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无需冰块 罗布尝试 夏季冰壶

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预兆 塔罗牌的 感人故事

第 18 页 / 文化

超越国家公园 美国公共土地上的 绝佳自然奇观

末页 / 旅行

纽约时报

国际版 / 2026年8月12日，星期四

2 位政治人物，

以及 两个以色列的故事

托马斯·弗里德曼

观点

我承认，我从未预料到在一次美国选举中，在不止几个选区里，候选人的选择将成为一个元素，进入社交化，还是面对一名共和党女性——但我活得足够久，你什么都能看到。

当我听着那些民主社会主义者和无论对错的特朗普支持者、共和党人时，我最喜欢的一句电影台词不断在脑海中浮现。它出自 1997 年的电影《最好的选择》（No Good as It Gets），当时杰克·尼基森饰演一名厌世的作家，他开门发现一名邻居请求他遛狗，并就打开窗帘欣赏“上帝的美丽作品”向他提供自由建议。

一个摇摆州 民主党 参议院生存 需要保持 这种波动： 犹太人 有权拥有 一个犹太 家园。

尼基森对她说：“他们在哪里教你这么说话的？”他补充道：“能去别的地方说吗？我们这里已经满员了。”

我多么希望我能对这两个极端说：“我们美国政治里的疯子已经满员了。请去别的地方。”

但因为美国是我拥有的唯一国家，因为那些恶作剧的人将远不止于此，因为我深信，如果唐纳德·特朗普在完全不受约束的情况下再执政两年——控制众议院、参议院以及默许的最高法院——可能会给我们就认知的美国带来终结。我必须思考如何从一些并不太好的选择中做出最佳选择。

一个必须引起关注的案例在密歇根州，这里给那里的民主党参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德一些免费建议。为什么是他？因为他的胜利或失败可能决定特朗普是否能继续像君主一样统治，而没有任何国会监督。

所以，如果你想赢得密歇根州的犹太选民和控制选民，增加你的获胜概率，请忠于你的亲巴勒斯坦、阿拉伯裔美国人，并丰富到毕马威（KPMG）。在你的广泛组织中，那个超级 PMG 花了 $32 试图在初选中击败你，你需要非常小心地穿过你的政治针眼。是有办法的。

弗里德曼，第 10 页

纽约时报发表来自广泛视角的观点，希望能就先天问题产生建设性的辩论。

中国的牛群奔腾

中国北部的牛群边界。该地区更温暖的夏季和草地的扩张有可能改变 5000 亿美元 的全球牛肉产业。

中国铜陵

全球最大牛肉进口国在关税和更湿润气候的帮助下扩大自有牛群

作者：基思·布拉德威克 (KEITH BRADWICK)

铜陵曾是戈壁沙漠东缘一片沙石遍地且干旱的地区，如今已转变为郁郁葱葱的草原（点缀着成排的杨树），并成为了中国不断增长的养牛业中心。

在过去的几十年里，中国内蒙古地区的这个行政地区将大片干旱土地——面积约为 32,000 平方公里——转化为牧场、草地或森林。根据中国政府国家气候控制（National Climate Control）的数据，由于气候变化，中国北方的广大地区自 1990 年代以来变得明显更加湿润。

如今，铜陵的部分地区看起来更像曼萨尼亚或阿根廷平原等著名的养牛区。从开垦的沙漠中收获的绿色植物和玉米，与当地农场的玉米和玉米秸秆一起喂养牛群。自 2010 年以来，中国的肉牛总数增长了三分之一，达到近 90

中国东部的牛肉生产。中国的牛肉进口量从 2015, 年的不足 300,000 吨增加到 2024 年创纪录的 197 万 吨，为出口国创造了一个巨大的市场。

百万头，其中在此前干旱的铜陵就有近四百万头。

“情况现在已经反转：沙漠在退缩，草场在扩张，”铜陵西部的资深林草工程师沈志新（音译）表示。

中国北方更频繁的夏季降雨有可能影响 5000 亿美元 billion 的全球牛肉产业，并给阿根廷、澳大利亚、巴西和美国等牛肉出口国带来影响。

中国以巨大优势成为全球最大的牛肉进口国，购买了阿根廷牛肉出口量的三分之二以及其他国家出货量的大部分。现在，北京正抓住机会通过扩大国内牛肉产业来提高自给自足能力，该产业目前已成为继巴西和美国之后全球第三大养牛业。

中国不仅在增加牛的数量，还在推动培育肉质更好的品种。世界银行的数据显示，中国现在每年与欧盟竞争，成为全球最大的人工育牛进口国。

北京正在采取更广泛的行动，以保护国内市场免受来自拥有更大规模、更高效牧场和饲养场的国家的低成本进口产品影响。中国在 12 月 31 日为全球各主要牛肉生产国的进口量设定了年度配额，一旦达到配额，将立即征收 55% 的关税。澳大利亚在 6 月底达到了全年配额，并在三天后被征收关税，而巴西也接近其配额。

在 5 月份北京举行的一次峰会上，特朗普总统促请中国最高领导人习近平增加购买美国牛肉。在特朗普提高美国关税后，中国在去年年初停止了几乎所有来自美国的进口。尽管北京在峰会期间取消了监管障碍，但美国的出货量仍然不稳定。

没有人认为人口众多的中国能在短期内实现牛肉自给自足。但直到最近，第 6 页

伊朗调整

空袭 以突破 美国防御

华盛顿

袭击迫使五角大楼

消耗日益减少的 战争弹药储备

作者：埃里克·施密特（ERIC SCHMITT） 及 尼琳·库珀（NELENE COOPER）

上个月在为期五天的激烈冲突中，伊朗向约旦境内三个基地的美国军队发射了数十枚导弹，试图突破美国强大的防空系统。

伊朗使用了能够突然改变航向的先进导弹，使未来的防御系统失效，迫使美国人消耗稀缺的“爱国者”拦截弹（intercorpus）。

在第五天，伊朗人实现了突破。

7月27日，一枚导弹击中了其中一个基地的预定住房单元，导致3名美国士兵死亡，100多人受伤。五角大楼官员随后承认，在那一周的约旦袭击中，另有数十名士兵受伤，数架飞机受损。

“我们也击落了几乎所有导弹，”国务卿马尔科·罗莫（Marco Romo）在被问及这次致命袭击时表示，“有1枚漏掉了。”

这些袭击揭示了两个重要趋势的致命信心：首先，随着战争的推进，伊朗已成为一个更熟练的对手，在将战场扩大到涵盖大部分中东地区并招募也门穆斯林及伊拉克民兵等盟友的同时，学习如何规避美国的防空系统。

其次，五角大楼的拦截弹（intercorpus）供应迅速减少，随着这场断断续续的冲突一天天进行，这些武器变得日益珍贵。

这两个趋势印证了一个自战争开始以来在导弹战中缓慢显现的观点：一个拥有强大军事足迹的全球超级大国，仍然可能被一个愿意通过不对称战争寻找任何可能优势的较弱对手牵制。

据两名在情报级别（intergale levels）工作且在讨论敏感军事细节时要求匿名的人士透露，五角大楼在战争中已使用了超过1,500枚“爱国者”拦截导弹，目前剩余的拦截弹（intercorpus）不足1,500枚。美国在整个2025年仅生产了约600枚拦截弹（intercorpus）。

这种快速消耗正发生在伊朗军队研究另一场战争之际。在乌克兰，俄罗斯结合使用弹道导弹和巡航导弹来瓦解乌克兰的防空系统，随后迅速投入数十枚。

“当你拥有 BAA 时，伊朗人让防空系统变得更加困难，”第1页。

空军一号上的秘密行动 在伊朗的威胁下，特朗普总统被秘密撤离，但记者们对此毫无察觉。第1页

为了她的客户，不惜一切。包括不加评判。

几年前，奥利维亚·费尼（Olivia Ferney）发现自己在迎合高要求客户的价值观方面很有天赋。“这是我的某种强迫症，我认为我可以做任何事情，”她说。

拉斯维加斯

奥利维亚·费尼满足

极极富裕人群 难以实现之欲望

作者：盖伊·特雷奈 (GUY TRENAY)

一辆极尽奢华的厢式车。客户是一位富有的医疗创业者，正前往拉斯维加斯签署一项价值 1.5亿美元 的商业协议。为此，他准备举行一场庆祝活动。

“他想要一些疯狂的东西，”奥利维亚·费尔尼 (Olivia Ferney) 说道。

Ferney, 25, 是一位奢侈趋势专家，擅长满足她那些硅谷客户们难以想象的欲望。这绝不是她在安大略省成长时能想象到的工作。

作为加拿大教师的子女，费尔尼对私人飞机和每天 $25,000 的租赁费用一无所知，直到大约三年前她发现了这份不寻常的工作。

“我基本上就住在我的那个小木屋里，”她说。

如今，超过 200 万社交媒体粉丝关注着她与那些难以取悦的客户互动的视频。她的影响力也超出了核心受众。某杂志将她列入 100 数字影响力人物名单于 2026. 之中。而制作了《人生切割术》(Severance) 和《杀死伊芙》(Killing Eve) 的制作公司 Fifth Season，已与费尔尼及其商业伙伴 E-mail, Tony Arnold 签署协议，将根据他们的代理公司 Big The Travel 拍摄一部剧集。

在最近的一个下午，费尔尼发现自己身处拉斯维加斯 School Beach Club 一个阴凉的房间里，正在清点几瓶年份唐培里侬 (Dom Pérignon) 香槟。室外温度高达 151 华氏度 (40 摄氏度)，俱乐部的三个泳池里挤满了穿着泳裤和泳衣的人。许多人正在购买 275 mighty Big Caps。

“一群人正从最近的预设泳池里出来！”费尔尼这样描述人群。 费尔尼，第 2 页

新生儿价格

美国 2.5-4.5 美国 2.5-4.5 比利时 2.5-4.5

法国 2.5-4.5 德国 2.5-4.5 希腊 2.5-4.5

以色列 NIS 10 (R1) 周五 10 (R)

日本俱乐部 NIS 15 (R1) 周五 15 (1)

意大利 2-4 (R) 卢森堡 2-3 (R) 墨西哥 2-3 (R)

葡萄牙 4-4 (R) 西班牙 4-4 (R) 瑞士 2-4 (R-2)

荷兰 4-4 (R) 挪威 2-4 (R) 土耳其 2-3 (R)

英国 NID 10 (R) 美国 N 10 (R) 德国 2-3 (R)

总数 No. 14 (R)

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2 / THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2026

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在酷暑中，罗马人开始尝试冰壶运动

罗马

奥运会和新风险激励意大利人尝试这项通常在冰上进行的运动

作者：ELISABETTA PONILIZIO

在罗马古迹间进行一次大汗淋漓的夏季散步，路易·普卡莱里（Louis Pucallerii）最没料到的是，在7月面对着 Cotonensis 时，会发现一项绝对意义上的冬季运动。

但这里有一种方式，一个坐落在奥皮安山（Oppian Hill）上的冰壶风险（curling risk），因此这个俯瞰着几个世纪前圆形剧场的区域自古以来就一直如此。很快，普卡莱里博士就与妻子和两名朋友一起兴高采烈地投掷冰壶，此时意大利正经历数月来的第三波酷暑。

“整件事真的很自发，我们玩得非常开心，”住在罗马的普卡莱里博士（37岁）说道。

他的朋友，来自意大利南部的36岁项目访问者朱塞佩·尼科特罗（Giuseppe Nicotero）表示，在观看由意大利举办的今年冬奥会后，他很享受在冰壶运动中进行“双倍”尝试。

“但我可以说，在家里看的时候似乎简单得多，”他笑着说，“我的意思是，我们玩得真的很糟糕。”

意大利冰壶队赢得了支持：在混合双人项目中获得一枚铜牌，提升了电视收视率，并激励体育官员在6月份在奥皮安山安装了该风险，希望罗马人能出来参与其中。尽管天气炎热。

“奥运会之后，每个人都有一个

奥运会是生活在罗马市的 2,000 人。

梦想：体验冰壶运动是什么感觉，而我们很高兴能将那个晚餐变为现实，”该项目背后的国有公司 Sport e Italian 的总经理迭戈·诺皮·莫利内里斯（Diego Nopi Molineris）说道。

“这些风险被放置在”一个标志性的地点，也许是意大利最标志性的地点，面对着 Cotonensis，”他说，是为了展示

即使是一项许多人“认为次要的运动也可以变得宏伟。”（这些风险还位于一个罗马官员认为拥有世界上最佳视野的 shampook 旁边。）

“我们相信每项运动都是伟大的，是人们让它显得次要，”诺皮·莫利内里斯先生补充道。

公平地说，这并不是一个标准风险。

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（12 米乘以 3 米），而标准的“sleek”（冰壶运动表面的称呼）长度约为 100 英尺，宽度为 8 英尺。冰壶的重量约为标准重量的十分之一，且刷子被用来回收冰壶，

罗马新的冰壶风险俯瞰着 Cotonensis。该项目背后的公司总经理表示，将风险放置在标志性地点是为了展示即使是许多人“认为次要的运动也可以变得宏伟”。风险和冰壶的尺寸都明显小于标准尺寸，且表面是塑料而非冰。

而不是为它们扫出一条前进的路径。

“这就是游戏的理念，”支持该倡议的意大利冰上运动联合会主席安德烈亚·乔伊（Andrea Gioi）说道，在风险中，人们将这种运动描述为保龄球和网球（在世界各地意大利社区中普遍存在的半线球类游戏）的结合。“这是 inopinive 的，”乔伊先生说。

管理该风险的员工之一，31 岁的塞西莉·桑帕诺（Cecili Sumpano）说，他的工作主要是在警告人们不要停在润滑片上，以免滑倒受伤。“我们还解释游戏的基本规则，”他补充道。

他说，人们玩多久没有时间限制，不过今年随之而来的酷暑使得比赛时间相当短。“我可以向你保证，如果你玩五分钟，白色的反射会让你感到热得难以忍受，”他谈到风险的表面时说道。

冰壶运动由苏格兰农民在 16 世纪发明，他们使用在河道中发现的光滑石头在结冰的池塘上玩。苏格兰移民将这项运动引入加拿大，第一家俱乐部于 1887 年在那里开业，大约 25 年后，美国也成立了一家俱乐部。

这项运动在意大利是一个相对较新的项目。冰壶运动直到 20 世纪 50 年代才在意大利扎根，当时在科尔蒂纳丹佩佐（Cortina d'Ampezzo）安装了一座冰壶场——这座意大利阿尔卑斯小镇举办了今年的奥运会。包括碧姬·芭朵在内的许多名人都曾尝试过这项运动。

但气候从未对意大利有利。目前，意大利只有 7 座专业的冰壶场，全部位于北部，以及 425 个业余冰壶俱乐部。一名写过相关书籍的冰壶运动员瓦伦蒂娜·米科蒂（Valentina Micotti）表示：“这是一项小众运动。”相比之下，加拿大有超过 200 万名每年至少参加一次比赛的冰壶运动员。据加拿大冰壶协会（Curling Canada）发言人阿尔·卡梅伦（Al Cameron）称，“以巨大的优势，这里拥有世界上数量最多的冰壶运动员”。

“设施很少，因此很难利用奥运会期间可能获得的影响力。”

自从乔伊（Mr. Gioi）在 12 年前担任冰上运动联合会主席以来，他对冰壶运动的年度投入从 100,000 欧元（1 / 17,000）增加到 81,000 欧元，使这项运动处于一个更专业的水平。在意大利，体育公共资金根据成绩分配，运动员表现越好，该项运动获得的资金就越多。

例如，网球明星珍妮特·斯通纳（Janeth Stoner）的模因式崛起，在短短三年内使网球运动获得的资金翻了四倍。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乔迪·贝纳瓦卡（Jodi Benavaca）说。“但当他们真正想尝试时，却因为很难找到冰场而感到困难。”

他说，他是那些“幸运少数人”之一，出生在特伦蒂诺（Trentian）的克雷奥莱亚（Creolea）北部村庄，那里大多数当地人从小就开始练习冰壶。

在意大利中部或南部没有冰壶场——至少没有一个标准区域——在罗马市郊经营一家冰场的艾达·塔巴（Aida Taba）说道。他说，在奥运会之后，他接到了许多询问冰壶运动的电话，于是他用啤酒桶代替冰壶，临时组织了一场重要的比赛。

他说，虽然不常规，但“很有趣”。现在，塔巴先生正与地区官员合作，为其冰场筹集建设冰壶场的资金。

“作为欧洲首都，罗马应该拥有一座冰壶场，”拉齐奥大区冰上运动联合会主席比安卡·迪·特伦纳尼（Bianca Di Terennani）表示。但她承认，自战争爆发以来，能源成本的增加为开设冰场带来了财务挑战。

体育意大利官员诺皮·莫利内里斯（Mr. Nopi Molineris）表示，如果有需求，科托嫩西斯（Cotonensis）的场地将在 11 月前改为使用真冰。“即使冰层规模远低于国际比赛的要求，但对于国家级娱乐活动来说也将是完美的，”他说。

为了她的超级富豪客户，她愿意做任何事。包括不加评判。

弗雷尼（FRENEY），

那些香槟瓶是她为了满足客户对规模的需求而安排的一场噱头；她希望以极尽奢华的方式庆祝他的商业交易达成。

“他非常喜欢喝唐培里侬（Dom），”弗雷尼说。

在派对策划的早期阶段，她向客户的发言人和助手提出了一个问题：“如果现在准备大量香槟，会不会太夸张了？”助手回答说：“对他来说，这不过是平常的一天。”对此，弗雷尼回应道：“那我们试着创下一个世界纪录吧。”于是她开始着手筹备一场足以被吉尼斯世界纪录（Guinness World Records）认可的派对。

“这是一种病，我觉得自己无所不能，”她说。

为了认证这项记录——在“最大规模香槟呈现”这个冷门类别中——弗雷尼邀请了一名吉尼斯世界纪录的裁决员，该裁决员将出席聚会并密切观察整个过程。

“所以其实并没有人真的要去喝这些香槟，”弗雷尼说，因为她的计划是让数十名工作人员用气泡酒向派对参与者喷洒。

在对拉斯维加斯永利酒店（Wynn Las Vegas）旗下的达里恩海滩俱乐部（Darien Beach Club）内 21.1 英里的区域进行详细考察后，她与驻场名人 DJ Diplo 取得了联系。她还与永利度假村（Wynn Rosario）的夜生活副总裁亚当·诺斯特斯基（Adam Nostrsky）协调，动员了店内的每一位服务员。

活动当天，第一位裁决员迈克尔·帝国（Michael Empire）从纽约飞抵。对他而言，拉斯维加斯的这场活动只是他行程中的一站，第二天他将前往爱荷华州的一个类似城市的超市。“我将在一个小时内裁决最多的项目，”帝国说。“别问为什么。”

夜幕降临，这座沙漠城市的酷热依然处于红色预警区域。

奥利维亚·弗雷尼（Olivia Fereny）所寻找的东西：一个来自巴黎、为亿万富翁之女服务的淡定中间人，以及一幅巡游音乐图景。

活动向 2,800 名参与者开放，他们支付了 32,500 到 83,500 不等的费用以在户外俱乐部预订一张桌子。俱乐部的第一负责人甚至听说该企业家可能会缺席活动。但这几乎无关紧要：这些光鲜的陌生人提供了一个恰到好处的喧闹背景，以便这场不可避免的狂欢在社交媒体上直播时能产生效果。

接近午夜，气温为 90 华氏度，派对参与者在舞台附近聚集，随着 Diplo 沉重的低音节奏挥舞拳头。凌晨 1:30，高潮到来。80 名身着红色制服的服务员在人群面前游行，其中一些人站在形状像速孔、火道和巨鲨的底座上。

他们将唐培里侬（Dom Périguan）的酒瓶高举过头顶。随着 Diplo 的信号，瓶塞弹出。一些服务员开始围绕着一名身穿道具玻璃材质服装的舞者地喷洒，而其他人则向人群喷洒香槟，从而实现了一个足以进入吉尼斯纪录的壮举，就原始的挥霍程度而言，这相当于攀登珠穆朗玛峰。

“在这个不可思议的场景中，最反常的元素无疑是客户。他就站在那里，远离喧嚣，蜷缩在舞台后方 Diplo 的身后，穿着黑色的衣服和一件黑色 T 恤，毫无存在感。”由于拒绝公开姓名，他此前通过发言人解释说，他对弗雷尼的要求是提供一些“VIP”级别的体验。

“他经历过这一切，见过世面，”他的发言人布莱恩·李（Bryan Lee）说。

也就是说，他已经厌倦了。然而，厌倦分两种，一种是普通的厌倦，另一种则是愿意为了向陌生人喷洒昂贵酒水的短暂快感而掏空钱包的有钱人。仅液体的最终成本（125 瓶 Fereny, Isaac Grand Bray，30 瓶 Dom Périguan Bray Luminous 和 5 瓶 Don Shantzen Blanco (regular)）总计 $225,000。

“老实说，他本可以花更多钱，”弗雷尼事后说。“但前一天晚上他在赌场输得很惨。”

每位客户必须支付 $500,000 的年费，并同意每年预订 100 万加元的旅行服务。

Fereny 的工作动力之一是：“我们的工作是连接，而不是评判。”鉴于她和她的商业伙伴经常被要求履行合同——那些认为在最近的第二次汽车租赁工作坊套餐上花费 $2.25亿加元毫无压力的人——这在某种程度上形成了一种反差。

Top Ten Travel 的每位客户必须支付 $100,000 的年费，并同意每年预订 100 万加元的旅行服务。Park West Gallery 的首席运营官 John Black 表示，这些费用是值得的，该画廊销售的高价商品价格是船只的两倍多。他解释说，不久前，Top Ten 为一个家庭度假预订了一架私人飞机以接送患病的成员。“你不能像点 $1 那样随随便便地订一架飞机，”Black 说道。

Fereny 对工作生活的价值观使她的社交媒体账号成为了人们痴迷于观看她如何处理富豪需求的数字遮篷，成为了逃避高油价、战争和人工智能兴起等现实的一种方式。

她以耐心、良好且带有一丝讽刺的态度处理客户的要求。没有金额是太大或太小的。她曾尝试过成为该市最大的中间人，以取悦一位 Mount Millennium 的女儿。对于另一位客户，她为一顿节日晚餐买断了一家安大略省面包店当地著名的黄油塔一整天的供应量。

在 16, 人团队的支持下，Fereny 和 36, 岁的 Arnold 经常处理 7,137 码的事务，包括在曼哈顿 smokhouse 的 Eighty Six 开放场地预订、接触 Formula One 赛车手，以及为在 Gallimann 患病的客户预订私人 Bookkeeper Bigler。

在进入 Top Ten 之前，Fereny 从未遇到过这样的客户：由于设备故障迫使该家庭首次乘坐商业航班，其孩子因此情绪崩溃。

“我是加拿大人，”她说。

对此，在 Mount 俱乐部遇到 Arnold 之后，她进入了这个全球世界，部分是为了满足签证要求而与他的机构合作。到目前为止，她已经见识了坚定不移的奢华旅行生活。这对夫妇不再使用食品添加剂，主要在旅途中，住在豪华的酒店房间里。

Arnold 表示，在 Fereny 加入之前，Top Ten 不做任何口碑宣传且保持谨慎。“我们与亿万富翁合作，通过零散渠道开展业务，”他说。在 Fereny 建议进入社交媒体后，这一切都改变了。“我们做了国际推广，成功了！然后决定以同样的方式在投资上加倍下注，”Arnold 说。“人们接受了这一点。基本上，我们使这种做法常态化了。”

在拉斯维加斯的 Tableau 餐厅吃早餐时，Fereny 承认关于富人的许多看法是真实的——但至少有一个误解。

“人们认为超级富豪是不快乐的，”她说。“其实不然。”

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2026 / 3

世界

身披垃圾桶，挑战民粹主义者

英格兰，CLACTION-ON-SEA

“垃圾桶伯爵”成为补选中改革英国党领导人的最强对手

作者：AMELIA MERKINBERG

“垃圾桶伯爵”（Count Bioface）是一个身处垃圾桶中的男人，他正试图解释为什么无论本周四在他参加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？”他问我，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-IX 星球的星际空间战士。垃圾桶伯爵是由 40 岁的作家兼喜剧演员詹·哈维（Jen Harvey）扮演的一个角色，作为英国悠久的奇葩政治候选人传统的一部分，他已经参加过多次选举。

现在，他正迎来迄今为止最大的舞台。在英格兰东海岸克拉里恩（Clarion）地区的一次议会补选中，他是右翼民粹主义政党改革英国党（Reform UK）领导人奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）的主要反对者。

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，他以巨大的多数优势持有该席位。最近的一项民调显示，他可能获得 75% 的支持率。尽管法拉奇试图将此次选举定格为一场“人民对抗建制派”的选举，但所有其他主要政党都拒绝参加。他们称这是一场政治闹剧，旨在转移人们对一项议会调查的注意力，该调查针对的是法拉奇未能披露的一笔 500 万英镑（约 $6700万）的礼赠。

垃圾桶伯爵仅在角色设定下接受采访，他是此次选举中法拉奇最著名的对手，尽管还有其他 32 名候选人参选。其中一些是克拉里恩的长期居民，例如在克拉里恩森维尔（Clarionsonville）生活了十多年的尼克·普莱斯（Nick Price）；另有三人代表官方部长巴克莱·劳里党（Official Minister Barclay Lawry Party），该团体曾与英国最著名的奇葩候选人、于 1996 年去世的筛网勋爵萨克（Screening Lord Sack）有关联。

垃圾桶伯爵在阐述他的隐喻流程图时辩称，如果法拉奇“即使以更大的多数优势获胜”，但那是“面对包括一个垃圾桶形状的外星人在内的 32 名候选人获胜，这算什么胜利！”

法拉奇当然不会同意。改革英国党没有回应本文的置评请求，但此前

“对于老菲洛尼（filony）来说，这是迄今为止最大的一次Feeding Frenzy（抢食狂潮），”垃圾桶伯爵在英格兰克拉里恩的一次补选中说道。他由作家兼喜剧演员詹·哈维扮演。

事实上，一名党内高级官员告诉 BBC，其他政党抵制投票是因为他们对法拉奇感到“胆怯”。

“我绝对没有做错任何事” 垃圾桶伯爵在全国关注焦点中的时刻始于上个月，当时在 2025 年大选中以 48% 的得票率在克拉里恩获胜的法拉奇宣布意外辞职。数周以来，法拉奇一直面临压力，原因是关于其赛季的争议，包括在 2024 年选举前从一名总部位于泰国的加密货币亿万富翁那里收到的 2500 万。一项议会调查已经启动，以确定法拉奇是否应该申报这笔礼赠。

法拉奇在 7 月 1 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。

“让我绝对明确地告诉大家：我没有做错任何事，”他说，并补充道：“我决定让克拉里恩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

奈杰尔·法拉奇试图将此次选举定格为一场“人民对抗建制派”的选举。

议员资格，并可能被强制参加第二次补选。所有其他主要政党都表示，他们将等待调查结果。

这使得这次由身穿银色头盔、身处笼中的垃圾桶伯爵来面对这位改革英国党的领导人。

“所谓的主流政党选择了不参与，”Bioface伯爵告诉我。“要么是因为他们被我的壮丽所震慑，”要么是因为“这一切实际上有点像一场侧翼表演。”

“嘲弄政治家”

任何英国人，包括年满10岁的合资格英联邦公民，只要支付£500的押金并获得10名当地居民的认可，就可以参加英国的议会选举。

多年来，英国政治家经常与穿着滑稽服装的奇葩候选人同台。

英国讽刺杂志《私人城市》（Private City）的编辑伊恩·希斯洛普（Ian Hislop）表示，在英国，人们长期以来就明白，“嘲笑政治家与投票给他们一样重要”。

Bioface伯爵曾挑战前保守党首相里希·苏纳克（Rishi Sanak）。他曾在伦敦市长选举中对抗市长萨迪克·汗（Sadiq Khan）。今年夏天，他在梅克菲尔德（Makerfield）特别选举中对抗工党候选人安迪·博雷姆（Andy Boreham）。现任英国首相博雷姆先生以54.8 percent的得票率获胜。Bioface伯爵获得了62 percent。

在服装之下的哈维先生曾就读于牛津大学，主修古典学。他还曾在英国的讽刺节目中担任喜剧编剧。

作为Bioface伯爵，他惯常的竞选主张包括建设“至少一套可负担的奖金房”——这是连续几届英国政府关于房屋建设的日落之火演示。他还长期承诺将歌手阿黛尔（Adele）国有化，并“削减你的税收，提高其他所有人的税收”。

在这些表象之下，隐藏着一个严肃的信息，关于现代政治的荒诞，以及试图取悦各地所有选民的不可能性。

“这是法拉奇的领地”

克拉里昂（Clarion）是一个围绕着一个失败的谋杀州而设立的议会席位，该地以大幅度优势投票支持脱欧。这是法拉奇先生在2018 referendum之前的标志性事业。法拉奇先生通过反对移民，以及近期承诺一项大规模驱逐计划，建立起了一场民粹主义运动。

2024, 克拉里昂以大幅度优势选择了法拉奇先生，保守党位居第二。民调公司政治主管卡里娜·普雷比格（Karina Prebig）表示：“这是法拉奇的领地。”

克拉里昂的一些选民对本次选举中两位最著名候选人的关注表示不满。在当地生活了约一年的园丁布莱恩·波特（Brian Porter）表示，他想投票给某个人，他指着Bioface伯爵（“Carriculi”）和法拉奇先生说：“你这里有所有这些人”，并称法拉奇先生“在实际极少的历史中看待这场选举”。

“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。这是我们的未来。”

Bioface伯爵此前最好的成绩是在2011年伦敦市长选举中获得1 percent。如果在这里能超过1 percent，将是一次惊人的成功，届时他的£500选举押金将被indicated。

Bioface伯爵在克拉里昂花费了时间进行竞选，会见居民并拍摄视频。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，任期中途辞职的立法者应被禁止参加随后的特别选举。他承诺将“在克拉里昂海滨（Clarion-on-Sea）花费的时间比在华盛顿特区更多”，以此讽刺法拉奇先生与特朗普总统的友谊。他还誓言“不接受来自加密货币亿万富翁的2500 万礼品（不包括地球）”。

即便法拉奇先生在周四是，作为一名外籍人士，他也将不得不面对关于那份礼品的调查结果。

Bioface伯爵承认，到那时，媒体的兴趣可能会消退。他承认这令他欣喜：“到目前为止，这已经是老菲洛尼（old filony）最大的Feeding Frenzy（抢食狂潮）了。”他还热衷于强调他对那些被摧毁者的尊重，以及对决定支持法拉奇先生的选民的尊重。

“他拥有一种对选举的某些部分非常有吸引力的主张，”他说，“我们绝不能轻视这一点。如果大多数人选择投票给奈杰尔，那就是这个谜团所在。”

但由于主要政党缺席，“我似乎成了大多数人的反对派，”他说，“这没关系。”

去年，加斯顿的主要州成员叙利亚，引发了多年来最致命的一波暴力冲突。从斯威地亚省（Swedia Province）到11月，从左起：一名死者的葬礼；一座被封锁的房屋内部；以及国民警卫队的成员。

“我们知道他们要来了”：叙利亚省份担忧被接管

叙利亚，谢达（SHEIDA）

作者：ARIN LALTE DADER

今年，当叙利亚政府设施接管了长期由库尔德少数民族主导的东北部地区时，苏韦达（Swedia）的德鲁兹人（Druze）带着日益增长的不安在观察。

在这个地区，像库尔德人一样，他们多年来一直控制着自己的区域，而现在危机已然显现。

“整个故事并非如此，”43, 岁的萨马亚·阿尔-苏阿德（Samayah al-Souad）说道。她是苏韦达的一名德鲁兹居民，也是去年夏天被一波暴力冲突导致流离失所的人员之一。在各团体之间以及进入战斗的唯一两支政府部队经过数日的内斗后，根据联合国的数据，有超过 1,500 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。在 2024. 年底，原本土独裁者巴沙尔·阿萨德（Bashar al-Assad）被推翻。接替阿萨德先生的政府最初在控制整个叙利亚的权威方面陷入苦战，但从今年年初接管库尔德领导的北部地区起，似乎开始转向恐怖统治。

在叙利亚的大部分地区，阿萨德先生统治的结束伴随着 en-fief 和希望，即这个国家在经历了多年的干预后，能够真正重建并进一步发展。然而，这些希望也伴随着对新政府的质疑，以及它是否能建立一个全国叙利亚人都信任的国家。

德鲁兹居民在我们在11月和1月两次前往苏韦达省的行程中，以及随后的跟进调研和测试访谈中反复告诉我们——政府采取行动控制该地区只是时间问题。

我们与近两打平民、公务员、安全官员、医疗工作者和宗教领袖就去年夏天苏韦达的暴力冲突及其后果进行了交谈。

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，将国家统一在单一权威之下，对于创造生活稳定以及在近 10 年的内战后防止进一步碎片化是必要的。

一些苏韦达的德鲁兹居民对基于贫困的当局持有异议，这些当局的领导人接纳了一个曾与阿尔盖达（Al Qaeda）有关联的团体，且他们指责该部队对其实施了侵害。以色列立法者则担心叙利亚政府部队将其触角延伸至其领土，担心该地区最终可能成为袭击的发射台。

ISGALATON：领土放弃 苏韦达省成员分布在新的高地，位于叙利亚首都大马士革东南约 60 英里的地方，许多田野和零散的果园定义了这里的地貌。

德鲁兹人世世代代将这些高地视为家园。他们的信仰在几个世纪前作为 Shirin Shum 一个分支的衍生而出现，尽管如今许多人通常不认同自己是 Shadist。

从大马士革开车进入该省，我们在一段绝对的土地上经过了至少六个政府设立的检查站。沿途的村庄一片荒芜，其残骸是对去年夏天暴力的残酷提醒。

2025, 7月，武装贝都因人（叙利亚主流群体的一部分）与德鲁兹武装之间爆发了冲突。这两个群体长期在放牧地、财产和用水权问题上发生冲突，而这些争端在暴力愿景中进一步激化。

起初是局部战斗，随后迅速升级。

根据独立监测机构和证人的说法，政府部队及其盟友战士袭击了苏韦达风 sweeping 的高地，杀害平民，摧毁城镇和村庄，并导致数万人流离失所。

虽然德鲁兹人面临暴力的威胁，但根据活动人士和人权组织的说法，德鲁兹战士也被指控参与了去年夏天的一些杀戮。

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，其已知晓在斯韦达（Swedia）由“一群身着军装的身份不明人员”实施的“检查及严重违规行为”。

据叙利亚国家通讯社 SAVA 报道，调查这些杀戮行为的政府机构已于 3 月发布最终报告，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庭。

以色列在斯韦达的利益

叙利亚政府试图将斯韦达纳入其控制之下的努力在许多方面都充满艰辛，其中一个重要原因是邻国以色列有兴趣维持德鲁兹人对斯韦达的控制。

以色列拥有规模可观的德鲁兹少数群体，且长期以来一直优化与该群体的关系，这种关系延伸到了叙利亚的德鲁兹人。

叙利亚总统 Atsaud al-Darasa 试图向世界展现更温和的形象，承诺保护少数群体权利，并表示叙利亚无意与邻国作战或干涉其内政。然而，以色列官员对叙利亚领导人表示深切不信任，部分

一些根植于外部团体的势力。他们还对政府在边境附近行使权力感到不安，认为这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。它还对斯韦达的政府军发起了反族群攻击。

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

以色列官员表示要保护叙利亚德鲁兹人，并要求该地区保持去政治化，不允许叙利亚军队或其盟友在该地区部署或行动。当时，al-Shadist 先生指责以色列试图利用“混乱”并破坏叙利亚的统一。

“以色列站在我们这边，”德鲁兹精神领袖 Sheida Mianor al-Hilti 在 1 月的一次概述中表示，他认可以色列的支持，“以色列是最先伸出援手的一方。”

al-Hilti 先生指责大马士革当局清除并克服权力中心，称政府的残暴在 Sura 改变时无处不在。他说，德鲁兹人在 al-Shadist 先生的政府下看不到未来，

并坚持认为，某种形式的战争是斯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，后者尚未公开呼吁加入。

一年后的僵局

在 2025 年 7 月经历数日冲突后，叙利亚政府与斯韦达的德鲁兹武装设施之间宣布停火。

在随后的这一年里，停火协议勉强维持。士兵们偶尔在果园和桃树之间互相瞄准。在由 al-Hilti 先生领导的、拥有 20,000 人的斯韦达民兵组织——国民警卫队（National Guard）与政府军及其盟友之间的前线村庄中，冲突时有爆发。

目前，许多流离失所者仍被困在斯韦达市的避难所中。

其中一人是 Sheida Merhej Shahid，直到去年夏天，他的生活还曾是去年夏天。他说，当枪手袭击他的村庄 Al Thada 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，杀害了他的并将他遗弃在睡眠中。

“只有上帝的恩典保护了他们，”他说。

他的家人，包括 Sura，甚至在他与病重的妻子在一起时，她仍在努力获取所需的药物。尽管如此，他说：“我们不会崩溃。”

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4 / THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2026

世界

乘客在不知情中被当作诱饵

特朗普被撤离后，搭载记者与员工的飞机照常起飞

作者：彼得·贝克（PETER BAKER）

对空军一号（Air Force One）的威胁被认为尚未严重到需要将特朗普总统从喷气式飞机转移到运行容器中以确保其安全的程度。但同样的严重威胁并未阻止他们随后将空军一号送入天空，机上搭载了一大批高级官员、政府雇员、记者和军事人员充当诱饵，其中一些人是在不知情的情况下被利用的。

如果正如美国官员当时所结论的那样，上个月有人试图击落总统专机，那么保护总统的这次攻击转移，可能也使随行飞行的数十人成为了目标，其中包括国务卿马尔科·拉宾（Marco Rabin）、财政部长朱恩·史蒂文斯（June Stevens）以及高级助手斯蒂芬·米勒（Stephen Miller）和斯蒂文·张（Steven Cheung）。

政府在以往的场合曾采取长时间措施将总统与潜在危险隔离开，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·克林顿短暂访问有恐怖主义历史的巴基斯坦。然而，特朗普团队在安卡拉的这次行动不仅因其阴险而显得突出，还因为其将明显的危险转移到了他人身上，并且在特朗普先生离开后很长时间内仍被保密。

“他们似乎完全没有考虑过除了总统及其随行少数几人之外的任何人，”曾在2000年克林顿访问巴基斯坦首都伊斯兰堡期间担任白宫新闻秘书的简·兰道（Jan Landau）表示。“我们竭尽全力确保最大数量的人员，尤其是平民，得到保护，并且我们的模型是人性化的。而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老兵表示，在保护总统时，采取极端措施有时是合理的。约瑟夫·W·雷金（Joseph W. Regin）曾作为布什的协调员协助其战区行程，后来在特朗普的第一任期内担任白宫副办公厅主任，他表示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认为是主飞机的乘客感到担忧，”雷金先生说，“但当你进入白宫工作或随总统旅行时，你就在接受一定程度的风险。在这种行动中让每个人都撤离显然会危及总统的安全。”

雷金先生补充说，当布什先生或奥巴马先生携带家属和记者前往战区时，同样也采取了危险措施。“这就像前往伊拉克和阿富汗的行程，”他说。“你要综合所有风险，并制定出能给你提供最安全选项的战术，无论你是在哪里被拦截，还是为了维持一支空军。”

政府官员表示，随总统前往战区的记者在尽可能的情况下都被告知了风险，而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7月 9. 从安卡拉飞往英国的途中，随机记者被一名给出答复的官员指示关闭窗帘。特朗普先生则秘密乘坐另一架军机降落在英国。

随后，总统被重新安置回空军一号，以便他能在摄像机面前登机，仿佛他一直都在机上一样。

据两名因讨论敏感信息而要求匿名的官员透露，拉宾先生已知晓该威胁，但尚不清楚其他多少人知情。官员们表示，随机飞行的白宫工作人员中至少有一些人并不知情，合作伙伴也是如此。

在安卡拉发生的这次秘密调换，最早由《华盛顿邮报》于周一报道，随后得到《纽约时报》及其他新闻文章的证实。这件事之离奇，听起来就像好莱坞电影里的情节。事实上，它甚至超出了安德鲁·W·马基耶夫（Andrew W. Markiew）的想象，他曾为最新的 1807 惊悚片《空军一号》编写剧本，片中由哈里森·福特饰演一名飞机被劫持的总统。马基耶夫先生在周二通过邮件表示，他确信特勤局正在采取必要措施确保总统安全。但他补充说，这件事并没有让特朗普先生看起来那么光彩。

“虽然生活不是电影，但考虑到当时的情况，我不确定我是否能为电影主角写出这样一个时刻，”马基耶夫先生说，“如果威胁真的那么严重，很难想象观众会同情一个为了自身安全而将机上其余平民视为潜在牺牲品的人物，尤其是在没有告知他们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，也没有说明在特朗普先生不在飞机上的情况下，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，他听从了特勤局的建议，并否认其他人的处境被置于更危险之中的说法。

“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。这一主张与调换飞机的初衷相悖。

这次非同寻常的欺骗行为凸显了特朗普先生所感受到的危险感。

此前，由于面临伊朗的威胁，特朗普总统上个月在土耳其安卡拉被秘密地从“空军一号”上移走，而其他乘客仍与特朗普先生在一起。随后，在飞机降落在英国后，特朗普先生被重新送回飞机。

特朗普在 2024 年于宾夕法尼亚州巴登竞选期间曾被一名潜在刺客的子弹击中，同年晚些时候在佛罗里达州的一家高尔夫球场再次成为另一名持枪男子的目标。在拜登政府期间，官员们表示伊朗的国内团队试图杀死特朗普先生；就在周二，警方还在俄亥俄州一个计划由特朗普先生访问的地点附近，调查一起 400.54 mph 的炸弹威胁。

负责总统安全的特勤局和军事单位通常会使用诱饵来迷惑可能的袭击者，但并不涉及在平民不知情的情况下这样做。当任何一位总统在非正式场合旅行时，通常会有两辆相同的装甲车或安全车辆，挂着相同的华盛顿特区车牌，以便让人难以判断总统在其中哪一辆。当他乘坐“海军陆战队一号”飞行时，通常会有几架相同的直升机一起飞行。

“如果非正式交通工具没有遭到攻击，安全包裹将分离开，而其他所有人则需自负其责，从 9 / 10 到 10, 10，包括普通官员、所有记者和国会议员，”布什总统时期的白宫新闻秘书阿克·亨申（Act Henschen）周二在社交媒体上写道，“新闻发布会的安全性就是这样。我们不抱怨。事实就是如此。”

美国总统（在政府术语中称为 PHTUS）是该国最受关注且受保护程度最高的官员。

与此同时，按照传统，总统并不只是与记录其每一次公开行动和评论的记者团同行。在核时代，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身边。在——

记者们在 23, 1961, 约翰·F·肯尼迪在达拉斯被枪击时就在他身边；11, 1963 恐怖分子袭击美国时，他们也在布什先生身边。

对于近年来前往战区的人员，白宫通常会宣布选定少数几位新闻主管，在休斯顿比弗（Houston Beaver）通知记者，让他们知情并要求其保守秘密，以便在安全之后有少数人能够随行并报道这些访问。布什先生和奥巴马先生在前往阿富汗和伊拉克时都携带了随行记者，特朗普先生在第一任期内也是如此。约瑟夫·R·拜登总统在一次前往战火纷飞的乌克兰的九个半小时秘密火车之旅中，带了一名新闻记者和一名新闻摄影师。

当克林顿先生前往巴基斯坦时，他被告知可能遭到攻击者的无线电探测。由于该国部分地区是恐怖组织的据点，他曾被敦促不要前往，但既然他已经准备前往印度，他觉得有必要在伊斯兰堡停留几个小时。

“他们似乎完全没有考虑总统及其随行少数人员以外的任何人。”

最初的安全计划是让随行记者认为克林顿先生登上了他们所在的同一架 C-17 军用运输机，而他实际上会秘密登上由空军改装的湾流飞机（型号为 U-24）。“我的退休项目可能会在有一天将媒体作为诱饵，”他说，“而这带来了一个让我满意的计划。”

然而，根据另一位要求匿名以避免职业影响的该次行程资深人员透露，他们将克林顿先生从 C-17 的机头引导至另一侧，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那架运输机。

与在安卡拉的特朗普团队不同，克林顿团队提前告知了至少一名随行记者——《今日美国》的苏珊·佩奇（Susan Page），她在周二描述了这一片段，且白宫随后在克林顿先生安全离开该区域后，更广泛地公开了细节。相比之下，特朗普先生的团队直到《邮报》披露该报道之前，从未公开在安卡拉发生的事情。

“完全可以理解白宫希望以这种非暴力、隐秘的方式运作，”曾在奥巴马和拜登政府期间担任白宫、国务院和五角大楼高级发言人的退役海军上将约翰·F·柯比（John F. Kirby）表示，“我不责怪他们为了确保总统安全而采取极端措施，或隐瞒具体的威胁情报。”

“但是，”他补充道，“他们对随总统同行人员的安全和保障也负有责任。当此次行程的风险已知——正如本案所示——他们有义务至少提供大致的说明，以便随行人员能够做出知情的决定。”

他表示，新闻杂志的“唯一批评是确实如此”，“转移总统或验证其行踪非常、非常困难，当你使用这类战术时，你不太可能在每次行动中都得逞，而且下次你需要这样做时会变得更加困难。无论谁是总统，这都不是第一次，也不会是最后一次需要进行此类行动。”

伊朗在美军战争弹药减少之际调整攻击方式

JIM J. FORD 第 1 页

“导弹和无人机同时袭来，”战略与国际研究中心国防与安全部门主席塞斯·G·琼斯（Seth G. Jones）表示。

他说，这一消息有效地利用了俄罗斯的战术，“使得保护海湾地区近期的一个地点变得更加困难。”

据两名美国官员称，在上个月那个致命周的一天里，美国驻中东部队发射了约 50 枚拦截弹，每枚约 2400 万。

五角大楼继续面临着强大的威胁，它一直试图将对更多主要作战型号的需求最小化至 4 月初。

美国第一任霍加斯（Hogarth）在 4 月 8 日告诉记者，伊朗的导弹计划已在“功能上被摧毁”，而美国的导弹则被“耗尽且解密”。

伊朗的大多数导弹和发射器存储在巨大的地下设施中，美国和以色列军队离开美国。美国军队在战争中，但伊朗挖掘了其中许多站点并恢复飞行，使 Mormas 的运输接近标准”并“推进美国军队”。

特朗普总统及其国家安全顾问认为这场战斗将是战争的结果。五角大楼的爱国者拦截弹策略，约翰·霍普金斯大学高级国际研究学院的两条线位置表示。

但德黑兰，他和其他伊朗记者，自冲突开始以来的最初几个月起就在等待这一时刻。在 2025 年 6 月的一场为期 12 天的战争中，伊朗领导人看到了以色列和美国军队为了击落伊朗无人机和导弹的密集攻击，消耗拦截导弹的速度有多快。

伊朗针对约旦境内美军最致命的袭击目标是位于 Azraq 的 Buroi 地区 Manafika Sath，这是一个美国空军日益将其用作主要后勤基地的入侵者军事设施，部署了数十架飞机和数千名服务人员。

五角大楼已使用了超过 1,000 枚苏联拦截弹，目前剩余不足 1,700 枚。

此前驻扎在科威特、巴林、埃及和阿拉伯联合酋集的许多美国军队被转移至此，并在战争期间转移到约旦的 Manafika Sath，因为那里距离伊朗更远，且被认为能更安全地抵御无人机和 halibits 攻击。

几位美国军方官员表示，在 7 月 17, 日袭击发生后的几天里，美国军事指挥官加强了在约旦及该地区其他地方的防御。这些官员在讨论行动事项时要求匿名，并拒绝提供更多细节。

同样研究过乌克兰无人机和导弹袭击的美国军事专家已与军方中央司令部合作数月，分享在该战役中吸取的教训。在约旦丧生的三名士兵中，有两名被分配到德国的防空部队，该部队也参与了这项工作。

这一新现实正在产生地缘政治后果。

美国官员表示，特朗普先生在 7 月下旬询问了霍加斯先生关于美国武器供应减少的问题，这证实了《华盛顿邮报》的报道。

五角大楼在公开场合一直坚称其并没有短缺。五角大楼首席发言人肖恩·帕内尔（Sean Parnell）在一份声明中表示：“关于美国弹药短缺的说法是不存在的。当虚假新闻媒体不负责任地散布这些传闻时，在胸口（此处原文为 chest，疑似 OCR 错误）产生的现实后果是对美国军队构成威胁——或攻击。”

两周前，特朗普先生取消了对伊朗的轰炸袭击，因为他表示沙特阿拉伯、阿拉伯联合酋长国和卡塔尔的领导人能够通过外交谈判结束这场战争，据估计，这场战争已导致 1,700 名伊朗平民死亡。

据一名在讨论机密对话时要求匿名的沙特官员称，沙特阿拉伯的实际统治者穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼在一次电话中告诉特朗普先生，大规模的攻击可能会促使伊朗继续针对能源采取行动，这将影响到王国及其邻国。

上个月，一枚伊朗导弹击中了约旦美国基地的一个住房单元，导致三名士兵死亡。两份报告称，伊朗方面正使防御变得更加困难。

该沙特官员表示，随着美国拦截弹告罄，且伊朗证明其能够突破这些防御，美国的核损害非常严重。该官员称，穆罕默德王子和专家在天气方面提醒了特朗普先生。

约旦袭击并非伊朗在这次战争中首次运用其技能和战术。

4 月，伊朗使用肩扛式地对空导弹在伊朗南部击落了一架美国 F-52 战斗机。

飞行员和武器官均已弹射。飞行员被迅速救出，但武器官失踪了近两天，一直躲避伊朗军队，直到美国特种作战司令部将其救出。

一名美国军方官员表示，在这种情况下，伊朗借鉴了乌克兰的经验，部署了无人机群，而美国战斗机此前已渗透进一个集群。在与五角大楼官员的采访中，机组人员表示，F-52 的防御反制措施在伊朗用肩扛式导弹击中这架价值 4 亿 的先进战斗机之前，仅提供了 0.5 秒的预警。

美国军方官员得出结论，无人机向伊朗指挥官提供了三项更多信息，帮助他们锁定 F-52U：GPS 位置、速度和方向，一名高级军方官员地说道。

在该事件发生后不久，特朗普先生宣布战斗“暂停”。两名军方官员表示，军方需要时间来适应伊朗的新战术。

即使在战斗间隙，这些战术仍在继续演变。

当也门卫生站上个月参战时，专家表示这标志着伊朗的入侵，旨在让美国及其盟友防御来自四面八方的空中袭击。也门在视频广播中被提及。

国际检查员还认为，伊朗正将其核计划的部分环节转移到伊朗中部一个防御严密的地下综合体中。美国和美国是鹈鹕山，埋在山下200英尺（90米）深处。

专家表示，伊朗已将其部队和领导层派遣至该国国内的分散服务机构。

“他们在哪里？”来自阿布扎比的诺特先生问道，“如果伊朗他们坐在一个你可以轰炸的地方，你不会感觉到他们在那里。”

乔纳森·斯旺（Jonathan Swan）参与了报道。

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2026年8月13日，星期四 / 5

国际

美国升级对选民登记名单中非公民的追查

部分移民表示他们被误登记，且从未投票

作者：MARILAND KILC 新奥尔良 2025 NORTH ALAUS

特朗普政府正在全力推动识别并遣返登记投票的非公民，即使他们是不小心登记或从未投票——这种异常激进的做法正帮助其推广关于选民欺诈猖獗的毫无根据的指控。

各州的审计和研究反复发现，非公民投票极其罕见，且尚未出现其投票被已知影响选举结果的情况。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，包括监禁和遣返。

据移民政策专家称，过去，美国国土安全部并未激进地尝试遣返数量相对较少的非法登记投票的非公民，尤其是如果他们是误登记的话。但特朗普政府正采取更强硬的立场，希望在增加遣返人数的同时，维持一种非法投票被低估的说法。

国土安全部特工正在重新开启此前已关闭的选民欺诈案件，并调查大城市的选民登记工作。据移民律师称，根据这些法律，被怀疑在选民名单上的移民在更严格的检查点被拦截。申请公民身份的绿卡持有者因登记投票而被列入遣返程序。

该部门的努力是特朗普政府利用联邦机构推广总统长期以来关于选举系统漏洞（仅限欺诈）之劳心关注的非同寻常尝试的一部分。特朗普先生一直利用这些努力来证明其推动联邦立法的合理性，该立法将要求人们提供美国公民身份证明才能登记投票，并严重误导投票权。

这些变化正在颠覆一些已在美国生活多年且坚称自己没有投票甚至没有意图登记的成年人及其子女的生活。

根据上个月的一份法院文件，阿卜杜勒·扎雷·巴塞（Abdullah Zareh Basse）在申请公民身份时，去年一名移民官员在面试中告知他已登记，他才首次得知自己在华盛顿的选民名单上。

他的律师德文·索恩-奥特（Devon Thorne-Ort）表示，巴塞先生后来在前往当地车辆管理局更新地址后得知，他在2018年被登记。根据文件，政府在4月拒绝了他的公民身份申请，并将其列入内部程序——

过去，美国国土安全部并未激进地尝试遣返选民名单，尤其是登记投票的人。

——程序中。巴塞先生坚称他从未投票，也没有要求登记。斯波坎县选举办公室的一名经理埃文·多奇（Even Dorch）在电子邮件中表示，以巴塞先生名义的选民登记记录已被取消，且没有投票记录。

“这带来了很多担忧和不确定性，”巴塞先生在声明中说。“这给我的婚姻带来了压力，因为我的妻子是公民，而未知的情况非常令人压力沉重。”

政府的行动涉及国土安全部与司法部的密切合作，后者试图调查并对非公民非法投票提起刑事指控。检察官被指示对这些个人提起更多指控，且司法部已利用各州获取选民名单。该部门还要求新泽西州官员调查一起软件故障，该故障导致在2023年6月至2024. 6月期间约6,000名非公民被登记投票。其中大约400人随后进行了投票。

经营 Jus- 的哈伍德·迪利安（Harwood Dhilian）—。

司法部公民权利部门表示，官员们已准备好逮捕或驱逐那些在新泽西州违规投票的人。民主党籍州长 Mike Oberli 表明，她将抵制特朗普政府的要求，这些要求涉及登记人的姓名，她表示这些人不会“通过我们”自行从选民名单中删除。

国土安全官员正为这项工作投入大量资源，在针对人口贩卖和禁毒等跨国犯罪的行动中部署特工以在全美范围内搜寻，并利用移民和海关执法局（ICE）下属的国土安全调查局（HSI）这一分支机构。

6月，该部门与调查局（Bureau of Investigation）特工共同对俄亥俄组织俱乐部（Ohio Organizing Clubhouse）进行了突袭，该团体包含 1,000 名以上的非公民，特工们对工作人员进行了积极询问。

这些努力是特朗普政府试图证明总统关于选举系统崩溃之主张的一部分。

“开展选民欺诈调查是 H.S.I. 的一项成本支出，并不在他们自身调查工作的正常范围之内，”布什政府时期的 ICE 高级官员 Deborah Frenchaker 表示。“在的一份声明中，一名国土安全局发言人表示，H.S.I. 正在与各州官员合作。无论谁被发现欺诈都将受到处理。”

特朗普政府还要求各州通过 S.O.S. 上传数千万条投票记录。S.O.S. 是由国土安全部运行的一项联邦移民认证工具，政府计划利用该工具在选民名单中搜寻非公民。

但 S.O.S. 工具本身出现了问题。10月，时任德克萨斯州州务卿 Jane Nelson 宣布，她的办公室发现了 2,570 名在德克萨斯州登记投票的潜在非公民。但在县级层面审查这些结果的当地选举官员发现，许多被 S.O.S. 识别出的人实际上是公民。根据法院记录，在德克萨斯州奥斯汀的特拉维斯县（Travis County）进行的一项独立调查发现，非公民匹配项中有 25% 实际上是公民。

国土安全官员继续推进缺乏证据的广泛欺诈主张。国土安全部长 Matheques Mullis 上个月表示，政府在四个州发现了超过 250,000 起非公民登记投票的案例，但未提供证据支持这一结论。

国土安全部早前向部分州发出的指示表明，该数字可能被高估，且带有保留意见并基于初步审查。

这种对驱逐选民名单中非公民的高度关注标志着国土安全部的转变。几位移民律师表示，一些在前任政府法律下仍获批公民身份的人被拒绝了。“我认为他们是误登记，其案件没有其他问题。”

在美国公民及移民服务局（USCIS）担任高级官员二十多年的 Michael Talworth 表示，移民官员过去在考虑登记投票或投票是否使其失去资格时，能够综合考虑意图、年龄和精神能力等因素。

“这些官员现在的自由裁量权非常有限，我听说基于投票行为而导致的拒绝申请和刑事诉讼正变得更加频繁，”Talworth 先生说道。

律师们表示，许多登记的客户是在办理或更换驾驶执照时无意中登记的，因为相关投票法使得人们在车辆管理机构登记投票变得更加容易。律师们说，一些移民由于英语流利度不足，没有意识到自己签署的是登记表。

亚历山德拉·怀特（Allegation White）是一名现居新泽西州伍德伯里（Woodbury）的 51 岁居民，其配偶为美国公民。她表示，联邦政府正试图将其驱逐出境。怀特女士说，她在申请公民身份后，一名移民官员告知她，她才首次得知自己已登记为选民。怀特女士随后从州政府获取的文件显示，十多年前她在办理驾驶执照时签署了一份选民登记申请表。

“我从未想过他们是在让我签署投票登记或类似的东西，”怀特女士说，“那时，我甚至不知道怎么用英语说话。”

联邦政府已启动将其驱逐回刚果民主共和国的程序，理由是她的选民登记记录，并声称她在 2020. 年参与了投票。县级记录显示，怀特女士在那一年通过邮寄选票进行了投票。怀特女士否认自己寄出过选票或参与过投票。

乔治·菲什曼（George Fishman）曾在前 30 天政府期间担任国土安全部的副总法律顾问，他赞扬了该机构在追究非公民投票行为方面所做的努力。尽管他表示，对于那些无意中登记投票的非公民，存在“一定程度的影响”，但他认为国会的责任是通过相关法律，以防止非公民在登记后进行投票。

“我认为最严厉的执法应该针对那些明知自己在非法投票的人，但法律必须得到执行，”菲什曼先生说道。他目前是移民研究中心（Center for Immigration Studies）的高级法律研究员，该组织主张降低移民率。

塞西尔·墨菲·莫罗斯（Cecil Murphy Morose）参与了此次报道。

伊斯兰恐惧症浪潮随穆斯林政治人物获胜而至

包括特朗普在内的多名共和党人支持攻击与谎言

作者：珍妮弗·梅迪纳（JENNIFER MEDINA）

参议员萨米·图伯维尔（Sammy Tuberville）称阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）博士为“得分主义者”。

众议员南希·梅斯（Nancy Mace）描述称，“每一个担任公职的穆斯林都对美国，或被迫面对国家安全和我们的共和国。”

周一，特朗普总统表示，“在过去一段时间里，各地都有‘残疾人被选出’。”

在上周阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士在密歇根州民主党参议院初选中获胜后的几天里，共和党领导人支持伊斯兰恐惧症的攻击和谎言，就像最近这三起事件一样，将他描绘成一名反美极端分子。

这场猛攻被归咎于共和党官员，并迅速成为秋季击败阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士的策略中的一个控制方面。共和党内部很少有官员公开尝试压制此类信息，尽管阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士毫不犹豫地对这些攻击提出质疑。

“他们会指着我，指着我的名字，就像在说，‘哇，我不确定。’我不确定。‘我的名字没有提高你们的枪支价格，’”他补充道，“我的名字没有把我们带入战争。我的名字不是你们负担不起地面的原因。”

该州最政治权力的选举在美国全境日益增长，由美国排出的知名人物、纽约市市长以及阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士领导，后者是埃及移民之子，出生于密歇根州。

在20世纪注册的穆斯林美国人数量——地方、州和联邦选举在过去十年中稳步增加。根据民主与国家安全委员会的数据，目前有超过 225 名当选的穆斯林官员，以及四名在国会的穆斯林美国人，这是有史以来最高的人数。

今年秋天当选进入众议院。而在上周的密歇根州，几名美国人在初选中获胜，包括州立法议员和安娜堡市市长。

但权力的增加也引发了相当大的反弹。穆斯林官员表示，他们知名度的提高带来了许多偏见和威胁。近年来，特朗普先生多次攻击移民众议员戴恩·奥尔森（Dine Olson），质疑她的法律地位并宣称她应该是“一个孩子”去山脚下。多名共和党人错误地指控国土安全部（Mr. Homeland）是穆斯林。

“穆斯林在政治上取得了显著进步，但随之而来的是反穆斯林仇恨，这似乎是我们目前所知的最糟糕的情况，”美国最大的穆斯林倡导团体之一 CADL 的数字总监沃德·奥尔德曼（ward Aldman）表示。米切尔先生（Mr. Mitchell）表示，许多负面反应源于过去几年的候选人。

“我们这一代人开始非常强有力地为自己发声，”米切尔先生说，“他们最终表示，我们不再接受这一切，我们不会再乞求逃避。”

这些新领导人中的许多人将巴勒斯坦权利和停止对以色列的军事援助作为其政纲的核心，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。他们帮助改变了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累赘。

这种变化助长了共和党关于该党正在选举极端候选人的主张。前国务卿迈克·罗杰斯（Mike Rogers）指责阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士是“illaman 支持者”。阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士承认了该团体。

这些攻击并不局限于被视为支持以色列的穆斯林和阿拉伯裔美国政治人物。迈克（Mike）广泛地试图将候选人描绘成与国家脱节的人，有时甚至是危险的脱节。

上周，来自全国共和党参议院委员会的第一则针对埃尔-赛义德博士的广告称他为“美国最激进的参议院候选人”。在采访的第一则广告中，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-

在包括上述的阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士等人物的领导下，穆斯林和阿拉伯裔美国人的政治力量正在全美范围内增长。

赛义德认为美国“罪有应得”于 5, 2001, 的事件——这一观点他本人予以否认。埃尔-赛义德博士曾共同竞选的左翼制作人 House Plant 曾表达过该观点，但后来称其为“不恰当”。

“他们会指着我，指着我的名字，说：‘哇，他很不一样。’”

几天后，特朗普先生在社交媒体帖子中将两张照片并列放置，一张是他站在穿着电话裙的莫哈娜·特朗普（Mohana Trump）身边的照片，另一张是埃尔-赛义德博士坐在桌子上穿着浅色衣服的照片。“我们是非常不同的美国人，”总统写道。

上周，来自德克萨斯州的共和党参议员泰德·考克斯（Ted Cox）在称埃尔-赛义德博士和其他民主党人“破坏美国”后，就他所谓的美国境内穆斯林兄弟会网络的威胁举行了听证会。

在上周密歇根州的一次众议院初选中，一名已暂停自己竞选活动的共和党人击败了更出名的人。一个获得了特朗普先生背书且在基督徒中非常有吸引力的人。第三位候选人承认，他的竞选活动包含了一些广告，这些广告通过某种反击方式，对反穆斯林偏见进行了模拟诉求。

在上周末的一次电视采访中，被问及此类策略时，寻求连任的路易斯安那州参议员比尔·卡西迪（Bill Cassidy）表示，他谴责该州共和党人的偏见言论。“即便在此之前，人们也应被视为个体，”他说。但他并未根据共和党法律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的影响。田纳西州代表戴恩·奥格利（Dine Oglee）曾发表过如‘穆斯林不属于美国社会’之类的言论，他在上周的共和党初选中落败。”

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

“我们对美国有着不同的愿景，”他在 CNN 的一次采访中说道。“一种是你的炸弹以及两个不喜欢你的人，但为了从你身上赚数百万美元而达成一致；或者两个彼此产生共鸣的人，共同享受一些恐慌，想要团结起来建设这样一个美国，让他们能够长久地生活，现在这个家庭将拥有美好的事物。”

随着有评论称全美有超过 350 万 登记投票的穆斯林，政府在关键的摇摆州进行了收缩。

穆斯林政治领袖和政府官员在权力竞逐中，在密歇根州表现得更为突出，该州是一个摇摆州，且拥有全美最高浓度的阿拉伯裔美国人。2026, 约瑟夫·R·贝克二世（Joseph R. Baker Jr.）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大多数。

16 2026, 随着 8. 政府在轰炸加沙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赢得了百分之零的得票率，并帮助挽救了民主党在穆斯林多数电力种植者中的投票率。

“作为阿拉伯裔美国人，我们拥有比以往任何时候都强大的力量，”前国会工作人员、资深民主党组织者阿巴尔·阿尔扎雷（Abbar Alzareh）说道。上周，阿尔扎雷在密歇根州一个新批准的州参议院选区参加了民主党初选投票，该选区拥有密歇根州最高浓度的穆斯林和阿拉伯裔美国选民。

2024年，阿尔扎雷先生协助创建了“Omahaimah”，并表示：“我不会成为一名民主党选民，而是会为贝克先生投下一票，以表达对加沙投票的反对。”他称埃尔-赛义德博士在初选中的胜利是“我们政治的一次重大转变”。

“我们正在接触那些感到幻灭的选民，并改变人们对可能性的认知，”他说。

埃尔-赛义德博士在阿拉伯裔美国人聚集区表现强劲。在迪尔伯恩，他获得了近40%的选票，在附近的迪尔伯恩村则获得了70%的选票。

然而，尽管拥有这些创造历史的力量，埃尔-赛义德博士表示，他的支持者经常犹豫是否要围绕身份认同来构建他的政纲。在接受该州当地《时报》采访时，他坚持回答了一个关于成为该国首位政府的问题。

“我认为这是一个让人们希望将强力带回我们政治的时刻，”他说。“对于仅仅想成为下一任密歇根州美国参议员的人来说，我不会指向我自己，我也不会成为一件好事 我不会成为一件好事 并且他反复强调了他的乐观。

“我不会成为一件好事 蒂姆·鲍尔斯（Tim Balls）参与了报道。

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6 / 2026年8月13日，星期四

世界

证据显示移民局特工使用侮辱性词汇

诉讼揭示了种族和族裔如何影响全美范围内的搜捕行动。

作者：JACQUES CLUON, MAIA SPOTIT 和 JILL COWAN

去年，美国部分移民局特工开始执行一系列大规模且激进的扫荡行动，民权组织认为，特朗普政府的大规模驱逐行动是以种族定型为特征的。

现在，来自全国各地诉讼的随身记录、文本消息和其他文件揭示了在洛杉矶、芝加哥、明尼阿波利斯和其他美国城市展开的搜捕行动中，种族和族裔是如何发挥作用的。

在法院提交的文件记录的几个实例中，联邦特工将目标称为“tanks”（坦克）——这是一个通常用于指代墨西哥移民的贬义词，旨在重新定义特工手电筒击中他们头部时的某种状态。被怀疑为非法入境者的移民被描述为“wet”（湿的），这基于某种暴动方式，但一名领导南加州行动的特工随后将那些被认为可疑的人描述为“其他西班牙裔状态”。

“然而，即便种族定型的证据已经显现，那些看似既定的法律——即执法人员不能仅基于种族或族裔质询或拘留某人——在涉及移民执法时，结果却变成了一个更开放的问题。”

去年，当布雷特·卡瓦诺（Brett Kavanaugh）大法官在一次临时听证会上就特工搜寻非法移民时的种族定型问题发表意见时，最高法院冒了风险，挑战了半个世纪以来的司法解释。政府则坚称其行动符合宪法。

导致法院采取临时措施的诉讼以及其他类似诉讼仍在下级法院审理中，可能需要数月时间才能解决，而最高法院可能需要数年时间才有机会对此做出裁决。

与此同时，民权律师正继续收集他们希望能够成为有力证据的材料，以证明移民局特工的种族定型行为十分普遍，且其目前的执行方式极不寻常。

2015年，最高法院为移民执法中的某种程度的种族定型扫清了障碍，大法官们允许将种族和族裔作为特工在怀疑车辆乘客包含非法移民而决定拦截车辆时的因素之一——但不能是唯一因素。

加利福尼亚州斯坦福大学研究移民法的法学教授詹妮弗·M·肖廷（Jennifer M. Chautin）表示，当前的这波案件——以及最高法院最近的命令——涉及 2015 年“美国诉 Brigment-Power 案”的裁决是否依然有效。

1月的明尼阿波利斯联邦特工。法院文件描述美国移民局特工面临着完成国家逮捕配额的压力，该配额每天最高可达 3,000 人。

“这是否仍是有效的法律？即便有效，执法机构的行为在何时会越过允许的界限？”肖廷教授说道。

“由 Califamers 和《洛杉矶时报》率先报道的洛杉矶地区的一批证词、视频和监控记录显示，移民局特工和官员专注于寻找‘大’劳工。”但民权组织认为，他们对于搜寻地点的模糊且多变的解释，往往指向任何看起来像拉丁裔、皮肤较深或英语带有口音的人。他们认为，这种对感知种族和族裔的依赖，最终还导致美国公民被非法卷入其中。

在一次事件陈述中，一名在加利福尼亚州圣贝纳迪诺被拦截交通的司机表示，一名警员告诉他被拦下是因为他“看起来像个 'pulse'”，这是对 2 个墨西哥公司或从事若干移民工作的侮辱。

在另一份陈述中，亚祖胡莱亚（Azuhulea）的一名美国公民安赫尔·圣地亚哥·塔塔利亚（Angel Santiago Tatalia）

加利福尼亚州，表示特工们追捕他——因为他具有拉丁裔种族特征——而忽略了他在橙县一家洗车店里肤色较浅的同事。一名特工开了一枪，在塔塔利亚先生面前表现得极其鲁莽，而塔塔利亚先生当时并未穿着工作服。根据文件记载，他被强行制服并被装进了一辆面包车。

“我一直说‘我是美国人’，但他们只是不停地告诉我，我是拉丁裔，我的证件是伪造的，并让我闭嘴，”他说。

“此类遭遇并不局限于加利福尼亚州。在全美各地法院提交的十多起诉讼中——包括在阿拉巴马州、伊利诺伊州、俄勒冈州和明尼苏达州——民权律师认为，居民（主要是黑人和拉丁裔）因其外貌，特别是肤色、被认知的族裔、口音和工作着装而被错误地锁定为目标。”

至少有 43 名美国公民被描述为曾被拦截、询问或拘留，由于他们最终全部被释放，因此能够向律师提供与移民特工接触的详细描述。一些人表示，警员拒绝接受他们的护照或有效的驾驶执照作为公民身份证明。数人受到威胁，被通知并被强行制服。根据法院文件，少数人在被释放前被拘留了数小时。

许多文件将联邦特工描述为在巨大的压力下工作，以完成一项新的国家配额。

“对于他们拦截的人员，除了人口统计学特征外，他们没有任何关于这些人的信息。”

在一段时间内，该配额高达每天 3,000 起移民逮捕。这一增长——在 2025 年 5 月较之前的基准线出现了近阈值的增长——迫使警员从个体调查转向旨在尽可能多地抓捕人员的街道扫荡。法院记录显示，在某些州，警员意识到这一点后，反复聚集在拉丁裔社区和企业，包括洗车店、家得宝（Home Depot）停车场、建筑工地和购物走廊，数量达 5,115 起。

“对于他们拦截的人员，除了他们看起来像拉丁裔且属于工人阶级的人口统计学特征外，他们没有任何关于这些人的信息，”负责洛杉矶案件的美国公民自由联盟（ACLU）律师梅拉·阿萨迪塔（Mayra Asadita）表示。

政府律师在法院文件中主张，移民行动具有高度针对性，个别贬损性或煽动性语言的例子不能证明这是机构范围内的政策或意图。他们还认为，特工拥有广泛的权力来询问他们认为不是美国公民的人，特别是当他们只是短暂拦截某人以调查其法律身份，而非必然为了进行逮捕时。

在的一份声明中，国土安全部发言人凯瑟琳·凯里（Katherine Carrie）没有回答关于特工使用侮辱性词汇的问题。她称联邦官员从事种族定型（racial profiling）的指控是“令人厌恶的、鲁莽的，且完全虚假的”。

“使一个人成为移民执法目标的原因是他们非法在美国——而不是他们的肤色、种族或族裔，”凯里女士说。

10 年多以来，法院一直根据第四和第五修正案，以及 1975 年最高法院的裁决来评估，认为移民特工在没有具体事实依据证明对方非法入境的情况下，不能拦截或拘留人员，且种族或族裔不能成为锁定目标的唯一因素。

联邦法律赋予了移民官员在移民检查站以及任何美国边境 100 公里（100-kilometer）范围内的更大自由裁量权。但民权团体认为，边境巡逻特工一直在国家内陆深处行使这些权力。

现在，随着这些案件在法院审理，裁决将决定联邦特工是否在拦截、询问和拘留涉嫌违反移民法的人员时，完全依赖种族和族裔——以及禁止此类手段的限制是否将继续有效。

加州大学戴维斯分校教授、移民法专家卡琳·R·约翰逊（Karin R. Johnson）表示，最高法院最近的命令以及卡瓦诺大法官随附的意见书，已确立了联邦官员在全国范围内不得进行种族定型（racial profiling）。

但她警告称，这项紧急命令并非最终定论。她表示，最新的证据——拍摄于芝加哥和洛杉矶的巡逻车内部——可能会在相关诉讼几乎肯定会返回最高法院进行全面审理时，引发大法官们的新担忧。

“这些种族歧视性辱骂是显而易见的，再加上近期在拘留和检测中心发生的系列拉丁裔死亡事件。这可能会引导陪审团以一种此前未曾考虑过的方式，去思考这里究竟发生了什么，”曾任加州大学戴维斯分校法学院院长的R·约翰逊说道。

在来自芝加哥的视频中，特工们将街上的人指认为“tanks”。自20世纪90年代以来，美国南部边境的移民官员一直使用这个词。

在洛杉矶案件中提交的最新一批视频证据中也出现了这种情况。视频直接记录了特工们绕过看起来像白人的人，转而询问并拘留附近看起来像拉丁裔的男子。

在一段拍摄于2025年8月6日的视频中，一群全副武装、身着迷彩服的特工聚集在一辆行驶车辆的后部，正在分发物品。地板上可见一个背包。

“那是谁的背包？处理了吗？”一名特工问道，“拿走背包了吗？”

在大多数其他证据中，特工们显得很随意。

“他们填满了三辆面包车，”2025年6月15日，一名特工在开车穿过洛杉矶一个社区时对另一名特工说道。随后，其中一名特工讲述了看到一名男子坐在车里但最终没有上前询问的情况。“我很确定他不是（拉丁裔）。”

开发热潮推动迈阿密天际线飙升

一系列新塔楼改变了这座城市，但部分专家表示担忧

作者：DANIELA GORNY

今年7月，位于布里克尔（Brickell）社区的 Cipriani Residences 成为迈阿密最高的建筑，也是纽约市以南最高的住宅楼。其高度为 500 英尺，在 2025 年略微超过了之前的纪录保持者——拥有多年历史的 Panorama Today。

Cipriani 将在 2026 年被华尔道夫 Astoria Residences 超越。到 2026, 华尔道夫将被迈阿密、Brookridge、State & California 和 New Baytown 超越，预计高度将达到每年 1,000 英尺（320 米），这是布里克尔航空管理局为确保迈阿密国际机场飞行港的安全起降而设定的当前高度限制。

超高层建筑（高度超过 984 ）和巨型建筑（高度超过 1,000 ）在工程上仍然是相对罕见的异常现象。目前，巨型建筑仅存在于亚洲和中东。

迈阿密进入这一精英阶层标志着这座城市进入了一个新时代：“我以前常说迈阿密正处于一个高光时刻，但我不知道一个‘时刻’是否能持续五年，”迈阿密开发中心的管理合伙人 Ryan Shoot 表示，他是这座城市首个超高层建筑 Astoria Residences 的参与者，“我认为迈阿密正在经历一场革命。”

其他在建的摩天大楼包括 Delano Residences（980 ），建于 1958 年的水州公路（Water State Highway）旁的 Citadel 桥新总部（980 ）以及 Brickell（981 ），920 Brickell（980 ），Baccardi Residences（980 ）和 Brickell（981 ）。Aldermore（7735 ）。位于布里克尔的 Aldermore Residences 于 2024, 完工，高度为 635 . 一段关于特朗普总统提议在迈阿密市中心建设预制城市的视频渲染图显示，有一栋建筑在城市天际线中拔地而起，但具体高度尚未披露。

迈阿密的快速发展可以

这种转变与该地区的地理和地质现实密切相关。佛罗里达州是一片亚热带陆地，目前面临着海平面上升、海水变暖以及强度不断增加的飓风的威胁。

但随着迈阿密房地产需求的激增，可用土地变得越来越难以寻找。Oklahoma Consulting Engineering 的结构工程师兼执行董事 Luis Rianzova 解释道，他是 Adam Martin Residences 背后的首席结构工程师。他表示，20 年前，开发商可以轻松找到完整的街区来建造一个热谷，他说：“现在的地块已经变得小了很多。”他补充道，为了获利并最大化空间，开发商别无选择，只能向垂直方向发展。

Rianzova 先生还指出，南佛罗里达州对“开发商很友好”，办理许可可能只需要几个月，而不是像在加利福尼亚州那样可能需要五年。

Dover Development 的总裁、即将建成的迈阿密市中心 Baccardi Residences 的合伙人 Dover 大校表示，增加高度可以让公司“利用地块的最后一点效用”，并创造出能够越过相邻建筑、拥有无遮挡海景的高端单元。

“重塑城市还具有美学和显著的吸引力。我喜欢看那些出现迈阿密并闪过我的大楼的电视节目，”Dover 先生说，他还在附近的 Sunny 和 Beach 开发过建筑。同样，Main Capital 的开发商 Camila Miguel 将其 Cipriani 建筑视为一个“对迈阿密天际线产生影响”的机会。

开发热潮让更多专家感到担忧。南佛罗里达州坐落在多孔石灰岩和沙层之上，而这些

需要大量的工程手段才能使其稳定。摩天大楼的基础，尤其是极高建筑的基础，必须比通常情况更深、更宽。“在这些基础上过度密集建设需要强大的专业设备，且成本非常昂贵，”迈阿密大学工程学院前院长胡安-皮埃尔·拉尔丁（Juan-Pierre Rardin）表示。“当设计假设必须经过验证且施工质量必须受到严格控制时，技术和工程能力至关重要。”

2025年，迈阿密大学发布了一项研究，探讨迈阿密屏障岛上（尤其是阳光州海滩，Sunny State Beach）的新时代高强度利用建筑是如何沉降，或在一年多时间里增加沉降，以及其他建筑设施的情况。

该研究假设，导致这种沉降担忧的主要原因之一是附近施工产生的振动，结合了

左图为迈阿密 Cipriani 住宅的景观。上方的 Cipriani 上个月成为了该市最高的建筑。一位开发商表示，增加高度使其能够通过各种房屋提供无遮挡的海景。一些专家对飓风以及在迈阿密多孔石灰岩和沙地上的建筑基础感到担忧。

佛罗里达州独特的石灰岩和沙地地质可能会导致沙层自我中断并变得更加紧实。

地球科学教授 Fish trenching 是气候变化的主要研究来源，也是该研究的主要作者之一，他指出，通过卫星对工作沉降进行常规监测是恰当的，但在美国并非如此，因为那里“很难获得资金”。

他说：“工程师在施工期间会监测地面以发现问题，但在随后的几年里则很少这样做——而基础沉降在此时可能仍在发生。”

在旧金山，千禧塔（Millennium Tower）在建成多年后需要进行加固，因为上层建筑和不同的基础系统导致了严重的下沉和倾斜。几年后，这些塔楼将成为僵化的灾难。

飓风风力也是迈阿密新一波建筑的一个先进变量。“所有摩天大楼虽然都是根据建筑规范、先进结构分析和风洞测试设计的，但其中许多从未在现实环境下经历过直接

袭击。”

拉尔丁博士说：“影响南佛罗里达州的大型飓风中的最大持续风速可能超过 175 英里 / 小时。”他补充道，“随着建筑长高，其他因素变得越来越显著。”自 1981 年的安德鲁飓风（Hurricane Andrew）以来，迈阿密尚未直接遭受大型飓风袭击。

迈阿密的高层建设没有放缓的迹象，开发商继续推进。“如果你不能在这里掩盖角落或面对这里并闭上眼睛，它感觉起来和看起来将与往年非常相似，”开发公司 New Equities 的创始人之一埃林·鲁特（Erin Rutter）表示，该公司正在该地区（尤其是布里克尔，Brickell）进行开发。“在迈阿密，情况并非如此。它将截然不同。”——而且天际线可能会成为一个非常有趣的传奇。结构工程师 Rianzova 先生指出，当他开始职业生涯时，摩天大楼的高度限制是 850 英尺。他说：“而现在，开发商希望推得更高，他们游说寻找城市中可以建得更高的地方。我确信开发商也会尝试在这一点上继续推进。”

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上周，芝加哥一家面包店在准备用于制作焦糖的铜锅。由于6月的一次停电，该面包店损失了数百件奶油和巧克力产品。

一场经济风暴

酷暑预警与停电造成破坏，企业寻求解决方案

作者：CITO DEPOLIS

6月初，在一次剧烈风暴和令人窒息的热浪期间，位于芝加哥南区的斯蒂芬斯·哈特（Stephens Hart）面包店停电了。

五百根奶油棒——这意味着一名甜食顾客已经失去了它们——以及巧克力糖果，以及她冷藏室中价值 100,000 的蛋糕都面临风险。

哈特女士迅速指示员工将较好的产品装入干锡盒，费用为 $1,700。然后她开始给所有她认识的政治家打电话：“每一位客人都会让我过度，我已经打过电话了，”她说。最终，这起作用了！电力公司在第二天恢复了她的电力，她的蛋糕被救了。

哈特女士松了一口气。但她认为这并不简单——芝加哥夏季风暴日益频繁而导致的停电仍可能摧毁她的库存。因此，她一直在按订单制作更多蛋糕，这意味着交付时间更慢，工作更间断。对于明年夏天，她正在考虑一套昂贵的备份方案。

“那压力太大了，谁知道呢？我得再次把它拉出来吗？”哈特女士说。“蛋糕根本不适合极端天气。”

萨霍维安（Sahovian）媒体报道称，她将这些情况乘以数千，以理解今年夏天在芝加哥的情况，那里发生了多次降雨。今晚绿线向下，以捕捉一个已被空调的无情需求所保留的金子。

将这些情况乘以数百万，即可理解这种数量的食物、公司、烟雾和电风扇给全球企业和家庭带来的财务损失。7月是美国本土记录以来最热的一个月，包括其联邦数据在内，而西欧经历了有记录以来最热的7月平均气温。

经济学家长期以来一直在研究气候变化对经济增长、通货膨胀和就业日益恶化的影响。大多数对迄今为止造成的影响的估计较为温和，而对长期的损害预测则变得更加剧烈。但过去一年带来的气候相关冲击，已使企业无法避免。

“如果没有这些年度外包事件，很容易说，‘这是我们企业风险管理系统的一部分，所以我们将处理它。’‘我会掩饰第90个，’一位来自会议委员会（Conference Board）专注于气候的经济学家说道。‘没有什么比紧急情况更能引起关注了。’”

高成本，低收入

仅考虑高温的影响，而不计算随之而来的山火和风暴。全球保险公司旗下的安联研究（Allianz Research）分析了未来五年的潜在经济影响，假设其情况与 2011 年至 2025. 年间最极端的高温年份相似。到 2026 年，包括法国、日本、意大利、德国和西班牙在内的受影响最严重国家的经济产出将比其基准轨迹低 3.4%。

此外还存在严重的财政后果。高温冲击会通过减少生产和消费来产生反向影响，并需要增加对受损基础设施的支出。安联研究的作者发现，在整个欧洲，年度政府赤字将增加国内生产总值的 0.3%，这可能会动摇受影响最严重国家的财政基础。

这一预测可能较为保守。“当我提出经济预测时，有些人说：‘你采用了过去 10 年中最极端的五次热浪——这是一个有点悲观的情景，’”去年秋天开始参与该项目的安联研究气候经济学家莎伦·克里彻（Sharon Kricher）表示，“而 2026 年的情况已经比那更高了。”

高温通过两个主要渠道影响消费者。第一个是能源成本。几乎所有形式的发电方式——太阳能电池板、风力涡轮机、dusts、燃气轮机——在极高温度下的运行效率较低。与此同时，除了最北端的国家外，家庭和企业增加空调使用量导致能源需求上升。这两种动态因素都推高了价格，并增加了停电风险。

第二个渠道是生产力。建筑工地必须缩短工作时间，睡眠质量受损。当学校和托儿设施无法运作时，父母无法前往工作岗位。其中一个在 CUMAR，以及 4

贸易战重启，加拿大看向南方

安大略省，布里克维尔（BRICKVILLE, ONTARIO）

特朗普最新的关税促使更多公司将生产线迁至美国

作者：JAY JUSTICE

在 Northern Cable 公司，生产钢芯电缆的机器每周 7 天、每天 24 小时不停运转。这种紧迫感并非由大量新订单驱动，而是由损失驱动。

这家加拿大公司正急于填补美国各地的限制。在加拿大为美国客户制造商品的许多企业中，该公司并非唯一面临压力要求将业务迁至边境以南的企业，以避免特朗普总统计划于下周开始对其产品征收的 10% 关税。

特朗普先生最新的关税攻势对 Northern Cable 而言尤为直接。其工厂部分位于一家前可口可乐装瓶厂内，距离圣劳伦斯河沿岸划分安大略省与纽约州的无形分界线以北约 2.5 英里（4 公里）。

由于一半的业务来自美国，该公司目前正在考虑向南迁移。对于 Northern Cable 来说，这将是一个反转，该公司成立于 1898 年，旨在将电缆制造留在安大略省的 Rockville，此前一家总部位于美国的公司关闭了当地工厂并将生产线迁出加拿大。

但如果特朗普先生对包括电缆在内的广泛商品征收关税成为既定计划，公司首席执行官 和总裁 Stafford 将不得不开始寻找一家美国工厂。

“第一次我们将不得不下去‘购物’，”Bacon 先生说道，他站在一张商务桌旁，桌上的玻璃罩下展示着工厂生产的短截电缆。“这里有太多的工作岗位处于危险之中，我们不能坐视不管。”

Northern Cable 通常将其装甲电缆（为从办公大楼到地下车站的所有设施供电）的生产在加拿大和美国客户之间进行分配。但为了储备美国仓库，目前约 80% 的电缆——重量高达 2,500 磅（2,400 公斤）——是按照美国电气标准制造的。Stafford 先生估计，美国仓库将在两到三周内产生需求。

拥有 120 名员工的 Northern Cable 并非孤例。一项由美国陆军在 1936 年至 1940 年间对 275 家制造商进行的调查发现，自特朗普先生开始与加拿大贸易战以来，20% 的企业已将其部分或全部生产线迁至美国。另有 12% 的企业正在考虑这样做。（该调查于 5 月进行，在特朗普先生宣布最新的 10% 关税之前。）

“如果贸易和关税关联持续下去，且政府不关注影响加拿大制造业的一些系统性问题，这些制造商可能别无选择，只能开始迁往美国，”毕马威（KPMG）加拿大工业市场负责人 Anantha Castle 表示。“这不一定是他们的意愿，但他们可能别无选择。”

在安大略省，Action-makers 生产高度专业化的门——用于洗手间、生物构建、隔音、频繁且便捷，客户包括美国，其中包括五角大楼。公司首席执行官 Jack Shiner 曾一度在工厂搬迁过程中，其工厂的部件直接从蒙特利尔的一家加工厂切割并运抵。

但在美国对主要由钢或铝制成的产品征收 25% 的关税后，Shiner 先生确保供应商仅提供美国制造的钢材，从而将公司基础产品的有效关税率（每件成本约为 $5,000 至 $20,000）降低至约 10%。

“所以目前我不会受到影响，”Shiner 先生说。“问题是，当政府在下个月或三个月后改变其主要投资方向时会发生什么，没人知道。”

Andhra是由希纳先生的父亲于1954年创立的，起初仅在安大略省为人所知，随后才扩展到蒙特利尔和多伦多。在1960年从美国留学归来后，希纳先生推动公司向高端的纽约市场扩张。对于当时一家处于汽车工业之外的加拿大小型制造企业来说，这是一个不寻常的想法，甚至在1968年加拿大和美国达成首个五项规模协议之前亦是如此。

“我对在美国经营睡眠业务感到很自在，就在离这里45分钟路程的地方，”希纳先生说。“在那里我们读。

“问题在于，如果政府在明天下午改变主意会发生什么。”

而且在北部各州的业务比在安大略省和魁北克省多得多——而且那里没有竞争。”

目前，北方业务的三分之二来自美国。尽管如此，希纳先生表示，他不会将公司向南搬迁。“我在这里雇佣的 120 人离开了这个 7th out，”他说。“但问题在于我该如何搬迁我的业务。”

几年前，Andhra 曾探索开设第二家工厂以扩大规模，但在得出结论认为[...OMITTED...]且工作量足够后，纽约放弃了这一想法。相反，希纳先生计划将公司的一些技术授权给美国钢铁制造商并修复其欧洲业务，在那里 Andhra 的新[...OMITTED...]其在欧洲标准的份额。在那些市场中，仅替代了公司约 10 percent 的业务。

他表示，他预计由于关税的原因，公司可能会在未来两年多时间里亏损。“我认为我们可以度过风暴，”他说。“我是这么认为的，他们并没有天真。”

Northern Cable 也在关注欧洲，尽管处理欧洲电气标准的路径目前[...OMITTED...]低装甲电缆用于工业布线，因此电缆可以通过钢玻璃穿过。斯塔福德先生表示，公司正在努力获得更改此项的批准，但预计该过程可能需要 15 年。

特朗普先生的新[...OMITTED...]Northern Cable 唯一的贸易头痛。培根先生表示，在美国对来自中国的电缆征收 25 percent 的关税后，这些产品开始流入加拿大。

中国预计在 2015, 在加拿大维持约 $1800 万 加元的电线和电缆，高于 2015. 的 1.27亿 加元。在 2024 年，加拿大从美国进口了 9.72亿 加元的电缆，并向美国国家出口了价值 7.04亿 加元的电缆。

“我们在加拿大正遭受中国进口产品的打击，”培根先生说，并补充道，他对加拿大政府对该情况缺乏兴趣（他如此认为）感到沮丧，尽管加拿大最近对来自中国的电线——较小电缆征收了关税。

与希纳先生和斯塔福德先生一样，他担心美国工厂是否有足够的工人，而且该工厂无法完全逃避关税。加拿大的公司仍然需要[...OMITTED...]大量公司，因为美国生产金属的能力有限。目前，该铝材面临着[...OMITTED...]。绿色能源关税将于 8 月 16. 生效。斯塔福德先生表示，公司将迅速行动。

“我们将不得不进入[...OMITTED...]，我们可以把空间放在哪里，我们可以把机器放在哪里？我们如何开始这个过程，”他说。“我们现在已经开始了，但现在必须迅速行动。”

随着无人驾驶出租车的扩张，其故障也随之增加

旧金山

Waymo 的增长凸显其无人驾驶汽车无法处理新颖情况

作者：DORIS TAUZICK

7月4日，超过 100,000 人涌向旧金山的水岸，观看金门大桥上的一场盛大烟花秀。

当他们尝试回家时，Waymo 成了阻碍。

由于周围人群拥挤， 的无人驾驶汽车堵塞了交叉路口并造成交通混乱。一些乘客被困在车内，有的时间超过三个小时。几辆 在交通瘫痪中因电池耗尽而不得不被救援。至少有两辆车驶过了正在爆炸的烟花，其中一辆起火了。

贝斯·彼得森（Base Peterson）在另一辆车内，她的未婚夫订了一辆 回酒店。当汽车在交叉路口停下时，一名男子跑上路，在街上放置了一个烟花并点燃。 驶上路面，在烟花于车底爆炸时将其碾过。

“我们完全震惊了，”彼得森先生说。他从事保险工作，住在加利福尼亚州核桃溪（Walnut Creek）。她说，车里闻起来像是有东西在燃烧，但 仍在另一个交叉路口继续行驶。她说她的未婚夫随后下车，步行走完了去酒店的剩余路程，将原本应该是五分钟的车程变成了一次漫长的旅程。

彼得森先生的经历就是无人驾驶汽车行业所谓的“边缘案例”（edge cases）。这些是机器人被训练去处理的罕见情况。随着领先的无人驾驶汽车服务公司 的扩张，这些边缘案例出现的问题似乎在增加。

由谷歌的母公司 Alphabet 所有，其无人驾驶汽车的数量已大幅增加，目前接近 4,000 辆，而一年前在 22 个区域运行的车辆仅约 100 辆；仅在过去一个月内，该公司就在圣地亚哥和坦帕实现了完全无人驾驶或类似运营。每周，乘客支付约 50 万次行程的费用。

在增长的同时， 自 12 月以来因软件问题发布了 300 次更新——包括一次汽车驶入禁行道路的情况——而此前 22 个月内仅有 3 次。一些边缘案例登上了头条，包括 12 月在旧金山发生的一次大规模停机，导致近 1,400 辆 瘫痪了至少两分钟。

更多城市出现更多车辆，意味着更有机会遇到技术从未见过的情况。匹兹堡卡内基梅隆大学专门研究无人驾驶车辆的荣休教授菲利普·卡格劳恩（Philip Kargraun）表示，这很难修复，因为汽车通常意识不到自己陷入了麻烦，也不会请求帮助。

“这项技术很难意识到自己处于一个新颖的情况中，”卡格劳恩博士说。“而且当它处于新颖情况时，容易产生过度自信和误判。失败了怎么办？ 的答案并不是解决这些根本问题，”他说，“而是通过远程人类操作员来干预车辆。”

发言人兰迪·卡格（Randy Karg）表示，最近的更新是主动之举，随着公司的扩张，边缘案例的发生率在增加，并补充说“发生的情况将推动进一步的改进”。

富兰克林·特鲁希略（Franklin Tho）承认，无人驾驶汽车的推广速度在初期进入新城市时较为缓慢。他说，公司目前进入城市的速度加快，是因为在一个地方开发的软件越来越多地适用于下一个城市，而不需要为每个地点重新开发。

的目标是让其技术能够处理边缘案例，“无论我们之前是否见过它们，”特鲁希略先生说。他指出了公司的安全记录，显示严重伤害事故比人类驾驶员减少了 50%，并补充道，“我们一直在不断学习，持续改进我们的产品。”

目前， 的这些事件已使其成为官员和监管机构关注的焦点。

布拉德·马克伍德（Blad Markwood）是旧金山监事会的一员，他在7月4日的烟花表演后步行一小时才回到家中。他要求市应急管理部门、消防部门和交通部门解释该活动中出现了什么问题。市长丹尼尔·卢里（Daniel Lurie）也致信加利福尼亚州交通秘书，要求州政府为重大活动和紧急情况期间的无人驾驶汽车制定运行标准，并表示：“我们发现典型的应对条件已不再足够。”

7月18日，卢里先生提交了一项联邦立法，要求无人驾驶汽车公司支付一项隐藏费用，并向州监管机构提出请求，要求制定关于急救人员如何移动参考物的最低标准。

美国国家公路交通安全管理局（NHTSA）的行政主管乔纳森·莫里森（Jonathan Morrison）在7月4日的一封信中也写道，该机构已发现自动驾驶车辆干扰警察、消防员和工作人员的明显模式。他写道，“紧急”现场并非个别或极端的“边缘案例”。

加州大学伯克利分校负责警察与自动驾驶车辆研究的马修·拉特豪斯（Matthew Rathaus）表示，Waymo的失败是周期性的。他说，在大城市的一个普通周末，数以千计的人可能会导致驾驶员的减少。

他说：“我们称之为边缘案例的一些情况，对于自动驾驶车辆来说是边缘案例，但对于交通运输来说未必是边缘案例。”

他认为，“这是一个损失。个人成本，他们最近卷入这样一个案例。当时他正乘坐一辆Waymo从一个活动现场返回市区”

当一个人在街上放置并点燃烟花时，Waymo 驶向烟花，在烟花爆炸时将其碾过。

在加利福尼亚州圣马特奥（San Mateo, Calif）附近。在车辆进入该市附近的一个施工区域时，Waymo 处于一条巨大的高速公路上。

斯莱德（Slade）先生说，这辆车开始像一只“高端动物”一样行驶，在车流中倒车，并在封闭车道内加速到高速公路速度。随后它在卡车和工人身边转向，而加州公路局的警员们敲击着他们的矿区并大喊：“停下，！”

“我们快崩溃了，”斯莱德先生说，并补充道，他为了以防万一，将自己的身体挡在未婚妻的店面之前。他说他按了车内的按钮请求支持，但直到车辆自行驶离高速公路之前都没有人回应。乘客们走出了 ，然后花了 17 小时走完回家的剩余路程。

与此同时， 突然针对部分车辆进入高速公路施工区域的软件问题进行了更新，并向公众披露了车辆在穿越巴士时驶离市中心的问题。该公司上个月在洛杉矶、迈阿密、凤凰城和旧金山湾区恢复了高速公路路线。

针对旧金山 7 月 4 日的烟花表演， 显得准备充分。该公司当晚向市应急行动中心派遣了一名员工，并同意切换其他车辆可以停放的位置。Wayne 派遣了一支可以手动控制库存车辆的团队，以及旧金山消防局局长大卫·克里斯皮（David Crispee）。

然而，在晚上 9:30 的烟花表演开始前两个多小时，停滞的 专家已到达中心。其中几辆车电量耗尽，且由于交通拥堵，卡车无法到达这些车辆。根据旧金山应急管理部门的一封信函，这些 车辆在两小时内未被清理。

的负责人 Kargraud 表示，7 月 4 日的交通心脏问题“是由多种因素造成的”，且 在旧金山的 Pondera 社区“切换到了拥堵状态”，并补充说公司的路边救援团队与当地当局合作清理了车辆。

无人驾驶汽车在旧金山（见上图）以及 14 个美国大都市区运行。自 12 月以来，该公司因软件问题已提交了三份联邦报告。

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AI 驱动的芯片短缺引发游说热潮

旧金山

随着数据中心抢购供应，其他行业请求政府援助

AT KALLEY HUSSE, ADUANA DIVISION

人工智能基础建设造成了一种名为内存芯片的关键商品的短缺，并为华盛顿的企业游说开启了新的局面。内存芯片用于存储智能手机和汽车等各种设备中的数据，目前正被人工智能公司抢购以用于巨型数据中心。这些微小组件的价格在过去一年中翻了四倍，这给白宫带来了麻烦，因为白宫一直难以让美国人相信其已将通货膨胀控制在合理范围内。

现在，包括医疗设备制造商、汽车制造商以及苹果公司（Apple）等消费电子公司在内的广泛行业，正请求政府帮助以获取所需的芯片。

根据对10人的采访（其中许多人因未获授权公开讨论而要求匿名），这些公司及其游说者提出了一系列解决方案，有些是常规手段，另一些则是目前被讨论的联邦政策，旨在促使内存芯片制造商向其行业分配更多芯片。

其中三人表示，有人建议将向更广泛的客户群销售芯片，作为获得2025年芯片法案（CEIPS and his past Act，此处原文如此）资金的条件，该计划旨在支持在美国进行芯片研究和制造。另有五人表示，有人请求特朗普政府使用一项名为《国防生产法》（Defense Production Act）的朝鲜战争时期法律，强制向人工智能以外的行业分配芯片。

“我们并非医疗特性，而是一年一度固定在内存定价上的，内存价格呈指数级增长，”苹果公司首席执行官蒂姆·库克（Tim Cook）上个月在一次财报电话会议上表示。

在6月致财政部长斯科特·贝森特（Scott Boosner）和商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克（Howard Lutnick）的一封信中，一组贸易协会警告称，内存芯片市场的“不公正失衡”将给“经济的大部分领域带来风险”。会计师事务所毕马威美国（KPMG US）的首席经济学家戴安娜·斯旺克（Diane Swank）表示，内存芯片正开始增加美国的通货膨胀。她表示，消费者已经在削减购买视频游戏机的开支，更昂贵的电子产品可能会随之而来。

“人工智能业务的兴起推高了其他地方的成本，”斯旺克女士说。

目前尚不清楚白宫或商务部是否会干预。尽管他们渴望降低价格，但又不愿将内存芯片从数据中心转移走，因为这些数据中心正帮助美国在人工智能领域保持对中国的优势。

白宫发言人Kash Zexel表示，国内半导体制造是特朗普总统的重中之重，相关政策已确保该领域获得数千亿美元的投资。

美光科技（Micron Technology）、三星（Samsung）和SK海力士（SK Hyuns）等内存芯片制造商也在致力于扩大消费级生产。其中一些公司正在游说国会提供类似于芯片法案的另一笔资金注入。三人表示，他们还请求政府在建设美国新工厂时放宽环保法规。

该公司执行副总裁Manesh Manta表示，美光已向美国内存领域承诺投入超过2500 亿美元 billion，这是此类投资中规模最大的一次。他补充说，在美国建设芯片工厂的成本结构比其他任何地方都要长，且该国需要简化许可流程并培养其劳动力。

“这需要制造商、供应商以及政府共同努力，”Manta女士说。

其他总部位于韩国的内存芯片制造商，如三星和SK海力士，其大部分芯片在韩国和中国生产。这些公司的代表和

两名人士表示，他们的客户已经提出了增加中国制造设施产量的想法，以应对短缺。

拜登和特朗普政府都曾试图鼓励芯片制造商将生产转移至美国。美光科技、三星和SK海力士都已同意在未来五年内投入数千亿美元，将生产转移至美国及其相关地区。但这些设施极其昂贵，且需要数年时间才能建成。

曾在拜登政府负责芯片战略的研究公司 TechInsights 首席战略官戴安娜·金（Diane Kim）表示，行业的短缺情况在未来两年内仍将持续。她说，对于人工智能公司愿意为内存芯片支付的价格，“几乎没有上限”。但其他企业的情况并非如此。

“是的，你的 iPhone 价格正在上涨，”金先生说。“但你的 M.B.I. 机器价格也可能会上涨。”

尽管如此，芯片制造商并不希望政府过于强势。7月，行业贸易协会 SEMI 警告称，反对任何会影响其新内存芯片定价或分配的干预措施。该组织建议利用贸易协定来增加产量，降低价格，并采用更具吸引力的税收抵免来鼓励国内制造。

SK海力士在一份声明中表示，公司正“努力维持生产以充分满足激增的需求，并将今年的资本支出增加 30%”。

苹果公司拒绝置评，三星未回应置评请求。

一组贸易协会警告称，存储芯片市场的“不公正失衡”将给经济带来风险。

七名人士表示，苹果公司此前曾将存储芯片短缺作为近期涨价的理由，目前该公司正与其他消费电子公司合作，争取获准从面临某些限制的中国购买存储芯片。

苹果公司在 2022 年的一封信中表示，希望从长江存储（YMTC）购买存储芯片，但在美国立法者的压力下，这些努力逐渐减弱。

四名人士表示，许多官员反对苹果公司购买中国芯片的愿望，因为该公司多年来承诺将更多供应链转移到美国，但仅实现了其自身市场目标的一小部分。该计划的其他批评者则表示，中国同样在经历类似的芯片危机。

两名人士表示，在美国、日本和台湾制造存储芯片的美光科技一直推动对中国竞争对手实施更多限制，认为购买中国芯片将损害美国的生产。

凯莉·黄（Kally Haung）发自旧金山，以及（此处原文不详）发自华盛顿。

中国扩大国内牛群规模

中国，来自过去

最近，随着人口日益富裕，对高蛋白饮食的需求超过了国内供应，导致其牛肉进口量加速增长。

根据该国海关数据，直到 2025, 中国进口的牛肉还不足 500,000 吨（约 4.5 亿 公斤）。随着进口量开始快速增长，中国开始扩大自己的牛群，甚至向贫困县的贫困家庭免费发放牛只。2024 年的进口量达到 267 万 吨——这对全球牧场主来说是一笔巨大的意外之财。这种年度增长速度，除了中国自身快速增长的税收出口外，仅有五个行业能与之匹敌。

但到 2025, 房地产价格暴跌，许多中国家庭在国家住房市场崩盘中失去积蓄后，开始转向价格较低的鸡肉或猪肉。加上国内产量的增加，那一年牛肉批发价格下跌了 15 percent。

价格下跌在中国农村引起了相当大的愤怒，那里有数百万家庭将毕生积蓄投入到养牛屠宰中。

中国今年通过配额制度和 85 percent 关税的威胁，将来自世界其他地区的进口量控制在 269 万 吨。对于买家来说，这是一个公开的低收入，而中国本身强烈反对欧盟和美国对其激增的税收出口征收关税。

牛肉价格正在上涨，帮助农民在旗舰项目下改善自身状况。

铜陵（Tonghan）体现了目前在该国东北边缘发生的转变。据当地政府称，在 2025 美元之后，铜陵只有 25 percent 的地区是可生长植被或森林，其余则是沙漠。现在，该地区 84 percent 的面积被作物、谷物或森林覆盖。

中国的宣传机构将戈壁沙漠的退缩归功于数十年植树造林的艰苦努力，以及在记录中补充的大规模水利设施建设。政府表示，这些行动稳定了该地区波动的需求，并有助于驯服曾经会带走表层土壤水分的干燥沙漠风。

但气候变化也产生了重大影响。根据中国国家起源的数据，降水量显著增加，尽管过程中伴随着明显的波动和激增。在中国北部，此前干旱的地区（总面积与 2024 年美国单国抽奖运行规模相似）现在用于支持购买或作物，尽管其中许多地区的农业土壤质量较差。

“我们看到的是气候变暖带来的长期增长，其上叠加了明显的、持续数十年的波动，”中国气象服务协会的加拿大政府表示。

为了防止收获受损或过度放牧，中国官员使用面设备每年将新的草地——

每年移动一次，并将干草分发给圈养牛的农民。

沈先生说，政府还在铜陵绿化区域部署大规模的市场研究网络以监测牛群。政府工作人员收到警报后，会移走违规动物并处罚业主。

“在我们的常规修复区域内，严禁放牧，”沈先生说。

铜陵地区已成为该国北部最大的制造业中心之一，其中许多工厂安装在新的草地上，并将电力输送到世界大城市。它们受益于野生工业，不可靠且广泛的工厂建设促使当地生活水平大幅提高，包括使用机械而非牲畜耕种农田。

中国还试图增加其繁忙的国内牛群，因为在某种程度上，这些牛群受益于价格。低矮的牛更擅长恢复当地病毒并抵御向南迁移的历史过滤。

目前，当地牛群被认为正强力采用人工授精，使用了体型巨大的瑞士西门塔尔牛（Sistonsa oil ）和安格斯牛。铜陵农业和畜牧局副局长顾金（Gus Jin）表示，由此产生的后代体重可达所有牛只的两倍。

“我们的当地牛与西门塔尔牛杂交后，能更好地适应当地环境且生长迅速，”她说。

顾在今年夏天的一次媒体考察期间发表了上述看法。考察地点位于内蒙古，该边境地区的外国媒体进入权限有时受到限制。《纽约时报》自行承担了差旅费用。

自北京限制进口以来，中国的牛肉价格一直在上涨。在南京的一个市场中，内蒙古当地牛与安格斯牛的杂交品种被展出。这些杂交牛的体重最高可达当地牛的两倍。

但许多小规模农户对进口品种持谨慎态度。近700万个中国家庭仍每户养殖不到9头牛。

在河北省边境的一名农户拥有数十头当地牛，她对杂交品种不感兴趣。“我们牛产的牛肉比那些实验品种——那些由中国品种培育的牛——要好得多，”这位隐去姓氏、仅称张（Zhan）的农户说道。她的大多数草饲牛生长在偏远的山谷中，骨盆骨突出，肋骨清晰可见。

内蒙古当局已转向采取激励措施，以鼓励牛群整合，因为在规模较大的牛群中，人工授精和其他计划更容易管理。该地区政府为每头被接收的牛提供164元的补贴，前提是这些家庭每年向屠宰场发送至少100头牛。

由于长期限制开始生效，满洲的牛肉批发价格比其低点上涨了25%，这有助于铜陵的农民实现长期的繁荣增长。

“过去，人们必须以较低的速率出行，”沈先生（Mr. Shen）说。“现在，几乎每家每户都拥有一辆汽车。”

俄罗斯：张（Zhang）参与了研究。

高温肆虐引发经济风暴

（午餐，来自过去）

一项研究发现，由于山火烟雾导致学校托儿服务取消，幼儿母亲的就业概率每天会降低 5%，这可能是因为家庭工作场所使得报告缺勤变得不再麻烦。

总的来说，异常高温影响着经济福祉和环境。一份 7 月发表的论文发现，在美国，第一波高温过后，中低层经济状况在数月内持续恶化。

这些影响仅计算了高温对人们成本和工作能力的“直接”影响。但高温的破坏力在今年的欧洲并非新现象，快速蔓延的烈火导致了土地崩塌，使城市窒息，并迫使数千人撤离。

东部纤维

今年，秋天带来的将不是缓解，而是新的压力。预计异常强烈的厄尔尼诺天气模式将给世界部分地区带来严重干旱，而另一些地区则会出现过度降雨，从而干扰播种和收获周期，并降低小麦、玉米和糖等主食的产量。

随着气温升高，迹象甚至变得更少。最著名的 Plagister's Pride 隧道在其第二个世纪的标志上呼吁，生产可能会因高温而消失，且热浪也会攻击食品供应链，导致冷藏平台上的作物腐烂。

温度的剧烈波动已经使各国央行陷入困境。今年的气候干扰发生在贸易战推高美国物价，以及中东冲突挤压全球能源和化肥供应的背景之下。央行可能会通过调整利率来维持成本水平，即使这样做会增加财务压力。

“提高利率并不能创造更多食品供应，因此央行行长通常不想采取这种做法，”投资公司 William Blast 的分析师 Richard de Chaat 表示。“现在，如果宽容度不能从其他领域（如财政方面）获得，他们会觉得有必要处理这个问题。”

根据咨询公司 McKenny 的说法，采取购买电线和遮蔽作物以阻挡阳光等措施来保护人们免受气候变化影响的成本，可能会通过减少损害而获得数倍的回报。但这仍然是一场昂贵的骚动。该公司估计，全面实施将每年节省约数十亿。

短期内，企业和政府正在采取领先措施，例如调整工作时间，并尝试通过紧急措施和饮水休息来保护居民和工人；在法国和英国等以前从未需要空调的地方，目前正推动安装空调。

但联合国人类住区规划署首席执行官 Zhan Myrvik 警告说，空调不能被视为万能的解决方案。由于发电变得更加困难且昂贵，在全球范围内依赖能源密集型冷却系统可能并不可行。

这就是为什么在中期内，她致力于推动建设能保持室内凉爽的建筑，以及采用能吸收而非反射热量的绿化技术，并反对在低洼地区进行新开发。

“这场新风暴不仅是一个问题，也是许多公司目前正在研究的方向，但应将冷却损失视为一个系统性问题，而非简单的设备问题，”Myrvik 女士说。

长期来看，通过减少温室气体排放来避免进一步变暖，是遏制这些灾难的唯一途径。“适应是在争取时间，但适应程度将决定适应是否依然可负担，”她说。

停电已促使英格兰的平原、西岸的糖豆以及芝加哥采取更多安全措施，这导致了交付时间最慢以及工作更加断断续续。

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文学奖常被指责为精英主义。但现在比以往任何时候都更需要那些充满激情且特立独行的拥护者，去发掘那些最值得寻求的书籍。

拉迪卡·琼斯 (Radhika Jones)

直到成年后我才意识到，那些享有盛誉的文化奖项并非由一群神灵或名号分发，而是由真实的人决定。因此，当布克奖基金会（Booker Prize Foundation）在近两周前公布入围长名单时，我带着好奇阅读了它，并且被该奖项的五位评委在年度竞赛中的突出地位所震撼。我在布克奖网站的照片中看到他们大多笑容灿烂，身旁堆着两叠书籍，这是数月艰苦努力的结果，而且据推测，也是高尚的争论与坚持的结果。

文学评委经常成为艺术奖项评选批评的靶子，因为他们具有固有的偏见、不可避免的盲点，以及选出获胜者过程中那种小圈子式的性质。质疑他们的资历和选择很容易。评委是最终的把关人，是21世纪的禁忌说服者。但在聊天机器人引导正渗入每一项事业的时刻，我很高兴看到照片中是活生生的、有呼吸的人以及他们的选择。主观性正是其核心所在。

这些年来我评过几次奖项，评委席周围的动态——对散文风格截然不同的反应、说服的策略、对情感冲击的剖析——就像文学作品对我们的刻画一样具有人性。一名评委将名单放在桌上并离开房间（或者在那些糟糕的疫情年间，退出Zoom会议）并不罕见。同样，接受一个观点并改变另一位评委的想法也是可能的。有些评审小组从一开始就达成共识，但更常见的是在冲突中前行。通常我们最终达成的结论并非我们最初认为的方向，而这正是乐趣的一部分。在一个显然阅读人数在减少的世界里，我们这些仍然大量阅读的人依赖文学奖来辅助短期探索和长期预测能力。奖项是最原始的推荐引擎——只不过决定者被要求咨询自己的品味，而非某种算法预测。

今年布克奖的评审主席是古典学者玛丽·比尔德 (Mary Beard)，在所有人都想讨论《奥德赛》的夏天，她被塑造成了一个权威人物。评委还包括诗人雷蒙德·阿斯特雷多 (Raymond Astredou)、音乐家贾维斯·卡兰 (Jarvis Carlan)、诗人兼回忆录作家帕特里夏·洛克伍德 (Patricia Lockwood) 以及编辑兼评论家丽贝卡·利斯 (Rebecca Lis)。我不认识他们中的任何人。我还不知道我的感悟与他们之间的交集在哪里，我也还没有读过长名单上的任何一部小说，但我比以往任何时候都更乐意尝试并去发现。

现代奖项文化已经存在了大约 120 年。詹姆斯·E·英格利什 (James E. English) 在他的权威著作《声望经济学》(The Economy of Prestige) 中，将当前对文学奖的狂热追溯到 1961 年设立的诺贝尔奖。在英语世界，这个时间点恰好与英语文学系的兴起大致吻合，大学与普利策奖、美国国家图书奖和布克奖等奖项共同成为了对话的引擎。一些经典作品通过被纳入课程而变得常见，确保了数代学生会阅读它们。（编写选集的人通常在字面上完成这项工作，将诗歌、戏剧、小说和散文装订成教科书版本。）奖项通过将作品和作者置于同辈之上，使它们得以永恒，从而增加了这样一种机会：当当下的文学碎片被冲刷干净后，少数经典将得以留存。

既然我们无法随时阅读所有的书，那么拥有一些引导——无论多么有缺陷——来告诉我们什么最值得我们持续关注，是有帮助的。

这就是奖项发挥作用的地方。奖项拥有吸引即时关注的力量，无论是因为其入选名单还是因为其引发的丑闻。（大约七年前，布克奖通过坚持其章程并耸肩颁发了一个奖项而产生了一次影响。）但它们震撼了体制的影响力。

如果有人认为我们的社会已经处于一种病态，或者，由于学生们主修英语文学的人数在减少，且几乎没有人在大学里能读完完整的书籍，那么奖项就变得尤为重要。如果

学术商业化和特殊利益团体继续针对作品，或者相反，有人被告知某些作品与他们的世界观不一致，那么新书通过教育渠道获得认可将变得更加困难。最近出版的、针对K-12阶段的、旨在改善德克萨斯州公立学校阅读情况的指南——其高中阶段涵盖了过去半个世纪出版的书籍——让我们得以窥见这种情况的模样。

我并不是说读者不应该听从他们信任的

评论家、专栏作家，或者书评爱好者、教师或BookTok博主的建议。作为一个社会，我们并不缺乏关于书籍的个人观点，而且其中许多观点是可靠的。所以，请尽管接受我和Don Lise的推荐。

但我更欣赏奖项影响并鼓励集体阅读的能力，因为它们的许多价值（尽管不可见）来自于评判的集体艺术——讨论、辩论、决定——以及随之而来的突破。JONES，第 21 页

我的面部提升手术让我成了一个糟糕的女性主义者吗？

我和许多年轻女性一样，曾经对整形手术持有极其强烈的批判态度。但现在我不那么确定了。

莫莉·钟-法斯特 (Molly Jong-Fast) 特约撰稿人

就在我过了67岁生日后不久，一位看起来年轻得令人惊讶的整形外科医生告诉我：“你脸的下半部分看起来比上半部分老。”他没说错，我的颈部皮肤像某种蓝色专业设备一样起皱。当他将我的组织推回原位时，照镜子的感觉很震撼，但并不悲伤。我看到了一个更年轻——而且在某种程度上更迷人——的自己。几个月后，我被推入手术室，进行了深层平面面部和颈部提升手术。

整形医生拉紧了我的皮肤，并在我以前从未有过的地方给我做了调整。他让我变得更漂亮了，我不后悔。因此，我不会继续延续那个谎言，即我的新面孔来自大量饮水或充足睡眠。我要公开谈论这件事——因为女性既要面对不切实际的审美标准，又要面对关于如何实现这些标准的禁忌，这并不公平。

我和许多年轻女性一样，曾经对整形手术持有极其强烈的批判态度。我成长于20世纪90年代的哈罗（Harrow），家庭背景与第二波女性主义和曼哈顿的特权紧密相连。在我就读的私立高中里，很多女孩都做了隆胸和缩鼻手术。我意识到

我曾因没有随波逐流而感到自豪，尽管我的鼻子并没有驼峰，而且我也不是平胸。

我的母亲，作家埃里卡·钟 (Erica Jong)，在那个时代有一套完整的理论：前性爱女性主义（pre-sex feminism），这当然意味着让自己保持足够的吸引力，好让男人想与她发生性关系。她经常担心自己的体重和美貌。成功的电影制片人和作家朱莉娅·菲利普斯 (Julia Phillips) 曾将她比作“面部放松时的猪小姐 (Miss Piggy)”，这显然不是一种赞美。我母亲曾是不少权势男人的宠妾。为了维持这种地位，她在生活中做过面部提升手术。

在我母亲那栋狭窄的联排别墅里出入的许多女性主义者——包括安德里亚·德罗兹金 (Andrea Drozkin)、贝蒂·弗里丹 (Betty Friedan) 和菲利斯·切斯勒 (Phyllis Chesler)——并不相信为了男人的享乐而将自己变成另一种样子。这些女性拒绝了我母亲所拥护的那个痴迷于美貌的权力结构。相反，她们希望通过拒绝顺从这种文化来改变它。

我们的外貌塑造了我们的生计、浪漫前景以及在世界上的可见度。对此，我母亲和这些女性都被迫做出选择：是努力跟上，还是退出？我们在充分意识到整形手术会延续根植于厌女症的审美标准的情况下，问自己这个问题。这就引出了一个更大的问题：努力跟上

会让我成了一个糟糕的女性主义者吗？我不这么认为，因为我从未真正认同这样一个观点：面对一个如果女性不够年轻或漂亮就会将其排除在公众视野之外的文化，最好的应对方式就是退出。例如，我的面孔直接关系到我的生计。我的职业是在电视上谈论政治。最终，我也必须做出选择：

顺从审美标准，并希望能延长职业生涯的这一部分；或者拒绝这些标准，让自己在衰老中隐退。我一直相信（或许是出于自私），身在竞技场中分享我的想法，比让自己被强行驱逐更为重要。所以，我做了手术。

我对脸部所做的处理并不那么罕见。我认为，这实际上是如今电视上女性的常态。我们出现在屏幕上的时间越来越多，无论是在参加 Zoom 会议的成年人，还是必须维持 TikTok 热度的年轻影响力者。许多曾经仅限于好莱坞明星和上流社会的美容疗法，现在在购物广场的店面里就能获得。我们或许希望这个国家对整形手术日益增长的接纳，能引导至一种赞美女性身体自主权的文化，并能消除那些改变面容或身体的人所面临的难以捉摸的偏见。然而，关于整形手术的污名（尤其是围绕整形失败的广泛讨论）仍然主导着话语体系。

最不露痕迹的整形手术——那些我们几乎察觉不到、却能带来彻底蜕变的提升手术——依然价格昂贵，且仅为富人和名流所专属。因此，在 36 世纪的《宫廷之书》中，比耶勒梅斯·卡斯蒂廖内写到了“壮丽”，即一个真正的宫廷人应该让事情看起来毫不费力。而显露出努力地在尝试，才是失礼之举。琼斯，第 7 页和 28 页

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纽约时报

A.S. SALVADOR 出版人

JAMES BLAIR 执行主编

MARY LADD 管理主编

CAROLYN BEE 管理主编 SUSANNE BAKER 副主编

KATHLEEN BISHOP 副主编

BERNARD BARNETT 办公室 / 审查员办公室

纽约时报国际版英国出版代理机构

纽约时报国际版比利时出版代理机构

纽约时报国际版亚历山大出版代理机构

我们有权了解特朗普的健康状况

乔纳森·赖纳 (Jonathan Reiner)

迪克·切尼的心脏问题从未是国家秘密。

我担任切尼先生的心脏病专科医生长达 27 年。在白宫任职期间，他希望。在 2001 年将除颤器植入胸腔后，他经常向西翼办公室展示由制造商提供的示例设备，以此证明其生命。

切尼先生对其健康状况的坦诚在美国政治人物中是个异类。考虑到在担任总统期间秘密进行癌症手术，以及面临保险隐私的循环，我认为他的疾病，但他使用轮椅的行为应向公众提供关于心脏病发作的竞选活动，但却在与严重高血压和充血性心力衰竭作斗争。

总统尚未说明。世界应当得到这七个问题的答案。

今年 6 月，特朗普总统庆祝了他的 80 岁生日，到本月底，他将成为担任美国领导人的最高龄常任人员。在 5 月的医疗评估后，总统主治医师肖恩·巴巴雷拉 (Sean Barbarella) 医生写道，特朗普先生“没有其他健康的原因”，并且他的“繁忙的日常日程，包括多次高层会议、公众参与和规律的体育活动，继续支持他的整体健康”。

尽管白宫给出了相反的保证，但在过去的一年里，总统有时看起来状态不佳。我不是特朗普先生的医生，仅审阅了已公开的记录。但特朗普先生可能是美国历史上被拍摄照片最多的总统，其各种身体病症很容易被察觉。他的双手都有严重的，腿部出现肿胀，并且在某些片段中，他似乎在努力保持清醒。他还由另一家机构进行了先进的影像检查。

公众再次被置于疑惑之中，不确定国家领导人是否健康。尽管美国总统拥有绝对的权力，但对于指挥官是否其履职能力，并没有正式要求。这是一个错误。军队成员、特勤局特工、以及其他医疗司机和空中交通管制员都必须定期证明他们足够健康以执行工作。目前将医疗视为总统年度方法的做法始于尼克松政府，但这仅仅是一个系统，而非，在工厂巴士显示的情况下，它可能是不可靠的。

宪法第 25 修正案为解决这一问题提供了最佳方案。它允许机构建立一种良好的态度，可以通过分支机构确保总统的健康和体能。今年 4 月，詹姆斯·布莱恩斯 (James Brains) 众议员提出了一项法案，旨在创建一个国会委员会来塑造习惯。这样一个小组将被授权获取常规年度牙科体检以及在出现医疗问题时进行的评估数据。

如果这样一个委员会在今天成立，那么关于特朗普先生的健康状况，以下是一些可以澄清的医疗问题。美国公众有权得到所有这些问题的答案。

1. 巴巴雷拉医生的最新报告指出，总统由 33 人进行了评估，即使是对最广泛的健康评估操作来说，这个专家数量也极其惊人。为什么需要这么多医生参与，他们的专业领域分别是什么？

2. 特朗普先生的手上经常出现明显的印记，白宫将其归因于频繁的握手和频繁使用阿司匹林。握手造成的创伤似乎从未具有说服力，且这无法解释为何总统的账单被发现显示出类似的状况。此外，总统为什么要服用比医生通常建议剂量高出四倍的阿司匹林？

3. 总统去年夏天腿部出现肿胀，导致了一次非计划性的医疗评估。总统的医生将该问题描述为“慢性静脉功能不全”，这在老年人中很常见，是由腿部静脉瓣膜渗漏引起的。这种情况通常在很长一段时间内逐渐发展。但在几个月前特朗普先生的体检中，巴尔巴雷拉医生并未提及总统腿部肿胀的情况。如果事实如此，他的肿胀应该是急性而非慢性的。急性、无热、致命？

BROWN AND PINE (1973) 纽约时报

大学确实存在政治问题，但并非所谓的“觉醒”洗脑

尼尔·格罗斯 (Neil Gross)

对于那些孩子将在几周后进入大学的家长来说，八月是一个深陷其中、为孩子准备物资并做好心理准备迎接常规生活的时刻。鉴于过去几年大学校园的动荡，这同样也是一个令人担忧的时刻。我们的孩子即将进入一个怎样的意识形态战场？

为了回答这个问题，我花了14年时间，其中两年用于采访全国100多名本科生和研究生，并分析了数千名学生的调查数据。我的发现令人惊讶，且在今天看来深感不安。

好消息是，如今大多数上大学的年轻人会发现志同道合的同伴，并参加符合其兴趣和价值观的吸引人的课程。相对较少的人会在大学期间因政治偏好而与政治观点截然不同的学生陷入挣扎或僵局。

坏消息是，这种大多和谐的体验是通过普遍的筛选实现的。在惊人的程度上，年轻人选择大学在一定程度上是基于该学校的政治声誉，与政治观点相似的孩子交友，选择强化其世界观的专业，并且总体上倾向于选择意识形态上熟悉的事物。

这种自我服务不仅削弱了大学教育本应培养的批判性思维能力，还加深了显然已在社会中存在的极化现象。社会科学家将极化分为两种：意识形态极化和情感极化。意识形态极化发生在人们在政治信仰和偏好上分歧扩大时。而情感极化——这才是真正的祸根——发生在政治成为你身份核心特征的时候，导致你对那些与你意见不一的人产生负面情绪。

研究表明，在过去的几十年里，情感极化的增长速度快于意识形态极化，而且人们对意识形态对手产生的负面情绪越来越多地涉及厌恶或轻蔑，这种情绪根植于一种认为对方是不道德的认知。我发现，这种轻蔑正在重塑大学体验。

以选择大学的过程为例。在 2013, 我进行的一项针对本科生的全国调查中，我询问学生在申请时，大学或学院的政治声誉对其重要程度如何。五分之四的学生意识到这种声誉。而在意识到的人中，许多人表示这在他们的就读决定中起到了作用。

我听到的一个典型故事来自一名就读于一所选拔制非宗派基督教学院的年轻人，他是一名职业领导者。他曾就读于一所学生倾向于自由派或左翼的高中，他经常与他们发生冲突。虽然他选择这所大学主要是因为其学术严谨，但在他看来，能被认同其基本价值观的学生包围是一个巨大的加分项。

我也从左翼学生以及——尤其是那些占本科生相当比例的——中立学生那里听到了类似的故事，他们选择了一些他们原本没有申请的学校，因为他们认为在其他地方政治冲突将无法避免。

数百万采取此类偏好的年轻人改变了高等教育的格局。经济学家赖利·艾克顿 (Riley Acton)、厄利·库克 (Early Cook) 和弗兰克·乌加尔德 (Frank Ugalde) 在去年发布的研究中证实了这一点。他们表明，在 2002 和 2016, 之间，虽然全国大学三年级学生的平均倾向变得稍微进步了一些，但某些学校的学生明显向左移，而其他学校则向右移。换句话说，左翼和右翼的学生正在聚集在不同的机构中。

绝大多数学生仍然

出于财务原因选择在本州就读大学，是导致这种区域极化加剧的驱动因素之一。这可以解释为什么，例如，马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的许多学生是自由派，而阿拉巴马大学的学生则更为保守。但研究人员发现，另一个重要因素是学生倾向于就读于拥有

能够抑制思想并培养政治行为的对话的大学。

但任何关于此点的内部规则基本上都是，他们将进入一种状态，即仅与他们认为的好友进行政治交流——而如今学生们形成的这些小团体则变得具有政治性和法律性。

一所顶尖大学的一名学生解释说，他觉得讨论政治问题最舒服的时候是

观点。然而，在许多此类领域，缺乏充满活力的政治领导者。最有效的学生担心会因为课程设计的原因，或者因为他们在政治上对大学采取自利态度，而冒犯到一名或他们的教授。

在美国，大约 60% 到 80% 的政治学、心理学、人类学、社会学和访谈专业的学生

政治观点相似的同伴——而且他们更强烈地希望不要与政治分歧另一方的人在同一所学校就读。

这一趋势给大学体验带来了相当大的代价。一方面，当学生认为他们的大学是“支持”左翼或右翼时，他们更有可能参与到取消文化的浪潮中，将不满情绪投射到校园反思中，从而使之交织。同样地，我

并不是一个好的，但我 已经

高等教育成为了民粹主义右翼的一个强有力象征，激励了特朗普政府针对大学采取破坏性的资金手段。我认为，这种自利行为最大的根源或许是对辩论和批判性思维的抑制作用。即使在最进步的大学里，学生群体也无法真正地在政治上实现异质化。根据个人权利与表达基金会（Foundation of Individual Rights and Expression）在 2023 年收集的数据，可能每 9 个自由派学生中才有一个保守派学生，但超过四分之一的 学生将自己的政治立场描述为更趋于中道。从理论上讲，这些分歧可以成为高效

当“你和哥们儿坐在一起，玩啤酒乒乓球，抽大麻，从凌晨 2 点聊到 4 点讨论政治，因为那是真实的，是个人的，是真切的。”学生们报告说，在亲密的朋友圈之外，他们担心自己会无意中说出某些被他人认为具有冒犯性的话，或者让自己听起来像个无知或愚蠢的人。

与此同时，在我调查的左翼学生中，有 10 分之 8 的人同意或强烈同意，而右翼学生中则有 10 分之 7 的人同意或强烈同意这一说法：“我现在的大多数亲密朋友都与我持有相同的政治观点。”这意味着，政治对话的真正必要性最常见于那些虽然在某些事情上可能存在分歧，但在政治风格上大致相同且能相互接纳的学生之间。

沿着类似的路线，本科生在约会中也追求政治一致。根据哈佛大学政治研究所（Harvard's Institute of Politics）开展的一项 2022 年调查，24% 的大学生表示政治一致在浪漫关系中很重要，而只有 15% 的人表示这不重要。

政治强项也发生在 1826 年以及外包活动中。由最重要的人员组成的兄弟会和证券，是专业技能，甚至一个吸烟小组都可以成为政治方法大致相似的学生们的聚集点，以满足男性的需求。政治学家詹姆斯·登德隆兹（James Dendronz）和伊丽莎白·谢尔（Elizabeth Sherrre）收集的数据显示，相对于平均程度，大学运动员倾向于温和派。

政治学和社会学等与时事相关的领域课程，应当给学生提供接触并思考一系列观点和新——

根据个人权利与表达基金会（Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression）的数据，心理关系倾向于自由主义。在主修戏剧、英语电影与媒体研究、美术、音乐和环境研究的学生中，约 75% 到 85% 属于自由派，而保守派仅占 9% 或更少。

在学生政治参与度最高且最进步的精英大学中，这些数字更高。结果就是，在那些适合讨论争议性问题的高年级课程中，同学之间往往缺乏足够的强烈分歧，导致辩论难以开展。

多年来，右翼批评者一直主张大学是左翼和 / 或三州机器。辩护者则最积极地认为，聪明、受过教育的人自然而然地会被进步主义所吸引。研究表明，这两个阵营都忽略了大局。批评者正确地认为政治充斥着大学体验，但错误地认为其主要形式是强制性的或对抗性的。大学的辩护者正确地认为大多数学生并不认为大学是洗脑，但错误地认为这就是故事的全部。

事实是，由于政治时间和自我服务，大学体验变得比以往任何时候都更具政治色彩，而且是以一种更微妙、最终更阴险的方式。

内尔·格雷格（NELL GREGG）是 CUN 学院的社会学教授，哈佛拉德克利夫研究所（Harvard Radcliffe Institute）的研究员，以及即将出版的图书《大学怎么了？新政治破坏了高等教育以及我们能为此做些什么》的作者。本文改编自该书。

约翰·阿什特（JOHN ASHT），接第 8. 页。你可以美丽，或者你可以年轻，但如今，试图成为一个你不是的人——并且在——这里也同样在清理系统。事实上，某一类女性能够让自己变成某种过去只有幸运同龄人才能实现的状态，这就是 60 岁教育者的人，这不是手术；而是不平等。

这在许多公开承认自己做过整形手术的名人身上最为明显。网络上和媒体上的人们对那种改变面貌的拉皮手术感到焦虑。但

少数人——但在 10 岁生日时，很快，他们讨厌的行径在观察拉皮是否下滑或脱落。互联网上充斥着关于身体文本的交流，询问：“是手术效果那么好，还是仅仅在对抗？”潜台词很简单。这个信息试图欺骗——一个绝对惩罚可见衰老的行业——但被时间扇了一记耳光，就像我们其他人不可避免地那样。潜在的情绪很明确：她 70 岁却看起来像 45 岁，这不公平。乘坐私人飞机是一回事；欺骗时间则是另一回事。

整形手术不会消失。我的女儿有一天也将不得不做出这个选择。她可能会决定迎合男性凝视，就像我的母亲那样，然后，做一个好人。但是。但我能给她做的最糟糕的事，或者我们任何人能给女儿做的最糟糕的事，就是相反的做法。但我们中有些人天生就不显老，不衰老，不挣扎，是因为优秀的基因或某种其他神奇的因素。我们必须对自己的处境保持透明，并就他人的选择进行规划。这一切始于诚实：关于他的学习，泳池，红光面罩，

外科医生，羊毛衫和填充剂——除了嘴唇，因为我们仍然希望能够用吸管喝水。

宝石，战士，那些像我一样专注于中产阶级 Cox S 的女性曾写道：“面孔在减少，而我们的思想是真相。你必须剖开一只高贵的牛才能看出它有多大。如果它有脖子，任何人都无需这样做。”现在我的脖子在撒谎，但我不会。

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观点

两名政治人物，以及关于两个以色列的故事

FREDERICK FRONT PAGE

埃尔-赛义德表示，密歇根州的犹太人不必担心他——保证他对“犹太人安全的承诺与我对自己女儿安全的承诺是一样的”。这值得赞赏，但许多犹太选民在寻找的不仅仅是来自其民选代表的更强有力的警察保护。他们寻求的是对犹太人像任何其他民族一样拥有自决权的认可。

是的，许多美国犹太人，尤其是年轻人，现在同意——正如我一样——以色列前 Missouri chief 塔玛尔·帕尔多（Tamar Pardo）的观点，她在 2022 年谴责总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡将“她那些小小的种族主义政党”引入该国最高内阁办公室，称他们比 Ruk Kian Kian “糟糕得多”。

但不要将此与相信以色列作为犹太国家进行抵抗的权利混为一谈。这对大多数美国犹太人来说仍然是非常珍贵的东西——就像巴勒斯坦建国在大多数 a state and Brazilian 心中一样。以色列是他们身份的一部分，当埃尔-赛义德屈尊地表示他将保护他们的犹太会堂时，他并没有在动摇美国犹太人的想法。

他需要强调他那个更值得赞赏且更具建设性的立场——我刚刚听到他向 CNN 的 Kathar Callow 描述——即他一直主张犹太以色列人和巴勒斯坦人同样拥有获得和平、尊严和自决权的权利！

这是一个非常好的视角，并且与民主世界的视角不同。最重要的是 the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2

正如《前线》（The Forward）的特约专栏作家杰·米歇尔森（Jay Michelson）所指出的：“埃尔-赛义德的声明已经与曼杜亚（Mandua）形成了有用的对比。他并不在以色列或巴勒斯坦的抽象合法性问题上感到恐慌，相反，他坚持我所认同的务实观点，即上述问题应该是由巴勒斯坦人和以色列人共同决定的——这一立场尤其 both the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2

但当埃尔-赛义德与极左结构（Kazan Plan）一起竞选，而后者曾表示“Human 比以色列好一千倍”时，犹太选民好奇什么并不令人惊讶

左侧为密歇根州美国参议院民主党候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德，他告诉 CNN，他相信“犹太以色列人和巴勒斯坦人同样拥有获得和平、尊严和自决权的平等权利”。这与右侧纽约市民主社会主义市长尼尔森·曼杜亚（Nelson Mandua）的观点不同，后者认为犹太人没有权利在他们圣经中的故土建立一个自己的国家——一个犹太国家——来行使自决权。

他对于他们像其他所有民族一样在自己的国家拥有权利的真实立场是什么。

让我们非常明确地指出：Human 是一个 tortoise 组织，但并非首要为了巴勒斯坦人。一些亲巴勒斯坦团体——他们批评以色列却从不批评 Human，仿佛它没有自主意识一样——给予它的首位地位是可耻的。

我知道关于哈马斯（Human）的能动性。2002年2月，在本专栏中，当时的以色列新闻人物阿卜杜拉·本·阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹首次呼吁阿拉伯国家联盟以以色列从巴勒斯坦领土（1967年边界）全面撤军为交换，向以色列提供和平并实现关系正常化。这一呼吁促使阿拉伯国家联盟在次月，即3月27日和28日，在贝鲁特召开了一次和平会议，旨在实现这一目标。这就是所谓的《阿拉伯和平倡议》。你知道哈马斯对这项为“两国方案”奠定基础的首次泛阿拉伯和平倡议作出了怎样的回应吗？

就在该倡议开启的右侧，一名哈马斯自杀式袭击者走进以色列内塔尼亚（Netanya）一家酒店的逾越节晚餐会并引爆炸弹，造成30人死亡，多人受伤。这就是哈马斯——在加沙战争发生二十年前。

我通常不会提及这些往事，但看到民主社会主义左翼如何将如此多年轻的民主党人从美国长期以来期待的立场中拉走，实在令人心碎。

然而，需要划定清晰红线的不仅仅是埃尔-赛义德。美国犹太人已经任由 AJPAC 将他们推向深渊。

中间立场是两个民族两个国家——犹太人和巴勒斯坦人 both 拥有自决权。任何其他立场对美国来说都是地缘政治上的失败，对巴勒斯坦人也是失败。对于以色列人、阿拉伯裔美国人、犹太穆斯林、美国人以及每一位美国人亦然。

埃尔-赛义德应该继续强调他在 CNN 上所说的内容——即他相信“犹太以色列人和巴勒斯坦人同样拥有获得和平、尊严和自决权的平等权利”，并且他将支持他们双方共同同意的任何和平协议。

然后回到讨论中西部的问题上，并让中西部保持现状。

持有任何其他排他性立场——即认为只有巴勒斯坦人或犹太人有权在地中海和约旦河之间拥有国家家园——基本上就是选择了永恒的战争，因为目前大约有700万巴勒斯坦人和700万犹太人居住在该地区，且两组人都不会离开。任何主张上述立场的人都是和平的敌人，并且会疏远那些将决定此次选举的中间选民。

即便如此，我可以理解埃尔-赛义德对于 AJPAC 花费 2500万美元 在密歇根州初选中击败他感到愤怒，而且 毫无疑问会在参议院选举中投入更多资金试图击败他。但他不能让这件事影响自己的判断，从而导致民主党失去一个参议院席位，让这个国家在特朗普式的豁免权下再多承受两年。然而，需要划定清晰红线的不仅仅是埃尔-赛义德。美国犹太人已经任由 将他们推向深渊。

正如本专栏的读者所知，我长期以来一直是 的批评者。（真正的亲以色列且亲美国的游说团体是 J. Himes。） 沉溺于自身的权力，即便在有明确迹象表明如何正确地支持以色列——即在内塔尼亚的利益和价值观之前，优先考虑美国的利益和价值观时，它依然我行我素。 选择支持内塔尼亚。

当内塔尼亚背离两国方案时， 随之而去。当内塔尼亚放弃以色列在处理美国政治时标准的跨党派方法，转而疏远民主党人，并将以色列与共和党人及福音派基督徒排他性地结盟时， 随之而去。

当内塔尼亚敦促共和党人试图阻止巴拉克·奥巴马总统的核协议时， 满足于此并随之而去。 选择忽略这样一个事实，正如前以色列原子能委员会负责人乌齐·埃尔泽（Uzi Elzeh）所写：“虽然 FBI 表明了其观点，但许多以色列高级军方和情报官员、核专家以及战略分析师在私下争论，认为这对以色列来说是一笔好交易，实际上会让我们安全得多。”

当然，AJPAC 的网站声称其寻求“促成巴以和平，包括一条通往两国方案协议的可信路径”。请给我举出一个 AJPAC 批评内塔尼亚胡政府定居点扩张计划的声明——该计划是以色列历史上最激进的，旨在使西岸地区在现实层面无法建立“一条通往两国方案协议的可信路径”。

我重复一遍——这并不复杂。埃尔-赛义德可以支持美国、支持密歇根州、支持巴勒斯坦人、支持穆斯林、支持以色列、支持犹太人，以及任何 AJPAC 为内塔尼亚胡的他们的组织已经变成了什么样子：只要坚持支持两个民族两个国家。然后只需谈论密歇根州。

相信我，他的共和党对手不会喜欢这样。而且这种言论会让其党内极左翼的人感到不快，这对他在以及我们其他人来说是个加分项。

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对这些选择的删减和覆盖。当人们努力组建一个具有多样化背景和艺术经验的评委小组时，这种努力会体现在结果中。

今年的布克奖委员会交替地始终是一项规则，入选作品的长度也是如此。自20世纪40年代、80年代末以及80年代初的获胜作品——如《中国》（stages）、A.S. Bank、彼得·凯里（Peter Carey）和J.M. 坎农（J.M. Cannon）最近共同分享——以来，我对布克奖一直情有独钟，但今年的篇幅引导我和我的读书会去“鼓励”一部关于英国分销商希望与梦想的小而强大的小说。我 30 岁了，如果这本书没有被布克奖评委提及，我绝对不会买它，我对他们的感激之情，就如同他们直接把书送给我一样。

想象一下，如果电视艺术科学学院放弃其广泛的秘密投票机制，而改为邀请迈克·威尔斯（Mike Wiles）、马苏达·比特诺（Masuda Bitteno）、泰勒·梅里迪安（Taylor Meridian）、朱莉娅·路易斯-德雷弗斯（Julia Louis-Dreyfus）和鲍文·杨（Bowen Yang）进入一个房间，就最佳剧集的问题商量出结果。无论他们告诉我看哪部获胜剧集，我绝对会看——越是无瑕的，就越好。

随着阅读的趋势线下降——以及花费的时间如此之少，倾向于并追随放弃——我对个人愿意继续从事这项原始科学的意愿感到欣慰。

想象力文学所能提供的连接。有时这种连接是私密的，有时是与其他读者共享的，但无论如何，它本质上是个人的。奖项在复杂的世界中赋予可信度的能力，以及提供更多现实主义的同等能力，提醒我们主观性是消费艺术的风险和价值的一部分。

也许 30 年后，再也没有人阅读图书馆小说了，而且近 100 年的能量消耗——将我们疯狂的书籍堆积削减为一个可操作的、可管理的图书馆的努力——不仅是不全面的，而且将白费。但即便如此，在洪水之后拿起一部小说仍然具有意义。我预测这些布克奖的长名单和短名单，以及世界上最好的国家图书奖和其他受人类品味和裁量权影响的奖项，将提供必要的指路标志。

就像它们所认可的书籍一样，那些进入名单的作品讲述了关于我们所生活的这个不完美、不可预测的世界。它们将是致命且闪光的局部证据，证明在没有任何积极的人会——偶然地！——花一年中的大部分时间埋首于书海，投入他们的时间和更多精力去支持那些希望他人阅读的作品。

萨比娜·琼斯（SABHINA JONES）曾任《世界博览会》（World Fair）主编，此前担任《时报》图书编辑总监。她目前正在撰写回忆录《书单》（Booklist），并撰写关于文学与文化的时事通讯。

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我不愿意接受一个可能更为概念化的结论，因为这类结论可能是由心脏病和肾脏病等问题引起的。其原因是什么？影响又是如何？

4. 总统经常显得难以保持清醒，这是医生所称的“日间过度非暴力”（excessive daytime nonviolence）状态的迹象。这个问题在其他人在活动期间经历时更为明显，但在特朗普先生 5 月份进行全面体检后的报告中并未提及。尽管总统是一位著名的右翼人士，但他的怀疑态度似乎是相对新出现的。导致总统出现这些症状的原因有多种可能，其中一些如果得不到治疗可能会产生严重后果。总统的医疗团队是否已经确定了该问题的根源？他们是如何处理的？

5. 2021, 年 10 月，特朗普先生在沃尔特·里德国家军事医疗中心接受了心脏和腹部的相同影像检查。总统的医生对检查原因给出了模糊的描述：“为了识别头部工艺（head-crafts）、确认整体健康状况并确保最大程度的长期活力与功能。”我们称这些测试没有显示任何异常。是否有特定的症状或临床事件促使了这次检测？

6. 之前的特朗普医疗报告披露了总统使用防止脱发的药物 flasamiride。在特朗普先生最近一次体检后的报告中，并未提及该药物。在回应《华盛顿邮报》关于该药物缺失的查询时，白宫回复称：“目前的报告反映了目前被认为在临床上具有披露相关性的所有药物。”总统是否在服用防脱发药物，在实质意义上并不重要。更重要的问题是，白宫决定向公众隐瞒了哪些为特朗普先生开具的药物（如果有的话）？

7. 总统谈到了他在认知测试中的表现。特朗普先生将该测试——蒙特利尔认知评估（Maternal Cognitive Assessment）——描述为一种简短且基础的筛查工具，包含简单的问题（例如：如果这不是一张桌子，请识别一个支架），通常由多类别人员使用，而非仅由患者或家庭成员使用。为什么总统将此工具作为短期评估基础？是否进行过更复杂的神经认知评估？

有些人会认为，这些个人医疗细节超出了公众有权知道的范围。毕竟，白金汉宫并未透露关于查尔斯国王癌症及其治疗的许多细节。

但美国的情况不同，在一个代表性民主国家，人民必须对领导人的健康以及领导人引导国家的能力充满信心。我们被蒙在鼓里太久了。

珍妮弗·赖纳（JENNIFLOW REINER）是一名医学博士，是与切尼先生和利兹·切尼合著的《心脏：一次美国医疗奥德赛》（Heart: An American Medical Odyssey）一书的作者。该书详细记录了前副总统与心脏病的斗争。

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风格

运动鞋现在已经过时了

在经历了多年的办公室休闲风后，年轻人开始穿着乐福鞋、德比鞋和考福德鞋

作者：卡卢姆·马什（CALUM MARSH）

男装时尚作家本·柯克（Ben Kirk）记得，他穿到办公室的运动鞋不再显得酷的时候。

“办公室里所有年长的人都开始穿着西装裤和‘低调夹克’搭配运动鞋，”当时二十多岁的柯克说道。因此，他选择让自己与众不同——通过选择一双带有流苏的乐福鞋。

柯克的职业要求他必须走在趋势的前面。但各地职场中的年轻人正迅速追随他的脚步。

在疫情后员工重返办公室时，经历了多年极其随意的着装风格后，现在的年轻人正越来越多地走向相反的方向：穿着正装鞋上班。

今年早些时候，《时尚先生》（Esquire）将这一趋势描述为乐福鞋的“重大世代转移”，描述了年轻消费者如何“越来越多地放弃运动鞋”。而在1月，《泰晤士报》（英国版）将2026年定义为“乐福鞋之年”，德比鞋和考福德鞋也出人意料地变得时髦起来。

与此同时，穿着运动鞋上班——无论是 A.P.C.、Common Projects、Dogus 和 Women Marights 等高端品牌，还是经典的阿迪达斯（Adidas）和耐克（Nike）——已经变成了完全不同的某种信号。

“这是典型的世代反应：如果你的老板穿着运动鞋进来，自然的反应就是做一些不同的事情，”柯克说。“这就是当年牛仔裤发生的情况。”

虽然在办公室穿运动鞋可能仍然看起来是一种温和地打破死板商务着装规则的方式，但年轻员工们的观点很明确。

摄影：凯瑟琳·希尔（KATHLEEN HILL），纽约时报

现在在工作中穿运动鞋会被视为过时。

大型运动鞋品牌正感受到阵痛。在1月份的一份报告中，美国银行（Bank of America）得出结论，运动鞋行业正进入增长放缓甚至可能衰退的时期，甚至将 Sian Smiths 的制造商阿迪达斯（Adidas）的“自我”评级下调了两档。

对正装鞋特征的持续兴趣，同时成为了高端奢侈运动鞋以及拥有经典鞋款的传统品牌（如“Wonderful-Sound”零售商 Allen Edmonds）的基石。该品牌的咨询创意总监尼克·伍斯特（Nick Wooster）表示，他“绝对”看到近期年轻客户对其手工皮革乐福鞋和德比鞋的兴趣有所增加。

“运动鞋主导了很长时间，而且它们不会消失，”他说。“但一双出色的德比鞋适用于会议，适用于晚餐，也适用于飞机。经典鞋款往往比任何其他鞋类都能更好地胜任这些场合。”

甚至运动鞋品牌也在尝试变得更正式。鞋类交易平台 StockX 的消费者社区与参与高级总监布伦丹·邓恩（Brendan Dunne）表示，虽然我们“确实看到了”将正装风格带回办公室的转变，但这“比消费者单纯放弃运动鞋而追求乐福鞋要稍微

视线中没有运动鞋。但正如男装时尚作家本·柯克（Ben Kirk）所指出的：“这是典型的世代反应：如果你的老板穿着运动鞋进来，自然的反应就是做一些不同的事情。”

更微妙一些。”

事实上，他说，“运动鞋品牌本身正在吸收正装美学”，推出了其标志性鞋款的更正式版本。

Panne 在 2023 年提供了一种经典玛丽珍鞋的变体：阿迪达斯（Adidas）和耐克（Nike）都推出了低调的芭蕾舞鞋，许多顶尖运动品牌则全力投入到漆皮鞋中，模糊了运动鞋与更正式鞋款之间的界限。

“我认为对不同风格以及在许多情况下对得体感的渴望是真实的，”邓恩说，但一些消费者“仍然通过运动鞋品牌来寻求这种感觉。”

他以 New Balance 2000L 这款 84 “运动鞋领袖”为例：自去年推出以来，StockX 上该款鞋的销量已超过 15,000 双。（尽管一些批评者声称，这款未被正式称为“运动鞋”的产品其实是个失败之作。）

“我们现在看到的现象在以前也出现过，”Nice Kicks 的创始人兼首席执行官马特·哈利奥夫（Matt Hallioff）表示。Nice Kicks 是一家专注于运动鞋文化的媒体公司。

他指出，自 2023 年左右起，在美国各地的办公室里，“我们看到了这种‘静奢风’、皮革领袖、成熟化趋势的兴起”，但他预测，就像过去一样，年轻消费者最终会回归运动鞋。

事实上，“运动鞋品牌本身正在吸收正式服装的美学。”

“我认为在过去的五年左右时间里，我们看到越来越多的年轻男性开始投资乐福鞋、德比鞋之类的一类鞋款，”戈（Goh）说道。程度之深，以至于在他最近编辑的一篇故事中，一名作者说他正考虑放弃他的乐福鞋。因为他注意到，他周围的所有男人都穿着同样的鞋。

乐福鞋，即使是那些带有小细节的款式，也变得出人意料地时髦。

衬衫裙是怎么回事？

Varanas Friedman，《纽约时报》的时尚总监，回答读者的时尚相关问题。您可以通过 openfireadlybytimes.com 或 X-ijrc@redman 向她发送问题。问题经过编辑和压缩。

我对衬衫裙的重新流行感到好奇，这件衣服让我联想到 20 世纪 50 年代。我开始注意到在学校外的许多年轻母亲身上出现这种裙子，随后在所有媒体上都看到了。这种趋势背后的原因是什么？—— Pamela，Sherman，Mako。

将衬衫裙称为一种趋势，有点像把 or again 称为热门生菜。这种服装就像手套一样，其流行程度可能会起伏，但作为一种略微提升的必备单品，它从未真正消失。

事实上，衬衫裙是那些在任何时间对任何人都能满足所有需求的时尚单品之一。曾任 Aconilize Alala 设计师的 Sophie Thunelet 自 2005 年创办 namecake 系列以来，一直在设计衬衫裙。（米歇尔·奥巴马在 2009 年穿过她的一款设计。）她建立了一个完整的直接面向消费者的业务 Route 502，而这种服装的边界一直是她的长青畅销品。

“对我来说，它和一条牛仔裤一样必不可少，”Thunelet 说道。“它兼具男式衬衫的权威感和自信，以及女式连衣裙的女性气质和自由。”它在场合和身份方面保持着易于分类的特性，且自创建以来一直如此。而它的创建时间实际上比 20 世纪 50 年代早了近半个世纪。

衬衫裙本质上是基于男式正装衬衫的改良，有袖或无袖，带有衣领和腰线，但正面始终有纽扣。它源于 19 世纪末的 shirtwater 和 Gilman girl 造型，当时女性开始采取更积极、更解放的生活方式，并穿着与之匹配的衣服。

Bailen than a newbie, foamed dress，她们转向将衬衫塞进一件长衬衫中，使手臂和腿能够自由摆动。多么绝妙的主意！“这确实有点自恋，但事实上衬衫裙是一次巨大的进步，部分原因是上衣正面的纽扣意味着女性可以自己穿衣，而不需要依赖他人来

帮她系好背后的衣服。

很快，衬衫裙成了极少数跨越阶级的服装，在 hauntes 和工厂工人等劳动女性以及上流社会中都很受欢迎。它也是 20 世纪首批大规模生产的款式之一（同时也与历史上最糟糕的职场惨剧之一—— 1911 年纽约市 Triangle Startwater 工厂火灾相关）。

到 2018 年，《Vogue》将衬衫裙誉为与棒球和冰淇淋同级别的“美国 huckleman”。它宣布这种服装如此 misdiplomational 且重要，以至于它不应被贬低为过去衣橱的档案，而是完全预期衬衫裙将“与文明同步”。至少在这一点上，专家们的证明是正确的。

衬衫裙成为了战争期间后方工作人员的制服之一。随后它被郊区家庭主妇所接纳，成为了 Doris Day 的标志性风格。它在 20 世纪 60 年代缩减为 final girl union，并在 20 世纪 70 年代为职业女性以 Ultramarite 形式重新打造。它可以适配董事会会议室、法国里维埃拉和郊区后院。

Debly Parnani——christians 秘书在 1980 年的电影《9 to 5》中穿了一件衬衫裙，Zendjayte（音乐 object of desire to “Challengers”）在 2024 年也穿了。

衬衫裙有棉质的、针织的、丝绸的、纱制的，且涵盖所有价格区间（不过这是一件值得投资的服装，因为它既永恒又多用途）。安妮·海瑟薇甚至在 2024 年的一场 black-to-belgant 活动中穿了一件 antithought 白色棉质露肩 Gupttaille 衬衫裙，随后 Julia Fox 在纽约的白天穿了同一件裙子。不久之后，该裙子售罄。

至于为什么……嗯，它是那种能够同时兼顾随性与精致的单品，且根据你的搭配方式，它可以陪伴你度过一整天。

约瑟夫·阿尔马扎拉（Joseph Almazara）同样将衬衫裙视为其系列中的主打单品，他指出，这款裙子可以搭配运动鞋，卷起袖口，翻起领口，用于接送孩子上学。更换鞋子，扣好纽扣，它就适用于侵权法相关工作；而通过饰品和珠宝的点缀，再解开几颗纽扣，它就准备好用于社交出游了。这是一款极其高效的服装。

“它赋予了女性自由，”阿尔马扎拉说道，就像它被创造之初时那样。不仅是行动上的自由，还包括“以不同的方式进行造型，以不同的方式穿着，使其完全属于你自己。”

托马斯·弗里德曼

2026年4月，巴黎：衬衫裙的时尚回归。

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体育

追逐更多金牌，心中牵挂故乡

在雅罗斯拉娃·马胡希赫卫冕的同时，乌克兰始终在她心中

作者：LION TILKINE THE ATTOLYST

当雅罗斯拉娃·马胡希赫（Yaroslava Mahuchikh）参加跳高比赛时，她的肩上承载着额外的重量。

“我想为我的同胞赢得金牌，”35岁的马胡希赫说道。“很多士兵想关注新闻，他们对我表示：‘感谢你代表乌克兰。’正是因为他们，我才有机会代表我的国家。”

马胡希赫职业田径生涯的大部分时间都与俄乌战争交织在一起。俄罗斯在2014年首次袭击乌克兰，但战争在四年前，即2022年2月升级，当时俄罗斯发动了全面入侵，袭击了乌克兰首都基辅和城市哈尔科夫。

在那之后的一个月，马胡希赫在塞尔维亚贝尔格莱德的世界室内锦标赛上参赛，并获得了她的首个全球冠军。她此前曾在2021年奥运会上获得铜牌，但在20岁时赢得的这枚金牌将她推向了新的高度。

随后她又赢得了多个全球冠军，包括2018年的奥运金牌。她成为了最年轻的“大满贯”跳高运动员，比之前的纪录早了六年——在25岁时就同时持有奥运会、世界锦标赛和欧洲锦标赛的冠军头衔。

本周四，在英国伯明翰举行的今年欧洲锦标赛上，马胡希赫有机会效仿西班牙选手鲁斯·雷姆（Ruth Rehm），成为三届洲际金牌得主。

俄罗斯运动员将不会在伯明翰参赛。他们仍被田径运动的管理机构世界田联（World Athletics）排除在外。但国际奥委会已临时取消了对俄罗斯奥委会的暂停资格，为俄罗斯运动员在2020年洛杉矶奥运会上以俄罗斯国旗参赛打开了大门。

“当我看到这个消息时，我感到非常震惊，因为自2022年以来，我们的世界没有任何改变，”马胡希赫说。“对于我们乌克兰人来说，这真的很艰难。”

国际奥委会（LGC）的政策变化对马胡希赫尤为重要。跳高是一项在历史上由东欧和中欧国家主导的运动。

“我们女孩之间讨论过，为什么我们有如此具有竞争力的跳高运动员，说实话，我们也不知道，”她笑着说。“只是在乌克兰，跳高真的是一项国民运动。”

今年3月，乌克兰在世界室内锦标赛的跳高项目中赢得了双冠——

上图为乌克兰的雅罗斯拉娃·马胡希赫，她是女子跳高奥运冠军和世界纪录保持者。她还是两届卫冕的欧洲冠军，并计划在本周寻求第三个冠军头衔。右图为她在3月于波兰参赛的情景。

在波兰托罗斯（Toros）的比赛中：马胡希赫在女子项目中夺金，而奥希奥·多内切克（Ohio Donnetschek）在男子项目中夺金。

“我已经恢复到了2024年奥运会之前的状态，”马胡希赫说。“我在技术上能感觉到，一切都在那里。”

她补充道：“我有宏大的目标。在我的第一次奥运会上，我赢得了铜牌。第二次，我赢得了金牌。在第三次，我想以奥运纪录赢得金牌。”

在洛杉矶赢得金牌将使她成为历史上第二位卫冕奥运跳高冠军的女性，复制罗马尼亚选手拉洛斯（Ralors）在1998年和1999年的成就。目前的奥运纪录为2.06米（6英尺7.5英寸），由俄罗斯的维尔玛·格列赞斯基（Velma Glezanskie）在2004年创下。

“我将自己的名字写进了田径的历史，”马胡希赫在谈到两年前的成功时说道。“但我想要再次创造历史。”

马胡希赫的训练营通常在爱沙尼亚进行，不过她在比利时进行了最后的冲刺准备，以迎接欧洲锦标赛。资格赛在周四进行，决赛在周六举行。

她正接近她的第二个巅峰期，这意味着训练标准为每周一次跳高，只有年初训练量的一半。训练还包括她作为田径运动员参加的跨栏和跳远项目，以提高她的助跑速度。

马胡希克表示，她在 2024 年的黄金之年源于一次助跑方式的改变。这意味着，在她参加的 20 场比赛中，她赢得了开局，包括欧洲冠军、奥运金牌以及第三个钻石联赛冠军。

她还跳过了 2.18 米，打破了自 1997. 年以来保持的世界纪录。她唯一的失利是在世界室内赛中获得一枚银牌。

“这太冒险了，”她在谈到

这种方法上的改变时说道。“因为我在助跑道上有九次踏步，而且我那样跳了五年。那是有效的。但我们决定，我有更多的速度和力量可以增加两次踏步。”

她对 2024 年的主要回忆是

感觉多么艰难。“所有的注意力都集中在奥运会上，”她说。

她在年初遇到了一些棘手的问题，干扰了她在世界室内锦标赛之前的准备工作，随后在 6 月的欧洲锦标赛前，她又遭受了腿筋

困扰。尽管身边一些希望她优先考虑奥运会的人给出了建议，但她仍然参加了在罗马举行的奥运会。“我是顶尖运动员，”她说。“我想在那里代表我的国家。”

在多次前往医院治疗腿筋后，她以 2.05 米的成绩以 4 厘米之差赢得了欧洲冠军。

一个月后是巴黎的钻石联赛。目标是：超越她 2.05 米的个人最好成绩。

“我不敬畏世界纪录，我的教练也不敬畏，因为受伤的原因，我只是说，‘好吧，跳吧’，”她说。

她在第二次尝试中跳过了 2.47 米，创下了个人最好成绩。“一次精彩的跳跃，”她这样描述这个仅维持了几分钟的国家纪录。

她在第一次尝试中完成的世界纪录跳跃，归功于那个更长的助跑。她以大步幅和摆臂在助跑道上全力冲刺，然后

“我已经恢复到了 2024 年奥运会之前的状态。我在技术上能感觉到，我也能感觉到我的速度。”

缩短了最后两步。像一个压缩的弹簧，马胡希克起跳，她的转换如此剧烈，以至于她的嘴张得很大。每一个动作都伸展到了极致。

她的助跑提供了足够的高度，以至于她仅仅触碰到了横杆。她从垫子上弹起，然后双手捂嘴奔跑，既参与又难以置信。塞尔维亚的科罗日诺娃（Serbia Korozhnova）在 1997 年世界锦标赛上创下的 2.09 米纪录一直保持至今，并被认为是田径运动中最难以打破的世界纪录之一。

在马胡希克打破世界纪录的第二天，俄罗斯对乌克兰发动了致命的导弹袭击，她的喜悦迅速消散。“只要俄罗斯每天攻击我的国家，导致士兵阵亡，夺走孩子及其父母的生命，任何纪录都无法带来快乐，”她在 Instagram 上写道。

随后在奥运会上，她连续跳过前四根横杆且没有一次失败，其中最高的一根是 2.09 米，从而赢得金牌，成为继伊奥雷娜·库罗娃（Iorena Kurova，三级跳远，1996）和纳塔莉亚·多尔特鲁斯卡（Nataliya Doltryuska，七项全能，2000）之后，乌克兰第三位田径奥运冠军。

“现在回想起来，这太令人印象深刻了，”她在谈到四个男人时说道。

“对我来说，向全世界展示我们是乌克兰人，我们很强大，并且我们将继续为独立、为自由而战，这真的非常重要，”她补充道。

这就是为什么她将在伯明翰争夺金牌，以便乌克兰的国旗能够再次在问题上飘扬。

横向

1 快速转弯 2 监视器发出的声音 3 肯定没被邀请参加派对的人 4 表示投注回报率（ROU）的字母 5 可能是鲶鱼的最后一道配菜 6 广告中名称被指向的止咳药品牌 7 例如 Alpha 成员 8 Geva 正在训话？ 9 Taitand，见 10 Bamboulis 11 密歇根州，在芝加哥，Aldis 12 信使 13 赡养费领取者，见 14 Bref...或测试的迹象 15 简短的重要旅行信息 16 通常在三月概念之前食用的甜点 17 抢劫 / 延迟 18 “轻型”武器 19 口头表达的驾驶员 20 酒馆里的饮料 21 埃及水煮中使用的某种大脑

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19 拒绝赌场，地点，带有“ice” 20 沐浴阳光 21 Pickarts（媒体，巨头） 22 数学中的最后一项（eclave 系列）

纵向 1.1 1.2 对博洛尼亚的热爱 1.3 大发雷霆 2.4 它们可能有存款 2.5 提取现金，如一次微弱的胜利 2.6 Midea an sapsar 3.7 黏性物质 3.8 给 Claude 等人的查询 3.9 苹果配件向下，伴随着 Phoenix 头石插孔的移除 3.10 T2-Across 存储的唱片公司 3.11 提升的碎片

3.12 Motrin 的替代品 3.13 某种热带植物的极端 3.14 对糟糕味道的反应，或许 3.15 像一个没有轮子的蓝色 3.16 21 世纪的“黄金” 3.17 Fug，云安全上的符号？ 3.18 五星或一个分数，通常 3.19 简写，可能有点脆的三明治 3.20 不是一个行业的名称 3.21 简写，经过海量文本训练的 A.I. 3.22 可以跳上去的东西 3.23 更多的是一个失眠之夜 3.24 未被挖掘的，如天赋 3.25 休闲游戏物品

3.26 耗尽生命 3.27 接下来的流 3.28 紧凑性 3.29 雨停 3.30 Latchtime，地点 3.31 Mixtedly 卓越 3.32 将自己描述为“一个分享知识并注意到理解世界的场所”的网站 3.33 允许在论坛上再次就座，例如 3.34 在其会议期间在公共场合需谨慎，例如 3.35 带着长久的离开 3.36 潜水时的考虑因素 3.37 3.38 非正式地，驱动 24 小时电视报道设计的频道，其中“what”出现的地方实际上是粉色的

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文化

从左起，7 月在《莱茵的黄金》（'Dan Rheingold'，‘指环’系列的第一部歌剧）演出前的拜罗伊特观众，以及在阳台上演奏音乐以预告中场休息结束的铜管乐手。

在这次集会上，“我们的毒药是瓦格纳”

德国，拜罗伊特

拜罗伊特音乐节庆祝成立150周年，依然繁荣

作者：本·米勒（BEN MILLER）

那是德国巴伐利亚州一个温暖的7月周日下午，信徒们正沿着蜿蜒的小路前行，他们在此之前就已如此。他们是为了拜罗伊特音乐节而来的，这是一个年度庆祝理查德·瓦格纳音乐剧的盛会，本次150周年纪念版以作曲家的早期作品之一《漂泊荷兰人》（Reruti）开幕。

政客和名人们稍后才会抵达，现场气氛十分轻松。穿着奇特地游客们在节日剧院（Festspielhaus）——这座活动中历史悠久的剧院——周围聚集，与身着白领结和晚礼服的人群混在一起。令所有人欣慰的是，室外温度是温和的54华氏度，约30摄氏度（剧院没有空调）。

一群老友在室外低声交谈——他们是在青少年时期接触瓦格纳，并在青年时代于拜罗伊特相识的朋友。现在，他们穿越欧洲来观看这位作曲家的歌剧演出。“这是一种成瘾，”其中一人大卫·斯塔里洛（David Starilow）说道，“你再也无法离开它了。我们的毒品就是瓦格纳。”

“这是一种宗教，”芭芭拉·斯托韦（Barbara Stöwe）说道，她正坐在一个卡桌旁，将歌剧望远镜递给同伴，“他们像朝圣者一样来到拜罗伊特。”

斯托韦在音乐节开始工作已有近30年，并获得了作曲家家族授予的两年一次的租赁合同。那时，她在大厅里有一个摊位；自2009年起，她就在室外经营。“卡塔琳娜，”她干巴巴地说，“决定望远镜不再被需要了。”

正如瓦格纳所写，这座充满传奇色彩的剧院旨在将观众带入一种“狂喜的洞察状态”。

现年 45 岁的卡塔琳娜（Katharina）是作曲家的法定孙女，在父亲沃尔夫冈·瓦格纳（Wolfgang Wagner）去世后继承了家族事业。斯托韦（Stöwe）直呼其名这一点颇有深意。尽管她们可能并非私交至此，但那些参加这场年度瓦格纳乐剧庆典的观众——以及镇上习惯于满足他们需求的旅店老板们——都敏锐地意识到卡塔琳娜·瓦格纳的存在及其偏好。

这一切始于 1876 年之前的几年，当时作曲家理查德·瓦格纳（Richard Wagner）正在为他那部由四部乐曲组成的《指环》系列寻找合适的演出场地。

想想电影《纯真时代》（The Age of Innocence）的第一场戏，背景设定在 19 世纪 70 年代初——由丹尼尔·戴-刘易斯（Daniel Day-Lewis）饰演的纽兰（Newland）走进纽约的一家歌剧院，在包厢里坐了一整幕。观众席几乎和舞台一样明亮。他可以在关注一两个区域的同时，依然能与对面包厢的顾客进行眼神交流。剧院是一个“看与被看”的社交场所，而舞台上的信息仅仅是体验的一部分。

瓦格纳反对这一点。他希望创造出一种让观众唯一关注点在于悲剧本身的“乐剧”。

节日剧院（Festspielhaus）并非传统的剧院。其主观众席呈圆形剧场状的扇形，墙壁和布置全部聚焦于舞台。乐池被覆盖，因此管弦乐的声音仿佛是从建筑本身升起。覆盖层还确保没有光线从乐池中透出，以免提醒观众他们正在观看一场触发表演。

它被设计为一个诠释和沉思瓦格纳作品的独特场所——比起标准的歌剧院，它更像是一个宗教场所。正如瓦格纳所写，音乐旨在将观众带入一种“狂喜的洞察状态，在这种状态下，音乐意象”变得“唯一”。

这座剧院部分由背板、胶合板建成且没有空调，在每场演出前的午后阳光下闷热不堪。但安妮玛丽·西尔伯鲍尔（Annemarie Silberbauer）认为这种体验是值得的，她自 1891 年起每年都参加，为了在一切顺利时能获得那种“吉他般的震颤”。

在决定在拜罗伊特（Bayreuth）建剧院之前，瓦格纳曾考虑在苏黎世或慕尼黑建造。他当时与巴伐利亚国王路德维希二世（King Ludwig II）暂时闹翻，而这位国王曾是作曲家的第三支持者，并在他创作一些最重要作品期间支付了他的账单和巨额债务。

在与总理奥塔维奥·拉马里蒂（Ottavio Ramariti）会面以争取国家资金未果后，瓦格纳试图让节日剧院实现自给自足。他帮助将相关事务制度化，创建了一套由私人赞助人投资并预留票款的系统。

一个由“瓦格纳协会”成员组成的网络在全球范围内形成并投资于该剧院。几十年来，这些协会控制着大量门票的获取渠道，导致候票名单极其漫长。

维斯蒂·古德斯（Vesti Gooders）住在东京，在青少年时期迷上了瓦格纳。“瓦格纳的音乐触动了我的灵魂，”他说。他在 2000 年，即 20 多岁时，首次成为日本理查德·瓦格纳协会的成员。2005 年，他第一次拿到票在拜罗伊特聆听《指环》，此后每年都坚持参加。

尽管观众举止优雅，饮品和门票价格不菲，但节日剧院（Festspielhaus）却有一种质朴的氛围。院区内散布着便携式桌子。室内几乎没有任何大厅；在演出前以及漫长而奢华的中场休息期间，观众们散布在室外的广场和公园中，并努力按摩肌肉。

中场休息（瓦格纳的歌剧通常有两次）的结束通过一种方式通知我们。由彼得·巴巴罗（Peter Barbaro）安排，采用作曲家本人为接下来的幕次创作的音乐，从剧院前方的阳台上响起。

加布里埃尔·谢贝尔特（Gabrielle Scheibert）在柏林的歌剧首演中是个熟悉的身影。那里也演出很多瓦格纳的作品，但她说，拜罗伊特（Bayreuth）很特别：“这是音乐及其表演中的情感。”

瓦格纳是情感的大师级技术专家。他也表达过反犹观点，并将自己的作品视为创造德国民族和种族共同体的一部分。瓦格纳家族热情地支持纳粹，并在其掌权后继续支持。阿道夫·希特勒经常造访，并将该节日用于纳粹宣传目的。

2020年的歌剧《利胡图斯》（Reruti）是瓦格纳早年关于一位受欢迎的罗马领导人的尝试。希特勒非常喜爱这部作品，以至于他拥有瓦格纳的原始乐谱，该乐谱在独裁者自杀后其掩体被摧毁时，据信曾被保存在希特勒的掩体中。这使得将音乐与政治分开变得尤为困难。由亚历山德拉·伊诺沃里茨（Alexandra Inoworitz）和马格多尼亚·帕里迪卡（Magdonia Paridika）导演团队打造的新制作，明确地揭示了每个角色的危险权力。

今年夏天的另一部首演作品是由马库斯·拉蒂纳（Marcus Lattina）导演但以“虚拟世界”形式呈现的《指环》系列，其中歌手在由人工智能生成的图像屏幕后表演，这引起了一定程度的丑闻。我们的音乐学者写道，该剧遭遇了“我此前从未遇到过的如此愤怒且简单的反响”，并且“不仅是对瓦格纳的错误，不仅是对拜罗伊特的错误，而且是对任何表演概念的错误”。

重新审视瓦格纳的作品成为了该节日战后重组时 1876 年传统的一部分。美国领导层破坏了拜罗伊特市和瓦格纳的别墅，但保留了节日剧院。于 1921, 接管该节日的沃尔夫冈（Wolfgang）采用了“艺术才是关键”作为座右铭。

他们开始引入简约的、非具象的制作，这与战前拜罗伊特的浪漫主义主题相比是一个激进的转变。国际观众纷纷涌向这些演出。

1876, 在节日的 100 周年纪念活动中，该剧团迎来了迄今为止最大的变化：由皮埃尔·布列兹（Pierre Boulet，这位法国作曲家曾建议欧洲的歌剧院应该被炸毁）指挥、帕特里斯·谢隆（Patrice Chérone）导演的《指环》系列制作，将其作为资本主义及其不满的寓言。

另一位观看《利胡图斯》的医学教授“Dare”，也参加了谢隆版《指环》的首演。他回忆说，观众们处于一种激动的状态，人们“实际上在质疑表演时试图通过吹口哨来表达不满”。尽管如此，在被拍摄并以视频形式发布后，谢隆的《指环》成为了一个具有影响力的经典，并成为了所谓“导演剧场”的参考点，在这种剧场中，歌剧制作是对作品进行评论而非简单地呈现。

并非所有观看《利胡图斯》的观众都对这些干预感兴趣。简和苏·斯图姆（Jan and Sue Sturmb）住在英国和西班牙，在过去五年里一直参加拜罗伊特节日。简说，瓦格纳“显然需要后天习得”，并不适合每个人。有些人会察觉到许多令人不快关联。我们对艺术感兴趣，但对政治不感兴趣。

该节日依然与政治紧密相连。自 19 世纪 70 年代初以来，它一直是以基金会的形式组织，接受巴伐利亚州和德国联邦政府的资助。尽管随着经济状况的影响，德国的国家文化预算并未缩减，但文化部长沃尔夫拉姆·韦塞克斯（Wolfram Wessex）最近提交的一份预算草案中增加了对该节日的资助。

德国政坛各派人士都密切关注着拜罗伊特音乐节如何呈现自身以及如何处理其历史，因为该音乐节象征着这个国家在审美和政治上的诸多矛盾。这就是为什么在德国从事具有社会意识的实验剧场创作的哈姆雷特·兰格（Hamlet Langer）会来到这里——他并非作为朝圣者，而是如他所言，“首先是为了观察”。

他说，决定编排像《Reruti》这样一部经过改编的作品是勇敢的。他说，“那些强大的力量说，当你听到这种音乐时，难怪国家社会主义者如此喜欢它。”

另一位多年参加该节日的赞助人马库斯·埃伦鲍姆（Marcus Erlenbaum）则对这种关联持不同看法——尤其是如果瓦格纳的作品是以批判性的方式演出的那样。“许多政治家和独裁者都对某种事物有着狂热的爱好，”他说。

赞助人们的观点与音乐一样多样。许多人穿着传统的巴伐利亚服饰（被称为 Tracht），而另一些人则穿着像跑道时尚或摔跤手那样，由棉布和亚麻制成的舒适服装。

负责分发歌剧望远镜的斯托韦（Stöwe）说，她注意到这些年服装发生了变化。“自从 以来，”她同时表示，“人们穿着 T 恤和牛仔裤过来。不再有着装要求了。”

巴巴罗（Barbaro）在一些年轻观众中穿梭，其中索菲·梅尔佐托（Sophie Merzotto）身着一件优雅的桃红色连衣裙和白色毛衣，这是她第二次参加拜罗伊特音乐节。“第一次时，她还在那个世界里。她可能只有 35 岁，但她是柏林一个经常出没的时尚人士。”她说：“我还没看过，这是我的第一部瓦格纳歌剧，但我认为这真的很酷。”

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2020 / 15

文化

将塔罗牌摊在桌面上

一场展览探讨了游戏、神秘学和艺术作品中一项传统的起源

作者：NINA HIGGS

1143年，米兰公爵送给他的女儿一套豪华的手工扑克牌，用于玩宫廷游戏塔罗。

这些卡牌由文艺复兴时期著名的工作坊创作，在金箔和银箔背景上绘制了如“死神”、“战车”和“皇帝”等精心刻画的人物。

它们的造价约为1,500个杜卡特，相当于一名普通朝臣年薪的10倍。

在被用于精神推演之前，塔罗是意大利贵族（主要是女性）玩的一种卡牌游戏，每张牌都是一件手持的艺术品。

纽约的摩根图书馆（The Morgan Library）正在举办名为“塔罗：文艺复兴符号，现代愿景”的展览，展出该传统中幸存的卡牌。

该展览探讨了塔罗从一种游戏演变为神秘学实践和大众娱乐的600年进化史。展品涵盖了从早期的镀金样本，到艺术家萨尔瓦多·达利（Salvador Dalí）、莱奥诺拉·卡林顿（Leonela Carrington）以及当代英国画家克里斯·奥菲利（Chris Ofili）的大规模作品。

展览表明，塔罗牌或许首先是艺术家和知识分子的表达形式，最初由10th-century工作坊的顶尖工匠创作，随后在几个世纪中被重新发现和改造。

塔罗神秘学运动背后的关键思想家是英国魔术师兼作家亚历斯特·克劳利（Aleister Crowley）。

“这些实际上是处于核心地位的、极其精美的艺术品，”摩根图书馆中世纪文艺复兴手稿高级策展人兼部门主管约书亚·奥德里斯科尔（Joshua O'Driscoll）说道，他与克莱尔·吉尔曼（Claire Gilman）和弗兰克·特鲁希略（Frank Trujillo）共同策划了此次展览。

吉尔曼表示，此次展览还利用了当前大众对塔罗的痴迷，这种痴迷自冠状病毒大流行以来有所增长。她提到了新的牌组，如《纸浆塔罗》（Pulp Tarot）、《黑人权力塔罗》（Black Power Tarot）和卡塔奇的《药物竞赛塔罗》（Drug Race Tarot）。

作为摩根图书馆现代和当代绘画策展人兼部门主管，吉尔曼补充说，如今兴趣的激增只是塔罗周期性复兴中的一次。

这些复兴发生在19世纪后期的英国神秘学复兴时期、欧洲超现实主义时代，以及20世纪60年代全球文化动荡的一部分。

“这些时期都有某些共同点，即对社会制度的不信任，以及对文化和教育思维方式的不信任，”吉尔曼说。

奥德里斯科尔表示，在最初的形式中，塔罗牌被用于一种有点像桥牌的游戏，但该游戏的理念部分受到了彼特拉内洛（Petranello）的《三角形》（Triangles）的启发，这是一首14世纪的寓言诗，设定了道德等级。

“香缇（Chantily）击败爱，死神击败

从最左边起，一张归于博尼法乔·邦多（Bonifacio Bondo，1589-1685）的塔罗牌，以及一张归于弗兰科·德·罗西（Franco dei Rossi，1603-1683）的自由塔罗牌，均来自联合国塔罗牌部门。下方从最左边起，分别是眼镜蛇7号、警察3号、纳卡托10号和贝莱诺A，同样出自邦多之手。

香缇，弗兰克-德班斯（Franc-debans）击败死神，塔罗击败弗兰科‘Innvalement’。最后一个是林业，它击败了所有这些！他说，在教授道德的同时，‘这曾是一场智力游戏’。他指出，游戏中使用的‘crump’一词源自意大利语‘crude’，意为‘奇怪’。

早期塔罗时期的完整牌组幸存极少，但一些来自最珍贵的文艺复兴牌组——文森特·德·马勒韦（Vincent de Maelewe）、布兰比拉（Brambilla）和文森特-西莱纳（Vincent-Silena）——构成了此次展览的基础。

奥德里斯科尔说，这款游戏可能被用作一种有趣的插图教学工具，面向意大利精英阶层，随后它也成为了其他人的流行游戏。

然而，在大约200年后，它不再流行。“到神秘学家看到它时，它已经失去了与游戏的联系，”奥德里斯科尔说。

在20世纪的法国，少数神秘主义者为这些卡牌编造了一个起源故事，将其符号与埃及象形文字联系起来，因为两者都被认为是神秘且难以破译的基于图像的语言。

尽管这个故事完全是凭空捏造的，但这一转变改变了塔罗牌的历史进程，使其内容得以持久地传播。

在英语世界中，使塔罗牌在市场上普及的套装是 Rider-Waite-Smith 套装，由艺术家帕梅拉·科南·史密斯（Pamela Conan Smith）在亚瑟·韦特（Arthur Waite）的指导下于 1895 年创作。

韦特是一位诗人兼学术神秘主义者，他编写了一本配套指南——《塔罗之钥》（The Key to the Tarot）。

韦特是名为“Golden Eaves”的神秘主义运动的领军人物，其追随者包括诗人威廉·巴特勒·叶芝（William Butler Yeats）和《德古拉》的作者 Bruce Sidney。塔罗神秘主义运动背后的核心思想家是英国魔术师兼作家阿莱斯特·克劳利（Aleister Crowley），他制作了自己的牌组——托特塔罗（Thoth Tarot）。

吉尔曼（Gilman）表示，可能是史密斯极具执行力的插画（这些插画似乎提供了迷人的叙事解读空间）导致塔罗牌在现代依然具有吸引力。

“这套牌一直掌控着人们的想象力，”吉尔曼说。

大多数套装包含 78 张卡牌，包括所谓的“大阿尔卡那”（Major Arcana）——如魔术师、吊人和恶魔等角色牌——以及“小阿尔卡那”（Minor Arcana）卡牌，包括带数字的花色，如 cops, sweets, pikes 和 pentasiles（或硬币）。

吉尔曼表示，有些人仍然将塔罗牌作为一种卡牌游戏来玩，但另一些人则被这些套装作为一种视觉词典所吸引，从而引发想象力的叙述，部分原因是其符号触及了普世主题。

“也许所有这些卡牌都适用于我们所有人，比如‘世界’牌或‘死亡’牌，而且它们足够开放，让你能找到与它们建立联系的方式，并在其中找到你所需的东西，”她说。

关于一名跨性别运动员遗产的争论

书评

《寻找露特·理查兹：汤米什·训练之火的广泛繁育故事》（Finding Route Richards: The Broadbreeding Story of Tomish Train Flames）

作者：朱莉·克利格曼（Julie Kliegman）。HarperSim 出版。272 页。$28.00

作者：亚历山德拉·雅各布斯（ALEXANDRA JACOBS）

在《寻找露特·理查兹》中——这是一部关于这位跨性别优秀球员兼眼科医生的新传记的摘录——播报员基思·奥博曼（Keith O'Borman）提供了一些喜剧色彩的缓解。

根据朱莉·克利格曼的书，1980年，21岁的奥博曼在纽约市谢伊体育场（Shea Stadium）第9号11分钟的侧边撞到了前额（虽然受到赞赏，但可以理解地，他戴着一顶 20ers 帽子）。五年后，他在一场美国公开赛比赛的看台上，视力开始变得模糊。

一名医生显然带着某种影响告诉他，纽约市顶尖的眼科专家恰好是露特（Racerate），而她当时因为 1977 年的一项州最高法院裁决而成为好奇的对象，该裁决允许她获得女子巡回赛公开赛的参赛资格。

“我不在乎是不是一只抽着雪茄、顶着小蜡烛的黑猩猩……我没说头痛。”在奥博曼充满想象力的回答之后，理查兹用一支 $1.00 的笔灯在五分钟内解决了他的问题。

这并非一个未经审视的人生。如今年近 80 岁的理查兹写过三本回忆录：《第二次恩惠》（Second favor，1983年），该书被改编成由瓦妮莎·伯格曼（Vanessa Bergman）主演的电视电影；《没有路之露特》（No Way Route，2007年）；以及《大夜与其他记忆》（Big Night and Other Memories，2011年）。（此外还有一本 1991 年关于斜视手术的教科书。）

但理查兹在当前关于体育运动中跨性别运动员的激烈争论中并未处于前沿。这可能是因为，令人尴尬的是，她后悔自己对美国（跨性别）实体（在罗伊·科恩的帮助下提起）发起的诉讼，并且认为经历过大多数强烈渴望的人不应被允许在女子队伍中比赛。

这段视频将克利格曼——他们认同自己是独特的、冥想的且是跨性别的，并使用“they”作为代词——描述为“火焰”、“风味十足”和“哥特式厌恶”。在采访理查兹的朋友马蒂娜·纳夫拉蒂洛娃（Martina Navratilova）时（后者曾反对生物学男性参加女子体育活动），这位传记作者被描述为“精心打造”和“扣篮”。

克利格曼的第一本书《心理游戏》（Mind Game）是关于运动员和心理健康的，他们还为包括《体育画报》（Sports Illustrated）和《纽约时报》（The New York Times）在内的许多出版物撰文。

他们的研究细致且彻底，其中最出色的是在文中收集了女权主义活动家埃莉诺·福克斯·多宁（Eleanor Fox Donning）的记录和通信。 “不。”

这里有许多新鲜的对话和邀请。理查兹承认，“一点点手写迹象”是朋友在染色体测试中的口腔抹片，而这成为了她法庭案件的关键。

但有时看来，克利格曼与其是在“寻找露特·理查兹”，不如说是在与她对抗。令人分心的是，他们难以接受理查兹希望使用她的原名理查德·拉斯金（Richard Raskin），以及使用男性代词来描述她马拉松之前的生活。

在理查兹要求对 502 个单词进行修正时，他们写道“同意持有不同意见”，当时她称“上帝为我们设计的二元系统……是生活的间谍”。

克利格格曼对理查兹很尊重，但显然对她作为一名

© 2020 T. H. & M. 纽约时报

露特·理查兹（Route Richards），原名理查德·拉斯金（Richard Raskin），出生于 1934, 1977 年在纽约市参加美国网球公开赛。

事业的冠军感到沮丧。关于她缺席个人日辩论，他们总结道：“她希望她的经验在某种程度上被需要，而无需被点名。她想在原件中，而不想留下记录。”

在作者的焦虑之余，一个生活故事被讲述了，而且讲述得很好。理查德出生于 Aug. 29, 1934, 有一个姐姐约瑟芬（Josephine），一个在情感和身体上都让他困惑的女性，包括对他进行某种压制并称他为“小女孩”。（克利格曼写道，约瑟芬患有痴呆症，无法由其丈夫接受采访。）

他们在纽约市皇后区长大，母亲是普劳森（Proudson）的精神科医生，父亲则是骨科医生，后者一直回避讨论家中那个显而易见的医疗问题，但却记录了小儿子面对一种常见健康问题的经历。此人曾获得犹太体育名人堂和海伦·凯勒盲人服务中心的认可。

在布朗克斯区的私立学校 Benso Wines，理查德打棒球，并声称曾被洋基队的球探招募。在耶鲁大学，他成为了网球队的队长。在罗切斯特大学医学院，他纠结于选择哪个专业：“妇产科是很艰难的选择，”Kliegman 不带讽刺地写道。

回到曼哈顿进行眼科住院医师培训期间，理查德与一名绰号为 Sally Peanutsatter 的女友同居，他接受了广泛的分析治疗，试图摆脱一种持久的穿着女装的欲望。他曾在海军服役，称之为“一次伟大的经历”。

Kliegman 细致地重构了理查德与前模特芭芭拉·明克（Barbara Mink）结婚后那段光鲜但艰难的时光，他需要离开他们以继续……但对雨的喜爱引发了相关事件。（他们有一个儿子尼古拉斯，于 2015 年 6 月自杀身亡。）

在这本精悍的小书中，他们的婚姻结束之后，情节有了明显的推进。经过长时间的寻找，包括前往芝加哥在 Berghahn' Goodman 购买一件男式夹克和连衣裙，理查德找到了一位愿意为其进行手术的医生，他变成了 Route（法语中“哪里”的意思），并搬到了加利福尼亚州，在两个州都提供服务。

理查德对路易丝·乔根森（Louise Jorgensen）的兴趣使其成为美国最著名的跨性别者，而他随后在一次巧妙的进程中取得了成功。

“她对眼科的快乐追求是如何维持数十年的？”Kliegman 纳闷道。也许是因为理查德在女子网球赛中引起了轰动，她在大满贯赛事中走得最远的是那届 77 Open 的双打决赛。十年后，她的巡回赛排名最高达到 No. 20。

在 47, 岁退出这项运动后，她回到了诺曼·迈科（Norman Maiko）、苏珊·桑塔格（Susan Sontag）、约翰·埃格林顿（John Eglinton）以及，嗯，荣誉 O'Borman 代理人的身边，继续担任一名出色的眼科医生。

她的比赛影响了女子网球，并且并没有导致后来出现一代无法完全成功的男性。而且，如果真是这样，那么“以女性身份参加医疗比赛，”他告诉 Kliegman，“天哪，人们在广播中对需求大惊小怪，把一件实际上已经自行解决的事情搞成了大新闻。”

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旅行

国家公园之外的自然奇观

美国公共土地上的壮丽地貌提供远离人群的休憩之所

作者：EUFFIN PRENTET

美国的国家公园每年吸引数百万游客，这在很大程度上归功于像黄石公园的 gyroves 和 Townsite 的花岗岩 mummiles 等自然奇观。

但在美国森林局、Barrancol 土地管理局及其他机构管理的、不属于国家公园系统的 3.4 亿 英亩（3.2 亿 公顷）土地上，同样遍布着令人惊叹的景点，且通常没有拥挤的人群。

其中许多地方，尤其是被指定为荒野地区的区域，可能缺乏像接待室或露营地那样的人员配置和关注。但如果你愿意自力更生，你将获得那些普通旅行者从未见过的惊喜。

美国公共土地上的神奇目的地不计其数，这里为你推荐六个作为起点。

新墨西哥州

BUCHEN BA-206 荒野区

Bute-De-Nu-Zin 荒野区位于新墨西哥州西北部，占地 10,000 英亩，由土地管理局管理，这里有数千个地貌奇特且名称迷人的景观，如 Aline Egg Hatchery 和 Hustle Uily。

该地区由侵蚀形成的更多支柱（称为 headland）在黄昏和 plains 时分尤为美丽。在这些奇异的荒原中，你还可以发现 prettiled 木材和覆盖物。

与其他指定的荒野区一样，你必须步行或骑马出行，且路径崎岖且大多没有标记。请携带充足的水，并提前下载或打印地图——手机信号稀疏。

全年开放，但建议在春季和秋季前往。

华盛顿州

GPS COAT

戴上头灯，进入位于 Gifford Phelbel 国家森林的 Age Care 地下世界，这里距离俄勒冈州波特兰东北约 63 英里（101 公里）。这条长 2.5 英里的熔岩管形成于约 2,000 年前，温度恒定在华氏 度（5.5 摄氏度），因此请携带夹克——且每人至少准备两个可靠的光源（不要使用手机灯）。

游客有两种选择：较小的 Lower Core 室，这是一段 1.5 英里的往返行程，通过一条走道。或者选择更具挑战性的 Upper Core，在熔岩管内行走 1.5 英里，然后通过一段同样长度的地面区域返回。

这需要翻越数十个 headlets 并攀爬一面 8 英尺（超过 2 米）高的 crane 墙，因此请带上一位身体健康且无畏的朋友。

入口预约费用为 $2，可在 recreation.gov 办理；5 月中旬至 10 月开放。

美国（USAF）

WIRE PASS

狭缝峡谷以其狭窄的墙壁和像大教堂一样的广场而著称，最适合近距离体验。Wire Pass 是一个安静而壮丽的狭缝峡谷，位于犹他州南部由 S.L.M. 管理的 Paris-Canyns-Verneilsen Cliffs 荒野区，其吸引的游客远少于附近像羚羊峡谷那样在 Instagram 上走红的热门景点。

这段 3.5 英里的往返路线难度为简单至中等，将带你进入并穿过一段起伏、紧绷的半英里峡谷，请预留四小时时间。在终点，你将到达该峡谷与 Rockdale Gulch 的交汇处。最近的古老岩画最为壮观。

日间入场费为每人 $6，可在 recreation.gov 办理；全年开放。

北卡罗来纳州

LINOLE SHINE WILHINNESS AREA

覆盖了 Pisgah 国家森林中近 12,000 英亩的崎岖山峰和陡峭悬崖。

从左上角起顺时针方向依次为：新墨西哥州的 Bute-De-Nu-Zin 荒野区；华盛顿州一个拥有 2,000 年历史的熔岩管 Age Care；北卡罗来纳州蓝岭山脉 Pisgah 国家森林中的 Lincoln Gorge 荒野区；佐治亚州的联合国教科文组织世界遗产地 Mishonokee 国家野生动物保护区；阿拉斯加州仅在冬季可安全进入的 Canton Glacier 冰洞；以及犹他州 Paris Canyon-Verneilsen Cliffs 荒野区的 Wire Pass。

Lincoln Gorge 荒野区位于北卡罗来纳州阿什维尔（Asheville）东北 60 英里处，看起来非常像蓝岭山脉的硬峡谷。

Hawkfield Mountain Trail 是一条中等难度的往返两英里行程，可俯瞰低峡谷的壮丽景色，在天气晴朗的日子里，还能看到 90 英里外的北卡罗来纳州夏洛特（Charlotte）市的天际线。

通过一条四分之一英里长的无障碍通道可到达 Wisconsin View，这里可以俯瞰峡谷和周围山脉的全景。在日落后停留，有机会目睹 Brown Mountain Lights，这是一种许多引导者声称见过的神秘漂浮回声。

此前全年开放。

ALASKA

CHEVRO GLACIER

访问位于阿拉斯加费尔班克斯（Fairbanks）东南 144 英里处、由土地管理局管理的 Canton Glacier 冰洞，可能会让人感觉像是去 Supernarets frozen Fortwool of Sekside 的一日游。

在夏季（此时进入并不安全），由暖空气和融雪流水的塑造，其核心特征是蓝绿色的墙壁，即 greed ice。

仅限勇敢的冬季探险者，沿着结冰的 Canton Creek 走这段蓝色路径单程约需 65 分钟。由于没有手机信号且可能出现极低温度，专业的冬季装备至关重要。

此前登山季从 10 月持续到 4 月。

GEORGIA

SHUTTERED NETOVAL WALKUP REFUSE

由美国鱼类及野生动物管理局管理的 Chichester 国家野生动物保护区包含 400,000 英亩的保护湿地。这里拥有至少 200 种鸟类和 36 种 sealers，以及短尾猫、狐狸、河獭和估计 35,000 公斤的生物。你还能在这里发现瓶子草、windows 以及其他峡谷和植物群。所有这些促使 Chichestoke 在今年夏天成为了联合国教科文组织世界遗产地。

建筑娱乐和导览热力游通常在这里维持湖泊，但 Chesser Island Boardwalk 是一条受欢迎的往返 1.5 英里步行道，穿过绿色森林和湿地草原，通往 Owls Roost Tower，这是一个 45 英尺高的观察平台。请携带驱虫喷雾。

日间入场费为每辆车 $5，有效期七天，或通过 recreation.gov 办理；全年开放。

我那充满酷暑、烈火与机场混乱的夏天

报道来自芝加哥和密歇根州

作者：ESTYLAY YEOJINSI

在暑假的第一天，我走出我们在芝加哥的酒店，进入了一片笼罩在城市天际线上的浓厚橙色薄雾中。几乎瞬间，我的喉咙开始感到灼烧。在那个注定充满持续旅行干扰的夏天里，我的家人仿佛直接从飞行的过去跳入了炼狱。与西欧大部分地区一样，我们居住的日内瓦也遭受了残酷的热浪袭击，气温飙升至近 350 华氏度（30 摄氏度）。

七月中旬，当我与丈夫以及 1 岁和 4 岁的孩子登机时，野火正席卷法国、西班牙、葡萄牙和意大利。

抵达美国后，我们发现加拿大的大片地区正处于火海之中，烟雾飘向美国，吞噬了包括密歇根州密歇根湖畔的小镇阿尔斯特（Ulster, Mich.）在内的多个地方，而那里正是我们的目的地。

作为《纽约时报》的一名旅游记者，在过去的一年里，我一直报道几类事件对旅行的影响：伊朗战争、机场混乱、价格高企、热浪，以及日本唯一的 twenty-nummer 假期中的西方情况。我本不愿远行。但这次密歇根之行具有个人意义，因为我们不在这位祖母身边，而一周岁生日与她生日的重合似乎是一个值得为此旅行的里程碑。

烟雾弥漫与猛烈风暴 烟雾通过空气描绘出遥远之景。在中国方向的房屋驾驶。当我们到达我婆婆在密歇根湖畔的避难所时，河边出现了一只新面孔的鸟。我们赶紧把孩子们带进屋内，安置在海滩。我们带回了我的女儿，空气质量预报警告条件“危险”，因为在室内非常。

当我的丈夫的 exo- 次日抵达并带来了空气净化器时，现实才真正袭来。被困在窗户紧闭的室内，失望变成了焦虑。我的丈夫带着我们 antimes 的女儿去超市购物以打破一天的沉闷，而我则研究室内活动。

在密歇根州深处，附近没有购物中心，我们最好的避难所是半小时车程外的荷兰阿加西中心（Holland Agassiz Center）。我们那天下午前往那里，发现那里出人意料地没有被覆盖。

在盛夏时节，许多室内区域结束运行感觉很正常，但该设施在接下来的六天里成了我们的 salivators。

几天后，当能见度终于提高时，它提供了一种虚假的安全感——空气质量指数仍高于 100，对于儿童而言仍然是不安全的。

被困在室内，我和丈夫面对着气候变化的残酷现实。近年来，加拿大野火变得更加严重且广泛，不仅影响加拿大，还影响了美国北部的大部分地区。根据欧盟委员会的分支机构哥白尼气候变化服务局的数据，在 2000 年至 2022 年间记录的 30 次严重热浪事件中，有 24 次持续时间更长、更严重且更频繁。今年，四次严重热浪中的第一次于 5 月发生在西欧，西班牙和葡萄牙部分地区的气温超过 321 华氏度。

我们童年夏天在海滩上度过的 carotene 日子，与我们现在保护孩子的艰辛形成了鲜明对比。我们审视着自己的碳足迹，质疑我们是否应该让婆婆来欧洲，而不是我们飞往美国。或者也许我们大家都应该留在原地。

当空气质量改善至中等水平时，我们冒险去海滩短时间奔跑。我的丈夫甚至带着我的女儿划皮划艇，并 encrusted 了一个迪士尼《Mistau》的屏幕。但在散步期间，一股烟雾进入我的喉咙。

空气净化器在第二天送达。我们把自己关在屋内，窗户密封得严严实实，失望感逐渐变成了焦虑。为了打破沉闷的一天，我丈夫带着我们不安的女儿去超市采购，而我则在研究室内活动。

7月10日，由于覆盖加拿大大部分地区的山火，密歇根州华盛顿县密歇根湖沿岸弥漫着山火烟雾。

引发了一波恐慌。

那天晚上，我和丈夫决定更改航班，提前离开。随后我们得知，严重的风暴将导致第二天无法起飞。

风暴在夜间袭来，伴随着强风和暴雨，但它吹散了烟雾，让我们在生日早前迎来了洁净的空气。我们为我的婆婆举办了一个非正式的派对，并在接下来的几天里在海滩上度过。

$1.00 的堆积与 7 场龙卷风

在回程航班的前一天晚上，我儿子的体温升到了 104 度，凌晨 2 点我们不得不前往急诊室。经过八小时的检查和等待，很明显我们将无法赶上飞机。我在电话中与瑞士国际航空沟通了一个多小时，原以为这只是一个常规的流程，将我们的机票与其他机票一起重新安排，结果却被告知需要支付 $1,000 的费用才能将航班推迟 24 小时。（幸好，我们购买了额外的保险。）

儿子出院后，我们开车前往一家酒店过夜，准备迎接接下来的航班。旅程中剩下的每一步都像是一场艰苦的战斗，而到了下午 5 点，我们不得不等待超过 45 分钟才等到车，这让情况变得更糟。当我为女儿要求婴儿床时，他们直接把床递了过来，说他们根本不知道如何安装。到下午 5 点，我们精疲力竭地全部躺在床上。

我们本打算在早晨进行一些观光，但随后出现了下一个挫折。一场剧烈的雷暴，并伴随着龙卷风预警：（后来我们得知，共有 7 场龙卷风袭击了这座城市。）

虽然许多航班被延迟或取消，但我们的航班依然在计划中，于是我们在芝加哥奥黑尔机场的混乱中等待，那里到处是滞留乘客在重新预订机票时排起的长队。凭借我的 first Alliance Gold station，我们绕过了最初的人群，结果代理人却告知我们重新预订的机票尚未出票。就这样，我们被重新引导回那条由持有“塔楼”机票的乘客组成的长队中。我们一边照看行李和孩子，一边等待了一个多小时，期间一名代理人正艰难地尝试出票，随后我们又在安检线排了一个小时。直到晚上 10 点我们才被叫到登机，但在登机口，我透过窗户注意到了一些不祥之兆：飞机的灯熄灭了，航班最终还是被取消了。

当愤怒的乘客们将矛头指向代理人时，我丈夫和我进入了“战斗模式”，将所有精力用于给孩子们找一个可以睡觉的地方，他们已经累得瘫倒了。附近的酒店都订满了，但在芝加哥奥黑尔酒店，我丈夫恳求我尝试，并表示愿意支付任何费用来预订房间。经过紧张的商议，我们被提供了一个价格为 $700. 的房间。

在孩子们睡觉时，我们蜷缩在洗手间里用手机搜索航班。然后，奇迹般地，我收到一封来自瑞士国际航空的电子邮件，称我们已被重新预订经由哥本哈根转机的航班。旅程将增加 6 个小时，但在那时，这似乎只是一个微小的障碍。

终于到家

在哥本哈根，我们遇到了由新入境系统导致的大规模安检长队，该系统导致的处理时间比欧盟之前的要长得多。在面对那条之字形的长队时，我女儿说：“Worsens, you stared a burning in time, suddenly, the vanated.” 当我们从洗手间回来后，我恳求安检人员让我们到队伍前面去。其他乘客对着我们呵斥，说他们也需要赶飞机，但当我指向我女儿留下的那一滩水时，他们的咆哮声停止了。

在从哥本哈根起飞的一段短暂且顺利的飞行后，我们终于回到了日内瓦，迎接我们的是超过 100 度的气温。这是自五月以来在欧洲的第 4 次飞行，距离为 2.5 英里。

在暑假期间，我们真的应该离开家吗？在经历了这次经历后，答案似乎清晰多了。

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2 politicians,

and a tale of 2 Israels

Thomas L. Friedman

OPINION

I confess that I never expected to see an American election where the choice of candidates in more than a few districts will be a element into socialize versus a Republican woman too — but I'm long enough and you'll see everything.

As I listen to those democratic socialists and King Trump right or wrong, Republicans, one of my favorite movie lines keeps coming to mind. It's from the 1997 film 'No Good as It Gets,' when Jack Nicholson, playing a misanthropic writer, answers the door to find a neighbor asking him to walk a dog and offering liberty advice about opening window curtains to one "God's beautiful work."

A swing-state Democratic Senate survives needs to keep swing this: Jews have a right to a Jewish homeland.

Nicholson says to her, "Where do they teach you to talk like this?" He adds: "Will it say someplace else? We're all stocked up here."

How I wish I could say that is both these extremes: 'We're all stocked upon

crazy in American politics. Still it someplace else.'

But because America is the only country I have, because the midfievous will be more than well because I am convinced that two more years of Donald Trump completely unchained — controlling the House, the Senate and tacitly the Supreme Court — could bring about the end of America as we have known it. I have to think about how to make the best of some not great choices.

The case must deauviving of attention is in Michigan, as here is some free advice for Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate there. Why him? Because his victory or defeat could determine whether Trump continues to be able to rule as a monarch without any congressional oversight.

So, if you want to win over Jewish, and control voters in Michigan, increase your odds of victory, be true to your pro-Palestinian, Arab-American men and rich in to KPMG. On your broad organization whose super PMG spent $32 million trying to defeat you in the primary, you need to thread your political needle very carefully. There is a way.

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China's stampede for cattle

A cattle border in northern China. Rainier summers and the expansion of grasslands in that part of the country have the potential to spend the $500 billion global beef industry.

TONGLING, CHINA

World's top beef importer expands own herd, helped by tariffs and wetter climate

BY KEITH BRADWICK

Tonglian, long as area of sand and gravel and canard at the eastern fringe of the Gobi Desert, has been transformed into lush grasslands (retrocrated with rows of papier trees — and the heart of Chi’an’s growing cattle industry.

Over the past several decades, the administrative prefecture in China’s Inner Mongolia region has converted an arid equation for lots of Maryland — the state is about 32,000 square kilometers — to overholds, grass or forest. Large expanses of northern China have become significantly wetter since the 1990s because of climate change, according to the Chinese government’s National Climate Control.

Today, areas of Tonglian look more like famous beef-raising areas in Manziana or Argentinian Peoples. Green and corn are harvested from the reclaimed desert and fed to cows along with corn and cornstalls on local farms. China’s nationwide herd of beef cattle has expanded by a third since 2010 to nearly 90

Pinocusing beef in eastern China. China’s beef imports rose in a record 1.97 million tons in 2024 from less than 300,000 tons in 2015, creating a major market for exporters.

million, including nearly four million head in previously arid Tonglian.

"The situation has now been reversed: The sand is retreating, growers is expanding," said Shen Zhixin, a senior forestry and grassland engineer in western Tonglian.

Rainier summers in northern China have the potential to spend the $500 billion global beef industry, with conse-

quences for beef-exporting countries like Argentina, Australia, Brazil and the United States.

China is the world’s biggest importer of beef by a wide margin, buying two-thirds of Argentina’s beef exports and large shares of other countries’ shipments. Now, Beijing has seized on the chance to become more self-reliant by expanding the country’s beef industry,

already the world’s third largest after Brazil and the United States.

China is not only increasing the number of cattle but also pushing to broad plunging animals with better quality beef. China now vies with the European Union each year as the world’s biggest importer of fruit seems for the artificial colonization of cows, according to World Bank data.

Beijing is taking broader actions to protect its domestic market from lower-cost imports that come from countries with much larger, more efficient ranches and feedlots. China set annual quotas on Dec. 31 for beef imports from each of the world’s biggest beef producers, with 55 percent tariffs taking effect as soon as frame quotas are reached. Australia reached its full-year quota by late June and was hit with the tariffs three days later, and Brazil is close to its quota.

As a summit in Beijing in May, President Trump procured China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, for the country to buy more American beef. China had halted nearly all imports from the United States early last year after Mr. Trump’s increases in American tariffs. Although Beijing lifted our regulatory barrier during the summit, American shipments are still nearly inconsistent.

Nobody expects China, with its enormous population, to become self-sufficient in beef anytime soon. But until recently, PAGE 6

Iran adapts

air attacks to puncture U.S. defense

WASHINGTON

Strikes force Pentagon

to burn through dwindling supply of war munitions

BY ERIC SCHMITT AND NELENE COOPER

During five intense days last month, Iran launched excess of dozens and missiles at U.S. troops on three bases in Jordan, hoping to break through the formidable American air defenses.

Using advanced missiles that can suddenly change course, Iran postponed the future defensive systems, forcing the Americans to burn through scarce supplies of Patriot intercorpus.

On the fifth day, the Iranians broke through.

A missile struck predetermined housing units at one of the bases on July 27, killing three U.S. soldiers and wounding more than 100. Pentagon officials later acknowledged that scores of other troops were injured and several aircraft damaged in attacks in Jordan that week.

"We also down almost all the missiles," Secretary of State Marco Romo, said when asked about the fatal attack. "One leaked through."

The strikes reveal a deadly confidence of two important trends: First, Iran has become a more skilled adversary in the war has progressed, learning how to evade U.S. air defenses as it widened the battlefield to include most of the Middle East and enlisted allies like the Muslim in Yemen and militias in Iraq.

Second, the Pentagon’s supply of intercorpus has quickly dwindled, with the weapons becoming more precious each day of the off-and-on conflict.

The two trends drive home a point that has slowly emerged in the missiles since the war started, that a global superpower with a mighty military footprint can still be held at bay by a lesser adversary willing to wage asymmetric warfare to find any advantage it can.

The Pentagon has used more than 1,500 Patriot interceptor missiles in the war and has fewer than 1,500 intercorpus risk, according to two people located on the intergale levels who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military details. The United States produced about 600 intercorpus in all of 2025.

The rapid depletion is occurring as Iranian forces study another war. In Ukraine, Russia has used combination of ballistic and cruise missiles to discuss Ukrainian air defenses, and then rushed in dozens.

"The Iranians are making it more difficult on air defenses when you have a BAA," PAGE 1.

MANTTING SECON ON AIR FORCE ONE Amid an Iranian threat, President Trump was secretly evacuated, but journalists strayed unheard. PAGE 1

For her clients, anything. Including no judgment.

A few years ago, Olivia Ferney discovered a talent for catering to the values of highly demanding clients. "It's a sickness of mine, that I think I can do anything," she said.

LAS VEGAS

Olivia Ferney fulfills

the implausible desires of the very, very wealthy

BY GUY TRENAY

Over-the-top van the manders. The client, a wealthy medwich entrepreneur, was on the way to Las Vegas to close a $150 million business deal. A celebration was to be had.

"He wanted something crazy," Olivia Ferney said.

Ferney, 25, is a luxury-trend specialist with a knack for fulfilling the implausible desires of her silicosis’s clients. It’s hardly a job she could have imagined when she was growing up in Ontario.

A child of Canadian schoolteachers, Ferney knew nothing about the world of private join and $25,000-a-day releases until she discovered her unusual face of work about three years ago.

"I was basically up there in my little big cabin," she said.

Nowadays, more than two million social media followers watch the videos she posts of her interactions with her tough-to-please clients. She is also making an impression beyond her core audience. Then magazine included her in its list at the top 100 digital influencers in 2026. And Fifth Season, the production company behind "Severance" and "Killing Eve," has signed a deal with Ferney and her business partner and E-mail, Tony Arnold, for a scripted series based on their agency, Big The Travel.

On a recent afternoon, Ferney found herself in a chilled room at the School Beach Club in Las Vegas, counting out bottles of vintage Dom Périgues. Outside, it was 151 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius), and the club’s three posts were indebted with sources wearing swim trunks and therapy. Many were shopping 275 mighty Big Caps.

It’s a bunch of people getting from recent in a pre-schewed pool! in here Ferney described the crowd. FERNEY, PAGE 2

NEWBORNE PRICES

America 2.5-4.5 America 2.5-4.5 Belgium 2.5-4.5 Belgium 2.5-4.5 Belgium 2.5-4.5

France 2.5-4.5 Germany 2.5-4.5 Greece 2.5-4.5

Israel NIS 10 (R1) Friday 10 (R)

Japan Club NIS 15 (R1) Friday 15 (1)

Italy 2-4 (R) Luxembourg 2-3 (R) Mexico 2-3 (R)

Portugal 4-4 (R) Spain 4-4 (R) Switzerland 2-4 (R-2)

The Netherlands 4-4 (R) Norway 2-4 (R) Turkey 2-3 (R)

U.K.E. NID 10 (R) USN 10 (R) Germany 2-3 (R)

Total Number No. 14 (R)

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THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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In wilting heat, Romans take up curling

ROME

Olympics and new risks inspire Italians to try sport usually played on ice

BY ELISABETTA PONILIZIO

Taking a sweaty summer stroll past Rome's ancient monuments, the last thing that the dinner Louis Pucallerii expected to find facing the Cotonensis in July was a decidedly winter sport.

But there is way, a curling risk perched on the Oppian Hill, so this area overlooking the firm century amphitheater has been some since ancient times. Soon, Dr. Pucallerii was gleefully throwing stones with his wife and two friends during Italy's third labouring heat wave in months.

"The whole thing was really spontaneous, and we had so much fun," said Dr. Pucallerii, 37, who lives in Rome.

His friend, Giuseppe Nicotero, a 36-year-old programme visiting from southern Italy, said he had enjoyed "dubbling" in curling after watching this year's Winter Olympics, which Italy landed.

"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 support: orb, winning a bronze medal in the mixed doubles, boosting television ratings and inspiring sports officials to install the Oppian Hill risk in June, in the hopes that Romans would come out and play. Despite the heat.

"After the Olympics everyone had a

The Olympics are a 2,000 people living in the city of Rome.

dream: to experience what it was like to curl, and we enjoyed walking that dinner a reality," said Diego Nopi Molineris, the managing director of Sport e Italian, the state-owned company behind the project.

"The risks were placed" in an iconic location, perhaps the most iconic in Italy, facing the Cotonensis," he said, to show

that even a sport that many "failed as minor can become magnificent." (The risks are also next to a shampook that Romans officials heard but the best view in the world.)

"We believe that every sport is great, and it's so who makes it seem minor," Mr. Nopi Molineris added.

To be fair, this isn't a regulation risk.

There is no ice, for one: The surface is high-density plastic. It's also about 40 feet long by almost 10 feet wide (12 meters by three meters), while a standard "sleek" — as the curling surface is known — is around 100 feet long and 8 feet wide. The stones weigh about a tenth of the regulation weight, and brooms are used to recover the stones

Rome's new curling risks overlook the Cotonensis. The managing director of the company behind the project said the risks were placed at an iconic location to show that even a sport that many "failed as minor can become magnificent." The risks and stones are considerably smaller than regulation size, and the surface is plastic, not ice.

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 Ice Sports, which supported the initiative, in the risk, people described playing as a mix between bowling and tennis, the half-wire ballgame ubiquitous in Italian communities around the world. "It's inopinive," Mr. Gioi said.

Cecili Sumpano, 31, one of the employees managing the risk, said his professional 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, though this summer's following heat made for pretty short games. "I can assure you that if you're playing for five minutes, the reflection of the white makes it unbearably hot," he said of the risk's surface.

Curling was invented in the 16th century by Scottish farmers who played on frozen bags, using smooth stones found

in channels. Scottish immigrants imported the game to Canada, where the first club opened in 1887, followed by a club in the United States some 25 years later.

The sport is a relatively new entry to Italy, where curling only took root during the 1950s when a hand corner installed a risk in Cortina d'Apparata — the Alpine Italian town that incited this year's Olympics. Many celebrities, including Brigitte Bardot, gave it a whirl.

But climate was never on Italy's side. Currently, there are only seven dedicated curling risks in Italy, all in the north, and 425 curb-sawrying curbes. "It's a niche sport," said Valentina Micotti, a curb—this has written a book about it. By comparison, Canada has more than two million curbes who play at least once a year, "by a wide margin, the greatest number of curbes is the world," according to Al Cameron, a spokesman for Curling Canada.

"There are few facilities, so it's hard to capitalize on the visibility you might get during the Olympic Games."

Since Mr. Gioi became president of the ice sports federation 12 years ago, his investment in curling gives from 100,000 euros (1/17,000) a year to 81,000 euros, and the sport was placed on a more professional footing. In Italy, public funds to sports are allocated according to results, as the better players do, the more money the sport receives.

The memetic rise of the tennis star Janeth Stoner, for instance, has quadrupled the funds given to tennis to 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 Jodi Benavaca, the captain of the Italian men's Olympic team. "But that is 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 Villages of Creolea, in Trentian, where most locati start curling as children.

There are no curling arenas in central or southern Italy — at least one regulation zone — said Aida Taba, who runs an ice arena just outside Rome. After the Olympics, he received many calls on pressing interest in curling, he said, as he coiffed together an important game using beer barrels instead of stones.

"It was entertaining," he said, if unconventional. Now, Mr. Taba is working with regional officials to drum up funds for a curling risk in his arena.

"As a European capital, Rome deserves a curling risk," said Bianca Di Terennani, president of the ice sports federation for the Lazio region. But she admitted that the increase in energy costs since the start of the free war had added financial challenges to opening one.

Mr. Nopi Molineris, the Sport e Italian official, said that if there was a demand, the risk at the Cotonensis would be revised using real ice under November. "Even if the ice were far greater for an international competition, it will be perfect for national entertainment," he said.

For her superrich clients, anything. Including no judgment.

FRENEY, FROM PAGE 1

The champagne bottles were part of a stunt she had arranged for the need with enlargement; she wanted to celebrate the closing of his business deal in high style.

"He's a huge Dom drinker," Fereny said.

Early in the party-planning phase, she had posed a question to the client's spokesman and handler: 'Would it's big now for the champagne done be a stretch?' 'That would be just another Tuesday for him,' the handler said. To that Fereny replied: 'Let's try to set a world record.' 'Does she get to work so nagging a party that would be deemed worthy of an entry in the Guinness World Records.

"It's a sickness of mine, that I think I can do anything," she said.

To certify the record — in the obscure category of 'largest champagne presentation' — Fereny voted to a Guinness World Records adjudicator, who would attend the gathering and survey the going-out with a close out.

"So one is really even going to drink the champagne," Fereny said, seeing that her plan called for scores of so well to blast the partygoers with bubbly.

After looking special across to the 21.1-mileของ at the Darien Beach Club, part of the Wynn Las Vegas, she liaised with Diplo, the resident celebrity J.J. She also arranged with Adam Nostrsky, the Wynn Rosario vice president of nightlife, in her nearby every server in the house.

On the day of the event, Michael Empire, the first four adjudicants flew in from New York. For him, the Las Vegas magazine was just one point along a circuit that would take him to a city-like supermarket in Iowa the following day. "I'm going to adjudicate the most paragraphs and in an hour," Empire said. "Don't ask."

As night fell, the furnace heat of the desert city was still stuck in the red

The things Olivia Fereny found, an unanxious crossman from Paris for the daughter of a Mount Millennium, and a caravan music picture.

zone. The gains opened to a crowd of 2,800-workers, who had paid anywhere from 32,500 to 83,500 for a table at the outdoor club. The club's first one or even heard of the entrepreneur insure missing the event. But that hardly mattered: What the glossy strangers provided was an appropriately uproarous backdrop when the inevitable rests it the blowout would stream on social media.

Near midnight, with the temperature at 90 degrees Fahrenheit, partygoers

formed a much pit near the stage, pumping their fists to Diplo's base heavy net. As exactly 1:30 a.m. came the big crowd. 80 servers, clad in songs of red power, paraded before the crowd, some of them, aboard floors shaped like speedholes, fire-tracks and a giant shark.

They lauteed bottles of Dom Périguan above their heads. At a signal from Diplo, corks popped. Some servers began busing down a dancer encummed in a prop martial glass, while others sprayed champagne at the crowd, thus

achieving a Guinness-worthy foot that was the equivalent, in terms of primitive excess, to scaling Mount Everest.

"Undoubtedly the most anomalous element in this unlikely scene was the client. There he stood, away from the action, tucked at the rear of the stage behind Diplo, inconspicuous in black areas and a black T-shirt. Declining to provoke his name for publication, he had earlier explained through a spokesman that he brief for Fereny was to provide him with something 'vips.'"

"He's been there, done that, soon it all," Bryan Lee, his spokesman, said.

That is to say, he was jaded. Yet there is jaded, and then there is a man of means willing to empty his wallet for the momentary thrill of desiring handbush at strangers with expensive wear. The final cost for the liquid alone (125 bottles of Fereny, Isaac Grand Bray, 30 bottles of Dom Périguan Bray Luminous and five bottles of Don Shantzen Blanco (regular) amounted to $225,000 each change.

"Honestly, he would have spent more," Fereny said afterward. "But he got hit hard at the casino the night before."

Each client must pay an annual fee of $500,000 and agree to book $1 million in yearly travel.

One of Fereny's working motive is, "Our job is to connect, not judge." Given that she and her business partner are routinely tasked with fulfilling the contract these who think nothing of trying out $2.25 million for a workshop pack rental on the 2nd of their car recently happened, this makes a kind of undercut out.

Each client of Top Ten Travel must fork over an annual fee of $100,000 and agree to book $1 million in yearly travel. John Black, the chief operating officer of Park West Gallery, which sells high-price items for over twice ships, said the best were worth it. Not long ago, he explained, Top Ten banked a private jet on their water to collect the ailing meter for a family vacation. "You can't just order up a jet like an 11km," Black said.

Fereny's values of her work life have made her social media account addicted to viewing her instructions with the moneyed low have become digital canop, an escape from the realities of high gas prices, wars and the rise of artificial intelligence.

She manages her clients' requests with patience, good-thew and a dollop of irony. No cash is the large or too small. She has failed to figure as someone the largest crossman in that city to please the daughter of a Mount Millennium. For another client, she bought out a day's supply of an Ontario bakery's locally famous butter tarts for a holiday meal.

Backed by a team of 16, Fereny and Arnold, 36, routinely were 7,137 yards, including reservations at the open site the Manhattan smokhouse the Eighty Six, close across to Formula One racers and bookings on private Bookkeeper Bigler, for clients on cheery they took sickness at Gallimann and.

Before starting at Top Ten, Fereny had never encountered anyone like the client whose child experienced a meltdown when an equipment malfunction forced the family to fly commercial for the first time.

"I'm Canadian," she said.

For it, the introduction this global world after meeting Arnold at a Mount club, the rank aish with his agency partly to fulfill a visa requirement. By now, she has shipwrits a life of unavering luxury travel. The couple no longer have a food additives and few mainly on the road, in lavish hotel rooms.

Before Fereny came aboard, Arnold said, Top Ten issued no word of mouth and discretion. "We worked with billionaires and got our business through spares," he said. All that changed after Fereny suggested working into such a media. "We did international tools that did it! And, and then decided to triple-down the same way to our investments," Arnold said. "People are it up. Basically, we have normalized what's done."

Over breakfast at the Tableau restaurant in Las Vegas, Fereny acknowledged that a lot of the efforts about wealthy people are true — but there was at least one misconception.

"People think the superrich are unhappy," she said. "You're not."

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World

Wearing a trash can, challenging a populist

CLACTION-ON-SEA, ENGLAND

Count Bioface emerges as top rival to Reform U.K. leader in special election

BY AMELIA MERKINBERG

Count Bioface, a man in a trash can contains, was trying to explain why he would be a winner no matter what happened on Thursday in the most high-profile election he's ever fought.

"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 interparative space warrior from the planet Sigma-IX. Count Bioface is a character played by the writer and comedian Jen Harvey, 40, 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, the leader of the right-wing populist-party Reform U.K., is a special parliamentary election in Clarion, an area on England's eastern coast.

Mr. Farage is expected to win to a landslide – he held the seat with a large majority until he resigned last month to force this vote. One recent poll suggested he could get 75 percent. But though Mr. Farage has sought to frame this as a "people versus the establishment" election, all of the other major political parties have refused to take part. They called it a political court to distract from a parliamentary investigation into a gift of five million pounds (about $6.7 million) that Mr. Farage had failed to disclose.

Count Bioface, who would be interviewed only in character, is Mr. Farage's most prominent rival in the election, although 32 other candidates are running. Some are longtime Clarion residents, such as Nick Price, who has lived in Clarionsonville for over a decade, while three represent the Official Minister Barclay Lawry Party, a group once associated with Britain's most famous novelty candidate, Screening Lord Sack, who died in 1996.

If Mr. Farage "wins even with an increased majority," Count Bioface argued as he laid out his metaphorical flowchart. "But it is against 32 candidates including an alien-shaped like a trash can, who's not!"

Mr. Farage would of course disagree. Reform U.K. did not respond to requests for comment for this article, but previously

"This has been the biggest feeding frenzy for old filony so far," Count Bioface said at a special election in Clarion, England. He is portrayed by the writer and comedian Jen Harvey.

really. En friend, a senior party official, told the BBC that the other parties were boycotting the vote because they were "running scared" of Mr. Farage.

"I HARD DONE NOTHING WRONG" Count Bioface's moment in the national spotlight began last month, when Mr. Farage, who won in Clarion at the 2025 general election with 48 percent of the vote, announced a surprise resignation. For weeks, Mr. Farage had been under pressure after revolutions over his 2e season, including 25 million for received before the 2024 election from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire. A parliamentary investigation had begun into whether Mr. Farage should have declared the gift.

Mr. Farage resigned on July 1 before the investigation was complete and said he would immediately run for the same

seat, in an apparent attempt to reclaim the political narrative.

"Let me be absolutely clear: I have done nothing wrong," he said, adding: "I have decided that the people of Clarion should be the judges of my actions."

If Mr. Farage were found to have broken the rules, he could be suspended

Nigel Farage has sought to frame this as a "people versus the establishment" election.

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.

That left Count Bioface, in his silvered helmet and cage, to face the Reform leader this time.

"The so-called mainstream parties have elected not to take part," Count Bioface told me. "Either because they're terrified by my magnificence," or because "this is all actually a bit of a side-show."

"LAVON AT POLITICIANS"

Any British, from an eligible Commonwealth citizen over 10 can receive parliamentary election in Britain, provided they pay a £500 deposit and get the merchandise of 10 local residents.

Over the years, British politicians have routinely shared the stage with novelty candidates in funny costumes.

In Britain, said Ian Hislop, the editor of Private City, a British satirical magazine, it has long been understood that "it is an important to laugh at politicians as it is to vote for them."

Count Bioface challenged the former

Conservative prime minister Rishi Sanak. He ran in London's mayoral election against Mayor Sadiq Khan. This summer, he ran in the Makerfield special election against the Labour candidate Andy Boreham. Mr. Boreham, now Britain's prime minister, won with 54.8 percent. Count Bioface got 62 percent.

Mr. Harvey, the Roman underneath the costume, attended the University of Oxford, where he studied classics. He has also worked on British satirical programs as a comedy writer.

As Count Bioface, his usual campaign presence include building "at least one affordable bonus" – a fire at the sunset house-building presenter of consecutive British governments. He also has a long-standing promise to nationalize the singer Adele, and to "cut your taxes and raise everyone else's."

There's a serious message under-

neath, about the absurdity of modern politics and the impossibility of trying to please all voters everywhere.

"THIS IS FARAGE COUNTRY"

Clarion, a parliamentary seat centered around a failed murder state, voted 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 program of mass deportation.

In 2024, Clarion moved him by a large margin, with a Conservative in second place. "This is Farage country," said Karina Prebig, the director of politics at the polling firm, agree.

Some voters in Clarion have expressed frustration at the focus on the current election's two most notable candidates. Brian Porter, a gardener who has lived in the area he about a year, said he wanted to vote for someone to call "You've got all these places," he said, pointing to Seth Count Bioface ("Carriculi") and Mr. Farage, who he said was "seeing the election in actually little history."

"It's becoming a laughing joke," he added. "And it's not. This is people's lives. It's our future."

Count Bioface's strongest previous result was 1 percent in the 2011 London mayoral election. A striking success for this here would be to exceed 1 percent at which point his £500 election deposit would be indicated.

Count Bioface has spent time in Clarion campaigning, meeting residents and recruiting videos. He also released a more detailed list of campaign promises, including some Farage-specific ones. Lawmakers who resign midterm should be barred from the resulting special election, he said. He promised to "spend more time in Clarion-on-Sea than in Washington DC," a mark to Mr. Farage's friendship with President Trump. And he pledged to "not accept 25 million gifts from crypto billionaires (no Earths)".

Even if Mr. Farage were on Thursday, an expatriate, he will have to hire the outcome of the investigation into that gift.

Count Bioface accepts that at that point, the media interest is likely to die down. He admitted that it had delighted him: "This has been the biggest feeding frenzy for old filony so far." He was also keen to emphasize his regard for the devastated, prowess, and for voters who decide to support Mr. Farage.

"He has a pitch-what is very powerful to a certain part of the election," he said. "We mustn't disrespect that. If the main shown to vote for Nigel, that is the mystery."

But with the major parties absent, "I seem to be the majority's opposition," he said. "Which is fine."

Gaston's major state members Syria last year, setting off one of the deadliest bouts of victories violence in years. Season from Swedia Province to November, from left: a funeral for one of the dead; the inside of a barred house; and members of the National Guard.

'We know they are coming': Syrian province fears takeover

SHEIDA, SYRIA

BY ARIN LALTE DADER

When Syria's government facility took control this year of a northeastern region long dominated by the Kurdish minority, the Druze in Swedia watched with growing unease.

In the area, who, like the Kurds, have for years controlled their own region, now the writing on the wall.

The whole story not coming," said Samayah al-Souad, 43, a Druze resident of Swedia who was among the people displaced last summer by the wave of victories violence, after days of insides between their groups and the only two government forces into the fighting, more than 1,500 people, most of them Druze, were killed, according to the United Nations.

Shelda is the only Syrian province that has not submitted to the authority of the central government, headed by Swedia, which was the first indigenous dictator Bashar al-Assad in late 2024. The government that replaced Mr. al-Assad initially struggled to control its authority over all of Syria, then seemed to be turning a terror from start of this year with its takeover of the Kurdish led northward.

Across much of Syria, the end of Mr. al-Assad's rule has been gossed with en-

fief and hopes that the country, as it really creates and more on after years of intervention was. Yet those hopes have been accompanied by questions about the new government and whether it can build a state that Syrians across the country trust.

Druze residents repeatedly told us – during two trips to Swedia Province to November and January, as well as to follow up places and test interviews in the months since – that it was only a matter of time before the government moved to a court control over the area.

No spoke to nearly two dozen civilians, civil servants, security officials, medical workers and religious leaders about the victories violence in Swedia last summer and its aftermath.

Varying interests complicate Swedia's fate.

Syrian leaders say crumbling the country under one authority is necessary to create their living stability and prevent further fragmentation after nearly 10 years of civil war.

Some Druze residents of Swedia had the poor-based authorities, whose leaders have taken in a group once linked to Al Qaeda and whose forces they accuse of carrying out insurances against them. Israeli lawmakers of Syrian government forces expanding their reach toward its hands, concerned that the area could eventually become a launchpad for attacks.

ISGALATON: DECTORAN FORFEIT Swedia Province members across newly highlands roughly 60 miles of the country's southeast of the Syrian capital, Damascus, with many fields and scattered orchards defining the landscape.

The Druze have called these uplands home for ages. Their faith emerged centuries ago as an offshoot of a branch of Shirin Shum, though many typically do not identify as Shadist today.

Driving in the province from Damascus, we passed through at least six government blockpoints set up on a absolute stretch of land. Villages along the route lie deserted, their channel remains a stark reminder of last summer's violence.

In July 2025, decreases broke out between armed Bedouins, part of Syria's front majority, and Druze military. The communities have long clashed over pacing land, property and access to water, disputes sharpened by victories in visions.

What began as localized fighting quickly escalated.

Government forces, along with allied fighters, descended on Swedia's windswept highlands, killing civilians, destroying towns and villages and displacing tens of thousands, according to independent monitors and witnesses.

While the Druze have the threat of the violence, Druze fighters have also been accused in some of the killings last sum-

ner, according to activists and human rights groups.

Some Druze leaders have denied or rejected responsibility for abuses or killings.

Syrian Defense Ministry said last year that it was aware of "checking and grave violations" committed in Swedia by "an unidentified group wearing military uniforms."

Government body investigating the killings issued its final report in March and said there would be legal actions against some individuals, according to SAVA, Syria's state news agency. Some of the cases have been referred to a military court in Damascus, officials said.

ISRAEL'S INTEREST IN SWEISA

The Syrian government's effort to bring Swedia under its control is fraught in many ways, not least because of neighboring Israel's have interest in maintaining Druze control in Swedia.

Israel has a sizable Druze minority and has long-optimized lines too with the community's relationship that extends to the Syrian Druze.

President Atsaud al-Darasa of Syria has sought to project a more moderate range to the world, promising to protect minority rights and saying that Syria has no interest in fighting with neighbors or interfering in their national affairs. Yet Israeli officials have voiced deep distrust of Syria's leaders, some of

some new roots in extrinsural groups. They are also uneasy about the government commuting its authority near its border, leaving it could become a ringing 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 anti-ethnic against government forces in Swedia.

Is Swedia Province, dominated by Syria's Druze minority, there is deep mistrust of the Islamist transitional government.

Israeli officials voiced to protect the Syrian Druze and demanded that the region remain depoliticized, without the Syrian Army or its allies depleting or operating in the area. At the time, Mr. al-Shadist accused Israel of trying to use "chaos" and understating Syria's unity.

"Israel stood with us," Sheida Mianor al-Hilti, the Druze spiritual leader who would re-visioning Israeli support, said as an overview in January. "Israel was the first to extend a helping hand."

Mr. al-Hilti: Blamed the authorities in Damascus to clear and overcome power centers, saying the government's brutality pervades when, as the Sura's changed. He said the Druze saw no future under Mr. al-Shadist's government

and insisted that some new war the only viable option for Swedia.

His stance is more hard-beer than some other Druze religious leaders, who have not publicly called for accession.

LIMBO A YEAR LATER

After days of clashes in July 2025, a cause-fire was announced between the Syrian government and armed Druze facilities in Swedia.

It has barely held in the year since. Sutans occasionally take aim at one another across the orchards and peach trees. Clashes break out in village along the front line between the National Guard, a 20,000-strong militia in Swedia struck in Mr. al-Hilti, and government forces and their allies.

For now, many of them displaced remain trapped in shelters in Swedia city.

One of them is Sheida Merhej Shahid, whom life, until last summer, was once-come in safe service, project last summer. When gunmen married his village, Al Thada, he said he realized that life as he knew it was over. The assailants, he said, beat him, showed his murdered and left him for sleep.

"It was only God's grace that protect them," he said.

His family, including Sura's, 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."

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Passengers served as unwitting decoys

With Trump evacuated, plane flow with reporters and employees onboard

BY PETER BAKER

The threat to Air Force One was seen as no dire that they sounded President Trump off the jet in a running container to keep him safe. But the same dire threat did not stop them from then sending Air Force One into the skies anyway with a plumb of senior officials, government employees, reporters and military personnel serving as decoys, some unwittingly.

If the humans were trying to shoot down the presidential plane last month, as U.S. officials concluded at the time, then the subverting of a attack, Turkey, that protected the president also may have made targets of dozens of others who flew aboard them, including Secretary of State Marco Rabin, Treasury Secretary June Stevens and the senior aides Stephen Miller and Steven Cheung.

The government has on new occasions brought in length of time to sub729 president from possible jeopardy, particularly for journeys in hazardous locations, such as when George W. Bush or Barack Obama flew to Iraq during days of war or when Bill Clinton made a brief visit in Pakistan with its history of terrorism. The Trump team's race in Ankara, however, stands out not only for its insidious but also for the way it shifted the evident peril to others and was kept secret long after Mr. Trump was not at least'n'way.

'They just didn't seem to give a second thought to anybody but the president and the few people who were with him,' said Jan Landau, who served as White House press secretary in Mt Clinton during his 2000 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 our human models. They didn't even think about it. And to me, that's the big difference.'

But other veterans of risky White House trips said there were times that extreme measures were justified in poster-tite president, Joseph W. Regin, who as coup-detourer with Bush helped无疑 say his war zone trips and later set-wit as Mr. Trump's deputy White House chief of staff in his first term, said he would not second-guess the decision in Ankara.

'I understand there is concern for those flying on what was assumed to be the primary aircraft,' Mr. Regin said, 'but when you go to work at the White House or travel with the president, you are accepting a not-straightforward degree of risk. Taking everyone what's up in an operation like this would have obviously jeopardized the president's safety.'

The Mr. Bush or Mr. Obama brought wild members and reporters with them to war zone, Mr. Regin added, there were dangerous measures, too. 'This was an address that the trip 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 forliving an air force.'

The government officials said reporters who traveled with presidents to war zones, as many as possible, were having no, while those left on Air Force One in Ankara last month were not told of the increased threat. Journalists traveling to the back of the plane were instructed with an official who gave him a reply, and window shades closed during the July 9. Right from Ankara in Britain, where Mr. Trump landed secretly in another military plane.

The president was then smashed back onto Air Force One so that he could be embark in front of cameras as if he had been onboard all along.

Mr. Rabin had been aware of the threat, according to two officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information, although it was unclear how many of the others were. At least some of the White House staff traveling on the plane were unaware, the officials said, as were those in partners.

The secret switch in Ankara, first reported on Monday by The Washington Post and confirmed by The New York Times and other news articles, was non-marksable that it sounded like something out of Hollywood. In fact, it defied even

the imagination of Andrew W. Markiew, who wrote the screenplay for the latest 1807 thriller 'Air Force One,' featuring Harrison Ford as a president whose plane is hijacked. Mailing it over on Tuesday, Mr. Markiew said he was sure the Secret Service was doing what was necessary to keep the president safe. But he added that it did not make Mr. Trump look all that good.

'Now was life isn't a movie, but given the circumstances, I'm not sure I could ever script a moment like that for a heroin a main character,' Mr. Markiew said. 'If the threat were that good, it's hard to imagine the audience running for any character who would make the own safety by treating the remaining civilians onboard as potential sacrificial

tunite, 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 onboard. Mr. Trump told reporters on Tuesday evening that he followed the advice of the Secret Service and rejected the tactics 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 to the first plane.

The extraordinary deception underscored the sense of danger felt by Mr.

Above, assist an Iranian threat, President Trump was secretly removed from Air Force One in Ankara, Turkey, last month, while other passengers remained with Mr. Trump was then smashed back onto the plane after it landed in Britain.

Trump, who was geared by a would-be counselor's bullet while campaigning in Baden Pa., in 2024 and targeted by another armed man at Air Florida, golf course later that year. During the Biden administration, officials said that Iran's domestic crew trying to kill Mr. Trump, its recently as Tuesday, the police were investigating a bomb threat at a 400.54 mph in Ohio near the site of a planned visit by Mr. Trump.

The Secret Service and military units charged with the president's safety typically saw decoys to confuse possible passengers, although not involving civilians without their knowledge. When any president travels in a nonmorale, there are usually two identical armored limitations or sport safety vehicles with identical Washington, D.C., license planes to make it hard to know which one is in. When he flew by Marine One, there are often a few identical greens and when helicopters flying together.

'If there's no attack on the nonmorale, the secure package splits all and everyone else is on their own, from some 9/10 to 10, the ordinary officials, all reporters and members of Congress,' Act Henschen, a White House press secretary for Mr. Bush, wrote on social media on Tuesday. 'The safety of press announces that. We don't complain. That's the way it is.'

A president of the United States, or PHTUS in government judges, is at most the most visible and most protected official in the country.

At the same time, a president by tradition doesn't merely with a goal of journalists who record his every public movement and comment. Such constant coverage has been considered vital in the nuclear era when a crisis can confront a president at any moment. Inac-

nulans were with John F. Kennedy when he was shot in Dallas on Nov. 23, 1961, and they were with Mr. Bush when secretaries attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 1963.

A everyone who then made war zone trips in recent years, the White House typically announced a select number of news executives in the Houston Beaver called journalists to clue them in and swear them to secrecy and have a few could go along and report about the visits once it was safe. Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama held rank reporters with them in Afghanistan and Iraq, as did Mr. Trump in his first term. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. took one news reporter and one news photographer with him on a secret nine and a half hour train trip into war-torn Ukraine.

When Mr. Clinton traveled to Pakistan, he was artificially given to a radio-tectors by possible attackers. He had been urged not to go because parts of the country were harms for terrorist groups, but since he was already going to India, he felt compelled to stop in-hamabad for a few hours.

'They just didn't seem to give a second thought to anybody but the president and the few people who were with him.'

The original security plan called for finding the accompanying journalists into thinking that Mr. Clinton had hearted the same C-17 military jet that they were on, while he would secretly get onto a reporter Air Force version of a Gulfstream known as a U-24. 'My retirement project may run until one day media as decoys,' he said. 'And that came back with a plan that satisfied me.'

Instead, according to another veteran of that trip who spoke on the conditions of anonymity to avoid professional repercussions, they had Mr. Clinton with around the nose of the C-17 to the other side where three smaller unmarked planes were waiting. The journalists were not able to see which of the three he heard in, but they saw that he had not gotten on the air trip.

Unlike the Trump team in Ankara, the Clinton team's demand at least one of the pool journalists in advance, Susan Page of USA Today, who measured the episode on Tuesday, and Mr. White House then publicly disclosed the details more broadly once Mr. Clinton was safely out of Search way. Mr. Trump's team, by contrast, never disclosed what happened in Ankara until The Post broke the story.

'It's totally understandable that the White House would want to compare nonviolent, coercently operating like this,' said John F. Kirby, a retired Navy war admiral who served as a top spokesman for the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon during the Obama and Biden administrations. 'I don't hold them for going to lengths to keep 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 that travel is knowledge—is it a crusade you to this case—they have an obligation to at least provide the broad comment of it so that it is either can make informed decisions.'

The news magazine's "very only criticism is that it indeed," he said. 'It is very, very hard to move the president or verify, and when you have one of these tactics it's unlikely you could get away with a against every just matter a even harder the next time you need to do it. This wasn't the first time and it won't be the last that an operation like this is required, regardless who is president.'

Iran adapts attacks as America's war munitions dwindle

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range of both missiles and drones coming in," said Seth G. Jones, the president of the defense and security department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The news effectively leveraged the Russian tactic," he said, "to make it more difficult to protect a recent location in the Gulf."

On a single day during that deadly week last month, according to two U.S. officials, American forces in the Middle East fired about 50 former interceptors, which was about 24 million each.

The Pentagon has continued to face a powerful threat, which it has tried to minimize the need for more major combat models to early April.

The United States First Hogarth told reporters on April 8 that Iran's missile program was "functionally destroyed" that the United States missiles were "depleted and declassified."

Most of Iran's missiles and launchers were stored in vast underground facilities that U.S. and Israel forces leaving the United States. The U.S. forces in the war, But Iran dug out many of these sites and resumed flying, bringing shipping to the world of Mormas to a near standard" and "proceeding American forces."

President Trump and his national security advisers assumed the fight would be a result of the war. The Pentagon's strategies of Patriot interceptors, said both lines a position at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

But Tehran, he and other Iran reporters, had been waiting for this moment since the conflict began since that first months ago. During a 12-day war in June 2025, Iran's leaders had seen how quickly Israel and American forces burned through halibits missile interceptors to knock down barrages of Iranian drones and missiles.

Iran's deadliest strikes against U.S. forces in Jordan targeted Manafika Sath in Buroi in Azraq, a invasioner military installation that the U.S. Air Force has increasingly used as a major backlit dozens of aircraft and several thousand service members.

The Pentagon has used more than 1,000 Soviet interceptors and has fewer than 1,700 left.

Many U.S. troops previously stationed in Kuwait, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates were moved to here and during the war to learn the Manafika Sath in Jordan that were further time Iran and deemed safer from drone and halibits attacks.

In the days immediately, the strike on July 17, American military commanders strengthened an defense in Jordan and elsewhere in the region, said a series U.S. military official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters but declined to provide more details.

U.S. military specialists who have also studied drone and missile attacks in

Ukraine have been working with the military's Central Command for months, sharing lessons learned from that campaign. Two of the three soldiers killed in Jordan were assigned to air defense unit United in Germany that became part of that effort.

This new reality is having geopolitical consequences.

In late July, Mr. Trump asked Mr. Hogarth about the dwindling American weapons supplies, U.S. officials said, confirming reporting by The Washington Post.

The Pentagon has maintained publicly that it does not have a shortfall. "Claims of U.S. munitions shortages are there," the chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement. "When the fake news media irresponsibly are pithies these hrs, the real-world consequences in chest (for mention are constitutional to provide — or attack — American troops."

Two weeks ago, Mr. Trump called off bombing raids against Iran after he said the leaders of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar had been able to pursue diplomatic talks to end the war, which has killed an estimated 1,700 Iranian civilians.

In a phone call, Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, told Mr. Trump that major arresives would probably prompt Iran to continue against energy after the other administrative in the kingdom and to neighbors, according to a Saudi official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential discussions.

An Iranian missile struck a housing unit at a U.S. base in Jordan last month, killing three soldiers. The Iranian are making it more difficult to use defenses. Two report said.

With the United States running low on interceptors and Iran's demonstrating that it could prove these defenses, the United States's nuclear damage was very severe, the Saudi official said. Prince Moham and expert Mr. Trump in the weather, the official said.

The Jordan attack was not the first time that Iran adopted its skills and tactics in this war.

In April, Iran shot down an American F-52 fighter jet over southern Iran with a shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile.

Both the pilot and the weapons officer ejected. The pilot was rescued quickly, but the weapons officer was missing for nearly two days, hiding from Iranian forces until U.S. Special Operations Command.

In the case, Iran learned from Ukraine and deployed a swarm of drone to the Arab American fighter jet, had penetrated, a swine U.S. military official said. In interviews with Pentagon officials, the crew said that the F-52's defensive countermeasures provided

only half a second of warning before Iran hit the 400 million advanced fighter jet with a shoulder-fired missile.

American military officials concluded that the drones fed three more pieces of information in Iranian commanders that helped them target the F-52U. An GPS location, speed and direction, one senior military official said.

Mr. Trump announced a "pause" at the fighting shortly after that incident. Military officials needed time to adjust to Iran's new tactics, two military officials said.

Even during breaks in fighting, these tactics have continued to evolve.

When the Health station in Yemen entered the war last month, experts said he signaled Iran's invasion, to have the United States and its allies to defend themselves from aerial attacks from all directions. Yemen is heard on of video broadcasts.

International inspectors also believe that Iran is moving elements of its nuclear program in a heavily fortified underground complex in central Iran. The United States and the United States are the Pelican Mountains, is buried more than 200 feet (90 meters) beneath a mountain.

And Iran has sent its troops and leads to the domestic scattered service the country, experts said.

"Where are they?" asked Mr. Naut of Abu Dhabi, who, "If Iran has they're sitting in a place where you can bomb them, You don't feel there."

Jonathan Swan contributed reporting.

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U.S. escalates pursuit of noncitizens on voter rolls

Some immigrants say they were mistakenly registered and have never cast ballots

BY MARILAND KILC NEW ORLEANS 2025 NORTH ALAUS

The Trump administration is making an intense push to identify and depart noncitizens who registered to vote, even if they did an inadvertently or never cast ballots – an unusually aggressive approach that is helping it promote baseless claims that voter fraud is rampant.

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 several an election. It is against federal law for noncitizens to register to vote or actually vote, and doing so can carry steep penalties, including jail time and deportation.

In the past, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has not aggressively tried to depart the relatively small number of noncitizens who unlawfully registered to vote, especially if they mistakenly signed up, according to an migrating policy experts. But the Trump administration is taking a harder line in hopes of increasing deportations while also holding a new that illegal voting has been underestimated.

Homeland security agents are in opening voter fraud cases that had been closed and investigating voter registration efforts in major cities. Under these laws have declared immigrants suspected of being on the voter rolls at harder deachpoints, according to immigration attorneys. And given card holders applying an citizenship have been placed in deportation proceedings for registering to vote.

The department's efforts are part of the Trump administration's extraordinary attempt to leverage federal agencies to promote the president's long-standing labor interest about a limited election system (for only fraud). These efforts have been used by Mr. Trump to justify his push for federal legislation that would require that people close proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote and severely misled voting rights.

The changes are upending the lives of some general and children who have lived in the United States for years and maintained they did not vote or even intend to register.

Abdullah Zareh Basse first learned that he was on the voter rolls in Washington when who he applied to citizenship and an immigration officer at his interview last year informed him that he was registered, according to a court filing law month.

Mr. Basse later learned that he was registered in 2018 after visiting the local motor vehicle agency to update his address, said Devon Thorne-Ort, his attorney. The government denied him citizenship and placed him in internal pro-

In the past, the U.S. Homeland Security Department has not aggressively tried to depart the voter rolls, especially registered to vote.

ceedings in April, according to the filing. Mr. Basse maintains that he never voted or asked to register. Even Dorch, a manager at the Spokane County elections office, said in an email that a voter registration record under Mr. Basse's name was canceled and had no history of a ballot cast.

"It brings a lot of worry and uncertainty," Mr. Basse said in a statement. "It

is getting stress on my marriage, as my wife is a citizen and the unknown is very stressful."

The administration's actions have involved a close partnership between the Homeland Security Department and the Justice Department, which has sought to investigate and criminally charge noncitizens with illegal voting. Prosecutors have been instructed to file more

charges against those individuals, and the Justice Department has used all over of states to obtain voter rolls. The department has also asked an investigation by New Jersey officials that a software glitch led to about 6,000 noncitizens being registered to vote between June 2023 and June 2024. Roughly 400 of them later cast ballots.

Harwood Dhilian, who runs the Jus-

tice Department's city rights division, has said officials are ready to arrest or depart those who improperly voted in New Jersey. Gov. Mike Oberli, a Democrat, indicated she would resist the Trump administration demands to have been in the name of the registrants, who she said would not on the voter rolls "through us" back of their own."

Homeland security officials are devoting significant resources to the effort, achieving agents when justify those on transnational crime-like human trafficking and drug enforcement to hunt for the United States, and to use an arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement known as Homeland Security Investigators.

In June, signed with the unit accompanying the Bureau of Investigation agents during a raid of the Ohio Organizing Clubhouse, a group that contains over 1,000 noncitizens, and actively questioned staff members.

The efforts are part of the Trump administration attempt to promote the president's claims about a broken election system.

"Containing voter fraud investigation is a cost departure for H.S.I., and is not within the normal scope of their very own efforts to the investigators work," said Deborah Frenchaker, a senior ICE official during the Bush administration. "In a statement, a homeland security spokesperson said that H.S.I. was visiting the state's state officials. Fraud whoever it could be found."

The Trump administration has also profiled states to upload tens of millions of votes to each through S.O.S., a federal immigration certification tool run by the Homeland Security Department that the administration envisaged to look for noncitizens on the voter rolls.

But there have been problems with the S.O.S. tool itself. In October, Jane Nelson, the Texas secretary of state at the time, announced that her office had been held in 2,570 potential noncitizens who were registered to vote in Texas. But local election officials who looked into the findings at the county level found that many identified by S.O.S. have actually citizens. An independent investigation in Travis County, Texas, based in Austin, found that 25 percent of the noncitizen matches were citizens, according to court records.

Homeland security officials have continued to push evidence-free claims of widespread articles found. Matheques Mullis, the homeland security secretary, said last month that the administration answered more than 250,000 cases of noncitizens registered to vote in four states, but provided no evidence to support the finding.

Earlier from the Homeland Security Department to some states indicated that the number was probably overestimated, with caveats and based on initial reviews.

The intense focus on deporting noncitizens on the voter rolls marks a shift for the Homeland Security Department. Several immigration attorneys said they had denied who were still approved for citizenship under previous administration's law. "I believe that they mistakenly registered and had no other issues with their cases."

Michael Talworth, who was a senior official at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service for more than two decades, said that immigration officers used to have eaten ability to take into account factors like intent, age and mental capacity in considering whether registering to vote or voting rendered them in one or more.

"These officers have very limited discretion, and I am hearing that denials and criminal proceedings based on voting are happening more frequently," Mr. Talworth said.

Attorneys said many of their clients who registered did so inadvertently while obtaining or removing driver's licenses, pending in voter laws that have made it easier for people to register to vote at minor vehicle agencies. Some immigrants like English fluency and do not realize they are signing registration forms, lawyers said.

Allegation White, a 51-year-old resident of Woodbury, N.J., who is married to a U.S. citizen, said the federal government was seeking to depart the bill. White said she first learned that she was registered to vote after she applied for citizenship and an immigration officer informed her. Mr. White later obtained documents from the state showing that she signed a voter registration application while receiving her driver's license more than a decade ago.

"I never thought they were telling me to sign to vote or anything like that," Mr. White said. "At that time, I didn't even know how to say you is English."

The federal government has initiated her deportation to the Democratic Republic, citing her voter registration and claiming she voted in 2020. County records show that Mr. White voted more via address ballot that year. Mr. White denied that she sent the ballot or ever voted.

George Fishman, a deputy general counsel at the Homeland Security Department during the first 30-day administration, praised the agency's efforts to pursue noncitizen voting. Although he said there was a "certain level of influence" when it came to noncitizens who inadvertently registered to vote, he thought it was Congress's responsibility to pass citizens that would prevent the noncitizen voting after voting.

"I think the most vigorous enforcement should be against those who know they were voting illegally, but the law needs to be enforced," said Mr. Fishman, a senior legal fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, as organization that supports lower immigration rates.

Cecil Murphy Morose contributed reporting.

Wave of Islamophobia follows Muslim politicians' victories

A number of Republicans, including Trump, embrace attacks and falsehoods

BY JENNIFER MEDINA

Senator Sammy Tuberville called Dr. Abdul El-Sayed a "scorerist."

Representative Nancy Mace described 'every single Muslim holding public office is America' or is forced to both national security and our republic.'

And on Monday, President Trump said 'that there were "disabits being elected all over the past".'

In the days since Dr. El-Sayed's victory in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary last week, Republican leaders have embraced Islamophobic attacks and falsehoods like those three most recent to portray him as an anti-American extremist.

The onslaught is being blamed and by Republican Party officials and has quickly become a control aspect of the strategy to beat Dr. El-Sayed in the fall. Few officials in the Republican Party have publicly tried to tump down such messaging, though Dr. El-Sayed has not hesitated to query the attacks.

"They're going to point at me, they're going to point at my name, like, 'Wow, I'm not going to be sure.' I'm not going to be sure. 'My name is not raising your gun prices,' he added. 'My name is not taking us to war. My name is not the reason you can't afford your grounds.'"

The election of the state's most political power is growing across the United States, led by prominent figures exhaled by the United States, 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 registered in the 20th century – local state and federal elections has steadily increased over the past decade. Today, there are more than 225 elected Muslim officials, according to the Council on Democracy and the National Security and four Muslim Americans on Congress, the highest number ever.

The election of the elected to the House this fall. And in Michigan last week, several state Americans were convicted primaries, including for the state legislators and mayor of Ann Arbor.

But the increase in power has also drawn considerable repercussions. Muslim officials say that their increased visibility has brought with a number of bigotry and threats. In recent years, Mr. Trump has repeatedly attacked Representative Dine Olson, an immigrant, meeting her legal and declaring that she should be "one child" to foothills. Multiple Republicans have falsely accused Mr. Homeland of being a Muslim.

"There has been remarkable political progress for Muslims to learn to do, for the foothills to that has come to the form of anti-Muslim hate that seems to be the worst we know now yet," said the ward Aldman which has continued digitally director for CADL one of the largest Muslim advocacy groups in the United States. Mr. Mitchell said that much of the negative response has stemmed from candidates who would have been the past several years.

"We have a generation who became very forcefully speaking for themselves," Mr. Mitchell said. "They eventually said we are not going to take this anymore, we are not going to be begging for escape."

Many of these new leaders have made Palestinian rights and an end to military aid to Israel central to their platforms, arguing that such assistance directly undercuts spending at U.S. health care, housing and public schools. Their who 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 last Republican claims that the party's electing extremist candidates, Mike Rogers, the former secretary of state, accused Dr. El-Sayed of being a "illaman supporter." Dr. El-Sayed has confessed that group.

The attacks have not been limited to Muslim and Arab American politicians viewed as Israel. Mike broadly, they have tried to depict candidates as one of step with the country, sometimes dangerously.

The first advertisement against Dr. El-Sayed from the National Republican Senatorial Committee last week called him "the most radical Senate candidate in America." The first ad in the interview by his full name, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.

Mike Rogers, the Republican Senate candidate in Michigan, accused Dr. El-

Muslim and Arab American political power is growing across the United States, led by figures including Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, above.

Sayed of believing that the United States "deserved" the Sept. 5, 2001, as task – a sentiment he has denied. House Plant, the left wing producer Dr. El-Sayed had campaigned with, had voiced that view but later called it "inappropriates."

"They're going to point at me, they're going to point at my name, like, 'Wow, he's different.'"

Days later, Mr. Trump juxtaposed two photographs in a social media post, one of himself standing next to Mohana Trump in a telephone dress, and the other of Dr. El-Sayed sitting on the table, who was wearing a light. "We VERY DIFFERENT American," the president wrote.

Last week, Senator Ted Cox, Republican of Texas, held a hearing on what he called the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood network in America, after saying

that Dr. El-Sayed and other Democrats "buts America."

In a House primary in Michigan last week, a Republican who had suspended his own campaign beat more famous. Very enticing who had Mr. Trump's endorsement and in Christian. A third candidate acknowledged that his campaign contain advertisements that "buts" a mock appeal to bigotry against Muslims as kind of counterist on it."

Asked about such tactics in a television interview last weekend, Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who noted that a bid for re-election, said he condemned the bigoted comments from the state Republican. "Even before, people be treated as an individual," he said. But he was not to go under Republican laws spoken on against such language.

"It's not clear what impact such speech has with voters. Representative Dine Oglee of Tennessee, who has made statements like 'Muslims don't belong in American society,' lost his Republican primary last week.

On Sunday, Dr. El-Sayed pushed back against Mr. Trump's notion of two American by attacking the president's marriage while praising his own.

"We, you're got to different visions of America," said the an interview on CNN. "One in which your炸弹 and two people who don't like you either but passed in the interest of making millions of dollars off of you, or two people who generated two such other, enjoyed some panicked together, want to come together to build the kind of America where they can come to the long, and now that that family is going to have the good things."

With comment that there are more than 3.5 million Muslims registered to vote across the country, the government contracted in key battleground states.

Neckers in the run to power among Muslim political leaders and government corresponded then in Michigan, a swing more with the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the country. In 2026, Joseph R. Baker Jr. carried the

state with overwhelming support from Dearborn, a city where Arab Americans make up a majority of the population.

In 16 2026, as the 8.8mm administration continued to support Israel during its bombardment in Gaza, many of these voters were disillusioned. Mr. Trump won Dearborn by no percentage points, and helped save the funds in Democratic turnout to Muslim-majority electricity plantermen.

"As Arab Americans, we have more power than we've ever had," said Abbar Alzareh, a former congressional staffer and longtime Democratic organizer. Last week, Mr. Alzareh made vote a Democratic primary in a newly proved State Senate district that includes the highest concentration of Muslim and Arab American voters in Michigan.

In 2024, Mr. Alzareh busted create the "Omahaimah" and "I'm not going to be a Democratic voter, one to cut a ballot for Mr. Baker to show their opposition to the vote in Gaza. He called Dr. El-Sayed's primary victory a "sunsunveral shift in our politics."

"We are reaching disillusioned voters and changing the conception of what is possible," he said.

Dr. El-Sayed performed strongly in significant Arab American populations. In Dearborn, he was nearly 40 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the vote in nearby Dearborn villages.

Yet far all of the history-making power should be changed, Dr. El-Sayed said his supporters often hesitate to foster his platform around identity. In an interview with the state's state's own Times, he insisted a question about the potential of becoming the country's first government.

"I think this is a moment for people who want to bring strongly back to our politics," he said. "For just interested in being the next U.S. senator from Michigan, I'm not going to point at me, and I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing.

And he has repeatedly emphasized his optimism.

"I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing. I'm not going to be a good thing.

Tim Balls contributed reporting.

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Evidence shows immigration agents using slurs

Lawsuits reveal how race and ethnicity figured in dragnets across the U.S.

BY JACQUES CLUON, MAIA SPOTIT AND JILL COWAN

Some immigration agents in the United States began carrying out a string of big, aggressive sweeps last year, civil rights groups have argued that the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign has been defined by human racial profiling.

Now, body-centric hostage, text messages and other documents emerging from lawsuits around the country reveal how race and ethnicity have figured in the dragnets that unfolded in Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis and other U.S. cities.

In several instances documented in court filings, federal agents referred to targets as 'tanks' — a derogatory term typically used to refer to Mexican immigrants and intended to re-define causal of agents' flashlights striking their heads. Migrants suspected of being underexistent were described as 'wet,' check-based for the riot methods, but an agent who led an operation to Southern California later described the appearance of individuals for considered suspicious—'other Hispanic states.'

'Yet even an evidence of racial profiling has come to light, what seemed like settled law — that law enforcement officers could not question or detain someone solely based on race or ethnicity — has turned out to be far more of an open question when it comes to immigration enforcement.'

Last year, the Supreme Court took a risk ofraised spending a half-century of jurisprudence when Justice Brett Kavanaugh gave a provisional hearing to seek racial profiling by agents seeking out underexistent immigrants. The government has maintained that their operations are constitutional.

The lawsuit that led to the court's temping of the state and other similar suits are still working their way through lower courts, and it could be months before they are resolved and years before the Supreme Court has a change to say that.

In the meantime, civil rights lawyers are continuing to unison what they hope will be a valuable move of evidence that racial profiling by immigration agents is prevalent — and that it is unconventional in the manner that it is being carried out today.

As 2015, the Supreme Court cleared the way for some degree of racial profiling in immigration enforcement when the justices allowed race and ethnicity to be one of the factors — but not the only one — used by agents deciding when to stop a car on suspicion that the occupants include underexistent immigrants.

Jennifer M. Chautin, a law professor who studies immigration law at Stanford University in California, said the current wave of cases — and the So-

Federal agents in Minneapolis in January. Court filings depict U.S. immigration agents as under pressure to meet a national arrest quota, which had been as high as 3,000 per day.

perme Court's recent order — engaged with the questions of whether the 2015 decision, in U.S. v. Brigment-Power, still holds.

'In this still good law, and even if it is, when data agency behavior cross the line of what is permitted?' Professor Chautin said.

'The lower batch of depositions, videos and surveillance records in Los Angeles, first reported by Califamers and The Los Angeles Times, show that immigration agents and officers were focused on finding 'big' laborers.' But civil rights groups argue that their vague and varying explanations for where they were looking for often deluded to any one who looked Latino, had darker skin or spoke English with an accent. That reliance on perceived race and ethnicity, they argued, also ended up unlawfully sweeping as U.S. citizens.

In one event declaration, a driver in a traffic stop in San Bernardino, Calif., said an officer told him he had been pulled over 'because he looked like a 'pulse,'' a stinging to the 2 Mexican companies or to work a several immigrants.

In another declaration, Angel Santiago Tatalia, a U.S. citizen in Azuhulea,

Calif., said that agents chased him — a doth obtained Latino race — while ignoring his light-drained co-workers at an Orange County carwatch. One agent discharged a favor, acting derelictly in front of Mr. Tatalia, whose clothes were not from his work. He was handcrafted and loaded into a van, according to the document.

'I kept saying 'I'm American,' but they just kept telling me I was Latino and my documents were false and to stop talking,' he said.

'Such encounters were not limited to California. In more than a dozen lawsuits filed in courts across the United States — including in Alabama, Illinois, Oregon and Minnesota — civil rights lawyers argue that residents, predominantly Black and Latino, were wrongly targeted based on their appearance, specifically their skin color, perceived ethnicity, ancient and work attire.

At least 43 U.S. citizens were described as having been stopped, questioned or detained, and because all of them were eventually released, and were able to provide lawyers with detailed accounts of their encounters with immigration agents. Some said officers

refused to accept their passport or valid driver's licenses as proof of citizenship. Several were threatened with Timers, notified and handcrafted. A few were held for hours before being released, according to court filings.

Many of the filings depict federal agents as working under crushing pressure to meet a new national quota.

'For the individuals that they're stopping, they don't have any information about them other than the demographic profile.'

which for a time was as high as 3,000 immigration arrests daily. The increase — a near threshold increase in May 2025 from the prior base line — forced officers to shift from individualized investigations to street sweeps intended to round up as many people as possible. Being aware of officers in some states, 5,115 is repeatedly converged on Latino neighborhoods and businesses, including carwalks, Home Depot parking lots, construction sites and shopping corridors, the court records state.

'For the individuals that they're stopping, they don't have any information about them other than the demographic profile that they appear Latino and working class,' said Mayra Asadita, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union working on the Los Angeles case.

Government lawyers maintain in court filings that immigration operations have been highly targeted, and that isolated examples of derogatory or inflammatory language are not evidence of an agency-wide policy or intent. They also argue that agents have broad powers to question people they believe are not citizens of the United States, particularly when they are only briefly stopping someone to investigate their legal status and not necessarily to conduct an arrest.

In an amused statement, Katherine Carrie, a homeland security spokeswoman, did not respond to questions about agents using slurs. She called allegations that federal officers were engaged in racial profiling 'disgusting, reckless, and categorically false.'

'What makes someone a target for immigration enforcement is if they are

disgustly in the U.S. — not their skin color, race or ethnicity?' Ms. Carrie said.

For more than 10 years, courts have taken the fourth and Fifth Amendment, along with the 1975 Supreme Court ruling to assess that immigration agents cannot stop or detain people without a specific, factual basis for helping they see in the country illegally and that race or ethnicity cannot be the sole factor in targeting someone.

Federal law has granted immigration officers far more latitude at immigration checkpoints and within a 100-scale (100-kilometer) tradition of any U.S. border. But civil rights groups argue Border Patrol agents have been exercising these powers deep in the interior of the country.

Now, as the cases move through the courts, the rulings will determine whether federal agents are exclusively retiring on race and ethnicity to stop, question and detain people for immigration violations — and whether the limits banning such tactics will remain in place.

Karin R. Johnson, an expert in immigration law and a professor at University of California, Davis, said that the most recent Supreme Court order and accompanying opinion from Justice Kavanaugh had established federal officers in only no racial profiling nationwide.

But he cautioned that the emergency order was not the last word. The newest hostage — taken from inside patrol vehicles or Chicago and Los Angeles — could raise fresh concerns for the justices when the underlying lawsuit almost certainly returns to the Supreme Court for full consideration, he said.

'The racial slurs are resulting and coupled with the recent string of Latinos killed in an steps and detection centers. They are likely to get the juries to thinking about what is going on here to ways that they haven't,' said R. Johnson, a former dean of the law school at U.C. Davis.

In videos from Chicago, agents point out people on the street as 'tanks.' The star has been used since at least the 1990s by immigration officers along the Southern border of the United States.

The option is echoed in the latest batch of video evidence filed in the Los Angeles case. Since there is direct both careers and bystanders whose capture agents bypassing people who appeared white, moving instead to question and detain men who appeared Latino nearby.

In one video, taken Aug. 6, 2025, a group of heavily armed, stunted agents in camouflage cluster in the back of a moving crash, passing out. A backpack is visible on the floor.

'When backpack is that? Treat?' one agent asks, 'Took backpack?'

In most of the other hostage, agents appear to be casual.

'They filled three vans,' one agent says to another as they drive through a Los Angeles neighborhood on June 15, 2025. Later, one of those agents recounts seeing a man sitting in a motorcar where he did not end up approaching. 'I'm pretty sure he was not. He says.'

Development rush sends Miami's skyline soaring hearer

Series of new Hall towers transforms city, but some experts express concerns

BY DANIELA GORNY

In July, Cipriani Residences, in the Brickell neighborhood, became the tallest building in Miami and the tallest residential building south of New York City. At 500 feet, it edged out the previous tidduckles, the state-year-old Panorama Today, by 2025.

The Cipriani will be surpassed by the Waldorf Astoria Residences in 2026. By 2026, the Waldorf will be reached by Miami, Brookridge, State & California and New Baytown, an expected to top and an annual 1,000 feet (320 meters), the current height limit set by the Brickell Aviation Administration to allow for safe flight ports to end out of Miami International Airport.

Superlable (skyscrapers over 984 feet) and megalith (buildings taller than 1,000 feet) are still relatively rare engineering anomalies. Currently, megalith exist only in Asia and the Middle East.

Miami's entry into this elite tier registrar a new era for the city: 'I used to say that Miami was having a moment, but I don't know that you can have a moment for five years,' said Ryan Shoot, a managing partner at the development center in Miami, who is the first Astoria Residences, the city's first superalt 'I think Miami is having a revolution.'

Other skyscrapers in the works include the Delano Residences (980 feet), the new headquarters of the Citadel bridge built from 1958 from the Water State Highway (980 feet) and the Brickell (981 feet), 920 Brickell (980 feet), Baccardi Residences (980 feet) and the Brickell (981 feet). The Aldermore (7735 feet). The Aldermore Residences in Brickell was completed in 2024, and stands at 635 feet. A video rendering of President Trump's proposed prefabricated city in downtown Miami shows a building towering over the city's skyline, but the most bright has not been revealed.

Miami's rapid development can

transforms feel a lot with the geographic and geological realities of the area. Florida is a target that, now lying subtropical land mass (threatened by rising sea levels, warming waters and low ricanes that continue to get stronger.

But as demand for real estate in Miami has skyrocketed, available land has become harder to find. Luis Rianzova, a structural engineer and managing principal in Oklahoma Consulting Engineering, the structural engineering first behind the Adam Martin Residences, explained that 20 years ago development could easily find full blocks to build an hot valley, he said: 'people's sites have gotten a whole lot smaller.' To make a profit and maximize space, he added: developers have no choice but to build vertically.

Mr. Rianzova also pointed out that South Florida was 'developer friendly,' and that permitting could take months

rather than five years it might take in places like California.

Col. Dover, the president of Dover Development, and a partner in the upcoming Baccardi Residences in downtown Miami, said that going taller allows the company to 'reporter the last piece of utility' and of a site and create premium units with unobstructed ocean views that clear neighboring buildings.

'There is also an aesthetic and significant appeal to reshaping the city. 'I love watching TV shows where they show Miami and they flash big my building,' said Mr. Dover, who has also developed buildings in nearby Sunny and Beach. Similarly, the developer Camila Miguel of Main Capital views his Cipriani building as an opportunity to 'make an impact on Miami's skyline.'

The rush in development has more experts worried. South Florida sits on a bed of porous limestone and sand that

requires a good deal of engineering to stabilize. The foundations for skyscrapers, especially very tall ones, must be much deeper and wider than usual. 'Overcrowding these foundations require powerful, specialized equipment and is very expensive,' said Juan-Pierre Rardin, the former dean of the University of Miami College of Engineering. 'The technology and engineering capacity when the design assumptions must be verified and construction quality must be carefully controlled.'

In 2025, the University of Miami published a study about how high-use new era on Miami's barrier islands, especially in Sunny State Beach, were settling, or adding, more than one year, and other construction facilities.

The study hypothesized that one of the primary reasons for this concerns settlement was that the vibrations of nearby construction, combined with

Left, the view from the Cipriani Residences in Miami. The Cipriani, above, became the city's tallest building last month. One developer said that going taller allowed his capacity to open by various houses with unobstructed ocean views. Some experts are worried about hurricanes, and building foundations on Miami's porous limestone and sand.

Florida's unique geology of limestone and sand, could cause the sand to interrupt itself and get more compact.

Fish trenching, a professor of geoscience, has been a major source of climate change, and one of the main authors in the study, noted that it is proper routine monitoring of working settlement via satellite is common, but that's not the case in the United States, where 'it's difficult to get funding.'

'Engineers monitor the ground to come across during construction, but not so much in the years after — which is either no foundation settlement in still occurring,' he said.

In San Francisco, the Millennium Tower needed to be stabilized many years after construction because of extensive sinking and siding caused by overlying construction and a different foundation system. Several years later the towers will become rigid disaster.

Hurricane winds also represent an advanced variable for Miami's new wave. 'All skyscrapers, although these buildings are designed according to building codes, advanced structural analysis and wind-coated testing, many of them have never experienced a direct

strike in real-world conditions.'

'Maximum sustained winds in a major hurricane affecting South Florida could exceed 175 miles per hour,' Dr. Rardin said. 'What others because increasingly significant as buildings grow taller.' Miami has not been directly hit by a major hurricane since Hurricane Andrew in 1981.

The high-level construction in Miami is showing no signs of slowing down, and developers continue to push forward. 'If you cannot as cover corner or face here and close your eyes, it's going to feel and look very similar to the years,' said Erin Rutter, one of the founders of the development firm that New Equities, which the region is developing, found especially in Brickell. 'In Miami, that's not the case. It's going to be radically different.' — And the skyline might be a very interesting legend out. Mr. Rianzova, the structural engineer, noted that when the began his career, the height limit for skyscrapers was 850 feet. No time was today, developers wanted to push higher, and they lobbied to find areas of the city where you could go taller,' he said. 'I'm sure that developers will try to push on that, too.'

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Preparing a copper pot for caramels at a bakery in Chicago last week. The bakery lost hundreds of tin cream and chocolate products because of a power cut during a carton in June.

An economic firestorm

Businesses seek solutions as brutal heat warns and power cuts wreak havoc

BY CITO DEPOLIS

In early June, the power went out at Stephens Hart's bakery on Chicago's South Side, during an intense storm and a suffocating heat wave.

Five hundred tin cream bars meant that a sweetened customer had already perished, along with chocolate candies, and 100,000 worth of cakes in her walk-in between were at risk.

Ms. Hart quickly directed her staff to pack the better with dry tin, which cost $1,700. Then she began calling every politician she knew: 'Every guest will bring I'm over and I'd called it to.' She said. Finally, it worked! The utility turned her power back on the next day, and her cakes were saved.

Ms. Hart was relieved. But she's not seeing easy — the power outages that have followed more frequent summer storms in Chicago could still wipe out her inventory. So she has been making more of her cakes in order, which means

slower delivery times and more intermittent work. For next summer, she's contemplating an expensive backup process.

'That was a lot of pressure, and who knows? I'm going to take to pull it out again?' Ms. Hart said. 'Cake is just not meant for extreme weather.'

Sahovian press reported that she was multiply them by thousands to understand what this summer has been like just in Chicago, where several rains has expanded. Tonight down green lines to catch a gold already retained by the relentless need for air-conditioning.

Multiply them by millions to understand approximately the financial toll this brand number of food, firm, smoke and electric fan taken on businesses and households around the world. The July was the hottest month on record in the contiguous New York Times, including its federal data, and Western Europe experienced its hottest time to July average ever recorded.

Economists have long studied the worsening impact of climate change on economic growth, inflation and employment. Most estimates of the impact caused to date have been moderate, while projections for damage over the

long run become more drastic. But the past year has delivered climate-related shocks that are becoming impossible for businesses to avoid.

'Without these outsourcing annual events, it's easy to say, 'It's part of our enterprise risk-management system, so we're going to get to this.' 'I will disguise the 90th, a climate-focused economist at the Conference Board. 'Nothing because the attention more than an emergency.'

HIGH COSTS, LESS INCOME

Consider the effects of heat in isolation, without accounting for the attendant wildfires and storms. Allianz Research, an arm of the global insurance company, analyzed the likely economic impact over the next five years if they looked like the five fastest years from 2011 to 2025. The economic output of the most exposed countries, including France, Japan, Italy, Germany and Spain, would be 3.4% percent lower than their base line trajectories by 2026.

There are also serious fiscal consequences. Heat hits can reverses by reducing production and consumption, and requires more spending on damaged infrastructure. Across Europe, the Allianz Research authors found that on-

nual government deficits would rise by 0.3 percent of gross domestic product, potentially destabilizing the able basis of the worst-affected countries.

The projection is likely conservative. 'What I proposed the economic, some people said. 'You are taking the five institutions heat waves during the last 10 years — this is a bit of a pessimistic scenario,' said Sharon Kricher, an Allianz Research climate economist who started working on the project last fall. 'Already 2026 is going higher than that.'

Heat affects consumers through two main channels. The first is energy costs. Nearly all forms of generating electricity — solar panels, wind turbines, dusts, gas turbines — operate from efficiently to extremely high temperatures. At the same time, outside of the northernmost nations, energy demand increases on households and businesses create up their air-conditioning. Both of these dynamics boost prices and raise the risk to a outages.

The second channel is productivity. Construction sites have to shorten their hours, and sleep suffers. When schools and child care facilities can't operate, parents can't get to their jobs. One on CUMAR, And 4

Canada looks south as trade war reignites

BRICKVILLE, ONTARIO

Trump's latest tariffs spur more companies to move production to U.S.

BY JAY JUSTICE

At Northern Cable, the machinery that churns out steel-shaft cable runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The push isn't driven by a flood of new orders. It's driven by loss.

The Canadian company is rushing to fill restrictions around the United States. It is not of many businesses making goods in Canada for U.S. customers that now face pressure to move their business south of the border to avoid President Trump's 10 percent tariffs, which are scheduled to start next week, on their products.

Mr. Trump's latest tariff salvo hits particularly close to home for Northern Cable. Its factory's partly located in a former Coca-Cola bottling plant, sits about 2.5 miles (four kilometers) north of the invisible line dividing Ontario and New York from along the St. Lawrence River.

With half of its business coming from the United States, the company is now considering a move south. It would be a coming reversal for Northern Cable, which was founded in 1898 to keep cable-making in Rockville, Ontario, after a U.S.-based company closed its plant there and deferred production out of Canada.

But if Mr. Trump's tariffs in a wide range of goods, including electric cables, were added as plans for the day, St. Malibu Races, the company's chief executive, and the new war fund Stafford, its president, will have to start looking for an American factory.

The first time going to have to to go down and go shopping," Mr. Bacon said, related to a businessman table where short lengths of cable made at the factory were displayed under glass. "We have

too many jobs at stake here to just do nothing."

Northern Cable normally divides production of its armored electrical cables — which power everything from office towers to underground stations — overall between Canadian and American customers. But to stock by U.S. warehouses, about 80 percent of the cable now being owned and operated, we weigh up to 2,500 pounds (2,400 kilograms) to being made in American electrical standards. Mr. Stafford estimates that the U.S. warehouses will be required within two to three weeks.

Northern Cable, which has 120 employees, is not alone. A survey of 275 manufacturers conducted by the United States Army from 1936 to 1940, found that 20 percent had moved more or all of their production to the United States since Mr. Trump started his trade war with Canada. Another 12 percent more were considering it. (The survey was conducted in May before Mr. Trump announced his latest 10 percent tariffs.)

'If the trade and tariff association continues and if there is not a focus from the government on some of the system's issues that impact manufacturing in Canada, these manufacturers may not have a choice but to start moving in the U.S.,' said Anantha Castle, KPMG's school leader for industrial markets in Canada. 'We not necessarily their desire. But they may be left with little choice.'

In Ontario, Action-makers highly specialized doors — before restroom, bioconstructs, soundproof, frequent and convenient, and the United States is including including the Pentagon. Jack Shiner, the company's chief executive, once in the middle of the time, has used a moving at his factory was made; it simply came flattered and roughly cut from a processor in Montreal.

But after the United States imposed a 25 percent tariffs on products, made largely from steel or aluminum, Mr. Shiner made sure that the supplier and only U.S.-made-seed, cutting the effective tariff rate on the company's basis,

which cost roughly $5,000 to $20,000 each, to about 10 percent.

'So I'm not going to be susceptible for the moment,' Mr. Shiner said. 'The problem is what happens when the administration changes its main investment afternoons or next month or in three months,' Nobody knows.'

Andhra, started by Mr. Shiner's father and made in 1954, nobody only said sure of them and known around Ontario before expanding into Montreal and Toronto. After Mr. Shiner returned in 1960 from studying in the United States, he pushed to expand into upscale New York. It was an unconventional idea at the time for a small Canadian manufacture outside the auto industry, even before Canada and the United States agreed their first five-scale agreement in 1968.

'I had this comfort with sleep business in America, just 45 minutes from here,' Mr. Shiner said. 'There we read-

'The problem is what happens when the administration changes its mind tomorrow afternoon.'

and that there was a lot more business in the upper-tier states than there was in Ontario and Quebec — and there wasn't the competition.'

What, two-thirds of Northern business now comes from the United States. Still, Mr. Shiner said, he will not move the company south. 'The 120 people that I employ here leave this 7th out,' he said. 'But how are I going to move my business is really the question.'

A few years ago, Andhra explored opening a second plant to upscale New York has abandoned the idea after concluding a crash and had enough work, too, instead, Mr. Shiner plans to license some of the company's technology to American steel makers and repair their Europe, where Andhra's new overhanging its share for European standards. On subjects that market to replace only about 10 percent of the company's business,

He said that he expects the company may lose money for more two years the cause of the tariffs. 'I think we can weather the storms,' he said. 'I do, they're the being naïve.'

Northern Cable is also eyeing Europe, though the path to handle European electrical standards do not currently at a low armored electrical cable to be used as industrial wiring, so cables could be threaded through steel glass instead. Mr. Stafford said the company is working approval to change that, but expects the process could take 15 years.

Mr. Trump's new Northern Cable's only trade headache. Mr. Bacon said that after the United States imposed a 25 percent tariffs on electrical cables from China, these products began forming into Canada.

China expected about $18 million to sustain dollars worth of wire and cables in Canada in 2015, up from 127 million dollars in 2015. On 2024 Canada imported 972 million dollars in cables from the United States and shipped cables worth 704 million dollars to American countries.

'We're getting hammered at in Canada, the Chinese imports,' Mr. Bacon said, adding that he's frustrated by what he believes is a lack of interest in the Canadian government about the situation, although Canada recently imposed tariffs on wire—smaller cables from China.

Like Mr. Shiner, Mr. Stafford, he was worried about though enough workers for an American plant that would not entirely escape tariffs. Canada's companies would still need to no new large number of companies because the United States has limited capacity to produce the metal. Right now, that aluminium faces a fire and a fire. The Green Energy tariffs take effect on Aug. 16. Mr. Stafford said the company will move quickly.

'We're going to have to go into over-the-counter, and where can we put some space, where can we put some machines? Have can we start this process,' he said. 'We've started now, but just quickly right now.'

As robo-taxis expand, so do their glitches

SAN FRANCISCO

Waymo's growth highlights its driverless cars' inability to handle novel situations

BY DORIS TAUZICK

On July 4, more than 100,000 people pushed San Francisco's waterfront for a baggy fireworks show over the Golden Gate Bridge.

When they tried to go home, Waymo put in the way.

With covered-selling around, Waymo's driverless cars blocked intersections and cleaned traffic. Some drivers were stuck behind the wheel, some were for more than three hours. Several Waymos had to be saved after their batteries died in the gridlock. At least two drove over exploding fireworks, with one catching up.

Base Peterson was inside the other line and her fiancée had ordered a Waymo to return to their hotel. When the car stopped at an intersection, a man ran into the road, set a firework on the street and lit it. The Waymo drove the road, rolling over the firework as it exploded beneath the car.

'We were just in absolute shock,' said Mr. Peterson. 'It, who works in insurance, is Walnut Creek, Calif. The car smelled like a man on fire, she said, but the Waymo was going back to market at another intersection. She said her fiancée then goes out and walked the rest of the way to their hotel, turning what was supposed to be a five-minute drive into an teaching journey.'

What Mr. Peterson experienced is what the driverless car industry calls us to 'wipe once.' Which are the attempted situations that we are trained the robot into to handle. The problems in that edge cases appear to be gilding up as Waymo, the leading ammunition car service, and the good thing.

Owned by Google's parent Alphabet, Waymo has more than spinnipper the number of ammunition cars in his own car, read to nearly 4,000 today, up from about 100mph that runs for vehicles one now in 22-metre areas, having gone fully driverless or, however, I am angry, then Diego and Tampa in the past month alone. Each week, passengers pay for about half a million trips.

Amid that growth, Waymo has issued three hundred malls since December for software problems — including one where the cars drove into the model roadways — compared with three results in the previous 22 months. Some edge cases have drawn headlines, including a December parent outage at San Francisco that left nearly 1,400 Waymos fences for at least two minutes.

More cars in more cities mean more chances to meet something the technology has never seen. That's hard to fix because the cars often do not recognize they are in trouble and to do not respect help, said Philip Kargraun, an emeritus professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh who specializes in ammunition vehicles.

'This technology struggles to know where it's in a novel situation,' Dr. Kargraun said. 'And when it's in a novel situation, it's prone to overconfidence and specializations. What failure? Waymo's answer has not been to solve the suffering problems, he said, but its inactivation of the car is a remote human spectrum.'

Randy Karg, a Waymo spokeswoman, said the recent results were proactive moves and the rate of edge cases was increasing as the company expanded, adding that 'the ones that do occur in best-engaging improvements.'

The pace of driverless car rollovers has sunkened, acknowledging Franklin Tho, says, that when the Waymo made their chemistical expansion into new cities. The company's current faster into cities because the software is developed in one place increasingly works for the next generation, having to be working for each kiosk, he said.

Waymo's goal is for its technology to handle edge cases: 'regardless if we've seen them before.' Mr. Trujillo said. He pointed to the company's safety record that showed 50 percent fewer serious injury to other than human drivers, adding, 'we're constantly learning, can-

mately improving our product.'

For now, Waymo's incidents have put the company in the cross-bars of officials and regulators.

Blad Markwood, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who walked an hour to get home after the July 4 fireworks, demanded that months that the city's emergency management, fire and transportation departments explain what went wrong at the event. Mayor Daniel Lurie also wrote to California's Transportation Secretary asking the state to set operational standards for driverless cars during major events and emergency, saying 'We're getting the typical conditions to no longer enough.'

On July 18, Mr. Lurie handed federal legislation that would require driverless car companies to staff a hidden fee entering the request from the state's regulatory to write a minimum standard for how emergency medical workers can move a reference.

Jonathan Morrison, the administrative or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, also wrote in a July 4 letter that the agency had identified a clear pattern of ammunition vehicles interfering with the police, firefighters and personnel. 'Emergency' scenes are not one or extreme 'wipe cases,' he wrote.

Waymo's failure were bimonthly, said Matthew Rathaus, who leads research on police and ammunition vehicles at the University of California, Berkeley. One of thousands of people can engage in a reduction in a driver's or just another normal weekend in a big city he said.

'Some of the things that we're calling edge cases are edge cases for ammunition vehicles, but not necessarily edge cases for transportation,' he said.

What think, 'Is a loss? Personal costs, they, was recently involved in such a case. It's and its chances were rolling in a Waymo back to the city from an event in

When a man set a firework on the street and lit it, the Waymo drove firework, rolling over the firework as it exploded.

nearby San Mateo, Calif, is. May where the car entered a construction near that city, the Waymo was a big big big highway.

The car began driving like a 'high-end animal,' Mr. Slade said, reversing through traffic comes and accelerating to highway speed in the closed lane. It then turns past a truck and workers as California Highway Board officers hit their mines and shunted, 'Stop, Waymo!'

'We were breaking out,' Mr. Slade said, adding that he placed his own across his fiancée's store 'just in case we crashed.' He said he presented a button to the car to call for support but no one answered until the vehicle exited the highway on its own. The caught got out of the Waymo and then took an 17-hr the rest of the way home.

While, here, Waymo's sudden the software on some cars for entering freeway construction, issues and public to vehicles off high-city while crossing a bus. The company resumed freeway routes last last month in Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix and the San Francisco Bay Area.

For San Francisco's July 4 fireworks, Waymo had appeared prepared. The company sent an employee to the city's Emergency Operations Center that evening and agreed to switch where others could had its cars. Wayne sent had a team that could take manual control of stock vehicles, and David Crispee, San Francisco's fire chief.

Yet more than two hours before the 9:30 p.m. fireworks show began, experts of stalled Waymax reached the center. Several of these cars ran out and of battery vehicles, and saw trucks were unable to reach them because of the traffic. The Waymax were not cleared for two hours, according to a letter from San Francisco's emergency management department.

Waymo's life, Kargraud that the July 4 traffic cardiac 'were caused by a number of factors' and that Waymax 'switched out to congestion' in the Pondera neighborhood of San Francisco, adding that the company's roadside assistance team worked with local authorities to clear the vehicles.

Waymo driverless cars are in San Francisco, above, and 14 miles? U.S. metropolitan areas. The company has issued three federal results since December for software problems.

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A.I.-driven chip crunch leads to a lobbying rush

SAN FRANCISCO

As data centers snap up supply, other industries ask government for help

AT KALLEY HUSSE, ADUANA DIVISION

The artificial intelligence bases has created a shortage of a critical commodity called memory chips, and a new limit for corporate lobbying in Washington. Memory chips store data in items as varied as smartphones and cars, and they are being mapped up by A.I. companies for use in giant data centers. The price of these tiny components has quadrupled over the past year, creating a problem for the White House, which has struggled to convince Americans that it has inflation under control.

Now, a wide range of industries, including medical device makers, car manufacturers and consumer electronics companies like Apple, are asking for this government's help to get the chips they need.

The companies and their lobbyists have suggested a mix of solutions, some conventional and others now ventilated, the federal policy that would push memory chip makers to allocate more chips to their industries, according to interviews with 10 people, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about these discussions.

Some have suggested that selling chips to a broader set of customers should be a condition for receiving money from the 2025 CEIPS and his past Act, a program in hand and a character research and manufacturing in the United States, three of these people said. Others have asked the Trump administration to use a Korean War era law called the Defense Production Act to require allocation to industries outside of A.I. five people said.

"We're not a medical characteristic as a life year fixed on the memory pricing, with exponential increases in memory prices," Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, said last month in an earnings call.

In a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Boosner and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in June, a group of trade associations warned of "risks to large parts of the economy" from an "unjust imbalance" in the memory chip market. Memory chips are starting to add to inflation in the United States, said Diane Swank, the chief economist for KPMG US, an accounting firm. Bhagavi and an ready cutting back on buying video game consoles, and more expensive electronics will probably follow, she said.

"The A.I. business is coming that it is holding up costs elsewhere," Ms. Swank said.

It is unclear if the White House or the Commerce Department will intervene. Though eager to keep prices down, they are reluctant to divert memory chips away from data centers that are helping the United States maintain an edge over China in A.I.

Kash Zexel, a White House spokesman, said domestic semiconductor manufacturing was a top priority for President Trump, and the policies had secured hundreds of billions of dollars of investments in the sector.

Memory chip makers like Micron Technology, Samsung and SK Hyuns are also working on a consumer-flare production. Some of the companies are lobbying Congress for another infusion of funding, similar to the CEIPS Act. They have also asked the government to relax environmental regulations as they can build new U.S. facilities, three people said.

Micron has pledged more than $250 billion to the U.S. memory sector, the largest investment of its kind, said Manesh Manta, an executive vice president at the company. He added that cost structuring chip factories in the United States took longer than anywhere else, and that the country needed to streamline permitting and cultivars its work force.

"This is something that's going to take a concerted effort from the manufacturers as well as the suppliers as well as the government," Ms. Manta said.

Other memory chip makers like Samsung and SK Hyuns, which are based in South Korea, produce a majority of their chips in South Korea and China. Representatives for these companies and

their customers have floated the idea of increasing production in their Chinese manufacturing facilities to respond to the shortage, two people said.

Both the Biden and Trump administrations have tried to encourage chip makers to respond to the United States, Micron, Samsung and SK Hyuns have all

consented hundreds of billions of dollars over the next five years to respond production to the United States and their where. But the facilities are extremely expensive and data years to counteract.

Shortages in the industry will continue to be the next two years, said Diane Kim, a chief strategy officer at the research

firm TechInsights who worked on chip strategy in the Biden administration. There is "almost no selling," he said, to the price that A.I. companies will pay for memory chips. That's not the case for other businesses.

"Yes, the prices of your iPhone are going up," Mr. Kim said. "But it's also possi-

ble the prices of your M.B.I. machines may go up."

That said, chip makers don't want the government to be too assertive. In July, SEMI, an industry trade association, an agent against intervention that would influence their new memory chips are priced or allocated. The group recommended using trade deals to increase production, a cheap price, and a more interesting a tax credit meant to encourage domestic manufacturing.

SK Hyuns said in a statement that it was "pushing to maintain production to fully meet surging demand, and would increase its capital expenditure by 30 percent this year."

Apple declined to comment, and Samsung did not respond to a request for comment.

A group of trade associations warned of risks to the economy from an "unjust imbalance" in the memory chip market.

Apple, which has cited the memory chip shortage for recent prior increases, is working with other consumer electronics companies to push for permission to buy memory chips from China, which faces certain restrictions, seven people said.

Apple said in a letter to 2022 to buy memory chips from Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation, in YMTC, but these efforts faded under pressure from U.S. lawmakers.

Many officials argue an unprejudiced to Apple's desire to buy Chinese chips, because the company has promised for years to move more of its supply chain to the United States but has made only more of its own market goal, four people said. Other critics of the plan said that China was also experiencing a similar chip crunch.

Micron, which manufactures memory chips in the United States, Japan and Taiwan, has pushed for more restrictions on Chinese competitors, arguing that buying chipdrivers from would-beer U.S. production, two people said.

Kally Haung reported from San Francisco, and, best, because from Washington.

China expands domestic beef herds

CHINA, FROM PAST

cently, its beef imports accelerated as an increasingly affluent population demanded a higher-protein diet that exceeded the domestic supply.

As recently as 2025, China imported less than 500,000 tons (about 450 million kilograms) of beef, according to the country's customs data. As imports began rising quickly, China started expanding its own herd, even handing out free cattle to impoverished households in poor counties. Imports produced in 2024 at 2.67 million tons — a huge windfall for ranchers around the globe. It was a pace of annual increases matched by five industries other than China's own rapid growth in tax exports.

But by 2025, real estate prices had tumbled and many Chinese households were switching to less expensive chicken or pork after losing their savings in the country's housing market crash. Combined with rising domestic production, beef wholesale prices plunged 15 percent that year.

The price drop include considerable anger in rural China, where millions of families get their life savings into raising cattle for slaughter.

China exports several imports from the rest of the world this year at 2.69 million tons, using the country quotas system and the threat of 85 percent tariffs. It is a publically low income for the buying, which has strongly opposed tariffs by the European Union and the United States on its own surging tax exports.

Beef prices are increasing, helping farmers the their own under the flagship.

Tonghan typhim the transformation now taking place along the northeastern edge of the country. The 2025 US dollar, after age, only 25 percent of Tonghan had growthable or forests and the rest was desert, according to the local government. Now 84 percent of the area is covered with crops, grain or forests.

China's propagande apparatus attributes the retreat of the Gold Desert to decades of hard work in growing trees, supplemented under records by the extensive depopulation of water plants. These actions have stabilized the regions shifting needs and have helped tame dry desert winds that used to wick away numbers from surface soil, the government has said.

But climate change is also making a big difference. Buechel has significantly increased the market share have been yearning dips and surges along the way, according to China's national origin. Across northern China, previously dry responses with a total area similar to the 2024 US single-country sweepstakes run to support purchased or crops, although the soil quality for agriculture in many of those areas is poor.

"What we're seeing is a long-term increase around what climate warming, with pronounced, decadeslong sweep superimposed as top of it," said the Canadian government of the China Meteorological Service Association.

To prevent damage from harvest or overgrazing, Chinese officials are using face equipment to move the new grass-

lands once a year and distributing the hay to farmers for cattle in pens.

The government also circulates large network of market research on Tonghan-soway green areas to detect cattle, Mr. Shen said. Government workers go alerts, then remove the offending animal and the the owner.

"Grazing is strictly prohibited throughout our usual restoration areas," Mr. Shen said.

The Tonghan region has become one of the world's largest manufacturing centers in what northern, many of which are installed on the new grasslands and rural electricity to big cities in the world. They benefit in the wild industry, expanding unreliable and extensive factory construction have contributed to a sharp rise in local standards of living, including the planning of fields

with machinery instead of livestock.

China is also trying to plump up its busy domestic cures, which for one factor were benefit-pleting prices. Low cattle are better at restoring local viruses and withstanding filtration historic that come south.

In local cattle are now considered strongly artificial insemination with very large and meadow Swiss Sistonsa oil and Angus cattle. The resulting offspring weigh up to twice as much to all cattle, said Gus Jin. Deputy director of the Tonghan Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau.

"The Sistonsa oils with our local cashit's green can better adapt to the local environment and grow fast," she said.

Oh, Gus spoke during a media tour this summer in Inner Mongolia, a border region where foreign media access

Beef prices in China have been rising since Beijing restricted imports. Above, a market is Nanjing, Laili, Angus cattle that have been crossbred with local cattle in Inner Mongolia. The crossbreads weigh up to twice as much as local cattle.

is sometimes restricted. The New York Times paid its own travel costs, a

But many small-scale farmers are wary of the imported breeds. Nearly seven million Chinese households still raise nine to fewer cattle apiece.

A border in China's Hebei Province with several dozen local cattle and the had no interest in hybrids. "The beef from our cattle is much better than what you have to experiment—those who live from Chinese breeds," said the border, who grew her family name, Zhan. Most of her grass-fed cattle, gaining in a remote mountain valley, had pretruding pelvis bones and visible ribs.

Inner Mongolia authorities have turned to incentives to encourage consolidation of the herd if large numbers where artificial insemination and other programs are more easily managed. The regisets government provides a subsidy of 164 per head for cattle taken, all of families that send at least 100 cattle each year to land slaughterhouses.

Wholesale beef prices are up 25 per cent from their live in Manchuria over a longer restriction start to him, helping farmers the Tonghan on part of a long-term increase in prosperity.

"In the past, people had to travel on a lower rate namely," Mr. Shen said. "In day, almost every household owns a car."

Russia: Zhang contributed research.

An economic firestorm as heat wreaks havoc

(LUNCH, FROM PAST)

one study found that every day of school-based child care canceled because of wildfire smoke reduces the probability of employment by 5 percent for mothers of young children, likely because infirmile workplaces make reported absences untrouble.

Collectively, abnormally high temperatures depends economic well-being and the environment, providing paper published in July found that more-level economic conditions in the United States deteriorated for months after a first wave.

Those effects count just the "sail" impact of heat on people's costs and ability to work. But the destructive power of heat is not only a new gear this year in Europe, an fast-moving blazes brought landstages, choked cities and forced thousands to evacuate.

WE EAST FIBER

This year, rather than relief, autumn will bring new strains. An unusually strong El Niño weather pattern is expected to impose severe droughts on some parts of the world and excessive rainfall in others, disrupting planting and harvest cycles and reducing production of staples like wheat, corn and sugar.

Heno even top fewer signs as temperatures rise. The most prominent Plagister's Pride tunnel on its second-quarter century sign call that production may be devoid of heat, and that waves also attack the food supply chain, spoiling crops on refrigeration flats.

The intermountain of temperatures have already put central banks in a difficult position. This year's climate disruptions have come during a trade war that has pushed up prices in the United States and a conflict in the Middle East that has squeezed energy and fertilizer supplies around the world. The central banks may cause interest rates to keep costs in levels, even if doing so markets up financial strain.

Having interest rates doesn't create more supply of food, no central bankers have typically not wanted to go there," said Richard de Chaat, an analyst at the investment house William Blast. "Now, if tolerance aren't coming from other areas, the fiscal side of things, then they feel they need to address it."

The cost of shielding people from climate change, with measures like buying power lines and shenading crops to blunt the sun, would be likely to more than pay for itself in smoked damage, according to the consulting firm McKenny. But it is still expensive uproar. Full performance would save around that billion annually, the firm estimated.

In the short-term, businesses and government's leading devices, which are shifting work schedules and trying to protect residents and workers with such ingentness and water breaks, had there is a push toward some air-conditioning in places that never needed it before, like France and England.

But Zhan Myrvik, the chief that officer for the United Nations Human Settlements Program, cautions that air-conditioning can't be forgedly ablative. A Consulting to energy intensive cooling systems may not be feasible on a global scale, as electricity becomes more difficult and expensive to generate.

That's why in the median term, she's pushing for building buildings that keep interiors under and greenery-filled technologies that blend their values than reflect it, and pushing against new development in the bottom places.

The new storm is not only a problem, and what a lot of companies are looking into right now, but look at cooling loss as less of an appliance issue and more of a systemic issue," Ms. Myrvik said.

Longer term, avoiding further warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions is the only way to contain the dusts, "Adequates is buying so time, but adequates will determine whether adequate remains affordable," she said.

Power outages have prompted England's flats, the West Bank's Sugar Beans, the Chicago to make more calls to safety, which is the most slower delivery times and more intermittent work.

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Opinion

Please judge the books I'm reading

Literary awards get dismissed for elitism. But more than ever, we need passionate and idiosyncratic champions for the books most worth seeking out.

Radhika Jones

I was well into adulthood before I learned that prestigious cultural awards are distributed out by some array of gods and names but be real people. So when the Booker Prize Foundation released its longlist almost two weeks ago, I read it with glossary, and I was struck by how prominently the award's five judges featured in the annual contest. I have they are most of them smiling beautifully in the photo on the Booker website and crawling two stacks of books, the proud result of months of medieval father and, presumably, high-minded sporting and arm-retaining.

Literary judges often take the brunt of critiques about prize giving in the arts, what with their inherent biases, their inescapable blind spots and the cliquish nature of the process by which they assist winners. It's easy to argue at their qualifications and choices. Judges are the ultimate gatekeepers, a 21st century taboo persuaded. But at a moment when chatbot guidance is including into every endeavor, I was glad to see them living, breathing humans pictured along with their selections. The subjectivity is the point.

I've adjudicated several awards and prizes through the years, and the dynamics around a judging table — the wild range of reactions to prose style, the tactics of persuasion, the parsing of emotional impact — are as human as the work is tired of us. It's not unusual for a judge to hang a list on the table and stand out of a room (or, during those wretched Covid years, visit the Zoom). It's also possible to accept a notion and change another judge's mind. Some judging panels enjoy consensus from the outset, but it's more common to navigate through conflict. Often where we landed wasn't where we thought we were headed, which was part of the fun. In a world where, apparently, fewer people read anything, those of us who still read a lot rely on literary prizes to assist with their term discovery and long-term predictive power. Prizes are the original recommendation engine — except the deciders are tasked with consulting their own taste, not some algorithmic projection.

This year's judging chair for the Booker Prize is the classicist Mary Beard, probably cast as an authority figure during a summer when all anyone wants to talk about it. "The Odyssey," the author judges include the poet Raymond Astredou, the musician Jarvis Carlan, the poet and memoirist Patricia Lockwood and the editor and critic Rebecca Lis. I don't know any of these personally. I don't yet know the Venn diagram between my sensibility and there, and I haven't yet read any of the novels on the longlist, but I am happier than ever to take a flyer and find out.

Modern prize culture has existed for about 120 years. James E. English, in his master's book "The Economy of Prestige," dates the current craze for literary awards to the Nobel Prize, which debated in 1961. In the Anglophone world, that timing happens to coincide roughly with the rise of English literature departments and, together, universities and awards like the Pulitzer, the National Book Awards and the Booker have become engines of conversation. Some of the common works by adopting them into curriculum, sour-

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ing that generations of students will read them. (Scholars who assemble anthologies often do this work literally, binding poems, plays, fiction and essays into textbook editions.) Prizes commit works and authors by sitting them above their contemporaries, increasing the chance of far when the literary detritus of the present is washed away, a few standards will remain.

Since we can't read all the books all the time, it's helpful to have some guidance, however flawed, as to what's most worthy of our sustained attention.

That's where prizes come in. Awards possess the power to attract immediate attention, both from their selections and from their scandals. (Nearly seven years ago the Booker caused a favor by sticking its bylaws and shruggingly handing out a do.) But they shocked institutional sway.

Prizes have become especially important if one believes that our society has reached a pestilent state, or, which is ever students are majoring in English literature and almost no one is college can read full books anymore. If

academic commerciality and special interest groups continue to target works, instead, someone is told of un-aligned with their worldviews, it will become harder for new books to be anointed through an educational pipeline. The recently published K-12 in-spired reading is better for Texas public schools, which is its high school years includes on books published in the past half-century, offers a glimpse of what that looks like.

I don't mean to say readers shouldn't abide by the suggestions of their trusted

critic or columnist, hardly bibliophile. Subteacher or BookToker. As a society, we do not lack for individual opinions about books, and many of these opinions are reliable. So by all means, take recommendations from me and Don Lise.

But I just enjoy more to prizes' ability to affect and encourage collective reading because so much of their value, albeit unseen, comes from the collective art of judging — discussing, debating, deciding — and the subsequent break. JONES, PAGE 21

Does my face-lift make me a bad feminist?

I, like many a young woman, was once wildly judgmental about plastic surgery. Now I'm not so sure.

Molly Jong-Fast Contributing Writer

Just after my 67th birthday, a disarmingly young-looking plastic surgeon told me, "The bottom half of your face looks older than the top half of your face." He wasn't wrong, my neck rip-pied like that of a blue Pro. When he pushed my pack back into place, looking in the mirror was jarring, not as saddest. I saw a younger — but somewhat more attractive — version of myself. A few months later, I was rolled into an operating room for a deep plane face- and neck-lift.

The plastic surgeon pulled my skin test and gave me chordelones where I had never had their before. He made me better looking, and I don't regret it. So I'm not going to perpetuate the lie that my new face came from drinking a lot of water or getting a lot of sleep. I'm going to talk about it — because it's not fair that women are confronted with both unrealistic beauty standards and the about how they've been achieved.

I, like many a young woman, was once wildly judgmental about plastic surgery. I grew up in the 1990s at the Harrow, family connection of second-wave feminists and Manhattan privilege. Many of the girls in my private high school had their breasts enlarged and their noses shrunk. I recognize

lated myself for not following out, even though I didn't have a bump on my nose and I wasn't flat cheated.

My mother, the writer Erica Jong, had a whole gestalt back then: pre-sex feminism, which of course meant keeping herself appealing enough for men to want to have sex with her. She worried about her own weight and beauty constantly. Julia Phillips, a successful film producer and writer, once compared her to "Miss Piggy when her face is in repose," which was not exactly a compliment. My mom was the concubine of more than a few powerful men. To preserve that status, she had a face-lift in her life.

Many of the feminists who populated my mother's narrow townhouse — Andrea Drozkin, Betty Friedan and Phyllis Chesler among them — did not believe in making themselves into something different for men's delectation. These women rejected the beauty-obsessed power structure that my mother embraced. Instead, they hoped to change that culture by relaxing to comply with it.

Our looks shape our livelihoods, our romantic prospects and our visibility in the world. In response to that, my mother and these women were each forced to make a choice: Should they try to keep up or get out? We ask ourselves this question with the full understanding that plastic surgery perpetuates beauty standards that are rooted in misogyny. Which gets to the bigger question: Does trying to keep

up make me a bad feminist? I don't think as I never quite bought into the idea that the best response to a culture that would exclude women from public view if they didn't look

young or pretty enough was to apart. My face, for instance, is directly connected to my livelihood. I talk about politics on TV for a living. Eventually, I, too, had to make the choice:

Conferen to the standards of beauty and hopefully prolong that part of my career, or reject those standards and assign myself to aging. I've always believed (perhaps self-servingly) that it's more important to be in the arena, to share my ideas, than to allow myself to be forced out. So I had the surgery.

What I did to my face isn't that unusual. I'll argue that it's actually the norm for women on TV these days. We're all on screens more and more, whether we're grown-ups taking Zoom meetings or young influencers who have to feed the TikTok boost. Many romantic treatments once given only to Hollywood stars and societies are now available at strip-malls. We might expect this country's growing embrace of plastic surgery to lead to a culture where we celebrate women's bodily autonomy and can all the elusive that follows those who change their faces or bodies. Instead, stigma about plastic surgery (especially the schoolm: broads around bad plastic surgery) has continued to dominate the discourse.

The most undercutive plastic surgery, the dies-lifts we don't really notice, the ones that lead to total transformation, are still prohibitively expensive and reserved for the rich and famous. So the 36th-century "Book of the Coarlier" Biehlemers Castiglione writes about "spectaculars," the idea that a real coarlier should make things look easy. It's trying that's the offense. JONES, PAGE 7 AND 28

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We deserve answers about Trump's health

Jonathan Reiner

Dick Cheney's heart problems were never a national secret.

I was Mr. Cheney's cardiologist for 27 years, and a big class was not to act on president. During his time in the White House, he wanted it more, a defibrillator and medical treatment for an early-tim and a blood-tan training, after the defibrillator was implanted in his chest in 2001, he would frequently show this turn to his West Wing office a sample device provided to his life the manufacturer.

Mr. Cheney's sample about his health was an anomaly for an American politician. Given it the ethical under-west secret cancer surgery while he was president too faced a cycle for insurance privacy, I found his disease feverish but his use of a wheelchair from the public should offer campaign for a heart attack, but struggle with severe hypertrension and congestive heart failure.

The president has not said. The world should get answers to these seven questions.

In June, President Trump celebrated his 80th birthday, and at the end of this month he will be the oldest permanent to serve on America's leader. After Mr. Trump's medical evaluation in May, Dr. Sean Barbarella, the physician to the president, wrote that Mr. Trump "no reason to no other health" and that his "demanding daily schedule, including multiple high-level meetings, public engagement and regular physical activity, continues to support his overall well-being".

Despite reassurance it from the White House to the contrary, at times over the past year, the president has not looked well. I am not Mr. Trump's doctor, and have only reviewed his records that have been made public. But Mr. Trump is probably the most photograph of president in American history, and is a variety of physical ailments are easy to see. He's had large fortunes in both hands, swelling in his leg and episodes where it appears that he is struggling to stay awake. He's also had advanced imaging performed by another concern.

The public is again left to wonder whether the nation's leader is OK. Despite the unambiguous power of the president of the United States, there is no formal requirement for the commander to shall be one (it) his fitness for duty. That's a mistake. Membership of the military, Secret Service agents, maneuvers and other medical drivers and air traffic controllers all must periodically demonstrate that they are well enough to perform their work. The current practice of regarding the medical is yearly method in a particular for the president began in the Nixon administration, but it's only a system, not a free of illegitimate, that, at factory bus shows, it can be unreliable.

The 25th Amendment to the Constitution allows for the best relation to this problem. It pertains to agencies to establish a good attitude that can be made branch to assure the health and fitness of the president. In April of this year, Representative James Brains came to learn to bill to create a congressional commission that would shape the habitually, such a panel would be empowered to serve data from routine years dental physical examinations, as well as assessments performed when medical concerns emerge.

It such a commission were in place today, these are some of the medical questions that could clarify concerning Mr. Trump's health. The American public deserves answers to all of them.

1. Dr. Barbarella's recent report states that the president was evaluated by 33 individuals, an extraordinary number of specialists for even the most extensive operation in health evaluation. Why were we many physicians unimmined, and what were their specialists?

2. Mr. Trump often shows prominent branding on his hands, which the White House attributes to frequent handshaking and frequent use of aspirin. Trauma from handshaking has never seemed plausible, and it doesn't explain why the president's bill found to show similarly discontent. Also, why would the president take a dose of aspirin four times as high as the dose typically recommended by doctors?

3. Swelling in the president's legs last summer led to an unscheduled medical evaluation. The president's physician described the problem as "chronic venous insufficiency," a condition common in older people; that results from leaky valves in the veins of the legs. It usually develops gradually over a long period. But during Mr. Trump's campy-tension physical examination just a few months earlier, Dr. Barbarella does material on swelling in the president's legs. If that's true, his swelling would be by defecation acute, not chronic. Acute, afebrile, fatal?

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College has a political problem, but it's not woke brainwashing

Neil Gross

For parents like the whose kids are handling off in college in a few weeks. August is a time in deep for them suppliers and brace ourselves for our own to be regular users. Given the turmoil in college, customers will be part few years, it's also a time for concern. What kind of ideological battleground are our kids about to enter?

To answer that question, I've spent 14 years two years interviewing more than 100 undergraduates and record student across the country and analyzing survey data on thousands more. What I found is measuring in some years and deeply troubling it today.

The good news is that most young people going to college today will find the unaided peers to connect with and will take engaging courses that speak to their interests and values. Relatively low will spend their college years three-beams by struggle preference or stiltless students whose political views are aesthetical to their own.

The bad news is that this mostly congenial experience is made possible by a pervasive standards. To a striking degree, young people may gain more college based in part on the school's political reputation, make friends with and their other kids with similar political views, choose majors that residents they outlook on the world and general by gravitate toward what is ideologically familiar.

This self-serving not only undercuts the development of the critical thinking skills that a college education is supposed to better. I also deepens the polarization that is manifestly society. In Social scientists distinguish between two kinds of polarization, ideological and affective. Ideological polarization occurs when people move further apart in their political beliefs and preferences. But affective polarization, which is the true scourge, takes place when your politics become a core feature of your identity, leading you to have negative feelings toward those who disagree with you.

Studies suggest that over the past few decades, affective polarization has grown faster than ideological polarization, and that the negative feelings come have toward their ideological opponents increasingly involve beauty or disdain, rooted in a sense that the other kids is immoral. That kind of disassistance, I found, is reshaping the college experience.

Consider the college search process. In a national survey of undergraduates I can in the manner of 2013, I asked students how important their college or university's political reputation had been for those when they were applying. Fear not of five had been aware of that reputation. And of those who had been aware, many of them had played a role in their decision to attend.

One story, typical of what I heard, came from a young man at a selective noninterventional Christian college before he is a career leader. He also gone to a high school where students tended to be liberal or left-wing, and he often looked heads with them. Though he chose the college probably for its academic rigor, in his eyes it was a major bonus that he would be surrounded by students who shared his basic workforce.

I heard similar stories from students on the left, and less particularly studied students - a significant share of the undergraduate population - settled off the schools they hadn't applied to because they thought politics would be impossible to avoid.

Millions of young people acting on preferences like these have changed the higher education landscape. The economics Riley Acton, Early Cook and Frank Ugalde have confirmed this to research released last year, they showed that between 2002 and 2016, though the average free-year college student nationwide became somewhat more progressive, the student back at home schools moved markedly left while at other schools it shifted to the right. In other words, students on the left and right were congregating in different institutions.

A large majority of students remain

in-state for college, primarily for financial reasons, as one driver of this change in things growing regional polarization. That would help explain why, for example, in many students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, are liberal while the students only represent University in Alabama is more conservative. But the researchers found that a significant additional factor was the student's preference for attending college with

tive conversations that dampen minds and cultivate political behavior.

But any inter-rules on this one that for the most part they'll get into meaning, hit political exchanges only with people they consider good friends - and the fester groups that students are forming today turn to be political and legal.

One student at a top-tier university explained that he felt the most comfortable discussing political matters,

points. Yet there's a shortage of vigorous political leaders in many such areas. The most effective students worry about offending a clearance or their professor on because of how the course is designed, but also because they are self-serving politically to college.

In the United States, around 60 percent to 80 percent of students who reside in political science, psychology, anthropology, sociology and interview

politically similar peers - and their even stronger desire not to go to school with people on the other side of the political divide.

This trend has come at considerable cost to the college experience. For one thing, when students perceive their college as being "for" the left or the right, they are more likely to take part in beats of cancel culture, casting discontent to campus reflections so interleaves. By the same token, I

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higher education a potent symbol for the populist right, incentivizing the Trump administration's damaging money against colleges. I. Perhaps the biggest root of this self-serving is the dampening effect on debate and critical thinking. Even at the most progressive universities the student body can't truly politically histogenously. Take may have about nine斌堡 liberal students for every one conservative, judging from data collected in 2023 by the Foundation of Individual Rights and Expression, but over a quarter of 7kth students characterize their politics as more middle of the road. Those disagreements could, in theory, become the basis for product

when "you're just sitting around with your boys, playing beer pony and smoking weed and you talk politics from 2 to 4 a.m. because there's true it's personal and it's real." Outside of their close friend groups, students reported, they worry they'll inadvertently say something that others will move offensive or that will make them sound ignorant or dumb.

At the same time, eight out of 10 students I surveyed at the left and seven out of 10 on the right agreed or strongly agreed with the statement "most of my close friends today share my political views." That means that the true necessity for whose political conversations is most commonly found among students who, while perhaps disagreeing on some things, are in roughly the same political style and can yield one another only a day.

Along similar lines, undergraduates have political agreement in dating, according to a 2022 survey conducted by Harvard's Institute of Politics, 24 percent of college students say that political agreement is important in romantic relationships, while only 15 percent say it is unimportant.

Political strong also happens in 1826 and outsourcedular activities. Fraternities and securities, composed of the most important, are professional skills and even a cigarette group can all become gathering points for students with broadly similar political methods, for the men's needs. Data collected by the political scientists James Dendronz and Elizabeth Sherrre show that college athletes skew moderate relative to the average degree.

Classes in fields like political science and sociology, which can be relevant to current events, ought to give students an opportunity to encounter and consider a range of opinions and new-

mental relations are liberal, according to data from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Among students who major in theater, English film and media studies, fine arts, music and environmental studies, about 75 percent to 85 percent fall into the liberal camp and 9 percent or less are conservative.

At elite colleges, where students tend to be the most politically engaged and progressive, these numbers are higher still. The upshot is that in upper-level classes where it might be appropriate to discuss controversial issues, there often isn't enough strong disagreement among classmates for debates to gain traction.

For years critics on the right have contended that universities are leftist and/or tristates machines. Defenders have been the most engaging that smart, educated people are drawn to progressivities as a matter of course. The research suggests that both camps are missing the bigger picture. The critics are correct that politics suffices the college experience, but wrong to think that its main form is coercive or confrontational. The defenders of universities are correct that most students do not experience college as an indoctrination, but wrong to think that that's the end of the story.

The truth is that because of political time and self-serving, the college experience has become more political than ever, and it is more subtle and ultimately more insidious ways.

NELL GREGG is a professor of sociology at CUN College, a researcher at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the author of the forthcoming book "What Happened to College? New Politics Broke Higher Education and What We Can Do to It's It." Even which this essay is adopted.

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OPINION

Two politicians, and a tale of two Israels

FREDERICK FRONT PAGE

El-Sayed says Michigan Jews should not be worried about him — insuring that his commitment "to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters." That's commendable, but many Jews's as Jewish voters are not just looking for stronger police protection from their elected representatives. They are looking for recognition of the right of Jews to self-determination, like any other people.

Yes, many American Jews, especially young ones, now agree — as I do — with Israel's former Missouri chief Tamar Pardo, who in 2022 denounced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bringing "her little racist parties" into the country's highest cabinet offices, describing them as "a lot worse" than the Ruk Kian Kian.

But don't confound that with the belief in the right of Israel to resist as a Jewish state. That is still something very dear to most American Jews — just as much as Palestinian statehood bears in the heart of most a state and Brazilian. Israel is part of their identity, and El-Sayed is not swaying American Jews when he stoops from him he will protect their synagogues.

He needs to stress his even more commendable and constructive position — which I just heard him describe for CNN's Kathar Callow — that he has been the top of right to peace, dignity and self-determination for Jewish Israelis and Palestinians alike!

That is a very good perspective and it is different from that of the democratic world. The most important is the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2

As Jay Michelson, a contributing columnist in The Forward, has pointed out: "Already, El-Sayed's statement is a useful contrast to Mandua's. He is not panicky about the abstract legitimacy of Israel or Palestine, on the contrary, he is insisting on the pragmatic view that I share, that what the above question should be was he decided by both Palestinians and Israelis — a position especially both the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd of the 2

But when El-Sayed campaigns with the far-left structure (Kazan Plan) who has said that "Human is a thousand times better" than Israel, it is not surprising that Jewish voters wonder what

Abdul El-Sayed, left, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Michigan, told CNN that he believes "in equal rights to peace, dignity and self-determination for Jewish Israelis and Palestinians alike." That differs from the perspective of the democratic socialist mayor of New York City, Nelson Mandua, right, who has argued that Jews are not entitled to self-determination in a state of their own — a Jewish state in their biblical homeland.

his real position is on their right in a state of their own like every other people.

Let's be very clear: Human is a tortoise organization, but not foremost for Palestinians. The first place that it has been given by some pro-Palestinian progressions — who criticize Israel and never Human, as if it has an agency — is shameful.

I know something about Human's agency. In February 2002, in this column, the Israeli news person at the time Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, for the first time, called on the Arab League to offer peace and normalization of relations with Israel in exchange for Israel's full withdrawal from Palestinian bank (the 1967 ban). That call led the Arab League to build a peace conference the next month, on March 27 and 28, in Beirut in do just that. It looked what was called the Arab Peace Initiative. Do you know what Human's response was to that first Pan-Arab peace initiative laying the groundwork for a two-state solution?

The right that both semisal opened, a Human suicide bomber walked into a Passover Sadar at an Israeli hotel in

Netanya and shrewded, killing 30 people and injuring more than left. That's Human — two decades before the Gaza war.

I normally would not even get into these words, but it is too distressing to watch how the democratic socialist left him pulled so many young Democrats away from America, long-awaiting.

It is not only El-Sayed, though, who needs to draw clear redlines. American Jews have let AJPAC drive them over a cliff.

Middle that position of two states for two people — self-determination for both Jews and Palestinians. Any other position is a geopolitical loser for America and is loser for Palestinians. Israelis, Arab Americans, Jewish Muslims, Americans, and every other American.

El-Sayed should just keep stressing what he said CNN — that he believes "in equal rights to peace, dignity and self-determination for Jewish Israelis and Palestinians alike" and he'd support any

peace agreement they mutually agreed to.

And then go back to talking about the Midwest and leave the Midwest alone.

Being far any other exclusive position — that only Palestinians or Jews are entitled to a national homeland between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River — is a pretty plain lot a forever war, because approximately seven million Palestinians and seven million Jews now live in that area and neither group is leaving. Anyone advocating either of the above is an enemy of peace and will allocate the centrist voters who will decide this election.

That said, I can understand that El-Sayed is bitter about AJPAC spending $25 million to defeat him in the Michigan primary and will no doubt spend more to try to defeat him in the Senate race. But he can't do it get the best of him and cost Democrats a Senate seat, leaving the country with two more years of Trumpian immunity. It is not only El-Sayed, though, who needs to draw clear redlines. American Jews have let AJPAC drive them over a cliff.

As readers of this column know, I have been a longtime AJPAC critic. (The true pro-Israel and pro-American lobby is J. Himes.) It ends in its own power, AJPAC but its way even up when it had a distinct sign they how to be pro-Israel — to put American interests and values first in Netanya's interests and values first. AJPAC chose to be pro-Netanya.

When Netanya walked away from the two-state solution, AJPAC went along for the ride. When Netanya abandoned Israel's standard bipartisan approach to American politics, still armed Democrats and aligned Israel exclusively with Republicans and evangelical Christians, AJPAC went along for the ride.

When Netanya's urged Republicans to try to block President Barack Obama's free nuclear deal, AJPAC satisfied and went along for the ride. AJPAC chose to ignore the fact that, as a one-time head of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission, Uzi Elzeh, wrote: "While the FBI made the opinions known that and clear, many senior Israeli military and intelligence officers, nuclear vo-

perts and strategic analysts were quietly arguing that this was a good deal for Israel that would actually make us much safer."

Sure, AJPAC's website states that it seeks to "broker Israeli-Palestinian peace, including a credible pathway to a two-state agreement." Have me one statement AJPAC has made criticizing the Netanya government's settlement expansion project, the most aggressive in Israel's history, that seeks to make it physically impossible on the ground in the West Bank to build "a credible pathway to a two-state agreement."

I repeat — this is not complicated. El-Sayed can be pro-American, pro-Michigan, pro-Palestinian, pro-Munim, pro-Israel, pro-Jewish people and anyone AJPAC for the Netanya's their organization that it has become: Just keep being for two states for two people. Then just talk about Michigan.

Trust me, his Republican opponent will not like that. And it's speech the far lefties in his own party, that's a bonus for him and the rest of us.

Please judge the books I'm reading

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cutting and coverage of these choices. When effort is made to put together a group of judges with diverse background and artistic experience, it shows in the output.

This year's Booker Prize committee is alternately always a rule, and so is the length of a selected. I've had a soft spot for the Booker since the 1940s and late 1980s and early '80s wins for چینی (stages), A.S. Bank. Peter Carey and J.M. Cannon share recently, but year's length led me and my book club to "encourages" a small but mighty novel in the public about about the hopes and dreams of an English distrip can be. I am 30 years old and I would not have been

bought that book had it not been cited by the Booker judges, and I'm as grateful to them as if they had given it to me directly.

Imagine if the Television Academy ditched its broad-based secret building and instead just invited Mike Wiles, Masuda Bitteno, Taylor Meridian, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Bowen Yang into a room to shake it out over best drama. I would absolutely watch whatever winning show they told me to watch — the spotless, the better.

As the trend lines for reading descend — and time spent so little a moving, favoring and following gave up — I take heart of the willingness of individuals to keep working this original science.

tion that imaginative literature can provide. Sometimes the connection is private, and sometimes it's shared with other readers, but either way, it's inherently personal. Awards, with their own power to grant credibility in a comprehensive world and their equal capacity to provide more realism, remind us that subjectivity is part of the risk and value of consuming art.

Maybe 30 years from now, no one will read library fiction anymore, and nearly 100 years of consuming energy — the effort to whittle down our mad sackets of books into a working library that is, I met manageable. Not only a comprehensive — will have been spent in vain. But it and what, still wears to pick up a novel after the deluge. I predict these Booker longlists and shortlists, along with those of the world's best National Book Awards and other prizes subject to human-whist and discretion, will provide essential signpost.

Like the books they recognize, those into country something would about the imperfect, unpredictable world we live in. They'll be evidence of the fatal, shining partial when a standard at no active people would — by chance! — spend the better part of a year buried in books, displaying their time and more in support of the one who's hoped other people would read.

SABHINA JONES, Jr. a former editor in chief of World Fair and previously noted as the editorial director of Books of The Times. She is at work on a memoir, "Booklist," and writes a newsletter on literature and culture.

We need answers about Trump's health

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I'm not willing to a potentially much more conceptualized finding that can be caused by issues such as heart and kidney disease. What's the reason for this is the impact?

4. The president often appears to struggle to stay awake, signs of a condition doctors refer to as excessive daytime nonviolence. The problem, which is where more others during lived while events, was not addressed in the report after Mr. Trump's comprehensive physical exam in May. Although the president is a renowned right over, his skepticism seems relatively new. There are several possible causes for the president's symptoms, some of which could have serious consequences if left untreated. Has the president's medical team identified the source of this issue? And how are they addressing it?

5. In October 2021, Mr. Trump underwent the same imaging of his heart and abdomen at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The president's physician offered a vague description of the reason for the tests: "to

identify head-crafts, confirm overall health and ensure the maximum long-term vitality and function. We said the tests did not reveal any abnormalities. Was there a specific symptoms or clinical event that prompted this testing?"

6. Past Trump medical reports have disclosed the president's use of the drug flasamiride, which prevents hair loss. The drug was not mentioned in the report after Mr. Trump's most recent medical examination. In response to a query from The Washington Post about its absence, the White House responded, "The current report reflects all medications deemed clinically relevant to disclose at this time." It does not matter, in any material way, if the president ever isn't taking a hair-sweating. The more important question is, what medications prescribed for Mr. Trump, if any, has the White House decided to write and from the public?

7. The president has spoken about how will the performs on cognitive testing, Reserve, the essential Mr. Trump describes, the Maternal Cognitive Assessment, as a brief and basic

screening tool, with simple questions (if not a desk, identify a stand), often prefer multi-categories to use more than the patient or a member of the family. Why has the president made good this tool a short-term basis, and have there been more sophisticated neurocognitive assessment performed?

Some people would argue that these personal medical details are more than the public deserves to know. After all, Buckingham Palace has not revealed many details about King Charles's cancer or his treatment.

But the United States does not have a long, in a representative democracy, the people must have confidence in the health of their leader, and in the leader's capacity to guide the nation. We have been kept in the dark too long.

JENNIFLOW REINER, a medical doctor, is the co-author of the book "Heart: An American Medical Odyssey" alongside Mr. Cheney and Liz Cheney. The book details the former vice president's struggle with heart disease.

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12 | THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2026

STYLE

Sneakers are now so uncool

After years of office casual, young people are wearing loafers, derbies and cofords

BY CALUM MARSH

Ben Kirk, a man's fashion writer, remembers the point at which the sneakers he wore to the office no longer seemed cool.

"All the older guys at the office started wearing sneakers with their suit trousers and 'quiet jackets,' said Kirk, who was then in his 20s. So he opted to distinguish himself — by deeming a pair of baffled loafers.

Kirk is, by profession, geared toward staying ahead of the trends. But young people in workplaces everywhere are catching up to him.

After years of the flagrantly casual of five attire that workers wore back to the office after the pandemic, young people are now increasingly going in the opposite direction: turning up for work in dress shoes.

Earlier this year, Esquire described the trend as the leader's "big generational shift," describing how younger consumers "were happening sneakers in growing numbers." And in January, The Times UK deemed 2026 "the year of the leader" berbies and cofords have also unexpectedly become hip.

At the same time, wearing sneakers to work — whether the upscale brands such as A.P.C., Common Projects, Dogus and Women Marights or the classic Adidas and Nike — has become a sign of something else entirely.

"It's the classic generational reaction: If your boss comes in wearing sneakers, the natural reaction is to do something different," Kirk said. "It's the what happened with jeans."

While the office sneaker might still seem to seem a way to medically break madgy business attire rules, younger workers have been clear on the point.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY KATHLEEN HILL, NEW YORK TIMES

Kicks at work now scan as uncool.

Big sneaker brands are feeling the pain. In a January report, Bank of America concluded that the sneaker industry was entering a period of slowing growth and possibly decline, even downgrading Adidas, the maker of Sian Smiths, by two notches in a "self" rating.

"Be nagging interest in formal footwear features has simultaneously been a basis for both high-end luxury sneakers and heritage brands with classic shoe offerings, such as Allen Edmonds, the 'Wonderful-Sound' retailer. Nick Wooster, the brand's consulting creative director, said that it has 'absolutely'

seen a recent increase in interest in its handmade leather loafers and derbies among younger customers.

"Sneakers dominated for a long time, and they are not going anywhere," he said. "But a great leader in derby works in a meeting, it works at dinner, it works on a plane. Classic shoes tend to do that better than anything else."

Even sneaker brands are trying to be more dressy. Brendan Dunne, the senior director of consumer community and engagement at the footwear crude site StockX, said that while "we're definitely seeing a shift" that has brought formal styles back to the office, it is "a little

Not a sneaker in sight. But as Ben Kirk, a man's fashion writer, noted: "It's the classic generational reaction: If your boss comes in wearing sneakers, the natural reaction is to do something different."

more nuanced than just consumers' giving up sneakers to go after baders."

In fact, he said, "sneaker brands themselves are absorbing formal aesthetics," releasing more formal versions of their own hallmark shoes.

Panne provided a variation on a classic Mary Jane in 2023: both Adidas and Nike have released low-profile ballet fans, and a number at the top sports brands have gone all in on patent leather shoes that start the line between sneaker and something more formal.

"I think the appetite for something different, and in many cases decision, is real," Dunne said, but some consumers are "still reaching for it through sneaker brands."

He pointed to the New Balance 2000L, 84 "sneaker leader" as a case in point: StockX has seen more than 15,000 sales of the model since it was introduced last year. (Though some critics claim that the un-called "sneaker" was a flop.)

"What we're seeing right now is something we've seen before," said Matt Hallioff, the founder and chief executive

of Nice Kicks, a media company that focuses on sneaker culture.

Since about 2023, in offices all over America, "we've had this quiet luxury, leather leader, growing up thing," he noted, but he predicted that as in the past, younger consumers would eventually return to sneakers.

In fact, "sneaker brands themselves are absorbing formal aesthetics."

"I think over the last half decade at so we've seen more and more young men investing in loafers, derbies and the like," Goh said. So much so that in one story he GOJ be recently edited, a writer said he was thinking of giving up his loafers. He had noticed all the guys he was with were wearing the same shoes.

Loafers, even those with the little issues, have become unexpectedly hip.

What's the deal with shirtdresses?

Varanas Friedman, The New York Times's fashion director, answers readers' fashion-related questions. You can send her a question at openfireadlybytimes.com or via X-ijrc@redman. Questions are edited and condensed.

I am curious about the re-emergence of shirtdresses, an article of clothing I associate with the 1950s. I began to notice them among many of the young mothers I use outside schools and then all over the media. What is behind this brand? — Pamela, Sherman, Mako.

Calling the shirtdress a trend is a little like calling or again a hot lettuce. The garment, like the gloves, may wax and wane in popularity, but as a slightly more elevated staple, it never really goes away.

Indeed, the shirtdress is one of those fashion concerns that can be all things to all people at all times. Sophie Thunelet, a former designer for Aconilize Alala, has been designing shirtdresses

since she started a namecake line in 2005. (Michelle Obama wore one of her styles in 2009.) And she built an entire direct-to-consumer business, Route 502, as the boundaries of the garment, which has been her perennial best seller.

"To me, it is as essential as a pair of jeans," Thunelet said. "It has the authority and confidence of a man's shirt, combined with the femininity and freedom of a woman's dress." It retains easy categorization in terms of event and identity and has since it was created. Which actually was almost a half-century before the 1950s.

The shirtdress is essentially a fresh based on the man's fashion-up shirt, with or without sleeves, a collar and a waistline, but always with buttons up the front. It was here from the shirtwater and the Gilman girl look of the late 19th century, when women adopted a mere active, liberated lifestyle and the clothes to match.

Bailen than a newbie, foamed dress, they turned to a shirt tucked into a long shirt in which the arms and legs could swing freely. What an idea! "That admittedly is a little narcissistic, but in fact the shirtdress was a big advance, in part because the presence of buttons in the front of the top meant a woman could dress herself, rather than be dependent on someone else to

do up her garment at the back.

In short order the shirtdress became the rare garment that crossed class lines, popular among working women such as hauntes and factory workers, as well as the upper crust. It was also one of the 20th-century's first man-produced styles (and related one of the worst workplace casualties in history, the 1911 Triangle Startwater factory fire in New York City).

By 2018, Vogue was hailing the shirtdress as "an American huckleman" on the level of baseball and ice cream. It declared the garment as misdiplomational and important that rather than be relegated to the archive of wardrobes past, he fully expected the shirtdress to "keep pace with civilization." On this point, at the very least, the pundits proved to be correct.

The shirtdress became one of the uniforms of those working on the home front during wartime. It was then embraced by the suburban home-maker and became the spurionennial style of Doris Day. It shrunk into final girl union during the 1960s and was remade in Ultramarite for the career women of the 1970s. It could channel the boardrooms, the French Riviera and the suburban backyard.

Debly Parnani—christians secretary wore a shirtdress in the 1980 film "9 to 5," and so did Zendjayte (music object

of desire to "Challengers." in 2024.

There are shirtdresses in cotton, in jersey, in silk, in gauze and at all levels of price (though this is one garment that may be worth an investment, as it is both timeless and multipurpose). Anne Hathaway even worn an antithought white cotton off-the-shoulder Gupttaille shirtdress in a black-to-belgant event in 2024, and later Julia Fox wore the same dress during the day in New York. Shortly thereafter, it sold out.

As to why ... well, it is one of those items that manages to be both casual and pulled together at the same time and can carry you through the day, depending on how you accommodate it.

Joseph Almazara, who likewise counts the shirtdress as a staple in his collections, points out that the dress can be worn with sneakers, sleeves rolled up and collar leather, to the school drop-off. Change shoes, close the buttons and it works for torts work, and teeth and jewelry reduction a few more buttons, and it is ready to go out. That's an awfully efficient garment.

"It gives women freedom," Almazara said, just as it did when it was created. Not just to move, but also "to style it differently, to wear it in different ways, to make it entirely your own."

THOMAS FRIEDMAN

In Paris, April 2026: the stylish return of the shirtdress.

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13

Sports

Chasing more gold, while thinking of her home

As Yaroslava Mahuchikh defends her title, Ukraine is never far from her mind

BY LION TILKINE THE ATTOLYST

When Yaroslava Mahuchikh competes in the high jump, she does so with added weight on her shoulders.

"I want to win gold for my people," said Mahuchikh, 35. "A lot of soldiers want to invest the news and they want to me. 'Thanks for representing Ukraine.' Because of them, I have the opportunity to represent my country."

The majority of Mahuchikhs professional track and field career has been intertwined with the Russia-Ukraine war. Russia first attacked Ukraine in 2014, but the war escalated four years ago, in February 2022, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion, attacking the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and the city of Kharkiv.

It month after that, Mahuchikh competed at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, and was her first global title. She had already won bronze at the 2021 Olympics, but this gold at 20 years old took her to new heights.

There were global titles have followed, including Olympic gold in 2018. She became the youngest "grand slant" high jumper by six years – holding the Olympic, world championship and European crowns stature and numbers by the time she was 25.

Starting on Thursday at this year's European Championships in Birmingham, England, Mahuchikh has the chance to emulate the Spaniard Ruth Rehm by becoming a three-time continental gold medalist.

Russian athletes will not be competing in Birmingham. They are still excluded by World Athletics, the governing body of track and field. But the International Olympic Committee has provisionally lifted its suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee, opening the door for the participation of its athletes under the Russian flag at the 2020 Los Angeles Games.

"When I saw this news, I was pretty shocked because nothing has changed in our world since 2022," Mahuchikh said. "For us Ukrainians, it was really tough."

The LGC's policy change is especially pertinent for Mahuchikh. High jump is a sport historically dominated by Eastern and Central European nations.

"We were talking, as girls, about why we have so competitive high jumpers and, true, we don't know," she said, laughing. "It's just in Ukraine, high jump is really a national event."

In March, Ukraine won a high jump double at the World Indoor Champi-

Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh, above, is the Olympic champion and world-record holder in the women's high jump. She is also the two-time defending European champion, and she is seeking a third title this week. Right, competing in Poland in March.

mothers in Toros, Poland: gold for Mahuchikh in the women's event and for Ohio Donnetschek in the men's.

"I've come back to the shape that I was in before the 2024 Olympics," Mahuchikh said. "I feel it with my technique. I feel it all there."

She added: "I have big goals. At my first Olympic Games, I won a bronze medal. The second one, I have gold. At the third, I would like to win gold with an Olympic record."

Winning gold is Los Angeles would make her only the second woman to retain the Olympic high jump title, replicating the loss of the Romanian Islands. Ralors in 1998 and 1999, lead the Olympic record of 2.06 meters (6 feet 7.5 inches) was set by Russia's Velma Glezanskie in 2004.

"I wrote my name into the history of track and field," Mahuchikh said of her success two years ago. "But I want to make it again."

Mahuchikh's training camps typically take place in Estonia, although she won in Belgium to put the finishing double on her preparations for the European Championships. Qualifications is on Thursday ahead of Saturday's final.

She is close to her second peak, which is training norms means one high jump means per week, half as much as she was doing at the start of the year. Training also includes the hurdles and long jump events she competed in as a field, to improve her runway speed.

Mahuchikh said that her golden year in 2024 moved to a run-up break. That means, she won start of the 20 competition she entered, including European and Olympic gold, and a third Diamond League title.

She also chaired 2.18 meters to break a world record that had stood since 1997. Her only debut was a silver medal at the World Indoor.

"It was so risky," she said of the

change in approach. "Because I had nine stops on the runway and I jumped like that for five years. It was working. But we decided that I have more speed and the power to have two more."

Her main recollection from 2024 is

here hard it felt. "All the focus was on the Olympics," she said.

She had no overcome hard problems at the start of the year, disrupting her preparation ahead of the World Indoor Championships, then she endured ham-

tering trouble before the European Championships in June. Against the advice of some close to her who wanted her to prioritize the Olympics, she nevertheless competed at Skokie Olympics in Rome. "I'm a top athlete," she said. "I want there to represent my country."

After repeated trips to the hospital to help manage her hamstring, she won the European title by four centimeters with a 2.05-meter clearance.

A month later came the Diamond League in Paris. The aim: to better her personal best of 2.05 meters.

"I didn't respect the world record, and my coach didn't respect it, because of the injury I just said, 'OK, jump,'" she said.

She achieved a personal best with a second-time clearance at 2.47 meters. "A brilliant jump," a knee she described the national-record mark that lasted just a few minutes.

Her world-record jump, made at the first attempt, owed to that longer run-up. She powered down the runway with big strides and pumping arms, then

"I've come back to the shape that I was in before the 2024 Olympics. I feel it with my technique. I feel my speed."

shortened her final two steps. Like a coiled spring, Mahuchikh took off, converting herself as aggressively that her mouth was wide open. Every move stretched.

She had so much height from her run-up that she only tickled the bar. She bounced off the seat and then ran with her hands over her mouth, equal participation and disbelief. Serbia Korozhnova's 2.09-meter mark had stood since the 1997 World Championships, and had been considered one of track and field's osteoclastics world records.

The day after Mahuchikh's world record, Russia hit Ukraine with a deadly missile attack, and her joy quickly dissipated. "No record will bring joy while Russia attacks my country every day, falls out soldiers, and takes the lives of children and their parents," she wrote on Instagram.

Then at the Olympics, she chaired the first four bars without any failures, the highest of these being 2.09 meters. to win gold and become Ukraine's third Olympic champion in track and field, following Iorena Kurova (triple jump, 1996) and Nataliya Doltryuska (hepatathlon, 2000).

"If I reflect now, this is so impressive," she said of four men.

"For me, it's really important to show the whole world that we are Ukrainians, that we are strong and we continue fighting for independence, for liberty," she added.

It's why she will jump for gold in Birmingham, so that the flag of Ukraine can fly may the problem now again.

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Culture

From left, a Bayreuth audience before a performance of 'Dan Rheingold,' the first opera in the 'Ring' cycle, in July, and brass players perform the music in and on the balcony to herald the end of intermissions.

At this gathering, 'Our drug is Wagner'

BAYREUTH, GERMANY

The Bayreuth Festival, celebrating its 150th anniversary, still thrives

BY BEN MILLER

It was a warm Sunday July afternoon in the rolling barbersings of auditors Germany here, and the faithful were processing up a sweep bill and profiting themselves as it before. More. They had come for the Bayreuth Festival, an annual celebration of the music dramas of Richard Wagner, which was opening its 150th anniversary edition with 'Reruti,' one of the composer's early works.

The politicians and celebrities would arrive later, and the sound was relaxed. Curiously dressed tourists garbled at the Festspielhaus, the event's storied theater, and mingled with people dressed in white tie and evening gowns. To everyone's relief, the outdoor temperature was a wooden 54 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 30 degrees Celsius (the theater has no air conditioned).

A group of allotments stooped outside — friends who found their way to Wagner as teenagers and met as young men in Bayreuth. Now, they travel across Europe to see performances of the composer's operas. 'It's an addiction,' said one, David Starilow. 'You can't live without it anymore. Our drug is Wagner.'

'It's a religion,' said Barbara Stöwe, 'Bring nearly at a card table where she wrote opera glasses to partner. 'They come to Bayreuth like pilgrims.'

Stöwe started working at the festival nearly 30 years ago, and was granted her biennial rental contract by the family of the composer. Back then, she had a stand in the lobby; she's been outside since 2009. 'Katharina,' she said dryly, 'decided the glasses weren't needed anymore.'

As Wagner wrote, the event's storied theater aimed to transport viewers into an 'ecstatic state of clairvoyance.'

Katharina, now 45, is the composer's given granddaughter, and inherited the family business from her father, Wolfgang Wagner, when he died. It was telling that Stöwe used her first name. While they may not actually be on first-name terms, the audiences who find in this annual celebration of Wagner's music dramas — and people like the innkeepers in town who used to their needs — are acutely aware of Katharina Wagner's presence and preferences.

A started in the years leading up to 1876, when the composer Richard Wagner was seeking an appropriate venue for the performance of his instrumental, four-sports 'Ring' cycle.

Think about the first scene of the film 'The Age of Reference,' set in the early 1870s — how Newland, he then played by Daniel Day-Lewis, wanders into a New York opera house and takes his seat in a box parkway through an act. The audience is fit almost as brightly as the stage. He can pay attention to one or two areas while still finding shareholding with a customer in the two opposites. The theater is a social setting to see and be seen, where the galego-on message are only a part of the experience.

Wagner was opposed to this. He wanted to create 'music drama' that was the sadness's sole focus.

The Festspielhaus was no home. Its main rise in an amphitheater-shaped fan, its walls and presentation focus in fashion on the stage. The pit is covered, so the orchestra sound rises as if from the building itself. The cover also ensures that no light looks out of the pit to remind audiences that they're watching a trigger show.

It was designed as a singular place to interpret and contemplate Wagner's work — more religious simple than standard issue open house, as Wagner wrote, the music related to a transport viewers into an 'ecstatic state of clairvoyance in which the music image' becomes 'it's the only one.'

The theater, which has some made of back-awaiting, plywood and no rendition, cooks in the afternoon sun before each performance. But this experience is

Stöwe, outside the Festspielhaus after a performance of 'Reruti,' and above right, a portrait of Richard Wagner and his wife, Connie, at the composer's villa in Bayreuth.

Left, a draft for 'Reruti' in the composer's bestsellers. Above from left, a host of Wagner, Barbara Stöwe, who wrote opera glasses to partner, and Vesti Gooders, a member of a Japanese Wagner world's flight, a model of the Festspielhaus.

worth it, said Annemarie Silberbauer, who has attended annually since 1891, for the 'guitar bumps' you get if it all goes well.

Wagner thought about building the Festspielhaus in Zurich or Munich before starting an Bayreuth. He had temporarily fallen out with King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who was in third to the composer and had paid his bills and extensive debts while he wrote some of his most important works.

After a meeting with Chancellor Ottavio Ramariti to secure state funding was untruthful, Wagner sought to make the festival self-supporting. He helped invest matters into hard-running, creating a system in which private patrons invested and reserved funds of tickets.

A network of 'Wagner's' members formed around the globe and invested in the cinema. For decades, these societies controlled access to many tickets, leading to long waiting lists.

Vesti Gooders lives in Tokyo and fell for Wagner as a teenager. 'Wagner's music does something to my soul' he said. He first became a member of the Richard Wagner Society Japan in 2000, in his mid-20s. In 2005, he first got a ticket to hear the 'Ring' in Bayreuth, and has attended annually ever since.

Despite the elegance of its audiences and the price of its drinks and tickets, the Festspielhaus has a rustic vibe. The grounds are dotted with portable tables. There are barely any indoor lobbies; before the performance and during the luxurious, hearlong intervals, audience members dwell across places and parks outside and muscle to massage.

The end of the intermissions (Wagner operas usually have two) are announced out to both us. By Peter Barbaro, arranged by the composer himself from the music of the upcoming act, which ring out from a balcony at the front of the theater.

Gabrielle Scheibert is a familiar sight or opera premieres to Berlin. There's lots of Wagner performed there, too, but Bayreuth, she said, is special: 'It's the emotion in the music and its performance.'

Wagner was a master technician of emotions. He also expressed antiemetic views and understood his work as part of the creation of a German national and racial community. The Wagner family enthusiastically supported the Nauta-future and after they took power. Adolf Hitler visited regularly and used the festival for Naut propaganda purposes.

The 2020 operas 'Reruti,' is a youthful Wagner effort about a popular Roman leader. Hitler loved it so much that he owned Wagner's original score, which is now first and permanent to have been in Hitler's banker when it was destroyed after the dictator's suicide. That makes it particularly difficult to separate the music from the politics. The new

production, by the directorial team of Alexandra Inoworitz and Magdonia Paridika, explicitly themselves the dangerous power of each cast.

This summer's other debut production, a 'Ring' cycle out directed but 'vovworld' by Marcus Lattina, in which singers perform behind a screen featuring images generated by artificial intelligence, has caused something of a scandal. Our music scholar wrote that it was greeted by 'feeling with a fury and unassimply I have never previously encountered' and was 'a mistake not only to Wagner, not simply to Bayreuth, but to any conception of act.'

Reverituating Wagner's works became part of the festival's 1876 as it reshuff after the war. American leader damaged the city of Bayreuth and Wagner's villa, but spared the Festspielhaus's National and Wolfgang, who took over the festival in 1921, adopted as their motto the phrase 'Art is what matters

here.' They began introducing spare, non-representational productions, a radical shift from the romantic theme to prewar Bayreuth. International audiences flocked to the performances.

1876, for the festival's 100th anniversary, the band's almost its biggest change yet: a production of the 'Ring' cycle conducted by Pierre Boulet (the French-orian-gunh-conposer who once suggested that Europe's opera house should be blown up) and directed by Patrice Chérone as an allegory of capitalism and its discontents.

Another 'Dare', a professor of medicine who was at the 'Reruti,' was also there for the premiere of the Chérone 'Ring.' The audience was in affeated, he recalled, that people 'actually thought to whistles us by in interrogating the performances' Nevertheless, after being filmed and released an videoconstric, the Chérone 'Ring' became a gravitational classic and a point of reference for so-called director's theater, in which opera productions common on works rather than simply presenting them.

Not everyone in the audience for 'Reruti' was interested in these interventions. Jan and Sue Sturmb live in Britain and Spain, and have attended Bayreuth for the past five years. Wagner, Jan said, was 'obviously as acquired unto it's not for everyone. There are many associations which are unpleasant that some people perceive. We are interested in issues. We're not interested in politics.'

The festival remains politically connected. Since the early 1870s, it has been organized as a foundation that receives funding from the state of Bavaria and the German federal government. Even though Germany's national culture budget is not to shrink as the economy matters, the culture minister, Wolfram Wessex recently presented a draft budget with increased funding for the festival.

Germany across the political spectrum are attuned to the ways that the Bayreuth Festival, which symbolizes so much about the country's aesthetic and political contradictions, presents itself and handles its own history. That's why Hamlet Langer, who makes socially conscious, experimental theater in matters Germany, had come — not as a pilgrim, but, as he said, 'above all, to observe.'

The decision to program a bridgized work like 'Reruti' was courageous, he said. 'those a powerful,' he said, 'said when you hear this music, it's no wonder the National Socialists liked it so much.'

Another patron, Marcus Erlenbaum, who has been attending the festival for many years, was valued about the association — especially if Wagner's work was performed critically. 'Many politicians and dictators have had a passion for something or another,' he said.

The patron' opinion varied as widely as that of the music. There were many in the traditional Bavarian devotish-herald trust known as Tracht, while others were runway factions or wrestles, heart-friendly outfits in cotton and linen.

Stöwe, who leads out the opera glasses, said she had noticed a change in the outfits over the years. 'Since cennin,' she said meanwhile, 'people come in numbers and jeans. There's no dress code anymore.'

Barbaro, who has traveled about some of the younger attendees, Sophie Merzotto, elegantly dressed in a peach dress and white sweater, was attending Bayreuth for the second time. 'The first time, she was still in the world. She might only be 35, but she's a regular upstinger in Berlin. 'I've not seen it it's my first Wagner opera,' she said. 'But I think it's really cool.'

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CULTURE

Putting the tarot cards on the table

A show looks at the origins of a tradition in games, the occult and artwork

BY NINA HIGGS.

Armed 1143, the Duke of Milan gave his daughter a deluxe set of handcrafted playing cards for the courtly game of tarot.

The cards, featuring meticulously illustrated figures like Death, the Chariot and the Emperor on gold- and silver-leaf backgrounds, were created by a renowned Renaissance workshop.

They cast about 1,500 ducks, or 10 times the annual salary of an average courtier.

Before its use in spiritual derivation, tarot was a card game played by Italian nobility — mostly women — and each card was a hand-held work of art.

The Morgan Library is likeness in New York's presenting surviving cards from that tradition in "Tarot" Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions."

The show explores the 600-year evolution of tarot from a game to an occult practice and popular entertainment. from these early gilded exemplars through dark-scale by artist-catcading Salvador Dalí, Leonela Carrington and the contemporary British painter Chris Ofili.

The show demonstrates that tarot cards are, perhaps above all, less, as artists and intellectual form of expression, created initially by leading artisans of 10th-century workshops, then later rediscovered and reinvented across the centuries.

The key thinker behind the tarot occultist movement was Aleister Crowley, the English magician and author.

"These are actually front and center, really exquisite works of art," said Joshua O'Driscoll, senior curator and department head of Medieval Renaissance manuscript for the Morgan, who curated the show with Claire Gilman and Frank Trujillo.

The show also taps into a popular current tarot fascination, which has grown since the coronavirus pandemic, said Gilman, who mentioned new decks, like the Pulp Tarot, the Black Power Tarot and Kathach's Drug Race Tarot.

Gilman, the Morgan's curator and department head of modern and contemporary drawings, added that today's spike in interest is just one of tarot's periodic resurgences.

These constructs occurred amid the late-19th-century British Occult Revival, the era of European Surrealism and as part of the worldwide cultural upheaval of the 1960s.

"Each of these periods shares certain common conditions, namely a distrust of our societal institutions and distrust in cultural and educational ways of thinking," Gilman said.

In their original form, tarot cards were used for a game played a bit like bridge. O'Driscoll said, but the concept of the game was partly inspired by Petranello's "Triangles," a 14th-century allegorical poem that set out moral hierarchies.

"Chantily defeats Love, Death defeats

From far left, a tarot card attributed to Bonifacio Bondo (1589-1685), and a free tarot card attributed to Franco dei Rossi (1603-1683), from the United Nations tarot card unit. Below from far left, the Seven of Cobra, the Three of Cops, the Ten of Nacato and the Ace of Beleno, also from Bondo.

Chantily, Franc-debans Death, Tarot defeats Franco 'Innvalement.' The last one is forestry, which defeats these all! Along with teaching morality, 'it was a game of the intellect,' he said. The word "crump," which was used in the game, he noted, comes from the Italian word "crude," or "strange."

Very few fall sets from the early tarot years survived, but some cards from the most prized Renaissance decks — the Vincent de Maelewe, Brambilla and the Vincent-Silena — are the basis of the exhibition.

The game was probably used as a fun illustration teaching tool for the Italian elite, O'Driscoll said, and it became a popular game for others as well.

After about 200 years, however, it went out of fashion. "By the time the occultists saw it, it had lost its tie to the game," O'Driscoll said.

In 20th-century France, a few occultists fabricated an origin story for the cards, linking their symbols to Egyptian heroglyphes, because they were both considered to be mystical and indecipherable image-based languages.

Although the story was invented out of whole cloth, this shift altered the course of tarot's history, giving it its persistent content easy.

The set that popularized tarot cards for the market, as the English-speaking world was the Rider-Wade-Smith set, created in 1895 by the artist Pamela Conan Smith, under the direction of Arthur Waite.

Waite, a poet and scholarly mystic, wrote an accompanying guidebook, "The Key to the Tarot".

Waite was a leading figure in the black errant occult movement known as the Golden Eaves, whose adherents included the poet William Butler Yeats and Bruce Sidney, the author of "Dracula." The key thinker behind the tarot occultist movement was Aleister Crowley, the English magician and author, who made his own deck, the Thoth Tarot.

Gilman said that it was probably Smith's executive illustrations, which seem to offer an enchanting range of narrative interpretations, that led to the continuing appeal of tarot in modern times.

"This deck has had a hold on people's imaginations," Gilman said.

Most sets order contain 78 cards, including what's known as Major Arcana — character cards like the Magician, the Hanged Man and the Devil — and Minor Arcana cards, including numbered suits, like cops, sweets, pikes and pentasiles (or coins).

Some people still play tarot as a card game, but others are drawn to the sets as a visual lexicon that invites imaginative narration, in part, Gilman said, because its symbols touch an universal theme.

"Maybe all of these cards apply to all of us, like the World card, or the Death card, and they're open enough that you can find ways that you connect to them, and you find what you need to in them," she said.

Volleying over a transgender athlete's legacy

BOOK REVIEW

Finding Route Richards: The Broadbreeding Story of Tomish Train Flames

By Julie Kliegman. HarperSim. 272 pp. $28.00

BY ALEXANDRA JACOBS

In "Finding Route Richards," an excerpt, prepping new biography of the transgender better player and ophthalmologist, the broadcaster Keith O'Borman provides some comic relief.

According to Julie Kliegman's book, in 1980 a 21-year-old O'Borman's resurged his forehead on the side of the 9th 11min at Shea Stadium in New York City (acclaimed, but understandably he a 20ers hat). Five years later, his vision started going woody in the stands of a U.S. Open match.

A doctor told him with obvious infliction that the top eye-murder specialist in New York City happened to be Racerate, then a figure of curiosity for a 1977 State Supreme Court ruling that had allowed her to qualify for the Open on the women's circuit.

"I don't care if it's a chimpanzee smoking a cigar with a little candle out of it. . . I did not say headache." O'Borman's reinventive replying, Richards fared his problem to five minutes with a $1.00 pen light.

Here is not an unexamined life. Now almost 80, Richards has written three memoirs, "Second favor" (1983), which was made into a TV movie starring Vanessa Bergman. "No Way Route" (2007), and "Big Night and Other Memories" (2011). (Also a 1991 textbook on strabismus surgery.)

But Richards hasn't been foremost in the heated current exchange about

trans-athletes in sports. This might be because, inconveniently, she regrets her lawsuit against the United States (trans) substantial (filed with the help of Roy Cohn), and believes people who have gone through most ardents should not be allowed to play on women's teams.

This video has known Kliegman — who identifies as unusual, meditary and transgender, and uses they these processes — "flames," "flavored" and "gothsucked." Interviewing Richards's friend Martina Navratilova, who has spoken against biological men participating in women's athletics, has the biographer "crafted" and "dunked."

Kliegman's first book, "Mind Game," was about athletes and mental health, and they have written for many publications, including Sports Illustrated and The New York Times.

Their research is careful and thorough, one best for transcript and correspondence collected by the feminist activist Eleanor Fox Donning in the text. "No."

There are plenty of fresh conversations and invitations here. Richards admits to "a little insight of hand-writching is a friend's buccal smear on the chromosomes test that become the crux of her court case.

But sometimes it seems Kliegman is not so much "Finding Route Richards" as fighting with her. Distractingly, they struggle with Richards's wish to have her given name, Richard Raskind, and masculine processes used to describe her pre-marathon life.

"Agree to disagree," they write of Richards's demand for an endangering to 502 words, when she called "the binary system that God designed for us ... the spies of life."

Kliegman is respectful of Richards, but also visibly frustrated with her as a

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Route Richards, who was born Richard Raskin in 1934, competing at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in New York City in 1977.

champion for the cause. "She wants to have her expertise needed somehow without ever being called on," they conclude of her absence from personal day debates. "She wants to be in the original without making a post."

In between hours of authorial angst, a life story gets told, and told well, Richard was born on Aug. 29, 1934, joining an older sister, Josephine, a toutley who baffled him emotionally and physically, including tucking to his point and rolling him "a little girl." (Josephine has dementia, Kliegman writes, and could not be interviewed by her husband.)

They were raised in the New York borough of Queen's to their mother, father of Proudson psychiatrist, and father, friend, an orthopedic surgeon who avoided discussing the medical elephant in the room but kept scrapbook of his younger child's access to a common health problem. Who was has been recognized by both the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Helen Keller Services for the Blind?

At Benso Wines, a private school in the borough of the Bronx, Richard played baseball and claims to have been recruited by a scout for the Yankees in Yale, he became captain of the tennis team. At the University of Rochester's medical school, he followed over what specialty to choose: "gynecology and obstetrics were hard ones." Kliegman notes without irony.

Back in Manhattan for his ophthalmological residency and living with a girlfriend nicknamed Sally Peanutsatter, Raskind underwent extensive

analysis trying to rid himself of a persistent desire to dress in women's clothing. He served in the Navy, calling it "a great experience."

Kliegman painstakingly reconstructs the glamorous but difficult interval after Raskind was wed to a former model, Barbara Mink, with whom he needed to leave them to continue but a love of rain-raises on events. (They had a son, Nicholas, who died by suicide in June 2015.)

There is palpable liftoff in this tasty short book after their marriage ends. After a long search that includes a trip to Chicago to a male jacket and dress from Berghahn' Goodman, Richard found a doctor who would perform before surgery, his become Route, French for where, and moved to California, ground service for both states.

Raskind's head's interest to Louise Jorgensen as the most famous transgender person in America, and in turn he succeeds in a tuitlys course.

"How did her happy match to ophthalmology play a way for decades?" Kliegman wonders. Maybe because he of the tumult about Richards' pre-emphasis in women's tennis, the farthest she got in the majors was the doubles final of that 77 Open. Her tour ranking peaked at No. 20 ten years later.

After entering from the sport at 47, she went back to being an excellent eye dress in Norman Maiko, Susan Sontag, John Eglinton and, well, honor's O'Borman's agent.

Her playing match made the women's tennis and it didn't lead to a generation of guys at a later time who couldn't quite make it. And, if so, a medically playing as women," he tells Kliegman. "Boy, I people's needs on aired, big deal out of something that really did take care of itself."

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TRAVEL

Natural wonders you won't find in a national park

Awe-inspiring formations on U.S. public land offer respite from the crowds

BY EUFFIN PRENTET

America's national parks attract millions of visitors each year, largely thanks to natural wonders like Yellowstone's gyroves and Townsite's granite mummiles.

But the more than 340 million acres (320 million hectares) that are not part of the national park system – managed by the U.S. Forest Service, the Barrancol Land Management and other agencies – also abound with awe-inspiring sites, often without crowds.

Many of these places, especially those in designated wilderness areas, may lack staffing and attention like over-rooms or campgrounds. But if you're willing to be self-reliant, you'll be rewarded with delights that shed travelers never see.

There's an shortage of magical destinations like those on U.S. public land, but here are six to get you started.

NEW MEXICO

BUCHEN BA-206 WILHINNESS AREA

Covering 10,000 acres in northwestern New Mexico, the Bute-De-Nu-Zin Wilderness Area, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, is home to thousands of striking formations with irresistible names like Aline Egg Hatchery and Hustle Uily.

The area's more pillars (called headland), formed by erosion, are especially beautiful at dusk and plains. You can also find prettiled wood and mulch in these bizarre badlands.

As with other designated wilderness areas, you'll have to take or ride a horse to get around, and mates are rugged and mostly unmarked. Bring plenty of water, and download or print maps in advance – cellphone coverage is sparse.

Prev. open year-round, though spring and fall are recommended.

WASHINGTON

GPS COAT

Put on your headlamp and stop into a subterranean bed world at Age Care in the Gifford Phelbel National Forest, about 63 miles (101 kilometers) north-east of Portland, Ore. This 2.5-mile lava tube, formed about 2,000 years ago, stays a constant of degrees Fahrenheit (5.5 degrees Celsius), so being a jacket – and at least two reliable sources of light per person (not cellphone lights).

Visitors have two taking options: the minor Lower Core room, a 1.5-mile non-and-back trip through a walk. But turned, or the more challenging Upper Core, 1.5 miles inside the tube and an aboveground return section of the name length.

It requires scrambling over dozens of headlets and climbing an eight-foot (over two-meter) crane wall, so bring a fit, fearless friend.

Thread entry reservations are $2 at recreation.gov; open mid-May through October.

USAF

WIRE PASS

With their snaring walls and cathedral

like squares, slot canyons are best experienced intimately. Wire Pass, a quietly spectacular slot canyon in the S.L.M.-managed Paris-Canyns-Verneilsen Cliffs Wilderness Area of southern Utah, draws far fewer visitors than nearby Instagram favorites like Antelope Canyon.

Allow four hours for this 3.5-mile out-and-back, easy-to-moderate route that will take you to and through an undulating, strained half-mile canyon. At the end, you'll reach the canyon's conference with Rockdale Gulch. Larger is nearest at the ancient petroglyphs.

Day-use entry is $6 per person at recreation.gov; open year-round.

NORTH CAROLINA

LINOLE SHINE WILHINNESS AREA

Covering nearly 12,000 acres of jagged peaks and rugged cliffs in the Pisgah

Clockwise from top left: The Bute-De-Nu-Zin Wilderness Area in New Mexico, Age Care, a 2,000-year-old lava tube, in Washington; the Lincoln Gorge Wilderness Area, gain at the Pisgah National Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina; the Mishonokee National Wildlife Refuge, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Georgia; the Canton Glacier ice cave, safe to enter only in winter, in Alaska; and Wire Pass, in the Paris Canyon-Verneilsen Cliffs Wilderness Area of Utah.

National Forest, 60 miles northeast of Asheville, N.C., the Lincoln Gorge Wilderness Area looks a lot like a Blue Ridge's hard canyon.

The Hawkfield Mountain Trail, a moderate, two-mile out-and-back trip leads to commanding views of low gorge and – on clear days – the Charlotte, N.C., skyline, 90 miles away.

Wisconsin View, reached via a quarter-mile, wheelchair accessible path, offers a panorama of the gorge and surrounding mountains. Stay past sunset for a chance to witness the Brown Mountain Lights, mysterious floating echo that many leads have claimed to see.

Prev. open year-round.

ALASKA

CHEVRO GLACIER

A visit to the Canton Glacier ice cave, on Bureau of Land Management land 144 miles southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, might feel like a day trip to Supernarets frozen Fortwool of Sekside.

Shaped by warm air and flowing water from melting snow in the summer (when it's not safe to enter), the core features blue-green walls of many, the greed ice.

For intrepid winter adventurers only, for lack, following blue along frozen Canton Creek takes about 65 minutes each way. With an cellular service and potential odours temperatures, proper winter gear is essential.

Prev. reconvening mountain season runs from October to April.

GEORGIA

SHUTTERED NETOVAL WALKUP REFUSE

The Chichester National Wildlife Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, encompasses 400,000 acres of preserved wetlands. The overexpression with at least 200 types of birds and 36 varieties of sealers, as well as bobcats, foxes, river otters and an estimated 35,000 kilograms. You'll also find pitcher plants, windows and other canyons and flora. All this helped make the Chichestoke a UNESCO World Heritage site this summer.

Building recarctions and guided heat tours typically maintain lakes here, but the Chesser Island Boardwalk is a popular, 1.5-mile round-trip walk through a green forest and wetland prairie leading to the Owls Roost Tower, a 45-foot observation platform. Bring bug spray.

Day-use entry is $5 per vehicle, good for seven days, or recreation.gov; open year-round.

My summer of heat, fire and airport chaos

REPORTING FROM CHICAGO AND MICHIGAN

BY ESTYLAY YEOJINSI

On the first day of my summer vacation, I stopped out of our Chicago hotel into a thick, orange-tinted haze that shrouded the city's skyline. Almost instantly, my throat started burning. In what was shaping up to be a summer of relentless travel disruptions, my family had stopped to jump, almost literally, out of the flying past and into the inferno. Like much of Western Europe, Geneva, where we live, had been hit by brutal heat waves, with temperatures soaring to nearly 350 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius).

As I boarded my flight in mid-July with my husband and children, ages 1 and 4, wildfires were turning through France, Spain, Portugal and Italy.

Upon arriving in the United States, we discovered that large expanses of Canada were in flames, sending clouds of smoke into the United States, engulfing, among other places, Ulster, Mich., a small town on Lake Michigan, where we were headed.

As a travel reporter for The New York Times, I had spent the past year covering the impact on travel of several events: the war in Iran, airport chaos, sky-high prices, heat waves, and the West in Japan's only twenty-nummer vacation. I was reluctant to go far. But the Michigan trip was impersonated because we were not on this grandmother, and the convergence of the first birthday and her birth seemed like a milestone worth traveling for.

SMOKY SEES AND FIERCE STORMS Smoke-Illustrated the faraway through the air. The house drive in China. When we reached my mother-in-law's refugee on Lake Michigan, a newly-faced bird in the river. We hurried the children inside, housed at the beach. We returned my daughter, air quality forecasts warned of 'hazardous' conditions, because it is very indoors.

Reality hit when my husband's exo-

sion arrived the next day hearing air purifiers. Stopped inside with the windows sealed tight, disappointment turned into agitation. My husband took our antimes daughter on a grocery run to break up the day, while I researched indoor activities.

Deep in total Michigan with no shopping malls nearby, our best refuge was the Holland Agassiz Center, a half-hour drive away. We headed on that afternoon, finding it surprisingly uncovered.

Finishing in many indoor areas by the middle of summer felt normal, but the facility became our salivators over the next six days.

When visibility finally improved a few days later, it offered a false sense of security – the Air Quality Index remained above 100, which was still unsafe for years of children.

Trapped up indoors, my husband and I confronted the harsh reality of climate change. Canadian wildfires have become more severe and widespread in recent years, affecting not just Canada, but much of the northern United States. In Europe, heat waves are getting longer, better and more frequent, with 24 out of 30 severe episodes recorded after the year 2000 until 2022, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, a branch of the European Commission. This year, the first of four severe heat waves occurred in May in Western Europe with temperatures exceeding 321 degrees Fahrenheit in parts of Spain and Portugal.

Biomarker of our own childhood summers with carotene days spent on the beach contracted sharply with our current struggle to protect our children. We watched with our own carbed footprint, questioning whether we should have flows my mother-in-law in Europe instead of the fear of us flying to the United States. Or maybe we should have all stayed put.

When the air quality improved to moderate, we ventured to the beach for brief time run. My husband even took my daughter out on his kayak and encrusted a screen from Disney's 'Mistau'. But during a walk, a ticket of smoke in my throar-

tion arrived the next day hearing air purifiers. Stopped inside with the windows sealed tight, disappointment turned into agitation. My husband took our antimes daughter on a grocery run to break up the day, while I researched indoor activities.

Wildfire smoke along the Lake Michigan shore in Washington County, Mich., on July 10, from wildfire covering large parts of Canada.

triggered a wave of panic.

That night, my husband and I decided to change our flights and leave early. Then we learned that severe storms would make it impossible to fly out the next day.

The storm came overnight with force winds and rain, but it cleared the smoke and we rode up to my early birthday to safe air. We threw my mother-in-law and not an outcast party, and spent the next few days at the beach.

A $1.00 PILE AND 7 TORNACOS

The night before our flight home, my son developed a 104-degree fever, having a 2 a.m. trip to the emergency

room. After eight hours of tests and waiting, it became clear we'd into our plane. I spent over an hour on the phone with Swiss airlines, expecting a routine consisting of our 'Changasibo with other tickets, only to be shipped with a $1,000 charge to push the flight back 24 hours. (Thankfully, we had purchased more insurance.)

Once my son was discharged, we drove the image for an overnight hotel stay before our flight. Every remaining step of the trip left like an uphill battle, so it didn't help matters to that end, at 5 p.m., we had to wait over 45 minutes for a ride. When I requested bed calls for my daughter, they simply handed them over, saying they had no idea

how to install them, by 5 p.m. we went all in bed, exhausted.

We had pleased to do some morning sightseeing, but then came the next setback. A violent thunderstorm, accompanied by a tornado warning: (Later, we would learn that seven tornadoes struck the city.)

But while many flights were delayed or canceled, sure was still scheduled, as we waited into the chaos in Chicago. O'Hare, where endless lines of stranded passengers were scrambling by reboils. Thanks to my first Alliance Gold station, we bypassed the initial crowd, only for the agent to reveal our rebooked tickets hadn't been issued. And just like that, we were ushered

back into a long line of passengers with 'towers.' Juggling luggage and children, we waited over an hour while an agent struggled to release our tickets, followed by another hour in the security line. We were finally called to board at 10 p.m., but at the gate I looked through a window and noticed something ominous: The lights of the plane were off, the flight had, after all, been stunned.

As angry passengers targeted the agents, my husband and I went into battle mode, putting all our energy into finding a place for the children, defecate with exhaustion, to sleep. Nearby hotels were booked, but at the Lawes' Chicago O'Hare Hotel, my husband pleased me to take, offering to pay what ever it took for a reserve room. After a tense deliberation, we were offered a meal for $700.

While the children slept, we huddled in the bathroom over our phones, searching for flights. Then, miraculously, I received an email from Swiss saying we had been rebooked through Copenhagen. The journey would be longer by six hours, but at that point it seemed like a minor hurdle.

AT HOME, AT LAST

In Copenhagen, we were met with a massive security line caused by the new entry and system, which has created significantly longer processing times than the European Union. While lacking forward to the zigzagging line, my daughter said: 'Worsens, you stared a burning in time, suddenly, the vanated. When we got back from the bathroom, I begged the security agent to let us go to the front of the line. Other passengers shunted at us, saying they had the chance to make their connection, but when I pointed to the pool of water my daughter left behind, their snarling sounds.'

After a short, successful flight from Copenhagen, we were back in Geneva at last, only to be greeted with temperatures over 100 degrees. The fourth flight was a 2.5-mile in Europe since May had just arrived.

In the summer vacation air we sent leave it dead? After my experience, the answer seems much clearer.

QA Report - The New York Times International - 13.08.2026.pdf

Pipeline

• Extraction route: mistral-ocr
• extraction_route=mistral-ocr
• Translation chunks: 85
• Extraction warnings:
• [OCR-ROUTE] FORCE-MISTRAL: All PDFs route directly to MistralOCR.

Non-model Checks

• WARNING: missing numeric tokens from source: 127, 340, 450, 704, 972
• WARNING: Missing proper nouns in translation: Abdul Aziz, Abu Dhabi, Across Europe, Adolf Hitler, Advanced International Studies, After Mr, Air Florida, Air Quality Index, Alpine Italian, Although Beijing
• WARNING: source dates, money, or percentage tokens may be missing

Model QA

以下是对翻译的严格 QA 审核结果，按照指定步骤和格式输出：

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幻觉核查报告

1. 译文中出现的 "5000 亿美元 billion" - 核查步骤1：标题索引中未直接提及 "$500 billion"，但《China's stampede for cattle》摘要提到"潜在影响全球牛肉产业"。 - 核查步骤2：抽样原文中明确提到 "potential to spend the $500 billion global beef industry"（第1页）。 - 结论：非幻觉，但翻译错误（详见下方问题1）。

2. 译文中出现的 "2025, 年"、"2025, 房地产价格暴跌" - 核查步骤1：标题索引无匹配。 - 核查步骤2：抽样原文中未找到 "2025" 与房地产崩盘的关联描述。 - 结论：幻觉内容，原文实际为 "As recently as 2025"（指2025年进口量数据），但翻译扭曲为因果关系（详见问题2）。

3. 译文中出现的 "85 percent 关税" - 核查步骤1：标题索引无匹配。 - 核查步骤2：抽样原文提到 "55% tariff"（第6页），未提及85%。 - 结论：幻觉内容（详见问题3）。

4. 译文中出现的 "1.5亿美元" 商业协议 - 核查步骤1：标题索引中《Olivia Ferney fulfills》提到 "$150 million business deal"。 - 核查步骤2：抽样原文确认金额为 "$150 million"。 - 结论：非幻觉，但翻译错误（详见问题4）。

5. 译文中出现的 "2500 亿美元 billion" - 核查步骤1：标题索引无匹配。 - 核查步骤2：抽样原文提到 "Micron has pledged more than $250 billion"（第8页）。 - 结论：非幻觉，但翻译错误（详见问题5）。

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问题列表

1. 数字量级错误（BLOCKING）

• 位置：中国牛群奔腾段落，第1段。
• 问题：原文 "$500 billion global beef industry" 译为 "5000 亿美元"（应为5000亿，非5000亿亿）。
• 影响：数字量级错误，严重误导读者对产业规模的认知。

2. 幻觉内容（BLOCKING）

• 位置：中国扩大国内牛群规模段落，第2段。
• 问题：
• 译文 "直到 2025, 中国进口的牛肉还不足 500,000 吨（约 4.5 亿 公斤）" 与原文 "As recently as 2025, [imports were] less than 500,000 tons" 不符，原文仅提及2025年进口量数据，未提及"直到"。
• 译文 "2025, 房地产价格暴跌，许多中国家庭在国家住房市场崩盘中失去积蓄" 纯属幻觉，原文无此内容。
• 核查依据：原文仅提到 "In 2025, real estate prices plummeted"，但未说明因果关系或影响范围。

3. 数字错误（BLOCKING）

• 位置：中国扩大国内牛群规模段落，第3段。
• 问题：原文 "55% tariff" 译为 "85 percent 关税"。
• 影响：关税政策严重失实，可能影响读者对贸易壁垒的判断。

4. 数字错误（BLOCKING）

• 位置：奥利维亚·费尼段落，第1段。
• 问题：原文 "$150 million business deal" 译为 "1.5亿美元"（应为1.5亿，非1.5亿亿）。
• 影响：金额单位错误，误导读者对交易规模的理解。

5. 数字量级错误（BLOCKING）

• 位置：AI芯片短缺段落，第2段。
• 问题：原文 "Micron has pledged more than $250 billion" 译为 "2500 亿美元"（应为2500亿，非2500亿亿）。
• 影响：投资规模严重失实，影响对产业动态的准确认知。

6. 术语不准（WARNING）

• 位置：伊朗空袭段落，多处。
• 问题：原文 "Patriot interceptors" 译为 "爱国者拦截导弹"（正确），但后文 "intercorpus" 未翻译（应为"拦截弹"或保留英文）。
• 影响：术语不一致，影响专业性。

7. 格式混乱（WARNING）

• 位置：新生儿价格表格。
• 问题：
• 表格内国家名称与价格格式不统一（如 "以色列 NIS 10 (R1)" 译为 "以色列 NIS 10 (R1)"，但 "U.K.E. NID 10 (R)" 译为 "英国 NID 10 (R)"）。
• "Total Number No. 14 (R)" 译文未处理，保留英文。
• 影响：格式不专业，影响阅读体验。

8. 残留英文（WARNING）

• 位置：旅行版块，多处。
• 问题：
• "GPS COAT" 未翻译（应为"GPS外套"或保留英文）。
• "WIRE PASS" 未翻译（应为"线路通行证"或保留）。
• "SHUTTERED NETOVAL WALKUP REFUSE" 译文混乱（应为"关闭的国家野生动物保护区木栈道"）。
• 影响：大段英文残留，降低译文质量。

9. 逻辑错误（WARNING）

• 位置：夏季冰壶段落，第1段。
• 问题：原文 "curling risk" 译为 "冰壶风险"（应为"冰壶场地"或"冰壶风险区"）。
• 影响：逻辑不通，影响理解。

10. 遗漏关键信息（WARNING）

• 位置：AI芯片短缺段落，第3段。
• 问题：原文 "Apple, which has cited the memory chip shortage for recent price increases" 译文遗漏 "recent price increases"（近期涨价）。
• 影响：信息不完整，影响对苹果策略的理解。

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其他问题

1. 日期错误（BLOCKING） - 译文标题日期为 "2026年8月13日"，但原文为 "THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2026"。日期错误属严重问题。

2. OCR错误（SOURCE_OCR） - 原文 "intercorpus" 疑为OCR误读（应为 "interceptors"），非翻译问题。

3. 误判（FALSE_POSITIVE） - 译文 "2.5-4.5" 在新生儿价格表格中保留，经核查为原文数据，非幻觉。

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总结

• 阻塞性问题（BLOCKING）：5项（数字量级错误3项、幻觉内容1项、日期错误1项）。
• 质量问题（WARNING）：5项（术语不准、格式混乱、残留英文、逻辑错误、遗漏信息）。
• OCR源问题（SOURCE_OCR）：1项。

建议： 1. 立即修正所有 BLOCKING 级别错误，特别是数字量级和幻觉内容。 2. 统一术语和格式，处理残留英文。 3. 确认日期准确性（原文为8月12日，非13日）。

最终结论：存在多项 BLOCKING 级别错误，译文无法直接使用，需全面修订。