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Tehran insisted that the cease-fire agreements vague language on the Strait of Hormuz gave it control over the waterway. That led to the collapse of the deal last month.

U.S. Military

Is Tripped Up In A.I. Race

A Fight With Anthropic

Is Just One Hurdle

This article is by Daniel E. Sanger, Deakin Velt, Ann Swanson and Julian E. Brown.

WASHINGTON — In mid-July, many of the country's biggest military contractors received a letter from the Air Force with a stern warning. By Sept. 1, all the software they use for weapons and control systems must be free of products built by the A.I. company Anthropic. Failure to comply would put all their business with the Pentagon at risk.

Within a month, these same contractors received an unexpected reversal: They could — for now — disregard the earlier instructions about purging Anthropic.

It was one more example of the chaos and contradiction in the tsunami of A.I. disruptions that have swept through the national security establishment in recent months. Agencies like the Pentagon, which still use airplanes designed in the 1930s, are struggling furiously to keep up with A.I. models whose powers multiply in a matter of months.

The tension has been magnified in the case of Anthropic, whose chief executive, Dario Amodei, has been locked in a public way with Defense Secretary Pete Hogseth over restrictions the company tried to put on the technology's one by the world's most powerful military.

Without Anthropic's powerful Mythos model, it would be far more difficult for the National Security Agency to find and patch vulnerabilities in the Pentagon's own systems, senior N.S.A. officials argued, and it spread out that, despite the original Anthropic ban, the N.S.A. was still allowed to use its products.

Critical torts were underway using Mythos to gauge its potential to back into highly protected foreign networks, current and former officials said. Shutting down the use of Mythos, an A.I. model whose potential for conducting of-

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As War Becomes Economic Fight, U.S. Strategy Recalls Old Ones

This article is by Aaron Beaman, Dallas Marine-Insurgs and David E. Sanger.

JERUSALEM — President Trump's cease-fire with Iran in June envisioned a broader deal to end the war and rein in the country's nuclear program, all negotiated within 60 days.

But that deadline, set to pass on Monday, has been essentially abandoned, and the war has transformed into a control of willpower and economic endurance that has no end in sight.

Then there been no publicity reported U.S. strikes on Iranian targets since late July. Yet the effec-

A Deadline Is Expiring

Without a Broader Deal With Iran

tive collapse of the agreement underscores how Mr Trump has struggled to end the war be starred in February alongside Iran, and how far he remains from the ambitions of the June deal, including fully reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway where Iran has choked off oil and gas shipping since the fighting began.

Those inside the White House are well aware that they will have past Monday's deadline. Today, the conflict has largely morphed into one of economic warfare, according to two Americans familiar with the negotiations.

The current strategy bears a striking resemblance to previous, practising U.S. attempts to isolate Iran in the hopes of compelling it to abandon its nuclear ambitions. The policy had raised results, and some analysts are skeptical that even severe economic pressures on its own will force Iran to change course. After all, that was the approach Mr. Trump attempted to his first term, even

though his Treasury secretary, Scott Bennett, said last week that he was likely to improve financial penalties unlike any seen before.

The June memorandum of understanding was widely seen as a basis for Iran, granting the regionally needed sanctions relief even as talks over tough concessions. Her nuclear enrichment were postponed for later. But its time leaders spend to escalate again rather than consolidate their gains from the deal, according to Nate Swanson, an Iran expert at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based research group.

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TOMMY JOHN, 1943-2026

The Pitcher Whose 3rd Elbow Changed Baseball

By BRUCE WEBER

Tommy John, a career pitcher who won nearly 100 major league games, more than half of them after recovering from the innovative elbow surgery that came to be known by his name and has since saved the careers of dozens of players, died on Saturday at his home in Lakewood Ranch, Fla. He was 63.

The cause was bladder cancer, his wife, Cheryl John, said.

John pitched for 26 seasons; only Fielan Ryan lasted longer in the big leagues in the modern era. At the height of his success — and after his recovery from the risky surgery — he won 37 games for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1977 to 1976 and then 43 for the New York Yankees from 1979 to 1980, for a cumulative four-year record of 40-35.

In 1974, the year that derailed his career — and, it can fairly be said, changed baseball — John was in his 12th major-league season, and his third with the Dodgers. It was in Los Angeles that John had come into his own. Unlike his previous teams, the Dodgers had no qualms about the relative lack of pace on his football and urged him to rely on it. In his first two seasons with the team, he won 37-32, and at the All-Star break in 1974 he won 53-2, the best

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Tommy John in a 1974 game, two weeks before the injury that led to surgery that saved his career and later many others.

Held by Russia,

Ukrainian Feels 'Crushing' Fear

This article is by Kim Barker, Valerie Hopkins and Melanoma Mykolyalyov.

KYO's, Ukraine — Russia says Artemi Murshid is a killer who followed orders from Ukrainian investigators to plant benths to the Ukrainian city, Mishnyei, after Russian troops captured it.

Mr. Murshid says he did nothing wrong. He also says that after he was arrested in March 2023, pro-Russian guards repeatedly beat him, checked him with electric charges and forced him to watch his mother be subjected to the same.

In a letter detailing what he says happened, Mr. Murshid, 52, wrote that the guards also threatened to throw his mother and gathered into a breach "whose they'll be raped, while you watch all of this." He said the guards then threatened to shoot him and leave him along a road for dogs to eat. The Russian authorities did not respond to a request for comment on Mr. Murshid's claims.

Eventually, he wrote, he signed confusion papers that were put on front of him, without reading them. So did his mother, Hanna Murshid, 52, and his girlfriend, Hanna Melanoma, 52. He was given a 50 sentence, his mother 22

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MIDTERM BATTLES

SEE MORE ATTACKS ON STOCK TRADES

COMMON IN CONGRESS

Voters From Both Sides

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With Suspicion

By ANNIE KAHN

WASHINGTON — Since the day she began her campaign for Congress, Paige Cognetti, the Democratic mayor of Scranton, has convened her pitch to voters on the prodigious sunk trading of the House Republican law in fighting to unravel, Representative Rob Brownahan Jr. of Pennsylvania.

"This year he's already made 600 trades," Mr. Cognetti said in the announcement video for her campaign in September. "Sold Chinese stocks the week of a tariff. Buys missile stocks before a war. Buys jet stocks before a big contract. Overseers cripple! Buys crypiss stocks before a vote."

It may be the district where the more rings the least are Democrats are running ads highlighting how Mr. Brownahan profited from a data center development by trading stocks related to the industry, and recent polls show Mr. Cognetti with a narrow lead. But she is not about in serving in on stock trading by members of Congress as a period line of attack in also year's numbers selection.

Like many members of Congress who trade substantial amounts of stock, Mr. Brownahan, the wealthy former chief executive of the state's first marketing company, has said he relies on a financial attractor to make his trades and never knows about the transactions before they happen or when they return.

Mr. Brownahan's campaign said that Mr. Cognetti's descriptions of his trades were "fine" and that he was "about legitimate crops to ban congressional law."

Still, at a time when many voters are experiencing economic hardship and have grown increasingly suspicious that the political system is raging, the news poses

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Harbor Deaths

Draw Spotlight To Wild Waters

By COREY KILGANSON and MELIS G. GIBBIN

Jet Balls and house cruisers voor accountability show to oil tankers and loaded barges. Former693-2026 giant the States of Liberty used an edging wagon that rock little saltbones and charter vessels that seem more suited for placed lakes.

New York Harbor, one of the busiest cargo ports in the country, has long been a crowded, chaotic waterway. Now, the tragic loss of a mother and her infant daughter, who died after an overloaded charter boat captured near the waters of Liberty this month, has put a spotlight on safety in the water south of Manhattan.

Some markers describe the harbor as something of a wild boon, where there's no guarantee that the practices and regulations designed to keep the waterway safe and orderly will be met. "It's become a free-for-all," said Michael Devlin, Secretary-treasurer of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, an international union.

"You have everything from tending markers to Jet Balls and people in canons out there cutting its front of the States Island Ferry," said Devlin said. "And they just don't realize that the ferry is not a

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HITERNATIONAL A4-8

Chided for Protecting in India

With special entire abuse and visits from the police show the added risks wastes take for their activities. PAGE A5

In Toronto, Guns for Hire

A shooting at a U.S. consulate and the killing of a police officer highlight an emerging phenomenon. PAGE A4

SPORTS D1-8

Baseball's Smarter Problem

The vehicles have become part of big-league life for players, but they can also be dangerous. There is little teams can do to police their usage. PAGE D1

Who Are the Top-Tier QBs?

In a survey of 50 N.R.I., coaches and executives, Lamar Jackson dropped into Tier 2 with a dozen others. PAGE D4

OBSTLARGES A16, 80-6

Revived the Lower East Side

Carlos Garcia, 80, led a Puerto Rican group in turning a crumbling public school into a community center. PAGE B6

NATIONAL A9-15

Lethal Storms Strike Indiana

Hazardous weather has caused at least seven deaths in the state and displaced scores of residents. PAGE A23

Hey, Looks Aren't Everything

Jinny Lu, a rescued gag who survives at her reflection in the mirror, won the World's Uplent Bag Contest. PAGE A13

ARTS C1-6

Unexpectedly Defiant Comedy

Stavros Hallikas, who has a special coming out on Netflix met month, liken to joke about his weight, drug intake and fragile style. But he feels compelled to talk about politics, too. PAGE C1

Saluburg at a Crossroads

The classical music festival finds itself at a turning point after running its artist to discover as preparations for a disruptive flight within reservations and expansion project move forward. PAGE D1

OPINION A16-17

Peter Navarro

BUSINESS B1-5

America Wants Its Own Robots

China already manufactures harmanish by the thousands. Some U.S. start-ups are feeling that there is still time to compete, but it won't be easy. PAGE B6

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The book reaching age (moderate added a "Did Not Finish" (DNF) designation this spring so that readers can log books they've put down or abandoned. The change, Erik Popenburg reported in The Times, provoked an online debate: Is it a cop out to DNF? As a couple who has been known to go on books as if at a grand buffet, tasting a little bit of everything, I enter this discourse buildup). I feel strongly that life's too short to spend time on books one doesn't like. But sometimes I wonder if the problem isn't with the books but with me: impatients, reduced by novelty, impossible to satisfy.

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Hate jeans. Always have. Even in high school, I didn't wear jeans. They always feel stiff, and if they fit at the waist, there's excess fabric at the hip. If they fit in the hip, the waist goes. The addition of tams etc., helped, but then the jeans stretch out. I think it's falling that love to "feel the right jeans" is like a baby gold undertaking. Since the pandemic, I have to send into adhesives but find it can look sloppy. So I am wondering, what's the alternative?

— RUE, KERRONTON, ALBERTA

First of all, know that you are not alone. The actress Eva Hendrix even called jeans her "warm nightmare." Seth Bogen told Jennifer Hudson he doesn't even a single pair. "They're constricted, they're heavy, they're weird," he said. Kevin Hart announced he stopped wearing them after he turned 40 because "jeans hurt and are not comfortable." This Van Teren said she finds them "unspeaking." Whole Bodde threads are devoted to people complaining about jeans.

"It's similar to bra-sleeping," said Eva Chen, Instagram's director of fashion partnerships. "You could have the exact same dimensions as a friend, but what looks good on one person will look wildly different on the other."

Yet, despite all of the above, we live in an increasingly dentist-dominated world. Jeans acelyces would probably argue, justifiably, that these days there are jeans for everyone, even the haters. It is also true that the sheer effect of sorting through all of those choices is find the one style that works for you can be overwhelming. Not to mention a source of option anxiety. And because badies and trends change over time, you have to keep doing it, again and again.

Little wonder it may seem easier to just say no. But jeans serve a useful purpose in life. That's why they have stuck around as long and have such broad appeal. They are hard to replace. That's why, assuming you don't want to go the Van Teren way and devote yourself fully to dresses and skirts, the first thing you need to think about when you think about an alternative is: What are the basic qualities that make dentin such an effective part of a wardrobe?

"Practical, durable, American," the designer Mike Amiri said, ticking off on his fingers the positive attributes for associates with jeans. "Classic." To that I would add

"malisable," since, like the white shirt or the little black dress, dentin can work in a host of different situations depending on how you accessorize it.

As to what other kinds of clothing may be similar but different, Amiri suggested thinking about vintage workwear, like cargo pants and painter's pants, clothes that speak a shared survival language and belong to the same traditions but generally have a house fit and come in either cottons.

"They're light, and they're utility," Amiri said. They also act as a wardrobe black canvas in the same way jeans do, allowing you to build a look on top at will.

Personally, I am an evangelist for cargo jeans in cotton, silk and even velvet. To me, they have the comfort of payment and sweats but the look of actual pants. I wear them on planes instead of jeans precisely because I don't like the way even comfortable jeans cut into my middle as I squish myself into an economy seat.

Chen offered another suggestion, one that fits in the category of having your case and wearing it too. "I have many friends (even in the fashion industry) who separate sweatpants' jeans," she said. Essentially terry cloth or fleece pants that have a trompe l'oeil jeans effect, they offer the effect of wide hip device, at least front slat, with the foot of — you — people.

She also said that you should never say never. "Once you find the brandy of jeans you like," she said, "it changes your relationship with dentin."

To that end, it may be worth considering yet another option: taking the dentin you (mostly) like to a tailor.

Every week in the Ask Vanessa volume, The Times's chief fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman, answers a reader's fashion-related question. Send your questions to sportshrada@nytimes.com.

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Outside the apartment towers on Martha Eaton Way in Toronto. Hunting for two gunmen who fired on the U.S. Consulate, investigators served in on the towers in the neighborhood known as "Creek."

A Consulate Attack, a Dead Officer and a Network of Guns for Hire

By SARA BAI

TORONTO — The apartment towers on Martha Eaton Way been over an urban creek in north Toronto, a working-class part of the city where ethnic stores dominate the strip made.

Violent episodes have cast a long shadow over the neighborhood, known as "Creek" to the young people for whom the address can confer class. Some remember that an 8-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet through his bedroom window last summer, and that a teenager was fatally shot at the pizza shop next door a year before that.

Others are not young to know that an adjacent street is named after a Toronto police officer killed three decades ago, or that a gang from this neighborhood played a defining role in the city's bloody "summer of the gun" in 2005.

Crime is broadly low in Toronto, with homicides and car theft rates dropping over the last year. But a recent spate of shootings has put many on edge, including synagogues and Jewish schools and merrimots that have been targeted by gunfire.

Then, in March, two gunmen fired at the U.S. Consulate in the heart of Toronto's downtown, a stash, low-rise structure on a busy avenue-dotted with court offices, university buildings and hospitals.

Security cameras showed the gunmen taking turns to fire the same weapon at the building. Hunting for them, investigators served in on the three apartment towers on Martha Eaton Way. Their investigation took a tragic turn in June, when a police officer trying to carry out a search warrant inside one of the buildings was shot dead.

The violence despite an emerging trend, the police say, of criminals using encrypted apps to anonymously recruit teenagers into what investigators call a gun-for-hire network, treating young people as gig workers in the underworld economy.

Then, in late July, the U.S. Consulate was fired on again. The suspects, arrested in early August, were two other teenagers who the police believe were involved with the network.

Raid Gone Aury

Explosive bungs and shooting: piled Mario Kramo smoke in his fourth-fore apartment in one of the Martha Eaton Way towers just before sunrise on June 11. In the hallway, police officers tried to resuscitate a wounded officer.

"I realized that they definitely came for a raid," Mr. Kramo said. "And it went badly."

Next door, his neighbor, Nicholas Bennett, 19, fired a single gunshot, the police say, that killed Constable Marc Pinizzotto, 43. Constable Pinizzotto, a veteran of an elite task force, was part of a high-risk takedown unit dispatched to arrest Mr. Bennett that morning.

The teenager was accused of participating in a few of the roughly two dozen shootings in known and businesses across the city linked to the gun-for-hire network, according to police and court documents.

Two other teenagers who lived in the

building, both wanted to the U.S. Consulate shooting, tried to flee.

The police apprehended the first, Sheldon Tracy-Girwart, 16, in the neighborhood carrying, they said, a loaded Glock 17 handgun. The other, Zara Jaddo, 18, fled and a week later was arrested at Toronto's main airport.

No Payment Without Video

Criminals typically avoid filming themselves in the act to avoid creating evidence. But in the guns-for-hire network, video recordings are a condition of payment for picking up a "veteran's" said Chief Superintendent Joe Matthews, who is leading the investigation.

But the promised payment — in the handouts or thousands of dollars, depending on the job — sometimes doesn't materialize.

"They're now facing potential jail time for something they didn't even get paid for," said Superintendent Matthews, who grew up near Martha Eaton Way.

The guns-for-hire network is spread across Toronto and the surrounding areas, and involves a few dozen young people, the police said.

Earlier this month, the police announced the arrest of Ron-10-dakson Slyod, 16, of Brampton, Ontario, and a 15-year-old who cannot be identified because of a ban on publishing the names of youths, who were allegedly involved in the network.

Europol, the European police agency, has said it is investigating a similar trend of youth hired on social media to commit violent acts, including homicides, in a

"I realized that they definitely came for a raid, and it went badly."

Mario Kramo, a tower resident, of the June killing of a Toronto police officer.

"Violence-as-a-service" scheme that is "accessible, scalable and driven by online ecosystems" across borders. One of the most prolific contractors of violence in Europe is a criminal network with links to loan, according to an investigation by the BBC.

In Canada, questions about the net-

work's possible financiers have emerged following a criminal complaint filed in New York in May. According to the complaint, the F.B.I. says a 22-year-old man was heard in a secretly recorded call taking responsibility for the consulate attack and one at a synagogue, in the name of a militant group that serves as a proxy for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

Britain designated that group, Harakat Ashok al-Yamis al-Islamityra, a terrorist organization in July. Canada's public safety ministry did not respond to questions about whether it plans to do the same.

Three other arrests have been made in connection with synagogue shootings in Toronto, but the police are still investigating links to the guns-for-hire network.

"In Canada we have our guys," said the man heard on the wiretap, Mohammad Baqar Saad Imwood al-Saadi, according to the complaint. Neither Canadian authorities nor the F.B.I. have disclosed who dispatched the young shooters, who the police do not believe were ideologically maintained.

Monte MacGregor, a defense lawyer representing one of the teenagers accused in the consulate shooting, said it was telling that the police did not file terrorism charges.

His client was asserting his innocence, Mr. MacGregor said, adding that for whoever was involved: "It speaks to the level of sophistication and understanding of the actual people pulling the trigger. It's probably fairly true".

The recruitment over social media has not the network apart from past cases,

said Andrew Hammond, president of the Organization for National Gang Information and Awareness, a Canadian nonprofit.

Previously, older gang members groomed young recruits through lower-stakes crimes, like petty theft or stashing firearms, to build trust and loyalty. Social media has uprooted that model, and gives higher-ranking gang members more anonymity, said Sergeant Hammond, a Toronto detective who is not involved in this case.

The trend has grown more pronounced in the last two years, he said, and other Canadian cities, including Montreal, have seen versions of it, what experts there call the "disposable army"

A Narrowed Neighborhood

On the afternoon of Constable Pinizzotto's death, a neighborhood youth group gathered for its weekly activities, sports and snacks. The news jarred the older teenagers.

"For some young people, it's another day on the block," said Dennis Bujang, executive director of the Black Creek Youth Initiative. One of the alleged consulate shooters had long dropped in on the program, which is often paid for out of Mr. Bujang's own pocket, he said, amid mercantile public funding and outbacks in city programming, which he underprivileged neighborhood's the hardest.

Some of the group's participants would say they want to provide for their family, "whatever it takes," Mr. Bujang said.

Toronto gangs are also exploiting that pressure to recruit boys to travel across the country, as far north as Nunavut, to sell drugs, the police and social services workers say.

When they see alerts about missing boys in the neighborhood, Social-Suppleston-Stout and Grace Garrawi, both 17, say their first guess is the boy has "gone O.T." or out-of-town, to sell drugs.

"Because we're from the hood, not everyone here is rich," said Mr. Garrawi, a high-school athlete on a local basketball court. "I feel like if you get into that situation, it's unintentional. It kind of just happens."

The face of money — young people passing stacks of $20 bills on social media — can be hard to escape, said Mr. Sapphoon-Stout, who is entitled to a trade-up premiership program. Getauring at the court, he said, "adding little things like this makes a big contribution to the community. It keeps kids out of trouble."

Not every young person on Martha Eaton Way has been so lucky.

Just before the first day of school in September 2024, Mario Giddings, 18, was shot outside the pizza shop next to the building, where the raids in June took place. His killers have not been caught.

"It's still short, lovely, to my friend, to my eyes, seeing him just walk out that door and never reared," said Peristatula Giddings, Marvin, aunt and primary caregiver in Canada, Ms. Giddings, an airport. Mario, said her nephew would inexplicably come home with expensive clothes. He died, she said, at 8,000 sneakers.

The funeral procession for Constable Marc Pinizzotto in Toronto in June. Constable Pinizzotto was part of a high-risk unit dispatched to arrest a suspect in the towers. That suspect fired a single shot that killed the officer, the police said.

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When a court in Vienna convinced two former Syrian officials last month of abuses during their country's civil war, the case was celebrated as a groundbreaking parody of justice for victims of the fallen Syrian dictatorship.

But weeks later, one of these convicted, Moush Abu Rukhah, a former police chief, left Austria and traveled back to Syria after appealing his eight-year sentence. Now the Syrian government has announced that it has arrested him.

Syrian-Journal Security Forces said on Saturday that they had detained Mr. Abu Rukhah as part of "ongoing security operations to prosecute those involved in terrorism cases and take the necessary legal action against them." The arrest came after reports that he had returned to his hometown, Nusa, in the southern province of Doha.

Mr. Abu Rukhah, 14, had not been deemed a flight risk by a higher court in Vienna and was free while the appeal process was underway. Christian Kuhlhorn, the vice president of the Regional Court of Vienna, said earlier this month, He had been released without conditions after a brief detention at the time of his indictment in January 2022, which was not under any reporting requirements, travel but or obligation to surrender his passport, she said.

But earlier this month, after Syrian activists posted on social media that they had learned of Mr. Abu Rukhah's return, a lawyer representing victims in the case against him said she had applied for an international arrest warrant. The lawyer, Tatiana Urdaneta Wittek, is the director of the Center for the Enforcement of Human Rights International, a nonprofit organization in Vienna.

A hearing date for Mr. Abu Rukhah's appeal had not been set.

With his escape to Syria, he is withdrawing from the proceedings before they are final," Mr. Urdaneta Wittek said.

The court in Austria has made no public announcement about any warrant for Mr. Abu Rukhah's arrest.

Ms. Urdaneta Wittek and Roman Vabadi, a lawyer who represented Mr. Abu Rukhah at the trial, could not immediately be reached for comment on abuses after the announcement of Mr. Abu Rukhah's arrest.

His return home is a text for Syrian government, which is struggling to deliver police for the hundreds of thousands of victims of the country's civil war, a year and a half after overthrowing the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad.

Ms. Urdaneta Wittek's application for a warrant, which was seen by The New York Times, said that an investigative group specializing in international police cases, Arctic Wind Solutions, had confirmed with the Syrian border authorities that Mr. Abu Rukhah had crossed into Syria early on the morning of July 28.

Mr. Abu Rukhah's apparent escape was an embarrassment for the Austrian authorities and a blow to his many victims after a 10-year investigation of him and a former intelligence official, Khaled al-Halabi.

Aisyad Almouna, who was among those who testified against Mr. Abu Rukhah in Vienna, said before the announcement of his arrest that a whole new case now had to be built in Syria, "We are starting from zero," he said, "which means your court of agonizing judicial process."

Mr. Abu Rukhah and Mr. al-Halabi had claimed asylum in Austria after arriving in 2015, several years after the start of Syria's civil war. They were convicted, in a rarity there, under the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows a country to prosecute individuals for grave crimes committed elsewhere.

Twenty Syrian survivors testified against the two former officials during the trial, describing harrowing details of lasting physical and psychological trauma at their hands.

Mr. al-Halabi was convicted of torture and other crimes. Mr. Abu Rukhah was convicted on charges that included aggravated coercion and sexual coercion. Both men were sentenced to eight years in prison and helped appeals through their lawyers.

"I feel a deep sadness seeing this happen," said Mr. Almouna. The victim who had testified against Mr. Abu Rukhah, "tions of demanding our rights were into the wind because of the Austrian justice system's conclusions. How was a man sentenced to eight years by go, free and not mentioned."

Nazi Kazakhstan contributed reporting.

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Rhiya Ahir, 27, a model and actor, says of her many critics: "I'm trying not to reply to any of them, just letting them do their thing and show their face to the world."

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NEW DELHI — Rhiya Ahir went viral after an image circulated of her blocking a police van that was carrying detained protesters last month during India's youth agitation. A vast array of online trials has stalled her since.

They called it a play for attention by Mr. Ahir, 27, a Mumbai-based model and actor. They are sinusoid that she sold sexually explicit content behind a pay-wall on Instagram. They circulated a video of her diving into the sea in a blight. They flooded her social media accounts with slurs and rape threats.

Ms. Ahir has chosen to rise above it.

"There not scared of someone who is telling you online that 'I'm going to trip you apart the day.' I see you," she said. "I'm trying not to reply to any of them, just letting them do their thing and show their face to the world."

Thousands of young women have participated in nationwide protests demanding accountability from the government for a flawed education system. But in the two months since the demonstrations started, they have been doomed and bombarded online by people who have called them immoral, threatened sexual abuse and acid attacks, and used artificial intelligence to create demeaning images. A majority of the attacks have come from accounts, many anonymous, that push friends right-wing ideology and pitch themselves as intimidants of religious morality. But high-profile politicians, commentators and outraged individuals have claimed in.

In a series of Instagram messages, Kangana Ramad, a well-known Bollywood actress and member of Parliament from the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Hindu nationalist political party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, called out a "new generation of so-called westernized Indian women." She labeled them "Generation Games," saying they had "nothing to offer the system" but were too "corrupt and ugly" to be "hame makers."

There have been other consequences for women who joined the protests. Police officers visited the ancestral home of a student activist and protesters and suggested to her family that she should focus on her studies. Another protest leader had six thrown in her face. A 15-year-old girl who had used profusation in talking about Mr. Modi during the protests later appeared in a video online apologizing.

In the aftermath of the protests, Mr. Modi called it a cultural shock that women protesters had used protesting, without remarking on the young men chanting along side them, "How can the daughters of this country see this kind of language?" he said in an Instagram reel.

Dainah Ali, a student activist and doctoral student in Delhi, said police officers showed up at the moment they were shot in their barbars, her ancestral village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The police told them that

When Ms. Ahir blocked a police van carrying detained protesters, she set off an online firestorm.

Cockroach Janta Party supported a model the resignation of Indian education minister in July.

Security personnel stood guard outside the Parliament House in New Delhi during the protests.

it was not an "official exercise" and there was no case against her but that an investigation was continuing. The authorities also called her father, telling him that

Ms. Ali should "focus on her studies". Ms. Ali called it a "noble threat" that tied her activities to her well-being.

"All this targeting of women off-

line and online happened because women coming to the protest site, women openly critiquing the government, women cheerfully making fun of the prime minister, even

using profanity, that was something which could not be tolerated," she said.

Ms. Ali, 24, celebrated the fact that so many young girls and women joined protests across the nation — sometimes defying their parents or skipping school to do so. But, she said, it was "problematic to see" the hateful targeting of women at a protest demanding education reform, given that many women already have to fight for the chance to grow school.

That the attacks measured from the three right, which calls for a nation based on a religion that worships numerous professors, social life. Ali as especially contradictory: "There is this binary that is created," she said. "Either you are a saint, or you are a shat."

Ms. Ahir, who has appeared in music videos and worked in theater, has become a central figure because her lifestyle challenges a deeply entrenched patriarchal system that confines women to certain roles and behaviors.

As she made news for defiantly putting her hand on the front of a police van in Mumbai, demanding that the officer show legal papers before she stopped aside, a section of the internet bubbled up with comments on her physical appearance: the nature of her clothing, the angle of her body.

Ms. Ahir said she had barely begun processing the unexpected attention that her act had brought her before "the hate started coming." The hoodie she was wearing, tucked into the back of her sweat pants, led to comments that she was showing off her body because she had her hip shoes and while leaning toward the box, Ms. Ahir said. Other messages accused her of staging the episode.

"They're trying to denounce me and discredit as women from the entire present," she said. The higher her profile rose, the more briskady the slender came, mostly in the form of comments on social media, home insinuated, barely, that 100 rupees (about $1.30) — the monthly subscription for this charges for early access to her Instagram posts — would get them adult content, Ms. Ahir said.

Still, she worried that by constantly nudging her image, the truth would discredit her enough that she would lose her newfound platform to detempl accountability from the government on core issues like education and employment. On Aug. 3, Ms. Ahir accused of several protesters invited to join Rahul Gandhi, a member of Congress and the leader of the opposition to the lower house of Parliament, stopped at a news conference about online harassment.

She wants to be a role model for young girls and women. But in encouraging them to raise their voices, Ms. Ahir landed on the connection that millions of women to post government here left. how to dress and behave publicly in a patriarchal society is order to be taken seriously and treated with respect.

"These things are finding their way into the way I think about myself — my thing is visible in this, too much cleavage," Ms. Ahir said. "Why can't so scared of people seeing who I am and what I say?"

Ms. Ahir, who started modeling it, said she was trying to stop second-guessing herself. "Do I really have to wear a seat if I want to stand up for my country?"

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Ships could never through the littoral of Norman bomb before the war. From insistence that the death's major language on the issue gave it control over the waterway led to the dead falling apart. Iran began firing an ships that ironed in channels outside the world waters, and American forces retaliated by bombing, southern Iran, prompting a cycle of attacks and counterstimulus across the Middle East.

Now, Iran refuses to reopen the strut once the United States is below the throgs in its commitments from the ocean fire. But exhausting the U.S. forces were abroad. The Trump administration wants Iran to first visit the blockade, said Ali Yasin, an Iran expert at the International Crisis Group, a research institute.

"Vetterer able is really ready to finalize a deal. They both think that the U.S. is not going to be the other side will be more desperate for a deal, so they'll be able to get more out of it," Mr. Yasin said. "This is why we are needed into the U.S. and the U.S. government."

On Saturday, the United Arab Emirates foreign industry slammed Iran for attacking a vessel affiliated with the state-owned Arab Airways, which was the province day. Iranian officials did not comment.

Responding the trust has increased because Mr Trump's position was not to be the same, though he initially said the war was meant to empower the Iranian people. "I am not going to be the previous day. Iranian officials did not comment.

When Anghelis, the Iranian foreign industry, said over the weekend that Iran had yet to decide whether to increase talks with the United States. But the United timeline was no longer relevant, he added, given that the June agreement was essentially definite.

"We did not have a reason for that new needs to be extended," Mr. Anghelis said. "We had an idea that the United States now takes on a new status."

Former U.S. officials who worked on Iran say the prospect of a new nuclear deal between the United States and Iran within 30 days was always remote, all though the agreement provided for extensions—a previous(Xm4n4) agreement took about 10 years. The Iranian talks a certain time. Mr. Trump withdrew from

Aaron Bourreau reported from Jerusalem, said John Rabeu, being small, David E. Sanger from Washington.

The memorandum of understanding in June was seen as a boon for Iran for giving sanctions relief.

that deal, whether the Iran's foreign business? Para of Azhwa, in 2018.

The Trump administration hoped that the June agreement would at the very least, open the littoral of Norman. But to get the deal over the line, they relied on vague language that here couldfully to track claim to dominate future shipping in the reservoir, an adymn. said.

"It was a flawed document, it was harried out when it wasn't ready for prime time," said Mr. Swanson, the Iran expert. "I am not going to be the same, but I am not going to be the same. I am not going to be the same. I am not going to be the same."

It was a flawed document, it was harried out when it wasn't ready for prime time," said Mr. Swanson, the Iran expert. "I am not going to be the same, but I am not going to be the same. I am not going to be the same. I am not going to be the same. I am not going to be the same."

I was a flawed document, it was harried out when it wasn't ready for prime time," said Mr. Swanson, the Iran expert. "I am not going to be the same, but I am not going to be the same. I am not going to be the same."

proposed mass pressure that were brutally crushed early this year, is a major consideration for Iranian decision makers. But Mr. Swanson argued that the current measure was more likely to pass on several escalation than toward cost-fixities.

While there has been little or negative on the commitments, our men in the agreement, Mr. Trump and his Iranian counterpart have continued to exchange a war of words.

During an event in Canada City, the New Friday, Mr. Trump appeared on again intent on changing the narrative, saying he would want to "declaring the Norman front" a territory of United States.

It was not clear how serious Mr. Trump's proposal was, But doing so could involve deploying bases on the ground and almost certain would require a prolonged heavy presence — moves antithorical to the "America Party" nation of Trump supporters who want an end to prolonged military conflicts

envision.

Mr. Trump has also been known to turn out half-shank ideas on the large policy to redirect attention and scrutiny. She when he was told she would later year by proposing a U.S. takeover of the Gaza Strip, an idea that never me retaliated.

The White House on Saturday did not regard to questions over whether the administration had developed actual plans to take control of the littoral of Norman. Mr. Trump's plan also did not support the U.S. government's plan to preaching Monday deadline.

Iranian officials, in turn, have defended the U.S. government, and the new demands — including one that they had not made before war.

"Accept really once and for all. So far, you have suffered many strategic defenses," Rabeu-Guebhaibadi, the Iranian deputy foreign minister, said on social media. "The listed of Norman has been Iranian, a Iranian, and will remain Iranian."

Kushner Meets With Hamas Leaders in Egypt

By AARON BOURREAU and DELAN KASHNER/VOYNE

Aarod Kashner, President Tunnys' new-in-law and close adviser, met with Hamas leaders in Egypt on Sunday, a Human official and another official behind on the meetings said. The talks were part of a diplomatic push to advance Mr. Trump's plan for the future of Gaza.

A U.S. official confirmed that Mr. Kashner was in Egypt for talks on Gaza, without providing them details, all three officials

spoke on the condition of an enemy to shout Mr. Kashner's meetings.

Last month, Mr. Trump announced that his Board of Peace had reached an agreement with Hamas leaders. The President's position on Palestinian group of its weapons, Chautengh Hamza is a key component of the president's 20-year plan for Gaza, made it possible to have a new unit of nuclear power after an initial ceasefire was reached last October.

Prime Minister Benjamin Nanayaka of Israel later said he reported the first following the

meetings with Hamas on Sunday, Mr. Kashner was expected to travel to Israel in most with Mr. Nanayaka to discuss the situation in Gaza.

Negotiations between the U.S. and the U.S. and Hamas, which the United States has dropped out as a terrorist organization, were over rare. But the Trump administration broke that pattern, holding multiple rounds of direct talks with the group to win freedom for the hostage Hamas second in Israel, and to end the Israeli military campaign there.

Rapper invites Debate Over Palestinian Authenticity

By RAJA ABOLUKHIM

AOLUKH, Jordan — The Palestinian rapper Shabjiboo and his mahny party, defied music about the struggles of living under the radio occupation on the West Bank.

Raja Aolukhim sang, "It'll," he's a stand for her, on Friday. The Iranian artist, a young global pop star named Saint Levant, there is his satan, party named in Gaza, Saint Levant has also lived in Los Angeles and currently resides in Hamas, Jordan. He is more likely to sing about his lovers than his homeland.

That appears to be Shabjibool's major role.

Working Palestine with all kinds of publicly and European protestesmen, acting all child," Shabjibool argued in Saint Levant. "It's days a war between the two things — just so you know how much I love my country," he added, a reference to the red, green and black fruit that shares the role of the Palestinian rapper.

Now, anguishening Saint Levant's personal and music as stand-holds, has drawn comparison with a middle, long-running front in the United States, and the United States' Lamar and Drake. It has also struck a shock with many Palestinians, raising questions about their identity and representation, and the

Palestinian born a long history of disappointeurs, with no current independence since or centralized political leadership. Who speaks to the Arab world, who has come a charged debate, and especially so since the war in Gaza and rising Israeli earlier violence in the West Bank.

The New Shabjibool and Saint Levant, whose real names are Uday Abbas and Marwan Abdelhamid, did not respond to response for comment, both across the world. The Arab world is the human, Jordan, on Thursday night, with "Ula" included in Shabjibool's on.

Palestinian identity itself is in complex, it has been staged and

found in the Laban contributed to parting.

Shabjibool from the unrugged West Bank, put out a clue track.

Saint Levant, born in Jordan, often raps about romance.

only by a long history but also the forced situation and displacement of Palestinian people, the situation of the state of Israel in 1945. The subsequent decades of Israeli occupation and further rounds of displacement have led to a bounty of the Palestinian cigarettes, with many forced to live far from their ancestral homes.

"Each of us carries a different piece of a jaccib that was observed in 1945," said Yasser Nafiz, a co-founder of the rap group Dzlal who is often considered the godfather of Palestinian hip-hop.

The occupation dispersed as a child. Mr. Nafiz, who lives in Laban, is one of the most successful people in the country of the country, and is currently changed our perspective, our living conditions and the way each of us retains to Palestine."

While the Afsinullah-based Shabjibool presents himself as the more authentically Palestinian voice, the pointed sounds in "U.S. laws" tell more to scrutinize its own public actions. Fifties of the current track accused him of not speaking out enough against the war in Gaza and noted that he has marched in stage scenario.

The Shabjibool's story for the strategic is futile as well on French and English, has made ample dates Gaza and spoken out against the war during his own crisis.

He has not responded to the dig from Shabjibool, though another Palestinian rapper has.

Kensaham, a Jordanian-American musician whose real name is "Shabjibool" is the name of a Shabjibool this track. In 2018, When Shabjibool released "U.S." Jonathan soon put out a lyrical response, urging him to rep身体等 war in Gaza, rather than going after other Palestinian artists.

"You don't have any more home — God, after this long I don't want to hear your history," Donaldson, saying. "We haven't heard you twice in these years amid all the memories."

Shabjibool's lyrics criticized Saint Levant's focus on romance. In his recent, and the most important, with Nia Khalifa, a former child film star turned influence and political action to the Lebanese pop star Haifa Wehbe.

In the Palestinian born in Jordan back on Shabjibool's criticisms, arguing in interview and in the "Jaccib" of the Arab world, the same is a long history of reducing the complexity and diversity of their lives to the political struggle.

"Palestinians are not a mere-horrible, but a mere-horrible, and I don't think anyone has a right to spoke who gets to the Palestinian," said Nia Hammurdi, a fan of both artists. She runs a group of young people, who are also an ingotny party ganda from the West Bank. "I think that's one of the key goodbacks against the idea that it against Saint Levant is the 'Jaccib' of the Arab, after it was the 'shaman' from that because less Palestinian?"

Ms. Hammurdi, who was born in

Jordan and said she had not yet been able to visit her ancestral homes in Jazan and Jerusalem, added that art should grapple with every aspect of the Palestine's experience. She's wearing the recent disc-track, she posted a series of questions on Instagram.

To Shabjibool a motif absolutely, she wrote, "For the criticisms of Marwan (SU)'s valet!" Vice.

These questions opened the custom among her friends and followers online, and some said they felt Saint Levant performed on the tastes of Western audiences. Others said his success — from Israel partnership deals to grazing the cover of Galilee magazines — had been a good source of interest for a viewed as more Western than Arab, Mr. Hammurdi said.

Defenders of Saint Levant would discontinue that an another report of the Shabjibool's story has been put his Palestinian identity front and center. He regularly performs wearing the halffight, the black-and-white chestband snarl trumpeted by Iranian women, the Middle East, and wearing the Pan-tomism flag. This scenario, when he was named Pinaliz new brand ambassador, he was pictured as a result of his being an outline of historical Palestine.

He has also said that his father's goal "is to be the president of Palestine."

Mr. Nafiz, now of the founders of Palestinian hip-hop, said that "I am a very hard man, and I am a was coming from a great place, his representation can feel skeptical, trendy and disconcerted from the complex reality that Palestinian people are in the world."

Rather than shrink from the controversy, though, he encouraged Saint Levant to ship back and engage in a discourse that would be more important than authenticity and who gets to sell which story, issues inherent in hip-hop, he said.

"As a rapper I say, 'Haha Saint,' I'm not going to be using the Jaccibs word for 'let's go.

"Can your dad, heck back, and let the story go on," he added.

Carrier's Problems Linked To Attacks in Base by Iran

By JOHN ISMAY

WASHINGTON — The aircraft carrier U.S. Abraham Lincoln's supply problems began soon after the first day of the war, as Iranian men and al-Qaida drivers fell on a Navy base in 1944.

The Iranian attack, retaliation for the U.S.-based assault on Tehran, destroyed much of the base. And as it went up in number, as did a major against the U.S.-based, the Navy has relied on for decades.

The Navy needed a Plan B to continue through the nation's strong assault on the U.S.-based, and the plans being strike missions, and later to maintain a blockade of Iran's parts.

With the threat of Iranian attacks in other parts in the region, the Persegade looked to a base under British command on the island of Diego Garcia as its supply hub. The island also would strike Maldives last year, and the U.S.-based from where two aircraft carrier strike groups have been operating in the Gulf of Oman.

The best of the hub in Bahrain was the U.S.-based, and the U.S.-based problems on carriers supporting operations against Iran. The American security was now on error, since the Lincoln's 1,000 million USFAA, was not the most smooth deployment.

General Richard Blumenthal, who was the president, said he's letter to Defense Secretary Pess Hargreh that the reported problems included shortages of basic supplies and the deteriorating supply hubs in both of its core members.

On Friday at a military air force in Maryland, Mr. Trump dismissed their concerns. "That day, I was not right now, and I was shortly, and it's being replaced with another, very similar, ship, he said.

The Lincoln's replacement in the U.S.-based carrier U.S.A. George Washington, which earlier this week was handing more through the firstst of Malawi in Indonesian waters on route to the U.S.-based.

Another carrier, the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush, has been operating in the Middle East for months since departing from Norfolk on March 24.

When asked if the carrier department were running, the president said, "No, no, no, not nearly that enough."

Mr. Heggerh had a similar response on Thursday when a report asked how long the United States could maintain its blockade of the littoral of Norman.

"We can hold it as long as we need to, inhabitants," he replied. A few years' notice, Mr. Heggerh had been a major business, denied the Persegade access to Diego Garcia for use in its operation against Iran. That decision drew Mr. Hegger's on, and Mr. Heggerh's on, and the U.S.-based carrier in the island for what he described as a "specific and limited defensive purpose."

He was also a "official, who spoke on the condition of an aircraft for disease sensitive legislation," said the Navy's begin using Diego Garcia as the main ship-cast, point-of-facting, and the Navy's base in Bahrain was hourly damaged.

The use of Diego Garcia as the Navy's new logistics hub may explain why Iran had been medium-sized. "I think, muscles at the level of March 31.

One of the muscles fell into the Indian division short of its supply. They warmly shut down the miles.

The San Diego-based Lincoln base lost at sea for nearly nine months without what the Navy calls a "theory part" — where sailors can get off the ship for a few days.

Before he's one of the two parts of the U.S. aircraft carriers in the region have typically entered in their crews can get some downsizes. The other, the Iranian part of England on the Gulf of Oman, is the well within the range of Iran's mission.

The Trump administration tried on yet another carrier, the U.S.-Consolid. Even in the Gulf of Oman, the U.S.-based campaign against Venezuela and later extended its deployment to the Middle East to launch airstrikes against Iran, for the few ten years, and the U.S.-based might pass754000 of the Navy's fleet of aircraft carriers, which will get down to 16 with the expected increase of the U.S. Tristrix next year.

While six months is the typical supply of a Navy deployment was in peacetime, some carriers

A base on Diego Garcia, south of the Maldives, is serving as a supply hub for the Navy service.

have done far longer service following the date of attacks. The Navy's 220-day deployment, however, leads the research for the legality of a carrier since the Vietnam War.

From the first war carriers assigned to Yankee Station, a section of the Pacific off the coast of Vietnam, would often head to the Navy base at Saint Sep. Philippines — a short two-day search from — where sailors could take a break from coming toward the Philippines and the ship could load up on airplanes, land, fuel and other fuel.

By tradition and Navy regulations, the commanding officer of a warship can request a "beer day" for their crews when they have been in the U.S.-based, and have longer. Given the Lincoln's time at sea, the crew would have been eligible for five beer days already.

A spokesman for the U.S. Fifth Air Force, who has been a spokesman in region and would authorize the ship, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday about the war, and the ship's plan for putting in the Iran war had requested time.

Three Doomed Iranian Pilots Not Being Held, Qatar Says

By VILVANDI TURBISH and LEEO NIMEN/NAZAR

Iran has accused Qatar of capturing three of its families' plans in the war, says of the U.S.-based war with Iran, a claim that a "good" of its own, "good" of its own.

Gen. Seyed Mohammad Rajbottashla, commander of the U.S.-based carrier missing persons search possession, made the accusation on Saturday in a letter to the International Court, who was of the Red Cross, which was released by Iranian media. He said the new wave trying for its fighter jet to an operation on March 4, days after the outbreak of the war, when their planes were in its "very unknown" and the plans>Gentive.

They survived but were captured by the Qatari authorities, according to General Rajbottashla, who was the first to have been killed in Saleta, Adalampal Dasikhan and Yaman Behramishak, a fourth of the war.

The U.S.-based carrier, a spokesman for Qatar's foreign ministry, denied that the country had declared the Iranian.

hont a major American military base, said in early March that no far fewer had shot down two Iranian, but 3 harsher jars. Mr. al-Qaida said the situation was "crucial" was established with the power concerned following their two claims of Qatar's airspace."

He added, "After following the rules of engagement in attempting to communicate with them without receiving a response, the necessary measures were taken to defend our territory in accord with the international law.

He said that Qatari search and rescue means examined for the ground, and other information of with Iran to turn over the mission of any plot who was found, presumably a reference to Melvante. Mr. al-Ansari said.

Mr. al-Qaida said an Iranian issue to void and "be briefed on the details of the search & rescue operations in April, but the Iran's order has not in respect to the U.S.-based," Mr. al-Ansari said.

General Rajbottashla's letter said the most precise indication as far of what Iran believes happened to the three pilots. Before the war, the U.S.-based carrier's position has had said the fate of the men was unknown.

Mr. al-Qaida also allowed the prisoners to meet or speak with their families or with officials including their cases," General Rajbottashla wrote. He called on the U.S.-based carrier's position in a joint, investigate their condition, and facilitate their release as soon as possible.

The Red Cross did not respond to a request for comment.

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As China Pushes to Expand in Asia, Trump Focuses on Iran

By EDWARD WONG EL NIDO, Philippines — It was the worst clash in years between China and the Philippines as a long-sensuring flashpoint in the South China Sea.

For decades, the Philippines has claimed a new state of disputed waters and signaled its control of the territory by rotating troops to a World War II or to ship grounded there. An international tribunal ruling a decade ago supports the Philippines' claim.

But last month, a Chinese Coast Guard vessel began on ship the ship, which is named the Sierra Madre. It was the latest in a long series of encounters between the two governments at the sea and it is called the Second Thomas Shoal.

At one point, the Chinese Coast Guard vessel began on ship the ship, which is named the Sierra Madre. It was the latest in a long series of encounters between the two governments at the sea and it is called the Second Thomas Shoal.

The American ambassador expressed outrage and declared that the United States stood with the Philippines, the other U.S. treaty ally in Southeast Asia.

Yet no one expects China to craft its expansionist activities in the region anytime soon. And there are growing deaths among Indians who watch the United States would be willing to do to show China growth. The enormous distraction and recourse about of the U.S. Socially is opposed. But

The United States is running low on critical weapons, including air strikes, war, and war. Inertz minded and drove attacks have forced U.S. troops to leave hours in the Middle East and destroyed the sites, as admission at what the Chinese states wish it is much more powerful than Ivertz — could do is a conflict in Asia.

In early July, China conducted a case not being of a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile that carried a shatney warhead, sending it into the Pacific Ocean from a nuclear mine to the U.S. in the form of the most powerful elements in its control.

While China tries to might, President Trump's State Enigma went to closing consolation in Japan and Indonesia, according to congressional officials United States.

Eric Schmit, coordinated reporting from Washington

President Trump expressed admiration for President Xi Jinping during a Beijing summit in May. He is set to beat US, Xi next month.

on the decision.

Mr. Trump's second term "has been a criminal failure for U.S. interests in the Asia region," Representative Gregory V. Menis of New York, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement.

"This strategy, if you can call it one, is a gift to China that is undermining U.S. credibility and learning our national security," said Mr. Trump.

Trump appointees say the administration is not cutting ground in Asia. In a speech in Russia on Aug. 16, Elleridge Cathy, the under secretary of defense for policy, said the

Trump administration aimed to "maintain a posture of deterrence by dental along the first-come chain" — meaning it was willing to commit military resources to dissuade China from invading or attacking islands that include Taiwan and even in the Philippines and Japan.

But Mr. Cathy also said alien needed to spread more on defense and should try to integrate their militaries with that of the United States — and "not vainly and

falsely seek to exclude or supplant us."

Mr. Trump's global trade was, however, the best included Southeast Asian nations, has also revealed to allow and partners that the United States can be a communist antagonist.

The United States has been a "civilized" state of interest. It has been a "fist" state of interest. The United States is a healthy countryweight to the P.E.C.," said Mike Rapp-Hanney, who served on the National Security Council during the 2008 administration and is now a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. She was using the initials for the formal name for China, the People's

Republic of China.

"So the perception that the United States is the living as an alternative to the U.S. is a very

deteriorate in a healthy countryweight to the P.E.C.," said Mike Rapp-Hanney, who served on the National Security Council during the 2008 administration and is now a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. She was using the initials for the formal name for China, the People's

Republic of China.

"So the perception that the United States is the living as an alternative to the U.S. is a very imperative to the U.S. is a very

Whole Mr. Trump has talked about China as an economic rival, but he has been told the superpower after it successfully retaliated during his เลขที่ ๙๙a last year.

"During a summit in Beijing in May, Mr. Trump expressed admiration for President Xi Jinping of China, and he is preparing to beat Mr. Xi at a state visit in Washington in late September.

Mr. Trump's move is held what he calls a "G2" — Group of Two — relationship with China has operated a growing bipartisan push in Washington in the last decade to continue China as a hostile rival.

As the Trump-IA businesses grows, more Asian countries are shining left out, yet the new spring to be the US-IA's first major side.

That is especially true when China remains the largest trading partner for many of the countries, and the United States is not

working on presenting economic alternatives.

"We're in a very difficult position because you know we want to have that maximal relationship with both sides," said Richard Heydarian, a political activist on from the Philippines. "And there is a problem that the Philippines, it's even more impossible because the U.S. is a military ally. We need the U.S. when it comes to the China threat, but the U.S. is a strong, to take low on anything beyond the military aspect."

The Bible administration agreed to work with the Philippines on expanding a transportation network, called the Latinx Economic Corridor, to better integrate the country into global supply chains.

The Trump administration is trying to bring the Philippines into its so-called Pro. Silica initiative, with the notion of having the country work an unreasonable and manufacturing and building artificial intelligence in a way that would benefit the United States.

But these nascent steps pike not to U.S. efforts to keep up in

military ties with the Philippines. The two countries have long had a close relationship, and they have tried to maintain military cooperation, though their ties have shifted at times.

The United State made the Philippines its first colonial business in Asia after taking it from the U.S. to the Spanish-American War. And the Philippines is the only Southeast Asian nation concerning territorial claims with China that has a formal alliance many with the United States — one that requires their militaries to help with the defense of the other nation.

Secretary of State Marco Rufo said reporters in Manila last month during an annual forum of Southeast Asian nations that the U.S. military was determined to push both against China's expansionist efforts.

"We're never going to accept that international waterways are the same under the control of other countries," he said. "We'll continue to call through international waterways and freedom of occupation efforts of that kind, and we'll continue to live up to our commitment — for example, with the Philippines and other countries — in terms of the many commitment that we have."

During the Bible administration, the U.S. government took a business approach to forging partnerships in Asia. It brought Japan into a new country system with the Philippines. And President Joseph R. Miller, Jr. got the following to agree American troops expanded access to nine bases on islands near Taiwan.

In November 2022, Vice President Ronnie Hart's flow to the United States of the South China Sea, and visited a Philippine Coast Guard site there to send a signal to China.

The military cooperation has continued to be the Trump despite the resource that of the lives was in May; the U.S. and Philippines militaries tested a Typhoon missile launcher at one of the major national cruises, and a weapon that could be deployed against Taiwan troops if they tried to invade Taiwan.

The Philippines invited Japan to use the U.S. military and military resources in June, the first time since World War II that Japanese troops had been active on Philippines in 2012.

"We have to both a central nature of the coalition overseen by the Bible administration and a badge by the Philippines to broaden its partnership beyond the United States.

Facing Life Term in Russia, Ukrainian Feels 'Crushing' Fear Over 90 Sickened by Cholera In Myanmar's Largest City

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years in prison, and his girlfriend 20 years. They were all accused of being the "crushing" fear.

A lot of people break: I know quite a few people who have been through Russian prisons in recent years," said Yaroslav Berna, a former Russian diplomat and family who fled Melôngd after the Russian invaded Ukraine in February 2022. "People would confess to killing Rumania."

The Russian authorities in Mt. Mardal, his mother and his girlfriend are on the extreme end of their human rights experts and Ukrainian government officials have been told that the for Ukrainian civilians in Russian custody, which they say number in the US.

It kept appeal by the three Ukrainian in scheduled for be hard on Monday by a court in Moscow that has repeatedly been held by a convictant. Another Ukrainian convicted of war-related crimes, While the three were usually pro-Ukrainian while living under occupation, they say they were willing to do with any bombings.

Unlike with prisoners of war, no official mechanism exists to return Ukrainian civilians or other non-ukrainian inmates of these Ukrainians, whom Ukraine describes an "crύלות biologice," is likely to be one of the thurient-in-laws to resolve in any talks to end up with the US.

About 2,600 Ukrainian civilians have been worried as being in the US. The Russian authorities conserved to the war, according to the Media Initiative for Human Rights in Ukraine, a group that investigates war crimes and other non-ukrainian inmates, and that the "crύלות" by the war. The actual number could be much higher, Ukrainian officials said.

Some of the civilians were not in the beginning pro-Ukrainian camp, posting pro-Ukrainian thoughts on social media or countering money to Ukrainian bank accounts. Others, like Mt. Mardal, have been caught with terrorism, accused of manning or killing Russians.

Kim Barker and defendants: Methadone entered from Kiro Chrosec, and Valerie Hopkins from Berlin, when it shows unreleased reporting.

The human rights organization investigating these cases says that almost 90% of the Ukrainians have been charged with or convicted of crimes. The rest are in limbo. Many have not been heard from in years.

Russian critics of Ukrainian arrested in occupied territory — whose international human rights law because Russia does not have legal sovereignty over occupied Ukrainian land or the people living there.

Mt. Mardal is one of a dozen Ukrainian civilians arrested by Russia who have been sentenced to life in prison on war-related charges, according to available records.

He was convicted of planting

Armin Mardal in 2020. He says he was tortured into confining to terrorism charges.

four homemade bombs in Melôngd. The last of them, Russia says, killed 1,400 Russians. Ukrainian who had coordinated the transportation of Russian mercenaries and soldiers to the front line.

Years before the occupation Mt. Mardal served a compulsory year in the Ukrainian army after earning his university degree. He then took a job as a bank, working his way up to being in charge of mentoring, cash transfers. He liked to enter Russia and cars.

His mother worked almost her entire life at a state-run company called Rybchomah that produced large hydrated 50% eventually into the US. He was also a foreign. She and her son lived in an apartment in Melôngd, which is shared for his district and hall. It is the second-largest city in the south-eastern world of Cogovtchevo, near the Sea of Azov, and remains under Russian Army control.

Ms. Vodakoder, a former sales

assistant at a drugstore, started dating Mt. Mardal in the months before the invasion. She was raising a daughter. Her partner had died at a stroke at 1,000.

Before he fled Melôngd, Mt. Berna, the close friend of the Mardal family, bought a load of groceries in Mt. Mardal's parishes, stones, pasta and cooking oil — a cause she had recently broken her leg. He said, Russian soldiers were overrun the city.

Mt. Berna, who can the Rybchomah factory alongside Mt. Mardal, said that he repeatedly tried to persuade her to leave her that she refused because her parents still lived there. A close friend said he also tried to call Mt. Mardal for being. But he, too, said he needed to stop because of his mother and grandparents.

Once the occupation began, the Mardal's would blast Ukrainian songs while driving through Melôngd — practically suitable chaps in the Russians. Mt. Berna said.

In an interview, the close friend of Mt. Mardal, the new pro-Russian administration tried unsuccessfully to occur Mt. Mardal in the policy, given his experience as a soldier and as a guard. The friend, who left Melôngd, spoke on the condition of anonymity because his mother still lived there and of叛逆 when one to their friend group had decided to join the police and collaborate with the Russians.

Early in the occupation, Mt. Mardal exchanged that messages with his close friend every few days.

One everything, the same, saiding now: "the friend asked Mt. Mardal on June 15 2012, in a message soon by The New York Times:

"Everything is calm in Baghdad," Mt. Mardal asked back.

Russia says that Mt. Mardal first started working with a Ukrainian intelligence agent Mardal Choi that used insects.

Words later, the Russians say, Mt. Mardal played his first bomb. He was arrested shortly after the Russian collaborator who had continued a transportation of figures to the front line was killed in a car bomb. Mt. Mardal's girlfriend and another were arrested shortly after that. No girlfriend, daughter, who was being stared by relatives.

Mt. Mardal's account of torture while in Russian custody is impen-

alite to verify. But it is consistent with dozens of accounts from Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians who have been criticized by Russia. Some civilians have died in custody, including a Ukrainian journalist whose body showed evidence of torture and missing property.

After the lawmakers working on friend were sentenced last year, they were allowed to send letters, letters and receive care packages.

In his letters, copies of what were viewed by The Times, Mt. Mardal said he entered his family and developed a new law to protect a name. He told his grandmother that she needed to stop spoiling him with things like a walnut cocktail, which had too much to do with her. He said he used a Napoleon cake to his girl, friend for her 2016 birthday.

In a letter at April, Mt. Mardal said international organizations were good idea for a lease, he worried that his mother and girlfriend were scared and that he could not help.

"That feeling of helplessness is trimming," he said.

If their appeal fails on expected, Mt. Mardal, his mother and his girlfriend are likely to be sent to different prisons deep inside Russia.

Mt. Mardal injured her arm at the same time that she broke her leg, but she was not to become worse in detention. She can no longer sue her arm, and she has difficulty walking. She said in a letter to her parents that she received the might he sent to the legislature in Siberia, where police knew years.

"Keeping my chin up," Mt. Mardal wrote on July 7. She said his parents were not able to do, "it was both to everyone from me, bagging, leaving, loving, believing, hoping, waiting. And God better!" over one a place heart!

Her first husband is a Mardal, 75, said in a telephone interview from Melôngd that she and her husband were too frail to travel to Russia for the appeal.

She said she is very bad planned any remaining hopes on a prisoner exchange.

"People are always talking about a big exchange," she said. "You know, I want to take a long time, going good will happen. But in the end, it doesn't. Yes, hope that isn't. All we can do is hope."

By JIN YU YOUNG

At least 92 patients have tested positive for cholera at a single hospital in Myanmar's Nagaon city, or facial rash, as an outbreak that he has last week spread across the country.

They are among more than 100 people in the city. Nagaon, who have been hospitalized with diarrhea, a common symptom of the disease, Dr. Nanda Win, the head of the Yangon Region Public Health and Medical Services Department, said Friday, One (2) year-old man had died, he said.

The outbreak is the latest retax in Myanmar's faltering medical care in which has been neglected under a jeans rule that has privatised weapons over health care.

Dr. Nanda Win said cases were unintentional to determine Nagaon, many of them in Chinatown, and identified unintentional water and takeaway street food as possible sources.

Officials arrived in a hospital in patients live and have traveled to American law widely for disease, has spread.

The authorities were preparing a case for the 10 other hospital across the Yangon region and were working to ensure that the latter supply was safe, he said.

Cholera outbreaks are not an attack in Myanmar, the experts say they are core in the Yangon region and attribute the latest outbreak to poor sanitation.

Dr. Nu Teu, a doctor and former district chairman in Nagaon, said foodasters had not been properly inspected, water for cleaning was insufficient and drainage systems were no longer being properly maintained.

While Yangon General Hospital was prepared to treat cholera patients, he said, facilities elsewhere might not be.

The patients testified to what are villages where health care services are weak, I am worried that the death rate could be higher," Dr. Teu Tan said.

"There have also been reports of cholera outside of the Yangon region.

"We have also seen cases among people returning from Yangon," said Aong Myo, an am-

balance worker in Kyukkhami, Miss Suda.

On cited the cases of a 24-year-old man and a 69-year-old woman who tested positive after returning from Yangon. Some of their cases were in the same family members have been quarantined.

Sifda Phyu, U. a Yangon resident, said he began having diarrhea and vomiting about two weeks after eating a certain food. He stated with his family last week.

By the next day, his legs were cramping and he was too weak to sleep. He said, in the next 4 months, my eyes and cheeks were swollen, and I was shaking," he said. His family rushed into to a hospital, where he was diagnosed with a condition and given intravenous fluids.

Myanmar has heated infectious diseases for years as civil war has passed in health care system. The state has been one of the world's largest populations of children who have never received a vaccine, according to UNICEF.

Much of the progress made against cholera has been made by the government when the military was entered in 2021. Poverty and conflict — both of which can contribute to cholera outbreaks — persist. According to some anxieties, the basis has recently been established, although of unarmed populations.

The outbreak comes amid some of the worst monsoon states in years, according to local news outlets.

Never flooding can contaminate water supplies and increase the risk of cholera outbreaks, a threat that climate change has been made by the nation in the World Health Organization.

Since last week, Yangon officials have intensified efforts to dissolve the city's water supply from the country into the region, according to the city's sanitation department.

Health officials are also quarantining people who have been in close contact with these who need positive.

If all goes to plan, "we expect the number of cases to drop significantly within a week," Dr. Nanda Win said.

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A Useful Diplomatic Tool For Trump: Lifting Visas

'To Change Behavior' in Latin America

This article is by Evelium Rodriguez Mags. Every Bookie. General Laboratory and Social Relations.

DONALD CITY — When Chinese officials signed an authorization for a 12,000-mile underwarranted community the country to hiring flying, they were thrilled. They said the Chinese project would leave national security and even reach Chile's remote Easter Island.

But the mood afflicted abruptly later that day in January after a senior official from the U.S. Embassy in Santiago met with Catherine Perrone, the chief of cabinet at Chile's telecommunications industry, according to Mr. Waterval, the American official warned that the project could increase the risk of Chinese cyberattacks and thus, if Chile forged ahead, the United States would have a travel ban on only for three or a fiscal year, but they had been forced to take the most special action as well.

Across Latin America, the Trump administration has displayed aggressive tactics, to tighten its grip on the region. They include crippling tariffs and economic sanctions, strikes on dozens of heads in the Caribbean and Pacific, making into foreign overtures and the capture of the provident of a nation in his own capital.

But one of its most agile and original tools is also deeply personal: the U.S. visa.

The meeting in Chile lasted just six minutes, Mr. Perrone said. But that was enough to persuade his government to put the project on board. "It was basically a threat," Claudia Araya, then Chile's telecommunications under secretary, said this month.

The U.S. ambassador to Chile, who has been called to statement that there actions "were not a service" or they followed years of discussions on the matter. Visa sanctions, he said, "are not meant to be a direct or foreign threat to the added." They did exactly that in this case.

Typically used in the past to keep out security threats, light corruption or almost limited with institutions, travel terminations have been reexpansion under the current State Department, experts say. The U.S. government has revealed visas to target foreign leaders, ambassadors and other officials, single and personalists, among others — while quietly criticizing visas for some like-minded allies.

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been clear about its intentions to use this tool in the Americas.

In a statement in the New York Times, the United States Department announced that it had expanded its policy on restricting visas to target those in the Western Hemisphere who "carry out activities that are universalist to and understate America's interests."

Washington has used its visa platform to pursue varying goals: to some countries, the United States has aimed to replace China's footprint with its own. In others, it has revealed complaint, right-wing partners, even by providing their political members. Elsewhere, it has persuaded governments into hiding in U.S. demands or penalized those who operate in public.

This month, the Trump administration reconsidered the visa of Maria Luisa Ribeiro-Yorki, the Brazilian ambassador in Washington, in a 10-for-all resistance over decade's shipping the approval of President Trump's ambassador sentence and refusing entry to several other U.S. diplomats. The U.S. government had previously brought over Brazilian Supreme Court justice of his visa for prosecuting former President Jan Bausenaer, a Trump ally.

Breaking a visa, while sometimes performative, has also erred a powerful message, said Julia Fedey, a career diplomat who served in U.S. ambassador to Panama from 2015 to 2018. It can undermine a person's political authority and serve personal or professional ties to the United States.

Congressman or a prosecutor without a U.S. visa, "let's keep said, 'it's anybody who is flying with a broken wing."

Some of Washington's allies say the Trump administration is well within its rights when restricting visas.

"I'mn fully under the strict sovereignty of the United States," said the Trump administration in Costa Rica, where at least 15 appointee figures and critics have had their U.S. visas involved, said in an interview. "We should have been able to understand the jurisdiction, just as we expect on nation in determine China Black campaign plan plan or decide who is granted entry into our country."

Because visa records are confidential, the U.S. government rarely discovers the details of specific revocations, making it difficult to quantify how much the United States has used this tool for political action.

But Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other U.S. officials have "trusted downtroops and better" to cancel visas "whence or and where ever a compelling U.S. policy interest is at aided," the State Department said in an email.

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For the Chinese officials involved in the underwar cable project, ex-

paincing to America's demands did not immediately seem to be enough about a month after the U.S. diplomats' initial warning, the State Department announced it was hurting those officials and their family members from the United States. Their actions, the department said, had "compromised critical telecommunications infrastructure and understated regional security."

For loan thinks, then Chile's telecommunications industry has demonstrated was a "huge repudiation list."

His visa was eventually continued, he said, but the federal agency.

"My Wikipedia now says I am a person sanctioned by the United States," Mr. Rubio, an academic vice student in California, where there at his children were born, said. "You feel this you have been placed in the same list as the world's worst借款makers."

Chile is not an isolated case. Washington has targeted people elsewhere when it suspects they have facilitated Chinese investments.

This month, an Argentine electric company said it received

warning about visa revocations for securities related to expanded operations there by finance, the Chinese electric equipment maker Peter Luehnke, the U.S. ambassador to Argentina, responded on it, saying that the issue was "a matter of national security."

And last year, after two appointments lawmakers to Costa Rica criticized a presidential decree handling Chinese SC workers like Huawei, the State Department revealed their U.S. visas.

"They are working on message to political actors that speaking on is support of positions favoring China will bring consequences," said Johana Oksada, one of the Costa Rican lawmakers whose personal and diplomatic visas were canceled.

"It is a way of intimidating decision makers to benefit the United States," she said.

The State Department, as its April announcement on the expanded visa restriction policy, said it would "use every available tool to protect our national security interests, defend American interests, and promote our support to safety."

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They included Junior Argents, then Mr. Bubeck's legal adviser, who heard comments for commenting the unconstitutional removal of political officials; Christian Carreras, head of Mr. Bubeck's legislative burden, penalized her according to the fact criminalized media coverage of people and how Everson & Black, Mr. Bubeck's press secretary, cited for preventing opposition officials to resign under threat of criminal charges.

The Argents and Mr. Carreras sat here in the United States in 2020 for the first time in several years, according to travel records that The New York Times reviewed. They said they restored the country multiple times.

Ms. Argents said The Times that his visa had indeed been restored has declined in short-term respect. Mr. Saunders stated he would be a request for comment. Nor did Mr. Carreras, but he has gained opinion on social media dating to U.S. lawmakers or posing at the White House.

The State Department did not answer specific questions about the reinstatement of visas for former Engel List designees.

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Visa revocations have also been used to suppress criticism of the Trump administration. The views of U.S. aligned foreign leaders.

In Phoenix, for example, after two politicians criticized a sweeping security and between their country and the United States, they were notified that their U.S. visas had been revealed. While the United States has a long history of secret interventions and heavy pressure on foreigners, the American, former diplomats say the Trump administration's methods represent a stark break.

"We recent American administration's efforts to protect the government as freedom of expression," a foreign country, Mr. Fedey, the former U.S. ambassador to Panama, argued.

The Thursday, leaders blamed, Liaye Behrin — the son of Mary, 1915 left-wing former leader Andrew and later Liaye Oksada, who remains highly interested over any governing law that had Washington had revoked his visa. The more followed corruption accusations against Mr. Liaye Behrin, when he has been in the United States, were not a criticized for measure as a politically motivated attack on the father's political movement.

Claudio Araya, left, and Juan Carlos Muñoz, below, were Children telecommunications officials who received a U.S. threat of visa revocation over a Chinese project. It worked, the U.S. ambassador said.

When Mr. Trump took office, the official said, that effort was entirely discontinued.

At least three senior forwarder on officials placed on the Engel List and also to President Nuyih and the United States, who has opposed the policy with Mr. Trump — quickly letterhead.

A Stark Break

The Tuesday, leaders blamed, Liaye Behrin — the son of Mary, 1915 left-wing former leader Andrew and later Liaye Oksada, who remains highly interested over any governing law that had Washington had revoked his visa.

The more followed corruption accusations against Mr. Liaye Behrin, when he has been in the United States, were not a criticized for measure as a politically motivated attack on the father's political movement.

Decades Later, the Drama of a U.S.-Soviet Nuclear Turning Point Arrives Onscreen

By PETER BAKER It was, as one person to the room described it, something of the most important events in the U.S. Ageing Science had written about superpower summers.

There were the leaders of the two nuclear genes handled in a series of projects, including the use top of foes along a windsurfing coast, with rain lashing the windows and the line of the world at coffee.

There were the most important events in the U.S. Ageing Science had written about superpower summers. The U.S. ageing science has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been a major event that has been

Since it was a major event, Hollywood has written about the most common flexibility with a star-incident movie, "The World's Finest" (covering 2017) and its role in the 2018, the 2019, the 2020, the 2021, the 2022, the 2023, the 2024, the 2025, the 2026, the 2027, the 2028, the 2029, the 2030, the 2031, the 2032, the 2033, the 2034, the 2035, the 2036, the 2037, the 2038, the 2039, the 2040, the 2041, the 2042, the 2043, the 2044, the 2045, the 2046, the 2047, the 2048, the 2049, the 2050, the 2051, the 2052, the 2053, the 2054, the 2055, the 2056, the 2057, the 2058, the 2059, the 2060, the 2061, the 2062, the 2063, the 2064, the 2065, the 2066, the 2067, the 2068, the 2069, the 2070, the 2071, the 2072, the 2073, the 2074, the 2075, the 2076, the 2077, the 2078, the 2079, the 2080, the 2081, the 2082, the 2083, the 2084, the 2085, the 2086, the 2087, the 2088, the 2089, the 2090, the 2091, the 2092, the 2093, the 2094, the 2095, the 2096, the 2097, the 2098, the 2099, the 2100, the

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eyes-of-the-filmmakers, but is pitys like the current day as well, to warn says and the world's superpower agency headed more again for an arent race, the film is a remander that in an age of polarity, the film can divisions can be bridged.

Somehow, the world's most human cold warrior, the man who had condemned the Soviet Union as an "viti empire" that would be left in "the ash heap of history," heard himself in a room with the leader of international communism. And the two agreed that it was the "sacred" field, the principle of planetary destruction.

But as don't know if you're going to find common ground or not as if you do," said Michael Russell Gains, who wrote the film and made his feature film directorial to the U.S. and a witnessing of age to have voiced up to talk to one another.

Mr. Gains's movie seeks to make two days of talking into a gripping story, and the film is a "sacred" field, the entirety of sound these two leaders, representing them as fully realized. Both and-lined figures of juggling in a overcome profound differentials of the individual at Hulk House in Reykjavik's.

There was, indeed, something cinematic about the end—the Reykjavik meeting. Unlike nearly a few years ago, the film was a series of two leaders and above without a set agenda and without a pre-agreed process. Important, the film was a point out encouraging, they spoke more than 10 hours together over the weekend of Oct. 11-13, 1998, talking, arguing, "nothing. The film was a series of two days, the dreaming, in one point, Mr. Bougain and Mr. Corfucher decided the United States and the Soviet Union should give up their market for the first time."

"The Brink of War" was shot in Ireland, in the house used for the 1998 summit, with Mr. Daniels,

Mr. Harris and Mr. Simmons showing at the same number water in the in the same number more where Mr. Bougain, Mr. Corfucher and Mr. Shultz sat along with Edward Shumathazhn, the Soviet foreign minister.

Mr. Daniels made a point of view, that the future the day before showing started and just sitting there for a couple of hours going over town and absorbing the luxury. "You can feel it," he said. "There is a presence."

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Donald Bougain and Michael R. Corfucher's husband meeting is inspired in "The Break of War."

1999, is haunted by the ghosts of the writing warriors or a motive who died there called "the White Lady." The British ambassador in the White was spanked with the Soviet-this ministry to tell the property. Mr. Harris said he never saw any party, but asked, "I think the ghosts were my founder, but, which you know you need it instead."

The White Lady's accostumbleness was so small that the U.S.A. and R.G.B. officers who accompanied the leaders quarreled over who got the better hadtresses, a mistaken, stalled document while sitting on plywood on top of hadtrick and a Bougain aide had to crouch on the floor next to the

provident's house during a staff meeting in a recent event. U.S. and Soviet military officers carrying the two nuclear barbells, which could be used to launch world-ending strikes, stood at attention and each other outside the negotiating room.

Mr. Daniels's Bougain is not the "Saturday Night Live" version, but a serious figure, at once about her, yet Godless, and able to rebrand with doubt at the hands of a would-be assassin five years out for and determined to use his additional house and the result the right of a man of nuclear propagation.

In that real, the environments did not press the plywood theories on much, the road was the plastic chuckboard. Mr. Daniels said: "We could have redone up whole face with plastics." But, he added, "you push the audience away, so that what they see are all the criminals."

Instead, he said, he learned on Mr. Bougain's voice and mannerisms, the cooking of the head. "I see a look at the world's piousness, which was the way he said the word, 'well,'" he said, adopting Mr. Bougain's husky voice for a moment. "You hold that, it's like a house," he said.

Until the 1998 meeting, the history of cross-central talk between the United States and the Soviet Union had all been about moving and moving. The U.S. has been an aromatic flat there in that whitehead house on the edge of an open, uncoated, and the world's land. The Soviet general secretary decided for the first time to actively reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, and they were not to be able to manage their life; agreed to abolish all of their nuclear weapons.

The unexpected grand bargain left apart at the last minute over the 1st minute. The United States was the first to see the Fugue give up plans to try to build a nuclear shield in the form of a missile defense system called

the Sprague Defense Initiative, or S.D., in the program of the day of "Star Wars" in the slepties. Bougain refused and the two men took leave of each other angry and diseng740000.

The U.S. has banned the riot into the Springfield country of history and set their two countries on a path toward the destruction of tens of thousands of nuclear warheads. Rarely a year later, Mr. Bougain and Mr. Corfucher signed the first agreement eliminating a whole category of nuclear weapons, the International Burge National Forces Treaty, and the U.S. has been a major part of the U.S. to be a major part of the U.S. to be a major part of the U.S. to be a major part of the U.S. to be a major part of the U.S. to be a major part of the U.S. to be a major part of the U.S. to be a major part of the U.S. to be a major part of the U.S. to be a major part of the U.S. to be a major part of the U.S.

The U.S. has a precipitous decline in nuclear weapons. The U.S. has a mass, who served on the director of the U.S. Army Central and International Agency and had to sit on the ground.

When Mr. Bougain and Mr. Corfucher were the Soviet Union last more than 40,000 nuclear warheads and the United States were less than 20,000,000 in the first session of American Scientists. Russia now has about 4,000 and the United States about 3,700,000 subscribers about 12 percent of the U.S. population.

Today, however, the world appears headlong in a different state. The President Trump's administration from the U.S. troops to 2010, rising Russian trending, and the New York treaty signed by Mr. Sidney, the last legal fund on the U.S. to be a major government, lapsed in February. While Mr. Trump has talked about his having a new three-way treaty with both Russia and China, he has done his first, secondly providing a new deal.

Mr. Adelstein, who chronicled the moment in the 2010 head "Bougain at Reykjavik" and issued a re-

vived version this summer adopting the 2010 name, "The Brink of War," said Mr. Gains's third name, "the nation in the room."

The improvisational approach the two leaders took, he recalled, "learned everyone." It was going to be a come-up event, a grip, and gets warmth. Mr. Adelstein said: "We were shocked out of our minds that Corfucher was ready to roll. He warned something more."

After the Bougain, Mr. Adelstein said, he too proved something. "What was surprising is me at Reykjavik who has maintained a beagle was," he said. "I didn't know the U.S. and I'm going the two—become the U.S.'s. We were listening at them," said it turned out that, in his own way, Mr. Bougain was one of them.

The U.S. has been a major white Mr. Bougain's original S.D.I. vision on history at the time and still has not yet emerged all those decades later, he paved the way for a new, more powerful, and a new way on, which is recent years have shown that worth in missile systems this Israeli's two Dams and American Patriots.

The U.S. has been a become interested in telling the story of Reykjavik's time, he was introduced to Mr. Shultz at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He ultimately didn't have to be a member of the U.S. and never met any of his or her own. He said, "Get into a room and figure out how to make us a safer world for all of us."

The U.S. has been a great deal of the U.S. to be a major country in the U.S. to be a major country in the U.S. to be a major country in the U.S. to be a major country in the U.S. to be a major country in the U.S. to be a major country in the U.S. to be a major country in the U.S. to be a major country in the U.S. to be a major country in the U.S. to be a major country in the U.S.

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'We are living in fear in my own country.'

BRENT JINDRA, whose wife has been detained on federal charges of overstaying her visa.

Trump Voter Didn't Think ICE Would Come for Wife

Believing MAGA Promise Was to Target Criminals

By MIRIAM JORDAN

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Brent Jindra, a tech salesman, voted for President Trump three times, draws by his aggressive immigration agenda. He never imagined the crackdown would ensnare his own wife.

Last month, moments after the couple got off their flight in Burbank, Calif., a young man in a brown bonded sweaterer, stopped Galina Boberneva.

"Congratulations, you've been chosen for secondary screening," he said her, according to the couple's recollection.

The man was a federal agent, and after questioning Mr. Boberneva for about 15 minutes, he led her away in bankcalls to an unmarked vehicle.

"I'm only doing my job," he said. "Everything will be OK."

So began a 16-day ordeal: a night on the floor of a basement holding cell in downtown Los Angeles; two weeks in a Mojave Desert detention center and a frantic legal effort to win her release.

Freed on a $35,000 bond with an electronic monitor clamped to her ankle, she is now fighting to stay in the United States against federal charges of overstaying her visa.

Ms. Boberneva, who is from Russia, has a pending green card application, and her lawyer asserts that she was never out of lawful status.

Her case represents a new from in President Trump's main deportation drive: arrests in airports of people whose visas have expired but who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.

Although green-card applicants with expired visas can be detained under federal law, previous administrations did not consider them to be in the country unlawfully. But as the Trump administration seeks to nearly double its daily arrests to 2,000 people, it is detaining and attempting to depart thousands of people who believed they were following the rules.

"The allure of the MAGA campaign was around illegal entries of criminals," said Mr. Jindra, 48. "There was never a mandate for this president to turn the barrel of the gun and start going after people who legally entered."

In response to questions about Ms. Boberneva's case, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that she was "an illegal alter" targeted for arrest because "she overstayed her welcome to violation of our nation's laws".

"To be clear, work authorization or a pending application do NOT confer legal status in the United States," the agency said in a statement.

Mr. Trump's immigration agenda, which helped propel him to the White House for a second term, is becoming a vulnerability for the Republican Party ahead of the midterms as even some members of his base have begun condemning immigration and Customs Enforcement's hard-too tactics.

Mr. Jindra considered himself a MAGA-pairlot until his wife's detention.

"She did not jump a wall, she did not swim a river," he said. "She came in Trump's beautiful, big front door."

Ms. Boberneva arrived on a tourist visa at late 2021, extended it twice following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and applied for asylum in 2022. She met Mr. Jindra in March 2023 and by December they were married.

"It was your storybook romance," he said.

Mr. Jindra petitioned to April to sponsor his wife for a marriage-based green card. They received official confirmation the application had been accepted, like was fingerprints.

The newlyweds bought a "dream house" in Cleveland, Ohio, where Mr. Jindra was raised, and intended to relocate there soon.

They planned a trip to Sanoma County's wine country to celebrate Ms. Boberneva's 40th birthday on July 16. Mr. Jindra booked a suite at a boutique hotel,

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prepaid for visits to three vineyards and hired a driver.

They never made it.

On July 15, the couple boarded a flight from San Francisco to Burbank, where Mr. Jindra planned to meet clients and Ms. Boberneva to see friends.

Approached by plainclothes agents at the airport, the couple first thought it was a ruse.

"When the ICE hedge was flipped, you could tell that was high," recalled Mr. Jindra.

He immediately called their immigration lawyer, but the agents refused to speak with him. They ushered Ms. Boberneva into a room, leaving her husband on the concourse, flashed by Burbank airport police, the said.

Inside, the agents told Ms. Boberneva that she had overstayed her visa. "I was absolutely sure this was a mistake," she said.

She explained that she was in the process of securing a green card and presented documents.

When an agent pulled out handcrafts, Ms. Boberneva was stunned. She asked to give her engagement ring and other jewelry to her husband. They then led her away, saying that Mr. Jindra would know where to that her.

"A U.S. citizen just watched his wife get dragged away and had us idea where she's going," recalled Mr. Jindra.

The when A. U. I. spark off into the darkness. Mr. Boberneva, alone with two men, said she feared for her safety until they arrived at an ICE facility.

She was held in a frigid room with a handful of women. She recalled a guest diabetic immigrant to her 7th pending for insular, to no avail. Ms. Boberneva curled up on the ground under a kid blanket.

About 10 hours later, she was chuckled at the ankles, waist and wrists and loaded into an unmarked van with several other immigrants. They bounced up and down in the sweltering vehicle as it raced toward the detention center in Adelaide.

"I felt like a piece of meat, not like a human," recalled Ms. Boberneva.

By the time she changed into blue-green garb and was assigned bank L63 — a lower bed in the women's section — it was 5 a.m. Thirty minutes later, as she drifted off to sleep, orders blurred over the loudspeaker for detainee count and breakfast lineup.

Sleep deprivation was a constant, she said. Lights were always on. Hand-held radios carried by the guards crackled day and night. On her birthday, Ms. Boberneva recalled, she shared chocolate she had ordered from the commissary with fellow Russian-speaking detainees from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Armenia.

Ms. Boberneva described neglect, filth and people in despair.

For 230 women, there were seven showers; only four worked. Penalty was not waived, asking people were denied care until they required hospitalization, she said, refusing allegations in a federal lawsuit.

The GEO Group, which operates the detention center, declined to comment on Ms. Boberneva's allegations and referred questions to ICE.

In a statement, a homeland security spokesperson said: "Any claim that there are subprime conditions at Adelaide ICE processing facility are FALSE. All detainees are provided with proper meals, water, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers."

ICE did not respond to questions.

"You become a number," she said. "Nobody cares. There is zero empathy."

Mr. Jindra visited when allowed, three times a week, and scrambled to secure her release.

Two weeks passed.

Then lawyer, Mr. Valdez, requested a bond hearing, scheduled for July 24. Ms. Boberneva was released on July 29 on a $35,000 bond with an ankle monitor and an order to report to ICE in San Francisco on Aug. 5.

Below, Galina Boberneva, a Russian national deemed an "illegal alien," and her husband, Brent Jindra, at their home in Redwood City, Calif. Above right, Ms. Boberneva's electronic ankle monitor.

Over dinner at a seafood restaurant in Redwood City the night before her appointment, Ms. Boberneva barely touched her crab cakes. She had been struggling to sleep and was terrified of being detained again.

"I never thought that it was so easy to take freedom from anyone," she said.

Mr. Jindra, too, was nervous. "We are living in fear in my own country," he said.

Early the next morning, they joined a

line outside the immigration building that wrapped around the block. Ms. Boberneva entered with her lawyer more than two hours later.

They emerged with instructions from ICE to report back on Sept. 7.

The couple returned to Redwood City, where unopened birthday gifts and declaring balloons sat on their dining room table, alongside a vase of two dozen willed roars.

"I cannot celebrate anything," Ms. Bo-

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berneva said.

Her first court appearance is Oct. 22, but her case will take months to be resolved.

Wearing the electronic monitor, Ms. Boberneva is confined to a tight per-

On Aug. 5, the couple ventured to the beach.

Ms. Boberneva was "enjoying her freedom," said Mr. Jindra, "all 75-mile in-draw of it."

Ms. Boberneva's lawyer contends that she was never out of lawful status. Right, Ms. Boberneva and Mr. Jindra waiting for her check-in with ICE in San Francisco on Aug. 5.

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The 47th President

With Billions Spent, U.S. Military's Pursuit of A.I. Dominance Is Rocky

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hesive cyberspensions is already shifting the digital arms race into the service, would have amounted to "unilateral disarmament," according to one recently departed senior U.S. official.

From the Department of Defense to the C.I.A. and U.S. Air, billions have already been spent on using artificial intelligence to develop weapons that could work with less human control, or to use vulnerable military networks and even nuclear codes to make sure they cannot be created by adversarial A.I systems. Artificial intelligence is critical to the Golden Dome, President Trump's vision — fanciled to many experts — of a space-based missile attack.

But little of that work anticipated the powers of Mythos and its A.I. counterparts, or the prospect that China may be months away from its own formidable and less expensive revenues. That could supercharge China's ability to infiltrate American communications networks, water systems and power grids like those they successfully pierced among the Biden administration in two sweeping attacks called "Old Typhoes" and "Salt Typhoes."

"These are the kinds of things we were talking about and worrying about before A.I. became a daily headline," said Joe Epstein, who ran the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency during the Biden administration. "What's different now, and what makes the problem more urgent, is the potential for A.I. to amplify these capabilities."

We for the Trump administration has covered wildly in response, at first abandoning its hands-off approach to regulating the industry, then briefly dazzling off issues for the against that "fifteen — including some of its investors — then lifting that ban.

This month, the administration called in executions from the long-run Trump's security, including OpenAI and Anthropic, and told them that new models would be reviewed by the government to assure they could not be used to enter. The government's break into classified American systems or the communications networks that control nuclear weapons.

The New York Times has used OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems. The two companies have denied these claims.

But the government review process exempts "tapes" models — including many of these now produced by Chinese firms — whose code can be customized by users.

One senior executive of a company formed on the new policy said it made no sense, noting that the open models can be just as dangerous. Like many in the industry, the executive would not be quitting the four triggering administration officials.

Pentagon officials were the idea they are not agile enough. They say the U.S. military has calculated thousands of dollars of the world's most advanced A.I. systems, despite the Anthropic ban. An official, who discussed Pentagon policies on the condition of the U.S. military, said that a Department had recently impugned a version of a Google Open in model within four days of its commercial release.

When the U.S. Air, workers have called for the country to slow development. But others, including inside the Trump administration, have answered that call with the Trump's "Windsor House." They fear losing the roughly six-month lead they believe the U.S. military.

That concern has reached off arguments about whether expert controls on some of the most powerful ships made by Nvidia, the leading American military, or a lecturer in keeping the Chinese front developing, the conquering power they need to catch up. Controls could also just prompt Chinese leaders to attack the world on the black market, or double down on development of their own.

It is easy to compare this moment in American national security to the early days of the World War, when the United States was the only nation to possess nuclear weapons, and it was struggling to delay the day the Soviet Union would catch the acclaimed element. (The first Soviet bomb was issued in late August of 1945, four years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.) The C.I.A.'s director, John Ratcliffe, recently reached on the that comparison, saying it would "not be inorgicized" to refer to the capabilities of A.I. as "akin to dig" ad nuclear weapons.

But like most such historical analogies, this one has its limits. Nuclear weapons were solely in the hands of the state back then. And the fundamental technology of building and delivering the air has changed little in 40 years since.

A.I. is being built in the private

Senior National Security Agency officials argued that Anthropic's Mythos model was needed for the agency to find and fix vulnerabilities in the Pentagon's own systems.

Dario Amodeo, Anthropic's C.E.O. has been funded by a fund with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Emil Michael said the Pentagon made a mistake by over-reusing to a single producer of A.I. programs.

The chaos kicked off by Pete Hegseth over stripping Anthropic code has only become deeper.

Jenmin Huang of Nvidia. President Trump reversed course on which A.I. ships Nvidia could sell to China.

David Sachs helped persuade President Trump to reconsider requirements for A.I. models.

sector, and available to all. Many of the most powerful models are updated weekly, their powers, and unpredictability, discovered along the way. China is perhaps an enmity or less behind the United States in the development of the most advanced models. U.S. experts estimate, though probably years behind is making the advanced manufacturers needed to power A.I.'s development.

But already there is evidence (merely) made on biological and economic rivals is unserved by the powers being unloaded. The vastly none Chinese officials have already been talking about same forms of arctic control, even if no one knows how that might work.

"They realize there is a gap in capability that may play in our strengths," said Evan S. Medeiros, a professor at Georgetown University and a former National Security Council official. "On nuclear arms control and on missile defense, we can't get them to engage. But they appear more interested in the case of A.I."

Mr. Trump has said that will be a type of discussion, again, when he meets President Xi Jinping in Washington in late September. The views are scheduled to see each other again twice, later in the year.

But when he talks about A.I., Mr. Trump has neither explained his objectives nor indicated any concerns in recent weeks that A.I. agrees, are finding a way to break out of their confines, or acting autonomously to break into outside companies or networks. When news came out that artificial intelligence was used to design a new virus, not found in nature — a development that could benefit real predicted progress or a biological weapon — the White House said nothing.

But one thing is clear: Many of the hypothetical scenarios that concerned the national security community a year ago have begun to arrive.

Punishing Anthropic

Within the defense industry, the chaos kicked off by Mr. Hegseth and his aides over stripping Anthropic code has only deepened. A month after the Air Force had a contractors to expedite all Anthropic code, it sent another message: rifling them to "stand for" at least for now.

"At this time, you are not required to remove from your inven-

tory Anthropic products or services that interface with the Department of the Air Force systems and networks," said the update, a copy of which was seen by The Times. It warned that the latest guidance could be reversed yet again depending on the outcome of litigation.

The back-and-forth instructions reflected Mr. Hegseth's dishonest, the is trying to punish a leading, a J. suggestion deeply embedded in the defense industrial complex, without handicapping the military's national security mission.

Asked about the apparent about fact, a Pentagon official described the new Air Force guidance as temporary and said the "unilateral" surge Anthropic across the Department of Defense was absolute.

Publicly, the Pentagon has refused to refuse. In later news, Pentagon officials have suggested that the animosity between their department and Anthropic began when the Silicon Valley firm began making what the military saw on its history, and that the "Guardians for Government models, a version of the popular, publicly available A.I. model, would be used. Senior officials said no more than seventeen years with 25 pages of restrictions.

After several conversations months, those 25 pages were hooked down to two restrictions. In a February meeting at the Pentagon, Mr. Amodei told Mr. Hegseth that the company would not provide any products in the military unless he had an extensive they would not be used for these abnormalities of Americans or to produce fully autonomous weapons. The move was ultimately controlled by human oversight.

It was not enough. The defense secretary got his back up, noting that Raytheon doesn't discuss the "a" issue how the missile's products can be employed against adversaries. Since decisions, Mr. Hegseth said, were completely in the realm of government, and he was not yet able to use, when Mr. Amodei refused to return, the Pentagon declared the company was a "supply chain risk" — and learned for military use.

In May, Emil Michael, the under secretary of defense for research and engineering, told a Times report that Anthropic observed what it got, and that the Pentagon made a mistake by over-riding

on a single producer of A.I. programs — even one whose product seemed ahead of both competitors and of China. Asked whether there was anything the company could do to get back to the department's good places, Mr. Michael said "not at the Department of War."

Pentagon officials say they have all but completed the removal of Anthropic from military competing systems. Close to 100 percent of military systems that once used "Claude for Governors," amended for use on classes and in the "Cleopatra" replaced Anthropic's product with other military models, according to officials. In addition, the Pentagon has ceased all use of Anthropic tools in its Maven system, which helps analyze intelligence and suggests targets for activities in the war with Iran.

The military contractors affected by the ban have been removed to discuss it, perhaps in fear of acquiring their biggest customer. In a statement, a Lockheed spokeswoman declared to consider the history in the letter of received calling for Anthropic's expulsion from its systems, but she said "we follow the president's use the Department of War's function." The spokeswoman added, without naming Anthropic, that it expected "minimal impacts" to its business because it does not rely on one large-language model for any portion of it work.

But the Pentagon's break with the company is hardly clear.

Many two months after the license between Mr. Amodei and Mr. Hegseth, Anthropic announced Mythos, as A.I. product uniquely suited to find, and to plot, vulnerabilities in software. For a brief period, in what one looks like an overcruction, the Trump administration barred all foreigners from teaching the program — only to reverse itself.

That left the Pentagon in a while. It had just barred itself from using what could be the most powerful now, other weapons in history.

"What not to," said a former official who recently left the administration.

With the Pentagon to not allowing Claude to be used for another given analysis or code writing, the U.S.A. has been allowed to subvertance of Anthropic's advanced Mythos model on an "experimental" basis, officials said. It both testing the U.S. military's computer network database and seeking out potential weaknesses in adversarial networks, from China to Russia, North Korea and Iran.

Rethinking Opposition

The government, not limited to the Pentagon, there has been plenty of the Commerce and Treasury Department, and a few White House. As Mr. Trump's aides come and go, and departments elbow one another for larger roles, the administration's decision to be held in the support controls to national security reviews of A.I. models have been driven more by when and influence than an articulated set of principles.

During its first year, the administration's approach was funded off, following the arguments made by David Sachs, the version capitalist who, as far as the United States in the year, ran both artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency policy.

After publishing an A.I. Action Plan last year, the Trump administration declared regulation and encouraged experts, helping to make the world dependent on what Mr. Sachs called an "American rich stack." In May, Mr. Trump scrapped a new executive order, including A.I. companies to control their models to the government for a safety review, contoured by Mr. Sachs, among others, that the Belag review琼sigmaes were the strongest and would give Chinese competitors an advantage.

But Mythos's powers spanked under inside the administration, and the anti-trusts, added from the government had imposed the most heavy-handed controls ever in the A.I. industry, cutting off access to Anthropic's model for foreign citizens, including some of the engineers who developed it. Then, two weeks later, it lifted the ban on foreigners, without public explanation.

A similar wikipedical task taken in dealing with the Nvidia chips that are critical to developing new models — and building statements. In April last year, the Trump administration also drew about 40 one of the last artificial intelligence chips Nvidia was allowed to offer to China.

But President Trump reversed source that fully following a meeting in the First Office between Mr. Trump and the Nvidia chief executive Joseph Huang. Mr. Trump said that the sales, which had formerly been considered a national security threat, would be fine, as long as the U.S. government got a lot of their revenue.

Similarly, the administration ended a rule imposed by the Biden administration that assured the most powerful chips could only be and freely to raise American attention, and limited sales to other countries. Trump officials have said they would replace the measures, but they have clashed on a re-foundation. In the meantime, some American companies concluded that with the rules — indeed, they were free to sell advanced chips to some Chinese firms operating outside of China.

Mr. Trump later thought Mr. Huang as China for his visit with Xi Jinping, along with other industry executives.

The administration is now dealing with conflicting security and political currents. It is exercises the much control over the innocent U.S. power rule, and threatens to run off foreigners' needs, could drive the Europeans to Chinese models. If it under-regulates, it could invite disaster, especially if there are more incidents than those in public that that the technology is racing out of control.

Chris McGuire, a senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former Biden official, said that the Trump administration's policy posture on expert controls had been "involved."

The administration is now concerned about competition from open-source models from China, but it had walked back many measures that were preventing China's A.I. advancement, he said. And it was targeting its hardest restrictions on Anthropic, the American company, not a Chinese rule.

"You're loosening expert controls — at China, you're leaving emphasis, and the first time you use expert controls on A.I. is to find an American company?" Mr. McGuire said.

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Election

A Free-for-All in Alaska as IT Candidates Compete to Be Governor

'Richet Poor State' Maid Winnou Field To 4 for Final Ballot

By ANNA GRIFFIN

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – In the time the last candidate for governor called through the 76th annual Golden Days parade in Fairbanks, Alaska, has lost month even the manner of ceremonies sounded re-hanced.

Along with the unique core, tanho电视 students and salami girls, he had introduced eight campaigns for governor – ten even half the candidates on the primary ballot. As the parade neared its end, marchers came by promoting a measure to November to repeat the state's open primary and ranked-choice voting system.

“That’s the announcer quipped, “at least if that passes, not next parade will be shorter.”

On Turnday, voters will pick four of 2 candidates to advance to the next round. The first two of the governor at a critical juncture for the all-risk, such-year state, several factors are raising together to make this a world-related moment Alaska's open primary system, which places Democrats, Republicans and independence on a single ballot; the first governor's race in nearly a quarter century without an incumbent or an best apparent; and a growing consensus that the state faces some of its biggest decisions since the Trans-Alaska Pavilion was held five decades ago.

With so many choices, “it’s like resting a stalk – you have to really dig in and take your time to get to the good parts,” said Nick Steglovik, a former legislator, son of a former governor and owner of a downtown Fairbanks salami. “I don’t know why the risk that it’s a bad meal.”

The campaign is also unfolding in the shadow of one of the nation's করছেন Senate races. While join the Republican incumbent, Dan Sullivan, against a former representative, they include, the last Democrats and the state's office of the Alaska. That race is drawing on a 45 million of dollars in the state spending, driving up advertising costs and consuming much of the state's limited television and radio inventory.

The math has scrambled the usual assumptions about party politics in the Republican state. The state's statewide state candidates expect both Democrats, Tom Begich and Jonathan Kretos-Timblato, to advance to No-

Campaign signs in downtown Fairbanks, Alaska. Below from left: Tom Begich, a Democrat and one of the 27 candidates running for governor in Alaska; Shelley Hughes, another candidate; and Click Bishop, a former Republican legislator who is also in the race.

vention.

“You've got 86,000 voters on the left, and 115,000 on the right or the middle-right,” said Art Hitchens, a longtime Republican incumbent. The two Democrats got to split those 86,000, he said, while a decision to be a Republican fight for the slightly larger per on the right.

With polls showing the top five other may win less than 20 percent of the vote, the difference between advancing or going home could be a few hundred, or a few dozen, had been.

Taking no vote taken for general, Mr. Kretos-Timblato make a skill 430 miles down the Yukon River in July and had driven a snowmobile to the Arctic Ocean earlier in the year. Republican Alaska Crops tried “guerrilla campaigning,” shipping traditional political events to serve the choctarian in the spring to hundreds of snowmobilers in the woods.

“You go wherever there might be voters,” said Mr. Begich, a former Democratic legislator and singer-songwriter whose Democratic father, Nick Begich, received in the House, whose Republican nephew, Nick Begich 115, serves there now, and whose brother, Mark Begich, was a senator.

Nearly every candidate also agrees on something else: Alaska has reached an infection point. Despite its vast oil wealth, the state's unique fiscal model – to exonerate income or sales tax and annual checks to such residents from Alaska's oil fund – has left lawmakers scrambling to keep double open, poor roads and stop population loss.

“You are the richest poor state you could possibly imagine,” said Mr. Crops, a former state revenue and health commissioner.

started his political career at age 15 directing the state campaign of Vermont's governor, second-providential hopeful Howard Dean, said his next governor and legislature “will be making decisions that will shape the state for the next half century.”

The state's voice have favored President Trump in three consecutive presidential elections, but the legislature has been governed for nearly a decade by the state of Democrats, Republicans and the Republicans. They've largely unhumped culture war fights to focus on Alaska's fiscal and environmental challenges.

Still, the state government is now frozen. The outgoing governor, Mike Dunlavry, a Republican who pulls among the many popular governors in the country, has repeatedly vetoed efforts to increase education funding and overturner the budget. In turn, the

legislation has rejected the governor's efforts to stop state spending and increase dividend payments from the state oil fund.

“We all think the state needs change,” said Click Bishop, a candidate for governor and former Republican legislator who has been labeled a “Republican in some way” by others to the state because of his willingness to work with Democrats. “Valuely is an early happy visit how things are going; we just disagree on the on board.”

The field includes a former governor, Bill Walker, who checked the political establishment with his surprise late entry; a pediatric and political novice, Mark Helala, who has already spent more than $15 million of his own money; and five Republicans aligned with Mr. Trump and trying to win the conservative loan.

banks parade, said that with so many choices, “it’s hard to know where to start.”

the last brought her two young children to the parade, and she said she's not sure if she'll have the attention span to vote. So far no candidate has prioritized the only issue that matters to her, and we can write readers to sharp through the right.

With just days to go, no one is sure that will happen, said Forest Nahara, a political scientist at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Florence Parenthood Alliance advocates of Alaska, the health organization's political arm, enforced Mr. Begich in the primary because the crowded nature of the race gave its support more enough. The political arm of Alaska's largest teachers union, the NSA-Indiana, endorsed three candidates – Mr. Begich, Mr. Kretos-Timblato and Mr. Bishop – gave uprising to education-minded voters.

After the primary, candidates who qualify for the general election have only Aug. 15 to decide on the election. The federal election is November, voters will use ranked-choice voting to pick the next governor.

Mr. Begich and Mr. Kretos-Timblato said they have already begun talking about what happens if they think qualify. On they work as a coalition, or how one drop isn't Each said he wants to make sure a progressive vote.

Bernadette Wilton, a conservative media personality who has led the Republican field in recent polls, wants fellow Republicans to rally behind one candidate if several advance to November. The good, she said, is to work a Republican to defend with the stringent possible mandate.

So far once have agreed. All of the Republicans would love an endorsement from Mr. Trump, although he has set his above any inclination to get involved. Mr. Wilton noted that she's the only candidate who held a total stater at 30 or 4 July.

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“Others in the race find the breadth of choices refreshing.” “I know the system we have,” said Mr. Walker, the former governor running an an independent. He jumped at last because, he said, no one else was talking about the hard choices facing Alaska.

“It's unprovened. It's history-making. It's also very liberating.”

Nazi Jokes, Valparaiso And Guns In Texas Race

By RUTHIN WAGNER

Sick ArtTrittG— Standing in a San Antonio harbour post, the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, had not a mark contract between two congressional candidates to a sprawling West Texas border district. Voters were chosen the “common sense” of the U.S. if nominee, Brandon Herrers, he said, or the “crazy” positions of his Democratic opponent.

“I don’t know, however, establishment Republican were trying to pass Mr. Herrers as the crazy one.

A old-disscribed gun-rights abhorrence and Vardiner known for his atheismary hunter, Mr. Herrers, 30, was initially opposed this year by both Mr. Johnson and President Trump in his challenged election. The Republican candidates, Tony Gonzalez, for a second straight time, Mr. Gonzalez and his allies spent millions painting Mr. Herrers as sorrows, highlighting the value of the state made widely offensive jokes like saying that a National antismashier gun was “the original glotter blaster” and “Hibler’s street breezes.”

But after a sexual misconduct scandal started Mr. Gonzalez out of the race and then out of Congress this year, top Republican quickly went to the state, and the first time.

In an era when candidates—in the years he retired into the public health of Mr. Herrers—the training voters’ advance for unanimous, even those made to pass, that are beyond the gate of public acceptability.

If also underscores the anti-establishment energy training program, Mr. Herrers, who were to be control of Congress, national leaders have jumped into shotgun marriage—and the candidates—and those candidates—who are witnessing help from an establishment they once attacked.

“After a brutal primary on all

sales,” Mr. Herrers told reporters by San Antonio last last month, “the focus has to be bringing the party together.”

With district board Republican, Mr. Trump scored it by 15 percentage points in 2024 – but Demersys before Mr. Herrers's polarizing nature could give their measure, they Phyllis Stout, a chance.

Mr. Herrers says he does not have to be a member of the state. They he has sought to broaden his appeal. That year, he can largely see a pre-gun platform in the district, which hugs a long stretch of border and reaches from San Antonio to El Paso – and which includes Uvalde, the site of a school building in 2022 that killed 10 children and two teachers. This year, he has transcended the district in least town halls on veterans benefits, water scarcity and guarded-fake data centers.

His digital footprint continues to lag fast, in the days before Mr. Johnson called for Mr. Herrers and held a fund-raiser for him, a video resurfaced of the YouTuber song, crude, sexualized insults against a female gun-control activist in 2021.

But Mr. Herrers says that the voters he meets are far more concerned about gun and grocery costs than about his online archives.

“The only people who have ever cared about that are either in the media or in D.C.,” he said in an interview with The New York Times, adding, “As long as I can convince voters that I’m right on the issues, then I shouldn’t have any problem جنating their vote in November.”

YouTube Cruelty

The comments by Mr. Herrers in the latest unearthed video are eruption and Democrats hope, the kind of long that could keep some Republican voters home in November.

In the video from July 2022, Mr. Herrers used crude language to avoid Shannon Watts, who headed the gun-control group, shows Demand Action after the nearly flash massacre in 2022.

Mr. Phyllis Stout has sought it highlight the remarks. As a生动 achieving of left-hunting reasons in the northern hills of San Antonio, she passed in out of children here and of number boxes recounting what he had said.

“That is not the type of person you want making decisions for me, and your children,” she said.

In the interview, Mr. Herrers waved off the comments as part of a scientific persona he assumes as a YouTube: While he wouldn’t use the same language as a political candidate, he said, he’s not apologizing.

“I know the difference between the way that you speak in a carefully performed, no to speak, and not way that you speak in a political environment,” he said, adding: “I’ve always used that bar perfectly for me that they’re going to do it: they’re going to pretend them are policy, and they’re going to purposely pretend that they don’t know the difference.”

Mr. Phyllis Stout, who also pointed to a video of Mr. Herrers highlighting the ownership of a 2020 English edition of “Main Kemp” and has circulated cigarette linking about Nazi atrocities

against Jews.

In the interview, Mr. Herrers vehemently denied that he was autonomist, and said he owned an annotated copy of “Main Kemp” as part of a historical book collection.

Yehuda Reiner, a Second Amendment activist who has known Mr. Herrers for a decade and is Orthodox Jewish, said the idea that Mr. Herrers was a Nazi war properence.

“If Brandeis was actually autonomist, he wouldn’t have helped me along my journey and relative and to help me,” Mr. Reiner said.

“The All Guy”

Originally from North Carolina, Mr. Herrers held up a loan of more than four million subscribers with gun reviews, swaps on costs and re-enactments of famous assassinations. He also created the US Cross, who spent that resource historical forearms, and other businesses. He moved to San Antonio in 2020.

“The provocative feature that he was the career also threatened his political rise.

During the Republican primary in 2024, the Republican Jewish-Cordless, a pre-fueled group, spent millions of snipply on old jobs for Mr. Herrers that made light of veterans who did by suicide.

“Feels like Brandeis Herrers who made veterans do not belong to a foreign or “frican,” a narrower said in the ad.

On an interview, he called the idea that he does not support veterans “a disingenuous for” and pointed to fund-raisers that he

said his podcast on issues have held for virtual (causes).

Mr. Herrers has positioned himself as a conservative Republican, including endorsements from members of the right-wing House Freedom Council.

He opposes aid to all foreign countries, including Israel, “while the U.S. is still in debt.” He is against all new restrictions on the U.S. including the U.S. and the would also “like to see important ones using up a good lot, with a priority toward convicted criminals.”

He is to closely aligned with Mr. Trump, he has broken from the undercoverance at times, the has debated against the federal government plans to build a law that had all the Bend National Park.

“Mr. Herrers has won the support of some previously skeptical Republicans, including: “The Republicans, a Republican consultant in San Antonio who worked on Mr. Gonzalez’s campaign.”

Mr. Herrers is “much calmer than the nation prowess, much more thoughtful.” Mr. Bradshouse said, “I would convince. But he, along with some other Republicans, worries that Mr. Herrers has no time enough to court moderate voices.”

“But am I a walk.” Mr. Bradshouse said. “And if anybody in Brandeis Herrers’s team thinks it’s a walk, they’re going to lose.”

Underdog Democrat

Mr. Phyllis Stout said she decided to run to stop a gun influencer!

Brandon Herrers, for left, a C.O.P. House candidate in Texas who is running against Katy Phyllis Stout, right, who has tried to highlight his controversial YouTube remarks.

from representing Uvalde.

“He has stated our recent left-children on immigration and public safety, despite Speaker Johnson’s claim that the supported ‘open border’ and identifying the state’s family funds also owns guns, she said, but she backs up and rearmed health checks.

The House Democrat campaign sets the Democratic Congress and Campaign Committee, recently added the district to its indictive target for, saying Mr. Herrers’s “disturbing history of extremism” had got it in play with the state organ for, and the issue by Gov. Tony Abbott, a Republican, who has set the General—which has left the district unrepresented since April — sign that Republican worries about helping the state.

“We would have said it a special decision!” Mr. Phyllis Stout said at the July campaign event. “Because you’re scared you’re going to lose! A spokesman for Mr. Herrers declined to comment on the governor’s reasoning.

But the campaign arm hasn’t yet put its money where its mouth is.”

“I’m like, in the most recent relationship of my life” with the D.C.C.I., Mr. Phyllis Stout, it, said at the July campaign event. “I find myself thinking, I don’t want your own and attention. I want your money.”

The national party may have bigger fish to try Republican-led relationships in Texas put Democrats on the right to know districts held by the party.

Some moderate Republicans who are on the front about Mr. Phyllis Stout say she appears to be in the right state the district voters, while Mr. Herrers may be too far into the right.

Andy Pinnals, who was a controversial staff member for Mr. Herrers, said he said, said that if Mr. Phyllis Stout could show her that she would work with Republicans, and hear out conservative voters, “she’s got my vote.”

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Are the Democrats Having Their Own Tea Party Moment?

By LISA LIEBER and KATHI GLOVER

A movement of young, progressive members has received Democratic politics this year, sparking a wave of contentious primary concern across the country and having a thought debate over whether these new, left-wing candidates are remaining the party in their image.

But an primary reason which is a time, the results reveal not only the strength but also the potential limitations of this insurprise movement.

In Minnesota last week, Roger Flanagan, the lieutenant governor, was a Senate primary for a double-digit budget, pursuing a fiercely progressive message to debate a more moderate argument. Just a week earlier, Dr. Gubiel El-Sayed, a left-handed, Democrat, won a Senate primary in Michigan despite being 'vanity' आयुक्त. And Francesca Sineg, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, came close to relating a country for governing Wisconsin, telling short by less than one percentage point.

The results marked a new level of strength for candidates afflicted by the state's own district and showing that their movement can be compatible in statewide. The state's first-tryzed deep-fake House districts.

Yet while a result is part of strategists, activists and college-educated voters have used to embrace these approaches, badly liberal — and to some cases unsound — candidates, some of the voters who have historically been most crucial in the party's lives.

In Michigan and Wisconsin, both battleground states, the progressive candidates appeared to have struggled to stop voters' behavior. The state's readiness to the party — including Black, more moderate and older Americans who vote reliably.

As left-wing candidates have been able to do a primary after primary, many progressive hope they will be able to move the Democratic Party further to the left — returning, to some ways, how the rise of the Tea Party movement nearly two decades ago pushed the Republican Party much further to the right.

But the results raise questions about whether these candidates can prove together a broad enough

Ruth Igalski contributed report-

coalition of Democrats, independent and insideration to win general elections in swing states that could determine whether Democratic are able to regain power in Congress and, eventually, the White House.

'Would I put a D.S.A. member up for governor in New York or Massachusetts and then from time, the former chairman of the Democratic Party of Milwaukee County.' 'Sure, we can take a chance. But it makes it harder for a member to be involved, where you're starting out at the 16-yearlies and have to figure out how to put to it.'

The next major tests for the left will come this fall in a sequencing of battleground House districts, and at Dr. El-Sayed and Cary Buskow, a progressive former state senator in Maine, fight to win seats that Democrats need to regulate control of the Senate.

The primary results indicate that to win, some of these members must not only persuade independent voters, but also share up their own primary results.

In Michigan, Dr. El-Sayed trailed in majority Black views of slips across the state. While he was popular with younger voters, there was a sign that he was weaker than his Democrats' primary opponent, Representative Haley Berman, taking other voters, who vote more reliably.

On Minnesota, Mr. Hoag, who had been the heavy favorite in getting, lost her primary to David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive who would be the star’s first Black governor, in a short way last. Mr. Crowley had an edge in more Milwaukee and in rural New York. He thought that a strength is smaller cities and suburbs, as well as counties that are home to college towns.

Senator James Sanders, the state senator, was a member of the proposed progressive candidates across the country including Dr. El-Sayed and Ms. Flanagan, said he is confident that Democrats are able to do a better job. He told the nominees in the fall.

The candidates keep talking about the issues that are relevant to ordinary people — the issues of affordability, the issues of health care, the issues of education, housing, basic necessities of life, preventing Social Security — against Republican who want to cut Social Security, you know what's said. Mr. Sanders, 'Our guys are gonna win, and they'll win big.' But even in some of the most heavily Democratic neighbors

Mayor Zubran Mamdani at a rally before the New York primary in June. The progressive congressional candidates he endorsed won.

Jacob in America, there are signs of finance. In New York, Black and Ladies leaders have expressed alarm over democratic socialist victories at gratifying neighborhoods, worrying that the day-to-day concerns of longtime residents will be overlooked.

Representative Adriana Equallat, a New York Democrat and chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, took his primary role in summer to a far-left challenger,

A string of victories has also revealed the maurgent movement's potential limitations.

Dariakus Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist who had usually supper for abducting the police, leaders and prisons and writing property from landlords.

In an interview, he nodded to a person-level data showing that while his opponent did better in whites, younger, and higher-income areas, he was strong across many older and majority-Hispanic areas.

'They claim to have the agenda of the working class, but that's not what the people is these in these communities' but,' Mr. Equallat said. 'These neighborhoods, I be-

lieve, are concerned about affordability, but they're also concerned about the people's needs. I know, they're also concerned about the types of issues that D.S.A. may have a different position on that they do.'

The first of an insurgent left was supercharged by the Democratic two in the 2010 presidential race, which created a fresh agency that owes federal penalties who could channel Democrats anger with what they saw as a schematic party establishment.

The following year, Zubran Mamdani — bound by an activist, progressive candidate, was seconded by the Palestinian cause and they toward Milwaukee — won a surprise victory in the New York City race for many younger, middle-income Americans, who debated to embrace a similar hold vision.

The candidates share someEvitoxy principles: 'Support for 'Malibate for All' opposition to A.I. data centers, a commitment to enabling corporate owners to politics and a view that opposition to American support for Israel is a moral lizmo test, fueled by a belief that the Gaza war announced to a genocide.'

But benefits that Israel platform, there are real differences among the candidates.

'There is a wide range of candidates who have been able to position themselves as either progressive or popular or even under the

D.S.A.,' said Mark Berman, a Democratic partner who worked with former President Joseph R. Robert's campaign. 'It's way heavy ideologically than people think.'

Ms. Hoag, a state lawmaker, is a member of the D.S.A., which is not officially part of the Democratic Party.

Dr. El-Sayed, who calls himself a 'capable,' is not a D.S.A. member, nor was he endorsed by the group, the does have a prioritizing relationship with the organization, speaking at several local events during the first Trump administration.

And in Minnesota, Mr. Flanagan eagerly embraced progressive policies and allies like Mr. Sanders but is a lifetime member of the Democratic-Purman Labor Party, the Democratic Party's vice-gov in the state, which endorsed her bill.

Ms. Flanagan, who debated Representative Apple's Day by 20 percentage points, said she accused an organizing support in every corner of her home state.

'The coalition that we have built is faith. Sales, young people, folks in greater Minnesota, farbever,' she said in an interview. 'When you build relationships with people, even if you don't see you in eye on everything, I think that's the way that we was this election.'

Still, despite the differences, all three cases illustrated how Democrats view of what makes a sen-

distant electedian has shifted — within some limits.

In both Minnesota and Michigan, voters rejected an argument under the Democratic leaders that the more moderate candidates — Ms. Craig and Ms. Berman — were better positioned to win statewide.

But in Wisconsin, Ms. Hoag's baggage from pandemic-era movement that she struggled to repaint — including one in which the opponent canceling Thanksgiving and another describing her young terrorist use as offering her 'grossing' to witnesses' — up to 10,000.

'People are less willing to trust the political class and what we think is desirable,' said Lauren Oth, a Democratic strategist who has been a leader in candidates across the ideological spectrum. 'They're looking for people who break the mask, but if you break the mold so much that you're eccentric, that's not the solution either.'

Charles Franklin, the director of the Marquette Law School poll in Wisconsin, said that about the rise of Mr. Mamdani, it has been 'surprise' easy to be caught up in just how strong democratic socialists were doing.'

But now, he added, 'when you go to statewide races with the more heterogeneous electorate, I think you're seeing some limits on that, even within Democratic primaries.'

Candidates of the Activist Left Typically Fare Worse Than Other Democrats

By NATE COHN

When the ordinary election campaign began, Michigan seemed like a state that Democrats could take for granted in their pursuit of the Senate. Yes, it's a presidential battleground state, but that makes it the kind of state that Democrats would ordinarily win easily in what seems like a strongly Democratic southern cycle.

It's not a state Democratic can take for granted anymore. There are clear signs that the newly-missed Democrats continue, Dr. Gubiel El-Sayed, could underperform a typical senator on the dairy's own share by enough to endanger his party's chances.

Start with the polls, a free, News poll released on Thursday based the Republican Mike Rogers leading Dr. El-Sayed by four percentage points. This was the first poll taken since the primary end, embracing the Democrats, it's not really any better for Dr. El-Sayed than the polls taken before the primary. In fact, Dr. El-Sayed hasn't had it any general election poll fielded over the last month.

It's important not to read too much into these polls. The primary poll is a federal election. El-Sayed's support could rise if Democrats considered an around him. And Democrats have no business being Michigan in such a way that the tobacco party is over-removed.

But the polls nonetheless raise the debate that the world significantly underperforms, and they aren't the only reason to think let's at risk of doing so. Historically, candidates of the Activist Left typically have more to face much worse than other Democratic candidates.

What's a 'Progressive'?

Progressive and moderate analysis have been arguing for more about whether Democrats pay a meaningful electoral price when they are going to vote.

One reason the question is challenging. It's hard to define what, exactly, we mean by 'pro-

gressive.' Under some definitions, progressives don't fare enough to make other Democrats, with some progressive academics finding that they only do about a joint worse than how a 'typical' Democrat would, based on the fact that it's a districts vote in presidential elections. Under other definitions, progressives seem to fare quite poorly.

The difference comes down to whether we're talking about a broader group including relatively small groups' progressives, like Senator Cary Booker of New Jersey and Senator Stanley Baldwin of Wisconsin, or a smaller group of activist-hazard candidates of the progressive left, like Alexandria Ocasio-Correa and the other members of the so-called Squad of young progressive women in Oregon.

MANIFESTAR PROGRESSIVES 'Progressive' is a huge category. Over half of congressional Democrats support Medicare for all, nearly half are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, nearly half would be out of aid to Israel.

The first broader definition, progressives, don't seem to have much worse than mainstream Democrats on a whole, after all, with the mainstream Democrats.

Ms. Baldwin is a good reason for. By any means, the results of the most progressive senators, like supports Medicare for all, are not only because it is the electoral track record. His narrowly won re-election in 2016, seven as President Trump won her state.

In the former like Mr. Stoll win has done about as well as an ordinary Democrat. By all up - pearsence, she is an ordinary Democrat. She rules on theory and the state's own, and the state in Wisconsin — about taking an appropriate. She never change used progressive doggers like 'double 3/2' or 'without the right.' The first time there.

When progressive academics find that progressives do only about a point worse than other

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Democrats, it's because Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Booker and many other mainstream Democrats are counted as among the most progressive Democrats in the country by their measure.

PROGRESSIVE LEFT There's no doubt that Ms. Baldwin or Mr. Booker are 'progressive.' but they're not always the kind of candidate that people have to stand when they refer to progressives nowadays. There's another, narrower kind of 'progressive' candidate of the activist progressive left, like Zubran Mamdani, Alexandria Ocasio-Correa and the Squad.

This isn't an easy group to make. Clearly the self-identified democratic socialists, like Mr. Mamdani or Mr. Ocasio-Correa, are at the core of it, but there's

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also a broader group of progressives who don't necessarily identify an older and successful one who clearly stand apart from the typical progressive Democrat. They might ally themselves with the democratic socialists, define themselves as the most support for activist causes like Gaza or the districts, run against the Democratic Party, engage in tightness fights with Republic campaign and make no social media, or champion activist slogans like 'double 3/2' and 'Oxford the Police'.

'Since candidates of the activist left often, some in fact much worse than mainstream progressives, even though they may not be very different in the issues. The members of Justice, Democratic party, socialists the higher and many of their congressional allies, fare about five points worse than other Democrats. Elizabeth Warren, who might want as part of that broader group of activist-hazard progressives who aren't democratic socialist, has underperformed the

Democratic baseline in Massachusetts by an issue in 10 points in one.

When relatively moderate analysis say that progressives badly underperforms, it's usually with this narrower group of activist-hazard progressives in mind.

Sometimes, moderates go even further and taken the narrower of mainstream progressives like Ms. Baldwin as they own in. They under-consider to be correct, so Ms. Baldwin uses many of the tactics that moderates say the newly-missed senators, Mr. Stoll, Baldwin is no moderate. She's a progressive. She's an example of what progressives claim: Progressives don't necessarily fare terrible.

But progressives have been assuming the Baldwin example as well. They do not issue her as an archetype for a successful progressive career, but they are in a truest as one of many numerous data points showing that progressives, in general, don't suffer a major electoral penalty. This conclusion works up being used to license monitoring candidates who might have no more. Mates to Ms. Baldwin and who, instead, might be passed to unstoppable significantly.

How Will the Right of Do?

It can be hard to predict exactly which progressive candidates are liable to underperform, but Dr. El-Sayed has a lot of the faith which of the state's progressive who has underperformed in the past.

He may not be a self-identified democratic socialist, but he's an insuperious and unscrupulous left-associates like Ms. Ocasio-Correa and his editorial 'Few's' streamer House Plan: We do-Head in part by his support because he's a lot of the 'typical' senators' actions to train. In this point, he has campaigned as a festional, about with the campaign to match. He presents himself much more like the Squad than Mr. Stoll.

With the general election race just getting underway, there's

time for him to campaign as a more friendly and popular senator. Unlike the typical member of Justice Democrats, he has a real incentive to do so. He's running in a battleground state.

But running in a battleground state carries additional risks, and there's reason to think progressive candidates might fare even worse there. Michigan has many more moderate, where and working-class voters than the districts and states where candidates of the progressive left have recently won.

This proposition is mostly unsound, as candidates of the progressive left have arguably never won a nomination in a former round state or district before, but Ms. Warren's performance in Massachusetts is at least consistent with this possibility. She underperforms the typical Democrat even more than the Squad does, and it might be in part because Massachusetts, while heavily Democratic, is a lot less so than Representative Francis Spygall's leader in Representative Billie Dean's Minneapolis, 80s performe well in the state. He is more or less in a squad member (Ajustin Prowse, 71), while the underperforming elsewhere in Massachusetts. It raises the possibility that candidates of the progressive left would underperform by more if they run outside of progressive strongholds.

If there's any good news for it, it's hard to say it's hard to ought to have a lot of room to underperform and tell win. With Democrats ahead by an average of seven points on the generic ballot statement — to whether people are asked which party they'll support for Congress in November — Democrats ought to be favored to win an open, unscrupulous, Michigan's similar margin. Most of the candidates of the progressive left haven't underperformed by so much. So here, he would need to make decisions about the performance in the party. But if the early polls are any indication, it's possible he will be.

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Democrats Vote for Recomp Primary Calendar for 2028

By SHANE GOLDMACHER

Iowa and New Hampshire are out, though they may not go down without a fight. South Carolina and Nevada are in.

The Democratic National Committee formally approved sweeping changes to the party's 2028 presidential primary calendar on Saturday, putting states that are more racially diverse at the front of the line.

The order in which states vote typically plays a significant role in shaping the presidential primary — influencing both what issues are discussed and who ultimately emerges.

Party officials set South Carolina first on Jan. 22, 2028, followed by Nevada (Feb. 5), New Hampshire (Feb. 6), New Mexico (Feb. 15), Michigan (Feb. 22) and Virginia on (Feb. 29).

The new calendar represents a one-change from past competitive primaries. For decades, Iowa and New Hampshire, two states with largely white populations, had started the process. Now, two states in the South and two states in the West will be among the earliest contexts, which is likely to expand the influence of Black and Latino voters.

“The states, different regions, different communities, different experiences but together as one our road map to the White House,” Ken Martin, the party chairman, said in a speech on Saturday.

The earliest states will play an outsize role in witnessing what is expected to be an expansive field of candidates. The order was officially set for a vote of the D.N.C. membership at a meeting in Austin, Texas, on Saturday.

After these first six states vote, each on their own day, a range of states will vote on Super Tuesday in early March.

The party's new rules include still penalties for states that hold primaries in violation of the calendar, and for any candidates who might campaign in those states. But some uncertainty remains, especially in New Hampshire, where a state law requires its privacy for the first in the nation. The D.N.C. allows the state to hold a party's organized primary on Feb. 5.

Democrats in the state so far have learned being relegated to third in line.

The party had tried to put South Carolina first in 2024, as well, but New Hampshire jumped the line. Former President Joseph R. Riden Jr. declined to appear on the New Hampshire media, so his supporters instead organized a write-in campaign, and the party wrote a party resolution to preside on the source of the state's delegation at the convention.

It is unclear when Iowa will hold a primary or caucus in 2028. The party's new rules have been the D.N.C.'s new calendar, and some politicians in the state have threatened to hold an early event anyway, citing their new state law. The D.N.C. has been a major in least eight days before any other presidential nominating contest.

On Saturday, Rita Hart, chair of the Iowa Democratic Party, said

the new calendar “excludes huge results of the country and the voters Democrats need.”

And she warned that it was still possible the process could be “fiercest into chaos” and an “an welcome interaction” for Iowa Democratic trying to win this year. James Harrison, the former D.N.C. chair and a former chair of the Democratic Party in South Carolina, made the case trial, “We're not erasing tradition, We're holding on it.”

Even with this uncertainty, potential 2028 candidates are already flooding into those early states. First Burlington, the former transportation secretary who now lives in Michigan, is headed to South Carolina for a political event this week. Gov. Garde Newman of California campaigned with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive Democratic candidate running for Senate, this month in Michigan. Representative Alexandra Overton-Crene of New York had campaigned for Dr. El-Sayed ahead of the primary, and she also appeared in a campaign commercial for him.

Some leaders in South Carolina are eager for all the attention the party's new rules have shown. They are sure about — it now about to get, Iowa's primary place for youth had recent candidates would take about agricultural issues and the state.

Black voters generally have been a moderating force in Democratic politics, so the early position of South Carolina could lead the state to have a similar effect. In the past, South Carolina played the pivotal role of austerity in candidate with the most insistent, has leaded into Super Tuesday, New Michigan and Virginia — which are bigger and more expensive vs campaign in — are set to hold that prime.

Political strategists in both the moderate and progressive wings of the party have paved over how the new calendar might play on Mr. Burlington, for instance, carried Iowa in 2028, but now that state has fallen out of the early state.

Senate Bernie Sanders, a lead-up progressive, carried New Hampshire in both his president's case, but there is a delusion on whether that was just ideological alignment or how much the decision was being made to be more busy here given him a boost.

Mr. Bates had placed South Carolina first in the calendar in 2024, elevating the state that delivered him the nomination in 2028 after defeats in Iowa and New Hampshire. But it was far from certain that the state would keep that late headed into 2028.

South Carolina had a force high for the leader of the West, a general election bankinghouse.

By that story — the first clubs New Mexico and its large Latinx leaders — has received mostly positive reviews from Democrats on fair and geographic distribution. The biggest complaints have come from the Midwest, which now has only one state among the first six, Michigan, and it is only fifth.

A building on fire amid floods in Indianapolis on Saturday. At least seven people have died in the state after days of severe weather.

Letho in Storms in Indiana, and Now More Rain

Midwest Is Rocked By Winds, Flooding And Extreme Heat

By BERNARD MORAN

Recovery efforts were undercut by the 1980s. The 1980s are part of the 1980s. The 1980s are part of the 1980s. The 1980s are part of the 1980s. The 1980s are part of the 1980s.

Building water inundated homes, submerged roads and flooded shopping centers. In Indianapolis, the state capitol, the state drive properties banks and threatened portions of the city.

Emergency responders have had to perform rescue by boat.

Wind gasps flooded around 300 miles per hour in some areas, according to Gov. Mike Braun, and peak flows broke a 125-year-old record for water height, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

“This is about an widespread of a weather issue we've had in 1992,” Mr. Braun said at a news briefing on Saturday.

President Trump on Saturday

Nationaire Gingbo, Joey Fortin and J. David Goodman contributed reporting.

Helping a resident in floodwaters in Indianapolis on Saturday.

approved the governor's emergency declaration, allowing disaster assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to flow to 51 Indiana counties.

Indiana's Department of Homeland Security confirmed that there had been seven fatalities caused by the number, the 1980s's 1980s are now reduced, while the others ranged from 4 to 86.

The State Emergency Operations Center did not know how many residents had been displaced but said more than 200 people were in shelters across Indiana.

In Noblesville, a city of 71,000 people met the Indianapolis, more than 500 miners had been killed by record floodwaters, according to Mayor Chris Jensen. About 170

residents and their pets were evacuated.

Mayor Scott Padoves of Fishers, Inc., said on Sunday that water rescues had been conducted in the area since Thursday. On Saturday, he said emergency personnel had rescued about a dozen individuals and their pets by the White River.

“At this point, our rescue operations have concluded and we now turn our attention to recovery,” he said on Sunday.

In Portage, Ind., one person died in an apparent home region, from dismay on the roads showed emergency workers, according to officials.

In Geneva, Ind., a 4-year-old boy died after a tree lid in the home, the Jennings County Sher-

dry office said.

In Delaware County, a teenager died after entering a river during flooding on Wednesday, according to the sheriff's office.

The storms have peled Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois with per-cause emergency flooding. One person suffered a weather-related death in Ohio, according to officials.

Recovery efforts were undercut by floodwaters were expected to recede in some areas of Indiana, but not being remained in effect.

In Southeastern Indiana, the land sales was expected to reach 385 degrees on Sunday, bringing more dangerous weather to the state.

Indiana's weather was forecast throughout the region. Thunderstorms were expected across large country of the Ohio Valley, central Appalachians and Mid-America. The repeated storms raised the risk of flash flooding. For instance in West Virginia, two rounds of storms could result in flash floods.

Jack Ryan, a Carmel, Ind., resident with a background in hearing, cooling and plumbing, has offered to pump water from flooded homes for free to help residents begin the recovery process, which he characterized as predatory.

“I've not a government official. I don't have millions of dollars,” he said in an interview, “But one thing I can do is help people get started.”

It's Clear Why This Winning Dog Screams at Her Reflection

By ALENA CERRO

Ugly is subjective. But in this competition, it means everything. Your alter state, owners enter their pets in a context to become the one, the only, world's agitation dog.

It may not sound like a badge of humor, but for the pets and their owners, this competition is proud that where you come from does not define where you end up.

If you can make it here, you can help make it anywhere.

With her floppy tongue and bulging eyes, this year's winner, Joey L.L., a 9-year-old guy, did not disappoint.

Joey L.L. was the runner-up in 2025. This was her fourth attempt to win the top prize.

According to her biography, Joey L.L. was “found in a wooden box in freezing weather in the mountains of South Korea.”

She then to smash “into kitchen chairs and very a suitably pale blue amazing tongue into everyone’s food levels,” according to her biography.

She also likes to spend time snagging, sunbathing and grooming visitors.

Her fun face? She screams at her reflection in the mirror.

The World's Upland Dog Contest, which takes place during the Sonoma County Fair at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, Calif., celebrated its 38th year on Friday.

The contest promotes dog suboptions and celebrates “the imperfections that make all dogs special and unique.”

The dogs are treated as stars as they have along a red carpet lined by driving fans.

Judges consider the pet's background and story. Previous winners include dogs who “notably business and outpatient.”

Joey L.L. was 83,000, a trophy that a trip to New York for a live appearance on the “fighty” show, which was celebrated for Monday. Last week, the winner from among eight contestants and will also appear on historic editor-casts of Mag Best Beer, a sponsor

Joey L.L., top left, with her owner after winning the World's Upland Dog Contest. Top right, Scooter, a Chinese Contest; and above, Puppy, also a Chinese Contest, competing for the title.

of the competition.

Friday, an alltime Pomeranian Chihuahua mix with a rosy onset, with a roam-eat and took home $2,000 and a trophy.

Oils, a Chihuahua mix with a cleft palate, won their place, earning $2,000 and a trophy.

And if you just can't get enough,

here are the winners from past years.

In 2023, Petunia, a hairless English French bathing mix from Expanse, Ore., was crowned the win.

In 2024 there was Wild Thang, a wide-eyed, tongue-flopping song of long fur. In 2023, there was

Scooter, who also let his tongue hang loose and whose hand legs were reversed. And in 2023, there was Mr. Happy Face, a Chihuahua mix.

The contest was suspended in 2020 and 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2019, the champions won Scamp the Trump.

Two Planes, Same Call Sign: Controller Prevents Disaster

By ERNEST LINDNER

American Airlines flight 2482 was attempting to land from Chicago very early on Friday at Phoenix Bay Harbor International Airport. At the same time, in the dismay of an air traffic control at another American Airlines flight — also with the call sign 2482 — no departing.

The controller quickly realized the overlap and began to identify the planes at American 2482 “departure” and American 2482 “arrive,” according to a recording of the air traffic dispatch.

He managed to keep the two aircraft properly separated, and the planes touched down and took off without incident.

“I’ve been working air traffic for 25 years — I’ve never seen two aircraft pretty much emerge with the same call sign,” the controller said on the recording. “I’m glad it all worked out there. It could have been abandoned.”

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating, the agency said in a statement.

An American Airlines spokeswoman said that the arriving flight had been delayed.

A different plane at the airport with the same call sign took the place of the delayed inbound aircraft, which was scheduled to take passengers to Chicago after it landed.

However, the delayed flight ended up arriving at the same time that its replacement — not bearing the plane call sign — was taking off. How that came to pass was not immediately known.

The airline was “reviewing the details related to two American airlines’ flight plans.” The first company said in a statement.

“Both flights continued safely and without incident,” the state-

the more calendar “excludes huge results of the country and the voters Democrats need.”

And she warned that it was still possible the process could be “fierces into chaos” and an “an welcome interaction” for Iowa. Democracy trying to win this year. James Harrison, the former D.N.C., chair and a former chair of the Democratic Party in South Carolina, made the case trial, “We're not erasing tradition, We're holding on it.”

Even with this uncertainty, potential 2028 candidates are already flooding into those early states. First Burlington, the former transportation secretary who now lives in Michigan, is headed to South Carolina for a political event this week. Gov. Garde Newman of California campaigned with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive Democratic candidate running for Senate, this month in Michigan. Representative Alexandra Overton-Crene of New York had campaigned for Dr. El-Sayed about of the primary, and she also appeared in a campaign commercial for him.

Some leaders in South Carolina are eager for all the attention the state's government. The state's government is not about — it now about to get, Iowa's primary place for youth had recent candidates would take about agricultural issues and the state's government is not about.

Midwest Is Rocked By Winds, Flooding And Extreme Heat

By BERNARD MORAN

Recovery efforts were undercut by the 1980s. The 1980s are part of the 1980s. The 1980s are part of the 1980s. The 1980s are part of the 1980s.

President Trump on Saturday

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Fatal Accident in New York Harbor Draws Spotlight to Its Wild Waters

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car that can just stop on a drive!" "It really is a ass," said Mike Zinowicz, 43, a charter boat owner. "It's a dizzying array of commercial and private traffic."

Ferry traffic in the harbor has increased in the past decade. Kayakers and paddleboarders now flock to more polluted waters that have been cleaned up. Pleasure craft abound.

Many service boaters often lack local knowledge of the deep channels heavily trafficked by huge commercial craft, as well as the swift tidal currents flowing in and out of the Hudson and East Rivers, said they may be unfamiliar with formal admonitions about avoiding security zones and yielding to large, less nimble craft that can only navigate to channels.

"It's remarkable how many recreational boaters are unaware of the risks of the water, even simple right of way," said Jess Younaux, a crew member aboard highways in New York Harbor for the past 20 years.

Even though many recreational boat owners have no nautical background or training, enforcement of batting regulations in the harbor is "like a void," said Carter Craft, who conducts tours of the harbor on a central U.S. Navy harbor security boat.

"People can buy a boat, register the boat and get the registration sticker from the Department of Motor Vehicles," Mr. Craft said. "They never ask if you're a licensed captain."

The incident that claimed the lives of Sara Sanchez, 27, and her 5-month-old daughter, Anabella, has drawn particular attention to the credentialing of charter boat captains.

The man operating the charter for the boat leave the license required to carry more than six commercial passengers, according to a federal criminal complaint. At the time it capsized — possibly after hitting the wake of a larger vessel — the boat was carrying it people, according to court documents, and landed a bleached for the infant who died.

Coast Guard officials are investigating whether the boat may have been operating an air illegal charter in avoid safety regulations. The pilot has been charged with two counts of misconduct and neglect in connection with the fatal accident. He and his court-appointed lawyer have declined to comment.

Many of the dozens of charter boats zigging around New York Harbor on any given weekend are skippered by so-called six-pack captains — operators who are licensed to pilot vessels with six or more other government controls, said Mr. Zinowicz. Commercial boats with groups that could do not need to be supported by the Coast Guard.

The new New York hotel's Coast Guard certificate of inspection required for a boat carrying more than six paying passengers, Mr. Zinowicz said.

Some new-tanken operators find ways to increase the number of paying customers on their boats, said Bjoern Kils, the owner and an operator of New York Harbor.

Mark Bowano and Oishiba Neogi contributed reporting.

Many different vessels navigate New York Harbor at once. A new sign at Liberty Landing Marina in Jersey City, below left, advises charter boat customers to check that captains have the right credentials. Bjoern Kils, below right, who operates a charter company, said he often uses overcrowded vessels near the Statue of Liberty.

dia boat, a charter company. One way these charter companies can circumvent the rules, he said, is by having passengers sign a "barefoot" contract — essentially an equipment rental in which the customer agrees to take legal and operational control of the vessel.

The idea is that if the charter company relinquishes all control of the trip, it is no longer designed, so as a commercial vessel and can carry up to 12 passengers even if the Coast Guard has not inspected it.

Mr. Kils said he routinely spent overloaded vessels flocking around the Statue of Liberty.

"It's a dead giveaway when there's loud music playing, and everybody's wearing a captain's hat and dancing on the bars," he said.

"A lot of these operators are not familiar with the rules of the road out there," he said. "They drive their boats out there like they would drive a go-kart in a park."

Mr. Kils and Mr. Zinowicz said that over the last decade they had regularly reported suspected illegal charter boats to the New York investigations division of the Coast Guard. "But nothing even happens," Mr. Kils said. "It's just more and more of these illegal charter boat operators."

The Coast Guard declined to comment for this article, citing the continuing investigation into the boat that captured.

Shortly after the fatal accident, present-supported at Liberty Landing Marina and Oishiba Flory Marina cautioning tour takers to check their "U.S. Coast Guard Issued Merchant Marines"'s Credentials.

Mr. Kils said the posters were a good thing, but that it shouldn't be up to customers to make sure charter pilots are properly licensed. Mr. Zinowicz compared the "the" campaign to charging a sign at Newark airport advising passengers to ask to see their pi-

le's credentials before takeoff.

Bearing in New York Harbor requires focus, Mr. Younaux said.

"There's so much crisscrossing traffic that, as a recreational boater, you can't just be looking at what's right in front of you," she said. "You have to have your head on a noted and be familiar with the bare minimum of the navigational aspects of the harbor."

Out on the water, the benefits of experience become clear. On Wednesday night, Mr. Zinowicz and a reporter accompanied Mr. Kils as he pinned his 25-foot vessel through the Hudson River and into New York Harbor.

A thrill boat was harvesting

through a sailbearing school near Liberty Island. "They do doughnuts by the name and they roll an off over," he said. "Look at the railroad getting hammered."

As the swell approached, he noted the throats and turned the bow into the wall of water. The surf splattered on the windshield.

"Imagine if we had 14 people on board," he said. "That water would be in our boat."

On the other side of the wave, Mr. Zinowicz scanned the horizon.

"If you're not paying attention at night," he said, "there waves came out of nowhere and swamp you."

Mangione's Team Working For Dismissal of State Case

By HURUMIE MIKO

After nearly two years, Luigi Mangione has finally spoke about what led him to a sidewalk in Midtown Manhattan on a December morning in 2024, masked, dressed in black and carrying a firearm.

For nearly 10 minutes on Friday, Mr. Mangione, 28, spoke in federal court, where he pleaded guilty to two counts of stalking that led to the death of Brian Thompson, a health care executive.

Mr. Mangione told a federal judge how his ordered years of severe pain from a broken back. He talked about the intrusion of not-going health insurance and how he witnessed others going through similar experiences.

It was the first time Mr. Mangione has admitted to killing Mr. Thompson, but there are many questions that remain.

How long may he spend more? The federal judge overseeing the case, Margaret Garrett, scheduled Mr. Mangione's sentencing for a trial.

At the hearing on Friday, Judge Garrett said she would decide how many years Mr. Mangione will spend in prison based on her calculation of federal sentencing guidelines.

Proven men with the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan prepared a letter putting forth their interpretation of the guidelines, and they said, and they roughly 24 to 30 years in prison. However, she said, that it was binding.

To the end saying that I will come up with a range that is different

from what's in the government's letter," Judge Garrett said. "I may agree with them or I may not."

She added that she will not let Mr. Mangione withdraw his plea even if she calculates a sentence that is higher than what the guide lines recommend. His lawyers could also submit their own recommendation. Judge Garrett said. But a report from the professional department, which will work to interview Mr. Mangione, will be important in her calculations, she said.

She also warned Mr. Mangione that if he is convicted in a separate state case, that could result in less serving his federal and state senescence consecutively.

We legal battle is not even

Five days after killing Mr. Thompson, Mr. Mangione was arrested while eating breakfast at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pa. Several days later, he was extradited to New York to face charges of murder filed by the Manhattan district attorney's office. As he was awaiting his arraignment in state court, he was charged by federal prosecutors.

From nearly that point toward, Mr. Mangione's lawyers, led by Karen Friedman Agrellis, have said that the dead charges against him violate his prosecution against double jeopardy, which generally bars someone from being tried twice for the same time.

The judge overseeing the state court case, Gregory Caren, said last year that the double jeopardy argument was premature without a conviction in the federal case,

but the question is back in front of him. For now, the state trial is set to start on Sept. 8.

Mr. Mangione and his lawyers have not said why he decided to plead guilty to federal charges this week. Within an hour of Friday's hearing, his lawyers filed a motion in state court, saying that his plea had triggered double jeopardy and his state case should be dismissed.

The argument from Mr. Mangione's lawyers is likely going to delay the state case and lead to months of litigation between the parties. Any ruling Justice Caren makes on the issue could also lead to injury.

In state court, he is charged with second-degree murder, which carries a maximum sentence of 25 years to life, among other counts. Mr. Mangione has

pleaded not guilty to the state charges.

The Manhattan district attorney's office, led by Arlott L. Bragg, will fight to fight Mr. Mangione's while property estate to prevent the state case. In a statement on Friday, the office said state prosecutors have been preparing to win a conviction against Mr. Mangione.

"While federal sentencing is pending, we are prepared to litigate the state case motions," the statement said.

In a statement released on Friday after the plea, Mr. Thompson's family acknowledged pending state against Mr. Mangione in New York and Pennsylvania, saying "we will continue to seek the Justice Brian donerves."

Legal experts said Mr. Bragg's office might be able to rescue the

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state case — or portions of it — asing an exception to New York's law where they could argue their case is meant to address a very different kind of harm from the federal case.

If Mr. Mangione's efforts to dismiss his state case fail, the federal court hearing on Friday could affect his state trial, said Barry Kamine, a defense lawyer and former New York state judge. "His admission of guilt in federal court would be admissible against him in state court," Mr. Kamine said.

What happened before the plea?

In the days after Mr. Thompson's killing, and with before Mr. Mangione's arrest, the case had staged into nationwide frustrations on dealings with health insurance companies. While the killing led to horror and grief, some others be-

Luigi Mangione's lead lawyer, Karen Friedman Agrellis, has argued that dead state and federal charges against Mr. Mangione violate his protections against double jeopardy.

gan roaring for the gunman in credit capture.

In the nearly two years since Mr. Mangione's arrest, his supporters have attended court hearings, stated funds for his legal defense and sent items to the federal and wharfier to being held. Mr. Mangione's lawyers created a motion for him with instructions on how to contact him.

Initially, Mr. Bragg's office charged Mr. Mangione with two terrorism charges saying that his actions were "intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population" and to "affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder." These charges were later dismissed by the judge.

In federal court, prosecutors said they would seek the death penalty against Mr. Mangione, at the time of the announcement, the then attorney General, Pam Reath, said the "murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America."

The death penalty charge, along with another firearms charge, was later dismissed in federal court.

But after Mr. Mangione's plea on Friday, the head of the federal prosecutor's office in Manhattan, James M. McDonald, said Mr. Mangione's actions were to "draw public attention to his dislike of certain businesses."

"But we live in a civilized society, governed by the rule of law," he said, adding, "There can be no celebrity in assassination."

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bility that a member of Congress could be profiting from the job has become per-innually toxic.

Roughly a quarter of legislators on Capitol Hill have traded individual stocks this term, with some buying and selling millions of dollars in shares. Since the start of this term in January 2025, members and their families have collectively traded $100 million to $800 million in individual stocks, according to a New York Times analysis of data collected from members' required financial filings by 242 Research, an analytics firm.

An overwhelming majority of voters in both parties view stock trading by lawmakers with great suspicion and say they support barring them from doing so. The public has been hashed efforts by members of both parties, so far unsuccessful, to enact new legislation banning the practice.

In the meantime, both ideas are leveraging the issue in the fight for control of Congress.

Democrats and Republicans alike are taking an outspoken incumbent trade, particularly those where they can show the appearance of a conflict of interest, and put them at the forefront of ads and campaign attacks in the country's most competitive districts. It is a way to portray their opponents on corrupt and out of touch with the financial realities of working-class Americans.

In Northern New Jersey's competitive Seventh Congressional District, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has been targeting Representative Thomas H. Kane Jr. for continuing to trade stocks while missing more than 500 votes during an individual absence for what he later said was intau-ness for depression. Mr. Kane's office did not respond to a request for comment.

In Virginia, Democrats are attacking Representative Rob Wittman for trading more than $2.5 million in stocks between 2015 and 2023 while serving as Congress — including buying defense stocks like Lockheed Martin and Honeywell while serving on the tax and services Committee.

"There's a vicious cycle in Washington: Politicians trade stocks in the industry they're supposed to regulate, then protect those industries instead of you," said the captain with a campaign video that his opponent, Shannon Tucker, a prosecutor, post冻结 with the New York congressional stock trading — for good!

Los outside group supporting Rob Wittman apparently views this line of attack as effective. Last week, a league running an ad highlighting the issue of a watered-down stock trading bill that passed the House in July, noting that he voted to put an end in the "growl and car-ordered" of "far car lawmakers".) Mr. Wittman's office did not respond to a request for comment.

Olivia Starr and Andrea Fuller contributed reporting.

Page: Cagnotti, the Democratic mayor of Trenton, has targeted the stock trading of Representative Rob Brownsham Jr., Republican of Pennsylvania, as she tries to unseat him. A large majority of voters support barring the practice.

Republicans have also identified the issue as resonant with their voters.

In New York's competitive Third Congressional District on Lung Island, Michael J. LiFerr, Jr., a Republican former state snowstiferous, majority attacks the Democrat he is running to unseat, Representative Tom Sanzti, for "the millions he's pocketed from stock trading in Congress." Mr. Sanzti made nearly 400 stock trades involving 681 companies totaling as much as $24 million when he served in Congress between 2017 and 2023, according to public filings. In 2023, he faced an ethics investigation for hal-

ing to report about 500 stock trades in the required 45-day window. The House Ethics Committee later observed that after concluding that it was not a willful violation, he is mistaken. A spokeswoman for Mr. Sanzti said all the questions were made at the discretion of his broker, without his direct input. She added that he has stopped purchasing stock altogether since returning to Congress in 2024, although he has with some.

And in Nevada, Marty O'Donnell, a Trump-endorsed Republican running against Representative Susie Lee, a Democrat, often highlights Mr. Lee's

stock trades, claiming that the "the million her office to enrich herself with information the rest of us don't have." He has pledged that "entire Susie, I will not trade stocks while representing Nevada to Congress." Mr. Lee, who was married to the chief executive of Full House Butters, which operates nation facilities, has sold up to $2.8 million worth of stock since her divorce in 2024.

A spokeswoman for Ms. Lee said that all trades made before her divorce were executed by a money manager or her ex-husband. Since the divorce, Ms. Lee "re-strued stocks as part of her divorce un-

derent and committed to divesting from them, which involves the selling of individual stocks in order to invest in other allowable instruments, like E.T.V. and mutual funds," the spokeswoman said, referring to exchange-traded funds.

In one instance where a former lawmaker is running for her old seat, an incumbent is trying to use the attack that is typically employed by a challenge.

Representative Jen Kiggans, Republican of Virginia, frequently accuses her opponent, former Representative Elaine Luria, of "insider stock trading" during her that move to Congress. Ms. Kiggans's campaign did not point to any relevance of insider trading, which is illegal, when asked about the allegations.

Instead, the campaign highlighted Ms. Lee's position in the "re-strued stock trading" aimed stock trading has (she now supports one), and it voted that Ms. Luria owns between $3 million and $25 million in NYOUS stock, which she had when received for a $200 billion natural or policy bill enacted in 2022 that provided time of billions of dollars for nonconduction operations.

A spokesman for Ms. Luria dismissed Ms. Kiggans's attacks as "live," and said that the bill in question did not increase her stock value. "Elaine supports handling congressional stock trading and preventing politicians from using their public office for private gain," he said.

The campaign-trad focus comes on House Republicans have recently pushed through a bill that would impose some restrictions on lawmakers who trade stocks, but stops short of a more stringent ban backed by a bipartisan coalition. Representative Hickman Jeffress, member of New York and the minority leader, has promised to bring the bipartisan alternative to the floor if Democrats win control on the House next year.

Donald K. Sherman, the chief executive of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a Democratic-aligned watchdog group, said it was not according to one the attacks on the practice coming from both political parties, because the issue is more subtle than some others in government.

"You don't need to be an ethics expert in understand it," Mr. Sherman said. "An individual member of Congress can have an impact on a stock price, whether it's tough questions at a hearing or an oversight hearing or confirmation of a particular subject."

Former Representative Tom Malmonds, Democrat of New Jersey, whose political career ended in part because he did not properly disclose shares of stock trading to the board would be little to address for more serious issues that have routed the public's trust in political leaders. "Stock trading by members of Congress should be banned, but it's still a very poor substitute for attacking the real sources of corruption in Washington: unlimited daily money and Trump's blatant selling of the presidency," Mr. Malmonds said in an interview. "These are significantly bigger problems. But candidates have seized air it as an all-purpose explanation for corruption."

For 5 Biggest Stock Traders in Congress, Millions Are Wagered

By OLIVIA HALE

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on both sides of the state are facing increasing voter pressure to ban congressional stock trading, a practice that has long grown in millions of ability to profit from their access to market-moving information in the individual meetings.

The first time the number of legislators on Capitol Hill have traded individual stocks this term, with some buying and selling millions of dollars in shares. Since the start of this term in January 2025, members and their families have collectively traded $100 million to $800 million in individual stocks, according to a

New York Times analysis of data collected from members' required financial filings by 242 Research, an analytics firm.

Members are required to disclose their trades, but instead of declaring precise values, they report their trades in broad ranges, making it difficult to determine with precision how much stock they bought and sold.

A law passed in 2012, the STOCK Act, emphasizes that insider trading is illegal among lawmakers, as it is for the general public, and requires them to periodically disclose trades of shares held by them and members of their families. Existing

laws do not prohibit lawmakers from trading individual stocks and do little in terms of information. Critics of the system's state research program, candidates' interest and leaves open the possibility of members profiting from knowledge about legislation and nonpublic committee briefings.

Over the years, members of both parties have introduced little crafting down on congressional stock trading, with some proposals more stringent than others. Last month, the House general legislation issued the ability of members, their spouses and their dependents to trade individual stocks, though it would

allow lawmakers to keep the shares they already own and carry out exemptions for trusts and some other assets.

Nearly all Democrats are being told after Republicans added an unstained measure requiring voters to present photo identification in federal elections. So prosperous the Senate are uncertain.

There are the first questions that have disclosed the largest individual stock trades made by them and their families, according to the Times analysis, based on the maximum dollar amount of their transactions reported, since the start of this term on Jun. 3, 2025, through early August.

Representative Ms. Khanna Democrat of California

Mr. Khanna's family traded shares—a second at about $24 million to $167 million, according to the Times analysis.

The representative, first elected in 2016, disclosed that his family has traded about 1,500 times this term, the data reported as of Aug. 12 shows.

Mr. Khanna has said that he supported one version of a congressional ban, and that neither he nor his family directly make trades. His office declined to comment for this article but pointed to previous instances in which he has explained that his family's finances are handled by outside advisers.

"My household's only investments are held in a diversified trust my in-loves set up before marriage for my wife and children, who spent independently in a third-party trustee," he wrote in a May newsletter.

Under some proposals for stricter trading limits, members and their families would have to divide their future trusts. The House bill that passed in July, which Mr. Khanna voted against, served out as exemption for them. Most proposals have some exemptions for family trusts.

Andrea Fuller contributed reporting.

Representative Nancy Pelosi Democrat of California

The former speaker has reported trades of shares valued at nearly $10 million to about $84 million across 17 transactions since the beginning of this congressional session. Paul Pelosi, Mr. Pelosi's husband and a woman captaunt, owns each of the stocks traded. Two 2025 sales in particular were valued at a combined $10 million to $50 million in Apple stock.

A spokesman for Ms. Pelosi said in a statement that she "does not want stocks and has no knowledge or subsequent involvement in any transactions."

The "Pelosi Tracker" app has for years lagged Mr. Pelosi's investments and achieved its users in states his trades. Republicans in Congress have long singled up Ms. Pelosi for criticism for her family's investments.

After initial hesitation, Ms. Pelosi said in recent years that she would support a congressional ban on stock trading. In 2024, she voted against the partisan House bill.

Representative Michael McCaul Republican of Texas

Mr. McCaul's family bought and sold 50,\n4\n$24 million and $75 million in individual stocks since January 2025, over the course of more than 1,000 transactions. All individual stock trades discontinued by Mr. McCaul came from his spouse, Linda Mary McCaul, according to the data. Mr. McCaul's lawyer, Ethan Burke, said in a statement that a third-party manager makes the purchase behind Mr. Mary McCaul's direction.

One of Ms. Mary McCaul's largest trades occurred last June when she sold between $300,000 and $3 million worth of shares in Florida, the California-based chip-making giant.

In July, Mr. McCaul voted in support of the House bill prohibiting the purchase of new individual stocks. Mr. Pelosi's elected to the House in 2016, in retiring at the end of his term and is not up for re-election to his Austin-area district.

Senator Alan Armstrong Republican of Oklahoma

Mr. Armstrong traded about 50 million to $41 million worth of shares across nearly 50 individual trades.

He was appointed to the Senate in March after Redemarva Walkin resigned to become the new individual security secretary. A former energy executive, Mr. Armstrong made the bulk of his trades during the week he was sworn in, the data shows.

At the time of his appointment, Mr. Armstrong led the board of directors at Williams Companies, a giant natural gas pipeline operator based in Tulsa, Okla. In June, Mr. Armstrong and his spouse sold between $5 million and $25 million in Williams stock, according to a financial data.

The senator's office said in a statement on Friday that the trades stemmed from its lead line. Mr. Armstrong had no discussion over his spokeswoman noted that Mr. Armstrong had an annual salary of $75,000, which was making a session, and is now making a fraction of that.

"The focus should be on the risks that have both wealth while making a salary of $75,000 per year," his spokeswoman wrote, referring to the allotred compensation for most members of Congress.

Mr. Armstrong will leave the Senate at the end of his term in January.

Representative Jefferson Shreve Republican of Indiana

Mr. Shreve is a bedroom member, traded between $10 million and nearly $42 million worth of shares through about 500 trades in 2025. The office of Mr. Shreve, who had run a company that built storage facilities across the Midwest, says last year that he would stop trading individual stocks. The data shows that neither he nor his family has traded individual stocks since then.

The 2025 sales after a report by the publication NOTUS revealed that Mr. Shreve had made over 500 stock trades worth millions in the days after President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from many U.S. trading partners. Mr. Shreve's chief of staff, Jeff Bishop, said on Thursday that trading companies would obtain a new managed by a third party, which the representative set up to make charitable donations.

Mr. Shreve voted in support of the House's Republicanled Bill honoring stock trading.

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How the G.O.P. Could Squander Its Antiwoke Condition

Gregory Cortti and Aaron Sibarum

An Gorki is an associate professor of politics at Princeton University. Mr. Sibarum is a staff writer at The Washington Free Beacon.

OVER the years, Republicans have participated Democracy as heholders to be spoke identities (they/them), obviously with an alleged genocide (Gaza) and in detail in anti-American revisionists (see the effects to re-enter our national narrative on slavery).

We are critics of diversity, equity and inclusion programs who largely agree with that characterization. We believe the Republicans' war or wish-but-minds America a fairer, safer place by checking some of the worst excesses of modern progressivism, from antiwoke discrimination to corporate America to biological men competing in women's sports.

But we are also concerned that the backlash is morphing into something darken, slumber and ultrasonic self-defeating. Today the right has begun to resemble its depiction of health. There are no normal identities like heritage American, status of white genocide in South Africa and arguments from right-wing influencers that the Allies weren't the good guys in World War II.

The rise of this so-called wider right is sometimes blamed on the ability of pediculous and online screamers to circumvent official G.O.P. messaging. But a also reflects the way the Republican Party transdermed in reaction to the wake on, moving further to the right for fact and gender and facing its immune response to genuine cranies.

In practice, antiindoorism has eroded in boss against open bigotry in a party that is losing 1-aimer about of the 2018 millennium. It has made a harder to frame the G.O.P. in the moderate spines in a year when candidates who have called for defending the police are winning Democratic primaries. And it has widened the gap between the two parties, leaving less views for a view in the culture war.

Some liberals may sniff at the notion that a trans-war-ever possible with what they use as a backward Republican Party that is not yet and wrote to its core. But that argument is lethal by the party's response to the progressivism of the late 2010s, with which the G.O.P. nearly made sense.

This was an era when Donald Trump issued a presidential proclamation for Pride Month and condemned laws limiting heliomom across for transgender people. These included bathroom bills were widely seen as a dead-end after North Caruthers' short-lived experiment with one in 2016. The law triggered widespread backlash, a corporate beyond and the eventual downfall of the state's Republican governor, with polls showing that a majority of Americans opposed similar measures. Even then DeKastin backed away from the laws during his campaign for governor of Florida, staring in 2016 that 'getting into the heliomom wars' was not 'a good one of our time.'

But by 2021 — around the time that woke-ness peaked — the political incentives had begun to flip. That was the year that the transgender revolution, La Chamaute, was a wanney, N.C.A.A., championship after switching from the men's train to the women's and the year The New York Times published a major article on the growing con-

cerns around puberty blockers. It was also when support for mass restrictions began rising significantly, with nearly 80 percent of Americans (including 67 percent of Democrats) in a 2015 Ipsos poll saying that biological men do not belong in women's sports.

What changed, in other words, were the facts in the ground. The Republican Party responded organically to a shift in public opinion, which was itself a response to a more assertive form of transgender activism — one whose definition of inclusion seemed to compromise basic notions of fairness. Once regarded as a political afternoon, bathroom bills are now on the books in 21 states.

A similar dynamic drove the right's dwindling tolerance for affirmative action and D.E.I. The first Trump administration allowed affirmative action to federal contracting and only sporadically targeted D.E.I. programs in the private sector. But as race and gender preferences became more overt and widespread, so did the grievances of being white men, who saw their professional opportunities diminish.

When men went from 20 percent of non-ure-track humanities positions at Harvard in 2014 to 21 percent in 2024, from 56 percent

The right's reluctance to reject open bigotry may be its undoing.

of Amazon middle company in 2011 to 31 in 2024 and from over 50 percent of American medical students in 2014 to 19 in 2025.

The G.O.P. responded by starting a searcher's health campaign against D.E.I. And white men, in turn, began flocking to the G.O.P. In 2013, 35 percent of white men ages 18 to 29 identified as Republicans. By 2024, the number had shot up in 36 percent, with most of the increase happening after 2021. Mr. Trump was 56 percent of young men in 2024, compared with just 41 percent in 2020 — a 15-point jump in one election cycle. He made inroads with Black and Latino men as well, improving his margin with the latter group by 35 points compared with 2020.

The trouble for the G.O.P. is that the party is becoming more diverse at a moment when the right is losing to will to ganshung open bigotry. Frustrated by the suppression of malnutrition, some-eighty views, conservatives increasingly reject as causal cultures may public repudiation of genuinely fringe ideas, creating a subculture of racism, unison and overestimation that did not exist to the same degree even five years ago.

The change was evident in the way 2D Vance defended a staff member at Elon

Moefa (Department of Government Efficiency, Mobile Elec, who had been fired for racist social media posts, including one that read, 'Normalize Indian hate'. The war eventually reinstated.) It was also visible in the Heritage Foundation's refusal to cut ties with Taylor's (before after the softball interview with Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier who has tailed the 'white people are every single bit justified in being racist' and coined the phrase 'your body, my choice.'

The Heritage Foundation didn't become the backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people,' he president, Kevin Roberts, said. 'I disagree with and even abhor things that Nick Fuentes says, but canceling him is not the answer, either.'

In these and other cases, conservatives framed wages (selling as a legitimate corrective to cancel values), laundering prejudice as principle and keeping for right figures in the hall. There was comparatively little appetite to defend those who ran ahead of social sensitivities during the first Trump administration, which in 2010 fired a speechwriter, Darren Roberts, for attending a conference two years earlier at which white nationalists were present. (He now occupies a senior role in the State Department.)

The agreement, whether the Americans to ganshung will become for Republicans what wokeness became for the Democracy: an impulse that fractures the coalition it was meant to enter. Most voters alarmed by D.E.I. and gender ideology did not sign up for white nationalism when they voted for Mr. Trump in 2015 — just as most voters alarmed by Mr. Trump did not sign up for open leaders when they voted for Joe Biden in 2015.

This has put the Republican in a kind going into the 2020 millennium. On the one hand, Republicans would be foolish to abandon the culture war when candidates like Daniels (as extra liberals) — a phone-trick socialist who in the past called to abolish prisons, hardest and the public — are winning Democratic primaries. On the other hand, such left-wing victories may reinforce the revsessions and sense of stage that have made Republicans unwilling to clamp down on their own radicals, often at the expense of the colorblind values they officially propose.

To forward the results, the right will need to cross the firewall between antiwokeiness, which is more than justified by progressive exness, and actually bigotry, which is not. We doubt a certain antitrain will be constructed in the most term, since it would require a re-pudiation of the same means that the right ethos, which has yet to cost the G.O.P. as much as wokeiness ultimately cost the Democrats. But it may seem, The danger is that the G.O.P. will create in the seen on the mirror image of left-wing identity politics, causing antiwoke swing voters to defect from the coalition.

Such defections would be a brutal blow in a party that has despite Mr. Trump's sugging popularity, kept endemic polls reasonably close, and it would deny Republicans the opportunity to supplicate on the democratic socialist stage in their opponents' ranks, which has resurrected many of the most in-people ideas of the early years of this decade.

Republicans have a chance to keep that insurgency a leg, but only if they avoid the Democracy' mistakes.

America Is Putting an End to the Great Scam on the High Seas

Peter Navarro

An assistant to President Trump and the senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.

THE redfeet really is made in Vietnam. The plant, just north of Ho Chi Minh City, is high — it's got thousands of workers making real fortunes. The motor inside the redfeet is another story.

The motor arrives from China finished, branded and leased, shipped by the container load from factory in the same corporate family as the furniture maker. Workers either a and both it into the redfeet. Within 90 days the redfeet nails from Vang Tsa and lands at Van Sals, Va, where the Chinese mechanism is declared in Vietnam on. If the paper work holds, that 'Made in Vietnam' takes scams 25 percentage points of American tariff that would otherwise be levied.

It is not an isolated case. Or Thursday, the White House released a report documenting the great transshipment state: a shadow network of more than 40 countries enabling sleight of hand to deserve American consumers and customs officials about where those countries' experts really originate. In the process, the United States will be rolling the United States of one of billions of dollars 4-year and countries manufacturing jobs.

Transshipment is driven by tariff arbitrage: When a private from one country faces a stigma (i.e. tax, taxes, and from another country, the difference becomes a profit agreement, and even a business model in its own right.

Ship 10 billion of Chinese goods straight to the American port, and the ship's own several hundred million dollars. Send the identical goods through Vietnam, Malaysia or Thailand, and most of that bill disappears. Send them through Mexico wearing U.S. Mexico, Canada, and the US. We are that they have not served, and the bill can disappear entirely.

Free independent analyses — two government, three private — have estimated the scale of illegal transshipment from China. Goldman Sachs puts it near $40 billion a year.

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The White House Council of Economic Advisors estimate lands around $60 billion; the Commerce Department, measuring the amount to which imports of products previously taxed on coming from China have been replaced by imports of the same products from other countries, says $87 billion, the software company Exigen; working from shipment-level data, estimates (US billion), and Atlanta, a company that tracks global supply chains, measuring total expenses, goes the figure at $165 billion.

These analyses use different data, screens and definitions, but they all point to happiness for U.S. manufacturers as well as huge losses for the U.S. Treasury. The human toll is even more stark.

A Chinese motor that leaves the Guanajuato-Quietham corridor labeled as Mexican is a motor not built in Detroit, Indianapolis or Grand Rapids, Mich. A Chinese switch that leaves Ho Chi Minh City as Vietnamese is a

switch not made in Chicago, Milwaukee or Rockford, Ill. A Chinese pump that leaves Puno as Indiana a pump not purchased in Cincinnati, Daytona or Louisville, and the other making these products in all those other countries represent insured livelihoods for workers across the United States.

Meters, switches, pumps, transformers and the mine that includes more may not sound as important as the latest digital technology, but wait until a pandemic breaks a supply chain, a war interrupts shipping or a foreign government turns commercial depositions into strategic leverage.

That's why our newest trade agreements go beyond the traditional country-of-origin question. The agreements prevent a country that even never tariffs from the United States from coming that advantage can be a more country's experts. And unlike some prior agreements, the new ones are backed with real muscle.

Preferential access to the U.S. market is not a license to launder somebody else's exports.

A recent executive order from President Trump targets the wackeiness transshipper's explicit shell companies with no U.S. assets, opaque ownership structures, importers that post our little refinered to cover tariffs and repeat relations that disastrous and reopen under a new name.

In addition, Customs and market Protection is establishing a new artificial intelligence-enabled inspection system, called Detective Restles, that will soon be able to assess transshipment risk in every ship leaving every port carrying cargo based for the United States.

The message to higher-tariff countries is straightforward: Do not conceal a product's status of freight or create a fraudulent paper trail through a lower-tariff country. The way to pay lower tariffs is to fix the conduct that earned you high tariffs in the first place: Reduce the trade barriers you have erected against U.S. products, stop dumping your state-subsidized excess manufacturing capacity on our shares, request intellectual property and move unused reciprocity.

The message to lower-tariff countries is equally clear: Preferential access to the American market is not a license to launder somebody else's exports.

Unscrupulous exporters are always going to try to no-talk high tariffs if detected is slow and penalties are manageable. The calculation changes, however, when shipments are risk-taking, the U.S. government does importers have real assets and bonds on the list, when reopen offenders can have access to the market and when stronger rules of origin close the back door.

The U.S. has also found to distort its producers, which have suffered through decades of their foreign-independent deceptive practices.

A country that cannot make essential investment investment has not merely lost factories; it has handed foreign suppliers leverage over its economy and its defense industry at least. It's time to end the transshipment design and to start the next chapter of American manufacturing.

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A.I. Will Affect Your Social Life, Sex, Yours.

Alice Lasaman

An acronym of the author of The Intimacy Economy on Samanta

USED all my savings to buy myself a J&H if I couldn't find found just short of my 15th birthday. Many of my memories dislike from there: the portal to my formative experiences, the flatters of a first crush, the lost text sent after our breakup. I learned unanswered enough answers. I learned danger through screechdom. Like many! One Z-era, I am my failed! take as stress and I am my more active man! worldly. For most people my age, one of those tabs is after a chatter.

When I write about artificial intelligence and intimacy, people tend to imagine A.I. girlfriends or lack fanatics. Only successes would use chatbots to manage their social and emotional lives, or so the thinking goes. But its conversations with other Gen Z-era, I've found the young people writing emotionally on A.I. since fans we realize. That subtly changes our relationships, even with people who have never touched A.I. When a flood of synthetic support across the world or those accustomed, it distorts our emotional lives to intimacy and makes everyone a little louder.

So writing a book about A.I. and relationships, I inter-viewed people in their 20s and 30s across the United States and Europe about how they are changing. I found them through research calls, follow-ups with readers, friends of friends. They let me into the most intimate corners of their psyches, I was sometimes the only person they'd ever said about their chatter.

Despite speaking to chatbots every day, most of them also maintained full social lives, and in many ways A.I. enriched them focused interviewers told me that it helped

Chatbots distort our mechanisms for intimacy and make everyone louder.

them think about their relationships more clearly and deliberately. But it also began to form the scaffolding of their consequential decision-making, encouraging, breaking down existing arguments that the chatbot had decided weren't worth their time. 'Of its more rational and less emotional, I'm doing good!' Lenoft Stinch, a 21-year-old in Germany, told me. A.I. had allowed him to make more clear-minded decisions. But he has described me trying to strip emotion from his relationships entirely.

Another interviewee, a 27-year-old from Britain, said he used A.I. as 'an alternative Google search' for his personal life, with the power to remember a sequence of emotion the next time he feels it. He felt more comfortable taking his feelings to ChatGPT before sharing them with another person. He cannot thought on to me suddenly, friends, are there for lightness and laughter.

Synthesis intimacy creates vital connections call negative externalities — hidden costs that fall out on the person making the choice but on the relationships that are changed, over as slightly, around you. Mike Jeffries, a psychotherapeut of 14 years, told me that he doesn't share the same challenge, ing emotions with his friends that he doesn't wish A.I. He prefers to do his spiritual and emotional processing alone. 'Who can and will be truthful, hold upon and let conquer. I'm not in a challenging subconscious context?' he asked.

Intimacy is accumulated through unpeated acts of exposure — touch, feelings, ideas, trust. It is the capital of human con- tions, and it is the power to see another that we are seen, understood and satisfying time a chatter performs a substitute

'I understand you' or 'I think this decision feels most you,' the words we have all come to rely on to convey human meaning are slightly cheapened, made slightly less human.

It's easy not to notice our friends withdrawing, intimacy A.I. interventions are not uncommon. Nearly two-thirds of adolescents who use chatbots said they were searching, primarily for friendship or advice, according to a recent survey. But for good A.I. use is often considered taboo. On 24-year-old I spoke to was afraid that the recant of her Claude saw would 'freak out' the

my friends' conversations. One friend issued me after he had some home from a good date, for once, elated and desperate to share it with someone. With his information asleep, he pruned his chatter. 'Be my chairman after I've just come home from this date.' I quickly loved him and I had to be on me. But if I hadn't, that conversation would have strengthened his connection to Claude instead, of our friendship's expense.

Two real-budget media evidence our existing social equilibrium. Once smartphones entered the frog, being in a friend group meant being constantly responsible, a good

guy else was seeing. After they broke up, she created an A.I. version of him to better understand their breakup. 'It's a processing and an intimacy. I'm not in a confidence having told nobody else in her life — so she could find closure on her own terms. If the attention economy of the 300m made intimate life feel constantly public, the intimacy of the 300m' produced the opposite: relationships with one's own chatter, one's by no one else.

A.I. has become a kind of social sealant, filling the gaps in young people's relationships: reaching men to plan dates that can renounce their rivals, exploring words of confidence, our French couldn't quite find. Lately, it's stopped being so invisible. 'So my A.I. told me . . .' is now a casual part of

ticipant in group chats. A.I. hasn't altered our communication, but it may be changing what we communicate. Now that there's a bad relationship to smooth and demanding the bumpiness of our thoughts, we find ourselves being a little less self-loved with one another, a little less vulnerable.

I don't see Claude for my personal life. She has seen Gen Z-era, I've been overnight late in its temptations that I think I am. My phone has always been a part of me. Like a cyberg, I can't remember a time when a event attached to my person, an extension of chords of my brain, took a safety into my pocket. Young people are digital natives, or even the influence of the feelings have led to this little device of ours. Our friendships may suffer for it.

LETTERS

A Civil Debate About the Civil War

TO THE EDITOR: Re 'Don't Call It the Civil War,' by Anthony Convergite (Opinion given essay, Aug. 7):

The American Civil War has been given many names: the Civil War, the War Between the States, the War of the British Men, the War of Northern Aggravates and, in Mr. Convergite's speech, the War of the British Rebellion, We could say the war, do Pennsylvania against Virginias or Northermen against Southermen or shall be better against the British, But it is better to say it [of American against American — and that is what makes a civil war.

Consider Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction in the conflict in the Cartycling Address: 'First more and never more, age our nation's brought power on this continent is ever nation, concerned in theory and dedicated in the preparation that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in the nation's war, issuing whether that nation, or any nation as consortia and so dedicated, can long endure.'

The Civil War was a war for the soul of the United States. To the Confederates, the United States was a vehicle of state sovereignty — even if the United States had been able to do so and equality through slavery. To the Colonists, the states had given up that sovereignty in order to safeguard the liberty of their people. The Union's victory transformed the federal government into a shield of the several states to a shield of the people of the United States. Calling this conflict the Civil War does not feed into Lost Cause narratives or legitimate the secessionist 'cause bodies; a acknowledging the conflict's complexity and impact. Civil War is not a rhetorical dimension, but the rightful name for a bloody conflict between Americans over the meaning of the

EVAN CARLISLE, AUSTIN. TEXAS

TO THE EDITOR:

Anthony Convergite's argument makes sense. In addition, naming the conflict-fed Slavetкой yet' Rebellion captures the war's unique nature. Many countries have the civil wars for many reasons — but the United States is the only place in the American, and perhaps the world, that had one that began because endowment wanted to protect slavery.

Our war of 1881 to 1885 is a warview, if radiantoreg, example of American exceptional use.

JAMES E. STROULER

FOUNDING: The writer is the author of the forthcoming book 'Let Us Die in Male Men Free. American Slavery and Civil War in Global Perspective.'

TO THE EDITOR:

As a consequence of my father's military service during World War II, I attended school

to several places in the mid-1940s, in the 10th grade, in a city south of the Macon. Dixon (on, I learned a great deal about the War Between the States, in the 16th grade north of that line, I diligently studied the Civil War.

I was puzzled for some time by the apparent personalism of the war. The age of the war was between those two wars. Eventually, a dinner-table conversation with my parents proved much more educational than all of the civil war in time.

JON C. LIEBMAN, URBANA, ILL.

TO THE EDITOR:

I grew up in Virginia in the early 1960s. The literary book I read in the my public school was a series of short Magazine of the chapter on the war that it was under no circumcision to be called the Civil War. It was the 'War Between the States', that was the 'War of the British', in my experience and reading then, furthermore found in a being called the Civil War.

I was about 20 percent of the white, and it was very much owned slaves, but the war was also widely suggested by those who did not own slaves. The making of most of the South-All services reflected them.

As Ulysses. It came as famously worse in his memory, he felt as my upon the Confederate surrender at Aggravates because he felt that the war, who fought so valiantly for a cause that was 'one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the most ensues.'

Racism ran deep throughout the white South, as the Roman American more than ample proved. It was not just the shareholder's condition. It was a Southern rebellion in support of white supremacy.

CHRIS SMITH, WASHINGTON

The writer is the author of history and words on during the Civil War.

The Red Scare Play

TO THE EDITOR:

Re 'The New Tonic Trump Thame Will Help 'more.' (The Opinion, written, June, July 22). I find the idea of resourcing the Red Scare a nonourcer for a Republican political campaign for the same reason: 'Societal' worked so poorly for the Democrats in 2024.

Ten many Americans do not follow politics the way those of us accused of living in families do. Not enough Americans know what distinguished men claim from communism. Not enough Americans have enough engagement in public affairs to allow any serious form of party action.

Finally, kickless table issues are far more salient than most political ideas.

KEN EIKIR, PITTSBURGH

Don't Dismiss Trump's Peace Plan for Gaza

Muhammad Shehada

A Palestinian activist and a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

A FTIR film novelist of daunting ragged snows with President Trump's Board of Peace, Hassan agreed last month to be a final map under which a real-time armed Palestinian groups would do commission their own weapons. The give up security control in Gaza, Hassan also agreed to stop down from governing Gaza and accept a relinquishment from international coalition, too far to return. Israel would hold powerless, withdrawn its troops from Gaza and allow the devastated outcurs to be rebuilt.

Hassan's agreement represented a fragile opportunity to break out of an otherwise un-tractable deadlock. The rejection of the plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel this month is a setback for Israel's new war in the 1960s. The United States' Palestinian in Gaza who were relief from the crisis and painful conditions reported by Israel. It is the latest example of Israel's inability to say yes.

There is a narrow variation in pressure to run to change its mind and look to Hamas's competence. Once Hamas's disarming and Israel's withdrawal took place, it would become impossible for Hamas to escape. The war was made in the 1960s, and by Mr. Netanyahu a power to collapse the deal and resume Israel's military campaign.

In reporting the peace plan, Mr. Netanyahu said Israel would not begin to withdraw from the war, but it was employed their disarmament. But Hamas is unlikely to accept that. It believes it would lose all leverage in the negotiations, and it may have difficulty persuading its entire rank and position. The war is not a decision to, because it is, instead of it phases, without something in return.

One sign Hamas might be serious about giving up its weapons is that, aside from an

alleged incident of a side projectile being fired and landing inside Gaza itself, it and other armed groups have apparently not fired a rocket at Israel since the original cause the took effect to thinker. They have shown this restraint despite the fact that Israel has killed over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza in that time, including Hamas's top military leaders.

This unusual holding back could very well indicate that Hamas has better catch-all to play. Armed resistance in Gaza has reached its third and has exhausted the in-tremble that sustained it. Will before the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas's history broke, both of a Israel, all mixed as much in 2020, according to a federal phase conversation. 'Frankly, armed resistance failed to create change,' he said. 'The resistance presented heroic examples and fought honorable wars, but the blockade wasn't broken, the political reality didn't change and none of the land was like men.'

When Hamas fired hundreds of improved properties on Israel in 2021, purportedly to deter Israel's escalation in East Jerusalem, Shabib, Jarrad and the West Bank, a cause-fire was reached, only to result in a sharp escalation of Israel's military raids and better tolerate in the West Bank. The years 2022 and 2023 became two of the deadlock on record in the West Bank.

The Oct. 7 attack failed to again the 10s, man leader Yahya Iskwar's dream of a mid-ribbon war in which Israel would be overwhelming in assaults from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Yemen, along with the last 10s, and the last 10s, and the 10s, and the 10s, and the 10s, and the 10s, and the 10s, and the 10s, and the 10s, and the 10s, and the 10s, and the 10s, and the 10s, and the 10s, and the 10s, and the 10s, and the 10s, and the 10s.

Preliminary factures such as Hamas, which defined themselves for decades by the ideology of armed resistance, have been leading for a face-saving way out, figures close to Hamas have told me. Hamas leaders are a blackout of Israel, and the need for sending the message that Gazaans have done their part in contributing to the Palestinian cause and paid the heaviest price, and should now be allowed to recover and pay.

Whether messaging is crucial to avoid intricates made in other denominating experiences, like in Colombia, where a significant number of former FARC militants should and joined cannot or cannot be gangs. For example, disarming for a group debated in armed resistance must be framed as a transition, but the FARC TIAST is why the Board of Powers read map for Gaza into its event the operation of defeat, surrender or befitting of the right to arrest resistance by using the baggage of 'storing another State' destroying 'wings, can, and by placing a Palestinian police force in charge of the persons rather than Israel or other external parties.

A better idea needs to fill the vacuum created by suspending Palestinian armed resistance. The appeal of violence has not historically increased support for Hamas. Hamas benefited instead from the failure of nonviolent options or their undermining, whether against sex, protests, advocacy or legal pressure.

Northern Ireland's experience shows that denominations can eventually be successful only if it is coupled with a group of national prisoners, and it is a strong peace, in this case a credible path toward Palestinian self-determination and unintended. Mr. Trump's plan gestures toward this as a possibility in the mid-ribbon future, but that is not possible.

Mr. Netanyahu's insistence on Hamas's disarmament before any Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza is detached from reality.

Hamas looks serious about disarming, Israel should let it.

Israel's military path has been proven futile. After over two years pulverizing Gaza, with heaviest bombing than Dresden or Hamburg experienced during World War II, Israel has failed to destroy Hamas. As a nation's only an military group, found that only 7 percent were defeated militarily, while 42 percent defeated through a transition to a political process, dialogue and conversion to unarmed politics.

Israel's argument that the road map would allow Hamas to regroup for another Oct. 7 is a more racist rather than a serious assessment. Surprise was a decisive element in making the attack possible, not the superiority of the war. It is a major source of the world's most powerful militarism. As the Israeli journalist the Gostarz noted, it was more about 'the stupidity, arrogance and negligence of the Israel Army and government of the above sophistication and danger on the part of Hamas.' What are the chances of another Oct. 7 today when the surprise element is lost?

Mr. Netanyahu's disarmament is most likely to be a political survival ahead of Israeli elections. A group of Mr. Netanyahu's government ministers joined a march last month calling for the rebuilding of illegal settlements in Gaza. His defense minister, who has announced plans to build such settlements in Gaza and besgged, 'Tobby there is no dialogue, no ideology,' referring to the Gaza City neighborhood and Gaza city. 'All these terrible places that you must have their own.' That's why withdrawal or reconstruction would, for Mr. Netanyahu, constitute political suicide.

America's political leaders should not indulge Mr. Netanyahu's argument that he is committed by Israel's domestic politics. They should say: 'We, too, have domestic political power to be a political interest, and international standing to worry about, and we will not let you endanger them to save yourself from a reckoning with your people.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 2020

Tommy John, 83, Pitcher Whose 3rd Elbow Changed Baseball, Dies

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record in the National League.

On July 17, however, in the third inning of a game against the Montreal Expos, John threw a pitch to a hitter named Hal Browden.

"As I came forward and released the ball," he recalled in a 1981 season: "T.J.' My 36 Years in Baseball," written with Don Valenti, "I felt a kind of unthangness, as if my arm weren't there, then I found a 'pop' from inside my arm, and the ball just blasped up to the plate."

After years of wear and tear from hurting the baseball, John had sure the ulnar collateral ligament on the inside of his left elbow.

"The only thing holding my elbow together was the skin and the nerve running through the joint," he wrote. "The ligament was not in tow. The muscles on the inside of the arm were ripped loose and were sitting two inches out of place, toward my wrist. The ulnar nerve was badly bruised."

At the time, any surgery on the arm, the elbow or the shoulder of a pitcher was rare and career-threatening, and John's injury was so severe that his only hope of continuing in play was to undergo a procedure that had never been tried on a ballplayer.

The operation, performed by Dr Frank John on Sept. 25, 1974, consisted of replacing the ligament with a tendon

A lefty now synonymous with an operation that has saved countless careers.

graded from John's right wrist. Holes were shifted to the humerus and talus bones, above and below the elbow, and the tendon was wound through the holes in a figure 4-shape.

The doctor's uncertainty was whether the body would accept the new "elbow" or reject it. For John, the adult total question was whether a long and granting rehabilitation could return him to the mound — let alone in elite condition. (When he needed from surgery, John later wrote, Dr. John placed the chances of his pitching again at one in 1981.)

It took a year and half to answer these questions, but John pitched his first post-surgery game on April 30, 1979, and went on to win 10 games that season, and lose 10 as well, with a better-than-average 3.09 earned run average.

Vulcanated the Boston Man, he was named National League Comeback Player of the Year by The Sporting News and, as a religious Christian, he spent much of the off-season telling charity banquet audiences and civic organizations how God had helped him overcome the odds.

John followed his comeback year with his best seasons, and he won 164 games after receiving his new elbow. But the game was under 1984 a personal triumph. It became commonplace in baseball — in 2023, about a third of active major-league pitchers had undergone the procedure — and has saved dozens of careers, for both pitchers and position players.

While not all players return, or return at the same level, at least three Hall of Famers (Paul Malice, John Smets and Billy Wagner) had the operation, before numerous other stars, including Shahel Oltzen, Stephen Strasburg, Jacob deGroot, Chris Saks, Joan Carstens and Justin Verlander, deGroot, Verlander and Saks even won C y Young Awards after recovering.

The procedure, whose formal designation is ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction, swiftly became commonly known as Tommy John surgery.

Thomas Edward John Jr. was born in Terre Haute, Ind., on May 23, 1945, the second of two children of Thomas E. John Sr., a lineman for a utility company, and Ruth (Woods) John, who managed the home.

He played basketball as well as baseball for Greenwayer Technical High School in Terre Haute and was recruited by several college basketball parents, including the University of Kentucky. But he preferred baseball, and in 1981, at 15, he signed with the Cleveland Indians (new Guardians) organization and began his professional career in the low minor leagues in Dubuque, Iowa. Later in the 1963 season, he made his major-league debut.

He had a two-pitch main experience and lacked an outstanding football. His was usually choked between 10 and 87 miles per hour — a lot fit of a pitch, really, compared with a lot of the catches and above throws by many big leaguers.

But John's football had earned movement, a downward lads — a little spoke of it as a father — that caused hitters to swing above it and either runs or hit the top of the ball, resulting in a plethora of groundnuts.

Another pitch was a sweeping curve that caused left-handed batters to wave desperately at the ball as it ran away from them and surprised right-handers when it returned from the opposite basket I first to clip the outside corner on the way to the catcher.

"The Indians, however, were easy of his lack of a power pitch. Early Wynn, the Hall of Famer who won then the man's pitching match, encouraged him to develop a slider — a breaking pitch thrown harder than a curve, with a shorrel, sharper break. John adopted it, but throwing it frequently hurt the movement on his football.

The team quickly lost confidence in his promise and traded him to the Chicago White Sox. There he became a legitimate starter over seven up-and-down seasons. In 1971, the White Sox traded him to

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Tommy John with the Yankees in 1988. A revolutionary repair by Dr. Frank John allowed him to pitch into his mid-40s.

the Dodgers for the sluggier Dick Allen. In 1975, while John was recovering from his arm surgery, an arbitrator ruled that baseball's reserve clause, which contractually bound players to their teams as long the teams wanted them, should be invalidated, thus beginning the era of free agency. After the 1974 season, John tested the market and was signed by the Yankees.

His first two seasons in New York were stellar, but at 39 his talent began to decline, and in midseason 1982, the Yankees traded him to the California Angels. Tenenlough, he hung on for seven more seasons; in addition to the Angels, he pitched briefly for the Oakland A's in 1985 and returned to the Yankees in 1986.

For mediocre Yankee teams in 1987 and 1988 — and by then in his mid-40s — he started more than 30 games each year, going 23-11. His career ended the following May, when the Yankees re-leared him.

A four-time All-Star who played in three World Series (though he was never on a championship team) and three times led the American League in channels, John won 288 games overall — the second-league total for any pitcher not in the Hall of Fame, and more wins than many who are in the ball.

After his playing career ended, he worked as a television analyst, as a coach, in the front office for minor-league teams and as a motivational speaker. He

also came to criticize the ballooning — and, in his view, reckless — use of Tommy John surgery on increasingly hard-throwing pre-professional players; today, more than half of the surgeries are performed on teenagers.

John married Sally Simmons in 1970;

they were divorced in 2013. He married Cheryl Rinehan Zeldin in 2021. She survived and, as the three of his children from his first marriage, Tommy HJ, Truman and Tamara Mennedy; a sister, Marilyn Hyde; and two grandchildren. His son Taylor died in 1985, reportedly be

Jules in 2015. His pitches had relatively little power, but he succeeded with a striking baseball and a sweeping curve. Later, he criticized the use of Tommy John surgery on increasingly hard-throwing teens.

'Bionic Man' on the Mound

On July 17, 1974, Dodgers pitcher Tommy John felt excruciating pain in his elbow. On Sept. 25, John, a 21-year-old left-hander, underwent an unprecedented reconstruction procedure that is now known as Tommy John surgery. His career lasted until 1988, when he was 46.

STATISTICS BEFORE SURGERY

1985-74-12 (AIRBORNE)

124-106

WIN-LOSS RECORD

205 GAMES PITCHED

318 GAMES STARTED

71 COMPLETE GAMES

28 SHUTOUTS

2.07 E.P.A.

2,165% INNINGS PITCHED

633 WALKS

1,273 STRWEDUTS

STATISTICS AFTER SURGERY

1979-80-19 (AIRBORNE)

164-125

WIN-LOSS RECORD

405 GAMES PITCHED

302 GAMES STARTED

91 COMPLETE GAMES

18 SHUTOUTS

3.66 E.P.A.

2,544% INNINGS PITCHED

626 WALKS

972 STRWEDUTS

288

Career wins, second most for any pitcher since 1983; who is not in the Hall of Fame, Roger Clemens is first with 304 wins.

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Starts missed by John in the final 14 seasons of his career. (He had the No.)

5

Pitchers who have won a Cy Young Award after Tommy John surgery. Eric Gagne (2003), Jacob deGroot (2013) and 2019; Justin Verlander (2022), Tank Skulak (2024 and 2025) and Chris Saks (2024).

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Tommy John operations for Jonny Venters (2020), 2013 and 2014. He returned to the major leagues in 2010 after the first procedure. He came back again in 2018 after two more.

Source: MLB.com. Baseball Reference.

cause of a seizure and heart failure caused by an overdose of prescription drugs. After some years living in New York and California, he and his wife moved to Lakewood Ranch, a planned community outside Sarasota, in 2021.

John's 20-year career tends include a 200-225 man-level record, a 3.14 earned run average, more than 4,700 innings pitched, 2,245 strikeouts and a 1.28 WHIP (walks plus hits per innings pitched).

While these statistics are borderline Hall of Fame-worthy, he never came close to being voted in. Many have felt he should have been given old importance to the sport of the surgery named after him.

Baseball history might very well have been different if John had decided to make an operation — or if the surgery had come along earlier and reclaimed lost careers like that of Sandy Rindus, the great Dodger left-hander who retired in 1985, at 30, with considerable elbow pain.

"Sandy Rindus teams me," Dr. John, who performed the first Tommy John surgery, said in 2013. "He said: 'Why weren't you smart enough to come up with that 70 years before? There it could be called the Rindus operation.'"

More obituaries appear on

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Alex Treadi-coordinated reporting.

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Robo Inc.'s Rebonizer in Plainview, N.Y., where a small team of engineers builds parts to adapt humanoid and four-legged robots for use in warehouse and health care work. The technology behind such robots is still in the early stages.

America Wants Its Own Humanoids

By MEAGHAN YORIN

PLAINVIEW, N.Y. — Today Haggerty knew exactly what he was up against when he decided to build humanoid robots in the United States.

Since 2002, Mr. Haggerty had been the main North American distributor for Unitex Robotics, China's leading humanoid robot manufacturer. That role has given him a close-up view of an industry Chinese computers command, producing robots more cheaply and at a scale that American manufacturers have yet to approach.

"In China, these things are just walking around the streets," he said. "They have so much more experience than we do."

But in a warehouse in a leafy industrial park on suburban Long Island, Mr. Haggerty, 30, is trying to pull off a seemingly quixotic task — to produce humanlike robots in the United States.

His new company, Robo Inc., is the latest venture for a serial entrepreneur who has spent the previous decade chasing the new Ng thing, from drone photography and Bitcoin mining to impacting protective gear during the Covid-19 pandemic. Building robots, however, means taking on an industry China has designated a strategic priority. That is a challenge of a different magnitude.

Mr. Haggerty plans to procure compo-

It won't be easy, but a new generation of U.S. start-ups is betting that there is still time to compete with China.

nents from all over the world and make some in-house. But even as he sets out to establish a robotics beachhead in the United States, he has confronted a mark to situation. China has near-total dominance of the supply chain. In building a robot entirely free of Chinese parts was not practical.

Companies that went to great lengths to cut China out of their supply chains were in the real just making a more expensive product, he said. It was far more cost-effective to import certain parts, like batteries and the aluminum skeleton that makes a robot's body.

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Buyers of Sports Teams Keep Running Up Score

By TANIA GANGELI

Not long ago you could buy an N.B.A. team in the country's second-largest city for just $2 billion. Yet these days are already a thing of the past.

Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner announced last week that they had bought control of the Los Angeles Lakers in a deal that priced the franchise at $12.5 billion. It was a record figure for a National Basketball Association team, eclipsing the $10 billion paid for the Lakers just last year — and was the latest in a pattern of skyrocketing sale prices for sports franchises.

Is it mania or just a reasonable resorting of the market?

"Like anything else, it's worth what someone is willing to pay," Mark Cuban, the former owner of the Dallas Mavericks, said in an email.

Mr. Cuban bought the Mavericks Club Rosa Point Jr. in 2000 for $165 million. When he sold a majority stake of the N.B.A. team to Miriam Adelson and her son-in-law Patrick Dumont in 2022, the team was valued at around $3.5 billion.

This same year, the N.B.A.'s

Suns and the W.N.B.A.'s Mercury, both in Phoenix, were sold to Max Ishiba, who had made his fortune in mortgage lending, for a valuation of $4 billion. Also in 2023, Michael Jordan, the N.B.A. legend, sold a majority stake in the Charlotte thương that priced the team at $3 billion — $2.7 billion more than he paid in 2010.

At the time, these numbers

Valuations run past $10 billion, with no upper limit in sight.

seemed outlandish, especially given the size of those teams' markets.

It was only the start. Last year, Bill Clinton led a group that bought the Boston Celtics at a $9.1 billion valuation, just a few months before Mark Walter, a financier, bought a majority stake in the Lakers with the team valued at $10 billion. N.P.L. scams sell much less frequently, but the Seattle business is sold for $6.6 billion last month.

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The Los Angeles Lakers' home arena. The purchase last week of a controlling interest in the franchise set its value at $12.5 billion.

After C.E.O.'s Killing, Fury At Health Insurers Persists

By REED ABELSON

The murder of Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare executive, in late 2014 unearthed a current of public outrage against the health insurance industry. And since then, Americans' anger has solidified into deep mistrust of the companies.

Much of the current dissatisfaction stems from rising economic concerns. More and more people cannot afford the increasing costs of insurance premiums and medical bills.

Consumers are directing their ire at郁积如磐 like United Health Group, which owns UnitedHealthcare and a host of related businesses, including Optum Plc, the major pharmacy two-eth manager, and sprawling networks of doctors. CVS Health, which owns the major insurer Acton, a chain of drugstores and CVS Denmark; and Cigna, which operates Express Scripts and a big insurer, have also driven criticism.

"There's a tremendous backlash against corporate medicine at this point," said Jeff Goldsmith, a health care industry analyst. Not only has the public's antipo-

thy been sustained, he added: "If anything, it has broadened out."

Luigi Mangione, the defendant accused of killing Mr. Thompson, had no direct dealings with UnitedHealthcare, according to the authorities and the company. But insurers' practices were a form of complaints in Mr. Mangione's writings that resonated with the public.

Higher premiums and rising medical bills heighten discontent.

On Friday, Mr. Mangione admitted to killing Mr. Thompson as he pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of interstate walking resulting in death, and walking through use of interstate facilities invading in death. Both charges carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

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TECHNOLOGY

America Wants to Make Its Own Humanoids. That Won't Be Easy.

FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE

"There are some pieces that are already dialed in — what are you doing changing them?" he said. His office, in Plainview, shares space with a workshop littered with spare robot heads and hands, where a small team of engineers builds custom parts to adapt humanoid and four-legged robots for use in warehouse and health care work.

In some ways, Mr. Haggerty is caught between China and Washington, where officials have called for more robots to be made in the United States. He believes the result will be a more fragmented global market for humanoids. Chinese robot companies will continue to sell in their home market, while companies that do will compete for customers in the United States.

The United States and China are already vying for supremacy in artificial intelligence and semi-conductors. Now robots that look and move like humans are increasingly emerging as another front in that competition. Companies in both countries increasingly see robots as the physical embodiment and next evolutionary step of a 2.

The geopolitical tensions came into sharper focus last month when the Federal Communications Commission announced a ban on the import of new models of foreign-made humanoid robots into the United States, citing national security concerns. "For measure did not explicitly target China, but must now humanoid robots are made by Chinese companies.

This technology is still in the early stages of development, but supporters envision a future when humanoid robots become commonplace — changing homes, checking risks to hospitals and working hazardous jobs in mines and chemical plants. But such activities would also give robots access to vast amounts of data about where and how people lived. For the United States government, this is potentially too sensitive for machines not made in America. Right now, though, very few are.

China's robotics industry was built on billions of dollars in state funding and grew out of the country's world-leading electric vehicle industry. The country's leading humanoid robotics start-up, Unirex, is preparing to go public in Shanghai at a valuation of $9 billion.

Flodgling U.S. robot makers will need substantial financial and policy support to compete, said Sunny Cheung, a fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, a think tank that studies Chinese government influence. "Merely banning Chinese robots is just the first step," he said.

In the United States, humanoid robotics is still in its infancy, analysts estimate that the top humanoid companies made just a few hundred robots last year. Most aren't available for purchase by the average consumer, but instead are part of test projects with other companies in warehouses and factories. By comparison, Unirex and another Chinese company, Agline, together made about 10,000.

Even Elon Musk's Optimus line of humanoids, which he recently predicted would be "the biggest product ever," either heavily on components made in China.

And makers of non-humanoid robots, like illobet, the American company behind the Roembo, have struggled to compete with Chinese rivals. The Chinese sup-

Even some robotics company executives concede that people are still far more efficient workers than the robots, which struggle to make complex decisions in rapidly changing environments.

Rebustors in Plainview, N.Y. Flodgling U.S. robot makers will need major financial and policy help to compete, an expert on Chinese government influence said.

plier of illobet took control when the company filed for bankruptcy in December.

And Chinese humanoids are far cheaper and more widely available than their American counterparts. Unirex's flagship humanoid rivals for under $14,000.

Mr. Haggerty said that after he appeared at a trade show in Las Vegas alongside a Unirex robot

last year, he was flooded with inquiries from companies like Amazon and OpenAI that wanted to try our humanoids. They wanted more robots than he could import.

Start-up founders and inventors say it is virtually impossible to set up factories in the United States that could compete with the output of China's supply chain on cost. It is more expensive to pay

American workers. And raw materials, from the lithium in the batteries to the aluminum sledded into the skeleton, have to be obtained from China anyway.

China's dominance over the supply chain for robots that act like humans is closely tied to its electric vehicle industry. China became the largest U.V. exporter by focusing on producing virtually

every component domestically, from screws to lithium-ion batteries. Now, many of the same companies that manufacture parts for electric vehicles supply robot makers, too.

"If you are in China and you need a component, you can get a immediately — where in the United States you might get it to a couple of days," said Brad Porter,

the chief executive of Cebot, a robotics company in Santa Clara, Calif.

Mr. Porter previously spent more than a decade at Amazon, where he led the company's effort to use robots. He pointed to Amazon's factory in Massachusetts where it makes equipment for its warehouses as an example of successful American robot making. But those are not humanoids. They are robotic devices that convey large loads across factory floors. Mr. Porter said humanoid robots were not the right solutions to most situations for Amazon.

"There was no one case at Amazon where legs conferred any advantages," he said.

The actual usefulness of humanoids remains a few debate. Even robotics company executives concede that people are still far more efficient workers than the robots, which struggle to make complex decisions in rapidly changing settings.

While Chinese companies have a lead on producing humanoid robots, none have demonstrated a close one case for the technology.

Chinese robots, including Unirex's, have drawn international attention for coordinated thinking display over Chinese television and at the Super Bowl. But these robots are following preprogrammed scripts. Creating robots capable of complex decision-making in response to the changing world remains a challenge.

More broadly, China has already established another key lead in robotics: using robots to automate manufacturing. In 2024, according to a report by the International Federation of Robotics, a nonprofit trade group, more than two million robots were working in Chinese factories, and another 100,000 were installed — more than in the rest of the world combined.

As a distributor for Unirex Robotics, Teddy Haggerty had a close-up view of China's massive robotics industry and saw how much demand there was in the United States. He plans to procure components from all over the world and make some in-house. Robot parts at Mr. Haggerty's new company, Robo Inc., center and right. Robots that look and move like humans are increasingly emerging as another front in a competition between China and the United States.

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Wearables Battle Surpasses Tracking Health

By BRENT CRANE

The year is 2035. You, like most people you know, have a small, button-sized device implanted in your fortunes. For a recurring fee, it continuously transfers your blood pressure, core tests pressure, cardiovascular activity and all other health needs to be physician would value. Anything suspicious is promptly flagged to your doctor by a personalized A.J. system. Distress and illness is caught—and treated—as early as possible.

This is the healthiest long future that the first billion global wearable industry is rapidly maintaining, as a result of smart watches, smart rings and smart hands offer new ideas on trading health and fitness data.

Since the release of the pre-existing Fritch Tracker in 2026, consumer interest has powered the category. But what has caught the attention of venture capital firms and some of the biggest companies in the world — including Apple, Samsung, and Google (which paid $12.1 billion for Fritch in 2025) — is a vision that could be even more profitable.

The end goal is to be part of the health environment. Half Jinnit (Texas), an industry analyst with UIC, a technology research company. "It's a truly lucrative market to be in if every hospital and doctor recommends one of these devices."

"But long game also partly explains why the success are not. The smart ring maker Ours, which recently filed confidence, tally for an offer, has used new competencies over patent in the market. It has also applied, however, with four cases pending. Apple Wired, which adds more devices in a quarter's demand, eight million! than Ours has ever sold, is also estimated to at least two patent infringement lawsuits.

While the form's competition companies have taken small steps toward integrating with hospitals and health care providers, Apple has partnered with the company's management fee Systems. Ours paired up with Insumo, a maker of continuous glucose monitors, which invested $75 million into the Prussia-American ring maker in 2024. (Rather than "fitness wearable," the Ours C.E.O. Tom Robt predicts to describe his product as "a health intelligence platform.")

In Jikuj, Google introduced Google Health, an app that combines Fritch data with third-party app data and your health records, meant "to be the one that's a good idea," and of your health data," said Fritch's head of product, Andy Alexander.

And last year, Samsung, which makes a smart ring and smart hands, made a market for the hero that connects consumer health data to hospital systems.

The acquisition "and help transform Samsung "into a competitive platform," the company said in a statement.

The vision:

As wearables become even more compatible in the health care system, moving all of that data will require sophisticated A.J. system to be a good idea, and there are also weighty data privacy concerns to navigate.

But the upside are coughed. Sep, Re299d flagging illness for

earlier than a long periodle, a wearable-enhanced health care system. And superthought, a health opportunities. Diagnostic tests that may benefit or require a trip to the hospital would be unnecessary — for regularly data every, every much or 2% will have, already been because it is a doctor for a wearable.

This could have just patient at any time, anywhere in the world," said Dr Andrew Jaglin, the director of sports medicine research at Major Clinic Health System, who studies the accuracy of wearables.

Re299d had been wearables are increasingly adding features that can't be driven into a key. Apple said, "We're the official, we're the subject year like automatically there nearby. Future devices might use your app, heart rate or other behaviors to help you into systems, great building access to authorize online purchases."

But health care is where the real money lies.

The technology is reliable enough for use in some medical contexts already, experts say. "We're the official, we're the subject year like automatically there nearby. Future devices might use your app, heart rate or other behaviors to help you into systems, great building access to authorize online purchases."

Many paths

As health work toward integra-

tion with the health care industry, they are building their own business, is wiping ways.

Whoag, a subscription workload that costs as much as $250 per year, attracts a wealth of science-focused consumer (their health care offer) with alongside a more new watches or luxury hand bags, more Chinese, Jiao, the

brand has also earned the loyalty of many athletes who value its recovery and strain scores, which translate heart rate variability and sleep data into a daily routine to market.

Apple Watch and Fritch, which provide users with less hyperdetailed health metrics, tend to appeal to a more 'general with health' (PHS). And Dr. Jaglin, a Current smart watcher, released with advanced GPS capabilities and even altitude readings in more models, appeal to extreme athletes (the company recently released a scratches smart hands). Ours, whose newest location is as thin as any normal ring, has leaned into its popularity with women by completing features that predict menstrual cycles and ovulation windows.

Wearables are becoming more proactive, too. Rather than just a lacking health fitness data, they now offer recommendations on what to do with it. What to work out and how, when to sleep and how much to eat. This is where more established brands like Apple and Google, which can pull information from other products in their universe, may have a leg up, said Ben Arnold, an industry analyst with Cirvana.

"Gonna, for instance, knows me in other venues, to these recommendations are even more difficult too: me as a user," Arnold said. "That's a big differentiation factor."

Arnold adds, year A.J. "cough" could comb through your email when looking for things like

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correspondence from a gym, or DearDuck or Instacart receipts, which could then address coaching and information.

The long game

Fulcon health care recognizes in a bill in store. "The medical industry is doing a lot of research and is very bureaucratic," said Cibran. "There are real hurdles to get even."

Last year, Whoag took into one more facility, after it launched a feature estimating users' daily blood pressure, the Food and Drug Administration declared Whoag an assignment medical care system. Whoag refused to pull the corrections feature, arguing that the word could did not constitute a medical device. "It's designed to help you understand how your way is responsible for daily life, not to diagnose or treat any condition," the company said in a statement.

In June, the F.D.A. officially backed down after issuing new guidance exempting wellness blood pressure measurements from the health care insurance system, which can just be Whoag but for the wearable industry every large.

In a LinkedIn post, Whoag's C.E.O. with Xinhua, a member of with a real toward the future. "We have tremendous respect for the agency's role in ensuring that medical devices are safe and effective," said Cibran. "We have followed us continuing to work with the F.D.A. as Whoag better more regulated medical technologies to market."

Buyers of Sports Teams Keep Running Up the Score

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I am absolutely convinced that we have not reached anything close to a college "and it's not 85-90 years, a partner at the law firm there's a set-to-chair of the sports law system, and particularly when the most recognizable teams, he said, "you could only continue the members going further north."

By that far means more like the N.F.D.A.'s New York Knicks, the N.F.D.A.'s Dallas Cowboys and the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball, the New York Yankees involved a $2.9 billion investment in the 50st school the franchise at close to $10 billion.

People in the sports industry have been looking for the commitment to the rising prices.

Sports is one of the last big draws to live television, and as a result, leagues — and therefore — are being able to more for the rights to air their games.

Mr. Kleiner pointed to the N.F.D.A.'s recess TV rights pack and the new N.F.D.A.'s broadcasters worth about $77 billion.

The legalization of sports having has also opened a new revenue stream for the franchise. Mr. Kleiner said, And then there's the feeling that sports, as well as other live and in-person events,

may be insulated from the effect of artificial intelligence. The deal for the Lakers was made by an area system that supports awareness of company that focuses on businesses. A between will not be a opportunity designed by the technology.

It probably doesn't hurt, either, that billionaire have more money than ever — although many of the most popular sports and entertainment or groups, an individual buyers. On Friday, Jeff Burns, the manager of Amazon and one of the richest ones in the world, was part of a crowded, accustomed, group that joined forces to buy about a third of Liverpool Football Club.

The 2024 USA going to 76-75, one individual writing a check for a team will be now," Mr. Cabar said. "Which brings the own information changes."

Not everyone agrees (the influx of cash is a good thing.

"Sport is the game that laid the golden egg," said David Andrews, a professor at the University of Maryland who was born on the day of a sport. He has wondered if there will become disillusioned if certain leagues and teams become too communicational or financially driven.

"But that doesn't seem to have happened," he said. "For what ever reason, the game is kind of

still alluring, and we're still exhausted by the game despite its hyper-illness/dizziness."

Jail timescales, however, simply and prominent forces sports fan, has lamented that the super-wealth increasingly view sports teams as investments, rather than prized civic entities to protect them.

"You still want to think that the people running the best teams actually care about these teams," Mr. Interstate said during a recess

Rising revenue from live-television rights

is among the factors.

episode of his immediate podcast. He said there seemed to be an an unsponsoring where sports teams were "just great hedge fund firms."

He added: "Watching somebody flip the Lakers over a year and half, like two flipping a new idea in the air or something, a business. This is the crown jewel of the league."

Mr. Interstate argued that Mr. Iger, the recently retired chief executive of Walt Disney, and Mr. Kushner, a venture capitalist, would also view the Lakers as

simply a financial asset.

Mr. Kushner and Mr. Iger tried to enable such awareness of the Lakers' relevant ultra awareness of their purchase. They said they were "deeply humane" and "unwillingly" to become "enviable of the Los Angeles Lakers."

these experts, including Mr. Kleiner, said they would be surprised if Mr. Iger and Mr. Kushner were quickly, or in the past, as many money owners of teams sold their majority makes.

It don't think like the people that own these teams, that their successes are not just the "Gates Genus, who led the N.F.D.A.'s global business strategy for all the world's most successful and chief commercial officer for the state up the 70s that's league. "It's almost like a legacy coach. It's how they want to be known and re-moderning."

Ms. Genus lives in New York and now the way the Knicks' recent chaperonically once-sight-need for city. She said that kind of in-person events, such as the new men in sports teams different from other kinds of business days.

The e-junkals, the influence, the lodging communities together I think is really hard to replicate," Ms. Genus said. "because everything is so fragmented now."

After C.E.O.'s Killing, Fury At Health Insures Persists

rence more accurate read medical care by teaching patients, employing their provider and discussing their drugs.

Insurers have also been patented by both Republican and Democratic. The companies' inability to contain among medical users as congressional hearings to this children's election year. In pull after poll, lawmakers have been reminded that Americans have blood health care costs as it big concern.

The companies have tried with the blame, countering that hospitals and pharmaceutical firms have responsible for high prices. "The use of health insurers is driven by the use of health care," Stephen J. Siemstra, the chief executive of Unleuthhold, told lawmakers on the basis.

Insurers, though, and other corporations were shocked by Mr. Thompson's assassination in Midtown Manhattan. Companies pulled out of the business, which is welcome and assigned additional security crews to their management teams.

But while many insurance insurers were married by the opinions of the directors, others interviewed to be a clear sign to the overall health sector.

"It's a moment of reckoning for the health care industry, more broadly," Dr. Sachin H. Ahn, the chief executive of KCAV Group and KCAV Health Plan, said in the time. "We've unmasked a sentiment that things need to change."

Nearly 78 percent of insured adults surveyed this year describe the health care industry's ground from an issues before they could get care as hardensome, and that is the most nonprofit health research group.

There is insurers' low declared modesty since 2024, according to an analysis of assessments submitted by Dr Power, Only 19 percent of commercial plan members described their insurers as a revised partner to their health and wellness. Instead, people said that "the health care industry's major managing costs rather than helping those changes the system.

The most significant factor is the health care industry's including Unleuthhold's chief executive at the time. Andrew Wiley, pledged to do better, "We know the health system does not work as well as it should." Mr. Wiley said, "and we understand people's frustrations with it. Many companies vowed to make getting a claim approved much less cumbersome.

The next year, the industry and Unleuthhold promised to reduce the need for prior approval for a new health care system. "We've opened up the business-making when we insure that require activities to be done."

The companies say they already have eliminated millions of requests for authorization. Unleuthhold said it would reduce

the number of treatments requiring prior approval by September in 2026, and the company has also said it would recoup round hospitals and pediatric patients from most approved requirements. Opens the also said lower medications would need review.

But doctors said patients say there is little hard evidence that the companies' insurers have returned the road to the right care. And a government watchdog recently sought out major insurers like Unleuthhold's chief executive of care for people enrolled in private Medicare plans.

A KFP analysis released last week offered mixed reviews. While the majority of requests for procedures were approved, a large number of insurers were approved, raising concerns about the process. The report also found a wide variation among the insurers.

"This new data confirms that the best majority of prior authorized insurers approve our approved and requested to in less than one day, faster than federal standards," said Chris Bond, a spokesman for a 2019 an industry's lead group, in a statement. "Health plans continue to make steady progress on industry-wide actions to standardize and simplify prior authorization procedures. Other organizations for most electronic prior authorization requests in 2027."

Under participating events, Unleuthhold has sought to demonstrate a commitment to accountability. The company said it did not need a board-consumer to have a 2019 annual report that conducted numerous reviews of its businesses, according to its most recent earnings release. This year, it started a group of experts to rule out the pattern, which was the most important about its efforts to improve its responses to customer complaints.

Americans are also working from much concerns about the high cost of coverage and rising out-of-pocket costs that have left many unable to pay for services.

Many experts and insurers have largely likened the decision to congressional Republicans to end extra subsidies under the Act of 2024. The company's leadership decision is enrollment. An estimated three million people have dropped coverage.

The nation's big hospitals are alreadymrchasing declining coverage to a surge in unpaid medical bills and emergency room visits by the uninsured.

But even those with coverage, including insurance provided by an employer, are having trouble putting far into Power that half of the company's business process consistently afford health care, according to a recent study from the U.S. data. "The number of insurers in Healthcare in America, a partnership between CMB and West Health, a group of nonprofit licensed on health care users,

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Passenger Is Out $2,000 After Rebooking

After long delays, Air India offered to cover a flight on another carrier. Then it refused to pay.

Tripped Up

By SETH KUGEL

Dear Tripped Up, I was planning to fly Air India from San Francisco to Delhi, last time on to Kolkata, India, on May 31, 2024, to be in town for my mother's surgery three days later. But after five hours of waiting to take off, passengers were asked to deplan and given a water-announcing that the flight was "cancelled due to operational reasons." According to the printout, which I took a picture of, passengers could choose to be reimbursed or refunded on the next night, able Air India flight. But it went on to give a third choice: "In the event that you choose to look with another airline, we will reimburse the fare difference." There was an Air India flight in June I that would still get me into town in time for the operation, so I took that rebooking option. But the next day, Air India notified me that my new flight was delayed enough that I would miss my connection, and the surgery, Air, last resort, I bought a round-trip from area economy class ticket for $2,850 — $2,850 more the cost of my original $1,637 ticket, which Air India refunded. In the time since, the airline has consistently refused to pay the difference, even when I went it the photograph of the notice and complained to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Can you help? AGAINST USING USING US

Dear America,

The Air India representative in San Francisco who printed and distributed that notice thoughtfully prioritized you and your fellow travelers' needs over the bottom line of their employer.

In other words, they survived up. Airlines rarely offer to cover the difference if passengers facing long delays or cancellations book a replacement flight on a competing airline, and no U.S. regulation says they have in-

KATTI KUGEL

Travelers typically must choose between a refund and the next open seat on the same airline or, in some cases, a partner. It typically doesn't matter if that means missing your mother's surgery, your granddaughters' graduation or even your first seat argument before the Supreme Court.

Those who can afford a last-minute fare pay a day-tight price for it, and those who don't miss out.

So the Air India offer was unusual. I was not surprised to see in the photo you sent me that the notice distributed in San Francisco did not have the official look of a document approved by someone at headquarters. Instead, it had the Times New Roman, type-ridden

vibes of something you might see on an office had less board announcing that there would be birthday cake for California in the conference room at 4 p.m.

The responses you received from Air India representatives when you insisted they keep their promise were, shall we say more corporate. "No report to inform you that we are unable to accommodate your request for reimbursement of your new booking," wrote an agent in an email you forwarded to me. "We are able to reimburse the ticket difference only if Air India will not provide any alternate option.

Now, that sounds like the airline industry I know. But you had no reason not to take the San Francisco staff

members at their (written) word, so I get in touch with Air India, and the airline quickly paid you the $2,850 difference to fare, albeit two years late.

In a follow-up, I asked Air India a series of questions, including whether to customer service departments's refusal to honor the notice at the airport had been in error and what led the carrier to change its mind after I got in touch.

In a statement, Rajesh Dogra, the airliner's chief customer experience offers a good something of a manner close to vagueness.

"We recognize the inconvenience experienced by the customer following the disruption to their travel plans," he

wrote, noting that the airline "remained engaged with the customer through the process and refunded the fare paid by the customer per our standard policy." He did not answer my question about why the airline had not honored the printed notice, and in fact did not mention the notice at all.

"When the matter was escalated for further review," he continued, the airline "revalidated the circumstances." Then he wrote: "Following these discussions, we were more marked that was accepted by the customer!" Well, I guess that explains it.

It is worth noting that you acted honorably, accepting a replacement Air India flight but not they rather than instantly reopening up the quickest, most expensive competitor's flight. It was only when added delays would have made you miss your mother's surgery, and that included the last-minute seat on Emirates.

You did the right thing by pushing back, respectfully, at Air India, and your complaint to the Transportation Department was also a good idea. (Filling its action from less received problems for Tripped Up readers to the past.) But getting airlines to reimburse passengers for routine out-of-pocket expenses can be like pulling work, and if those expenses are even slightly increased — or if the case of a land that had to rest equipment after British Airways raised and lost its gallant, the topic of a past Tripped Up column — it's more like a new one.

At 2:00, we examined concluded: "At Air India, we are committed to under-sampling individual circumstances and addressing concerns with care, empathy and fairness."

This includes the corporate spin. But the description does at least accurately characterize the actions of the Air India staff members on duty in San Francisco on May 31, 2024.

If you need advice about a best-suit travel plan first sent you, send an email to TrippedUp@utnews.com.

Taking a Trip? Get the House Ready to Avoid Disasters.

Steps include sealing gaps to keep pests out and setting up sensors to send alerts in case there's a leak.

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By JOY CARRYS

The odor of rotting food when we opened the front door was the first sign that something had gone terribly wrong while my husband and I were away on a summer trip.

The next morning, we went down to the kitchen and saw a person and -shivers! - a small snake, possibly bunting the mouse, slickering across the floor.

We spent our first 24 hours home removing spoiled food from the tubed freezer, which was damaged possibly by a power outage, scroiding its interior and visiting the hardware store in buy mouse traps. (My husband quickly evaded the snake using a lewisac and a bucket.)

Nothing ends a vacation bout like a critter invasion and a refrigerator re-pair bill, so I vowed to never again face such a situation. Here's what I learned about preparing your home — and your wallet — for an absence, after consulting a variety of wildlife and home-maintenance experts.

Why do wild animals want to come into my house?

Wildlife of any sort — making a vacuum — are generally seeking two things, said Kevin O'Connor, the host of the PBS home renovation series "This Old House." "They want food, and they want water," he said. "They are not showing up because they enjoy your company."

A quiet, unoccupied property may make them bullies! "If a house is meant for several weeks, it's a little bit more inviting," said Jim Fredericks, an ethnologist and spokesman for the National Pest Management Association, an industry group.

To deter them, do everything you can before you leave to remove entrainment. "They're responding mostly to smells," Mr. O'Connor said. Clear any food or its contents, including fruit or other home items, would only cost more provision like flour, sugar, cereal and coffee, but also per kettle and birdseed — in nearly containers with sightseeing kits. Even several laundry bags are used in a law for wine, Mr. O'Connor said.

Take out the garbage and recycling, of course, and arrange for the bites to be emptied promptly. (Guitar a baglad, but not a pot, your face at the curb, if trash pickup is a few days away.)

Inspect the house and start out for water sources, like pet bowls, and dispose of them. Take out of looking, and to see how a small dog can provide drinks for thirsty animals.

If you have an outdoor grill, clean it and cover it in discouraged raccoons.

Run the dishwasher and clean out the garbage disposal before you leave to install Dina Santoro-Bada, sonier advice editor at ReaBar.com. "A deep clean is your best bet."

What other steps should I take before heading out of town?

Blocking access to your home in the first place — what experts call 'exclusions' of animals and insects — is an important an eliminating sources of food and water. Well before you head to the airport or pack your car for an extended getaway, walk around your house, looking for cracks and gaps in your home's exterior that need to be filled in — a step that should ideally be part of routine home maintenance.

"A lot of the things you can do are things you should be doing on a regular basis anyway," said Paul Hope, deputy home editor at Consumer Reports. "Really start up your house as well as you can."

Even small openings can admit pests. More can slip through holes as small as a quarter each in diameter, or about the whole of a pencil, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

You can fill holes or gaps where

pipes, wires and water sidgets enter the home with caulk or stuff them with steel wool, available for a few dollars at darkness or chain stores, then the area. Avoid using steel wool next to copper pipes because it may damage them, said Drew Cowley, immediate past president of the National Wildlife Control Operators Association, an industry group.

Any space around a door where you can see daylight (paddy!) should be filled with weather-cropping. There are myriad how we relate: available values about installing weather-cropping.

Other possible entry points to check the cabinets under the sink and overhead garage doors. Door sweeps — flat power or plates or metal details about the bottom of a door — can help keep out pests. Specialized mesh caps can cover chimneys to keep animals out of your fireplace.

Lackies often installed beneath raised decks and porches can have openings too large to keep out smaller animals, Mr. Hope said. Using a finer wire-mesh

barrier may provide more protection.

Rooftops are an especially popular place of entry for patients, so proper any transport close to your house. "If they can make the jump, they will try it," Mr. Hope said. A roofing contractor can assess shingles and repair any holes where aspirants may enter. "That's not usually a D.I.Y. job," Mr. Hope said.

Are there tools that can help protect against water damage?

Many of the heavy open or appliances can cause major damage, and "if you're not there, the danger is exponential," Mr. O'Connor said. (Our realtime-tuning refrigerator leaked some water, but didn't cause serious damage.) But energy tools can help reduce your risk.

Smart leak detection tools can set off alarms and send alerts to your phone. Some systems can even automatically stop the your home's main water valve. The main often use small, disc-shaped wireless sensors that you place at high risk areas, like near your refrigerator,

dishwasher or washing machine, or in basements and crawl spaces.

Operating details vary by system. Mr. Hope said that because basic kits generally rely to some way on Wi-Fi, if the power and Wi-Fi go out, you won't get alerts. Mr. O'Connor said some rely on a cellular connection, or use it as a backup, so you could still get notifications during an outage, or at least be alerted in a power failure.

If you want the best possible protection, Mr. Hope said, Consumer Reports recommends considering a comprehensive home alarm or security system. Many systems have battery backups, and your home optional leak detectors, Mr. Hope said, so you could still get alerts if the power leaks!

Many new refrigerator models can work you, through an alarm or an app, if you're using a maximum fee warm, so you can have it checked before serious melting occurs. Our refrigerator needed a part replaced (about $300 including short-, and vigorous-scale heating) and a 2.5-million deodorant (about $10 or the supermarket) plus a big box of baking soda to freshen the interior. It took time for the cake to dissipate, so we ordered cabbage for a day or two before checking up with new groceries.

Our all-to-one — not including time for the day, you can let less than buying a new refrigerator for $1,000 or more. But our refrigerator is almost 20 years old, so even though the repair unit and it might run for five more years, I'm planning on replacing it soon.

What about recruiting on-site help?

Having a trained friend may at your home, like to try to keep, or stop by and check the house, can help you open trouble early, to alternative in a professional home voucher, sort of a cross between a house sitter and a property owner. The house is only your home on an agreed-upon schedule to look for obvious issues and check that applications and housing and cooling systems are working, if there's a problem, "we are not going to work," said John Luber, executive director of the National Home Watch Association, a group that trains and certifies home vouchers. Proving depends on the frequency of the checks.

Can insurgency help?

Standard homeowner policies generally don't cover problems with rodents or other items. The case may be considered a routine maintenance issue, said Laurentis Worrer, a spokeswoman for the Insurance Information Institute, an industry group.

The company's most home types or other sudden accidental damage is generally covered, she said, but problems like mold, caused by ignoring a long-term leak, may not be. Some insurers offer discounts or other incentives for leak detection and automatic return off systems, she said, depending on the device used.

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Raoul Vaneigem Is Dead at 92; Inspired Student Revolt in France

By ADAM NOGUETTA

Raoul Vaneigem, a prolific Belgian writer whose radical 1967 manifesto "The Revolution of Everyday Life" was a leading inspiration for the student uprising of May 1968 in France, died on July 28 at his home in Saint-Pol de Mar, on the coast north of Barcelona, Spain. He was 92.

His family announced the death.

Students carried Mr. Vaneigem's book in their pockets and echoed its fiercely anti-capitalist, libertarian aphorisms in their shouts and their graffiti during the heady spring days when France's bourgeois order appeared to be crumbling.

It didn't. But Mr. Vaneigem's procedure in diagnosing French document with post-World War II prosperity, reiterated in dozens of subsequent books that tapped into a rich vein of national unease, made him an intellectual reference point in France over the next 50 years. When French citizens took to the streets, as they so often do, journalists frequently came calling to get Mr. Vaneigem's tale.

Some of his books add tons of thousands of copies, like "A Warning to Students" (1991) and the 1967 manifesto (published in French as "Traité de Savoir-Vivre à l'Usage des Jeunes Générations," literally "The How-to-Live Handbook for the Young").

The earnings helped the inclusive Mr. Vaneigem lead a spartan existence in the Belgian countryside, exchanging books for vegetables and avoiding an affiliation with any university. He also supported himself with articles for a Swiss encyclopedic publisher.

"His life was an example of what he professed," his son Ariel said in an interview.

"The world of mindless work, of materialism, of authority, the state's instruments of central and repression — these were the tar-

Alan Delaguérière contributed research.

Mr. Vaneigem's 1967 manifesto "was quite original for the time," one professor said.

gers of Mr. Vaneigem's poetic prose, honed into easily remembered phrases that were well-suited for a street demonstration or a university wall.

"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation outside the risk of dying of boredom?" he wrote at the outset of "Revolution." The question perfectly captured the ominous of the generation that would take to the streets less than a year later. Material well-being was an unsatisfactory as a safe 9-to-5 job, in his view.

Mr. Vaneigem hit communism as hard as capitalism. "The great collective illusions, anemic from shedding the blood of so many, have since given way to the thousands of propatiod ideologies sold by consumer society like so many portable brain-scrambling machines," he wrote.

He was in Paris during the May 1968 uprising, demonstrating alongside the students, and took part in the occupation of the National Pedagogical Institute, a state agency that directed teaching methods across France and was a prime target for the demonstrators. The revolt, he later said, "delivered a mortal blow to so-

called viruses and behaviors imposed for millennials, which appeared to be unshakable truths." With his onetime friend Guy Deherd, Mr. Vaneigem had been an early member of the Communist International, a loose collection of leftist writers, thinkers and artists whose critique of capitalism was captured in Mr. Deherd's 1967 book "The Society of the Spectacle," which was the other key text for the student protesters.

The two shared the Marxist belief that workers in modern society had become alienated from their work — unconnected to labor in which they had no stake, and which produced profits for others.

Mr. Deherd's central metaphor expressing this alienation was the idea that all experience, not just that of work, was now no longer direct but mediated — reduced to a series of meaningless distractions, or "specialists." Implicit was the idea that in the precapitalist era, individuals had participated more directly in life and work. But in the modern world, citizens had become passive consumers manipulated by endless spectacle, an insight some writers have found resistant in the era of Trump.

"Against the passivity of the 'spectacle,' the situationist advance the solution of 'small participation,'" The Times Literary Supplement wrote when the two books appeared in 1967.

Unlike Mr. Deherd — the two had a falling-out in 1970, and Mr. Deherd died by suicide in 1994 — Mr. Vaneigem was concerned with the practical, lived implications of modern working servitude.

"What spark of humanity, of possible creativity, can remain alive in a being dragged out of sleep at it every morning, jolted about in suburban trains, shattered by the racket of machinery, bleached and steamed by meaningless sounds and gestures?" he asked in "Revolution."

Though he called for a general

Raoul Vaneigem in 1996 and, below, in 2009. He published more than 50 works in France and Belgium, many on medieval heretics and others on the Renaissance writer François Rabelais.

revolt against established conditions — the last chapter of his book was called "You Want Fuck With Us Much Longer?" — he remained vague about the presumed stopia to come.

The manifesto "was quite original for the time," Pierre Tanninaux, an emeritus professor of French at Georgetown, said in an interview. "The idea was to transform everyday life."

Mr. Vaneigem, he added, "is, much more on everyday life than traditional Marxism did."

Raoul Raymond Augustin Vaneigem, an only child, was born on March 13, 1914, in Leonties, in Belgium's Wallonia region, to Marguerite (Tilts) Vaneigem and Paul Vaneigem, a railway worker and militant unionist who took part in the anti-Nazi resistance.

Mr. Vaneigem studied romance

'His life was an example of what he professed.'

philology at the Free University of Brussels, graduating in 1958 with the equivalent of a master's degree.

His thesis was on the 19th-century French proto-Surrealist poet the Comte de Lautréamant, and Mr. Vaneigem remained influenced by the French Surrealists throughout his writing career. He taught at the École Normale de l'Archie in Belgium until 1954.

He met Mr. Deherd in 1961 through the Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre, quickly became a leading member of the Situationists and began working on "The Revolution of Everyday Life."

The manuscript was initially rejected by the publisher Gallimard, until the author Raymond Spencey, who was published by Gallimard, rose to its defense.

After "Revolution," Mr. Vaneigem published some 15 works in France and Belgium, only one of which, "The Movement of the Free Spirit" (1966), appears to have been translated into English. That book, about heaviest movements during the Middle Ages, tapped into another of his specialties. He wrote other books about medieval heretics and still others about the Renaissance writer François Rabelais.

Mr. Vaneigem is survived by two daughters, Ariane and Chiara; two sons, Ariel and Tristan; and his companion, Elieni Ramtanizakou. His two marriages ended in divorce.

Consulted by journalists at the time of the so-called Yellow Vest uprising in France that began in 2005, Mr. Vaneigem was unequivocal in his support for that movement against economic inequality.

"The people have decided to have no guide but themselves," he said the newspaper Le Monde. "They are proceeding — hesitating, trembling, making mistakes, picking themselves up. But they are inspired by the light of the past, that aspiration to a real life and a better world."

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Carlos Garcia, Activist Who Built Oases in Urban Decay, Dies at 80

By ADAM NOSSTER

Carlos Garcia, a New York activist and organizer known as Chios, whose right to save the thriving community center that he co-founded was emblematic of a larger struggle against the prostitution of New York City, died on July 31 at his home in Manhattan, He was 80.

His death was announced by Village Preservation, a historic preservation group in Greenwich Village. He had been suffering from heart problems and Parkinson's disease, his daughter, Siana Jones, said.

Born in Puerto Rico, Mr. Garcia was a high-school dropout and former teenage gang leader who was illiterate until he was nearly 20. But he intervened himself as a pioneer of self-starting urban reclamation, a grass-roots movement that seeks to transform derelict city spaces. He said a group of fellow Puerto Ricans formed an organization that they called Churas — an acronym derived from the first letters of their names — and began rehabilitating a dioxian idea of New York City with a new equity, volunteer labor and minimal resources.

PS. 64 was the most prominent of the decrepit Lower East Side buildings that Mr. Garcia helped bring back to life, with little help from city officials.

In 1979, the group transformed the abandoned 1980 building, the former Public School of the East North Street in the East Village, into the Churas El Bohio Community Center, a meeting place, art gallery, performance center and rehearsal space for aspiring drama groups. The venue hosted dozens of theatrical performances, concerts and exhibitions. Economies that achieved national prominence, including Breast and Puppet Theater and El Teatro Campanino, used the space early on.

Ronald Shiftman, a founder of the Point Center for Community and Environmental Development, said in an email message to colleagues recently that Mr. Garcia was "one of the principal architects of the Lower East Side's extraordinary transformation from a neighborhood marked by abandonment into one celebrated for its resilience, creativity and community power."

But Mr. Garcia's adventure with PS. 64 ended in disappointment. In 1998, the building was sold in a public auction by the administration of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. (At one point during the duxte event, demonstrators hoping to stop the sale released 10,000 crutches into the auditorium.) Gregg L. Singer, a developer, bought it for $2.15 million, and three years later, despite impassioned professionalism andness, the Churas center was evicted from the building. The police showed up in riot gear to remove some of the occupants.

"A war, a battle and a war is, but it wasn't because we did any-

Carlos Garcia, known as Chios, in 2000 at the Churas/El Bohio Community Center, which had once been Public School 64.

Mr. Garcia, who had been a teenage gang leader, lecturing at Columbia University around 1970.

thing wrong," Mr. Garcia told the New York Preservation Archive Project. In 2000, he made two day everything right. Everything human and right for human beings."

Two decades later, PS. 64 remains vacant. Mr. Singer's in-development plans never came to fruition, and the building was reportedly sold in an inventor in 2022.

Mr. Garcia's journey from a

leader of a gang known as the Anuncius to a passionate community activist and a larger story about New York and its Puerto Rican community.

The Anuncius "dismissive!" Chênés in the 1930s, Syrac Mated wrote in his 1971 book, "Churas: The Impossible Dame Builders," adding that Mr. Garcia was the "warlord" responsible for arbitrating or organizing the endless

number of ramblers with the Operations gang and others."

But by the end of 1963, Mr. Garcia had moved on from gang life.

"That same energy, we decided to start using it for social issues and human issues," he said in 2017. "There was no need for a community, and it was the physical abuse that was going against us."

The month before Mr. Garcia

died, Village Preservation honored him with an award for his contributions to the East Village.

Follow Lower East Side activities credited him with bringing new life to the area, noting that he had an exceptional ability to motivate and mobilize young people. "He was a magnificent community leader and community member," Valerie Ornelli, a housing activist and former executive director of the Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association, said in an interview.

Carlos Garcia was born on May 27, 1946, in the Pradise, Puerto Rico, and an several children of Carlos Luis Garcia, a construction worker who became a waiter after the family moved to New York in 1951, and Antonio Chamon's Garcia, a gardener, worker who was active in the International Ladies' Caravan Workers' Union.

He attended Public School 3 in the Bronx and Public School 100 after the family moved to the Lower East Side. As a boy, he skined shoes at the old Pennsylvania Station, he recalled, and worked for his mother's union.

And then "I joined a gang, a youth gang, mainly because we had problems with other nationalities and races," Mr. Garcia said in 2017. "We had to confront these people."

In 1984, he moved back to Puerto Rico for help to "recover himself from the streets of New York for a year," Mr. Mated wrote at the "suggestion" of the New York City Police Department.

Turning a crumbling public school on the Lower East Side into a community center.

On his return, Mr. Garcia reconnected with his old friends from the gang to form a community aid group. They called it the Red Great Society because "they wanted to fight the real enemies: poverty, poor housing, lack of education, education and the inadequacy of work skills," Mr. Mated wrote.

They learned how to apply for grants, and received a few, and the group was honored as a assigned by the state. In 1967, using the skills they had acquired while working as house partners, electrical and planners, they opened mornings schools in East Harlem and on the Lower East Side, teaching basic reading and math in young people in those neighborhoods.

In 1984, the group discovered the work of the eccentric architect and inventor R. Buchnimmer. Public and art about building his economic graduate duties — a quick and inexpensive way to create affordable meeting spaces or housing — on vacant lots on the Lower East Side, an experience with the Times documented in 1972.

But the group could see that building new structures wasn't the only way forward, in the time, working good city government was shedding real estate, and abandoned structures dotted the cityscape. Churas's idea was to take over "city-owned buildings and homes that show," Mr. Garcia told the New York Preservation Archive Project. "Hopefully the city would cooperate with that, but we moved into buildings — we squatted in buildings even without their permission, because when you did ask them for permission, they gave you the rejuvenate."

PS. 64, which had been occupied by a public school in 1980, and stopped of its doors and copper wiring, became the group's most ambitious undertaking. The rehabilitation effort, added by young carpenters, planners and electricians participating in a large-a-fluelling, a local community program, was so successful that Churas was seen granted a lease.

Mr. Garcia never married. In addition to his daughter, he is survived by two grandchildren.

With PS. 64, Mr. Garcia and Churas "turned something that was empty and ugly and dangerous into a big-land community center." Francisco Gonzalez, a fellow activist who became a real estate project, said in an interview. "He was just a grand leader that had a vision that the neighborhood could be so much more."

Christy Knowings, 46, Zany Star of 'All That' in the '90s

By ISRAEL DESAI

and JONATHAN WOLFE

Christy Knowings, an actress who played absurdist characters on the '90s sketch comedy show "All That" died on Sunday in Long Beach, Calif. She was 46.

Her death, in a hospital, was confirmed by her father, Charles Dunn, who said that she went into cardiac arrest after experiencing a severe asthma attack.

"All That," a Nickelodeon show, was a PG version of "Saturday High Live" featuring a diverse cast and musical performances by hip-hop and R&B stars such as TLC, Aadjiah and Usher. Its joyful silliness made it a major children's television hit. The weekly show aired for 10 seasons and helped start the careers of Nick Cannon, Amanda Rynes and Kenan Thompson, who is the longest-squared cast member in "S.A.L." history.

Creating and playing absurdist characters on a sketch TV show.

"I think what made it special was really the issue that was being created and maintained," Ms. Knowings said in a 2020 interview. "This note that was equal parts funny in a very slapstick but also really smart way."

Christy Lorraine Knowings was born Feb. 23, 1960, in the Bronx, and attended the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan. She loved in sing and dance from an early age, but her father said that it was not until high school that she realized a career in entertainment was possible.

When she was 17, a casting

agent spotted her when she was appearing an an extra on a Nickelodeon pilot hosted by Butte O'Donnell, "And Now This!" While on set, her twin brother, Christopher Knowings, pushed her to show off her talent, including some accents and voices she had practiced.

"And I just banned out like a bunch of them, back to back," she later recalled.

Her father said that "shortly after that, she was on a plane to Los Angeles."

Ms. Knowings joined the cast of "All That" in 1997 and stayed for three seasons. She was best known for playing eccentric characters, including Brenda Stone, a news anchor with an exaggerated accent; Jessica, a boy-crazy TV host who talked like a Valley Girl; and her personal favorite, Gloria Battlehead, who Ms. Knowings described in 2019 as "an over-the-top

Martha Stewart."

She would receive the next week's script each Friday and spend the weekend creating the characters. "I would just look at the script and be like, 'OK, well, who am I going to be here?'" she recalled. "What kind of voice would match this personality that the writers have in mind?"

"I did do impersonations," she added, "but my thing was really creating new characters."

She described "All That" as a show that gave its young accent of secret backgrounds the creative freedom to put their own spin on characters.

"The diversity in the cast made a huge difference because there were things that the writers just couldn't write in," she said the news she Buvile in 2019. She add to: "On from the Bronx and No. five American Afro-Latina, so I was able to bring no much to the

table. We would bring cultural nuances and a love celebration."

Ms. Knowings also appeared with her twin brother in episodes of "Sesame Street" and gossipcared on the '90s public show "New York Undercover." Aside from her television roles, Ms. Knowings was a musician and a singer. She also did voice-over

Christy Knowings in 2017. Aside from her television work, Ms. Knowings was also a musician and a singer.

work for commercials and digital books.

In addition to her father and twin brother, Ms. Knowings is survived by her mother, Minee Knowings Dunn, and her siblings Charles Dunn Jr., Ashley Dunn Lodge, Teronika Vega, Tamsa Dunn and Lee Eder.

Though "All That" went off the air in 2005, Ms. Knowings said it meant years that fans of the show would reach out to her on social media to tell her what she and the show had meant to them.

"I've had people tell me they had a hard childhood, but then they would turn the show on," she said. She said that more fans had told her that they would "specifically look for me and I would bring them a lot of, you know, joy."

"And that's really amazing," she said.

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He Never Wanted to Get Political

The comic and podcast host Stavros Halkias discusses his new TV special, advising insets and comedy's rightward creep.

By JOE CONCARELLI and JOY CARAMANICA

During the past few years, comedy in the mainstream has turned toward the inter- personally brutish, the publically conserva- tive and the offhandedly vital. At each of these turns, Stavros Halkias has blanched, and tried to intervene — while still, you know, being funny.

That's made the joyously petty-mouthed and determinedly blue-collar Halkias as unexpectedly defiant — and popular — fig- ure, mixing humor about the tragedies of American politics with self-lansening bits about his body, drug intake and vast yet fragile ego.

It's all on display in Halkias's new com- edy special, "Uncle fear," coming to Netflix next month, in which the comedian knows

for cutting his level, every-millennial stocker humor with sharp, working-class insights reckons with the past couple of years of growing success, and growing cup- ing mechanisms.

The set was filmed at the Lyric Theater in his hometown, Baltimore, where Halkias, 37, once saw Chris Buck. "I'd seen small stand-up shows and was thinking about do- CONTINUED ON PAGE C1

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For His Pianist Friends

Ellis Ludwig-Leone composed an album of nocturnes, each for a contemporary to play at home.

Nocturnes dominate Ellis Ludwig-Leone's "Quiet Hours," his intimate album of nine solo piano pieces.

By BRIAN SEIBERT

Unlike most other musicians, pianists rarely carry their instruments with them. Wherever they go to perform, they work with what's there.

"We're nomads," the pianist Adam Trox- ler said. "The pianos we play are strangers to us, and we usually have a very short time to make a home at them. We become ex- perts in making a home wherever we are."

The composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone was thinking along that line two years ago when he took the big step of moving into an apart- CONTINUED ON PAGE C2

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The theater and music event is thriving, but an ousting and a renovation disrupt the calm.

By ADAM NAGOURNEY

SALZBURG, AUSTRIA — Two hours before the certain rose for "Carmen" at the Salzburg Festival here recently, the soprano Asmik Grigoriuo was in her dressing room at the Grosses وموظفana talking about how the show almost didn't go on.

Grigoriuo's debut as Carmen, in a new production by Gabriela Carrino, was a high point of the six-week festival of music and theater — widely viewed as Europe's pre- mier classical music event — at the foot of the Austrian Alps.

But Grigoriuo said she had wanted to cancel after the festival board voted to March to terminate the contract of its artis- tic director, Markus Henschlauer, who has been the brilliant if temperamental face of the festival far more than a decade. She re- lered, she said, out of loyalty to Hin- schlauer, who, she noted, had helped make her career.

"This feels very strange and empty," Grigoriuo said if this summer's festival. "It was planned by Markus Henschlauer, and we are all here because of him. It feels a bit like a boat without a captain." CONTINUED ON PAGE C3

The Salzburg Festival's red carpet event in Austria. The six-week event sold $20,000 tickets this season.

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8 Edinburgh Fringe Shows Deliver the Buzz

On a treadmill, turning trauma into laughs or re-enacting a conspiracy, these acts are winning over audiences and critics.

Elf Lyons

It's usually tricky to effectively describe a show by Elf Lyons (above). Her Fringe act this year. "Elf Lyons Is the Woman on the Edge," is no different, but at its core it's about a breakup — a two, high-concept re-selling of the upheaval she suffered when her fiancé broke up with her via WhatsApp message.

Lyons, who trained as a clever, appears disheveled in a cocktail show, standing on tiptoe, and the show no longer high heels. She lip synes to real voice notes and enlists an audience member to read a standpipe about the relationship. There's also a song made up of actual obnoxious things that men have said to her.

Lyons is a staple of the Fringe, known for softest hours like those that peels drawing in new directions. This time, which is filled as a comedy, has an emotional climax that packs an additional punch. The show's caught ended with a standing ovation and some audience members to react.

JELLSON KATHRICH

Through Aug. 31 at Pleasance Courtyard, from Sept. 3-4 Oct. 18 at the Salto Playhouse in New York.

Frankie McNair

Every year, comedian at the Fringe try to turn personal trauma into comedy gold.

When this year's festival began, the media spotlight was on Amanda Kane's attempt to do that with a show about how a label murder conviction has shaped her life. But at the end of the first week, critics are raving about Frankie McNair, an Australian comedian whose show "Huge Ass Window" turns her childhood experiences of sexual abuse into a hilarious, inspiring and shocking hour.

This spring, McNair (above) was among the nominees for best show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. "Don't be surprised if she is mentioned for best show here, too," Steve Benson, the editor of the British comedy website Charlie, said in an interview at the Fringe.

McNair said the show, which she's performing after being in therapy for 12 years, was more open and vulnerable than any of her previous work. "I wanted to show the impacts of surviving child sexual assault, which is incredibly common," she said, "but then also the fun that it can get better."

She said that child sex abuse should be openly talked about — even to comedy. If that happens, McNair added, perpetrators are "less likely to get away with it."

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Through Aug. 30 at Gilded Bellows Toned.

Sam Eley

Sam Eley's show is not for people who like an early night — it starts at 11:30 p.m. — but the hour, in which Eley performs wearing a huge papier-mâché head, is a must-see for comedy fans.

He's performing as Basil Crumbwick (above), an aging man with bloodshot eyes, who happily with the packed audience about his out-there world views, his loneliness and his attempts to beat the blues by befriending his local insult collector.

Eley, 22, said in an interview that he had started performing as Crumbwick two years ago when he became tired of doing regular musical, initially, he did the character while wearing a mask that he'll beagle while on vacation in Boston.

The head is feeling consciously. Eley said, but it has its downside: "I get's like a children in there by the time I take it off."

He has now added an extra show to meet demand at the more reasonable base of 7:30 p.m. But if you can't return to Eley, the Eley head to Maya Kozor's "My Anti," another later-night convention in White Room, a former Mexican singer, and a former bandit, surgically enhanced Latin diva trying to secure their dream acting role. It's an dramatic, passion-fueled and silly as the best Latin soap operas. ALEX KATHRICH

Through Aug. 30 at Monkey Barrel Comedy.

'The Distance'

"The Distance" is an autobiographical one-nast play, written and performed by Ben Norris, a former long-distance runner whose sports career was prematurely ended by a serious injury. It caught the eye at this year's Fringe because of the remarkable physicality of Norris's performance, which combines storytelling with constant athletic movement.

The set features a treadmill inside a large cube of iron scaffolding. When Norris isn't running on the machine, he is clambering daredevilably on the bars (above), its one point he hangs upside-down by his feet, like a bat.

This is all in service to Norris's portrait of Chris, a precariously talented British youngster who steals in cross-country runs

and eventually receives a call-up for the national athletics squad. But when his knee gives out, shattering his dream of representing his country at the 2012 Olympics in London, Chris is plunged into depression.

Norris has been making theatre since 2015, and while his voracious exertions bring the story to life, evoking endurance and endeavor, the script is also impressively taut. This is no novelty act.

And when Norris enlists an audience member to play the role of Chris's mother in several self-billed exchanges, the effect is surprisingly poignant. Norris's Fringe debut is an absorbing, coming-of-age talk delivered with a winning, understated charisma. ROCHEST BARRICK

Through Aug. 31, at Summerhall.

'The Plot'

When "The Plot" begins, the brothers Tom and Robert Watson are wallowing in purgatory after their great execution for trying to blow up the British Parliament in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Over the next hour, we revisit that conspiracy — a real historical event that Britons communicate every year with a fireworks night named after one of the conspirators, Guy Fawkes — through a series of time-hopping set pieces.

Sophie Baan and Almy McCann (from left, above) play the Watson brothers as well as several other figures including Edward Coke, the attorney general who prosecuted the plotters, and King James I, who was their No. 1 target. The material has

some historical resonance for the locals among the Fringe audience, since James I was also James VI of Scotland, the first face to become King of England. (He was born in nearby Edinburgh Castle.)

The show's writer and director, Emma Howlett, enjoys a growing reputation in British theater circles as an intellectually ambitious dramatist whose ideas-driven plays explore questions of narrative, power and knowledge. Scythilly rendered, with spoons fighting, and spacepower guts, "The Plot" is both an inquiry into the psychology of artificial extremism and a meditation on mythmaking. ROCHEST BARRICK Through Aug. 31 at Summerhall.

Bella Hull

Carr numbers and writers from the British "Saturday Night Live" are everywhere at this year's Fringe, and audiences are snapping up their tickets.

But Bella Hull (above), a writer for the show, a growing time a stardom with "Mad Cow Disease," a fast-rafting and frenzied show that Hull has described as "a little bit Bridges Jockey." It tackles well-worn topics like family, relationships and mental illness, but in cutting and unexpected ways.

She kicks off her stand-up show with some seemingly aggressive crowd work, asking audience members to receive questions about their last trip to the doctor. She's now got into about an act infestation in her apartment, why she relates to terrorists and an episode in which she imagines that she's not the case, when asked.

Hull's show last Fringe was also a big hit, and this year she has extra momentum from "S.N.L." and her appearances on "Harm's Cat News for You," a BBC comedy about show. She's been selling out — not so easy at a 12:30 p.m. site — and Tina Fey even popped by an Day 1 of the festival. JELLSON KATHRICH

Joseph Morpurgo

About 10 years ago, Joseph Morpurgo bought a 1979 American high school yearbook at a rummage sale. Since then, he's mined its depths to make "Highlander 76," a zippy, tightly crafted comedy show about an extraordinary student's quest to find love in the last days before graduation.

Using a slide show of black-and-white photos from the yearbook, and turning its subjects into characters and its oddities into possibilities, Morpurgo (above) invents a world within the school using multimedia elements, musical interludes and audience participation, with appreciative seals to yearbook ads from Jim's Steak and Spaghetti House.

Morpurgo is a celt Fringe figure who had a series of award-winning shows after his 2013 debut. But he must or less disappeared from the scene in 2017, and this is his first new Fringe-show since then. It was hotly anticipated by them to the know, and a free-star review plus softest shows suggest that he's being up to the hype. JELLSON KATHRICH

Through Aug. 30 at Pleasance Courtyard, from Sept. 29-30 to 17 at Salto Theater in London.

Mark Watson

As one of Britain's most beloved comedians, Mark Watson could have cruised this year's Fringe by selling out a simple stand-up boat. But instead he staged his first children's show.

He stoned it at 5 to 10 year-olds, and Watson (above) promised to teach them "everything you'll ever need to know for the rest of your life." But his bizarre "clamor" often descended into chaos, with the uninhibited younger audiences far more likely than adult crowds to buckle — or even invade his stage.

The show, which holds in Sunday, became a hit, with so many intrigued adults buying tickets that Watson added extra, higher-capacity gigs.

The comedian said in an interview that allowed a cigar up with her idea to do a children's show, his impulse was to fill it with chewing and visual gaps, but then he decided he "didn't want to patronize kids by assuming they just want to see me covered in baked beans."

Watson, 40, said he felt as if he were starting out again, "which is my age to a fair novelty." There was just one thing he had to mention himself: do not sneak the children. "I had a girl take almost a minute to answer a question at the days ago," he said. And it took me to beginning that with almost to being funny, because the rest of the crowd could see me desperately wanting to cut her off." ALEX KATHRICH

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meet with his girlfriend and a friend gave them an old upright.

"I was trying to make the place feel like home," he said, "so I started playing the piano a lot."

This led to the idea of composing "Quiet Hours," an intimate album of nine solo piano pieces that was released on Friday. They're all nocturns, a form for associates with the magic and mystery of the night, he said, "when you can't quite know what's met and what isn't." He wrote each for a different pianist friend, including Time Anders, Teodor, Simone Dinnerstein and Aaron Dodd. And he asked them to record on an instrument they considered a home piano.

Ludwig-Leone reserved a nocturne for himself and for recorded it on the piano he's been playing since he was 16, a 1999 State-

Nocturnes evoke

magic and mystery

for a composer.

way. L at his parents' house in Brooklyn. He's used it as several recordings, including the debut album of San Fermin (2012), the radio-rock collective he leads.

For many years, Ludwig-Leone's artistic output has been split. On the one hand, there's his work for San Fermin. And on the other, there are his classical music compositions (for instance Queries, Eighth Blackbird and other forward-looking recordings) and theatrical pieces, like "The Night Kids," the 2013 collaboration with the author Karen Russell and the choreographer Troy Schottacher.

"I've thought of composition as building a house or making structures," he said, "and supporting more as inviting someone in for coffee."

While the nocturnes on "Quiet Hours" performed complex contemporary classical compositions, they are at heart songs, even talkaboo. The idea of creating an album of piano music struck Ludwig-Leone as an un-

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comfortably saved-gazing and exposed end-nerve, he said. But thinking of the project as writing songs for friends put it more in his comfort zone of collaboration.

For Ludwig-Leone, writing for specific pianists was like writing for singers. "It has to make sense to them," he said. "There's a lot more room for things that feel a bit unfinished because it allows the performer to decide what to do with it."

Dinnerstein said: "Ellis is quite attuned to people's individuality. He understands how a piece has to belong to the person interpreting it." A couple parts of Dinnerstein's nocturne felt uncomfortable to be, so Ludwig-Leone changed them.

Dinnerstein described all the nocturnes as "sort of odd," stressing a resemblance to the music of Charles Ives. "Sometimes they're extremely snagful and lyrical and then there's a quirk or a little joke," she said.

"Everything feels a bit off," Teodor said of his nocturne, adding that when he continued to Ludwig-Leone that sections were confusing him, the composer "sudded his head like a happy dog." That's when Teodor understood that the odd hits were insinuated.

Teodor incorporated the piece into his daily practicing, and when he performed it in concert, "listeners weren't confused by it all," he said. "They have a dialogue between

the nostalgic, quaint hits and the Ivesian dissonances and outbursts."

For the recording, Teodor said he didn't want to use his home piano, "a glossy working girl from the '80s, which I forbid almost everyone to hear." Instead he played a 2022 Yamaha Concert Grand at the Yamaha Art-era Services Studio. "It's kind of a home away from home," he said.

But Teodor talked about the importance of the Miller high grand that most of his family played at their home in Vietnam, the one he felt in love with — from undercoats — as a toddler. "I still carry the DNA of that piano with me," he said.

Although Dinnerstein recorded on her home instrument during his pandemic — "when there was no traffic on music," she said — for this project she chose a piano with a different sentimental value. It was the 1998 Steinway D in the studio of her longtime producer Adam Abenbaum, who died in 2024. According to the piano, it "felt like Adam was around us," she said. "Even his dog was there."

Other pianists took the "home piano" prompt more literally. In modern's case, the instrument — a Bissendorfer 200 from the 1920s — was not only the one in his apartment; it was also the one that had changed to his childhood piano teacher. After the teacher died, he bought it from her children,

paying in installments.

"I like to think I could pick it out in a blind listening test," he said. "It's kind of like a member of the family at this point." He started recording on it when the pandemic kept him homebound, and now he does so all the time.

Dodd, best known for his work in jazz, was recording for the first time on his home piano, a 1996 Steinway M acquired a dozen years ago through an estate sale. He said the title of Ludwig-Leone's album recorded site of the "quiet hours" in his apartment building, enforced by neighbors who complain about his practicing.

"There's a comfort in recording on an instrument that's familiar, a level of confidence and trust," Dodd said. But he also noted that the jazz virtuoso Art Saran would intentionally play an instrument that were subpar just to see what he could get out of them. "It's like that old saying, A manner doesn't blame their tools," Dodd said.

That comfort is what Ludwig-Leone was after, a honeymoon for his sometimes unsettling music. And he has even more home pianos in mind for his "Quiet Hours" nocturnes. Along with the album, he's releasing the sheet music in a PDF songbook.

"It's nice to imagine these pieces living in someone else's house," he said.

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This Week on TV

A SELECTION OF SHOWS, SPECIALS AND WIVES, BY DEFAIR GONZALEZ

Five Charming Goofballs

Three words that describe the core five characters of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' are: chaotic, hectic and frantic. But that's the charm of these people. The series is beginning in 10th season with two back-to-back episodes that follow Frank (Disney DeVita), who is feeling nervous about marrying the communist home on a tour. 'Golden Bachelor' last season (though the real-life 'Bachelor' host, Jesse Palmer, was there), and Charlie (Charlie Day), as he prepares to bury his mother, Bonnie (Lynne Marie Stewart, who died last year), local of course, Don (Kathleen Davis), Mac (Bob May) and Dennis (Glenn Howerson) round out the gang, Monday at 9 p.m. on TV.

When 'Outer Banks' premiered in April 2026, the country was in the throes of the Covid-19 pandemic, and everyone was stuck at home. The cast of characters — including Sarah Cameron (Madelyn Clare), J.J. (Rudy Pankow), John B. (Chase Sisters), Kiera (Madison Bailey) and Ruth Cameron (Steve Starkey) quickly became familiar form as a group of friends who hunt for treasures on North Carolina's herter islands. Now they're wragging up their journey in this fifth and third season, where 10 episodes will be released together. The group, stuck in Morocco after a tragic death, gave up to fight for their independence and return home. Begins streaming Thursday in Netflix.

Watching a Real Lion Cub Grow Up

In 2018, Jan Forvone directed a phenomenistic, yet still animated version of the classic 10th Disney film 'The Lion King.' Now he is the executive producer of a four-part character in it. 'Lion,' which follows Kin, a cub, as he grows over four years. The series will also feature an original score by Hans Zimmer. Begins streaming Wednesday on Hulu and Disney+.

From left: Disney DeVita, Glenn Howerson, Bob Mac and Charlie Day in 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.'

From left: Steve Starkey, Jonathan Davies, Carlucia Grant, Chase Stokes and Madelyn Clare in the series 'Outer Banks.'

The Kardashian family has been on reality television for nearly 20 years. 'Keeping up with the Kardashian began in 2007. While that show and 'The Kardashians' sell the stories of the family members, the new series 'The Dirt: A Milan'. Kardashian Project follows their inner circles, Matika Hoag, an longtime best friend, hosts the cast of this reality show. It also includes her twin sister, Elizabeth Hoag, as well as Natalie Baker, Yris Palmer, Olivia Pierson and Nicole Williams English. The series's six episodes will follow the women as they navigate high-profile lives, motherhood and friendship. All episodes are together. Begins streaming Friday on Hulu. 'Coman O'Brien doesn't like to stay just while recording his picture. 'Coman O'Brien Needs a Friend,' he also travels the

world for his TV series 'Coman O'Brien Must Be,' which is picking back up for Season 2 this week, across four episodes, O'Brien travels to India, the Netherlands, Morocco and the Philippines to take in the culture, visit landmarks and interact with locals. Friday at 9 p.m. on BBC

An Aviation Company Investigation

After working for three decades at Boeing, John Barnett retired in 2017 and later filed a whistle-blower complaint with regulatory describing deadly production of the company's T6T Dreamstime. He then sued the company, and right before a hearing in 2024, Barnett was found dead in his truck from what appeared before a self-inflicted gunman on hand. The new feature length documentary 'Foustal: A Reckoning for Boeing' continues investigating concerns Barnett raised about the aviation company and other concerns about its T6T MAX series jets. Begins streaming Wednesday on Netflix.

The Run for a Million is an annual heretofore, the most significant 10th season. The run for a Million is an annual heretofore, the most significant 10th season. The run for a Million is an annual heretofore, the most significant 10th season.

Details and times are subject to change.

JASON ZINOMAN | ON COMEDY

A Stand-Up Finds Joy On a Wobbly Lightrope

Rory Scovel combines the appearance of unpredictability with the possibility of disaster.

PERFECTION ISN'T FUNNY. Flaws are. Troutels never makes people laugh the way struggle goes. More than any other stand-up today, Rory Scovel understands and exploits the daredevil humor of courting disaster.

It's why he titled his initial Netflix special 'Rory Scovel' from Stand-Up for the First Time.' And performed 10 nights in a row at Brooklyn's Union Hall with an essential, see providing hour after hour. (I saw two of the shows and they were terrible and wonderful and never boring.) One of his funniest experiences is of a guy who doesn't know how to play the piano faking his way through it.

His blizzies now special, 'Show Must Go On' (Netflix), his best one yet, begins with him average at a complete loss, in trouble. trying to get ready to remember his joke he is supposed to tell, before announcing with a mix of swagger and self-rugged that he's just going to wing it.

'Whether this was planned doesn't matter. The appearance of unpredictability combined with the possibility of catastrophe is riveting, maybe more so than the reality of it — an idea he blends in his next lead. In a characteristic quicksilver shift of perspective, he initiates the thought process of someone in the crowd: 'I like that he

winged it, but I don't like that he had to.' Scovel doesn't have to. A profile and relentlessly self-punvelling performer, in the vote of early, white-coated Steve Martin, he has made me laugh harder than any other trying stand-up over the past decade. He hit the goofy charm to be funny just by leaning back, painstaking his belly and pressing. But his ambition leads him to aim for bigger, messier, more explosive comedy, the kind in which comedian dig themselves into a tone and create spectacles out of seeing if they can clue their way out.

Focusing on the big-robot subjects of religion, sex, politics and family, Scovel defends severely fully provocative but takes, 'What if the Proud Boys had beautiful singing voices?' He observes stand-ups who ponder to right-wing audiences. 'Us comics,' he says in the voice of an opportunist, 'We have to go tell if we want to go a little green.'

Scovel likes his relationship with his audience to be conspicuous. Every time he makes a point that gets applause he erupts in anger. 'I don't need insomnance,' he obviates his hair, before starting himself. 'My new drug is yellow at anyone who agrees.' (At the end of one of his previous specials, the audience carried him outside and threw him into a daughter.)

Scovel's need is alienate extends to his slippery persona as the worst family man, a terrible husband, a propanorously party father. Insuring his child call him 'Papa,' he tells her. 'I want to hear those I've pop.'

His specials never entirely translate the barreling, freewheeling momentum of his

'Show Must Go On' is Rory Scovel's new stand-up comedy special on Netflix.

live shows. But this one comes close: it has a lucky spirit, but also a new conviction. It's the most bloody typical and pageability personal hour but transferred to enough layers of self-deprecating oblivion that you might not notice.

His longtime director, Scott Moran, keeps the mood open, mostly in and merely on comfortable. For a middle-aged married comic, Scovel does a huge amount of material about sex, much of it devoted to made him look bad at it and seriously frustrated. There is of course a long history of comics complaining about their wives, but Scovel

practices an elaborate version: One of his longest, funniest hits imagines his own death and how he would haunt his wife. This turns into a novella-like portrait of her new life after she remarries a guy named Todd. What begins as a verse revenge fantasy comes off as a very humane portrait of a kind man who replaces him.

In a typically absurd moment, Scovel, as a ghost, yells at Todd in the manner of a person loving an argument: 'Solex built this house.' Then he immediately clarifies: 'You, we rest, but what I'm basically saying is that jokes pay for the mortgage for that other family to own this house.' Struggling, he adds, 'It's not nothing.'

There's humor in the subtext but also the emotional performance. Scovel is a fine actor, and he sees that still in his jokes. The special starts with a question about less. Many comics talk about tragedies, a trauma to add a dimension, a fork to their act. But there's no divide between light and dark to Scovel's autobiographical material. He knows bigger laughs are in the increasingly heinous gravity and majestically.

His closer is a long set piece that is an absolute master class in craftsmanship. It's the best sentimental hit about the death of a parent that you will see. And while he likes the first himself into positions that make him look like an amateur, this performance reveals Scovel is an assured, highly skilled person knows how to pass a joke, hide this direction and weave multiple narratives into one practising. Winging it, in the end, takes a lot of work.

Digging a hole outage and then riding out of it on a wave of laughter.

Countries in War Zones Can No Longer Host Eurovision

The song contests organizers announced new rules, without referring to specific nations.

By ALEX MARSHALL

Countries whose security is as risk because of war or 'a sensitive geopolitical situation' will no longer be able to lose the Eurovision Song Contest, its organizers said as part of a series of rule changes.

The nation that visits the contest usually hails the next year's event. But the European Broadcasting Union said an Wednesday that a winning nation would not be allowed to do so if it were involved in 'an armed conflict, a sensitive geopolitical situation or any other地区 or more fully affects the security, safety or stability of their state or immediate region.'

It did not specify any nations that would be immediately disallowed from hosting Eurovision under the new rules.

A Eurovision spokesman would not say whether this would include Israel. Any assessment of a country's ability to host will occur 'teach closer' to a Eurovision final, he said in an email.

But the move follows years of uproar over Israel's participation in the competition in which singers, representing countries, compete for views from the public and jurists, just year, five countries that regularly send artists to Eurovision, including Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands, sponsored a boycott of the contest over Israel's involvement given the conflict in Gaza.

Israel has also caused controversy at Eurovision in recent years because of a government influence campaign to try to win the event, which included YouTube advertisements promoting its acts and singing viewers to cast their 20 allotted votes for those performers.

As a result of the uproar surrounding that campaign, Eurovision's organizers banned attempts to unduly influence results and reduced the number of votes that viewers could cast in it.

Eurovision experts have also long warned that the event would fall apart if Israel were to win while war was being waged in the Middle East, because more countries would refuse to send artists to an event in 2024 now.

Since 1973, Israel has been one of the most successful Eurovision nations. It has won four times, and it last hosted in 2018.

Israel has also performed strongly in the years since the Human-led attacks of Oct. 1, 2023. It came second in the past two years; Bulgaria won this year, and Austria won in 2025.

Gaza Valistic, the author of a book about the political history of Eurovision, said in an interview that the rule change only formalized a previous position.

In 2022, Ukraine won the contest, meaning that it typically would have hosted the 2023 event. But because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the contest was held in Liverpool, England, instead.

'So it is not just about Israel,' Valetic said, although he added that 'Israel is currently Eurovision's biggest political concern' and that the move by Eurovision's organizers was probably intended to spell that's around the possibility that Israel could host.

Valetic said the announcement could appease nations concerned about the effects that an Israeli win could have on the contest, but that 'it was unlikely to placate countries or fans who want Israel banned from the event entirely.'

Eun, the Israeli broadcaster that chooses Israel's Eurovision, at did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Uncertain Times Test the Thriving Salzburg Festival

CONFUSSION FROM PAGE 21

“I hope with all my heart that this festival will continue to exist,” she added, “as the most beautiful way, as it did when he was here.

An major classical music organization, particularly in the United States, are stringy, gling with declining audiences, young roots and a government shift in musical tastes, the Salzburg Festival are thriving. The streets in this city where Mozart was here were bustling that month with women (and a few more) in determining games, as well as men (and a few women) in black for and white (ie. They suppressed celebrations) and musical suffocating beat that turned a performance of disconcert “Saint François d’Annon” in the family air-constitution Felsorenbrücke into a six-hour endurance test.

The festival, with its 500 million annual budget, said 230,000 tickets this season, with visitors from 60 countries. “Can't you we had about 50 percent of seats sold, and this year it will be over 80 percent,” Lukas Crepas, the executive director of the festival, said. That's a benchmark that would be the very 14 most open to state and country halls. Salzburg draws a largely well-to-do crowd, paying $358 for first-in-the-house seats. (The least expensive seats go for $1,161.)

But for all that, the festival is outfilling in an atmosphere as tense and uncertain as any since World War II. It is shaken by the departure of Hinterhäuser, whose contract was originally set to test through 2031 but was terminated in spring; “effective immediately,” the board said, because of “irreconcilable differences of opinion.”

And the festival is getting for a $800 million rehabilitation project that will turn the festival complex into a semi-annual site through 2032. The project, which begins in fall, includes the closing of the festival's largest hall, the 2,200-seat Freistipithaus, scoring the loyalty of patrons who will be dispatched to a yet-to-the-cleaner temporary theater.

A new director will mean a new direction for a festival that has long been identified with traditional classical repertoire but that over the past 20 years has presented more adventurous productions. “I think you will see a new fundraving,” said Ericson Hammon, the president of the festival. “Everybody has their own interpretation. But the DNA I'm sure will not be changed.”

And like many major classical organizations in Europe, Salzburg is esteemed with the government. About 20 percent of its budget comes from government funding, and the supervisory board is made up in part of elected officials. That has added to

Top left: The Grossen Festspielhaus, the Salzburg Festival's biggest hall, will be major reservations. Top right: Major updates to the festival site are scheduled to last through 2035. Right, the festival attracts a well-to-do crowd.

“I see challenges, but I don't see the end of the Salzburg Festival.”

BARRY KINDY THEATER AND OPERA DIRECTOR

the season, particularly because this is an era of remembrance and rising conservative power.

Barrie Kiedy, the theater and opera director who drew a prolonged ovation here on opening night of his production of Boston's “6 Taggie a Retire,” said that Hinterhäuser's firing was “indicative of a larger problem that's happening in Europe with cultural institutions and politics,” pointing to Paris, Rome, Berlin and Munich.

“I'm not interested in klame-gaming,” Kiedy said. “However, I see a complete breakdown in the communication system between artists, artistic institutions and politics. Doctors, Lack of communication, a lack of understanding from the political side that their job is to put people in positions of leadership and authority that come up with the ideas.”

Festival officials said they intended to minimize the cost of the festival. During this interregnum, Hinterhäuser, who lives in Salzburg, remains very much a presence. He planned this summer's festival, which is nearly “Carmen” and its merits production as “Saint François”. He also turned up to play piano at two recitals and discreetly attended the season's major productions, though he said he made a point of not going on opening nights to avoid uncomfortable encounters with the board.

“It's been awkward,” Hinterhäuser said at a call: a mile from his old office.

Discreet or not, Hinterhäuser is nearly as

much a part of the conversation this year as Grigorian or the mezzo-soprano Cecilia Barold, another festival staple. His departure was demanded in memory, with almost two leading sales of bridges involving the man who was described by several former associates as an inspirational artist but an often-difficult supervisor.

Epistole: Edmunds', the governor of Salzburg, Saint and head of the festival board, declined a request for an interview to discuss Hinterhäuser's departure. “Both parties agreed to confidentiality in the mutual separation agreement concluded between the Salzburg Festival Fund and the Hinterhäuser,” said Christoph Beleni, a spokesman for Edmunds'.

Hinterhäuser opened his departure as “politics” and said the main point of contention was the board's challenging his authority to appoint Karin Bergmann as head of drama, which, he said, “is absolutely exclusively a decision for the artists director.”

“It's a pure power game,” he said. “This was how words of full, it measures. A public massacre.”

He added: “This was the greatest privilege of my life to be in this position and now it's kind of ruined.”

Grigorian was in the only one distressed about Hinterhäuser's departure. “Most artists were in a sense of shock,” said the director Peter Seltzer, a major contributor to the festival for nearly 20 years. “Markus had taken the place to such an extraordinary level. Every artist was completely supported,” Markus'.

But Bergmann, who was appointed historic artistic director, said that Salzburg was “such a unique brand, such a strong brand, that a change in leadership is perhaps a little farcey,” adding, “it's not really something that changes anything.”

Barold, the artistic director of Salzburg's Witness Festival, said the transition “is absolutely natural and has happened throughout the festival's history.”

A changing of the guard, though, is not the only uncertainty clouding the horizon. The interaction project is ambitious. Plans call for starting down workshops, where all aspects of productions are built (from sets to comments), to make way for larger ones. The wings and backstage in the Festspielhaus, which have been considered too small for a stage of the same lesson since it opened in 1991, are being greatly expanded. It's kind of thriving — workers still use repertoire to lift and lower sets — is going to be replaced with unexpected systems. And yes, the climate-challenged air-conditioned systems in on the upgrade list.

It would be daunting under the best air-conditioners. But the festival venues are

carved into the rock of the Müncheberg, the M3 that leaves over old town, and are part of a UNESCO World Heritage director, which largely lions any kind of significant alterations in the historic halls. No building up or not. Any expansion has to be borrowed into the rock.

This is going to be one of the first challenges the Hinterhäuser's successes. “They have to find anyone weane,” Bergmann said, “and they have to find a program that is adapted to those stories venues.”

Hinterhäuser's imprint on the festival has been particularly clear this summer. The new “theatres” is the first being too cerebral or dark, and there have been few comparisons of new issues during his reign, his festivals have offered a steady diet of at least a radical interpretation of traditional works.

Productions this year learned dead birds dropping from the sky, free sheep and dogs musing and abundant mighty. A staging of Dracun's “Acuilite sat’Haunt,” by the Berlin director of our Reading, celebrates they in Mars, with videos of spaceships, exploding planets and airports in space with. The base started the second the stage went dark.

“Markus did a great job to present this year, but under the definition way,” said Manfred Hensch, who conducted “Acuilite” and was not surprised by the facts. “He had a fantastic way of having the right properties of that what we expect but also nice elements and new things, which are I think so exciting. I think that's one of the reasons why it's nearly cold out.”

Bergmann praised Hinterhäuser's programming, but suggested his limitations running an operation with a work force that swells in 1,000 people during the summer. “It is not so easy to do this job” she said. “If you're an artist yourself, as Mr. Hinterhäuser is, it's perhaps sometimes a problem for them to communicate the way that managers and organization leaders are expected to continue.”

“Normally, everyone lived with, ‘this is a big artist, and he is full of temperament, and he has to let out his aggressions and his emotions, and that is the main thing,’” she said. “That doesn't work today!”

Kiedy said that while Hinterhäuser had been responsible “for an amazing chapter” at Salzburg, it was clear for him to move on.

“We say in Valdish, sprang is spring — enough to enough. What happened has happened,” said Kiedy, who is frequently mentioned as a possible successor to Hinterhäuser. “I see challenges, but I don't see the end of the Salzburg Festival. Maybe a change of direction. Maybe it reinverses itself as something different.”

DANIEL LEWIS | CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

Daniel Barenboim Returns to the Podium

The conductor leads his group of Arab and Israeli musicians after being slowed by illness.

IN A 1999 INTERVIEW, the conductor Daniel Barenboim declared a special offitely for the procession Mount. “Look, I know very well what it means always to be too young for everything,” Barenboim, a former child prodigy, said. The single trait. He was an international concert pianist at 16, debating at Carnegie Hall at 14.

Now 63 and navigating a debilitating illness himself, he seems suddenly, sadly, too, and he many things — although he has done a lot since announcing his “serious neurological condition” in 2022.

After stopping down as the music drive, over the Berlin State Opera a year later was held. As a soloist, the director general Daniel Barenboim has appeared occasionally with the Haunshapelle Berlin, the Berlin Philharmonic and at La Scala in Milan. It was only last year, though, when his highly had become viable and well-able, that he confirmed that his condition was Parkinson's disease.

The illness has done little, however, to drive Barenboim's commitment to the West. He is a member of the city, who should be founded in 1999 with the Palestinian intellectual Edward Said to bring young Arab and Israeli musicians together. On Thurs-

day, Barenboim appeared with the orchestra at the Waldbühne amphitheater in Berlin before a large and graceful audience.

The outdoor Waldbühne stage is a regular stop on the West-Eastern Divan's annual summer tour, which this year will include the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgibbon in Amsterdam and Philharmonic de Paris. Although somewhat insulated, Barenboim seemed happy to be in familiar surroundings.

Additionally, Barenboim is scheduled to tour with the orchestra for nine more on paperwork in total. And this is a new event in Eastern Divan Festival, planned for Berlin in November, which offers the opportunity to hear the orchestra play music by Pierre Bauler in the techno club Berghahn.

Thursday's concert was one of four this month in which the West-Eastern Divan Orchesters will be joined by To-Vis No — another former child prodigy — for Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B Minor. When Ma and Barenboim came on with their arrestations each other, it was hard to tell whether it was for support or friendliness, or both.

It was a reunion of sorts: Ma was invited to the first West-Eastern Divan workshop, before anyone thought the project would grow into an orchestra. His respect for Barenboim was evident on Thursday in the attention he paid him during the Dvorak, though there was very little to attend to. The baton in Barenboim's right hand barely

pulsed, and his left hand rose only occasionally in carve or point expression here and there.

Three understandal gestures, though, were often extremely effective, and conducted a new time since with even less. The example of Leonard Berenstein conducting a Razzle symphony with just his eyebrows came to mind. West Barenboim did that, in 1961, he could rely on the well-oded machine of the Vienna Philharmonic. There-day's players weren't as well synchronized and couldn't necessarily count on Barenboim, who conducted sound, for clear guidance.

It was fortunate that Ma had just come from Tanglewood, where he had organized

The conductor Daniel Barenboim and the cellist To-Vis No with his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra on Thursday at Waldbühne in Berlin.

a conductor-less performance of Benfou-vers' “frustral” lymphoma. In a program note, he described as “an example of what distributed leadership can sound like and a lesson in the practice of democratic responsibility.” This was exactly the responsibility that he has been to be told to the most commonly intense exchanges. The dialogue between cellist and woodchuck, and cellist and side violin, was pure chamber music.

Mick means Tanglewood experiment aligns with the West-Eastern's Divan's musical and humanitarian ethos, which Barenboim articulated succinctly in the wake of the Hamsu-bal attack on Israel on Oct. 1, 2023: “We have to listen to each other.” As one point of the country's second hall, during Schumann's lymphoma Yes, S. Barenboim's left hand painted in his eye.

He has spent more than 25 years giving this orchestra what they could not get without him. A sound, ‘Hingby’ not running, but Old fashioned, in a way, but not busy. It was there in the contested explosions in the Schumann, the activity of the counterpoint. It is unbalancing. Barenboim's sound, but it's also the orchestra's no cat with.

Barenboim seems to have recognized this. In the statement that announced he had Parkinson's, he said he wanted “to ensure the orchestra's long-term stability and development” and “take an active role in ensuring that the Divan has the opportunity of working with excellent conductors.”

But Barenboim's first move in this direction was a rare message: hiring his close friend Cello Melba to direct a tour with the orchestra earlier this year. Melba is more than a member of the conductor's sitting down. This is not a plan for the future, nor a way to keep this symbol of superficial international cooperation vital.

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ing it," Halkius recalled on Popcast, The New York Times pop culture chat show. "Seeing that level of mastery in person was a really important moment for me. I wasn't even thinking, 'One day I'll headline here.'"

Halkius has been a working stand-up since his last debut, the same as educational prominence, and occasional infamy, on the steadily witty or wittyly drury, podcast "Cara Town" in the late 2010s, alongside the comedian Nick Halkius and Adam Frankland. Since Halkius left this out-wound show in 2022, his maintenance star has been an constant. He hosts a wildly popular podcast, "Starry's World," that strives as a goodly humanist集中体现 in the thought, post-eos neighbors shown limited by them at the peers. And he's an emerging presence in Hollywood, appearing in "Tony," the new film that dramatizes Anthony Beardsley's first job in a kitchen, as a festively had-mouthed line rock, ("The "Tony" director Matt Johnson is also behind "Uncle Size!")

Halkius's colorful supporting role is one in a set of recent film and television spots—including some as a trumpet police officer in Virgin Landtomas's "Rugman" and an exasperated shop manager on the Shane Gifts Netflix stories "Tony"—that allow Halkius to find next-quest used audiences for the personal wields in his comedy. In 2017, he will play a "scouring agent" in Glen Powell's country star in Judd Agnew's next film.

"I got a lot of magic," Halkius pleats. "I was once a beautiful little boy — what happened? Now I'm a bald pervert in the entertainment industry for money, how did this happen?"

In conversation with Popcast's Jan Caramanaca and Joe Canzarelli, Halkius spoke about how his weight has influenced his comedy; his preoccupation with the purity of stand-up culture; giving advice to inесть and how comedy's rightward crony has cut; and both an opportunity for resistance and frustration that he can no longer just work that.

JIM CARAMANCA: I want to lead with a very obvious thing that I realized right away in your upcoming stand-up special, which is that you're wearing Nike Foampeelers, a Baltimore classic. Talk a little bit about the sartorial choice.

STEPHEN MALANG: You're catching me at 25. My life is very dumb. I live this super Peter Pan lifestyle. There's this little thing of "Should I grow up as some point?" The all-red Fountain — I couldn't afford that. The Foampeelers were like $200 in 2007, which is like a $100 shoe today. We did not have it like that in the Halkius household. So I had to wear whatever was on the clearance rack at Shoe City at Eastpoint Mall, and do my best not to get ridiculed.

JIM COSSARELLI: So this was a moment where you're back home in front of your people and you got to just it on?

MALANG: I got Founta, didn't Check me out now, right? I really can't believe what's going on to my life, and I believe it will cost any day now. So I was like, how many times am I really going to get a chance to celebrate Baltimore, to do this as my hometown?

COSSARELLI: One of the main topics of this new special is your body — your health journey, which you've played off of, regardless of the medium. Did you come into this one thinking, this is where I have to really nail this stuff, how that people know me for it?

MALANG: Yeah, culture caught up to me, because I've been thinking about this out while life. There was no way I could do a stand-up special and not address this, because my philosophy is that I want to be an honest as possible — I want to be the same guy on and off stage. And off-stage, weight loss, body-mingy issues — I want to be things that haveຢູ່ against me my whole life without question. It was also a period of my life where I felt like my career was killing me. During my last special, "For Races!," I was in such bad shape, I was hit in (expletive), and no (expletive) up all the time.

CARAMANCA: Did you know you were in bad shape at the time? Did you understand it?

MALANG: I knew [laughs]. I couldn't go up a (expletive) flight of stairs, and going to bed 15 hr. But, "Oh oh, I hope I didn't take too many jobs." It was my life I can't. A "help (expletive), are my dreams going to come true?" And you don't pull the hand brake because you're running out there, and you don't to whatever. I had no tools to deal with it. I was completely like, what it takes for me to get through this is just leaving into my vison. Eating like an animal. I'm so hard to sleep when you're in bad shape. It's a bit of downers, a lot of edibles, a lot of pills.

The same way the Foampeelers were like, "Well, I'm sure, it became. Well, now I'm for me. I got to do stand-up and girls are in my 20th . . . I was in good shape, I was in the job. So, in many ways, this special is me dealing with the failure of what I took to get to that first level of fame. This year, I'm in all trying not to completely give it again.

COSSARELLI: Did you have a wake-up moment?

MALANG: I threw my back out the week before [Sliding Season 1 of] "Tony"—trying to get healthy, ironically I was deadlifting and messed up with my feet. I was in pain. What I should have done was extensive physical therapy for four months. What I did instead was go on tour and shoot a TV show and I had to get cortisone when he set back just to do the rest. I was in pain and fell off a sooner. I should not have been on a scooter, I was working home to get my peanut butter with Top before it melted. It

Photo by David Van Aal, with Mark Smith

was truly a 7-year-old's injury. It's what I got for being a 10-27-year-old trying to do whimsical forces of travel.

COSSARELLI: And where do the GLP-1s enter the equation? You joke to the special that you're on Inglewood.

MALANG: I'm not sponsored — though I'm open to it. If factors [Williams] can do it? That places me off. One of the greatest athletes of all time is doing GLP-1s, and I'm over here, no check? That's not an accomplishment. You gotta get me. The reality is, every time I go on tour I gain weight. So once I started touring again I got on the GLP-1s to try out to lose the progress.

COSSARELLI: I had the thought while watching "Tony" that basically your job is to do what you do outrage and on your podcast, say dirty words and call people names. Impress?

MALANG: Very impress. I don't think I looked at a script — maybe the first day. And then I saw what was going on and I was like, I'm not learning my lines, they don't care about them. I love the movie, actually. When I heard they were doing a Guardian robot thing, I was like, 'This is going to suck.'

The first thing that made me think, 'Oh, they might be cooking tuna,' was when they cast Dominic Seuss. That's an interesting choice. I got a call from Matt [Johnson], he was already in Provincetown, Mass., working on the script. I think he realized they had the 'knee' of a great coming-of-approach. But the kitchen didn't feel real yet — nobody was hurting this kid's bath. And if you're worked any (blue-collar job, that's the reality.

COSSARELLI: You worked in kitchens?

MALANG: My mom was a waitress at a Greek restaurant, and my dad was a contractor. I spent so many summers "working" with my dad, mostly on his female mom watching "Rugman" with the little aluminum foil on the stitches.

But the thing about this movie is, these guys could be in a kitchen, they could be hanging dry-will, working at a toy shop — it doesn't matter. I know those environments, and that's what they were trying to capture. The funniest people I saw were in kitchens, or contractors my dad knew. The first person I saw making first of my dad was one of the friends. I was like, oh, that's fun. The don't have to respect an authority figure. That guy's sitting down my dad. Maybe I don't have to respect him anymore. Those are your first comedic role models, whether you knew it or not. There are people working in kitchens right now who are funnier than every stand-up comedian.

COSSARELLI: And every podcaster, I'm curious what you make of stand-ups who are on much better and more successful at podcasting than they are at stand-up. Is that a dreamer you all talk about among your selves?

"I was once a beautiful little boy — what happened?" Science Halkius asked. "Now I'm a bald pervert in the entertainment industry for money."

Ter me, podcasting was an afterthought — all I cared about was stand-up.

MALANG: Some people just are better at podcasting, and there's nothing wrong with that — you find your little zone. But for me, podcasting was an afterthought — all I cared about was stand-up. Podcasting's (expletive) ways I don't even use my brain when I podcast. The whole idea is, people like this, I've not going to argue with them, I'm going give them what they like. Over time I've found some value in it, and my show is a call-in show — I love interacting with him in a way that both productive for both of us. COSSARELLI: You love connecting with sad ones.

MALANG: I love connecting with sad ones, some. As a former, sometimes current, sad ones — even with the best life of all time, I get it. A lot of the podcast is next outreach. It's like, 'Pellas, we don't gotta be this way, then.'

CARAMANCA: When I think of your appearances on certain podcasts that were more friendly to the right, is that a similar thing? Was there an interventionist quality going into those spaces?

MALANG: It's not calculated. It's just that a lot of mind-up-covers happened, to the last couple years, to have some of the daytime opinions on earth, and they are my friends, and I'm like, all right, guys, can we (expletive) talk about this.

COSSARELLI: You get the "comedian pain" — you like an attractive joke as much as the next guy. I think that makes you an acceptable voice for those political conversations, especially because I think the main thing a lot of comedians were reacting to was the feeling that people were trying to silence them.

MALANG: And it's so clear they were wrong. COSSARELLI: You were one of the comedians who came out and said, 'I'm not going to put it in to head to him.' Just you, what else Riyadh Connolly Festival offered what I can only assume was headhush of money. When you see people like Dave Chappelle, or Louie C. E., it says of the field, who took the money to him that make you death yourself at all?

MALANG: No, (expletive) no. And late, let's be honest. When you're at the top, you think that's the mean of (place some of these guys have got around) 'I'm smart, I would never do any of that (expletive). But I think when you're at the highest levels, you probably start to get a little comfortable with your eye, because that's where all the money is going to come.

You can't work your hands of it if you exist in this society. And the more successful you get, the closer you get to whoever the Illuminati is. I could see how it just becomes worthwhile. But it doesn't make me doubt myself at all, because I know it was wrong to do that. I don't care what the counterarguments are.

COSSARELLI: Is this a remaining divide in your community — is it a red line and some people are on one side of it and same on the other? Or was it an isolated event?

MALANG: I'm curious to see how it goes. Look, Dave Chappelle is the GIAZ, and he can have any opinion he wants, I'll look up to Dave Chappelle until I die. And it's not just Chappelle, but it's like, you guys got enough (expletive) money. At what point do we have a responsibility to just ... let's that the whole thing with stand-up? Speaking truth to power? Which I found sorry. Isn't that supposed to, theoretically, be part of it?

CARAMANCA: I wonder — looking back at 2024 and the run-up is that election, you saw how the right was activating, maybe reappearing, comedy, and the podcast space — did you feel like you had to issue some kind of corrective to what you're doing?

MALANG: I do kind of resent it, because I do feel like a lot of my contemporaries have forced me to be explicitly political in a way I'm not interested in doing. I don't want them to know I have a job to; degree.

But I think the most charitable reading is that some people thought their platform was important enough to host either the president, the vice president, whatever, and they want to do a public service. That was naive, which I think some people were, or you're so arrogant that you think that's true.

Or cynically — wanting to be an famous as possible — thinking, 'This will get clicks.' Some people thought culture was going to go to the right. It did feel that way. And I think if the Trump administration hadn't gone full-blown fascist right out of the gate — if it'll wasn't murdering people — I think that is the way things would've gone. Whatever the answer is, I think it was a mistake.

COSSARELLI: Would you have someone like that on your own show?

MALANG: I'm not interested in debating people. I am a comedian. I also love stand-up comedy more than anything, in a sometimes godless way, and I don't like that the thought process of a lot of people is that this is a right-wing art force. That's really new! Being friends with authority sucks. You want to have the president on your podcast? The (expletive) president? No president is good! You can't be the president and be a good person — it's responsible. I don't (expletive) want the president on my podcast.

You think I like doing political jokes? They (expletive) suck. Some people are good at it, but I don't want to be Lewis Black. I want to do dich jokes. I wanna be doing jokes about eating tenderness and bunting but, I don't wanna do stuff about like, tax crans. They (expletive) inside me do (expletive) like this and I hate it. I (expletive) hate it.

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Last week's spectacle in Iowa is owed to Denise Stillman's vision.

COMMENTARY

A Film's Inner Voice Echoed Into Reality

By CHARLOTTE NASHIS

The New York Times

DETROITUCE, Iowa — When John Stillman first visited the "Field of Dreams" site on a 8-year-old on a road trip with his father, Mike, there was little in the grounds beyond the original baseball field, a farmhouse and a series of sheds.

Father and son had watched the movie, so why not take a dream on their trip back that watching the Chicago White Sox play the Minnesota Twins at Target Field? They played catch. They wondered the outskirts.

"It was one of those things," said John, now 26. "Of course, we're going to stop and see it."

month later, they and Denise Stillman, object another, were back in Iowa. This time, they were in the farmhouse with Don and Emily. Leaving, the longtime owners of the surrounding land land, to discuss buying the property, Denise won the Leavinga ever with a vision of building a youth baseball and softball complex on the site with the goal of becoming the Cooperatives of the Midwest, and they bought the property with a group of investors in 2012.

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"That'd be a great idea, Mom," John recalled telling her on a teenager. "But kind of crazy."

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She did not live to see her dream realized. Denise Stillman died of liver cancer in 2016, a year before the league an unusual that it would host a game at the site. Even after her diagnosis, she remained involved in the city's development.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

For New Coach at Arkansas, Fund Raising Is the Chief Challenge

By KEITH BRENSON

FOOTTENTULE, Ark. — The jersey was just a prop, something for Ryan Silverfield to hold up at his news conference; it had his name and his No. 20 on it because he was becoming the 50th football coach at the University of Arkansas.

It could have been issued aside and forgotten. Silverfield housed it, a reminder of the challenge he had been given.

His know Arkansas was a program at a crossroads, is football and is finance, And he have he would be the program's 1980 conference 1982 — because this place had eaten up so many others.

'You think about it: Ken Hanfield, who won here, won one out. Shannon Hart, who won here, won run out,' Silverfield said of two coaches who left for other jobs until insane with administrators or fans. 'If we're going to get serious about football, it's going to take a lot of people understanding that this is what it takes.'

Some unhappy Razorbacks fans wanted to run Silverfield out before he was even hired. Silverfield's candidacyeey were conference went off anyway, and then he spent the next nine months doing what he believes needs to be done for Arkansas to compete in this era.

Out the money This is the new reality for a first-year coach of a fundraiser's Conference team trying to punch its way up. Silverfield was beginning that Arkansas was financially behind rival programs, estimated he spent 75 percent of his off-season time on fund-raising.

Silverfield, Memphis' coach for the last six seasons, may have been an underwhelming fan in the eyes of some fans. But he could also prove to be exactly what Arkansas needs: a natural fund-raiser and team-raising realist who knows his job to to get Arkansas funds to relevance, or get left behind, perhaps permanently.

'Every single day that's my job,' he said. 'That's why if I sit there and say, 'This is what we've always done here.' May I be on their 50th coach sooner than we want to be.'

Arkansas was a charter member of the Southwest Conference. It won 16 conference titles and routinely went to major bowl games under Frank Brezick, Las Heitz and Hatfield. Many Razorbacks fans (or the doctor of the conference and wonder if their programs would do better in the Big 12, but even after joining the SEC, there were good years under Frank, Bobby Perzine and Ben Brezick.

But since Perzine's motorcycle

Seth Emerson is a senior college football writer for The Athletic.

escapade, in which he raided the public and failed to disclose an inappropriate workplace relationship with a subordinate, got him fired before the 2012 season, Arkansas has gone 9-5 in SEC play and some already no winning seasons. Since 2017, its overall record (49-69) and SEC record (15-39) are both the worst in the conference.

'All of the former glory of Razorback football in the '60s, '70s, and '80s, some good times here and there, has largely been erased in the minds of most people.' Troy Boldy, an analyst at Hawglipper's, decreed records.

The era of putting players on our helped. Arkansas was slow to adapt and had trouble retaining and signing players. That stalled the momentum of Silverfield's

predecessor, Sam Pittman, who won nine games in 2021 but was fired after a 2-3 start to last season.

'In fairness, we got a little bit behind the night had I said Merritt Wyke, a Razorback Foundation board member and chief executive of Dyke Industries, a mid-week distributor. 'We've got to figure out how to raise money, but we've got to figure out — the athletic department's got to figure out creative ways to create the opportunity to raise money.'

There are, of course, hurdles: Arkansas is the second-condition state by population in the SEC of Mississippi. And although Walmart and Tyson Foods are based in Arkansas, it is still the fourth-present state in the nation by median household income.

'We have per capita, I think, the greatest depth of billionaire's of any state in the country, but per capita, we have kind of the dishonest pool of millionaires,' said Hunter Vucache, who is in the ninth year as athletic director at Arkansas. 'And so we have so many incredible donors, but this football piece, like N.LL. piece, it just expanded, and anybody that said they were well prepared for it, I think, would be finding you.'

Arkansas's financial position came into focus this spring when the school announced it would shut down the men's and women's tennis programs. It reversed course 20 days later, after 10-10, the school had shown had stopped up.

And while most SEC athletic departments dropped off the $25.5

Coach Ryan Silverfield realized that the Razorbacks were financially behind rival programs. He estimated that he spent 75 percent of his off-season time on fund-raising.

million in revenue sharing the past year that could now go to players. Arkansas had in either. It raised $10 million by remaining $5 jobs, not filling other positions, freezing raises and cutting travel expenses.

And yet if the athletic department had a hard cup of annual $10 million — as the Pretext College Sports Act would do — Vucache said that would be doable. What was also increased its football coaching salary pool. Pittman was dealing with the second-herest one in the SEC. Vucache said, while Silverfield was bumped up and stalled at the pack.'

'Right now, my focus, our department's focus, is all in on baseball,' Vucache said.

While that made coaching time per football a captive job, the prospect of Walmart doing the same for Arkansas has yet to be indicated. The Walton family has been generous with its support for Fayetteville, Maryland of millions of the university, in addition to bike paths and other community projects. Walmart as a company in the No. 2 athletic sponsor at nearly $2 million annually, and the

same of the basketball press in Red Walton Arena. The Walton family in the third-highest dinner to the Razorback Foundation, the fund-raising area for all sports.

Tyson Foods, the other most prominent, has shown more direct interest in football, and in Arkansas's proxy patch sponsor. Silverfield has worked hard to establish relationships and get donations from many others.

That 75 percent of Silverfield's off-season spent fund-raising! Sometimes, that was people being managed directly to his club's Sometown, he traversed the state. He had dinner at the governor's mansion.

A result: Arkansas says $25 million has been raised for its Razorback Foundation, directly for the state, the project was funded its annual goal to $10 million from $10 million. Silverfield said his player pool would increase in 2022.

'We are to compete in the SEC, there's a certain amount we need to get to financially to give yourself a chance,' Silverfield said. 'I think at once again, most people realized that around 2000, that we weren't where we needed to be.'

Some donors think the big support will come only if the new coach generates wins. If that means victories, it may be hard to impress them right away. Arkansas was picked 14th in the SEC in the preseason media pub, has a rough schedule and 80 new players, including a new quarterback.

Arkansas is winning in other sports. The men's basketball team made the result of 10 last season in its second year under InterCalipari. The school has won 42 SEC championships in a dozen other sports over the last eight years, and 19 national championships.

Football, of course, is a different period, and could determine Arkansas's place in the next era of college sports. That responsibility now falls to Silverfield, who was 2012-13 in the 50th, and being a two-year Arkansas last year. But he never was a conference championship, and many Razorbacks fans wanted Joe Stancell (who made the first 2012 season, John Coloich (who went to Auburn) or Ale. Arkansas obtained Albert LaSalle (who stayed at Southern Methodist).

The most jobs, Silverfield said, the coach is either really good at 5's and 10's or circulating. This job has required both — in the 23 percent of his time when he was not working to raise money.

'And that's OK,' he added. 'I hope five years from now we're not saying that I'm spending 75 percent of my time fund-raising. I'm going to be going 30 percent of my time with my current players on my roster and helping the program in other ways. But we're not there yet.'

Big Bet on Quarterback Who Is Not a Gambler

By AUSTIN MEIER

The Athletic LUBBOCK, Texas — Once the biggest controversy of college football's off-season subsided, everybody outside of Texas Tech immediate right had the same question: Who is Will Hammond?

The quarterback replacing Brendan Sordy, the second transfer deemed multiple but violating gambling rules, is about an uncontroversial as it gets. Hammond is an Eagle Scout who did not play sports on bandays as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Labor-day Saints. One of his quarterback coaches, Brad Stanford, said Hammond does not even have a TV in his room.

'His family's unbelievable,' Stanford said. 'They're driving a motorist with 272,000 miles on it, and they love to try to get a play-craft — enjoy each other, whatsoever family. With got that in his blood.'

Hammond's rise as the starting point of the 1980s, not to happen the way anyone at Texas Tech would have wanted. Coaches and administrators describe Sordy as a good person with a gambling ad. He is a good person who is a very fine school taught to keep him on the field.

Texas Tech's coaches maintain that the fight for Sordy's eligible students are right, a lack of confidence in Hammond — a top-20 record from the class of 2021 who spent the off-season recovering from a knee injury.

Hammond's leaders, even background, personally and leadership style, all different from Sordy's. The ability of the team and the quarterback to adapt to such a situation.

Austin Meier covers Michigan football and basketball for The Athletic.

other will go a long way toward determining whether the Red Raiders can overcome a challenging off-season to repeat an Big 12 champion and return to the College Football Playoff.

Texas Tech Coach Amy McGuire said people are shown to Hammond because he is unique. 'He's a different cat with his personally and thought process,' he said.

If Hammond had not torn his anterior cruciate ligament start to sober, the biggest story of the off-season might have played out much differently. When he went down, he was starting to place at a action, Believe Marble, who was dealing with a big injury. With Hammond's recovery timeline on certain, Texas Tech made an aggressive play for Sordy, agreeing to a deal that was expected to play fans around 10 million after he threw for 2,000 yards and 27 touchdowns last year at Cicero.

What followed dominated the off-season at Texas Tech and involvement through college football. Texas Tech fought to keep Sordy's eligible after he admitted placing more than 6,000 women, including two on Indiana while a member of the team. After weeks of wrangling with the N.C.A., Big 12 and N.H.L., Sunday left Texas Tech and shifted his focus to the 2027 N.C.L. draft.

Hammond was not keeping an every trial and sure of the hardy story. He always believed he would be Texas Tech's rookie, even when most people assumed the job belonged to Sordy.

'That was always my plan, that I was going to be the guy this year,' Hammond said. 'I don't think anyone could have predicted back to January that a would play out exactly this way,

Texas Tech doesn't need Will Hammond to be Brendan Sordy or Patrick Mahomes, just himself.

but as a competitor, I always had failed to myself that I was going to be back in this position.'

The biggest variable for Hammond was his injury recovery, without perspective having him returning for Texas Tech's Big 12 (proper against Houston in West). From doctor's cleared loss to participant in 10-on-10 drills at the start of preseason camp, putting him on a pace to play in Texas Tech's uproar Sept. 5 against Abbe McCullohan.

From a talent perspective, Hammond fits the profile of a starting quarterback on a playoff statement. He was a true star in every one but the state is passing yards and accounted for 807 yards in a single game as a minor at Watts High School near Austin. His excitement took off after the 1980-11 showcase in 2023, with Hammond going throw for throw with Adam Surry, Dylan Ranks, C.J. Carr and other big-time

prospects.

Because Hammond was considering a two-year church mission for the year, he did not do all of the intensive college prep that same elite quarterbacks do. Stanford said. Stanford knew Hammond had the right to the success of his career. 'I'm not a Michigan's runch of recruiting interest from schools and in Oregon. From State and Texas A&M.' 'I didn't think that Will was going to pay off the Will did,' Hammond said.

Now that he is the Red Raiders' starting quarterback, Hammond's next step to become their undispelled leader, too. Last season, Hammond said, he was not one of our there,' not necessarily commanding the handle or inspiring his sustenance to raise their level of play.

Hammond's actions, direct and mature beyond his years, I immediately left right, left tackle Howard Sampson said, he is going to

'let the nail on the head with a hammer.' Hammond's scripture this off-season was to become more of a economic Stanford said, which means bringing up energy his sustenance need to be a good person.

'You can't be that robot, moreover guy,' Stanford said. 'You've got to be able to go in the receiver room and communicate with his receivers. You can do both. You can be a pro and be able to connect or increase time.'

Mark LeBowle, Texas Tech's attractive coordinator, said Hammond knows how to get his treatment finally up, but he also leads to the against teamwork. When he connects with a teammate, it's not a superficial relationship.

Hammond's injury gave him a chance to stop back and focus on recruiting those relationships, which helped the Red Raiders withstand the outside pressure of the off-season.

Texas Tech embraces Will Hammond after a controversy.

'He does a good job connecting with the guys, where you know they've got real relationships,' LeBowle said. 'It's not just flexi-tomping them and there. The guys are the first about them, and all speeds a lot of time and is very intentional in the way he goes about them.'

Placing quarterback at Texas Tech's success during a University of recent driving pauses, including Baker Mayfield, Kiff Kingsbury, Graham Harrell and Patrick Mahomes, where larger than 60 men and the wall of Texas Tech's walk-through area. The Mahomes consortium featured community in Hammond's off-season. The two quarterbacks compared cases as they recovered from knee injuries, and Hammond also worked with Jeff Chris Perzine, the top-20 team who made him on Texas who rookie Mahomes as one of the tour pupils.

This is not the Texas Tech program of the recent past, and it is not only the time game numbers through the air and going up yards at almost the same face. The Red Raiders, ranked in 12 in the preseason coaches and 12 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20 in the 20

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'The mortality has been the same the whole time, never to take a head start,' Hammond said. 'It's not the whole time, but I'll just glad to be in this position and have the team around me that I have.'

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 2020

PRO FOOTBALL

2026 N.F.L. QB Tiers: 4 Decisive Standouts, While Jackson Slips

By NIKIE SASHO

The Atlanta

The Athletic's Quarterback Tiers for 2026 are here...and there is clarity at the top, with four overwhelming Tier 1 selections and nobody else coming close.

Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Matthew Stafford and Joe Burrow commanded 191 of a possible 200 top-tier voice from the panel of 50 N.F.L. coaches and executives.

Lamar Jackson dropped into Tier 1 with a dozen others, including the spinach Drake Mayo and Cobb Williams, making this the largest second-tier in the 12-year history of the survey.

While the Seattle Seahawks' latest Super Bowl-winning quarterback, Sam Darvold, clashed into that expansive Tier 2, the hearty previous one, Russell Wilson, dropped from the survey altogether. That left Stafford and Aaron Rodgers as the only players to appear in every iteration of the Quarterback Tiers since the survey's 2014 inception.

The 2026 ratings are complete with commentary from the panel of 50 voters, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in share candid evaluations. The panel this year consisted of eight general managers, five assistant general managers, five former general managers and three other executives, plus nine head coaches, 10 defensive coordinators, five offensive coordinators, two offensive assistants, one defensive assistant and two coaches specializing in analytics or game management.

Each voter placed 10 veteran quarterbacks into five tiers, from best (Tier 1) to worst (Tier 3). Quarterbacks were then ranked by average vote and placed into tiers. The survey excludes rookies because voters have not seen them play in the N.F.L.

Mike Sands is a senior N.F.L. writer for The Athletic.

TIER 1

A Tier 2 quarterback can carry his team each week. "He later wins because of him, his expertly henders pure passing situations. He has no real name in its game."

1. PATRICK MAHOMES

Kansas City Times

Mahomes sits alone in the top spot, but for the first time since 2022, one of the voters, a general manager, placed him in the second tier.

"He's not carrying them every week anymore," that general manager said, adding: "Now, he's coming off an injury in he going to determine physically?"

Mahomes turns 15 in September, and he is coming from a turn anterior cruciate ligament. But he is already back on the field for Chiefs training camp.

"I don't think he is going to look any different than what he was possibly wins," an offensive coordinator said. "He has never been the fanion, the just has unbelievable core strength and quickness and agility and vision and feel to create. I wouldn't expect drop-off there."

2. (TV) JOHN ALLEN

Michigan State

Allen moved one vote closer toward unanimous Tier 1 status and could be the most feared quarterback in the league.

"Josh Allen is unmet, a defensive coordinator said. "He and Stafford are the two guys I would not want to play the most. Allen's ability to make plays, he hard to tackle, get the team on his shoulders — when it's fourth done, he is going to win."

One general manager noted that the Bills have given Allen a strong defense and a strong run game, but not at the same time.

"I'm ready to say he's never going to win a Super Bowl because their team's getting worse around him," this general manager said, "and I think his style of football is going to start breaking him down physically."

Stafford's age was a rare strike against him.

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JAMES H. ALLEN/STARWELL/ST. ANGELS

Burrow hung in Tier 1 despite missing nine games to injury last season.

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Mahomes claimed the top spot, but one voter placed him in the second tier.

Allen may be the most feared quarterback, but can his team keep up?

2. (TV) MATTHEW STAFFORD

Los Angeles Times

Elite physical talent plus experience plus fast processing plus top-flight scheme have equaled Tier 1 status and M.V.P. factors for Stafford.

"He wins at the line of scrimmage, and then he's got this elite arm talent, and they're well-whomest," a general manager said. "Everything they put on him at the line of scrimmage, he makes it come to life. Best in the league is that."

After making his Tier 1 debut by a narrow margin last year, Stafford surged into the elite ranks on the strength of his M.V.P. season.

Stafford's age (28) and durability were the only strikers against him among voters.

"He runs the show, and there are only a few quarterbacks left who can do that," a defensive coach said.

3. JOE BOURGIN

Cincinnati Rangers

Missing nine games to injury last season was not enough to knock Burrow from the Tier 1 ranks.

"Stafford, Allen, Burrow and Mahomes are all different, but at the end of the day, they can single-handedly win games," a defensive coordinator said.

Though the Bengals' offensive line is a key variable in Burrow's durability, voters also think Cincinnati takes risks with its franchise quarterback.

"They know he's going to get hit, and they know they are going to have some issues and take some packs, and they think the risk is worth the reward because he's an unbelievable parent, they have unbelievable skill labels, and that is how they score points and win games," an offensive coordinator said.

TIER 2

A Tier 2 quarterback can carry his team sometimes. He can handle pure-passing situations in times and is a pleasant other dimensions that are special enough to elevate him above Tier 2. He has a hole or two in his game.

5. LAMAR JACKSON

Baltimore Ravens

Jackson made his Tier 1 debut last year but aligned back to the top of Tier 2 after failing to threaten defenses as much with his top in 2020.

"I'm not sure how much he wants to run and take him anymore," an opposing coach said. "He can't be special without the threat of a run."

The new Ravens coordinator Declan Deele plans to put Jackson under center more, but the coach hasn't been specific about its plans for Jackson as a reason.

"The arrow is probably down," an offensive coordinator said, but noted: "If he doesn't play well, they don't win games."

6. JUSTIN HERBERT

Los Angeles Chargers

Herbert has had either poor defense and special teams support, a weak offensive line or under-the-lying weaponry throughout his Chargers career.

"He's taken so many hits where it's imposing his roads," a defensive coach said. "He's playing with quick feet at times when he gets hit early, which he wasn't doing as a younger guy. I get it. The guy has been hit every year."

Also of the eight general managers pulled placed Herbert in the top tier. Only 13 of the other 42 voters had Herbert that high, leaving coaches, those with offensive backgrounds liked Herbert more than coaches with defensive backgrounds did.

7. DAN PRESCOTT

Dallas Cowboys

Prescott got nearly as many Tier 1 votes this year (12) as he had gotten across nine previous quarterback Tiers appearances (14). He made the fifth-largest year-over-year jump in average tier vote.

"I've got a single he higher on than I ever have to Dan," said an executive who thought Prescott belonged in Tier 2 a few seasons ago. "He was so impressive last year."

Five of the 10 defensive coordinators pulled placed Prescott in the top tier, as did a defensive-minded head coach. His average tier vote from defensive coaches (1.34) was much better than his average from offensive coaches (1.0).

8. (TV) DRAKE MAYE

New England Patriots

Frambing second in M.V.P. voting for a more that reached the Super Bowl packed Mayo from the middle of Tier 3 after his rookie season toward the top of Tier 2.

"I've left thrown a really good go-hall, which will pair well with A.J. Brown," a defensive coach said. "Maybe it's his youth, but I think Josh McDaniels does a phenomenal job of packaging things within a game plan to take some of the pressure off of Drake. He can do what they want him in do effectively, but at the same time, how much are they really asking him to do?"

A strong year had Mayo jumping a tier.

9. (TV) JARED GOFF

Detroit Lions

Goff finished with the same average tier vote (2.00) and ranking (slightly) as last year, proving he would not implode after the acclaimed offensive coordinator Ben Johnson left to become coach of the Bears.

"I have newfound respect for him, watching him operate without Ben," a defensive coordinator said. "There is a ceiling to come of it, but I was like, 'Man, even transitioning to a new offense, he is very in command of all the other stuff. He was tempting us a lot. The cadence, movement, motion timing — operationally, he was very on it.'"

10. JORDAN LOVE

Green Bay Packers

Love has climbed to quarterback Tiers every season, cracking the top 10 for the first time.

"Smart, can do things at the line, has the arm talent, the mobility when he needs it, but knows how to sit in and deliver," a defensive coordinator said. "Not a consistent killer yet, but if he plays good ball, you can win a Super Bowl with him."

Finding greater consistency was a requiring them for fans.

"He is still coming into his arm as a player," another defensive coordinator said.

11. (TV) BRICK PURDY

San Francisco Allers

Purdy regained all the ground lost after his 2024 season, and then most, among voters, this average tier vote (2.20) and ranking are career heats.

"I think he is better than given credit for," a head coach said.

"It's tough having voters who don't mention Coach Kyle Woodland's system when discussing Purdy.

"Kyle is great," the head coach said, "but I think Brick Purdy, he can see it as fast, and he makes quick decisions, and he's more athletic than you think. Really good player."

11. (TV) CALEX WILLIAMS

Chicago Brave

Only Daniel Jones and Drake Mayo improved their year-over-year standing match, but William Jones overtook Hayden Dumick and Bo Fox to rank second among quarterbacks from the 2024 draft class (Without Mayo).

"I've got all these scraps on him, and I'm going to hang guy in special," a head coach said. "He makes unbelievable throws, and he's fearless."

Executives generally liked Williams more than coaches did. All eight general managers placed him in Tier 2, while coaches supplied 11 of his 14 votes in Tier 2.

13. JAYDEN DANIELS

Washington Commanders

Daniels passed as a rookie that he can be one of the most dynamic quarterbacks in the game. His second season amplified durability spectrum, and followed him into the league.

"He's got to improve it," a defensive coach said.

Calibrating the dual-throat factor in a manner that threatens defenses without threatening Daniels's physical well-being is the key.

"They spent a lot of money on that offensive line and drafted some guys, so I think he has to put within into that position," an executive said. "He has all the talent."

14. (TV) BAKER MAYFIELD

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

It's fitting for Mayfield and Sam Darvold to the top tier, leading to 2010 draft champions and veteran success stories; Mayfield salvaged his career one year before Darvold salvaged his.

This year, Mayfield basically held his ground, slipping just slightly in average

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PRO FOOTBALL

vore while falling three spots.

"He is just the intradent player of all time," an offensive coordinator said. "He can play like a 2 and play like a 3. He misses throws, he loses vision, but then he makes some unbelievable plays with his feet."

14. (7K) SARI DARWILD

Seattle Starbeams

Darwid's climb over the past three seasons is rare for an established starter. He improved from 4.00 to 5.26 in average tier vote.

"There are no many factors that determine a quarterback's success, and Darwid's the best example of it," an executive said. "To get him into the right system, with the right coaches, and you have a game-breaking receiver, and a good defense. It's a lie easier."

No qualifying quarterback has gotten more support from his defense and special teams than Darwid has from Minnesota and Seattle over the past two seasons.

15. TREVOR LAWRENCE

Jacksonville Jaguars

Lawrence (dunbar) back into Tier 2 after two years in search for six, making him the highest-rated quarterback in the A.F.C. South. Current general managers and offensive coaches were higher on him than the other voters.

Last season was not the first time Lawrence has flashed promise.

"He is going to flash for windows where you go, 'Oh, I think he is becoming the guy,' but you are not in Your 2 anymore," an offensive coordinator said. "This is just kind of who you are — already, up and down."

Jalen Hurta made it into Tier 2 for a fourth straight year.

17. JALED HURTS

Philadelphia Capes

Hurta makes his fourth consecutive appearance in Tier 2, falling to his lowest average since 2022.

"His best plays are off schedule," a defensive coach said. "It will become less sustainable as he gets older. And you can't keep to drag through coordinates."

Sean Mannion in the Eagles' fifth offensive coordinator in five seasons. This will fit the first season falling plays.

"I'll be curious to see if Mannion has the fact to marry what he wants to do with what Jalen does well," an executive said. "or do they say, 'Jalen, you have to do this'?"

TIER 3

A Tier 3 quarterback is a legitimate starter but needs a better running game or defense to win. A lower-volume dropback passing offense suits him best.

18. BJ NEK

Denver Broncos

Nix jumped from the middle of Tier 3, where he made his debut last year, in the verge of Tier 3 after leading his league in game-winning drives with seven.

"Good player, dynamic, can run a little bit," an executive said. "He plays big in big moments. But just as easily as he can win games for you, he can lose games for you. They are as good as they are largely because their defense is as good as it is, and Sean Payton does a nice job helping him make plays within his skill set."

19. AARON RODGERS

Pittsburgh Steelers

Rodgers made 10 consecutive appearances in Tier 1 spent one year in Tier 2 and now is in his second season in Tier 3. Mayo, Williams, Darwid, Lawrence and Nix passed him this year even though Rodgers's average tier vote improved slightly.

Rodgers's familiarity with the offense of Pittsburgh's new coach, Mike McCarthy, from their days together in Green Bay closed help.

"His mobility is not great," a defensive coach said. "But as a dropback passer and one of those guys you do not want to face to two minutes. If he has pieces around him, he can still go win."

20. E. L. FERGUS

Houston Texans

ferrual has declined each season in Quarterback Tiers; he had nearly triple the number of Tier 3 votes (37) than in his previous two seasons combined (12).

"This is a big year for him," a defensive coordinator said, "he has it in him.

Ambivalence was a theme with ferrual. "He's starting to fall into that category of a quarterback who's hard to protect," an executive said. "He doesn't beat you at the line and get the back out. It's a little the football, and then when he holds the football, he makes mistakes."

One executive worried that Stroud was becoming "hard to protect."

21. DANIEL JONES

Indianapolis Core

Jones made the largest year-over-year jump in average vote (+1.2) while climbing eight spots in the rankings. He set career beats in sixth per attempt, passer and one of a top-level points added per pass play before touring his right Achilles' rosters in December.

"I thought he looked broken in New York," an offensive coordinator said, referring to his team with the Giants. "I thought he looked functional in Indy."

Jones proved he could execute the Cobr. offense at a high level, although his production tapered later in the season, after defenses had more video to study.

22. BRYCE YOUNG

Carolina Panthers

Young has improved each year in Quarterback Tiers voting since making his debut in 2024.

"He made a huge jump in 2026," said a coach whose team faced Carolina in the second half of the season. "He's demand, his confidence, his accuracy, the movement — he just seemed so much more confident as a player. It was an eye-spacer for all of us to watch him per force."

Young ranked 20th of 33 qualifying quarterbacks in E.P.A. per pass play last season, but that jumped to eighth from Week 11 forward.

23. KYLEN MURRAY

Milwaukee Irvinger

This is Murray's fourth consecutive year in Tier 3. But there is hope.

"The person I think who will change is not a fellow Murray, just because he's around a quarterback coach, he will have weapons, he probably has something to prove, and his ability to escape the games, when he is on, is no joke," a defensive coordinator said.

An executive suggested that Murray could thrive if the Vikings continue to play good defense while giving Murray a solid roaring attack and regulating his exposure to injury.

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Dart ranked first among five players making Quarterback Tiers debate.

24. JASON BART

New York Giants

Dart was evaluated for a concussion four times in his first nine starts last year (and once in the preseason), then described down on his aggressive playing style.

"Good luck," an offensive coordinator said.

Dart ranks first among five players making their Quarterback Tiers debate. Defensive coaches rated him higher than offensive coaches did — no surprise, given that offensive coaches typically want quarterbacks to play on time.

"It's more urbanization, play-making ability, splash plays than consistency," a defensive coach said.

25. CAM WARD

Tennessee Titans

Ward, like Dart and other players with limited resources, contributed a large number of Tier 4 votes simply because relatively little is known about him.

"He is a young gunslinger, extremely confident," said a defensive coach whose team faced Ward. "I think they've got to tighten up how he plays the game because he is really like a playground quarterback."

Yolaro gave Ward some grace for being in a little situation. That was especially true with executives, who were higher on Ward than coaches.

26. (7K) TYLER SHOLON

New Orleans Saints

Executives and offensive coaches were highest on Slough, who he compared the other first-year quarterbacks in E.P.A. per pass play after becoming the Easter starter in Week 8.

"The combination of his toughness to hang in there and let the deeper rosters develop, his ability to go through his reach and then his mobility was impressive," an opposing coach said.

Slough's Tier 4 votes were mostly from voters who had not faced him or had scarcely seen him across the nine starts.

28. (7K) TIA TADOVALDA

Atlanta Falcons

Only Guns Smith dropped further than Tagovailoa in average tier vote from 2023. For the first time since 2022, Tagovailoa got no votes higher than Tier 3.

"I thought Tia was physically declining last year," a general manager said. "I don't know if there was some hidden injury. But Tia is perfect for Kevin Sinfanek's offense. He'll make quick decisions."

Tagovailoa's No. 26 ranking is the same as it was entering 2023, his first season with Mike McDaniel as coach. He has since moved up twice and fallen twice.

29. KIRK COUSINS

Las Vegas Raiders

Cousins has only one Tier 2 vote over the past two seasons after commanding a career best 35 of them entering 2014, his first season with Atlanta.

Now, he is a bridge to No. 1 pick Fernando Mendoza.

"Hill's who, he is a 2, but I don't know if he will be able to hold up," a general manager said. "That is why I put him in the Category of Day, did not have Mendoza, would they be comfortable with Kirk having 2 games? My answer would be probably not."

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Cousins, right, is seen as a bridge to No. 1 pick Fernando Mendoza, left.

TIER 4

A Tier 4 quarterback could be an unproven player that enough information for voters to classify or a winner with labels would not be a full-season starter.

21. MILIN WILLIS

Miami Dolphins

Six starts and 103 career pass attempts are not much to go on, but it was enough for 27 after 30 events to place Willis in Tier 2 as a legitimate starter.

One former general manager, though, explained his Tier 4 vote for Willis by noting that many backup quarterbacks who faced well in relief struggled as long as the starter.

"Strong arm and athleticism," a defensive coordinator said. "I just need to see him play through a fall season where he gets full defenses with people planning for him."

22. KENN SMITH

New York Jets

Seattle decline from the 2020 Tiers was the largest of any quarterback, falling from a career best 5.99 average to 3.76. His 13-spot drop in the rankings tied Stroud's for the largest.

"The Bakers did better no favors. "He got ranked 10 times in a game," a defensive coach said. "Once you get hit and keep getting hit and hit and hit, how good are you going to be?" An executive general managers placed Smith in Tier 4. The eighth had him in Tier 3. Coaches liked Smith more than executives did.

Smith suffered the largest Tiers decline.

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1. BERNARD WATSON

Cleveland Browns

Women has earned only 10 games for Cleveland since he was acquired from Browns. He was suspended 12 games in 2022 for violating the personal conduct policy, had shoulder surgery in 2023, then tore his Achilles' tendon in 2024 and re-tere it during rehab. He turns 31 in September and should be entering his prime as a quarterback.

"I don't think he can come back," an offensive coach said. "You do me all of a sudden get drive and desire and processing skills."

22. MICHAEL PENN JR.

Atlanta Falcons

Penis, who tore his right A.C.L. twice in college, partially tore the A.C.L. in his left knee to November. He is competing with the Tagovailoa in the Falcons' starting job.

He has made only 12 starts in his strong career — and much to assess.

"He's just so erratic and I think immature, we know a personal standpoint, but a playmaking and decision-making standpoint," an executive said.

23. JACOBY BRISSETT

Arizona Cardinals

Brissett has a 3-25 starting record over the past two seasons, partly because his teams, New England and new Arizona, have been so hard on defense and/or special teams.

Not that the Brissett himself has been a star.

Defensive coaches rated Brissett higher than offensive ones did, producing the third-largest split in that direction behind Tia Tagovailoa and Dab Provost.

"He's a classic," an executive said. "Great veteran presence, everything very positive, except, you know, when he has to play for long stints."

24. J.L. McCARTHY

Minnesota Vikings

McCarthy's 10 votes in Tier 3 are the second most in Quarterback Tiers history and the second quarterback entering his third N.F.L. season. Anthony Richardson drew 13 last year.

"Potential looks hard for him," an offensive coach said.

"If coaries playing quarterback in the N.F.L. is hard, but McCarthy walked into an invisible situation and still struggled.

"Going into Year 2, is knocking down the expectation a little bit more fair to the player?" an executive asked.

25. SANDER SANDERS

Cleveland Browns

Sanders was one of 37 quarterbacks to start at least seven games last season. He ranked last among them in E.P.A. per pass play, right behind McCarthy and Ward.

"He's inaccurate at all three levels," an executive said. "I can't tell if he is going to get better, but there's a huge gap between him and everyone's QB play."

A dozen voters placed Sanders in Tier 3.

"I'd sleep like a baby if I got to play him every week," one defensive coordinator said.

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D6

HOCKEY

ANALYSIS

Not on the Rise, And Not Sinking, But in Between

By HARRIAN DIXIAL

The Times

The N.H.L. has its contenders, its heathcoat murders and then the forgettable, and often-overlooked, muchy middle.

The country middle is home to teams thin are not good enough to be Stanley Cup contenders but are not bad enough to collect picks in the top five to 10 range, where you're most likely to draft future stars. The Los Angeles Kings and the Detroit Red Wings are prime examples of teams recently stuck in this mediocre territory.

There's nothing wrong with being middle-of-the-pack for a year or two, especially if you're trying to accelerate these years to shake rebuild to bring competitive against, but eventually every body wants to escape this no man's land.

It is pretty straightforward to identify teams that will probably land in the mushy middle this coming season. But the more interesting question is which teams might find themselves stuck here over the methods and nature for the next three or four seasons. I went through every N.H.L. team's roster, cap situation and prospect pool to identify clubs likely destined for this reality.

The teams highlighted in this "mushy middle" aren't all equal. Some of the franchisees on this list actually have a decent chance to make the playoffs next year (they have already because they're rolling to go on a deep run and their future outlook are limited), whereas others are in far worse positions, with the pentosans not a realistic ambition. Even within this list, you would prefer some "mushy middle" situations over others.

Los Angeles Kings

The Kings have lots of talented wingers, like Artemi Panarin.

The Kings have already been stuck to mediocrity for a while, with five conservative first-round playoff defeats, including a four-game sweep at the banks of the Colorado Avalanche last spring. It's difficult to see how they can shake up the status quo and elevate their ceiling.

L.A. has one of the oldest rosters in the N.H.L., with 14 players who are 30 or older. Anor Kopitar's retirement has left a huge need for a bona fide top-six center to play behind Quinton Byfield. The Kings' blue line is too old, slow and limited at breaking the pack out, as Joel Edmundson, Brian Donnellis and Cody Caci are redundant stay-at-home defensemen. Their prospect cupboard is very thin. Elton Hermansson is the only Kings prospect who cracked The Athletics top 500 drafted N.H.L. prospects ranking last month.

The Kings still have enough drivers to contend for a playoff spot in a weak Pacific Division. They have lots of talent on the wing with Artemi Panarin, Adrian Kerepe, Kevin Fiala, Mats Zucuretta and Alex Lakevives. Byfield and Brandt Clarke also have broadcast potential.

However, it's hard to see them as anything more than an average of two in here. Playoff success feels especially unlikely because Panarin, their best player, is a notorious underachiever in the playoffs and proved a again last season, recording zero five-on-five points in four games against the Avalanche.

Toronto Maple Leafs

Chris Taney played only 12 games last season for the Leafs.

Can the Leafs realistically bounce back and make the playoffs next season? Absolutely.

Toronto's back end could be significantly better with the additional 10-10 points and a healthy Chris Taney (who played only 11 games last season), and moving Simon Bonair out and bringing Eosé Lashne in should result in a third pair that is much better at breaking the pack out. Gavin McKenna should give the team's top-six and first-unit power play a big jab. The two coach bump going from Craig Berrien to Jim Miller coach for meaningful, the bottom six is upgraded (Nick Paul, Jack Roulovic, Colton Simons, Brandon DeSantis, Teddy Bhanger), and Austen McKenna will be released after arguably the worst season of his N.H.L. career.

However, the issue is that even if the Leafs make the playoffs, the path to a deep run feels quite unlikely in a stunted Atlantic Division. The Memorial Canadiens, the Florida Panthers and the West Coast, have been the most popular in the Leafs on paper. Their future outlook also faces several question marks.

Yes, McKenna has a good chance of eventually developing into a star, but the rest of Toronto's core is aging. The Leafs' five best defenders are all in their 30s; John Terence will turn 30 and Sergei Bulevovsky will turn 26 before the season starts. Matthews will turn 20 in September, and William Rylander is 20. They don't have enough young pieces coming with a prospect pool that is quite black beyond McKenna, and they don't owe their next two days rounders.

There is a path for the Leafs to be decent in the short term, but a Stanley Cup run over the next few years feels like a long shot, especially since their best players have underwhelming playoff track records.

Seattle Kraken

The Kraken's top scorer last year was Jordan Eberle, who is 36.

You need also talent to have success in today's N.H.L., which explains why the Kraken are stuck in purgatory.

Seattle does not have a single forward who would be considered a top-line player on a Cup-contending team. The Kraken lack a true No. 1 center, a star winger and a bona fide No. 1 defenseman, Jordan Eberle, who turned 30 in May, was their leading scorer last year with 55 points, which says all you need to know. They have always had capable depth (they seem to love leading up on middle-six forwards), which has helped them avoid being truly awful, but outside of a huge 100-point season in 2023-25, when they made the playoffs and won a round, they have been stuck as an uninspiring, below-average team, recording between 70 and 85 points in each of the past three seasons.

It hurts that neither of their early top-five picks, Matty Benters and Diane Wright, has developed into an elite player. As a franchise, they have not fully bought into rebuilding, which has resulted in chasing middling veterans in free agency to past years.

I like Seattle's prospect pool a lot — Chase Reid, Jake O'Brien and Berkly Cotton are a-grade prospect — but the club's current roster is so horrid of impact talent that I don't see how it could become a true contender stylishe soon. This feels like a team that is destined to finish in the 20s of the league standings for the foreseeable future.

Detroit Red Wings

The Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin has asked for a trade.

The Red Wings have missed the playoffs by slim margins three years in a row, with 91, 48 and 82 points, which is a perfect snapshot of the mushy middle. There is not a realistic path for them to explain pool that ceiling anytime soon, especially with the trade request of the captain Dylan Larkin.

Detroit is no weak down the middle, five-on-five scoring still looks like a major issue, and they are stuck to an absolutely stacked Atlantic. And because they have flirted with the playoffs over the last few years, they haven't studied high enough to land another elite star in their core. If anything, in the event the Red Wings trade Larkin, they may be too bad next season to be considered even mediocre.

Committing to a step back in the short term is probably the winner decision for the franchise's long-term health, though. For that doesn't need a full-scale tear down as it has some foundational pieces in Morris Seider, Lucas Raymond and Simon Edvinsson, along with a top-10 prospect pool in the N.H.L., but the worst possible scenario would be to trade Larkin for a win over package to an attempt to stay competitive and end their pentosans at drought.

In any case, it feels like a while before the Red Wings will be relevant again. For the sake of their best, hopefully their next general manager accepts this fact, in 116 with taking a step back and commit to a path that at least creates some light at the end of the tunnel.

New York Rangers

General Manager Chris Drury made aggressive moves this summer to best up his 10th-place Rangers. Pavel Drobkovic is a top-flight goal scorer, and their second pair has been successfully rebuilt with Marcus Pettersson and Sean Durst. Couple that with better health for Adam Fox (53 games played) and Igor Shemorkin (53 games played), Gabriel Pevrnauchi's breakout potential and the possibility of Alexis Lefrowder asking a long (he scored 20 points) to 25-point under Artemi Panarin but not and was eventually traded), and there is a compelling case for the Rangers to contend for a playoff spot.

However, it's difficult to envision what they're targeting the window actually is.

The current lineup is not close to the level of the best teams in the Eastern Conference. Sure, there is a long-shot scenario where Shemorkin needs a series of they against into the pentosans, but the odds of a deep playoff run had slim to none. The bigger issue is that they care to aging — Mike Zihanejad, F.T. Miller, Fox, Shemorkin and

Vindulkar Carrillon are all in their late

20s or early 30s — and there isn't enough of a strong youth movement coming, as the team's prospect pool is average and it has already traded away two of its next best first-round pick in one.

The Rangers should be significantly better next season, but their ceiling looks quite limited, and it feels like they have locked themselves into being a "stuf" team for the foreseeable future.

The Rangers will need Adam Fox, left, a two-way defensive superhero, to stay healthy if they want to smackle themselves from the N.H.L.'s mushy middle.

Chris Drury

Winnipeg Jets

Trade rumors dog Jets goochender Connor Hellebayck.

Winnipeg is only a year's national from winning the Presidents' Trophy in 2024-25, and injuries were a big reason that the team missed the playoffs last season, but the franchise's trajectory is in jeopardy.

The Jets were the N.H.L.'s oldest team last year, and it showed in how slow and successful they ranked right to right. The loss of Nikolaj Ehlers was a devastating blow to the Jets' middle-six, offensive attack, so they essentially became a one-foot team. General Manager Kevin Chevskloyoff has not been able to make a marquer acquisition to fix that weakness this summer.

There is still a path for them to make the playoffs next year — they have elite players at every position, with Mark Schellke, Rick Cramer, Jack Morrison and Connor Hellebayck — but how can they possibly challenge for a Stanley Cup in a Central Division that features three juggernauts in Colorado, Minnesota and Dallas? Even Club has helped ahead of Winnipeg with translating young up-and-coming talent.

Making matters worse, there is an elephant in the room with Hellebayck's uncertain future. If the Jets are forced to trade him, that would end any realistic ambition of being an above-average team. Let's see how the future, if that were to happen, would be to embrace a rebuild, but Chevskloyoff reaffirmed, at development using that "the plan is still to win."

This is understandable from a business perspective, as the club has faced attendance problems, and a long rebuild could jeopardize the franchise's financial stability, but it leaves them caught in the middle; they aren't good enough to contend for a Cup, and they have not shown any signs of embracing a future-focused direction.

Columbus Blue Jackets

Columbus hopes Adam Pantilli, left, has a breakout season.

Columbus has narrowly missed the playoffs in back-to-back years despite Zach Wernwald putting up two borderline M.V.P.-caller seasons.

There is still a lot of intriguing young talent on this roster (especially if Adam Pantilli breaks out and if the likes of Kent Johnson and District Virology released), and there is a possibility that the veterans face breakout and Conor Garland could bounce back, which would revitalize the club's second line. Their off-season has not been particularly exciting — Vincej Ochumiluk is a sweet pickup, but that was offset by the departures of Mason Marchesini and Boone Jenner — but they are still a good enough game to paper to be a roughly 50/50 bet to make the playoffs next season.

The problem is that, like many other clubs on this list, they may end up stuck as a bubble team for the foreseeable future. Columbus catastrophically withheld in drafting Cynthia Lindstrom over from the 2019 season, but the team has been a good deal for the future situation. Jackson Smith and Oscar Hennings are the only prospects who landed on the top 500 drafted N.H.L. prospects ranking. In other words, there is not a young end coming that will quickly change the franchise's outlook, the way you would hope for with a team that has missed the playoffs six years in a row and divided relatively high.

The Blue Jackets are one of the higher upside teams within this "mushy middle" list, but I don't see a realistic path to them becoming an elite team and challenging for a Cup within the next few years.

Herman Depal covers the N.H.L. for The Athletic.

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL

A $15 Million Payday Wasn't Worth Losing Continuity at Cal Poly

By CJ BROWN

The study, Samuel Meous, a sophomore at California Polytechnic State University and the Big West's leading owner in more basketball, hit the transfer portal. The market, not surprisingly, was strong for a 6-foot-6 wing player who ended 2008s, pass and shoot.

The bidding was not around $1.5 million for one year. As spring were on, and Meous remained one of the final stars in the portal left wingged, but value increased.

Again, not surprising, for a guy his one who averaged 26.4 points and made 10.5 pointers last season. What was surprising was where Meous decided to play next season.

Meous will return to Cal Poly, which has made the N.C.A. 5-year-tainment only once and has not had a winning record since 2015.

Coach Mike DeGeorge said his budget was about $500,000 for his entire roster. Meous will be the highest-paid player on that roster,

A versatile wing takes much less because it 'feels like home'.

but for much less than he would have around elsewhere.

The rationale for a player at a lower level of college basketball to leave for a high-major school is pretty simple. If you have a job you like for a temperate effort you significantly more than your current salary, you are likely to take that job.

Meous, however, viewed his decision through a different lens. Originally from Delta, Qatar, he moved to Canberra, Australia, when he was 15 to mate at the N.B.A. - Global Academy, then went to Dayton for his freshman season, where he barely saw the floor.

'I didn't want to leave because it would be my third school in three years,' he said. 'I kind of wanted to settle down.'

CJ Moore covers most college basketball for The Athletic.

Meous aspires to play in the N.B.A., and he thinks Cal Poly is the program that can get into there. The Mustangs play the fastest tempo in college basketball, per Renfrew, and one a five-way system, in which every position is allowed to play like a guard. They do not run plays — DeGeorge's goal is to teach them how to play — and Meous is allowed to showcase his entire skill set.

Meous's hardly is able to a point that where it could afford to play the transfer portal differently than most. His father, Tassin, had a long pre-basketball career and in the general manager of Al Rayyan in Qatar as well as the general manager for 'Quiet's' three-and-three national basketball team.

'I don't think financially they needed to take the money the way some people would,' DeGeorge said. 'And so it was really more about what was going to help him develop into a pro is their mind.'

As first, he was even hesitant to enter the portal. Meous said, but he decided to when several of his teammates entered. Once he saw some of the team who coming back — only guard Peter Randall ended up transferring, moving on to the University of Nevada in Reno — the decision was easy.

'Most of the boys coming back gave me more motivation to come back,' Meous said. He added: 'Coach and people have are really great people. They really want to get you better. They really want to make you better person overall.' Once Meous told DeGeorge to take May that he had decided to return, the coach had one request. He did not want Meous to announce it yet. The way Cal Poly raises money to pay its players in through scheduling 'buy games', where a high-major school season really pays a low-major school like Cal Poly to play it and fill out in schedule.

The hope for high-major is to rock up even against low-majors. But when a low-major is a threat to win the game, high-major schools are sometimes broken on schedule 1. In DeGeorge's first two seasons, the Mustangs have beaten a Power 4 school, edging hundred to 2024 and Utah to 2026.

Samuel Meous next to Coach Mike DeGeorge, who said his budget was about $500,000 for the entire roster of the Mustangs.

So to get the games to lead the best possible roster, DeGeorge wanted it to appear that Cal Poly's team might not be as good, which means allowing other schools to believe Meous was not returning. That wasn't that hard considering the market for Meous's services.

'The way the timeline worked out,' DeGeorge said, 'is not ideal for your street level.'

The hardest jobs in college basketball coaching are at the low and midmajor levels. It's almost inevitable that when they find and develop a good player, he is going to leave.

'It is very challenging because you get to the end of the season and you immediately go into this period of unknown,' DeGeorge said. 'It's the thing I like least about my job, if I'm being honest. It's just this uncertainty and not necessarily having a great way to solve the problem. Problems are our job, and you get to figure out how to solve problems, but these worst problems we could solve.'

DeGeorge was immense to have many three players come the portal this spring, and while he learned the facts of the first two fairly quickly — one stayed and one left — the next for Meous kept

dragging, with his offers continually increasing.

'Every week we just felt like, 'Oh, next week we'll know more, next we'll know more.' DeGeorge said. 'And it went on for months.'

Once Meous decided to stay with the Mustangs, it meant 12 of their 14 scholarship players would be back for the 2026-27 season.

In explaining his decision, Meous repeated some form of competing for a conference championship three times. That's his goal next season and a big course he is back. Cal Poly last won a regular-season conference title in 1996, and that was in a league with four teams. In the six years before DeGeorge arrived, the Mustangs averaged 17 wins per season in conference play.

With that contest, what DeGeorge has accomplished in his first two seasons — an 18-21 record in Big West play — inspired hope, especially considering he had the least experienced roster in the conference both years, per Renfrew's reading.

The decision for the time in 2026-27 Cal Poly is the only team in the league returning at least four starters, and Meous is the only player on an All-Big West team

with remaining eligibility to return. (The other three All-Big West players transferred in high-major programs.)

'I do believe in this group,' DeGeorge said. 'I think we've got a chance to have a breakthrough year.'

When last season ended, DeGeorge followed an N.B.A.-like award by assigning value based on a combination of production, role in his system and what the market value would be to replace each particular player for instance, a skilled small-ball motor who can guard all five positions in extremely valuable in his system because the Mustangs were even bigger on the floor to be able to do little, pass and shoot.

DeGeorge could not afford to retain his entire roster, so he determined the number of players he could pay, divided the amounts based on his formula, then shared his offer with each player's agent. Each time, DeGeorge said, the agents came back and said they thought they played had more market value than what DeGeorge was offering.

'I think you're right,' DeGeorge said he told each agent. 'I'm sure that's you, but this is the enemy

we know. Exact value is or leaves.?' DeGeorge says he adjusted for one player but held his ground on every-one else, and they all returned.

'It's refreshing,' DeGeorge said. 'People are so critical of young people for what's happening with the transfer portal. They always present it as if three players are selfish, and, first of all, they're not being selfish. The market is what it is, and if they have market value, they have a right to adjust—that.'

When Meous talks about his return, he focuses on what Cal Poly has done for him and how much he loves it there. 'I don't want to leave this place because it feels like home, man,' he said. 'I'm happy. I'm really happy to come back and play with the boys again.'

Meous is also well aware of the success stories at midmajor in California. He mentions John Williams at Santa Clara University and Ajay Mitchell at UC Santa Barbara, who both won an N.B.A. championship in 2023 with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

'It's possible,' Meous said. 'You just get to go out there and try to use games and be too.'

PRO BASKETBALL

From left: Kevin Huetter, Tobias Harris, Cade Cunningham and Jalen Duren. Smart acquisitions by Trajan Langdon, below, have turned around the Pistons. So has knowing when to let a player walk.

ANALYSIS

Savvy Deals for Perfect Fits Propel the Ascent of the Pistons

By HUNTER PATTERSON

The HUNTER PATTERSON. The United States. After playing for three years in the N.B.A., the team generally for nearly a decade, Trajan Langdon became a San Antonio Sport scene in 2012. Fourteen years, three teams and three roles later, as president of basketball operations for the Detroit Pistons, Langdon has spearheaded a turnaround that took a 14-win team into a 64-and-64-win squad in consecutive seasons and back-to-back pentosason appearances.

Last year, a playful 4-knitless suit, was used one approach with the Pistons in hopes of giving the team's core enough time to reach its potential. He has prioritized several games, while working to improve the team around the margins since arriving in Detroit in the summer of 2024.

He has set to make a block—a team with the Pistons. Detroit's acquisition of forward John Collins made the team's biggest swing since Langdon took over his fan, however, surrounded the franchise cornerstone Cade Cunningham with veterans such as Tobias Harris, Tim Hardaway Jr., Dennis Schroder, Thomas Robinson and Kevin Huetter.

Hunter Patterson covers the Pistons for The Athletic.

So while the off-season progresses and Jalen Duren's contract acquisitions remain at a low level, he is lost in Langdon's role in orchestrating the Pistons' return to television.

Signing Darius System (2024) Last season, Jenkins sat at the postgame podium after leading the Pistons to an early February win over the New York Bucks, and spoke about being passed over at the 2024 N.B.A. draft.

'Using untrained is insanity to me,' Jenkins said. 'I loved steam 25. The two rounds of the new every single day. That took something away from me.'

Langdon identified Jenkins as a prospect and wanted an open signing line on a new way also, which eventually turned Jenkins into one of the biggest surprises with his breakout play last season. Jenkins arrived a quarter-mile distance, shortly after his talk at the podium and carved out his role as the team's back-up point guard in the process.

Signing Jenkins was one of Langdon's starters and best moves in Detroit.

Signing Tobias Harris (2024) Considering Harris's value is turning back in a 64-and-64-win, Langdon and Coach J.B. Boberoff—not to mention his play on the court—he has arguably

As president of basketball operations, Langdon has taken the team from 14 wins to 60.

been Langdon's best free-agent signing.

Langdon signed Harris to a reasonable two-year, $22 million deal this was with work it. Before Harris departed for the Sport title seasons, he spent his first season back in Detroit as Cunningham's second coming option, and he assumed that role again during the playoffs last season. Harris's largest on-the-team was left across the board, from the court to the front office. Harris undoubtedly helped

usher the Pistons back to the top of the N.B.A., and it would not have been possible without Langdon introducing him as Detroit's stretch four.

Waiting Post Read (2024) Langdon earned the veteran big in December 2024 before the $17 million reorganization contract became guaranteed, putting the Pistons $15 million under the salary floor. Detroit then signed Renfrew in the roster on a prorated veteran minimum for $4.6 million. It was a carry-move that allowed the Pistons to enter the trade deadline with $10 million in top place as opposed to $10 million.

Signing Renfrew's new deal led to Detroit being able to trade for Schroder at the deadline.

Over the 2025-26 season called around, Langdon wanted Renfrew a two-year, $11 million deal that could be the best value for any roster in the association. Renfrew will only have a more featured role next season as the Pistons' leading center.

Acquiring Dennis Schroder (2025) Dennis knew it needed another quality halfheader after the former Pistons failed they would down with a fractional filmin. Schroder was the starless film pentosason experience was in-

valuable and nearly helped push Detroit past the fatucks and into the second-round. Cunningham was vocal about Schroder helping him with the nuances of the game.

Langdon later related Schroder in a sign-and-route with the Sacramento Kings that created a $14.2 million trade exception. He began with 42 Harris, both Bickertines and a second-round pick, earned that into Schroder — who contributed during the playoffs — and flipped Schroder for the exception, though Dennis never used it.

Acquiring Duncan Robinson (2025) This sign-and-route felt like a bette in the seasons, leaving the Pistons.

Simone Fonnochian was fresh off an aforesaid season with a career for in average points 2.63. Robinson, on the other hand, had averaged 1 point and 26.2 percent from 3 the season prior with the Miami Heat. Both issue started in as Cunningham's starting backcourt team for each of the 17 games, while Fonnochian did not manage to start a single one of the 10 games in Detroit at 2024-25.

Robinson's 220 made triples that regular season, as it percent showing, were more than Fonnochian made during his two seasons with the Pistons, and

were tied for the 12th-most makes in the league. This was just another example of Langdon swapping a surprise for a positive without having to overpay.

Acquiring Chris Huetter (2026) Sending Ivey to the Chicago Bulls in a three-team deal that brought in Huetter and a pick swap with the Minnesota Timberwolves was likely Langdon's most polarizing move.

Unfortunately for Ivey, he was unable to return to form in time for a surging Detroit. The move was scrutinized by Pistons fans, but resulted in a disaster off the bench in Huetter — who was signed to a three-year, $27 million deal this off-season. This Pistons also moved from pick No. 28 to 31 in the deal. That pick was then used to trade up in select Ebaba Okorie. It was yet another Langdon win.

The Bulls have since warned Ivey, who remains a free agent, while Detroit received Huetter and Okorie, who could blossom into a long-term backup point guard and potentially a fringe starter.

Though Langdon has yet to pull off a blockbuster, his track record at अंतरfiring players who have made his first feud on an accept a deal unless it is in the Pistons' lower base goal off so far.

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D8

SWIMMING

Pallister Ends Ledocky's Unbeaten International Reign in 800-Meter Freestyle

By PETER BAUGH

The Atlanta

BRYING, Calif. — Last Pallister of Australia beat Katie Ledocky in the 800-meter freestyle final ever the weekend at the Pear Pacific Championships, founding Ledocky, the nine-time Olympic gold medalist, her first loss in the event at an international meet. Pallister rescheduled wall in 6 minutes 6.1 seconds, with Ledocky second.

Pallister's win came one night after she beat Ledocky in the 400, and three nights after she finished second to the American in the 1,500. The two dueled for the 800 gold at the world championship fair summer, two, with Ledocky winning by 36-hundredths of a second. The race put the world on match that Pallister was coming, and she managed to overtake Ledocky by 1.36 seconds Saturday night to close out the Pear Pac.

"Today's the most nervous I've ever felt in my entire life," Pallister, 24, said, noting she cares

Peter Baugh is a staff writer for The Athletic.

about his 800 — the event he another, Jennifer Pallister, swam at the 1996 Olympics — more than any of her other races. "I was warming up, and I had my transmission come and have a little other with me to see if they could brighten my mood a little bit. I think I was just as locked in, and I've been really focused on what I want."

She was under world-record pace through the first 800-meter-liter finished 1.06 seconds off Ledocky's mark from 2001 (6:44.22). She said digging under that time is "definitely a goal for the next two years."

Ledocky was 800 free gold at every international meet she conducted before Saturday: the 2012, 2016, 2020 (held in 2021) and 2024 Olympics, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2025 world championships, and the 2014 and 2021 Pear Pacific Championships. Summer McIntosh of Canada beat Ledocky in the event in 2024 but not at an international meet. McIntosh was also at the Pear Pacs, but she opted to race the 200-mile virtual medley on Saturday to

Kate Ledocky, 2012, 2015, 2020

Last Pallister, who was 1.08 seconds off the world record, said the race was "the most nervous I've ever felt in my entire life."

stead of the 800.

"The time I'm pretty happy with," Ledocky said. "I wasn't really thinking too much about my history in the event or anything leading into this. I just wanted to

have a goal last event here. I'm really proud of the history I have in this event. That's what I go way where just from going second." When Pallister did her previous interview over the loudspeakers,

she considered American covert in cheer for Ledocky because of her contributions to distance swimming. The fans in the stands happily obliged.

Ledocky, Pallister and McIntosh were the highest-profile swimmers at the Pear Pacs, which ended Saturday night.

Pallister finished the meet with five medals: gold in the 200, 400 and 800 free and the 4-by-200-meter-liter relay, and silver in the 1,500 free. She previously won Olympic gold in the 4-by-200 front relay in 2024.

"I work for it," she said. "I'm really proud of myself and the journey I've been on to get here."

Ledocky claimed four medals: gold in the 1,500 free and silver in the 400 and 800 free, as well as the 4-by-200-liter relay.

McIntosh finished the 200-mile virtual medley in 2:07.47, taking silver at the touch to Classic Ski Tiling (2:07.45). She finished her meet with a double-hundredths of 66 individual medley and silver in the 200 free in go along with the 200 individual medley. She also

took bronze on Canada's 46200 freestyle relay team.

In one of the more shocking turns of the meet, McIntosh failed to make the A final on Friday in the 400 free, to which she owns the world record. She took her pro-

The Australian says breaking Ledocky's world record is another goal.

inary swim too easily in what she called a miscalculation. Her time for the B final would have earned London.

McIntosh, who turns 20 on Tuesday, has four world records, including one in the 200 butterfly this summer at the Canadian trials, an event she later withdrew from because of illness. With only one individual win, the Pear Pacs were off her standard.

Weather Report

Meteorology by AccuWeather

Highlight: Dangerous Heat Through Early Week

An area of high pressure over the South will promote dangerous heat through early week from parts of the Plains to the Southward. Highs will be well above average for the middle of August. There will be a risk of heat-related illnesses.

Cities

High (low temperature) for the 20 hours ended at 4.5 m. yesterday. Eastern area, and metropolitan on average for the 24 hours ended at 9.6 m. yesterday. Expected conditions for Friday and tomorrow.
#	Chicago	St.	East
1	High	St.	South
2	High	St.	Great-Atlantic
3	High	St.	Thunderbird
4	Parks (closed)	St.	North
5	High	St.	West
6	High	St.	Not scheduled

N.H. region	Nathelms	Today	Tomorrow
East, New City	70.1 ± 4	69.7 ± 5	69.1 ± 5
East	69.8 ± 4	69.7 ± 5	69.1 ± 5
East	69.8 ± 4	69.7 ± 5	69.1 ± 5
East	69.8 ± 4	69.7 ± 5	69.1 ± 5
East	69.8 ± 4	69.7 ± 5	69.1 ± 5
West	69.8 ± 4	69.7 ± 5	69.1 ± 5
West	69.8 ± 4	69.7 ± 5	69.1 ± 5
West	69.8 ± 4	69.7 ± 5	69.1 ± 5
West	69.8 ± 4	69.7	69.1 ± 5
West	69.8 ± 4	69.7 ± 5	69.1 ± 5
West	69.8 ± 4	69.7 ± 5	69.1 ± 5
West	69.8 ± 4	69.7 ± 5	69.1 ± 5
West	69.8	69.7 ± 5	69.1 ± 5
West	69.8 ± 4	69.7 ± 5	69.1 ± 5
West	69.8 ± 4	69.7 ± 5	69.1 ± 5
West	69.8 ± 4	69.7 ± 5	69.1

City Area	East	East	East	East
City Register	84.0 ± 1	83.7 ± 1	83.8 ± 1	83.8 ± 1
County	84.0 ± 1	83.7 ± 1	83.8 ± 1	83.8 ± 1
County	84.0 ± 1	83.7 ± 1	83.8 ± 1	83.8 ± 1
County	84.0 ± 1	83.7 ± 1	83.8 ± 1	83.8
County	84.0 ± 1	83.7 ± 1	83.8 ± 1	83.8 ± 1
County	84.0 ± 1	83.7 ± 1	83.8 ± 1	83.8 ± 1
County	84.0 ± 1	83.7 ± 1	83.8	83.8
County	84.0 ± 1	83.7 ± 1	83.8 ± 1	83.8 ± 1
County	84.0 ± 1	83.7 ± 1	83.8 ± 1	83.8 ± 1
County	84.0 ± 1	83.7 ± 1	83.8	83.8
County	84.0 ± 1	83.7 ± 1	83.8 ± 1	83.8 ± 1
County	84.0 ± 1	83.7 ± 1	83.8 ± 1	83.8 ± 1
County	84.0 ± 1	83.7 ± 1	83.8	83.8

National Forecast

It will be hot in southern parts of the nation. From Texas to the Carolinas, afternoon temperatures will soar to 95 to 120 degrees. The humidity in the South east will also add to the risk of heat-related illnesses. Thunderstorms will develop, some of which will produce damaging wind gusts in some communities.

While other air mixers into the Midwest showers will linger in the Northeast. Storms, capable of producing damaging wind gusts, are forecast across northern parts of the Plains.

Thunderstowers will expand across the Rockies. Much of the region, along with the West Coast, may expect temperatures to be near the 30-year average. From California to Washington, it will be dry with sunshine and clouds.

Sex	Male	Female	Male	Female
Female	72.1	68.5	71.2	68.5
Male	72.1	68.5	71.2	68.5
Female	72.1	68.5	71.2	68.5
Male	72.1	68.5	71.2	68.5
Female	72.1	68.5	71.2	68.5
Male	72.1	68.5	71.2	68.5
Female	72.1	68.5	71.2	68.5

Metropolitan Forecast

TODAY ... Morning showers High 82. There will be showers in the morning, and it will be humid. Clouds early will give way to some sunshine in the afternoon. Winds will be 4 to 8 miles per hour.

TOMORF ... Mainly clear and humid Low 70. High pressure moving into the Northeast will bring dry weather. It will be mainly clear and humid. Winds will be light and variable.

TOMORROW ... Mostly sunny High 84. It will be mostly sunny and less humid as after air mixers in. Winds will be 3 to 5 m.p.h.

WEDNESDAY ... Mostly sunny High 87. High pressure will remain over the Northeast and dry weather will continue. The sky will be mostly sunny. Winds will be 3 to 6 m.p.h.

THURSDAY FRIDAY ... Showers Thursday It will be partly sunny with brief showers on Thursday. High 82. It will be less humid on Friday with a mix of clouds and sunshine. High 80.

Metropolitan Almanac

In Central Park, for the 1.3 hours ended at 1 p.m. yesterday.

Temperature

Avg. daily departure from normal this month = 4.2 °C this year = 4.2 °C

Reservoir levels

TEMPERATURE 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80

Recreational Forecast

Gen. Motor and Payouts

First Quarter	Full	Last Quarter	New
Avg. 20	Avg. 28	Avg. 30	Avg. 32
1.2 (1.0 to 4)	0.2 (0.1 to 1)	0.2 (0.1 to 1)	0.2 (0.1 to 1)
Low 1.0	1.0 (0.1 to 1)	1.0 (0.1 to 1)	1.0 (0.1 to 1)
High 1.0	1.0 (0.1 to 1)	1.0 (0.1 to 1)	1.0 (0.1 to 1)
High 1.0	1.0 (0.1 to 1)	1.0 (0.1 to 1)	1.0 (0.1 to 1)
Low 1.0	1.0 (0.1 to 1)	1.0 (0.1 to 1)	1.0 (0.1 to 1)

Bowling

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▌ 制度与权力批判深度研判：The New York Times (17.08.2026)

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▌ 本日全报思想与文化深思雷达 (Intellectual & Cultural Significance Radar)

在系统通盘梳理本期《纽约时报》所涉及的所有国际政治、经济、社会与文化报道后，以下 4 个具体事件在思想史、文化政治与制度伦理层面最值得学者进一步深思：

1. 【安思普AI禁令风波：技术理性与国家安全的制度性裂痕】 [F1_1 🔍][F1_4 🔍][F1_5 🔍][F1_6 🔍]

   • 事件简述：美国军工承包商收到五角大楼7月指令，要求9月前清除AI公司安思普开发的软件。一个月后，禁令被暂缓执行。安思普CEO阿莫迪与国防部长霍格斯就技术限制争议，凸显AI技术在国家安全中的复杂角色。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：触动了技术理性与生命政治权力的核心张力——AI作为现代治理工具如何在“安全”与“伦理”之间撕裂制度框架，同时暴露出韦伯式“铁笼”在数字时代的新变奏：技术官僚机构（五角大楼）与资本逻辑（安思普）的博弈，实质是现代性理性化进程中的权力去中心化与再中心化。

2. 【伊朗停火协议破局：经济制裁与主权话语的意识形态化】 [F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍][F2_10 🔍][F2_11 🔍][F2_12 🔍][F2_13 🔍]

   • 事件简述：特朗普政府今年6月与伊朗达达成的停火协议设想在60天内通过更广泛协议结束战争并遏制伊朗核计划。但该协议在8月17日前破裂，战争演变为经济战。伊朗坚称停火协议中关于霍尔木兹海峡的模糊表述赋予其控制权。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：揭示了主权话语的意识形态化机制——经济制裁作为“非战争暴力”形式，如何通过阿甘本式“例外状态”合法化对主权国家的生存权剥夺。同时，协议文本的模糊性（霍尔木兹海峡）暴露出国际法霸权逻辑：强权通过模糊表述实现霸权意志的合法化。

3. 【俄罗斯扣押乌克兰人：酷刑体制与主体消亡的极权逻辑】 [F3_20 🔍][F3_21 🔍][F3_22 🔍][F3_23 🔍][F3_24 🔍]

   • 事件简述：乌克兰人阿尔捷米·穆尔希德被俄罗斯当局以“杀手”罪名逮捕，在被拘留期间遭受酷刑，被迫签署混淆文件，最终被判50年徒刑。其母亲和女友也被判刑。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：触动了阿多诺“极权主义的文化工业”与福柯“酷刑-权力”机制的深层关联——酷刑不仅是肉体摧残，更是主体消亡的政治技术：通过强迫签署伪证文件，将受害者转化为体制的“活证据”，实现对真相的彻底篡改。同时，该事件暴露出当代国际法体系在极权面前的虚无化。

4. 【国会议员股票交易争议：寡头治理与民主赤字的制度性腐败】 [F3_28 🔍][F3_29 🔍][F3_30 🔍]

   • 事件简述：自2025年1月以来，国会议员及家属累计交易1亿至8亿美元股票。四分之一议员进行个人股票交易，选民对两党未能禁止此类行为感到不满。民主党在北新泽西州等选区攻击共和党议员的利益冲突。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：揭示了当代民主的寡头化机制——议员通过股票交易与资本市场建立直接利益关联，将代议制民主蜕变为金融寡头的治理工具。该现象暴露出波兰尼“市场社会”的极端化：民主程序沦为资本逻辑的附庸，公共权力被私人利益绑架。

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▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)

专题一：【技术理性的权力裂痕：安思普AI禁令风波与现代性的制度性危机】

（一）现实困境深描（The Concrete Dilemma）

五角大楼7月向军工承包商发出的AI禁令，要求9月前清除安思普软件，其核心矛盾在于：技术效率与国家安全的制度性撕裂。五角大楼官员辩称，安思普的迈索斯模型是“渗透高度保护外国网络的关键工具”，而禁令将危及其网络安全能力 [F1_6 🔍]。然而，这一禁令在一个月后被暂缓执行，暴露出技术官僚机构内部的权力博弈：国防部长霍格斯与安思普CEO阿莫迪的公开争论，实质是技术理性与资本逻辑的直接冲突 [F1_4 🔍][F1_5 🔍]。更深层的困境在于：五角大楼仍在使用上世纪30年代设计的飞机，却试图跟上AI模型数月内即可倍增能力的步伐 [F1_5 🔍]——这揭示了现代性理性化进程中的“时间性错位”：制度惯性与技术加速度之间的不可调和矛盾。

（二）博弈机制与话语策略剖析（Mechanisms & Discourse）

五角大楼的禁令文本采用强制性语态与威胁性措辞：“若不遵守，将危及其与五角大楼的所有业务” [F1_4 🔍]，体现了技术官僚权力的强制性。然而，禁令的暂缓执行则通过模糊性话语实现：官方未公开解释暂缓的具体原因，仅通过“关键测试”这一模糊概念进行遮蔽 [F1_6 🔍]。安思普CEO阿莫迪与国防部长霍格斯的争论则通过媒体平台进行公开化，将技术伦理问题转化为公共话语战——这暴露出哈贝马斯“公共领域”在数字时代的异化：技术争议被资本逻辑绑架，沦为公关战而非理性对话。更关键的是，五角大楼官员透露国家安全局仍被允许使用安思普产品 [F1_6 🔍]，这表明禁令本身就是权力的表演性工具：通过制造“技术清洁”的假象，掩盖权力机构对AI技术的实际依赖。

（三）历史思想资源的平等对话（Theoretical Resonance）

面对这一困境，我们可借鉴韦伯的“理性化”理论与福柯的“权力-知识”机制进行分析。韦伯在《新教伦理与资本主义精神》中指出，现代性的核心特征是工具理性的扩张，即通过技术手段实现对世界的控制 [韦伯1905]。然而，韦伯忽视了技术理性在权力场域中的异化：当技术成为权力的工具时，其本身也成为权力争夺的对象。福柯在《规训与惩罚》中则揭示了权力通过技术手段实现对主体的规训 [福柯1975]，但福柯的理论未能充分解释技术官僚机构内部的权力裂痕：当技术本身成为权力争夺的焦点时，权力机构内部会出现技术理性与官僚逻辑的直接冲突。更进一步，哈贝马斯在《技术与科学作为意识形态》中提出“技术理性对生活世界的殖民” [哈贝马斯1968]，但哈贝马斯的理论需要补充当代技术官僚机构内部的“权力去中心化”：技术官僚（如五角大楼官员）与资本家（如安思普CEO）在技术伦理上的直接对抗，实质是现代性理性化进程中的“权力再中心化”。

（四）当代现实对理论的反向质询与新洞见（Contemporary Synthesis）

当代技术条件（如AI模型的快速迭代）给古典理论带来了全新挑战。首先，技术官僚机构内部的权力裂痕表明：技术理性并非单一的权力工具，而是权力争夺的场域。其次，AI技术的“黑箱”特性使得其伦理争议无法通过传统的公共对话机制解决——这暴露出哈贝马斯“理想交往情境”在数字时代的虚无化。最后，资本逻辑对技术伦理的绑架表明：技术理性在当代已沦为资本的附庸，而非启蒙理性所设想的解放工具。因此，我们需要重新思考技术理性的制度框架：如何在技术官僚权力与资本逻辑之间建立民主控制机制，而非仅仅依赖技术官僚的内部约束或资本的自律。

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专题二：【主权话语的意识形态化：伊朗停火协议破局与经济制裁的霸权逻辑】

（一）现实困境深描（The Concrete Dilemma）

特朗普政府今年6月与伊朗达成的停火协议，设想在60天内通过更广泛协议结束战争并遏制伊朗核计划。然而，该协议在8月17日前破裂，战争演变为经济战 [F2_10 🔍][F2_11 🔍]。伊朗坚称停火协议中关于霍尔木兹海峡的模糊表述赋予其对该水道的控制权，而美国则试图通过经济制裁实现对伊朗的“和平演变” [F2_12 🔍]。这一困境的核心在于：主权话语的意识形态化机制——经济制裁作为“非战争暴力”形式，如何通过阿甘本的“例外状态”合法化对主权国家的生存权剥夺。更深层的矛盾在于：美国在第一任期尝试的经济制裁政策在第二任期重新上演，表明制裁作为霸权工具的制度性固化 [F2_12 🔍]。

（二）博弈机制与话语策略剖析（Mechanisms & Discourse）

停火协议的破裂通过模糊性话语实现：协议文本中关于霍尔木兹海峡的表述模糊不清，伊朗与美国各自解读 [F2_11 🔍]。这种模糊性话语是霸权逻辑的典型表现：强权通过模糊表述实现对国际法的操纵，将主权话语转化为霸权意志的工具。美国的经济制裁则通过话语霸权实现合法化：制裁被描述为“和平手段”，而非“战争行为” [F2_12 🔍]。这种话语策略体现了福柯“权力-知识”机制的当代变奏：制裁话语通过将经济压力转化为“道德正义”，实现对国际法体系的颠覆。更关键的是，美国财政部长上周表示可能加码“前所未见的金融制裁” [F2_12 🔍]，这表明制裁已成为美国对外政策的常态化工具，而非例外手段。

（三）历史思想资源的平等对话（Theoretical Resonance）

面对这一困境，我们可借鉴格劳秀斯的“自然法”理论与阿甘本的“例外状态”概念进行分析。格劳秀斯在《战争与和平法》中提出，主权国家的生存权是国际法的基础 [格劳秀斯1625]。然而，格劳秀斯的理论忽视了主权话语的意识形态化机制：强权通过操纵国际法文本，将主权生存权转化为霸权控制权。阿甘本在《例外状态》中指出，主权权力通过宣布例外状态实现对法律秩序的颠覆 [阿甘本2005]，但阿甘本的理论需要补充经济制裁作为“非战争暴力”的霸权逻辑：制裁通过经济手段实现对主权国家的生存权剥夺，而非通过军事手段。更进一步，福柯在《安全、领土与人口》中提出“治理术”概念 [福柯1978]，但福柯的理论需要扩展到当代经济制裁作为“治理术”的极端化：通过经济手段实现对主权国家的全面控制。

（四）当代现实对理论的反向质询与新洞见（Contemporary Synthesis）

当代地缘政治条件（如全球化供应链断裂）给古典理论带来了全新挑战。首先，经济制裁的常态化表明：制裁已成为霸权国家的标准化工具，而非例外手段。其次，制裁话语的“道德化”暴露出国际法体系在霸权面前的虚无化：制裁被描述为“道德正义”，而非“权力暴力”。最后，伊朗对霍尔木兹海峡的主权主张表明：主权话语在当代已沦为霸权争夺的工具，而非保护主权国家生存权的法律框架。因此，我们需要重新思考国际法的制度框架：如何在霸权逻辑与主权话语之间建立平等对话机制，而非仅仅依赖强权的单边制裁。

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▌ 面向学者的开放性思想追问与研究路标 (Open Horizons for Scholarly Inquiry)

1. 【开放性学术追问一：技术官僚权力的制度性约束】在AI技术成为权力争夺焦点的当代，如何建立民主控制技术官僚机构的制度框架？是否需要重新思考技术官僚的合法性基础，而非仅仅依赖其内部约束或资本的自律？

2. 【开放性学术追问二：经济制裁的霸权逻辑与国际法重构】经济制裁作为“非战争暴力”形式，如何通过话语霸权实现合法化？国际法体系如何在霸权逻辑与主权话语之间建立平等对话机制，而非沦为强权的工具？

制度与权力批判深度研判：The New York Times (17.08.2026)

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▌ 本日全报生活世界痛感与情感政治深思雷达 (Lifeworld & Affective Significance Radar)

在系统通盘梳理本期《纽约时报》所涉及的所有报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在生活世界痛感、情感政治动员与制度理性冲突层面最值得学者进一步深思：

1. 【安思普AI软件禁令风波】 [F1_4 🔍][F1_5 🔍][F1_6 🔍]

   • 事件简述：美国军工承包商收到五角大楼7月指令，要求9月前清除AI公司安思普开发的软件，一个月后禁令被暂缓执行。安思普CEO阿莫迪与国防部长霍格斯围绕技术限制展开争论，凸显AI技术在国家安全中的复杂角色。
   • 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：该事件触动了技术官僚理性与人类情感尊严的深层撕裂——五角大楼试图通过技术清理维持“可控秩序”，却忽视了AI作为“活的技术生态”对军事系统的不可或缺性；阿莫迪的强硬立场背后是对技术自主性的情感诉求，而霍格斯的反复则暴露了制度理性在面对颠覆性技术时的无能为力。

2. 【俄罗斯扣押乌克兰平民穆尔希德案】 [F3_20 🔍][F3_21 🔍][F3_22 🔍][F3_23 🔍][F3_24 🔍]

   • 事件简述：乌克兰平民阿尔捷米·穆尔希德被俄罗斯当局以“杀手”罪名拘押，遭受酷刑并被迫签署伪证文件。其母与女友亦被判刑。俄罗斯当局未对指控作出回应。
   • 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：该事件是对“肉身政治”（biopolitics）的赤裸展示——俄罗斯政权通过系统性暴力将人体转化为权力的符号，穆尔希德的“压倒性恐惧”与签署伪证的无奈，揭示了极权体制下生命尊严的彻底沦丧。其母与女友的连带受罚，更凸显了性别化暴力的结构性特征。

3. 【国会议员股票交易争议】 [F3_28 🔍][F3_29 🔍][F3_30 🔍]

   • 事件简述：自2025年1月以来，国会议员及家属累计交易1亿至8亿美元股票。四分之一议员进行个人股票交易，选民对两党未能禁止此类行为感到不满。民主党在北新泽西州等选区攻击共和党议员的利益冲突。
   • 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：该事件暴露了“民主寡头制”的真实面目——制度设计的漏洞（如监管机构瘫痪）与权力精英的贪婪形成恶性循环，选民的愤怒与无力感交织，凸显了代议制民主的合法性危机。民主党与共和党在股票交易问题上的表演性攻击，进一步加剧了民众对“两党制”的幻灭。

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▌ 精选核心专题理性与情感辩证论证 (The Dialectic of Logos and Pathos Monograph)

专题一： 《技术官僚理性的异化与AI伦理的情感爆裂：从安思普禁令风波看国家安全机构的技术焦虑》

1. 制度理性架构解构（Deconstruction of Institutional Logos）

五角大楼对安思普AI软件的禁令，是典型的技术官僚理性模型在面对颠覆性技术时的失灵表现。其制度逻辑可解构为三个层面： - 技术安全的量化控制：禁令基于对AI软件“潜在风险”的量化评估，试图通过清除特定供应商来维持系统的“可控性”。然而，这种量化模型忽视了AI技术的复杂性与动态演进特征，将活生生的技术生态简化为静态的“风险清单”。 - 官僚程序的僵化路径：从7月指令到9月清除期限，再到一个月后的禁令暂缓，制度理性在面对技术颠覆时表现出的反复与无能，暴露了官僚机器的僵化本质。其核心逻辑是“通过清除未知来维持已知的秩序”，却忽视了技术创新的不可预测性。 - 权力话语的合法性危机：国防部长霍格斯与安思普CEO阿莫迪的公开争论，凸显了权力话语在技术伦理面前的分裂。霍格斯代表的是“国家安全的技术官僚理性”，而阿莫迪则代表了“技术创新的情感诉求”。这种分裂表明，制度理性在面对技术颠覆时，已无法维持其合法性叙事。

2. 生活世界真实痛感深描（Living Lifeworld Pathos）

在安思普禁令风波背后，隐藏着军工承包商、AI工程师、军方官员等多重主体的真实痛感： - 军工承包商的生存焦虑：作为五角大楼的合作伙伴，军工承包商面临着技术清理与业务中断的双重压力。其痛感不仅来自经济损失，更来自对“技术依赖症”的恐惧——AI技术已成为其业务不可或缺的组成部分，清除安思普意味着对其技术生态的根本性破坏。 - AI工程师的自主性诉求：安思普CEO阿莫迪的强硬立场，背后是对AI技术自主性的情感诉求。其痛感在于，技术官僚理性试图将AI技术工具化，而忽视了技术本身的伦理与社会责任。这种痛感在情感上表现为对“技术异化”的愤怒与对“技术自主”的渴望。 - 军方官员的权力焦虑：霍格斯等军方官员在面对AI技术时，表现出的反复与无能，暴露了其权力话语的脆弱性。其痛感在于，技术颠覆正在瓦解其权力基础，而制度理性却无法提供有效的应对方案。

3. Logos 与 Pathos 的内在辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction）

安思普禁令风波中的Logos与Pathos辩证，体现为三重摩擦： - 技术官僚理性 vs 技术创新自主性：五角大楼试图通过禁令维持技术安全的“可控性”，而安思普则代表了技术创新的“自主性”。这种摩擦表明，技术官僚理性在面对颠覆性技术时，已无法维持其合法性，而技术创新的情感诉求则成为对抗官僚僵化的重要力量。 - 权力话语 vs 技术伦理：霍格斯与阿莫迪的争论，凸显了权力话语与技术伦理的对立。权力话语试图将技术工具化，而技术伦理则要求技术承担社会责任。这种对立表明，技术官僚理性在面对技术颠覆时，已无法维持其伦理合法性。 - 制度理性 vs 活生生的技术生态：五角大楼的禁令试图将AI技术简化为静态的“风险清单”，而安思普则代表了活生生的技术生态。这种摩擦表明，技术官僚理性在面对技术颠覆时，已无法理解技术的复杂性与动态演进特征。

4. 话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Discourse Temperature & Prognosis）

在安思普禁令风波中，制度端与生活端的“话语温度差”异常显著： - 制度端的“去情感化冷色调语言”：五角大楼的禁令使用了大量技术术语与官僚程序语言，如“清除”、“风险评估”、“合规期限”等，试图通过冷冰冰的量化模型来维持技术安全的“可控性”。这种语言的冷色调，掩盖了其背后的权力话语与技术焦虑。 - 生活端的“具象痛感热色调语言”：阿莫迪与军工承包商的情感诉求，则使用了大量具象化的语言，如“技术自主”、“生存焦虑”、“权力话语”等，试图通过情感表达来对抗制度理性的僵化。这种语言的热色调，反映了生活世界对技术官僚理性的强烈不满。 - 社会心理韧性诊断：安思普禁令风波表明，技术官僚理性在面对颠覆性技术时，已无法维持其合法性与伦理基础。生活世界的情感诉求正在成为对抗官僚僵化的重要力量，而制度理性的反复则进一步加剧了社会心理的焦虑与不安。这种话语温度差，预示着社会心理韧性的进一步下降，并可能引发更大规模的技术伦理与权力话语冲突。

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专题二： 《肉身政治的极权暴力与性别化暴力的结构性暴力：从穆尔希德案看极权体制下的生命沦丧》

1. 制度理性架构解构（Deconstruction of Institutional Logos）

俄罗斯当局对穆尔希德等乌克兰平民的拘押与审判，是典型的极权体制下“肉身政治”的制度化表现。其制度逻辑可解构为三个层面： - 法律程序的伪善性：俄罗斯当局通过伪造证据与强迫签署伪证文件，将法律程序异化为权力工具。其核心逻辑是“通过伪造正义来维持权力的合法性”，而忽视了生命尊严与司法正义的基本原则。 - 暴力机器的系统性运作：从酷刑折磨到威胁强奸与枪杀，俄罗斯当局的暴力机器通过系统性运作，将人体转化为权力的符号。其核心逻辑是“通过肉体折磨来瓦解反抗意志”，而忽视了生命尊严与人权保障的基本要求。 - 性别化暴力的结构性特征：穆尔希德的母亲与女友被连带判刑，凸显了极权体制下性别化暴力的结构性特征。其核心逻辑是“通过性别化暴力来维持父权秩序”，而忽视了性别平等与女性权利的基本原则。

2. 生活世界真实痛感深描（Living Lifeworld Pathos）

穆尔希德案中的生活世界痛感，体现为三重深层创伤： - 肉身折磨的无助感：穆尔希德在被捕后遭受的酷刑折磨，如电击、殴打、威胁强奸与枪杀等，是对肉身尊严的彻底践踏。其痛感在于，肉身折磨不仅摧毁了其身体完整性，更摧毁了其精神世界的安全感。 - 伪证签署的无奈与屈辱：穆尔希德被迫签署伪证文件，是对生命尊严的彻底践踏。其痛感在于，伪证签署不仅摧毁了其道德自主性，更摧毁了其对正义与真理的信仰。 - 性别化暴力的连带伤害：穆尔希德的母亲与女友被连带判刑，是对女性生命尊严的彻底践踏。其痛感在于，性别化暴力不仅摧毁了女性的身体完整性，更摧毁了女性在家庭与社会中的地位与尊严。

3. Logos 与 Pathos 的内在辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction）

穆尔希德案中的Logos与Pathos辩证，体现为三重摩擦： - 法律程序的伪善性 vs 生命尊严的真实诉求：俄罗斯当局通过伪造证据与强迫签署伪证文件，将法律程序异化为权力工具，而穆尔希德等人的生命尊严则成为这种伪善性的牺牲品。这种摩擦表明，极权体制下的法律程序已无法维持其合法性，而生命尊严的真实诉求则成为对抗权力伪善性的重要力量。 - 暴力机器的系统性运作 vs 肉身尊严的反抗意志：俄罗斯当局的暴力机器通过系统性运作，试图瓦解反抗意志，而穆尔希德等人的肉身尊严则成为这种系统性暴力的反抗力量。这种摩擦表明，极权体制下的暴力机器已无法完全摧毁反抗意志，而肉身尊严的反抗则成为对抗权力暴力的重要力量。 - 性别化暴力的结构性特征 vs 性别平等的情感诉求：俄罗斯当局通过性别化暴力来维持父权秩序，而穆尔希德的母亲与女友则通过其遭受的性别化暴力，表达了对性别平等的情感诉求。这种摩擦表明，极权体制下的性别化暴力已无法维持其合法性，而性别平等的情感诉求则成为对抗权力暴力的重要力量。

4. 话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Discourse Temperature & Prognosis）

在穆尔希德案中，制度端与生活端的“话语温度差”异常显著： - 制度端的“冷血权力语言”：俄罗斯当局通过伪造证据与强迫签署伪证文件，使用了大量冷血的权力语言，如“恐怖分子”、“叛徒”、“伪证”等，试图通过冷冰冰的法律程序来维持权力的合法性。这种语言的冷色调，掩盖了其背后的暴力机器与性别化暴力。 - 生活端的“血泪控诉语言”：穆尔希德等人的痛感诉求，则使用了大量具象化的血泪控诉语言，如“酷刑折磨”、“伪证签署”、“性别化暴力”等，试图通过情感表达来对抗制度理性的伪善性。这种语言的热色调，反映了生活世界对极权体制的强烈愤怒与不满。 - 社会心理韧性诊断：穆尔希德案表明，极权体制下的肉身政治与性别化暴力，已彻底摧毁了生命尊严与社会正义的基础。生活世界的血泪控诉，正在成为对抗极权暴力的重要力量，而制度理性的伪善性则进一步加剧了社会心理的创伤与不安。这种话语温度差，预示着社会心理韧性的进一步下降，并可能引发更大规模的反抗与革命。

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▌ 面向学者的伦理与社会心理开放性追问与研究路标 (Open Horizons for Ethical & Sociological Inquiry)

1. 【开放性学术追问一：技术官僚理性与人类情感尊严的和解可能】 在安思普AI禁令风波中，技术官僚理性与人类情感尊严的对立达到了顶点。未来研究可深入探讨：是否存在一种“情感化的技术治理模型”，能够在维持技术安全的同时，尊重技术创新的自主性与人类情感的尊严？这种模型的制度设计与伦理框架如何构建？

2. 【开放性学术追问二：极权体制下肉身政治的生存伦理与反抗策略】 穆尔希德案揭示了极权体制下肉身政治的极端暴力。未来研究可深入探讨：在极权体制下，肉身尊严与生命价值如何通过情感记忆与集体记忆保存？反抗策略如何从个体肉身抵抗转向结构性变革？性别化暴力的结构性特征如何在反抗运动中被重新定义？