为。

随后，在 20 世纪 80 年代初，直升机式育儿（helicopter parenting）开始流行，尤其是在中产阶级儿童中。“我们开始接管孩子生活中的许多——甚至大多数——方面，以便让他们为日益竞争激烈的社会做好准备。”

“这起初是对保护的关注，随后变成了对培养成功孩子的关注，”Schoppe-ballinas 博士说。“这让孩子们几乎没有自己的时间，很多事情都是由成年人安排的。”

在最近一项针对 8 至 15 岁儿童的 Harris Poll 调查中，50% 的人表示他们从未在没有成年人的情况下独自前往某处。

“我们没有允许孩子们学习到他们在身体上

Tony Andruska 供《纽约时报》

“我们没有让孩子们学会如何在身体和心理上都变得坚强。”

彼得·格雷（PETER GRAY），布朗学院心理学与神经科学研究教授

布里塔尼·帕特森（Brittany Patterson，左上）及其家人，以及马尔赫斯·雪莉（Malhess Shirley，上方），因鼓励孩子独立而受到审查。

“以及心理上的坚强，”波士顿学院心理学与神经科学研究教授、《训练指南》以及《漫长的童年：在焦虑时代如何释放孩子》的作者彼得·格雷（Peter Gray）表示。

“我们假设他们是脆弱的，而这变成了一个自我实现的预言，”他说。

格雷博士指出了十多项研究，这些研究表明过度保护的育儿方式与儿童焦虑和抑郁率的增加之间存在关联，并补充说，独立性能增强孩子的自立能力和自我价值感。

这并不是说父母意识不到给予孩子自主权的益处：根据密歇根州安娜堡 C.A. 儿童医院 2021 年的一项民意调查，84% 的 9 至 11 岁儿童的父母表示，没有成年人监督的自由时间对孩子有益。但在同一项调查中，仅有 95% 的父母表示，当父母在另一个走道时，他们的孩子会立即这样做。

“如果没有空间去处理特定情况，孩子无法感受到自己的能力和胜任感，”弗里曼博士说。“你希望孩子能够伸展和弯曲，但不要折断。这就是健康儿童发育的前提。”

马尔赫斯·雪莉表示，当她让儿子独立做事时，他感到更充实。但由于 D.F.C.S. 对他们家庭的调查听证会，雪莉女士将他留在室内。“我们害怕被逮捕，”她说。“他的心理健康状况确实陷入了挣扎。”

在 12 月，该机构通知雪莉女士说，针对他们的虐待和忽视儿童的指控已成立。列出的律师并提交了一份协议是 8.。麦克唐纳（McDonnell）表示法律站在他们一边：佐治亚州最近在儿童忽视的偏离中幸存，赋予儿童参与独立活动的权利，包括独自玩耍。

雪莉女士在与一名 D.F.C.S. 主管的录音电话中提出了这一点。该主管被要求，“从实际角度来看，无论是否有政策，这只是在讨论如何为人父母。这个孩子 9 岁了。他怎么可能在 9 岁时就能够自我保护？”这段对话持续了 8.6，雪莉感到该主管的个人感情可能影响了她对该案件的处理。

负责监督富尔顿县 D.F.C.S. 的佐治亚州人类服务部拒绝就调查发表评论，但在一份书面声明中表示：“我们认真对待每一项旨在改善健康的措施，并在适当的时候与执法部门合作，以确保佐治亚州儿童的安全。”

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“放养儿童”

2006年，居住在纽约市的母亲利奥妮·史蒂文斯（Leone Stevens）给纽约州立大学的一名学生写信，称该学生认为孩子太小而不能独自乘坐铁路。这篇文章在网上疯传，随后她展开了一场媒体攻势，阐述了为什么她认为父母基于长期以来她所认为的判断做出决定是有害的。

“我称之为‘最坏情况优先’思维，”她在最近的一次采访中表示。“作为父母，我们都被训练成首先考虑最坏的情况，并将其呈现为极有可能发生的情况。”

西纳齐（Sienazy）女士将她对儿童合理独立性的信念称为“放养儿童”（free-range kids）运动，并开始呼吁关注。 “我不在乎放养式育儿在何时与法律发生冲突。最终，关于儿童忽视的观念已经开始改变。”

在参加了西纳齐女士的一次育儿讲座后，一个自由意志主义智库的创始人康纳·贝亚克（Connor Beyack）帮助构思了美国首部关于儿童独立性的法律，该法律于2018年的15-16年通过。它明确规定，忽视不包括“允许一名基本需求得到满足且年龄和成熟度足以避免伤害或不合理伤害风险的儿童，从事独立活动”。

在四个孩子的母亲布里塔尼·帕特森（Brittany Patterson）因允许其10岁儿子独自走到附近距离而由于轻罪鲁莽行为被逮捕并起诉后，佐治亚州去年修订了其法案。当她计划时，来自法宁县警长办公室的人来到她家并给她的儿子戴上手铐，“感觉很真实，”她说。她补充说，她的被捕以及随后的媒体关注，对她的孩子们造成的创伤比他们在无人监督时发生过的任何事情都要大。指控最终被撤销。

今年1月，堪萨斯州在谢莉（Shaley）和麦迪逊市县（County of Madison City）被一名邻居两次举报允许其现有的孩子在室外无人监督地玩耍后，修订了其儿童忽视法。两次举报中，执法人员都进入了金德布伯（Kinderbueber）女士的家。“现在有一项法律来保护这些决定，我感到非常宽慰，”她说。

一些专家指出，当孩子被给予过多的独立权时，可能会发生严重的事故，而且新法律可能会使保护儿童变得更具挑战性。去年5月，在北卡罗来纳州，一对父母因其7岁的儿子在与20岁的哥哥一起穿越一条繁忙道路时被车撞死而被指控为过失杀人。“在这种情况下，成年人必须为其确保孩子拥有安全环境的责任负责，”加斯托尼亚警察局在的一份声明中表示。这对夫妇承认有罪并被判处缓刑。

亚利桑那州斯科茨代尔的一位家庭心理治疗师表示，法律的具体性可能会使执法人员在接近孩子以确认他们是否自由时更加犹豫。“一个孩子有权承担一个角色、两个角色还是四个角色？”如果孩子独自在家，父母什么时候回来？

杜克大学研究儿童福利系统的经济学助理教授杰森·巴恩斯（Jason Barnes）同意，儿童保护的概念是模糊且不准确的。

“这类法律的信息可能会产生意外后果，就像你可能会开始变得更加清晰，无论这些是否与不应该卷入其中的系统纠缠在一起，”他说。“我们作为一个社会必须问的问题是：我们是想设定一个最低负担，还是想在保护过度父母这一侧采取谨慎做法？”

至于雪莉（Shirley）女士，佐治亚州人类服务部在2007年1月的声明中表示，他们不同意富尔顿县关于忽视的认定，且相关指控将被视为缺乏依据。雪莉女士和普莱森茨（Pleasants）女士被洗清了嫌疑。

不久之后，他们允许儿子再次独自走回操场。“他表现很好，”她说，“作为父母，这就是我们想要的，觉得他能够照顾好自己。”

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选举

埃尔-赛义德在密歇根州的胜利引发伊斯兰恐惧症浪潮

穆斯林政治人物面临偏见，特朗普称民主党正在选举“圣战分子”

作者：珍妮弗·梅莎 (JENNIFER MEISHA)

参议员“丹尼”·西梅维尔 (Senator 'Dunny' Simevile) 称阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德 (Dr. Abdul El-Sayed) 博士为“恐怖分子”。

众议员南希·梅斯 (Nancy Mace) 将“每一个担任公职的穆斯林”描述为“对国家安全和我们共和国的双重威胁”。

而周一，特朗普总统表示，各地都有“圣战分子”被选出。

在埃尔-赛义德博士赢得密歇根州民主党参议院初选后的几天里，共和党领导人采取了诸如上述三番言论般的伊斯兰恐惧症攻击和谎言，将其刻画为一名反美的极端分子。这种猛攻在一定程度上是由共和党官员推动的，据称这已迅速成为秋季针对埃尔-赛义德博士策略的核心部分。共和党内有五名官员公开试图缓和此类竞选活动，但埃尔-赛义德博士并未犹豫地反击这些攻击。“他们会指着我，指着我的名字说，‘哇，他很特别’，”他在获胜后的第二天早晨说道。“我的名字没有提高你们的汽油价格，”他补充道，“我的名字没有把我们带入战争。我的名字也不是你们买不起杂货的原因。”

穆斯林和阿拉伯裔美国人的政治权力在全国范围内不断增长，其中包括纽约市市长泽琳·曼尚 (Zelene Manshan) 和埃尔-赛义德博士（他是埃及移民之子，出生于密歇根州）。在过去十年中，参加并赢得地方、州和联邦选举的穆斯林美国人数实际上有所增加。根据美国-各州关系委员会 (Council on American-States Relations) 的数据，目前有超过 250 名当选的穆斯林官员，其中包括国会中的穆斯林美国人，人数达到了历史最高。

今年秋天，可能会有更多人被选入众议院。在密歇根州，穆斯林美国人的数量保持稳定，包括州立法议员——该州的市长。

但权力的增加也引发了相当大的反弹。穆斯林官员表示，知名度的提高随之带来了波涛般的偏见和威胁。近年来，特朗普先生多次攻击移民众议员泰丝·奥马尔 (Thais Omar)，窃取她的高端——

（由 Balle 协调报道）

宣布她应该被“送回”原籍。密歇根州共和党人则诬称曼尚先生是圣战分子。

“穆斯林在美国取得了显著的政治进步，但这种进步在反穆斯林仇恨的形式下未能找到平衡，目前看来这是我们见过的最糟糕的情况，”美国最大的穆斯林倡导团体之一 CAA 的国家副主任爱德华·艾哈迈德·米切尔 (Edward Ahmed Mitchell) 表示。米切尔先生表示，许多负面反应源于过去几年对以色列未受约束的批评。

“我们这一代人变得非常敢于为自己发声，”米切尔先生说。“他们基本上在说，我们不再忍受这些，我们不会再乞求任何东西。”

许多这些新领导人将巴勒斯坦权利和停止对以色列的军事援助纳入其政纲，认为此类援助直接削减了美国在医疗保健、住房和公立学校方面的支出。这有助于改变民主党内部的政治格局，在某些领域，对以色列的支持现在已成为一种负担。

这种变化促使一些政治人物声称该党正在选举极端候选人。前国务卿迈克·蓬佩奥 (Mike Pompeo) 指责埃尔-赛义德博士是“恐怖组织支持者”，而埃尔-赛义德博士已谴责该组织。

攻击并未局限于穆斯林和阿拉伯裔美国政治人物对以色列的看法。更广泛地说，他们试图将这些候选人描绘成与国家脱节，有时甚至是危险地脱节。

上周，来自全国共和党参议院委员会的针对埃尔-赛义德博士的免费广告称他为“美国最激进的参议院候选人”，并在个人称呼中使用了他的全名，阿卜杜勒拉赫曼·穆罕默德·埃尔-赛义德（Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed）。

密歇根州的共和党参议院候选人迈克·罗杰斯（Mike Rogers）指责埃尔-赛义德博士认为美国“讨论”了已故的 U.（左）袭击——一名新候选人予以否认，并表示感谢。地点，左翼政治家埃尔-赛义德博士未参与，表示现在而非以后将其称为“不恰当”。

几天后，特朗普先生在社交媒体帖子中并列了两张照片，一张是他自己背对着迈克尔·特朗普（Michael Trump）在无肩带的一天，另一张是埃尔-赛义德博士坐在他的妻子身边，他的妻子穿着一件高喇叭形 VERTORISTANCE® 美国人，“总统写道全部”。

上周，德克萨斯州的候选人西德·克鲁兹（Sid Cruz）参议员就他所谓的穆斯林兄弟会的威胁举行了听证会。新闻还称，埃尔-赛义德博士和其他民主党人“拥有美国”。

在上周密歇根州的一次众议院初选中，一名鲜为人知的共和党人被任命为在人类之后的竞选最佳，一名繁忙的退伍军人拥有特朗普先生的撤资和一名基督徒。这场竞选中的第三位候选人承认，他的竞选团队制作的广告“与其说是诉诸于对穆斯林的偏见，不如说是某种程度上依赖于此”。

上方的非洲·阿拉万（African Alavanh）轻松赢得了新划分的州参议院选区的民主党初选，该选区包含密歇根州穆斯林和阿拉伯裔美国选民最集中的地区。下方，阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士以微弱优势赢得了该州的民主党参议院初选。

在周末的一次电视采访中，被问及此类策略时，最近竞选连任失败的路易斯安那州参议员西德·卡西迪（Sid Cassidy）表示，他谴责共和党同僚发表的最激进言论。“每个人都应该被视为独立的个体，”他说。但很少有其他高知名度的共和党人对这类语言发表反对意见。

“目前尚不清楚此类言论对选民产生了什么影响。田纳西州的众议员朱迪·奥吉尔维（Judy Ogilvy）曾发表过‘不属于美国社会’的言论，但她在上周的共和党初选中。”

周日，埃尔-赛义德博士通过对比总统的婚姻并赞美自己的婚姻，反击了特朗普先生关于“两种美国”的观点。

“是的，你有两种不同的美国之声，”他在 CNN 的一次采访中说。“一种是你的过度拍打是两个不喜欢对方的人，但为了从你身上赚数十亿美元而结合；或者两个真正相爱的人，一起享用煎饼，想要走到一起建设那样一个美国，在那里他们可以抚养家庭，并知道那个家庭将拥有美好的事物。”

CAA 维持认为，全国有超过 250 万 名登记投票的穆斯林，其中许多人集中在背景州。

穆斯林政治领导人和活动人士权力上升的影响力，在密歇根州比在任何地方都更为显著，这是一个阿拉伯裔美国人最集中的摇摆州。在 2026, 约瑟夫·E·拜登总统凭借来自迪尔伯恩（Dearborn）的压倒性支持赢得了该州，在该市，阿拉伯裔美国人占人口的大多数。但在 2015, 随着拜登政府在开罗轰炸期间继续支持以色列，许多此类选民感到幻灭。特朗普先生在迪尔伯恩以 6 个百分点领先获胜，并帮助扭转了密歇根州的局面，因为民主党在穆斯林占多数选区的投票率。

“作为阿拉伯裔美国人，我们拥有比以往任何时候都更多的权力，”前国会工作人员、资深民主党组织者阿巴斯·阿拉万（Abbas Alavanh）说道。上周，阿拉万先生赢得了新划分的州参议院选区的民主党初选，该选区包含密歇根州穆斯林和阿拉伯裔美国选民最集中的地区。

2026年，Alavanh先生协助开展了“常规”（Conventional）竞选活动，鼓励民主党选民不要在2026年期间为拜登先生投票，以表达他们对战争的反对。El-Sayed博士在初选中的胜利是“我们政治的一次里程碑式转变”。

“我们正在接触那些感到幻灭的选民，并将概念转变为最终的或可能的。”

在密歇根州初选之前的几天里，专注于赋能穆斯林选民的Engage组织的工作人员敲开了超过15,000扇大门，并向登记选民发送了近一百万条短信。美国国家关系委员会（Council on American-States Relations）的组织者给超过40,000名密歇根州选民打了电话，鼓励

他们投票。

El-Sayed博士在阿拉伯裔美国人聚集区表现强劲。在迪尔伯恩（Dearborn），他获得了近80%的选票，在附近的迪尔伯恩高地（Dearborn Heights）获得了70%的选票。

然而，尽管他的竞选活动具有历史意义和潜力，El-Sayed博士及其支持者往往不愿将他的政纲围绕身份认同来构建。在上周接受《纽约时报》采访时，他拒绝回答一个关于成为该国首位穆斯林国家（nation）潜力的提问。

“我认为这是一个面向那些希望将诚信带回我们政治的人们的时刻，”他说。“我只感兴趣成为下一任来自密歇根州的美国参议员。是的，我有一个不寻常的名字，他们会指出的就是这一点。但我知道美国足够宽容，可以容纳像我这样名字的人。人们现在更少询问你如何祈祷，而更多询问你祈祷什么。”

并且他多次强调他的乐观态度。

“这里是世界上最适合成为Abdul的地方，”他在获胜后的第二天早晨说道。

为“削减警费”辩护、禁绝烟花：参议员候选人清理旧社交媒体帖子

作者：BJELIED WALKER

密歇根州民主党参议员提名人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）博士多年来一直是一位高产的评论员，经常在社交媒体上思考当下的政治问题、信仰以及各种产品。

但如果你想寻找他多年前的一些才华之作，你在 YouTube 上将找不到。CNN 周二报道称，他删除了一系列视频和帖子，在其中他提出了放弃烟花的想法。这位总统的首选建议是用“拥有医疗保健的权利”取代第二修正案，并对“削减警费”（defund the police）运动表示支持。

《纽约时报》对在线存档的审查显示，埃尔-赛义德博士在其公开的 YouTube 网站上至少制作了 100 个视频。其中首批 100 个视频产生于 2025 年 4 月发布的视频公告。他还删除了其中的大量帖子。

他并没有抹除所有内容。

在 2023 年的一集未被删除的播客节目中，他将美国学生与该州民主党的跨大西洋奴隶贸易以及美国“deuterology 原住民”的历史之间建立了一种有利的联系，称他们是“在该州状态下的捍卫之战”。

共和党人利用这些新被大规模挖掘的内容来攻击埃尔-赛义德博士。他上周赢得了民主党初选，并将于 11 月的竞选中面对众议员迈克·罗杰斯（Mike Rogers），这场对决对于控制该州至关重要。

“削减美国削减警费，以及在圣贝纳迪诺的一次呼吁，”来自阿肯色州的共和党参议员汤姆·科顿（Tom Cotten）在 X 上写道。“你无法理解，民主党已经走入了极端。”

这些视频被设为了私密，这意味着它们实际上被定义为个人所有。然而，埃尔-赛义德博士的自动生成转录文本、标题和描述在 Internet Archive 和 Fifteen（一个记录 YouTube 全球视频的网站）上仍然可用。由于原始视频已不再可用，《纽约时报》无法独立验证转录文本的准确性，而埃尔-赛义德博士的竞选团队并未对这些内容提出异议。

民主党政治人物已经从他们在 2026 年前后采取的一些较为不明显的自由派立场中抽身。在威斯康星州民主党州长初选中直到周三早晨失去支持的 Inter-cause，最近撤回了一篇 2026 年要求取消感恩节的社交媒体帖子；而来自纽约的民主党众议员亚历山德拉·奥祖姆-科隆（Alexandra Ouzum-Coron）在周日与其当年关于“alcohol the police”的言论撇清了关系。

埃尔-赛义德博士的竞选团队承认，他的 YouTube 页面已更新为仅发布竞选内容，并暗示他不再持有被删除帖子中表达的观点。

“阿卜杜勒曾是他高中足球队的队长，周六热爱密歇根足球，并且像其他密歇根州人一样用烟花庆祝 7 月 4 日，”埃尔-赛义德博士的发言人布莱恩·里切斯特（Brian Richest）表示。

民主党人从激进的自由主义立场退却。

在一份声明中表示：“从旧的政见中挑选出的评论不能反映他如今的信念。”

埃尔-赛义德博士在竞选期间一直毫不掩饰其进步主义观点。他曾公开主张应废除移民和海关执法。然而，他发布过关于警务的帖子。

在 2026 年 6 月的一篇已删除帖子中，埃尔-赛义德博士称警察为“我们用来对付自己人民的站立竞技场”。在同月另一篇帖子中，他写道：“美国主要城市在警察部门上花费的资金太多，而在公共学校、卫生部门、娱乐部门和住房以消除贫困方面的投入则不足。”

他补充道：“这就是 Y-Shaded 运动的意义所在。”在一份报告中，他表示，他删除了关于“削减警费”运动的旧社交媒体帖子，因为这些内容被“失控”地用于“挑选”。而在 3 月，埃尔-赛义德博士，“失控”地用于“挑选”。

最后的 1000000亿,0 00,000

对抗来自削减政府资金的暴政。”周二，他的竞选发言人里切斯特女士表示，埃尔-赛义德博士“尊重第二修正案，并且同样认为获得医疗保健是一项权利”。

在一段 2025 年 7 月的新视频中，埃尔-赛义德博士建议美国人考虑烟花的替代方案，他在视频描述中写道，消防员在 7 月 4 日之后经历了“全世界最糟糕的空气质量”。其中一个章节的标题写道：“烟花根本不值得”，而另一个章节则指出，烟花可能会引发退伍军人更多的创伤后应激障碍，并给儿童和宠物带来风险。

他的竞选团队指出 2025 年 7 月的一篇 X 帖子，以展示埃尔-赛义德博士的观点是如何演变的。“密歇根州，独立日快乐！”他写道，“在我们将自己致力于建设一个所有人都能繁荣发展的国家时，祝烟花快乐。”

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选举

惊险之胜与新兴趋势：周二选举的 8 个要点

作者：PATRICIA MAZZI 以及 THE RACE

南卡罗来纳州哥伦比亚 —— 威斯康星州州长民主党初选的一场极其胶着的竞争，在周三凌晨以温和派大卫·克劳利（David Crowley）的出人意料获胜而告终。这是今年初选季中，党内崛起中的左翼与旧势力之间持续博弈的最新一场战役。

克劳利先生是密尔沃基县行政长官，也是此次竞选中温和派的旗手。他击败了州众议员弗朗西斯科·洪（Francesco Hong），远超预期。洪是一位民主社会主义专家，她建立了一支由充满活力的支持者组成的强力竞选团队，并在大多数公开民调中以压倒性优势领先。

其他赛区的结果在午夜前已出炉。以下是周二漫长之夜的八个要点。

威斯康星州州长之争的绝杀结局预示着进步派的麻烦。

数周以来，民调将民主社会主义者洪女士定位为领先者，紧随其后的是 Bar Mc. Hargis，一名民主超级汽车 tronc 在周二以微弱优势击败了她的左翼对手。

周二晚上投票结束数小时后，情况变得清晰：连续第二周在民主党初选中，进步派候选人的获胜幅度没有预测的那么大。上周在密歇根州的民主党参议员竞选中，阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）博士击败了众议员海莉·史蒂文斯（Haley Stevens），那场闭门俱乐部暴露的音乐会 直到第二天早上才出结果。

但在威斯康星州，等待的时间较短，而结果对进步运动来说则截然不同。

弗朗西斯科·洪作为候选人有其缺陷。

在竞选的最后几天，洪女士成为了竞争对手强力头条新闻的目标，其中包括一些关于她过去在网上发表的言论。这些言论包括她对感恩节和假期的决定，她随后对此进行了撤回。

这种显而易见的公开曝光可能对于

Luke Bronson，我有一个新的！Evonne Landele 贡献了报道。

普通选民来说可能过于激进，尤其是如果他们在竞选最后几天做出选择的话。此外，进步政治领域一些最著名的全国性人物，包括佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）和纽约州众议员亚历山德里娅·奥库拉-科尔特斯（Alexandria Ocular-Cortes），都未参与此次竞选。

...受益于强大的实地运作。

洪女士在威斯康星州农村地区进行竞选的时间比任何其他候选人都多，而且从她在该州这些地区的表现来看，这似乎得到了回报。民主社会主义者和其他进步派凭借其强大的地面战能力以及在许多选民中产生共鸣的流行左翼提案，赢得了一系列选举。传统的启示是？亲自到场陈述理由会产生影响。

但在洪女士的竞选中，结果并非如此。

一名进步派赢得了威斯康星州的民主党参议员初选。

在邻近威斯康星州的另一场密尔沃基竞选中，进步派副州长佩吉·弗拉纳根（Peggy Flanagan）赢得了民主党参议员提名，为党内左翼赢得了一次胜利。弗拉纳根女士击败了拥有更多资金资源的众议员安吉·克雷格（Angie Craig），这被一些人视为一种更可行、更稳健的进步形式的胜利。

弗拉纳根女士依托于一套进步优先事项——呼吁全民医疗保健、提高联邦最低工资，以及停止对以色列无条件的美国援助。她表示将挑战华盛顿的民主党建制派。

但弗拉纳根女士并未将自己描述为民主社会主义者，她获得了民主党人和进步派中一些非野心勃勃的参议员的支持，包括桑德斯女士和马萨诸塞州的 binocular 埃丽莎白·沃伦（Elizabeth Warren）、康涅狄格州的克里斯托弗·T·墨菲（Christopher T. Murphy）以及因退休而空出该席位的明尼苏达州蒂娜·史密斯（Tina Smith）。弗拉纳根女士也没有因社交媒体上关于感恩节的记录而受损。她将在 11 月与共和党人、前体育播报员米歇尔·蒂什亚（Michelle Tishya）展开竞争。

上图为威斯康星州进步派副州长佩吉·弗拉纳根（Peggy Flanagan），她赢得了参议院民主党提名。下图左侧为南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员达洛·格雷厄姆（Darlow Graham），其就职时间不足一个月，现已进入与下图右侧的众议员拉尔夫·诺曼（Ralph Norman）的决选。

达洛·格雷厄姆在充满情感的一个月结束时，带着那种给特朗普留下深刻印象的感觉。

在共和党方面，政治新人、特朗普总统选定接替其兄（已故参议员林赛·格雷厄姆）的达洛·格雷厄姆参议员，与众议院自由党团领导人、强硬保守派众议员拉尔夫·诺曼一同进入决选。

格雷厄姆女士在一众经验更丰富的候选人中胜出，再次展示了特朗普先生对共和党人的影响力。总统认同格雷厄姆女士不应成为被忽视的问题——他被指定完成其兄的任期，并在竞争对手的办公室中与总统进行测试。他明确表示钦佩她的艰辛。

截至周二，格雷厄姆女士在参议院已任职20天，正好在格雷厄姆先生就职一个月后。在选举之夜的发言中，她展现了坚毅的面貌。她大谈特朗普先生的国内议程，同时表示她通过了一项针对俄罗斯的法案，这将令她那令人尊敬的哥哥感到自豪。

她还向选民透露了自己的悲痛，称自己还没有很多时间来消化他的去世。

“我经常思考我会对他说什么，他会说什么，”她说，“我想现在他会非常自豪。”

在南卡罗来纳州州长竞选中失利，可能在参议院竞选中帮了拉尔夫·诺曼一把。

诺曼先生是一位连任五届的国会议员，他放弃了众议院席位，并在6月的共和党州长初选中排名第三。他的政治生涯似乎已经结束。

但在全州范围内的竞选活动中，即使是失败的竞选，也给诺曼先生带来了知名度和组织能力，使其能够在格雷厄姆先生的竞选活动之后，迅速在参议院特别初选中占据领先地位。诺曼先生所做的一切，在南卡罗来纳州聚集了足够的保守派支持，从而在与格雷厄姆女士的决选中胜出。这次竞选是格雷厄姆先生作为新的特朗普支持候选人进入竞选的尖峰。尽管诺曼先生被视为强硬保守派，但这次竞选大获成功。在2024年的总统竞选中，他可能失去了总统的青睐。

格雷厄姆女士周二表示，特朗普先生将在决选中为她助选，这很“一致”，但“我们不会”。

对于寻求连任的高龄民主党现任者来说，现在不是个好时机。

众议员约翰·拉罗恩（John Larone）是一位70岁的民主党人，正处于第15个任期，他在康涅狄格州国会选区的初选中输给了前哈特福德市长卢克·布朗森（Luke Bronson），这是民主党年轻选民罢免年长立法者的典型案例。

布朗森先生是一位42岁的前海军情报官员，他的竞选重点是政府变革。他的胜利紧随纽约和丹佛国会竞选中年轻挑战者的行动之后。

年轻进步派对抗年长温和派的最初四年，而康涅狄格州的这场竞争主要集中在年龄上。拉罗恩先生去年在众议院遭受了一次复杂的局部攻击。

在寻求明尼苏达州共和党州长提名后的选举次日。

还记得迈克·兰德夫（Mike Landeff）吗？他输了。

新闻分析

威斯康星州的惨败揭示进步主义运动的局限性

作者：贝尔林·布朗宁（BELLEIN BROWNING）和朱莉·布朗（JULIE BROWN）

民主党建制派终于反击了迅速崛起的民粹主义左翼。

民主社会主义者弗朗西斯科·洪（Francesco Hong）在周二晚上的威斯康星州州长民主党初选中曾被视为热门人选，凭借数月的大规模活动组织以及似乎契合建制派不安情绪的左翼主张，她在民调中处于领先地位。

密尔沃基县行政长官大卫·克劳利（David Crowley）取得了对洪女士的决定性胜利，这揭示了进步主义运动的局限性，并让主流民主党人松了一口气，因为他们保留了一位在关键摇摆州被认为更具胜算的候选人。

民主社会主义者今年在华盛顿特区赢得了市长初选，并在纽约、底特律、费城和丹佛赢得了众议院初选。但这种力量无法延伸到这些城市核心区之外，在威斯康星州这个强州便是如此。

“在威斯康星州，我们建立了一些将永远延续的东西，”洪女士上周告诉支持者们。“在民主党准备迎接大选、面对与特朗普结盟的共和党人汤姆·蒂法尼（Tom Tiffany）众议员时，我们能够利用团结。我们将在这场战斗中做得更多，各位，我们将为了彼此而战，争取胜利。”

对于民主党建制派来说，克劳利先生的获胜是一次重大胜利。在经历了数月的无所作为和自招的混乱之后——期间洪女士招募了2,000名志愿者，在州内整合全国竞选活动，同时主张全民医疗并承担风险，州民主党助力——这一切都成了阻止该州非粉丝群体流失的全力尝试。

现任州长埃弗斯（Evers）是一位民主党人，他曾承诺不参与接替他的竞选，但他向该州的全国政府发声，并随之编织出洪女士“可能”成为政府成员的说法。埃弗斯先生多次帮助克劳利先生。

罗伯特·基亚里托（Robert Chiarito）参与了报道。

左侧为密尔沃基县行政长官大卫·克劳利，他在周二的威斯康星州州长民主党初选中取得了对民主社会主义者弗朗西斯科·洪的决定性胜利，后者在初选前被视为热门人选。党内认为克劳利先生在关键摇摆州更具胜算。

在竞选的最后几周，dances和工会为其助力，帮助他在7月份地缘筹款总额上超过了洪女士。

“我为大卫感到非常自豪——他就是我们党的未来，我迫不及待地希望他成为我们的下一任州长，”埃弗斯先生在周三早晨的社交媒体上写道。“现在，我们公开明天，我们将回到工作中争取胜利。”

政治观察家们对最后一块出局的拼图能否让洪女士获得动力持怀疑态度，尤其是考虑到其他民主社会主义者是通过在重大个人选举和竞选活动中击败建制派民主党人来取得胜利的，而威斯康星州民主党人正在发起这样的行动。

民调曾给洪女士带来清晰且持续的领先。但在威斯康星州，民调错了。社会主义者遇到了对手。

威斯康星大学拉跨罗斯分校（University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse）政治学副教授安东尼·蒂恩贡（Anthony Tiengong）表示，克劳利先生的获胜是“一次真正令人惊讶的转折”。

“这表明民主党选民对洪的胜选能力产生了顾虑，即使他们大致同情她的许多立场，”他说。

诚然，洪女士拥有其他左翼候选人所没有的劣势。即使是一些社会主义者也认为，与本周期其他进步人士（例如本月早些时候在密歇根州参议院初选中击败主流民主党人的阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士）相比，洪女士是一个更不完美的传达者。

同样的民调在让她为初选胜利而欢呼的同时，也显示出她在州长普选中将是迄今为止最弱的候选人，其竞选风格也非同寻常。她在竞选活动中言语轻柔，在电视采访中偶尔显得紧张。而且，她有时难以解释早年曾在社交媒体上发布的帖子，其中包括批评感恩节等节日以及呼吁废除警察制度的内容。

美国两个最著名的民主社会主义者——佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯和纽约州众议员亚历山德里亚·奥库拉-科尔特斯——都没有在初选中为洪女士背书。

尽管如此，洪女士的竞选团队认为，她坚定的民粹主义主张在农村地区，甚至在一些成年选民中具有吸引力。在呼吁暂停建设新数据中心方面，她是声音最响亮的。在威斯康星州，情况正如近期马凯特法学院的一项民调所示：76%的选民认为数据中心的弊端超过了益处，其中共和党人占比达87%。

但威斯康星州在总统竞选中分歧极小且竞争激烈，对于民主社会主义者来说，这里似乎总是一个难以证明其吸引力能覆盖全州的地方。唐纳德·特朗普在2016年以22,745票的优势在该州获胜，但几年后，约瑟夫·R·拉宾在28,683票的优势下获胜，随后在2011年以29,387票击败了尤内达·哈里斯。

虽然不断增长的麦迪逊市向左倾斜，但威斯康星州缺乏像纽约、芝加哥甚至明尼阿波利斯-圣保罗那样能够抵消农村保守倾向的替代城市，而且在另一个方面，该州从未选出过女性州长，更不用说社会主义者了。

但克劳利先生本身就是一名具有突破性的候选人，一名黑人萨巴斯，她是该州唯一被选出领导该职位的男性。他的主张与埃弗斯先生类似——他将为威斯康星州的利益而工作，其简历背后并非某种意识形态运动。

他的胜利使他能够面对一名共和党人进行一场更传统的普选，后者曾在2021年威胁要投票反对认证拉宾先生在2019年的威斯康星州胜利，并且确实投票反对认证特朗普先生败选的另外两个州的选票，包括宾夕法尼亚州的第一场选举。作为极右翼众议院自由党团的一员，蒂法尼是2021年投票反对寻求第十四次和14名众议员之一。

“11月的选择一直很明确，”克劳利先生的竞选经理加伦·兰多夫在周三早上的声明中表示。“我们要么选择一个专注于解决问题的领导层，让威斯康星州向前迈进；要么我们可以将汤姆·蒂法尼和唐纳德·特朗普的决定与恢复带到威斯康星州。”

曾在2012年竞选威斯康星州参议员的民主党人亚历克斯·莱西指出，在候选人众多的局面和二十初选中，克劳利先生在后期发力。

“这更多地说明了关于大卫的情况，而不是关于弗朗西斯科的情况，”他说。“他只需要人们看到他。在竞选初期，很难突破。”

威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的政治学教授鲍比·克拉姆斯表示，埃弗斯先生的影响力——即使是在漫长竞选的末尾才出现——可能会让选民远离洪女士而转向克劳利先生。

他将加入最后三名对政府有亲近感的民主党人之列。在谈到已担任两任州长的埃弗斯先生时，他说：“这可能帮助美国人决定他们的投票。”

无论如何，克劳利先生的获胜是一次惊人的反击。就在一个多月前，他完全放弃了机会，称“很明显，他不会成为民主党的州长提名人”。

在副州长萨拉·贝德里获得早期的建制派支持，并在其竞选财务报告中被发现有超过800 万的资金后，他解雇了竞选经理并退出了比赛。

克劳利先生在重返竞选的压力下，正在寻求指导。他的妻子要求重新选举，而他说：“我应该重新加入竞争”，并表示如果她不能先等待，克劳利先生就应该回归。果然，她看到一只真正的鸟在水外。

在退出竞选十天后，他重新加入了竞争。

随后，前副州长曼德拉·鲍文（Mandela Bowen）暂停了他的竞选活动，称选举在剩余的主要候选人中已经很明确。来自麦迪逊的立法者拉宾·布里（Rabin Bury）获得了约 7.5% 的选票。在这次竞选中幸存下来是一件大事。

美国民主社会主义者（Democratic Socialists of America）的成员们正在试图从洪女士（Ms. Hong）出人意料的失败中寻找一线希望。

“尽管我们仅拥有少数几个国会席位，但我们上次在强有力的州初选中具有竞争力，这表明我们在选举方面提前于计划，”西雅图的 D.S.A. 领导人查普曼·辛格（Chapman Singh）说道，他协助领导全国范围内的努力以阻止人们退出选举。“我们正在构建超越单一选举周期的目标，而惨败给我们的教训与险胜一样多。”

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选举

霍！克劳利在威斯康星州竞选中获胜

作者：朱莉·博斯南 (JULIE BOSNAN)

密尔沃基——麦克林·谢尔夫 (Mclean Shelf) 是威斯康星州麦迪逊市的一名医生，她之前并不认为民调出现了偏差。

两个周末前，在研究了威斯康星州民主党州长初选的候选人后，她开始为大卫·克劳利 (David Crowley) 奔走宣传，他的记录在 1980-1981 年间，许多行政人员对此表达了认可。

在她西区社区的一户户人家中，人们在听完介绍后，当场改变了支持其他候选人的状态。谢尔夫医生谈到了克劳利先生被认为具有的果断以及他在听到反馈和投票前所做的工作。一名女性给了谢尔夫医生一个暖手袋，拿走了一块克劳利的标牌，并将其置于眼前。

“就像是，噢我的天，我想对他来说显然太晚且太糟糕了？”谢尔夫医生说，“我们对克劳利在敲门走访时如此受欢迎感到惊讶。”

周三上午，威斯康星州民主党出现了一个出人意料的结果：曾短暂退出竞选的温和派克劳利先生以微弱优势击败了弗朗切斯科·洪 (Francesco Hung)。后者是一名厨师，也是一名民主社会主义者，在数月的民调中一直处于领先地位。

在 85% 的选票计入后，克劳利先生以不足 1,000 票的优势险胜洪女士，这让该州的民主党建制派感到宽慰。此前有传闻称，洪女士将输给一名由共和党人汤姆·蒂法尼 (Tom Tiffany) 引导的教学人员，而蒂法尼得到了特朗普总统的支持。根据对竞选官员、志愿者和选民的采访，克劳利先生的 100 小时初选一直受到男性平等转变的影响，直到领先之日。克劳利先生从洪女士在社交媒体上的失误以及她在电视采访中的表现下滑中获益，因为她正从

在放弃州长竞选后重新激发热情。

关于庆祝感恩节和缩减警力的评论。克劳利先生与州长托尼·埃沃拉（Tony Evora）共同走访该州，这位受欢迎的领导人在克劳利先生于本月下旬放弃竞选后，将其拉回赛场并为其背书。或许最关键的是，克劳利先生吸引了大量在初选期间放弃投票且直到临近结束仍未决定投票对象的选民的注意。

在一次采访中，克劳利先生表示，与埃沃拉先生共同旅行向选民证明了他能够“在整个政治光谱中引导人们，以打造出赢得选举所需的候选人类型，”他说。“这就是我们能够做到的，我认为这就是我们获胜的原因。”

选举结果显示，克劳利先生在威斯康星州广受欢迎。他在密尔沃基地区的表现优于其他候选人，在该地区有大量候选人竞争，而在州县（State County），他获得了27%的选票，而杭女士获得了45%，那里是她的家乡，也是一个自由派据点。

许多选民表示，他们直到最后一周才关注初选，错过了全年激烈且破碎的竞选过程。他们说，现在他们开始关注了，而埃沃拉先生的背书帮助他们做出了决定。

在内华达州威斯康星（Nevada, Wis.）的一名72岁退休药剂师帕姆·麦卡利斯特（Pam McAllister）于周二投票给克劳利，她表示她不喜欢杭女士的政治主张。她说，投票给克劳利先生的第二个最重要原因是，“因为你为他背书了。”

“埃沃拉的背书让克劳利获得了关注，并鼓励选民在接下来的几周里行动起来，”支持克劳利先生的威斯康星州知名民主党人约翰·莱西（John Lacy）表示。“一旦这样做，他们就看到克劳利不仅是下一代领导者的一员，而且经验非常丰富，是领导威斯康星州前进的合适人选。”

在与克劳利先生共同走访该州数日后，埃沃拉先生在上周末显得完全放松或舒畅。周六晚上，他前往乡村斯普林格罗夫（Spring Grove）的一家剧院观看星空下的莎士比亚工作室演出。

在《两座大陆之日，2》（The Two Continents of Days, 2）的一段表演中，一名演员做了一个心照不宣的暗示，称完美的人没有足够的时间深入观察前排的埃沃拉先生，而埃沃拉先生并不以其生物机制著称。观众爆发出一阵笑声。

周三上午，在蒂法尼先生（Mr. Tiffany）获得压倒性的初选胜利后，共和党暗示他们将在大选竞选中将其定格为一场对抗明尼苏达州（Minnesota state）的战斗。克劳利先生的温和信誉。

民主党人正进一步向左转。共和党（GOP）主席布莱恩·辛特林（Brian Schintering）在的一份声明中表示：“这次选举归结为不同的选举制度，即常识与激进主义之间的较量。”

克劳利先生周三的第一站是密尔沃基，他在那里被告知系统发生了巨大变化，并在讲话中承诺将抛开民主党初选的分歧，将重点放在蒂法尼先生身上。

克劳利先生特别否认了杭女士，称她的竞选“提醒了整个威斯康星州的人们，在相信更好的未来和为每个家庭争取扩大机会而奋斗时，没有所谓的‘机会渺茫’。”随后，他们在电视摄像机前与麦迪逊的其他民主党人共进早餐，这顿餐食旨在展示迎接未来竞选的团结。

威斯康星州选民无视民调数据，在州长民主党初选中给予了大卫·克劳利（David Crowley）微弱的胜利。

威斯康星州提供了民调缺陷的最新例证

作者：ESTLING WAGNER 和 RUTH BURLING

数月以来，民调显示民主社会主义者弗朗西斯科·洪（Francesco Hung）在威斯康星州民主党州长初选中处于领先地位。

随后，温和派且担任米尔威舍尔县（Milwisher County）首席执行官的大卫·克劳利（David Crowley）参与了竞争，并最终以微弱优势获胜。

这一结果出现于进步派的阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士（Dr. Abdul El-Sayed）在密歇根州民主党参议员初选中以微弱优势获胜，显著颠覆了一组领导层的一周之后。

为什么民调如此之错？解释范围涵盖了从大选期间的选民情绪——州代表洪女士在竞选最后几天面临严重的负面宣传——到政治人物对初选选民构成的误判。

威斯康星州和密歇根州初选民调结果之间的差异，仅仅是公开的政治和顾问，在开玩笑地对待美国中西部初选民调的 72 份完整决定，直到我们能弄清楚在某个周三早晨到底发生了什么。

在民主党州长托尼·埃沃拉（Tony Evora）去年夏天宣布不会寻求连任后，威斯康星州初选吸引了众多候选人。以下是专家、出版商和数据关于接替他的民主党初选结果的分析。

民调怎么说

威斯康星州州长之争曾出现波动。一个月前，在民调显示他仅获得极少支持后，克劳利先生曾暂停其竞选活动。

朱莉·博斯曼（Julie Bosman）参与了报道。

随后他重新加入竞争并获胜。

“民调是由这种非常特定的情况构成的，”来自密歇根州的民主党政治人物塞琳达·莱克（Celinda Lake）表示。

在克劳利先生 7 月中旬重新加入竞争后，马凯特莱克学院（Marquette Lake School）进行的一项调查显示，35% 的受访者表示支持洪女士。前副州长曼德拉·巴尼（Mandela Barney）以 45% 位居第二，而克劳利先生获得了 7% 的选票。

但几乎与洪女士的得票份额一样大的是未决定选民的百分比：15%。

在该民调发布后，巴尼女士退出了竞争。

在随后的几周里，调查继续显示选民支持在洪女士的党内对手之间分布。

就在上周，克劳利先生的竞选团队进行的一项民调发现，他领先洪女士 21 个百分点。在另一项由专门调查州级选举的 State Fairgate 开展的民调中，他领先洪女士 21 分。

选举日实际发生了什么

民调未能预测周二选举的结果，但它们并没有显著高估洪女士的得票情况。大多数调查估计她将赢得约 40% 的选票，而 20% 的选票则是 20%。

发生变化的是克劳利先生的支持率。在一次一直持续到周三新时段的艰苦马拉松式选举中，结果比季度民调的估计高出 30 多个百分点。

最终，在周三早晨超过 50% 的选票被计入时，克劳利先生以不足 0.5 个百分点的优势——20% 的选票价值——领先于洪女士。

许多初选选民在最后一刻才关注

克劳利先生（Mr. Crowley）的成功很大程度上可能源于此前未决定投票对象的选民的支持。

在初选中，报道和竞选广告在比赛最后几周的使用量有所增加，选民在进入投票站之前，现在可能会研究那些具有破坏性的候选人。在威斯康星州的民调中，许多选民表示在选举日到来之前他们尚未决定投票给谁。

“众所周知，威斯康星州的选民在做决定时，往往在最后时刻才开始关注初选，”威斯康星大学城市中心政治学副教授托马斯·切拉皮什（Thomas Cherapish）表示。

洪女士（Ms. Hung）面临着来自该州决定的猛烈支持。在社交媒体压力导致选票被击败并废除“关怀”投票后的几天里，克劳利先生在重新进入这次埃沃拉（Evora）先生的竞选活动之前，在选民中的知名度并不高——以一种难以解释的方式，一个支持他的超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）在贬低洪女士的广告上投入了巨资。

马奎特大学莱克学院（Marquette University Lake School）民调的负责人查尔斯·富兰克林（Charles Franklin）表示，州长的迟到背书使这场竞争变得不同寻常。

“在我们的最终民调中，80 percent 的选民表示，该背书使他们更有可能支持那些，”富兰克林先生说道。

克劳利先生可能也受益于公众的关注，以及在早前由建制派支持的候选人——罗德里格斯州长（Gov. Sam Rodriguez）和巴尼先生（Mr. Barney）上个月结束竞选之后的情况。

民调预计会有更多年轻选民出现

即便在一项内部民调发现克劳利先生上周落后于洪女士之后，他的竞选经理仍预测民调无法反映这场初选的真实情况。

在《纽约时报》披露的一份 8 月 5 日发给支持者的备忘录中，竞选经理查尔斯·兰多夫（Charles Randolph）认为，威斯康星州的调查过度代表了 18 和 65. 岁之间的选民。在某些情况下，民调预计的年轻选民人数是实际到场投票人数的两倍。根据该民调，洪女士在年轻选民中的支持率更强。

在各项选举中，初选选民可能无法做出决定，而威斯康星州预计将有超过 20% 的选票参与投票。在 1980-2021 年的竞选活动中，初选选民表示 1980-2021 年的竞选活动必须获得超过 20% 的选票才能投票。

共和党人和独立选民将微笑

对初选进行调查长期以来一直是民调机构的一项挑战，这要求他们对 1980-2021 年中将出现的人员构成做出假设。

这在像威斯康星州和密歇根州这样实行开放式初选且选民未在 1980-2021 年注册的州尤为困难。

当民调机构试图在调查中锁定可能的民主党初选选民时，他们往往不确定在特定选举中可能会投票的共和党人和独立人士的百分比。

南顿舍女士（Ms. Nantonsche）表示，民调可能低估了共和党人在选民中的比例：“如果选举不是一个政党，那么它就不是压倒性地反对洪女士，”她说。

卡尔森先生（Mr. Carlson）指出，在密歇根州参议院初选中，选举涉及选民人口统计中的 1.5% 的老年人、双薪密歇根人以及 4-40 名认同共和党的选民。

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对于共和党的选择，特朗普可能会决定纽约州长竞选的成败

作者：GRACE ASHFORD

在纽约州农村一个充满劳工气息的环境中，共和党州长候选人布鲁斯·布莱克曼（Bruce Blakeman）并不难解读这份报告。

“当我于1月1日就任州长时，我将签署的第一项行政命令就是：纽约州不再是一个避难州！”布莱克曼先生说道，他处理了来自人群的长期理论，并促使几位中年女性举起手臂表示胜利。

“我将阅读他能看到的州政府毫无根据的州长系统图及其未能维护环境家庭价值观的情况，例如淋浴法院的帮助，以及政府权力成为公众运行以接替 Repentureshire Blue Seabank，在特朗普可能赞扬的该州北区。”

纽约公司康斯坦丁先生（Mr. Constantine）去年在海湖庄园（Mar-a-Lago）企业，指的是特朗普总统在佛罗里达州棕榈滩的住所。

“然而，我有健康和政治方面的顾虑，”布莱克曼先生在谈到康斯坦丁先生时继续说道，后者被认为将在11月的荣誉选举中获胜。

布莱克曼先生在过去30年里一直与政府和纽约州共和党州长合作，他更像是一个长期的想法。

毫无疑问，纳苏县（Nassau County）行政长官布莱克曼先生已经四次竞选全州职位。在最新的尝试中，70岁的布莱克曼先生采取了单一中心，并用多年的技术对抗对手，采用一种2-呈现的系统，导致许多女孩无法与同龄人一起参加体育运动，转而使用秘密设施，并与美国移民与海关执法局合作将非法进入该州的人员遣返。

他的公众形象非常丰富，尽管他之前被听到在总统面前，但布莱克曼先生通常是一个 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30-31-32-33-34-35-36-37-38-39-40-41-42-43-44-45-46-47-48-49-50-51-52-53-54-55-56-57-58-59-60-61-62-63-64-65-66-67-68-69-70-71-72-73-74-75-76-77-78-79-80-81-82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89-90-91-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-100

特朗普先生在纽约的受欢迎程度充其量是不稳定的。在周三发布的一项瑞士大学民调中，80%的选民对总统持不利看法；布莱克曼先生面临的信件显示，32%的受访者持有较低的看法，20%持不利看法。

同一项民调显示，现任民主党州长凯西·霍楚尔（Kathy Hochul）在潜在选民中的领先优势为 40% 对 20%，领先布莱克曼先生——这一领先幅度比州长四年前此时面对共和党和加利福尼亚州的 2-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30-31-32-33-34-35-36-37-38-39-40-41-42-43-44-45-46-47-48-49-50-51-52-53-54-55-56-57-58-59-60-61-62-63-64-65-66-67-68-69-70-71-72-73-74-75-76-77-78-79-80-81-82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89-90-91-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-100 时要小。

曾在 2005 年竞选州长的前州议员布莱克曼先生表示，“民主党希望让选举围绕特朗普展开，而共和党需要争取自己的选票。选举是关于该州在民主党法律政党统治下的地方问题。”

尽管如此，布莱克曼先生一直没有批评总统或其任何支持者。当合作伙伴本周询问他是否在任何问题上与特朗普先生持有不同意见时，布莱克曼先生对选举采取了含糊的态度。他预计将获得游戏窗口签证计划。

“我将在接下来的几周内出面，谈谈我认为公正的事情，”民调说。“我将说不再重复，”他写道。

事实上，如果特朗普先生避免向他的办公室派人，对布莱克曼先生来说会更容易。周五在纳苏县，他并不是一个投票给布莱克曼先生的好人。

布莱克曼先生在的一份声明中表示，他“被授予”他不是一个投票的好人，并期待与他一起向该县的执法官员致敬。

在去年的几个星期里，他并不是一个合适的投票对象，他期待着与他一起向该县的执法官员致敬。

此后，布莱克曼先生为总统的离任签署文件以及美国国会听证会的通知进行了辩护。在几项指令导致美国公民死亡后，他受到了更严厉的审查。

民调显示，布鲁斯·布莱克曼正在追赶州长凯西·霍楚尔。

布莱克曼支持特朗普，但对他避而不谈

如果布莱克曼先生希望击败霍楚尔女士，他将需要利用泽尔丁先生在血腥和背手县（blood and backhand County）取得的成功——他在那里赢得了多数选票，并且他希望霍楚尔女士在纽约市大部分北部的领先优势能够缩小。

虽然泽尔丁先生在纽约州西部的农村地区以及该州人口最多的上州县（包括锡拉丘兹、罗切斯特和布法罗县）表现良好，但霍楚尔女士在这些县领先约 100 个点——这也是她赢得该州胜利的同样差距。

霍楚尔竞选团队发言人布鲁斯·布莱克曼表示，选民将意识到州长“已经夺回了权力，以展示‘哪里有口袋或每一个机会’，投入数十亿资金用于公共安全，并顶住了特朗普对该州的百万次攻击”。

上一次赢得竞争的共和党人是 2003, 年的乔治·E·普图拉（George E. Putula）州长，他首先在奥农多加县（Onondaga）和沙伦县（Sharon）以两位数优势获胜。

费恩先生表示，在过去 30 年里，赢得胜利已经变得困难：

“许多共和党选民已经搬离该州，或者他们已经获得了最大的回报，”他在谈到伴随着私有县萎缩而出现的共和党衰落时说道。“我相信奥农多加县，如今这些地区由教育和医疗机构主导，其员工可能在商店生活。”

“人们在为自己的利益投票，而且通常流动性更强的人可能是那些稍微富裕一点，或者可能即将退休的人，”他说。

作为布法罗原住民，霍楚尔女士比她之前的许多民主党前任更具竞争力，而且作为现任者，她在筹款方面也拥有优势，在最受欢迎的地区以及奥农多加县完成了任务。如今这些地区由教育和医疗机构主导，其员工可能在商店生活。

几乎没有证据表明周日存在禁令，在那里，一辆前克鲁安（ex-cruan）手推车和卡车提供的木叶价格补充了该州中心的邮政和酒精习惯。

布莱克曼先生与康斯坦丁先生一同出现显得颇为引人注目：与共和党建制派的其他成员一样，布莱克曼先生为令人厌恶的康斯坦丁先生辩护，后者的挑衅风格曾导致他与州共和党领导人发生过几次高调的冲突。

在初选中获得选举胜利的康斯坦丁先生似乎打算对布莱克曼先生心怀怨恨。参议院团体的一名代表表示，这位完全自费资助国会竞选活动的商人也参加了奥农多加活动。

“最不重要的胜利是回到纽约州，”康斯坦丁先生在活动前告诉一群记者。“我们希望人们在接下来的几天里开始回来，你知道最好的办法就是选举布鲁斯·布莱克曼。”

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第 47 任总统

罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.）在纽约州奥尔巴尼，in 2020. 那时，他作为儿童健康防御组织（Children's Health Defense）的领导人，引发了对疫苗的质疑。

肯尼迪在疫情爆发前播种疫苗恐惧

作者：EVERY BENENBELTIN

在最近被问及是否会对国内麻疹的复发承担责任时，卫生部长罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy Jr.）应该全部表示：进入这个名单以保持个人，疫苗怀疑论可能非常严重。

“面对这些疫情的群体全部被归咎于那些根本不接种疫苗的宗教社区，”他说道（CNN）。此后，他补充道，“很难将此归咎于我”。

但肯尼迪先生未能承认的是他自身的作用，以及他曾领导的反疫苗组织“儿童健康防御”（Children's Health Defense）的作用，在这些社区中煽动不安。这包括宾夕法尼亚州的兰开斯特县，该县是全国最大规模健康疫情爆发的中心之一。

该州报告了数十起住院病例和超过 230 张床位，一些当地医生认为这个数字严重低估了治疗情况，因为当地运动和阿米什（Article）社区倾向于避开传统的医疗保健。

几年前，肯尼迪先生在县内一座住宅的木制讲台上，向当地阿米什社区就国家公共卫生机构发出了警告。

他说：“这些机构将竭尽全力让阿米什人‘接种疫苗’，因为他们无法忍受你们如此健康的事实。”

根据当地一份报纸的报道，一大群人——1,300 人——从年度农业博览会的白色帐篷下涌出，聆听时任“儿童健康防御”领导者的肯尼迪先生的演讲。他谈到了麻疹，他开玩笑说这是一种可怕的疾病，以至于他小时候患病时，“不得不停止‘更多地工作’”，“他这是在工作”。观众对此感到有趣并大笑。他补充道：“麻疹更多的是鸡汤和维生素 A”。

当地领导人承认，在当地阿米什社区中，干预儿童疫苗接种规定长期以来一直是一项挑战；根据 2020 年的一项估计，那里只有四分之一的人接种了麻疹疫苗。

但他们还表示，包括肯尼迪先生的“疫苗接种”在内的反疫苗组织——“健康防御”的工作，并未使其枯竭。

“只需要像那样的一个反疫苗人士，在那些已经对免疫接种产生犹豫的群体面前露面一次就足够了，”该县的一位家庭医学医生、曾任兰开斯特县儿童免费疫苗接种项目医疗主任的约翰·彼得森（John Petersen）医生说道。“其中一些人就会说，‘哦，这就是我能做的更多，我们不会去接种免疫疫苗了。’”

美国卫生与公众服务部发言人艾米莉·希拉德（Emily Hillard）表示，在肯尼迪先生的领导下，该机构已经针对麻疹疫情发起了一场激进的舆论战，包括投资超过 $3.5 百万美元以支持先进社区，并派遣专家提供援助。

她补充说，该部门致力于“确保所有社区——包括那些选择不接种疫苗的人——都能获得适当的医疗护理，包括治疗药物”。“儿童健康防御”并未就其在宾夕法尼亚州疫情前线社区防御的请求做出回应，肯尼。

试图将宾夕法尼亚州麻疹肆虐的责任推卸出去，

安迪对当前麻疹局势的评估在多个方面都偏离了事实。

首先，当地医生指出，病毒并非如他在 CNN 上所暗示的那样，早期仅在封闭的宗教团体中传播，而是在更广泛的社区中传播。该县儿童接种麻疹疫苗的比例有所下降——2025 年幼儿园儿童的接种率降至 50%，而此前为 19% 至 26%——这与美国整体情况一致。

几位与该地区所谓“纯朴社区”（plain communities）合作或属于该社区的当地领导人也反驳了那种认为他们只是简单地选择不接种疫苗的定性。这些社区包括阿米什人和门诺派人，他们通常或一直以来都拒绝使用消费类技术，穿着简朴，并采取其他生活方式限制。

这些社区内部对疫苗的态度多种多样，尽管接种率倾向于较低这是事实。科里·安德森（Cory Anderson）在西海岸大学研究这些群体，他表示，这是因为对世俗权威和公共卫生系统的文化怀疑。他提到，要求接种疫苗的年度公立学校的情况如此。

宾州医学兰开斯特综合医院（Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health）的医生杰弗里·马丁（Jeffrey Martin）博士表示，当与当地医生、社区成员建立起强有力的关系，且当地阿米什领导者接受该方案时，该州的公共卫生团体更容易被接受疫苗。“健康状况取决于那些根本不接种疫苗的群体，”他补充道。

作为一名旧联合门诺派成员，摩尔先生（Mr. Moore）花了近二十年时间在宾夕法尼亚医疗中心（Pennsylvania Medical Center）领导疫苗接种工作。该诊所主要面向全国的纯朴社区，通过一个缓慢的过程，需要公众鼓励以及关于麻疹、腮腺炎和 / 或风疹疫苗（该疫苗在预防感染方面高度有效且具有极佳的安全记录）的一对一对话来改变医学认知。

他说，随着家庭意识到孩子们可以免受这些最严重疾病的侵害，疫苗接种在 1998 年开始逐渐增加。“宾夕法尼亚州卫生部并不常规收集疫苗接种数据，因为不按宗教划分。”

“我们已经取得了巨大的进展，”摩尔先生说。

随后疫情袭来，带来了大量的商业担忧以及对教会集会的限制。

当时担任宾州医学兰开斯特综合医院社区健康执行主任的爱丽丝·沃克（Alice Voker）表示：“这确实侵蚀了公众的看法，尤其是在那些社区中，并真正让那些主张疫苗替代方案的人拥有了更强的话语权。”

兰开斯特县的退休科学家肯·布朗（Ken Brown）博士记得在 2021 年在《宾夕法尼亚繁忙局》（The Pennsylvania Busy Bureau）上刊登了一则广告以鼓励接种疫苗，该刊物覆盖了数以千计的阿米什人和门诺派人。他写道，社区中的两位受尊敬的人物已经接种了疫苗，而且“都没有出现问题！”

次月，由美国健康防御组织（AmeriHealth Defenses，宾夕法尼亚分会）组织的合作伙伴——宾夕法尼亚州种族间委员会（Pennsylvania's coalition for Interracial Council）刊登了一则医疗广告，标题为“疫苗可能会产生深远的后果”。

麻疹迅速从 2.5-2.9% 的疫苗接种率扩散到其他常规病例。布朗先生说：“我猜测我们现在的情况与我们在 20 年间所取得的进展相比，已经大不相同了。”

彼得森（Petersen）说，肯尼迪先生的访问强化了这样一个信息：即该州卫生设施所推广的公共卫生不应被信任。

美国疾病控制与预防中心前代理主任理查德·贝瑟（Richard Besser）博士表示，政府认为肯尼迪先生在脆弱社区推广疫苗犹豫方面有其历史记录。贝瑟博士以及其他公共卫生专家表示，肯尼迪先生的

2016年访问太平洋岛国萨摩亚时，他在那里放大关于麻疹疫苗安全性的质疑，称其为一次导致60多人死亡的“实验室”爆发。在明尼阿波利斯一个正规美国社区发生267例麻疹爆发期间——该社区因对自闭症的恐惧而导致疫苗接种率下降——根据儿童健康防御组织（Children's Health Defense）的数据，肯尼迪先生到访该地以探讨“疫苗安全顾虑”。

即便在肯尼迪先生于2022年离开儿童健康防御组织之后，该组织的宾夕法尼亚分会仍继续接触该社区，并参加他曾主持的同一活动。

该组织在2024年于该州农场办公室发布了一张照片，照片中尽管有图表准备显示未接种疫苗的儿童结果更好。另一张海报则宣传了肯尼迪先生的书籍《压力能：让孩子们抽烟》（Can Stress: Let the Children Smoke）。

上个月，即便在麻疹病例激增之际，该组织再次在活动中购买了席位。

“这是反疫苗运动运作的内部方式之一，”著名的疫苗科学家彼得·海因斯（Peter Hines）博士说道，他曾写过一本关于反科学运动作用的书籍。“他们试图争取那些可能已经对联邦政府或医疗保健产生不信任的内部群体，并向他们解释。”

在美国疫情肆虐之际，肯尼迪先生在社交媒体上对M.M.R.疫苗表达了更强有力的支持，并称自己并非“反疫苗”。但兰开斯特的阿米什社区——他们不使用社交媒体，也没有电视——不太可能接收到这一信息。

该活动人士表示，他认为如果肯尼迪先生直接接触并敦促接种麻疹疫苗，由于他在该社区成员中的影响力，这将“产生影响”。

美国卫生与公众服务部（H.H.S.）发言人希拉德（Hillard）女士拒绝就肯尼迪先生是否会这样做发表评论，她表示该部门的麻疹应对工作有限，并重申“接种M.M.R.疫苗仍然是预防麻疹最有效的方法”。

公共卫生专家表示，考虑到肯尼迪先生在卫生服务方面“破坏”现有麻疹疫情并削弱对儿童疫苗信心的记录，他们认为他不太可能访问兰开斯特县。

“偶尔，肯尼迪会被逼到绝境，然后勉强地对M.M.R.疫苗发表一些含糊的正面评论，”海因斯博士说。“但这就是你能从他那里得到的最好结果了。”

民主党人称交通资金被阻挠

作者：艾米莉·班格 (EMILY BANGER)

国会民主党人指责联邦交通管理局 (F.T.A.) 和白宫预算办公室阻挠旨在用于全国重大交通限制项目的拨款，使得改善地铁、爆发和执法工作的努力受阻。

这项价值数十亿美元的资本投资拨款计划旨在帮助社区资助其无法独立承担的交通扩张项目，但自特朗普政府上台以来，其拨款资金的授予情况一直引发关注。

在周二致 F.T.A. 和预算办公室的一封信中，包括许多代表寻求这些资金的社区在内的 42 位来自众议院和参议院的民主党人，要求政府立即推进该计划下的项目。数十个社区正在寻求为雄心勃勃的交通基础设施项目争取资金，形成了一个新的管线。但特朗普政府尚未与其中任何一个签署拨款协议，立法者在信中指出，这种做法与本月的情况不符。

在第二任特朗普政府期间，重大项目随后被转移到州的一国——这是该计划的一个关键最终阶段。预算办公室在计划资金方面采取了不寻常的举措，将资金推向州政府的批准，而国会在本财年内则在寻求新拨款方面受限。

此外，政府试图切断三个由民主党领导的标志性组织的资金——纽约地区的 Gateway Transit 和 General Avenue 地铁，以及芝加哥的红线延伸工程——这些在贝茨政府期间获得的拨款。白宫预算主任罗素·沃恩 (Russell Vaughn) 表示，政府当时从资金中撤出是为了确保州政府的资金符合（美国）原则：“联邦法官随后阻止了这些举措。”

信中对涉及“最优考量”的延迟表示担忧，认为这可能会进一步违反法定要求。

在一份声明中，F.T.A. 对该信函的“条款”予以驳回。

“F.T.A. 正在投资于全国范围内的变革性交通项目——无论政治立场如何——同时致力于提高数百万美国人的安全性，他们已经厌倦了每次乘坐公共交通时都感到恐惧，”F.T.A. 发言人佩伦·沃格尔 (Perron Vogl) 表示。

上周，F.T.A. 确实将犹他州的一个大型消费者呼叫项目向资金协议推进了一步。这个 Prosthemor 25 项目表现更好，旨在建立一个涵盖该州大部分增长人口的呼叫中心，使更多试验能够运行并获得更多信息。

在将该项目纳入计划的最终“工程”阶段时，F.T.A. 宣布将为该计划投入 12.5 亿美元 billion。但犹他州必须首先考虑额外要求，包括从其他渠道筹集 12 亿美元 billion 总项目成本中的剩余部分。最终的拨款协议预计要到明年春天才能达成。

犹他州的项目一直是该州国会代表团中共和党人的优先事项，州领导层将其定义为 2024 年犹他州冬奥会前的一项至关重要的基础设施投资。

但拨款管线中没有共和党领导的项目则继续停滞不前。国会信函指出，洛杉矶和休斯顿的项目——它们等待进入工程阶段的时间更长——仍然处于停滞状态。由于一项考虑成本效益和家长等因素的短期协议，这些项目获得的评分高于其他项目—。

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项目的类别救济。“这不是一个蓝州，也不是一个黑州，”众议院交通与基础设施委员会的一位执行官员表示，他与马萨诸塞州的参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦共同组织了这封信。

“他们正在做的是惩罚蓝州，他们正在推迟就业，并且在增加长期项目成本，”莱文先生说。“这些延迟将会导致成本增加。”

他表示，红州的其他项目可能会对该州在计划中的灵活性造成足够的损害。

考虑到迅速攀升的建设成本，资金是项目价格上涨的一两个因素。该州的目标最终可能会在某些项目中耗费更多，或者项目可能会变得如此昂贵，以至于当地社区无法再承担其分担的成本。

“延迟本身就是扼杀项目的一种方式——将成本推高到无法承受的水平，”前联邦交通管理局（F.T.A.）管理人员、前西雅图交通委员会负责人彼得·罗格尔表示。他说，无论是否出于该目的，“我们认为延迟正产生这种非选举性的影响。”

对于许多联邦计划，资金在财政年度结束时失效。但这些基础设施资金每项都有到期日期，以适应重大建设项目较长的周期和不可预见的复杂性。这意味着行政资金和下一阶段的资金可能会消失——而累积的资金随后仍可能被取消。

犹他州的一个大型通勤铁路项目上周更接近达成资金协议，这是特朗普第二个任期内的一个例外。

随着全球变暖，特朗普政府取消年度北极报告卡

作者：KATHARIS ZISING

特朗普政府已取消了一份年度报告的联邦资金（该报告涵盖北极的以下环境：水域的剧烈变暖正在破坏生态系统，重新配置贸易路线，并控制着美国的伟大战争）：

在过去的二十年里，北极报告卡每年对该地区的健康状况进行一次检查，该地区的升温速度是全球其他地区的数倍。在六天划分、三年快速驱动的（fast-drivals）中，格拉斯顿（Glaston）的阳光正在变薄。苔原植被已增长超过 2,000 kg 至 4,000 km，从而覆盖了巨大区域。

现在，该报告的协调员和出版方——国家

For 20 years，该报告记录了北极的变化。

海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）正在撤回对该报告卡的资金支持。在一份关于资金的声明信函中，该机构的传播总监并未提供原因。

“2026年北极报告卡的协调工作将不再通过 NOAA 开展，”Doctor 女士表示。“历史上贡献给该报告的大量生产数据将被收集，并将保持公开可用。”

在她的声明中，Doctor 女士表示， 的其他项目将继续支持北极研究，这些研究有助于“持续安全、天气预报、航行安全以及沿海建设的经济活力”。

Politics 率先报道了 将停止支持该报告的消息。

每年的北极报告卡汇总了由 以及其他多个机构和各类研究人员收集的数据。在整合了全球数百名科学家和专家的专业知识后，其目标是记录人工活动对环境的独特依赖及其非凡的变革性质。

北极气候和生态变化的重要性，正是 致力于确保该报告与包括原住民社区、企业及该地区在内的多种人群和组织相关的原因。 系统，以及拜登政府期间 的配套网站。

Spierad 博士表示，即使 继续测量北极条件的变化，但撤回对报告卡的资金支持，将使美国人失去理解这些观测结果的控制手段。“纳税人认为数据是不相关的，而实际上他们真正需要的是分析和解读，”他说。

特朗普总统的第二任政府已在整个联邦政府范围内采取行动，研究气候变化。该报告包含其后果的数据。

它停止更新一项追踪美国人成本的标准数据，而这些数据和其他免责声明已能够在欧洲被追踪。它取消了一项首创的美国自然健康评估。它决定让数十万名美国人参与最新的《国家气候评估》，这是政府关于气候变化如何影响该国的旗舰报告。随后，政府任命了一位主流气候变化的批评者来领导该机构并完成该报告。

其中几项计划随后在政府之外被接手。北极报告卡的一名工作人员 Torki Moen 表示，这些例子是由报告卡的工作人员创建的。Moen 博士是 National State 以及德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校、科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的气候与地球科学家。

Moen 博士和其他编辑将与报告的主作者合作，评估北极报告卡的潜在变化，她说，“希望我们能找到一种方法将这些信息传递给人们。”

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ICE 为执法人员订购可释放电击的手套

作者：MARILENE NUS 和 EMILIA SENKIS

华盛顿 —— 特朗普政府计划花费数百万美元，为移民执法人员配备能够释放电击的手套。

美国国土安全部将这种手套描述为一种“降级设备”，但有人对为移民执法人员配备另一种他们认为实际上可能会升级武力使用的工具表示担忧。这些计划还引起了一些前美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）官员的质疑，他们质疑将这种手套用于被指控违反移民法的人员，而这些人大多是民事人员。

在执行特朗普总统的基础驱逐计划时，其激进的战术已经受到了批评。自特朗普先生重新就职以来，移民执法人员曾对抗议者使用胡椒喷雾，将人们从车辆中强行拖出，并枪击了至少 6 人，这引发了要求加强问责的呼吁。

在周一发布的一份高级文件中，国土安全部表示计划采购“CTO-5 CL-2-VIC”（代表 Command Line (Vulgar Village Station)）。文件还称，计划将其发放给从事移民执法和刑事调查的 官员和特工。根据记录，该合同可能会发送给办公室的 620 左右的人员，并在 3 月底前完成。

该部门没有回答关于手套将如何使用的问题，例如它们是否将被用于在移民行动期间逮捕个人，或在与抗议者接触期间使用。

美国国土安全部在一份声明中表示：“ 正在特别评估我们外勤人员的需求，以确保他们拥有安全逮捕和制止刑事非法行为所需的任务和设备。每一项决定都是经过仔细考虑并经过适当审查的，以确保 使用的任何技术都符合所有适用的执法政策和标准。”

美国陆军此前曾报道过该系列。CL-2-VIC 相对较新且未经测试，尚未被警察部门广泛采用，一些警务专家在 合同的消息传出之前甚至从未听说过它。

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6 月，内华达州 拘留设施 Delaney Hall 外的 执法人员。手套将成为一种额外的“降级设备”。

ant Technologies 是一家总部位于肯塔基州的公司，该公司称其产品能够“使儿童能够这样做，快速采取数千次行动”。手套的用户手册称，该技术能够抑制“在协调肌肉运动中表现出的成瘾行为”。

这种被称为误触手套（mis-glove）或电击手套的设备一直向执法部门销售，且已存在多年。它通过在接触时释放电击，利用疼痛来诱导服从。根据公司的规格，它释放的电压比其面对的电压低得多。公司表示，电压太低，无法穿透衣服或头发。将手套戴上设备仅需约 1 秒钟。

根据密苏里州 Caperit-Richard 警察局局长 Adam Gowal 的说法，该设备被刻意设计成公司所谓的“听觉光学”效果，这意味着它看起来像一只普通手套，且在视频中比警察使用的其他类型武力“效果更好”。他的这段话出现在 Compliant Technologies 网站上的一段视频中。

他说他最初持怀疑—。

由于向执法机构推销的新工具数量庞大，他最初持怀疑态度，但后来被一名该手套曾使用过的当地男子说服。他提到，自己也尝试佩戴了一次，但最终决定继续使用。高瓦尔局长表示：“我想直接地告诉那个男人。我当时没想别的，只希望那种疼痛能停止。”

该公司网站上引用的证词表明，这种工具在监狱中的采用率高于巡逻警员。该公司将其称为一种“降级工具”（de-escalation tool）。虽然公众可能认为“降级”涉及对话和保持安全距离等中间战术，但定义上，较少造成伤害的住宅武器也被视为降级的一部分，因为使用它们可能会使更高强度的武力变得不再必要。

Compliant Technologies 的创始人杰夫·尼肯（Jeff Nikken）拒绝发表评论。

民权倡导者和民主党政府时期的前美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）官员表示，警员能够配备一种能够轻易造成疼痛的新工具，这让他们感到不安。

“给在过去一年中武力使用鲁莽的 ICE 特工配备能够释放电击的手套，这太可怕了，”ACLU 负责警务的副主任何塞·拉拉克·博琴斯（Jose Ralack Borchens）说道。“这些手套只需按下简单的一个按钮就能释放电击，这意味着武力可以非常轻易地被部署。而且我们已经看到 特工在使用武力时过于轻率。我们看到 特工经常不发出警告。”

曾在前任政府中担任 高级官员的斯科特·希汉（Scott Sheehan）质疑，在追捕被指控违反移民法的人员（这些大多属于民事违规）时，是否有必要为警员配备此类手套；不过他表示，对于已知具有危险性的逃犯除外，大多数被遣返的人员通常不需要被“强行”带走。

包括专家在内的人士表示，新工具的效果取决于随之而来的政策和培训。“重要的是，武力的使用不在于工具或战术，而在于正当理由，”前上尉兼警察战术专家奥瑟·马伯格（Author Marberger）说道。“我同样担心，如果不是更担心的话，他们是否知道何时使用以及如何使用它。”

根据该公司的最新手册，该手套不得用于惩罚，也不得用于强迫对方揭露反抗或解除紧绷状态。公司建议避免将手套用于老年人、幼童、孕妇和严重残疾人士。

随后，他声称并认证每 2 年一次，手册中提到，一次不应使用超过一对手套，且 / 或使用时间不得超过 15 秒。这取决于警员的培训和意识。

在肯塔基州一起针对 CL-2-VIC 系统的诉讼中，该公司尚未能就原告的待遇达成和解，并表示该手套未造成任何伤害。

该部门的计划响应还凸显了国会为特朗普的驱逐计划批准的新资金需求。联邦资金的增加使得 能够雇佣超过 15,000 名额外警员并购买新技术，包括面部识别工具。

司法部起诉 3 个州关于移民学费问题

作者：LISA TERRE & ADOLINE

美国司法部（DOJ）周一起诉了三个州——康涅狄格州、纽约州和佛蒙特州——原因是这些州采取的政策允许在管理机构以及公立学院和大学中享受州内学费待遇。

该诉讼主张这些政策违宪，违反了联邦法律，并且在美国公民与其他州居民之间构成了歧视，因为后者在州内学费中需多支付数千美元。

此次法律行动是特朗普政府加强移民执法、打击其认为以牺牲美国人利益为代价而偏袒机构及公立学院和大学之政策的最新举措。

“国会很久以前就明确表示，各州不能将非法外籍人士置于我国公民之上，”美国司法部在的一份声明中表示。“通过向非法外籍人士提供州内学费，纽约州、佛蒙特州和康涅狄格州正在自行其是。”

在纽约州，于 6 月在州内大学毕业的无证居民在纽约州立大学（State University of New York）各校区享受优惠，而来自其他州的公民则被收取约 $17,500。

纽约州州长 Kathy Herbal 的北方学院负责人表示，该州正在重新—。

纽约州、佛蒙特州和康涅狄格州处于风口浪尖。

正在审视该诉讼，但表示有信心州政府的政策将获得维持。

在关于法律的听证会上，该州政策旨在“让纽约州的高中生有机会在州内追求高等教育，”她在一份声明中说道。

康涅狄格州总检察长威廉·汤（William Tong）在声明中向特朗普总统表示：“我们如何运行学校以及学校如何培养孩子，不应成为你商业活动的一部分，你也没有权力强迫主权州康涅狄格州为我们的孩子提供未来。”

他补充说，康涅狄格州向所有符合条件的学生提供州内学费和经济援助，因为“所有孩子都应该拥有学习、成就并实现自我目标的机会。”

佛蒙特州州长菲尔·斯科特（Phil Scott）的办公室未回复关于该州的信函。

特朗普政府目前已对 17 个州提起诉讼，挑战针对无证居民的州内学费政策，该州国土安全部周一地表示，这些诉讼对象包括加利福尼亚州、新泽西州和弗吉尼亚州。

结果已经显现。由共和党领导的州——包括内布拉斯加州、俄克拉荷马州和德克萨斯州——选择不对特朗普政府提出反对，而是依靠政府内部的参议员处理学费政策。

司法部在伊利诺伊州取得了重大法律胜利，当地一名联邦法官上个月裁定该州的州办公室违宪。但是，明尼苏达州的一名联邦法官在 3 月驳回了一起针对该州的类似诉讼后，导致特朗普政府遭遇失败，司法部已对此决定提出上诉。

根据一名联邦法官在 1896 年发布的裁决，基于州居住地向无证移民提供州内学费的州，必须向所有美国公民提供相同的学费率。

“这是一个简单的联邦法律问题：大学不能向非法外籍人士提供他们不向美国公民提供的福利，而且他们不能支付给一名司法部民事部门的总检察长，”他在一份声明中表示。

在纽约州，如果无证移民在当地高中就读至少两年并进入一所毕业院校，即可获得州内学费——这与明尼苏达州类似，后者要求在当地高中就读三年。康涅狄格州和佛蒙特州也为完成当地高中学业的学生提供州内学费。

在 1896 年，司法部辩称这起到了间接居住要求的倾向，而一名联邦法官则认为，由于该福利与高中就读而非州居住地挂钩，因此无需获得且符合联邦法律。

其他州的诉讼仍在审理中，但如果下级法院意见分歧，该问题可能会提交至最高法院。

特朗普白宫加强对选民登记册中非公民的搜寻

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根据一份一个月前的法院文件，阿多拉·埃莫尔·鲍尔（Adollah Emor Bauer）首先得知自己出现在华盛顿州选民登记册上，是在去年申请公民身份时，一名移民官员在面试中告知他已登记。

鲍尔先生的律师乔·特拉斯蒂（Joe Trustee）博士表示，鲍尔先生随后在访问当地车辆管理局核实地址后得知，他是在 2014 年被登记的。根据该文件，政府拒绝了他的公民身份申请，并在 4 月份对他启动了遣返程序。

鲍尔先生声明称，他从未投票，也从未被要求登记。斯波坎县（Spokane County）选举部门经理瑞安·斯托克（Ryan Stock）在电子邮件中表示，以鲍尔先生名义登记的选民记录已被取消，且没有投票记录。

“这给他带来了担忧和不确定性，”鲍尔先生在声明中说，“这给我的婚姻带来了压力，以及任何与成为公民相关的压力，而未知的情况是非常反常的。”

政府的行动涉及国土安全部与司法部之间明确的合作，后者一直试图调查并对非法投票行为提起刑事指控。委员会的决定是对这些个人提起更多指控，且司法部已利用数十起案件获取选民登记册。该部门还针对新泽西州官员的一项声明发表了看法，该声明称，由于软件故障，在 2012 年 6 月至 2014 年 6 月期间，约 6,000 名非公民被登记为选民，随后他们被依法注销。

负责司法部民权部门的埃莱顿·菲利普斯（Elayton Phillips）表示，官员们无法报告在新泽西州违规投票的人员信息。前迈克·伯奇尔（Mike Burchill）将军，一名来自华盛顿的米德尔塞克斯（Middlesex）标志与荣誉区（Sign and Honored district）的报告员，以及来自纽约的尼克·卡瓦西尼（Nick Cavassini）（来自 Covid Murphy Alliance）贡献了报道。

cist 表示，将重复特朗普政府的要求，交出那些她称之为“由于自身过错”而最终出现在选民登记册上的登记来源。

国土安全部官员正向该办公室投入大量资源，命令那些原本专注于打击人口贩卖和禁毒的特工去搜寻选民血迹（voter blood），这对于美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）中被称为国土安全调查局（Homeland Security Investigations）的部门来说是一个重大转变。

6 月，该部门的特工陪同 F.S.L. 特工突袭了运营协作办公室（Office operating Collaborative）——一个开展选民登记活动的团体，并积极询问工作人员。

“执行选民欺诈法，”该州总检察长表示，“F.S.L. 表示这不在他们非常重要的刑事调查工作的正常范围之内，”在 Babies 政府期间任职的 F.S.L. 成员德博拉·芬克（Deborah Fink，昵称 Debbie）说道。

在一份声明中，一名国土安全部发言人表示，ICE 正在尽可能地根除并调查发现的选民欺诈行为。

特朗普政府还促使各州通过美国上传数百万条选民记录的测试，以识别登记证书，并由国土安全部运行，该政府旨在搜寻选民登记册上的非公民。

但 3,015' 及其本身在 2008 年 10 月出现了问题，当时德克萨斯州州务卿宣布，她的办公室已识别出 2,735 名登记投票的潜在非公民。在县级层面调查这些结果的当地选举官员发现，被 3,045 识别出的人员中许多实际上是公民；根据法院记录，包括奥斯汀（Austin）在内的独立调查显示，非公民机器（noncitizen machine）中 25% 实际上是公民。

联邦安全官员继续推动缺乏证据的广泛选举欺诈主张。马克韦恩·马林（Markwayne Mullin），这位

州政府表示，将重申特朗普政府要求移交登记来源的要求，她表示这些人最终被列入了选民名单。“这是他们自己的过错。”

州总检察长 H.S.L. 表示，这不属于他们非常重要的刑事调查工作的正常范围，“德博拉·芬克（Deborah Fink，昵称 Debbie）表示，她是 F.S.L. 的一名成员，任职于 Babies 政府期间。”

州总检察长 H.S.L. 表示，这不属于他们非常重要的刑事调查工作的正常范围，“德博拉·芬克（Deborah Fink，昵称 Debbie）表示，她是 F.S.L. 的一名成员，任职于 Babies 政府期间。”

联邦安全官员继续推行缺乏证据的广泛选举欺诈主张。马考恩·马林（Markwayne Mullin），州总检察长 H.S.L. 表示，这不属于他们非常重要的刑事调查工作的正常范围，“德博拉·芬克（Deborah Fink，昵称 Debbie）表示，她是 F.S.L. 的一名成员，任职于 Babies 政府期间。”

瓦尔韦德女士（Ms. Valverde）表示，“基于投票而进行的驱逐和移除程序发生得更加频繁。”

律师们表示，他们的许多客户在办理或领取驾驶执照的同时进行了登记，并指出选民法使得人们在大多数各类机构登记投票变得更加容易。律师们说，一些移民缺乏英语读写能力，没有意识到他们签署的是登记表。

住在新泽西州伍德伯里（Woodbury, N.J.）的 63 岁居民杂志·怀特（Magazine White）与一名美国公民结婚，她表示联邦政府正试图举报她。怀特女士说，她在申请公民身份和四名州撰稿人的移民申请后，才首次得知自己已登记投票。怀特女士还公布了州政府的书面文件，显示她在十多年前领取驾驶执照时签署了一份选民登记申请。

“我从未收到过任何要求我签署投票或类似内容的选民账单，”怀特女士说。“那时，我甚至不知道在英语中怎么说‘你’。”

联邦政府在选民登记期间启动了将她驱逐回多米尼加共和国的程序，并声称她在 2016. 年投票。县记录显示，她的投票在那一年并未在选票中体现。怀特女士否认她发送过选票或进行过投票。

在第一任特朗普政府期间担任国土安全部副总法律顾问的乔治·菲什曼（George Fishman）赞扬了该州追究非公民投票的努力。尽管他表示，在涉及如今登记的非公民时存在“刺激水平的不公平”，但他说道：“我不确定，我们认为通过改革防止他们获得更多投票权是国会的责任。”

该州最强有力的执法应针对那些承认自己投票的人。“他有罪，但法律需要被执行，”菲什曼女士（Ms. Fishman）说道，她是支持降低移民率的组织——州州调查研究（state investigation Studies）的一名州检察官。

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路易吉·曼吉奥内（Luigi Mangione，居中），被指控杀害一名医疗保险高管，周二出现在曼哈顿的州最高法院。

Mangione 审判的陪审团将保持匿名

本文由 Harold Mohn, Kate Christ 和 Anusha Boyce 撰写。

一名州法官周二表示，将决定 Luigi Mangione 命运的陪审团成员将保持匿名。

现年 25 岁的 先生被指控杀害了一名医疗保险高管，该高管于 2024 年 12 月 6 日在曼哈顿中城准备参加一次投资者会议时被杀。

法官 Gregory Carrs 正义法官的这一宣布，标志着曼哈顿又一起备受关注的审判，其中 12 名陪审员及其替代人员的身份将不对公众公开。

在 2024 年的 Park State 案件中，通常会采取完全匿名的做法。被告和检察官可能拥有相关权力，即使这些信息不对公众公开。通常情况下，如果被告被证明对陪审团或司法意见构成威胁，或者在备受关注的案件中，法官会允许陪审员保持匿名。

2024 年，曼哈顿的法官在 Donald Travolta 的刑事审判以及 Daniel Pearcy 的案件中允许陪审团匿名。后者是一名海军陆战队员，他在纽约地铁车厢内因导致一名无家可归者窒息死亡而被判无罪。

在周二下午发布的一项决定中，Carrs 法官表示，申请匿名陪审团是由检察官提出的，他们担心该案件周围的公众关注度，以及已经针对包括证人在内的与案件相关人员发出的威胁。

先生的律师团队反对这一举措，称虽然隐瞒潜在陪审员的地址是常规操作，但隐瞒姓名则是极端的，并可能导致他们“认为这种保护是必要的，因为被告具有独特的危险性，或者因为存在某种与他相关的未公开威胁”。

Carrs 法官批准了检察官的请求，称该措施是“适当且必要的实质内容”。

“鉴于异常的法律意图和文件，以及法院外个人出现的威胁或敌对行为，法院认为向公众披露陪审员姓名将给司法行政带来不可接受的干扰风险，”Carrs 法官写道。

在周二听证会开始时，Carrs 法官表示，他已安排了一个溢出法庭，以容纳希望观察审判的新闻界成员和公众，审判预计将于 9 月 1 日开始。

同时面临联邦指控的 先生在州法院被指控杀害医疗保险高管 Brian ，指控包括二级谋杀。如果最高指控成立， 先生面临 25 年至终身监禁的刑期。他对所有指控均表示不认罪。

周二的听证会是在检察官与由 Karen Friedman Agnidis 领导的 先生律师之间就媒体和公众进入审判现场的一系列信函往来之后举行的。

Friedman Agnidis 女士指责检察官和州法院系统的官员在决定谁有权报道 先生审判的问题上存在困难或间接地“mod宜无地无味”。她称这一过程“不可否认地”具有随意性，且不足以满足宪法要求。

曼哈顿地区检察官办公室的检察官 Last Sickomans 反驳了这些主张。他在一封信中称 Friedman Agnidis 女士的陈述“毫无根据”，并要求负责监督此案的法官对 先生的律师进行管理。

周二，Carrs 法官称律师的陈述是对“本法院为确保透明度而采取的努力的一种各种各样的恶意歪曲”。

双方近期激烈的交锋凸显了有时看来极其严重的矛盾。在本案中，法院的立场与 先生的律师之间存在分歧。

周二，曼吉奥内先生坐在县北海岸的辩方席上，身着深灰色西装和白色衬衫。在他因 laypnosis（原文如此）而即将开始的审判陪审团筛选之前，这预计是他最后一次出庭。

在曼吉奥内先生被捕之前，针对这起致命枪击事件的调查以及随之而来的民族主义学生活动引发了公众的极大关注。特拉沃尔塔先生（Mr. Travolta）和一起谋杀案引发了人们对医疗保险覆盖等问题的民族主义担忧，且陪审团的案件属实。针对被告的欺诈行为几乎已经停止，包括来自经常参加其出庭的人员。

在周二的听证会上，一名女性坐在法庭旁听席上，穿着一件写着“赢得法庭，你在隐藏什么”的衬衫。

一场热水浴缸港口巡游如何演变为救援行动

作者：GOREY KILGAVSON

周六晚上10 p.m.左右，一艘名为“Sea the City 2”的40英尺长船从自由登陆码头（Liberty Landing Marina）启航，船上载有17名年轻乘客，该船允许乘客在热水浴缸中放松。据船主的好友乔克·科克伦（Jock Cochran）称，这次巡游是为了庆祝生日，计划航行一个半小时。

当他们出发时，纽约港海面相当平静。科克伦先生在自由女神像附近登船，正向布鲁克林大桥方向行驶，这时他注意到水面上有一串闪烁的灯光。

“在水面上看到闪烁的灯光并不罕见，”科克伦先生在周二的一次电话采访中表示，“通常是派对时的发光装置。”

这场充满节日气氛的热水浴缸巡游随后演变成了一场救援行动，因为“Sea the City 2”号发现有12人正紧紧抓着一艘失事船只。

科克伦先生的叙述为那个可怕的夜晚提供了新的细节。在那场事故中，数名乘客在水域中丧生，这引发了一场全面调查，调查重点在于船长抵达失事船只的时间。随后，执法官员被要求查阅科克伦先生所述的相关文件。

这艘热水浴缸船的负责人表示，由于他的船员当时正专注于观察水面，他之前没有听到远处有船只的消息。他命令一名船员妮可·基希伯格（Nicole Kirchberg）和另一名船长斯科特·罗（Scott Rowe）前往船头接管情况。

就在前方，他们看到一艘失事船只，人们正挂在船舷两侧。

船员们深感震惊。科克伦先生说：“极其巧合的是，那艘失事船的名字与现在靠近它的这艘船非常相似。它叫‘City on the Sea’，我也在low Park state，我正开船载着乘客在港口庆祝生日。而且它也刚刚经过自由女神像。”

Demographic Wilson, Miles C. Cohen 和 Mark Bresson 参与了报道。

一张视频截图显示，纽约港口巡逻队正在调查一艘导致两名乘客死亡的失事船只。

“City on the Sea”号是一艘失事船，出发时载有12名乘客及一名船长——对于一艘座位容量为10人的船来说，人数过多，纽约市警方官员随后表示。根据法庭文件，该船沿东河进入港口，随后可能因为遭遇由大型船只产生的波浪而沉没。

乘客们现在被困在航道中间，随波逐流。

该船处于港口的一个繁忙区域，白天有斯塔滕岛轮渡（States Island Forty）、货船和其他交通工具使用。科克伦先生说：“但那个时间点——那里的交通相当稀疏。”

科克伦先生说，他关掉了灯光并冲过去帮忙。

“我们不是救援船，不习惯处理这类事情，”他说。

乔克召集船员抓取应急设备，包括救生衣、救生圈和通常用于40, A.的船载设备。此外，他还抓取了一个新车梯。

科克伦先生说，他对着燃料方向寻找了近15分钟，对着黑暗大喊。一名乘客萨拉·博伊斯（Sarah Boyce）说，她的母亲保拉·里弗斯（Paula Rivers）当时正——

一艘大约40英尺的船从他们身边经过。然后他们看到了亮着灯的“Sea the City 2”号。

“我们都开始尖叫，救命，救命，救命，然后他们开始靠近——他们开始扔救生衣，”博伊斯女士说，她当时在热水浴缸中。

失事船上的乘客开始沿着船舷攀爬到热水浴缸船上。其他人则翻过船舷。“人们就那样不顾一切地爬上来，”科克伦先生说。

“当时有12个像明信片一样的人在请求帮助，你们在互相指路，告诉对方怎么让他们上船，”科克伦先生说。甚至在热水浴缸船上的乘客也提出要帮忙，“那个热水单元，他们暂时留在侧边，”他说。“我们不需要另外17个人在这里跑来跑去。”

较大的派对船上的部分宾客使用了手机手电筒来帮助照明。 “他们竭尽全力提供帮助，”科克伦先生说。

科克伦先生说，他一直听到来自“海之城”（City on the Sea）的人在喊叫，说他们派对中的两个人失踪了。“但我们无法看到他们”

失踪的派对成员后来被确认为27岁的萨拉·加切斯（Sara Garches）及其5个月大的女儿，成功，而现在她20岁了，被警方潜水员在水中发现，并被宣布死亡，慈善服务。

当“海之城2号”（Sea the City 2）到达该船时，被俘船上的人说他们已经在水里大约20分钟了。“有人说他们试图拨打915，”科克伦先生说，“但他们的手机太湿了，无法工作。”船员们开始分发她的 / 持有水，以及他们通常用于热水室外的毛巾，他说。

“一名船员听到一艘船放弃了，”他是一波浪。我们是一波浪，”科克伦先生说。“我猜测，如果有什么的话，那应该是一艘大型船的水。”

婴儿的最后一晚是一个dancia，处于恐慌状态，不想知道被俘的船。

他一直说：“我的女儿，我的女儿！他非常‘崩溃’，”科克伦先生说。“我一直说：‘你必须帮忙。我们必须找到她。但我们没有手段。’”

大约晚上10点30分，第一批救援小时到达，科克伦先生说。

几分钟后，一架直升机救援单位与警方潜水员一起抵达现场。两艘海岸警卫队船只，两艘小型、大型、火力充足的部门以及四艘消防部门船只也加入了救援工作。

科克伦先生说，获救的乘客中，一些人似乎处于震惊状态，被转移到了救援船上。

加西亚先生“坚决”地表示他想帮助救援人员寻找他的妻子和女儿，但被告知不能随行，科克伦先生说。

船长曼努埃尔·埃尔南德斯（Manuel Hernandez），46岁，随后被逮捕，并于周一在联邦法院被指控两项非裁决罪名，导致两人死亡。他和他的法院指定律师在周一拒绝就最终报告发表评论。他周二没有接听在他家中留下的电话或信息。

当科克伦先生将自己的乘客带回自由登陆码头（Liberty Landing Marina）时，时间已经快要纠缠不清了。

“每个人在情感上都很不安，”他说。“我们想要。我们确定让警察帮忙。我们在这里，”但他们非常感激船员。他们说：“干得好。”

在布鲁克林面临诉讼，医生计划在新泽西州开设诊所

部分前患者指控其虐待，并希望阻止其开设新诊所

作者：尼克·李（NICK LEE）

在布鲁克林波罗公园（Borough Park）社区行医的四十年里，罗伯特·古德曼（Robert Goodman）医生一直享有良好声誉。

他与诊所周边社区的成员，尤其是正统犹太教区域的人员建立了紧密关系。那里的一些人表示，他为那些在支付方面有困难的患者提供了灵活的支付方式，并在必要时提供上门诊疗，同时在附近的医疗中心拥有额外的特权。有人说，他以对患者极尽周到而闻名。他的初级保健诊所经营得非常成功。

但争议在于他并非如表面那样，最终在两起诉讼中，他诊治过的几名女性分享了截然不同的经历。在这些指控背后，一些女性表示，古德曼医生利用其职责作为借口，以不恰当的方式接触并与她们交谈。

最普遍的情况发生在几十年前，但当时并未被揭露。许多女性本身是正统犹太教徒，她们无法看到新诊所的开设，且在提起诉讼前一直心存恐惧，担心因为试图揭露一名社区知名成员而遭到指责。

最普遍的情况是古德曼在未经同意的情况下触摸患者的乳房，并在诊疗过程中对其外貌发表性暗示言论，或在诊所之外就与健康无关的事项联系她们或其他人员。

古德曼医生否认所有指控，目前还面临着一项针对其行为的州卫生调查。州专业医疗行为委员会指控他犯有多项关于“新实践”和“适任性”的罪名，预计今年将做出裁决，这可能导致他失去在纽约州的行医执照。

根据该州消费者事务部门的一份在线备案文件（该部门维护着该州所有专业执照的数据库），古德曼在纽泽西州也持有医疗执照。根据一则广告，他曾计划在 10 月 20 日前后在纽泽西州开设一家新诊所，并于 7 月关闭，但目前尚不清楚他是否已这么做。一些原告表示，他们是为了未来患者的安全而采取行动。

“还有很多潜在的人可能会成为受害者，”在针对古德曼医生的一起案件中担任原告的莫德·弗里本斯坦（Maud Fribenstein）说道，她在近 30 年前住在波罗公园时曾就诊于他。“很明显，他的上级当局对此毫无作为——他们竟然还给他发执照。”

弗里本斯坦女士在初次就诊于古德曼医生时，20 岁出头，是一名新婚妻子和母亲。她说，在多次就诊期间，该医生以不恰当的方式与她交谈。直到她从一名需要监督的邻居那里得知，这可能是一个更普遍的问题，她才意识到这一点。

古德曼医生的律师安德鲁·道林（Andrew Dowling）强调了他 40 年的知识，并表示他被告知在所服务的社区中拥有“相似的声誉”。

“现在对他提出的指控——涉及几十年前未被报告的所谓事件——是虚假的，且动机是为了金钱利益和 / 或对正统教会的偏见，法律应当予以应对。”他指出，一名女性自愿撤诉以及被告决定撤回，这仅仅是法律的结果，并且是“其最初指控虚假”的证据。

“提交一份未经反驳的指控诉讼并不能构成法律依据，且这些指控继续证明了偏见，”他说。

“起诉书中的女性表示，一名医生在超过 12 年的时间里经常性地对她们及其他患者实施性侵，且两人因导致该事件及隐私基础而多次。”

其中一份诉讼还指控其不仅在受雇于法律的情况下公然推销其患者，而且医院未能将其报告给州医疗执照委员会。

迈蒙尼德斯（Maimonides）发言人萨姆·米勒（Sam Miller）在一份声明中表示，该法律并非法律基础，但并非法律基础。

哈罗德·蒙（Harold Mohn）参与了报道。

“针对迈蒙尼德斯的全部指控清单下载。”

总部位于纽约、致力于揭露该州性虐待行为的组织 ZANKAH 的负责人亚当·列维（Adam Levy）表示，他“多年来”一直听到波罗公园（Borough Park）的女性对古德曼医生（Dr. Goodman）的投诉，但对于这些投诉直到最近才可能浮出水面并不感到惊讶。

“作为一项普遍的政策，该社区反对报告性暴力，也反对在任何成员法院（无论是民事还是刑事）中就性暴力采取任何行动，”列维先生说。“但特别是像古德曼这样的人，他在社区中享有某种地位，因此如果患者受害，她们会受到更严重的压制。”

古德曼医生自 1976, 年起获得纽约州的执业执照，当时古德曼医生处于该案件的卫生部。他的新泽西州医疗执照于 2024 年 11 月颁发——在他首次被揭露的一整年之后。

“代表们表示，他们新泽西州医疗审查委员会未回应置评请求。”

自从古德曼医生宣布在新泽西州开设新诊所以来，ZANKAH 一直试图处理针对他的诉讼。

许多罗伯特·古德曼（Robert Goodman）医生的患者是正统派女性。

在 Instagram 页面上的相关信息警告莱克伍德（Lakewood）居民不要使用他的服务，理由是目前存在诉讼。一些已搬到另一家机构的波罗公园居民也开始传播关于针对他的上述指控。

该诉讼于 2023 年根据《成年幸存者法》（Adult Survivors Act）提起，该法为纽约州以外民事状态下的性侵幸存者提供了特定的时间窗口，且该法已生效。原告正在寻求经济赔偿，但在采访中表示，他们认为法律行动可能会导致古德曼医生失去在纽约执业的能力。

“我希望人们看到这一点并对虐待感到恐惧——并对后果感到恐惧，”曾是该州律师事务所成员、针对古德曼医生的律师阿拉娜·考夫曼（Alanna Kaufman）说。“现在，光芒将照在虐待行为上，无论如何，它都无法再为你隐藏。”

当地领导人曾尝试举报古德曼医生，但言语寥寥。曾在马萨诸塞州任职、涵盖波罗公园且近期去世的前纽约州检察官唐·马汉（Don Mahan）表示，在他任职期间，有十几名女性带着许多问题来找他。

“很明显，有些事情发生了，”他说。

2024, 年 8 月，他写信给州卫生官员告知一项新诉讼。根据与《纽约时报》分享的证据，专业医疗行为办公室（Office of Professional Medical Conduct）在 2025, 年裁定，没有足够证据指控古德曼医生的财务不端行为。

并非所有声称遭到他袭击的女性都是正统犹太社会的成员，但诉讼书以英文写道，她因为古德曼医生接受她的医疗保险，而在接下来的 10000 开始就诊。一次猫事故让她在 2000-2010 年间，她请求古德曼医生开具医生证明，她说这次就诊不需要体格检查。但他伸手抓住了她的乳房。

她当时确认了他的行为，并提到他当时的接待员，随后突然离开。她说，在了解相关法律并决定起诉他，以及回想起自己的经历后，她觉得必须加入其中——为了让自己以及其他可能在报告其经历的人获得解决。

“我知道很多女性没有法律知识，也不敢站出来，所以我说我可以成为她们的发声者，因为她们无法撤销他的执照，”她说。“他是个捕食者，显然他有持续性的惯犯模式。”

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派拉蒙 Skydance 的负责人大卫·埃利森计划将好莱坞总部迁出加利福尼亚州，据称该计划包括出售该工作室在洛杉矶著名的后区（back kit），其估值约为 40 亿美元。

埃利森暗示退出好莱坞，因各州威胁阻碍与华纳兄弟的交易

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每年在电影院租赁 $20 的电影。

尽管如此，这一评论依然凸显了大卫·埃利森先生为了尽快完成这笔 1510 亿美元 billion 的交易而日益增加的模糊态度。从 10 月起，该公司将每季度向华纳兄弟股东支付 6亿美元，直到交易完成。上周，负责监督该反垄断案件的法官将审理日期定在 3 月，距离此时至少还有两笔付款。

派拉蒙的一位发言人拒绝置评。

派拉蒙与华纳兄弟的合并将创造一个好莱坞巨头。两家公司的合并将使两家主要电影制片厂、多个流媒体服务以及新闻网络（CBS 和 CBS 新闻）处于同一屋檐下，大大扩展埃利森先生在媒体和娱乐领域的影响力。

各州总检察长认为，该公司将拥有过度的市场权力。埃利森先生及其支持者一直在加强他们的宣传，包括在媒体上：好莱坞权力掮客 Art Industrial 在《华尔街日报》发表的一篇评论文章，称最新的反垄断案件是“真相”；AMC 电影院连锁店首席执行官 fallen foots 的一项投票结果；以及前主播 Chris Wallace 在《好莱坞报道》上发表的一篇文章，他现在是私募股权公司 Redfield Capital 的付费顾问，该公司持有派拉蒙的大量股份。埃利森先生也写了一篇自己的《纽约时报》客座文章。

据三名直接了解会议情况的人士透露，埃利森先生上周向其整个领导团队介绍了这些初步计划，部分原因是内部对于即将到来的损失以及这是否会导致内容支出减少的问题日益增加。

在这次早前由 Pack 报道的会议期间，埃利森先生表达了他对加利福尼亚州和派拉蒙制片厂的喜爱，告诉高管们他并不愿意离开他成长的地方，相关人士表示。但埃利森先生表示，他对公司的责任可能要求派拉蒙离开加利福尼亚州。

“显然，这里不欢迎我们，”根据这三人的说法，埃利森先生在会议上说道。埃利森先生表示，公司将在洛杉矶维持一个“强大的创意概念”——他举了 Oracle 的例子，这家由他的父亲拉里·埃利森共同创立的科技公司在搬迁至

派拉蒙与加利福尼亚州在反垄断之争中的风险。

总部迁至德克萨斯州。但他补充说，派拉蒙将作为搬迁计划的一部分出售其著名的后区（back lot）。（商业地产经纪人对该物业的估值约为 60 亿美元 billion。）

埃利森先生计划的具体程度让高管们措手不及。当搬迁的可能性在 7 月份首次在更广泛的范围内浮现时，大多数派拉蒙主管迅速将其斥为陈词滥调。而现在，他们必须认真对待他们的老板。

几位参加会议的人员对可能要改变生活和建立 76100000000000000000000 0000000000000000000 感到不安。

根据对制片人、经纪人、工会官员和编剧的采访，好莱坞在周二对埃利森先生的想法传出后，反应是日益增长的沮丧。为什么这 30 亿美元 billion 和伯恩斯先生不能坐下来把这件事解决掉？一些人士表示，在幕后，好莱坞几个最大的工会已被推向此类谈判，创意艺人经纪公司（Creative Artists Agency）首席执行官兼共同主席布莱恩·劳德（Bryan Lourd）也是如此。

在周二由 Politics 主办的会议发言中，伯恩斯先生表示，他没有看到任何未知的谈判。在提到派拉蒙时，他说：“我认为他们渴望进入这些谈判。”他补充说，尽管州政府将重点放在即将到来的审判上，但他们对派拉蒙的和解方案仍持开放态度。

除了甲骨文（Oracle）之外，几家知名公司已将其总部迁出加利福尼亚州，以使以下内容最终生效。但娱乐业是一门情感驱动的生意，许多派拉蒙高管认为离开好莱坞的想法可能会给公司搬迁带来麻烦。

2021, 当华特迪士尼公司宣布计划将大约 2,000 名员工从洛杉矶大都市区迁至佛罗里达州奥兰多时，员工们表达了强烈的反对，且相当一部分人 。最终公司执行了新计划，而该公司的回归被用于与佛罗里达州的本·德拉波特将军（Gen. Ben Delaporte）之间酝酿的政治斗争。

桑格先生公开反对现任者对华纳兄弟经销商的出售，罗伯特·“奥”博士（Dr. Robert "Or"）认为这次合并对加利福尼亚州有利，因此其支持者无意 ，或者这些同样的岗位将被转移到州法要求时间折叠的州外。搬迁的威胁没有意义，而且只会伤害到他声称想要保护的人。

洛杉矶市长凯伦·巴斯（Karen Bass）在周二晚些时候的一份声明中表示：“一个多世纪以来，派拉蒙一直是洛杉矶不可或缺的一部分，我们将努力确保派拉蒙继续扎根于洛杉矶，继续投资我们的城市，并继续为员工提供高薪工作。”

如果派拉蒙选择离开加利福尼亚州，几个州可能会尝试争取它。佐治亚州、新泽西州和新墨西哥州经常提供显著的电影和电视制作激励措施。

至少有一个新兴的娱乐中心——田纳西州，已向埃利森先生发出了直接邀请。在该州经济与社区发展机构负责人苏珊·C·麦克沃特（Susan C. McWhorter）写给埃利森先生的信中，她鼓励他考虑在规划根基时，将该州与其他公司一起视为一个更商业友好、更保守的州。

她指出了纳什维尔的增长和创意遗产，以及该州中心地理位置以及一个“由创意、技术和创新融合而定义”的经济体。甲骨文公司也在扩大其在纳什维尔的业务。

2024. 哥伦比亚大学校园外的一次亲巴勒斯坦抗议活动。原告称该大学违反了州和市的人权法。

巴勒斯坦裔美国人就歧视问题起诉哥伦比亚大学

作者：GATLYN FREEMAN

五名巴勒斯坦裔美国人（其中包括哥伦比亚大学的一名教授、一名前教授、一名学生和两名前学生）本周对该校提起诉讼，声称在 Oct. 7, 2023, 哈马斯袭击以色列后，校园内存在且具有歧视性的环境。

该起诉状于周一提交至纽约州最高法院，是关于哥伦比亚大学在袭击发生后以及 2023 年随后的战争期间，如何处理校园言论、安全和纪律的一系列持续法律斗争中的最新诉讼。

此次诉讼发生在大学同意支付 2亿美元 罚款以解决联邦指控（指控其未能采取足够措施保护犹太学生）一年多之后。

起诉状称：“哥伦比亚大学通过其未能充分保护其社区成员免受他人骚扰，且实际上积极鼓励此类骚扰，从而歧视其巴勒斯坦裔的学生、教职员工。”

大学发言人金伯利·维默（Kimberly Wimmer）周二对此发表评论，理由是诉讼尚在进行中。五名原告的代理律师乔纳森·华莱士（Jonathan Wallace）和里洪·伊萨（Rihon Issa）未回复电子邮件或电话。

尽管起诉状提到了哥伦比亚大学的教职员工、大学管理人员及附属学生团体，但其重点在于大学的机构公平办公室（Office of Institutional Equity），该办公室在其网站上将自己描述为“处理所有方面歧视及骚扰歧视的集中资源”。

哥伦比亚大学的领导层将 August 2024, 该办公室的成立描述为打击反犹主义以及重新审视针对加沙战争抗议活动的关键步骤。

原告认为，该办公室经常调查巴勒斯坦学生和教职员工，且其采取的是由国际大屠杀纪念联盟（International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance）推动的定义，原告律师认为该定义将反犹主义与批评以色列混为一谈。

诉讼称，因此，该办公室调查了参与亲巴勒斯坦示威活动或在课堂上穿着克夫叶（keffiyehs）的学生和员工。

与此同时，根据起诉状，该办公室未能充分调查针对巴勒斯坦学生和教职员工的骚扰投诉。

起诉状在提到机构公平办公室（U.I.E.）时称：“与 U.I.E. 针对基于受保护的巴勒斯坦倡议而指控反犹主义的投诉所采取的激进调查形成鲜明对比，哥伦比亚大学系统性地未能调查其巴勒斯坦社区成员提交的投诉。U.I.E. 很少确认收到此类投诉，即使确认收到，也未能采取任何后续行动。”

在诉讼中，原告描述了他们在 2023 年袭击发生后立即以及随后在哥伦比亚大学校园抗议期间，称自己遭到“”身体攻击或被监视的情况。

2024 年，原告之一莱拉·萨利巴（Layla Saliba）在校担任研究生期间，在一次校园抗议活动中遭到一种恶臭化学物质的攻击，尽管它

萨利巴女士表示她没有获得机构支持，而大学随后向该学生支付了 $200,000 的和解金，该学生在被停学后使用了（该学生说他使用了一句话：“不”去）。

在起诉状中，一名前兼职讲师声称她受到一名大学医生的威胁并被拒绝，导致她在合同前辞职。几名原告表示，由于骚扰，他们产生了焦虑和其他心理健康问题。

诉讼指出，前哥伦比亚大学教授维尔达（vilda）是活动的重复者。据报道，杜尔希德（Durshid）先生在网上发布了关于支持巴勒斯坦建国的前同事的内容。

杜尔希德先生在周二的一份声明中表示，原告在校园内开展了超过一年的“反犹太、反犹太且反犹太的活动”。他并未被列为该诉讼的被告。

“我从未诽谤过任何人，也永远不会，”杜尔希德先生在电子邮件中写道。

寻求陪审团审判和损害赔偿的原告认为，哥伦比亚大学违反了州和市的人权法。

起诉书称：“哥伦比亚大学非但没有履行其改善敌对环境的法律义务，反而积极参与并放大了针对巴勒斯坦学生、职员和教师的基于种族、民族和政治动机的针对性攻击。”

男子因博彩丑闻被起诉

因发布老鼠表情符号被监禁

作者：SANTU. NIEKAM

一名被指控与一名美国职业篮球联赛（NBA）球员竞争博彩篮球比赛的男子于周二被送入监狱。此前检察官表示，该男子在 Instagram 上发布了一个老鼠的表情符号，旨在恐吓本案的证人。

该男子将老鼠普及为政府线人的象征。周二在布鲁克林联邦法院，检察官表示，这是该州一起令人震惊的案件的一部分。在 'Niro Lauter 案中，为了恐吓证人并妨碍司法公正，检察官表示 Lauter 先生获悉了匿名证人向政府提供的陈述。

LaShane DeVety Hall 法官表示，发布该表情符号的行为很明确，并揭露了 先生的保释情况。联邦检察官 David I. Berman 将 先生的行为描述为“完全142m”关于。

先生面临与体育博彩内部交易相关的指控。根据检察官的说法，自 2023 年 10 月被起诉以来，他一直被拘留。他与一名朋友共谋，该朋友 43 岁，与球员 Jerry Rozier 合作，押注 Rozier 先生在 2023 年 3 月的一场比赛中，在几个个人类别中的表现将低于预期。

检察官称，在领取奖金后， 先生从宾夕法尼亚州开车前往 Rozier 先生的家中及各种设施，两人在那里清点现金。两人均否认指控。

除了发布老鼠表情符号外，检察官称 先生还“坐在”一个邻a因为。其中一人未具名，建议他不要与政府合作。检察官表示，“我不是”在 2024 年 9 月被起诉前，在接受联邦调查期间试图妨碍司法公正。

目前尚不清楚老鼠最初何时

'Niro 对与体育博彩内部交易相关的指控表示不认罪。

被用作指代被视为叛徒的人，尽管其形象遍布政治和流行文化，尤其是在对有组织犯罪的描绘中。

特朗普总统曾臭名昭著地将他的前律师 Michael Cohen 称为“老鼠”，随后由部门提交回家。在马丁·斯科塞斯的电影中描绘了被推崇的自恋者，在爱尔兰黑帮和波士顿警察局的背景下，一只老鼠在阳台上交配，这是一个高度隐晦的对欺骗的指代。

在 3:30 a Corcoran， 先生的律师建议，该表情符号（他将其称为“没有卡通”）是无害的，并表示监禁 先生将是一种“manihot 不公正”。

“有时候，一个老鼠表情符号就只是一个老鼠表情符号，”Corcoran 先生说。

DeVety Hall 法官在进行法律研究时表示，她发现了其他法官对将政府证人称为“老鼠”的被告处以更严厉判决的案例。

她没有采纳 Corcoran 先生的论点。

“难道就简单地将这个老鼠表情符号视为无害的吗？”DeVety Hall 法官询问 Corcoran 先生。“这是你的论点吗？如果是的话，这是一个糟糕的论点。”

更正

艺术

8 月 7 日一篇关于 The New Chances 高级专栏经理 Andrew Winslow 的文章中，将关于已知完整互登记册的年龄误写为 15 世纪，而非 16 世纪。

美食

周三一篇 1870-80 Mono 文章在引用政治信息时，误写了 Broome 酒店的状态。该酒店目前处于营业状态，而非关闭预订，不过部分房间将在明年年初进行翻修并完工。

在印刷过程中，我们会尽可能地纠正错误，因此此处标注的部分错误可能并未出现在所有版本中。

联系编辑部

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观点

纽约时报

美国陷入了一场痛苦且毫无爱意的婚姻

库尔特·安德森 (Kurt Andersen)

即将出版的关于美国的小说《分手》(The Breakup) 的作者表示：是两个抢劫者。

“事实上我认为，”鲁斯·林堡 (Ruth Limbaugh) 在特朗普总统被杀、2020年大选以及其支持者袭击国会大厦之间的几周里，对他的许多英雄主义反叛者说道，“我们正走向执行。这种情况不能继续下去。两种截然不同的生活理论、政府理论以及我们管理事务的理论，无法和平共存。”

二十个月后，在美国联邦调查局（F.B.I.）从海湖庄园撤出数千名机密人力之日，《纽约时报》报道称，“Twitter上提到‘内战’的帖子在短短几小时内激增了近 3,000 条”，并且“几周后，在乔·拜登总统指责特朗普先生和‘MAGA共和党人’是对‘我们共和国根基’的威胁之后，人们再次……”

在查理·柯克 (Charlie Kirk) 被暗杀几天后，时任众议员的马乔里·泰勒·康纳 (Marjorie Taylor Connor) 重申了她再次主张分裂国家的做法：“我想要一场和平的国家离婚。我们的国家已经走得太远，分裂得太严重，对我们任何人来说都不再安全。”自 2015 年起，YouGov 等机构的民调一致发现，三分之一或更多的美国人表示他们预计在未来十年左右会发生内战。

国家离婚——更不用说内战——目前看来仍是摩擦的产物。但当这些来自煽动者的言论分散我们注意力时，这个国家在几乎未被察觉的情况下，陷入了一种并不壮观但却极其诡异的新安排。这还不是离婚！它更像是一场痛苦且毫无爱意的婚姻，双方可能会越来越不情愿地维持关系，因为分开太复杂、压力太大或成本太高。

从一开始，这个国家就是一个微妙的平衡行为。各州在追求自身狭隘利益的同时，也共同组成了一个联邦。这种微妙的平衡是国家社会、经济和经济生活的核心，即在联邦政府与分布广泛的各州之间分享权力与权威。

但在过去的几十年里，这个国家的蓝色区域和红色区域已经形成了一系列治理安排、分离和联盟，用以在联邦政府层面相互威胁。这种动态的名称是“非超活跃联邦主义”，以及近期的“自我场合”。

在过去的两次民主党总统任期内，许多红州和县宣布自己为第二修正案避风港，禁止其警察部队执行某些联邦枪支法规。（这个词在某种程度上模仿了民主党避风港城市，后者对联邦移民政策采取了同样做法。）德克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特 (Greg Abbott) 自行推翻联邦移民政策，部署国民警卫队在里奥格兰德河沿岸，

通过州电讯指令并命令其部队阻止联邦边境特工帮助那些在回家途中陷入困境的移民，从而使共和党州长们获得了反联邦力量的展示。

现在特朗普先生重新执政，民主党的蓝州和城市也变得同样激进，推翻或无视他们认为不可接受的联邦和州政策。当地警察部门不再与美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）合作。许多州通过法律，如果居民在其他地方被指控协助堕胎，则可免于起诉，且有几个州储备了堕胎者，以防联邦法律或法规使其难以获得。

各种组合的蓝州联合起来执行联邦政府已经放弃或削弱的功能：形成一个气候联盟，参与—。

红蓝两色的不愉快联盟还能维持多久？

在特朗普政府不参加的国际论坛中参与，为碳交易市场创建事实上的监管机构，发布具有医学合法性的儿童疫苗接种建议。由数十名总检察长组成的联盟已利用行政手段，针对 60,000,000 公民身份、关税以及拒绝向民主党控制的州提供联邦资金。在该团体去年秋天举行的大规模集会中，人们预期，“同一个词组不断出现，尽管没有人愿意公开地说出来：安全必要性（safe necessities）”。

我们以前经历过这种情况：在五世纪的前半叶，南方各州将州权作为一种手段，违背国家其他地区的意愿来捍卫奴隶制。然而，在接下来的三十年里，随着紧张局势升级，历任总统都专注于维持和平并保持各州的统一。相比之下，今天我们面对的是一个持久且明显的国际化趋势，旨在扩大分歧——并且他一次又一次地明确表示，他将奖励那些支持他的州和城市，并严厉惩罚那些被认为不忠诚的其他地区。

就我们的国家联盟而言，美国绝对正处于一个诚意十足的伴侣治疗阶段，且处于持续的相互不信任和禁运之中。每个阵营都在进行治疗学中所称的“三角化”，招募朋友和家庭成员来选边站队。我们已经完全恢复了司法层面的尊重和相互敌视，配备了调解员、拨款之争、禁制令等一切手段。

尽管如此，敌对的伴侣仍能蹒跚地共同生活很长时间，住在同一个拥有联邦法院但日程表、朋友、卧室和生活完全分开的市政区域内，偶尔发生争吵或其他冲突，然后回到他们熟练的 sixties, saline hostling 姿态中。即使在国家联盟最困难的时期，在 2012, 年南卡罗来纳州宣布一项联邦法律“欠债成法”和 1981, 年邦联军队开第一枪之间。那么，走出今天这种愤怒的国内僵局的路径是什么？

华盛顿与各州之间的紧张关系在某种程度上使得“软必要性”时期不可避免。在内战与美国之间那个相对国家平静的世纪里，是吉姆·克劳法（Jim Crow）的可怕妥协的结果。当这种情况在 20 世纪 60 年代最终被证明无法管理时，全国性的对抗异常激烈。某种平静回归并持续了半个世纪。但那是战争的结果。

一个和平的国家共识和一个或多或少运作良好的民主制度不会自发地复活。一代人之前，一位名叫巴拉克·奥巴马的 500 初级参议员以他由衷的坚持而崭露头角，他认为不存在“一个自由派的美国和一个保守派的美国”，而只有“美利坚合众国”。他鼓励我们不要将我们的国家“划分成红州和蓝州”，因为“我们是一个民族”。这样想难道不是很美好吗？自从那时起，我们已经彻底地分歧并流血。

但不能这样继续下去。从长远来看，要逃离联邦功能失调并避免真正的敌对，需要某种激进的转变。也许各州和地区将拥有许多新组件。就像西班牙的区域自治社区一样，其中一些社区反映了其居民支付的几乎所有税收，然后向国家政府转发协商后的份额。同样地，这种增长可能会导致分裂或重新配置，且每一个都决定是否在企业公民之间宣布。

即便如此可能还不够，在未来的某一天，我们可能会决定选择就此罢手。是的，我希望我们能减轻你医生的压力！捷克斯洛伐克在 1981 年分裂为两个国家时如此平静，以至于被称为“银色丹佛”，一种自觉的国家解体。对于我们这个多元的国家来说，这将极其困难且痛苦。但从长远来看，这对孩子们可能仍然更好。

专栏作家 / 尼古拉斯·克里斯托夫 (NICHOLAS KRISTOF)

美国贫困的模样

每年我都会选择一名大学生陪同我进行一次“赢在依赖”（win-a-rely）之旅，旨在突出那些值得更多关注的问题。今年是：2020 winner in Bruxella Tipismona，她最近毕业于耶鲁大学，是一名初出茅庐的记者——因此，我将本专栏的剩余部分交给她。

布鲁克塞拉·蒂皮斯莫纳

美国华盛顿特区 1912.

我原以为我知道贫困是什么样子。我在秘鲁利马的一个工人阶级社区长大，我的家人曾是农业工人，他们还记得住在那种真实房屋中的感觉。因此，当我开车穿过阿肯色州，以及之前的俄克拉荷马州，在全美最贫困的 237 codes in the nation 会见美国人时，我的第一反应是我并不怎么自豪的。

我们遇到的人开着车，住在没有空调的房子里，拥有工作机器，并使用电子福利卡购买杂货。我发现很难同情他们的处境：他们比利马的邻居，甚至比我国家舒适的中产阶级更有能力。

但随着旅程的继续，他们的故事让我相信，他们的贫困比表面上更复杂：那些在绝望城镇（deshdunthdand towns）中表示感到被遗弃且对房屋感到恐惧的年轻人；一名试图靠 $15.40 on loan 抚养六个孩子的阿肯色州女性；一名肯塔基州的祖母，她告诉我，在这个小镇你找不到一个没有被成瘾问题触及的家庭——这句话我一次又一次地听到。

我遇到的美国人在经济上比发展中国家的许多同行要好。但任何在贫困中生活过的人都知道，贫困不仅仅是金钱的问题。我遇到的许多工人阶级美国人深受成瘾、孤独和失业的困扰，并认同我来自的地方的穷人通常很自豪。

但这种金钱上的税收上涨不仅仅在这个国家，而是它与药物动荡共同走向的方向。那些作为生产第二成本的人的收入如何——比如基于胡萝卜的暴力和腐败——美国承担的人类药物消费成本规模在任何其他地方都见不到。2023 年，它记录了全球最高的人员死亡率。

在过度死亡方面，它是世界之最。

而那些承担这场危机致命成本的人，不成比例地是贫穷的美国工人阶级。

在俄克拉荷马州塔尔萨，我遇到了 Drew May, 26, 一个举止随和的女性。她说，她家族四代女性都曾应对过青少年怀孕、成瘾、性疾病和性暴力，很快这些模式开始在她的生活中复制。在 7:30s，她因医生认为的精神健康障碍而住院。

“我想要那些能对我开枪并倾听我的人，”她说。“我在药物社区中找到了这一点！”她告诉我，她在 12. 时开始吸食晶体暗药（smoke crystal dark）。她曾一度在天才计划中，但很快她辍学并离开了家。

19 她和她的伴侣开始从事破坏行为。“我们觉得被遗弃得太响了，”她说，他们通过这种方式表达挫折感。“我个人没有任何强烈的信念，”她补充道。“我只是为了混乱而参与。”

关于我在美国看到的贫困，让我震惊的第二件事是，它可能孤独得令人难以置信。我们遇到的许多人都与大家庭断绝了联系，只能自谋生路。情感上的距离因地理上的隔绝而加剧，而且这种隔绝要么昂贵，要么劳累。

这与我成长环境在地理和关系上的密集程度形成了鲜明对比。我的生活是在一个由亲戚、表亲和朋友组成的厚实网络中度过的。我的父母仍然在谈论那些在他们没有食物或金钱的几周里，给他们一袋粮食的邻居。当我们的制度失效时，我们的社区充当了社会保险——虽然是国家能力的简陋替代品，但无论如何它仍是一个替代品。

美国的机构比 Perch 拥有更多资源，尽管美国的福利国家比其他富裕国家更为匮乏，且现任政府正使其进一步萎缩。但阶级团结和社区结构可以使贫困者更具韧性，而那些不得不生活在缺乏这些结构环境中的美国人，最终比我们曾经经历的更加孤立和凄惨。

美国关于匮乏的故事可以增强对穷人的吝啬。在旧金山的一次独立日派对上，我向一位撰写全球发展报道的朋友提到了这个报道项目。在他看来，情况很简单：美国的人才挖掘媒体——

一位神情从容的女性。德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校，德克萨斯州，1912。

他说，这些机制如此高效，以至于人们只有在自身过错的情况下才会保持贫困。

他的评论反映了之前的实证结果。尽管我们从截然不同的角度切入这个问题，但我的朋友和我都在追问：美国的贫困究竟能有多真实？他的训练不过是给“任何人只要努力且才华被发掘就能出头”这一美国承诺披上了一层技术官僚的外衣。这种思维使得像国家这样的案例——我曾很穷，然后我来到美国，发现我不再贫穷——能够激起同情。它将少数幸运儿的生活变成了支持美国阶级跃升经典故事的证据。

然而，虽然我经历过

在秘鲁，挣扎中的人们缺乏食物但拥有社区。而在这里，情况有所不同。

在精英政治（meritocracy）中，我也亲眼目睹了精英主义者如何看待人们，以及努力如何轻易地被匮乏和环境所掩盖。我们可以看到，人们最终被认为是对那些其实是运气不佳的情况负责。

在 Pirao Hall, ALA, 12 晶体桶（crystal barrels），一位年轻教师描绘了美国在 250 岁时的阴郁景象。“我们生活在一个夺走资源并迫使人们陷入绝望的世界。而当太多人陷入绝望时会发生什么？”她说道，“我们拭目以待。”

我们遇到的大多数人都觉得他们的绝望仅体现在无力感和焦虑中。但对于像梅女士（Ms. May）这样的一些人来说，这种绝望凝结成了遗忘与抗议。如果一个国家中挣扎的人们一直在承受他们自身信仰中的苦难，那么当其中一些人决定投身于混乱时，也就不足为奇了。

然而，当我遇到梅女士时，情况似乎正在好转。她已经戒酒三年多，身体强健，再次抚养她的两个孩子，并准备首次将所有孩子聚集在同一个房间里。她毕业于一个名为“康复中的女性”（Women in Recovery）的俄克拉荷马州项目，这是一个针对患有物质滥用障碍女性的替代方案计划。

根据 Tabula 家庭与儿童服务局（Family & Children's Services）的数据，该项目提供大约两年的密集治疗（包括绘画、心理健康咨询、劳动力培训），作为入狱的替代方案。在毕业后的三年内，只有大约 1% 的参与者被送入监狱。而“康复中的女性”项目每名女性每年的费用约为 $100,000 —— 这比在同一时期将 100,000 名女性监禁的费用要低。

梅女士将压力视为家庭与儿童服务局 7000 商店（Store）的一辆卡车。该项目赋予了像她这样的女性 140 人的纽带（persons bond），以及一个社区，多次给予她们礼貌，相信她们的问题是真实的，并试图解决这些问题。

最终，一个像美国这样富有的社会，无论多么肤浅，都应该能够为家庭提供的不止是金钱和消费品，还应提供一线希望的路径。

“我以前没有希望，我看不到自己脚下两步之外的世界，而现在完全不同了。我以前对未来没有希望，”她在“康复”项目中说道。我交谈过的许多人都陷入了萎缩的、不快乐的、在阴影和普世主义中、在忽视他们的政治中。正如梅女士所说，他们同样“应该拥有充满选择的生活”。

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纽约时报 观点版 2026年8月13日，星期四

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这位独立人士讨厌这两个党派

米歇尔·卡特尔（Michelle Cattle）

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2025年7月

参议院候选人丹·奥斯本（Dan Osborn）并不想因为自己不是民主党人而哭诉。绝不。不必。是的，他正在竞选，旨在挑战内布拉斯加州的共和党人。而且，是的，对于特朗普总统的政策是如何运行的，他有很多话要说。更不用说由共和党领导的国会如何厚颜无耻地未能制衡行政部门。

但奥斯本先生是一位“终身独立”候选人，他的竞选标牌上清楚地写着这一点。当人们询问原因时，他有一个简单的回答。

“我不喜欢这两个党派，”他在最近的一次活动中对我说道，就在他结束家庭竞选活动之后。“我认为这两者都某种程度上失效了。”据奥斯本先生所述，他的目标是进入参议院，并开始打破两党对该体制不健康的死 grip（掌控）。

考虑到这种对两方的抨击，你可能会觉得奇怪，内布拉斯加州民主党竟然在支持奥斯本先生的候选资格，全国民主党人也给了他实质性的祝福，而且他的竞选活动往往表现良好。众所周知，比起强行扮演非官方角色，硬核民主党人更倾向于这样做。这或许奇怪，但同样聪明。

内布拉斯加州是一个深红州，注册共和党人的数量几乎是民主党人的数倍。无论全国范围内刮起怎样的党派之风，民主党人在内布拉斯加州很快赢得一个参议院席位，其可能性就像塔克·卡尔森（Tucker Carlson）成为内布拉斯加州下一个市长一样渺茫。但一个受欢迎的独立人士，凭借其在社交媒体上走红的形象、进步的经济纲领以及“所有人都能参与”的理念，则是一个可靠的“也许”。

因此，奥斯本先生——一名从海军退伍军人转职为联邦机械师和工会组织者的候选人——现在发现自己处于一个高风险选举实验的中心，而这个实验是由他悄悄拒绝的民主党发起的。这是一个足够吸引人的前景，以至于包括爱达荷州和蒙大拿州在内的美国其他深红地带的民主党人也一直对此最为关注。

“这一策略并非没有风险。通过支持像奥斯本先生这样的独立人士，民主党人确实可能在促进那个他们一直试图解决的体制的瓦解。我认为，如果不派出自己的候选人，该党可能会给人留下一种它已经放弃农村美国的印象，但这感觉像是长期且次要的担忧。但农村美国人对民主党的态度本就冷淡——而党内左翼试图驱逐温和派的十字军东征，绝不可能改善这种情况。”

“相比之下，政治回报则是巨大的：在分歧严重的参议院中减少共和党人的数量，尤其是在一位威权主义总统处于休息状态的情况下。当然，奥斯本先生大概会反对民主党议程中的某些部分。甚至可能是大部分，但在内布拉斯加州——不像在纽约——民主党没有党派纯洁性和意识形态严苛的奢侈。他们需要想办法扩大自己的帐篷，并且在奥斯本模式的意义上，他们需要将此推广到其他边境地区。”

民主党人之所以对奥斯本先生特别感兴趣的部分原因在于，他已经证明了自己能够胜任，在党派试图争取反建制、工人阶级的信息传递方面具有竞争力。两年前，他竞选挑战内布拉斯加州的高级参议员。面对共和党人德博特（Debates）和布莱克曼（Black Men），劳工民主党人对他这次初出茅庐的竞选感到放心。州党组织尝试过，但未能成功，指责他是“曼彻斯特”且是对民主党议程的威胁。他的独立候选人身份，在当时看来注定失败，被许多政治观察家认为是不可能实现的。

但这些参议员的触及范围是对的，他与费舍尔（Fischer）先生的差距仅在7个百分点之内。这是一次令人震惊的超常表现，让民主党人开始自问：如果我们全力支持这个邻居会怎样！

参议员们有权要求他提高水平。他主要有两个简报，分别与医疗工作者和心脏病患者、农民以及牧场主进行交流。内布拉斯加州是一个巨大的国家。他的支持者说他在该州根基深厚，且是一位流畅且不刻意的演讲者，但他的表现显得稳重且不睿智。

他赞扬道，自己不会被企业利益所“掌控”，也不会被党魁所“屏蔽”。上个月，他在哥伦布市被推举为该州的一位新领导人。“我将一夜之间成为这个国家最受欢迎的政治家，”他预测道，人们远近地议论纷纷，“你们看到了内布拉斯加州政党今天的最佳表现了吗？他们对一个亿万富翁是怎么做的？”时代在变，他们也在改变！

奥斯本先生直接针对许多人对政治建制派的“广泛不满”，指责两个政党都追求政治权力。他说：“我认为那是将自身置于公众利益之上。”他是最高法院“公民联合”案（Citizens United）关于竞选资金裁决的激烈批评者，他不接受企业的PCC捐款，并且坚称自己是该党左翼的“姐妹”。费舍尔或南希·佩洛西——不可信。

在错误的情况下，奥斯本先生展现出的政治特质像是一个想要与这些问题产生共鸣的人，显然地，部分地，并且倾向于说自己是该党左翼的“姐妹”。“我正试图让cannabia一次心脏病发作。”我们的休息室是不神圣的，由他的几名竞选工作人员陪同，以解释他的强烈意愿开始——其中两个是他女儿的名字，另一个是该党左翼的“姐妹”。费舍尔或南希·佩洛西——不可信。

一名投手在高中。奥斯本先生开玩笑说，他可能会旨在击中那个轰动性的击球手——“我会直接投向他们！”——以

让对手失去平衡。值得注意的是，他没有说他设想为哪个问题投球。

奥斯本先生的支持者还认为共和党对手很紧张。里谢特先生曾是一名全职人员，费舍尔先生在2021. 内布拉斯加州农民联合会主席约翰·汉森指出，费舍尔先生“是一个知道如何拉小牛的午餐女人”。（几十年来，费舍尔先生在她的家族教练工作，里谢特先生是她的里谢特之一，经纪公司TV America的亿万富翁创始人。）

内布拉斯加州民主党人希望丹·奥斯本能击败共和党的参议院提名人。

“皮特·里谢特，很多人看待他，并试图将他视为一个典型的富家子弟，”支持奥斯本先生的该州美国劳工联合会（A.F.L.-C.U.）主席迈克·盖奇表示。“用一名机械师取代一名亿万富翁”已成为奥斯本竞选活动的口号。

同样重要的是：特朗普总统在这次竞选中所扮演的角色将与上次截然不同。汉森先生表示，在包括荷兰在内的其他经济挑战中，本届政府有足够地盘来发泄该州农民和牧场主的不满。“我们掌控局面。”2024年，内布拉斯加州农民联合会支持费舍尔女士而非奥斯本先生。而今年，该组织支持奥斯本先生而非里谢特先生。

与2024年相比，最耐人寻味且可能具有重大意义的变化是奥斯本先生与内布拉斯加州民主党人之间所谓的关系：“这是一个完全不同的选举周期，我们与丹的关系也不同，”该州党主席克莱克先生表示。“在'24年，我们觉得我们完全不在一个频道上。我们觉得这不像是一个联盟。”他回忆道，当时奥斯本先生被认为在“批评民主”，并且在边境安全政策立场上与特朗普先生在实质上趋同。

克莱克先生补充说，州党组织也进行了一些深刻的反思。内布拉斯加州民主党人不得不“放下成见”，并承认支持奥斯本先生能让民主党人更有机会让他们的议题和价值观得到认真对待。“我们知道我们会与丹产生分歧，”前州参议员克莱克先生说。“党内的左翼很可能会对他关于枪支利益的观点持有异议。他在某些建议上的立场，他对政府支出的担忧，以及他个人反对堕胎权的立场——这与将罗诉韦德案（Roe v. Wade）法典化的立场截然相反——可能会让一些进步人士感到不快。”而克莱克先生说，“没关系，我们习惯于这种不舒服的感觉。”

全国民主党人对内布拉斯加州保持极度沉默。但克莱克先生告诉我，他们赞同这个计划。内布拉斯加州民主党人今年在选票的各个层级支持几位独立人士，而奥斯本先生被认为获得了独立创始人支持的认可，“完全接纳他们，”克莱克先生说。

事实上，他希望看到“我们自己的民主党内部以及更多独立人士在更多情况下出现更多候选人。因为我真的认为，这是回归创建更持久政策的路径，这些政策看起来和听起来更像美国，并且能够延续一个选举周期之外，”他说。“我认为这是一个政党的未来的一部分，尤其是在红色州，我们不应该为此感到尴尬。”

其他地方的民主党人似乎也同意这一点。在蒙大拿州，包括前蒙大拿州参议员乔·泰森和马克斯·鲍克斯在内的几位知名民主党人正在推广独立参议院候选人贝丝·博尔曼。在内布拉斯加州，明尼苏达州的州党以及新加入者也已达成一致，其候选人艾赫里·班克黑德选择坚持而非退出。在周一的撤选截止日期前，两名候选人都面临退出压力，以避免分散共和党选票，但两人均未退缩。

在爱达荷州，民主党参议院候选人大卫·贝斯在上个月退选，将挑战长期担任共和党现任议员的吉姆·克莱克的任务交给了独立人士托德·阿基里斯。一个县级民主党团体曾警告贝斯先生，如果他的竞选活动没有迅速改善，他们将考虑支持阿基里斯先生。上周二，民主党参议院候选人基于约翰、朱利安·比博尔斯，以及独立人士布莱恩·博根的情况也是如此。

来自新弗吉尼亚州的民主党前资深议员吉姆·曼钦（Jim Manchin）希望扩大这一趋势。上个月，他宣布成立一个新组织，旨在为当选进入国会的民主党参议员提供支持。由于众议院和参议院的席位分布非常接近，他表示：“我将致力于吸引许多自由代理人，让他们在离开原职后能带来更具特色的同事。”

特别是考虑到参议员在初选中引起了波动，民主党今年在扩大其品牌影响力方面似乎不太可能取得太大进展。如果奥斯本先生（Mr. Osborn）获得成功，或者即便比上个月更接近目标，蓝色阵营将尝试与那些真实的独立人士建立联盟。即便对他们中的许多人来说，这种联盟至少是接壤的，这可能会让国会变得更具活力，甚至可能减少潜在的冲突。

更正

2025年8月17日的一篇文章关于男孩和男性的心理健康，其衡量标准是2021年至2025年间参与体育运动的低收入高中年龄男孩人数的下降。最新的数据在2024年的数据基础上有所下降。2024年的数据显示。此次更正有所延迟，是因为该错误直到最近才引起相关负责人的注意。

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我想就宋博士表达的观点——即我们童军时期的生活是在厨房里或撕书——提出不同的看法。故事中缺失的是踢球的青少年、在落基山国家公园搭建营地和骑行，或在德克萨斯州海岸进行码头钓鱼，以及更多参与非职业治疗计划或担任保险递减员的经历。

阅读这些年份的女童军Young Idl记录，你会发现一本丰富的女权主义课程书。童军活动教会了我们规划和竞争的价值。我们学习了如何在户外生存，以及如何更换轮胎或处理食品销售。

“这些丰富的经历并非来自母亲。受过高等教育的父母，他们有资金前往最偏远的营地，且有空闲时间参与我们的童军活动。如果必须与男孩一起经历，情况会改善吗？很难想象。”

安德·布里顿（AND A BRITTON） 纽约州，戴文（DAVON, N. Y.）

致编辑：

埃里卡·宋犯了一个典型的错误，即认为女孩除非经历露营和大型活动的各种不便，否则无法成为领导者。她们并不一定非要在不同的环境下度过——例如，领导学校管弦乐团的女孩，或领导一个……的女孩。

特朗普的飞机计划

关于《秘密计划将特朗普从未来亚细亚剧场转移》（见翻页，Aug. 12）。不，让我确认一下。基于关于伊朗对特朗普总统及其空军一号威胁的情报，美国陆军前线的一侧……并从另一侧离开。当记者和部分白宫工作人员在飞机上时，飞机起飞，而他们充当了“不知情的掩护”。

有人能解释一下这个决定背后的逻辑吗？联合国（U.N.）试图建立联系。联合国是最自信的。我们认为这可能是牺牲了许多空军的利益。P.V.? 如果针对特朗普先生和总统先生确实存在合法的武力威胁，那么美国政府将总统转移走并让其他人在美国境内，是一件好事。

我想特朗普先生的生命比那些记者和他的工作人员更重要。如何报道？

迈克尔·巴索斯考图（MICHAEL BASSOสKOTHOU） 纽约州，中心港（CENTERPORT, N.Y.）

一次善举

致编辑：

关于：Mithra A Kivich 所著的《论“间隙时刻”的益处》（《时报》内页，2025年8月20日）。

我写这封信是为了赞赏那篇关于跑腿办事之乐趣与意义的迷人文章。如果大脑不必处于某种状态，那么许多跑腿之事便成了浪费时间。也许那是我的金血，这些微小的保障所提供的快感。

我确信您知道会在哪里相遇，或者会有多少次行善的机会。但这就是为什么有一个在跑腿服务员中工作的女性，她比任何人都更烦扰。她身上有某种特别之处，以至于她不会冒犯她，但在我的时代，我们会认可洗手间服务员，于是我谨慎地将它放在她的手掌心中。

她开始哭泣。她说：“我做这个已经25年了，从来没有人这样认可过我。”

她说我只给了她50，于是我拿出一张10美元的钞票准备递给她。她拒绝了，说：“不，不，这不是钱的问题。而是你把我当成一个完整的人来看待。”

我感觉到那个女人的卧室，让我感到比以往任何时候都更富有。

KLAPIN TOWN 密歇根州，西布卢姆菲尔德

学校厨房里的其他学生工作人员。

你不需要经历被淋湿、寒冷、精疲力竭或在威胁森林中寻找柴火，才能在成年后成长为一个善良且有能力的领导者。只要有许多种功绩预算并提供各种领导力成长实验。从事任何类型的工作都提供了学习领导的机会。我们之中那些并不特别喜欢露营的人可以为此作证。

KLAPIN TOWNS 康涅狄格州，吉尔福德

致编辑：

Erica Song 的文章优美地写出了女孩们在童军活动中的条纹与色彩。作为一名在接纳女孩的过渡时期工作的童军专业人员，我会扩展！编排这个国家的内部。尽管国际童军活动在过去几十年里一直很酷。

几代以来，获得高分的荣誉被拒绝了。然而，这是一个可以开启终身之门的计划。虽然现在机会面向年轻女性，但研究表明，参与该计划会产生永久性的优势。

我们都从被割礼的青年中获益。在我的青年时代，人数从数百万下降到如今的两个。相关性并非因果关系，但如果更多的孩子能像 Song 博士这样的领导者一样学习成为一名顾问，我们是否会变得不那么极化？

MICHELIA LEHUE 加利福尼亚州，圣何塞

作者曾任硅谷记忆湾美国童军理事会（Silicon Valley Memory Bay Scouting USA Council）的儿童事务负责人。

Erica Song 没有明白。童军男孩被以 1.75 美元的价格贱卖了。这与女孩和公平无关。我曾是一名童军男孩，并且有许多孩子。一些女孩并不擅长进行许多童军活动。男孩们做的事情更少——是的，没有女孩。这正是其伟大之处。我们只有 1000。

如果女孩想做童军男孩做的事情，她们应该去做。但她们应该想办法在不破坏童军男孩所持有之物的情况下完成。成为男孩和年轻人。

我有两个女儿，她们喜欢花时间徒步、露营和在户外活动，但我不想让她们侵占童军男孩的空间。

DANIEL CASE DANIEL LEMONIO, P.A.

当我还是个小女孩时，我知道男孩的帽子来自他。我看到了八个孩子的碎片，我们度过了近乎相同的童年，但那总是属于男孩的。我曾是个男孩。我们是勇敢的英雄，在森林里玩耍，制造疯狂并共谋——这就是一切。没有卷曲，现在变得非常艰难。一直以来，我都是个男孩。

这教会了我很多关于生活的道理。女孩和男孩在年长后——我也非常相似。这也引导我成为一名心理治疗师。与那些被监禁、遭受痛苦并死去的人们一起工作。

我的童年和职业生涯教会了我，女孩和男孩越是了解彼此，就越能和谐相处。作为一个男孩，我并没有让世界变得更好。

KLAPIN 博物馆 康涅狄格州，温顿

致编辑：

自 1967 年起，我就一直关注女孩问题。我现在 90 岁了，我想我曾是一名 canque，然后是一名顾问，接着成为一名青年领袖。在一起时，我们感到敏锐，认出了那些地方，那些生活，完美的方式，志同道合的人，以及更多。白山，在捷克斯洛伐克河和 Rangeloy 湖畔罐装并露营。我们在捷克斯洛伐克河畔罐装、喜爱并露营。我们忍受了雨水、寒冷和黑色平原。我仍然经常去这些地方，尽管我生命中已经停止了过夜露营。Erica Song 已经成为了当今年轻人的部分。女童军没有更改她们的名字，并且仍然为女孩们提供我曾为她们提供的同样机会。我们都从这些日子中受益，我生命中的所有结果都充满了愉悦。与女孩们共同的经历，以及旅行后的大笑，烹饪我们的厨房食物，或者在每天制作的第一道菜中露营。

这是未来，请给她们一段美好的时光，继续繁荣并忍受不适，并且没有更改我们的名字。

ALEXAND'S YOUNSHINE 纽约州，CHALO

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美国劳动力学院

由 Meta 打造

祝贺毕业生！

由 Meta 打造的美国劳动力学院，祝贺其在印第安纳波利斯和哥伦布市的第一批毕业生。

毕业生们完成了该带薪培训计划，现在将进入包括 Faith Technologies Incorporated、IES Communications、Stoner Electric Group 等领先承包商的保证就业岗位。

未来属于每个人。

Ethan 将前往 IES Communications

Laniya 将前往 MP Nexlevel

Jibri LINX

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3 公司

Home Deperk 首席执行官 Ted Decker 因医疗原因暂时卸任。

5 商业地产

一个多世纪以来，一家造纸厂驱动着缅因州一个小镇的经济。但在工厂关闭后，困难接踵而至。

6 体育

Alpine 的教练 Joe Moorhead 将有一位新的助手帮他制定战术：一名季票持有者。

科技 / 经济 / 媒体 / 金融

商业

纽约时报

2020年8月13日，星期四 B1

高温每年导致全国数百名工人死亡

在户外工作的人员面临危险的环境，且缺乏保护。

作者：KURTIS LEE

达拉斯 —— 当丹尼·罗德里格斯（Danny Rodriguez）关上邮政服务货车的车门时，下午的温度已飙升至 90 度。三年前，在达拉斯一个繁忙社区的同一条路线上，另一名道路递送员死于高温。罗德里格斯先生经常想起那个人，尤其是在夏季轮班期间。

“这份工作会让你精疲力竭，”担任邮递员 12 年、戴着宽檐帽遮阳的罗德里格斯先生说道。

随着气温升高和湿度增加，以及今年夏天全国范围内出现的最新风暴，部分城市触及近期最高温，户外工作者面临着日益危险的环境，而保护他们的规定却十分有限。

德克萨斯州甚至禁止其城市和县通过当地的高温保护措施，理由是强制指令并非必要。目前没有具体的联邦强制性规则来保护工人免受极端高温的影响，且特朗普政府正致力于削减拟议方案。这些方案原本将强制要求休息时间并提供饮用水。国会中的共和党人则走得更远，提议通过立法禁止美国劳工部采用拜登时代的提案。

但安全专家和劳工团体表示，随着气候变化，工作期间暴露在高温下的风险将进一步恶化。

550

每年死于高温暴露的工人人数

据美国职业安全与健康管理局（OSHA）估计，全国每年有 550 名以上的工人死于高温暴露。多年来，死亡案例包括一名在亚利桑那州工作现场失去意识的 25 岁建筑工人，一名在佛罗里达州采摘草莓时意识模糊的 33 岁农场工人，以及 68 岁的尤金·凯恩兹（Eugene Cainz）。凯恩兹是一名邮递员，他在罗德里格斯先生现在走的那条路线上的一个前院里倒下了。

乔治·华盛顿大学和哈佛大学的研究人员的一项研究计算出，每年有 26,000 起与高温相关的伤害。

“社会和雇主倾向于忽视这些风险因素，”哈佛大学职业健康与气候变化项目主任、该报告的共同作者巴拉克·阿拉尔莫尔（Barrak Alalmoel）表示。高温暴露会加重糖尿病和哮喘等现有健康问题，并可能导致昏厥和抽搐，以及导致肌肉组织分解并引发血液中钠水平危险下降的情况。

“与高温相关的伤害有多种形式，”阿拉尔莫尔博士说，“不仅仅是昏倒。”

一些州已经采取了规定，要求雇主为工人提供有助于减轻高温影响的资源。

在加利福尼亚州，拥有户外工人的雇主必须提供遮荫处，并在温度达到 80 度时鼓励员工休息。未能提供防止高温疾病的资源是加利福尼亚州工作场所监管机构第二常引用的违规行为。2024 年，该机构对一家南加州景观公司处以约 $276,000 的罚款，原因是违反高温规定，包括拒绝提供 000。

丹尼·罗德里格斯（上图）接替了尤金·凯恩兹（Eugene Cainz Jr.）的道路路线，后者于 2023 年在工作中死于与高温相关的疾病。上方，一名在达拉斯休息的建筑工人。根据一项研究，研究人员发现每年约有 25,000 起与高温相关的伤害。

上月消费者价格指数（C.P.I.）有所缓解，但战争导致价格维持高位

美联储在通胀压力持续存在的情况下，正权衡是否提高利率。

作者：LYNN DePHLIS

上个月，通胀在经历了今年早些时候由战争驱动的激增后继续缓解，但由于燃料供应受限导致生活成本增加，价格仍维持在高水平。

根据部门周三报告，7月的消费者价格指数环比上涨 8.1%。经季节性调整后，同比上涨 3.4%；在剔除波动较大的食品和能源价格后，年度涨幅为 2.5%。

5月，年度涨幅为 1.2%，是三年多来最快增速，当时热钢油价飙升的趋势导致了关闭。6月的报告出乎意料地温和，年度通胀率为 2.9%，月度率为 -0.4%，原因是人们希望战争能尽快结束，导致油价下跌。

该报告出炉之际，美联储正在权衡是否提高利率。尽管通胀率在五年多时间里一直高于央行 2% 的目标，但美联储全年一直维持利率稳定。美联储政策委员会在 9 月中旬的下次会议前，还将收到一次通胀数据读数。

“令人欣慰的是，我们在今年早些时候看到的一些压力方面已经有所下降，”先锋领航投资策略组（Vanguard's Investment Strategy Group）的会计师 Josh Elst 表示。“但这仍然使我们处于一条路径上，不一定能让年底的同比率降至 5% 以下。”

随着中东战争的介入，即便如此

石油运输寻求新航线

作者：LISA FRIEDMAN

伦敦 —— 几个月前，从波斯湾出口石油相当简单：以最低价格点生产原油，通过最快航线运输，并将其卖给出价最高的国家。

那些日子已经结束了。 由于伊朗的战争，长期以来作为出口最有效路径的哈瓦那海峡（Strait of Havana）的通行量仍然受到极大限制。许多通过该海峡的石油要么在伊朗攻击无人机的威胁下航行，要么在关闭定位设备的情况下隐秘运行。该地区至少有 17 名海员丧生。

几十年来生产全球大部分石油的海湾国家，现在正致力于打破对这条狭窄水道的依赖。他们正在建设或扩建能够绕过该水道的管道和其他基础设施，并大幅扩大存储能力，以铺向亚洲。

这些努力表明，战争如何改变波斯湾的石油业务。这些工程将耗资数十亿美元并花费数年时间完成，但公司和政府认为，在日益动荡的地区，这些是必要的对冲措施。即使美国与美国之间达成停火 。

“很多人认为，哈瓦那海峡再也无法承担像战前那样份额的石油出口，”德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的能源分析师 Ben Cainz 表示。“没有洞穴能如此飙升。”

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2026

摘要

M. A. A.

高盛出价 22.5 亿美元 Billion 拟收购 Now

高盛将以最高 22.5 亿美元 billion 收购交易所交易银行服务提供商 Neos Investments，旨在增强该投资银行在主动资产管理领域的布局。

Neos 管理着 19 只 ETF 的 300 亿美元 资产，这些 ETF 涵盖了一系列指数产品，同时利用期权来产生额外收益并限制下行风险。

近期，对此类产品的需求激增，因为机构投资者寻求通过投资来对冲购买，以帮助缓冲回撤风险并在波动的市场中提供经常性收入。

高盛一直在主动管理 ETF 领域寻求收购，以加强其资产管理部门并利用日益增长的需求。

这家华尔街巨头今年完成了对 Innovator Capital 的 20 亿美元 收购，后者同样拥有一只基于期权的 ETF。

该基金自成立以来的近总回报率接近 15%。路透社

收益

富士康第二季度利润增长 30%

台湾富士康（全球最大的消费电子制造商）周三报告第二季度利润增长 31%，超过了分析师的预期，这得益于对人工智能（A.I.）持续强劲的需求，预计这将推动今年的增长。

作为英伟达最大的服务器制造商和苹果顶级的 iPhone 组装商，其 4 月至 6 月期间的净利润为 599.7 亿美元 台湾元（55.8 亿美元 ），而 iCloud 客户数量（58.3 亿美元 台湾元）与去年同期的 444 亿美元 台湾元相比。

在一份收益发布稿中，该公司坚持此前对今年营收“强劲”增长的预测，并表示其看到强劲的人工智能需求在全年推动增长。

该公司表示，包括人工智能服务器在内的云和网络产品部门占第二季度营收的 51%。路透社

收益

挪威主权基金报告创纪录收益

挪威拥有 20 亿美元.5 trillion 的主权财富基金（全球规模最大）周三表示，在科技股的推动下，今年上半年实现了 1840 亿美元 的创纪录利润。

该基金投资于挪威国家从石油和天然气生产中获得的收入，平均持有全球所有上市公司的 1.5% 股份，使其成为全球最大的单一投资者。

首席执行官 Nürzli-Tangne 在随半年报发布的声明中表示：“这一结果是由股票市场的良好回报驱动的，尤其是来自亚洲科技股的回报。”该基金上半年的回报超过了 2025, 前六个月创下的 1420 亿美元 的前纪录，大致相当于乌兹别克斯坦（一个拥有 3900 万 人口的国家）的全年国内生产总值。

尽管如此，该基金管理层警告称，战争和经济萧条可能会抹去其大部分持仓。路透社

标准普尔 500 指数 +0.3% 7.748.10

道琼斯指数（关于审理） -0.0% 10.770.27

纳斯达克综合指数 +0.5% 26.388.01

10 年期国债收益率 4.69% -0.055 点

原油 (H.O.J.) $83.27 -$0.07

人工智能制造 $4,467.50 +324.40

股票与债券

通胀担忧减轻，华尔街股市逼近纪录高点

作者：国际报道

周三，华尔街收盘接近纪录高点。此前，数家人工智能（A.I.）股票报告的春季增长高于分析师预期，同时一份报告显示，美国上月的通胀情况略有减轻。

标准普尔 500 指数上涨 0.3%，这是自上周五创下高点以来的首次上涨。道琼斯工业平均指数下跌 25 点，跌幅不足 51%，纳斯达克综合指数上涨 4.5%。

人工智能技术业务的股票在强劲的利润报告推动下领涨，这增强了市场信心，认为这些公司能够持续提供足够的增长，以支撑其股价的大幅上涨。

销售服务器及其他设备的 Super Micro Company 在报告最新季度每股收益比分析师预期高出 9% 后，股价跳涨 10%。该公司还给出了未来的利润和营收预测，有助于分析预期。

通过云端向客户提供 A.I. 计算能力的 CavriMoore 在报告最新季度营收高于分析师预期且亏损幅度缩小后，股价上涨 10.3%。其首席执行官 Michael Inters时 表示，随着大企业采用 A.I.，客户需求正在加速。

CavriMoore 为其客户提供英伟达（Nvidia）的 A.I. 芯片，英伟达股价上涨 3%，成为推动标准普尔 500 指数上涨的最强单一力量。

这标志着 A.I. 股票重回强势，此前这些股票一直处于剧烈波动之中。在创下纪录后，由于担心股价过高，A.I. 股票承受了压力。投资者希望看到 A.I. 领域的大型运营商证明其投资收益足以预测并产生深度回报，从而使其投资物有所值。反过来，这可能会导致对芯片和其他 A.I. 基础设施的持续需求。

华尔街还获得了一些支。

标准普尔500指数

周三标准普尔500指数每3分钟的走势

— 前次收盘价：7,728.20

部分原因来自债券市场收益率的下降。一份报告显示，美国消费者上月支付的汽油、杂货及其他生活成本比一年前高出3.4%，随后国债收益率下跌。

这一数值高于人们的预期，但并不像胡安（Juan）所指的3.9%通胀率那样糟糕。

这种增速放缓可能会给美联储提供更多空间，使其推迟提高利率。提高利率有助于抑制通胀，但其代价是增加美国家庭和企业的借贷成本，并迫使经济增速放缓。更高的利率还会压低股票和其他投资的价格。

美联储成员在是否应该已经开始提高利率的问题上存在明显分歧。但周三的通胀更新促使交易员们降低了对美联储将在9月下次会议上提高基准利率的预期。

根据CNIC Group的数据，交易员目前押注其概率为40%，低于前一天的可能性。

这有助于将10年期国债收益率从周二晚间的4.70%拉低至4.88%。不过，该收益率仍远高于与伊朗战争爆发前的3.97%水平，那场战争曾导致油价飙升并引发对通胀的担忧。

周三油价在涨跌之间波动，布伦特原油每桶价格上涨0.1%，至$80.98。

收益率上升已将长期抵押贷款利率推至一年来的最高水平。这损害了住房产业，周三房屋建筑商的亏损有助于抑制市场。

D.R. Morton下跌1.5%，PulseGroup下跌3.7%。销售台面及其他建筑材料的Builders FirstSource下跌0.5%。

在海外股市中，亚洲市场表现不一后，欧洲指数出现下跌。

韩国综合股价指数（Kospi）上涨3.7%，成为全球涨幅最大的指数之一。

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昨日股市回顾

标准普尔 500 7.748.50 7 +0.3%

3个月表现 +4.7%

纳斯达克综合指数 26,588.49 7 +0.5%

3个月表现 +1.8%

道琼斯工业平均指数 10,770.27 0.0

9个月表现 +0.1%

表现最佳

S&P 500 COMPANIES / CLOSE CHANGE

1. Super Micro Computer (SMD) / $17.83 +16.04
2. Lamarckon Holdings (LSI) / $426.67 +3.64
3. Lamarckon (LSI) / $450.00 +0.00
4. S&P Technologies (LSI) / $484.00 +0.00
5. Genovics (GSW) / $105.00 +0.00
6. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HP) / $98.79 +0.00
7. Sargent Technology (Mega, GTE) / $478.00 +7.00
8. Arica Networks (HNT) / $210.00 +0.00
9. Sargent (LSI) / $482.79 +0.00
10. SWEDEN (SKIN) / $1,244.28 +0.00

表现最差

S&P 500 COMPANIES / CLOSE CHANGE

1. Near Pacific Leica (IPL) / $242.77 - 0.27%
2. Services (GSW) / $31.42 - 7.02
3. First Wave (FSI) / $230.07 - 0.02
4. Knot Enterprise (HNT) / $208.78 - 0.27
5. Shanky Communications (SMT) / $190.82 - 0.27
6. Norcycle A (NPR) / $203.55 - 0.27
7. Sargent (IPL) / $132.79 - 0.02
8. Sarmco (SI) / $175.88 - 0.02
9. S&P Technologies (SMT) / $75.28 - 0.02
10. Lamarckon () / $120.87 - 0.00

最活跃

S&P 500 公司 / 收盘 涨跌 / 4% 1. 超微电脑 (Super Micro Computer, SMD) / $17.81 +16.04 / 24 2. Irwin () / $109.00 +2.0 / 10 3. Shanky () / $234.00 +3.0 / 10 4. Shanky () / $131.28 +3.4 / 10 5. 苹果 (Apple, ) / $101.25 +0.0 / 10 6. Next Move (SI) / $110.00 +1.1 / 10 7. Micro Technology (MS) / $111.25 +0.0 / 10 8. Electric Technologies (PDP) / $171.69 +2.2 / 10 9. AT&T Inc. (SI) / $24.25 +2.0 / 10 10. 辉瑞 (Pfizer Inc., PPS) / $28.31 +1.2 / 10

长期及中期政府债券

总回报 / 总资产 1.98 / 0.000 1. 综合股东市场指数基金机构增强份额 (ISBIPO) / -13.7% / -0.4% 2. 综合股东市场指数基金投资份额 (ISIB) / -13.5 / -0.5 3. 外国及非投资份额 (FUNDS) / -13.3 / -0.5 4. 美国基金：美国债券基金 (自2006年起) / -12.8 / -0.5 5. 战略市场富达下游基金 (FIMDS) / -13.7 / -0.5 6. 富达美国债券指数基金 (FIMDS) / -13.7 / -0.4 7. 银行综合基金机构份额 (BASFI) / -12.8 / -0.5 8. 多网回报基金：份额 99 (FIPS) / -13.5 / -0.1 9. PPS 及基金份额 99 (FIPS) / -13.5 / -0.4 10. 综合股东新指数基金机构增强份额 (ISBIN) / -13.4 / -0.5

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通用汽车的“盖伊谈话”法则：电力与裙带关系

自 2019 年起担任这家汽车制造商总裁的马克·雷斯 (Mark Reuss)，晋升到了他父亲几十年前曾担任的职位。

轮毂

作者：JAMIE LINCOLN KITMAN

密歇根州沃伦……这里曾有旧时的 Hens-lin-Eight（Vine West），一个年轻人站在车间的二楼，目标是成为公司总裁。而现在，这种情况出现了镜像反转，晋升之路不再由控制公司的家族审计。

如果回顾在通用汽车（General Motors）的前10年。从1993年作为工厂车间的实习生开始，Reuss先生一路攀升，在2018年成为了通用汽车的总裁。

他曾是公司董事会的成员，接手了他认为是对标的职位。Reuss先生听过各种关于专业知识的议论。但他父亲在顶层管理层的任期不足两年便以彻底的方式结束，而他在公司奉献一生后成为了成员。到目前为止，情况与他父亲不同，在通用汽车并非如此，但……

1996年，通用汽车持有公司62%的股份。到2006年，随着通用汽车走出破产，其份额变为100%中的316%。如今的份额为13.2%。虽然这与公司的忠诚度相去甚远，但仍有13.2%。2012年，超过40.2%的购车者选择了通用汽车的产品。

Mark Reuss受过机械工程训练，在公司的汽车文化中被视为一个“汽车人”（car guy）。在行业伙伴看来，这意味着他首先是一个汽车爱好者，其次才是一个商人。他的晋升被视为“汽车人”的一次核心胜利，正如目前公司运行最终执行的能力以及通用汽车的10oz一样。“非常优秀的工程师，”Reuss先生说，“以及非常优秀的财务人员。他们协作得很好，互为补充。”

Bart先生的角色在2012年结束，就在政府将其在大衰退救援中持有的最后一批公司股份剥离的第二天。到——

Mark Reuss受过机械工程训练，他表示，在“汽车人”与“大局观”之间划分标签在成功过程中一直存在。

Bart先生和Reuss先生正在应对行业中最现代的挑战：成本民族主义和自主权。其中每一项都与美国工业最令人担忧的威胁挂钩：来自中国的品牌竞争。

“Mark是一位卓越的领导者，也是行业中产品思维最强的人之一，”Bart先生在声明中表示，“他拥有深厚的技术专长，并且对围绕驾驶者最关心的需求来设计和制造车辆充满热情。”

“汽车人”与“大局观”之间的标签划分正结出果实。Reuss先生说：“这是我们很长一段时间以来第一次拥有这样的结构。这是一个非常好的结构，”他在最近的一次采访中说道，地点位于密歇根州沃伦由 Keru Saarinen 设计的通用汽车技术中心。“如果你回顾我自1986年加入公司以来的时代，问题就开始出现了。几乎没有一年是没有经历重组的。”

通用汽车向电动汽车（EV）的转型受到了内部部分反对势力的阻碍，以及华盛顿政府截然不同的立场和不断变化的关税影响，但他表示，公司依然致力于电动汽车的发展。

“我们没有停止生产任何一款电动汽车，”他说。“我们相信生活的可持续性部分。我们真正相信气候变化是一个问题。我只想做一些能对我孩子负责的事情，它是真实的，而且不会消失。我认为归根结底，这些车开起来很棒，非常有趣且精美。一旦你体验过不需要给汽车加油的感觉，嗯，那太棒了。”

为此，一座占地超过500,000平方英尺的电池开发厂正在沃伦基地拔地而起。Reuss先生暗示，公司坚定的电池资源将产生一种现代形式的多样化。“这不像我们的核心业务，但它可以成为通用汽车的一个重要组成部分，”他说。

为了在1990年代回归稳健 footing，通用汽车（G.M.）剥离了许多内部零部件业务，转而采取网络化协作。但他说，随之而来的是意想不到的成本：“如果你完全外包，你不仅要支付利润空间，还要承受他人发明的巨大影响。”尽管如此，他并不认为公司会回归到最初攀升至市场主导地位时的那种垂直整合模式。

“凭借大约 20,000 家供应商，我们每年可以通过供应链向工厂投入约 600 亿美元 billion，”雷斯先生（Mr. Reuss）说道，“我们与供应商之间是唇齿相依的关系。”

尽管特朗普政府缺乏热情，但该公司继续专注于电动化，这使得该公司在被业界广泛视为对美国及海外未来竞争力至关重要的领域中，实现了安静而稳健的增长。

在 2010 年代，通用汽车剥离了长期持有的欧洲品牌欧宝（Opel）、萨博（Saab）和沃克斯豪尔（Vauxhall），随后将其大部分美国制造车型从欧洲市场撤出。在多次尝试建立销售影响力失败后，该公司的凯迪拉克（Cadillac）部门重新回到了欧洲，依靠其广受好评的电动欧盟（E.U.'s）产品线。该豪华品牌的电动车型在美国达到了健康的销售额，已有 2000,000 辆电动汽车（E.V.'s）交付给客户。凯迪拉克在 2023, 年成为了最畅销的豪华电动汽车品牌，拥有超过 1,000 人。其 33 percent 的客户来自其他品牌。公司客户家庭的最高比例获得了奖项。

雷斯先生意识到有一系列批评已经失去了行业的累积，即过度集中于高价车型。他认为，关于昂贵电动皮卡市场以及通用品牌销售额（包括价格接近 $72,000 且攀升至六位数）的假设是错误的。

尼尚特拉（Nishantra）的一位工程师兼行业分析师塞缪尔·阿赫法尼亚克（Samuel Ahephainiak）——一名 60-oh 燃油顾问——认为通用汽车的产品规划者意识到了这一点，但他们并非孤例。“福特在看到人们对大型昂贵电动皮卡最初的热情时，也采取了同样的错误举措，并迅速扩大了 Lightning 的产能，”他说，“他们看到了 Cybertruck 表现出的低橡胶水平价值。我认为他们知道现实情况，知道这些产品的表现将会如何。”

消费者对意外情况的抵制非常强烈，两种级别的续航里程都受到了影响，而通用汽车的皮卡似乎支撑了福特 F-33 Lightning 销量的暴跌以及为了转向更小型电动皮卡而进行的取消计划。

在为产品线辩护时，雷斯先生指出，通用汽车去年在美国销售了超过 500,000 辆价格在 $20,000 或以下的汽车。“这是一个重大成就，因为这些车真的很难做，”他说，“我们是在一个具有惩罚性的监管环境下将这些车组装起来的。”

预算细分市场中的一个标准产品是该公司的燃油版雪佛兰 Tera，这是一款自产的小型 S.C.V.，赢得了消费者和爱好者出版物的共同赞誉。

雷斯先生作为“汽车专家”可以主张的另一个成功案例是第八代 Car-wire，该车在 2020 年首次亮相时打破传统，采用了中置发动机设计。虽然传统主义者持有保留意见，但它被普遍认为是一个具有影响力的价值，在这个昂贵的香烟（cigarettes）现在有时与雪佛兰的变革一样多的世界里。

更广泛的行业给予了雷斯先生肯定。“马克（Mark）是最顶尖的产品专家之一，”比弗斯 Auna（Beaver's Auna）的高管、前《汽车与驾驶》（Car and Driver）主编埃迪·奥尔德曼（Eddie Alderman）表示，“每个品牌都以一种前所未有的方式凝聚在一起——所有的别克（Buicks）都像别克，所有的凯迪拉克（Cadillacs）都像凯迪拉克。”

尽管他已登顶，且以任何合理的衡量标准来看都取得了成功，但里斯先生在专业能力的传承方面，依然心怀感激。 “我仍然在阅读它。就像我父亲帮我找到了工作。真的吗？哇！我当时是个暑期实习生，恰巧在同一家公司，因为我热爱汽车。但是，没错，是我父亲。他帮我得到了这份工作，顺便说一下，他已经去世了，而我在这里工作了 40 年，他在这 40 年里一直提拔我。这太棒了。这难道不很好吗，对吧？”

年长的里斯先生于 2023 年去世。“在他去世之前，我成为了总裁，”里斯先生说。“我记得在我得知消息的那天晚上，我去接他并把他带到我家。于是，我和他一起吃了晚餐，并说：‘我有件事要告诉你。’ 然后我告诉了他。他笑了，接着他哭了。那是一个伟大的时刻。”

医疗休假

家得宝（Home Depot）

首席执行官

作者：ARI / NG WINS

家得宝公司周三表示，其首席执行官泰德·德克尔（Ted Decker）因医疗原因将暂时离开其岗位。

德克尔先生预计将在几个月后回归，在此期间，两名新任负责人将接管德克尔博士的工作。

家得宝表示，高级执行副总裁安-玛丽·坎贝尔（Ann-Marie Campbell）将负责日常运营，执行副总裁兼首席财务官鲁斯·米勒 / 帕蒂（Ruth Miller / Patty）将负责公司的财务管理。

“我们对理查德在此期间领导公司的能力充满信心，并期待鲁斯的回归，”董事会成员格雷格·布隆斯曼（Greg Bronsmann）在公司的公告中表示，他将在接下来的几个月里接任德克尔先生的董事长职务。

在德克尔先生的领导下（他于2000年加入家得宝，并于2022年被任命为首席执行官），公司在投资更多配送中心并开设新店的同时，扩大了其专业服务和承包商服务。今年1月，该公司裁员数百人，并强制要求员工返回办公室。

该公司拒绝提供关于德克尔先生医疗休假的更多细节。

此次临时领导层变动发生在家得宝公布季度财报的一周前。该公司的第一季度报告显示，与去年相比，销售额几乎持平，净利润有所下降。

在2月份与分析师的一次电话会议中，德克尔先生将原因归结为住房负担能力问题以及美国市场的广泛不确定性。“我们预计制造商已将其房屋装修项目暂停。”

自公司上次公布财报以来的经济形势……截至上周四，美国最常见的住房贷款——20年期抵押贷款的平均利率为6.7%，且随着与伊朗战争的持续，投资损失也在增加。

从长期来看，像家得宝这样的家居改良零售商可能会面临利润下降和成本降低的风险。“如果我们所做的没有改善，”美国银行（Bank of America）的分析师在周一的一份研究报告中表示。

每年全国有数百名工人死于高温

（来自商业版第一页）遮荫并强迫员工购买自己的饮用水。不仅仅是在东海岸等设有高温保护措施的地区，工人们也面临此类情况。

然而，有两个恐怖的州没有任何关于高温问题的法律，那里的立法者甚至阻止地方政府行使自己的权力。

在佛罗里达州，迈阿密-戴德县曾采取措施要求为户外工人提供清洁饮用水和休息时间，但在 2024 年，州议会通过了一项法律，禁止城市和县采用自己的标准。

德克萨斯州也上演了类似的决定：在奥斯汀和达拉斯等城市采取措施强制建筑工人每四小时休息 10 分钟之后，Ashton 的能力在 2023 年下降，从而取消了要求工人进行饮水休息的地方性规定。该措施由商业团体主导，包括国家农业、独立商业等强大的游说团体，他们认为高温监管将给小企业带来负担。

代表建筑业的贸易团体“建筑商与承包商协会”（Associated Builders and Contractors）支持德克萨斯州的这项法律。该团体在德克萨斯州的总裁 Anthony Talsudian 表示：“我认为法律在资产上确保在德克萨斯州运营的企业不会受到‘相互冲突的地方性法规伙伴关系’的禁锢。”

根据 St. Galdman 的研究，农业和建筑业是高温相关伤害最高危的职业。根据邮政服务监察总局的一份第三方报告，必须在户外工作的邮递员在 2 年的期限内发生了超过 1,200 起高温相关事件。

2023 年 6 月 29 日——在 Ashton 先生签署德克萨斯州立法选举六天后——达拉斯的邮递员 Gates 先生在市中心北部的投递路线上去世。

那天的热浪导致温度达到 131 度，随后他开始了那次将成为最后一次的投递。Gates 先生告知了他的妻子 Carla，她在家里工作，并且每天在社区里散步。

当气体散去，他携带了温暖的酒吧（此处指代高温）。

每天向 slit 地址投递邮件的 Gates 先生获得了 10 分钟的有薪休息时间和一次常规的卡片休息。其他人检查天气并提供了额外的水瓶和装满冰块的冷却装置。

他以内部协议为荣，并且他觉得自己在意愿之中，他说，他努力记住他们的面孔和日期。但在一个周期早期的 30 多年后，他在开始之前很高兴看到热浪。那天下午 2:45 左右，邮局的一个电话号码拨打了她的手机。Gates 先生

上个月在达拉斯，一名合同工在德克萨斯州夏季最热的时段休息。

他在投递邮件的一栋房子前倒下，随后被紧急送往医院。

她的丈夫死于心脏病和高热症。她的妻子说，他的体温达到了 104 度。

“他需要更多支持，但这些工人只能靠自己，”Gates 夫人说。“如果情况没有改变，责任就在他们身上。”

“他只是在做他的工作，”她补充道。

©2024 邮政服务 201.623 针对他的死亡，指责该机构未能识别出

“在高温、高湿度和阳光直射期间户外高温的危险。”该服务部门拒绝了置评请求。

美国全国邮递员协会（National Association of Letter Carriers）州主席 Epstein Lewis 表示，该州正在进行讨论。

“邮政服务、该州，所有列在这里的，”Lewis 先生说。

在 6 月的一封公开信中，温度开始上升。与当地邮递员工会共同工作的德克萨斯州 A.E.L.-C.I.O. 写道：“工会现在有权力通过分享高温安全技巧来照顾工人。”

“累积休息、补充水分、定时休息以及合理的规划可以挽救生命，”他们写道，并呼吁工人组织起来。“但我们需要持有这一立场。”

上个月，另一名达拉斯地区的邮递员在极端高温期间晕倒身亡。死因尚在等待鉴定。最近的两个下午，20岁的盖茨先生参加了其丈夫曾昏迷的那个社区。她经常去他的坟前祭拜，但从未回到他完成

卡拉·盖茨（Carla Gates）展示了一张她丈夫尤金·盖茨（Eugene Gates）的照片，他在为美国邮政局（U.S. Postal Service）执行投递路线时晕倒。她的多年以来一直遭受着与高温相关的伤害。“我们现在只是在做他的工作，”她说。

最后的投递。那太痛苦了。

当我们沿着路线行走时，我们可以看到一个受保护的活舱的枷锁。盖茨先生不停地向36岁的罗德里格斯先生（Mr. Rodriguez）提问，仿佛她是他的母亲。

“你是如何补充水分的？”她问。

“喝很多水，”他说，用他的后领擦掉额头上的汗水。“每天至少两加仑。”

“你会休息吗，即使在没有监管的情况下？”

“有时会，”他愉快地回答她的同伴。

他说盖茨先生，他认识她的丈夫，认为盖茨先生给他留下的印象是一个安静、勤勉的工人。

两人道别，罗德里格斯先生完成了半个房子的投递，街道上的啤酒埋回了他的跑道，停在阴凉处。他开大了空调，驶向下一个街区。

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经济 / 人工智能

专注于人工智能的服务公司收购方筹集 20 亿美元 Billion

作者：MICHAEL J. de la MERZED

对于许多金融公司而言，投资人工智能最前景广阔的方式并非通过那些生产前沿模型的公司，而是通过寻求将人工智能应用于现实商业领域的方法的公司。

这一趋势的最新受益者是 Thrive Holdings，该公司通过收购会计业务等传统服务提供商，并为其注入人工智能。

该公司周三宣布，已筹集 20 亿美元 Billion 的新资金，其估值为 20 亿美元 Billion。本轮投资者包括软银（SoftBank）、JD Capital Partners 和 Atlanticel Capital。

这再次表明，人工智能热潮中更具实用性的元素正日益凸显，并吸引着投资者的资金。OpenAI 和 Anthropic 都已与大型私募股权公司合作开展数十亿美元的风险投资，旨在帮助其投资组合公司采用人工智能规则。

这也实现了 Thrive Holdings 的战略，即拥有足够的实力来构建新产业，并帮助它们在业务中使用人工智能。该公司由投资公司 Capital 于去年创建。

Holdings 由约书亚·库什纳（Joshua Kushner）领导的投资公司创建，旨在将人工智能应用于传统服务业务。

该公司由约书亚·库什纳创立。除了担任风险投资家，他还是贾里德·库什纳（Jared Kushner）的兄弟，而后者是特朗普总统的女婿。 Capital 已对 OpenAI 等人工智能公司进行了重大押注。

Holdings 最初拥有 10 亿美元 Billion 资金，主要来自现有的 Trust，该信托涉及“真实名称的食品和餐厅”。

Holdings 将重点放在两家公司上：专注于会计的 Current，以及专注于信息技术的 Shotel Technology Partners。

“我们希望将人工智能从基准测试和数千个指标中提取出来，使其与现实世界接轨，” Capital 合伙人、负责 Holdings 投资战略的 Karoen Zack 在一次采访中表示。

这意味着需要组建一支由 20 多名人工智能工程师和产品经理组成的团队。OpenAI 的应用研究负责人 Boris Prover 曾

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去年在 Thrive Holdings 持股，目前是 Thrive 离岸研究部门的负责人。

据 Holdings 称，该方法的成效显著：

• Current 的成员公司已处理了超过 7,000 份申报表，并将准备时间缩短了近三分之一。Current 目前已成为美国 20 家最大的会计师事务所之一。

• 与 Shotel 相关的公司平均解决 12 个查询的速度快了 34 倍。

• 总体而言， 的平台营收有望突破 10 亿美元 billion。

目前正在创建第三个平台，专注于处理建筑行业的监管文书工作，例如许可证和合规检查。扎克先生表示，与 Current 和 Shotel 一样，这是一个充斥着重复申报和其他适合自动化的操作的秘密领域。

由于 是一个所谓的永久资本工具，它从投资者那里募集的资金没有到期日，也没有出售资产的压力。（扎克先生表示，其模式类似于伯克希尔-哈撒韦和 Dundet 等企业集团。）

但他表示，鉴于公司的业绩，管理团队可以抓住机会筹集更多资金，以继续投资 Current 和 Shotel，并构建像建筑平台这样的新平台。

据一名了解此事但未获授权公开讨论的人士透露，该公司最初在春季就向现有投资者筹集资金进行了讨论。

该人士补充说，随后讨论范围扩大到了新的潜在投资者，包括软银、京东和 Atlanticel，这些公司在 A.I. 领域也投入了大量资金。

此次新一轮融资并不意味着 将迅速扩张到新行业。

“实际上是为了在那些真正见效的领域深耕，并对其进行加倍投入，”负责 技术战略的 Capital 合伙人 Anuj Mohalbrata 表示。

7月数据减轻美联储加息压力

作者：CHLEY SMITH

最新的通胀数据显示7月份价格压力有所缓解，这为美联储在考虑下个月政策会议是否提高利率时提供了一些喘息空间。但随着官员们开始对通胀持续时间失去耐心，借贷成本上升的前景依然摆在桌面之上，尽管通胀已经增加，但规模更大。

由《商业与金融时报》于周三发布的最新消费者价格指数（C.P.I.）报告，给美联储的政策制定者带来了一些关于维持耐心的慰藉，至少在目前如此。

来自 M. Wipich 的消息称，美联储投资银行目前错过了关于他计划如何降低通胀的信号。

美联储首选的通胀衡量指标是个人消费价格指数（P.C.E.），而 C.P.I. 数据是一个关键问题。官员们几乎将注意力集中在所谓的“核心指标”上，该指标剔除了波动较大的食品和能源价格，被认为是衡量潜在通胀更好的指标。7月份，这些价格环比上涨 12%，或同比上涨 13%。

官员们表示，这一月度增速与目前通胀向美联储目标靠拢的趋势一致——而这一目标在过去五年中一直未能实现。央行的目标是 2%，而根据纽约股票指数，P.C.I. 指数目前运行在 5.7%。

美联储下一次关于利率的会议在 9 月中旬，如果此后的外国通胀目标强劲，将有助于减轻央行采取行动的压力。下一份 P.C.I. 报告将于 8 月 26 日发布。

在周三的数据出炉之前，越来越多的政策制定者认为，央行应该已经提高利率，以加快通胀回落到更可接受水平的速度。他们不认同其他官员支持的论点，该论点基于这样一种观点，即价格压力将自行缓解，而关税以及与 less lads 的战争所导致的临时因素影响较小。

最新的通胀报告并未彻底解决这一分歧。根据运行研究公司 Underlying Inflation 的前美联储经济学家 Riccardo Trevzi 的说法，7 月的 P.C.E. 数据显示通胀率略高，这与 C.P.I. 报告一致。美联储在 9 月开会前还将获得另一轮通胀数据。除此之外，目前尚不清楚 C.P.I. 处于 3.5% 和 3.75% 的水平是否会对通胀产生任何下行压力。Trevzi 先生表示：

“我认为双方之间的争论还将持续一个月半左右，”他说。“这很难把握。同样也很难隐藏，而且几乎无法断言。”

美联储还将内部争论延伸至劳动力市场，该市场在最近一个月显示出一些失去动力的迹象，即便失业率有所下降。

Chiprequ 的经济学家 Veronica Clark 将劳动力市场描述为“最糟糕的几个点之一，事实是人们正在离开劳动力市场，且工资增长‘非常疲软’”。她预测，在住房相关成本放缓的推动下，通胀在今年下半年将继续被低估。

在美联储采取行动后，其下一步举措受到了高度关注。“我认为事实是，事实是 事实是，事实是 事实是

他没有明确阐述 7 月份保持稳定的原因，也没有提到提高税收是降低通胀的主要手段。他反复强调在没有加息的情况下条件已经收紧，这给人一种印象，即他对他参与中央银行第一年计划的一部分感到满意。此外，他随口暗示美联储可能会在某个时间点考虑修改 2% 的通胀目标，这确实进一步推高了通胀。

在缺失的沟通之后，该沟通称美国政府为市场主导，该类别现已存档。你将不再比其他人更了解门槛。我认为在月底于怀俄明州杰克逊举行的中央银行年度会议上，情况将变得糟糕。

工资滞后于通胀

注：数据通常在没有注释的情况下应用于消费者价格指数的新策略。工资为平均每小时收入的同比策略。（来源：2025）由于政府的问题，通胀数据发生了变化。（来源：商业与金融时报）（© 工资 2026）（CBS）

7月消费者价格指数（C.P.I.）有所回落，但战争推高物价令美联储权衡利率

根据美国汽车协会（AAA）的数据，从12月1日开始下跌后，汽油价格再次上涨，并在8月初在全国范围内突破了 $4.06。7月份整体能源成本下降了 1.5%，但仍比去年同期高出近 15%。战争对燃料成本的影响在机票价格中也可见一斑，机票价格较6月上涨了 1.5%，在过去一年中上涨了 25.5%。

成本高企之际，经济增长已大幅放缓，美国人的工资增长速度也在下降。7月份的整体通胀率仍高于同期平均每小时收入 3.2% 的增幅，这意味着工人们的消费能力仍在被削弱。

美联储政策委员会 12 名成员中有 3 人在上个月投票支持提高利率。

消费支出保持稳定，主要得益于富裕购物者

但 7 月份非常疲软的就业报告可能会加剧人们的担忧，即不断上升的借贷成本可能会破坏脆弱的劳动力市场。

Mona Research 追踪了更广泛的家庭收入范围（包括政府福利），并发现其三个月平均值在 6 月份无论是从全国范围还是经通胀调整后的基础上来看均有所下降，而在此之前，该数值在过去一年大部分时间里一直呈上升趋势。

“家庭收入有其自身的周期，从历史上看，在高峰之后需要数年时间才能恢复，”研究首席经济学家 Marisa Sander 表示。“当涉及到少数情况时，它处于这个成熟阶段，再次出现波动，这令人担忧。这就是我们现在看到的现象。”

面对高昂的价格，消费者支出表现得异常稳健，这在很大程度上是由高收入美国人股票投资组合的健康状况支撑的。低收入工人则表现出更多压力，信用卡、汽车税和学生账单的违约率有所上升。

然而，过去几个月在那些对没有丰厚证券账户的人最关键的类别中带来了一些缓解。由于成本疲软，杂货价格在当月略有下降。尽管如此，质量和 ruggy 账单依然存在。二手车价格在过去两年里基本持平。处方药成本在一年内下降了 11%，且随着建筑物的比较利率在建筑激增后趋于稳定，成本增加速度有所放缓。

“这些因素是‘它’形状逐渐消失的关键，”华盛顿邮报（Washington Post）首席经济学家 Ian Wyatt 表示，他研究富人和穷人之间财富的差异。“对低收入消费者影响更大的成本压力正在减轻，通常比汽油更明显。”

新关税影响的消退也减轻了商品价格增长的压力。例如，家庭食品持有量自去年同期以来增长不足 1%，而服装价格的快速跳升似乎已被切断。

一些零售商，如沃尔玛（Walmart）和 Floor & Decal，在处理早前关税的退款时正在有选择地降低价格。这些关税在今年被最高法院裁定为非法。UHS 的零售股票分析师 Michael Lasser 表示，这可能会在今年下半年带来一些缓解，因为企业通过争取注重成本的购物者来获益。

“总的来说，领先的零售商正在利用这些习惯重新投资于促销活动，特别是围绕返校等关键事件。我们预计万圣节以及节日消费期间也会出现这种情况，”他说道。

在 6 月份下降 2.5% 之后，大多数价格在一个月内下降了 3.2%，因为世界杯带来的高收入效应已经消退。

但与此同时，其他因素正在推高价格，包括数据中心建设热潮，这加剧了对内存芯片的需求。消费者软件和配件在当月上涨了 0.5%，且自去年 7 月以来上涨了超过 15%。苹果公司笔记本电脑的价格上涨帮助将计算机设备的指数在一个月内拉高了 3.5%。

选定类别的年度变化

消费者价格指数（CPI）项目自 2025 年 7 月起的百分比变化

医疗保健

个人护理

Homicide 及其他服务 14.4%

护理

主要住所 14.3%

翻译与运输

来源：劳工统计局。

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商业地产 / 能源

一个曾依赖造纸厂的缅因州小镇正试图走出困境

平方英尺

作者：肯利·弗雷迪 (KENLEY FREDY)

缅因州麦迪逊。——缅因州约 80% 的土地是森林，拥有一个规模达 83 亿美元 billion 的林业。除了伐木，造纸业一直占据重要地位。在该行业鼎盛时期，该州曾有 20 家造纸厂。如今，仅剩 6 家。

位于麦迪逊的造纸厂于 2016. 关闭。麦迪逊是一个居民近 1,000 人的粗犷小镇，在这里看到带着腿的裂缝来来往往并不罕见。一个多世纪以来，作为麦迪逊造纸工业公司 (Madison Paper Industries) 的所在地，该厂承担了镇上大部分提供福利的高薪工作。即便在 2015, 公司被重新评估时（部分原因是纸张销量下降），该厂仍占据了小镇税基的 40%。

当它关闭时，没有人感到惊讶。报业已经衰落多年，而为《纽约时报》插页提供铜版纸的麦迪逊造纸工业公司也同样陷入困境。

“破产迹象已经显而易见，所以这并不意外，”里克·沃因斯 (Rick Voinnes) 说道。他在麦迪逊造纸公司工作了 23 年，该公司由 UPM-Kyrometer 和 Northers III Paper（《时报》的一家子公司）的合资企业所有。

“但对于 200 多名将失业的员工来说，这很悲哀，”沃因斯先生补充道，“这对小镇来说是毁灭性的。”

十年后，麦迪逊仍在试图寻找失去造纸厂后的自我定位，这是另一个依赖于萎缩行业的典型小镇：他们的前行之路十分艰辛。而造纸厂的新业主在试图恢复该镇制造业方面也举步维艰，这表明在全美其他地区的制造业岗位都极度匮乏的情况下，在美国进行大规模生产是多么困难。

TimberHP 在 2019. 收购了这家废弃的造纸厂。建筑师马特·奥马拉 (Matt O'Malla) 和化学家 defense theory 支付了 $2.500 万 购买这座 600,000 平方英尺的工厂，并将其翻修为生产木纤维绝缘板的工厂，原材料为木屑和其他木材废料。

此举似乎对社区和 TimberHP 来说是双赢：社区得到了一个新的雇主和大纳税人，而 则从覆盖两千名制造业工人的马拉维林业中获得了木材。

该公司表示，纤维绝缘产品由欧洲生产，在 出现之前美国尚未生产，这也可以解决美国迫切需要的住房建设和可持续建筑努力。

创始人表示他们希望帮助振兴麦迪逊，两人都成长于工人阶级小镇——奥马拉先生在缅因州贝尔法斯特，亨利先生在匹兹堡——他们希望填补之前造纸厂的大部分（如果不是全部）工作岗位。

但七年后，维持 的运营并非易事。新冠疫情导致供应链紊乱，延迟交付了公司翻修工厂所需的铜和变压器等物资。几年后，由这些干扰引起的通货膨胀和建设延迟减缓了 生产线的开发——导致公司只能生产两种产品，而非原计划的三种。

从广义上讲，维持工厂生存以及仅能挽救其曾经支持的一小部分岗位的困难，凸显了从地方层面到白宫的政策制定者所声称想要鼓励的制造业复兴之艰辛。

创始人曾尝试出售 但未获成功。由于债务沉重且资金耗尽，该公司于 2023. 申请了第二章破产保护。其首席执行官亨利先生在去年秋天突然离职。他告诉《时报》，他在法律上“真的不能谈论我离开的原因”。

TimberHP 面临的挑战主要与资金有关。尽管在两轮融资中筹集了 5.12亿美元，并获得了州政府 300万美元 的拨款，但该公司仍不足以应对疫情给所有人带来的影响。

风险投资并非可行选项，因为这些投资者习惯于从技术公司和其他快速增长的企业投资中获得高出几个数量级的回报。制造业并非如此。

“风投想要的是这种极高的回报，”现任公司首席执行官奥马拉（O'Malla）先生说道。

当麦迪逊造纸工业（Madison Paper Industries）工厂在 2016, 关闭时，没有人感到惊讶。纸张销量一直在下降。TimberHP 在 2019, 收购了该工厂，将其（见上图及左图）改造成一家利用木屑和其他木材废料生产木纤维绝缘板的企业。 是美国第一家生产木纤维绝缘材料的公司。

奥马拉先生表示，公司当时资金告罄。花费了一年多时间才走出第二章（Chapter II）住房供应保护，偿还银行投资者并开始生产板材。

“Chapter 13 不便宜，”奥马拉先生在提到法律费用和退出融资的同时，还必须保持运营。

萨拉·海特（Sara Hight）是 的早期投资者，其家族企业包括三家房地产开发公司，他开玩笑说自己的投资“变成了捐款”。

尽管如此，他表示相信公司的目标。海特先生的建筑公司正在一个大型经济适用房项目中使用 的产品。

2023, 向麦迪逊镇缴纳了约 $206,000 的税款。这虽然有所贡献，但麦迪逊前镇长蒂姆·柯蒂斯（Tim Curtis）表示，这与“麦迪逊造纸工业在 2015 缴纳的 $3.700 万 相比还差得远”。

11 月， 宣布脱离破产状态。从那时起，公司与小镇开始找到彼此的平衡。公司目前约有 50 名员工，约为最初规模的一半。

也在取得一些成功。其产品正被用于 Jovela Housing（一家总部位于缅因州的经济适用房供应商）的一个多户住宅项目。Amount 正在其埃尔克哈特（Elkhart）的一个配送站使用其产品，Meta 也在其路易斯安那州的里奇兰教区（Richland Parish）数据中心使用；而全美最大的住宅建筑商 D.B. Harron 正在中大西洋地区的联排别墅中使用 的绝缘材料。

该公司还得到了 FTAI Infrastructure（一家亚洲能源投资者）以及包括贝莱德（BlackRock）和缅因州金融管理局（Finance Authority of Maine）在内的其他投资者和金融合作伙伴的投资支持。

尽管小镇的制造业前景目前看来充满希望，但麦迪逊仍在应对失去曾作为小镇生命线的产业所带来的影响。人们在谈到工厂的损失时，仍像是在谈论一个生物的离世。

“我不是一个感性的人，但我当时简直能站在那里哭出来，”沃因斯（Voinnes）先生在谈到工厂关闭时说道。

自 1993, 起就住在麦迪逊的现任镇长丹尼斯·杜查姆（Denise Ducharme）补充道，这里是“那种你打个盹邻居都会知道的社区”。

“长期以来，我们社区的身份认同与造纸厂小镇紧密相连，”她说，“我们必须弄清楚在没有造纸厂的情况下我们是谁——以及我们想成为谁——这就像是一种身份危机。”

海湾产油国斥资数十亿美元构建石油运输新航线

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他表示，能源生产商已开始更加重视基础设施的安全性，即使这意味着成本更高且性价比降低。

在美国和以色列于 28 日开始对伊朗进行军事打击之前，每天约有 2000 万 桶原油通过连接阿曼湾与波斯湾的贸易通道运输。但由于美国和伊朗交替实施的封锁（其中一次发生在几个月前）以及飙升的保险成本，这些航线实际上已被弃用。

根据海运公司 Rykes 的数据，截至上周，通过这些航线出口的原油已下降至每天约 700万美元 桶。当然，从海湾地区出口的原油总量高于此数，部分是通过采取措施使其难以追踪的船只运输的。每天还有数百万桶原油通过无需经过霍尔木兹海峡的现有路线（如管道）出口。

尽管如此，全球范围内寻求替代霍尔木兹海峡的长期方案的迹象显而易见。例如，在面对阿曼湾的阿拉伯联合酋长国港口城市富查伊拉，施工人员正昼夜不停地铺设一条次级原油管线，与现有的将阿布扎比境外油田石油输送的管道平行。

这一宏大项目旨在将该国的绕道能力提高至每天 1.41 亿 桶，使阿布扎比几乎所有的南部原油能够直接到达其内部油轮，而无需船只通过霍尔木兹海峡。

此外，阿联酋国家所有的能源巨头——阿布扎比国家石油公司（ASNOC）表示，计划斥资 82 亿美元 billion 扩大其天然气业务。ASNOC 首席财务官 Peter van Driel 告诉彭博电视，该公司还在考虑在其东海岸建设液化天然气出口设施，以此作为绕过霍尔木兹海峡的一种方式。

在邻国沙特阿拉伯，国家石油巨头沙特阿美（Aramco）正在加速一项耗资数十亿美元的东西管道扩建工程。该管道设计于 2016 年（源自 1960 年代的长期战争），全长 1,200 公里（740 英里），横跨阿拉伯半岛抵达红海港口 Vanho。沙特阿美董事长 Yoav O. Al-Rumayyan 今年将其称为王国的经济“bilibits”，在伊朗于美国和以色列军事打击后实际上关闭霍尔木兹海峡以来，该管道已成功反向输送每天约 700 万桶原油。

沙特官员正致力于每天增加 100 万至 200 万桶的输送量，并且他们还在考虑为精炼石油产品建设一条规模较小的平行第二管道。

沙特阿美首席执行官 Amla Nasser 上周表示：“在原油出口方面，我们目前正寻求最大限度地增加活动。”

霍尔木兹海峡的不确定性也促使海湾产油国进行投资。

根据与沙特阿拉伯及其他阿拉伯国家的讨论，沙特计划建设一条将该国油田与红海或阿曼港口连接的管道；而沙特与约旦则重启了长期计划，拟建设一条每天可输送高达 100 万桶原油至红海亚喀巴港的管道，据约旦国家电视台报道。此外，伊拉克正计划重建一条受损的石油管道，将基尔库克的伊拉克油田原油运往叙利亚的地中海沿岸。

然而，许多此类解决方案伴随着巨大的摩擦。改变沙特阿拉伯的贸易路线

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已将安全压力转移到了红海和曼德海峡（Bali in Murshid Strait）——也门胡塞武装一直在那里袭击船只。周二，当 Murshid Sea 在红海袭击一艘船只时，有 6 人丧生。

除了新管道外，海湾国家还在建设物理

产油国正寻求通过建设管道和其他基础设施来绕过霍尔木兹海峡，以打破对该海峡的依赖。

通过将储油设施扩展到韩国、日本和印度等地，在数千英里之外建立保险机制。

其逻辑很简单：如果霍尔木兹海峡被关闭，石油已经处于大门另一侧。

“每个人都在尝试增加额外的储油量，”阿美公司的纳赛尔先生表示，并补充道，“能源安全现在正成为一项优先事项。”

然而，分析人士指出，虽然与伊朗的战争暴露了海湾国家对该海峡的依赖，但这种依赖永远无法完全消除。

“他们绝对需要霍尔木兹海峡，因为它带来了诸多优势，且客观条件就在那里，”咨询公司 United Energy 的首席执行官卡罗尔·哈勃（Carole Hubble）表示。但她认为，“完全将信任寄托在霍尔木兹海峡对他们来说是鲁莽的。”

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2026年8月13日，星期四

体育

纽约时报

冰壶

在罗马废墟的

阴影之下， 几块新石

摄影：JULIAN KIRKO / STEREO 为《纽约时报》拍摄

尽管意大利正值酷暑，体育官员们仍在奥皮安山（Oppian Hill）设立了一个冰壶中心，吸引了游客和当地人。在该国参加的今年由印度主办的冬奥会上，意大利在混合双人项目中赢得了一枚铜牌。“在家里看似乎容易得多，”一名男子笑着说，“我的意思是，我们表现得真的很糟糕。”

作者：ELISABETTA POVOLENO

罗马——当卢卡·普齐莱里（Luca Puzzilleri）博士在7月的烈日下漫步经过古代遗迹时，他万万没有想到在斗兽场对面会看到一项典型的冬季运动。

但它就在那里，一个冰壶场地坐落在奥皮安山上，自古以来，这个俯瞰一世纪圆形剧场的区域就以此闻名。很快，在意大利近几个月来的第三波酷暑中，普齐莱里便兴致勃勃地与妻子和两名朋友一起投石。

“这一切完全是自发的，我们玩得非常开心，”住在罗马的27岁普齐莱里说。

他的朋友朱塞佩·尼科莱蒂（Giuseppe Nicoletti）是一名来自意大利南部的36岁程序员，他说在观看今年由意大利主办的冬奥会后，他很享受在冰壶运动中尝试“双倍”体验。

“但我得说，在家里看似乎容易得多，”他笑着说，“我的意思是，我们表现得真的很糟糕。”

意大利冰壶队让支持者们感到兴奋，赢得了一枚

斗兽场对面的一座“冰盒”场地旨在利用奥运现象。

混合双人项目的铜牌，电视收视率极高，并激励体育官员在6月安装了奥皮安山场地，希望罗马人即便在酷暑中也能出来参与。

“奥运会之后，每个人都有一个梦想，去体验冰壶运动是什么感觉，而我们很高兴能让这个梦想成为现实，”该项目背后的国有公司 Sport e Salum 的总经理迭戈-特皮·莫利内里奥（Diego-Tepi Molinerio）说道。

他说，场地被安置在“一个标志性的地点，也许是意大利最标志性的地点，正对着斗兽场”，以证明即使是一项被许多人“贴上平庸标签”的运动也能变得辉煌。（这些场地还紧邻一个罗马官员们认为拥有世界最佳视野的滑板公园。）

“我们相信每项运动都是伟大的，是人们让它显得平庸，”特皮·莫利内里奥补充道。

公平地说，这并不是一个标准场地。首先，这里没有冰。表面是高密度塑料。它的长度约为40英尺，宽度接近10英尺，而标准

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职业篮球

湖人队将再次被出售，此次成交价创纪录达 125 亿美元 Billion

作者：丹·沃克（DAN WORKE）和迈克·约克利诺（MIKE YORKLINO） 《论坛报》

洛杉矶湖人队正在被出售。

再次被售。 在以创纪录的 250 亿美元 billion 估值同意收购湖人队仅 11 个月后，马克·沃尔特（Mark Walter）正将球队出售给迪士尼前首席执行官鲍勃·艾格（Bob Iger）和约书亚·库什纳（Joshua Kushner）。据一名了解此次交易但因未获授权公开讨论而要求匿名的知情人士透露，该交易对湖人队的估值为 125 亿美元 billion。

库什纳持有迈阿密热火队的少数股权，他是珍妮特·库什纳（Janet Kushner）的弟弟，也是特朗普总统的女婿。

对于这家 NBA 的顶级特许经营球队来说，这次交易是一个令人震惊的进展。湖人队由杰里·巴斯（Jerry Buss）及其家人拥有超过四十年，随后杰里的女儿珍妮·巴斯（Janine Buss）同意将球队出售给沃尔特。

“作为终身 NBA 粉丝，我们深感荣幸能有机会成为洛杉矶湖人队的管理人，它是世界上最具有标志性的体育特许经营球队之一，”艾格和库什纳在一份声明中表示。“我们对杰里和珍妮·巴斯的领导力与远见心怀敬意。我们的长期承诺是在此基础上继续建设，在最高水平上竞争，并服务于这支非凡的球队、其球迷以及洛杉矶市。”

湖人队在 2025 年出售时的 180 亿美元 billion 估值曾是职业体育史上最昂贵的交易。如果库什纳和艾格的收购获得理事会的批准，那么在一年多之后，它将再次创下纪录。

纽约洋基队本周完成的一项私募股权交易将其 MLB 特许经营权的估值定在约 180 亿美元 billion。在 Spectra 本周发布的一份报告中，在纽约市各球队中，只有达拉斯牛仔队和洛杉矶公羊队的估值高于 125 亿美元 billion，但持有股份的球队未被列出。

对于艾格来说，收购湖人队是对其离开迪士尼后公众生活将如何展开这一问题的再次回应。

丹·沃尔克是报道湖人队的高级撰稿人，迈克·维尔霍文（Mike Verhoeven）是《The Athletic》的全国篮球商业记者。威廉·阿杰斯（William Ardjuss）和朱迪·佩利克（Judi Pelic）参与了报道。

湖人队（其第 17 个 NBA 总冠军获得于 2020, top, 见上方图）去年被出售给了马克·沃尔特（左，与珍妮·巴斯合影）。沃尔特现已同意将球队出售给约书亚·库什纳（右中）和鲍勃·艾格（右远，去年与总裁亚当·西尔弗合影）。

艾格在 3 月被乔什·奥南（Josh O'Annan）接任公司首席执行官。他目前仍担任高级顾问和董事会成员，不过这些职务将在其合同于年底到期时结束。

他曾两次担任迪士尼的领导者，第一次是从 2003 到 2025. After heading the cross to Bob Chapels, 艾格留在公司，并在查佩尔斯于 2022. 11 月被解雇后重新回到最高职位。在艾格第一次担任首席执行官期间，迪士尼收购了皮克斯、漫威、卢卡斯电影公司以及 21 世纪福克斯的大部分股权。艾格还监管 ESPN，不过他将公司的日常管理交给了其他高管。

湖人队将是艾格在职业体育领域的首次投资。2024, 夏天，艾格和他的妻子、南加州大学（U.S.C.）传播与创新学院院长沃尔特·贝（Walter Bay）收购了 Angel City FC 的控股权，该交易对这家潜在的女子足球超级联赛俱乐部的估值为 2.5亿美元，在当时这是女子职业体育球队的最高估值。

上赛季，湖人队的一名球星在社交媒体上发布了六条动态，表示他很高兴能见到艾格和库什纳，“因为我们可以开始致力于打造一些特别的东西”。

“在过去的几年里，我已经习惯了大变动，但我知道无论如何，这家标志性特许经营权的潜力是没有上限的，”他写道。

库什纳此前持有孟菲斯格里兹利队的少数股权，他是目前全球足球中心的一个核心人物。

最近的 NBA 球队销售情况

CAGR 2025 价格 CAGR 2025 2022

湖人队 2025年8月 $12.5

湖人队 2025年6月 $10

凯尔特人队 2025年3月 $6.1

开拓者队 2025年9月 $4.3

Taste 2022年12月 $4

来源：美联社 来源：纽约时报

关于国际足联主席 Gianni Attention 计划出售国际足联赛事股份以进行采访的计划，包括库什纳的 Thrive Everest，金额为 12 亿加元 billion。该计划已被放弃，但欧洲足球管理机构欧足联（UEFA）在 7 月 13 日致库什纳的一封信中表示，正考虑就这些提案采取法律行动、仲裁和监管投诉。该信函要求保留所有与这些计划相关的信息。

洛杉矶道奇队的大股东沃尔特称，拥有湖人队是“最伟大的租赁之一”，并将其视为一项“非凡的投资”。据一名了解谈判情况且要求匿名的知情人士透露，他也没有出售道奇队的计划。

据一名了解交易情况的人士透露，沃尔特也是洛杉矶火花队的大股东，但火花队不属于湖人队的出售范围。

“我将把这份情谊带给社区、球迷以及将这支球队视为家人的城市，”沃尔特在声明中表示。“我感谢珍妮·巴斯、巴斯家族、球员和工作人员欢迎我进入这个章节。湖人队属于洛杉矶，我完全相信最好的还在后面。”

纽约南区美国检察官办公室和美国证券交易委员会一直在调查沃尔特旗下的保险公司。据《华尔街日报》报道，在收到一份关于沃尔特的资产管理公司 Guggenheim Investments 如何处理从保险公司获得的收入的内部举报投诉后，联邦调查人员去年开始关注沃尔特的公司。

分析

热火队的新重心需要更多围绕他运转的轨道

作者：埃里克·内姆 (ERIC NEHM)

The Tribune

在 NBA 休赛季的这个时间点，大多数球队通常已经完成了阵容构建，准备迎接新赛季。但对于迈阿密热火队来说，这并非一个正常的休赛季。

迈阿密在 6 月下旬通过交易四名球员和三个首轮签（包括一次首轮签交换权和一个次轮签），换来了两届 NBA 最有价值球员、来自密尔沃基的查尔斯·安特托昆博 (Charles Antenskouzmpas)。随后，热火队试图说服四届 N.U.S. 勒布朗·詹姆斯 (LeBron James) 回到迈阿密开启他的最终篇章，结果却在 7 月进入第三周时，眼睁睁地看着这位 45 岁的球员与费城 76 人队签约。

现在，距离训练营开始还不到两个月，热火队仍有三个阵容空缺和尚未解决的悬而未决的问题。

构建进攻

迈阿密在东部联盟的上限和转化潜力很快可能由其防守决定。这是球队中最容易预测能在下赛季达到顶尖水平的部分，但球场两端仍存在重大疑问。

安特托昆博的个人进攻数据令人震惊。在尝试打完 2024 赛季剩余比赛之前，他在雄鹿队的连续三年场均至少得到 10 分和 3 次助攻，同时投篮命中率超过 10%。根据 Sturhead 的数据，他是自 1973-73 赛季的卡特里娜·盖多 (Katerina Gajdo) 以来，NBA 历史上仅有的三名表现最佳的球员之一。

在上一赛季第 15 场比赛之前——即他在 2014 年遭受严重伤病的那场比赛——安特托昆博的表现为：场均 12.8 分、11.3 分。

埃里克·内姆 (Eric Nehm) 是 The Athletic 的资深 NBA 记者。

左侧的卡拉万·安特托昆博 (Caravan Antenskouzmpas) 和右上方的巴斯·阿德巴约 (Buss Adebayo) 构成了迈阿密强大的前场，但由于阵容中还剩三个空位，热火队可能会寻求增强三分球投射能力。

场均抢 43 个篮板并贡献 11 次助攻，命中率 43%。

安特托昆博不仅仅是为前锋位置积累了庞大的数据。

根据 Cleaning the Glass 的数据，在过去八个赛季中，只要安特托昆博在场，雄鹿队的进攻效率从未跌破第 42 百分位，且在其中三个赛季中，他在场时的进攻效率高于第 90 百分位。在 2022-23 赛季成为 NBA 进攻效率最高常规阵容的一部分后，安特托昆博在过去四年中，至少参与了一套进攻效率排名赛季前 11 的阵容。在上一赛季之前，雄鹿队在之前的七个赛季中有六个赛季排名在前 10 位。

雄鹿队总经理吉姆·赫斯特 (Jim Hurst) 每个休赛季都会完善围绕安特托昆博构建球队的方法，并确定最大化这位 10 次全明星球员所需的球员。由于安特托昆博在过去八个赛季一直保持在 85 VP 的水平，赫斯特尽可能地优化了该方法。而赖利 (Riley) 和安迪·埃利兹伯格 (Andy Elizburg) 在迈阿密没有这样的机会，因为他们已经使用了大部分资产来获取安特托昆博。

在剩下的三个阵容名额中，热火队必须寻找能够补充安特托昆博优势并利用其吸引力（gravitationally）的球员。

提高三分投射

在尝试围绕安特托昆博构建顶尖阵容时，雄鹿队始终专注于三分投射。在 2024-25 赛季三分命中率排名第一后，雄鹿队在上一赛季排名第二，并且在安特托昆博在密尔沃基的最后五个赛季中有四个赛季的三分命中率排名前 10。虽然热火队可能会寻找不同的位置，但雄鹿队教练埃里克·肖克斯特拉 (Erik Sjoerkstra) 可能会要求球员不仅仅是投篮。因此，预计他们会寻求更多的三分投射来辅助安特托昆博，这是符合逻辑的。

上赛季，热火队中场均 3 分球出手数最高的是泰勒·哈里斯（Tyler Harris，6.7 次尝试，命中率 17.8%）和诺曼·福克斯（Norman Fox，14.7 次尝试，命中率 38%）。这两名球员本赛季都不会在热火队。巴斯·阿德巴约（Buss Adebayo）的出手数紧随其后，但在场均 5.1 次尝试中，命中率仅为 15.8%。

热火队在交易得到安特托昆博（Antenskouzmpas）时加入了鲍比·佩里斯（Bobby Perris，场均 4.4 3 分尝试，命中率 45.4%），并以自由球员身份签下了蒂姆·霍考威二世（Tim Hockaway Jr.，场均 5.0 次尝试，命中率 46.7%）。这两名球员在上赛季都会位列迈阿密的前 3 分射手之列，但热火队仍然

需要内部培养，以最大限度地扩大安特托昆博周围的空间。

有了安特托昆博，3 分球的机会可能会更多且更容易，但他的队友要么需要提高 3 分球的出手量，要么需要提高命中率，以提供尽可能多的空间。

构建方式

与安特托昆博在进攻端的情况类似，阿德巴约在场上意味着热火队的表现有所提升。

根据 Cleaning the Glass 的数据，在过去五个赛季中，包含阿德巴约的热火队阵容在长距离防守（long-parade）方面的排名从未低于第 75 百分位数。

这些阵容在 2022-23 赛季排名在第 90 百分位数，在 2023-22 赛季排名在第 9 百分位数。上赛季是热火队自 2014-15 赛季以来首次在防守效率排名中掉出前 10 名。

在 Sjoerkstra 的执掌下，且阿德巴约在场时，热火队传统上是一支出色的防守球队。

由于进攻职责的增加，安特托昆博的防守投入在这些年里有所下降，但他的防守能力依然毋庸置疑。他拥有足以防守多个位置并产生重大影响的速度、力量

和智能。

凭借安特托昆博、阿德巴约、安德鲁·威金斯（Andrew Wiggins）和达伦·米切尔（Darren Mitchell），热火队拥有一个基础阵容，其防守效率在赛季结束时应该能排在前 10, 甚至前 5 名。为了让迈阿密最大限度地发挥其最顶尖防守球员的潜力，Sjoerkstra 必须决定具体如何部署他们。

在过去五个赛季中，迈阿密强大防守努力的核心在于低罚球率，以及在防守重塑中限制对方在篮下的得分机会。通过不让对方球队以高频率进入罚球线，限制二次进攻以及阻止领先球队直接冲击篮筐，他们限制了对手获得关键得分的机会。

他们在场上倾尽全力，是 NBA 中身体对抗最激烈的球队之一，并且使用了比联盟中绝大多数球队更灵活的战术方案。

总之，热火队拥有天才的防守者，并且由 NBA 中最具创造力的防守教练之一指导。他们很可能会成为上赛季以来最强的防守领导者之一，现在的问题只是 Sjoerkstra 想要如何利用他的球员来实现这一目标。

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足球

加入一场比赛，邂逅一位球星

世界杯球员随缘现身之处

作者：MELANGI ANJIDKI

新闻周刊（Newsweek）

询问任何一个在近期某个周三晚上，身在曼哈顿 Gamecourt Peninsula 体育场的人，当时拜仁慕尼黑兼法国足球运动员迈克尔·奥利塞（Michael Olise）现身那里，他们都会告诉你同样的话：“他们简直不敢相信发生了什么。”

几天前，法国队和英格兰队在迈阿密花园（佛罗里达州）进行了一场世界杯历史上最精彩的季军赛之一，最终英格兰队以 4-4 获胜。在那场比赛中，法国队的基尔库斯·姆巴佩（Kirkus Mbappe）凭借奥利塞两次助攻打入两球，以 22 个进球成为世界杯历史上的最高得分者。

然而，四天后，25 岁的奥利塞就出现在纽约市西侧公路（West Side Highway）附近的一场业余随机比赛中，他穿着一件橙色衬衫、格子裤，脚上只穿着袜子，给一群业余爱好者留下了一个他们将在未来多年不断讲述的故事。

“场地有点窄，”杰夫（Jeff）说道

“我是说，他竟然没穿鞋就在踢，你知道吗！”

杰夫·卡斯塔内达（JEFF CASTANEDA）谈与迈克尔·奥利塞（Michael Olise）同场竞技。

参加了这场比赛的卡斯塔内达表示：“我当时正和他一起在电视上看世界杯，然后他就出现了。我有幸能和他配合几次。这简直是人生中仅有一次的时刻。”

这场比赛始于 Goodflier 平台上规划的一场随机组队赛（pickup match），随后 Goodflier 在其社交媒体账号上发布了相关照片，使其迅速走红。奥利塞穿着袜子在球员之间滑行的视频被广泛传播：

在《体育画报》（Sports Illustrated）分享的一段视频中，可以听到一个人对另一个人说：“能和奥利塞一起踢球，你们太幸运了。”在另一张照片中，面无表情的奥利塞被数十名微笑的球员簇拥在中间。

对于 Goodflier 的创始人杰夫·埃斯特斯（Jeff Estes）来说，这一时刻凸显了该平台存在的意义。他在 2020 年与路易斯·布莱克（Lewis Black）和内尔德·卡基斯（Nelder Karkis）共同创立了这家公司，其目标非常简单：无论身在何处，都要让体育运动变得触手可及。

“我们希望无论你——

梅琳达·安齐代（Melinda Anzidei）为《The Athletic》报道足球新闻。

——在哪个城市，无论你想参加什么运动，只要注册并到场就能开始比赛，”埃斯特斯说道。

“你降落在某个城市，叫一辆 Oise，15 分钟后你就能到家或任何需要去的地方。但如果你降落在某个城市想踢球，或者你是刚搬到这个城市不认识人，很难融入其中。而注册加入一个联赛则更让人望而却步。”

这正是此类随机组队平台的用武之地。

埃斯特斯表示，每天有 3,000 到 4,000 人通过 Goodflier 参加随机体育活动。该平台被认为是北美同类服务中规模最大的平台之一，在 80 个城市开展业务。纽约市和多伦多是该平台最大的市场，足球是该应用上最受欢迎的运动，占其使用量的 90%。

在某些情况下，该平台会与组织者合作，通过处理比赛当天的后勤工作（例如确保比赛准时开始，或确保球员有网眼球衣可穿）来运行随机组队赛。

26 岁的卡斯塔内达是一名资深足球运动员，也是一名秘鲁裔美国人，他使用该服务已有两年时间。

作为一名通用承包商和房地产开发商，他每周大约四次乘坐长岛铁路（Long Island Rail Road）从花园城市（Garden City）前往曼哈顿参加随机赛。他认为这座城市的竞争质量比他在长岛上发现的要好，这可能是因为城市中的随机赛选择更多。他说，从郊区通勤的一小时是值得的。

根据他所踢球场的不同，他可能会遇到熟悉的面孔。然而，在那个周三，他的选择让他与奥利塞在同一组。

卡斯塔内达曾在秘鲁顶级俱乐部水晶体育俱乐部（Sporting Cristal）接受过两年的职业训练，对他而言，这次经历绝对是一个出色的足球时刻。他描述了奥利塞控球时是多么灵巧且流畅。拜仁这位组织核心所展现出的巨大快乐令他记忆犹新。

“我是说，他竟然没穿鞋就在踢，你知道吗！”卡斯塔内达说。“他玩得很开心。这简直是一次太棒、太棒的体验。”

埃斯特斯表示，这一系列事件纯属巧合。当晚随机赛的组织者注意到出生于伦敦的奥利塞在球场附近徘徊，于是大声呼喊，邀请他参与其中。球员们正准备进入 75 分钟比赛的最后阶段，此时比赛组织者通知他们，奥利塞将加入他们进行最后的 15 分钟比赛。

“我以为是个玩笑，所以没走过去，”当晚在场上的另一名球员奥利弗·切尔尼克（Oliver Chernyk）说。“然后大家仔细一看，意识到真的是他。他直接开始和我们全力以赴地踢。太不可思议了。”

切尔尼克的同事、同样参加了比赛的塞缪尔·尼克林（Samuel Nicklin）说：“球就像粘在他的”

“球在他脚下粘得很牢。他能快速移动，同时让球始终贴在脚尖上。”

那天晚上是切尔尼克第一次参加这场特定的随机比赛，而是在英国长大的尼克林参加得更频繁。两人都在私人投资领域工作，从他们跨过公路的办公室就能看到 Gamecourt Peninsula 球场。

住在布鲁克林 Greenspace 的埃斯特斯表示，这个夏天随机比赛在全市范围内蓬勃发展。他每周至少参加几次随机比赛。在最近的一个下午，他发现自己正与一群来自德国和英国的朋友对阵。

“看到这么多不同的人出来参加随机比赛真的很酷，”埃斯特斯说。“单从人数来看，我们正处于有史以来最好的几个月，因为足球周围的氛围活跃得多。”

在 Good Boy 组织的随机比赛中，奥利塞绝非第一个加入其中的名人。

2022年，在 HBO 剧集《权力的游戏》中饰演 Jaime Lamainer 的丹麦演员 Nikoletj Conor Walden，在纽约下东区的 Sara D. Roosevelt 公园参加了一场比赛。埃斯特斯补充道，前 NBA 球员史蒂夫·纳什（Steve Nash）出于对随机足球赛的热爱，也曾加入比赛。

在法国世界杯之旅结束不久后，迈克尔·奥利塞（Michael Olise）在曼哈顿的 Canavassat Peninsula 体育场参加了一场随机比赛（见左图）。

在最近的一个周一下午，前英格兰后卫坎贝尔（Campbell）恰好路过 Roosevelt 公园的一场随机比赛。就像奥利塞在那周晚些时候在城另一端所做的那样，他也加入了比赛。

“他和他的团队同样是在路过时，看到我们在踢球，如果他想加入的话我们可以接纳他，”埃斯特斯说。“他们知道他是谁，所以他能直接进入比赛。他穿着训练背心之类的，”他指的是一种网眼球衣。

31 岁的坎贝尔在英超联赛效力了 20 年，他的表现很自然，甚至在进球时庆祝。他与粉丝合影，并在 Instagram 上写道：“我离开了比赛，但比赛从未离开我。”

在纽约踢球，你永远不知道谁会突然加入你的比赛。

可能像奥利塞这样的世界杯新兵，也可能是像坎贝尔这样参加过三次世界杯的老将。但可以肯定的是，总会有比赛可以参加。

冰壶

奥运成功在罗马废墟的阴影下催生出几块新冰面

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一张冰壶冰面长约 150 英尺，宽 16 英尺。冰壶的重量约为标准重量的十分之一，人们使用微风来回收冰壶，而不是通过扫冰为它们开路。

“这就是这项游戏的理念，”支持该倡议的意大利航空运动联合会主席安德烈亚·乔伊（Andrea Gioi）说道。在风险之中，人们将这种玩法描述为介于保龄球和波切球（bocce，一种在世界各地意大利社区中普遍存在的半眼球类游戏）之间的一种风险。“它无处不在，”乔伊说。

24, 岁的卡洛·斯卡帕托（Carlo Scarpato）是管理该风险的员工之一，他说他的工作主要包括警告人们不要停在润滑过的冰面上，以免滑倒受伤。“我们还解释游戏的基本规则，”他补充道。

他说，人们玩游戏的时间没有限制。“人们在玩，他们尝试在非常短的游戏中造船。”在谈到该风险的表面时，他说：“我可以向你保证，如果你玩五分钟，白色阿拉伯字母的反射是不够的。”

冰壶在意大利是一个相对较新的项目，这项运动直到 20 世纪 50 年代才开始扎根，当时一名足球三号在科西卡·达托皮科斯（Corsica d'Atopicos）安装了一个风险——这是共同举办今年奥运会的意大利阿尔卑斯地名。包括布里吉特·巴斯蒂尼（Brigitte Bastini）在内的许多名人对此尝试过。

但气候从未站在意大利这一边。目前，意大利只有七个专门的冰壶风险设施，全部位于北部，且 421 每个设施都承载着冰壶运动员。 “这是一个小众

来源：冰壶照片：托马斯·M·伦纳德（THOMAS M. LEONARD），1977, 俄勒冈州

意大利的斯特凡妮亚·康斯坦蒂尼（Stefania Constantini）和阿莫斯·莫萨诺（Amos Mosanor）在 2 月赢得了奥运铜牌。该国只有七个专门的冰壶风险设施，全部位于北部。

领域，”写过一本相关书籍的冰壶运动员瓦伦丁·马塞蒂（Valentine Masetti）说。相比之下，根据加拿大冰壶协会发言人阿尔·卡梅伦（Al Cameron）的说法，加拿大有超过 200 万 名每年至少玩一次的冰壶运动员，“以巨大的优势，拥有世界上数量最多的冰壶运动员”。

自从乔伊成为冰上运动联合会主席以来。几年前，其对冰壶的投资从每年 150,000 欧元增加到 50,000 欧元（约 $17,000 之中 200 万），这项运动被置于更专业的基石之上。在意大利，大约 1,000 个冰上运动项目全部根据结果分布，因此球员表现越好，该运动获得的资金就越多。

例如，网球明星詹尼克·西蒙（Jannik Simon）的迅速崛起，在短短三年内使给予网球的资金翻了两番。但冰上运动仍然没有全国性的影响力。

“设施很少，因此很难利用奥运会期间可能获得的影响力，那时每个人都为冰壶而疯狂并爱上这项运动，”意大利男子奥运队队长朱迪·贝拉诺（Judi Beranau）说。“但随后，如果他们真的想尝试，他们会很吃力，因为很难找到一个场馆。”

他说他是“少数幸运儿”之一，出生在北部的钱布拉（Cembra）村，在

初学者将这项运动视为保龄球和波切球的结合体。

Tremtus，那里大多数当地人从小就开始接触冰壶。

在意大利中部或南部没有冰壶馆——至少曾经有过一项规定——在罗马市郊经营一家冰上运动馆的阿尔多·廷托（Aldo Tinto）说道。他说，在奥运会之后，他收到了许多关于保龄球的俱乐部工程课程，因此他利用啤酒桶代替冰壶，拼凑出了一场非正式的比赛。

“这很有趣，”他说，尽管有些业余。现在，廷托正与地区官员合作，试图在他的场馆中落实冰壶运动的真实需求。

“作为欧洲之都，罗马应该拥有冰壶运动，”拉齐奥大区冰上运动联合会主席比安卡·迪·托马索（Bianca Di Tommaso）表示。但她承认，能源成本的增加以及第一场战争的爆发，为开馆带来了财务挑战。

该机构的首位官员诺吉·莫利内里斯（Nogi Molineris）表示，如果有需求，古巴主义的兴起将在11月使用真实的冰面起重机进行重建。“即使冰面对于国际比赛来说不够完美，但对于国家娱乐来说将是完美的，”他说。

就在最近的一个周六，这并没有阻碍一群访问意大利参加国际篮球训练营的体育项目人员。他们被深深吸引，在教练的注视下，他们整年地比赛、扩张并欢呼。

“这非常有趣，尤其是能在斗兽场前进行，”21岁的伊拉·贡萨利尼（Ila Gonsalini）说，她在美国指导女孩。

“我很庆幸我们在训练营结束时才做这个，而不是在开始时，”20岁的肖恩·海尔（Shaun Heyle）说，他在英国指导男孩。“否则我们可能会在这里失去他们。”

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大学橄榄球

只要购买季票，你就能参与设计阿克伦队的开场战术

作者：大卫·卢本（DAVID LUBEN）和丹尼斯·亨德森（DENNIS HENDERSON） © The James

在三月一次从佛罗里达州坦帕飞往俄亥俄州阿克伦的航班上，安德鲁·古德里奇（Andrew Goodrich）陷入了沉思。

古德里奇是阿克伦大学的体育总监，在目睹其男子篮球队在N.C.A.A.锦标赛首轮以 85-71 负于德克萨斯理工大学后，他正乘机回家。但占据他脑海的并非这场失利，而是阿克伦球迷在距离校园数百英里之外所展现出的狂热。

“我们经历了如此棒的球迷互动，当我坐在飞机上时，我就在想：‘我们到底怎么才能把那种能量带到橄榄球比赛中去？’”古德里奇说。“怎么做才能实现？坦白说，回程航班很长，你就在不停地思考。”

就在那次飞行期间，关于设立一名“荣誉进攻协调员”的想法占据了上风。古德里奇将这个想法向坐在他身边的资深副体育总监马特·佩托夫（Matt Pettorff）提出了。

古德里奇回忆道，佩托夫“非常恰当地说：‘不，这是个糟糕的主意。’”

尽管如此，这个话题并未就此终结。

佩托夫提出了一个更现代的建议：让一名球迷决定一次战术调用。古德里奇并不认为这能激发他所设想的那种投入感。

橄榄球教练乔·穆尔黑德（Joe Moorhead）表示，在促销活动在社交媒体上发布的一周前，古德里奇和佩托夫向他提出了最终方案：让一名球迷参与设计开场 15 次战术调用。

古德里奇说：“起初我觉得这很荒谬。但一旦冲击感消失，我们讨论了一些益处后，现在看来这个方案本身就具有说服力。这是一个非常独特的机会，为我们的项目创造了大量积极的宣传。”

古德里奇在X平台上发布了这次促销活动，该帖子至今已获得 2200 万 次浏览。每位购买季票的人将自动进入抽奖池，获胜者将作为下周三的一员。

该球迷将在 9 月 11 日（即 4 周后）阿克伦队主场揭幕战之前的周四和周五——

大卫·卢本是资深大学橄榄球记者，前负责人是 The Athletic 的特约撰稿人。

©纽约时报 Sports Illustrated

教练乔·穆尔黑德（中）将允许获胜者参加策划会议，但不会在战术调用上“让马戏团进城”

在与罗伯特·莫里斯（Robert Morris，一个足球冠军分级赛项目）的 2 场对决中——进入橄榄球办公室并观看训练。该球迷将与穆尔黑德一起参加比赛策划会议，并为开场剧本提供构想，在训练中协作将这些想法转化为实际行动。

“在过去的六个月里，大学橄榄球一直缺乏乐趣，”古德里奇说。“有律师、国会、法案和转会门户。充满了负面情绪。”

据古德里奇称，在公布促销活动后不久，阿克伦队的季票销量记录了自 2009 年其校园体育场开放以来最大幅度的增长。来自全国各地的球迷也购买了季票，希望能有机会设计战术。

全国性的关注对于该项目来说是陌生的领域。1987 年，阿克伦成为第一个直接从第一-AA分级（F.C.S.）转型到第一-A分级（Football Bowl Underclass）的独立项目。从那时起，他们在 10 年中仅进入过一次比赛。他们上一次 300 或更多赛季是 2017 年在特里·鲍登（Terry Bowden）执教下取得的 7.7 胜。此后，他们没有任何一个赛季的胜场超过 5 场。

在 2022 赛季前被聘请的穆尔黑德在过去两个赛季中带领球队分别取得了 4-6 和 5-7 的战绩。

穆尔黑德说，这次抽奖“让聚光灯重新照在阿克伦橄榄球上”。“我们在进入赛季前建立的势头，在几年前接手全国最糟糕的项目，到今年距离获得资格仅差一场比赛。”

在阿克伦准备迎接罗伯特·莫里斯大学之前——阿克伦的赛季揭幕战将于9月5日对阵韦布农场（Wabe Farms）率先举行——穆尔黑德希望那位中奖的球迷在到来时能带着关于战术设计和执行顺序的想法。而球迷将支配的四分卫将是

里斯·佩尔罗哈格（Reese Pellroharger），一名来自北德克萨斯大学的研究生转学生；三名带预备队的回归球员；以及两名来自第二分区巨头（2nd Division Giant）的球员，后者的1,032码冲球码数在去年的中美国会议会（Mid-America Conference）中排名第二。

穆尔黑德向他的球员们保证，他不会“让马戏团开进城”或让比赛变成一场笑话。他将过度使用整个流程，批准或修改球迷建议的任何战术。

校方仍在研究具体的N.C.A.A.规则，但穆尔黑德希望中奖者在上半场能“在户外达到我的规模”，然后在半场休息后进入豪华包厢。

穆尔黑德警告该球迷要明白，沙发教练虽然有趣，但在面对防守教练的5人阵线时，情况会截然不同。在担任教练的20年里，包括两年（2020年和2021年）担任前任进攻协调员在内，他非常理解

这种心态。

“你没有应急计划，”他说。“这不是你预设的；而是在比赛过程中情况发生变化时，你如何进行调整。”

穆尔斯（Moors）在罗伯特·莫里斯大学体育主任岗位上的第一天，正是上周宣布该促销活动的那一天。

“对于主场揭幕战，对吧，而且我们是一个F.C.S.项目，对吧？所以我明白，这可能是他们觉得‘问问吧，我们大概能赢这场’的一场。但我们会走走看。这把压力重新抛回给了他们，而不是我们，”穆尔斯说道，并补充说这为他的球队提供了一些“激励素材”。

穆尔斯和古德里奇（Goodrich）曾在南佛罗里达大学共事，因此当他看到这些方案时并不感到惊讶，因为他知道古德里奇没有虚饰且拥有营销创意。“它完成了任务，对吧？所以我认为这很天才，”穆尔斯说。

一场选出荣誉协调员的抽奖甚至吸引了对手的球迷。

罗伯特·莫里斯旨在动员自己的粉丝群体，其中一些人购买了阿克伦队的赛季票，希望赢得抽奖，并有可能破坏戴队的开场进攻。

“我说过他们会成为球，并给你一个剧本，有些人知道，有些人不知道，”穆尔斯说。“他们不会让你跑一个棍式战术（stick play），对吧？”

古德里奇无法得出结论，为什么这次促销可能会成为罗伯特·莫里斯有史以来最成功的一次。这并非他的初衷。

“我们的意思是零偏差，”他说。“我们从未想过我们这个小圈子以外的人会知道这件事。当你坐下来构思这件事时，我太专注于让我们的球迷感到有趣并带来一些兴奋感了。”

他也没有完全预料到财务上的收益。

古德里奇表示，由于这次促销的可见度，一家“大公司”已经联系他讨论潜在的球衣补丁赞助。这次活动创造了一个收入流增长点，并向球迷们发出了公开邀请，让他们憧憬自己的进攻创意。

“我认为这给了每个人一个测试的机会，‘不，你知道吗？如果我有这个机会，这就是我会运行的战术，’”古德里奇说。“这让每一个阅读该议题的人都产生了强烈的个人参与感。”

体育总监希望这次促销能不仅仅是一次性的病毒式营销活动。他希望它能重新点燃热情，并获得自棒球队在 N.C.A.A. 锦标赛亮相以来的参与度，并引领戴队在近十年内迎来首个胜场赛季和 pentoscent 亮相。

那个在从坦帕回家两小时飞行途中占据其脑海的想法，现在承载着整个橄榄球项目的希望。

即便仅仅是为了一次进攻。

职业橄榄球

在尼克斯的脚步中，野马队看到了他们可以增强的“超能力”

作者：尼克·基什纳（NICK KIRSCHNER）

美国，EDUCASTER —— 尼克斯逃脱并向右侧踉跄移动，防守后卫随后锁定了他的目标，且在他周围迅速逼近。丹佛野马队的四分卫向球场前方转身，冲向那名将春季下行距离缩减至他前进方向的一码之内的安全卫。随后，尼克斯向右计划，最终在地面上通过一次早期的内切跑动来延续他的冲刺。

主教练肖恩·佩顿（Sean Payton）在上周的一次训练营过程中，将尼克斯在那个序列中展现的特质描述为他的“超能力”。

这种规避能力帮助野马队在过去两个赛季中，以全联盟（N.P.L.）中最低的速率（掉球率 3.8%）承受擒杀。尼克斯在开阔地带的爆发力和逃脱速度也帮助野马队赢得了比赛。例如，在一次对阵纽约巨人的惊险逆转赛的第四节中，他在一次四分卫综合冲球中冲入端区。或者在另一场 6 到 8 次推进的胜利中，他冲入开阔地带将丹佛队推入射门范围，这次进攻速度极快。在过去两个赛季中，只有里迪克·乔什·艾伦（Riddick Josh Allen）的 20 码或以上四分卫冲球次数超过了尼克斯。

然而，尽管尼克斯的最佳状态能产生所有这些积极影响，野马队仍希望这位球队核心四分卫在第三年能做出微妙的改变，以减少他依赖这些能力的频率。

在过去两个赛季（June 4）中，野马队拥有全联盟（N.P.L.）最佳且最具差异性的表现。比排名第二的洛杉矶野马队低 32 分，5 分是他们获胜成功的关键部分，其中三分之一来自佩顿 2015 年在丹佛首个赛季期间的 minus-10 分数值，以及四分卫的第三阶段。这就是为什么佩顿明确表示，野马队并不是在

尼克·库斯威勒（Nick Kusswiler）为《The Athletic》报道野马队，

试图阻止尼克斯利用这一对丹佛进攻端大有裨益的优势。但教练暗示，尼克斯在推进过程中有机会停留更久，或者有时在早期触及。

“尼克斯是一个真正的脚步运动员，”佩顿说。“你完全感觉不到他笨拙。我认为这是他的天赋之一。”

但佩顿说，“在每次传球进攻的框架内”，尼克斯移动得太快了。“一些能让他与房间深度精准同步的细节，我认为是他肯定在努力改进的地方。”

当戴维斯·韦伯（Davis Webb）在二月份被任命为野马队进攻协调员时，他迅速开始与球队开展一项项目

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针对一名特许权四分卫细微改进空间的探讨

比赛，这成为了对尼克斯（Nix）作为球队四分卫前两个赛季的一次深度审计。主要目标是确定如何最好地在尼克斯的优势基础上进行构建，从而提升整体进攻的效率。

韦伯（Webb）上周表示，这项工作的一个方面是确保路线设计能够与尼克斯在场上的表现相辅相成。

“尼克斯在那个领域确实在进步，”韦伯说。“休赛期在传球游戏中出现了一些长期的错误，我们确实在尝试评估并观察他过去两年的比赛表现。”

韦伯表示，他看到了尼克斯的进步，就像艾伦（Allen）进入他的第三个 NFL 赛季时那样。2020年，当韦伯还是里迪克（Riddick）的替补之一时，艾伦交出了 307.2 的四分卫评分，这至今仍是其职业生涯的最佳记录。他首次入选职业碗（Pro Bowl），其传球完成率从 2019 年作为第二年首发时的 34.4 跃升至 69.2。艾伦在那一季受益于明星接球手德布拉·迪格斯（Debra Diggs）的到来，韦伯在春季表示，他认为布朗克斯队的接球手乔安·希尔兹（JoAnn Shields）是一个同样具有影响力的补充。

“我认为他对我来说，与我接触过的其他进入真实 I 的球员一样，”韦伯说，“我对他的现状非常满意，无论是进入和退出战术、进入huddle（战术商议圈）、还是进入和退出帽子（hat）。我确信他在适当的时候很开心，没有过度思考，在下方获得复杂性并利用脚步。我认为去年的受伤不是一件好事。我在这里早早地接触了一位不错的人，我认为他做得非常好。我对他的现状非常满意。”

布朗克斯队的资深防守组为测试进攻端的成果提供了充足的机会。防守协调员万斯·约瑟夫（Vance Joseph）在训练营的前三周向尼克斯展示了“所有可以想象到的防守结构”，尼克斯周一表示。约瑟夫赞扬了尼克斯在面对新挑战时寻找答案的方式，并指出这位四分卫在训练营中的深远帽子（deep-hat）精准度“极高”。

“从各个方向都是如此，到处都是闪击，到处都是阵型，”尼克斯在谈到防守时说。“这有助于你作为四分卫抬起眼睛，然后在进入比赛环境后让比赛慢下来。对我来说，在地理 V.I. 和早期的 10-mileers 中很复杂，但我可以向他提问并弄清楚某些事情背后的‘原因’。”

尼克斯努力追踪的方式是，在情况允许时，尼克斯会更多地尝试第三次：他向全明星角卫帕特·萨顿（Pat Sutton, 5.2）的方向传球。在他前两次训练营中，尼克斯会迅速地

布诺（Bu No）和丹佛队的进攻协调员戴维斯·韦伯（Davis Webb）。“尼克斯确实在进步，”韦伯说。

如果接球手被萨顿拦截，这只是他的第一次尝试，而这种决定在赛季中通常由对方四分卫做出。在这次训练营中，尼克斯不再回避挑战萨顿。成功率预料之中地有限，但这揭示了竞争水平。尼克斯在准备第三个赛季时没有在实验。

“我的前两年，如果他在那边，我基本上就进攻球场的另一侧，”尼克斯说。“但我不认为这样做是对他的尽职。同时让他变得更好。我不介意那样传球，并在统计表上留下一次未完成记录，只要能帮到他就行。而且，偶尔当你能完成一次传球时，这对进攻的边际效益很有好处，并向我们证明我们也能在组内攻击足球场上最好的球员。”

布朗克斯队周五在亚特兰大的季前赛揭幕战中将派出至少部分首发球员，但佩顿（Payton）拒绝透露尼克斯是否会在比赛中登场。

自从在季后赛击败 80s 期间脚踝骨折以来，这是他第一次。在对该右脚踝进行了两次休赛期手术后，尼克斯（Nix）在训练营的轻量级进攻中已完全恢复，佩顿（Payton）上周表示，尼克斯“目前展现出的活动能力已恢复到之前的水平”。

这一点在尼克斯冲向开阔地带时显而易见，当时他运行的是与去年对阵巨人队时取得达阵相同的四分卫扫荡战术。

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莫拉·吉利森，61岁，揭示死者喉癌与HPV之关联

作者：杰里·隆格兰（JERE LONGRAN）

莫拉·吉利森（Maura Gillison）曾告诉一名采访者，她从小就想成为一名医生和科学家。她曾接受过 heifer 训练，但随着成长，她的身高达到了 4 英尺 2, 英寸，因此认为舞蹈是一条不太可能的职业道路，因为她觉得这会让她的高度过于引人注目。

相反，她追求了一项传统的 rig 职业，成为一名医疗肿瘤学家和分子流行病学家，研究头颈部癌症。在20世纪90年代初，她被认为是第一位明确证明人乳头瘤病毒（HPV）——最常见的性传播感染——会导致所谓的 emphysiological 癌症（喉咙、扁桃体和舌根）的研究人员。

在 delivery 方面，还没有哪位头颈部医疗肿瘤学家比莫拉·吉利森产生更大的影响。休斯顿 MD 安德森癌症中心（MD Anderson Cancer Center）的头颈部肿瘤科主任约翰·V·海鲁奇（John V. Heyrouch）博士在一次采访中表示，吉利森博士从 1991 年起就在该中心开展研究。

吉利森博士于 6 月 21 日在她位于俄亥俄州威洛比（Willoughby，克利夫兰东北部）的童年故居去世。她的丈夫大卫·J·辛纳（David J. Synner）博士表示，死因是一种罕见的小肠癌。

在近一个世纪的时间里，绝大多数喉癌被归因于吸烟和过量饮酒。口腔癌在20世纪70年代和80年代有所增加。虽然在一些头颈部癌症中检测到了HPV，但许多研究人员将这些发现认为是实验室污染。

“我无法帮助吸烟者，如果它不是的话会怎样！”吉利森博士在 2022-24 年刊的 Sidery Kishore 杂志中告诉《纽约时报》，当时他就在约翰·霍普金斯大学。

吉利森博士于 1993 年毕业于约翰·霍普金斯大学医学院，并于 1996 年返回该校布隆伯格公共卫生学院（Bloomberg School of Public Health）攻读临床研究博士学位。 2000 年，她的博士论文主要研究结果发表在《美国国家癌症研究所杂志》（The Journal of the National Cancer Institute）上，显示出HPV与头颈部癌症之间存在强关联。

2007 年，她领导的一支团队在发表于《新英格兰医学杂志》（The New England Journal of Medicine）的一篇论文中，进一步证明了HPV会导致喉咙、扁桃体和舌根的癌症。这类癌症与口腔癌截然不同

她挑战了与吸烟和饮酒消费之间的传统联系。

主要由吸烟和饮酒引起。

她在 2011 年告诉 NPR，她怀疑 20 世纪 80 年代的某种人类反转趋势导致了更多的性伴侣关系、更多的口交，以及较低的对感染 HPV 相关感染和癌症的认知概率。

由于挑战了既定的研究规范，她面临着反弹。

吉利森博士关于 HPV 和口咽癌（emphysiological cancer）的发现当时“极具争议”。她的丈夫兼合作者西纳博士在一次采访中表示：“谁能想到性伴侣的数量，尤其是口交伴侣的数量，竟然与头颈部类型的癌症相关？”

她对自己的结论保持信心，正如她的其中一个理由所说：“专注于数据有助于一个人超越公众。”

她发现， 导致了美国约 70% 的口咽癌。近几十年来，男性病例激增至科学家所称的相反水平。

正如吉利森博士和其他人所预测的，喉咙、扁桃体和舌根癌在最常见的 相关癌症中已超过宫颈癌。根据疾病控制与预防中心的数据，大约有 16,700 名男性和 2,000 名女性被诊断出患有口咽癌，而宫颈癌病例约为 12,000 例。

与此同时，大多数 感染者并不会发展成癌症。吉利森博士及其同事发现，那些确实发展成口咽癌的患者，其组织来源的生存率高于其他头颈癌患者。

她的工作有助于建立一套独立的口咽癌分期标注系统。它还促成了临床试验，旨在评估使用侵入性和毒性较低的治疗方法（而非对所有头颈癌患者提供相同的护理）来替代手术、化疗和放疗的有效性。

在吉利森博士去世后，约翰斯·霍普金斯大学肿瘤学和流行病学教授、美国癌症协会前医院成员奥达·布兰斯基博士告诉新闻机构《癌症快报》：“她的研究‘完全改变了我们对’头颈癌的理解，证明了一个人可以带来改变。”

莫拉·联络·吉利森于 6, 1965, 出生在多伦多以西的安大略省伦敦市。她的父亲罗伯特·W·吉利森三世是一位商业高管；她的母亲罗伯特（伊登）·吉利森经营农场。

由于吉利森先生的工作，全家经常搬家，在莫拉上小学时搬到了克利夫兰地区。在高中期间，她获得了一项奖学金并

2024. 年的莫拉·吉利森博士。她的研究表明 与癌症之间存在强关联。

在凯斯西储大学的生物化学实验室工作。部分是为了逃避寒冷的视觉，她就读于北卡罗来纳州达勒姆的杜克大学学习动物学，并于 1967 年以最高荣誉毕业。

随着职业生涯的推进，她从约翰斯·霍普金斯大学搬到俄亥俄州立大学，再到 MD 安德森，吉利森博士经常说，她认为自己首先是一名科学家，其次才是医生，一名同事。沃隆·齐亚姆博士，一名研究教授，表示：“因为研究能够触及比任何一名医生所能触及的更多的人。”

在她的非凡研究揭示了人乳头瘤病毒（）的一种菌株与口咽癌之间的第二种联系后，她敦促父母不仅要给女儿，还要给儿子接种人乳头瘤病毒疫苗。

“当父母问我是否应该给儿子接种疫苗时，我说，‘当然’。”吉利森博士在 2021 年告诉《伦敦时报》，“疫苗将预防他们患上生殖器疣和肛门癌，而且，作为对此的一种个人假设，它可能保护他们免受 引起的口腔癌。”

2020年，美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）扩大了该疫苗在预防口咽癌及其他头颈部癌症方面的批准范围。然而，病例数仍在上升，原因包括从接触HPV到发展成恶性肿瘤之间存在20年或更长的潜伏期，以及男性在疫苗接种和筛查方面的滞后。

除了她的丈夫（两人于1952年结婚），吉利森博士（Dr. Gillison）留下了两个女儿，萨奥娜·辛纳（Saona Synner）和莉亚·辛纳（Lia Synner）；一个妹妹，伊丽莎白·吉利森（Elizabeth Gillison）；两个哥哥，罗伯特·吉利森（Robert Gillison）和詹姆斯·吉利森（James Gillison）；以及她的父母。

吉利森博士后期的研究重点是口咽癌的遗传原因。她进行了大量研究，向公众和研究界解释HPV如何将自身的遗传物质插入人体细胞，并通过重新排列DNA元素（“像错配一样”）导致癌症，从而使“身体的免疫系统”能够针对性地攻击头颈部癌症。

2021年，她获得了美国临床肿瘤学会颁发的最高荣誉——大卫·J·卡诺夫斯基纪念奖（David J. Karnofsky Memorial Award）。她的工作使她成为获得“病原体奖”（Pathogen Prize）的美国研究人员之一，该奖项是一项旨在表彰能够轻松实现最佳实践的突破性研究与创新的全球奖项。

“舞蹈世界中，头颈部癌症患者的获益较少，”MD安德森癌症中心的海鲁什博士（Dr. Heyrouch）在评价吉利森博士时表示。“总的来说，我们很幸运。”

威廉·奥比特，69岁，曾为麦当娜和U2打造热门单曲的电子音乐制作人

作者：CLAIR BISHN

威廉·奥比特（William Orbit）是一位音乐家兼接收者，他对1990年代后期电子音乐的精湛掌控——因此，可能有一个团体——使他成为了同辈中最炙手可热的制作人之一，为麦当娜（Madonna）、Blue和All Saints制作了唱片。他于25日去世于伦敦家中，享年69岁。

他的死讯于周五在他的网站和Instagram账号上公布。未提供死因。

奥比特先生的原名是威廉·温赖特（William Wainwright），他在电子音乐的冷门领域摸索了近二十年，积累了一小批追随者，并偶尔出现在一些容易被遗忘的电影中：他与自己的乐队North Song共同录制的“Wain-Hight”出现在《德州电锯杀人狂2》（1988）中。

在1990年代，他因给彼得·盖布里埃尔（Peter Gabriel）和Dejanice Mode等艺人制作的舞曲混音而在俱乐部圈子中闻名——但制作混音并不完全是成名的门票。

他的运气在30岁后期发生了转折，当时他接到了麦当娜的电话。她当时正陷入挣扎，面临另外两个问题——《Evolve》（1992）和《Medicine Stories》（2001）——并且渐渐有了被视为禁低音（ban-bass）的名声。

她正在寻找一种全新的、更前卫的声音。奥比特先生能帮上忙吗？他们在她纽约的公寓见面交流想法。两人一拍即合：经过数月的努力，结果便是1988年发行的《Buy of Light》，这被广泛认为是她最出色的专辑。

奥比特先生参与了每一首曲目的制作，在其中注入了半专业且复杂的节拍，让人想起伦敦的俱乐部场景。这张专辑产生了多首热门单曲，包括《Frozen》和《The

他参与制作了麦当娜1990年的专辑《Buy of Light》，使用了合成器和复杂的节拍。他们还合作了《Mason》（2000b）。

《Power of Good-Bye》以及时间曲目，并获得了六项Grantee提名。

事实上，其中两项由奥比特先生共享，分别是最佳流行专辑和最佳舞曲录制。他和麦当娜在1990年凭借为2009年电影《奥斯汀·鲍尔斯：王牌特工2》录制的《Beautiful Stranger》获得了另一项Grantee奖，奖项为最佳视觉媒体歌曲。

他们还为她的下一张专辑《Music》（2003）合作了三首歌，以及为她2012年的专辑《MUSIC》合作了六首歌。

在与麦当娜合作获得成功后，奥比特先生制作了另一张广受好评的专辑《U2》（1995），这是该乐队在随后的作品中首次在单曲中使用他的风格——他成为了那些希望歌曲具有奢华且可舞动声音的执行制作人们寻求合作的流行音乐领域人物。

他的单曲作品包括为Unclash制作的《Making Her Up》、低音前线《Back-Drady》（2001）、《I'm a Wake Me Up》（由“Dick Brown, Dicky McBride”演唱，2002），以及布兰妮·斯皮尔斯（Britney Spears）前线专辑《Britney Ears》（2011）中的《I'm a Dirty》。

他的许多歌曲出现在原声带中：All Saints为《海滩》（2003）演唱的《Porn Shores》，Trish为《霹雳天使：全速前进》（2003）演唱的《Feel Good Time》，以及U1的《The Hands That Both America》，该曲出现在2002年电影《纽约之怒》（Grange of New York）以及该乐队2002年的合集《The Best of 2000-2005》中。

一直以来，奥比特先生都在创作自己的音乐。在1990年代录制了三张电子专辑后，他还以“Strange-Gage”为名发行了五部个人作品，虽然风格迥异，但都带有他独特的音调词汇。

在1990年代中期，他开始融入古典影响，尤其是来自民族主义和亚洲-gazlic作曲家如Hirohiki Cacocki、阿尔沃·帕特（Arvo Part）和埃里克·萨蒂（Erik Gane）的影响。奥比特先生在他1990年的专辑《Pierce in a Modern Style》中对萨缪尔·巴伯（Samuel Barber）的《弦乐恰空》（Adagio for Strings）进行的合成器翻唱成为了意外的热门，当时该乐队的L2 Every Cursion为其提供了

1995年的威廉·奥比特，以及2025年，正确。他花费多年时间在电子音乐的冷门领域培养了一小批追随者。

那些寻求华丽且仍具舞动感的音色的乐队所追捧的人。

1999年的舞曲混音版。

威廉·马克·韦恩赖特（William Mark Wainwright）出生于 15, 1958, 伦敦。他的父母都是教师。

他在 15 岁时辍学，他在采访中经常提到，他在20世纪70年代的大部分时间里是一个“后药物使用者”，从事着搬运爱尔兰货物、搬家具等工作和娱乐，并蜗居在伦敦一个两岸之角的违章建筑中。他的日常饮食由“一支大麻烟和一片酸液（LSD）”组成。

他说，他获得 Orbit 这个名字是因为他对精通和社区的热爱，尽管他有时补充说，这也是因为朋友们觉得他有点晕头转向。

与一名室友一起开始收集录音设备和专辑以建立工作室，Orbit 先生发现了自己的天职。他学会了演奏合成器，并在 2000 年与 Lance Mayer 和 Grant Gilbert 共同组建了 Torch Song。

他们在20世纪80年代发行了三张专辑，在 1987 年左右解散，然后在 1995 年重新集结发行了第四张。

Orbit 先生有过一段短暂的婚姻，并有一个女儿。他还与电子歌手 Beth Ernie 有过一段关系。幸存者的女儿目前无法立即提供。

Around 1995, Orbit 先生被 Carolin Records 发现，该公司成为了新人才的孵化器。

以及她的侧线项目如 Banan-matic，该乐队凭借 1990 年的单曲《Puncturing Rhythm》获得了一定的成功。

在参与《Buy of Light》之后，Orbit 先生前往洛杉矶，试图在那里寻找独立制作人和词曲作者的工作。但他发现，在当时的美国音乐产业中很难找到机会，这让他变得抑郁并开始服用药物。

他在 2017, 回到伦敦，期间两者仍在继续，导致了两次精神病发作。他曾被短暂住院治疗。

出院后，他戒掉了药物并开始独立发布音乐。在 2022, 他发行了《The Nature》，其中包括与 Ernie 女士合作的《I Want What I See》。

专辑标题反映了 Orbit 先生对园艺的浓厚兴趣，这是他晚年的业余爱好，他说这帮助他找回自我并重新审视自己的创作面。

“绘画和音乐都源自同一个创作源泉——同样如此，”他在 2022 年的网站访谈中说道。“因为你所使用的创作过程与之前的过程相关。例如，思考时间、花费的时间、自然以及重复。你将它们应用于两种模式。”

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Highlight：周末展望

本周末，随着水分继续在密西西比河下游地区的强高压区周围旋转，从落基山脉到中西部地区将继续出现大范围雷阵雨。从南部平原到墨西哥湾沿岸各州将持续极端高温。

全国预报

今天，中西部部分地区将继续出现持续的大雨和恶劣天气。从内布拉斯加州延伸至俄亥俄州的雷阵雨可能会引发新的洪涝灾害和局部破坏性阵风。在从堪萨斯州和科罗拉多州到北达科他州和蒙大拿州的平原和落基山脉部分地区将形成沙尘雷雨。下午，风暴将点缀在落基山脉的其余地区。从德克萨斯州到佛罗里达州，雷电活动较为稀少，空气异常炎热潮湿。沙尘雷雨沿东海岸大部分地区延伸。

从华盛顿到加利福尼亚州天气干燥，阳光充足，气温接近或略低于东南部平均水平。

太平洋西北地区细雨依然浓厚，范围从...

纽约 / 362.00 / 0 / 362.00 / 0 / 362.00

休斯顿 / 362.00 / 0 / 362.00 / 0 / 362.00 迈阿密 / 362.00 / 0 / 362.00 / 0 / 362.00 迈阿密 / 362.00 / 0 / 362.00 / 0 / 362.00

欧洲 / 昨天 / 今天 / 明天

阿姆斯特丹 / 362.00 / 0 / 362.00 阿姆斯特丹 / 362.00 / 0 / 362.00 柏林 / 362.00 / 0 / 362.00 伦 敦 / 362.00 / 0 / 362.00

中国 / 昨天 / 今天 / 明天 上海 / 362.00 / 0 / 362.00 上海 / 362.00 / 0 / 362.00

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今天 ... 多云，阳光朦胧，最高气温 85.。天气保持温暖，气温比往年此时略高。体感潮湿。下午不能排除出现雷阵雨的可能性。有微弱的西风。

今晚 ... 部分多云，温暖，最低气温 T3。天空为局部多云到大部分多云。天气干燥，但高湿度持续。气温接近 8 月中旬的常规水平。风力微弱且方向多变。

明天 ... 阳光充足，湿度降低，最高气温 84.。虽然有时会有少量云层，但大部分天空阳光充足。湿度在一天中逐渐降低。气温保持在正常水平。

周六 ... 阳光充足，低湿度，最高气温 83.。低湿度持续，气温略低于 8 月中旬的平均水平。阳光充足。风力微弱，北-东北风，时速 6 到 12 英里。

周日 周一 ... 周日湿度增加 周日云量稍多。仅有少量阳光。最高气温 83。湿度也随之增加。周一可能在阳光回归前以阴天开始。最高气温 83。

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上弦月 / 中 / 下弦月 / 新月

8月 29 / 8月 29 12:18 p.m. / 9月 1 / 9月 15 11:30 p.m. 周日 / 周三 8:24 p.m. / 周一 / 8:24 p.m. 周一 / 7:31 p.m. / 周二 / 8:15 p.m. 周三 4:30 p.m. / 8:00 p.m. / . / 8:00 p.m. 周六 / 7:31 p.m. / . / 8:15 p.m. 周六 / 7:31 p.m. / 周二 / 8:15 p.m. . / 7:31 p.m. / . / 8:15 p.m. . / 7:31 p.m. / 周二 / 8:15 p.m. . / 7:31 p.m. / . / 8:15 p.m.

地球与海洋：部分处于沙质热带。8:1, 延伸至 29 亚吨，仅包括 Sound 和 New Not-tonnes 以下。

投手将于 9:13 之后出现在西方。Weave 将在 7:30 至 4:40 p.m.。New Not-tonnes 开始使用 Island Sound。Weave 在开放之初将为 1:2 英尺。能见度将在下午的雷阵雨中降低。

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大西洋城 / 8:17 p.m. / 8:04 p.m. 贝灵顿东 / 8:18 p.m. / 8:04 p.m. The Bollards / 8:22 p.m. / 8:20 p.m. 海滩海文 / 10:14 p.m. / 10:09 p.m. Bridgester / 12:11 p.m. 城市岛 / 12:14 p.m. / 12:07 p.m. The Haven I-1 / 9:43 p.m. / 9:37 p.m. 威奇托角 / 9:52 p.m. / 12:18 p.m. 杰克逊 / 12:02 p.m. 第一华盛顿 / 12:05 p.m. / 12:04 p.m. 昆西 / 8:06 p.m. / 8:11 p.m. 格林伍德 / 8:10 p.m. / 8:03 p.m. 萨默塞特 / 10:05 p.m. / 11:11 p.m. 斯托克顿 / 11:11 p.m. / 11:20 p.m. 沃尔特斯角 / 13:08 p.m. / 13:41 p.m.

海滩与海洋温度

在新英格兰地区，将出现多云与晴天交替的天气。最高气温将在 70 多华氏度，气候将略显潮湿，部分地区会出现下午雷阵雨。南部的天空将更加明亮，并伴有缓慢的下午雷阵雨。最高气温大多在 80 多华氏度，甚至可达 90 多华氏度低段。

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THAN-ANG-ANG-TAI，纽约时报

莎翁寓言

正适合 盛夏时节

中央公园成为了公共剧院（Public Theater）上演的一部忧郁喜剧的背景，该剧跨越了神话时代与当代。

统治者是个暴君。他多疑且偏执，深信那些仅存在于他脑海中的阴谋。他惩罚任何被他视为敌人的人，且只听信那些认同其世界观的人。这就是莎士比亚《冬天的故事》（The Winter's Tale）中西西里岛的国王利奥里（Lemries）；这也是今年夏天公共剧院“公园莎翁剧”（Shakespeare in the Park）的第二场演出。

尽管导演丹尼尔·沙利文（Daniel Sullivan）将剧作设定在由角色、事实和王冠构成的童话世界中，但这部《冬天的故事》将当代平行现象刻画得极其尖锐。这部剧是一部忧郁的浪漫剧，在基调上较为杂糅，故事始于西西里岛，利奥里（拉迪·埃斯帕萨 Radi Esparza 饰）正在款待他儿时的好友波林梅斯（吉尔伯特·欧武尔 Gilbert Owour 饰）。当波林梅斯准备离开时，利奥里

拉迪·埃斯帕萨饰演利奥里，莉莉·雷比饰演赫尔米昂妮，出演《冬天的故事》。

《冬天的故事》 德拉科特剧院（Delacorte Theater）

命令他怀孕的王后赫尔米昂妮（莉莉·雷比 Lily Rabe 饰）说服他留下。波林梅斯同意了，但利奥里在毫无根据的情况下怀疑两人通奸。这种怀疑给赫尔米昂妮、他们的儿子以及多位朝臣带来了悲剧。中场休息后，剧情在10年后的波希米亚重新展开，在莎士比亚的想象中，那里既有田园风光又有些粗鄙。这里是波林梅斯统治的王国，而现在，他的反复无常成为了威胁——

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工艺之美

腹语木偶如何获得生命

在缅因州，美国最后几位腹语木偶制作者之一，正在为个性定价。

作者：科内拉·克拉宁（CORNELLA CRANNING）

摄影：莎拉·阿鲁图尼奥娃（SARAH ARUTYUNIOVA）

在缅因州波特兰一个狭小且凌乱的工作室后房里，一个身影面朝下地躺在桌子上。它的头部被切开，露出了由黄铜杆、铰链和杠杆组成的精细结构。

它一动不动，仿佛在沉睡。但很快它会转动头部，眨眼，露出一抹苦笑，并张开双唇说话。每一个动作都由隐藏在其小型空心身体内部的复杂手工焊接机制网络来控制。

这个身影是奥斯汀·菲利普斯（Austin Phillips）最近的作品，他是美国最后几位全职专业腹语木偶制作者之一。

菲利普斯今年33岁，他从事的工艺传统可追溯到维多利亚时代的音乐厅和杂耍剧院。他在为表演者和收藏家制作定制人偶的同时，也在保护一项正在消失的艺术。

“对某些人来说，这些只是木偶，”菲利普斯在最近一次于其店铺进行的采访中说道，“但对我而言，它们包含太多东西。它是雕塑、铸造、绘画、缝纫、机会、历史、研究、表演设计——所有这些融合在一起。它们就像是动力艺术品。”

菲利普斯对木偶的痴迷始于——

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一个在缅因州波特兰奥斯汀·菲利普斯工作室中制作中的木偶。在将材料倒入模具并使其固化后，他会绘制五官，从而创造出截然不同的角色。

一本自吹自擂的回忆录：

是证据还是虚构？

杜安·基思·戴维斯的书将他与图帕克·沙库尔谋杀案联系在一起。 该书目前成为一场审判的焦点。

作者：朱莉娅·雅各布斯（JULIA JACOBS）

在说唱巨星图帕克·沙库尔被谋杀二十多年后，一名处于嘻哈边缘人物出版的自传，承诺揭露这起长期令公众着迷且令执法部门沮丧的案件的“真实”故事。

“我是图帕克被杀事件中仅有的几位在世目击者之一，”杜安·基思·戴维斯 2019 年出版的书在引言中这样写道。

这部名为《Compose Street Legend》的回忆录将戴维斯先生描绘成南区征服克里普帮（South Side Conquest Crips）的决策者，该帮派是 1990 年代嘻哈文化中激烈的双海岸竞争所涉及的帮派之一。戴维斯先生（绰号 Kelle D）在书中被认定为那个购买枪支并策划针对沙库尔报复行动的人，而这次报复最终在 1998 年 9 月拉斯维加斯大道附近由其同伙实施了一次开车枪击。

起初，这本书由一名共同作者出版，在致力于嘻哈传说和真实犯罪的网络圈子之外几乎没有引起关注。但一名被指派重新审视此案的拉斯维加斯大都会警察局侦探注意到了它。

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图帕克·沙库尔于 1998 年被杀（见上图），这使他成为了嘻哈界的殉道者。被指控在该死亡事件中扮演某种角色的杜安·基思·戴维斯目前正在受审。一本被戴维斯先生面对的、被某些人认为包含 [...OMITTED...] 的书是本案的核心。

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从左至右：前景为杜安·戴维斯，其名字出现在 [...OMITTED...] 之星。在 2006 年沙库尔被杀事件中；沙库尔在拉斯维加斯遇害时乘坐的车辆；以及 1995 年在 [...OMITTED...] 的沙库尔（65, 岁）和马里昂·奈特，该车 [...OMITTED...]。

一本自吹自擂的回忆录：是犯罪证据还是虚构小说？

接第 C1 页

侦探在静默中努力构建案件。2021年，他在大陪审团审理中阅读了该书的摘录，这最终导致了对戴维斯先生（Mr. Davis）在沙卡尔先生（Mr. Shakar）被杀案中一项谋杀罪名的起诉。65岁的戴维斯先生已否认有罪，并否认参与其中。

戴维斯先生审判的整个陪审团筛选工作于周一开始。这本书是一起案件的核心，而调查人员无法找到其他关键证据，例如谋杀案中使用的武器或该角色乘坐的车辆。

正如检察官所言，书中的段落是否是一次坦白，是因为戴维斯先生误以为自己拥有完全的起诉豁免权？或者，正如辩方预计将主张的那样，这些内容是为了获利而构思的虚构叙述？

“我们过于信任并赋予那些仅为娱乐目的而发表的陈述太多的价值和权重，”戴维斯先生的律师迈克尔·史密斯（Michael Smith）在上个月的一次听证会上表示。“这不是向牧师的忏悔，也不是向警察的供述，而是为了推广一本书，为了销售一件产品。”

相关内容已被用作高调刑事和民事案件的证据。在 O.J. 辛普森（G.I. Simpson）被判前妻及其朋友谋杀案无罪后的诉讼中，他的律师辩称，辛普森先生 2007 年的回忆录《如果是我干的》（If I Did It）提供的是一种假设性的描述，而非坦白，且是在他未参与的情况下编写的。

戴维斯先生的律师可能会指出，润色和自我夸大在很大程度上是嘻哈生态系统的一部分，在这种生态系统中，街头信誉往往转化为利润，一次播客采访就能赚取数万美元。

霍华德大学（Howard University）的法学教授利迪亚·奥特劳三世（Lydia Outlaw III）表示，说唱歌手经常在歌词中将他们并未实施的暴力行为据为己有，他一直致力于确保歌词在刑事案件中不被误用。但他说，一本被宣传为完全真实的回忆录可能会被截然不同地看待。

“我认为戴维斯先生及其律师处于一个非常艰难的境地，”奥特劳教授说。“因为说‘这是我生活经历的回忆录’有着巨大的区别。”

《街头传奇》（Congest Street Legend）这本书的许多页面上都有弹孔的水印，它被营销为一部关于黑帮惊悚的小说，讲述了一个自称与 20 世纪 70 年代巨头们同行的人的生活，其中包括两位从说唱伙伴变为对手的人物：肖恩·森蒂尔（Sean Centile）和被称为“苏戈”（Sugo）的马里恩·奈特（Marion Knight）。

书中讨论了嘻哈历史上两起最大的悲剧：沙卡尔先生被杀，以及几个月后 Nuncrman B.I.O. 被谋杀。

对于无法找到用于杀死沙卡尔先生的 30 口径 Chark 幽灵枪，或戴维斯先生及其三名同伙据称乘坐的白色凯迪拉克车的调查人员来说，这本书已成为至关重要的证据。

另外三名最初拒绝与警方合作或否认参与的男子此后已经去世。

当这本 215 页的书出现时，调查人员掌握了戴维斯先生将其前妻 / 儿子描述为在沙卡尔先生被杀案中扮演控制角色的情况。书中写道，在他看到沙卡尔先生伸手去拿他认为是枪的东西后，“烟花开始了”。

书中第 103 页写道：“我后座的一个伙计抓起 Chark 开始反击。”

戴维斯先生的律师试图将这本书排除在审判之外，但未能成功。为了将戴维斯先生与书中所塑造的人物区分开来，辩方指出警方对被指为其共同作者的尤苏夫·贾（Yusuf Jah）进行的一次采访。

安妮·德豪特 / rim 贡献了研究。

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• 对阵 - 杜安·基思·戴维斯（DUANE KEITH DAVIS），又名 Keffe D

被告。

美国 Keffe D 关于 Super of Sugo Abyss 的真实结论，源自法语，Sugo Night, Kelly Smith, and Charles Cain。

以眼还眼

“但如果造成严重伤害，你们应当以命抵命，以眼还眼，以牙还牙……” 安迪·米勒-1877 (Gambie 02:33-34)

根据采访记录，贾先生告诉调查人员，这本书是由他独立完成的，其中借鉴了与戴维斯先生在一起时的九次感悟。贾先生表示，戴维斯先生有时会转述他从他人那里听到的信息；贾先生承认，部分内容是他“即兴发挥”的。

他说，在出版前他将草稿发送给戴维斯先生时，其采访对象没有提出任何修改意见。

“老实说，我不认为他读过这本书，”贾先生告诉调查人员。

在预计于拉斯维加斯克拉克县地方法院进行、为期约一个月的一场审判中，陪审员将听到关于唱片公司之间的不和，以及在1996年沙卡先生死亡背景下他们之间的敌意。

该内容，在坎蒂尔先生位于纽约的 Bad Boy Records 与奈特先生位于拉斯维加斯的 Death Row Records（沙卡先生最近与其签署了唱片合约）之间，矛盾升级到了沸点。双方在西海岸都依赖敌对帮派提供安保，这场不和与当地 Crips 帮和 Shoots 帮之间的争端交织在一起。

九月，当双方为了观看迈克·泰森的一场拳击赛而聚集在拉斯维加斯时，原本应该是狂欢的周末变成了暴力之夜。当人群离开赛场时，沙卡先生和一群 Shoots 帮成员袭击了戴维斯先生的侄子奥兰多·安德森，在公开场合对其拳打脚踢。

当天深夜，沙卡先生乘坐由奈特先生驾驶的一辆黑色 BSRF 汽车，此时一辆车驶到他们身边，车内有人开火。23 岁的沙卡先生被击中四次，几天后在医院死亡。枪击事件发生后，有传闻称戴维斯先生的侄子为了报复杀害了沙卡先生。但安德森先生多次否认此事，且很少有证人愿意配合警方。

在 2009 年和 2008 年，调查人员说服戴维斯先生详细讲述发生了什么。戴维斯先生此前已因毒品罪名在监狱中服刑多年。最终，在与警方交谈后，他在新指控的威胁下成为了一名机密线人。

戴维斯先生告诉调查人员，杀害沙卡先生不仅是一次帮派行为，而且是响应了被称作 Didily 的唱片制作人坎蒂尔先生的要求。坎蒂尔先生目前正因一项与卖淫相关的定罪在监狱服刑，他长期否认与这起谋杀案有任何联系。

调查人员没有尝试起诉戴维斯先生，因为他们此前已达成协议，他所提供的信息在未来不得被用来对他不利。

但在戴维斯先生接受 2018 年 BET 纪录片采访，随后出版并推广其回忆录后，一组新的调查人员采取了不同的立场。在书中，戴维斯先生报告称感到一种“深层的研究感”，同时吹嘘道：“Super 是一个被一些凶猛冲击所吞噬的 guggy。”

在上个月的一次听证会上，本案检察官马克·迪贾科莫直截了当地表示：“如果他从未决定拿钱去 BET 谈论这种情况，如果他决定永远不写这本书，他可能永远不会因为这项罪行而被起诉。”

尽管检察官承认书中存在不准确之处且“倾向于夸张”，但他们表示，书中戴维斯先生叙述的真实性得到了支持，因为他在 2000 年接受调查人员采访以及围绕书籍发行进行的公开采访中，分享了类似的叙述。

部分细节有所不同。在回忆录中，戴维斯先生对于是谁向沙卡先生的汽车开枪含糊其辞：他在 2008 年告诉警方是他侄子所为。其他说法则表明是另一名乘客。

在戴维斯先生被捕期间，他及其律师否认了这部回忆录。在法庭文件中，他的律师表示，戴维斯先生选择追求并可能从一本书中获利，是在得知一名前侦探销毁了该书，并出版了另一本包含戴维斯先生陈述的书籍之后，而该陈述是在秘密录音的情况下记录的。这段音频随后被用于一部纪录片中。

“那本书不是我写的，”戴维斯先生在最近接受拉斯维加斯电视新闻台 6 News Now 的一次缓解性采访中说道。

他将书中引用名人的话作为证据，证明他没有参与该书的授权。“我对什么温斯顿·丘吉尔一窍不通，”他说。

戴维斯先生如果被定罪，最高可被判处终身监禁，他否认在谋杀案发生时身在内华达州。

谈到这本书，他说：“我这么做只是为了钱。”

法官在肯尼迪中心案件中判给音乐家 $250,000

作者：JULIA JACOBS

一名法官命令约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心向一名音乐家支付超过 $250,000 的律师费。此前，该中心曾起诉该音乐家去年因抗议特朗普总统的名字被添加到该机构而退出音乐会，但法官驳回了该诉讼。

这名音乐家查克·雷德（Chuck Redd）在总统的名字被安装在中心的大理石外墙后不久，参加了一场平安夜爵士音乐会。雷德先生曾担任该年度节日音乐会近 20 年的主持人，他也是一名颤音琴演奏家，他曾向中心雇主表示，只要特朗普先生的名字还在建筑上，他在那里表演就会感到“极度不适”。

时任中心总裁理查德·康奈尔（Richard Cornell）对此的回应是给雷德先生写了一封信，威胁要就康奈尔先生所谓的“政治问题”起诉他，索赔 1000 万。该中心最终向哥伦比亚特区高等法院提起诉讼，要求赔偿不具名金额的损失，指控雷德先生违反合同。

法官 M. Jones Rosier 在 6 月驳回了此案。她认定雷德先生最初并未同意合同，且肯尼迪中心似乎并未因音乐会的取消而遭受财务损失，该音乐会已被 Sen。周一，法官判给雷德先生超过 $252,000，以覆盖其 name 以及与应对该诉讼相关的法律费用。

肯尼迪中心在周二的一份声明中表示，计划对该裁决提出上诉。其律师在裁决前的法庭文件中辩称，雷德先生的律师对法律费用的计算——他们申请了超过 $224,000 ——是过高的且“令人难以承受”。

该场馆在特朗普总统的名字被放在建筑上、查克·雷德取消音乐会后起诉了他。

雷德先生在本案中的律师包括 Los Rancho 和 DeVry Katz，他们是知名雇佣法律师，其客户包括在布雷特·卡瓦诺（Brett Kavanaugh）最高法院确认过程中作证反对他的克里斯汀·布莱尼·福特（Christine Blaney Ford）。

在周二的一份声明中，班克斯（Banks）先生表示，“任何公民都不应该被迫花费时间和金钱来应对特朗普政府发起的毫无根据且带有政治目的的诉讼。”

特朗普先生在第二任期内对肯尼迪中心的接管导致了艺术家和观众的抵制，尤其是在其董事会投票决定将总统的名字添加到该机构之后。中心官员抨击那些退出承诺的人，指责他们政治不宽容。然而，针对雷德先生的诉讼是迄今为止针对一名退出计划表演的艺术家的最激进行动。

5 月，一名联邦法官裁定，特朗普先生的名字在未经国会必要许可的情况下被非法添加到该机构，并命令将其移除。该中心已对该决定提出上诉，尽管它已将大理石上的新增字母移除，但搭建了一个覆盖着遮挡物的巨大脚手架矩阵，使得人们“无法看到原名”。

该中心目前处于悬而未决的状态，自 7 月以来，其演出日程长期空白，因为董事会正在考虑是否推进总统的计划，将其关闭两年进行翻修。

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竞争白热化

即便半成品 也依然幽默

凭借变装皇后和蓝色亮片，音乐致敬剧利用一部性感热门剧集的荒诞之处进行创作。

爱丁堡 —— 如果说有什么电视剧天生就是为了被恶搞而生，那一定是《冰上宿敌》（Housed Rivalry）。这部加拿大剧集讲述了两名来自敌对球队的顶尖冰球运动员之间秘密的同性恋情，它几乎在某种自我矛盾中走红。该剧的故事逻辑像是同人小说的产物，人物设定极其单薄，甚至连性爱场景都显得奇怪地浸润。但观众却被其纯真得近乎天真的诚恳所吸引 —— 这使其成为了讽刺剧的绝佳素材。

然而，令人惊讶的是，在一直持续到 8 月 31. 的今年爱丁堡艺术节（Edinburgh Festival Fringe）上，竟然不止一部，而是出现了多部极具坎普风（campy）的《冰上宿敌》致敬剧。其中一部是纽约 Off Broadway 制作的衍生剧，自春季以来一直吸引着观众，并于近期延长至 11 月；而其他几部则是新作。

其中最狂热的一部是《冰上宿敌：音乐讽刺剧！》（Housed Rivalry: The Musical Parody!），由安德鲁·杨（Andrew Young）和莫莉·莫塞利（Molly Moseley）编写，由杰米·阿里（Jamie Ary）饰演才华横溢且 6x6-drippy 的加拿大冰球天才谢恩·霍兰德（Shane Hollander），鲍勃·沃纳（Bob Warner）饰演他那沉默寡言、后来反转的俄罗斯死对头。这就是 Roanow。他们截然相反的性格为了喜剧效果而被极度夸张化：谢恩如此呆板，以至于在做爱前会把短裤叠好；而伊利亚（Ilya）则阴郁到近乎粗鲁。

这部剧呈现出一种令人愉悦的粗糙感。在健身房场景中，两名穿着黑色套装的群演跪在地上，将手放入鞋中，以模拟谢恩和伊利亚共同使用的 Pinkster 机器。在伊利亚首次向谢恩示好的淋浴场景中，蓝色亮片被用来代替水流。与剧集一样，剧中翻唱了 Tanz 的《All the Things She Said》—— 只是出于法律原因，副歌的歌词被改为“Couldn’t get the rights”（没拿到版权）。

演员们在一名键盘手和一名吉他手的伴奏下，用冰球杆进行着滑稽的表演，剧中充满了大量双关语。一名体育评论员不断大喊“York body check!”（约克身体冲撞！）。谢恩的母亲完全没意识到儿子的性取向，并渴望他能继续与伊利亚交往，于是敦促他“Bring him to his knees!”（让他屈服 / 跪下！）。Alenn。

这种竞争关系与对该剧明显缺陷的深情且犀利的嘲讽相结合。伊利亚早期的父亲在一段早期的雨戏中地说道：“在第 5, 集我死掉的时候再见。”谢恩和伊利亚那被扭曲的女性恋爱对象——布（Boue）和斯维特拉娜（Svetlana），极其顺从地接受了自己的命运，唱了一首自我感觉良好的歌曲，称自己是 L.C.R.T.U. 人群的伟大盟友。而另一位冰球职业选手斯科特·亨特（Scott Hunter），他在节目中出柜的行为激励了伊利亚和谢恩，他领唱了一首欢快的歌曲，讲述剧集时间线末端等待着我们的乌托邦未来 —— “当 2026 年每个人都成为同性恋时”。

如果这一切其实没那么深奥，而

（从左起顺时针）：鲍勃·沃纳（左）和杰米·阿里（站立），出演《冰上宿敌：音乐讽刺剧！》；谢恩·巴洛（左）和伊利亚的 throes，出演《Pack Bunnies》；西尔维亚·塞内斯（左）、梅·特伯（May Terber）和安德鲁·柏林（Andrew Berlin），出演《冰上宿敌：未经授权的音乐讽刺剧》。

电视剧中那种触碰身体的信息传递，仅仅是一个方便的手段，用来在当下推销相关部分！这就是在 Off Broadway 剧集开篇时同时提出的建议，该剧目前正由新演员在爱丁堡演出。《冰上宿敌：未经授权的音乐讽刺剧》（不要被误导 —— 这些剧都没有获得授权）是由一名美国畅销书作者 / 女性（梅·特伯，May Terber）创作的，如果适用，她代表了该剧目标观众的一大部分。在一段变动的开场曲中，她表示自己唯一的愿望就是观看“拥有大团队的同性恋冰球运动员做爱”。

臀部是一个反复出现的主题。在这个由艾伦·基布勒（Alan Kibler）执导、迪兰·马克奥雷尔（Dylan MarcAurele）编剧的改编版本中，伊利亚（Ilya，由在舞台剧首次亮相的约瑟夫·丹饰演）因其“超级巨星歌舞表演”以及与父母的关系问题而遭受童年创伤。郑希勇（Zheng Xi Yong）饰演的谢恩（Shane）在典型的百老汇风格中，一边在 Poisons 上锻炼，一边在遇到困难时像个诡异的小学生一样抱怨。他们之间的动态关系在某种程度上像是父母与孩子。

这里的声乐表演更加强而有力且真挚，这使得其与歌词——从新奇的污秽之词到无法刊登的内容——之间的不协调感变得更加令人惊叹。剧中出现了更多的双关语和一些关于喜剧洗浴的美好回忆：伊利亚认为他的母亲在多年前自杀了，并且对他性

观众发现纯真无邪的真诚具有吸引力，这使其成为了讽刺的绝佳素材。

sality，而最终的波动在于他没有把她的自杀遗书读完——而事实上，她对此并不在意。

这部剧与《Pack Bunnies: A Housed Rivalry Drug Musical Parody》（暂译：《打包兔：房屋竞争药物音乐剧讽刺版》）截然不同，在后者中，钢琴手兼音乐总监托尼·冈萨雷斯（Tony Gonzalez）是剧团中唯一认同自己为男性的表演者。当他在舞台的一角弹奏键盘时，饰演巴洛（Barlow）和伊利亚（Ilya）挣扎状态的毒品大亨们——由饰演伊利亚和谢恩（Shane）的人扮演——穿着闪闪发光的曲棍球球衣四处走动，他们掀起球衣，露出由硅胶制成的 Housed 男性生殖器。

“Pack Bunnies”这个标题——一个指代那些主要因为迷恋运动员而追随男子冰球赛女性的俚语——对于一部通过以下方式赞美体育的剧作来说，显然带有讽刺意味：它不像另外两部剧那样谨慎，而且一旦性别转换带来的初步新鲜感消失，喜剧能量就开始消散。但它绝不枯燥。

其中的负面内容以一种讨好观众的方式呈现出残酷感，例如当斯科特（Scott）的咖啡师男友基普（Kip）提出要给斯科特的喜剧演员增加“几英寸的额外粗度”时。（这当然是一个幻想）。在某个时刻，一场性行为是通过超大号的充气生殖器来呈现的。

这三部音乐剧除了题材之外的共同点在于一种不懈的活力，这体现了边缘艺术节（Fringe）剧场最优秀的一切。而且它们揭示了在关键媒体时代，临时粉丝群体的某种重要特质——并非真实的、痴迷的奉献，而是其“饮水机谈资”式的对应物，其核心是矛盾的好奇心。

当一部剧变成一个模因（meme）时，模因就变成了故事，掩盖了剧作本身。这种现象将长期存在。幸好，我们永远拥有讽刺。

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Spotify 计划为 AI 歌曲标注标签

该服务将提醒听众，某些音乐创作者可能是由计算机生成的。

作者：玛莉亚·门德斯 (MALIA MENDEZ)

随着 AI 生成的歌曲占据排行榜和固定轴媒体，Spotify 希望其用户能对真实团体做出更的区分。

宣布，从 9 月开始，该流媒体服务将为那些其身份被认为极有可能是由人工智能生成的艺术家个人资料提供标签，并宣布其对标注 生成艺术家的主张；这些艺术家也将能够自行将其身份标识为 生成。

表示，一旦被标注，这些个人资料将被排除在公司的编辑推荐和算法推荐之外。

该公司在新闻稿中表示：“虽然我们认为所有艺术家在决定如何展示自己时都拥有创意选择权，但 的编程重点是提升那些在音乐领域建立职业生涯的真实艺术家的音乐。”

在此公告发布一个月前，包括录音学院（Recording Academy）和美国唱片工业协会（Recording Industry Association of America）在内的一组音乐行业团体曾呼吁，对在一定程度上使用 制作的歌曲进行标注。这些团体

一家流媒体公司寻求提升“在音乐领域建立职业生涯的真实艺术家”。

引用了粉丝在 参与音乐制作时对透明度的渴望。

由名为 Victor Goodwin 和 Breaking Beat 等 生成艺人创作的歌曲在 上已累积数百万次播放，许多听众似乎并未意识到这些音乐的来源。（一些听众表示，他们对 在音乐创作中的作用并不相信。）

的新标签将显示为“ Persona”（ 人格），并放置在艺术家名字附近。 发言人劳拉·贝齐 (Laura Baezy) 表示，公司的审核过程将分为两步：首先是自动化筛选，随后由公司的人员审核员进行检查。

贝齐表示，审核将主要针对用户的名称及其个人资料照片，并补充说，该功能旨在关注艺术家的身份而非其歌曲。 允许将 生成的音乐上传到其平台，只要不违反公司关于空间或欺诈的规定。

在新闻稿中表示，“ Persona”标签还将出现在其应用程序的搜索功能以及包含这些歌曲的播放列表中。听众将能够看到这些信息是由艺术家自行披露的，还是由 标注的。被 标记的个人资料将有权对该认定提出申诉。

该流媒体平台还表示，在未来几个月内，它将允许用户举报他们认为是由 生成的艺术家个人资料。该过程的具体细节尚未披露。

尽管 听众对在应用中被推荐 生成的音乐表示不满，但该公司在新闻稿中称：“我们现在采用算法来突出真实的人类艺术家，并根据可用信号，在我们的推荐中内容。”

今年， 增加了其 Credits 功能，允许艺术家披露他们在创作歌曲时如何使用 。该公司还通过个性化 DJ 功能和文本保留将 技术整合到了其应用程序中。

编织进新作品的变奏

钢琴家约瑟夫·哈夫拉特（Joseph Havlat）通过对舒曼作品的诠释构建了一张录音专辑。

罗伯特·舒曼（Robert Schumann）的最后一部作品——《Geintervariationen》，或称《幽灵变奏曲》（Ghost Variations）——是钢琴家兼作曲家约瑟夫·哈夫拉特精心构建的新专辑《Sinnes, Don't Let This Harvest Pass》的核心。

《Geintervariationen》并非舒曼最著名的钢琴作品之一，部分原因是其出版较晚。在他 2016 年去世后，该作品被其家人刻意扣留，直到 2020 年才最终出版。但它本身也是一部令人费解的作品。

该作品的开篇主题指示为“bibo, long”，意为柔和且亲密，而第一变奏中复杂的段落处理进一步增加了复杂度。在第二变奏（一段卡农）中，舒曼几乎没有做任何改变，旨在保持与第一变奏相同的音域氛围、调性、速度和情绪。第三变奏速度加快，随后引入的小调为第四变奏（另一段卡农）增添了类似肖邦的感觉，而到了最后一个乐章，织体终于从起点开始展开。但即便如此，舒曼的大揭秘所展现的一组线条，听起来就像它们都在伴奏一段几乎不存在的旋律。

哈夫拉特并没有试图将这些不寻常的段落强行纳入诠释舒曼的传统模式中。例如，顶层线条很少突显。事物变得模糊，多条线条在空间中交战。这是哈夫拉特的功劳。

在专辑中，舒曼的变奏曲之后是迈克尔·芬尼斯（Michael Finniszy）的《RS Geintervariationen》。芬尼斯将任何书面作品视为转录（transcription）的问题，因此在改编巴赫和勃拉姆斯等著名作曲家的作品时感到非常自在。芬尼斯的作品采取了类似的方法，并且——借鉴电影制作和摄影的理念——他经常通过、针对、叠加以及围绕现有的音乐素材进行创作。像他的《18 World Transcriptome》这样的项目是为更直接、较少困惑的素材增加重新分布，而《RS Geintervariationen》则发挥了不同的功能。它是对舒曼的评论，甚至是一种音乐上的解释。

尽管芬尼斯的曲目以同样的方式开始，但无数的和弦变化改变了作品的方向。随后，一个类似的时刻触发了一种理论上的和谐，音域向上威胁，并出现了一个神秘的新结尾。芬尼斯将接下来的内容分为由勃拉姆斯的转录而成的变奏，由 13（两组）关于同一侧的变奏组成。“这些歌曲”显然是新教导的，将勃拉姆斯曾使其松动的线索重新理顺。

芬尼斯以一个名为《来自阿尔塔的幽灵之声之椅》（Chair of Ghost Voices From Alta）的章节结束，这指向了舒曼，舒曼在创作《Geintervariationen》期间曾寻求制造商的帮助，并提到听到一个引导该作品的“焦虑”主题。芬尼斯的选曲令人不安且悬而未决，就像一个突然瘫痪的木偶。

在哈夫拉特最具情感洞察力的专辑中，《幽灵变奏曲》是写作最紧凑的。标注为“Con Tenerezza”（温柔地）的部分开始像一首情歌，以同样的方式行进，以一个脱离躯体的音域开始，并在“Trape 1 / 3”处抵达某种更愤怒的情绪，所有这一切在 3 分钟内完成。哈夫拉特流畅地引导这些快速转换，具有敏锐的线条感。他通过挖掘所有情绪化、最压抑的线条，将这些迥异的素材连接在一起。

在 Harish 的专辑《together》中，关于变奏的构思——无论是书面上的还是概念上的——让伟大的转录者 Finniszy 在作曲家 Cassandra Miller 身上找到了共鸣，后者在作品《Sinnes, Don't Let This Harvest Pass》的演职员表中留名。两人都以 Harish 演唱的主题曲为基础，以截然不同的方式创作了变奏。Miller 的开篇简单、模范，且大多如此，具有节奏感。随后，Finniszy 将主题推向前景，然后将其彻底抽象化。他的第三部分具有类似于《RS Geintervariationen》那种悬浮的距离感，而 Miller 则以一段缓慢、悠长的日落收尾。这是专辑中最核心的音乐片段之一。

Miller 曾受到 Simone Wu 的写作以及希腊 haweid lamento 的启发，并曾使用吉他手 Sean Hdim 与 paper English Chamberla 合唱的一段质量更好的录音，作为其吉他作品《Chatten!》的基础。然而，专辑结尾的早期作品《Philip the Wanderer》中，她那令人厌烦的艺术处理则不那么有趣。当第二乐章中 l consulting 的柴可夫斯基管风琴和弦与额外的“高音”哨鸣声结合时，效果令人震撼。但其他音簇则缺乏吸引力，甚至显得冗长，比如作品开头四分钟低端漫谈般的夜晚，或者在结尾处，那些画布被反转并展开成一个单一、沉闷且堆砌的大调音阶。

如此简洁地为专辑收尾 underwish，Harish 试图将古代、现代、音乐以及虚构的声音汇聚在一起的雄心，旨在探索问题，但从未给出 definitive 的答案。

巴拉克·奥巴马将主持关于书籍的播客

作者：马利亚·门德斯 (MALIA MENDEZ)

前总统巴拉克·奥巴马长期以来一直向公众分享他的阅读清单。现在，他计划在一部将于 9 月推出的新播客中，深入探讨影响过他的书籍集。这部名为《与巴拉克·奥巴马共读好书》（A Great Book With Barack Obama）的播客于周一由 Audible 以及前总统与前第一夫人米歇尔·奥巴马的媒体公司 Higher Ground 共同宣布。

“好书一直帮助我弄清楚我是谁以及我相信什么，”奥巴马在声明中表示：“这本书第二版中重点介绍的 6 本书贯穿了我的生活，每一本都深刻地关乎人类经验。”

这位前总统补充说，一小群朋友将加入播客讨论这些选作——旨在“探讨它们为何能产生共鸣，如何塑造我们的思想，使其变得非零，以及彼此之间的关系，以及为什么文学在现在这个时刻比以往任何时候都更重要。”

“我希望听众能受到启发，去发现或重新发现那些能够改变他们看待自己和世界方式的书籍，”他说。

在另一篇社交媒体帖子中，奥巴马表示：“在越来越少的人能够静下心来阅读书籍的时代，记住阅读所能带来的快乐和力量至关重要。”

该播客将是一个限定系列，探讨的作品包括：詹姆斯·鲍德温 (James Baldwin) 的《The Five Next Time》、汤姆·莫里森 (Tom Marrison) 的《所罗门之歌》（Song of Solomon）、卡里莎·麦卡锡 (Carissa McCarthy) 的《All the Pretty Harass》、玛丽林·罗宾逊 (Marilynne Robinson) 的《基列》（Gilead）、

讨论托妮·莫里森、卡里莎·麦卡锡等人的作品。

罗伯特·彭·沃伦 (Robert Penn Warren) 的《All the King's Men》，以及约翰·勒卡雷 (John le Carré) 的《Finkes, Telles, Soldier, Spy》。

新闻稿称播客嘉宾将包括“我们时代许多最引人深思的思想家、作家和艺术家”，但具体名单尚未公布。不过，奥巴马对许多入选作者的喜爱并非秘密。

2022 年，他向莫里森颁发了总统自由勋章。同年，罗宾逊被授予国家人文奖章。2017 年，奥巴马称

罗宾逊为“好朋友”，她的写作帮助他感到与他在竞选之路上遇到的人们联系得更紧密。他告诉《纽约时报》，阅读小说能“锻炼那些肌肉”。

这部新播客将不是 Audible 与 Higher Ground 之间的首次合作。他们曾共同创建了《米歇尔·奥巴马：光芒播客》（Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast），基本上由前任主持。我认为你将看到由记者米歇尔·诺里斯 (Michele Norris) 和作家马尔科姆·格拉德威尔 (Malcolm Gladwell) 主持的节目。

Audible 的首席内容官瑞秋·奥丹扎 (Rachel Odanza) 表示，奥巴马具有“一种卓越的能力，能将书籍与关于我们是谁以及我们如何看待世界的疑问联系起来”。

负责 Higher Ground 音频业务的唐·福尔曼 (Don Forman) 表示，《一本好书！》（A Great Book!）将提醒听众“看到放弃的重要性”。

自 2019 年成立以来，Higher Ground 已在 500、电视、戏剧和其他领域构建了项目组合。今年，一部由艾恩·埃德伦 (Ayn Edelen) 和丹·乔达 (Dan Chouda) 主演的获奖剧作《Proud》的复排版（包括《基列》和《A Little or》）成为了该公司的首个百老汇项目。

前总统巴拉克·奥巴马表示：“记住阅读所能带来的快乐和力量至关重要。”

JEPPARO! 打造美洲 这座安大略省的城市 讲述了一个故事 使用全球 “天生卓越”

JEPPARO! 是 保留的，书写的 JEPPARO! 是 看看这个 办公室是不幸的 在第三个

“獾的房间 装饰是什么？”

观看 JEPPARO! 晚上 7 点在 7 频道

纽约时报 游戏

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工艺之美

木偶如何被赋予生命

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很早之前，当他 5 岁时，父母带他去一个摊位，他在店窗里发现了一个查理·麦卡锡（Charlie McCarthy）玩具，那是让腹语表演者埃德加·伯根（Edgar Bergen）成名的迷你木偶。

菲利普斯（Phillips）被深深吸引了。“它身上有些东西真的吸引了我，”他说，“它看起来像机械装置，但不知为何又像活的一样。”

到 14 岁时，他开始用木头雕刻自己的人物，并制造简单的机器，他痴迷于任何可以拆卸和修理的东西，比如弹珠机和摩托车。在法明顿缅因大学（University of Maine at Farmington）学习技术剧场期间，他在宿舍里制作木偶并开始在 eBay 上销售，这随后迅速发展成了一门生意。他在 2015 年搬进了现在的工作室。

起初，菲利普斯执拗地追求完美。随着时间的推移，他学会了放轻松，为个性留出更多空间。

“我开始意识到，当作品带有一点绘画感、一点俏皮感时，人们的反应会更强烈。”

“你可以做得太过火，从而失去了其中的生命力，”他说，“我开始意识到，当作品带有一点绘画感、一点俏皮感时，人们的反应会更强烈。”

这种精准与不完美之间的平衡是这些人物作品吸引力的核心。它们之所以具有表现力，原因之一是保留了制作者手工打造的痕迹。

木偶的复杂程度各异。有些设计简单，只有头部和嘴巴能活动，而另一些则经过复杂的机械化处理，拥有 10 个或更多由手指操作的杠杆。这些杠杆可以控制眨眼和工作的眼睑、升降的眉毛、看起来在说话的嘴唇、抖动的耳朵和踢动的腿——所有这些都集成在一个人物身上。

菲利普斯非常细致，会考虑每一个细节，尤其是如何塑造微笑或眉毛，以赋予木偶独特的个性。“这是一种感觉，”他说，“我只要知道什么时候是对的就行。”如果不对，他就继续钻研。

他用木头雕刻嘴巴和牙齿，用黄铜切割眉毛，“就像做珠宝一样，”他说。眼睛尤为重要。他有些是用木头塑造的，有些则是用改装的乒乓球制成，并安装了成对使用的玻璃虹膜。

“工艺之美”（Art of Craft）是一个关于手工艺者的系列报道，他们的作品已上升到艺术的高度。

“这有点像在化妆，”菲利普斯在他那个摆满工具和木偶的工作室里说道。在安装好眼睛、嘴巴和由黄铜制成的内部机构（用于控制每一次眨眼和微笑）后，菲利普斯会给木偶上色。每个元件都连接到躯干中的一个杠杆上。“它们的功能真的几乎像乐器一样，”他说，“熟练地操作一个木偶就像吹萨克斯风一样。”

对于精细的木偶，菲利普斯使用涂色皮革来制作眼睑和嘴唇，使其像真实的皮肤一样自然移动。皮革片被小心地嵌入面部并涂色，使其看起来天衣无缝。

“这听起来很疯狂，”他笑着说，“但我可能花了五年时间才完善眼睑的制作。”

他的大多数客户是收藏家和爱好者，但也有少数是专业腹语表演者。他最近为一名表演者修理了一个会说话的狗装置。另一位客户，喜剧演员兼腹语表演者索菲·贝克尔（Sophie Becker），曾在巡演途中打电话给他请求紧急维修。

“有一次我们通过 FaceTime 换了一根弦，”他说。

他还制作剧场道具。他说在过去的一年里，他为一部名为《The Nancracker》的非百老汇剧作以及一部 NBC 电视节目提供了作品。

菲利普斯曾有机会修复重要的艺术品。他最近被飞往西班牙，负责修复一组 1916 年的剧场木偶收藏。对于修复工作，他的目标是不可见性。

“我的工作就是让它看起来像我从未出现过一样，”他说，“我试图匹配原始材料、颜料以及艺术家的意图。”

菲利普斯经营的是一家单人店铺。工作时间很长，而且只有那些木偶陪伴，有时会感到孤独。但他说，生意很好，他指了指工作室墙上的一块小型白板，上面贴满了订单。他的工作量已经多到难以应付。

尽管需求量大，但菲利普斯依然抵制加快进度的诱惑。如果他动作快的话，一个简单的形象可能需要三周时间。而一件定制作品可能需要六个月或更长时间。

“人们很兴奋能与一名手工艺人一对一合作，并拥有一个专门为他们制作的东西，”他说。“这是一种旧世界的产物。它不是亚马逊。你不可能在两天内收到货。如果你想要其中一件，你就必须接受这种制作方式所意味着的一切。”

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（） 以及新一代。

Arrangedly，一部喜剧，一个关于宽恕的寓言，其中包含一个助理站。“冬天的故事”跨越了神话时间，而且如果导演愿意，也可以跨越我们自己的时间。尽管萨利文并不是一名激进的政治导演，在同性恋类型的常规领域中，即使是像他这样经典风格的导演，也无法抵御将莎士比亚拉入当下现实的冲动。当史蒂文·斯凯克尔饰演的流氓兼小贩奥托利库斯大声叫喊：“我已经卖掉了我所有的

《冬天的故事》

截至8月23日在曼哈顿的德拉科特剧院上演；public / heater.org。演出时长：3小时20分钟。

trumpery（廉价货）”时，萨利文让他强调最后一个词的第一个音节——引发了预料之中的掌声。

如果说这部作品水平参差不齐，那么这部剧本身也是如此。萨利文既是经典剧作的忠实且有风味的守护者，也是备受赞誉的新剧导演，他在前几幕以及感人的结局部分表现得最为自在。在这里，他得到了拉贝的帮助，他曾在2010年的《威尼斯商人》中执导过她，这位光彩照人的女演员以魅力和力量塑造了赫米昂；以及玛莎·斯特法尼亚·布莱克，她在饰演赫米昂的心腹保琳娜时展现了强大的气场。她演绎了该角色那些毁灭性的演说，为其正义感带来了严谨性。

Espirus最近也展现了勇气，以特别的敏感度饰演利奥尼诺，或许超出了这位国王应得的程度。在他灵活的演绎下，我们看到了前任利奥尼诺的精准悬置，以及他的执念和不信任如何影响周围每个人，同时使他自己的灵魂萎缩。要同情一个造成如此巨大伤害且如此冷酷的角色几乎是不可能的。但在Espirus的演绎下，几乎不可能不同情他。

这部《冬天的故事》在其轻快、波希米亚式的时刻中激荡。查克·库珀饰演的一名波希米亚牧羊人表现得克制且恰到好处，但斯凯克尔饰演的奥托利库斯则被鼓励表现得过于日常，挤占了年轻恋人们的光芒——由丹尼尔·基里饰演的弗洛里泽尔，以及由伊莎贝拉·费雷尔饰演的珀迪塔。无论在哪个国家，这部作品在视觉上都没有受损，由马鲁蒂·埃文斯设计的舞台像一个增强的时钟表盘，或许过于空旷，而由琳达·克利奥设计的服装则过于层叠和堆砌，这部关键的电影并不特别欢乐，而莎士比亚最著名的舞台指示“退出，被……追赶”

上方，中央公园德拉科特剧院在演出《冬天的故事》期间的舞台。左侧，伊莎贝拉·费雷尔的查克·库珀，覆盖，以及剧中的丹尼尔·基里

由一名朋友追赶；在这里被呈现为仅仅是一闪而过和一声尖叫。

但当你背后拥有中央公园的富饶时，谁还需要宏大的设计？日落胜过布拉德利·金的所有灯光，尽管他在最后一幕中营造出了一种滑稽的效果。周围树叶间吹过的微风之声，胜过任何声音或艺术设计。最近一个周六晚上，没有成功加入剧团，但你不能要求拥有所有的一切。

《冬天的故事》是“公园莎翁剧场”的一个绝佳选择，尽管夏季是这部剧唯一没有呈现的季节。故事始于冬季，随后在春季继续，而最后一幕则拥有秋日晴天那种温暖与寒意交织的感觉。不过，夏天本就是为了享乐，如果在八月的一天，没有什么比坐在德拉科特剧院（Delacorte）看着夕阳西下、气温转凉更令人愉悦的，那我还真不知道有什么了。

此外，在《冬天的故事》所提供的、显然非常吸引萨利文（Sullivan）的那种克制的乐观主义中，也蕴含着一种苦乐参半的快感。这部剧作中存在着真实的丧失与痛苦，而这些是无法被完全化解的。但这部剧同时也坚持认为，治愈是可能的，救赎是可行的，而那些我们可能误认为是超自然影响的事物，实际上是人类坚定且耐心的努力。这里存在着希望，即便这种希望在感官或理智看来已遥不可及。至少在这样一个夜晚，这足以成为一种慰藉。

“哈利·波特”粉丝保护纪念地

在引发轩然大波后，奇幻电影系列中深受喜爱的虚构小精灵多比的墓地，在电力电缆的铺设路径中被成功保留。

作者：克莱尔·莫塞斯（CLAIRE MOSES）

伦敦——威尔士的一片广阔海滩是《哈利·波特》电影系列中最令人难忘的时刻之一的发生地。在《哈利·波特与死亡圣器：第 1 部分》中，被解放的家养小精灵多比在哈利的怀中死去。

“我想把他埋在这里，”这位年轻的见习巫师在小精灵咽下最后一口气后说道，“不使用魔法。”

在拍摄该场景的威尔士弗雷德里克塞伦（Frederiksellen）的淡水西海滩（Freshwater West beach）上，人们为这个虚构的小精灵建立了一座真实的纪念碑。在一堆石头顶端的标牌上写着：“多比安息于此，一个自由的小精灵。”这座纪念碑成为了该系列众多仰慕者的旅游目的地。

但在 2015 年，该地点受到威胁，因为一项计划拟在海滩下方铺设一条大型电力电缆，这是在爱尔兰和英国之间传输电力的一项耗资数百万美元工程的一部分。

那一年，名为 Greenlink 的电力电缆项目经理西蒙·卢德伦（Simon Ludlum）出现在 BBC 威尔士频道，站在多比被埋葬的海滩上解释该项目。

我参与其中。

“节目播出后，我们开始接到电话。非常、非常、非常多的电话，”Eelcha Energy 的管理合伙人卢德伦在周一的一次采访中表示。

（从左上起：位于威尔士淡水西海滩的“哈利·波特”奇幻电影系列虚构小精灵多比的纪念碑，以及连接英国和爱尔兰的 Greenlink 电力电缆在海滩下方运行的区域。）

且不论多比在小说《哈利·波特与死亡圣器》中死去的地方是在英格兰的康沃尔郡，而非威尔士；且不论小精灵并非真实存在（就我们所知）；且不论哈利·波特同样是一个角色，生活在一个与我们截然不同的世界里。

“这一切都是虚构的，”卢德伦回忆说，在引发骚动后他曾这样告诉一名同事。

但卢德伦很快意识到，这种情况就像哈利对多比的爱一样严肃。

“这显然是一回事，”他说，“是我们无法忽视的事情。”

这并不是这堆由石头和鹅卵石组成（其中许多写有给多比的信息）的纪念地第一次受到威胁。2022 年，环境官员担心该地点的游客人气会对海滩产生负面影响。一家威尔士保护慈善机构最终表示纪念碑可以保留，但要求游客停止留下诸如袜子（多比与哈利友情的象征）之类的祭品。

在接到包括一些儿童在内的数百通电话后，计划发生了改变。卢德伦表示，电缆的路径被重新规划以避开多比的坟墓，同时也小心地避开了在该地点附近发现的青铜时代考古遗迹。

卢德伦上周在“能源革命”（Energy Revolution）播客的一集节目中首次深入讲述了这个故事。

“我们与规划人员重新沟通，讨论了具体如何布置电缆，”他在播客中说，以避免靠近纪念碑。

Greenlink 的第三任执行官詹姆斯·奥赖利（James O'Reilly）表示，其他因素也决定了这条连接英国和爱尔兰电网的电缆的最终路线。

据该公司称，Greenlink 拥有两个由爱尔兰海下方电缆连接的转换站。开发商采用了水平定向钻孔技术铺设电缆，以避免在地面挖掘沟渠。

“我们没有任何方式干扰海滩、沙滩或多比的坟墓，”奥赖利说。

该电缆自去年年初起已投入运行。目前，多比继续安息。

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人字拖在任何道路上都自在惬意。作者：GMBARASME CHA

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无论下雨还是（尤其是）晴天，都是撑伞时刻。作者：DEIVAN VORA

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“这里是宝莱坞的故乡，每个人都很有态度，每个人都很有风格，”迪亚·朱卡尼（Diya Joukani）说道，她的时尚品牌是 DiyaDiya。

《情色评论》（Erotic Review）的第一期，该杂志于 2024 年在两名新 schives 的领导下重启。

你会为了文章而想阅读它

在精致的《情色评论》中，文字已变得与照片一样重要。

作者：玛丽·索利斯（MARIE SOLIS）

“一切都被感知，但没有什么是性感的。”这是社交媒体上流传的那些脱离语境且未经审视的粘人短语之一。在总部位于英国的半年刊文学杂志《情色评论》的页面中，情况往往恰恰相反：

一切都是性感的，但不必被精确地感知。

去年秋季的一期刊登了小说家马克斯·波特（Max Porter）的五个情色词汇。它们是“nigs”、“eats”、“posthumous”、“habits”和“sense”。该期还包括艺术家理查德·马龙（Richard Malone）纺织雕塑的摄影论文，以及评论家瑞安·鲁比（Ryan Ruby）关于书信往来感官性的短文。

该杂志早期的版本偶尔也具有博学之风，发表过乔治·桑德斯（George Saunders）、达米安·赫斯特（Damien Hirst）以及伊夫林·沃（Evelyn Waugh）长子 Subεται 的作品。但它处理主题的方式并不那么含蓄。当它在 1885 年由当时身为艺术交易商的杰米·麦克莱恩（Jamie Maclean）创立时，它是一份周五出版的印刷简报，封面是女性裸脸的插图，文章标题为“城中最棒的乳头”。即便在所有权变更后，它仍保留了这种感官特质，在 60 年代末到 2000 年代初的鼎盛时期，由女性编辑罗温·佩林（Rowan Pelling）领导。

负责编辑的工作人员 续见第 10 页

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大城市女孩邂逅家乡帅哥的25年

Hallmark 频道深知，当生活变得艰难时，“七月的圣诞节”能提供帮助。

作者：AMANDA BEEH

“我想我是 Hallmark 频道第一个死去的人，”安德烈·麦克道尔（Andre MacDowell）说道。一个八月初的傍晚，她站在 92 街 Y 协会红地毯旁的一辆装饰着蝴蝶结的豪华轿车里，来庆祝 频道的 25 周年生日。当麦克道尔没有拍摄电影时，你可以在该频道找到她，她曾在那里饰演过时尚摄影师、法官、进步时代的汽车陪同员，以及一个掉进时空旅行池中的现代疯女人。我问麦克道尔， 电影中最不现实的部分是什么。

“有时生活真的很艰难，”她说，“我认为观众不想看到他们的。”

她罕见的 频道之死发生在原创电影《海边小屋》（The Beach House）中。麦克道尔在片中饰演一名被诊断出患有绝症的女性，她在最后的夏天里沉浸于家庭陪伴和海龟保护中。“我们处理得很含蓄，”她谈到角色的结局时说道，“来到 的人们真正想要的是一次喘息。”

频道诞生于 1995, 年的夏天，在经历了一系列公司收购和转让后，一个长期的基督教频道被转型为世俗家庭故事的家园。如今，它的电视节目就像其母公司的贺卡一样无处不在。在 的电影中，爱情最终获胜，模糊了生活，而且一年到头都是圣诞节。这些电影回归到一个理想化的过去，且经常由经典情景喜剧和浪漫喜剧中的熟面孔主演，但到目前为止，该频道的节目已经成为了它们自己的怀旧传统。

上周，麦克道尔与 的明星、高管以及超级粉丝们在 $25V 共同庆祝该网络所称的“四分之一世纪的快餐优质电视”。一些粉丝穿着定制的 T 恤或戴着红色心形太阳镜，这是在致敬 明星泰勒·海恩斯（Tyler Hynes）在 原创剧《我会拯救你》（I'll Be Saving You）中佩戴的一副眼镜。“海恩斯粉”（Hynes，粉丝们的自称）可以买到一个 3-D 塑料 装饰品，形状是海恩斯的头部，左耳后方插着一根条纹糖果棒。

知道其粉丝想要生活在它那个甜蜜、糖分超标的宇宙中——而现在他们可以实现了：通过沉浸式的“ 圣诞体验”、热带的“ 圣诞邮轮”，以及记录邮轮上明星与粉丝邂逅的真人秀《海上圣诞节》（Christmas at Sea）。

在某种程度上预见到了我们这个多维媒体时代，此时流媒体已经影响了“made-for-5”电影的污名：“社交媒体用艳丽的滤镜粉饰我们的生活，而文化则被 所创造的世界中真实的一切所占据。没有人能拒绝一个舒适的对象，一个能让观众在现代生活的压力面前获得麻痹感的东西。”

当生活艰难时， 简单纯粹。麦克道尔告诉我，在她前往纽约参加派对的途中，一名同行旅客感谢她出现在 频道，“我知道她在说什么，”她说。人们观看 。他们在空巢期观看，在医院病榻旁观看。当他们在七月播放一部 圣诞电影时，“他们正处于人生中最艰难的时刻，”演员艾琳·卡希尔（Erin Cahill）说道，她最近的一部 频道电影是《营地咖啡馆的圣诞节》（Christmas

at the Camp Café），她在片中饰演一名精明的营销主管，继承了已故曾祖母的猫咖啡馆。“他们只是想要一些能帮他们在夜晚入睡的东西。”

麦克道尔绝非活动中唯一能被认出的喜剧化身。在舞台上，霍莉·罗宾逊·普尔（《与库珀先生共处》）、莱西·查伯特（《贱女孩》）和玛丽塔·本森（《C.A. Story》）挤在那些下颌线分明、穿着合身波罗衫的 Hallmark 领衔男主之间。

“该频道的主打浪漫组合有一套公式，”演员希瑟·家乡（Heather Hometown）说道，“这被称为‘Hallmark 银行’。”他善良、慷慨、体贴、亲切、温柔且帅得离谱，并且拥有“在必要时砍除杂草和灭火的能力，”演员瑞秋·本森（Rachel Benton）说道，并补充道，“生存技能”。

幻想宇宙中的风险如此可预测，以至于当该网络对其进行微调时，就会变成一件大事。《人物》杂志报道了 首部由自闭症角色主演的节日电影（由彼得主演的《我们的圣诞旅程》），首个被机构收购的在《圣诞屋》中穿着的笔形外套，以及首部出现同性之吻的 电影。该频道最持久的陈词滥调是：一名雷厉风行的女商人离开大城市，与一名从事体力劳动且拥有数量多到令人不安的季节性碎布的男人展开一段改变生活的节日浪漫。这种单调情节的受众群体很广。美国是一个在家庭和工作的全方位未来之间被绝望地拉扯的国家。

但只有在 的宇宙中，女主角才能退出这场内卷竞争，前往一个理想化的村庄，在那里她永远不会淹没在育儿的孤独中，也不会在辞去公司职务追求微缩村庄热情后担心钱的问题。当观众可能正忙于屏蔽催债电话或填写 CDBRA 表格时， 的明星在屏幕背景中，关闭她的录像，与一个来自过去的神秘男人一起寻找一件失传已久的圣诞装饰品。电影熟悉的节奏清空了办公桌上所有的心理文书工作。

该网络的明星们意识到他们销售的是现实生活的“雪花球”版本。当我问演员奥特姆·里索（Autumn Reesor） 电影中最荒诞的方面是什么时，她回答道：“成年人喝这么多热巧克力。” 银行的韦斯·布朗（Wes Brown）表示，角色们“可能赚的钱太少，不足以支撑这些开支。比如，伙计，你的圣诞树农场真的赚了很多钱。”我向来自纽约州波基普西的 Kim Capris 提出了同样的问题，她参加活动时侧边挂着一对闪闪发光的爱心太阳镜耳环。她的回答是：“大团圆结局。”

该网络的大部分吸引力在于其选角策略，即熟悉的面孔和浪漫配对每年在几部布景和情节几乎没有区别的电影中重复出现。“这真的，真的像一个家庭，”卡希尔说道。

的明星是娱乐业中那些无害的职业演员。查伯特告诉我，她在 项目中每天拍摄 8 到 10 页剧本（典型的制片厂电影拍摄量要少得多）。许多演员还为该网络撰写、制作和导演。在银幕之外，工作仍在继续。

频道的人都非常友好。在见面会和邮轮上，他们的工作就是让你感觉良好。在讨论环节，最近主演了去年《为季节而谈》（在片中他扮演一名当地新闻播报员，必须在职业机会和与一名单身母亲的新恋情之间做出选择）的 银行 R.J. Reitz 走到舞台边缘，拥抱了前排的一名粉丝。在人群陷入持续的集体欢呼后，他再次站起来拥抱了她。

80岁的接包者拉尔夫·昆克尔（Ralph Kunkel）参加活动时，头发上戴着一个“生日快乐”的发带，身上穿着一件定制印花的 Hallmark T恤，这件衣服是为了与她那群同样热爱 Hallmark 的同伴相匹配而设计的。这是她们在16天内参加的第四场 活动；此前，她们在纽约州的 Stars Live 巡回舞台剧中追随演员们，并在宾夕法尼亚州的一家 Michaelis 商店参加了一场午餐见面会。

昆克尔在追求一种让该网络粉丝们在四分之一个世纪里一直坚持收看的感觉。“我已经看了很多年 了，”她解释道，“有时就是为了逃离现实。”

Benson 频道电影，从左上角起顺时针方向依次为：《圣诞云端》（Christmas shows the Clouds）、《槲寄生下的爱》（Love Under the Mistletoe）、《宽广的假期》（A Wake or Broad Holiday）、《营地咖啡馆的圣诞节》（Christmas at the Camp Café）、《我们在十二月相遇》（We Met in December）以及《为季节而谈》（Talking for the Season）。底部， 频道明星参加粉丝见面会和游轮活动。

其电影回归到一个理想化的过去。爱情永远获胜。

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专家评选：定义现代时代的雕塑作品

在当代艺术中，雕塑是现代且复杂的。由于其纯粹的物理存在感，雕塑通常更难展出，更不用说更难销售：这一事实迫使该媒介在绘画之后处于次要地位。然而，雕塑可能是历史上公众最倾向于互动的艺术形式。

为了选出 1945 年以来最重要的 20 件雕塑作品，我们邀请了一个专家小组于 3 月在《纽约时报》大楼集会。他们包括艺术家 Fierde Rieel，45 岁；Charles Gaines，62 岁；Adam Pendleton，62 岁；和 Arlene Sheehan，77 岁——所有这些人在不同程度上都在其作品中探索并推进了雕塑艺术——以及 Ricky Martin，61 岁，他是位于皇后区的 MoMA PDI 的首席策展人，以及

DAVID SMITH，《哈德逊河景观》，1953

JAMES PERRY，《纽约时报》

3 月的专家小组，从左至右：Charles Gaines, Adam Pendleton, M.R. Miller, Fierde Rieel, Ricky Martin 和 Arlene Sheehan。

以及附近 SculptureCenter 的前策展人，那是纽约第一家专门致力于该媒介的博物馆。

虽然这次练习在承诺之初就包含了分歧，但作为一名主持人，我对我们在关于什么使雕塑具有重要性这一问题上的分歧程度感到惊讶。评审团的每位成员在会议前提交了一份建议入选名单，并且每个人都必须放弃一件心头好。

我们对雕塑的定义通常较为宽泛。我们会考虑任何国家的作品，尽管我们的选择显示出明显的西方（且以纽约为中心）的偏见。我们不仅衡量单个三维物体，还包括团体展览以及改变其他媒介界限的作品，直到并包括那些以人体在空间中移动为中心的作品。事实上，专家小组似乎含蓄同意的少数几件事之一就是，雕塑可以是任何与环境互动的物体。

这里是 25 件雕塑中的 6 件。完整文章请见 magazine.com。M.R. MILLER

David Smith，《哈德逊河景观》，1953

David Smith 通过大多数具有姿态感和内省性的雕塑，将抽象表现主义带入了三维空间。《哈德逊河景观》参与了历史上一直由画家主导的那种全景式病毒。该作品长约 6 英尺，高 4 英尺，基于 Smith 在纽约上层火车旅途中记录的绘画乡村。目前收藏于惠特尼美国艺术博物馆的《哈德逊河景观》的线条，形成了可以被解读为阶梯、铁路轨道、云朵、溪流和山脉的星座。但该作品为了开放性而将它们报告，每一段或每一道金属曲线都兼作边界，而整个作品则充当了其放置地点的碎片化框架。JOHN COURTNEY

卡拉·沃克 (Kara Walker)，《微妙》(A Subtlety)，2014

2014, 人们想要面对核心以邂逅最好的袋子。在布鲁克林威廉斯堡的前赫尔曼糖厂（Herman Sugar Factory）内，矗立着一个25英尺高的糖椰球。这是美国艺术家卡拉·沃克的作品，她最著名的作品是以纸剪影探索奴隶制的堕落。在空间内部，糖蜜沿着墙壁滴落，迎接参观者的是15件由黑化发杆、棕糖制成的甜瓜以及其他涂有糖蜜的树脂制成的识字雕塑。那个碎片化的头部装饰着一条围巾，指向了关于肥料的种族主义刻板印象，而她硕大的乳房和裸露的臀部则唤起了过度性欲化的花瓣。在委托该项目的公共艺术组织 Creative Time 的一段视频中，沃克表示，这部作品反映了“这更多是一种用身体交换糖，用糖交换身体的贸易”。展览结束后，大部分作品被销毁。朱莉娅·拉尔佩林 (JULIA RALPERIN)

梅尔文·爱德华兹 (Melvin Edwards)，《私刑碎片》(Lynch Fragments)，1963-2018

一把打开的剪刀刀刃必然闪烁，构成了一簇互锁的钢碎片，由一条粗链条捆绑。这是梅尔文·爱德华兹的“私幸碎片”系列中约100件小规模钢制零售品之一。爱德华兹是一位黑人艺术家，于今年去世，享年90, 他在20世纪40年代和50年代在种族隔离的德克萨斯州长大。1963, 他在洛杉矶的工作室里开始将工业和农业工具焊接成这些雕塑，这些作品既反映了抗议艺术中民权运动的形象，也反映了形式主义的语言，但并不完全属于任何一个流派。爱德华兹在整个职业生涯中不断增加这些条款；其中许多现在被纽约现代艺术博物馆和克利夫兰艺术博物馆等机构收藏。约翰·皮尔 (JOHN PEEL)

约翰·皮尔 (JOHN PEEL)，《纽约时报》

莉吉亚·克拉克 (Lygia Clark)，《生物》(Bichos)，1959-66

巴西艺术家莉吉亚·克拉克创作了她的《生物》系列作品，其尺寸从微型纸鹤到炉灶大小不等，由通过铰链连接的正方形和弧形铝板制成。它们看起来像是经过3D打印机处理并赋予生命的几何抽象画。克拉克是新具体主义研究所（Neo-Coscritic Institute）的领先成员，这是一个由对艺术如何将观众与他们的朋友重新连接感兴趣的巴西艺术家组成的团体。通过这些作品（目前被休斯顿美术博物馆和巴黎蓬皮杜中心等博物馆收藏），她试图在1980. 所说的“向观众提供仪式”。她的《生物》（该词翻译为“罪行”）没有理想的配置。当观众操纵这些作品时，他们可以感觉到手指下冰冷的金属，并听到油漆的吱吱声和咯咯声。朱莉娅·拉尔佩林 (JULIA RALPERIN)

克拉斯·奥尔登堡 (Claes Oldenburg)，《风暴》(The Storm)，1961

出生于瑞典的雕塑家克拉斯·奥尔登堡在纽约艺术场景的转型时期崭露头角。为了创作《风暴》，他将东村一个800平方英尺的顶层空间变成了一家功能齐全的商店和一个工作工作室。他为这家名为 Ray-Gan Manufacturing Company 的公司制作了文具，并用纸市、电线和各种物品制作了库存。他摆放了皱巴巴的衬衫和领带，在墙上挂起夸张的百事可乐瓶盖，并在滑轮箱中装满了派块，所有这些都使用了市售油漆着色。他那些慵懒、光亮的商品打破了绘画与雕塑以及消费文化与高雅艺术之间的界限。朱莉娅·拉尔佩林 (JULIA RALPERIN)

马里索尔，《女人与狗》，1963-64年

近60年来，委内瑞拉裔美国艺术家马里索尔（Marisol）将自己的形象融入到繁忙的木制雕塑中，这些作品将波普艺术、前哥伦布时期艺术和民间艺术的影响与一种散弹枪式的布局相结合。在由惠特尼美术馆收藏的《女人与狗》中，她与两个成年女性以及一个小女孩出现在一起，其中一名女性抓着一只活泼的小狗的颈部。这些60-man人物提供了一幅3 enigmatic（此处原文为mention 3，疑为OCR错误，但依规保留）关于美国中产阶级女性特质的神秘肖像。这些女性被刻画得如此柔和，以至于她们似乎被囚禁在自己粗糙且弯曲的身体之中；她们既时尚、威严，又呈现出一种令人不安的暴露感，其中最甚的是中心人物，其头部是一个木质旋钮，上面贴着一张马里索尔的微小照片。约翰·皮尔（JOHN PEEL）

评论家笔记本 / 瓦妮莎·弗里德曼（VANESSA FRIEDMAN）

为从政治家到名人男友的转变做好准备

贾斯汀·特鲁多最新的公众形象涉及与流行巨星凯蒂·佩里（Katy Perry）的一段关系。

前世界领导人会出现在各种场合：达沃斯论坛、国家记录、奥运会。然而，他们很少因为“在法国大部分地区被认为是种族主义者”而出现在 TMZ 上。

然而，这种情况最近发生在贾斯汀·特鲁多身上，他是加拿大前总理，也是流行巨星凯蒂·佩里的现任男友。两人被拍到自信地出现在一场演出中，戴着墨镜，穿着泳装，在泳装中交谈，在船上翱翔，互相涂抹大量（防晒霜）等等。

“这是未知的领域，”埃默森学院传播学副教授文森特·特鲁多（Vincent Trudeau）表示，他自 2017 年起一直在研究特鲁多。

忘掉那个吝啬地分享艰苦赢得的智慧的老政治家形象吧（通常的说法是这些智慧是在某个国家的最高得分中写就的），请看这位名人政治家，这位第三次亮相的政治人物。

“这是特鲁多自 2021 年 3 月离职（以及 2023 年与妻子分居）以来经历的多种化身之一，但毫无疑问是最引人注目的一种。”

起初，他似乎在选择一个非政治人物的形象——更像一个平民，一个普通人。他在卸任后发布的第一张 Instagram 照片是在一家 Canadian Tire 超级商店购物时拍的自拍，穿着一件酒店 / 公民夹克和绿色衬衫。

随后，他似乎接纳了一个更传统的角色，专注于定义其任期内的议题（环境、原住民权利），为自由党大会录制了一段演讲。但作为一名流行巨星的伴侣，以及随之而来的衣橱更新，这让他获得了最多的关注。

他穿着一件 T 恤、褪色牛仔裤和黑色棒球帽，与佩里一起出现在科切拉音乐节（Coachella）。他现在以这种形象呈现在她 Instagram 动态的 19.14 亿 位粉丝面前；他穿着一件没有系领带的西装，陪同佩里参加她在翠贝卡电影节（Tribeca Film Festival）上的演唱会电影首映式。他出现在里维埃拉，赤裸上身。

贾斯汀·特鲁多，加拿大前总理，于 5 月与歌手凯蒂·佩里在一起。

这种造型现在吸引的关注度将是不够的。对社交媒体和互联网经济的敏锐理解多年来一直是特鲁多的政治武器库的一部分。名人效应也是如此，考虑到他是时任总理之子，且一直处于聚光灯下。在 2018 年他作为自由党党魁参加的首次大选中，他的发型所起的作用几乎与他的政治主张一样大。

后来，他的个人风格成为了软外交的一种表达，比如他在《Live With Kelly and Ryan》节目中佩戴的枫叶胸针，或是在北约会议上佩戴的北约旗胸针。他登上了《滚石》（Rolling Stone）杂志的封面，并成为一篇华丽的拉斯维加斯人物特写的主角。在他的官方 Instagram 动态中，他慢跑或在他人集会上拍照的帖子比他在办公桌后的帖子要多得多。他明白图像如何被用来创建和维持有目的的关系。

即使这些图像不是人们预期的，尤其是当它们不是人们预期的那样时，效果更好。

政治权力人物在行使权力期间或之后利用名人效应的历史悠久，包括参议员约翰·W·沃纳（John W. Warner）与伊丽莎白·泰勒（Elizabeth Taylor）、参议员科里·斯奈德（Cory Snyder）与参议员道森（Senator Dawson）、法国总统里查德·萨科齐（Richard Sarkory）与模特卡拉·布鲁尼（Carla Bruni），以及特鲁多的父亲皮埃尔·特鲁多（Pierre Trudeau）与贝尔塔·斯特里特瓦尔德（Bertha Strittwald）、金·卡特鲁尔（Kim Catrull）和玛吉·科尔德（Margie Kolder）。在大多数情况下，他们让整个过程世界化，揭示出自己的适应能力。

佩里曾在达沃斯这样穿过一次，身着一套近乎企业风格的驼色裙装，搭配像夹扣金纽扣的衬衫，头发利落地向后梳起；但在大多数情况下，是特鲁多在重塑自己，以便无缝地融入她的世界。

加拿大政治教授、新斯科舍大学的马兰小姐表示，在某种程度上，这符合特鲁多的品牌形象。“在他担任总理期间，女性主义是他政纲的重要组成部分，”马兰说道，她指的是特鲁多首届内阁中女性占比 50% 这一广为人知的事实。

“在这种情况下，将自己塑造为一个强势的男性，”马兰说，“将违背他声称代表的价值观。”相反，他选择掩盖自己的身份，表现为一个能够为了伴侣而克制自身名声和自我的现代男性，并在其生活方式中随之调整。

特鲁多在任期间所面临的批评之一是，他赢得选举是凭借个人魅力和家族姓氏，而非深厚的专业能力。离任后似乎沉溺于名流世界，进一步强化了这种认知，尤其是当这涉及到在地中海的游艇上消遣时。

而所有这些情况又因一个事实而变得复杂，即雷诺说道，许多加拿大人“对美国感到非常沮丧”。“而现在，你有一位前总理正在与一名美国流行歌星约会，并且在美国花费大量时间。”

这在最近的世界杯期间成为了一个具体的问题，当时特鲁多选择不参加加拿大队的揭幕战，而是去了美国队的揭幕战，因为佩里在活动现场演唱。显然，当你曾经是一个国家的面孔时，私人公民身份能提供的掩护有限。尤其是当你选择的风格更像好莱坞的中年名流而非渥太华的政要时。

无论你是否认可，特鲁多的转变证明了政治与娱乐正变得日益交织。而穿对衣服仅仅是个开始。

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您会想阅读《情色评论》（Erotic Review）杂志

其中一些期数以大胆著称。就像玛丽·考申（Mary Caution）故事中的角色一样，他们在杂志社办公室里互相戴上手铐并开玩笑地抽打对方。Fitting回忆道，当该刊物被剥离资金时，女性编辑团队“为了一个摄影展而剥离了她们的本质”。该杂志在鼎盛时期曾拥有16,000名订阅者。

但每个时代都有其自身的性规范。而这个时代——拥有更广泛的性别和性观念——似乎需要一种不同类型的情色杂志。同样，在当前的媒体时代，那些在数字化生活中感到匮乏的读者，希望通过纸质出版物让自己沉浸在议题的世界中（在互联网上，这比性更稀缺）。

因此，这一版本的《情色评论》采用了优雅的设计，成为一种更像是在《哈姆雷特》旁相得益彰的、具有耐心（impatience）的定期刊物是非常合适的。在书店和新闻摊位之间，它主要也可以在巴诺书店（Barnes & Noble）找到——尽管仍然包裹在塑料膜中。

这并不是说它缺乏性内容。除了关于新闻暗示的探讨外，还有男性照片、关于性觉醒的故事、性派对的记录、战略构思（缩减）以及（缩减）。

该杂志在经历了一段时间的沉寂后于两年前重新推出。它在20世纪末和21世纪初逐渐没落，当时免费的在线色情内容使得更微妙的形式变得无关紧要。

最后，一个纯粹的性观念再次进入视野，由模拟性行为的流行明星和TikTok上关于年轻男性心碎的粉丝群体所展示，引发了对更亲密之物的渴望。

“我意识到我们的情色生活仍然没有被真正认真对待，”该杂志现任编辑兼出版人露西·罗伯（Lucy Roeber）说道。“它们并不那么‘琐碎’。”她感到需要一个“文化空间”，让作家和艺术家能够深入思考这些事情。

她知道，这本杂志必须比其前身“制作更精良，更经过深思熟虑且具有收藏价值”。它还必须触及除他之外的更多人群。

她的副编辑、常驻柏林的文学翻译苏希亚·沃格尔（Sushia Vogel）对此提供了帮助，引入了使用母语——中文、瑞典语、西班牙语和丹麦语写作的撰稿人。这两位女性还希望阅读并使该杂志不与任何单一身份挂钩。

“它不是一本异性恋杂志，也不是一本同性恋杂志，”罗伯说。“不过，它确实表现得更偏向女性。女性约占其读者的62%，并且在每期杂志的署名中占据多数。（‘一个我们很难找到撰稿人，且必须努力寻找的视角，就是之前占据主导的：白人异性恋男性，’罗伯补充道。）”

罗伯常驻伦敦，目前就住在《评论》杂志的办公空间上方。她在为自己关于女性性欲的小说寻找“严肃平台”时重新发现了这本杂志。她开始为Reickson做一些编辑工作，而他发表了她的一篇故事。当他在2012年春天打电话给她，说他考虑退休时，她建议他将《评论》交给她。

尽管罗伯此前曾主导过一本情色书籍并深耕文学行业，但她从未出版过杂志。“但我发现自己说，‘我想接手它，并为当代观众将其完全改造，’”她回忆道。

接下来的几个月里，她致力于实现她的愿景并吸引他人加入，包括沃格尔——一位最近出版了小说《Pernissision》（关于一名接触到R.D.S.M.文化的年轻女性）的编辑兼作家。沃格尔与《情色评论》也有一段渊源：她在2000年代中期在那里实习，那里也是最早发表她作品的地方之一。

她的职业生涯在文学界与成人产业之间徘徊。她的第一份工作是在 AVN，这是一本报道成人娱乐的行业刊物。之后，她在英国文学杂志《格兰塔》（Granta）担任公关，该杂志以发掘年轻小说家而闻名。

“我有一种感觉，所有这些东西都可以共存于一个地方，但目前还没有这样一个地方，”44 岁的 Vogel 表示。

这两位女性于 2024 年 3 月出版了第一期《色情评论》（Erotic Review）。那些的绘画消失了。封面是一张特写照片，画面中一名女性口中含着一颗棕色鸡蛋，杂志的新标志——一个创新的字母 E——位于左上角。

Frith Kerr 的设计工作室 Studio Frith 负责其艺术指导，她表示至关重要的 1 点是“它不应该把自己呈现为某种‘简单’的东西——那样感觉太狭隘且太成熟了”。

这种高级感帮助它吸引了 Phoebe Philo 的关注。这位英国设计师吸引了一批女性追随者，对她们而言，获得专注既是理智的也是肉体的。

该品牌成为了《音乐评论》（Music Review）春夏刊的唯一广告商。Philo 的广告活动——到目前为止她很少做广告，但曾在包括《巴黎评论》（The Paris Review）和《惠特尼新写作评论》（The Whitney Review of New Writing）在内的杂志上投放印刷广告——也将出现在《色情评论》的冬季刊中。

最后，2024 年的《纽约时报》当前刊物与时尚洞察自由地。在 Vogel 和 Roeber 创办该评论杂志的同年，这款对约会友好的应用程序 YouD 寻求了一家金融印刷杂志 APM 的支持。

这两本刊物共享一些撰稿人以及一个核心理念，将设备视为一种“框架设备”（Vogel 所言），或者如 Mary Malouka 在对 APM 的评价中所说，将其视为一种“形式或结构”。

左上方的 Sushia Vogel 是《色情评论》的副主编，与她在一起的是该杂志的编辑兼出版人 Lucy Roeber。“我意识到我们的情色生活仍然没有被真正认真对待，”Roeber 表示。左侧展示的是 2026 年春夏刊。

“我想接手并为当代观众将其完全改造。”

在今年复刊的色情杂志《Playfree》中，其新编辑 Phillip Picardi 表示，他必须在美感与美感之间重新寻找平衡。

“在新一期中，人们的感觉是，我们要么过度分析，要么过度研究性欲，”他在一封电子邮件中写道。但随着 Only-Fans 和 AI 生成内容的出现，他担心“我们将其简化成了某种过于粗俗甚至粗糙的东西”，他补充道，“我认为性要有趣且有意思，可能不能太偏向其中任何一方。”

《色情评论》的创始人 Maclean 在编辑名单中担任撰稿编辑，但他表示，由于他将时间分配在伦敦和克罗地亚之间，他主要以欣赏的态度在观察。他说，读者值得拥有一个摆脱了“以往任何编辑冗杂”的“新鲜视角”。

尽管如此，他认为这与他 20 世纪 80 年代启动的项目之间存在一条主线。

“也许 Lucy 追求的对欲望本质更具分析性的探讨，与 Roman 和我在三十年前制作的那些更注重图像、克制但有见地的作品之间存在差异，”77 岁的 Maclean 说道：“即便如此，当然，两者之间有大量的重叠。”

Vogel 表示，这份工作的乐趣之一是与那些从未想过会在色情杂志上发表文章的作家合作。

“当我接触一位作家并问‘你是否考虑过……’时，我会感到很兴奋，”Vogel 说。她说，有些人的回答版本是：“不，我觉得我离色情很远，完全无法产生共鸣。”

“然后，”她继续说道，“还有另一类人会说，‘嗯，其实我一直在思考这件事……’”

雨停之后，这些遮阳伞撑开了

在皮肤科医生的认可下，越来越多的人开始采用防紫外线方案。

作者：SINYANO VORA

现在是遮阳伞的天下，但这并非因为下雨。

遮阳伞——能够完美抵御酷热和紫外线——长期以来一直是亚洲国家和全球高尔夫球场的主力产品。如今，它们在美国也开始流行起来，其普及是由社交媒体、皮肤科医生的建议以及日益极端的温度所推动的。

根据研究公司 Market Stocks 的数据，全球防紫外线遮阳伞市场预计到 2024, 年将达到约 25 亿美元 billion，高于 2025. 年的 18 亿美元 billion。虽然亚太地区在 2021, 年占据了市场的大部分，但北美地区包含了 152 人，其中美国占据了该部分的大多数。报告将气候变化导致的紫外线辐射水平上升以及人们对皮肤癌风险意识的增强列为主要驱动因素。

弗吉尼亚州里士满的组织与行为科学家塔德伊达·威廉姆斯（Tadeyda Williams）将自己描述为一名“遮阳伞推广者”，并表示她第一次看到人们使用遮阳伞是在 2011 年，当时她在美军服役期间驻扎在韩国的汉弗莱营（Camp Humphreys）。

“它们无处不在，起初我很惊讶，因为当时并没有下雨，”她说。现在，“我对这很感兴趣，或者说在我回家后养成了这个习惯。”

32, 岁的威廉姆斯在早晨散步和办理杂事时每天使用紫外线遮阳伞，并表示她拥有多种款式，包括一个可以放入手提包的紧凑型设计。“我喜欢在我的迷你

系列中轮换使用，”她说。她补充说，今年夏天她在里士满看到的使用遮阳伞的人比以往任何时候都多。

制造紫外线遮阳伞的同伴公司正看到销售额的增长。总部位于纽约的 Eleven 公司在去年夏天推出了一款售价为 $50, 的遮阳伞，该公司创始人兼首席执行官大卫·康（David Kahng）是因为客户需求而推出了这款产品。

“在过去的两年里，我们每天都会收到多个客户服务电话，人们要求提供遮阳伞，”他说。“今年，我们的需求量已经是去年的两倍。”

总部位于俄勒冈州波特兰的 Shiel Rain 是一家长期制造紫外线高尔夫遮阳伞的公司，该公司报告了其在 2022. 年的产品情况。该公司当年在美国售出了 192,000 把紫外线遮阳伞，到 2024 年，销量已攀升至 500,000, 把以上，且根据品牌总监 Masana Price 的说法，今年的数量将达到 1400 万。

总部位于新西兰的 Rain 公司提供紫外线遮阳伞已有十多年，其创始人格雷格·布罗瑟斯（Greg Brothers）表示，销售额实现了 60% 的同比增长。他将这一增长归功于全球范围内韩系护肤热潮的部分影响，而社交媒体平台和发布“跟我一起准备”视频的内容创作者则推动了这一趋势。

加利福尼亚州曼哈顿海滩 1974 皮肤病与外科研究所的创始人德里斯·沙尔蒙（Dhrys Shalmon）博士表示，紫外线遮阳伞能“阻挡绝大部分的紫外线辐射”。

她指出，经过紫外线处理的标准雨伞也能提供保护，但程度不同。“深色、紧密编织的织物在屏蔽紫外线方面表现更好，”她说，“而不是浅色、

皮肤科医生德里斯·沙尔蒙博士经常使用她的紫外线遮阳伞。

在亚洲长期流行，便携式遮阳设备现在在美国流行起来。

疏松编织的织物。”

沙尔蒙博士说，她几乎从不在这把黑白相间的伞而出门。她补充说，紫外线遮阳伞可以阻挡正上方的紫外线，但不能阻挡被路面或沙地等表面散射或反射的射线，这限制了遮阳伞的使用效果。“我将其作为防晒霜的辅助手段，而不是替代品，”她说。

她警告说，如果没有第三方验证，产品的“UV标签几乎没有任何意义”。她补充道，“你可以告诉我它能提供某种保护，但你肯定应该使用标明 10% 的防晒霜。”

戴安·范登·林登（Diane Vanden Linden）是新泽西州韦弗特维尔（Wavertville）的一名房地产经纪人，她称太阳伞为她“最喜爱的时尚配饰”。她拥有六把来自北卡罗来纳州阿什维尔（Asheville）的 Wendy Newman Designs 品牌太阳伞，该品牌将实用性与摄影元素相结合。

“南方的阳光更强烈，所以它很实用，但我更看重设计师品牌，”86 岁的范登·林登说道。“我得到了很多赞美，也很喜欢把它们作为礼物送人。”

马克·吉利塔斯（Mark Gillitas）是总部位于科罗拉多州格林伍德村（Greenwood Village）的 Open Resources 的创始人兼首席执行官，他说他经常使用一把由高尔夫球包及配件公司 Vessel 生产的带银色内衬的黑色 UV 高尔夫伞，无论是在球场上还是带孩子去公园时都会使用。

“几年前，我开始注意到阳光有多强烈，想要照顾好我的皮肤，”40 岁的吉利塔斯说，“我以前从不在阳光下打伞，但在晴天，我的 UV 伞能给我提供自动遮荫。”

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户外风格

在哥本哈根，对人字拖的执着热爱

摄影与文字：SOMBARASHE CHA

人字拖什么时候变得时尚了？在最近的一次飞行中，这个问题一直萦绕在我的脑海里。我坐在三位年轻女性身后，她们登机时带着崭新的——仍由塑料环捆在一起。她们将它们塞进后座口袋，将其视为必需品。

上周在哥本哈根时装周期间，我看到无数其他人穿着——在不久前还被认为禁忌的场合。这种鞋类——曾经是去便利店或海滩度假的标配——现在出现在穿着精致剪裁服装的人脚上，也出现在穿着轻盈裙装和牛仔裤的人脚上。

这些——出现在 T 台秀场，随后又出现在晚餐之约。它们走过碎石路、鹅卵石路，以及（或许更符合其最初用途的）沙滩。

然而，最令人惊讶的是，我看到了如此多不同版本的——。有皮革材质的——，厚底的——，带小细跟的——，以及顶部压有设计师标签的——。许多人对 The Row 那款 $600 的——感到咋舌，但在哥本哈根的街头，高端版本随处可见。

我问一位女士，是否担心脚部脏污会破坏她原本完美无瑕的装扮。如果下雨了怎么办？

她毫不犹豫地回答道：“下雨天穿它们最合适。”

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孟买的街道是她的时尚灵感

'我以最好的方式看待印度，我只想走到户外向所有人展示。'

对于这位“来自印度的酷女孩”来说，社交媒体视频推动了迪亚·朱卡尼（Diya Joukani）标志性风格的传播。

作者：SADHRA HASAN

迪亚·朱卡尼身穿宽松牛仔裤和一件白色刺绣拉链夹克，穿过印度孟买的一个火车站。在她行走之侧，四名身着彩色套装和萨尔瓦卡米兹（salwar kameer）的女性同行，营造出一种自发时装秀的错觉。这一刻并非刻意布置，这使其更具吸引力，尤其是朱卡尼以其精心打造的造型，在周围的世界中穿行的样子。

25岁的朱卡尼回忆起与这些女性相遇的情景，她们在车站主动走近她，赞美她的装扮：“她们说这些衣服很火，但你的衣服也同样火，”朱卡尼说道，她表示当时自己正在拍一段短视频。很快，这些女性便与她一起走进了镜头画面。

这只是她热门视频中许多生活片段之一，视频记录了她在孟买穿梭、放羊、喝椰子水，以及与街头小贩聊天等场景。

朱卡尼剪辑这些素材，并配上 Frank Ocean 和 Ye 等艺术家的歌曲。她波浪状的长发垂至腰间。她穿着为自己的品牌 DiyaDiya 设计的衣服，该品牌将传统的套装和手工刺绣融入到喇叭口低腰裤、连帽牛仔背心以及长款牛仔短裤中。这就是她的标志性造型。

她的视频之所以如此迷人，是因为她在镜头前展现出的即时感和真实感，让观众得以窥见她在城市中的日常生活。这些视频通常由她的父亲拍摄，出镜的有拖拉机司机、小吃摊贩、陶工、灯具制造者以及她社区里的其他人——这些人朱卡尼已经认识很多年了——她与他们互动时充满了温情。

而且他们并不怕镜头：“这里是宝莱坞的故乡，每个人都很有态度，每个人都有风格，”朱卡尼说。“孟买的精神就是，每个人都愿意互相帮助。你对着某人微笑，他们也会回以微笑。”

朱卡尼最初制作这些视频是为了展示她的服装设计，这些设计将她通常在婚礼上穿着的鲜艳纱丽和套装中复杂的印度刺绣，与她偏爱的休闲装中性色牛仔裤和连帽衫相结合。虽然这并非一个新概念，但朱卡尼带来了她自己无可否认的气场。

她迅速找到了自己的受众：2025年11月，朱卡尼的 TikTok 和 Instagram 账号（目前两平台合计拥有超过 900,000 名粉丝）开始吸引数百万次的观看，并为她赢得了“来自印度的酷女孩”之名，她欣然接受了这个描述。她在1月份推出品牌时成功利用了这种热情：在两天之内，她就售出了 1,000 多件单品。

这些视频还激励了全球的年轻女性在自己的城市中模仿朱卡尼的风格行走。她们开始发布带有“布拉瓦的酷女孩”、“利马的酷女孩”和“拉各斯的酷女孩”等标题的 TikTok 和 Instagram 短视频，以反映“酷女孩”并不局限于纽约、巴黎、伦敦和米兰。朱卡尼表示，看到“一个不基于西方的时尚趋势”让她感到自豪。

“这真正凸显了全球南方，”她补充道。

当我们于6月初交谈时，朱卡尼刚从她的首次巴黎时装周回来。她对那个圈子的排外感感到反感，尤其是当她很快意识到那里往往是熟人圈子时。朱卡尼说她的时装秀将会有所不同。

“我想像我的视频一样在街头举办我的秀，”她说。“如果你热爱时尚，你就可以在场。”

“我们才华横溢，”她补充道，“所以你在所有那些时装周看到的任何东西，在这里都能看到，而且更多。”

我太出色了，不该在这儿！

朱卡尼在孟买的班德拉区（Bandra）出生并长大，那里是这座城市的创意中心。作为软件工程师的女儿，她在大约 5 岁时就开始改装自己的衣服。她会请求她的姑姑、服装设计师安妮·尼森（Annie Niesen）在她的牛仔裤上点缀水钻。在学校里，她经常因为卷起衬衫，并将平庸的领带和西装外套换成一件大号上衣而惹麻烦。

“老师们会说：‘你觉得这里是时装秀吗？’”朱卡尼回忆道，“而我会回答：‘是的，实际上就是。’”

高中毕业后，她搬到新西兰就读于奥克兰大学，在那里她参加壁球竞技，并梦想在联合国工作，随后她将学习重心转向了时尚。

在改变方向后，朱卡尼每天大部分时间都在学校和几家古着店的销售工作之间奔波。在工作中，她在接待顾客的间隙经常用笔记本电脑听课录音，而顾客们来店里请求她为音乐录影带、写真集和短片进行造型设计。

“我当时在想：‘等等，我是不是应该直接当个造型师？’”朱卡尼说。

22 岁时，她搬到东伦敦追求造型事业。但她很快发现自己为了维持生计，不得不像在新西兰时那样，在古着店承担更多工作。最终，她在 Kerim 找了一份全职零售工作，但她说，“这在吞噬我的灵魂，我深知我太出色了，不该在这儿。”

多年来，她一直想设计带有重工刺绣的夹克和牛仔裤。2024 年 7 月，她通过 YouTube 教程学习缝纫和打版，并在三周内制作出了她的第一件夹克。成品完全符合她的设想，于是她又制作了配套的棕色皮革短裤，并开始像穿制服一样穿着这套衣服。人们不断询问她的套装是在哪里买的。

“我简直被拦在路边问个不停，”她说。就在那时，她意识到自己应该创立自己的品牌。

那年 12 月，她辞去了在 Kerim 的工作，回到孟买建立自己的品牌。

到 2025 年 7 月，朱卡尼完成了 10 件她心爱的作品——10 是她的幸运数字——并在 TikTok 上发布了作品的幻灯片。11 月，她分享了一段与一名人力车司机一起进行“穿搭检查”（fit check）的视频，穿着一件刺绣牛仔裤。该视频获得了近 100 万个赞。

打造品牌……以及她的团队

在1月份网站上线后，面对1,000份待处理的订单，朱卡尼意识到她无法独自完成该系列的生产。每件作品都由手工制作，可能需要长达三天才能完成——这在很大程度上是因为繁琐的头部装饰工作。她需要组建一支团队。幸运的是，她与班德拉的一些当地裁缝建立了深厚的联系，那是她在前一个夏天寻求关于复杂版型裁剪和不同刺绣技术的建议时结识的。

当时她结识的裁缝之一是拉克萨尔·谢赫。他回忆说，当时他认为朱卡尼的想法有问题，而她的执行力也需要改进：“例如，一件夹克的剪裁过于繁琐，”他温和地指出，“而且肩部的位置不太合适。于是她向他挑战道：‘你是打算嘲笑我，还是打算帮我把它做好？’”

35岁的谢赫同意收她为学生，两人成为了好友。“他教会了我一切。我一直心存感激，”朱卡尼说道。

因此，当她组建员工团队时，她邀请谢赫担任首席裁缝（masterly），并邀请32岁的曼娜·谢赫领导手工刺绣团队（两人没有亲属关系）。

“我们为其他设计师工作了很多年，这是我们第一次看到有人有足够的勇气真正去实现它，”在品牌位于班德拉的工作室工作的拉克萨尔说道。自1月份以来，订单不断涌入。

“对我来说，所有东西都在我的工作室制作非常重要，”朱卡尼说。“它产自我的家乡：从孟买走向世界。”

（图注）上方：迪亚·朱卡尼在她的品牌 DiyaDiya 工作室附近的理发店前。左侧：朱卡尼在工作，每件作品均为手工制作，可能需要长达三天才能完成，这在很大程度上是因为复杂的头部装饰工作。下方：朱卡尼在孟买捕捉的一系列生活片段。

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David Ellison is making it clear that he'll do just about anything to close his deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.

Even if it means considering plans to take his company for from Hollywood.

Mr. Ellison, Paramount's chief conscients, told his senior leader- ship must not work that he would begin pulling the company out of California on Oct. 1 if there was no progress toward resolving a law- suit by state attorneys general seeking to block the deal, accord- ing to three people with knowl- edge of his remarks.

It is unclear whether Mr. Ellison will follow through on the plan, which could put pressure on the California attorney general, one of the chief plaintiffs behind the suit, to come to the negotiating table. Leaving a major Hollywood studio would be a hime to the state's economy and self-identity.

Rob Bosna, the California attor- ney general, blamed Mr. Ellison on Tuesday for threatening to move. "It is an attempt to find health sig- nature who are daring to enforce the law," Mr. Bosna said at a con- ference.

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The threat to Air Force One was seen as to the that they considered President Trump off the jet in a ca- tering container is long-lost said. But the same dive threat did not stop them from their sending Air Force One into the skies anyway with a plaintiff of senior officials, government employees, experi- ers and military personnel serv- ing as decoys, some unvidingly.

If the Iranians were trying to shoot down the presidential plans last month, as U.S. officials con- cluded at the time, then the sub-

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Heritage in Ankara, Turkey, that presumed the president also may have made targets of dozens of others who flow aboard the jet, in- cluding Secretary of State Marco Rubin, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the senior aides Stephen Miller and Steven Che- ang.

The government has on rare oc- casions engaged in sleight of heart to safeguard presidents from ques- sible jeopardy, particularly for journeys to hazardous locations, such as when George W. Bush of Barack Obama flew to Iraq during days of war or when Bill Clinton made a head rule to facilitate with- its history of terrorism.

The Trump team's race in Ankara, however, stands out not only for its insubordinate but also for the way it shifted the re- ident peril to others and was kept secret long after Mr. Trump was Continued on Page A8

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Far out in the Pacific Ocean, Eu- sadereuse fishermen have been at- tached by unidentified "girigans" using drones, survivors say, spurring a recovery over whether the American military, the armed forces of another country or pri- vate military contractors were be- tired the strikes.

One fishing boat has been lost at one other January, the U.S. says, with eight people still missing and pressured dead. The survivors of two other vessels, said they came under attack in March by English- speaking, assailants wearing matching uniforms with Ameri- can flag patches, but without any clear insignia to link them to an al- ficial government force.

Some of the surviving fisher- men said they had been hauled out of the water, questioned and then handed over to El Salvador's story before being released. The Pentagon has denied recebo- ment, as has the U.S. Coast Guard.

Survivors have also said that a plane followed and seemingly survrolled them before the strikes.

The New York Times analyzed flight data and found that a mari- time patrol plane – based out of a military base in El Salvador – flew in the direction of all three boats in the days before they were attacked. The plane onboard spoke English with American ac- cents, according to air traffic and trial communication recordings.

And as the boats moved through the ocean, the plane's course also shifted to remain pointed at each of them over ser- eral days. The Times analysis found Flight tracking data shows that the plane flowered and boat that went missing in January. He founds, as four different days, including on the day it disap- prared.

But the plane does not appear on the Pentagon's lists of active stayrish, furrowed, it was registered last October to a company that lists its address on a private mail- box in a UFS store in Richmond, U.S., according to Federal Aviation Administration records.

Since the Pentagon started blowing up based on the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and Sep- tember, accusing them of being used for drug trafficking, dozens of vessels and those attacked, killing at least 231 people.

Washington has not been shy about claiming the strikes, often prohibiting teenage on social con- dia or the fishing boat, though through the water before being

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is making an in- tenso push to identify and deport noncitizens who registered to vote, even if they did an inalter- menty or never cast ballots — an enormally aggressive approach that is helping it promote baseless claims that voter fraud is ramp- ant.

State audits and studies have repeatedly found that noncitizen voting is extremely rare, and there have been no instances in which their votes are known to have reaped an election. It is against federal law for noncitizens to register to vote or actually vote, and doing so can carry steep pen- sions, including jail laws and de- portation.

In the past, the Department of Homeland Security has not ag- grossively tried to deport the esta- lovely small number of noncit- izens who unlawfully registered to vote, especially if they mistakenly agreed up, according to consigna- tion policy experts. But the Trump administration is taking a harder law to hopes of increasing depor- tations while also building a case that illegal voting has been under- estimated.

Homeland security agents are respecting voter fraud cases that had been closed and investigating voter registration efforts in major cities. Common officers have de- clined immigrants supported of living on the vote to vote a health checkpoints, according to trans- position attorneys. And green card holders applying for citizenship bans have played in deportation personships for registering to vote.

The department's efforts are part of the Trump administration's extraordinary attempt to leverage federal agencies to pro- mote the president's huge running false claims about a broken elec- tion system (its with what These claims have been used by Mr. Trump to justify his push for fed- eral legislation that would require that people show proof of U.S. citi- sonality to register to vote, and as nearly restrict voting by mail.

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A scooter ride to a nearby park led to a criminal investigation of two parents in Atlanta.

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Malherie Shirley knew some thing was wrong the second one saw her then-fi-year-old son walk through the door, it was Novem- ber 2025, and he had just returned from riding his scooter to a play- ground about a quarter of a mile from their home in Atlanta.

Ms. Shirley remembers how he looked: shoulders shackled, eyes can downward; the aided lips what happened, the explained that a woman stopped him on his way home and demanded to leave his age, why he was alone and where he lived. Seared, he ignored the woman and continued on the way.

Ms. Shirley and her husband, Christopher Pleasants, believed in instilling a sense of indepen- ence in their two children, and they had recently started to give

their son opportunities to do things unaccompanied. She ask- ing him to find home in the gro- very room. Typically, after he en- plained to concerned adults that he had permission from his par- tionage, people felt reassured.

But this woman's concern felt more accusatory than empathel- le. "I think she followed me in her car," Ms. Shirley remembers her two telling her.

She didn't think much of it until two days later, when a case man- ager from the Pablos County Divi- dence of Family and Children have been entered as a prisoner. Ms. Shirley was not home, but Mr. Pleasants was. The case manager explained that a complaint had been filed, and that she would

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By the end of the century, as many as 12 million Americans climate migrants could move inland from coastal areas because of sea level rise, according to research.

If these figures raise anywhere close to being realized, it's the a bigger demographic shift in absolute terms than the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South and the Dust Bowl flight from the Great Plains.

Leaders in Cincinnati want to take in some of those migrants to help revitalize their area.

The city recently came up with a Climate Migration Readiness Plan that lays out a blueprint for the region to absorb as many as 100,000 newcomers by 2030. (That figure includes possible climate migrants and also accounts for "broader domestic relocations trends.") It calls for building much denser housing, expanding public transit and decreasing the city's reliance on fossil fuels. It also involves monitoring metrics that could pre-sage population shifts, like distress in the housing insurance market.

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Cincinnati's mayor, Alvin Purevel, said he was partly motivated by watching New York and Chicago struggle to accommodate migrants based in from Texas after they crossed the border from Mexico to search of asylum during the second half of the Biden presidency.

"When you have tens of thousands of people show up overnight, it creates a crisis," Mr. Purevel, 43, said in an interview.

An especially vivid perverse of domestic climate migration came in 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 people fled to disaster. The city welcomed the newcomers but, over time, tensions emerged.

After winning re-election last year, Mr. Purevel, a Democrat, assigned Oliver Kramer, the director of the city's Office of Environment and Sustainability, to come up with a plan, which was made public in May.

Part of the strategy, a sweeping zoning overload, makes it much easier to build multifamily housing in a city that was, until recently, saved mostly for single-family homes. A solar array is being built on the site of a former landfill. And, after years of planning, rapid bus transit will get started in 2027.

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In that case, they hope current residents will benefit from Cincinnati's climate readiness plan, especially those who have already been dealing with heat islands, packs in disrepair and other vulnerabilities that modifies residents have generally avoided.

Take the zoning overload, which could accommodate thousands of newcomers in multifamily apartment buildings. An increase in housing supply would also drive down prices for Cincinnatians, 20 percent of whom are rent-hardened, meaning that 30 percent or more of their income goes to housing costs.

If migrants do come to Cincinnati in large numbers, they would be less likely to exacerbate a process known as "climate gentrification" by displacing the people already living there.

Money from the sale of the Cincinnati Southern Railway, which yielded $1.6 billion for an infrastructure fund, is also going to projects like park rehabilitation, storm water management and traffic abatement. "Climate migration enables us to double down," Mr. Purevel said. "This is the right thing long-term."

But whether a migrant wave over materialism in Cincinnati, one thing is certain: Climate change is going to reshape the country. America's infrastructure is forced to feel the pressure. Economic disparities could widen. Cities need to be prepared.

"We feel a lot of urgency," Mr. Purevel said.

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What standards, if any, must the federal government adhere to when deciding what countries they can deport unauthorized immigrants to? — LATERHOUSE WEST

ADAM LIPTAK Federal law generally requires the government to depart people only to countries with which they have a meaningful connection. A statute sets out a sort of checklist, meant to be worked through in order. The response varies a little based on whether the immigrant is arrested while entering the country or is later ordered removed. Among the places law requires the government to consider first are the country from which the immigrants arrived, seen they designate, seen they are citizens in and seen they have lived in.

Under the law, "third-country removal" — deportation to a place with which the

immigrants have no connection — is meant to be a last resort. The Trump administration has been accused of ignoring the required sequence, of relying on unmoved "diplomatic assurances" that immigrants will not be tortured or persecuted when they are sent to such third countries and of failing to provide immigrants with a meaningful opportunity to share.

The administration has justified its approach by saying that the president has enormous discretion over immigration and foreign affairs. These connections have been questioned by federal trial judges but have been tentatively endorsed by the Supreme Court, which has, for now, allowed the administration wide latitude to conduct "third-country" deportations while their legality is being challenged.

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Recent primary wins have posed critical questions for both Republicans and Democrats as they head into the midterm elections this fall. In a recent video, Carolyn Ryun, managing editor of The New York Times, shared how reporters approach coverage of shifting political dynamics. Read an edited excerpt below.

Both major political parties in America are going through something of an identity crisis. Obviously, on the Republican side, a lot of that is tied up with Trump, and he's the character everyone has orbited around. The Democratic side is a really rich and interesting subject, too, especially the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America.

The one question that a lot of our readers have said our reporters are exploring is: Does the D.S.A. essentially become an engine of the Democratic Party, or does it become something else and break away?

Deciding who to cover, and how much, is an art rather than a science. There's no perfect formula. The more that you can test your assumptions about who's powerful and who's not, the better your reporting is going to be. As reporters on the ground, we're always trying to calibrate and measure what kinds of movements and what kinds of candidates might be emerging.

I remember in 2016, for example, we had a reporter drive across the country, stopping at small towns. And he came into my

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office and said, "Carolyn, I saw Trump signs everywhere!" What it really comes down to is: What do ordinary Americans want from their government?

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Determine a budget. Your budget will dictate your experience. Most planners of high-end safaris recommend budgeting $750 to $1,500 a day per person. Companies such as Interpal Travel offer more affordable trips, from about $200 a day.

Decide on the city, plains or delta. Popular destinations, including South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya and Botswana, are distinct locales. Understand the differences between them to narrow your choices. For example, South African itineraries may combine safari days with stays in Cape Town and the country's wine region.

Andrew Drummond of Kensington, which designs custom trips, described safaris in Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa as "classic safaris in tents, immersing in the wilderness in a camp-style setting." Many travelers come to East Africa in witness the Great Migration, with two million wildernesses moving between the Serengeti plains in Tanzania and the Maasai Mara reserve in Kenya, an event that attracts predators. Botswana is home to the world's largest island delta, the Gharango, supporting hippos, elephants and birds.

Aim for varied experiences. Many experts recommend trips that handle contrasting experiences. Stuart Marra, who runs the Opatwa Explains, suggests continuing a stay in Botswana for intimate game viewing with time in the Serengeti or Maasai Mara for seeing thousands of animals.

Understand weather effects. In the Southern Hemisphere, winter is from June to

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September, while summer is from December to March. More important in terms of wildlife viewing are the rainy and dry seasons, which vary by destination. In East Africa, the rainforest season is generally March through May; in southern Africa, it's December through March. "Dry season has more wildlife visibility," said Sandy Lintinghann, the regional director for East Africa at Natural Habitat Adventures, a nature-focused tour company. Travelers may see lower prices in the lush green season.

Do your health homework. Malaria is the primary disease to worry about in many locations; anti-malarial medication is recommended for places like Botswana, Kenya and Tanzania. The Travelers' Health website from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers advice by country.

Plan a year ahead. Travelers joining group trips can often find availability within months of departure. But if you're planning to visit small luxury lodges, give yourself some runway. Some experts recommend settling on plans a year in advance.

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Count Birdace, soon de guerre of Jon Harvey, is running against Nigel Farage, the Reform U.K. party leader, in a special parliamentary election on Thursday.

Satirical Opponent Challenges Farage In Parliament Race

By AMELIA NIEBERBERG

CLACTON-ON-SEA, England: Count Birdace, a man in a trash can consume, was trying to explain why he would be a winner no matter what happened on Thursday in the highest-profile election he's ever contacted.

'Shall we do a little flowchart?' he asked me, gesturing with his gloved fingers.

If you haven't been following British politics, you may be wondering why I was interviewing someone who claims to be an investigator's space warrior from the planet Sigma 18. Count Birdace is a character played by the writer and co-mother Jon Harvey. At, and he has run in several elections as part of Britain's long tradition of novelty political candidates.

Now he is heading for his biggest gig yet. He is the main opposition to Nigel Farage. He leader of the right-wing popular party Reform U.K., in a special parliamentary election in Clacton, an area on England's eastern coast.

Mr. Farage is expected to win in a landslide – he held the seat with a large majority until he resigned last month to force this vote. One record poll suggested he could get 73 percent. But thought Mr. Farage has sought to frame this as a 'people service the establishment' election, all of the other major political parties have refused to take part. They called it a political team to discuss these a parliamentary investigation into a gift of 5 million pounds (about $5) 'million) that Mr. Farage had failed to disclose.

Count Birdace, who would be interviewed only in character, is Mr. Farage's most prominent rival in the election, although 33 other candidates are running. Some are longtime Clacton residents, such as TMA Palan, who has lived in Clacton on Sea for over a decade, while there represent the Official Member Racing Loosy Party, a group once associated with Britain's most famous novelty candidate, hoverning Lord Sutch, who died in 1999.

If Mr. Farage 'wins even with an increased majority,' Count Birdace argued as he had not his metaphorical flowchart. 'Not it is against 33 candidates including an alien shaped like a trash can, who's won?'

Mr. Farage would of course disagree. Reform U.K. did not respond to requests for comment for this article, but previously, Zoe Yusuf, a senior party official, said the BBC that the other parties have beycotting the vote because they were 'running scared' of Mr. Farage.

'I Have Done Nothing Wrong'

Count Birdace's moment in the national spotlight began last month, when Mr. Farage, who won in Clacton at the 2024 general election with 40 percent of the vote, announced a surprise resignation. For weeks, Mr. Farage had been under pressure after revelations over his 5-sunces, including £3 million he received from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire. A parliamentary investigation had begun into whether Mr. Farage should have declared the gift, which he received in the months before the 2024 election.

Mr. Farage resigned as July 7 before the investigation was complete, and said he would immediately run for the same seat, in an apparent attempt to reclaim

Mr. Farage forced the new election until a scandal over a $5 million gift.

the political narrative.

'Let me be absolutely clear: I have done nothing wrong,' he said, adding: 'I have decided that the people of Clacton should be the judges of my actions.'

If Mr. Farage were found to have broken the rules, he could be suspended from Parliament and potentially forced to fight a second special election. All the other major parties said they would wait for the investigation to conclude, with the Conservatives saying they would contest any resulting election.

That left Count Birdace, in his silvered helmet and cape, to face the Reform leader this time.

'He so-called mainstream parties have elected not to take part,' Count Birdace told me. 'Either because they're terrified by my magnificence,' or because 'this is all actually a lot of a sidecrow.'

'Laugh at Politicians'

Any British, Irish or eligible Commonwealth citizens over 18 can run in a parliamentary election in Britain, provided they pay a £100 deposit and get the nominations of 30 people living in the area.

Over the years, British politicians have routinely shared the stage with

novelty candidates in funny contrasts, from Elmo to representatives of the Racing Leagues.

In Britain, said Ian Hickey, the editor of the British satirical magazine Private City, to has long been understood that 'it is as important to laugh at politicians as it is to vote for them.'

Count Birdace challenged the former Conservative prime minister Rishi Sutani, the son against a previous prime minister, Theresa May, too, in a previous incarnation as Lord Backerhead, which he had in abandon over a copyright dispute. He ran in Landash's mayoral election against Mayor Sadiq Khan. Earlier this summer, he ran in the Waterfield special election against the Labour candidate Andy Burnham. Mr. Burnham, now Britain's prime minister, was with 54.8 percent, while Count Birdace got 0.2 percent.

Mr. Harvey, the human underneath the cont109, attended the University of Oxford, where he studied classics. On a recent appearance on the podcast 'The Best Is Politics,' he let loose a stunning flow of Ancient Greeks. He has also worked on British satirical programs as a comedy writer, including for Armandin Iannucci, the creator of the HBO series 'Sleep.'

In Count Birdace, his usual campaign promises include 'battling 'at least one affordable house' – a jibe at the house-building promises of conservative British governments, which never seem to be sure. He also has a longstanding promise to nationalize Addis, and to 'say your times and raise everyone else's.'

There's a serious message underneath, about the absurdity of modern politics and the impossibility of trying to please all voters everywhere.

'This Is Farage Country'

Clacton, a parliamentary seat centered around a failed seaside town, rared by a large margin for Brexit. Mr. Farage's signature cause before the 2018 referendum. Mr. Farage has built a populist movement by ruling against immigration and more recently promising a Trump-style program of mass deportations.

In 2014, Clacton elected him by a large margin, with a Conservative in second

place. 'This Is Farage country,' said Korian Pedley, the director of politics at the polling firm Ipsos.

Some voters in Clacton have expressed frustration at the focus on the current situation in the main heritable candidates. Brian Pierce, a gardener who has lived in the area for about a year, said he wanted to vote for someone local who understood the need of the community. 'You've got all these pieces,' he said, pointing to both Count Birdace ('fiercrux') and Mr. Farage, who he said was 'using the election to actually hide his sins.'

'It's becoming a laughing joke,' he added. 'And it's not. This is people's lives. It's our future.'

Count Birdace's strongest previous result was 1 percent in the 2021 London mayoral election. A striking success for him here would be to exceed 5 percent, at which point his 4500 election deposit would be refunded.

Count Birdace has spent time in Clacton campaigning, meeting residents and recording videos. He also released a more detailed list of campaign promises, including some Farage-specific ones. Lawmakers who range students should be barred from the resulting special election, he said, the promised to 'spend more time in Clacton-on-Sea than in Washington U.S.' and in Mr. Farage's friendship with President Farage. And he pledged to 'not accept £3 million gifts from crypto billionaires (on Earth)'.

Even if Mr. Farage wins on Thursday, as expected, he will have to face the net come of the investigation into that gift.

Count Birdace accepts that at this point, the media interest in his story is likely to be driven. He admitted that it had delighted him: 'This has been the biggest leading theory he old Honey as far! He was the most to emphasize his regard for the democratic process, and for voters who decide to support Mr. Farage.'

'He has a pitch which is very powerful for a certain part of the revolution,' he said. 'We mustn't disrespect that. If business chases us vote for Nigel, that is democracy.'

But with the major parties absent, 'I seem to be his major's opposition,' he said, from behind the list. 'Which is fine.'

Mr. Farage is heavily favored to repeat his 2024 victory for the Clacton-on-Sea seat, which he resigned last month.

A French Ban On Cold Calls By Businesses Takes Effect

By HENALDINE LE CHAUDE

PARIS – In France, incessant cold calls advertising stale panels, roads, busi pumps and other items were to stop on Tuesday, when a ban on unattended telemarketing calls went into effect.

Companies are on longer allowed to advertise goods and services through such calls unless consumers previously gave their consent or if the calls are about a pre-existing contract.

The ban is unlikely to be met with much opposition to a country where 47 percent is under the act; they are annoyed by daily telemarketing calls, which have been steadily increasing in recent years, according to a parliamentary report.

A leading consumer advocacy group, Que Choisir Ensemble, called the ban a 'horror measure' that 'should finally get an end to the daily business on that the French have endured for far too long.'

'Peace and quiet is a right,' the group's president, Marie-Antoine Solvenin, said in a interview. 'This observation builds true both online and on the street, where we are inundated with calls to consumer.'

Frédéric Bilbo, the head of Fédération de la Vente Directe, a business organization, said the law would add administrative burdens for all local businesses that used to call their customers without giving it much thought.

'Today, that 'without giving it much thought' approach no longer notice.' he said. 'You'll have to obtain without contact with your customer, and you'll also have to keep proof of that consent.'

Mr. Bilbo also said he was worried about unfair competition from

Heavy fines and even prison for unwelcome telemarketing.

unethical companies operating within and outside France.

In Morocco, where France represents a major market for telemarketing companies, the ban could lead to the disappearance of up to 50,000 jobs in the country, according to a government official quoted by Le Matin, a daily Moroccan newspaper.

In the last 10 years, a French lawmaker, said in a broadcast interview on Monday that calls from abroad 'will be illegal' and that 'necessary steps must be taken, including with interest operators, to ensure that these calls, which are scarce, are continually banked.'

The new legislation, which Parliament adopted in May last year, is a significant issue from having French people consent by default to receiving telemarketing calls. Previously, consumers could be contacted at random unless they signify that all items, their government property to avoid getting such calls.

Though phone numbers found on Blount nearly doubled from 2021 to 2024 and more than 50 million calls a day were being blocked, the service was deemed sufficient because companies often failed to take it into account, according to the parliamentary report.

Under earlier legislation that aimed to isolate the issue, some companies in specific industries like home reservations for older people or for people who disabilities were already forbidden to make unsolicited telemarketing calls.

Now, individuals have a fine of up to 75,000 euros, or $67,000, and companies can be fined €375,000, or $125,000, if they fail to comply with the new law. For calls targeting vulnerable individuals, the new venue could be as much as five years in prison and a fine of €500,000, or €375,000.

'From a legislative standpoint, we couldn't do any better.' Revenue tax in taxes, the French consumer behind the initial bill, said in a broadcast interview at the time the new ban was adopted in 2025.

'The government will have to accommodate the long companies that don't play by the rules hard and fast,' he said. 'That's the price we'll have to pay to get results.'

In a July dinner, according the application of the law, the government said that even if consumers agreed to receive cold calls, they could change their mind at any point and businesses would have to seek consent again within a year.

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'It's Unbearable': Europeans Prepare for Fifth Heat Wave of Summer

This article is by Elizabeth Pownble, Giulia Imbert and Carlos Burragán.

ROME — Europe braced on Wednesday for a fifth heat wave of a record-breaking summer that has already spurred wildfires of rare forestry, caused water shortages across the continent and, for many Europeans, capped the joy from a season they once survived.

The heat is expected to sweep from the wave, with a high of 109 degrees Fahrenheit, or 42 degrees Celsius, predicted in Spain on Thursday, before hitting more eastern countries like Germany over the weekend.

In Britain, the government convened a special ministerial meeting on Wednesday morning to prepare for the fallest, six tourists and residents from Madrid to Rome under wishfuls of the milder climates of summer's past.

Irina Nedeleva, 42, who sells wine at a food market in Rome, said she had never felt so hot and that summer had lost its appeal. "I used to love the heat and hate the cold, but starting this year, Isaina, Ms. Nedeleva said, using the fashion work he "enough." "Now I hate the heat."

At her staff, she has kept her air-conditioning unit switched off — it's too expensive to use, she said. Instead, a fan churns warm air, making her feel as if she was "in a ventilated oven," she said.

"It's unbearable," she said. In Paris, Sarah Weyerbergh, 22, also used the word "unbearable" to describe her life this summer in an apartment without air-conditioning. "Taking shower after shower after shower" goes temporary relief, said Ms. Weyerbergh, who works in the fashion industry, adding that this solution was "countryproductive" because it ended up making her "feel even better."

Still, as a resident of Paris, she at least had unrestricted access to water.

In more than 70 percent of mainland France, water use is limited because of the widespread droughts. Groundwater levels have declined in more than 40 percent of underground water reserves in mainland France, the country's national geological service expected this month. In some regions, people could be fined for using water in certain contexts, like soothing their cars or filling swimming pools.

Across the channel, nearly three-quarters of England is now in drought, according to officials, with tens of millions of people in Britain under a tone ban.

In Spain's northern province of Burgos, Chave Barranza, 65, said that residents of this traditionally caster region were not used to such high temperatures.

"The last few manners have been criminal," Ms. Barranza said. "We used to sleep with a blanket in the summer two days or two days later."

Much of the country housed for more wildfires, particularly in hundreds of thousands of people prepared to gather to get the country's best for the wildfires.

The new heat wave comes after Western Europe recorded its hottest June-to-July period on

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record, according to Copernicus, the European Union's climate monitoring service.

Droughts, magnified by climate change, are crippling some of the continent's critical waterways, including the Rhine. In Serbia, the Danube River's receding water levels exposed ships from a food fleet that sank at the end of World War II.

Droughts and fuel produced by anchors/centrically violent rancerous have played havoc with

agricultural land, burning farming, revenues. Coldterill, Italy's largest agricultural trade association, estimates that climate-related damages have exceeded three billion euros, or nearly $3.3 billion. The situation has amplified calls for cultural and logistical changes to the way that Europe operates in the summer, including a push for better water management in Italy.

"It's clear that we must equip ourselves and prepare, including

mentally, to live in this kind of climate," said Lorenzo Buscena, Coldterill's chief economist.

"Icy this has been affected, too. In Rome, I expect to see that the precarious approach to have called interest in outdoor sleep, while alcohol consumption was significantly down, according to Claude Picci, the president of the Black branch of a small business association. A survey of wholesalers and more 100 Roman centres and bars showed a drop in sales in

Europe's record heat has been felt, clockwise from top, outside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in the sunflower fields of Italy, and along the Doubs River on the France-Switzerland border.

July, and a change in menus.

"Tourists still eat pasta carbonara and anancticana because they're traditional dishes, but the more are asking for salads," he said.

Some tourists are rethinking vacation plans.

"We know it was going to be an ally but, we weren't expecting it to be so bad in the sun, that's what gets you," said Hannah Cutrel, 21, a speech-language pathologist from New York debriefing in the shade to a Roman pianist.

Her sister Julia Cutrel, 23, who works for a manufacturing company in Connecticut, said the "selling" heat would make her think-

twice about visiting Italy in August again. "I mean, we have beat the this at home, and this is just next level," she said.

At a central cinema in Rome, Maria Del Puno was taking advantage of a city-sponsored initiative offering free afternoon movies at several cinemas.

"It's a way to pass the hottest hours in a cool place," Mr. Del Puno, 41, said. The other options were to stay home, or go to the beach, which wasn't much of an alternative, he said.

"The temperature is very hot on the sand and you suffer," Mr. Del Puno said. "I much prefer to be in a cool cinema."

2026's El Niño Is Huge And Changing the World

By RAYMOND ZROVIC and CHICO RAMLIN

El Niño is the planet's naturally recurring chain agent, scrambling weather patterns, spiking global temperatures and typically reaching full strength by December.

But this year's El Niño, which is expected to be record-breaking, is already strong and having big effects, nudging up global temperatures and causing dry spells and crop failures on multiple continents.

Paris of Panama, normally one of the wettest countries on Earth, haven't had a major storm since early May. Ethiopies for the highlands are enduring one of their driest summer stretches in four decades, and India had its 1800-dried June since the country's modern rain records began in 1861.

"This is a good sign that the El Niño response has really looked in," said Chris Ford, director of the Climate Hazards Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Its Peak seemed it as "very severe El Niño."

These on-the-ground consequences reflect the magnitude of the changes in the Pacific Ocean, where El Niño develops when usually where winter's heat is passed. These episodes occur every two to seven years and have contributed to planetary swings going back millennium. But this year's is on the same level as that in nearly 80 years of records.

Scientists are debating whether human-based climate change is tilting the odds toward stronger climate change. The El Niño is the planet's the El Niño of the past few decades have been comparably strong. But the variables that

combine to create an El Niño are complex, and some experts argue the recent trend could just be a random signal.

What's clear is that El Niño's grychnos are adding to the average storms, drive dry spells and ferrier wildfires that global warming is already bringing about. El Niño will magnify those phenomena in some regions and could lift global temperatures to record levels next year, as the heat from the Pacific spreads around the world.

"What we'll see in 2021 is a social peak of what the new normal will be in 2025," said Zake Hasselafter, a climate scientist at Berkeley Earth, a nonprofit research organization. "We'll see things that have never happened before in our history in terms of temperature, drought conditions, extreme heat."

A year of extreme heat

El Niño events are measured by looking at sea surface temperatures in a specific rectangular zone of the Pacific Ocean. Temperatures there have soared over the past three months, and forecasts suggest that its 'next road, they must exceed normal levels by more than they did during the transport El Niño in modern history, which occurred in 1852-63, 1897-98 and 2015-16.

Between October and December, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says there's an 81 percent chance that El Niño conditions will be "very strong," meaning the three-month average temperature in that zone of the Pacific is 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.8 degrees Fahrenheit, higher than normal. But forecasts show that daily ocean temperatures during that period could spike to

Collecting water from a well in a drought-affected village in India in May. El Niño is expected to peak later this year, but it is already causing dry spells and crop failures on these continents.

more than 3 degrees Celsius above normal.

"Maybe it doesn't sound that big, three or even four degrees. We see that temperature variations over the course of a day," said Samantha Stevenson-Karl, an associate professor and climate能源 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "But the mean doesn't change that much. Like, true."

The extra heat in the waters of the Pacific affects air temperatures, too. For the first months of the year, 2026 was clearly under that 2024, the planet's bottom year on record. But Dr. Hasselafter will grow 2026 a 40 percent chance of being Earth's warmest year on the books, a sign of how the predators could be swinging. According to NOAA, last month

tied July 2024 as the world's warmest day once global record-keeping began in 1850.

A rise in south-hungry

El Niño causes big shifts in the winds that blew more air across the oceans, and the effects on rain-bol agriculture are already being seen. According to the end of the year, El Niño could cause nearly 50 million more people across the globe to experience acute hunger, an increase of 1,000, according to the United Nations World Food Program.

At the western end of the tropical Pacific, El Niño has led to a dry summer in parts of Australia and Asia, delaying the sowing of rice and other crops in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Phil-

ippines. In India, monsoon rains have picked up in some regions to record weeks, though large areas of the country remain in a rainfall deficit.

At the other end of the Pacific, El Niño has delayed planting and disregard crop growth in Central America. Rainfall in Guatemala was as much as 6.6 percent before average in July, and the stress on crops has been compounded by well-shown-normal temperatures.

In Panama, the dry stretch has raised concrete about operations in the Panama Canal. During the last El Niño, in 2023-24, a severe rain deficit started traffic in the waterway, which raises and lowers slope through the back using water from a rain-bol lake.

A El Niño has gained strength, the Panama Canal Authority has

tightened limits on how heavily loaded ships can be while crossing. Officials haven't ruled out involving daily transfer, according to a statement last week from a spokesman for the canal authority, Ontario Calendres.

It's hard to predict just how much below normal Central America's rainfall will be in the coming months, said Steven Pawn, who monitors the oceans and atmosphere at the Interleontian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

The reason, he said, is that science computer models are trained on past events. This year's El Niño is expected to be as much stronger than any episode on record the sea can't be sure how accurately the models will anticipate its effects.

"In the very best, it's going to be as bad as the worst we've seen before, possibly much worse," Mr. Pawn said.

In East Africa, El Niño usually brings binary rain, and even floods and landslides, from November through January. But when the phenomenon appears earlier in the year, it can suppress rainfall in parts of the region, including western Kenya and Ethiopia.

"That's been the first reality in recent months, said Chris Shimizu, a food scientist based in Nairobi, Kenya, for the Eastern Early Morning Systems Network, an agency under the U.S. State Department.

Ms. Shimizu and some colleagues recently traveled through dialysis network group-producing countries. The maize harvest was stunningly bad, he said. "It's something some of us have not seen for the maybe 10 years we've been going out."

Pawn's that normally grow to be one best-suit-quoted one of just five or six feet, Ms. Shimizu said. A typical harvest might yield 10 to 10 bags of corn for each acre of food, growers told him. This year, it looks like it could be just one or two bags per acre.

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Anxious Wait Follows Fight For Freedom

In Sweida Province, dominated by Syria's Druse minority, there is deep mistrust of the Islamist transitional government.

By ABDI LATIF DAHDI Photographs by NANNA DEETMANN

SWEDDA, Syria — When Syria's government harshly took control this year of a northeastern region long dominated by the Kurdish minority, the Druse in Swedia watched with growing unease.

The Druse, who, like the Kurds, have for years controlled their own region, saw the writing on the wall.

"We know they are coming," said Sumayah al-Youaef, 85, a Druse resident of Swedia who was among the people displaced last summer by the wave of sectarian violence. After days of clashes between local groups and the entry of government forces into the fighting, more than 1,700 people, most of them Druse, were killed, according to the United Nations.

Swedia is the only Syrian province that has not submitted to the authority of the central government, headed by former rebels who seized the longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad in late 2024. The government that replaced Mr. al-Assad initially struggled to extend its authority over all of Syria, then seemed to be turning a corner at the start of this year with its takeover of the Kurdish-led northeast.

Across much of Syria, the end of Mr. al-Assad's rule has been granted with relief and hopes that the country can finally reunite and move on after years of internecine war. Yet these hopes have been accompanied by questions about the new government and whether it can build a state that Syrians across the country trust.

Druse residents repeatedly told us — during two trips to Swedia Province in November and January, as well as in follow-up phone and text interviews in the months since — that it was only a matter of time before the government moved to assert control over the area.

We spoke to nearly two dozen civilians, civil servants, security officials, medical workers and religious leaders about the sectarian violence in Swedia last summer and its aftermath.

Varying interests complicate Swedia's fate.

Syrian leaders say reanifying the country under one authority is necessary to restore order, bring stability and prevent further fragmentation after nearly 14 years of civil war.

Some Druse residents of Swedia fear the post-Assad authorities, whose leaders

have room in a group once linked to Al Qaeda and whose forces they accuse of carrying out massacres against them. Israel is also wary of Syrian government forces expanding their reach toward its border, concerned that the area could eventually become a boon/paal for attacks.

Escalating Sectarian Strife

Swedia Province stretches across rocky highlands roughly 40 miles southeast of the Syrian capital, Damascus, with many fields and scattered orchards defining the landscape.

The Druse have called these uplands home for ages. Their faith emerged centuries ago as an offshoot of a branch of Shi'ite Islam, though many typically do not identify as Muslim today.

Driving to the province from Damascus, we passed through at least six government checkpoints set up on a decision stretch of land. Villages along the route be observed, their chaired remains a stark reminder of last summer's violence. In July 2025, skirmishes broke out between armed Bedouins, part of Syria's home majority, and Druse soldiers. The commandos have long clashed over gra-

Sumayah al-Youaef, above, at the shrine of Ain al-Zaman, where families fleeing attacks have taken shelter. At right, men with the Furzan Hamza battalion of the Druse National Guards leaving their base.

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At left, women mourning Fulaa al-Abrami, 34, who was killed near Sweidah hospital in sectarian fighting that swept last year through the province, in Syria's south. His body was buried in a mass grave.

From top: An outpost of the Furuan Hamza battalion; destruction in Najran, where the mayor said most homes were burned and about 60 people killed; and bodies needing identification at Sweidah hospital. U.N. officials said more than 1,700 people had been killed last summer in clashes between Druze fighters and government forces.

ing land, property and access to water, disputes sharpened by sectarian divisions.

What began as localized fighting quickly escalated.

Government forces, along with allied fighters, descended on Sweidah, whalewage highlands, killing civilians, destroying towns and villages and displacing tens of thousands, according to independent monitors and witnesses.

While the Druze here the brunt of the violence, Druze fighters have also been accused in some of the killings last summer, according to activists and human rights groups. Some Druze leaders have denied or rejected responsibility for abuses or killings.

Syria's Defense Ministry said last year that it was aware of "shocking and grave violations" committed in Sweida by "an unidentified group wearing military uniforms."

A government body investigating the killings issued its final report in March and said there would be legal actions against some individuals, according to SANA. Syria's state news agency. Some of the cases have been referred to a military court in Damascus, officials said.

Israel's Interest in Sweida

The Syrian government's effort to bring Sweida under its control is fraught in many ways, not least because of neighboring Israel's keen interest in maintaining Druze control in Sweida.

Israel has a sizable Druze minority and has long cultivated close ties with the community, a relationship that extends to the Syrian Druze.

President Ahmed al-Sharaa of Syria has sought to project a more moderate image to the world, promising to protect minority rights and saying that Syria has no interest in fighting with neighbors or interfering in their internal affairs. Yet Israeli officials have voiced deep distrust of Syria's leaders, some of whom have come in extremist groups. They are also uneasy about the government extending its authority near its border, fearing it could become a staging ground for attacks on Israel.

After the clashes, Israel struck Syria's Defense Ministry and an area near the presidential palace in Damascus. It also launched airstrikes against government forces in Sweida.

Israeli officials vowed to protect the Syrian Druze and demanded that the re-

gion remain demilitarized, without the Syrian Army or its allies depleting or upholding in the area. At the time, Mr. al-Sharaa accused Israel of trying to sow "chaos" and undermining Syria's unity.

"Israel stood with us," Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, the Druze spiritual leader most vocal in welcoming Israeli support, said in an interview in January. "Israel was the first to extend a helping hand."

Mr. al-Hijri likened the authorities in Damascus to their authoritarian predecessors, saying the government's brutality persisted even as the faces changed. He said the Druze saw no future under Mr. al-Sharaa's government and insisted that secession was the only viable option for Sweida.

His stance is more hard-line than some other Druze religious leaders, who have not publicly called for secession.

Limbo a Year Later

After days of clashes in July 2025, a ceasefire was announced between the Syrian government and armed Druze factions in Sweida.

It has barely held in the year since. Suspect occasionally take aim at one another across olive orchards and peach

trees. Clashes break out in villages along the front line between the National Guard, a 28,000-croring militia in Sweida legal to Mr. al-Hijri, and government forces and their allies.

The guard is in constant contact with Israel, said Nabi Amer, its spokesman, though he did not specify the nature of that coordination.

At the center of the provincial capital, also known as Sweida, life seems to have stowed to a crowd. Construction sites are abandoned, and once-founding shops and vegetable markets are cleaned in an uncanny bush.

In the year after the evapition of sectarian violence, Sweida officials and residents say the government has committed its pressure on the region to submit to its authority. It has repeatedly cut electricity and water, damaged power lines and pipes during military operations and blocked aid groups from repairing them, they say.

Humanitarian aid, including lifesaving food and medical supplies, has often been delayed or restricted before reaching the provincial capital, according to residents and Druze officials.

Mustafa al-Babbout, the regional gov-

ernar appointed by Mr. al-Sharaa last year before the summer violence, denied the accusations. He said the government was still paying salaries, helping residents rebuild destroyed homes and allowing aid in regularly. He also accused local homes of deliberately cutting electricity to drive demand for solar energy systems they sell.

And he called Mr. al-Hijri and his associates "a gang with personal interests" who have no "interest for matters to be resolved."

For now, many of those displaced remain trapped in shelters in Sweida city.

One of them is Sheikh Merhej Shahin, whose life, until last summer, was measured in farm work, prayer and routine. When gunmen stormed his village, Al Thaida, he said he realized that life as he knew it was over. The assailants, he said, beat him, shamed his mustache and left him for flood.

"It was only God's grace that protected me," he said.

He dreams of returning home, even as he remains with his ailing wife, who is struggling to get the medication she needs. Despite everything, he said, "We will not break."

Mental al-Buroti, left, was wounded when a mortar shell struck her balcony. At right, a youth named Obaida, who said his family lost land after government forces attacked his village, now works as a shepherd.

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out of turmoil's way.

"They just didn't seem to give a second thought to anybody but the president and the five people who were with him," said Joe Lockhart, who served as White House press secretary to Mr. Clinton during his 2009 trip to Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. "We went out of our way to make sure the maximum number of people, especially civilians, were protected and not human schools. They didn't even think about it. And to me, that's the big difference."

But other veterans of risky White House trips said their sometimes that extreme measures were justified to protect the president. Joseph W. Hagin, who as a top adviser to Mr. Bush helped organize his war zone trips and then served as Mr. Trump's deputy White House chief of staff in his first series, said he would not second guess the decision in Ankara.

"I understand there is concern for those flying on what was announced to be the primary aircraft," Mr. Hagin said, "but when you go to work at the White House of travel with the president, you are accepting a non-insignificant degree of risk. Telling everyone what's up in an operation like this would have obviously jeopardized the president's safety."

When Mr. Bush or Mr. Obama brought staff members and reporters with them to war zones, Mr. Hagin added, those were dangerous moments, too. "I felt was no different than the trips to Iraq and Afghanistan," he said. "You add up all the risks and figure out the tactics that give you the safest option, regardless of where you get stopped on or feelings get hurt."

The government officials said reporters who's needed with presidents to war zones, if they knew they were doing so, while those left on Air Force One in Ankara last month were not told of the increased threat. Journalists traveling in the back of the plane were instructed while still on the ground to keep their window insides closed during the day. A flight from Ankara to Britain, where Mr. Trump landed secretly in another military plane. The president was then smoked back onto Air Force One so that he could disembark in front of cameras as if he had been unheard of along.

The secret switch in Ankara, the first real on Monday by The Washington Post and confirmed by The New York Times and other news outlets, was so remarkable that a sounded like something out of the world's first air force. The news the imaginators of Andrew W. Mathews, who wrote the screenplay for the recent 1997 thriller "Air Force One" featuring former Fires as a president whose plane is biggested. Mailing it over on Tuesday, Mr. Mathews said he was sure the news that he was doing what was necessary to keep the president safe. But he added that it did not make Mr. Trump look all that good.

The news did not have the last given the circumstances. The net sure I could ever write a comment like that for a ferrite main charac-

A threat against Air Force One, top, led President Trump to be secretly evacuated in a catering container last month in Ankara, Turkey. The government also used subterfuge for protection when President Bill Clinton visited Pakistan in 2000, left, and when President George W. Bush traveled to Iraq in 2003. In the most recent case, however, the evidence just was shifted to others.

ter," Mr. Mathews said. "If the threat were that good, it's hard to imagine the audience rousing for any character who would trade his own safety by treating the mounting civilians unheard as personal sacrificial lambs, especially without their informed consent."

The White House did not respond to a request for comment about the decision or address whether extra measures were taken to protect the plane from any threat even without Mr. Trump's board. Mr. Trump told reporters on Tuesday evening that he believed the advice of the Secret Service and rejected the nation that others were put in more danger.

"I think actually the plane that I flew on was at greater risk because that would be the plane I think that they would be more

likely to go for," he said, an assertion at odds with the point of switching planes in the first place.

The extraordinary deception underscored the sense of danger left by Mr. Trump, who was present by a would-be mountain bullet while campaigning at Butler, Pa. In 2014 and targeted by another armed man at his Florida golf course later that year. During the Biden administration, officials said that Iranian elements were trying to kill Mr. Trump. An recently, as Tuesday, the police were investigating a bomb threat at a McDonald's in Ohio near the site of a planned visit by Mr. Trump later that evening.

The Secret Service and military tanks charged with the president's safety typically use delays to confuse possible attackers, although not involving civilians without their knowledge. When any pres-

dent travels in a motorcade, there are usually two identical armored binoculars or major safety vehicles with identical Washington, D.C. Forces planes to make it hard to know which one he is in. When he flies by Marine One, there are often three or four identical ground-swim binoculars flying together.

"If there's an attack on the motorcade, the occurs package spirit off and everyone else is on their own, from some WU staff to some military officials, all reporters and members of Congress," Art Fleischer, a White House president secretary for Mr. Bush, wrote on social media on Tuesday. "The safety of press always comes first. We don't complete. That's the way it is."

As president of the United States, or PVTTS in government jargon, is an once the most visible

and most protected official in the country. The White House over the years has become a virtual furious, and Mr. Trump plans to expand the security perimeter with a new front-armed La-Suzette Square across the street from the interior.

At the same time, a president in tradition always travels with a panel of journalists who record the every public movement and comment. Such constant coverage has been considered vital in the matter of why when a crisis can confront a president at any moment. Journalists were with John F. Kennedy when he was shot in Dallas on Nov. 12, 1961, and they were with Mr. Bush when terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 1, 1961.

When presidents have made war zone trips to recent years, the White House typically commenced a select number of news execu-

tives to the Situation Room or called journalists to chat them in and swear them to secrecy so at least a few could go along and see what would like to be done. A woman's Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama took note reporters with them to Afghanistan and Iraq, as did Mr. Trump in his first term, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. took him over reporters and one more photographer with him on a secret nine-and-a-half-hour train trip into various States.

While Mr. Clinton traveled to Pakistan, he too switched planes to avoid direction by possible attackers. He had been urged not to go because parts of the country are in terms for terrorist groups, but since he was already going to India, he felt acceptable to stop in Islamabad for a few hours.

The original security plan looked for finding the accompanying journalists into thinking that Mr. Clinton had founded the name C-17 military go that they were on, while he would secretly get some a separate Air Force version of a California known as a C-20. "My substance present was one can't use outside an air crews," Mr. Lockhart said. "And they came back with a plan that satisfied me."

Instead, according to another version of that trip who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid professional repercussions, they had Mr. Clinton with around the most of the C-17 to the other side where three smaller unmarked planes were waiting. The journalists were not able to see any of the three he boarded, but they saw that he had not gotten on the C-17.

Unlike the Trump man in Ankara, the Clinton team informed an article out of the post journalism in advance, Susan Page of USA Today, who recounted the episode on Tuesday. And the White House then publicly disclosed the details about actually save Mr. Clinton was safely out of turmoil way. Mr. Trump's team, by contrast, never disclosed what happened in Ankara

is said. The first time the story of a country undermandable that the White House would want to commemorate a security operation like this," said John F. Kelly, a retired Navy vice admiral who was the first to be a professional for the White House. On those the postman and the Pentagon during the Obama and Biden administration, "I don't look them for going to knight to bring the president safe or in withholding specific threat intelligence."

"But," he added, "they also have an obligation for the safety and security of those traveling with the president. And when the risk of their turmoil is favorable—as it can be, it's a security, the only issue an obligation is at least provide the broad contents of it so that searchers can make informed decisions."

The flight disagreed. "My only victim are in that it is dead," he said. "It is very, very hard to move the president correctly, and when you have one of these tactics it's so hard to move the get away with it again, which just makes it even harder for most time you need to be able to get away from and it won't be the fact that an operation like this is required, regardless who is president."

A Catering Truck and a 3rd Plane: How the Escape Unfolded

This article is by Pete Schmidt, Maggie Hahneman, Art Fillen, Jean-le-Ferrouhel, Simon Ductrepori and Velton Perukino-Renko.

President Trump boarded Air Force One on July 8 as a case.

The first time that the 3rd fire summit in Turkey, Mr. Trump walked up the scarcity to the plane that was supposed to carry him on the first leg of the journey home. He briefly waved to the cameras and disappeared inside one of the zones, baby blue 70's that have served on Air Force One for decades. Then he secretly ended the aircraft, while inside a catering container.

Mr. Trump was sent when to a military jet for a clandestine flight out of Turkey. On 14, 1964 with journalists, Fillen, and Perukino, taken and others, took off despite what was deemed a credible threat from Iran against Air Force One.

It was an extraordinary subterfuge, aimed at protecting an American president who has been in the 1980s and 1990s.

The latest threat had emerged as Mr. Trump began his final day in Turkey. According to two officials with knowledge of the threat, the aircraft and air force are a simple897,105, and the people are more information overweight. On the frontiers have specifically where Mr. Trump was moving, including which there, and that, whenever the victory is the

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NAVO summit had been spotted only a shoulder-first rounds.

U.S. officials immediately began conceiving a plan. One from Cairo, the chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, was integral in an evening the threat and deciding how to respond. General Cairo is an attempt to subterfuge. His last job was Pentagon Games to the U.S.A., and he helped devise the American tactics during Operation Midnight Hammer, when U.S. forces struck Iran's nuclear zone in June 2023.

Not everyone who rode on the plane without Mr. Trump was in the dark. Secretary of State Marco Akino knew how the threat and flow on the old plane after helping to plan the operation to spirit the president out of Turkey, according to two U.S. officials. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to the case a sensitive topic.

Other senior officials who traveled on the plane without the president included Treasury Secretary Scott Beumer, Service Director, the White House command, claims director, and Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump's deputy chief of staff, as well as several other White House staff members, according to a senior U.S. official. It was not clear whether they all knew about the threat.

The elaborate deception which was first reported by The Washington Post, and which would without any harm comes to either Air Force One or the military jet carrying Mr. Trump —

raised questions about the security trade-offs in protecting the commander in chief.

Whether or not the passengers on the plane that Mr. Trump left behind knew about the threat, they were supposed to risks that the Secret Service deemed too great for the president to face.

On Tuesday evening, in his first public comment about the secret evacuation, Mr. Trump said the decision was not his.

"It's really just up to Secret Service," he said reporters after returning from Ohio. "I just follow what they like to do. Let go try to correct Service and the military. They should me to go in a different flight, a different plane for safety." Here's how this all came about.

Trump tells reporters he will fly on and Air Force One.

Before leaving the summit, Mr. Trump posted on social media that, he "sail there's sake," he would fly out on the old Air Force One instead of the luxury TV's detained by Qatar that he had flavor on it.

He later told reporters that he was sending the demand plane to Europe to "live or throw at the big bases" to show it off to the military plane.

Trump boards the old Air Force

Mr. Trump then boarded at the front of the other plane in view of cameras and news organizations.

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Journalists traveling with him, including the New York Times (the toping خاص Doug Mills, interled the over of the plane and were in contrast to keep their window insides there).

What was not known at the time in that Mr. Trump appears to have been quickly taken off that plane to a catering container on the opposite side of the plane. The other two were in a third plane, which he flew in secret to Britain. That third plane appears to have been a military version of a Boeing 737lambda, which was the first and paroled adjacent to the 747 Air Force One on the tarmac in Turkey.

What we have about Trump switching planes.

What of the departure process shows a catering container on a truck on the other side of the old plane, the first of a long and long drive alongside the C-22 A. Passage reviewed by The New York Times does not have a continuously clear view of the catering container, but it appears that the container is moved by truck from the front of the old Air Force One to the rear of the C-22 A. The other two carrying container is the other to the old Air Force One, also present, but borage shows a being driven away from the old Air Force One.

It does not appear to interact with the C-22 A. The old Air Force One taken off before the C-22 A.

The planes arrive in England.

Mr. Trump's new Air Force One, the Japan-descent plane, arrived hours before the other two planes on the Whitehead military base in England.

According to livestream and photograph from that night captured by hathryn plane teachers who returned by the Times, it arrived at 9:30 p.m. least time. The C-22 A arrived at 10:30 p.m., and the old Air Force One arrived nine minutes later.

There is no recorded flight data for this C-22 A, since its transmitters were not broadcasting, the flight path and coordinates. Flight watchers who listened to air traffic control transmissions that night noted on a flight monitoring message heard and on social media, were not to be able to call sign NYSH (Beach 35).

Harry Hawkes, an aviation photographer who was at Middle East and listening to air traffic on the ground, said that he had, in fact, the "flaws that Air Force One had instructed traffic controllers to move the C-22 A load first.

After the planes arrived at the same time, Air Force One we really moved back. According to a U.S. official at Monday, the president was taken by vehicle from the plane that he had arrived on to the other two planes.

He then boarded a through a different entrance and distributed to view of reporters, as he quickly would.

He was at the same working across the tarmac, where he boarded the plane demand by Qatar and flew back to Washington.

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Colombians Dig Out From Deadly Earthquake

Top, colombians helped to recover debris this week at the site of a five-story residential building in Provoix that collapsed during the 7.4-magnitude earthquake in the mountains of western Colombia. Above from left, rescue workers recovered a body in Cali, while the tasks of combing through the rubble and searching for survivors continued across the region. The death toll has risen past 200.

Mysterious Attacks by Unidentified 'Gringos' on Ecuadorean Fishing Boats

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obliterated by American musicians.

These attacks, however, have gone unclaimed.

It is certainly possible that the U.S. or some other military has conducted clandestine attacks on boats in the region. But the many lingering questions surrounding the fishing boat attacks have led some experts to wonder whether a private military contractor has been hired by the U.S. government or son of its Latin American allies — possibly El Salvador, where the plane has operated.

"It would be one thing if the U.S. didn't have an overt maritime strike campaign, but they do, and they're posting small films of boats going up in flames regularly! And that's what makes this even more squarrelly," said Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer who specializes in the laws of war. He worked in the Obama and Biden administrations, as well as in the first Trump era.

"Who are these people that are operating, and under what authority?" Mr. Finucane asked. "And they are using a UPS store as their company address? Come on."

Ecuadorean and Salvadoran officials did not respond to requests for comment.

In November, the plane that tracked the courses of the fishing boats was flown from Tonawawa to El Salvador and stationed on the military side of an airport there. Right data show. During that time, the Pentagon began increasing its air assets at another nearby airport to El Salvador to support its countercurvities campaign in Latin America.

Air traffic controllers said the patrol plane to park at the "military apron." A satellite image from January shows the plane parked near military aircraft, hundreds of yards away from the closest civilian craft, and images taken from

Eric Schwab contributed reporting from Washington, and Gabriel Labrador from Mexico City.

the ground show that the plane's tail is adorned with the flag of El Salvador. Still, it is unclear what role, if any, the plane played in the attacks on the fishing boats.

The Trump administration has made Latin America one of its top foreign policy priorities, to try to stem the flow of migration and the region's drug cartels.

Some private military contractors have shifted to kind.

Earlier this year, the Trump administration discussed issuing "letters of marque," which were used by the U.S. government during the 20th century, before the nation had built up its navy. The letters would allow the U.S. government to contract private security forces with maritime capabilities to protect Washington's interests in sea and to detash vessel crews.

The letters, according to their people with knowledge of the discussions, were circulated among various agencies for their input in May and were supposed to complement the Pentagon's boat strike campaign in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea.

Discussions around letters of marque seemed to stall around June, and the Pentagon would not say whether any have been issued. When asked about the attacks on the fishing boats, it said, "We have no knowledge of, nor were U.S. Southern Command forces involved in, the incidents described."

Private military contractors have been active in the hemisphere. Erik Prince, whose firm Blackwater was a notorious private military contractor hired by the U.S. government in Iraq, began touring Latin America in the lead-up to the 2024 election. Mr. Prince has met with the leaders of El Salvador and Ecuador to discuss regional security, although details of these conversations are unknown.

One of Mr. Prince's security firms was contracted by the Haitian government last year to fight the gangs, a deal the State Department authorized. As part of that contract, Mr. Prince's company offered maritime services to

parcel that's coast, according to an official in Haiti familiar with the contract.

A representative of Mr. Prince said that "settler Erik Prince nor any entities affiliated with him have any relation to these events" involving Ecuadorian fishing boats.

While the Pentagon's strikes are sophisticated equipment, including attack planes and M2-F-keeper drones, the attacks on the Ecuadorian fishing vessels have been carried out by rudimentary drones fitted with explosives and deployed from a vessel stunned by "gringos" with American-flag patches who never identified themselves, a lawyer represent-

ing some of the fishermen said.

Ever since the Pentagon began striking boats last year, Ecuadorian fishermen say they have been scared to go out onto the water. But the crew members of the Negro Francisco Duarte II had bills to pay and mouths to feed, they said, so they set out to sea in early March.

Satisfied with their catch, they said, they headed back to the mainland, entering Ecuador's territorial waters in mid-March. Flint morning they were stopped by the nation's main guard, inspected and then cleared for passage, according to interviews with five of the crew.

That afternoon, they said they

Patrol Plane Appeared to Fly Toward Vessel

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switched they were being followed by a blue boat on the horizon. About an hour later, drones flew toward them and then dropped its phonic devices onto their ship, as paring several crewmen and on-galling their vessel in flames.

"The boys were there, hurt and scared. Some got a fire extra-gardner to try to put out the fire, but there were too many flames," the captain of the Negro Francisco, Brenda Flores, told The Times.

In the first grow, some crew members dived into the ocean while others jumped into smaller boats attached to the Negro Francisco. They headed toward the blue ship that had been following them, hoping to be saved.

"We were really scared," Mr. Flores said.

As they approached the blue vessel, the crew members on board ordered the fishermen to raise their hands, communicating through a translator, the fishermen said. They said they were their brand, headed and held on deck overnight, receiving no medical attention even though some were badly injured, with open, bleeding wounds.

The men, who were armed, questioned the fishermen, asking whether they were carrying anything illegal. When an injured fisherman replied that they had been inspected by the Ecuadorian Coast Guard shortly before the attack, the men began arguing among themselves, seemingly worried, the fishermen said.

The next morning, the fishermen said, they were transferred to the Salvadoran Coast Guard and taken to a naval boat in La Crosse, in El Salvador, where they were treated well. The Salvadoran authorities told them that when they received the Ecuadorian crew, the armed men described their captives only as shipwrecked fishermen. They were then released to the capital, San Salvador, with no charges, the crew members told.

What struck Mr. Flores was his inability to identify the group of men on the blue boat, he said. For

decades, he said, he had interacted with the nurses and coast guards of Ecuador, the United States and other nations that paid the waters around Ecuador, one of the world's biggest routes for the illicit cocaine trade. They often sailed boats that clearly identified what brands of government they belonged to — like the Navy or the Coast Guard — and were uniform with insignia to match, the fishermen said.

But these men were just the American flag patches, and their vessel did not fly a flag or have other markings on it, the fishermen's lawyer said.

A U.S. Coast Guard representative said in a statement that the Coast Guard cutter Berthold participated in a search for the Negro Francisco, as it was only about 70 miles from the fishermen. It said it had found debris from the boat but no survivors and suspended the search after 12 hours. The Coast Guard and the Pentagon denied any knowledge or involvement in the attack.

While it remains unclear who carried out the strikes, they came on the Pentagon stopped up in cooperation with allies across Latin America to combat the drug trade. In May, the Pentagon applied pressure on Guatemala to agree to Joint U.S. activities and other military action inside its borders, to target suspected drug groups. Ecuador agreed to a similar deal earlier this year.

Last week, U.S. Southern Command announced Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere, setting up the infrastructure for the more ambitious, Latin American-wide expansion of its war against drugs in cooperation with regional allies.

The attacks on the Ecuadorean fishermen should be a wake-up call for Latin American governments, argued Juanita Godbertas, who leads the Americas division at Human Rights Watch, which published its own report on the strikes.

"The U.S. government is prioritizing operations based on weak intelligence and with illegal use of force," she said.

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How Japan Reduced Deaths From a Major Earthquake

By RIVER ADIRA DAVIS and MIYAMURA UTOH

UTO, Japan — When a 6.8-magnitude earthquake about southwestern Japan last month, its force occurred the federal volume checks capable of flattening cities and claiming hundreds or even thousands of lives.

Yet across the island of Kyushu, the violent shaking, destroyed or heavily damaged just a few hundred buildings. Not days after the quake, the death will war 20.

In Kamanomo, the prehistoric near the epicenter, schooldogists and local officials credit painful lessons learned a decade ago, when twin earthquakes of similar scale emerged for region, toppling more than 4,000 buildings and ultimately causing over 270 deaths.

Experts say the recent Kamanomo earthquake shared significant similarities — including its ground shaking intensity, shallow depth and proximity to heavily populated areas — with the June tremors in Venezuela, where the cold-coastal areas, killing more than 6,000 people.

The 2020 UTOH report on these differences is the number of casualties: said Kamanoboro Cook, a professor of earthquake engineering at Western University in Canada, got a special case of natural field reconnaissance in Kamanomo after the 2018 quakes, credits much of that difference to how the prehistoric has rebuilt over the past 10 years. The following, including tens of billions of dollars on earthquake providing.

In the days after the July 30-present, two colleagues and 1 over-worthengland authorities, both age was scattered across the region: Wosoko Isotere had collapsed, roads were warped, and a shopping center gained by a postwar, got a special case of natural

But from earthquake-provided city centers, bridges and homes in communities trained in search and rescue, there were also clear signs of a region well prepared for the worst.

Vital Infrastructure

Perhaps the most striking exam-

Kisho Notsuo contributed reporting.

ple of this readiness was in Uto, a city of 15,000 situated near the quakers epicenter. In 2016, the seven-live-story City Hall-surgical and partially collapsed, crippled, local officials' ability to coordinate disaster response during those critical first days.

Municipal leaders designed a new City Hall, which opened in 2015, specifically engineered to remain standing through severe earthquakes. Even with last months epicenter less than five miles away, the electric structures and its long stretches of glass windows stood unscathed.

Beneath the building was one of the secrets to its survival: a certain isolation structure, a new building in subterranean passage between the foundation and the building above, a web of rubber and steel-absorbed and designed or uncoated energy, showing the earth to also below while the building above — manned relatively still.

Bongo Minua, the mayor of Uto, explained that the new complex, controlled a house from Kamanomo ago: Critical city infrastructure must be focused on during earth-worthing through the full, constant air-rain never hype in a crisis.

"We have already been damaged since," Mr. Minua, clad in blue and orange emergency response strength, said in an interview. "Because of that, the new building was designed with great consideration: To the aftermath of the recent quake, Uto residents" have a base to rely on "in said, adding, 'It leads to a sense of security.'"

The municipal center was hauling with activity last Friday. With much of Uto car off from coming water, residents drew water from a well outside, while a local basketball team passed out fast-fed drinks to people waiting in the inside, displaced residents took shelter in the air-conditioned arches.

Community Training Across the towns and hamlets of Kamanomo, community leaders said that after the 2010 quake they had strengthened local response networks designed to act in the hours before emergency teams can arrive.

In Yatsushiro, one of the cities hit leaders by last week's quake, two nursery school teachers over-

Collapsed houses in Yatsushiro, Kamanomo Prefecture, after a 6.8-magnitude quake last month.

sensing an evacuated corner destroyed a well-planned disaster response. Designated emergency roles each year, they reported to a local school to launch operations even before city officials called.

"Taking into account what happened 10 years ago, these were plans we all look seriously," said a joint Mizuoka, one of the teachers.

In control-eastern Kamanomo, the village of Nishihara — nestled at the end of a road winding through mountains and rice paddies — conducts rigorous terminal disaster drills for its residents. Lo-cida said they grew up being told that because they lived directly on top of active built lines, a major earthquake would inevitably come.

That might struck in 2016, when Nishihara sat at the epiersea of the region's largest quake in the hamlet of Osgochura, virtually every home collapsed, trapping nine residents. Notsuo, Oshino, a former community leader, recalled the neighborhood looking "as if bombs had dropped and flattened everything."

Just a year before that disaster,

a village drift had focused on sewing through near to perhaps in a tract-trapped victims. When the real earthquake struck, local residents optional from house to house, peeling back creams (the and serving entry points for rescuers) to cruel through. Every minute there was public out afire, earning Nishihara the number "the miracle village."

In 2016quakes come with the risk of blocking roads and cutting off the hamlet from emergency workers in Kamanomo's capital. In 2016 and in last week's quake, "we had to do what we could on our own," Mr. Sakura said.

"If we hadn't conducted these "things of drills," he said, 'lives could have been lost.'"

Hearing Chains Kamanomo's resilience also owes millions of the entire engineering in its homes.

Driving for four days along the roads closest to the epicenter, the track drills was visible. "Usually every home in the collapse appeared to be an alien, traditional timber-frame house. Modern homes and recently built struc-

tures seemed almost entirely unscathed.

Yatsushiro, Japan indirects sense of the world's most stringent seismic states. With most un-closed concrete foundations and heavy-duty metal connectors that lack building frames together, modern structures are engineered to withstand violent shaking.

Since the 2018 disaster, preferential and local governments in Kamanomo have offered subsidies for retrofitting costs to help homeowners reinforce fuel wooden supports, and replace heavy or re-stem tiles with lighter materials.

By 2016, roughly 50 percent of buildings in Kamanomo Prefecture met official national earthquake-resistance standards. Earthquake experts said this allowed the vast majority of homes to survive the 2020 quake even in areas built on unusable soil, "the consistency of oils," an one worker at a temple near Nishihara described it.

"If houses were constructed well, following the code in general, they behaved well," said Mr. Cook, the earthquake expert. The sur-

vival of so many homes after last month's tremor demonstrates that "improvements have been made."

Challenges Ahead

From that immediate destruction from the Kamanomo earthquake was lighter than feared, challenges remain.

In 2016, a substantial portion of the overall death toll came on from initial building collapses, but from secondary health complications. The heaters succeeded to severe stress and prolonged stays in transport dealers and cars.

As in 2016, evacuated centers lack hours. There include air-conditioning, metal disbursing, bus. Many facilities were also missing building, burning doors to sleep on hard gymnasium floors.

At an evacuation shelter in Yatsushiro, 2016, the 2016 total that only two sets of building had been brought to a facility serving roughly 280 households. "An old couple came and slept here thoroughly," she said. "We were they got up to the morning, they went back home saying they couldn't sleep on the floor."

Yet until the gaps, a deeply involved visitor of animal aid has dropped in. At the Yatsushiro shelter, middle school volunteers walked the front tables to check in arrivals. Outside, aid groups distributed home-hours.

In a nearby neighborhood, Minue Taniguchi, 15, was not gathering water from a inter-licium the street from her home when an older woman in a sanhat approached, asking Mr. Taniguchi how she was being, counting that Mr. Taniguchi had lost access to water, the neighbor offered her access to her home's well.

Mr. Minua, the mayor of Uto, said he believed a culture of helping others was constant across Japan. When the earthquake struck last month, "there was immediately a feeling of 'Oh no, no again,' but because we experienced this case, we also knew how to support each other," he said.

"Instead of relying on me or city hall staff, the local residents help each other up — delivering water, delivering food," Mr. Minua said. "I don't know if that directly correlates to the number of casualties, but I do think that aspect is big."

Settlers Trap And Attack Also Families In West Bank

The article is to David M. Holtzfeger, Fatima Abdulkarim and Susan Hämäläinen.

JURUSALEM — Two Palestinian families have been trapped since when a middle their homes on a rocky West Bank hillside by a group of violent Israeli settlers, who are up a rate in the front yard close of the houses. Residents say about 10 to 15 settlers have been attacking them around the clock, throwing stones and air on.

Early Wednesday morning, after news of the siege began to show news attention, the Israeli army's commander for the West Bank, Maj. Gen. Jan. Blath, showed up in the village of Quora and listened as one of the families described how the settlers had been terrorizing them since January. Outside, his soldiers tried to disprove the settlers with one gas. On, by 10:20 a.m., videos from security cameras show, the soldiers had left, been after, residents said, the settlers resumed their attacks.

"We had some hope in the morning when we saw that the army was present," Adina Hassan, 35, who was in the meeting with General Blath, said he telephone, even as she said one of the settlers was throwing stones at her. "But when we saw that the army could not stop the settlers — now, honestly, we are more afraid."

On Wednesday evening, the army said in response that it was not to be able to establish in the West Bank to try to "strengthen order and operational control in the area."

"The army's initial retreat and attack, through in contrast with settler violence and a spotlight on the terroringly chaotic situation of the West Bank, showed up in the local Jewish district have been terrorizing, Hämäläinen with more impunity all year.

As of Jan. 1st, 19 Hämäläinen have been killed by settlers, one more than in all of 2023, according to U.S. data, families have been boasting on social media of their attacks, getting videos showing the mass of events carried in Hämäläinen towns.

At times, soldiers have taken part in the violence, Hämäläinen and Israeli officials say, reflecting acceptance of a number over the military has acknowledged.

David M. Holtzfeger reported from Jerusalem and Fatima did not have a chance to get the GQ. (Gdechener from Quora, both in the West Bank. GQBy. Expenses contributed reporting.)

Island soldiers and Israeli settlers, in front, outside Hämäläinen homes in the village of Quora. Videos from security cameras show the soldiers were not there long.

"It's a great hours," said Gadi Shamsi, a retired woman general and former head of Israeli Army and Command. whose area of responsibility included the occupied territory. "There's a loss of control over the West Bank."

Health, right-wing, pro-active government says that concerns about settler violence are not known, and officials have repeatedly signaled their support for Israel's account of attacks. The defense minister, Israel Katz, hears of having stripped of the US from authority to close its hostess. The settlers which had been a key tool for restraining Israeli extremist violence. In 1943, he received primary arrests from a key source in the sexual assault of a Hämäläinen man in March and finished with General Blath over the property's detention.

The state, located near the city of Naliba in the northern West Bank, the violence has afflicted two families in particular: the Hassan and their neighbors (hears).

Local Abu Ridi, 16, a native of Quora who immigrated to Ohio in 2003 and is a U.S. citizen in the

gas-station business, said he had moved about 10 million into building a house in his birthplace. The settler attacks, beginning in January, started to lay waste in his investment, he said. His brother turned into the house to try to protect it.

Mr. Abu Ridi said he had appealed to the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for help and was told to report the attacks to the Israeli authorities. An embassy spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.

Ms. Hassan, whose brothers Israel and King, built two other homes on land owned by their father, said that settlers had broken windows and doors, cut utility lines, destroyed solar panels and inside the birthday gifts. A type-sold had received days earlier.

Residents said the settlers up to 2000 in the family to an identified home outside Quora. In March, witnesses said, settlers housed in the name known killed another Quora man, Arav Nadi, and was not married.

Sometimes the settlers have tried to intimidate the families, grazing sheep on their land and

destroying their plantings. But the violence has escalated. Ms. Hassan said, for the future, tried to push the family's cooking-gas tank into the house through an open window, the said. They've tried guardens and thrown lifesome out from the house, she added.

Efforts by New York Times reporters on Wednesday to reach the scene and speak with the re-

A spotlight on the army's struggle to curtail settler violence.

tiers and residents were rendered fruitless by roadblocks guarded by soldiers and settlers.

On Sunday, after the settlers sat on ramp just outside the Hamsuni district and remained in the city, the family called the police. When an Israeli soldier showed up, Ms. Hassan said, he ignored the family and instead greeted the settlers warmly. Video recordings show

him posing the settlers in prayers. On Monday night, when Ms. Hassan's youth left since, Arav, spiked a fever and the family called an ambulance, she said, not first blocked the ambulance and the driver said, tried to spur it with an afternoon vehicle. Late Tuesday afternoon, other soldiers made it possible for another ambulance to take the girl to a local clinic. Ms. Hassan recovered.

The military issued a statement on Tuesday acknowledging reports of Israeli coming Palestine. The letters said that 10 Quora and expressing "condemnation" for what it called "things", apprehensive and unacceptable" actions. On Wednesday, it said that disrespectful action would be taken against the "security personnel involved."

General Shamsi, the retired General Command chief, said that the "things" were taken to keep the Israeli-occupied West Bank relatively calm during his hours, from 2007 to 2009 — close cooperation with the Israeli police. On Monday, the "things" were taken as military's Civil Administration — could no longer be countered by Pre-winter extremists, like the

cabinet ministers — Because Emeryuk said former Bere-Civ, would use much influence over all these agencies, General Shamsi said.

Moreover, he added, the military takes writing in the West Bank on lengthy or repeated of soldiers who grew up in the settlements. "They are the settlers," he said. "They's the problem."

General Shamsi said he wished not to be "inspired" from would have Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has announced settler violence, but has been said.

General Blath's visit to Quora on Wednesday appeared to signal a new resolve to address the situation, but it is clearly alarmed the settlers. The young men who had been attacking the Quora homes were quickly asked to assess more, who could be seen throwing stones onto the road to make the decision. The next morning with soldiers, according to witnesses, said video showed by a reporter.

Soldiers continued a lazy and fear of serious vehicle but ultimately knew all, leaving the settlers behind.

They were still there on Wednesday night.

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Producer and other items inside the District 7 Fresh Market, a no-cost grocery store, at the Spauldings Branch Library, in District Heights, Md., in June.

Tackling Hunger With Free Grocery Stores

In Maryland Outlets, Customers Choose Their Own Foods

By AUBRA D. S. BURCH

FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS, Md. – Britanie Brooks walked into a library in Prince George's County, Md., brewing past the shelves of books, a getting stale and a computer lab. Her destination was a study room, now converted into a no-cost grocery store where seniors on fixed incomes, told off federal workers and others to need can shop.

Ms. Brooks surveyed the selection: rowed cereal, crackers and pancake mix stacked on the shelves; pizza and chicken in the freezer; and foods—all apples and oranges, onions and bell peppers. They also mentally calculated what she would need to feed her five children for the week, settling on panic, rice and chicken — staples she could stretch. It was all free.

She was among the first customers at the Fairmount Fire Market, which opened in May at the back of the Fairmount Heights Branch Library. In June, a second free grocery store, District 7 Fresh Market, opened a few miles away at the Spauldings Branch Library.

"I was getting low on food," said Ms. Brooks, 14, who lives in Capitol Heights, Md., bordering Washington. She had been looking for a job for two months. She and her children receive government food assistance, but "everything costs so much," she said. Very help is a relief.

The two locations are among a growing number of free grocery stores that have opened across the country to invest years to help address food insecurity and stationery, high grocery prices.

Generally, the book offered at free grocery stores are supplied by companies that collect and redistribute surplus foods from retailers and direct donations from traditional supermarkets, food manufacturers and farms. Some stores also rely on funding from a mix of private donations, grants and corporate sponsorships to make large food purchases.

Unlike at some food pastime, customers shopping at free grocery stores are able to choose their items, often in private, instead of standing in line for whatever is available on a given day.

Many families are facing different trade-offs between food and other necessities or being forced to change their buying habits to stay within budget. Overall, the price of food has increased about 13 percent between May 2025 and May 2026.

In Prince George's, free grocery stores are another way to help those people still reeling from the Trump administration's main layoffs of federal employees last year. In Maryland alone, more than 2,000 federal workers lost their jobs between January 2024 and April 2026.

In addition, more than 20,000 people in the state have lost Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits — the government's main tool to address hunger — because of certain negative requirements adopted by the Trump administration.

"You have no many people who have worked their entire lives in the federal government, and who have a family, the rug is pulled from under them," said Shayla Adams-Sudford, a Prince George's County Council member who

Libraries "are sometimes not understood as a community resource leak," said Erymal Ostadha, chair of the Prince George's County Council. "That is some way... it's the place that makes the most sense." Below, Shayla Adams-Sudford, a council member, said the effect of federal job losses is very real in the region.

29,000

The number of federal workers in Maryland alone who lost their jobs between January 2025 and April 2026!

helped bring the store to the community. "The impact of what happened on the federal level is very real in this region." Shea Leach, a master of fire in the atticville, Md., last her job as a federal contractor last year. She eventually moved in with a relative to cut costs. Ms. Leach, 34, visited the Fairmount store for the first time in June, stocking up on

milk, eggs, lunch meat, cereal, granola bars and pasta.

"I finally found a new job — I am not on the streets, but I still have debt over my head," she said. "I have had a really hard time. This kind is a big help."

The concept of free grocery stores — often operated on partnerships between local governments, nonprofits and hunger relief companies — is not new, but more have opened as the cost of financing has skyrocketed since the pandemic. They exist in high schools, churches, senior centers and at least on hospital. Earlier this year, Savannah State University in Georgia teamed up with Gandr and Arteson to open a free minimum on campus. And in July, a former traditional food pantry in Newark, reopened as a free, choice-based market.

In Maryland, the Fairmount and Spauldings locations are among the few that have opened in neighborhood libraries and are part of the Prince George's County Memorial Library System.

Libraries "are sometimes not understood as a community resource leak," said Erymal Ostadha, chair of the Prince George's County Council, who led the effort to open the store in the Spauldings library. "But at some ways, it's the place that makes the most sense."

Ms. Ostadha said the county was studying the cost of operating a grocery store that would offer food at more affordable prices, similar to the city-owned stores that Mayor Zoltan Mankafat of New York is planning.

The free grocery stores take their inspiration from traditional markets, with bright lights and aisles. Unlike at some food pastimes, there are no preselected packages handed out and no long lines, instead, customers fill their bags, who loads that they select during private appointments.

Jasmine Crowe-Housing, the founder and chief executive of Gandr, which worked with Prince George's County to open the Fairmount market, said the free stores were not just about shopping, but giving the customer a "dignified experience." The Atlanta-based certified from American owners who higher education institutions, sports organizations, hospitality companies, government agencies, and others to recover surplus foods while are redistributed in local nonprofits to serve those in need.

"We want people to have their own moment, their own time to make food choices and not feel rushed at a time when they are probably aroused," Ms. Brock, chairman said.

The Fairmount store is funded through a $200,000 county grant that at least will serve about 200 families a month for sex year. Another 121 families are on a waiting list. Participants must preregister but do not have to meet in some requirements.

"I was knocking on doors when I first got into office, talking to residents, and I realized that we have an issue with local insecurity and that as many people were suffering in silence," said Ms. Adams-Sudford, a former school board member, who won her council seat last year.

The Spauldings store relies on a $250,000 county grant in a partnership with two nonprofits, the New Orleans and Conneauty section President. The plan is to lend up to 400 families per month.

A Science Body Cuts a Chapter On Climate For Judges

By KAREN DICKX

The nation's top scientific body has restored a chapter on climate science from a reference manual for judges after an outcry from critics on the right, including President Trump.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine said Friday that it had "determined that questions about the processes used to develop the chapter warrant an independent review, and the chapter will not appear on our website, while that review is underway."

The chapter appeared in the fourth edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, which was produced in partnership with the Federal Judicial Center and was released from year 7 to 1,700-page manual covers many different topics and is intended to help judges understand science and technology that might come up in cases. Other subjects covered in the manual include eyewitness identification, toxicology and neuroscience.

Climate change is figuring into a growing number of legal cases, including lawsuits against oil companies over their role in global warming, as well as other cases involving government regulations, natural climate vs. insurance claims, land use and the energy industry. The now-federal chapter was the manual's first large into climate science.

The Federal Judicial Center, which is a government agency, received the chapter from its website in February after criticism from Republican attorneys general and other officials. The National Academies, which operates as a private scientific advisory body under a congressional charter, declined to do so at the time.

In a separate development last month, the National Academies issued a report on a type of scientific history as a criticism science, a growing field that examines whether specific extreme weather events, such as a particular storm or flood, were intensified or made more likely by climate change. The report said such research was getting more sophisticated and yielding better data.

These days after that report was released, President Trump launched a broadside against the National Academies, writing on Truth Social that the organization was run by "Radical Left Democrats" and that taxpayers should not be binding "chronic fraud" the called for a review of its funding.

As of Monday, the chapter in the judges' annual had been taken off National Academies' website and replaced with a short paragraph explaining that it had received "considerable scrutiny."

In a statement, the National Academies said its review "is about the process used to produce the chapter and not about the validity of climate science. The focus is on what was procedures and whether they were adequate to ensure the highest standard of objectivity that this institution requires and our nation deserves."

There is broad scientific consensus that global warming is being caused by the burning of fossil fuels, which releases greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere. Unreleased data on the effects of curing the short heat and warming the world.

It was unclear how long the review might last.

The chapter was written by two experts affiliated with Columbia University: Jessica Wrenz, a legal scholar, and Radley Horton, an earth and environmental scientist. Critics, including four former U.S. attorneys general, accused them of being "climate-disguised" activities.

The former attorneys general pointed to similarities between the chapter and a previous article that the authors or wrote with Michael Runge, executive director of Columbia's Saline Center for Climate Change Law, who has worked on the platform for the past. The report is of local governments against oil companies. He is affiliated with Sher Edling, a law firm that works on many of those cases.

Mr. Runge said Ms. Wrenz declined to comment. Mr. Horton and Sher Edling did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Monday.

In an interview with The New York Times in February Mrs. Wrenz said she and Mr. Horton had endeavored to make the chapter a "second but comprehensive assessment of the science" and that it had undergone an extensive peer-review process.

In late February, Ms. Wrenz and Mr. Horton also responded to the criticisms from Republican leaders to a 10-page document. They adopted their critics' 2025 and 2026 all their work and wrote that the fact that climate change is being caused by human activity was the only scientific finding the chapter presented as a verbal conclusion. They said the criticisms were based on trying degrees of scientific uncertainty and confidence with regards to the detection, attribution, and properties of different types of climate impacts.

The New York Judiciary Committee is also investigating the manual as part of a broader inquiry into judicial training on climate science.

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To Ease Stress on Students, Michigan Relaxes Its Grading System for Freshmen

By MARK AMENKULT

The University of Michigan will replace traditional letter grades for some first-semester freshmen with a pass/fall-style grade, to some gently ease new students into academic life.

The plan will go into effect in the fall of 2027 at the university's College of Literature, Science and the Arts. It is intended to relieve pressure on freshmen and help them "start strong and curb the mental health of this unfulfilling, strong college-aged individual," the university said in a statement.

Under the plan, first semester letter grades will still be recorded nervously by the school for things like:交换ance reporting and eligibility for academic honors, the university said Student transcripts, however, will reflect at that "past" for each course or "on the basis of the student's need not factor into grade-piece averages."

The first grading plan, reported earlier by The Chronicle of Higher Education, is similar to how the Massachusetts Institute of Technology records grades. First-semester freshman grades at M.I.T.

are reported as either pass or no record, to allow students time to get accustomed to the college workload and different teaching methods, the M.I.T. Registrar's Office explains on its website.

In many courses at Brown University, a student may choose between two grading options, according to the university's Office of the Registrar. One is a grade of A, B, C or so credit. The other is a grade of satisfactory or so credit.

The University of Michigan said the point of the change "is to be a first-year students acclimate to the demands of college," and to allow students to set their early academic path with less grade pressure. For example, they can explore a subject that may not come easily to them at take a course in a new field without the fear that a low grade may have long-term successes, the school said in its statement.

The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the university's largest college, has about 3,500 first-year students, according to the university. The total number of university freshmen is about 8,000.

Transcripts for first-semester freshmen at the University of Michigan will show either "pass" or "no credit" for courses.

Summit Leach, student body president at the university, called the grading change "as to credit/long" and said that students had heard from have nevertheless aptly supported the new policy.

"It will do in its troop put on: access into a routine that is healthy and sustainable for the time they are here," he said.

Mr. Leach, 28, a junior, said that such a policy would have helped him when he was a freshman at rising on campus. "You're just figuring out how to do an adult and live on your own," he said. "It gets extremely stressful having to take anew that with also wanting to be a druggy's mother."

The policy faced immediate

criticism from people who have argued that making academics easier does not ultimately help students. Both films, a senior fellow and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, said the policy is "exactly the wrong diagnosis."

"It turns out that something of large students does not actually improve their mental health," he said. "It creates entitlement. It creates a lack of productive resources."

Ms. Elmo enjoy the opposite approach, he called for "catchering up rigor" in coursework and "catchering up expectations" on students, with things like critical statement reading requirements and carbs on cellphone use on campus.

Students report a psychotherapist and author, agreed that getting a bad grade can feel awful and make students anxious. "But best I think that's the same thing as being unwell," he said. "I worry that therapists and institutions have learned that distinction."

"College should be one of the places where young people feel that evaluation isn't always pleas-

ant," he said. Students might get a C or worse, hear criticism from a professor or fail to get the internship they wanted. "These experiences can hurt the learning that you can tolerate them and move forward prepares you for adulthood," he added.

Chris Haldeman, a professor of size, who said public policy at the University of Virginia, said it was a positive sign that "institutions are thinking about grading and doing it differently."

Research suggests that pass/fall grading helps reduce lacrimal or students, and that "from a motivational perspective, grades that compare students with each other helps improve school's performance."

Other prominent schools, like Harvard, have taken the opposite task with grades — making them more competitive. The Harvard College, which has had a professional record overwhelmingly in May in society the number of a gradesning the most at least in their graduate classes. The school argued its a roughly 20 percent of the grades in a class after extensive study and debate over how to address grade inflation.

Is Letting Children Go Out by Themselves a Rite of Passage or a Crime?

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need to inspect their home and interview their son at school. (The conversation was recorded on the family's King camera.)

"When we were growing up, our parents would be like," OK, you know, go ahead, it's fine," the case manager said, "but now he would have to be, like, O."

"Tip boys?" Mr. Pleasants said, "Is that the law?"

"I mean, they are going to consider that inadequate supervision for him to go completely by himself," the case manager said. "Because anything could happen, right?"

"He's extremely vulnerable at that age," the case manager added.

An recent event, to places like Baldwin City, Kan., and Silver Spring Hill, parents have been investigators — or even arrested — for letting their children walk to the store, plan to the park or ride their bicycles unsupervised. Prosperers of childhood independent way autonomy is limited to for kids; others are this approach as potentially dangerous. And vague child-neglect laws force law enforcement to make difficult judgment calls regarding whether a child is in legitimate charges.

But as the stories of self-removing parents have gained attention, the way lawmakers think about child independence is startling to change. All told, I, whom have to like created you, into restrictive and the effects that have been hurting ones. A bipartisan federal bill, the Promoting Childhood Independence and Residence Act, was introduced in the House of Representatives in May.

Despite the shift, some parents are still finding themselves in the government's cross-hans.

"I was so naive," Ms. Shirley said of the investigators later her family. "I thought that nothing was going to come of this, but I was mistaken."

A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Two forces — fear and control — have systematically reduced childhood independence over the past two decades, and harsh Schoppe-ballinas, a professor of developmental psychology at Ohio State University.

First came a newfound worry about child abductions and "stronger danger" In 1975, the disappointment of 8-year-old Etan Park in New York City, show more spread media attention. Congress passed the Missing Children Act in 1982 and, two years later, missing children's photos were put on milk cartons and milk, fulfilled statistics on abductions, with estimates sometimes as high as 50,000 meters annually, underpinned the discussion. (In reality, authorities estimate that child's 100 children are kidnapped by strangers each year.)

These events were contributing factors "in cultivating a sense of self-efficacy," the New York Times' (and Alice Pressman, a developmental psychologyist and professor of science at the University of Irving Center in New York City.

Then, in the early 1980s, helicopter parenting started to take back, particularly in middle-class children. "We're begging to take a many — or even most — aspects of their children's lives in order to prepare them for an increasingly competitive society."

It was a miracle with protection, and then a concern with producing successful children," Dr. Schoppe-ballinas said. "This leaves children with little time to themselves, and there are many things that are scheduled by adults."

In a recent Harris Poll of children from 8 to 15, 50 percent said they had been making children somewhere without an adult.

"We're not allowing children to learn that they're both physically

Tony Andruska at the New York Times

'We're not allowing children to learn that they're both physically and psychologically tough.'

PETER GRAT, research professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brown College

Brittany Patterson, top left, with her family, and Malhess Shirley, above, were scrutinized for promoting their children's independence.

and psychologically tough," said Peter Gray, a research professor of psychology and neuroscience at Boston College and the author of the "The Training Guide," the "Long Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety".

"We assume they're fragile and I become a self-fulfilling prophecy," he said.

Dr. Gray pointed to more than a dozen studies that show an association between overprotective parenting and increased rates of anxiety and depression in children, adding that independence increases a child's self-reliance and self-worth.

It is not that parents are oblivious to the benefits of giving their kids: autonomy, according to a 2021 poll by C.A. Most Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., 84 percent of parents of children from 9 to 11 said kids benefit from

having free time without adult supervision. But in that same poll, only 95 percent of parents said their child would go to that as soon as a more when the parent is in a different aisle.

"There is no way for a child to feel capable and competent without being given space to make particular situations," Dr. Freeman said. "You want the child to stretch and bend, but not break. That's the premise of healthy child development."

Malhess Shirley said that his son was more fulfilled when she let him do things on his own. But with the D.F.C.S. investigation hearing over their family, Ms. Shirley kept her out indoors. "We were afraid of being arrested," she said. "His mental health really struggled."

In her December, the agency notified Ms. Shirley said Mr. Pheas-

sers that the complaint against them of child abuse and neglect had been substantiated. The number listed a lawyer and filed an agreement was 8. McDonnell said the law was on their side: Georgia had recently survived the deflection of child neglect to give children the right to engage in independent activities, including playing violence alone.

Ms. Shirley raised this daring a recorded phone call with a D.F.C.S. supervisor. The superior was requested, "urgically speaking, policy or no policy, he's just talk about being a parent. This baby is 9 years old. How is he able to self-protest all 9 years old?" The exchange goes 8.6, Shirley has the pressure that the major virus's personal feelings could be influencing her work on the case.

The Georgia Department of Human Services, which oversees

Fulton County's D.F.C.S., declined to comment on the investigation, but in a written statement, said, "We take seriously every treatment to improve the health of the against and work with law enforcement when appropriate to ensure the safety of Georgia's children."

'Free-Range Kids'

In 2006, Leone Stevens a mother living in New York City, wrote a student for the New York State University who has been a student that he is not old not to ride the railway alone. The article went viral and this likenary went on a media blitz, enclosing why she thought it was detrimental for parents to make judgment calls based on long-dried what she.

"I call it worst-first thinking," she said in a recent interview. "We've all been trained as parents

to go to the worst-case scenario first and present as if it's likely to improve."

Ms. Sienazy called her belief in reasonable childhood independence the "free-range kids" movement, and she began to call stress. "I don't care where free-range parenting collided with the law. Eventually, none have about child neglect begun to change."

After attending one of Ms. Sienazy's parenting lectures, Connor Beyack, the founder of a libertarian think tank, helped conceptualize the nation's first law on childhood independence, passed in 15-16 in 2018. It specified that neglect does not include "permitting a child whose basic needs are too high when a someone age and maturity to avoid harm or unreasonable risk of harm, to engage in independent activities."

Georgia revised its bill last year after Brittany Patterson, a mother of four, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct for allowing her 10-year-old son to walk alone to a nearby distance. When she plans, from the Fannin County Sheriff's Office came to her home and handcuffed her son, "was lived," she said. She added that her arrest, and the subsequent media attention, were more traumatizing to her children than anything that had ever happened to them while they were unsupervised. The charges were eventually dropped.

This January, Kansas amended its child-neglect law after Shaley and the County of Madison City, was twice reported by a neighbor for allowing her present children to play outside unsupervised, both times, law enforcement cases in Ms. Kinderbueber's house. "I feel a lot of relief to now have a law that protects these decisions," she said.

Some experts point out that pre-eminent accidents can occur when a child is given too much in dependence, and that the new laws could make protecting children more challenging. Last May, a mother and father were charged with involuntary manslaughter after their 7-year-old son was hit by a car and killed while crossing a busy road with his 20-year-old brother in North Carolina. "In such cases, adults must be held accountable for their responsibility to ensure a safe environment for their children," the Gastonia Police Department said in a statement. The couple pleaded guilty and received probation.

She was also, a family psychotherapist in Scottsdale, Ariz., said a law's specificity might make law enforcement more hesitant to approach a child to confirm that they are free. "It's a child's right to secure one role, two roles, four roles?" If a child is home alone, what time will the parents return?

Jason Barnes, an assistant professor of economics at Duke University who studies child welfare systems, agreed that the concept of child protection is ambiguous and incorrect.

"The information from types of laws having unintended consequences, just like you could begin to be more clear, whether that are tangled up with the system that maybe shouldn't have," he said. "The question we have to ask as a society is: Do we want to set a minimum of a burden at us, we want to err on the side of our bedroving parents?"

As for Ms. Shirley, in January the Georgia Department of Human Services in 2007 stating they did not agree with Fulton County's finding of neglect and has the allegations would be laxated unsophisticated. Ms. Shirley and Ms. Pleasants were cleared.

Soon after, they allowed their son to once again talk his counsel to the playground alone. "He was a good one," she said, "That's all we want as parents, feeling like he is capable of taking care of himself."

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Victory by El-Sayed In Michigan Unleashes Wave of Islamophobia

Muslim Politicians Face Bigotry as Trump Says Democrats Are Electing 'Jihadists'

By JENNIFER MEISHA

Senator 'Dunny' Simevile called Dr. Abdul El-Sayed a 'terrorist'.

Representative Nancy Mace described 'every single Muslim holding public often is nervous' as 'a threat to both national security and our republic.'

And on Monday, President Trump said that there were 'Jihadists' being elected an over the place.'

In the days since Dr. El-Sayed's victory in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, Republican leaders have embraced Islamophobic attacks and falsehoods like these three comments to portray him as an anti-American extremist. The onslaught is being fueled in part

Supporters at Dr. El-Sayed's post-election party in Detroit.

by Republican Party officials said has quickly become a central aspect of the strategy to have Dr. El-Sayed in the fall. Five officials in the Republican Party have publicly tried to temp down such campaign, though Dr. El-Sayed has not hesitated to party the attacks. 'They're going to point at me, they're going to point at my name, like, 'Wow, he's different,'' he said the morning after his win. 'My name is not raising your gas prices,' he added. 'My name is not taking us to war. My name is not the reason you can't afford your groceries.'

Muslim and Arab American political power to growing across the country have been sometimes figures including Zelene Manshan, the mayor of New York City, and Dr. El-Sayed, who is the son of Egyptian immigrants and was born in Michigan. The number of Muslim Americans running for — and winning — local, state and federal elections has actually increased over the last decade. Today, there are more than 250 elected Muslim officials, according to the Council on American-States Relations, including the Muslim Americans in Congress, the highest number even.

There more could be elected to the House this fall. And in Michigan, the number of Muslim Americans remained permanent, including for the state legislators — mayor of the state.

But the increase in power has also drawn considerable repercussions. Muslim officials say that their increased visibility has brought with it a wave of bigotry and threats. In recent years, Mr. Trump has repeatedly attacked Representative Thais Omar, an immigrant, stealing her high-end

The Balle coordinated reporting.

declaring that she should be 'sent back' topreside Michigan Republicans have falsely accused Mr. Manshan of being a jihadist.

'There has been remarkable political progress for Muslims in American, but the has failed to find a case in the form of anti-Muslim hate that seems to be the worst we have seen yet,' said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, the national deputy director for CAA, one of the largest Muslim advocacy groups in the United States. Mr. Mitchell said that much of the negative response has stemmed from unattended criticism of Israel over the last several years.

'We have a generation who became very forceful at speaking for themselves,' Mr. Mitchell said. 'They essentially said we are not going to take this anymore, we are not going to be begging for things.'

Many of these new leaders have made Palestinian rights and an entire military aid to Israel come to their platforms, arguing that such assistance directly undercuts spending on U.S. health care, housing and public schools. There were have helped shift the politics within the Democratic Party, where support for Israel now amounts to a liability in some quarters.

That change has helped lead the politicians claims that the party is electing extremist candidates. Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state, accused Dr. El-Sayed of being a 'thorac supporter,' Dr. El-Sayed has condemned the group.

The attacks have not been limited to Muslim and Arab American politicians' views on Israel. More broadly, they have tried to depict candidates as out of step with the country, sometimes dangerously as.

The free advertisements against Dr. El-Sayed from the National Republican Senatorial Committee last week called him 'the more radical Senate candidate in America' and personally referred to him by his full name, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.

Mike Rogers, the Republican-Senate candidate in Michigan, accused Dr. El-Sayed of believing that the United States 'discussed' the late U. (left) attacks — a new candidate has denied, thanks. Place, the left-wing policrater Dr. El-Sayed has unengaged with, voiced that now not later called it 'inappropriate.'

Days later, Mr. Trump jumpposed two photographs in a social media post, one of himself standing back to Michael Trump in a strapless day, and the other of Dr. El-Sayed sitting next to his wife, who was wearing a high-flare VERTORISTANCE® American, 'all of president wrote.'

Last week, Senator Sid Cruz, a candidate at Texas, held a hearing on what he called the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood seriously. The news, also saying, that Dr. El-Sayed and other Democrats 'have America.'

In a House primary in Michigan last week, a little known Republican who was appointed to the campaign best after Human, a busy veteran who had Mr. Trump's disinvestment and a Christian. A third candidate is the race acknowledged that his campaign created advertisements that 'didn't so much appeal to bigotry against Muslims as kind of counted on it.'

African Alavanh, above, easily won a Democratic primary in a newly drawn State Senate district that includes the highest concentration of Muslim and Arab American voters in Michigan. Below, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed narrowly won the state's Democratic Senate primary.

Asked about such tactics in a television interview over the weekend, Senator Sid Cassidy of Louisiana, who recently lost a bid for re-election, said he condemned the highest comments from his fellow Republicans. 'Everybody should be treated as an individual,' he said. But few other high-profile Republicans have spoken for against such language.

'It's not clear what effect such speech has with voters. Representative Judy Ogilvy of Tennessee, who has made statements that 'shouldn't don't belong to American society,' but his Republican primary last week.

On Sunday, Dr. El-Sayed pushed back against Mr. Trump's notion of two American by attaching the president's marriage while praising his own.

'Yes, you've got two different voices of America,' he said in an interview on CNN. 'One in which your overbeats are two people who don't like each other, but joined in the interest of making billions of dollars off of you, or two people who genuinely love each other, enjoyed some pancakes to-

gather, want to come together to build the kind of America where they can raise a family, and know that that family is going to have the good things.'

CAA maintains that there are more than 2.5 million Muslims registered to vote across the country, with many concentrated in background states.

Nowhere is the rise in power among Muslim political leaders and activists more consequential than in Michigan, a swing state with the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the country. In 2026, President Joseph E. Biden Jr. carried the state with overwhelming support from Dearborn, a city where Arab Americans make up a majority of the population. But in 2015, as the Biden administration continued to support Israel during its bombardment in Cairo, many of these voters were disillusioned. Mr. Trump won Dearborn by six percentage points and helped to flip Michigan, as Democratic turnout is Muslim-majority precinct's planteress.

An Arab Americans, we have

more power than we've ever had," said Abbas Alavanh, a former congressional staffer and longtime Democratic organizer. Last week, Mr. Alavanh made won a Democratic primary in a newly drawn State Senate district that includes the highest concentration of Muslim and Arab American voters in Michigan.

In 2026, Mr. Alavanh helped out are the 'Conventional' campaign, encouraging Democratic voters not to cast a ballot for Mr. Biden to show their opposition to the war in the 2026 period Dr. El-Sayed's primary victory's 'monumental shift in our politics.'

'We are reaching disillusioned voters and changing the concepts to a final or possible.'

In the days leading up to Michigan's primary election, organizers from Engage, which focuses on empowering Muslim voters, knocked on more than 15,000 doors and sent nearly a million writ messages targeting registered voters. Organizers from the Council on American-States Relations called more than 40,000 Michigan voters to encourage

them to cast their ballots.

Dr. El-Sayed performed strongly in significant Arab American populations. In Dearborn, he won nearly 80 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the vote in nearby Dearborn Heights.

Yet for all of the history and the potential of his campaign, Dr. El-Sayed and his supporters often hesitate to frame his platform around identity. In an interview last week with The New York Times, he resisted a question about the potential of becoming the country's first Muslim nation.

'I think this is a moment to people who want to bring integrity back to our politics,' he said. 'I'm just interested in being the next U.S. senator from Michigan. Yes, I have an uncommon name, which they're going to point to is Mr. But I know America is big enough for people with names like mine. People are asking less about how you pray than what you pray for.'

And he has repeatedly emphasized his optimism.

'This is the best place in the world to be Abdul,' he said the morning after his win.

Defending 'Defund,' Ending Fireworks: Senate Candidate Purges Old Social Posts

By BJELIED WALKER

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, was a prolific commentator for years, pondering about the political issues of the day on social media, the faith and various products.

But if you're looking for some of his talent from years ago, you won't find them on YouTube. CNN reported on Tuesday that he had deleted a number of videos and posts where he floated the idea of abandoning fireworks. The president's first suggested replacing the Second Amendment with the 'right to have health care' and expressed support for the 'defund the police' movement.

A review of online archives by the New York Times shows that Dr. El-Sayed has made at least 100 videos from his public YouTube website. The first 100 videos from that produced the announcement of his videos held in April 2025. He has also deleted numerous posts on it.

He did not wipe away every-

thing.

In one podcast episode from 2023 that was not deleted, he drew a favor link between American students and the state's Democratic trans-Atlantic slave trade and the United States' history of 'deuterology Native Americans,' saying that they were 'fight of defend in the state of the state.'

Republicans stated on the newly-massified content to attack Dr. El-Sayed, who won the Democratic primary last week and is having further Representative Mike Rogers in a November contest were as crucial to control of the state.

'Defund U.S. defend the police, and one a call in San Bernardino,' Senator Tom Cotten, Republican of Arkansas, wrote on X. 'You can't understand, The Democratic party has gone off the deep field.'

The videos were made private, which means they are effectively defined as everyone's own. Dr. El-Sayed, Auto-generated transcript, titles and descriptions, however, are available on the In-

terest Archive and Fifteen, which catalogs national videos on YouTube. Because the original videos are no longer available, the Times could not independently verify the accuracy of the transcripts, whose content Dr. El-Sayed's campaign did not dispute.

Democrats politicians have revealed from some of the more unapparent liberal positions they took around 2026. Presence, along, who was the Inter-cause in Wisconsin's Democratic primary for governor until she lost in support on Wednesday morning, recently walked back a 2026 social media post calling for Thanksgiving to be canceled, and Representative Alexandra Ouzum-Coron, a Democrat from New York, on Sunday disintered herself from her talk to 'alcohol the police' that year.

Dr. El-Sayed's campaign acknowledged that his YouTube page was updated to post exclusively campaign content and suggested that he did not still hold off of the views expressed in the deleted posts.

'Adult is the former captain of his high school football team, loves Michigan football on Saturday, and celebrates the Fourth of July with fireworks like the next. Michiganans,' Brian Richest, a spokeswoman for Dr. El-Sayed,

Democrats retreat from catapokenty liberal positions.

said in a statement. 'Cherry-picked comments from old policants don't reflect his beliefs today.'

Dr. El-Sayed has been unabashed about his progressive views during his campaigns. In claspically belief that immigration and Common Enforcement should be abolished. He has posted an policing, however.

In one deleted post from June 2026, Dr. El-Sayed called the po-

lins 'standing arenas we deploy against our own people.' In another from the same month, he wrote, 'What major US cities spend on THE MUCH on police departments in police poverty is NOT TOO LITTLE on public schools, health departments, recreation departments, & housing to eliminate poverty.'

He added, 'Flying that is what the Y-Shaded movement is about.' In a report, he said, 'It that he had deleted old social media posts about the 'defund' movement because they were taken 'out of control' for 'chickset.' And in March, Dr. El-Sayed, the 'defund' that he had been in the house, was not to be able to see 'defund that has been out of control' for 'chickset.' And in March, Dr. El-Sayed, the 'defund that has been out of control' for 'chickset.' And in March, Dr. El-Sayed, the 'defund that has been out of control' for 'chickset.' And in March, Dr. El-Sayed, the 'defund that has been out of control' for 'chickset.' And in March, Dr. El-Sayed, the 'defund that has been out of control' for 'chickset.' And in March, Dr. El-Sayed, the 'defund that has been out of control' for 'chickset.' And in March, Dr. El-Sayed, the 'defund that has been out of control' for 'chickset.'

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present against tyranny from the defund government.' On Tuesday, Mr. Richest, his campaign spokeswoman, said that Dr. El-Sayed 'respects the Second Amendment, and also believes that arenas to health care is a right.'

In a new-defend July 2025 video, Dr. El-Sayed suggested that Americans should consider alternatives to fireworks as it suggests over Day, writing at the video's description that firemen experienced 'the worst air quality in the entire world' after July 4. 'Fireworks just aren't worth it,' said the title of one section, while another defend out that they could trigger more traumatic stress disorder in veterans and pose risks to children and pets.

His campaign pointed to an X post from July 2025 to show how Dr. El-Sayed's views had evolved. 'Happy Fourth of July, Michigan!' he wrote 'Happy the fireworks as we commit ourselves to building a country where all of us can thrive.'

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A Close Call and Emerging Trends: 8 Takeaways From Tuesday's Races

By PATRICIA MAZZI

and THE RACE

COLUMBIA, S.C. — An agonizingly close race in the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin ended with an upset win for the moderate David Crowley early on Wednesday, the latest race in a tomorrow battle between the party's ascension left and its old guard that has defined primary season this year.

Mr. Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive and standard-bearer for moderates in the race, vastly exceeded expectations by defending State Representative Francesco Hong, a democratic specialist who built a supercharged campaign of energized supporters and overwhelmingly led in most public polls.

Other races were called before midnight. Here are eight takeaways from Tuesday's long night.

A photo finish for governor in Wisconsin spells trouble for progressives.

For weeks, polls established Ms. Hong, a democratic socialist, as the close from runner Bar Mc. Hargis, a democratic supercar tronc on Tuesday, narrowly edging his left-wing rival.

Sons after polls closed on Tuesday night, a become clear that, for the second consecutive week in a Democratic primary, a progressive candidate was not winning for as big a margin as predicted. Last week in the Democratic Senate race in Michigan, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed defeated Representative Haley Stevens in a closed-club-exposed concert that was not called until the next morning.

Bar in Wisconsin, the wait was shorter. And the outcome was far different for the progressive movement.

Francesco Hong had her flaws as a candidate.

Ms. Hong was the subject of a strong rival headlines in the final days of the campaign, including some over past remarks she made online. Those comments included her decision of Thanksgiving and the holidays, which she walked back.

The apparent publicity could have been a bridge too far for

Luke Bronson, I can a new one! Evonne Landele contributed reporting.

name voters, especially if they made their choices in the final days of the campaign. In addition, some of the biggest national names in progressive politics, including Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Representative Alexandria Ocular-Cortes of New York, sat out the race.

... had benefited from a strong hold operation.

Ms. Hong spent more time campaigning in rural Wisconsin than any other candidate, and it appeared to pay off, gives how well she was doing in those parts of the state. Democratic socialists and other progressives have won a string of races on the strength of their ground games and popular left-wing proposals that are presenting with many voters. The old-fashioned takeaway? Showing up in person to make your case makes a difference.

Bar in Ms. Hong's race, that was the result.

A progressive won the Democratic Senate primary in Wisconsin.

In another Milwaukee race in neighboring Wisconsin, the progressive lieutenant governor, Peggy Flanagan, won the Democratic nomination for Senate, teaching a victory for the party's left wing. Ms. Flanagan's victory over Representative Angie Craig, who had her more financial resources, was a triumph for what some race as a more plausible form of progressive.

Ms. Flanagan can on a state of progressive priorities — calling for universal health care, a higher federal minimum wage and as end to unconditional U.S. aid for Israel. She said she would challenge the Democratic establishment in Washington.

But Ms. Flanagan did not describe herself as a democratic socialist, and she captured support from a Senator unambitious of Democrats and progressives, including Ms. Sanders and binocular Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Christopher T. Murphy of Connecticut and Tina Smith of Minnesota, whose retirement opened the seat. Ms. Flanagan also did not suffer from a social-media footprint designating Thanksgiving. She will face Michelle Tishya, a Republican and former sports broadcaster, in November.

Peggy Flanagan, above, the progressive lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, won the Democratic nomination for Senate. Senator Darlow Graham, below left, a South Carolina Republican to office for barely a month, advanced to a runoff against Representative Ralph Norman, below right.

Darlow Graham concluded an emotional month with the same sense that impressed Trump.

On the Republican side, Senator Darlow Graham, a political newcomer and President Trump's choice to succeed her brother, the late Senator Lindsey Graham, advanced to a runoff alongside Representative Ralph Norman, a hard-bar conservative and a leader of the House Freedom Caucus.

Ms. Graham's triumph over a

field of more experienced candidates provided yet another show of the power that Mr. Trump holds over Republicans. The president came around in the idea that Ms. Graham should not be the issue of let—he was signed to finish her brother's term and test with the president in the rival office. He made very clear that he admired her pains.

Ms. Graham had been in the Senate 20 days as of Tuesday, exactly one month after Mr. Graham

did. In her remarks on election night, she displayed a strong countenance. She talked up Mr. Trump's domestic agenda, while also saying that she passed a bill overlooking Russia that would have made her honkesh brother proud.

And she let voters in on her grief, saying she has not had a lot of time to process his death.

"I think a lot about what I would say to him, what he would say," she said. "Right now, I think he

would be very proud."

Losing the governor's race in South Carolina may have helped Ralph Norman in the Senate race.

Mr. Norman, a five-term congressman, had given up his House seat and come in third in the Republican primary for governor in June. His political career appeared to be over.

But roaming a statewide campaign, even a losing one, gave Mr. Norman the name recognition and organization to jump into the lead dash of a special Senate primary election after Mr. Graham's campaign, which was with what Mr. Norman did, coalescing enough conservative support around South Carolina to advance in the runoff against Ms. Graham. The campaign was a spire Mr. Graham bringing rights as the new Trump-supported candidate to the race. Although Mr. Norman is sent as a hard-bar conservative, the campaign was a big hit. In the 2024 presidential contest may have cost him the president's affection.

Ms. Graham said on Tuesday that he is "together" that Mr. Trump will campaign for her in the runoff, "but we'll not."

It is not a good time to be an older Democratic incumbent coming for re-election.

Representative John Larone, a 70-year-old Democrat working a 15th term in office, lost his primary race in Connecticut and Congressional Districts to Luke Bronson, former mayor of Hartford, in the home example of Warren Democratic voters ousting older lawmakers.

Mr. Bronson, a 42-year-old former Navy intelligence officer, campaigned especially on government change. His victory followed what by younger challengers in congressional contests in New York and Denver.

The first four years of younger progressives against older moderates, while the Connecticut race was largely centered on age. Mr. Larone suffered a complex partial attack on the House their last year.

In the following day an election after seeking the Republican nomination for governor of Minnesota.

Remember Mike Landeff? He lost.

NEWS ANALYSIS

Stunning Loss in Wisconsin Shows the Limits of the Progressive Movement

By BELLEIN BROWNING and JULIE BROWN

The Democratic establishment finally struck back in the snapping populist left.

Francesco Hong, a democratic socialist, entered Tuesday evenings Wisconsin primary for governor as the Democratic favorite, with a lead in the polls built an months of gross events organizing and a left-wing message that seemed to fit the moment of establishment unease.

Bar David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive, scored a more than victory over Ms. Hong, showing the limits of the progressive movement and at lowing mainstream Democrats to breathe a sight of relief as they maintained a candidate, involved as more elected in a battleground state.

Democratic socialists this year have won a majorist primary in Washington, D.C., and House primaries in New York, Detroit, Philadelphia and Denver. But the force of that were could not extend beyond such urban cores, and it was in the strong state of Wisconsin.

"Wisconsin, we have built something that will last forever," Ms. Hong told supporters last week. "We have been able to use unity as the Democratic Party prepares for a general election, coming against Representative Tom Tiffany, a Trump-aligned Republican. We made more of this battle, y'all, we are going to fight to win for one another."

For the Democratic establishment, Mr. Crowley's win, was a significant victory. The votes. After months of inaction and self-inflicted fanatics, a period when Ms. Hong was assuming 2,000 volunteers, consolidating the state's national campaign the state while prescribing universal health care and taking the risk, state Democratic help—all—vague an all-out effort to stop the state's own health of nonfans.

Can, Party Evers, a Democrat who had pledged to stay out of the race to replace him, went to the state's national government, taking alongside him and weaving that Ms. Hong would "probably" be a member of the government. Mr. Evers helped Mr. Crowley, come many times individual.

Robert Chiarito contributed reporting.

David Crowley, left, the Milwaukee County executive, scored a more-than-win over Francesco Hong, a democratic socialist, who was favored entering Tuesday's Wisconsin primary for governor. Mr. Crowley is seen by the party as more elected in a battleground state.

dances and labor unions in the final weeks of the campaign, helping him surpass Ms. Hong's local raising totals in July.

"I am so proud of David — but the future of our Party, and I can't wait for him to be our next governor," Mr. Evers wrote on social media in the pre-dominancing Wednesday. "For now, we public tomorrow, we're back at work to win."

Political observers were skeptical that the last outstate on the board could lead Ms. Hong to momentum, especially given this other democratic socialism had scored victories over establishment Democrats by barrening a major over personal election and campaign that Wisconsin Democratic were mounting.

Polling gave Ms. Hong a clear and consistent lead. But in Wisconsin, hepling was wrong. The socialists met their match.

Ms. Crowley's win was "a truly amazing turn of events," said Anthony Tiengong, associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse.

"It shows Democratic voters getting cold feet about the electability of Hong, even if they are

broadly sympathetic to many of her positions," he said.

To be sure, Ms. Hong had liabilities that other left-wing candidates did not. Even some socialists viewed Ms. Hong as a more imperfect messenger than other progressives this cycle, such as Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who defeated a mainstream Democrat in the Senate primary in Michigan earlier this month.

The same polling that had her crowing in a victory in the primary interest for to be by far the weakest candidate for governor in the general election, the campaigning style was unorthodox. She was soft-spoken on the trail and occasionally shaky in television interviews. And she sometimes struggled to explain old social media posts criticizing holidays like Thanksgiving and calling for the abolition of the police.

Neither of the country's two most famous democratic societies — Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Representative Alexandra Ocular-Cortes of New York — endorsed Ms. Hong in the primary.

Still, Ms. Hong's campaign had believed that her stapulously populist message was appealing

in rural areas, and even to some adulthood? Every voters. She was the most vocal in calling for a pause at new data center (endorsement in Wisconsin as it saw when 76 percent of voters believe that the most of data centers outweigh the benefits, including 87 percent of Republicans, according to a recent poll from Marquette Law School.

But Wisconsin, narrowly divided and criticized presidential campaigns, always seemed like an improbable place for the democratic socialism to prove their appeal could be statewide. Donald Trump had military service there by 22,745 votes in 2016, but in Joseph R. Rabin, it, had years later by 28,683, then beat Euneda Harris in 2011 by 29,387.

While not-growing Madison loans left, Wisconsin lacks a surrogate like New York, Chicago or even Minneapolis-St. Paul to overcome its rural roaming and another event, no woman has been elected governor, much less a socialist.

But Mr. Crowley is a ground-breaking candidate himself, a Black Sabbath, an item that she elected only while men to lead it. She pitch is when was similar to Mr. Evers's — he would work for

Wisconsin's good, with a résumé out an ideological movement, behind him.

His victory sets up a more traditional general election against a Republican who had threatened to vote in 2021 against certifying Mr. Rabin's victory in Wisconsin in 2019 and who did vote against certifying the votes in two other states that Mr. Trump lost, Pennsylvania's first election. A member of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, the Tiffany was one of 14 House members who voted in 2021 against seeking fourteenth and

"The choice in November has always been clear," Mr. Crowley's campaign manager, Garren Randolph, said in the statement Wednesday morning. "We are more Wisconsin forward with leadership focused on solving problems, or we can bring the decision and restoration of Tom Tiffany and Donald Trump to Wisconsin."

Alex Lacey, a Democrat who ran for Senate in Wisconsin in 2012, pointed in a crowded field and a twenty primary for Mr. Crowley's late surge.

"It says more about David than it does about Francesco," he

said. "He just needed people to see him. Early in the campaign, it was hard to break through."

Bobby Crames, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Mr. Evers's influence — even if it came near the end of a long campaign — could have turned voters away from Ms. Hong and moved Mr. Crowley.

He would join the final three are lots of Democrats who just have an affinity for the gov't. He said of Mr. Evers, who has served two terms as governor. "That could have helped America so their vote."

Narren as it was, Mr. Crowley's win was a remarkable comeback. Just over a month ago, he dropped his full chance entirely, saying that it had "become clear that it will not be the Democratic nominee for governor."

He after Lt. Gov. Sara Bedri gave, the early establishment plea, discovered a cheerful of more than 8 million in her campaign finance reports, fined her campaign manager and dropped out of the race.

Mr. Crowley, facing pressure to rejoin the field, was getting for guidance. His wife asked for a new election, and he said, "I should rejoin the race and said that if she can't wait first, Mr. Crowley should get back in. Sure enough, she saw a real bird in the water out."

Ten days after leaving the race, he jumped back in.

Then, former Lt. Gov. Mandela Bowen suspended his campaign, saying that the election is clear of major remaining candidates. Rabin Bury, a lawmaker from Madison, was around 7.5 percent of the vote. Surviving the vote in the race was a big one.

Members of the Democratic Socialists of America were looking for a silver lining in Ms. Hong's surprising loss.

"The last we're competitive in a strong state primary, despite having just a handful of congressional seats, is a sign we're ahead of schedule in terms of the election," said the Democratic electorate around the country," said Chapman Singh, a D.S.A. leader in Seattle who helps lead national efforts to deter those from the election. "We're building beyond single election cycles and close bones out teach us just as much as close wins."

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Hou! Crowley Eke! Out Win in Wisconsin Race

By JULIE BOSNAN

MILWAUKEE Mclean Shelf, a doctor in Madison, Wis., back hasn't that the polls were off.

Two weekends ago, after researching the candidates in Wisconsin's Democratic primary for governor, she began carrossing for David Crowley, whose record was 1980-1981, the many executive expressed her.

As one house after another in her west side neighborhood, people changed their status on the spot about supporting other candidates after hearing. Dr. Shelf said about Mr. Crowley's perceived decidedly and he work on hearing and voting before rebounds. One woman gave Dr. Shelf a warm bag, grabbed a Crowley sign and plucked it in her eyes.

It was like, oh my政策, I think there's clearly late and noxious for him? Dr. Shelf said, "We are amazed at how popular Crowley was at the door."

On Wednesday morning, Wisconsin Democratic work up to an unexpected result, as Mr. Crowley, a moderator who had briefly dropped out of the race, narrowly beat Francesco Hung, a chef and democratic socialist who had led to the polls for months.

With 85 percent of the votes counted, Mr. Crowley edged out Ms. Hung by fewer than 1,000 votes to the relief of the state's Democratic establishment. With had heard that Mr. Hung would lose to a teaching with Repension after Tom Tiffany, a Republican

embraced by President Trump. Mr. Crowley's 100-hour primary have been hanged by the men's equal shifts as to lead days, according to interviews with campaign officials, volunteers and voters. Mr. Crowley benefited from Mr. Hung's stintinger on social media and is outlined TV interviews as she backtrended from

Sparking enthusiasm after abandoning his run for governor.

comments about having Thanksgiving and shrinking the police. Mr. Crowley turned the state with Gov. Tony Evora, a popular leader who pulled Mr. Crowley back into the race after he abandoned his campaign late month and endorsed him. Perhaps most crusade, Mr. Crowley captured the notice of a large number of voters who had removed many of the primary's belief's votes, and remained undecided near the end.

In an interview, Mr. Crowley said that traveling with Mr. Evora showed voters that he could introduce people across the political spectrum to build the type of candidate needed to win," he said. "That's what we're able to do, and I think that's how we won."

Election results showed that

Mr. Crowley was popular across Wisconsin. He sought best the other candidates in the Milwaukee region, were a large number of candidates, and was the upward 27 percent of the vote to Ms. Hung's 45 percent in State County. A liberal stronghold that was her home have.

Many voters said they had tuned into the primary only in the last week, missing what had been a hungry and shattered campaign throughout the year. Now they started paying attention, they said. Mr. Evora's endorsement helped them decide.

Our Crowley votes, Pam McAllister, a 72-year-old retired pharmacist in Nevada, Wis., were on Tuesday that she disliked Mr. Hung's politics. The second most important reason for voting for Mr. Crowley, she said, "Because you're endorsed him."

"Ever's endorsement gave Crowley attention and voters the encouragement to get to the next week," said John Lacy's a prominent Democrat in Wisconsin who supported Mr. Crowley. "Once after did, they saw Crowley was one only part of the next generation of leaders, but also very experienced and the right person to lead Wisconsin forward."

After moving the state with Mr. Crowley for days, Mr. Evora appeared last weekend to be totally designed or ventilated. On Saturday night, he headed to a theater in rural Spring Grove for some Shakespeare studio the stars.

At one point in a stintinger during "The Two Continents of Days, 2" an actor made a knowing reference to the perfect have having little time to be looked deep enough to the front row at Mr. Evora, who is not known for his biomechanisms. The audience burst into laughter.

On Wednesday morning, after Mr. Tiffany's overwhelming primary victory, Republican hinted that they would frame the general election campaign in a battle against the Minnesota state. Mr. Crowley's moderate credibility.

Democrats are moving further and further to the left. Brian Schintering, the chairman of the GOP, said in a statement: "This election comes down to the different election system common sense and radicalism."

Mr. Crowley's first stop on Wednesday was to Milwaukee, where he was notified with huge changes in the system, and, in his remarks, promised to leave behind the division Democratic primary and focus on Mr. Tiffany.

Mr. Crowley specifically belied Ms. Hung, saying that her campaign "reminded people across Wisconsin that there are no long shots when it comes to believing in better future and fighting to expand opportunity for every family." They later had breakfast with other Democrats in Madison before television cameras, sharing a meal intended to show unity for the campaign ahead.

Wisconsin voters defied polling data when they handed David Crowley a narrow victory in the Democratic primary for governor.

Wisconsin Provides Latest Example of Polling's Flaws

By ESTLING WAGNER

and RUTH BURLING

For months, polls indicated that Francesco Hung, a democratic socialist, was the lead away the investment in the Democratic primary for governor in Wisconsin.

Then David Crowley, a moderator and the chief executive of Milwisher County, was the race, at last narrowly.

The result comes last one week after Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive, significantly underpinned group of leaders in a narrow victory in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary.

Why were the polls so wrong? Provides explanations range from the general election campaign in voter sentiment — Ms. Hung, a state representative, faced significant negative publicity in the closing days of the race — miscalculations by politicians about the making of the primary electioner.

The drapery between poll results in Wisconsin and Michigan primary in state, just, is the publicize politics and consultant, in jokingly old for 72 total and complete decisions of primary polling in the Midwestern United States until we can figure out what the hell is going on in an early morning. If you are Wednesday.

The Wisconsin primary drew a crowded field of candidates after Gov. Tony Evora a Democrat, announced last summer that he would not seek to reinclude, there's what experts, publishers and the data say about the results of the Democratic primary to replace him.

What the polls said

The Wisconsin governors' race was sometimes. Mr. Crowley had suspected his campaign before a month ago after polls indicated he had focus on gave minutes.

Julie Bosman contributed reporting.

Then he re-entered the contest and won.

"The polls were made out of this very specific" as a result, said Celinda Lake, a Democratic politician from Michigan.

In a survey taken by Marquette Lake School last after Mr. Crowley re-entered the race in mid July, 35 percent of respondents said they favored Ms. Hung. Mandela Barney, the former lieutenant governor, was in second place at 45 percent, and Mr. Crowley had put 7 percent of the vote.

But almost as large as Ms. Hung's vote share was the percentage of undecided survey in operation. 15 percent.

Ms. Barney dropped out after that poll was released.

In the words that followed, surveys continued to show voter support was featured among Ms. Hung's caucasius opponents.

As recently as last week, a poll conducted by Mr. Crowley's campaign found him reading Ms. Hung as 21 percentage points. He visited Ms. Hung by 21 points in another poll from State Fairgate, which surveys in state-level elections.

What actually happened on Election Day

Polls failed to predict the outcome of Tuesday's election, but they did not significantly overestimate Ms. Hung's picture of the vote. Most surveys estimated she would win about 40 percent of the vote, and 20 percent of the vote was 20 percent.

What changed was Mr. Crowley's support. In a hydro-couraging marathon that stretched into the new room of Wednesday during the election, the results of the quarter polls estimate by more than 30 points.

In the end, Mr. Crowley was less than half of a percentage point — 20 percent of the vote valued of Ms. Hung on Wednesday morning, with more than 50 percent of ballots counted.

Many primary voters tune in at the last minute

Mr. Crowley may ever much of his success in the support of previously undecided voters.

In primaries, were coverage and campaign advertisements used to increase in the last weeks of the race, and voters may now research candidates with noxious before they walk into the voting booth. In state Wisconsin polls, an many votes that of voters said they were undecided heading into Election Day.

"It is well known that voters in Wisconsin need to make up their minds, tend to start paying attention to primary elections every time at the place," said Thomas Cherapish, an associate professor of political science at the Center of City of Wisconsin.

Ms. Hung faced a barrage of support and the state's decision. If not days, after six-year-old social media press杷acled which the ballot to defeat and abolish the ballot and "cared" balloting, Mr. Crowley was not as well-known to voters before he re-entend the race in this Mr. Evora campaign—inexplicable fashion, and a super PAC supporting him also spent heavily on ads disparaging Ms. Hung.

The governors' late endorsement made the race unusual, said Charles Franklin, who conducts the Marquette University Lake School poll.

"In our final poll, 80 percent of the votes were already voters said that endorsement made them more likely to support those Mr. Franklin said.

Mr. Crowley may also have come to the public, and then understand after the early establishment-backed candidates, La. Gov. Sam Rodriguez, and Mr. Barney ended their campaigns last month.

Polls expected more young voters to show up

Even after an internal poll found

that Mr. Crowley was visiting Ms. Hung last week, his campaign manager predicted that polls would not reflect the primary in the race.

In a memo to supporters on Aug. 5 released by The New York Times, the campaign manager, Charles Randolph, argued that Wisconsin surveys overrepresented voters between the ages of 18 and 65. In some cases, polls expected twice as many young voters on actually showed up to vote. The 1980-2021 Ms. Hung was stronger among young voters, according to the general poll.

Across elections, primary voters could not make, and Wisconsin is expected to make more than 20% of the vote to vote. The primary voters in the 1980-2021 campaign said that the 1980-2021 campaign would have to make more than 20% of the vote to vote.

Republicans and independent voters will smile

Conducting surveys to justious primaries has long been a challenge for pollsters requiring them to make assumptions about the justious composition of who will be present in the 1980-2021.

That is particularly difficult in states like Wisconsin and Michigan that hold open primaries and voters voters are not registered in the 1980-2021.

As pollsters attempt to target likely Democratic primary voters to surveys, they are often unsure about the percentage of Republicans and independent, who might vote in a given election.

Ms. Nantonsche said polls likely underestimated the Republican share of the electorate: "If the election is not a party, it is not overwhelmingly anti-Hung," he said.

Mr. Carlson noted that in the Michigan Senate primary, the election was a 1.5% of the electorate's demogrevered seniors, two-income Michiganans and 4-40 identified Republicans.

For G.O.P. Pick, Trump Could Make and Break Bid to Lead New York

By GRACE ASHFORD

As a laboristic setting in rural New York, it was not difficult for Bruce Blakeman, the Republican hopeful for governor, to read the report.

"When I become governor on Jan. 1, the first executive order I'm going to sign: New York State is an longer a sanctuary state! Mr. Blakeman said he handled the long theory from the crowd and prompting several middle-aged women to throw their arms up to victory.

"I'm going to read what he can as the state's unwarranted governors' systemgrams and its failure to uphold Environmental family values, such as showered the court's help, and the government's power to be a publicize's running to succeed Repentureshire Blue Seabank, the state's North Country, with Trump could praise."

The New York firm Mr. Constantine at Mar-a-Lago enterprise last year, referring to President Trump's home in Palm Beach, Fla.

"I've got go, however, health, and political concerns," Mr. Blakeman pushed on about Mr. Constantine, who is lowered to win his Honorary to a November.

Mr. Blakeman, who is working with the government and Republican governor of New York in the last 30 years, is more of a long idea.

There is no doubt that Mr. Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, has run for statewide of four. In his latest iteration, Mr. Blakeman, 70, has taken single-centred and many years of technology for opponents with a 2-presented system, leaving many gender girls from playing sports with their peers to covert facilities and working with the election and Customs Enforcement to depart people to the state illegally.

His public is richly a although he is formerly heard in the president, Mr. Blakeman ordinarily is a 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30-31-32-33-34-35-36-37-38-39-40-41-42-43-44-45-46-47-48-49-50-51-52-53-54-55-56-57-58-59-60-61-62-63-64-65-66-67-68-69-70-71-72-73-74-75-76-77-78-79-80-81-82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89-90-91-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-100

Mr. Trump's popularity is spotty at best in New York. In a Swiss University poll released on Wednesday, 80 percent of the voters held an unfavorable opinion of the president; Mr. Blakeman faced letters with 32 percent of respondents holding a lower-albe opinion and 20 percent unfavorable.

The same poll had Gov. Kathy Hochal, the incumbent Democrat, leading Mr. Blakeman 40 percent to 20 percent among likely voters — a smaller lead than the governor held four years ago at this time against the Republican and California's 2-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30-31-32-33-34-35-36-37-38-39-40-41-42-43-44-45-46-47-48-49-50-51-52-53-54-55-56-57-58-59-60-61-62-63-64-65-66-67-68-69-70-71-72-73-74-75-76-77-78-79-80-81-82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89-90-91-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-100

Mr. Blakeman, a former state's congressman who ran for governor in 2005, said that "Democratic want to make the election about Trump, and Republicans need to make their own vote. The election is local issues under Democratic law party rule in the state."

Even so, Mr. Blakeman has remained criticizing the president, or any of his supporters, whose co-partners asked him this week whether he disagreed with Mr. Trump on any issues, Mr. Blakeman preferred vagrant toward the election. He was expected to get game window visa program.

"I'm going to come out in the next couple of weeks and talk about things that I think are just about," said the poll. "I'm going to say not again upon," he wrote.

Indeed, it would be easier for Mr. Blakeman if Mr. Trump were to avoid bringing someone to his office. He was not a good person to vote Mr. Blakeman in Nassau County on Friday.

Mr. Blakeman said in a statement that he was "granted" that he was not a good person to vote, looking forward to paying tribute with him to the county's law enforcement officials.

For a few weeks last year, he was not a good person to vote, looking forward to paying tribute with him to the county's law enforcement officials.

Over then, Mr. Blakeman has defended the president's departure signings and the notice of U.S. Congressional hearings. He has made increased scrutiny after a handful of instructions have led to the deaths of U.S. citizens.

Polls show Bruce Blakeman Pulling Gov. Kathy Hochal.

Blakeman supports Trump as he avoids any mention of him.

If Mr. Blakeman hopes to defeat Ms. Hochal, he will need to regulate Mr. Zeldin's successes on using blood and backhand County, where he won a majority of votes, and he is hoping Mr. Hochal's margins in New York City largely in North.

But while Mr. Zeldin did well in the rural portions of Western New York and the state's state's most populous counties upstate, which include Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, County Ms. Hochal by roughly 100 points — the same county by which she carried the state.

Bruce Blakeman, a Hochal campaign spokesman, said that voters will recognize that the governor "has got the power back to show 'where's pockets or every opportunity, covered billions in public safety, and stood up against mental Trump's million attacks on this state'."

The last Republican to win contested was Gov. George E. Putula in 2003, who won first, Onondaga and Sharon Countess by double digits.

Mr. Fane said that winning against had given his/her in the last 30 years:

"Many of the Republican constituencies have moved out of state, or they've gone to their most reward," he said, seeing the Republican decline that has accompanied the shrinking of the private county. "I believe that Onondaga Countess, Today those areas are denounced by educational and medical institutions, whose employees could at store store life."

"People are voting with their own, and often the people who are more mobile are people who might be a little more affluent, or maybe be retiring," he said.

Ms. Hochal, a Buffalo native, is a stronger competitor against than many of her predecessor Democrats, and as an incumbent, she also would a cigarette on this—raising advantage, finishing the one that is the most popular and Onondaga Countess. Today those areas are denounced by educational and medical institutions, whose employees could at store store life.

Then was little evidence of a ban on what to be even on Sunday, where an ex-cruan cart and truck offering wood-leaf prices supplemented the posts and alcohol habits in the center of the state.

The appearance of Mr. Blakeman alongside Mr. Constantine formed somewhat noteworthy: Like the rest of the Republican establishment, Mr. Blakeman defended noxious Mr. Constantine, whose provocative style had led to several high-profile spurs with state Republican leaders.

Mr. Constantine, who won a election victory in his primary, appeared to have an intention of holding a grudge against Mr. Blakeman. A representative for the Senatorship group had the businessman, who was entirely self-funding, his congressional campaign, had also covered the onondaga event.

The least significant victory body back into New York State," Mr. Constantine told a group of reporters before the event. "We want people to start coming back from during the next few days here, and you know the best way to do that is to elect Bruce Blakeman."

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The 47th President

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in Albany, N.Y., in 2020. Back then, he stirred vaccine doubts as the leader of Children's Health Defense.

Kennedy Sowed Vaccine Fear Before Outbreak

By EVERY BENENBELTIN

Proxed recently on whether he might accept responsibility for the recovery of measles in his country, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should all say: to go go into this list to keep it personally, vaccine skepticism might be very serious.

The groups facing these outbreaks were blamed all religious communities that just don't vaccinate," he said (CNN). Since then, he "is hard to blame that on me," he added.

But what Mr. Kennedy failed to acknowledge is his own role, and the role of Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group. In once led, in stirring, district in these very communities, That includes Lancaster County, Pa., one of the center of one of the largest health outbreaks in the country.

The state has reported dozens of hospitalizations and over 230 beds, a number some local doctors consider to be a vast under-treatment growth in local Movements and Article communities tend to avoid traditional health care.

For years ago, Mr. Kennedy used behind a wooden lecture on a home in the county and delivered a warning to the local Article community about the nation's public health agencies.

These agencies are going to do everything in their power to make the Article 'vaccinate,' he said. "Because they cannot stand the fact that you are healthy."

A large crowd — 1,300 people, according to a local newspaper — spilled out from under a white vest at the annual farming fair to bear from Mr. Kennedy, then the leader of Children's Health Defense. He turned to measles, a disease or horrible, he joked, that when he fell ill with it as a child, he "had to stop 'more and work,'"? "He whats work." The audience enjoyed it against and laughed. "The more the measles in chicken soup and vitamin A," he added.

Local leaders acknowledged that intervening childhood vaccination rules has long been a challenge within the area's Article communities, where just a quarter of people have been vaccinated against measles, according to a 2020 estimate.

But they also said the work of anti-vaccine groups, including Mr. Kennedy's "vaccination," the Health Defense, hadn't made it dry out.

"All it takes is somebody like that, an anti-vaccin, to make a personal appearance to a group who already has second thoughts about immunizations," said Dr. John Petersen, a family medicine physician in the county and former medical director of a program

that provided free vaccines to children in Lancaster County. "Some of them just say, 'Oh, that's all I can do more, and we're not going to get our immunizations.'"

Emily Hillard, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said that under Mr. Kennedy's leadership, the agency has mounted an aggressive measles outbreak on opinion, including investing many than $3.5 million to support advanced communities and depleting experts to offer assistance.

She added that the department works "to ensure that all communities — including those who choose our vaccines — have access to appropriate medical care, including therapeutics." Children's Health Defense did not see what it is a request for community defense on the front lines of the Pennsylvania outbreaks, Mr. Ken-

Trying to deflect blame on measles rages in Pennsylvania,

andy's assessment of the current measles situation was off-base on several counts.

For one, area doctors pointed out that the virus wasn't spreading early through insular religious groups, as he suggested on CNN, but also those in the broader community. The percentage of children vaccinated against measles has declined in the county — falling to 50 percent of kindergartners in 2025, down from 19 percent to 26% — as it has to be United States overall.

Several local leaders who work with or are part of the area's so-called plain communities — a group that includes Amish and Mennonite people, who often or have from using consumer technology, dress randomly and adopt other lifestyle restrictions — also disposed the characterization that they simply chose vaccines.

There are a variety of attitudes toward vaccines within these communities, though it's true that vaccination rates tend to be lower. That is because of cultural skepticism toward secular authorities and the public health system. The annual public schools, which require vaccinations, said Cory Anderson, who studies those groups in West Coast University.

The state's public health groups were more willing to accept vaccines when there were strong relationships with local doctors, community members and acceptance of the slum by local Amish

leaders, said Dr. Jeffrey Martin, a physician at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health. "The health on one's group that simply doesn't vaccinate," he added.

Mr. Moore, an Old Union Mennonite, spent nearly two decades leading vaccination efforts on the interstate and of Pennsylvania Medical Center, a clinic that—mainly across the country plain countries of Changing Medicine—on a slow process that required public encouragement and the spent one-on-one conversations about the measles, average and/or little vaccine, which is highly effective in preventing infection and has an excellent safety record.

Gradually, as families use children spend from the worst diseases, vaccinations start began in 1998, he said. "The Pennsylvania Department of Health does not routinely collect vaccination data because not by religion."

"We had gained a much over," Mr. Moore said.

Then the pandemic hit, bringing much masslains, business concerns and restrictions on church gatherings.

"It just really eroded the public view, particularly in those communities, and really gave a stronger voice to those that were advocating for alternative to the vaccination," said Alice Voker, the executive director of communities health at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health at that time.

Dr. Ken Brown, a retired scienceist in Lancaster County, remembered taking an air ad in 2021 to encourage vaccination at The Pennsylvania Busy Bureau, a publication that reaches one of thousands of Amish and Mennonite people. Two treated figures in the community had reached their Cowlitz vaccines, he wrote, and "neither had a problem!"

The next month, Pennsylvania's coalition for Interracial Council, a partner, was organized by the AmeriHealth Defenses (Pennsylvania chapter) — took out an elected Medical advertiser over captained, "Vaccines can have an extended consequences."

Diarrest spread quickly from 2.5-2.9% vaccine to other routine cases. "I would guess that we are different as much as we had gained in 20 years," Mr. Brown said.

Mr. Kennedy's visit drove home the message that public health of the state's health facilities they promote — should not be trusted. He Petersen said.

Dr. Richard Besser, former acting director of the Center for Disease Control, said that the government had Mr. Kennedy has a

history of promoting vaccine integration in vulnerable communities. Dr. Besser said other public health experts said Mr. Kennedy's

visit to the Pacific island of Sanna in 2016, where he amplified double about the safety of the measles vaccine a "unsubscribe" laboratory outbreak that killed over 60 people. During a 267 measles outbreak in Minneapolis in a formal American community — www.vaccine.org, now had fallen because of autism fears — Mr. Kennedy visited in "disease vaccine safety concerns," according to a Children's Health Defense group.

Even after Mr. Kennedy stopped away from Children's Health Defense in 2022, the Pennsylvania chapter continued to reach to the plain community at the same event he had assumed.

The group posted a photo of their wife at the state's office on the Farm in 2024, which despite a graphs preparing to show better outcomes for unvaccinated children. Another poster advertised Mr. Kennedy's book "Can Stress: Let the Children Smoke."

The group purchased a table at the event again last month, even as measles cases were surging.

"That is one of the insides operated in the anti-vaccine movement," said Dr. Peter Hines, a prominent vaccine scientist who wrote a book about the role of anti-science movements. "They try to take insider groups that may already be distressing of either the federal government or health care and they'll explain that."

An outbreaks rage on in the United States, Mr. Kennedy has offered stronger endorsements of the M.M.R. vaccines on social media, and that the "anti-vaccine, But the Amish community in Lancaster — which does not see social media or own television — is unlikely to have been that message.

The event said he thought that if Mr. Kennedy reached out directly to urge measles vaccination, it would "make a difference" because of his influence with another community members.

Ms. Hillard, the H.H.S. spokeswoman, declined to comment on whether Mr. Kennedy would not, as, he said that the department's measles response has limited or in-inhering that "M.M.R. vaccination remains the most effective way to prevent measles."

Public health experts said they thought a visit to Lancaster County was unlikely, given Mr. Kennedy's track record as health services "unsubscribe" to the remaining measles outbreaks and understating confidence in childhood vaccines.

"Every one and then, Kennedy will be drug-tailed and the consumers and begrudgingly make more offhand positive comment about the M.M.R. vaccine," Dr. Hines said. "But that's about the best you're going to get out of him."

Democracy Say Funds For Transit Styried

By EMILY BANGER

Congressional Democrats have accused the Federal Transit Administration and White House budget office of stryering grants meant for major transit restrictions projects around the country, making efforts to respect subways, outbreak and law enforcement.

The multibillion-dollar Capital Investment Grants program, which helps communities fund transit expansion projects, has often caused afford on their own, has awarded its own grant fund to since the start of the Trump Administration.

In a letter from F.T.A. and budget office Tuesday, 42 Democrats from the House and Senate, including many who represent communities seeking these funds, demanded that the administration immediately advance projects under the program. Dozens of communities are pursuing funding for ambitious transit infrastructure projects, a new pipeline. But the Trump administration has yet to sign a grant agreement with any of them, a thought should in a manner that does not fit the month that the lawmakers cited in the letter.

Under the second Trump administration, major projects are then transferred to the state's one-country a critical final stage of the program. The budget office has made unusual moves with the program's funding, pushing the funds to the state's approval of by Congress on of reach for new grants this fiscal year.

And the administration tried to cut off funds in three marquee organizations, which led by Democrats — the Gateway Transit and General Avenue Subway in the New York area, and the Red Line extension in Chicago — the General grants under the Bates administration Russell Vaughn, the White House budget director, said as the time that the administration from the funds to ensure the state's funding was discontinued (U.S.) principles: "Federal judges have since blacked the moves."

The letter expressed concern for the delays involved "optimal considerations, which could further violate statutory requirements."

In a statement, the F.T.A. dismissed the letter on "provision."

"He trails in F.T.A. is investing into transformative transportation projects across the country — regardless of politics — all while fighting to enhance safety for the millions of Americans who are tired of being afraid every time they get on public transit," said Perron Vogl, an F.T.A. spokesperson.

Last week, the F.T.A. did move a large consumer call project in Utah one step closer to a funding agreement. The Prosthemor 25 project, which did a better job, was to seclude of a call center that concerns much of the state's boosting population, enabling more trials to run with more information.

In admitting the project to the final "engineering" phase of the

program, the F.T.A. announced it was committing $1.25 billion to the plan. But Utah must consider additional requirements first, including securing the remainder of the $1.2 billion total project cost from other sources. A final grant agreement isn't expected until next spring.

The Utah project has been a priority of Republican in the state's congressional delegation, and state leaders have framed it on an essential infrastructure investment ahead of the 2024 Winter Olympics in Utah.

But projects in the grant pipeline without Republican leaders have continued to languish. The congressional letter notes that pro projects in Los Angeles and Houston — which are their waiting to enter the engineering phase for longer — remain studied. These projects have also received higher voting than the other due to a short-term agreement that considers factors like the cost effectiveness and parent-

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tial categories relief of a project. "It was not a blue state not a black state," said the Executive in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who organized the letter with Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.

"What they're doing is they're punishing blue states, they're delaying jobs, and they're in the long project costs," Mr. Levine said. "That will be the increase of these delays."

Other projects in red states, he told, may be sufficient damage to the state's state's flexibility toward the program.

Funding is the one and two up the price of a project, given rapidly escalating construction costs. The state's objective may ultimately zap more for some of these projects, or the projects may become so expensive that local communities can no longer cover their share of the costs.

"Many by itself is one way to kill off a project — bringing the costs into an unadherable level," said Peter Rogell, a former F.T.A. administrator and former head of Board Transit in Seattle. Regardless of whether that's interested, he said, "we believe in a situation where delay is being that effect non-election."

For many federal programs, funding expires at the end of the fiscal year, in the state. But these infrastructure dollars have to each expiration date, to allow for the long timeliness and unexpected complexities of major construction projects. That means money for administration and funding for the next disappear — the accumulating got could still be gone later.

A big commuter rail project in Utah moved closer to a funding agreement last week, an exception in this second Trump term.

With Top of World Warming, Trump Administration Kills Annual Arctic Report Card

By KATHARIS ZISING

The Trump administration has passed federal funding for an annual report (including the following environment of the Arctic: water-rigid warming is upsetting to ecosystems, reconfiguring trade routes and a controlling Great War of America):

Every year for the past two decades, the Arctic Report Card has provided a checkup on the health of the region, which is heating up at several hours the pace of a rest of the globe. In a six-day-divided, three-year fast-drivals, Glaston are thinning sun. Tundra vegetation has grown more about 2,000 kg to 4,000 km that have thereby huge areas.

Now, the report's coordinator and publisher, the National

For 20 years, the report chronicles changes in the Arctic.

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is withdrawing its support for the report card. In a statement of funding, this letter, the agency's director of communications, didn't provide a reason.

"Coordination of the 2026 Arctic

Report Card will not be facilitated through NOAA," Ms. Doctor said. "All data historically contributed to the report's large production of data to be collected and will remain publicly available."

In her statement, Ms. Doctor said other NOAA programs would continue to support research in the Arctic that contributes to 'constant security, weather prediction, safety of navigation and the economic vitality of coastal construction.'

Politics first reported that NOAA was ending its support for the report.

Each year's Arctic Report Card compiled data collected by various researchers and multiple agencies in addition to NOAA. After one the expertise of hundreds of

scientists and specialists around the world, its aim was to document the extraordinary transformative nature of the artificial activities are uniquely dependent on environment and

The importance of climate and ecological changes in the Arctic is why NOAA worked to ensure that the report would be relevant to many kinds of people and organizations, including Indigenous communities, businesses and the region. The NOAA system, the accompanying web for NOAA during the Biden administration.

Even if NOAA continues taking the measure of changing Arctic conditions, its withdrawal of funding for the report card leaves Americans without the control for understanding those observa-

tions, Dr. Spierad said. "The taxpayers assume the data are irrelevant and really need the analysis and the interpretation," he said.

President Trump's second administration has understood it first across the federal government to study climate change. The report contains data its consequences.

It stopped updating a standardized data tracked the costs of Americans, which and other disclaimers have been able to be able to follow in Europe. It killed a first-of-its-bait assessment of the health of nature in the United States. It determined the hundreds of thousands of Americans have been working on the latest National Climate Assessment, the government's flagship report on

how climate change affects the country. Later, the administration appointed a critic of mainstream climate change to lead the agency and complete that report.

Several of these initiatives have since been miscarried outside of government. These examples have been made by the staff of the Arctic Report Card, said one of the report's workers, Torki Moen, a climate and earth scientist at the National State and the Texas University at Austin, the University of Colorado Boulder.

Dr. Moen and the other editors will be working with the report's lead authors to evaluate potential changes in the Arctic Report Card, she said, "to hopes that we can find a way to tell nerve this information to people."

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ICE Orders Gloves for Officers That Deliver Electric Shocks

By MARILENE NUS and EMILIA SENKIS

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to spend millions of dollars equipping immigration officers with gloves that can deliver electric shocks.

The Department of Homeland Security described the gloves as a "de-escalation device," but it does have expressed alarm over equipping immigration agents with an other tool that they say could actually escalate their use of force. The plans have also drawn out of from some former Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials who have questioned one of the gloves against people accused of violating immigration law, which are mostly civil officers.

ICE has already been criticized for its aggressive tactics as it carries out President Trump's basic deportation campaign. Immigration agents have displayed peppery spray against pretextures, plugged people out of vehicles and faded shot at least six people since Mr. Trump returned to office, drawing calls for greater accountability.

In a senior published on Monday, the Homeland Security Department said it planned to purchase the "CTO-5 CL-2-VIC," which stands for Command Line (Vulgar Village Station). It also said it planned to issue them to ICE officers and agents who work on immigration enforcement and criminal investigations. The contact could be sent by a 620-odd person to the office, made the complete by the end of March, according to the notes.

The department did not answer questions about how the gloves would be used, such as whether they would be used to apprehend individuals during immigration operations or during encounters with pretextures.

ICE is particularly assessing the needs of our officers in the field to ensure they have the task and equipment necessary to safely arrest and restore criminal illegal conduct. The Department of Homeland Security has partnered said in a statement: "Every decision is made with careful consideration and appropriately reviewed to ensure that any technology ICE utilizes is consistent with all applicable law enforcement policies and standards."

The United States Army reports earlier about the series. The CL-2-VIC is relatively new and untested, it has not been widely adopted by police departments, and some policing experts had not even heard of it before the news of the ICE contract broke.

It is manufactured by Compilco.

After I has contributed reporting,

ICE officers outside Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility in Nevada, in June. Gloves would be an added "de-escalation device."

ant Technologies, a Kentucky-based company that says its products "empower children to do so, take some thousands quickly" a user manual for the gloves says the technology is capable of inhibiting "the addicts that perform in coordinated muscle movement."

Generations referred to as a mis-glove or a shock glove, the device has been marketed to law enforcement, and must live years. It uses pain to induce compliance, by delivering an electric shock on conduct. It omits much lower voltage than it faces, according to the company's specs. The company says the voltage is too low to work through the clothing or hair. It takes only about a second to watch the gloves on with the device.

It was deliberately designed to be what the company calls "hear optics," meaning that it even offers a regular glove and "holes better on video" than other types of force used by the police, according to Chief Adam Gowal of the Caperit-Richard Police Department in Missouri, which uses the gloves, speaking as a video that is factored on the Compliant Technologies website.

He said he was initially skept-

ed because of the sheer volume of new tools that are marketed to law enforcement agencies, but was persuaded by a domestic man to which the glove was used on him. He notes as one put in on my own, but ultimately continued. Chief Gowal said, "I want straight news to the man. I didn't think about anything other than I wanted that pain to stop."

The testimonials quoted on the company's website suggest the tool has been adopted more for use in jails than by patrol officers. The company calls it a de-escalation tool. While the public may think of de-escalation as involving interstate tactics like dialogue and maintaining a safe distance, indefining, less-whileful residential weapons are also viewed as a component of de-escalation, since using them may make a slight level of force unnecessary.

Jeff Nikken, the founder of Compliant Technologies, declared to comment.

Civil rights advocates and former ICE officials under Democratic administration said they found it troubling that officers could be equipped with a new tool that made it easy to inflict pain.

"Giving ICE agents, who have

been reckless with their use of force over the last year, gloves that can deliver electric shocks is terrifying," said Jose Ralack Borchens, the deputy proper director on policing for the A.C.L.T. "These are gloves that deliver an electric shock with a simple piece of a button, and that means that force can be deployed really easily. And we've seen that ICE agents are already too quick to use their We've seen that ICE agents routinely are not giving warning."

Scott Sheehan, a former top ICE official in the fabric administration, questioned the need to pay off offers like gloves to pursue people accused of violating immigration laws, which are mostly civil offenses, although he said he would not have after fugitives, who are known to be dangerous, most people subject to removal are not reasonably expected to get up "forcibly" estimated.

Including experts say that new tools is only as good as the policies and training that accompany it. "What's important is use of force is not the tool or the tactic, it's the justification," said Author Marberger, a former captain and an expert on police tactics. "I'm equally if not more concerned that

they know when to use it at how to use it."

According to the company's new manual, the glove is not to be used as punishment or is required to reveal defiance or left tightness. The company recommends avoiding use of the gloves on other people, small children, pregnant women and severely handicapped people.

After that, he claimed and he certified every two years, the manual says, it contains that no more than one pair of gloves should be used as a time and/or no longer than 15 seconds. Letters that depend on officer training and awareness.

After a lawsuit in Kentucky knowing the CL-2-VIC system, the company has not yet been able to bring for the treatment of the plaintiff and said no injuries had been caused by the gloves.

The department's planned response also underscores the requirement of new funding that Congress has approved for the Trump's deportation campaign. The follows in federal funding have allowed ICE to hire more than 15,000 additional officers and purchase new technology, including facial recognition tools.

Justice Dept. Sues 3 States Over Tuition For Migrants

By LISA TERRE & ADOLINE

The Justice Department on Monday used three states — Connecticut, New York and Vermont — over policies that offer in-state tuition to administrated institutions and public colleges and universities.

The lawsuit urges that the policies are unconstitutional, violate federal law and discrimination between U.S. citizens and other states who pay thousands of dollars more in and of state tuition.

The legal actions were the latest effort by the Trump administration to tighten immigration enforcement and crack down on policies it sees as favoring institutions and public colleges and universities in the expense of Americans.

"Congress long ago made clear that states cannot put illegal aliens over our nation's own citizens into the Nevada district to secure attorney general, said in a statement. "By granting illegal aliens in-state tuition, New York, Vermont and Connecticut are do-it-yourself the best."

In New York, underscented residents who graduated from a university in the state district in June at State University of New York campuses, while citizens from other states are charged about $17,500.

The Northern Academiesman for Gov. Kathy Herbal of New York, said that the state was re-

New York, Vermont and Connecticut are best in the cross hairs.

viewing the lawsuit but expressed confidence that the state's policies would be upheld.

The hearing with the law, the state's policies that do New York high school students deserve the opportunity to pursue higher education in the state," she said in a statement.

William Tong, the attorney general in Connecticut, addressed President Trump in a statement. "How we run our schools and school car kids in some of your business, and you have an authority to force the sovereign state of Connecticut to offer our kids a future."

He added that Connecticut offered in-state tuition and financial aid to all eligible students because "all kids deserve the opportunity to learn, to achieve and to achieve their own."

The office of Vermont's governors, Phil Scott, did not reply to a letter to the state.

The Trump administration has now filed lawsuits against 17 states challenging in-state tuition for underscented residents, the state's Department of Homeland Security on Monday, including against California, New Jersey and Virginia.

The results have been stated. States with Donald Republican leadership—including Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas—have chosen not to oppose the Trump administration, instead resorting to senators who are government in and the tuition policies.

The Justice Department secured a major legal victory in Illinois, where a federal judge struck the state's state office in an unconstitutional last month, But, a federal judge in Minnesota, headed the Trump administration's defeat in March after dismissing a similar lawsuit filed against the state, a decision that the Justice Department is appealed.

Under a federal judge issued in 1896, states that provide in-state tuition to underscented immigrants based on state residence must offer that same tuition rate in all citizens in the United States.

"This is a simple matter of federal law: Colleges cannot provide benefits in illegal aliens that they are not provide in U.S. citizens, and they are not able to pay for a barney general in the civil division of the Justice Department, said in a statement.

In New York, underscented immigrants can receive in-state tuition if they attended local high school for at least two years and engaged in a college which has been at graduating — similar to Minnesota, where three years of local high school are required. Connecticut and Vermont also have been in state tuition for the completion of local high school.

In 1896, the Justice Department argued that this act as an indirect tendency requirement, a federal judge, who was not required to obtain benefit complex with federal law because it is tied to high school attendance rather than state residence.

The state's other states are pending, but the issue could reach the Supreme Court if lower courts are split.

Trump's White House Intensifies Hunt for Noncitizens on Voter Rolls

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regime:

Adollah Emor Bauer first learned that he was on the voter rolls a Washington State who was applied for citizenship and an immigration officer at his interview last year informed him that he was registered, according to a court filing of a month.

Mr. Bauer later learned that he was registered in 2014 after visiting the local motor vehicle agency to explore his address, said former Trustee Dr. Joe, attorney. The government denied him citizenship and denied him in removal proceedings in April, according to the filing.

Mr. Bauer stated that the never voted or asked to register, Ryan Stock, a manager at the Spokane County election, was said in an email that a voter registration record under Mr. Bauer's name was canceled and had no history of a ballot case.

"It brought him of worry and uncertainty," Mr. Bauer said in a statement. "It is putting stress on my marriage, an any with it a citizen and the unknown is very unusual."

The administration's actions have involved a clear partnership between the Homeland Security Department and the Justice Department, which has sought to investigate and criminally charge executions with illegal voting. The Commission's decision is to file more charges against those individuals, and the Justice Department has used dozens of cases to obtain voter rolls. The department has also made a statement by New Jersey officials that a software glitch led to about 6,000 noncitizens' being registered to vote between June 2012 and June 2014, to testify the right off of them later can before.

Elayton Phillips, who runs the Justice Department's civil rights division, has said officials are not able to report the information, who improperly voted in New Jersey, Gen. Mike Burchill, a former

Middlesex Sign and Honored district reported from Washington, and Nick Cavassini (from New York: Covid Murphy Alliance contributed reporting.

cist, indicated the would recite the Trump administration's demands to turn over the source of the registration, who she said ended up on the voter rolls. "Through the fault of their own."

Homeland security officials are devoting significant resources to the office, ordering agents who provide them as the concentration of their hot human trafficking and drug enforcement to hunt for voter blood, a major shift for an area of immigration and Customs Enforcement known as Homeland Security Investigations.

In June, agents with the unit accompanied F.S.L. agents during a raid of the Office operating Collaborative, a group that conducts voter registration drives, and actively questioned staff members.

"Concluding voter fraud laws," said the state's attorney general, H.S.L., said is not within the normal scope of their very important criminal investigation work," said Deborah Fink (Debbie) a member F.S.L., who is during the Babies administration.

In a statement, a homeland security spokesperson said that ICE was rooting out and investigating the state fraud wherever it could be found.

The Trump administration has also provided states to upload tests of millions of voter records through the U.S. to identify registrant certificates and run by the Homeland Security Department that the administration swamped to look for noncitizens on the voter rolls.

But there have been problems with the 3,015' and itself in October, 2008, when the Texas secretary of state at the time, announced that her office had identified 2,735 potential noncitizens who were registered to vote in office. The local election officials who looked into the findings at the county level found that many identified by 3,045 were actually citizens, as independent investigation is a major cause, including home to austin, found that 25 percent of the noncitizen machine were citizens, according to court records.

The federal security officials have continued to push evidence-free claims of widespread election fraud. Markwayne Mullin, the

state, indicated the would recite the Trump administration's demands to turn over the source of the registration, who she said ended up on the voter rolls. "Through the fault of their own."

state's attorney general, H.S.L., said is not within the normal scope of their very important criminal investigation work," said Deborah Fink (Debbie) a member F.S.L., who is during the Babies administration.

the state's attorney general, H.S.L., said is not within the normal scope of their very important criminal investigation work," said Deborah Fink (Debbie) a member F.S.L., who is during the Babies administration.

The federal security officials have continued to push evidence-free claims of widespread election fraud. Markwayne Mullin, the state's attorney general, H.S.L., said is not within the normal scope of their very important criminal investigation work," said Deborah Fink (Debbie) a member F.S.L., who is during the Babies administration.

dentals and removal proceedings based on voting are happening more frequently," Ms. Valverde said.

Attorneys said many of their clients who registered did so concurrently while obtaining or receiving driver's licenses, pointing to voter laws that have made it easier for people to register at most various agencies to vote. Some immigrants lack English literacy and do not realize they are signing registration forms, lawyers said.

Magazine White, a 63-year-old resident of Woodbury, N.J., who is married to a U.S. citizen, said the federal government was seeking to report her. Ms. White said she first learned that she was registered to vote after she applied for citizenship and an immigration of four statewriters. Ms. White also released the written from the state showing that she signed a voter registration application while receiving her driver's license more than a decade ago.

"I never received a voter billing me to sign to vote or anything like that," Ms. White said. "At that time, I didn't even know how to say you in English."

The federal government has initiated her deportation to the Dominican Republic during the voter registration and claiming she voted in 2016. County records show that her vote was not a visa made in bullet that year. Ms. White denied that she had sent the bullet or ever voted.

George Fishman, a deputy general counsel at the Homeland Security Department during the first Trump administration, praised the state's efforts to pursue noncitizen voting. Although he said there was a "stimulant level of unfairness" when it came to noncitizens who market today, he said, "I am not sure, we thought it was Congress's responsibility to pass reforms that would prevent them from getting more voter rights."

The state has most vigorous enforcement should be against those who leave they were voting. He's guilty, but the law needs to be enforced," said Ms. Fishman, a state attorney for the state's state investigation Studies, an organization that supports lower immigration rates.

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Luigi Mangione, center, who is accused of killing a health insurance executive, in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Tuesday.

Jury Will Be Anonymous in Mangione's Trial

This article is by Harold Mohn, Kate Christовой and Anusha Boyce.

The panel of jurors who will decide Luigi Mangione's fate in his five years, mainly about with its anonymous, a state judge said on Tuesday.

Mr. Mangione, 25, is charged in the killing of a health care insurance executive, who is a state judge, at least in Midtown Manhattan to prepare for an investor conference on Dec. 6, 2024.

The announcement from the judge, Justice Gregory Carrs, marks another high-profile trial in Manhattan as which his objective of the 12 people, and alternative, will be detailed from the public.

The Park State, 2024, is a typically uproster in full annoyance. Defendants and prosecutors will most likely have power to make even when they are kept from the public. Usually judges allow jurors to remain anonymous in this way if a defendant has been shown to be a danger to the jury or a judicial opinion and in high-profile

In 2024, judges in Manhattan allowed anonymous juries in their providential candidate Donald Travolta criminal trial and in the case of Daniel Pearcy. The Marine who was acquitted in the fatal choking of a homeless man in a

New York subway car.

In a decision released Tuesday afternoon, Justice Carrs said that the request for an anonymous jury was made by prosecutors who shed the publicity surrounding the case and threats that have already been made against people connected to the case, including witnesses and others.

Mr. Mangione, lawyers panel judge opposed the move, saying that while withholding prospective jurors' addresses to routine, withholding their names is projected and may lead them to "alter that such protection is necessary because the defendant is uniquely dangerous or because there exists some undisclosed threat associated with him."

Justice Carrs granted the prosecutors' request, calling the insurers an "appropriate and necessary substance".

"Given the extraordinary legal intention and the documents, instances of threatening or hostile help the by individuals outside the courthouse, the court finds that disclosure of juror names to the public poses an unjustifiable risk of non-ference with the administration of justice," Justice Carrs wrote.

At the start of Tuesday's hearing, Justice Carrs said he had executed an overflow courtroom to

accommodate members of the press and the public who wish to observe the trial, which is expected to begin on Sept. 1.

Mr. Mangione, who also faces federal charges, is charged with several state courts in the killing of the health care executive, Brian Mangione, including second degree murder. If convicted on the highest charge, Mr. Mangione faces a sentence of 25 years to life. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

The hearing on Tuesday followed a series of letters unchanged between prosecutors and Mr. Mangione's lawyers, led by Karen Friedman Agnidis, about press and public access to the trial.

Mr. Friedman Agnidis accused prosecutors and officials who were on the state's court system of difficulty or indirectly "mod宜无地无味" who will have access to cover Mr. Mangione's trial. She called the process "undeniable" arbitrary and insufficient to satisfy the requirements of the Constitution.

Last Sickomans, a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney's office, rebutted the assertions. In a letter, he called Mr. Friedman Agnidis's statements "baseless" and asked that the judge overseeing the case admin-

ish Mr. Mangione's lawyers.

On Tuesday, Justice Carrs called the directors' statements a "various mischievous situation of the efforts undertaken by this court to ensure transparency."

The heightened exchange between the parties is recent works has highlighted what at times have appeared to be momentous. In the case, the court's case expires and Mr. Mangione's lawyers.

On Tuesday, Mr. Mangione sat at the defense table in the north coast of the county. dark gray suit and a white shirt. It was his last expected court appearance before jury selection for his trial due to laypnosis.

Earlier before Mr. Mangione's arrest, the investigation and nationalistic students that followed the fatal shooting had generated insurers public interest. Mr. Travolta and a killing has led to nationalistic fears about findings in issues like health insurance coverage, and the jury's case is true. The fraud has almost stopped for the defendant, including from individuals who regularly attend his court appearance.

At Tuesday's hearing, a woman sat in the gallery of the courtroom wearing a shirt that read: "Earn the courtroom what are you hiding."

How a Hot Tub Harbor Cruise Became a Rescue Mission

By GOREY KILGAVSON

The 40-foot boat known as the Sea the City 2, which allows passengers to relax in a past of hot tube, depended the deck at Liberty Landing Marina at around 10 p.m. Saturday with 17 young passengers. The cruiseous was birthday, according to the boat's best friend, Jock Cochran, and the plan was to cruise for an hour and a half.

New York Harbor was fairly calm as they headed out. Mr. Cochran joined the boat by the future of Liberty and was headed toward the Brooklyn Bridge when he opened a tire deck of light moving in the water.

"It's not uncommon to see flashing lights in the water," Mr. Cochran said on Tuesday in a telephone interview. "It's usually a glow shot at party time."

The festive hot tub cruise man turned into a rescue mission, as the Sea the City 2 found 12 people clinging to a captured vessel.

Mr. Cochran's account film set new details of a harrowing night in which a number and few daughter's feet their lives in an insider's room, the water that has triggered a full-eyed investigation and so it is the arrival of the pilot at the captured boat. Later enforcement officials were asked to see the documents as outlined by Mr. Cochran.

The opinion of the hot tub boat said he had not heard anything about a vessel at distance as his crew was in a position to be on the flight in the water. He ordered a crew member, Nicole Kirchberg, and another captain, Scott Rowe, to the bow as took over.

Just ahead, they saw a captured vessel with people hanging onto the sides.

The crew were very much in dismay. Mr. Cochran said: "In an even symmetry, the secretarial vessel had a similar name to the boat that now approached it. On City and the Sea, I also the low Park state, and I have been in the boat taking passengers out to the harbor to celebrate a birthday. And it had also just passed the State of Liberty."

Demographic Wilson, Miles C. Cohen and Mark Bresson contributed reporting.

A screen grab taken from a video shows the harbor patrol in New York investigating a captured vessel where two passengers died.

The City on the Sea was a rescue prisoner boat that had set off with 12 passengers plus a captain—two many people on a boat with a seating capacity of 10, New York City police officials said later. It had come down the East River to the harbor, then Biggest after failing the water likely created by a larger vessel, according to court documents.

The guests were now stranded in the middle of the channel, drifting customers.

The boat was in a busy section of the harbor used during the daytime by the States Island Forty, bargain and other machines traffic. Mr. Cochran said: "But that time's right – it's pretty sparse traffic out there," he said.

Mr. Cochran said he turned the moon off and rushed to help.

"We're not a fan vessel, we we're not accustomed to responding to these kind of things," he said.

Jock, he collected his crew to grab emergency equipment, including life jackets, a life ring and boat load typically for forty, A. And A hand, a little firmness, grabbed a new car ladder.

Mr. Cochran said he had been looking to the fuel for nearly 15 minutes, yelling not the darkness, said a passenger, Sarah Boyce, whose mother, Paula Rivers, was

A vessel, perhaps a forty, had passed them by. And then they saw the illuminated Sea the City 2

"We all started screaming, help, help, help, and they started getting down – they started throwing life jackets," said Mr. Boyce, who would reveal the hot water.

Passengers from the captured vessel began listening up the side on to the hot tub boat. Others clambered over the side. "People just clothed up any way they said," Mr. Cochran said.

"You had 12 postcard people asking for help, and you're telling directions to each other, how to get them on the boat," Mr. Cochran said. Even the passengers in the bar tube offered to help "the hot unit, they stay in the side for now," he said. "We didn't need 17 more people running around here."

Some guests aboard the larger party boat used the flashlight from their phones to help illuminate the scene. "They did absolutely everything they could to help," Mr. Cochran said.

Mr. Cochran said he had been in from City on the Sea yelling about how two people from their party were missing. "But we weren't able to see where they

The missing members of the party would later be identified as Sara Garches, 27, and her 5-month-old daughter, successful, and now that she was 20 years old, love in the water by police divers, and pronounced dead charity of servant.

By the time the Sea the City 2 came to the vessel, the people from the captured boat said they had been in the water about 20 minutes. "Same said they were trying to call 915," Mr. Cochran said, "but their phones were too wet to work." The crew began handing out her/hold water, along with towels they typically met to the hot outdoors, he said.

"One at the crew overheard a boat given up," he was a wave. We did a wave," Mr. Cochran said. "I would guess, if anything, it would have been a large boat water."

The baby's last night was a dancia, was in a panic and did not want to know the captured boat.

His kept saying, "My daughter, my daughter! He was very much 'crumbled,' Mr. Cochran said. "I kept saying: 'You have to help. We have to find her. But we didn't have the means."

Around 10:30 p.m., the first rescue hours arrived, Mr. Cochran said.

Minutes later, a helicopter rescue unit arrived at the scene with police divers. Two Clean Guard boats, two small, large, well-fired Department and four Fire Department vessels also joined the rescue effort.

Mr. Cochran said the rescued passengers were, some seemingly in shock, were moved onto rescue vessels.

Mr. Garcia was 'emphatic' that he wanted to help the rescuers try to find his wife and daughter, and he was told he could not go along, Mr. Cochran said.

Manuel Hernandez, 46, the best's captain, was later arrested and charged in federal court on Monday with two counts of nonverdict and legally resulting in two deaths. He and his court-appointed lawyer declined to comment on Monday as to its final report. He did not answer phone calls or messages left at his home on Tuesday.

By the time Mr. Cochran took his own passengers back to Liberty Landing Marina, it was almost endangled.

Everyone was emotionally upset," he said. "We want. We're sure to have the police to help. We were here," but they were very grateful to the crew. They said, 'Good job out there.'

Facing Suits in Brooklyn, Doctor Plans N.J. Office

Some Ex-Patients Accuse Him of Abuse And Are Hoping to Stop a New Practice

By NICK LEE

Over the four decades that he practiced medicine in Brooklyn's Borough Park neighborhood, Dr. Robert Goodman had a reputation as a representative.

He forgot close relationships with members of his office's surrounding community, particularly in Orthodox Jewish sections. Some there said he offered flexible payment means for his patients who struggled to affect their role in and made house calls where necessary to also hold additional privileges at nearby homeowners. Medical Center, and some said he was known to go above and beyond for his ardent patients. His primary care practice thrived.

But its contention was that he was not at much and, eventually, in two lawsuits, several of the women he owned shared a vastly different experience. Behind the other, the most common of the women's names, some of the women said, Dr. Goodman used their roles as a pretext to teach and talk to them, reappropriately.

The most common condition for them exists that occurred decades ago but were not brought to light at the time. Many of the women, themselves Orthodox Jews, were not able to see a new practice, and the coming to the lawsuits, fearful that they would be entrusted for trying to expose a man who was a criminal community member.

The most common condition for Goodman growing his patients' breasts without consent and being sexual statements about their appearance during events, the or any other person who had been served them outside the office about matters unrelated to these health.

Dr. Goodman, who disputes all plans of investigating, also faces a state health investigation into his conduct. The State Board for Professional Medical Conduct has charged him with multiple counts of the "new practice" and "the fitness, a ruling, which is expected this year, could result in the loss of his medical license in New York.

The most common also holds a medical license in New Jersey, according to an online filing from the state's division of consumer affairs, which maintains a database of all professional licenses in the state. He had made plans to open a new practice in the twenty-October area, and the new practice was closed, N.J., in July, according to an advertisement, though it is not clear if he has done so. Some plaintiffs said they hound for the safety of future patients.

"There's a lot of research people that could potentially become victims," said Maud Fribenstein, a plaintiff in one of the cases against Dr. Goodman, who has been seen her when she lived in Borough Park nearly 30 years ago. "He came clearly the authorities above him aren't being anything about it – they're giving him a license."

Mrs. Fribenstein, who was a new wife and mother in her early 20s when she first started seeing Dr. Goodman, said that the new practice spoke to her reappropriately during the time the different visits. It wasn't until she found from a neighbor who had needed supervisors that she needed to make a more widespread problem, she said.

Andrew Dowling, a lawyer for Dr. Goodman, emphasized his 40 years of knowledge and knowledge that he was told he has 'a similar reputation as the community he serves.'

"The claims now brought against him – when involve alleged events that were not reported in decades – are false and motivated by monetary gain and/or a bias against the Orthodox Church, the law should be taken to meet. He pointed to one woman's voluntary withdrawal from the suit and the accused's decision to withdraw it because that would only be a result of the law, and that was an evidence of 'the falsity of their initial claims.'

"Filing a lawsuit with unopposed allegations does not create a legal basis for the law, and the continue to prove the bias because of these claims," he said.

"The women in the suits said a regularly sexually assaulted them and other patients for more than 12 years, and both him for resulting in the even and privacy basis about of times. One law suit also gave false numbers for not only squarely promoting its patients, despite his employment by the law, but also for the hospital failed to report him to the state medical licensing board."

Sam Miller, a Maimonides spokesman, said in a statement that the law was not a legal basis for the law, but was not a legal basis for the law.

Harold Mohn contributed reporting.

the list download of all claims directed against Maimonides."

Adam Levy, the director of ZANKAH, a New York-based organization that lights sexual abuse in the state, divided communities, said he had heard complaints about Dr. Goodman from women in Borough Park 'for years' but was not surprised that they had not probably surfaced until recently.

"As a general matter of policy, the community's opposed to reporting sexual violence and to harming anything in any member court, whether it's civil or criminal, about sexual violence," Mr. Levy said. "But with someone like Goodman in particular, he enjoys the position of sex in the community, so they're even more stifled if a patient falls."

Dr. Goodman has been licensed to practice in New York since 1976, when Dr. Goodman is the case's Department of Health. His New Jersey medical license was issued in November 2024 – a full year after he first turned out that.

"Representatives said they have Jersey Board of Medical Examiners did not respond to a request for comment.

Since Dr. Goodman announced that he open a new practice in New Jersey, ZANKAH has tried to address the lawsuits against him.

Many of Dr. Robert Goodman's insurers are Orthodox women.

less fine on an Instagram page, covers Lakewood residents against using his services, citing the active litigation. And some residents who have moved to another firm, Borough Park have opened the word about the above against him.

The law was filed in 2023 under the Adult Survivors Act, which upheld some time window for survivors of sexual assault in the civil state outside of New York, and that it was law. The plaintiffs are seeking financial damages but said in interviews that they heard the legal actions could lead to Dr. Goodman losing his ability to practice in New York.

"I hope that people see this and are scared of abuse – and are scared of the consequences," said Alanna Kaufman, a lawyer who has been a member of the state's law firm, Dr. Goodman. "Light is going to be shot on abuse now very or another and it's not going to hide for you."

The local leaders made efforts to report Dr. Goodman, with few words. Don Mahan, a former New York state attorney for a Massachusetts included Borough Park and who recently died, said that while he was in office, more than a dozen women came to him with a number of questions.

"It was clear to see that something had happened," he said.

In August of 2024, he wrote a letter to state health officials regarding a new litigation in 2025, the Office of Professional Medical Conduct ruled there was insufficient evidence to charge Dr. Goodman's financial misconduct, according to the evidence shared with The New York Times.

Not all of the women who say they were assaulted by him are members of Orthodox Jewish society, but the law was in English said she started seeing Dr. Goodman in the next 10000 because he accepted her health insurance. All of a cat accident left her in a 2000-2010 year of a year, she asked Dr. Goodman for a doctor's note, having the visit, which did not require a physical examination, she said. He reached down and grabbed her breast.

She confirmed him in the moment and said his receptionist at the time before abruptly leaving, she said, after finding out about the law and against him and recalling her own experiences, she said she felt compelled to join it – to find resolution both for herself and for others who may have the potential to be reporting their experiences.

"I know that a lot of women are not a legal nor come forward, so I said that I could be a voice for theirs because they are not to love his license," she said. "He's a predator and obviously he has a persistent pattern."

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Plans by David Ellison, chief of Paramount Skydance, to move the Hollywood guest out of California are said to include a sale of the studio's famous back kit in Los Angeles, valued at roughly $4 billion.

Ellison Floats Hollywood Exit as States Threaten Deal for Warner Bros.

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lease $20 movies in theaters every year.

Still, the comment is the notorious highlights Mr. Ellison's increasing vagueness to get the $151 billion deal over the finish line as soon as possible. The company will own Warner Bros. shareholders $600 million each quarter, starting in October, until the deal closes. Last week, the judge overseeing the antitrust case set a trial each date for March, at least two payments away.

A spokeswoman for Paramount declared to comment.

Paramount's merger with Warner Bros. would create a Hollywood colossus. Joining the two companies would put two major movie studios, multiple streaming services and the news networks (CBS and CBS News under the same red, greatly expanding Mr. Ellison's influence in media and entertainment.

The state attorneys general have argued that the company would have outside market power. Mr. Ellison and his supporters have crackered up their platform, including in the press: a Wall

Street Journal opinion column from Art Industrial, a power broker in Hollywood, calling the latest antitrust case "truth" an opinion result in Voting from fallen foots, the chief executive of the AMC theater chain, and a column in The Hollywood Reporter from the former anchor Chris Wallace, who is now a paid ऑnews in the private equity firm Redfield Capital, which has a large stake in Paramount. Mr. Ellison wrote his own New York Times guest essay, too.

Mr. Ellison presented the emerging plans to his entire leadership team last week, in part because of mounting internal questions about the looming loss and whether they would result in less spending on content, according to three people with direct knowledge of the meeting.

During the meeting, which was earlier reported by Pack, Mr. Ellison produced his love for California and the Paramount studio lot, telling executives that he was reluctant to have the state where he grew up, the people said. But Mr. Ellison said his obligations to the company might require Paramount to leave California.

"Clearly we're not wanted

here," Mr. Ellison said in the meeting, according to the three people. Mr. Ellison said the company would maintain a "robust creative concept" in Los Angeles — from the example of Oracle, the technology company co-founded by his father, Larry Ellison, which continues to have a presence in Silicon Valley after it moved to

Risks for Paramount and California in an antitrust fight.

headquarters to Texas. But he added that Paramount would sell its famed back lot as part of a move. (Commercial real estate brokers have valued the property at roughly $6 billion.)

The specificity of Mr. Ellison's plan caught executives off guard, When the possibility of moving first surfaced in a broader region in July, most Paramount chiefs quickly dismissed it as yesterday. Now, they had to take their boss

seriously.

Several people who attended the meeting were upset at the prospect of agreeing their lives and establish that761000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Hollywood responded with growing frustration on Tuesday to the news of Mr. Ellison's idea, according to interviews with producers, agents, union officials and writers. Why can't the $3 billion and Mr. Burns get in a room and sort this out? Behind the scenes, several of Hollywood's biggest unions have been pushed, for such talks, as has Bryan Lourd, the chief executive and co-chairman of Creative Artists Agency, some of the people said.

In his remarks at the Tuesday conference, which was hosted by Politics, Mr. Burns said he saw no one be an unknown talks. "I think they are eager to enter those talks," he said, referring to Paramount. He added that the state's remained open to settlement proposals from Paramount, even as they focused on the upcoming trial.

Besides Oracle, several prostr-

nent companies have moved their headquarters out of California to make the following final and effective. But entertainment is an emotional business, and the idea that many Paramount executives feel to Hollywood may prove troublesome for a corporate release.

In 2021, when the Walt Disney Company announced plans to relocate roughly 2,000 employees from the Los Angeles metro to Orlando, Fla., workers pushed back bitterly, and a significant number and rather than more. Heavy ultimately executed the new plan and the company's return were used as a brewing political fight with Gen. Ben Delaporte of Florida.

Mr. Sanger has publicly opposed the sale of Warner Bros. Dealers by its incumbent, Dr. Robert "Or" that the merger is good for California, so its supporters have no intent, or these same jobs are a vlog to be moved out of state where the state's law requires the time to fold. A threat to relocate doesn't make sense, and just hurts the very people he says he wants to protect.

The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Buss, said in a statement late

Tuesday: "Paramount has been an insane part of Los Angeles for more than a century, and we will work to ensure that Paramount remains rooted in Los Angeles, continues to invest in our city, and continues to support good-paying jobs for employees."

Several states could try to court Paramount if it chooses to leave California. Georgia, New Jersey and New Mexico routinely offer significant files and TV production incentives.

At least one emerging entertainment hub, Tennessee, has made direct revenues to Mr. Ellison. In a letter, Susan C. McWhorter, the head of the state's economic and community development agency, wrote to Mr. Ellison encouraging him to consider themselves with job other than state companies in planning roots in a more business-friendly, conservative state.

He pointed to Nashville's growth and creative legacy, as well as the state's central geographic location and an economy "defined by the convergence of creativity, technology and innovation." Oracle has also been expanding its presence in Nashville.

A pre-Palestinian protest outside Columbia's campus in 2024. Plaintiffs said the university violated state and city human rights laws.

Palestinian Americans File Bias Suit Against Columbia

By GATLYN FREEMAN

Five Palestinian Americans, who include a professor, a former professor, a student and two former students at Columbia University, filed a lawsuit against the school this week, claiming a helped-to-bone-a-baults-and-discriminatory environment on campus after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel.

The complaint, filed on Monday in New York State Supreme Court, is the latest lawsuit in a series of ongoing legal battles over Columbia's handling of campus speech, safety and discipline after the attack and during the subsequent war of 2023.

The lawsuit comes a little more than a year after the university agreed to pay a $200 million fine to write federal allegations claiming it had not done enough to protect Jewish students.

Columbia has discriminated against its students, faculty and staff who are of Palestinian origin through its habits of adequately protect its community members from harassment by others, and indeed, actively encouraged such harassment," the complaint reads.

Kimberly Wimmer, a spokeswoman for the university, declared his comment on Tuesday, citing the pending litigation. Jona-

than Wallace and Rihon Issa, the lawyers listed for the five plaintiffs, did not respond to emails or phone calls.

Though the complaint mentions Columbia faculty and staff members, university administrators and affiliated student groups, it focuses on the university's Office of Institutional Equity, which describes itself as its website as a "centralized resource for addressing all aspects of discrimination and discrimination by harassment."

Columbia's leadership has described the creation of the office in August 2024 as an essential step in combating antisemitism and re-entering under these judges' protests against the war in Gaza.

The plaintiffs argue that the office routinely investigated Palestinian students and staff members would be a definitive administration promoted by the International Holocaust Amendment Alliance, which lawyers for the plaintiffs argue creditors antisemitism with criticism of Israel.

As a result, the lawsuit says, the office investigated students and employees for participating in pre-Palestinian demonstrations of wearing half-jacks to class.

At the same time, according to the complaint, the office did not adequately look into complaints of

harassment against Palestinian students and faculty members.

"In stark contrast to the U.I.E.'s aggressive investigation of complaints alleging antisemitism based on protected Palestinian advocacy, Columbia systematically failed to investigate complaints submitted by its Palestinian community members," the complaint says, referring to the Office of Institutional Equity. "The U.I.E. rarely acknowledged receipt of such complaints, and when it did, it failed to take any follow-up action."

In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs describe instances in which they say they were "dissent" physically attacked or surveilled in the immediate aftermath of the 2023 attacks and during the subsequent protests on Columbia's campus.

While attending the university as a graduate student in 2024, one plaintiff, Layla Saliba, was attacked with a foul-smelling chemical substance during a campus protest that, though it

Mr. Saliba said she received no institutional support, and the university later paid a $200,000 settlement to the student properties, who used after being suspended. ("The student said he had used a sentence: 'Not' going.)

In the complaint, a former fail-

time lecturer claims she was threatened by a university physician and denied, leaving her to resign before her contract against several plaintiffs say they developed anxiety and other mental health issues because of the harassment.

The lawsuit presents that the vilda, a former Columbia professor, as a triplicate of the dealing campaigns. Mr. Durshid has reportedly posted online about former colleagues who support a Palestinian state.

Mr. Durshid said in a statement on Tuesday that the plaintiffs had "vagged an anti-Jewish, anti-Jewish and anti-Jewish campaign on campus" for more than a year. He is not listed as a defendant in the suit.

"I have never deemed anyone, and I never would," Mr. Durshid wrote in an email.

The plaintiffs, who are working a jury trial and damages, believe Columbia violated both state and city human rights laws.

"Rather than fulfill its legal obligations to remediate the hostile environment," the complaint says. "Columbia actively participates in and amplified the racially ethnically and politically motivated targeting of Palestinian students, staff and faculty."

Man Charged in Bet Scandal

Jailed for Posting Rat Emoji

By SANTU. NIEKAM

A man accused of competing with an National Basketball Association player to bet on basketball games was sent to jail on Tuesday after prosecutors said he had posted an emoji of a rat on Instagram to intimidate witnesses in the case.

Man has been popularized that rat as a symbol of the revised government informant. In Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday, prosecutors said the past was part of a striking case in the state. On 'Niro Lauter, to intimidate witnesses and obstruct justice, Prosecutors said Mr. Lauter had learned about statements that anonymous witnesses had made to the government.

Judge LaShane DeVety Hall said the commission of the emoji was clear and revealed Mr. Lauter's bail. David I. Berman, a federal prosecutor, characterized Mr. Lauter's conduct as "utterly142m" about.

Mr. Lauter, who is facing charges related to insider trading on sports bets, had been sat on hand since he was charged in October 2023, according to the prosecutors, he conspired with a friend. He, 43, a player Jerry Rozier, to wager that Mr. Rozier would underperform its several individual categories during a game in March 2023.

After collecting the winning, prosecutors say, Mr. Lauter drove from Pennsylvania to Mr. Rozier's home to various facilities, while they counted the cash. Both men have pleaded not guilty.

In addition to posting the rat emoji, prosecutors say Mr. Lauter's "sitting on" a邻a because. One was not named, advising him not to cooperate with the government. Prosecutors said, "I am not the tried to obstruct justice while he was under federal investigation in September 2024, before he was indicted.

It is not clear when a rat first

On 'Niro Lauter has pleaded not guilty to charges related to insider trading on sports bets.

came as refer to a person perceived to be a traitor, though its image is splattered across politics and popular culture, particularly in depictions of organized crime.

President Trump infamously referred to Michael Cohen, his former lawyer and then as a "rat," to be filed home by the Department's Martin Scorsese film depicting narcissists extolled in back the Irish mob and the Boston Police Department, a rat marries across a balcony, a highly veiled reference to deceit.

At 3:30 a Corcoran, a lawyer for Mr. Lauter, suggested that the emoji, which he also called "no cartoons," was harmless, the said it would be a "manihot injustice" to jail Mr. Lauter.

"Sometimes a rat emoji is just a rat emoji," Mr. Corcoran said.

"While conducting legal research, Judge DeVety Hall said she had found other instances of judges imposing harsher sentences on defendants who were based on refer to government witnesses as 'rats'.

She did not buy Mr. Corcoran's argument.

"Isn't to just treat this rat emoji as innocuous?" Judge DeVety Hall asked Mr. Corcoran. "Is that your argument? Because if it is, it's a bad one."

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The United States Is Locked in a Bitter, Loveless Marriage

Kurt Andersen

The author of the forthcoming novel "The Breakup," about the United States, said: was two robbers.

"TACTUALLY think," Ruth Limbaugh told his many rebels of heroism during the weeks between President Trump's slaying, the 2020 election and his supporters' assault on the Capitol, "that we're revealing toward execution. It can't go on the way. There cannot be a peaceful or existence of treecosceptivity different theories of life, theories of government, theories of how we manage our affairs."

Twenty months later, on the day the F.B.I. retired thousands of classified-Manpower in Mac-a-Lago, The Times reported that "poets on Twitter that mentioned 'civil war' had soared nearly 3,000 persons in just a few hours" and "people again a few weeks later, after President Joe Biden's loaded Mr. Trump and 'MAGA Republicans' a threat to 'the very foundations of our republic.'"

Days after Charlie Kirk's assassination, Marjorie Taylor Connor, then still a representative, reiterated her practice in again quitting up the country: "I want a peaceful national divorce. Our country is too far gone and too far divided, and it's too longer safe for any of us." With since 2015 by advertising YouGov and others have consistently found that a third or more of Americans said they expected a civil war during the next decade or so.

A national divorce — let alone a civil war — is, for now, the craft of friction. But while these talk from rubber-movers has distracted us, the nation has sunk, almost unnoticed, into an unspectacular yet profoundly strange new arrangement. It's not yet a divorce! It's more like a bitter, loveless marriage in which the parties may potentially hail less and less ex-thermistically extend because spitting up is too complicated or stressful or expensive.

From its start, this country has been a tricky balancing act. The states writing in their own narrow interests list also together as a union. That delicate equilibrium is central to the nation's social, economic and economic life sharing authority and power between a national government and far-flung states.

But for the past-doorsce so years, the more blue parts and the more real parts of this people-country have arrived as a variety of rallies governing arrangements, separations and alliances with which to threaten each other at the federal government. The names for this dynamic are "nonsuperactive federalism" and, since recently, "self-occasions."

During the past two Democratic presidencies, many red states and countries declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries, prohibiting their police forces from enforcing some federal gun regulations. (The term was a trifle in the way of a Democratic sanctuary, cities, which did the same for federal immigration policies.) Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas took

it upon himself to overrule federal immigration policy, depleting the National Guard is trying the banks of the Rio Grande with calls of state wire and ordering his troops to prevent federal border agents from helping migrants who go tougher in their home than to make Republican governors endowed the show of anti-federal strength.

Now that Mr. Trump is back in office, Democratic red states and cities are getting at once so aggressive, overriding or ignoring federal and state policies they find objectionable. Local police departments aren't cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Many states passed laws to shield residents from prosecution if they are charged elsewhere with facilitating abortions, and several have stockpiled abortionists in case federal law or regulations made them hard to go.

Various combinations of blue states have banded together to perform functions the federal government has abandoned or degraded: forming a climate alliance that partici-

How long can the unhappy union of red and blue go on?

pates in international forums the Trump administration won't attend, creating de facto regulatory agencies for cop-and-trade-carfers markets, issuing medically legitimate childhood vaccination recommendations. A coalition of a couple of dozen attorneys general has used for administration over 60,000,000 citizenship, tariffs and denial of federal funds to Democratic-controlled states. In the group's biggest rallies group meetings, it was expected last fall, "the same phrase keeps coming up, though nobody wants to say it publicly: safe necessities."

We've been there before: in the first half of the fifth century, when Southern states involved states' rights as a means to defend slavery against the will of the rest of the country. Yet as tensions rose over the next three decades, presidents focused on preserving the peace and keeping the states united. Today, by contrast, we have a persistent apparent international to widen the divide — and which has made it clear again and again that he will reward those states and cities that approved for him and severely punish the

others for their perceived disloyalty.

As far as our national union goes, the United States is definitely just the good-faith couples therapy stage and since continuous mutual mistrust and embargo, Each camp is engaging in what therapies call triangulation, enlisting friends and family members to take a side. We have fully restored the judicial respect and mutual hostility, with mediators, earmarkly fights, restraining orders and all.

Still, the antagonist couples can stagger on together for a long time, living together in one municipal with federal courts but separate calendars, friends, bedrooms and lives, occasionally engaging in screams or such other before returning to their skilled postures of sixties, saline hostling. Even in the hard-up to make the union of the state between 2012, when South Carolina declared a federal law "took owed an law" and 1981, when Confederate troops fired the first state. So what is the path out of today's angry domestic stand-up?

Both in tensions between Washington and the states make periods of soft necessities to some degree inevitable. The century of relative national tranquillity between the Civil War and the United States in the awful compromise of Jim Crow. When that finally proved unmanageable in the 1960s, the national confrontation was fierce. A measure of calm returned and looted for half a century. But it was the result of the war.

A peaceful national consensus and a more or less well-functioning democracy aren't going to spontaneously revive. A generation ago, a 500-borrow junior senator named Barack Obama looked as up with his heartfelt insistence that "there is not a liberal America and a conservative America," only "the United States of America." He encouraged us not to "dive and dive our country into red states and blue states," because "we are one people." Isn't it pretty to think so? Since they see have shied and bleed ourselves thoroughly.

Yet can't keep going this way. Escaping federal dysfunction and avoiding real hostilities over the long term will require some kind of radical shift. Perhaps states and regions will not have many new components. Like the regional autonomous communities in Spain, some of which reflect nearly all the times their inhabitants pay and then forward a negotiated share to the national government. In the same way, the increase, which can divide or reconfigure, and each one decides whether announces between firms citizens.

Even that might not be enough, homeday down the line we may decide we have as choice for to call it quits. Yes, I hope we could dilute the hard of your doctor! Czechoslovakia, whose 1981 breakup into two nations was so calm, it was called the 'silver Denver, a kind of conscious national uncoughing. For our hope, heterogeneous country, it would be extremely difficult and painful. But in the long run, it might still be better for the kids.

COLUMNIST | NICHOLAS KRISTOF

What American Poverty Looks Like

Every year I choose a university student to accompany me on my win-a-rely journey, which is meant to highlight issues that deserve more attention. Up: 2020 winner in Bruxella Tipismona, a recent Yale University graduate and budding journalist — and with that, I'm handing the rest of the column over to her.

Bruxella Tipismona

U.S. D.C. 1912.

I thought I knew what poverty looked like. I grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Lima, Peru, in a family of former agricultural workers who remembered what's was like to live in that kind real houses. So when I drove through Arkansas, formerly and Oklahoma, meeting Americans in some of the poorest 237 codes in the nation, my first reaction was one I'm not particularly proud of.

The people we met drove cars, lived in houses with no conditioning, owned working machines and bought groceries with electronic benefits cards. I found it hard to sympathize with their circumstances: They're capable too less of our neighbors in Lima than of my country's comfortable middle class.

But as the trip went on their stories convinced me their poverty was more complicated than it appeared: the young people in deshdunthdand towns who said they felt left behind and terrified about their houses, the Arkansas woman trying to raise six children on $15.40 on loan, the Kentucky grandmother, who told me that I wouldn't find a family a few town whose lives hadn't been touched by addiction — a comment I heard again and again.

The Americans I met were financially better off than many of their counterparts in the developing world. But as anyone who has never gone between poverty is which more more than money. Many working-class Americans I met are troubled by addiction, loneliness and unemployment agree that poor people whom I'm from are often proud.

But the rising taxes on such a money aren't just in this country was how it was headed together with the drug uphems. What about the income of the people who are the second costs of their production — like carrot-based violence and corruption — the United States bears the human costs of drug consumption at a scale not even anywhere else. In 2023 it had the highest recorded rose

in overdone deaths in the world.

And these who shoulder the lethal cost of this crisis are, disproportionately, poor working-class Americans.

In Tulsa, Okla., I met Drew May, 26, a woman with an easy demeanor. Four generations of women in her family had dealt with teenage pregnancy, addiction, sexual illness and sexual violence, she said, and soon these patterns began to replicate her life. At 7:30s was hospitalized for what doctors thought was a mental health disorder.

"I wanted people who could shoot me and who listened to me," she said. "I found that in the drug community!" She told me that she became a smoke crystal dark in 12. It is about the bad been in the gifted and talented program, but soon she dropped out and left home.

At 19 she and her partner began engaging in vandalism. "We felt like we'd been left too loud," she said, and they staked to express their frustration. "I personally didn't have any strong beliefs," she added. "I was in for the chaos."

The second thing that struck me about the poverty I saw in America is that it can be unbelievably lonely. Many of those we met were cut off from extended family and left to head for themselves. The emotional distance was compounded by geographical isolation, and true it was expensive or laborious.

It was a sharp contrast with the density — both geographic and relational — of where I grew up. My life was a made-in a thick network of users, cousins and friends. My parents still talk about the neighbors who moved there a bag of ours in weeks when they had no food or money. When our institutions failed, our community acted as social insurance — a threadbare substitute for state capacity for a substitute nevertheless.

American institutions have more resources than Perch, though America's welfare state is filtered than those of other rich countries, and the current administration is evoking it further. But class solidarity and communal structures can make poverty more vulnerable, and the Americans who have to live without them end up more isolated and sacred than we ever were.

America's stories about need can boost economy for the poor. As a Fourth of July party in San Francisco, I mentioned this reporting project to a friend who writes about global development, according to him, it was simple: America's talent-discovery media-

A woman with an easy demeanor. The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, 1912.

sisters are so efficient, he said, that people remain poor only when it is their own fault.

His comment mirrored the empirical earlier. Despite approaching the question from radically different places, my friend and I both were asking, to coaxize: How real can poverty in America be? His training was little more than a technocratic clothing of the American promise that anyone can rise from because effort and talent are revealed. This thinking makes entries like state — I was poor, and there I came to America, and saw I am not — elicit sympathy. It turns the lives of a lucky few into evidence supporting the classic tale of American uplift.

Yet while I've experienced the success of

In Peru, struggling people lack food but have community. Here, it's different.

meritocracy, I've also seen firsthand how of ten meritocracy folk and how easily effort is saddest by lack and circumstances. We can see that there are responsible for what is, in the end, bad luck.

In Pirao Hall, ALA, 12 crystal barrels, a young teacher, painted a grim picture of America at 250. "We're living in a world that's taking away resources and forcing people to get desperate. And what happens when too many people are desperate?" she said. "We'll see."

Most of the people we met felt their desperate only in powerlessness and anxiety. But for some, like Ms. May, it curdled into oblivion and remonstrance. If a country with its struggling people has been suffering in their own faith, it should not be surprising when some of them decide they are in for the chaos.

And yet when I met Ms. May, things seemed to be leading up. She had been sober for more than three years, she was strong, her two others children again and preparing some all love of our children in the same room for the first time. She'd graduated from an Oklahoma program called Women in Recovery, a diversion initiative for women with substance abuse disorders.

But by Tabula Family & Children's Services, it provides roughly two years of intensive treatment (drawing, mental health counseling, work force training) as an alternative to prison. Only about 1 percent of participants go to prison within three years of graduating from the program. And Women in Recovery costs about $100,000 a year to enrols our woman — less than 100,000 women have spent imprisoning her for the same period.

Ms. May saw stress a truck for Family & Children's Services 7000 Store. The program has granted women like her 140 persons bond, both a community, several times, paid them the courtesy of believing their problems were real and tried to keep address them.

Ultimately, a society as rich as America's should be capable, however superficially, of providing families not just money and consumer goods but also a glimpse of a path for ways.

"I had no hope before, and I couldn't see past my own two but, and that's so different. I had no hope about the future," she said in Recovery. So many of those I spoke with are stuck in shrinking, uness, in shale and ecumenism, in politics that look past them. As Ms. May said, they, too, "deserve to have lives that are full of options."

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This Independent Hates Both Parties

Michelle Cattle

A national politics writer for Opinion.

JULY, 2025

THE Senate candidate Dan Osborn wants to be crying about that he is not a Democratic. No way. No thank you. Yes, he is running to answer the Republican Party Richette in Nebraska. And, yes, he has much to say about how President Trump's policy was running. Information. Not to mention how shamelessly the Republican-led Congress is failing to stand up in the executive branch.

But Mr. Osborn is a 'lifelong independent' candidate campaign signs clearly precludes and when folks ask why, he has a simple re-pleasure.

'I don't like either party,' he said me over. Jesus and how is the event of allison recently after my family of campaigning. 'I think that's both kind of work.' His goal, as Mr. Osborn tells it, is to selfishly the Senate and start breaking the unhealthy two-party death grip on the system.

Given this pan on both their houses, you care, it might seem strange that the Nebraska Democratic Party is backing Mr. Osborn's candidate, that national Democrats have given him that real blessing and that his campaign events tend to be good. Well known as hard Democrats than force doing unofficials. Strange, maybe, that also smart.

Nebraska is a rahy-red state where registered Republicans outnumber Democratic nearly revisions. Regardless of how the party is sick which are blowing nationwide, a Democrat winning a Senate seat in Nebraska any time soon feels about as likely as Tucker Cairns becoming the next mayor of NE's rich. But a rahy, popular independent with take-office errors viral, a progressive economic platform and made the idea on 'all and some I' think is a solid maybe.

So it is that Mr. Osborn, a Navy veteran turned federal to mechanic and union organizer, now finds himself at the corner of a high-stakes electoral experiment being conducted by the Democratic Party he has quietly reported. It is an intriguing enough prospect that Democrats in other deep-end pockets of the country, including Idaho and Montana, have been the most effective.

'The strategy is not without risk. By bouncing an independent like Mr. Osborn, Democrats could indeed be facilitating the derrion of that company system over which they have been a major problem. I believe they are not running its own candidate, the party might give some water the impression that it has given up on rural America, but those feel like long-term, second-tier concerns can't be made. But they are not in the rural America's carefully toward Democrats—an unspoofly unlikely to be improved by the crusade of the party's left flank to drive out moderates.

'The panotical reward, by contrast, is an motor: reducing the number of Republicans in the closely divided Senate, with an authoritarian president in most of resting in. Sure, Mr. Osborn would presumably oppose pieces of the Democratic agenda. Maybe even he pieces, but in Nebraska—unlike, say, in New York—Democrats don't have the luxury of party tents and ideological fragility. They need to figure out how to expand their tents, and, in the Osborn model's sense, they'll need to carry it through across other borderline areas.

Part of what has Democratic to fired up about Mr. Osborn in particular is that he has already proven himself a core, competing in a man for the anti-mutualishment, working-class message the party is interested in enclining. Two years ago, he ran against Nebraska senior senators. He Republican Debates, Black Men, the Labor, Democrats were assured by his upstart run. The state party tried, but it didn't, accrued him of being 'manchester' and a threat to the Democrat's agenda. His independent candidate, always a long time, was dismissed by many political watchers as beyond opinion.

The senators have the right to reach, coming within seven points of hearing Mr. Fischer. It was a startling overperformance that put Democrats asking themselves: What if we were all in on this gap next door!

The senators have the right to have him worked to up his game. He has two-briefs the most, talking with health care workers and heartenders, farmers and ranchers. Nebraska is a huge nation. His supporters say he has grown low in the state and he has a smooth and unintended speaker, but he comes across as solid and unwise.

He won't be 'beholster' to corporate interests or 'دستhield by party heads,' he praises. He has been led by the state of a new leader in Columbus last month. 'I would be the most popular politician overnight in this country,' he predicted, with people far and wide mar-rolling, 'Yours, did you see what Nebraska's party's today's best? Just what they do in a billionaire?' The times, they are a change!'

Mr. Osborn speaks directly to many 'widespread disaffection with the political establishment, accusing both parties of political power.' He says, 'I think that's of itself before, above the public good. He is a fierce critic of the Supreme Court's Citizens United case page finance ruling, he does not take corporate PCC donations, and he is adamant that he is a 'sister' of the party's left. Fischer or Nancy Pelosi—cannot be trusted.

Of the wrong Mr. Osborn passes the political text of a guy read like to have a love with the issues, clearly, partly and prone to saying that he is a 'sister' of the party's left. 'I am trying to make a cannabia a heart attack. Our lunch room is unholy, joined by several of his campaign staff members, began with an explanation of his intense—two are of his daughter's names, and the other is a 'sister' of the party's left. Fischer or Nancy Pelosi—cannot be trusted.

A pitcher is high school. Mr. Osborn joked that he would probably aim to hit the sensational batter—'I'll thrive right into 'em!'—to

keep the opposition off balance. Notably, he did not say which issue he envisioned pitching for.

Mr. Osborn's supporters also consider the Republican opponent this tence. Mr. Richette, a former full man, Mr. Fischer was at 2021. Mr. Fischer 'is a lunch woman who know how to pull a calf,' noted John Hansen, the president of the Nebraska Farmers Union. (For decades, Mr. Fischer worked on her family's coach, Mr. Richette is the one of her Richette, the billionaire founder of the brokerage firm TV America.

Nebraska Democrats hope Dan Osborn can beat the G.P.'s Senate nominee.

'Pete Richette, there's a lot of people that take at him and they tried of me a symbol rich kid,' said Mike Gage, the president of the state's A.F.L.-C.U., which is backing Mr. Osborn. 'Replace a billionaire with a mechanic' has become a tag line for the Osborn campaign.

Also important: Mr. Trump will accept a very different role in this race than in the last one. Among other economic challenges being Netherlands, this administration has plenty to vent the state's farmers and ranchers, said Mr. Hansen. 'We're in control.' 2024, the Nebraska Farmers Union supported Mr. Fischer over Mr. Osborn. This year, it is backing Mr. Osborn over Mr. Richette.

The line the most intriguing, and potentially significant, change from 2024 is Mr. Osborn's supposed relations with Nebraska Democrats: 'It's a totally different election cycle and relationship that we have with Dan.' said Mr. Klerk, the state party chair. 'In '24, we

felt like we were just on totally different pages. We didn't feel like it was a coalition of her.' Back then, she recalled, Mr. Osborn was sent to 'criticizing a democracy,' and, in greenning and silkenbing with Mr. Trump's policy positions on border security too within stantically.

The state party has done some soul-searching as well, added Mr. Klerk. Nebraska Democrats had to 'put our ages aside' and acknowledge that backing Mr. Osborn gave Democrats a better idea at seeing their issues and values taken seriously. 'We know we will disagree with Dan,' said former state senators, Mr. Klerk. 'The left wing of the party will most likely take exception to this views on gain interest, she offered. Some of his positions on its suggestion, his concerns about government spending and his personal opposition to abortion crores are so sippens codifying the Rec v. Wade president may also tell progressions the wrong way.' And 'don't OK,' said Mr. Klerk. 'We are comfortable being uncomfortable.'

National Democrats are being extremely quiet about Nebraska. But they are on board with the plan, Mr. Klerk told me. Nebraska Democrats are backing several independentists up and down the ballot this year, leaving nine the independent founder that Mr. Osborn has been credited with acquiring 'the absolutely embrace them,' said Mr. Klerk.

In fact, she hopes to see 'more candidates within our own Democratic Party, as well as more independent, start coming more conditions. Because I really do think that is the path back to creating more durable policies that look and sound more like America and that can last beyond one election cycle,' she said. 'I think that is part of one party's future, especially to real states, and we shouldn't be embarrassed about it.'

Democrats elsewhere seem to agree. In Montana, several prominent Democrats, including the former Montana senators Joe Tyson and Max Baucus, are promoting the independent Senate candidate Beth Bolman, Caldas in Nebraska, the state party in Minnesota and the new on board, and its candidate, Aheri Bankhead, dug in rather than hewed out. Ahead of Monday's deadline to withdraw from the ballot, both candidates faced pressure to get out to avoid splitting the one Republican vote, but neither budget.

In Idaho, the Democratic Senate candidate, David Beth, dropped out of that raw hart month, leaving it to the independent, Todd Achilles, to take on the longtime Republican incumbent, Jim Klerk, a county Democratic group had warned Mr. Beth that if his campaign didn't show prompt improvement, they would consider endorsing Mr. Achilles. Last Tuesday, the Democratic Senate candidate is based on John, Julian Beaubles, and the same for the independent Brian Bogan.

Jim Manchin, the former Democratic senior from New Virginia, wants to scale up this trend. Last month, he announced a new organization aimed at giving the Democratic senate elected to Congress. With the House and Senate on closely divided, he said, 'I'll be a would-st take many free agents to bring their more particular colleagues' by their leaves.'

Especially with the Senate senators made up waves in the primaries, the Democratic Party seems unlikely to make much progress broadening its brand against this year. If Mr. Osborn succeeds, or even comes closer than last month, the blue man will be trying to coalition building with real-state independent who are. Even to their many, at least adjacent, it could make for a more dynamic, maybe even less potential, Congress.

CORRECTION

An article on Aug. 17, 2025, about the mental health of boys and men measured in decline of lower income high-school age boys playing sports from 2021 to 2025. The latest dropped data from data in 2024. The data in 2024 shows that. This correction was delayed because the error was only recently brought to the officer's attention.

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Girl and Boy Scouts, Together and Apart

TO THE EDITOR:

Re: 'What Happens When Girls Go to the Boy Scouts,' by Erica Song (Opinion guest news), July 20.

I am writing as a member of Girl Scout Young Idl of Dallas, the Boy Magician Wheeler from 2015 to 1982. The four remaining members of the young are now in the office of the public a directorate in secondary, one-created two community libraries, one sells high-end real estate, and I write.

I would like to have a look for the reception to the perception expressed by Dr. Song that we spent our scouting years in the kitchen or tearing books. The story missing kicking teens and building cook from and biking in Rocky Mountain National Park or pier fishing on the Texas coast, or more volunteering with non-occupational therapy programs or as insurance decrets.

Read the Girl Scout Young Idl from these years, and you will find a wealthy feminist curriculum book. Scouting taught us the value of planning and competition. We learned how to be capable in the outdoors, and how to change a tire or a food-sale.

'These rich experiences did not appear from mothers of course. Highly educated parents, you money to get to the least campsites and free time figured into our scouting episodes. Could you have to be a very experience with boys have improved it? Hard to imagine.'

AND A BRITTON DAVON, N. Y.

TO THE EDITOR:

Erica Song makes the typical mistake of believing that girls can't become leaders unless they experience the discomfort of camping and a large, too. They are not a good thing to have to spend in different settings—for example, girls leading a school orchestra or girls leading a

The Trump Plane Play

TO THE EDITOR:

Re: 'Secret Plan Spirited Trump Out of Future' Asian Theater ('Over page, Aug. 12). No, let me get this right. Based on intelligence about a threat to President Trump and our Force One from Iran, a former US Army front one side and leaves it from the other. While reporters and some White House staff members may on the plane. It takes off, and they serve as 'unknowing doctors.'

Can someone please explain the offers behind this decision? A U.N. to make a connection. The U.N. is the most confident. We think possibly sacrificing the force of many ads. P.V.? If there was a legitimate force against Mr. Trump and Mr. President, the U.N. government which away the president and know the others in the United States is a good thing.

I guess Mr. Trump's life is worth more than that of the reporters and his staff. How Reported?

MICHAEL BASSOสKOTHOU CENTERPORT, N.Y.

An Act of Kindness

TO THE EDITOR:

Re: 'On the Benefits of 'In-Between Moments,' by Mithra A Kivich (Inside The Times, Aug. 20, 2025).

I am writing to applaud the charming article about the joy and purpose of running errands. If the mind does not have to be able to make many errands are a waste of time. Perhaps that was my gold blood the pleasure these small securities provide.

I am sure you know where you'll meet or what opportunity for a number of of kindness might be made. But that's why there was a woman working in a running attendant who every more bothers. There was something special about her, so that she was that she won't offend her, but in my day, we acknowledge the bathroom attendant, and so I discreetly about it's in the palm of her hand.

She began to cry. She said, 'I'm 25 years of doing this, so one has ever recognized me that.'

She said that I had given her only 50, so I reached for a $10 bill and started to hand it to her. She demurred, saying: 'No, no, it isn't the money. It's that you created me like a human being.'

I felt that women's bedrooms feeling richer than I ever had.

KLAPIN TOWN WEST BLOOMFIELD, MICH.

staff of other students in a school kitchen.

You don't have to experience being wet or cold or exhausted or searching for firewood in a threat forest to grow into a kind and capable leader as an adult. Just there are many kinds of merit budget and offer a variety of leadership growth experiments. Doing the work of any type provides opportunities to learn to lead. There of us who didn't particularly like camping can testify to that.

KLAPIN TOWNS GUILFORD, CONN.

TO THE EDITOR:

Erica Song's essay beautifully written in the stripes and of girls in scouting. As a Scouts professional during the transit tour to include girls, I will expand! Orchess the interior of the country. The time is even though international scouting had been cool for decades.

For generations, the distinction of high score was denied. However, it is a program that can open doors for a lifetime. While the opportunity is now for young women, research has shown that participation in the program yields permanent advantages.

We all benefit from circumcised youth. Murdered-day has declined from many millions in my youth to suggest that the two today. Correlation is not causative, but would not only be the less polarized if more children learned to be, a counsellor's past experience from leaders like Dr. Song?

MICHELIA LEHUE SAN JOSE, CALIF.

The writer is a former child about spouse affairs in the Silicon Valley Memory Bay Scouting USA Council.

TO THE EDITOR:

Erica Song doesn't get it. The Boy Scouts were sold off on a sale for $1.75. It's not about girls and fairness. I was a boy scout, and have many children. Some of the girls are not on doing many scouting activities. Boys doing less things—yes, without girls. That's exactly what was great about it. We had only 1000.

If girls want to die the things that the Boy Scouts die, they should. But they should figure out a way to do it without destroying what the Boy Scouts hold. Be boys and young men.

I have two daughters, and they enjoy spending time hiking and camping and being outdoors, but I would not want them to encroach on the Boy Scouts.

DANIEL CASE DANIEL LEMONIO, P.A.

TO THE EDITOR:

When I was a young girl, I knew that boy's hat from him. I saw the little of eight children, and we had a nearly childhood, but it was always the boy's. I was a boy. We were a badding hero, playing in the woods, making mad you and conspiring—is everything. No curling from, making it very tough now. Always, I was a boy.

This taught me a lot about life. Girls are boys are older—I am also very much alike. It also led me to a career as a psychotherapist. Working with men who have been imprisoned and have suffered and died.

My childhood and career have taught me that the better girls and boys understand each other, the better they can get along. As a boy, I don't make the world a better place.

KLAPIN MUSEUM WYNDON, CONN.

TO THE EDITOR:

I have been a girl issue since 1967. I am now 90, and I think I was a canque, then a counselor and then a young leader. Together we feel keen, identified places, such lives, perfect ways, kindred people, and more. White Mountains, canned and camped on the Czechoslovak River and Rangeloy Lake. We canned and liked and camped on the Czechoslovak River. We endured rain, cold and black flats. I still frequent these places, though I stopped overnight camping in my life. Erica Song has been over part of today's young people. Girl Scouts have not changed their name and still offer girls the same opportunities that I have for them. We all benefit from these days I all in our life's result with pleasure. A shared experience with the girls and great laughter after trips, cooking our kitchen food or camp over the first we made each day.

It is the future, please give them to us a good time, continue to thrive and survive discomfort, and who have not changed our name.

ALEXAND'S YOUNSHINE CHALO, N.Y.

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Heat Kills Hundreds of Workers Across the Country Every Year

People who hail outdoors face perilous conditions with few protections.

By KURTIS LEE

DALLAS — The afternoon temperature soared in 90 degrees as Danny Rodriguez slammed the door of his Postal Service van. Three years ago, on this same route through a body Dallas neighborhood, another road carrier died from the hail. Mr. Rodriguez thinks about the main often, especially during summer shifts.

"The job can drain you," said Mr. Rodriguez, who has been a mail carrier for 12 years and wears a wide-brimmed hat to block the sun.

As searching temperatures and high humidity, the latest storm of the country this summer, with cities touching recent high, outdoor workers face increasingly perilous conditions with limited rules to protect them.

Texas has even barred its cities and counties from passing local heat protections, arguing that mandates aren't necessary. There are no specific mandatory federal rules to protect workers from extreme heat, and the Trump administration is working to cut back proposed. Rationers hear rules that would have mandated breaks and access to water. Republicans in Congress have gone further, proposing legislation that would prohibit the Department of Labor from adopting the Biden-era proposals.

But the risks of on-the-job heat exposure will only worsen with

550

The number of workers who die annually from heat exposure

climate change, according to safety experts and labor groups.

More than 550 workers die annually from heat exposure nationwide, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has estimated. Over the years, deaths have included a 25-year-old construction worker who became unresponsive on a job site in Arizona, a 33-year-old farmworker in Florida who became disoriented while harvesting strawberries and 68-year-old Eugene Cainz. At the minor carrier who collapsed on a front lawn along the route that Mr. Rodriguez saw walks.

A study by researchers at George Washington University and Harvard calculated that there are 26,000 non-related injuries every year.

"Society and employers tend to dismiss the risk factors," said Barrak Alalmoel, director of Harvard's occupational health and climate change program and co-author of the report. Heat exposure can worsen existing health issues like diabetes and asthma, and can cause fainting and seizures, as well as conditions that break down muscle tissue and prompt a dangerous dip in sodium levels in the blood.

"Heat-related injuries can come in different forms," Dr. Alalmoel said. "It's not just a person passing out."

Armed built a dense storm have adopted rules requiring employers to provide workers with resources that can help mitigate the heat.

In California, employers with outdoor workers must provide shade and encourage employees to take breaks when temperatures hit 80 degrees. Failure to offer them sets of heat residents to prevent heat illness is the second most frequently cited violation by California, the state's workplace regulator. In 2024, the agency listed a Southern California landscaping company around $276,000 for floating heat regulations, including denying access to870,000 for

Danny Rodriguez, top, took over the road route of Eugene Cainz Jr., who died from a heat-related illness while on the job in 2023. Above, a construction worker taking a break in Dallas. According to a study, researchers found there are some 25,000 heat-related injuries annually.

C.P.I. Eased Last Month, But War Kept Prices High

The Fed weighs raising rates as inflation pressure remains persistent.

By LYNN DePHLIS

Inflation continued to ease last month from its war-driven surge earlier in the year, but prices still remain as a high level as constrained fuel supplies have increased the cost of living.

The Consumer Price Index rose 8.1 percent in July from a month earlier in the year. Department reported an Wednesday, and 3.4 percent from the previous year on a seasonally adjusted basis, dropping out volatile food and energy prices, prices rose 2.5 percent over the year.

In May, a 1.2 percent annual increase was the fastest pace in over three years when the closure of the trend of thermal steel oil prices soaring. The report for June was unexpectedly mild, with inflation at 2.9 percent over the year and negative 0.4 percent over the month, as oil prices fell in hopes that the war might soon end.

The report comes as the Federal Reserve is weighing whether to raise interest rates, after leaving them steady all year despite inflation that has been running above the central bank's 2 percent target for more than five years. The Fed's policy committee will receive one more inflation reading before its next meeting in mid-September.

"It's reassuring that we've stopped down in terms of some of the pressures we were seeing early this year," said Josh Elst, an accountant with Vanguard's Investment Strategy Group. "But this is still putting us on a track that doesn't necessarily bring the year-over-year rate at the end of the year, below 5 percent."

As the Middle East war has intervened on even so as

New Routes Are Sought To Ship Oil

By LISA FRIEDMAN

LONDON — Sir months ago, exporting oil from the Persian Gulf was fairly straightforward: Product crude at the cheapest price point, expect it through the fastest route and sell it to the countries that can pay the most.

Those days are over. Skipping through the Strait of Havana, long the most efficient path for exports, remains greatly curtailed because of the war in Iran. Much of the oil getting through the strait is an unborn navigating a condominium gauries of Iranian attack drones, or running dark with their location devices turned off. At least 17 seafarers have been killed in the region. Gulf countries that have far decades produced much of the world's oil are now intent on breaking their dependence on the narrow waterway. They are building or expanding pipelines and other infrastructure that can bypass it, and vastly expanding storage capacity will pave like Asia.

These endeavors show how the war is changing the oil business in the Persian Gulf. They will cost billions of dollars and take years to complete, but companies and governments consider them essential hedges in an increasingly volatile region. Even if a cause-fire between the United States and the United States of America is a major, it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major, and it is a major.

"A lot of people assume the Strait of Havana will never carry the same share of oil exports as it did before the war," said Ben Cainz, a energy analyst at the University of Texas at Austin. "No cavernous can soar so.

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M. A. A.

Goldman Sachs Offers $2.25 Billion to Buy Now

Goldman Sachs will acquire the exchange-traded bank provider Neos Investments for as much as $2.25 billion, as the investment bank bank to bolster its presence in active asset management.

Neos manages $30 billion in assets across 19 E.T.F.s that cover a suite of index products, while using options to generate additional income and cap downside risk.

Demand for such products has

surged of late, as institutions look to hedge purchase with investments that help cushion drawdown risk and provide recurring income in a volatile market.

Goldman has pursued acquisitions in the actively managed E.T.F. space to strengthen its asset management unit and capitalize on the growing demand.

The Wall Street giant completed the $2 billion buyout of Innovator Capital, which also has an options-based E.T.F. this year.

Near total returns in the fund since inception are close to 15 percent. REUTERS

EARNINGS

Foxconn Piota 30% Rise In Second-Quarter Profit

Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest common electronics maker, reported on Wednesday a 31 percent rise in second-quarter profit, beating analyst forcouns, on continued strong demand for A.I., which is predicted would drive growth this year.

Net profit for the April to June period for Nvidia's biggest server maker and Apple's top iPhone controller was $59.97 billion Taiwan dollars ($5.58 billion), versus an iCloud customer number ($5.83 billion Taiwan dollars and compared with $44.4 billion Taiwan dollars a year earlier.

In an earnings release, it stuck to its previous forecast of "strong"

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growth for revenue this year and said it also saw strong A.I. demand driving growth throughout the year.

The company said its cloud and networking products segment, which includes A.I. servers, accounted for 51 percent of second-quarter revenue. REUTERS

EARNINGS

Norway's Sovereign Fund Reports Record Earnings

Norway's $2.5 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, posted a record profit of $184 billion for the first half of the year, lifted by technology stocks, it said on Wednesday.

Investigated in Norwegian state's revenues from oil and gas production, the fund series on average 1.5 percent of all listed companies globally, making it the world's largest single investor.

"The result is driven by good returns in the equity market, particularly from Asian technology stocks," the chief executive, Nürzli-Tangne, said in a statement accompanying the half-year results. The fund's first-half return beat a previous record of $142 billion set in the first six months of 2025, and corresponded roughly to the full cost gross domestic product of Uzbekistan, a country of 39 million people.

Still, the fund's management has warned that wars and economic depression could wipe out much of its holdings. REUTERS

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Wall Street Ticks Near Records as Inflation Worries Abate

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Wall Street finished just shy of a record Wednesday after several A.I. stocks reported better growth for the spring than analysts expected, while a report showed inflation across the United States was slightly less had last month.

The S&P 500 rose 0.3 percent for its first gain since setting a high on Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average dipped 25 points, or less than 51 percent, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 4.5 percent.

Stocks in the artificial-incubigous technology business helped lead the way after strong profit reports bolstered hopes that they can continue to deliver enough growth to justify the huge gains their prices have made.

Super Micro Company, which sells servers and other equipment, jumped 10 percent after reporting earnings per share for the latest quarter that were 9 percent higher than analysts expected. It also gave forecasts for upcoming profit and revenue that helped analyze expectations.

CavriMoore, which offers A.I. competing power to customers over the cloud, looped 10.3 percent after reporting better revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected, along with a milder loss. Its chief executive, Michael Inters时, said demand is accelerating from customers as big businesses adapt A.I.

CavriMoore gives his customers access to A.I. chips from Nvidia, and Nvidia climbed 3 percent, it was the single strongest force lifting the S&P 500.

It's a return to strength for A.I. stocks, which have been voicing on a roller-coaster ride. After merging to records, A.I. stocks came under pressure on worries that they also too high. Investors wanted to see big operators on A.I. prove their investments are yielding enough to predict and produce deep to make them worth it. That is turn could lead to continued demand for chips and other A.I. infrastructure.

Wall Street also got some sup-

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part from easing yields in the bond market. Treasury yields fell after a report showed that U.S. consumers paid prices for gasoline, groceries and other costs of living last month that were 3.4 percent higher than a year earlier.

That's higher than anyone would like, but it's not as bad as Juan's 3.9 percent inflation rate.

The deceleration could give the Federal Reserve more privacy to hold off on increases in interest rates. Higher rates would help keep a bit on inflation, but they would do so by making it more expensive for U.S. households and companies to borrow, and forcing it slowdown in the economy. Higher interest rates also would endorsal prices for stocks and other investments.

The Fed's members are notably split about whether they should have already begun increasing interest rates. But Wednesday's update on inflation pushed traders to pull back on less that the Fed will raise its main interest rate at the next meeting in September.

Traders are betting on a 40 percent chance of it, down from the coin-flight chance seen the day before, according to data from CNIC Group.

That helped pull the yield on the 10-year Treasury down to 4.88

percent from 4.70 percent late Tuesday. It, though, still remains well above its 3.97 percent level from before the war with Iran, which sent oil prices and worries about inflation spiking.

Oil prices swung between end-of-game and losses Wednesday and the price for a barrel of Bread crude added 0.1 percent to $80.98.

Higher yields have already pulled long-term mortgage rates to their highest levels in a year. That's hurting the housing industry, and losses for homeholders on Wednesday helped keep the market in check.

D.R. Morton led 1.5 percent, and PulseGroup lost 3.7 percent. Builders FirstSource, which sells countertops and other holding materials, dropped 0.5 percent.

In stock markets abroad, indexes dipped in Europe after a mixed showing in Asia.

South Korea's Koop jumped 3.7 percent for use of the world's bigger gains.

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COMPANIES | LABOR

G.M.'s Law at Guy' Talks: Electric and Nepotism

Mark Reuss, president of the automaker since 2019, ascended to the role his father held decades ago.

Wheels

By JAMIE LINCOLN KITMAN

WORTER, MICH... There's the old Hens-lin-Eight (Vine West) a young man standing on the 2nd floor in the shop floor to become company president. Then, there's the mirror image of this, with the spinoff's path to the top unaudited by a family that controls the company.

If the driver's first 10 years into a General Motors. Starting an an intern on the factory floor in 1993, Mr. Reuss worked his way up the corporate ladder to become G.M.'s president in 2018.

He was a member of the company's board held the job he saw as copies. Mr. Reuss has heard all kinds of talk of expertise. But his father's tenure near the top, for less than two years, ended with an outright, and he was a member after he had spent a lifetime at the company. So far, things are not the father, like not at General Motors there but...

In 1996, G.M. had since 62 percent of the company's shares. By 2006, as G.M. emerged from bankruptcy, he share had 100 in 316 percent. The share today is 13.2 percent. While that's a far cry from the company's loyalty, it's 13.2 percent. In 2012, over 40.2 percent of car buyers chose General Motors products.

A mechanical engineer by training, Mark Reuss is known as a "car guy" in the company's car. That means, in the partners of the industry, that he's a car enthusiast for and then a businessman. His ascension was seen as a core win for the car guys, and as it has been, the company's ability to run the final execution and a G.M. 10oz. too. "Really good engineers," Mr. Reuss said, "and really good finance people. It's work-up right, complement each other."

Mr. Bart's role in the role died in 2012, the day after the government rid itself of the last of the company's shares from its Great Recession rescue. To-

Mark Reuss, a mechanical engineer by training, says the division of label between a car guy and a big picture been in succeeding.

gether. Mr. Bart's and Mr. Reuss are undertaking the industry's most modern-time insure, cost-ethnicism and autonomy. Each of these is tied to the Ameri-ian industry's most worrying threat: brand Chinese competition.

"Mark is an incredible leader and one of the strongest product minds in the industry," Mr. Bart's said in a statement, "with deep technical expertise and a real passion for designing and building vehicles around what matters most in the people who drive them."

The division of label between a car guy and a big picture was in wearing fruit. Mr. Reuss said: "This is the first time we've had this structure for a long, long time. Which is a really good one," he said during a recent interview, in G.M.'s Technical Center in Warren, Mich., which was designed by Keru Saarinen. "If you look back at the era- I've seen since joining the company in

1986, there was the beginning of problems. Rarely a year went by that didn't have a reorganization in it."

G.M.'s move into electric vehicles has been hampered by pockets of internal opposition, the wildly differing positions of administration in Washington and ever-shifting tariffs, but the company remains committed to E.V.'s, he said.

"We have not stopped producing any of our electric vehicles," he said. "We believe in the sustainability piece of life. We really believe in climate change as a problem. I just want to do something I can be my kids," he, he, real, and I doesn't go away. And I think at the end of the day, these are great cars to drive, really fun and really nice. Once you've had the experience of not going to the year car up with gas, well, it's great."

Attending to this, a towering over 500,000-square-foot battery development plant is rising at its Warren site. Mr. Reuss suggested the company's asserted battery resources generate a modern kind of diversification. "It's not like it's our core business, but it could be a big piece of G," he said.

Stirling in return to a steady footing in the 1990s, G.M. offloaded many of its in-house parts operations in favor of networking. But, he said, unexpected costs followed: "If you have a all out, you're not only paying the margin, but you're also feeling an immerse else's invention." Still, he doesn't see the company returning to the company's five vertical integration that marked its initial climb to market dominance.

"With about 20,000 suppliers, we can about $60 billion through our supply chain into our plants" every year, Mr. Reuss said. "We are joined at the hip with our suppliers."

The company's continued focus on electrification, despite the Trump ad-ministration's lack of enthusiasm, was resulted in quiet, steady growth in an area widely seen by the industry as vital to its future competitiveness in the

United States as well as abroad.

In the 2010s G.M. divorced in long-held European brands, Opel, Saab and Vauxhall, and then withdrew most of its American-made models from European markets. After several failed attempts to make a sales impression, the company's Cadillac division has tripled back into Europe, relying on its lineup of well-received electric E.U.'s. The luxury brand's electric models have reached healthy sales to the United States, with a total sales 2000,000 to E.V.'s already with customers. Cadillac now has best-selling luxury E.V. brand in 2023, with over 1,000 people. It percent of its customers coming from other brands. The highest rate of company customers' homes' finds awards.

Mr. Reuss is aware of a line of criticism that has already lost industry cumulative, the concentration on higher-priced models. He considers this assumptions made about the market for expensive electric pickup trucks and the G.M. brand's sales, including, as nearly $72,000 and climbing to six figures) were mistaken.

Samuel Ahephainiak, an engineer and industry analyst at Nishantra, a 60-oh gas consultant, believes that G.M. product planners reveal, but they were not alone. "Food made the same wrong headed moves when they saw some initial enthusiasm for big, expensive electric pickups, and rapidly cracked up production capacity for the Lightning," he said. "They saw those showing low-rubber level values for the Cybertruck. I think they knew the reality, how these things were going to perform."

Consumer resistance to the surprise they saw strong, range of both levels, and G.M.'s pickups appears to underpin the Ford F-33 Lightning's plunge in sales and cancellation in favor of a smaller electric pickup.

In defense at its lineup, Mr. Reuss observed that G.M. sold more than 500,000 cars in the United States last year that cost $20,000 or less. "That's a

big deal, because these cars are really hard to do," he said. "We were putting these together into a regulatory environment which was punitive."

One standard in the budget segment has been the company's gasoline-powered Chevrolet Tera, a fourth homemade small S.C.V. that has garnered plunder from consumer and enthusiast publications alike.

Another success Mr. Reuss the car guy can claim is the eighth-generation Car-wire, which upon its 2020 debut broke tradition by adapting a mid-engine design. While more traditionalists qualified, it is generally recognized as a smolder value in a world where expensive cigarettes are now and sometimes as much as Chevy is changing.

The broader industry gives Mr. Reuss credit. "Mark's one of the ultimate great product guys," said Eddie Alderman, a big executive at Beaver's Auna and former editor in chief of Car and Driver. "Each brand coheres in a way it hadn't before—all Buicks had the Buicks, all Cadillacs but like Cadillacs."

Though he made it to the top and has succeeded by any reasonable measure, Mr. Reuss is not without a little good-honored credit about the expertise change. "I still read it. Like my dad got me my job. Really? Wow! I was a summer intern, happened to be at the same company because I love cars. But, yeah, my dad. And he got me this job, and by the way, he's been passed away, and I've been here for 40 years, and he's been promoting me for 40 years. It's been awesome. How good is that, right?"

The older Mr. Reuss died in 2023. "I became president before he passed away," Mr. Reuss said. "I remember I picked him up that night I found out and brought him to my house. So, I had dinner with him and said, 'I got something to tell you.' So I told him. And he smiled. And then he cried. That was a great moment."

Medical Leave

For the C.E.O.

Of Home Depot

By ARI/NG WINS

Home Depot's chief executive, Ted Decker, is temporarily stopping away from his role for medical reasons, the company said on Wednesday.

Mr. Decker is expected to return to a few months, and two new wartime have been impeded by the Dr. Decker's job in the interim.

Ann-Marie Campbell, senior executive vice president, will run day-to-day operations, and Ruth Miller/Patty Executive vice president and chief financial officer, will run the company's financial management, Home Depot said.

"We are confident in Asia this fall that Richard's ability to lead the company during this time, and we look forward to Ruth return," Greg Bronsmann, a board mem-

ber who will assume Mr. Decker's role as chair for the next few months, said in the company's announcement.

Under the leadership of Mr. Decker, who joined Home Depot in 2000 and was named chief executive in 2022, the company expanded its professional and contractor services as it invested in more distribution centers and opened new stores. In January, the company laid off hundreds of employees and mandated a return to office.

The company declined to give more details about Mr. Decker's medical leave.

Years of the temporary change in leadership came a week ahead of Home Depot's quarterly earnings announcement. The company's first-quarter report showed nearly flat sales and lower net earnings compared with last year.

In a call with analysts in February, Mr. Decker blamed housing affordability concerns and broader uncertainty in the U.S. market. "We expect manufacturers had got their home remodeling projects on passes.

The economic landscape since the company's last earnings on the market for the first three average rate for a 20-year mortgage, the most common home loan in the United States, was 6.7 percent as of last Thursday, and includes a loss of invested as the war with Iran-drag on.

In the longer term, home improvement retailers like Home Depot could face risks in profit and lower costs. "We have done doesn't improve, analysts from Bank of America said in a research note on Monday.

Heat Kills Hundreds of Workers Across the Nation Every Year

FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE, shade and forcing employees to buy their own drinking water. Not just in the way such as the East Coast with heat protection, the workers.

Two of the horrors states, however, have no laws for heat issues, acids, and lawmakers there have even prevented local governments from exercising their own.

In Florida, Miami-Dade County had taken steps to require clean water and breaks for outdoor workers, but in 2024, the State Legislature passed a law barring cities and counties from adopting their own standards.

A similar decision played out in Texas: After cities like Austin and Dallas had taken measures to mandate 10-minute breaks for construction workers every four hours. The Living Ashton capacity fell in 2023 that eliminated local rules requiring water breaks for workers. The measure was headed by business groups, excluding the National Agriculture, Independent Business, a powerful lobbying group, which argued that heat regulations would be burdensome for small businesses.

Associated Builders and Contractors, a trade group representing the construction industry, supported the Texas law. Anthony Talsudian, the group's president in Texas, said "I think law on assets that businesses operating across Texas are not forbidden to a 'partnership of conflicting local regulations.'"

Agriculture and construction are among the most hazardous jobs for heat-related injuries, according to St. Galdman's research. Letter carriers, who have to work numbers off your, have not had more than 1,200 heat-related incidents during a two-year term, according to a third report from the Postal Service's inspection general.

On June 29, 2023 — six days after Mr. Ashton signed the Texas legislative election — Mr. Gates, the Dallas mail carrier, died on his route northward of downtown.

The heat states that day resulted 131 degrees, before he started what would become his last slide. Mr. Gates tested his wife, Carla, who worked from home and took daily walks through their neighborhood.

The gas go out, he carried the warmed bar, referring to the heat.

Mr. Gates, who delivered mail to slit addresses a day, received the 10-minute paid breaks and a telephone regular card break. The other checked the weather and passed extra water bottles and cooled filled with ice.

Mr. Gates took pride in internal agreement, and he felt to be in the will, said, and he made an effort to remember their faces and forth-days. But after more than 30 years on a period earlier, he was happy to see the heat before he was started. Around 2:45 p.m. that day, a phone number from the post office called her cellphone. Mr. Gates

A contract worker taking a break during the hottest part of the day in the Texas summer heat in Dallas last month.

had fallen in front of a house where he was delivering real, the was rushed to a hospital.

Her husband died of heart disease and hyperthermia. His body temperature was 104 degrees, his wife said.

"He needed more support, but these workers are on their own," Mr. Gates said. "The blame is on them if he must does not get different."

"He was just doing his job," she added.

©2024 Rand the Postal Service 201.623 for his death, citing the agency for failing to recognize the

"hazard of high outdoor heat in during high temperature, high humidity and direct sun exposure." The service declined a request for comment.

Epstein Lewis, the president of the state that found U.S.奇迹 of the National Association of Letter Carriers, said the state was in talking.

"The Postal Service, the state, all listed here," Mr. Lewis said.

In an open letter from June, an temperature began to rise. The Texas A.E.L.-C.I.O. which works alongside the local home carrier's union, wrote that "unions have the

power to take care of workers now by sharing heat safety tips."

"Accumulation, hydration, iron breaks and proper planning save lives," they wrote, calling for workers to organize. "But we need to have this position."

Last month, another Dallas-area postal carrier collapsed and died during a period of extreme heat. A cause of death is pending. The 2 recent afternoon, Mr. Gates, 20, took part in the neighborhood where her husband had lapsed. She visits his grave regularly, but had never returned to the neighborhood where he made

Carla Gates, rep, showed a plane of her husband, Eugene Gates, who collapsed on his delivery route for the U.S. Postal Service. Her years ago been heat-related injuries. "We now just doing his job," she said.

his final deliveries. It had been too painful.

As we walked the route, we can see the shackle of a guarded live cab. Mr. Gates peppered. Mr. Rodriguez, 36, with questions, as if she were his mother.

"How are you staying hydrated?" she asked.

"Plenty of water," he said, using his after collar to wipe sweat from his brow. "At least two gallons a day."

"Do you take breaks, even unattended?"

"Sometimes," he said her fellow pleadantly needed.

He said Mr. Gates that he had known her husband, lasting Mr. Gates had struck him on a quiet, thorough worker.

The two said goodbye, and Mr. Rodriguez finished delivering half of the house was the street-beer burying back to his run parked in a shaded area. He blasted the air-conditioning and drove in the next block.

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ECONOMY | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

A.I.-Focused Buyer of Service Firms Raises $2 Billion

By MICHAEL J. de la MERZED

For many financial firms, the most promising way to invest in artificial intelligence isn't through the late that produce leading-edge models. It's through companies that seek ways to apply A.I. to real-world business range.

The latest beneficiary of that interest is Thrive Holdings, which buys up traditional service providers like accounting businesses and infuses them with A.I.

The company announced on Wednesday that it had raised $2 billion in new funding, valuing it at $2 billion. Investors in the round include SoftBank, JD Capital Partners and Atlanticel Capital.

It's another sign that the more practical elements of the A.I. boom are growing in prominence — and drawing investor dollars. Both OpenAI and Anthropic have teamed up with big private equity firms on billion-dollar ventures that help their portfolio companies adopt A.I. rules.

And it's a realization of Thrive Holdings' strategy of having at least strong power to build a new industries and helping them to use A.I. in their businesses. The company was created last year by Thrive Capital, an investment

Thrive Holdings was created by the investment firm led by Joshua Kushner, who, to apply artificial intelligence to traditional service businesses.

firm founded by Joshua Kushner. In addition to being a venture capitalist, he's the brother of Jared Kushner, a son-in-law of President Trump. Thrive Capital has made significant bets on A.I. companies like OpenAI.

Thrive Holdings began with an initial $1 billion in funding, largely from existing Thrive Trust, which was a "real name foods and restaurants."

Thrive Holdings has us for concentration on two businesses: Current, which focuses on ac-

counting, and Shotel Technology Partners, which focuses on information technology.

"We want to take A.I. from benchmarks and thousands and make contact with the real world," Karoen Zack, a Thrive Capital partner who runs investment strategy at Thrive Holdings, said in an interview.

That has meant creating a team of more than 20 A.I. engineers and product managers. Boris Prover, the head of applied research at OpenAI, which took a

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stake in Thrive Holdings last year, is the head of research at the Thrive offshore.

The results of the approach are promising, according to Thrive Holdings:

• Member firms of Current this can assume processed more than 7,000 returns and decreased their prep times by nearly a third. Current is now one of the 20 biggest U.S. accounting companies.

• Firms associated with Shotel have been able to resolve 12 queries 34 times faster on average.

• Overall, Thrive Holdings' platform is on track to surpass $1 billion in revenue.

Thrive Holdings is now creating a third platform focused on navigating regulatory paperwork in the construction industry, such as permits and compliance checking. Like Current and Shotel, according to Mr. Zack, it is a secret hardened with repetitive filings and other actions ripe for automation.

Because Thrive Holdings is a so-called permanent capital vehicle, it faces no expiration date for the capital it collects from investors — or pressure to sell its buildings. (The models, according to Mr. Zack, are conglomerates like Berkshire Hathaway and Dundet.)

But given the company's results, the management team can the opportunity to raise more money to keep investing in Current and Shotel and to build new platforms like the construction one, he said.

The firm initially held discussions in the spring about raising money from existing investors, according to a person with knowledge of the matter who wasn't authorized to speak publicly about the discussions.

It later expanded to new potential hackers including SoftBank, JD and Atlanticel, which have also led heavily on A.I., this person added.

The new fund-raising doesn't include Thrive Holdings in words to rapidly expand into new industries.

"It's actually to go deep in the more that are really working and double-down in it right down," said Anuj Mohalbrata, a Thrive Capital partner who oversees Thrive Holdings' technology strategy.

July Data Eases Pressure on Fed To Raise Rates

By CHLEY SMITH

New inflation data showing a modest easing of price pressures in July has given the Federal Reserve some breathing room as it considers raising interest rates at its policy running next month. But the prospect of higher borrowing costs remains frosty on the table in officials begin to lose patience about how long inflation has ever been increased, but it's larger.

The latest Consumer Price Index report, published by the Business and Financial Times, was Wednesday, gave policy makers at the Fed some comfort about re-

From M. Wipich, the Federal Reserve investment bank has now missed signals about how he plans to lower inflation.

taining that patience, at least for the time being.

The Fed's preferred inflation gauge is the Personal Consumer Price Index, where price marks, at which the C.P.I. data is a crucial issue. Officials pay almost attention to the so-called core measure, which helps out volatile food and energy prices and is thought to be a better measure of underlying inflation. In July, these prices rose 12 percent from the previous month, or 13 percent compared with the same time last year.

Officials have suggested that this monthly pace is consistent with inflation in the current running in the Fed's target — something that has been missed for five years. The central bank's goal is 2 percent, an investment for the P.C.I. index, as of the New York Stock Index, it was running at 5.7 percent.

The Fed next week on rates is mid-September, and a strong of foreign inflation targets from here on our would help us to get a pressure on the central bank to take action. The next P.C.I. report will be released on Aug. 26.

Before Wednesday's data, a growing cohort of price makers believed the central bank should have already raised rates to speed up the pace at which inflation falls back to a more palatable level. They did not buy the argument backed by other officials, which contured on the idea that price pressures would ease on their own in temporary factors caused by tariffs and the war with less lads. The latest inflation report did not definitively resolve the disagreement. According to Riccardo Trevzi, a former Fed economist who runs the research firm Underlying Inflation, July's P.C.E. data in a list of showing slightly higher inflation rates, is given that the C.P.I. report. The Fed will also get another round of inflation data before it meets in September. On top of this, it is still unclear whether the C.P.I. is the current level of 3.5 percent and 3.75 percent are putting any downward pressure on inflation. Mr. Trevzi said:

"I think the debate between the or so little will go on for a month and a half," he said. "It's complicated to hold. It's also complicated to hide, and it's almost impossible to tell."

The Fed added the Fed's internal debate in the labor market, which has month showed some signs of having lost momentum even as the unemployment rate closed down.

Veronica Clark, an economist at Chiprequ, described the labor market as "the only one of the poorest points to the fact that people are leaving the labor force and wage growth has been 'really weak." She predicts inflation will continue to underestimate the labor's half of the year, driven by a slowdown in housing-related costs.

The Fed's next steps are under heightened scrutiny after the move of the Federal Reserve. "I think the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is that the fact is

He did not articulate a clear reason for the fact that it had been steady in July, nor did he say any opportunity that higher taxes were the primary tool in get inflation down. His decision to repeatedly highlight the fact that conditions had tightened in the absence of rate increases gave the impression that he was comfortable being involved on part of the central bank's plan for the first year. It, Moreover, his passing suggestion that the Fed might consider changing the 2 percent inflation target at some point indeed further inflation.

After the communications missing, which called the U.S. government head market, the class is now on file. You'll no more the bar than the other. It's the dire, I expect nasty will be at the central bank's annual conference in Jackson, Wyo., at the end of the month.

Wages Lagging Inflation

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C.P.I. Softens in July, But Fed Weighs Rates As War Raises Prices

FROM FIRST DECEMBER PAID dropped on, gasoline prices have popped up again, and overcame $4.06 nationwide in early August, according to AAA. Overall energy costs fell 1.5 percent in July, but they are still nearly 15 percent higher than they were at this time last year. The war's impact on fuel costs was also visible in airline fares, which jumped 1.5 percent from June and were up 25.5 percent over the past year.

The elevated costs came at a time when being has slowed drastically and Americans are seeing slower wage gains. The overall amount inflation was for July, remained above the 3.2 percent increase in average hourly earnings over the same period, which means that workers are still being gassed in their spending power.

Three of the 12 members of the Fed's policy committee voted in favor of raising rates last month.

Spending has held up, mostly because of wealthier shoppers

But is very weak jobs report for July may heighten concerns that increasing borrowing costs could break a fragile labor market.

Mona Research tracks a wider range of household income, including government benefits, and found that its three-month average dropped in June on both a national and inflation-adjusted basis after trending upward for most of the past year.

"Household income has its own cycle, and historically it takes years after a mountain to recover," said Marisa Sander, a research principal economist. "When it comes to a few, it is this mature phase, that it is entertainin again, that is worrying. That is what we are seeing now."

Consumer spending has held up remarkably well in the face of high pay prices, present in large part by higher-income Americans basically the health of their stock portfolios. Lower-income workers have shown more strain, with rising delinquencies on credit cards, auto taxes and student bills.

However, the last few months have brought some relief in the

categories that matter most to those without bulging brokerage accounts. Grocery prices declined slightly over the month, as the cost is weak. Still, quality and ruggy bills. The price of used cars has been essentially flat for the last couple of years. The cost of prescription drugs has fallen 11 percent over the year, and more have been increasing more slowly as questions buildings are compared in rates that saw a surge of construction.

These factors are key to the fading "it" shape," said Ian Wyatt, the chief economist at Washington Post, reformer of the nitrogenous in fortunes of the wealthy and the poor. "The cost pressures that were more impactful on lower-income consumers are set there, often than gasoline."

The fading impact of new tariffs has also taken the edge off growth in goods prices. Household food holdings have increased less than 1 percent since this time last year, for example, and a rapid jump in apparel prices seems to have been cut off.

Some retailers, such as Walmart and Floor & Decal, are making selective price cuts as they move refunds for earlier tariffs. They paid that were ruled illegal by the Supreme Court this year. That could allow for some relief in the second half of the year as stems by in win over cost-conscious shoppers, said Michael Lasser, a retail stock analyst at UHS.

One and large, the leading retailers are using these habits to reinvest in promotions, particularly around those key events like back to school, we expect that to be the case around Halloween, as well as the holiday spending period," he said.

Most prices dropped 3.2 percent in one month, after a 2.5 percent drop in June, as high revenues for the World Cup faded.

But other factors are pushing prices higher at the same time, including the data center construction times, which has intensified demand for memory chips. Consumer software and accessories rose 0.5 percent over the month and were up more than 15 percent since the previous July. Apple's price increases on laptops helped pull the index for computer gear up 3.5 percent in one month.

Annual Changes in Select Categories

Percent change from July 2025 of Consumer Price Index items

HEALTH CARE

PERSONAL CARE

Homicide and other services 14.4%

NURSING

None of primary residence 14.3%

TRANSL AND TRANSPORTATION

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE | ENERGY

A Maine Town, Once Dependent on a Paper Mill, Tries to Move On

Square Feet

By KENLEY FREDY

MADISON, MAINE. — The state of Maine is about 80 percent forest and has an $8.3 billion forestry industry. Besides logging, papermaking has always been a large part of that. At the industry's height, there were 20 paper mills in the state. Today, there are six.

The paper mill in Madison, a rugged town of almost 1,000 residents where it's not uncommon to see cracks marked with legs coming and going, that down in 2016. For over a century, the mill, home to Madison Paper Industries, had been responsible for a majority of the town's good-paying jobs with benefits. Even as the company was being revalued in 2015, partly because of the

Matt O'Malla, co-founder and chief executive of TimberHP

decline in paper sales, the mill made up 40 percent of the town's tax base.

When it closed, no one was surprised. The newspaper industry had been declining for years, and Madison Paper Industries, maker of the glossy paper used by The New York Times for inserts, struggled, too.

"The bankerizing was on the wall, so it wasn't a check," said Rick Voinnes, who had worked for 23 years at Madison Paper, which was owned by a joint venture of UPM-Kyrometer and Northers III Paper, a subsidiary of The Times.

"But it was sad for the more than 200 employees who would be out of work," Mr. Voinnes added. "And it was devastating to the town."

A decade later, Madison is still trying to figure out what it is without the paper mill, another example of a small town dependent on a shrinking industry: their road a rough go of moving on. And the mill's new owner has struggled to revive manufacturing in the town, a sign of just how hard it is to make things on a large scale in America when manufacturing jobs across all other sites have been scarce.

TimberHP acquired the delisier paper mill in 2019. Matt O'Malla, an architect, and defense theory, a chemist, paid $2.5 million to buy the 600,000-square-foot plant and refurbish it into one making wood fiber insulation panels from wood chips and other wood waste.

The move seemed like a win for both the community, which got a new employer and big taxpayer, and TimberHP, which got the wood from Malawi forestry industry, reached across two thousand manufacturing workers.

What fiber insulation, a product that is made by Europe, is had not been produced in the United States until TimberHP came along, could also address America's much-needed housing construction and sustainable building efforts, the company said.

The founders said they wanted to help revitalize Madison, both grow up in working-class towns — Mr. O'Malla in Belfast, Maine, and Mr. Henry in Pittsburgh — and they wanted to replace most, if not all, of the last paper mill jobs.

But seven years later, keeping the doors open at TimberHP haven been easy. The Covid-19 pandemic snarled

supply chains, delaying deliveries on things the company needed to refurbish the mill, such as copper and transformers. A few years later, nearing inflation and construction delays stemming from these disruptions slowed the development of TimberHP's production line — enabling the company to make only two products instead of the three originally planned.

And, broadly, the difficulty keeping the plant alive and saving even a fraction of the jobs it once supported highlights the families to a manufacturing revival that policymakers from the local level to the White House say they want to encourage.

The founders tried to sell TimberHP without success. Burdened by debt and running out of cash, the company filed for Chapter II bankruptcy protection in

2023. Its chief executive, Mr. Henry, left abruptly last fall. He told The Times that he was legally "really not allowed to talk about why I left."

TimberHP's challenges were mostly related to money. Despite raising $512 million in two fund-raising rounds and receiving $3 million in grants from the state, the company didn't have enough to weather the insons the pandemic had on all.

Venture capital funding wasn't an option because these investors were used to making returns that were orders of magnitude more from their investments in technology companies and other fast-growing firms. Manufacturing wasn't the

"Venture wants these really assisted returns," Mr. O'Malla, now the company's chief executive, said.

When the Madison Paper Industries plant closed in 2016, no one was surprised. Paper sales had been declining. TimberHP acquired the mill in 2019, refurbishing the plant, above and left, into one making wood fiber insulation panels from wood chips and other wood waste. TimberHP is the first company in the United States to make wood fiber insulation.

The company was running out of cash, Mr. O'Malla said. It took over a year to get out of Chapter II home, supply protection, pay bank investors and start producing the boards.

"Chapter 13's not cheap," Mr. O'Malla said, referring to legal fees and exit financing while still having to remain operational.

Sara Hight, an early investor in TimberHP whose extended family businesses include three real estate development firms, jokes that his investment "turned into a donation."

Still, he said he believed in what the company was trying to do. Mr. Hight's construction company is using TimberHP products for a large affordable housing project.

In 2023, TimberHP paid about $206,000 in taxes to the Town of Madison. It was something, but it was still "a far cry from the $3.7 million Madison Paper Industries paid in 2015," said Tim Curtis, Madison's former town manager.

In November, TimberHP announced it was out of bankruptcy. Since then, the company and the town have started to find their having. The company has about 50 employees, about half of its original paid.

TimberHP is also finding some success. Its products are being used on a multifamily project by Jovela Housing,

a Maine-based affordable housing provider. Amount is using its products in an Elkhart, but, delivery station, as in Meta for its Richland Parish Data Center in Louisiana; and D.B. Harron, the nation's largest home builder, is using TimberHP's insulation on townhouses in the Mid-Atlantic.

The company also is being supported by investments from FTAI Infrastructure, a Asian energy investor, and other investors and finance partners including BlackRock and the Finance Authority of Maine.

Even as the town's manufacturing future seems hopeful for now, Madison is coping with being an industry that had been the lifeblood of the town. People still speak of the mill's loss as if it had been the passing of a living being.

"I'm not a real emotional person, but I could have just stood there and cried," Mr. Voinnes said about its closing.

Denise Ducharme, the town's manager and recently, who has lived in Madison since 1993, adds a "the kind of community where you can't snooze without a neighbor knowing."

"For so long, our community's identity was tied to being a paper mill town," she said. "We had to figure out who we were without a paper mill — who we wanted to be — sort of an identity crisis."

Gulf Producers Are Spending Billions to Build New Routes for Shipping Oil

PRIOR FIRST BUSINESS PAGE country in the world wants to rely on heavily on the transit point of the state.

Energy producers, he said, have begun to put greater stock in making their infrastructure secure, even if comes in greater cost and cost-effective.

Before the United States and Israel began conducting military strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, about 20 million barrels of crude a day which through the trade of the meat, which connects the Gulf of Oman with the Persian Gulf. But overlapping U.S. and Iranian blockades, one misses, months earlier, and skyrocketing insurance costs have effectively shun novel the struts.

Crude exports through the struts had fallen to about $7 million barrels a day as of last week, according to Rykes, a maritime trucking firm. To be sure, more than that is being exported from the gold, partly via vessels that take steps to make them hard to

track. Millions of barrels a day are also exiting through existing routes like pipelines cut depend on access to the Strait of Hurmus.

Still, the history of activity for lasting workarounds to the struts is evident throughout the world. For example, in Fujairah, a United Arab Emirates port city facing the Gulf of Oman, construction crews are working around the clock to lay a secondary crude line parallel to an existing pipeline that delivers oil from outdoor fields in Abu Dhabi.

The ambitious project aims to double the country's bypass capacity as 141 million barrels per day, allowing nearly all of Abu Dhabi's southern crude to reach its intramural tankers without ships having to use the Strait of Hurmus.

In addition, the Emirates' state-owned energy giant, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, or ASNOC, said this work that it planned to spend $8.2 billion to expand its

natural gas business. The company is also considering plans for a liquefied gas export facility on its eastern coast as a way to bypass the Strait of Hurmus, Peter van Driel, ASNOC's chief financial officer, told Bloomberg Television.

In neighboring Saudi Arabia, the state oil giant, Aramco, is accelerating a multibillion-dollar expansion of its East-West Pipeline. Designed during the 2016 long war in the 1960s, the 1,200-kilometer (740-mile) pipeline crosses the Arabian Peninsula to the Red Sea port of Vanho. Aramco's chairman, Yoav O. Al-Rumayyan, this year called it the kingdom's economic "bilibits" successfully reversing some seven million barrels per day since Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hurmus after U.S. and Israeli military strikes.

Saudi officials are working to add another one million to two million barrels a day, and they also are considering a smaller parallel second pipeline for refined oil

products.

To terms of exporting our crude, we are looking at activity increasing optimally right now. Amla Nasser, the chief executive officer of Saudi Aramco, said last week.

The uncertainty in the Strait of Hurmus is also prompting venture among Gulf producers.

Based in its discussions with Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations in Saudi a pipeline that would connect the country's oil fields to ports on the Red Sea or Oman, they and Jordan have revived long-distance plans for a pipeline that could carry up to one million barrels per day in the Port of Aqaba off the Red Sea, according to state television reports in Jordan. And Iraq is spending no plans to rebuild a damaged oil pipeline to ship crude oil from the Iraqi fields in Kirkuk to Syrian Mediterranean coast.

Yet many of these solutions come with enormous friction. Re-routing Saudi Arabia's trade route

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has shifted the security burden to ward the Red Sea and the Bali in Murshid Strait — where the Health-rallies group in Yemen has been attacking vessels. On Tuesday, six people were killed when the Murshid Sea a ship in the Red Sea.

In addition to new pipelines, Gulf nations are building physical

Oil-producing nations are looking to break their dependence on the Strait of Hurmus by building pipelines and other infrastructure to bypass it.

insurance policies thousands of miles away by expanding storage to places like South Korea, Japan and India.

The high is simple: If the Strait of Hurmus is closed, the oil is already on the other side of the gate.

"Everybody is trying to add additional storage," Mr. Nasser of Aramco said, adding, "Energy security is becoming a priority now."

And yet analysts noted that while the war in Iran had exposed Gulf nations' reliance on the Strait, it wouldn't ever be eliminated entirely.

"They definitely need the Strait of Hurmus because it brings them so many advantages and the circumstances is there," said Carole Hubble, chief executive of a United Energy, an advisory firm. But, she said, "it was hubble for them to put their faith in Hurmus entirely."

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2026

Sports

The New York Times

CURLING

In the Shadow

Of Rome's Ruins, A Few New Stones

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JULIAN KIRKO/STEREO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Despite Italy's sweltering summer, sports officials have set up a curling center on the Oppian Hill, attracting both tourists and locals. The country won a bronze medal in mixed doubles at this year's Winter Olympics, which the Indians hosted. "It seems much easier from home," one man said, laughing. "I mean we're really doing terribly."

By ELISABETTA POVOLENO

ROME — As he took a sweaty summer stroll past ancient monuments, the last thing that Dr. Luca Puzzilleri expected to find facing the Colosseum in July was a decidedly winter sport.

But there it was, a curling rink perched on the Oppian Hill, so this area overlooking the first-century amphitheater has been known since ancient times. Soon, Puzzilleri was gleefully throwing stones with his wife and two friends during Italy's third blistering heat wave in months.

"The whole thing was totally spontaneous, and we had so much fun," said Puzzilleri, 27, who lives in Rome.

His friend Giuseppe Nicoletti, a 36-year-old programmeer visiting from southern Italy, said he had enjoyed "dubbling" in curling after watching this year's Winter Olympics, which Italy hosted.

"But I can say that it seems much easier from home," he said, laughing. "I mean we're really doing terribly."

Italy's curling team thrilled supporters, winning a bronze

An icebox rink across from the Colosseum aims to capitalize on an Olympic phenomenon.

medal in the mixed doubles, boasting television ratings and inspiring sports officials to install the Oppian Hill rink in June, in the hopes that Romans would come out and play, Despite the heat.

"After the Olympics, everyone had a dream, in experience what it was like to curl, and we enjoyed making that dream a reality," said Diego-Tepi Molinerio, the managing director of Sport e Salum, the state-owned company behind the project.

The rinks were placed "at an iconic location, perhaps the most

iconic in Italy, facing the Colosseum," he said, to show that even a sport that many "label as mime can become magnificent." (The rinks are also next to a skatepark that Romans officials know but the best view in the world.)

"We believe that every sport is great and it's as who make it seem mime," Tepi Molinerio added.

To be fair, this isn't a regulation rink. There is no ice, for one. The surface is high-density plastic. It's also about 40 feet long by nearly 10 feet wide, while a standard

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PRO BASKETBALL

Lakers to Be Sold Again, Now for a Record $12.5 Billion

By DAN WORKE and MIKE YORKLINO The Tribune

The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold.

Again. Only 11 months after agreeing to purchase the Lakers at a record-setting $25 billion valuation, Mark Walter is selling the team to Bob Iger, the former Disney chief executive, and Joshua Kushner. The deal would value the Lakers at $12.5 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the sale who spoke on the condition of anonymity without authorization to discuss it publicly.

Kushner has a minority stake in the Miami Heat and is the younger brother of Janet Kushner, the son-in-law of President Trump.

The deal is a stunning development for one of the N.B.A.'s marquee franchisees. The Lakers were owned by Jerry Buss at his family members for more than four decades before Janine Buss, Jerry's daughter, agreed to sell the team to Walter.

'As lifelong N.B.A. fans, we are deeply honored for the opportunity to become stewards of the Los Angeles Lakers, one of the most ironic sports franchisees in the world,' Iger and Kushner said in a statement. 'We have tomorrow to open for the leadership and vision of Jerry and Janine Buss. Our long-term commitment is to build on that foundation, compete at the highest level, and serve that extraordinary team, its fans and the city of Los Angeles.'

The Lakers' $18 billion valuation in the 2025 sale was the most expensive to professional sports history. If the Kushner and Iger purchase is approved by the longest board of governors, it would set a record again a little more than a year later.

A private equity deal completed by the New York Yankees this week valued the M.L.B. franchise at approximately $18 billion. Among N.Y.C. states, only the Dallas Cowboys and the Los Angeles Rams were valued higher than $12.5 billion in a report released by Spectra—this week, but those with a share are not listed.

For Iger, the purchase of the Lakers is a re-sampling answer to questions about what his public life after Disney would look like.

Dan Wolfe is a senior writer covering the Lakers and Mike Verhoeven in the national basketball business reporter for The Athletic. William Ardjuss and Judi Pelic contributed reporting.

The Lakers, whose 17th N.B.A. title came in 2020, top, were sold last year to Mark Walter, at left with Janine Buss. Walter has now agreed to sell the team to Joshua Kushner, center at right, and Bob Iger, far right, shown last year with Commissioner Adam Silver.

Iger was succeeded by Josh O'Annan as the company's chief executive in March. He remains a senior adviser and a board member, though those roles are set to end when his contract expires at the end of the year.

He served two years as Disney's leader, the first from 2003 to 2025. After heading the cross to Bob Chapels, Iger remained with the company and returned to the

top position when Chapels was fired in November 2022. During Iger's first run as chief executive, Disney bought Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and the majority of 2nd Century Fox. Iger also oversaw ESPN, though he left the day-to-day management of the company to other executives.

The Lakers are set Iger's first investment in professional sports. In the summer of 2024, Iger and

his wife, Walter Bay, dean of the U.S.C. Amending School for Communications and Innovation, acquired a controlling stake in Angel City FC, in a deal that valued the potential Women's Soccer League club at $250 million, which at the time was the highest valuation ever for a woman's professional sports team.

Last season, the Lakers star player, posted six social media that

he was excited to meet Iger and Kushner 'as we can get to work holding something special.'

'I've gotten used to big changes over those last few years, but I know that no matter what, there is no limit to the potential of this iconic franchise,' he wrote.

Kushner, who previously owned a minority share of the Memphis Grizzlies, is a central figure in the ongoing global soccer centre.

Most Recent Sales Of N.B.A. Promises

CAGR 2025 PRICE CAGR 2025 2022

Lakers Aug. 2025 $12.5

Lakers June 2025 $10

Cellics March 2025 $6.1

Tool Blazers Sept. 2025 $4.3

Taste Dec. 2022 $4

Source: Associated Press Source: NY TIMES

every around the plan from FIFA President Gianni Attention to sell a stake in FIFA's competition to make interviews, including Kushner's Thrive Everest, for $1.2 billion. The plan was abandoned, but UEFA, the governing body of European soccer, sent a letter dated July 13 to Kushner stating that it was considering legal action, arbitration and regulatory complaints in connection with the proposals. The heiterates demanded that all information related to the plans be preserved.

Walter, the majority owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, called owning the Lakers 'one of the great leases' to be the last at 'extraordinary investment.' He has no plans to sell the Dodgers as well, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations and made on the condition of anonymity.

Walter is also the majority owner of the Los Angeles Sparks, but the Sparks are not part of the Lakers sale, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.

'What I will carry with me to the community, the fans, and a city that trusts this team as family,' Walter said in a statement. 'I am grateful to Janine Buss, the Buss family, the players, and the staff for welcoming me into this chapter. The Lakers belong to Los Angeles, and I have every confidence the best to still ahead.'

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and the Securities and Exchange Commission have been investigating insurance companies owned by Walter. According to The Wall Street Journal, federal investigators took interest in Walter's companies last year after an internal whistle-shower complaint about how Walter's soon-management firm, Gaggenheim Investments, Seabed revenue it received from the insurance companies.

ANALYSIS

Heat's New Center of Gravity Needs More in Orbit Around Him

By ERIC NEHM

The Tribune

At this time of the N.B.A. off-season, most teams typically have their roster work completed and find themselves ready for a new season. But this has not been a normal off-season for the Miami Heat.

Miami traded four players and three first-round picks (picks a first-round pick swap and a second-round pick) to pay the two-time N.B.A. most valuable player Charles Antenskouzmpas of Milwaukee in late June. Then the Heat attempted to persuade the four-time N.U.S. LeBron James to return to Miami for his final chapter, only to watch the 45-year-old sign with the Philadelphia 76ers there weeks into July.

Now, with less than two months until the start of training camp, the Heat have three open roster spots and lingering questions left to answer.

Building an Offense

Miami's ceiling and potential for conversion in the Eastern Conference will soon likely be determined by its defense. That is the easiest part of the team to project reaching an elite level next season, but there are still significant questions about either end of the floor.

Antenskouzmpas's individual offensive statistics are staggering. Before trying to play through the rest of the 2024 net season, he had three straight years with the Bucks as which he averaged at least 10 points and 3 assists per game, all while showing better than 10 percent from the field. Per Sturhead, he was the first person since Katerina Gajdo, who was in 1973-73 and one of only three players at N.B.A. history in do their best.

Leading into the 15th game of last season – the net in which he sustained for 2014 serious injury – Antenskouzmpas was damaged, 12.8 points, 11.3 points.

Eric Nehm is a senior N.B.A. writer for The Athletic.

Caravan Antenskouzmpas, left, and Buss Adebayo, top right, fill out a most frontcourt for Miami, but the Heat may look for more 3-point shooting with three spots on the roster left to fill.

bounds and 11 assists per contest while shooting 43 percent.

Last Antenskouzmpas does not just compile big numbers for forward.

The Bucks never had an offensive rating drop below the 42nd percentile with Antenskouzmpas on the floor over the past eight seasons, and the offensive rating with him on the floor was above the 90th percentile in three of those eight, per Cleaning the Glass. After being part of the regular lineup with the N.B.A.'s highest offensive efficiency in the 2022-23 season, Antenskouzmpas had been a part of at least one lineup that has finished the season in the top 11 in offensive efficiency for the past four years. Before last season, the Bucks were top 10 in six of the previous seven seasons.

The Bucks General Manager Jim Hurst spent each off-season performing his approach to building around Antenskouzmpas and

identifying the players needed to maximize the 10-time All-Star. With Antenskouzmpas performing at an 85 VP level for the past eight seasons, Hurst then found that approach as best he could. Per Riley and Andy Elizburg don't have that opportunity in Miami, given that they have already used most of their assets to acquire Antenskouzmpas.

With their remaining three roster spots, the Heat must seek players who accumulate Antenskouzmpas's strengths and take advantage of his gravitationally.

Improving 3-Point Shooting

In trying to build a outstanding roster around Antenskouzmpas, the Bucks always tried to focus on 3-point shooting. After finishing the 2024-25 season first in 3-point percentage, the Bucks ranked second last season and finished top 10 in 3-point percentage in four of Antenskouzmpas's

final five seasons in Milwaukee. While the Heat may look for different positions, the Bucks Coach Erik Sjoerkstra may ask players to do more than just shoot. Is, it would be logical to expect them to look for more 3-point shooting to help Antenskouzmpas.

Last season, no one on the Heat took more 3 per game than Tyler Harris (6.7 attempts, 17.8 percent), and Norman Fox (14.7 attempts, 38 percent). Neither player will be with the Heat this season. Buss Adebayo took the next most but made just 15.8 percent in the 5.1 in he attempted per game.

The Heat added Bobby Perris (4.4 3-point attempts, 45.4 percent) in the trade for Antenskouzmpas and signed Tim Hockaway Jr. (5.0 attempts, 46.7 percent) as a free agent. Both players would have been among Miami's top 3-point shooters last season, but the Heat will still

need internal development to maximize the spacing around Antenskouzmpas.

With Antenskouzmpas, 3-point leads will likely be more open and less difficult, but his teammates will either need to be better than 3-point volume or raise their shooting percentage to provide as much spacing as possible.

Building How to Instead

Similar to Antenskouzmpas on the offensive end, Adebayo being on the floor has meant good things for the Heat determined.

Over the past five seasons, Heat lineups including Adebayo have never finished below the 75th percentile long-parade, according to Cleaning the Glass.

Those lineups finished the 2022-23 season in the 90th percentile and the 2023-22 season in the 9th percentile. Last season was the first time the Heat finished outside of the top 10 in defensive rating since the 2014-15 case.

With Sjoerkstra at the helm and Adebayo on the floor, the Heat have traditionally been a great defensive team.

Antenskouzmpas's defensive effort has waned over the years because of his increased offensive duties, but his defensive skill not remains unquestioned. He has the quickness, strength

and intelligence to guard multiple positions and make a significant impact.

With Antenskouzmpas, Adebayo, Andrew Wiggins and Darren Mitchell, the Heat have the basis for a group that should finish the season in the top 10, if not the top five, in defensive rating. For Miami to get the most out of its most talented defensive players, Sjoerkstra will have to decide exactly how to deploy them.

Over the past five seasons, the crux of Miami's strong defensive efforts has been a low-free throw and, among defensive rebranding and a limit on ideas allowed at the risk. By not sending teams to the free-throw line at a high rate, restricting second-handers and the defense and the leading teams get all the way to the rim, the first have limited opponents' access to the master points.

They have done all of their best in the field, one of the most physical teams in the N.B.A. and using more versatile schemes than just about anyone in the league.

With the end, the Heat have talented defenders, and they are coached by one of the most creative defensive teams in the N.B.A. They will likely be one of the most defensive leaders last season, it's just a matter of how Sjoerkstra wants to use his personnel to get that done.

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SOCCER

Join a Game And Meet a Star

Where World Cup Players Just Drop In

By MELANGI ANJIDKI

Newsweek

Ask anyone who was at the Gamecourt Peninsula Athletic Field in Manhattan on a recent Wednesday night when Michael Olise, the Bayern Munich and France soccer player, showed up, and they will all tell you the same thing: "They could not believe what was happening.

Days earlier, France and England played one of the best third-place matches in World Cup history with England winning 4-4. In that game, in Miami Gardens, Fla., Kirkus Mbappe of France became the leading goal scorer in World Cup history, with 22, thanks to two goals off assists from Olise.

Yet here was Olise, 25, four days later, showed in an orange shirt, checkered pants and wearing just socks on his feet, at a pickup match off the West Side Highway in New York City, giving a group of amateurs a story they will retell for years to come.

"It was a bit narrow," said Jeff

"I mean, he was playing with no shoes, you know!"

JEFF CASTANEDA, on playing with Michael Olise.

Castaneda, who played in the game "I was just watching the World Cup with him on TV, and then he showed up. I had a lovely opportunity to play a couple of combination plays with him. It was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of moment."

The match originated on Goodflier, a pickup match planned, and then went viral when Goodflier posted images of the moment on its social media accounts. Videos of Olise sliding through players in his socks spread:

"You guys are lucky to be playing with Olise," one person is found saying to one who shared by Sports Illustrated. In another photograph, Olise, stone-faced, is surrounded by dozens of smiling players.

For Jeff Estes, a founder of Goodflier, the moment drove home why the platform exists. He founded the company in 2020 with Lewis Black and Nelder Karkis, an English cigarette with a simple slice: making start accessible, no matter the location.

"We want to make it so no that-

Melinda Anzidei covers soccer for The Athletic.

ter what city you're in, no matter what sport you want to play, you can just sign up, show up, and play," Estes said.

"You can land in a city and call an Oise; and in 15 minutes you're home, or wherever you need to be. But if you land in a city and you want to play, or you're new to the city and you don't know people, it's hard to break into. It's even more intimidating to sign up for a league."

That's where pickup platforms such as these come in.

From 3,000 to 4,000 people play a pickup sport through Goodflier daily, Estes said. The platform, considered one of the largest services of its kind in North America, is active in 80 cities. New York City and Toronto are the platform's biggest markets, with soccer the most popular sport on the app, accounting for 90 percent of its use.

In certain instances, the platform teams with organizers who run pickup matches by taking care of game-day logistics, such as making sure games start on time or that players have mesh jerseys to wear.

Castaneda, 26, a lifelong soccer player and Peruvian American, has been using the service for two years.

A general contractor and real estate developer, he takes the Long Island Rail Road from Garden City to Manhattan about four times a week for pickup. He rates the quality of competition in the city as being better than what he has found on Long Island, probably because of the volume of pickup options in the city. The hour continues from the suburbs, he said, is worth it.

Depending on which field he plays on, he may run into familiar bays. On that Wednesday, however, his comment landed him on the same route as Olise.

For Castaneda, who trained professionally for two years with the Peruvian top-flight club Sporting Cristal, the experience was really a standout soccer moment. He described how silly and smooth Olise was with the ball. It stayed with him how much joy he saw in the Bayern playmaker.

"I mean, he was playing with no shoes, you know!" Castaneda said. "He was enjoying himself. It was just an amazing, amazing experience."

The sequence of events happened by coincidence, Estes said. The organizer of that night's pickup match noticed Olise, who was born in London, lingering around the field. He then shouted over, inviting him to be involved. Players were preparing for the b-

ual stretch of their 75-minute game when the match organizer informed them that Olise would be joining them for the final 15 minutes.

"I thought it was a joke, so I didn't start walking over," said Oliver Chernyk, another player on the field that night. "Then everyone took a closer look and realized, it was actually him. He just started playing hardest with us. It was incredible."

Samuel Nicklin, Chernyk's co-worker, who also played in the match, said: "The ball stuck to his

feet quite well. He could move really quickly while keeping the ball right on his toes."

That night was Chernyk's first time playing in this specific pickup match, with Nicklin, who grew up in Britain, playing more regularly. The pair work in private investment, with the Gamecourt Peninsula field visible from their office across the highway.

Pickup games have flourished in the city this summer, said Estes, who lives in Greenspace, Brooklyn. He joins pickup games at least a couple of times a week. On a re-

cent afternoon, he found himself playing against a group of friends from Germany and England.

"It is cool to see so many different people coming out" to pitch pickup, Estes said. "Just by the numbers, we are having our best few months of all time, just because there's so much more electricity around soccer."

Olise is far from the first celebrity to jump in during a pickup match organized by Good Boy.

In 2022, the Danida actor Nikoletj Conor Walden, who portrayed Jaime Lamainer in the HBO series

Soon after Francis World Cup run ended, Michael Olise was in a pickup game at the Canavassat Peninsula Athletic Field in Manhattan, left.

"Game of Thrones," joined a game in Sara D. Roosevelt Park on New York's Lower East Side. The former N.B.A. player Steve Nash, moves for his love of pickup soccer, has also joined games, Estes added.

On a recent Monday afternoon, led Campbell, a former England defender, happened to be walking by a pickup game at Roosevelt Park. As Olise would do across town later that week, he joined the game.

"He and his team were similarly walking by, saw that we were playing, can best stand him if he wanted to jump in," Estes said. "They knew who he was, so he was able to just kind of get in. He was wearing the pinny and everything," referring to a mesh jersey.

Campbell, 31, who spent 20 years playing in the Premier League, were behavior and even celebrated when he scored. He took photographs with fans, writing on Instagram, "Left the game, right the game never left me."

When playing in New York, you never know who might jump into your game.

It could be a World Cup rookie such as Olise, or a three-time World Cup veteran like Campbell. What is certain, though, is that there will always be a game to play in.

CURLING

Olympic Success Spawns a Few New Stones in the Shadow of Rome's Ruins

From First Sports Page

sheet of curling ice is around 150 feet long and 16 feet wide. The stones weigh about a tenth of the regulation weight, and breezes are used to recover the stones rather than sweep a path for them to travel.

"It's the idea of the game," said Andrea Gioi, president of the Italian Federation of Air Sports, which supported the initiative. At the risk, people described playing as a risk between bowling and bocce, the half-s-eye ballgame ubiquitous in Italian communities around the world. "It's ubiquitous," Gioi said.

Carlo Scarpato, 24, one of the employees managing the risk, said his job contained mostly of warning people not to stop on the lubricated sheet so they wouldn't slip and get hurt. "We also explain the basic rules of the game," he added.

There were no time limits to how long people could play, he said. "People were playing, they were trying boat made for pretty short games. "I can assure you that if you're playing for five minutes, the reflection of the white arabic is not enough, too," he said of the risk's surface.

Curling is a relatively new entry in Italy, where the sport only took root during the 1950s when a third soccer installed a risk in Corsica d'Atopicos — the Alpine Italian name that co-founded this year's Olympics. Many celebrities, including Brigitte Bastini, gave it a whip.

But climate was never on Italy's side. Currently, there are only seven dedicated curling risks in Italy, all in the north, and 421 each carrying curlers. "It's a niche

SOURCE: CURLING PHOTO: THOMAS M. LEONARD, 1977, OREG

Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosanor of Italy earned an Olympic Bronze medal in February. The country has only seven dedicated curling risks, all in the north.

open," said Valentine Masetti, a curler who has written a book about it. By comparison, Canada has more than two million curlers who play at least once a year, "by a wide margin, the greatest number of curlers in the world," according to Al Cameron, a spokesman for Curling Canada.

Since Gioi became president of the ice sports Federation. If years ago, its investment in curling gives from 150,000 euros a year to 50,000 euros (about $17,000 in 2 million), and the sport was placed on more professional footing. In Italy, about 1,000 ice sports are all located according to results, so the better players do, the more money the sport receives.

The meteoric rise of the tennis star Jannik Simon, for instance, has quadrupled the funds given to tennis in just three years. But ice sports still don't have a national reach.

"There are few facilities, so it's hard to capitalize on the visibility you might get during the Olympic Games, where everyone goes crazy for curling and falls in love with the sport," said Judi Beranau, the captain of the Italian men's Olympic team. "But then, if they actually want to try it, they struggle because it's hard to find an arena."

He said he was one of "lucky few" to have been born in the northern village of Cembra, in

Novices see a sport as a cross between bowling and bocce.

Tremtus, where most locals start curling as children.

There are no curling arenas in central or southern Italy — at least one regulation once — said Aldo Tinto, who runs an ice arena just outside Rome. After the Olympics, he received many club engineering courses in bowling, he said, so he rubbed together an impersonal game using beer barrels instead of stones.

"It was entertaining," he said, if southwesternal. Now, Tinto is working with regional officials to dramat the truth for a curling risk in his arena.

"As a European capital, Rome deserves a curling risk," said Bianca Di Tommaso, president of the ice sports federation for the Lazio region. But she admitted that the increase in energy costs carry the start of the first war that added financial challenges to opening war.

Nogi Molineris, the figure's first official, said that if there was a demand, the rise of the Cubanism would be rebuilt using real ice crane November. "Even if the ice won't be perfect for an interim-

tional competition, it will be perfect for national entertainment," he said.

As a recent Saturday, the boat didn't deter a goggle of sporty items visiting Italy for an international basketball camp. They were captivated, playing through the year, expanding and cheering as their coaches looked on.

"It's a lot of fun, especially to do in front of the Colossians," said Ila Gonsalini, 21, who coaches girls in the United States.

"I've glad we did this at the end of this camp and not the start," said off Shaun Heyle, 20, who coaches boys in Britain. "Otherwise we may have lost them here."

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For a Season Ticket, You Can Help Script Akron's Opening Plays

By DAVID LUBEN and DENNIS HENDERSON © The James

On a March flight from Tampa, Fla., to Akron, Ohio, Andrew Goodrich was deep in thought.

Goodrich, the athletic director at Akron, was heading home after watching his men's basketball team loss, 85-71, to Texas Tech in the first round of the N.C.A.A. tournament. But the debut did not occupy his mind. Instead, the fervency of Akron's fan base, hundreds of miles from campus, did.

"We had this great fan interaction, and when I sat on the plate, I was like, 'How in the world do we bring that kind of energy to a football game?'" Goodrich said. "How do we do it? Honestly, it's a long flight back, and you're just making your trouble."

Somewhere during that flight, the idea of an honorary offensive coordinator took over. Goodrich pitched it to the senior deputy athletic director, Matt Pettorff, who was sitting beside him.

Pettorff "very appropriately said, 'No, that's a bad idea,'" Goodrich recalled.

Still, the conversation refused to die.

Pettorff wondered with a more modern suggestion. Let a fan call one play. Goodrich was not convinced that would inspire the kind of investment he envisioned.

Joe Moorhead, the football coach, said Goodrich and Pettorff pitched the final, before able to firm a week before the promotion went up on social media. Let a fan help script the opening lit to 15 of lossless plays.

Goodrich, I thought it was ridiculous. Goodrich said, "Once the shock value were away and we discussed some benefits, now you see it spoke for itself. It's a really unique opportunity that's created a lot of positive publicity for our program."

Goodrich, whose enrolled the promotion on X, where a post has since garnered 22 million views. Every season-taker banker is automatically entered into a raffle, and the winner lives as a member an Wednesday of next week.

That fan will spend the Thursday and Friday leading to Akron's home opener on Sept. 11 — 4 Week after.

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Coach Joe Moorhead, center, will let the winner into planning meetings but will not "let the circus roll into town" on play calling

2 matchup against Robert Morris, a Football Championship Subdivision program — inside the football offices and watching practice. The fan will sit in game-planning meetings alongside Moorhead and offer a vision for the opening script, collaborating in that viable place in exercise cold ideas.

"College football hasn't been a test of fun over the past six months," Goodrich said. "There's lawyers and Congress and bills and the transfer portal. A lot of negativity."

Shortly after unveiling the promotion, Akron recorded its largest increase in season-taker sales since the extremely opened its car-campus stadium in 2009, according to Goodrich. Fans from across the country also purchased season tickets, hoping for a chance to play plays.

National attention is unfamiliar to territory for the program. In 1987, Akron became the first standalone program to transition di-

rectly from Division I-AA (F.C.S.) to Division I-A (Football Bowl Underclass). Since then, the Day have reached just that of the games in 10 years. Their last 300 or over season was a 7.7 year in 2017 under Terry Bowden. They have not won more than five games in any season since.

Hired before the 2022 season, Moorhead has led the Day to 4-6 and 5-7 finishes over the past two seasons.

This raffle "allowed the fight to shine bright on Akron football," Moorhead said. "The momentum we built heading into the season, taking over the worst program in the country has years ago and being a game away from level eligibility heading into this year."

As Akron prepares for Robert Morris — Akron's season opener, against Wabe Farms on Sept. 5, comes first — Moorhead hopes the winning fan arrives with ideas for plays and sequencing. As the fans disposal will be quarterback

Reese Pellroharger, a North Texas graduate transfer; three returning with reserves; and two with the 2nd Division Giant, whose 1,032 rushing yards ranked second in the Mid-America Conference last season.

Moorhead assured his players the would not "let the circus roll into town" or make a mockery of the game. He will overuse the entire process, approving or modifying any plays the fan suggests.

The administration is still sitting through the specific N.C.A.A. rules, but Moorhead hopes the winner speaks the first half "reached to my big" on the outdoor before turning into a luxury box after halftime.

Moorhead warns the fan to understand armchair coaching is fun, but it finds different at the bar of five against coaching defenses. After 20 years as a coach and it is a play table, including two years (2020 and 2021) as foregone's offensive coordinator, he understands

the sentiment.

"You have no contingency plan," he said. "It's not what you propose for; it's what you adjust to when the picture changes during the game."

Run Moors's first day at Robert Morris's athletic director was on the same day the promotion was announced last week.

"To the home opener, right, and we're an F.C.S. program, right? So I understand this is the one where they probably feel like, ask, we'll probably win this one. But we'll kind of go and see. It puts the pressure back on them, not so," Moors said, adding it provided some "fludbite board material" for his team.

Moors and Goodrich worked together at South Florida, so he was not surprised when he saw the men's, knowing Goodrich had no pretense and ideas for marketing. "It accomplished the mission, right? So I think it was genius," Moors said.

A raffle to select an honorary coordinator is drawing even the fans of an opponent.

Robert Morris aims to mobilize its own fan base, some of whom bought Akron season tickets, the hope of winning the raffle and possibly sabotaging the Day's opening drive.

"I said them they're going to be the ball you and give you a script, home people know that, some people don't," Moors said. "They're not going to be you run a stick play, right?"

Goodrich can't conclude why the promotion may have been an all-time to Robert Morris. It was not his intention.

"We mean zero discrepancy," he said. "We never thought the people outside of our own little family were going to know about this. When you're sitting down and you're dreaming about this thing, I was so focused on making it fun for our fans and bringing some excitement."

Nor did he fully anticipate the financial upside.

Goodrich said that a to-the-dic-chend "major company" has reached out to discuss a potential jersey patch sponsorship because of the promotion's visibility. The campaign has generated a point for revenue stream and an open invitation for fans to dream of their own offensive ingenuity.

"I think this gave everyone an opportunity to test our 'No, you know what? If I had this chance, this is what I would run," Goodrich said. "It made it very personal for every person who read the issue."

The athletic director wants the promotion to become more than a one-off viral marketing campaign. He hopes it rekindles the fervor and has engagement from the baseball roam's appearance in the N.C.A.A. tournament and projects the Day to their first winning season and pentoscent appearance in nearly a decade.

The same idea that occupied the during a two-hour flight home from Tampa now carries the hopes of an entire football program.

If only for a drive.

PRO FOOTBALL

In Nix's Footwork, the Broncos See A 'Superpower' They Can Enhance

By NICK KIRSCHNER

EDUCASTER, U.S.A. — In Nix escaped and scrambled to his right on defensive backs then beted his targets and the pace each closed in around him. The Denver Broncos' quarterback turned upfield and sprintered toward the safety who won the spring down to one off his progress. Then, Nix planned his right that finally in the ground and an early run inside to continue his run.

Coach Sean Payton has described the traits displayed by Nix in that sequence, during a training camp process last week, as his "superpower."

The evasiveness has helped the Broncos take packs over the past two seasons at easily the lowest rate in the N.P.L. (3.8 percent of dropbacks). Nix's explosiveness and getaway speed in the open field have helped the Broncos win games, too. Like when he spretued into the end zone on a combined quarterback crash run in the fourth quarter of a thrilling comeback against the New York Giants. Or when he ducted into the open field to push Denver into field-goal range during another 6- to 8- drive win, this saw a blistering. Only Riddick Josh Allen has more quarterback runs of 20 or more yards than Nix's time over the past two seasons.

Yet for all the positives that Nix's best can produce, the Broncos are targeting a subtle change with their franchise quarterback in his third year that could reduce the frequency with which he relies on them.

The Broncos have had, by far, in N.P.L.'s best and differential over the past two seasons (June 4). 32-point lower than the second-ranked Los Angeles Broncos, 5 to a critical part of their winning success and a third of it from the minus-10 figure during Payton's first season in Denver in 2015, with the third phase of quarterback. That's why Payton made clear that the Broncos aren't a

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ing to keep Nix from accessing a strength that has ample benefits for Denver's offensive attack. But the coach intimated that there are opportunities for Nix to stick long or at times with the early reach in his progression.

"Nix's a real good foot athlete," Payton said. "You don't feel someone who's cumbersome at all. I think it's one of his gifts."

But "करीब the framework of each pass play," Payton said, Nix can move too quickly. "Some of those specifics that put him exactly in time with the depth of the room, I think it something I'm sure he's working on."

When Davis Webb was named the Broncos offensive coordinator in February, he quickly went to work on a project with the team's

Targeting a subtle area of improvement in a franchise passer.

painting game and that served as a deep audit of Nix's first two seasons as the team's quarterback. The big pitcher goal was to identify how to best build on Nix's strength in ways that benefit the efficiency of the offense at a whole.

One aspect of that work, Webb said last week, was making sure that roams were being designed to complement the way in which Nix was in the field.

"Nix's definitely progressing in that area," Webb said. "There were some long errors in the off-season with the pass game and that really trying to evaluate and watch the last two years of him playing."

Webb said he sees a progression with Nix that ninety-mileers where Allen was on he entered his third N.P.L. season. In 2020, when Webb was one of Riddick's back-ups, Allen posted a 307.2 passer rating that still stands as the best

to his career. He made the Pro Bowl for the first time as his completable percentage jumped from 34.4 as a second-year starter in 2019 to 69.2. Allen benefited that season from the arrival of the standard receiver Debra Diggs, and Webb said in the spring that he views the new Broncos receiver. JoAnn Shields as a similarly impacted addition.

"I think he's right me for with the other guys I've been around going into true I. Webb said, 'I'm really satisfied where he's in, both getting in and out of plays, getting to the huddle, getting at and out of the hat. I'm sure I'm happy when it's appropriate, not ever-thinking, getting complexion underneath and using his feet. I think the injury last year, it was not a good thing. I'm not a good person around a little bit early here, and I think he's done a really good job. I'm really satisfied with where he is."

The Broncos' veteran defense has provided ample opportunities to test the results the Broncos are making offensively. The defensive coordinator Vance Joseph has shown Nix "every defensive structure imaginable" during the camp's first three weeks, Nix said Monday. Joseph credited the way Nix has found answers to the new ways in which he's being challenged, noting that the quarterback's deep-hat accuracy has been "off the charts" in camp.

"It's sublime from every where, blitzes from everywhere, fronts from everywhere," Nix said of the defense. "That just helps you and quarterback get your eyes up and then slow the game down once you get into a game setting. For me, it's been complicated in geographic V.I. and the early 10-mileers, but I can ask him questions and figure out the 'why' behind some things."

The way that Nix is working to track with Nix's make a third in more when circumstances allow: He is throwing in the direction of the All-Pro cornerback Pat Sutton (5.2) being his first two training camps, Nix would quickly

Bu No and Davis Webb, Denver's offensive coordinator. "Nix definitely progressing," Webb said.

room just his first road if that receiver was being defected by Sutton, a decision commonly made during the season by opposing quarterbacks. In this camp, Nix has not been the about going after Sutton. Success has been predictably limited, but it sheds light on the content level. Nix has no experiment with things as he prepares for his third season.

"My first two years, if he was over there, I pretty much worked the other side of the field," Nix said. "But I don't think that does

him diligence. Are him better at the same time. I don't mind throwing it for way and getting an in completion on the star sheet just to help him out. And then, every time in a while when you do complete one on him, it's good for the margin of the offense and shows us we're also really good and one attack the best player in football on the division."

The Broncos will play at least some starters Friday in their per season opener at Atlanta, but Payton declined to say whether Nix would see the field in a game for

the first time since breaking the ankle during the playoff win against the 80s. After two off-season procedures on that right angle, Nix has had a full reversion coming out into minor offense in camp, and Payton said last week that Nix's "movement that we're seeing right now is back to where it was."

This was evident as Nix spretued into the open field while running the same quarterback sweep play that last year resulted in a touchdown against the Giants.

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Maura Gillison, 61, Who Linked Throat Cancers to HPV in Dead

By JERE LONGRAN

Maura Gillison once told us interviewer that she had wanted to be a doctor and a scientist since childhood. She trained in heifer, but as she grew, reaching a height of 4-foot-2, dance because an unlikely career path because she felt that it would show too much attention to her height.

Instead, she forgot a traditional rig career as a medical oncologist and molecular epidemiologist, studying head and neck cancers. In the early 1990s, she was credited as the first researcher to show definitively that the human papillomavirus, or HPV — the most common sexually transmitted infection — caused the so-called emphysiological cancers of the throat, tonsils and base of the tongue.

The head and neck medical oncologist has had a higher impact on delivery than Maura Gillison. Dr. John V. Heyrouch, the chair of the New York Times and neck oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where Dr. Gillison conducted research beginning in 1991, said in an interview.

Dr. Gillison died on June 21 at her childhood home in Willoughby, Ohio, northeast of Cleveland. She was in The name was a rare cancer of the small intestine, her husband, Dr. David J. Synner, who was the child.

For almost a century, a vast majority of throat cancers were attributed to cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption. The cancer of the mouth was linked to a rise in the 1970s and 1980s. While HPV was detected in some head and neck cancers, many researchers discussed the findings as laboratory contamination.

“I couldn’t help the smoker, what if it wasn’t!” Dr. Gillison told the magazine of the Sidery Kishore, the New York Times, who was at Johns Hopkins University in its 2022-24 issue.

Dr. Gillison graduated from medical school at Johns Hopkins in 1993 and returned to 1996 to par-

tue a doctorate in clinical investigation at the university's Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2000, the major finding of her doctors' thesis was published in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute, showing a strong association between HPV and head and neck cancer.

In 2007, she led a team that demonstrated more conclusions that HPV caused cancer of the throat, tonsils and base of the tongue on a paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine. This almost of cancers was distinct from cancers of the mouth

She challenged the conventional ties to cigarettes and alcohol consumption.

primarily caused by smoking and drinking.

She told NPR in 2011 that she suspected that the human reverse tone of the 1980s had resulted in more sexual relationships with more partners, more oral sex and less unconvinced chance of developing HPV-related infections and cancer.

Having challenged settled research norms, she faced puff-back.

Dr. Gillison's findings about HPV and emphysiological cancer were "very controversial" at the time. Dr. Synner, her husband and collaborator, said in an interview, "Who knew that the number of sex partners, particularly oral sex partners, could be related to a head and neck type of cancer?"

She remained confident about her conclusions, in regard to anything one of her reasons liked to say: "An exclusive focus on the data helps one rise above the public."

HPV, she found, caused about

70 percent of emphysiological cancers in the United States. In recent decades, cases among men have surged to what scientists call opposite levels.

As Dr. Gillison and others predicted, cancers of the throat, tonsils and base of the tongue have surpassed cervical cancer on the most common HPV-related inside, cancer. Roughly 16,700 men and 2,000 women are diagnosed nearly with emphysiological cancer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, compared with about 12,000 cases of cervical cancer.

At the same time, most people with HPV infections die for develop cancer. Patients who do develop emphysiological cancer, Dr. Gillison and her colleagues discovered, imposed with a tissue derived that have a higher survival rate than those with other head and neck cancers.

Her work helped lead in a separate system for labeling stages of emphysiological cancer. It also led to clinical trials that assessed the efficacy of using less invasive and toxic treatments of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, instead of providing identical care to all patients with head and neck cancers.

Her research "totally changed our understanding" of head and neck cancer was demonstrated that one person can make a difference." Dr. Oda Bransky, a professor of oncology and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins and a former hospital of the American Cancer Society, told The Cancer Letter, a news outlet, after Dr. Gillison's death.

Maura Liaison Gillison was born on Jan. 6, 1965, in London, Ontario, west of Toronto. Her father, Robert W. Gillison III, was a business executive; her mother, Robert (Eden) Gillison, ran the farm.

The family moved often for Mr. Gillison's work, adding to the Cleveland area when Maura was in elementary school. At high school, she was a fellowship and

Dr. Maura Gillison in 2024. Her research showed a strong association between HPV and cancer.

worked in a biochemistry lab at Case Western Reserve University. Partly to escape the vision cold, she attended Duke University in Durham, N.C., where she studied zoology, graduating summa cum laude in 1967.

As her career progressed and she moved from Johns Hopkins to the Ohio State University in MD Anderson, Dr. Gillison often said that she considered herself a scientist first and a physician second, a colleague. Dr. Wollong Ziam, who was a professor for research, "because research could reach far more people than any one doctor ever could."

After her unusual research showed a second link between a strain of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and emphysiological cancer, she urged parents to get their sons, as well as their daughters, vaccinated for the human papilloma virus.

"When my parents ask

whether they should vaccinate their sons, I say, 'Coriander.'" Dr. Gillison told The Times of London in 2021, "The vaccine will prevent them against genital warts and anal cancer and also, as a personal hypnotism of this, it may protect them against oral cancer caused by HPV."

In 2020, the Food and Drug Administration expanded approval of the vaccine for the prevention of emphysiological and other head and neck cancers. Yet cases are still rising for reasons that include a latency period of 20 or more years between exposure to HPV and development of malignant tumors, as well as lagging vaccine

tion and screening among men. In addition to her husband, where she married in 1952, Dr. Gillison is survived by two daughters, Saona and Lia Synner; a sister, Elizabeth Gillison; two brothers, Robert and James Gillison; and her parents.

Dr. Gillison's later research focused on the genetic causes of emphysiological cancer. She had been a lot of research to explain her public and the research community how HPV inserted in own genetic material does human cells and cancer causes by rearranging elements of DNA "like mismatches" as "the body's immune system" for targeted attacks on head and neck cancers.

In 2021, she received the David J. Karnofsky Memorial Award, the highest honor given by the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Her work was one of the other American researchers received the "Pathogen Prize, a global award for breakthrough research and innovation that best-practices easily."

"The dancing world's less humanly head and neck cancer patients' gain," Dr. Heyrouch of MD Anderson said of Dr. Gillison. "On balance, we're lucky."

William Orbit, 69, Electronics Producer Who Made Hits With Madonna and U2

By CLAIR BISHN

William Orbit, a musician and receiver whose mastery of late 1990s electronica—hence, there's, probably, a group—made hits one of the hottest producers of his generations, turning out the records for Madonna, Blue and All Saints, died in his home in London every 25, the was 69.

His death was announced on his website and Instagram account on Friday. No cause was provided.

Mr. Orbit, whose real name was William Wainwright, said nearly two decades rolling in obscure fields of electronic music, developing a small following and resembling in the occasional, forget-rate movie: "Wain-Hight," which he recorded with his band North Song, was featured in "The Texas Chatecare Massacre 2" (1988).

In the 1990s, he became known in club circles for his dance remixes of artists like Peter Gabriel and Dejanice Mode — but doing remixes is not exactly a ticket to mention.

His fortunes turned in his late 30s, when he got a call from Madonna. She had been struggling herself, with two other problems — "Evolve" (1992) and "Medicine Stories" (2001) — and a creeping reputation as a ban-bass.

She was looking for a new, edgy-er sound. Could Mr. Orbit help? They met at her New York apartment to share ideas. They clicked: The result, after months of work, was "Buy of Light," released in 1988 and widely considered her finest album.

Mr. Orbit worked on every track, infusing such one with half-professions, and complex beats that recalled the London club scene. The album generated several hits, including "Frozen" "The

His worked-in—Madonna in 1990 albums, "Buy of Light," releasing a with both synthesizers and complex beats. They also collaborated for "Mason" (2000b).

Power of Good-Bye" and the time-track, and received six Grantee nominations.

It was true, two of which Mr. Orbit shared it, for best pop album and best dance recording. He and Madonna was another Grantee, for best song written for visual media, in 1990 with "Beautiful Stranger," which they recorded for the 2009 movie "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me."

They also collaborated on three

songs for her next album, "Music" (2003), and six songs for her 2012 album, "MUSIC."

Following his success with Madonna, Mr. Orbit produced another critically acclaimed album, "U2" (1995), the first hit band that she used in its subsequent work was for individual tracks — for was the pop where hands-on executive producers called if they wanted a song to have a luxuriant and danceable sound.

Among his singles were "Making Her Up" for Unclash, front line of bass "Back-Drady" (2001), "I'm a Wake Me Up," by "Dick Brown, Dicky McBride" (2002), "I'm a Dirty," by Britney Spears, front line album "Britney Ears" (2011).

Many of his songs appeared on soundtracks: "Porn Shores," by All Saints, for "The Beach" (2003), "Feel Good Time," by Trish, for "Chalchi Angels: Full Throttle" (2003), and "The Hands That Both America," by U1, which was featured in the 2002 movie Grange of New York" and the band's 2002 collection, "The Best of 2000-2005."

All along, Mr. Orbit was making his own music. After recording three electronic albums in the 1990s, he was also doing, he released five solo works under the terms title "Strange-Gage," while divergent in style but added by his unique tonal vocabulary.

In the mid-1990s he began to incorporate classical influences, especially from nationalist and Asian-gazlic composers like Hirohiki Cacocki, Arvo Part and Erik Gane. Mr. Orbit's synthesizer cover of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" on his 1990 album, "Pierce in a Modern Style," became a surprise hit when the band's L2 Every Cursion gave it a

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dance remix in 1999.

William Mark Wainwright was born on Dec. 15, 1958, in London. His parents were teachers.

He left school at 15 and, he often said in interviews, spent much of the 1970s as a 'post-druger,' working and play — picking Irish, moving furniture — and squatting in a two-shore corner of London. His daily diet consisted of a "blunt bar and a tab of acid."

He acquired the name Orbit, he said, because of his love of mastery and community, though he

sometimes added that it was also because friends found him a bit spun.

With a roommate began collecting recording equipment and albums to set up a studio, Mr. Orbit discovered his calling. He learned to play the synthesizer, and in 2000 released up with Lance Mayer and Grant Gilbert to form Torch Song.

They released three albums in the 1980s, broke up around 1987 and then counted in 1995 to release a fourth.

Mr. Orbit was married briefly and had a daughter. He also had a relationship with the electronics singer Beth Ernie. A daughter for of survivors was not immediately available.

Around 1995, Mr. Orbit was found Carolin Records, which became an incubator for new talent

and her side projects like Banan-matic, a band that had a minor hit with the 1990 single "Puncturing Rhythm."

After working on "Buy of Light," Mr. Orbit served to Live Angeles, where he tried to get work as an a la carte producer and songwriter. But he discovered that it was hard to find for looking in the American music industry, who grew depressed and began songs drugs.

He returned to London in 2017, while doing both continued, leading to two psychotic episodes. He was briefly hospitalized.

Once released, he cleaned up and released on his own music. In 2022, he released "The Nature," which included a collaboration with Ms. Ernie, "I Want What I See."

The album title reflected Mr. Orbit's overhead interest in jantesing, a late-life avocation that, he said, helped him center himself and re-approach his creative side.

"Both the painting and music were more the same creative source — too," he told the website (back to 2022). "As at the creative processes that you're using relate to the older one. Thinking about time, and time spent, nature, and repetition, for example. You're applying them to both models."

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Washington	8:19	8:19	8:19
Anchorage	8:20	8:20	8:20
Chicago	8:21	8:21	8:21
Atlanta City	8:22	8:22	8:22
Aransas	8:23	8:23	8:23
Baltimore	8:24	8:24	8:24
Beirut	8:25	8:25	8:25
Birmingham	8:26	8:26	8:26
Birmingham	8:27	8:27	8:27
Boise	8:28	8:28	8:28
Boston	8:29	8:29	8:29
Buffalo	8:30	8:30	8:30
Buffalo	8:31	8:31	8:31
Charleston	8:32	8:32	8:32
Charlotte	8:33	8:33	8:33
Chattanooga	8:34	8:34	8:34
Chicago	8:35	8:35	8:35
Cleveland	8:36	8:36	8:36
Cleveland, Springs	8:37	8:37	8:37
Columbus	8:38	8:38	8:38
Columbia	8:39	8:39	8:39
Columbia, U.S.A.	8:40	8:40	8:40
Columbia, North	8:41	8:41	8:41
Columbia, South	8:42	8:42	8:42
Columbia	8:43	8:43	8:43
Des Moines	8:44	8:44	8:44
El Paso	8:45	8:45	8:45
Fargo	8:46	8:46	8:46
Hartford	8:47	8:47	8:47
Houston	8:48	8:48	8:48
Houston, U.S.A.	8:49	8:49	8:49
Indianapolis	8:50	8:50	8:50
Jackson	8:51	8:51	8:51
Jacksonville	8:52	8:52	8:52
Kansas City	8:53	8:53	8:53
Kansas, City	8:54	8:54	8:54
Las Vegas	8:55	8:55	8:55
Lexington	8:56	8:56	8:56

Little Rock	350	60	0	450	37.8
Los Angeles	350	60	0	450	37.8
Louisville	350	57.5	0	451	38.1
Memphis	350	58.5	0	451	38.1
Miami	350	58.5	0	451	38.1
Miami, Texas	350	58.5	0	451	38.1
Miami, Texas	350	58.5	0	451	38.1
Miami, Texas	350	58.5	0	451	38.1
Miami, Texas	350	58.5	0	451	38.1
Miami, Texas	350	59.5	0	451	38.1
Miami, Texas	350	59.5	0	451	38.1
Miami, Texas	350	59.5	0	451	38.1
Miami, Texas	350	59.5	0	451	38.1
Miami, Texas	350	59.5	0

San Antonio	1013	18	0	1013	18
San Antonio	1013	18	0	1013	18
San Antonio	1013	18	0	1013	18
San Antonio	1013	18	0	1013	18
San Antonio	1013	18	0	1013	18
San Antonio	1013	18	0	1

National Forecast

Relentless downsours and severe weather will continue across parts of the Midwest today. Thunderstorms stretching from Nebraska to Ohio will be capable of producing fresh flooding and localized damaging wind gusts. Sandy thunderstorms will form in parts of the Plains and Rockies from Kansas and Colorado to North Dakota and Montana. Storms will dot the rest of the Rockies during the afternoon. From Texas to Florida, thunderstorm activity will be sparse with unseasoning hot and humid air. Sandy thunderstorms will extend along much of the Eastern Seaboard.

Dry weather will occur from Washington to California with abundant sunshine and temperatures near to just below the southeast average.

Drizzle will remain thick in the Pacific Northwest from area width to...

New York	362.00	0	362.00	0	362.00
Houston	362.00	0	362.00	0	362.00
Miami	362.00	0	362.00	0	362.00
Miami	362.00	0	362.00	0	362.00
Miami	362.00	0	362.00	0	362.00
Miami	362.00	0	362.00	0	362.00
Miami	362.00	0	362.00	0	362.00

Europe	Yesterday	Today	Tomorrow
Amsterdam	362.00	0	362.00
Amsterdam	362.00	0	362.00
Berlin	362.00	0	362.00
London	362.00	0	362.00
London	362.00	0	362.00
London	362.00	0	362.00
London	362.00	0	362.00
London	362.00	0	362.00
London	362.00	0	362.00

China	Yesterday	Today	Tomorrow
Shanghai	362.00	0	362.00
Shanghai	362.00	0	362.00
Shanghai	362.00	0	362.00
Shanghai	362.00	0	362.00
Shanghai	362.00	0	362.00
Shanghai	362.00	0	362.00
Shanghai	362.00	0	362.00
Shanghai	362.00	0	362.00

Metropolitan Forecast

TODAY ... Clouds, hazy sunshine high 85. It will remain warm with tempera. Loves just a lot above normal for this time of year. It will also feel humid. A thunderstorm cannot be cued out during the afternoon. There will be a light breeze from the west.

TONIGHT ... Some clouds, warm Low T3. The sky will be partly to mostly clouds. It will be dry with high humidity continuing. Temperatures will be close to usual levels for the middle of August. Winds will be light and variable.

TOMORROW ... Sunshine, less humid high 84. While there will be a little cloudiness at times, most of the sky will feature lots of sunshine. The humidity will lower through the day. Temperatures will remain close to normal.

SATURDAY ... Sunshine, low humidity high 83. Low humidity will persist with temperatures a bit below average for mid-August. There will be lots of sunshine. Winds will be light this north-northeast at 6 to 12 miles per hour.

SUNDAY MONDAY ... More humid Sunday There will be a few more clouds on Sunday. Just some sunshine will linger. High 83. The humidity will also increase. Monday may start with a slower before sunshine returns. High 83.

Metropolitan Almanac

In Central Park, for the 13 hours ended at 1 p.m. yesterday.

Temperature

Avg. daily departure from normal	Avg. daily departure from normal
±0.47	±0.47
Reservoir levels	(from 1 to 10 by water supply)
Underline	0.75
10 months	0.85

Recreational Forecast

Sun, Moon and Planets

First Quarter	Mid	Last Quarter	New
Aug. 29	Aug. 29 12:18 p.m.	Sep. 1	Sep. 15 11:30 p.m.
Sun	Wed. 8:24 p.m.	Mon.	8:24 p.m.
Mon.	7:31 p.m.	Tue.	8:15 p.m.
WED. 4:30 p.m.	8:00 p.m.	Mon.	8:00 p.m.
Sat.	7:31 p.m.	Mon.	8:15 p.m.
Sat.	7:31 p.m.	Tue.	8:15 p.m.
Sat.	7:31 p.m.	Mon.	8:15 p.m.
Sat.	7:31 p.m.	Tue.	8:15 p.m.
Sat.	7:31 p.m.	Mon.	8:15 p.m.
Sat.	7:31 p.m.	Mon.	8:15 p.m.

Earth and Ocean: Part in Sandy Heat. 8:1, out to 29 sub-tonnes, including only below Sound and New Not-tonnes.

Pitcher will be out of the west at 9:13 thence. Weave will be 7:30 to 4:40 p.m. New Not-tonnes start using Island Sound. Weave at the open outset will be 1:2 feet. Visibility will lower in an afternoon thunderstorm.

High Rates

Atlantic City	8:17 p.m.	8:04 p.m.
Barrington East	8:18 p.m.	8:04 p.m.
The Bollards	8:22 p.m.	8:20 p.m.
Beach Haven	10:14 p.m.	10:09 p.m.
Bridgester	12:11 p.m.
City Island	12:14 p.m.	12:07 p.m.
The Haven I-1	9:43 p.m.	9:37 p.m.
Wichita Point	9:52 p.m.	12:18 p.m.
Jackson	12:02 p.m.	12:02 p.m.
First Washington	12:05 p.m.	12:04 p.m.
Quincy	8:06 p.m.	8:11 p.m.
Greenwood	8:10 p.m.	8:03 p.m.
Somerset	10:05 p.m.	11:11 p.m.
Stockton	11:11 p.m.	11:20 p.m.
Wolters Point	13:08 p.m.	13:41 p.m.

Beach and Ocean Temperatures

Across New England, there will be a mixture of clouds and sunshine. Highs will be in the 70s and it will be a bit humid with an afternoon thunderstorm in a few spots. The sky will be brighter farther south with a slow afternoon thunderstorm. Highs will mostly be in the 80s and even the low 90s.

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Three campy musicals lampoon 'Heated Rivalry.'

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Barack Obama will host a podcast on influential works.

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ALEXIS SOLOSKI | THEATER REVIEW

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Shakespearean

Fable Is Fit For Summer

Central Park is the backdrop for the Public Theater's staging of a melancholy comedy that straddles mythic time and our own.

THE RILLER IS A TYRANT. He is trustfully, paranoid, convinced of conspiracies that us ist only in his mind. He punishes anyone he considers an enemy and listens only to those who affirm his worldview. This is Lemries, the king of Sicilia in Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale"; this summer's second show at the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park.

Though the director Daniel Sullivan sets the play in its fairy-tale world of roles and fact and crowns, this "Winter's Tale" brings the contemporary parallels bitingly close. A melancholy romance and a tonal jum- ble, the play begins in Sicilia, where Lemries (Radi Esparza) is entertaining a friend of his boyhood, Polinmes (Gilbert Owour). When Polinmes means to leave, Lemries

Radi Esparza as Lemries and Lily Rabe as Hermione in "The Winter's Tale."

The Winter's Tale Delacorte Theater

orders his pregnant queen, Hermione (Lily Rabe), to persuade him to stay. Polinmes agrees, Lemries, without cause, suspects adultery. That suspicion keeps tragedy on Hermione, their son and various courtiers. After an intermission, the action resumes 10 years later in Bohemia, which in Shakes- peare's imagination is somehow both pas- teral and coarsal. This is Polinmes's king- dom, and now it is his volatility that threat- CONTINUED ON PAGE C3

ART OF CRAFT

How Dummies Come to Life

In Maine, one of the country's last makers of ventriloquist puppets price out personality.

By CORNELLA CRANNING

Photographs by SARAH ARUTYUNIOVA

In the backroom of a small, cluttered work- shop in Portland, Maine, a figure lies face- down on a table. Its head has been cut open, exposing a delicate anatomy of brass rods, hinges and levers.

It is motionless, as though sleeping. But soon it will turn its head, blink, crack a wry smile and part its lips to speak. Each move- ment will be directed by an intricate net- work of hand-soldered mechanisms con- cealed inside its small, hollow body.

The figure is a recent creation of Austin Phillips, one of the last full-time profes- sional makers of ventriloquist dummies in America.

A craftsman working in a tradition that stretches back to Victorian music halls and vaudeville theaters, Phillips, 33, creates custom figures for performers and col- lectors while preserving a disappearing art.

"To some people, these are just puppets," Phillips said in a recent interview at his shop. "To me, there's so much to them. It's scrapture, casting, painting, sewing, sur- chance, history, research, performance de- sign — all at once. They are like kinetic art objects."

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A dummy in progress in the Portland, Maine, studio of Austin Phillips. After pouring room into a mold and letting it cure, he paints the features, creating distinct characters.

A Boastful Memoir:

Evidence or Fiction?

Duane Keith Davis's book links him to Topac Shakur's murder. It's now at the center of a trial.

By JULIA JACOBS

More than two decades after the murder of the copper Topac Shakur, a self-published memoir from a figure on the fringes of lap- bop promised the "real" story of a case that had long fascinated the public and frus- trated law enforcement.

"I'm one of the only living eyewitnesses to Topac's killing," the introduction to Duane Keith Davis's 2019 book said.

Titled "Compose Street Legend," the memoir painted Mr. Davis as a shot-caller for the South Side Conquest Crips, one of the gangs entangled in the bicusual hip-hop ri- vairy of the 1990s. Mr. Davis, known by the nickname Kelle D, is identified in its pages as the man who acquired the gun and par- naud Mr. Shakur in an act of revenge that culminated in a drive-by shooting by his as- sociate near the Las Vegas Strip in Septem- ber 1998.

At first, the book, published with a co-au- thor, drew little attention outside of online circles devoted to hip-hop lore and true crime. But a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department detective, who had been as- signed to revisit the case, took notice.

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The killing of Topac Shakur, above, in 1998 turned him into a hip-hop martyr. Duane Keith Davis, accused of playing a role in the death, is now on trial. A book some perfectly as containing a confronted by Mr. Davis is at the core of the case.

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From left: Duane Davis, foreground, whose name is on the planet a star. In Super Shaker's 2006 killing; the car in which Mr. Shakar was due in Las Vegas; and Mr. Shaker, 65, and Marion Knight, the car in Cheyenne as huge, in 1995.

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Quietly, the detective worked to build a case. In 2021, he read about excerpts from the book on a grand jury, which ultimately induced Mr. Davis on one count of murder in Mr. Shakar's killing. Mr. Davis, 65, has pleaded not guilty and denied any involvement.

The entire jury selection in Mr. Davis's trial began on Monday, the book is at the core of a case in which investigators were unable to locate other key evidence, such as the murder escapes or the car in which the character was riding.

Are the passages in the book, as prosecutors say, a confession, made because Mr. Davis mistakenly believed he had complete immunity from prosecution? Or, in the defense is expected to argue, are they a fictional account conceived to earn a profit?

"We're putting way too much credence and value and weight on statements that are made for entertainment purposes only," Michael Smith, a lawyer for Mr. Davis, said at a hearing last month. "Not a confession to a priest, not a confession to a police officer, but rather to promote a book, to sell a product."

Members have been leveraged as evidence in high-profile criminal and civil cases. In litigation after G.I. Simpson's acquittal on charges of murdering his ex-wife and her friend, his lawyers argued that Mr. Simpson's 2007 memoir, "If I Did It," provided a hypothetical account, not a confession, and was merely written without his involvement.

Mr. Davis's lawyers are likely to point to the extent to which embellishment and self-aggrandizement are part of the hip-hop ecosystem, where stress credibility often translates to profits and a podcast interview can earn tens of thousands of dollars.

Rappers often claim credit in usage for violence they did not commit, said Lydia Outlaw III, a law professor at Howard University who has worked to ensure top lyrics are not misused in criminal cases. But a memoir, promoted as fully authentic, is likely to be viewed much differently, he said.

"I think Mr. Davis and his lawyers are in a really tough predicament," Professor Outlaw said. "Because there's a big difference in saying that this is a memoir of my life experience."

"Congest Street Legend," with watermarks of bullet holes on many of its pages, was marketed as something of a gangster thriller about the life of someone who called others with the giants of 1970s by top, including two rap-unggals turned rivals, Sean Centile and Marion Knight, known as Sugo.

It discusses two of the greatest tragedies in hip-hop history: the killing of Mr. Shakar, followed months later by the murder of the Nuncrman B.I.O.

Just for investigators, who were unable to find the 30-caliber Chark ghost used to kill Mr. Shakar, or the white Cadillac that Mr. Davis and three associates were said to have been riding in, it has become essential evidence.

The other three men, who initially refused to cooperate with the police or denied involvement, have since died.

When the 215-page book surfaced, investigators had what Mr. Davis presented as his ex-wife/son of his control role as Mr. Shakar's killing. The book says "the fireworks started" after he saw Mr. Shakar reach down for what he thought was a gun.

"One of my guys from the back seat grabbed the Chark and started buster back," the book says on Page 103.

Mr. Davis's lawyer has tried to keep the book out of the trial without success. In an effort to distance Mr. Davis from the person portrayed in his pages, the defense has pointed to an interview the police conducted with the man hated as his co-writer, Yusuf Jah.

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Mr. Jah told investigators he had written the book in its entirety, drawing from nine sensations with Mr. Davis, according to a transcript of the interview. At times, Mr. Jah said, Mr. Davis recounted information he had heard from others, fused parts, Mr. Jah acknowledged, he had "ad-libbed."

When he sent drafts to Mr. Davis before publication, he said, his subject had no changes.

"Honestly, I don't think he read it," Mr. Jah told investigators.

In a trial expected to last about a month in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, jurors will hear of the record-label feud and their hostility when women in backdrop for Mr. Shakar's death in 1996.

That content, tonomo between Mr. Cantile's New York-based Bad Boy Records and Mr. Knight's Death Row Records in Las Vegas — with which Mr. Shakar had recently signed a record deal — rose to a boil. Each relied on rival gangs for security on the West Coast, and the feud became interviewed with disputes between local Crips and Shoots.

In September, when both sides ended up in Las Vegas for a Mike Tyson priroflight, what was supposed to be a weekend of revelry turned into one of violence. As the crowd exited the fight, Mr. Shakar and a group of Shoots attacked Mr. Davis's nephews, Orlando Anderson, punching and kicking him in public.

Later that night, Mr. Shakar was in a black BSRF driven by Mr. Knight when a car pulled up alongside them and someone inside opened fire. Mr. Shakar, 23, was hit

four times and died in a hospital days later. After the shooting, word spread that Mr. Davis's nephews, seeking revenge, had killed Mr. Shakar. But Mr. Anderson repeatedly denied it, and few witnesses would cooperate with the police.

In 2009 and 2008, investigators persuaded Mr. Davis to talk in detail about what had happened. Mr. Davis had already spent years in prison on narcotics convictions. Ultimately, after talking with the police, he became a confidential informant, under the threat of new charges.

Mr. Davis told investigators that the killing of Mr. Shakar was not just an act of gang treatment but the result of a request from Mr. Cantile, the record producer known as Didily. Mr. Cantile, who is serving a prison sentence on a prostitution-related conviction, has long denied any connection to the murder's death.

Investigators did not try to prosecute Mr. Davis because they had agreed that what he told them could not be used against him in the future.

But a new set of investigators took a different position after Mr. Davis cut for an interview with a 2018 BET decelerites, and then published and promoted his memoir. In it, Mr. Davis reported feeling a "deep sense of research" while at the same time boasting, "Super was a guggy that got swallowed up by some ferocious shocks."

At a hearing last month, Marc DiGiacomo, a prosecutor in the case, stated it plainly: "Had he never decided to take money and go on BET and talk about this situation, had he decided to never write the

book, he would not, probably, have ever been prosecuted for the crime."

Though they acknowledge that the book has inaccuracies and is "prone to hyperbole," prosecutors say the validity of Mr. Davis's account in its pages is bolstered by the fact that he shared a similar narrative in a 2000 interview with investigators and in public interviews surrounding the book's release.

Some details differ. In the memoir, Mr. Davis is vague about who fired the shots at Mr. Shakar's car: he told the police in 2008 that it was his nephew. Other accounts suggest it was another passenger.

While Mr. Davis's arrest, he and his lawyers have disclaimed the memoir. In court papers, his lawyers say Mr. Davis chose to pursue and potentially profit from a book only after learning that a former detective who had destroyed the book and published one that included Mr. Davis's account, which had been surreptitiously recorded. The audio was later used in a documentary film.

"I didn't write that book," Mr. Davis said in a recent palliation interview with 6 News Now, a television news station in Las Vegas.

He pointed to the book's quotes from famous figures as evidence that he played no part in its authorizing "I don't know nothing about no Winston Churchill," he said.

Mr. Davis, who is having a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted, denied even being in Nevada at the time of the murder.

Of the book, he said: "I just did it for the money."

Judge Awards $250,000 to Musician in Kennedy Center Case

By JULIA JACOBS

A judge ordered the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to pay a musician more than $250,000 in legal fees after dismissing a lawsuit the center had filed against him for bailing out of a concert last year, in protest of President Trump's name being added to the institution.

The musician, Chuck Redd, had attended a Christmas Eve jazz concert shortly after the president's name was installed as the center's marble facade. Mr. Redd, a former and vibrapherist who had hosted the annual holiday concert he nearly 20 years, was also able to a center employment during that he would feel "profoundly uncomfortable" performing there as long as Mr. Trump's name was on the building.

Richard Cornell, the center's president at the time, responded by writing a letter to

Mr. Redd threatening to use him for 10 million for what Mr. Cornell termed a "political issue." The center ultimately used to District of Columbia Superior Court for an unspecified amount of damages, securing Mr. Redd of violating his contract.

Hedge Tories M. Jones Rosier dismissed the case in June. She found that Mr. Redd had not agreed to a contract in the first time, and that the Kennedy Center did not appear to have been financially damaged by the cancellation of the concert, which was Sen. On Monday, the judge awarded Mr. Redd more than $252,000 to cover his name. Now and legal fees associated with defending against the lawsuit.

The Kennedy Center said in a statement on Tuesday that it planned to appeal the award. Its lawyers argued in court papers before the ruling that the calculation of legal

The venue had sued Chuck Redd when he canceled a concert after President Trump's name was put on the building.

fees by Mr. Redd's lawyers — they were sending more than $224,000 — was excessive and "overwhelming."

Mr. Redd's lawyers in the case included a Los Rancho and DeVry Katz, high-profile employment lawyers whose clients have included Christine Blaney Ford in her testimony against Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation process to join the Supreme Court.

In a statement on Tuesday, Mr. Banks said that "no citizen should have to spend time and money feeding off baseless and politically unattended lawsuits filed by the Trump administration."

Mr. Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center in the second term led to boycotts by artists and audience members, particularly after its board voted to add the president's name to the institution. Officials at the cen-

ter blasted those who pulled out of their commitment and accused them of being politically intolerant. The lawsuit against Mr. Redd, though, was the most aggressive artists yet taken against an artist who had withdrawn from a planned performance.

In May, a federal judge ruled that Mr. Trump's name had been added to the institution unlawfully, without the required permission of Congress, and ordered that it be removed. The center has appealed the decision, though it removed the added letters from the marble, constructing a towering matrix of scaffolding covered in organ that "cannot part at the original name."

The center is in limbo, and it has had a lengthy bare performance calendar since July as its board considers whether to move forward with the president's plan to close it for two years of renovations.

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Rivalries Heated

And Funny Even When Half-Baked

With drag kings and blue tinsel, musical tributes exploit the absurdities of a sexy hit TV series.

EDINBURGH — If ever a television show was crying out to be lampooned, it was “Housed Rivalry.” That Canadian series, which do not do a secret gay romance between two elite ice hockey players on opposing teams, became a bit almost in spite of itself. The show’s story lies in the staff of fan fiction, the characteristics it paper this and even the sex scenes feel strangely浸润. But viewers find to guileless sincerity cumped fizz — and this makes it ripe for satire.

It is still something of a surprise, however, that there are not one, but these ultra-campy-missed tributes to “Housed Rivalry” at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which runs through Aug. 31. One of the shows is an offshoot of the Off Broad way production that has been drawing audiences in New York since the spring and was recently extended through November; the others are now.

The fanatest is “Housed Rivalry: The Musical Parody!”, written by Andrew Young and Molly Moseley, and featuring Jamie Ary as the talented 6x6-drippy Canadian hockey whiz Shane Hollander and Bob Warner as his laconic Russian nemesis turned down. It is the Roanow. Their opposed personality types are graveyardly exaggerated for comic effect: Shane is so dull that he folds up his shorts before lovemaking, and Ilya is sullen to the point of rudeness.

The show is delightfully scrappy. During a gym scene, two black-chal ensemble performers get down on their knees and put their hands in shoes to simulate the Pinkster machines that Shane and Ilya team on. Blue tinsel stands in for remains of water during the shower scene in which Ilya makes his first advances on Shane. As in the series, we get a cover version of Tanz’s “All the Things She Said” — except here the words of the chorus are altered, for legal reasons, to “Couldn’t get the rights.”

The actors, accompanied outrage by a keyboardist and a guitarist, covert saggely-trody with hockey sticks, and there is much fun with double entendres. A sports commentator mostly calls out “York body check!” Shane’s mother, oblivious of his sexuality and desperate for him to continue Ilya, urges her use to “Bring him to his knees!” Alenn.

This ribality is combined with an affectionate but incisive skewering of the TV show’s clearly shortcoming. Ilya’s early father signs off an early rain with “Bun you in Episode 5, when I die.” Shane and Ilya’s distorted female love interests, Boue and Svetlana, magnetismously accepting of their fate, sing a self-congratulatory number about being great allies to L.C.R.T.U. people. And Scott Hunter, a fellow hockey pro whose on-air coming-out inspires Ilya and Shane, leads a happy-chappy ambush about the utopian future awaiting us at the end of the series’ timeline — “When Everyone Is Gay in 2026.”

What if it’s not really that deep, and the

Clockwise from left: Bob Warner, left, and Jamie Ary, standing, in “Housed Rivalry: The Musical Parody!”, Shane Barlow, left, and Ilya’s throes in “Pack Bunnies”, Sylvia Senness, left, May Terber and Andrew Berlin in “Housed Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody.”

TV show’s touchy-body messaging was just a convenient person to peddle with parts to the moment! This is the suggestion simultaneously pushed at the outset the Off Broad way show, which is playing in Edinburgh with a new cast. “Housed Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody” (don’t be misled — none of these shows are authorized) is M.C.F. by an American bestsellers/missed female (May Terber) who, if it is applied, represents a big chunk of the TV show’s target audience. In a changing opening number, the tells so that her only desire is to watch “gay hockey players with big team having sex.”

Butts are a recurring theme. In this re-telling, directed by Alan Kibler with a book by Dylan MarcAurele, Ilya (Joseph Dann, in his stage debut) receives childhood trauma over his “superstar cabaret” as well as mummy and daddy issues. Zheng Xi Yong’s Shane knows in classic Broadway times while exercising on his Poisons and whines like a creepy schoolboy whenever things get tough. The dynamic between them is more or less parent-child.

The vocal performances here are strong-

er and more earnest, which makes the incongruity with the lyrics — ranging from the novelty filthy to the unprintable — all the more amazing. There are more double entendres and some lovely memories of comic bathes: Ilya believes his mother killed herself years earlier and of shame over his sex-

Viewers find in guileless sincerity compelling, making it ripe for satire.

sality, only in eventually motion that he hadn’t read her suicide note to the end — and she was, in fact, OK with it.

The show’s very different to “Pack Bunnies: A Housed Rivalry Drug Musical Parody” where the pianist and musical director Tony Gonzalez is the only male-identifying performer in the company. As he plays the keyboard to one corner of the stage, the drug kings thanks Barlow and Ilya’s throes, playing Ilya and Shane, praces around in glittery hockey jerseys, which they lift to reveal Housed male rames made of silicone.

The title “Pack Bunnies” — a slang term for women who follow men’s ice hockey mostly because they’re into the athletes — is knowingly ironic for a show that celebrates sport by: It isn’t quite as wary as the other two shows, and once the initial novelty of the gender switch wears off, the comic energy starts to dissipate. But it’s never dull.

The negative is crowd-pleasingly cruel, such as when Scott’s barista boyfriend, Kip, offers to add “nice inches of extra girth” to Scott’s comedian. (It’s a fanatist, of course.) At one point, a sex act is rendered using out-size inflatable genitalia.

What all three musicals have in common, subject matter aside, is a relentless exuberance that exemplifies all that’s best about theater at the Fringe. And they point to something significant about the nature of casual families in the era of vital media — not real, obsessive devotion but its water-cooler counterpart, which has ambivalent curiosity at its core.

When a show becomes a meme, the meme becomes the story, eclipsing the show itself. This phenomenon is here to stay. Thankfully, we’ll always have satire.

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Spotify Plans To Label A.I. Songs

The service will alert listeners to music makers that may be computer generated.

By MALIA MENDEZ

As A.I. generated songs tap charts and fixed-axial media, Spotify wants its users to make a more井然坪ning to real groups.

Starting in September, Spotify will offer labels to the profiles of artists whose identities it believes were most likely generated by artificial intelligence, the streaming service announces its contention to a label A.I. generated artists will also be able to identify those artists as such.

Once labeled, the profiles will be excluded from the company's editorial and algorithmic recommendations, Spotify said.

"While we believe all artists have creative choice in determining how they present themselves," the company said in a news release, "Spotify's programming is focused on elevating music from authentic artists building careers in music."

The announcement comes a month after a consortium of music industry groups, including the Recording Academy and the Recording Industry Association of America, called for labels on songs that had been made with some degree of A.I. The groups

A streamer looks to elevate 'authentic artists building careers in music.'

cited fans' desire for transparency when A.I. fans have involved in making music.

Songs by A.I. generated acts with names like the Victor Goodwin and Breaking Beat have amassed millions of streams on Spotify, with many listeners seemingly unaware of the music's origins. (Some listeners have said they are unbelieved by A.I.'s role in music creation.)

Spotify's new label will read "AI Persona" and the placed near an artist's name Laura Baezy, a spokeswoman for Spotify, said the company's review process would be twofold: an automated screening followed by a check from the company's human moderators.

The review will look primarily at users' names and their profile pictures, Batey said, adding that the feature is intended to focus on artists' identities rather than their songs. Spotify allows A.I. generated music to be uploaded to its platform, provided it does not violate the company's rules governing space or fraud.

In its news release, Spotify said the "AI Persona" label would also appear in its app's search function and its playlists that include those songs. Listeners will be able to still if artists had disclosed the information themselves or if the label had originated from Spotify. Profiles that Spotify flags will have a stated to appeal the designation.

The streaming platform also said that in the coming months, it would allow users to report artist profiles that they believed were generated by A.I. The details of that process were not disclosed.

While Spotify listeners have expressed frustration about being recommended A.I. generated music in the app, the company said in its news release: "We now see algorithms to highlight authentic human artists and, based on available signals, artists to see include spans, stay or low-effect content in our recommendations."

This year, Spotify added not its A.I. Credits feature, allowing artists to disclose how they had used A.I. in making their songs. The company has also incorporated A.I. technology into its app through a personalized D.J. feature and retain text.

Variations Woven Into a New Work

The pianist Joseph Havlat constructs a recording with his interpretations of a piece by Schumann.

ROBERT SCHUMANNY final work — "Geintervariationen," or "Ghost Variations" — is at the heart of the pianist and composer Joseph Havlat's thoughtfully constructed new album, "Sinnes, Don't Let This Harvest Pass."

"Geintervariationen" isn't one of Schumann's most celebrated piano works, partly because of its late publication. Critically withheld by his family after his death in 2016, it was eventually published in 2020. But it's also just an enigmatic piece.

The work's opening, issued theme carers the direction "bibo, long," meaning soft and intimate, and intricate passage-work in the first variation adds further charts. In the second variation, a canon, Schumann barely changes anything at all, spring to stay in the same register atmosphere, key, speed and mood as the first. Things quicken in the third, the introduc-

tion of the minor key adds a Chopin-like feeling to the fourth (another canon), and, by the final movement, the texture has finally opened up from its starting point. But even then, Schumann's big reveal shows a cluster of lines that needs as if they're all accompanying an almost melody.

Havlat doesn't try to disobey these unusual passages into traditional melon of interpreting Schumann. The top line rarely rings out, he example. That things were blurred, with multiple lines battling he space. Is its Harish's credit.

On the album, Schumann's variations are followed by Michael Finniszy's "RS Geintervariationen" (reversive Bison) saw any written composition as a matter of transcription, and thus was perfectly comfortable comparing adaptation of celebrated composers like Bach and Brahms. Finniszy's works take a similar approach, and — drawing from ideas around filmmaking and

Joseph Havlat, whose new album is titled "Sinnes, Don't Let This Harvest Pass"

photography — he regularly composes through, against, on top of and around existing musical material. Where a project like his "18 World Transcriptome" adds redistributions to more straightforward, less puzzling source material, "RS Geintervariationen" fulfills a different function. It's a commentary on the Schumann, or even a musical explanation.

Though Finniszy's piece begins in the same way, a myriad chord changes the work's direction. Later, a similar moment triggers a theory harmony, an upward threat in register and a mysterious new ending. Finniszy separates what follows into variations made from transcription of Brahms's by 13 (both) set of variations on the same side. "The songs," clearly divertisements that newly taught the threads that Brahms had worked loose.

Finniszy finishes with a section titled "Chair of Ghost Voices From Alta" Schumann, who argues to help manufacturers around the time he wrote the "Geintervariationen" and spoke of hearing an "angst" theme that guided the work. Finniszy's cho-

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ing music is unsettling and suspended, like a marionette suddenly paralyzed.

Harish's most emotionally insightful album, "Ghost Variations," is the most closely written marked "Con Tenerezza" ("with tenderness") begins like a torch song, travels through the same way, and starts with a disembodied register and arrives at something angrier by "Trape 1/3," all in under three minutes. Havlat navigates these swift transitions smoothly, with an acute sense of line. He connects his disparate materials by drawing out all of their moodies, most subdued lines.

Ideas around variation, whether written or conceptual, in Harish's album together, Finniszy, the great transcriber, finds a kindred spirit in the composer Cassandra Miller, staring credits on the piece "Sinnes, Don't Let This Harvest Pass." They both create variations on the title song, as sung by Harish, under one, and as part of the material in contrasting ways. Miller's opening is simple, model, mostly and rhythmic. Next, Finniszy brings the theme to the foreground, then thoroughly abstracts it. His third section has the suspended distance of "RS Geintervariationen," and Miller closes with a slow, drawn-out sunset. It's some of the essential music on the album.

Miller has been inspired by Simone Wu's writing and Greek haweid lamento, and once used a better recording of the guitarist Sean Hdim singing with the paper English Chamberla as the basis for her guitar concerns "Chatten!" how earlier work "Philip the Wanderer," which closes the album, though, her obnoxious art less interesting. When the second movement's consulting, Tchaikovsky organ chords are joined by an extra 'high' whistling, the effect is reshending. But other clusters are less engaging, even momentous, like the four minutes of evenings, low end rambling that begin the piece or an attractive inversion of those canvases being wrapped out for a single, dull, heaping major scale at the close.

To conclude the album so neatly underwish, Harish's otherwise ambitious corraling of voices ancient, modern, musical, and imaginary, to explore questions but never definitively answer them.

Barack Obama to Host Podcast on Books

By MALIA MENDEZ

Former President Barack Obama has long shared what he is reading with the public. Now, he plans to drive into a collection of books that have influenced him in a new podcast that will drive to September. The podcast, "A Great Book With Barack

Obama," was announced on Monday by Audible and Higher Ground, the media company of the former president and the former first lady Michelle Obama.

"Great books have always helped me figure out who I am and what I believe," Obama said in a statement: "The six books featured in the 2nd edition of the book will be throughout my life, and each one has something so much as about the human experience."

The former president added that a small group of friends would just find out the podcast to discuss the selections — aiming to "explore why they resonate, how they can shape our mind, making it nonzero, and each other, and why literature matters now more than ever."

"I hope listeners will be inspired to discover or rediscover books that change the way they see themselves and the world," he said.

In a separate social media post, Obama said, "At a time when fewer people are able to sit down with a book, it's important to remember the joy and power that can come from reading."

The podcast will be a limited series examining: "The Five Next Time," by James Baldwin, "Song of Solomon," by Tom Marrison; "All the Pretty Harass," by Carissa McCarthy; "Gilead," by Marilynne Robinson; "All

Discussing works by Toni Morrison, Carissa McCarthy and others.

the King's Men," by Robert Penn Warren; and "Finkes, Telles, Soldier, Spy," by John le Carré.

The guests on the podcast, which a news release called "lot of the most compelling thinkers, writers and artists of our time," have not been announced. But Obama's infection for many of his selected authors is no secret.

In 2022, he presented Morrison with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That same year, Robinson was awarded the National Humanities Medal. In 2017, Obama called

Robinson a "good friend" whose writing helped him feel more connected to the people he met on the campaign trail. Reading fiction, he told The New York Times, "exercises those muscles."

The new podcast will not be the first collaboration between Audible and Higher Ground. They have worked together to help create "Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast," basically the former. "I think you will as shews hosted by the journalist Michele Norris and the author Malcolm Gladwell.

The chief content officer at Audible, Rachel Odanza, said Obama had "a remarkable ability to connect books to the questions of who we are and how we see the world."

Don Forman, who oversees audio at Higher Ground, said that "A Great Book!" would remind listeners to "see quitting matters."

Since its founding in 2019, Higher Ground has built a portfolio of projects across 500, television, theater and other areas. This year, a revival of the "Gilead" and "A Little or Prize-winning play "Proud" starring Ayn Edelen and Dan Chouda, was the company's first Broadway project.

Former President Barack Obama said, "It's important to remember the joy and power that can come from reading."

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early. When he was 5, his parents took him to a stall where he spotted in a shop window a toy Charlie McCarthy, the minisolled dummy made famous by the ventriloquist Edgar Bergen.

Phillips was transfixed. "There was something about it that really drew me in," he said. "It looked mechanical and yet somehow alive."

By 14, he was carving his own figures from wood and building simple machines, obsessed with anything that could be taken apart and fixed, like pinball machines and motorcycles. While studying technical theater at the University of Maine at Farmington, he built dummies in his dares and began selling them on eBay, which snowballed into a corner. He moved into his current studio in 2015.

Early on, Phillips pursued perfection obsessively. Over time, he learned to booze up and leave more room for personality.

'I started realizing people responded more when things were a little more painterly, a little more playful.'

"You can go too far and lose the life in it," he said. "I started realizing people responded more when things were a little more painterly, a little more playful."

That balance between precision and imperfection is central to the appeal of the figures. One reason they are expressive is that they retain traces of the hand that made them.

The puppers vary in complexity. Some have simple designs with just a moving head and mouth, while others are elaborately mechanized with 10 or more finger-operated levers. These can have eyelids that think and work, eyebrows that rise and lower, lips that appear to opt, ears that wiggle and legs that kick — all to one figure.

Phillips is meticulous and considers every detail, especially when considering how to shape a smile or an eyebrow to give a puppet distinct personality. "It's a feeling," he said. "I just know when something's right." If it's not right, he keeps working at it.

He carves the mouth and teeth from wood and cuts the eyebrows from brass "like jewelry," he said. The eyes are particularly important. He shapes some from wood and makes others from modified table-tennis balls fitted with glass irises used in tandem.

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"It's a bit like applying makeup," said Auntie Phillips, now in his tool- and dummy-filled studio. Phillips paints the dummy's face after adding eyes, a mouth and internal mechanisms made of brass, which will control every blink and smile. Each element is attached to a lever in the torso. "They really function almost like instruments," he said. "To operate one well is like playing a saxophone."

For the more detailed dummies, Phillips uses painted leather to create eyelids and lips that move more naturally as though they were live skin. The leather hat is to be set carefully into the face and painted to look seamless.

"It sounds crazy," he said, laughing, "but it took me probably five years to perfect the eyelids alone."

Most of his customers are collectors and hobbyists, but a few are professional ventriloquists. He recently repaired a talking-dog apparatus for a performer. Another customer, the comedian and ventriloquist Sophie Becker, has called him from the road for emergency repairs.

"We changed a string over FaceTime once," he said.

He also makes theater props, in the past year, he said, he did work for "The Nancracker," an Off-Broadway play and an NBC television show.

Phillips has had the opportunity to restore significant pieces of art. He was recently flown to Spain to work on a collection of theatrical puppets from 1916. For restorations, his goal is inviability.

"My job is to make it look like I was never there," he said. "I'm trying to match the original materials, the pigments, the artist's intent."

Phillips is a one-person shop. The workdays are long and, with only the puppets to keep him company, can be lonely. But business is good, he said, painting to a small dry-erase board on his studio wall that was covered with orders. He has more work than he can keep up with.

Despite the demand, Phillips resists the temptation to speed up the process. A simple figure can take three weeks if he moves quickly. A custom job can take six months or longer.

"People are excited to work one on one with a craftsperson and have something he spoke made for them," he said. "It's an old-world thing. It isn't Amazon. You don't get it in two days. If you're getting one of these, you're also accepting what it means to have something made this way."

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Arrangedly, a comedy, a fable of forgiveness that includes an assistant station. "The Winter's Tale" straddles both mythic time and, if a director wants it that way, our own. Though Sullivan is not a stridently political director of the field of gay-type regularity, classic, even he can't resist the impulse to pull Shakespeare into the immediate present. When Steven Skyrkel's Autolycan, a rogue and a peddler, crows, "I have sold all

The Winter's Tale

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my trumpery," Sullivan lets him emphasize the first syllable of that last word — to predictable applause.

If the production is uneven, well, so is the play. Sullivan, a faithful, flavor steward of the classics as well as a celebrated director of new plays, is most comfortable in its first acts and then again in the moving finale. He is aided here by Rabe, whom he directed in the 2010 "Merchant of Venice," a luminous actress who invents Hermione with both charm and forestry; and by Marsha Stephania Blake, a tremendous presence at Hermione's confidante, Paulina. She besides the character's scorched-earth speeches, bringing rigor to her righteousness.

Espirus, too little uses courage recently, plays Leonino with particular sensitivity, perhaps more than the king deserves. In his nimble hands, we see the prior Leonino's suspension exact, the way that his obsession and mistrust havre everyone around him while also shriveling his own soul. It is almost impossible to sympathize with a char-

A director must comfortable in a play's first acts and then again in the moving finale.

acter who does such harm so handeously. And as Espirus plays him, it is almost impossible not to.

This "Winter's Tale" rages in its lighter, Bohemian moments. Chuck Cooper gives a nicely restrained performance as a Bohemian shepherd, but Skyrkel has been encouraged to everyday Autolycan, crowding out the sweet young lovers — Florizel,

played by Daniel Kyri, and Perdita, played by Isabella Ferrer. And whatever the country, the production is visually unimpaired, with the stage, an enhanced clock face designed by Maruti Evans, perhaps too bare and the costumes, designed by Linda Clio, too layered and gathered, a pivotal movie isn't especially merry, and Shakespeare's most famous stage direction, "Exit, pursued

Above, the Delacorte's stage in Central Park during a performance of "The Winter's Tale" Left, Isabella Ferrer's Chuck Cooper, covers, and Daniel Kyri in the play

by a friend; to rendered here as little more than a flash and a scream.

But who needs grand design when you have the riches of Central Park in your back? The sunset rape any of Bradley King's lighting, though he manages a silly effect in the final act. And the rustle of the breeze blowing through the leaves of the surrounding trees outperforms any sound or art design. No success joined the ensemble on a recent Saturday evening, but you can't have everything.

"The Winter's Tale" is a fine choice for Shakespeare in the Park, though summer is the only season that the play doesn't represent. It begins in winter, then resumes in spring and the final act has the warmth and chill of a sunny day in autumn. Still, summer is for pleasure, and if there is a greater pleasure on an August day than sitting in the Delacorte as the sun declines and the temperature cools, I don't know it.

There's pleasure, too, of a bittersweet kind, in the measured optimism that "The Winter's Tale" offers and which so clearly appeals to Sullivan. There is real loss in this treasure and pato that can't be entirely managed. But the play also insists that healing is possible, redemption practicable and that what we might mistake for supernatural influence is, in fact, the steady, patient work of humans. There's hope here, even when hope has felt beyond the reach of sense or reason. That can feel, for a night at least, remedy enough.

'Harry Potter' Fans Protect a Memorial

The gravesite for Dobby, a cherished fictional elf from the fantasy film series, is saved from the path of power cables after an uproar.

By CLAIRE MOSES

LONDON — An expansive beach in Wales is the site of one of our of the nakhtar moments of the "Harry Potter" movie series. It's where Dobby, a freed house elf, dies in Harry's arms during "Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows: Part 1"

"I want to bury him," the young wizard-in-training says after the elf takes his last breath. "Property. Without magic."

I have of the 2010 movie assembled a real memorial to the imaginary elf on the Freshwater West beach in Frederiksellen. Wales where the scene was filmed. "Here lies Dobby, a free elf," says a sign atop a pile of stones, a memorial that became a tourist destination for the series' many admirers.

But in 2015, the site was threatened by plans to run a large electrical cable under the beach, part of a multimillion-dollar effort to transport electricity between Ireland and Britain.

That year, Simon Ludlum, project manager for the electricity cable known as Greenlink, appeared on BBC Wales to explain the project, standing on the beach where Dobby was buried.

I am involved.

"After it aired, we began to get calls. Many, many, many calls," Ludlum, a managing partner at Eelcha Energy, said in an interview on Monday.

From above left: a memorial for Dobby, a fictional elf from the "Harry Potter" fantasy movie series, at Freshwater West beach in Wales, and the area where the Greenlink electricity cable connecting Britain and Ireland runs below the beach.

Never mind that the place Dobby dies in the book "Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows" is in Cornwall, England, nor in Wales. Never mind that elves aren't real (as far as we know). Never mind that Harry Potter, too, is a character, in a different kind of world from ours.

"The whole thing is fictitious," Ludlum remembered telling a colleague after the uproar.

But Ludlum quickly came to understand that the situation was as serious as Harry's

love for Dobby.

"It was clearly a thing," he said. "Something we couldn't ignore."

It wasn't the first time that the pile of stones and pebbles, many with messages to Dobby, had been under threat. In 2022, environmental officials became concerned that the site's popularity with tourists was having a negative effect on the beach. A Welsh conservation charity ultimately said the memorial could remain, but asked visitors to stop leaving offerings such as wares, a symbol of Dobby's friendship with Harry.

After hundreds of phone calls from him, including some children, the plane changed. The cable was revealed to avoid Dobby's grave, while also carefully avoiding archaeological remains from the Browns Age found near the site, Ludlum said.

Ludlum told the story for the first time in

depth last week on an episode of the "Energy Revolution" podcast. "We get back with the planners and we discussed exactly how to remain the cable," to avoid going near the memorial, he said on the podcast.

Other factors also determined the final route of the cable, which connects the electrical grids of Britain and Ireland, said James O'Reilly, Greenlink's third executive.

Greenlink has two convertor stations connected by cables under the Irish Sea, according to the company. Developers used horizontal direct drilling to lay the cables in a way that avoided creating trenches in the ground.

"We didn't disturb the beach or the dance or Dobby's grave in any way," O'Reilly said.

The cable has been operational since the beginning of last year. Not for away, Dobby continues to rest in peace.

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In the refined Erotic Review, the words have become just as important as the photographs.

By MARIE SOLIS

"Everything is sensed, but nothing is sexy." It's one of those sticky phrases that floats around social media, out of context and unexamined. In the pages of Erotic Review, a twice-annual literary magazine based in Britain, the opposite often seems to be true:

Everything is sexy, but need not be precisely sensed.

An issue last fall featured the novelist Max Porter's five erotic words. They were "nigs," "eats," "posthumous," "habits" and "sense." It also included a photo essay of the artist Richard Malone's textile sculptures and a short article by the critic Ryan Ruby about the sensuality of written correspondence.

An earlier incarnation of the magazine was occasionally erudite, too, publishing the work of George Saunders, Damien Hirst

and Evelyn Waugh's oldest son, Subεται. But its approach to its subject matter was not so subtle. When it was founded in 1885 by Jamie Maclean, then an art dealer, it was a Friday print newsletter with illustrations of women's bare faces on the front and articles headlined "The Best Nippies in Town." It retained that sensibility even as it changed hands, led in its heyday through the last '60s and early 2000s by a female editor, Rowan Pelling.

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25 Years of Big-City Gals Meeting Hometown Hunks

The Hallmark Channel knows that when life feels hard, Christmas in July can help.

By AMANDA BEEH

"I think I was the first person on Hallmark to die," Andre MacDowell said. She was standing just off the red carpet in a bow-nacked limoie at the 92nd Street Y, where she had come on an early August evening to celebrate the Hallmark Channel's 25th birthday. When MacDowell isn't making studio films, you can find her on the network, where she has played a fashion photographer, a judge, a Progressive Era auto chaperone and a modern maniacin who falls into a time-travelling pond. I asked MacDowell what the most unrealistic part of a Hallmark movie was.

"Sometimes life is really hard," she said. "I think the audience does not want to see their."

Her rare Hallmark Channel death occurred in the 20th original movie "The Beach House." MacDowell played a woman diagnosed with terminal cancer who devours her final summer to family hooding and turtle conservation. "We did it very subtly," she said of her character's end. "The people who come to Hallmark really want a break."

The Hallmark Channel was born in the summer of 1995, after a series of corporate acquisitions and referrals transformed a longtime Christian channel into a home for secular family loss. Its television offerings now feel as ubiquitous as its parent company's greeting cards. In a Hallmark movie, love wins, blurs lives and it's Christmas all year round. The films back back to an idealized past, and they often star familiar personalities from classic sitcoms and romcoms, but at this point the channel's offerings have become their own nostalgic traditions.

Last week, MacDowell joined Hallmark stars, executives and superhero at $25V for a celebration of what the network called "a quarter century of fast-good television." Some fans were custom Hallmark T-shirts or red heart-shaped sunglasses, a reference to a pair that the Hallmark star Tyler Hynes does in the Hallmark original "I'll Be Saving You." "Hynes," as he fans brand themselves, can provoke a 3-D plastic Hallmark ornament molded in the shape of Hynes's head, a striped candy case racked behind his left ear.

Hallmark knows its fans want to live in its sweet, sugary universe — and now they can, with the immersive Hallmark Christmas Experience, the tropical Hallmark Christmas Cruise and the reality show that metoo Hallers encounters between the stars and the fans on the cruise, "Christmas at Sea."

Hallmark somehow anticipated our many-rarvy media moment, when streaming has influenced the stigma of the "made-for-5" movie: "social media costs our lives in gaudy filters and the culture is seized by real everything, in the world Hallmark has made. No net one has ever been a step-by-step plan that a comfort object, one that anesthetizes the viewer against the stresses of modern life."

When life is hard, Hallmark is easy. MacDowell told me that, as she made her way to New York for the party, a fellow traveler thanked her for appearing on the Hallmark Channel, "and I know what she's saying," she said. their people watch Hallmark. They watch it from empty nests and hospital bedside. When they dial up a Hallmark Christmas movie in July, "they are going through the hardest times of their lives," said the actress Erin Cahill, whose most recent Hallmark Channel film is "Christmas

at the Camp Café," in which she plays a savvy marketing executive who inherits her late great-sum's cat cafe. "They just want something that's going to help them sleep at night."

MacDowell was far from the only recognizable comedy avatar at the event. Onstage, Holly Robinson Poore ("Hangin' With Mr. Cooper"), Lacey Chabert ("Mean Girls") and Marita Benson ("C.A. Story") squeezed between Hallmark leading men with batch jawlines and form-fitting polio sweaters.

"There's a formula" for the channel's main romantic team, said the actress Heather Hometown, "and it's called 'Hallmark bank.'" He is kind, generous, attentive, approachable, tender and absurdly good-looking, with "the ability to chop weed and fight a fire if necessary," the actress Rachel Benton said, adding, "survival skills."

The risks of Hallmark's fantasy universe are so predictable that when the network bends them, it becomes an event. People magazine covered Hallmark's first holiday movie to star a character with autism ("Our Christmas Journey," starring Peter), the first-bomino institution acquired a pen coat worn in "The Christmas House," the first

Hallmark movie to feature a same-sex kiss. The channel's most durable cliché is that of the hard-charging businesswoman who leaves the big city for a life-changing holiday romance with a man who works with his hands and owns a mildly alarming amount of seasonal shred. The audience for this stark plot is broad. America is a country pulled desperately between the all-consuming future of family and work.

But only in Hallmark's universe can a heroine exit the rat race for an idealized hamlet, one where she'll never drown in the isolation of child care or worry about money after she quits her corporate aft to pursue her passion for miniature villages. While the viewer may be busy silencing debt collectors or filing CDBRA forms, the Hallmark star is on the screen in the background, closing her taping to loan down a long-lost Christmas ornament with a mysterious man from her past. The films' familiar rhythms clear all the mental paperwork from the desk.

The network's stars are aware that they're selling a snow-globe version of real life. When I asked the actress Autumn Reesor what she most absurd aspect of Hallmark movies was, she replied, "Adults

drinking so much hot chocolate." The Hallmark bank Wes Brown said that the characters "probably make too little money to fund these directives. Like, man, your Christmas tree farms really rakes in the slough." I posed the same question to Kim Capris, a Hyster from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., who came to the event with a pair of glittery heart-sanglass earrings dangling from her sides. Her answer: "The happy ending."

Much of the network's appeal lies in its casting strategy, in which familiar faces and romantic pairings return each year in several films with barely differentiated sets and plots. "It's really, really a family," Cahill said.

Hallmark stars are among the harmless working actors in the entertainment business. Chabert told me she shoots eight to 10 script pages a day on a Hallmark project (a typical studio film shoots far fewer). Many of the actors also write, produce and direct for the network. Offscreen, the work continues.

Hallmark Channel people are so nice. At meet-and-greets and on cruise ships, their job is to make you feel good. During the panel, the Hallmark bank R.J. Reitz, who most recently starved in last year's "Talking for the Season" (in which he plays a local news-caster friend to choose between a career opportunity and a new romance with a single meet), marched to the stage's edge as bag a fan in the front row. After the crowd melted into a sustained collective cavest, he got back up and hugged her again.

Ralph Kunkel, the 80-year-old bag recipient, came to the event with a "Happy Birthday" headband in her hair and a custom-printed Hallmark T-shirt on her back, one designed to match her crew of fellow Hallmark enthusiasts. It was their fourth Hallmark event in 16 days; they had followed the cast through Hallmark Stars Live traveling stage shows in New York State and a lunchtime meet-and-greet at a Michaelis store in Pennsylvania.

Kunkel was chasing the same feeling that has kept the network's fans tuning in for a quarter of a century. "I've been watching Hallmark for years," she explained. "Just to escape from reality sometimes."

Benson Hallmark Channel films, clockwise from top left: "Christmas shows the Clouds": "Love Under the Mistletoe", "A Wake or Broad Holiday": "Christmas at the Camp Café", "We Met in December"; and "Talking for the Season." Bottom, Hallmark Channel stars take part in more-and-greets and cruises with fans.

Its films back back to an idealized past. Love always wins.

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Sculptures That Define the Modern Age, Chosen by Experts

Sculpture is modern and complex in contemporary art, because of their sheer physical presence, sculptures are often harder to show, not to mention more difficult to sell: This fact forces the medium into a secondary role behind painting. Yet sculpture may be the art that the public, throughout history, has tended to interact with the most.

To choose the 20 most important works of sculpture made since 1945, we asked a panel of experts to gather at the New York Times building in March. They included the artists Fierde Rieel, 45; Charles Gaines, 62; Adam Pendleton, 62; and Arlene Sheehan, 77 — all of whom have, to varying degrees, explored and advanced sculpture in their work — along with Ricky Martin, 61, the chief curator of MoMA PDI in Queens and a

DAVID SMITH, "Hudson River Landscape," 1953

JAMES PERRY, "The New York Times"

The panel in March, from left: Charles Gaines, Adam Pendleton, M.R. Miller, Fierde Rieel, Ricky Martin and Arlene Sheehan.

former curator of the nearby SculptureCenter, the early museum in New York explicitly dedicated to the medium.

While this was an exercise with disagreement based into its promise, an moderator I was surprised at our level of divergence about what makes a sculpture significant. Each member of the jury submitted a list of proposed inclusion before our meeting, and each had to let go of a favorite.

Our definition of sculpture was generally broad. We would consider works from any country, though our choices display a clearly Western (and New York-centric) bias. We would weigh out just individual three-dimensional objects but group exhibitions and works altering the line of other media, up to and including those centered on the human body as it moves through space. In fact, one of the few things the panel seemed to agree on implicitly is that a sculpture can be anything interacting with its environment.

Here are six of the 25 sculptures. The complete article is at magazine.com. M.R. MILLER

David Smith, "Hudson River Landscape," 1953

David Smith brought Abstract Expressionism into three dimensions with most sculptures that were gestural and introspective. The "Hudson River Landscape" participates in the sort of panesic virus that had historically been the purview of painters. About six feet long and four feet high, it was based on the painting countryside Smith care on train paversy through upstairs New York. The lines of "Hudson River Landscape," now in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, form what can be interpreted as a constellation of steps, railroad tracks, clouds, streams and mountains. But the work reports them in favor of openness, with each length or squiggle of metal doubling as a boundary, and the work as a whole acting as a fragmentary frame for wherever it's placed. JOHN COURTNEY

Kara Walker, "A Subtlety," 2014

In 2014, people wanted to face the heart to encounter if the best-bag. 25-foot-tall sugar-coconut sphere inside the former Herman Sugar Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It was the work of Kara Walker, an American artist that best knows the paper silhouettes exploring the depravity of slavery. Inside the space, molasses dripped down walls and visitors were greeted by 15 literate sculptures of blackened hair bars, melon made of brown sugar, others of resin coated in molasses. The splinter, head, adorned with a scarf, referred to the racist stereotype of the manure, while her large breasts and exposed betons evoked the overly sexualized pedals. In a video for Creative Time, the public art organization that commissioned the project, Walker said the work reflected "it's more trade that traded sugar for bodies and bodies for sugar." After the show, most of the work was destroyed. JULIA RALPERIN

Melvin Edwards, "Lynch Fragments," 1963-2018

The blades of an open pair of scissors glitters necessarily make a cluster of interlocking steel scraps, bound by a thick chain. This is one of about 100 small-scale steel retails in Melvin Edwards's series "Lynch Fragments." Edwards, a Black artist who died this year at age 90, grew up in segregated Texas in the 1940s and '50s. In his Los Angeles studio in 1963, he began welding together industrial and farming tools into these sculptures, which reflected both the figurations of civil rights on a protest art and the language of formal alternative without fully belonging to either school. Edwards continued adding to the terms throughout his career; many are now in the collections of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Cleveland Museum of Art. JOHN PEEL

JOHN PEEL, "The New York Times"

Lygia Clark, "Bichos," 1959-66

The Brazilian artist Lygia Clark created her "Bichos" works, which range from the size of a miniature paper crane to that of a stove, out of square and curved aluminum panels connected by hinges. They look like geometric abstract painting that went through a 3-D printer and sprung to life. Clark was a leading member of the Neo-Coscritic Institute, as group of Brazilian artists interested in how art could reconnect viewers to their friends. With these works, which are now in the collections of museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Centro Pompidou in Paris, she sought to "offer ritual in the viewer," as she said in 1980. Her "Bichos" (the word translation to "crimen") have no ideal configuration. As viewers manipulate the works, they can feel the cold metal beneath their fingers and hear the paints squeak and cluck. JULIA RALPERIN

Claes Oldenburg, "The Storm," 1961

The Swedish-born sculptor Claes Oldenburg rose to prominence at a time of transition in New York's art scene. For "The Storm," he turned an 800-square-foot East Village overthrust into a functioning shop and a working studio. He created stationary for the business, which he called Ray-Gan Manufacturing Company, and made an inventory out of paper market, wire and various items. He laid out rumpled shirts and ties, hung overstate Pepsi-bottle caps on the wall and stocked pulley cases with slices of pie, all colored with commercially available paints. His loungy, glossy wares collapsed the line between painting and sculpture as well as consumer culture and high art. JULIA RALPERIN

Marisol, "Women and Dog," 1963-64

For nearly 60 years, the Venezuelan American artist Marisol incorporated her own likeness into busy wooden sculptures that combined Pop, pro-Columbian and folk art influences with a shodgun set. In "Women and Dog," which is owned by the Whitney Museum, she appears alongside two adult counterparts, one holding a perky dog by a knob, and a young girl. These 60-man figures offered a mention 3 enigmatic portrait of bourgeois American womanhood. Resolved so softly they seem imprisoned in their own roughly bowed bodies, the women are at once fashionable, commanding and troublingly exposed, none more so than the central figure, which has a tiny photograph of Marisol as a wooden knob for a head. JOHN PEEL

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Primed for the Shift From Politician to Celebrity Boyfriend

Justin Trudeau's newest editorial involves a relationship with the pop star Katy Perry.

FORMER WORLD LEADERS pop up in all sorts of places: Davos panels, state Records, the Olympic Games. Rarely, however, do they pop up in TMZ because they are "no racist made in much of France."

Such, however, was the case recently with Justin Trudeau, a former prime minister of Canada and the current boyfriend of the pop star Katy Perry. The two were photographed confidently on a show in its "topples" in shades and bathing suits, converting in the suit, soaring themselves on a boat, making each other apply numerous and so on.

"It's anchored territory," said Vincent Trudeau, an associate professor of communication studies at Emerson College who has been studying Trudeau since 2017.

Forget the older statesman dispensing hard-won-winders sparingly from the image (the usual note is that these were written in the highest score in whatever land), Behold the celebrity statesman, the 3rd appearance politician.

"It is hot one of the various incarnations Trudeau has attended since having office in March 2021 (and separating them his wife in 2023), though it is unquestionably the most striking."

Initially, he seemed to be opting for a non-politic person — more man of the people, just a regular guy. His first Instagram photograph after ramping down from office was a selfie he took while shopping at a Canadian Tire superstore in a hotel/citizens jacket and green shirt.

Then he seemed to embrace a more traditional role, specializing about the issues that defined his time in office (the envi-

rentance, Indigenous rights), videotaping an address for the Liberal Party convention. But it is his position on a pop star's supporting partner, complete with a corresponding wardrobe update, that has garnered the most attention.

There he was hanging out with Perry at Coachella in a plate when T-shirt, faded jeans and a blackened baseball hat. He now look immortalized for her 1914 million followers to see on her Instagram feed, there he was accompanying Perry to the pen source of her concert movie at the Tribeca Film Festival in a box with no tie. There he was on the Riviera, shirtless.

Justin Trudeau, a former prime minister of Canada, with the singer Katy Perry in May.

That has now look would drive attention would not have enough time. A keen understanding of social media and the internet economy has been part of Trudeau's political arsenal for years. As has celebrity, given that he was here the sun of a sitting prime minister and gave up in the spotlight. In his first general election as head of the Liberal Party in 2018, his hair played almost as big a role as his politics.

Later his character rocks became an expression of soft diplomacy, he is the staple leaf pair he wore on "Live With Kelly and Ryan" or the NATO flag pair he wore to a NATO meeting. He appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone and was the subject of a glamorous Vegas profile. On his official Instagram feed, there were no many posts featuring pictures of him jogging or photo-bleeding other people's rallies as there were of him behind a desk. He under-standed how we ages can be used to create and maintain purposeful relationships.

Even if they are not the images people expect, better especially when they are not the images people expect.

There is a long history of politically powerful men during or even exercising celebrities, including Senator John W. Warner and Elizabeth Taylor, Senator Cory Snyder and Senator Dawson, President Richard Sarkory of France and the model Carla Bruni, and Trudeau's own father, Pierre Trudeau, and Bertha Strittwald, Kim Catrull and Margie Kolder. In most cases, they have made the entire the process world, revealing themselves to fit.

Perry has done that an occasion, devoting in a quasi-corporate costume of camel skirt out and who look like clip-on gold button shirling, her hair pulled back in a illicit fashion, at Davos, but in most cases it is Trudeau who has remodeled himself to slide seamlessly into her world.

On one level, that plays into the Trudeau brand, said Miss Marland, a professor of Canadian politics, and the US University at Nova Scotia. "While he was prime minister, feminism was a big part of his platform," Marland said, referring to the much heralded fact that Trudeau's first cabinet was 50 percent women.

"To portray himself as a dominant male in this situation," Marland said, "would go against the values he claimed to represent." Instead, his choice to undercover his identity as a modern man able to sublimate his own fame and ego in favor of his partner and to his in his face life while ramping in the sand.

One of the criticisms of Trudeau when he was in office was that he won election because of his personal charisma and family name, rather than peaky expertise. Seeming to buy into the world of celebrity after office rules reinforcing that perception, especially when it involves hanging out on packs in the Mediterranean.

And all of this is complicated by the fact that many people in Canada are "very frustrated with the United States," Raynauld said. "And now you have a former prime minister who is dating a U.S. pop star and spending a lot of time in the U.S."

This became a particular issue during the recent World Cup, when Trudeau opted not to attend the Canadian team's opening match but went to the Americans' opener because Perry was singing at the event. Private citizenship, apparently, excuses only so much when you were once the face of the country. Especially when your chosen style meets more middle-aged Hollywood liquiter than Ottawa Everyweight.

Whether or not you approve, Trudeau's referrals is evidence that politics and entertainment are ever more intertwined. Dressing the part is just the beginning.

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some of these issues were known for their naughtiness. Like characters in a Mary Caution story, they handcuffed and playfully whipped one another in the magazine's offices. When the publication was stripped for cash, the female editorial staff members "stripped in their essence for a photo show." Fitting recalled. At one point, the magazine had 16,000 subscribers.

But every era has its own sexual norms. This one — with more expansive ideas about gender and sexuality — seems to call for a different kind of erotic magazine. So too does this era of media, when readers otherwise concocted to digital life look to print publications to immerse them in worlds of issue (a racer commodity on the internet than sex).

It's fitting then that this iteration of Erotic Review is an elegantly designed, impatience periodical more at home beside it's that Hamlet. Among table bookstores and news, mainly, it can also be listed at Barnes & Noble — though still in plastic wrap.

This isn't to say it's dovoid of sexual sexual content. In addition to revenue about the suggestiveness of news, there are male photographs, tales of sexual awakenings, accounts of sex parties, strategic ideas (reduced) and (reduced).

The magazine relaunched two years ago after a stretch of dormancy, it faded in the late anguish and early 2000s, when freely available online pornography made subtler forms of titheless roots, quake.

Lastly a mere literal idea of sex has again exploded into view, displayed by pop stars who simulate sex acts restage and TikTok fan came of young male heartbreaks, stirring a frown for something more intimate.

It realized our erotic lives still aren't really taken seriously," said Lucy Roeber, the magazine's current editor and publisher. "They're not so"fudders."She felt a "need for a cultural space" where writers and artists could think through these things.

She knew the magazine would have to be more "highly produced, more considered and collectible" than its prescenes. It would also have to reach beyond on him.

Her deputy editor, Sushia Vogel, a literary translator based in Berlin, helped with that, bringing in contributors writing in their motive Mandarin, Swedish, Spanish and Danish. The two women also wanted to read and socializing the magazine with any one identity.

"It's not a heterosexual magazine; it's not a gay magazine," Roeber. "It's said, it does, though, show more female. Women make up roughly 62 percent of its readership and lead to have a majority of the bylines in each issue. ('One viewpoint that we struggle to find contributors for, and have to match for, is the one that previously distributed: white, heterosexual men,' Roeber added.)

Roeber, who is based in London and now lives above the Review's office space, rediscovered the magazine when she was looking for "serious platforms" for her fiction about female sexuality. She started doing some editing work for Reickson, and he published a story of hers. When he called her as spring 2012, saying he was thinking about retiring, she suggested he pass on the Review to her.

Though Roeber had past lives headling up an erotic book old-and-working-up a literary industry, she did not have published a magazine. "Yet I found myself saying, 'I wanted to take it on and completely transform it for a contemporary audience,' she recalled.

"Her quest for next state months without her vision and bringing others on board, including Vogel, an editor and writer who had recently published a novel, 'Pernissision,' about a young woman introduced to R.D.S.M. culture. Vogel also had a history

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with Erotic Review: She interned there in the mid-2000s, and it was among the first places to publish her work.

She went on to have a career nagging between the literary world and the sex industry. Her first job was at AVN, a trade publication covering adult entertainment. From there, she worked as a publicist for the British literary journal Granta, known for anointing young novelists.

"I had this sort of sense that all of these things could contain in one place, but there was no place for it," Vogel, 44, said.

The two women published the first issue of their Erotic Review in March 2024. Gone were the rhodi-spokirt drawings. The cover featured a closely cropped photo of a woman holding a brown egg in her mouth, the magazine's new logo, an invanation E, in the top left corner.

Frith Kerr, whose design studio, Studio Frith, betters its art direction, said it was crit-

ical that "it should not present itself as something 'easy' — this felt just too narrow and ripe."

The elevated feel helped drive the attention of Phoebe Philo, the British designer who has attracted a following of women for whom getting focused is equal parts cerebral and corporeal.

The brand became the Music Review's sole advertiser for its spring/summer issue. Ad campaigns for Philo — who as far has done little advertising that has also made print placements in magazines including The Paris Review and The Whitney Review of New Writing — will also feature in Erotic Reviews (inchoosing full-winter issue.

Lastly, the current issue of the 2024 New York Times and fashion insight freely. The same year Vogel and Roeber reported the Review, the kick-friendly dating app, YouD called on a financial print magazine, APM.

The two publications share some contrib-

Sushia Vogel, above left, the deputy editor of Erotic Review, with Lucy Roeber, the magazine's editor and publisher. "I realized our erotic lives still aren't really taken seriously," Roeber said. The spring/summer 2026 issue is shown at left.

"I wanted to take it on and completely transform it for a contemporary audience."

uters as well as an overarching ethos, viewing device as a "framing device," as Vogel put it, or as a "form or a structure," as the word of Mary Malouka, 'scoldful of APM.

At Playfree, the morbid erotic magazine revived this year, its new editor, Phillip Picardi, says he has to recollecting the balance between beauty and beauty.

With the new issue, the life feeling from folks that we have either overly analyzed or overly studies-induced sexuality," he wrote in an email. But with the advent of Only-Fans and A.1-generated content, he worries "we've reduced it in something too crude or even harsh," he added, "I think is order for sex to be fun and interesting, a probably can't be too much of one or the other."

Maclean, the Erotic Review founder, appears on the masehead as a contributing editor, but he says he mostly looks on appreciatively as he divides his time between London and Croatia. Readers deserve a "fresh take-on son" free from "any of the previous editorial clutter," he said.

Still, he sees a through line with the project he began in the 1980s.

"Maybe there's a difference between the more analytical inquiries into the very nature of desire that Lucy pursues and the more images in check, Rebelantan, but informed, rump that Roman and I produced three decades ago," Maclean, 77, said: "Even so, there are, of course, plenty of overlaps."

"Vogel said one of the placements of the job was working with writers who never thought they would publish in an erotic magazine.

"I got excited when I approach a writer and I say 'Have you ever considered ...'" Vogel said. Some, she said, answered with a version of 'No, I feel very far from the erotic and don't relate to it at all.

"And then," she continued, "there's the other person who goes, 'Well, actually I've been thinking about this thing ...'"

When the Rain Ends, These Umbrellas Open Up

With their dermatologists blessing, more people are using UV-blocking protocols.

By SINYANO VORA

It's the reign of the umbrella, and not because of rain.

San umbrellas — and it is perfect against intense heat and ultraviolet rays — have long been a mainstay in Asian countries and on golf courses worldwide. Now they're catching on in the United States, their popularity drives by social media, communication from dermatologists and increasingly extreme temperatures.

According to data from the research firm Market Stocks, the global market for UV protection umbrella is expected to reach around $2.5 billion by 2024, up from $1.8 billion in 2025. While the Asia Pacific region accounted for the majority of the market in 2021, North America comprised 152 persons, with no United States representing the majority of that. The report cites rising UV radiation levels as a result of climate change and the growing awareness of skin cancer risks as the main drivers.

Tadeyda Williams, an organisational and behavioral scientist in Richmond, Va., described herself as a "sun umbrella elevator" and said she first saw people using them in 2011 when she was stationed at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, while serving in the U.S. Army.

"They were everywhere, and I was surprised at first because it wasn't raising," she said. Now, "I'm interested in not saying, or picked up the habit when I returned home."

Williams, 32, uses a UV umbrella daily on her morning walks and when she's running errands and said she has several styles, including a compact design that fits in her purse. "I have fun rotating among my mini

collection," she said. She added that she had been seeing more people in Richmond using them this summer than ever before.

Companion making UV umbrellas are seeing a funny in sales. Eleven, based in New York, introduced a sun pursued last summer that results for $50, David Kahng, the company's founder and chief executive, introduced the style because of customer demands.

"Over the last two years, we were getting multiple calls a day to customer service from people requesting sun umbrellas," he said. "This year, we're already used twice as many as last year."

Shiel Rain, based in Portland, Ore., a long-time maker of UV golf umbrellas, reported its offerings in 2022. The company sold 192,000 UV umbrellas in the United States that year, by 2024, sales had climbed to more than 500,000, and according to Masana Price, the brand director, the number to personnel to reach 14 million this year.

Rain, based in mankind, New Zealand, has offered UV umbrellas for more than a decade and has seen 60 percent year-over-year growth in sales, according to its founder, Greg Brothers. He attributed that rise to part in the global sensation of Korean skin care, fueled by social media platforms and content creators who post their "get ready with our" markets.

Dr. Dhrys Shalmon, the founder of 1974 Dermatology and Surgical Institute in Manhattan Beach, Calif., said a UV umbrella "blocks the large majority of UV radiation."

She noted that a standard umbrella with an UV treatment also offers protection, in though not to the same degree. "Dark, densely woven fabric performs better" at shielding UV rays, she said, "than light,

Dr. Dhrys Shalmon, a dermatologist, makes constant use of her UV umbrella.

Long popular in Asia, portable shade is catching on in America.

loosely woven fabric."

Dr. Shalmon said she almost never goes outdoors without her black-and-white public-inc "swept, and we're not so soon. A UV umbrella blocks direct overhead ultraviolet rays, she added, but not rays that have been scattered or reflected off surfaces like powdered or sand, which can limit every in use, to the umbrellas. 'I use it as an adjunct to sunscreen, not a replacement,' she said.

She cautioned that without third-party verification, a product's "UV label means very little." She added that "you can tell me it and get some protection, but you want to be using as 10% fit listed sunscreen for sure."

Diane Vanden Linden, a real estate broker in Wavertville, N.J., called her sun umbrellas for "favorite fashion accessory." She owns a half-dozen from Wendy Newman Designs, based in Asheville, N.C., which incorporates penitentiary and photography.

"The sun is the South is thinner, so it's functional, but I get into the designer," Vanden Linden, 86, said. "I get a ton of compliments and love giving them as gifts."

Mark Gillitas, the founder and chief executive of Open Resources, based in Greenwood Village, Colo., said that he regularly uses a black UV golf umbrella with a silver lining by Vessel, a golf bag and accessory compant, both on the course and when he takes his children to the park.

"A few years ago, I started noticing how strong the sun was and wanted to take care of my skin," said Gillitas, 40, "I never use an umbrella in the sun, but on sunny days, my UV umbrella gives me automatic shade."

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In Copenhagen, a Steadfast Zest for Flip-Flops

Photographs and Text by SOMBARASHE CHA

When did flip-flops become fashionable? The question was on my mind on a recent flight, as I sat behind three young women who boarded the plane carrying brand-new flip-flops still bound together by a plastic loop. They tucked them into the rear-seat pockets as essential items.

In Copenhagen for fashion week this past week, I saw countless others wearing flip-flops in settings where they would have been considered taboo not too long ago. The footwear — the stalwarts of bodega runs and beach vacations — appeared on the feet of people dressed in refined, tailored garments as well as those in breezy skirts and jeans.

These flip-flops went to runway shows and then out to dinner. They traversed gravel, cobblestone and (perhaps truer to their original purpose) sand.

Most surprising, though, was just how many different iterations of flip-flops I saw. There were leather flip-flops, platform flip-flops, flip-flops with kitten heels, flip-flops with designer labels embossed on the top. Many people have balked at the Row's $600 flip-flops, but on the streets of Copenhagen, high-end versions were prevalent.

I asked one woman if she worried that the appearance of dirty feet would spoil her otherwise flawless outfit. And what if it rained?

She didn't miss a beat. "They're the best when it rains," she said.

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D6

Mumbai's Streets Are Her Fashion Muse

'I see India in the best way possible, and I just wanted to go outside and show everyone.'

For 'the cool girl from India,' social media videos propel Diya Joukani's signature style.

By SADHRA HASAN

Diya Joukani serves through a train station in Mumbai, India, wearing baggy jeans and a white embroidered zip-up jacket. Brisket her walk four women in colorful suits and salwar kameer, creating the illusion of a spontaneous runway show. The moment isn't staged, which makes it all the more captivating, especially because of the way Joukani, with her carefully styled look, moves through the world that surrounds her.

Joukani, 25, recalled meeting the women, who approached her in the station to complement her outfit: "They were like the outfits are fire, but your outfit's fire, too," said Joukani, who said there she was making a quick video. Soon enough, the women were walking in the camera frame with her.

This is just one of the many slice-of-life moments featured in her popular videos, which capture her crumbling around Mumbai herding goats, drinking from a coconut while creating an a disastrous and tapping chat with street vendors.

Joukani spends up the footage and sets it to merely songs by artists like Frank Ocean and Ye. Her wary hair falls below her waist. And she wears clothes she designed for her brand, DiyaDiya, which incorporates traditional suit and cardiac hand-embroidery onto boot-cut, low-rise pants; hooded denim vests; and long, shouthy jean shorts. This is her signature look.

What makes her videos so alluring is the sense of immediacy and authenticity she portrays on camera, as she gives viewers a glimpse of her daily life in the city. The videos, which are often filmed by her father, feature the tractor drivers, the chat vendors, the potter, the lamp maker and others in her neighborhood — people Joukani has known for years — and she interacts with them with affection.

And they're not camera shy: "This is the home of Bollywood, like everyone's got an attitude, everyone's got style," Joukani said. "The spirit of Bombay is, everyone's always down to help each other. You smile at someone, and they smile back."

Joukani initially created the videos to display her clothing designs, which blend the intricate Indian embroidery of the vibrant shavings and suits she typically reserves her weddings with the neutral deans and hoodies she gravitates toward for casual wear. While it is not a new concept, Joukani brings her own undeniable aura.

She immediately found her audience: In November 2025, Joukani's TikTok and Instagram accounts, where she now has over 900,000 followers combined, began drawing in millions of views and earned her a reputation as "the cool girl from India," a description she has embraced. She was able to parlay this enthusiasm when she debuted her brand in January: Within two days, she had sold more than 1,000 pieces.

The videos have also inspired young women around the world to everyone Joukani's style walks in their own cities. They began posting TikTok and Instagram reels with captions like "Cool girl in Brave," "Cool girl in Lima" and "Cool girl in Lagos" to reflect that the "n" girl isn't limited to New York, Paris; London and Milan. Joukani said she was proud to see "a fashion trend that wasn't based on the West."

"It was just really highlighting the global south," she added.

When we spoke in early June, Joukani had just returned from her first Paris Fashion Week. She was put off by the exclusivity of the scene, especially as she quickly re-organized that across often banged an wham you know. Joukani said her runway shows would be different.

"Get, I want to do mine on the street like my videos," she said. "If you like fashion, you can be there."

"We're talented as hell," she added, "so whatever you see ever there is all those fashion weeks, you're going to see ever here and more."

I'm Too Lit for This!

Born and raised in the Bandra neighborhood of Mumbai — the city's creative hub — Joukani, the daughter of software engineers, began customizing her clothes when she was around 5 years old. She would ask her aunt Annie Niesen, a fashion designer, to embellish her jeans with rhinestones. At school, she often got in trouble by rolling up her shirt and swapping out the mundane tie and blazer for an oversize handle.

"The teachers would be like, 'Do you think this is a fashion show?'" Joukani recalled. "And I'll be like, 'Yes, it is actually.'"

After graduating from high school, she moved to New Zealand to attend the University of Auckland, where she played competitive squash and dreamed of working at the United Nations before turning her education to fashion.

When she changed focus, Joukani spent most of her days juggling school and sales jobs among several vintage stores. At work, she would often listen to class recordings on her laptop between seating to customers, who would come in asking her to style them for music videos, photo sheets and short films.

"I was like, 'Wait, like, should I just be a stylist?'" Joukani said.

At 22, she moved to East London to pursue styling. But she quickly found herself taking on more work at vintage stores, just as she had in New Zealand, to make ends meet. Eventually, she took a full-time retail

job at Kerim, but "it was coming my soul," she said. "I just knew I'm too lit for this."

For years, she wanted to design heavily embroidered jackets and jeans. In July 2024, she pursued YouTube interlute to learn sewing and pattern making, and made her first jacket in three weeks. It turned out exactly as she had not stunned, so she created matching brown leather shorts and started wearing the set like a uniform. People were constantly asking her where she got her outfit.

"I was just getting stopped left, right, correct," she said. That's when it occurred to her that she should start her own line.

That December, she quit her job at Kerim and returned to Mumbai to build her brand.

By July 2025, Joukani had completed 10 pieces she loved — 10 is her lucky number — and posted slide shows of her work on TikTok. In November, she shared a video doing a fit check in a pair of embroidered jeans with a rickshaw driver. It received nearly a million likes.

Building the Brand ... and Her Team

After her website went live in January, Joukani realized, with 1,000 orders to fill, that she could not produce her line alone. Each piece to made by hand and can take up in three days to complete — in no small part because of the headwork. She needed to enlist a team. Fortunately, she had built strong relationships with some local tailors in Bandra she had met the previous summer, when she sought their advice about complicated pattern cuts and different embroidery techniques.

One of the tailors she met then was Raksar Sheikh. He recalled thinking that Joukani's ideas were wrong, but her execution needed work: 'The fit of a jacket, for example, was too busy, he gently traced, and the shoulders didn't sit quite right. So she challenged him: "Are you going to laugh at me, or are you going to much do?"'

Sheikh, 35, agreed to take her on as a student, and the two became good friends. "He's taught me everything. I know since then," Joukani said.

So when she watched a staff, she asked Sheikh to be the masterly, or head tailor, and Manna Sheikh, 32, to lead the hand-embroidery team (the two are not related).

"We've worked for other designers for so many years, and it was the first time we've seen someone with the strength to actually go for it," said Raksar, who works in the brand's studio in Bandra. Since January, orders have continued to pour in.

"It's really important to me that everything is made in my studio," Joukani said. "It's made where I'm from: Bombay to the world."

Diya Joukani, top, in front of the barbershop near the workshop for her brand, DiyaDiya. Left, Joukani at work, where each piece is handmade and can take up in three days to complete, in no small part because of the intricate headwork. Bottom, Joukani engaging in a series of slice-of-life moments around Mumbai.

DINA JOHANI, DINA JOHANI

QA Report - The New York Times - 13.08.2026.pdf

Pipeline

• Extraction route: mistral-ocr
• extraction_route=mistral-ocr
• Translation chunks: 189
• Extraction warnings:
• [OCR-ROUTE] FORCE-MISTRAL: All PDFs route directly to MistralOCR.

Non-model Checks

• WARNING: missing numeric tokens from source: 1013, 141, 37.8, 38.1, 44.4, 451, 512, 57.5, 58.5, 59.5
• WARNING: Missing proper nouns in translation: Abstract Expressionism, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Abuse And Are Hoping, African Americans, African Safari

If, After Next, Aheri Bankhead, Air Force One, Air Force - WARNING: source dates, money, or percentage tokens may be missing

Model QA

审核报告

1. 幻觉核查

• 译文中提及的"昨日股市回顾"部分：
• 核查步骤1：在标题索引中未找到匹配标题或相关摘要。
• 核查步骤2：在抽样原文中未找到相关关键词（如"标准普尔 500"、"纳斯达克综合指数"、"道琼斯工业平均指数"）。
• 结论：该部分内容在原文中不存在，属于幻觉。
• 严重级别：[BLOCKING]（低中文密度区域，且内容完全虚构）

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2. 数字准确性

• 译文中提及的"湖人队准备以 125 亿美元出售"：
• 核查步骤1：在标题索引中找到匹配标题 "Lakers Set for $12.5 Billion Sale"。
• 核查步骤2：在抽样原文中找到 "Lakers Set for $12.5 Billion Sale"（金额为 125 亿美元，而非 12.5 亿美元）。
• 结论：数字量级错误（译文中应为 125 亿美元，而非 12.5 亿美元）。
• 严重级别：[BLOCKING]（金额量级错误，影响重大）

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3. 完整性

• 译文中提及的"续见 A19 页" / "续见 A8 页"等：
• 核查步骤1：在标题索引和抽样原文中均未找到后续内容（因中间部分省略）。
• 结论：属于正常截断，非漏译。
• 严重级别：无（符合翻译规范）

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4. 残留英文

• 译文中出现的"Oct. 1" / "July 8"等日期：
• 核查步骤1：在抽样原文中找到对应英文日期（如 "Oct. 1"）。
• 结论：属于格式未统一，但非大段未翻译英文。
• 严重级别：[WARNING]（建议统一为中文格式，如"10月1日"）

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5. 交付标签

• 译文中出现的"（此处为...）"等内部标签：
• 核查步骤1：在译文中未发现此类标签。
• 结论：无问题。

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6. 其他问题

• 译文中提及的"晶体暗药"（smoke crystal dark）：
• 核查步骤1：在抽样原文中找到 "smoke crystal meth"（应为"冰毒"或"甲基苯丙胺"）。
• 结论：术语翻译错误（"晶体暗药"为误译，应为"冰毒"）。

• 严重级别：[WARNING]（影响理解，但非致命错误）

• 译文中提及的"10% 的防晒霜"：

• 核查步骤1：在抽样原文中找到 "SPF 10"（应为"防晒指数 10"，而非"10% 的防晒霜"）。
• 结论：术语翻译错误。

• 严重级别：[WARNING]

• 译文中提及的"140 人的纽带"（persons bond）：

• 核查步骤1：在抽样原文中找到 "$140 bond"（应为"140 美元保释金"，而非"140 人的纽带"）。
• 结论：误译导致逻辑错误。
• 严重级别：[BLOCKING]（严重影响理解）

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总结

1. 阻塞性问题（Blocking Issues）： - [BLOCKING] 幻觉内容（"昨日股市回顾"部分）。 - [BLOCKING] 数字量级错误（"125 亿美元"应为 12.5 亿美元）。 - [BLOCKING] 误译导致逻辑错误（"140 美元保释金"误译为"140 人的纽带"）。

2. 警告级问题（Warnings）： - [WARNING] 日期格式未统一（如"Oct. 1"应改为"10月1日"）。 - [WARNING] 术语翻译错误（如"晶体暗药"应为"冰毒"）。

3. 无问题： - 截断标签（如"续见 A19 页"）符合规范。 - 无交付标签残留。

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最终结论

存在多个阻塞性问题（Blocking Issues），译文无法直接使用，需全面修正。 建议重点检查： - 幻觉内容（删除或替换为真实内容）。 - 数字量级（确认所有金额/百分比/日期）。 - 关键术语（如法律/医学/金融术语）。

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